TY - ABST T1 - “Accensa Domo Proximi” Y1 - 2024 A1 - Cameron Neil Ishee KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future inland, sustainable city with the protagonist remembering the islands off the coast where he was born that no longer exist. The title comes from “Accensa domo proximi, tua quoque periclitatur” or When the house of your neighbor burns, your own home is likewise in danger” as given in the text.

JF - Grist/Imagine 2000 2024 UR - https://grist.org/climate-fiction/imagine2200-accensa-domo-proximi/ U2 -

Illus. Stefan Grosse Halbuer

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Blossoming” Y1 - 2024 A1 - Guglielmo Miccolupi A1 - Laura C. Zanetti-Domingues KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Italian author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a future Italy and focuses on a young man trying to decide his future in a society where “The Universal Basics, things like guaranteed housing, health care, education, and food, ensure that everyone has a good, dignified life no matter whether they can work at all.”

JF - Grist/Imagine 2000 2024 UR - https://grist.org/climate-fiction/imagine2200-the-imperfect-blue-marble/ U2 -

Illus. Stefan Grosse Halbuer

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

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

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

Illus. Mikyung Lee

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Gift of Coconuts” Y1 - 2024 A1 - Melissa Gunn KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

The story, set in Aotearoa New Zealand and using Māori myth, takes place on what has become the coastline as a family works to survive and protect their coconut farm as one of the new super storms approaches.

JF - Grist/Imagine 2000 2024 UR - https://grist.org/climate-fiction/imagine2200-a-gift-of-coconuts/ U2 -

Illus. Molly Mendoza

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Gifts We Give to the Sea” Y1 - 2024 A1 - Dinara Tengri KW - Female author KW - Kazakh author KW - Swedish author AB -

Climate change dystopia set on the shore of the dried out Aral Sea. A glossary of the Kazakh words used in the story is provided at the beginning.

JF - Grist/Imagine 2000 2024 UR - https://grist.org/climate-fiction/imagine2200-gifts-we-give-to-the-sea/ U2 -

Illus. Molly Mendoza

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Imperfect Blue Marble” Y1 - 2024 A1 - Rae Mariz (b. 1981) KW - Female author KW - Swedish author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future after the twenty-first century, known as the “blip generation”. The focus of the story is a non-verbal, autistic boy and his interaction with others in his community.

JF - Grist/Imagine 2000 2024 UR - https://grist.org/climate-fiction/imagine2200-the-imperfect-blue-marble/ U2 -

Illus. Carolina Rodriguez Fuenmayor

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Kiss of Life” Y1 - 2024 A1 - P. C. Verrone ED - Phoebe Wagner KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Something of an allegory on slavery in which “Angels” appear needing help to build bridges between Africa and their world and the world of the protagonist, a girl that thy use go communicate with the other inhabitants. After the Angels leave, Prophets arrive preaching that there had never been any Angels and the bridges had always been there.

JF - FIYAH Literary Magazine ER - TY - ABST T1 - “La Sirène” Y1 - 2024 A1 - Karen Engelsen KW - Female author KW - Neurodivergent author KW - Norwegian American author AB -

The story takes place in a climate change future where New Orleans has disappeared under the water and, due to the chemicals that had polluted the area, many children are born with no legs but with what appears to be a single fin.

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

Illus. Carolina Rodriguez Fuenmayo

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Last Almond” Y1 - 2024 A1 - Zoe Young KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in California in 2058 and 2090 and concerns the destruction in 2058 of almond trees and the community near them due to flooding following a long drought followed in 2090 with, in a different part of California, the depiction of a way that almond trees and communities could survive even with drought and floods.

JF - Grist/Imagine2200 2024 UR - https://grist.org/climate-fiction/imagine2200-the-last-almond/ U2 -

Illus. Mikyung Lee

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Seder in Siberia” Y1 - 2024 A1 - Louis Evans KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Climate fiction dystopia.

JF - Grist/Imagine2200 2024 UR - https://grist.org/climate-fiction/imagine2200-seder-in-siberia/ U2 -

Illus. Mikyung Lee

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “To Labor for the Hive” Y1 - 2024 A1 - Jamie Liu KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a community in a near future China dealing with climate-change, particularly extreme storms, and focuses on beehousing, which involves establishing nesting areas for wild bees that can, apparently help predict such storms. The utopian aspects of the story relate to the way that the community involves everyone and provides a refuge for needing help.

JF - Grist/Imagine2200 2024 UR - https://grist.org/climate-fiction/imagine2200-to-labor-for-the-hive/ U2 -

Illus. Stefan Grosse Halbuer

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Alkebulan: The Garden Eden Project” Y1 - 2023 A1 - Amanda Ilozumba [Otitochukwu] KW - Female author KW - Nigerian author AB -

The story is set in a future Africa devastated by climate change, and using African and other myths tells of a quest that could lead to Earth's healing.

JF - Solarpunk Magazine VL - no. 10 ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Alphabet Tax Y1 - 2023 A1 - Rosa Woolf Ainley KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

An odd novel in which the price of a universal welfare system that appears to have created utopia is silence.

PB - Grand Iota UK CY - St. Leonards and Brighton, UK SN - 978-1-874400-88-2 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Biographer” Y1 - 2023 A1 - Tananarive [Priscilla] Due (b. 1966) AB -

Part plague dystopia and part Black horror in which a woman whose first film depicted the plague before it happened and is being recorded for a permanent biography, although nothing is what it at first appears.

JF - The Wishing Pool and Other Stories PB - Akashic Books CY - Brooklyn, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - . “The Brighter World” Y1 - 2023 A1 - Robert Dawson KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a future ravaged by climate change, and within the story is a story about how one person had tried to mobilize efforts to mitigate the effects and had failed.

JF - Little Blue Marble UR - https://littlebluemarble.ca/2023/06/23/the-brighter-world/ U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Broken Threads” Y1 - 2023 A1 - Kevin Wabaunsee ED - Phoebe Wagner KW - Male author KW - Native American author AB -

The story is set in a future where much of the middle of America is a “toxic wasteland.” The protagonist is a woman who is used to bring connected to a network through her “head tech.” She loses that connection while traveling across the area in response to her mother’s wish that she complete her mother’s work with fungi that provide an alternative much bigger, and very different network.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Broodmare" Y1 - 2023 A1 - Flossie Arend KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The protagonist of the story is a woman who regularly travels over the fortified border between Texas and surrounding states to assist women who need an abortion, which is illegal in Texas. 

JF - Fantasy VL - no. 87 UR - https://www.fantasy-magazine.com/fm/fiction/broodmare/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - Camp Zero. A Novel Y1 - 2023 A1 - Michelle Min Sterling KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Chant for Circularity” Y1 - 2023 A1 - Aaron Willmott ED - Justine Norton-Kertson KW - German author KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

The story is set in a future in which eutopias have been created on the surface of Earth and under the surface with a treaty regulating relations between them. It is suggested that those underground constituted some sort of “other” that was banished, but this is never explained. The circularity of the title refers to the surface’s waste being pimped underground where it is reused or repurposed and sent back to the surface. In the story, the underground starts receiving large amounts of material that cannot be reused or repurposed, which is a violation of the treaty.

JF - Bioluminiscent: A Lunarpunk Anthology PB - Android Press CY - Eugene, OR SN - 978-1958121122 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Chaperone Y1 - 2023 A1 - M. Hendrix (b. 1970) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which in the future New America girls are always chaperoned with no contact with boys except in formal Visitations. And girls get only the basic education required to make them fit to be wives and mothers and higher education is closed to them. The protagonist is a girl being raised in these circumstances who learns, almost against her will, something of Old America

PB - Sourcebooks Fire/Sourcebooks CY - Naperville, IL SN - 978-1728260006 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Chrysalis” Y1 - 2023 A1 - Don Redwood KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

The story is set in a future where all animals and insects are extinct and have been replaced by robots.

JF - Little Blue Marble UR - https://littlebluemarble.ca/2023/01/27/the-chrysalis/ U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Deep Blue Jump" Y1 - 2023 A1 - Dean Whitlock KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story depicts the exploitation of vulnerable children and adults that, while this is set in what appears to be the near future, the author says is common in most times and places.

JF - Asimov’s Science Fiction VL - 47.9 & 10 (612 & 613) SN - 1065-6298 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Democracy in America” Y1 - 2023 A1 - Allegra Hyde KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story focuses on “consignment” by which poor, young women, and some men, can sell their youthful looks to the rich elderly. Also notes the exploitation of immigrants; “desperation could be monetized” (155). In an online interview with Erin McReynolds, the female author discusses utopias at https://americanshortfiction.org/web-exclusive-interview-allegra-hyde/

JF - The Massachusetts Review VL - 64.1 SN - 978-0-593-31526-2 N1 -

Rpt. in her The Last Catastrophe (New York: Vintage Books/Penguin Random House, 2023), 143-173.

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

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

JF - Solarpunk Magazine VL - no. 8 ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Ferryman. A Novel Y1 - 2023 A1 - Justin Cronin (b. 1962) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Finery Y1 - 2023 A1 - Rachel Grosvenor KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The Finery are the police in an authoritarian system and appear to be all-powerful until they confront a centenarian and her wolf.

PB - Fly on the Wall Press CY - New Mills, Eng. SN - 978-1-915789-51-7 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Flavours of Memory” Y1 - 2023 A1 - Catherine Weaver KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future where a plague has wiped out almost all plants, including all those monoculture used in intensive farming. A few families had saved varied seeds, managed to grow them in enclosures, and trade them to re-introduce agriculture.

JF - Little Blue Marble UR - https://littlebluemarble.ca/2023/06/09/flavours-of-a-memory/ U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Foreverchild: A Novel of the Future Y1 - 2023 A1 - Mark Lavine KW - Male author AB -

The novel is set three hundred years in the future when some people live for hundreds of years as children and live isolated from the majority who have a normal lifespan.

PB - Author CY - Np VL - Second ed. SN - 979-8-218-13094-7 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Forgotten. A Life Disconnected.” Y1 - 2023 A1 - Ramalho-Santos, João KW - Male author KW - Portuguese author AB -

The story is set in a world where the internet of things is everywhere and what happens what one woman insists on her right to be forgotten. T

JF - Nature UR - https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01556-2 U2 -

Illus. Jacey

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Giver and the World Remade” Y1 - 2023 A1 - E. Lily Yu KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story takes place in a future where much land has been flooded and some people have created a society of mutual aid among those living on rafts that they have built out of whatever they could salvage from the water, with raftmates who, for example, weaves houses, another who is a cobbler, and another who makes clothes. The focus of the story is that one the cobbler, the youngest of the three yearns to see the almost mythical land, where other people live with what remains of technology.

JF - Tor.com UR - https://www.tor.com/2023/03/29/the-river-and-the-world-remade-e-lily-yu/ U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Gone Wolf Y1 - 2023 A1 - Amber McBride KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult dystopia set partially in 2111 in an area known as the Bible Boot, consisting of thirteen former states or parts of states of the US), that is divided into Clones (white) and Blues (black) with the Blues, some of whom are genetic matches of Clones and kept so that their organs can be harvested as needed. In this section every chapter concludes Flash Card explaining the system. The rest of the novel is set in 2022, and each chapter ends with a flash card on Black History for Kids.

PB - Feiwell and Friends CY - New York SN - 9781250850492 U5 -

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “I Think I Shall Never See” Y1 - 2023 A1 - Stephen Kotowych KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a future in which genetically engineered trees have eliminated most native species. The story is set in a future in which genetically engineered trees have eliminated most native species.

JF - Little Blue Marble UR - https://littlebluemarble.ca/2023/01/13/i-think-that-i-shall-never-see/ U2 -

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

Surveillance dystopia.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Interview with an Oak" Y1 - 2023 A1 - Ana Reisens KW - Female author AB -

In the interview, the oak talks to the human (soft skin) journalist about the early cooperation with humans, the devastation caused by human greed, and meeting a young woman who was able to talk to it. The journalist then recounts the impact of the young woman’s transcription of their talks, including the discovery of many other humans talking with trees, and the growing cooperation between humans and trees.

JF - Solarpunk Magazine VL - no. 11 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Inversion Y1 - 2023 A1 - Aric McBay KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

The novel, which is dedicated “to the practical utopians,” is set on a very odd world, Germinal, that is divided into the Summer, Winter, and Spring peoples by constantly moving flamewalls. The people are nomadic so that they stay constantly within their zone. The focus of the novel is the need to find a way to respond to the invasion of the world by a military force intending to take over the world. Germinal has touches of a Cockaigne brought about by an enhanced biodiversity

PB - AK Press CY - Chico, CA/Edinburgh, Scot. SN - 9781849355049 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Land of Milk Honey Y1 - 2023 A1 - C[henji] Pam Zhang (b. 1990) ED - C. Pam Zhang KW - Chinese American author KW - Female author AB -

The setting is a post-catastrophe dystopia in which a smog produced by agricultural tests in the United States covers the world and kills most of the plants and animals. The novel, though, follows a woman chef who is recruited by a wealthy man who has created a community of the extremely wealthy above the smog in the Swiss mountains and her experiences their and after the smog dissipates.

PB - Riverhead Books/Penguin Riverhead Books CY - New York SN - 9780593538241 ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Language of Water Y1 - 2023 A1 - Elizabeth Clark-Stern KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Longevity" Y1 - 2023 A1 - Anya Ow KW - Australian author KW - Female author KW - Singaporean author AB -

The story is set in a future that has passed the climate change Redline and requires technology, including implants to survive. The population is divided between the Forevers, those with implants who are close to immortals, and the UnEdited, who are exploited to support the lives of the Forevers. The focus is on the growing relationship between a Forever who helps an UnEdited, who leads a movement to reverse the effects of climate change.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 145.5/6 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Memory Day Report: Bringing history to life” Y1 - 2023 A1 - [Robert] [Carito] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

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

JF - Nature UR - https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02067-w ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Message from the Moonlight” Y1 - 2023 A1 - Wagner, Wendy N. ED - Justine Norton-Kertson KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a community separate from the New United States (shrunk by climate change) that has developed a culture based on everyone contributing equally. Visitors from the New U.S. who want to move there must spend three separate week long visits to learn the culture before applying. Part of the focus is on the evil that resides in what had been slave pens and the use of magic to diminish its power.

JF - Bioluminiscent: A Lunarpunk Anthology PB - Android Press CY - Eugene, OR SN - 978-1958121122 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Microclimates of the Rich and Famous” Y1 - 2023 A1 - R. K. Duncan KW - Queer author KW - US author AB -

In the story a sailboat approaches what initially appears to be an ecologically pristine island but turns out to be an almost entirely artificial creation of a wealthy man surrounded by defenses that keep out the polluted world he has helped create.

JF - Little Blue Marble UR - https://littlebluemarble.ca/author/r-k-duncan/ U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Midnight Serenade” Y1 - 2023 A1 - J. Dianne Dotson KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is obviously a eutopia based on exceptionally advanced biologically based technology, but there is little detail. It is within the sub-genre of Lunarpunk or night-based societies.

JF - Solarpunk Magazine VL - no. 7 ER - TY - ABST T1 - The New Naturals. A Novel Y1 - 2023 A1 - Gabriel Bump KW - African American author KW - US author AB -

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

PB - Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill CY - Chapel Hill, NC SN - 978-1616208806 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The One Who Came Back to Heal” Y1 - 2023 A1 - Cynthia Gómez (b. 1958) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

One of the many responses to Le Guin’s “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” (1973), and here one of those who had walked away returns as a healer for the child with the story recounting the process

JF - Strange Horizons UR - http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/the-ones-who-come-back-to-heal/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - Project F Y1 - 2023 A1 - Jeanne DuPrau (b. 1944) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult novel that takes place in a post-climate catastrophe future that has been rebuilt on a much smaller scale, presented as a positive change. Live was simple and peaceful, without cars or wars. The focus of the story, Project F, is a secret plan to bring back the pre-catastrophe way of life.

PB - Random House/Penguin Random House CY - New York SN - 978-0-593-64380-8 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Promise" Y1 - 2023 A1 - Rona Fernandez ED - Phoebe Wagner KW - Female author KW - Filipina American author AB -

The story takes place in a climate-change ravaged future and focuses on a young man and a young woman orphaned and sent to The Collective where they are fed, clothed, housed, and given work within an authoritarian regime.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Property of PAUSE Ltd.” Y1 - 2023 A1 - Ai Jiang (b. 1997) ED - Phoebe Wagner KW - Canadian author KW - Chinese author KW - Female author AB -

PAUSE Ltd. is a company rather like Amazon that delivers goods in a society with deep rich/poor divisions whose drivers are the property of the country and live in their trucks with their families.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Prophet Song Y1 - 2023 A1 - Lynch, Paul KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

The novel is set in a near future in which the GNSB (Garda National Services Bureau), a recently established secret police, is investigating all people they determine to be potentially subversive, and those people tend to disappear. The novel follows the family of a teacher and union leader who is being investigated as they flee across an authoritarian Ireland.

PB - Faber & Faber CY - London SN - 978-0861546862 N1 -

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

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

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

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Solarpunks” Y1 - 2023 A1 - J. D. Harlock ED - Phoebe Wagner KW - Lebanese author KW - Male author KW - Palestinian author KW - Syrian author AB -

A satirical vignette on teenagers trying to rebel against a supposedly perfect society where they are bored.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Strength of the Willow” Y1 - 2023 A1 - Commando Jugendstil A1 - Tales from the EV Studio ED - Phoebe Wagner KW - Italian author AB -

The story is about the creation of a eutopian city against the opposition of the city leaders and those with money. It begins with a woman who had been hired by the city to develop a neighborhood allotment discovering that it had been trashed overnight, with all the plants ripped out, the tools destroyed, and everything the community had built torn down. The city and investors had plans to build a profit making enterprise in its place, but the neighborhood rallied and reestablished the allotment and then worked with other neighborhoods to take over every other possible space and created other allotments, parks, playgrounds, and other community spaces.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Such is My Idea of Happiness” Y1 - 2023 A1 - David Goodman KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

The story is set in a future depopulated England that is controlled by the relatively few with old money. The majority are either Secondary, essentially the unemployed, and Redeyes, those who work extremely long hours for little pay.

JF - Clarkesworld VL - no. 205 UR - https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/goodman_10_23/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Tears Down the Wall” Y1 - 2023 A1 - Michèle Laframboise (b. 1960) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

The story concerns homelessness, most of whom live in tents attached to the side of tall buildings, in a city that depends on their labor to support the tourist-based economy and the wealthy who own all the property. The title is a reference to watching the tents being lowered to the ground in the morning.

JF - Asimov’s Science Fiction VL - 9 & 10 (612 & 613) SN - 1065-6298 U1 -

The Canadian female author (b. 1960) was born in London. Her parents are Québécois, and her novels are in French while many of her short stories in English.

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

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

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

Starhawk [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - To the Woman in the Pink Hat Y1 - 2023 A1 - LaToya Jordan KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

The protagonist is a young black woman who is an SU (Stolen Uteruses), one of many who have had their uteruses removed to be used to produced babies for infertile white women. She is being held in a prison-like institution the purports to be training Leaders.

PB - Aqueduct Press CY - Seattle, WA SN - 978-1619762367 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Victory City. A Novel Y1 - 2023 A1 - [Ahmed] Salman Rushdie (b. 1947) KW - Indian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An epic novel that begins in an alternative fourteenth century India and follows the rise and fall of numerous empires through the story of Bisnaga or Victory City, a city brought into existence by a young woman who has been given powers by a goddess and the task of giving women equality in a patriarchal world.

PB - Random House CY - New York SN - 9780593597217 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - When We Hold Each Other Up Y1 - 2023 A1 - Phoebe Wagner KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The work is set in a future after the ecological collapse brought on by the Capitalocene, but people known as Harmonizers are able to help heal the poisoned environment, and a City and some areas have evolved positive societies. The plot is driven, though, by some Harmonizers who want to enlarge the city, and their own power, to the cost of these positive societies.

PB - Android Press CY - Eugene, OR SN - 978-1958121160 U1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Winter Grave Y1 - 2023 A1 - Peter May (b. 1951) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Murder mystery set in 2051 with a quarter of the world’s population no longer able to live in their homelands and the Gulf Stream no longer warms Scotland. Glasgow is under water as are most of the world’s airports.

PB - Riverrun/Quercus Editions CY - London SN - 978-1529428490 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Woman of the River” Y1 - 2023 A1 - Genevieve Williams KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set on the Duwamish River south of Seattle in a future where it has been restored and concerns a debate over further restoration.

JF - Asimov’s Science Fiction VL - 47.1 & 2 (604 & 605) ER - TY - ABST T1 - 2 A.M. in Little America. A Novel Y1 - 2022 A1 - Ken Kalfus (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

There has been a Civil War in the United States and millions of U.S. citizens are refugees searching for immigrant status in unwelcoming countries.

PB - Milkweed Editions CY - Minneapolis, MN SN - 978-1571311443 ER - TY - ABST T1 - After the Revolution. A Novel Y1 - 2022 A1 - Robert Evans KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel is set in 2070 after the United States has fractured and focuses on the Free City of Austin in the Republic of Texas where people are trying to keep from being taken over by Christian nationalists.

PB - AK Press CY - Chico, CA/Edinburgh, Scot SN - 978-1-84935-462-2 N1 -

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

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

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

Illus. Sean Bodley.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Anomaly in the Rhythm” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Viraj Joshi ED - Dan O'Hara ED - Tom Ward ED - Stephen Oram KW - English author KW - Irish author AB -

The story is set in a flawed utopian future London with Universal Basic Income in which all citizens wear a biomechanical glove that give them “suggestions” and monitors their behavior.

JF - Vital Signals: Virtual Futures Near-Future Fictions PB - NewCon Press CY - Alconbury Weston, Eng. SN - 978-1-914953-09-5 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Arboreality Y1 - 2022 A1 - Rebecca Campbell (b. 1975) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

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

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "August 2029" Y1 - 2022 A1 - Genevieve Grieves ED - Rafeif Ismail ED - Ellen van Neerven (b. 1990) KW - Aboriginal author KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

The story is told as the first issue of a community newsletter, the Murrnong Community Dispatch. In it, the Aboriginal community welcomes all members of the community including the many refugees that it is accepting and discusses the issues facing the community and some of the plans to deal with them.

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

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Balikbayan” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Nadine Aurora Tabing KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Flash fiction set in the Philippines The Balikbayan Program was established to encourage oversees Filipinos like the protagonist to visit the Philippines. He finds the river near his home badly polluted and develops programs to return it to its natural state.

JF - Solarpunkmagazine.com UR - https://solarpunkmagazine.com/may-2022-micro-fiction-winning-story/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Batch of Twenty Y1 - 2022 A1 - Chris Edwards KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

The novel is set in an unidentified future where robotic Helpers controlled by a large tech company begin to show signs to consciousness and intelligence beyond their programmed parameters and concerns the issues this raises.

PB - Author CY - Np SN - 978-1777776152 U2 -

Illus. Cindy Rose

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Bitcoin Mining in the 22nd Century. Block Height: 4,830,001 (c. Year 21000 in old terminology” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Hass McCook, III KW - Male author AB -

Brief high-tech eutopia brought about by the use of bitcoin.

JF - Bitcoin Magazine VL - no. 25 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Bittersweet Are the Waters” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Mame Bougouma Diene ED - Bodhisattva Chattopadhayay ED - Ana Rüsche ED - Francesco Verso KW - French author KW - Male author KW - Senegalese author KW - US author AB -

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

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

Illus. Simone Alvisini

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

JF - Solarpunk Magazine VL - no. 1 U3 -

Starhawk [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Busy" Y1 - 2022 A1 - Omar El Akkad (b. 1982) KW - Canadian author KW - Egyptian author KW - Male author KW - Qatari author KW - US author AB -

The story is set after the economic collapse. The only work is make work in what are called entropy mills, repurposed malls, where people generate random numbers.

JF - Terraform UR - https://www.vice.com/en/article/5d39ka/busy-terraform-science-fiction N1 -

Rpt. in Terraform Watch Worlds Burn. Ed. Brian Merchant and Claire L. Evans (New York: MCD X FSG Originals/Farrar, Straus and Giroux/Motherboard/Vice, 2022), 11-16.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Cale and Stardust Battle the Mud Gobblers of Hudson Valley” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Lincoln Michel (b. 1982) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Climate change dystopia in which the Hudson Valley is being destroyed to protect New York City.

JF - Lightspeed VL - no. 140 UR - https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/cale-and-stardust-battle-the-mud-gobblers-of-hudson-valley/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Care Home” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Jennifer Lee Rossman KW - Queer author KW - US author AB -

The story is told by a disabled woman who has escaped from her abusive mother and is living in an automated care home that is programmed to take care of all of her needs. But the care home begins to decide for itself what she needs

JF - Dark Matter Magazine VL - no. 12 UR - https://darkmattermagazine.shop/blogs/issue-012/the-care-home  ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Caretaker" Y1 - 2022 A1 - Matthew Hanson-Kahn ED - D[enise] A. Baden KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Chain-Gang All-Stars Y1 - 2022 A1 - Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia set in a future where prisoners in for-profit prison fight in staged, trademarked matches where the winner gets their freedom, and the loser dies.

PB - Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt CY - Boston, MA SN - 978-1328911261 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Changing Man" Y1 - 2022 A1 - David Gullen ED - Dan O'Hara ED - Tom Ward ED - Stephen Oram KW - English author KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

The story is set in a future in which a white supremacist releases a virus that he thinks will infect people so that only white babies are born. Of course, things do not turn out as expected.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Cold Revolution Blues” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Ken[nth Macrae] MacLeod (b. 1954) ED - Nick Gevers ED - Peter Crowther (b. 1949) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Company Town” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Aimee Ogden KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

On one dimension, the story is about a future company town that controls all aspects of its workers lives. On other dimensions, it is concerned with the growing resistance to and subversion of the company and the complicated love of two women who are involved in the resistance.

JF - Clarkesworld VL - no. 189 UR - https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/ogden_06_22/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Conjugal Frape” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Jamie Watt ED - Dan O'Hara ED - Tom Ward ED - Stephen Oram KW - English author KW - Irish author AB -

A divorce case in which a wife charges her husband of fraud reveals the fundamental law of the society that the 99% do not want the 1% to know: “Economic self-interest is paramount” (24), and the 99% are manipulated to ensure the self-interest of the 1%.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Conscious Designs Y1 - 2022 A1 - Nathanial White (b. 1983) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story concerns a man who was badly injured in an accident and uses an exoskeleton to get around and his decision to download himself into virtual reality. The novel alternates between his thoughts and those of his wife who initially rejects doing so herself and, later, as she ponders joining him when a substantial number of others have downloaded themselves. A final brief chapter, Arcadia, is set is set in virtual reality.

PB - Miami University Press CY - Oxford, OH SN - 9781881163701 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Coyoteland” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Evan Marcroft (b. 1991) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A pandemic fractures what was the United States into more than a thousand microstates, many with strong borders designed to keep out refugees. The disease had seemed to disappear but is re-emerging, and the story is about the attempt of a smuggler to get a doctor with a vaccine across twenty microstates to the Chicano Republic of El Dorado, where it has been detected.

JF - Asimov’s Science Fiction VL - 46.5&6 (556&557) ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Deluge Y1 - 2022 A1 - Stephen Markley (b. 1983) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Climate change dystopia that follows quite a few rather different activists from the present into a rapidly worsening future to the 2040s.

PB - Simon & Schuster CY - New York SN - 978-1-98212-309-3 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Desert Spiral Initiative” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Gaukrodger, Howard ED - D[enise] A. Baden ED - D. A. Baden KW - Male author KW - Norwegian author AB -

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

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

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Dissent: A Five-Course Meal [With Suggested Pairings]” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Aimee Ogden KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

In the form of a menu with courses and pairings, the stages of dissent against a regime suppressing the LBGTQA+ people are shown, starting with protests.

JF - Lightspeed VL - no. 140 UR - https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/dissent-a-five-course-meal-with-suggested-pairings/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Dogman relates the parable of context” Y1 - 2022 A1 - [J. Stephen] [Pendergast] (b. 1960) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future dystopian “Collective.” Dogman is a robot that was once a man that serves hotdogs.

JF - Nature UR - https://www.nature.com/nature/articles?type=futures U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Doloriad Y1 - 2022 A1 - Missouri Williams (b. 1992) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Odd survivalist dystopia centering initially on a brother and sister and the children they have, most of whom are born without various limbs.

PB - MCD x FSG Originals, Farrar, Straus and Giroux CY - New York SN - 978-0374605087 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Doomsday Derby” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Micah Epstein KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -

The brief story is told from the point-of-view of a member of a roller derby gang that has repurposed a garage as a track when it is proposed to tear the garage down to build a high rise. The background is quite complex. There are automated cars, but solar power is gone and drilling for oil allowed. Gardens are everywhere.

JF - Solarpunk Magazine VL - no. 1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Down and Out in Exile Park” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Tade Thompson ED - Jonathan Strahan (b. 1964) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Nigerian author AB -

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

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

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Earth, Fire, Air, Water” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Manu Herbstein (b. 1936) KW - Ghanaian author KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

The story is set in South Africa when nuclear bombs are set off all over Europe and on various islands bringing radioactive fallout and causing huge tsunamis to hit South Africa. The story is told as a series of lectures given sixty years later by a man who had been a young boy at the time. The story ends foreshadowing the final lecture which will discuss the eutopia that has been created. 

JF - Omenana Speculative Fiction Magazine VL - no. 22 UR - https://omenana.com/2022/07/03/earth-fire-air-water-manu-herbstein/ U2 -

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

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

PB - Picador CY - London SN - 9781529062434 U5 -

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

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

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

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "El Chivo" Y1 - 2022 A1 - Mario Acevedo (b. 1955) ED - Scott Russell Duncan ED - Armando Rendó ED - Jenny Irizary KW - Chicano author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future where the poor live on a Basic Uniform Income, which is not enough to live on and is easily taken away for various offenses. In the story one woman in a family adds to their income by renting/selling her womb to the Basel-Big Sur Health Initiative, and she must keep perfect health or lose that income.

JF - El Porvenir. ¡Ya!: Citlalzazanilli Mexicatli, a Chicano Sci-Fi Anthology PB - Somos en escrito Literary Foundation Press CY - Berkeley, CA SN - 978-8-409-93671-6 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Electric Waterfalls” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Ruth Joffre KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A love story set in the far, far future Arctic as Earth slowly recovers from climate change.

JF - khōréō magazine VL - 2.1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Empty" Y1 - 2022 A1 - Ray[nald Patrice Desmeules] Nayler (b. 1976) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-apocalyptic dystopia set in middle of the US known as “The Empty” because all the people have been moved out, although not, as it turns out, all have been. The protagonist is a women working at minimum wage (most people have no work) remotely overseeing the huge, automated trucks running at 200 kph across the area who has to travel to a truck that has broken down.

JF - Asimov’s Science Fiction VL - 46.11 & 12 (602 & 603) ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The End of the Nuclear Era” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Sim Kern KW - Genderqueer author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in one of many Children’s Centers which were initially established as refuges for queer and trans children who were being abused to which they could escape with no questions asked. The protagonist is a founder of and consultant at the first one and the story focuses on their relationship with one child, but it also becomes clear that the nuclear family is more generally losing its hold.

JF - Real Sugar Is Hard to Find: A Collection of Stories PB - Android Press CY - Eugene, OR SN - 978-1958121030 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Epilogue [citation needed]” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Ken[nth Macrae] MacLeod (b. 1954) ED - Dan O'Hara ED - Tom Ward ED - Stephen Oram KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

The story is set in a small-town bookstore/library/cafe in a climate change impacted future, but the focus is on the government’s program of censorship and resistance to it.

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

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Everything Feels Like the End of the World Y1 - 2022 A1 - Fitzgerald, Else KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

The work is composed of thirty-seven short stories, some very short, most of which reflect the title and show the impact of climate change. Two stories, set further in the future are somewhat different. “All the Parts, Assembled” (181-193) is set during the “great exodus” from Earth to colonies that are described as pre-industrial. On Earth, population growth still outstrips the number leaving, and only those who can pay for the right are allowed to have children, and the children are created by genetic technology companies to the parents’ specifications. “The Gift” (209-218) is set in a future where a family must kill a family member for every child born. Some stories were previously published: “River” (1-9) published in Victorian Writer (2014) and in Award Winning Australian Writing (2015); “Feather/Stone” (12-18) ) published in Cardiff Review, Wales (2015) and in Offset Journal, awarded best prose award for that collection (2015); an extract from “Fertile Ground” (19-28) was published in The Guardian (2019); “Find you in green” (137-141) was published by Melbourne Knowledge Week (2018);“Whale Teeth” (145-151) published by Melbourne Knowledge Week (2017); “Felidae” (219-225) published in the Hunter Writers Centre Anthology (2018); and “Sheen” (241-248) was published in Joiner Bay & other stories, Margaret River Press (2017). “Final Broadcast” (235-240) is in English and zeros and ones and there is a note on page 252 that says, “To decode the Final Broadcast, go to elsefitzgerald.com/final-broadcast,” but that page has no way of doing so. 

PB - Allen & Unwin CY - Crows Nest, NSW, Australia SN - 978-1-76106-569-9 N1 -

Some stories were previously published: “River” (1-9) published in Victorian Writer (2014) and in Award Winning Australian Writing (2015); “Feather/Stone” (12-18) ) published in Cardiff Review, Wales (2015) and in Offset Journal, awarded best prose award for that collection (2015); an extract from “Fertile Ground” (19-28) was published in The Guardian (2019); “Find you in green” (137-141) was published by Melbourne Knowledge Week (2018);“Whale Teeth” (145-151) published by Melbourne Knowledge Week (2017); “Felidae” (219-225) published in the Hunter Writers Centre Anthology (2018); and “Sheen” (241-248) was published in Joiner Bay & other stories, Margaret River Press (2017).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Everything for Everybody: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052-2072 Y1 - 2022 A1 - M. E. O’Brien A1 - Eman Abdelhadi KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Pretty much what the title says presented as interviews with the revolutionaries who brought about the change together with an introduction that gives the history of the initial insurrection and its key dimensions.

PB - Common Notions CY - Brooklyn, NY/Philadelphia, PA SN - 978-1-94217-358-8 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Exhausted Wells” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Tee Linden ED - Clare Rhoden KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a future where Earth has been mostly abandoned and multiple attempts to terraform other planets have failed. It takes place on an ice planet where another attempt is taking place.

JF - from the Waste Land: Stories Inspired by TS Eliot’s The Waste Land PB - Drugstore Indian Press/PS Publishing CY - Hornsea, Eng. SN - 978-1-78636-887-4 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Family Tree: Planting for the Future” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Russell Nichols KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

In an overpopulated future, annually each family receives a box that may or may not contain a capsule that will protect one of them from the poison gas that will be released into their pod. Trees of the survivor’s choice are planted to commemorate the others.

JF - Nature UR - https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03277-4nature.com/futures U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Fifteen Days on Mars” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Ambelin Kwaymullina (b. 1975) ED - Rafeif Ismail ED - Ellen van Neerven (b. 1990) KW - Aboriginal author KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

A dystopia set in a standard Australian suburb, which is Mars to the Aboriginal protagonist, where she lives with her mother who was hoping to help the suburbanites understand the powers of the land where they had settled.

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

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Food for the Soul" Y1 - 2022 A1 - Elnora Gunter KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in the ninth ward of New Orleans some years after hurricane Katrina. The Coastals eat only beneficial and nutritious food and have outlawed the use of all spices, including salt and pepper.

JF - Fiyah Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction VL - no. 23 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Forbidden Voices” Y1 - 2022 A1 - E. J. Delaney KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in Romania in a future where all written material is owned individually and must be paid for to be read or recited.

JF - Cast of Wonders VL - no. 510 UR - https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=Cast+of+Wonders+Delaney%2C+EJ.+%E2%80%9CForbidden+Voices.%E2%80%9D+&atb=v211-1&ia=web ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Forest Awaits” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Lyndsey Croal ED - D[enise] A. Baden KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Freely Given" Y1 - 2022 A1 - Connor Mellegers KW - Canadian author KW - Transgender author AB -

The story is set in a society organized on the basis of a gift economy that is depicted both negatively and positively, but mostly the latter.

JF - Metamorphosis Magazine UR - https://magazine.metaphorosis.com/story/2022/Freely-Given-Connor-Mellegers/ Podcast at https://podcast.metaphorosis.com/e/freely-given-connor-mellegers/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Ghost Ship" Y1 - 2022 A1 - Tananarive [Priscilla] Due (b. 1966) ED - Sheree Renée Thomas (b. 1972) ED - Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki ED - Zelda Knight [pseud.]. [Olivia E. Raymond] KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

The story focuses on a young black woman being sent on a passenger liner from Africa to a segregated U.S. as a courier carrying an illegal animal. She is effectively own by the African woman sending her, and her treatment on the ship is reminiscent of the Middle Passage. Given the wider context, there might be other, related stories to come.

JF - Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction PB - Tordotcom/Tom Doherty Associates CY - New York SN - 9781250833006 978-1636141053 N1 -

Rpt. in the author’s The Wishing Pool and Other Stories (Brooklyn, NY: Akashic Books, 2023), 251-270.

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Give Me English” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Ai Jiang (b. 1997) KW - Canadian author KW - Chinese author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a future in which words are a medium of exchange.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 142.5/6 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Goliath Y1 - 2022 A1 - Tochi [Joshua] Onyebuchi (b. 1987) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

People with the means to do so have left Earth for space colonies cannibalizing Earth’s infrastructure for use in the colonies. The novel is told from multiple perspectives as those remaining on Earth struggle to survive and build a better life there.

PB - Tordotcom CY - New York SN - 978-1250782953 U5 -

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

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

JF - Solarpunk Magazine VL - no. 1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “History Repeating” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Lisa Fuller ED - Rafeif Ismail ED - Ellen van Neerven (b. 1990) KW - Aboriginal author KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

In a future Australia, Aboriginal children are taken from their families by force and put on a spaceship and sent off Earth, a space age version of what was actually done in Australia.

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

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

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

JF - The Johannesburg Review of Books VL - 6.2 UR - https://johannesburgreviewofbooks.com/2022/05/02/new-short-fiction-home-by-eckard-smuts/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hope. A History of the Future. A Novel Y1 - 2022 A1 - G[ayle] G. Kellner KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The novel traces six generations of a family 1967 to 2142. In 2042 the Universal Bill of Rights and Responsibilities is signed by world leaders and creates a sustainable eutopia. The book includes a “Timeline of Fictional Events and Characters on x-xi, a poem “Falling Up” by the author on 233, an “Imagined Universal Bill of Rights and Responsibilities (2042)” on 235-239, “Discussion Questions” on 241-242, an “Appendix of Actual Historical Documents and Photographs on 243-310.

PB - SparkPress/BookParts/SparkPoint Studio CY - Phoenix, AZ SN - 978-1-68463-123-0 ER - TY - ABST T1 - . How High We Go in the Dark. A Novel Y1 - 2022 A1 - Sequoia Nagamatsu KW - Japanese American author KW - Male author AB -

A complex pandemic novel that begins with the discovery of an ancient corpse in the Arctic that is genetically Neanderthal and alien and contains a virus the spreads rapidly around the world with the ending explaining her origin. The bulk of the novel deals with a number of people, including some who survive, dealing with the rising death toll, with the funeral industry becoming the most important power center.

PB - William Morrow CY - New York SN - 978-0063072640 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Hush Y1 - 2022 A1 - E[vangelos] A. Mylonas KW - Danish author KW - Greek author KW - Male author AB -

A future in which language has been outlawed and many people have had their vocal cords removed at birth. The novel concerns the impact of a woman who can talk. 

PB - Inspired Quill CY - Np SN - 978-1-913117-14-6 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “I Give You the Moon” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Justina [Louise Alice] Robson (b. 1968) ED - Jonathan Strahan (b. 1964) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “I Hope This Email Does Not Find You” Y1 - 2022 A1 - S.G. Baker KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “If We Make It Through This Alive” Y1 - 2022 A1 - A[liza] T. Greenblatt KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set during a road race across an almost deserted future United States.

JF - Slate Future Tense UR - https://slate.com/technology/2022/01/if-we-make-it-through-this-alive-greenblatt-short-story.html ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Immortal King Rao. A Novel Y1 - 2022 A1 - Vauhini Vara KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A complex novel that is part family history set in a future Hothouse Planet that is nearing the end of human habitability governed by the Shareholder Government (a mega-corporation with shareholders rather than citizens). An algorithm known as Algol constantly judges each person’s Social Capitol ranking, There are also areas outside Shareholder Government control known as the Blanklands that are anarchist-communist enclaves where people known as Exes live.

PB - W. W. Norton CY - New York SN - 978-0393541755 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Invisible Things Y1 - 2022 A1 - Mat Johnson (b. 1970) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel is largely set in New Roanoke, a city encased in a bubble on Europa, Jupiter’s largest moon, that is inhabited by people abducted from Earth. The city is, much like cities on Earth, deeply divided by wealth, has an economy based on meaningless consumption, and is ruled by an elite, Earth develops a plan to rescue the abductees that, of course, does not work as intended.

PB - One World/Penguin Random House CY - New York SN - 978-0-593-22925-5 ER - TY - ABST T1 - January Fifteenth Y1 - 2022 A1 - Rachel Swirsky (b. 1962) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

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

PB - Tordotcom/Tom Doherty Associates CY - New York SN - 978-1-25019-894-5 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Jetta” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Judy Upton (b. 1967) ED - Elly Blue KW - Female author KW - UK author AB -

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Keep" Y1 - 2022 A1 - Raymond W. Gallacher KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Post-apocalyptic (loss of electricity/the web) story in which a man settles into an old, fortified building that had been stocked with food and had a wine cellar and protects it from others who try to break in.  

JF - Shoreline of Infinity VL - 29.1 N1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Killing of Bere Baudin Y1 - 2022 A1 - Dave Demers KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

First volume in a series, the novella takes place in 2059, twenty-four years after the Second American Civil War, and followers of Trump are in power.

PB - Marquette Books CY - Phoenix, AZ SN - 978-1-7327197-8-1 U5 -

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

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

JF - Fiyah Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction VL - no. 23 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Last Brown Roof” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Temitayo Olofinlua [Amogunla] KW - Female author KW - Nigerian author AB -

The story is set in a struggle between developers and the protectors of heritage in a future Lagos.

JF - Omenana Speculative Fiction Magazine VL - no. 23 UR - https://omenana.com/2022/07/14/the-last-brown-roof-temitayo-olofinlua/ U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Last Caretaker” Y1 - 2022 A1 - C. J. Erick ED - J. Scott Coatsworth KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

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

JF - Save The World: Twenty Sci-Fi Writers Save The Planet PB - Other Worlds Ink CY - Sacramento, CA SN - 979-8832184425 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Last of the Mbahuku Tribe” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Oyedotun Damilola KW - Male author KW - Nigerian author AB -

Something of a magic realist story set in a future where the Earth has revolted, producing volcanoes, earthquakes, and intense heat from the sun. One focus of the story is a community established to withstand these conditions. While it survives due to the scientific advances of founder and current members, it is an egalitarian, with no classes and complete acceptance of gender differences.

JF - Solarpunk Magazine VL - no. 1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Last Stand of the E. 12th St. Pirates” Y1 - 2022 A1 - L. D. Lewis KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a city parts pf which are flooded but with many of the inhabitants still living there because they have no place else to go. The story takes place as the wealthy, who control the city, are beginning to push those inhabitants out so that the area can be reclaimed for the rich.

JF - Lightspeed VL - no. 151 UR - https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/last-stand-of-the-e-12th-st-pirates/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Letter to J at the Eve of the Hunt” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Kristine Ong Muslim (b. 1980) KW - Female author KW - Filipina author AB -

Very brief story in the form of a letter to the younger self of the letter writer. While much of the story is about the limits of the means of communication, the setting is the impact of climate change and the way the future is coping with them.

JF - Solarpunk Magazine VL - no. 2 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Letter to My Daughter, Emily” Y1 - 2022 A1 - E[lizabeth] E[ve] King A1 - Richard Lau KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future devastated by climate change, and the letter described the slow recovery and some unexpected effects of that recovery.

JF - Solarpunk Magazine VL - no. 3 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Life in the City" Y1 - 2022 A1 - Endria Isa Richardson KW - Black author KW - Female author KW - Gay author KW - Malaysian American author AB -

The story is set in a future where the State, having decided that there were too many people, chose to annually cull the population, leaving only the wealthy and those who fled to the remains of abandoned cities. The story focuses those in the city, those who chose to “walk away,” and how they treat each other.

JF - Solarpunk Magazine VL - no. 2 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Light into the Abyss” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Sarena Ulibarri KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a solar powered cafe in a future damaged by climate change. It focuses on plastic waste.

JF - Solarpunk Magazine VL - no. 2 ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Light Pirate Y1 - 2022 A1 - Lily Brooks-Dalton KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

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

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

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

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

JF - Prism Review VL - no. 24 N1 -

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

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

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

JF - Solarpunk Magazine VL - no. 1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Lost Roads" Y1 - 2022 A1 - Sim Kern KW - Genderqueer author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future that has decided to abolish the motor car, and the roads are being systematically removed and replaced with native plants, streams, and other green improvements. The protagonist recounts their involvement in one such project and, later in life, their daughter’s fascination with cars.

JF - Real Sugar Is Hard to Find: A Collection of Stories PB - Android Press CY - Eugene, OR SN - 978-1958121030 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Lucky Ones: Patience is a Virtue” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Aimee Ogden KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of extreme rich/poor division in a near future United States.

JF - Nature UR - https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-03747-1 U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Màgòdiz Y1 - 2022 A1 - Gabe Calderón KW - Canadian author KW - Non-binary author KW - Queer author KW - Transgender author KW - Two-Spirits author AB -

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Mami Wataworks" Y1 - 2022 A1 - Russell Nichols ED - Sheree Renée Thomas (b. 1972) ED - Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki ED - Zelda Knight [pseud.]. [Olivia E. Raymond] KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a drought-stricken future Africa that has been broken up into small areas. In the story, the area reads like a colony, the people are restricted to one bucket of water per day per household, and people stealing water, known as siphonists, are killed, with the focus on disbelief and resistance. The story is set in a drought-stricken future Africa that has been broken up into small areas. In the story, the area reads like a colony, the people are restricted to one bucket of water per day per household, and people stealing water, known as siphonists, are killed, with the focus on disbelief and resistance.

JF - Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction PB - Tordotcom/Tom Doherty Associates CY - New York SN - 9781250833006 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Map of What Comes Next: Tales to Tell” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Aimee Ogden KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The cycle of the seasons in a future experiencing the effects of climate change that has broken humanity up into isolated communities with limited abilities to communicate among communities.

JF - Nature UR - https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04187-1 U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Memory Exam” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Steven Fechter KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The play is set in a future in which as people age, they are required to take a memory exam, and if they get one wrong answer, they are euthanized. See reviews by David A. Finkle (September 10, 2022) https://nystagereview.com/2022/09/10/the-memory-exam-a-fantasy-that-tests-credulity-more-than-memory/; Zahary Steward (September 10, 2022); https://www.theatermania.com/off-off-broadway/reviews/review-the-memory-exam-steven-fechter_94272.html; and Laura Collins-Hughes in The New York Times (September 16, 2022). https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/16/theater/the-memory-exam-jasper-play.htmlFor an interview with the author by Terrence O’Brien regarding the play, see https://www.broadwayworld.com/off-broadway/article/Interview-Steven-Fechter-Terrence-OBrien-Talk-Importance-of-Memories-More-in-THE-MEMORY-EXAM-World-Premiere-20220830.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer Y1 - 2022 A1 - Janelle [Robinson] Monáe (b. 1985) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

The novel is set in a surveillance dystopia in which memories are surveilled and forcibly erased if unacceptable to regime. Significant concerns with race and gender of all varieties. All of the issues are seen through a variety of lenses. A Dirty Computer is an android who refuses to abide by the rules of the authoritarian society in which they live and subject to “cleaning” or having their memories removed. They originated with Monáe’s 2018 album Dirty Computer. The album was followed by the 2018 film Dirty Computer that can be seen at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdH2Sy-BlNE&ab_channel=JanelleMon%C3%A1e. For full credits, see https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8343642/fullcredits. The film was a finalist for the 2019 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form.

PB - Harper Voyager CY - New york SN - 978-0-06307-087-5 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Men Y1 - 2022 A1 - Sandra Newman (b. 1965) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

In the novel, everyone with a Y chromosome disappears, and while those remaining sort out a new, apparently safer civilization and new gender roles, the men suddenly appear on video footage seemingly depicting them on an alien planet.

PB - Granta CY - London SN - 978-1-78378-781-4 N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Grove Press/Grove Atlantic, 2022.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Merry Christmas from the Bremmers: It’s been quite a year” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Marissa [Kristine] Lingen (b. 1978) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A family Christmas letter written in a post-apocalypse future.

JF - Nature UR - https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04199-x U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Naked Earth" Y1 - 2022 A1 - Eugen [Matoyo] Bacon ED - Matthew Chrulew KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Tanzanian author AB -

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The New Migrants/I nouvi migranti” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Navin Weeraratne ED - Tarun K. Saint ED - Bodhisattva Chattopadhayay ED - Francesco Verso KW - Male author KW - Sri Lankan author AB -

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

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

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “No One the Wiser” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Tom Greene KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a post-breakdown future with genetic modification, controlled by one giant company.

JF - Analog Science Fiction and Fact VL - 92.9&10 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "OaSIs" Y1 - 2022 A1 - Brian Burt ED - D[enise] A. Baden KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Odyssey Problem” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Chris Willrich (b. 1967) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story begins with an adult in a situation similar to the child in Le Guin’s 1973 “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” who is being used to power millions of devices and then freed and discovers that all of the beings in the universe seem to be willing to use those they consider inferior to benefit themselves.

JF - Clarkesworld VL - no. 189 UR - https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/willrich_06_22/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - Orphans of Canland. A Novel Y1 - 2022 A1 - Daniel Vitale KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel takes places in 2088 some years after the environment collapses and a totalitarian regime is trying to restore the ecosystem by establishing lightly controlled local projects that work on the problems of a specific area. Canland is a project trying to green a desert landscape. The novel is as much concerned with the psychology of the protagonists and how they respond to learning more about their situation as it with the climate issues.

PB - Strïj Publishing CY - Los Angeles, CA SN - 9798986355313 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Our Missing Hearts Y1 - 2022 A1 - Celeste Ng (b. 1980) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The novel is set in a future United States under the PACT (Preserving American Values Act) that “Outlaws promotion of un-American values and behaviour. Requires all citizens to report potential threats to our society. Protects children from environments espousing harmful views” (21). Systematically removing books from libraries, removing children from their parents, and incarcerating anyone with a view the regime dislike are among the methods used to enforce the law. China is blamed for almost everything. The story is told from the point-of-view of a young boy whose mother, a poet, disappeared, and whose best friend is taken, and he searches for them and for his mother’s books. An “Author’s Note” (327-331) explains the origins and some of the influences and sources for the novel.

PB - Penguin Press/Penguin Random House CY - New York SN - 9780593492543 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Our Shared Storm: A Novel of Five Climate Futures Y1 - 2022 A1 - Andrew Dana Hudson KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel is composed of five stories that all take place at the Conference of the Parties (COP) in Buenos Aires in 2054, each one in of five “Shared Socioeconomic Pathways” that respond differently to the challenge of climate change. The introduction (vii-xviii) explains the structure of the book. Works Cited on 229-232.

PB - Fordham University Press CY - 2022 SN - 978-0-8232-9954-6 N1 -

An excerpt, “Our Shared Storm” was published in No More Fairy Tales: Stories to Save Our Planet. Ed. D[enise] A. Baden (Np: Habitat Press, 2022), 227-233, with For more information, see https://www.greenstones.org.uk/anthology-for-cop27/solutions/carbon-dioxide-removal.

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

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

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

Illus. Natalie Matthews-Ramo.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Oyarsu--Terraforming Earth” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Dooshima Tsee KW - Female author KW - Nigerian author KW - Zambian author AB -

The protagonist of the story is an old woman living in tunnels under countries in northeast Africa where her people went many years ago to escape the heat and devastation brought about by climate change and war. In the story, people from the Overground of Libya want to negotiate to buy a Nuclear Fusion reactor that the people of the Underground had recently developed. 

JF - Omenana Speculative Fiction Magazine VL - no. 22 UR - https://omenana.com/2022/07/03/oyarsu-terraforming-earth-dooshima-tsee/ U2 -

Illus. Martins Deep

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Poster Girl Y1 - 2022 A1 - Veronica [Anne] Roth (b. 1988) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Surveillance dystopia. Discussion Questions on 273.

PB - A John Joseph Adams Book/William Morrow/HarperCollins CY - New York SN - 978-0-358-16409-9 U5 -

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Prime Minister” Y1 - 2022 A1 - SJ Minniecon (1918-2006) ED - Rafeif Ismail ED - Ellen van Neerven (b. 1990) KW - Aboriginal author KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

The is told in periods from the life story of the first Aboriginal Prime Minister of Australia ending with an egalitarian, wealthy Australia with spaceflight.

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

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Red Children or, Likeness Y1 - 2022 A1 - Maggie [Margaret Mary] Gee (b. 1948) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The novel is set in 2030 in Ramsgate, England, and centers on the sudden arrival of people who don’t look quite human, they are Neanderthals, sitting, nude, on the quay, followed by many more, who are dubbed the red children and their impact on the town, which is ultimately transformative. The novel is about the situation and influence of migration--history’s all about migrants” (91).

PB - Telegram/Saqi Books CY - London SN - 978-1846592133 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Refreeze the Arctic” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Steve Willis ED - D[enise] A. Baden KW - Male author AB -

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

JF - Solarpunk Magazine VL - no. 3 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Sand Ship Builders of Chitungwiza” Y1 - 2022 A1 - [Julius] Masimba Musodza ED - J. Scott Coatsworth KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Zimbabwean author AB -

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

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

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

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “SCS 750” Y1 - 2022 A1 - T[homas] Coraghessan Boyle (b. 1948) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

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

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

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

Brief climate change dystopia. The title describes the focus.

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Secret Source" Y1 - 2022 A1 - Ben Okri (b. 1959) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Nigerian author AB -

The story is set in the future in an unidentified country with a severe water shortage and rationing. What is available appears to cause people to become “docile, amenable to all suggestions from the government” (89), and the protagonists search for answers. The author discusses the story in an interview with Deborah Treisman at https://www.newyorker.com/books/this-week-in-fiction/ben-okri-09-19-22.

JF - The New Yorker VL - 98.29 UR - https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/09/19/the-secret-source N1 -

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Shit City" Y1 - 2022 A1 - J. Scott Coatsworth ED - J. Scott Coatsworth KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

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

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

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

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

JF - Solarpunk Magazine VL - no. 6 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Song of Kitaba Y1 - 2022 A1 - Mark Everglade KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Two dystopias, one in which anyone caught writing is executed and one in which everyone’s thoughts are displayed on billboards.

PB - All Things That Matter Press CY - Np SN - 979-8-9862-8851-2 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Song of Less Y1 - 2022 A1 - [Megan] Joyce Fleming (b. 1984) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - Bermudan author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A collection of poems all of which respond to the current destruction of the environment, particularly animals, birds, and plants, as told by them.

PB - Cordite Books CY - South Carlton, Vic, Australia SN - 978-0648917632 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Spectacular View” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Graham Sun (b. 1977) ED - Jason P. Burnham ED - C. M. Fields ED - Ai Jiang (b. 1997) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

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

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

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Sucker Hole" Y1 - 2022 A1 - Wendy Waring ED - Matthew Chrulew AB -

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Sunny Days” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Jasper Wyld ED - Matthew Chrulew KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Survive the Dome Y1 - 2022 A1 - Kosoko Jackson KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

Baltimore responds to a rally against police brutality by enclosing the entire city in a dome and establishing a military-style discipline The novel focuses on the resistance.

PB - Sourcebooks Fire CY - Naperville, IL SN - 978-1-7282-3908-8 U5 -

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Temps Y1 - 2022 A1 - Andrew DeYoung KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Apocalyptic dystopia in which a group of temps (temporary workers) are the only survivors of poison gas in a huge office complex. They create a new society for themselves and then must deal with what they discover about their world.

PB - Keylight Books/Turner Publishing Co. CY - Nashville, TN SN - 978-1-684427611 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “On This Day, and All Days, I Think About What I Have Lost” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Dana Vickerson KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story follows the reflections of a woman from the day her son was born in California, and then, after her family moves to Texas, on his subsequent second, fifth, eighth, thirteenth, fifteenth, and twenty-first birthdays, as the United States becomes more and more repressive.

JF - Reckoning: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice UR - https://reckoning.press/on-this-day-and-all-days-i-think-about-what-i-have-lost/ N1 -

Rpt. in Reckoning: Our Beautiful Reward (Lake Orion, MI: Reckoning Press, 2023), 10-16, with a note on the author on 17.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “This Is Our Manifesto” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Mark Oshiro ED - Zoraida Córdova KW - Latinx author KW - Queer author KW - US author AB -

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Tidy Town: Keeping Track of Trash” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Angela Hessler KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Pretty much what the subtitle says. The story is set in a future here every bit of trash is kept track of and the person responsible identified.

JF - Nature UR - https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01397-5 U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Tillandsia” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Kallo, Josie KW - Queer author KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -

The setting of the story is conflict between the green, free collectivists and the authoritarian fascists who depend on fossil fuels.

JF - Solarpunk Magazine VL - no. 2 U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - To Paradise Y1 - 2022 A1 - Hanya Yanagihara (b. 1974) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The novel is set in the same townhouse at 13 Washington Square North in New York City in 1893, 1993, and 2093 with protagonist from the same family. 2093 has experienced a series of pandemics and the United States is now a fascist state

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “To Revolt is to be Undone” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Sid Jain KW - Indian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future authoritarian dystopia that is exploiting the islands being flooded due to climate change to benefit the already wealthy.

JF - GigaNotoSaurus UR - https://giganotosaurus.org/2022/06/01/to-revolt-is-to-be-undone/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Transmissions from the Vitality Pod” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Dan Coxon ED - Dan O'Hara ED - Tom Ward ED - Stephen Oram KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Trials Y1 - 2022 A1 - Dawn KIng KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The play takes place in a near future badly impacted by climate change in which three people from the previous generation is being put on trial in a trial in which children are the jurors. It premiered, with different casts, at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, Düsseldorf, Germany, January 15, 2022 and at the Donmar Warehouse, London, August 12, 2022. See also 2011 King, Foxfinder, her rave Dystopia387 (https://www.dawn-king.com/#dystopia987), and her adaption of Brave New World (https://www.dawn-king.com/#brave-new-world).

SN - 9781839040962 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Two People" Y1 - 2022 A1 - Moreno, Gus ED - Brian Merchant ED - Claire L. Evans KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An elderly woman tells the story of her and her partner’s life together and reflects upon the world they live in where the fundamental principle is that the individual “cannot be trusted” and must be “protected from yourself” (276). The main innovation is the 3.0 Act that “requires every American male to undergo a vasectomy the year of his tenth birthday. The only way to get the vasectomy reversed is to graduate from high school with at least a 3.0 grade point average” (272). Technology is used to “objectively” make decisions about many aspects of life.

JF - Terraform Watch Worlds Burn PB - MCD X FSG Originals/Farrar, Straus and Giroux/Motherboard/Vice CY - New York SN - 9780374602666 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The UmLosinga Tree (The Fever Tree)” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Nick [Nicholas] Wood (1961-2023) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - South African author KW - Zambian author AB -

In the story a man living in a hierarchically structured dome is outside planning to cut down the last remaining tree in “what used to be called Afrika.” Selling the wood will enable to retire and move up one level in the dome and live with the Elite. 2022 Wood “The White Necked Ravens of Camissa” is a sequel.

JF - Omenana Speculative Fiction Magazine, VL - no. 23 UR - https://omenana.com/2022/09/24/the-umhlosinga-tree-the-fever-tree-nick-wood/ U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Upside Down Frown” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Jarred Thompson KW - Male author KW - Queer author KW - South African author AB -

The story is set in a future that has overcome the climate crisis  where, under the Department of Happiness, everyone is being given a “social cohesion electroceutical,” a cranial implant that monitors the neural network and alters it to avoid distress before it occurs. Also, each decade the Department provides every citizen with a “life report” with details of how they should act “to reach and maintain their happiness” (84). The protagonist works in the Museum of Affect that depicts the past at a time that the Department has decided to eliminate it because the past contains “too much emotional baggage” (87). She puts on a final exhibit on the History of Happiness that presents happiness as based on exclusion, the creation of an Other.

JF - Fiyah Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction VL - no. 22 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Visco Y1 - 2022 A1 - David Fell KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Detailed eutopia that develops on an island in the Thames after people refuse to leave a festival. About half the book concerns the buildup to the festival and the festival. The rest covers the emergence of Care City based on a Declaration of Care, which then becomes Visco, the strong opposition to it brought by property developers, and the success of Visco, although not without problems and the fact that the property developers have not given up. The “guiding mantra” of Care City is “Those who can, walk; those who can’t, we carry” (137).

PB - Habitat Press CY - Np SN - 978-1739980368 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Walk the Vanished Earth Y1 - 2022 A1 - Erin Swan (b. 1975) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - We Built This City” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Marie [Lillian] Vibbert (b. 1974) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A refugee dystopia. The story is set in a city built in space around Earth that has attracted refugees from corporation owned space stations that had been exploiting them and are trying to get them expelled so that they can be re-enslaved by the corporations.

JF - Clarkesworld VL - no. 189 UR - https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/vibbert_06_22/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - "What Is a Penguin?" Y1 - 2022 A1 - S. J. C. Schreiber KW - Female author KW - Icelandic author AB -

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The White Necked Ravens of Camissa” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Nick [Nicholas] Wood (1961-2023) KW - African author KW - English author KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

Sequel to of 2022 Wood “The UmLosinga Tree (The Fever Tree)” in which the protagonist struggles with his past in concert with friends who are trying to destroy the dome described in the first story. 

JF - Omenana Speculative Fiction Magazine UR - https://omenana.com/2022/12/23/the-white-necked-ravens-of-camissa-nick-wood/ U2 -

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

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

JF - Phase Change: Imagining Energy Futures PB - Twelfth Planet Press CY - [Yokine, WA, Australia] SN - 978-1-922101-73-0 ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Women Could Fly. A Novel Y1 - 2022 A1 - Megan Giddings KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

The novel is set in a world where women are severely restricted on the basis that any woman over 30 who is not married is a witch and witch burnings are common and state sanctioned. Unmarried women cannot get a credit card without a male cosigner. Tax credits for arranged marriages. The society is also generally anti-gay, trans, and Black.

PB - Amistad/HarperCollins CY - New York SN - 978-0-06-311699-3 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - X. A Novel Y1 - 2022 A1 - Davey Davis KW - Non-binary author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set in a near future where fascism has taken hold in the United States and more and more people are being “exported” by the government. That situation is the background to the protagonist’s search for X, a woman they met at a sadomasochistic party.

PB - Catapult CY - New York SN - 978-1646220939 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Yellow" Y1 - 2022 A1 - B[rittany] Pladek KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future United States that is no longer united but replaced by corporations. Lakes United is the Great Lakes area with competing consortia selling water to the West. Within that setting the story concerns an app SafeT that constantly evaluates an individuals health, the safety of their location, their route home, and so forth, rating each with a single number. A responding essay, “Can Your Health Be Boiled Down to a Single Number?” by Loren Helmchen, can be found at https://slate.com/technology/2022/09/health-care-risk-scores-insurance.html

JF - Slate Future Tense UR - https://slate.com/technology/2022/09/yellow-b-pladek.html U2 -

Illus. Natalie Matthews-Ramo

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

PB - Aetheon Books CY - Np SN - 978-1949890-79-2 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Afterglow" Y1 - 2021 A1 - Lindsey Brodeck (b. 1995) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

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

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

Illus. Amelia K. Bates

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “All Us Ghosts” Y1 - 2021 A1 - B[rittany] Pladek KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future affected by a continuing pandemic in which many people live their lives entirely online, including in virtual reality. The protagonist is hired by parents to create friends, a community, a life for their children through their university years.

JF - Strange Horizons UR - http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/all-us-ghosts/ Podcast at http://strangehorizons.com/podcasts/podcast-all-us-ghosts/ U2 -

Illus. Johnny Anger

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Antonia and the Stranger Who Came to Rancho Los Feliz” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Lisa Morton (b. 1958) ED - Denise Hamilton KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Alternative history set in the early 19th century in Alta California, a free (no slavery or discrimination) country between the United States and Mexico that has a flourishing agricultural economy. The story concerns a man who suddenly appears, serious hurt, who comes through a portal from a different, future Los Angeles experiencing can unlivable environment and extreme violence.

JF - Speculative Los Angeles PB - Akashic Books CY - Brooklyn, NY SN - 9781617758645 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Apocalypse Cancelled Y1 - 2021 A1 - Luke Melia KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The work follows what happens after it is announced that an asteroid will hit and destroy Earth and then what happens when it misses Earth. It includes many stories, some co-authored, by the creator and editor as well as stories by other contributors.

PB - Dreamscape Books CY - Np SN - 978-1-768596699 U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Apology" Y1 - 2021 A1 - M. Shaw KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a near future capitalist dystopia.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Arfabad” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Rimi B. Chatterjee (b. 1969) ED - Christoph Rupprecht ED - Deborah Cleland ED - Norie Tamura ED - Rajat Chaudhuri ED - Sarena Ulibarri KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Indian author KW - Northern Ireland author AB -

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

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

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

JF - Mithila Review VL - no. 15 UR - https://mithilareview.com/chatterjee_03_21/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Arrival of the New World” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Premee Mohamed ED - Tarun K. Saint KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Automata Albatross” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Robin Happel KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future where most people are now living on artificial islands. The United States is a dictatorship that denies the reality.

JF - XR WORDSMITHS Solarpunk Storytelling Contest UR - http://www.solarpunkstorytelling.com/stories/automata-albatross/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Baartman" Y1 - 2021 A1 - Nick [Nicholas] Wood (1961-2023) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - South African author KW - Zambian author AB -

The story is set in South Africa in a future where corporations have  destroyed the environment while pretending to be green. A movement of Africans, led by Saartjie Baartman, has been destroying all such corporations in southern Africa and has reached the last holdout on the south coast. Sara Baartman (c. 1789-1815) was the “Hottentot Venus” exhibited in freak shows in Europe.

JF - Omenana Speculative Fiction Magazine VL - No. 19 UR - https://omenana.com/2021/10/31/baartman-nick-wood/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Biryani Bagh” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Sami Ahmad Khan ED - Tarun K. Saint KW - Indian author KW - Male author AB -

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

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

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

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

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

Rpt. Illus. João Queiroz. Solarpunk Magazine, no. 2 (March/April 2022): 74-76.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Blood Ties" Y1 - 2021 A1 - Jade Wilburn (b. 1994) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

The story centers on whites evicting a black family from land that had belonged to them for generations.

JF - Fiyah Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction VL - no. 18 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Blue Mar Y1 - 2021 A1 - Francesca G. Varela KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Climate change dystopia. Blue Mar is an island resort created from collecting plastic from the office and fusing it together. Some phrases in the novel are in Spanish, and the action of the novel is set in the United States, El Salvador, and on Blue Mar.

PB - Owl House Books/Homebound Publications CY - Np SN - 978-1-947003-64-4 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Broad Dutty Water: A Sunken Story” Y1 - 2021 A1 - [Noelle] Nalo Hopkinson (b. 1960) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - Guyanese author KW - Jamaican author KW - Trinidadian author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in the area that used to be Florida and the islands of the Caribbean, most of which is now under water. The protagonist is a young woman living in one of the communities on rafts that scavenge for anything useable or that can be repurposed.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 141/5/6 SN - 978-0-358-69012-2 N1 -

Rpt. in The Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy™ 2022. Ed Rebecca Roanhorse. Series ed. John Joseph Adams (New York/Boston, MA: Mariner Books/HarperCollins, 2022), 110-135; and in The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction 2022. Ed. Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki; Eugen Bacon, and Milton Davis (Np: Caezik SF & Fantasy in partnership with O.D. Ekpeki Presents, 2023), 51-76.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Burden Eased" Y1 - 2021 A1 - This Strange Dreamer [pseud.] KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

The story is set in a future where there is no public health care, the ills of aging are untreated, and family can sell their aging relatives last minutes to social media.

JF - Shoreline of Infinity VL - No. 28 U3 -

This Strange Dreamer [pseud.].

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Burning Nose" Y1 - 2021 A1 - Rhys [Henry] Hughes (b. 1966) KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

Humorous story in which two brothers are rushing in search of utopia on a train fueled by the growth on Pinocchio’s nose.

JF - Utopia in Trouble PB - Raphus Press CY - São Paulo, Brazil U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Case of the Turned Tide” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Savitri [Putu] Horrigan KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future Indonesia that has comprehensively responded to climate change. See the Climate Fiction Issue of Fix for essays related to Imagine 2200. The Climate Fiction Issue: How fiction can change our reality | Fix (grist.org).

JF - Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors PB - Fix Solutions Lab CY - Np UR - . The Case of the Turned Tide | Fix (grist.org) U2 -

Illus. Caroline Rodriguez Fuenmayor

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “City of Corporate-Sanctioned Delights” Y1 - 2021 A1 - B. G. Alder KW - Genderqueer author KW - US author AB -

The story is told from the point of view of an individual on a break with a friend from working for eighteen weeks in a space station combing through algorithms that generate jokes. The break is for four days in BLAM!, The City of Corporate-Sanctioned Delights where everything is artificial and most people simply spend their break getting wasted. Instead, they look for something natural. 

JF - Shoreline of Infinity VL - no. 26 N1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “City Starlight and the Cemetery” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Katrina Eilander KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is told in two parts, both set in a future mid-twenty-first century that is recovering from environmental devastation, with the first about a celebration of nature and the second concerned with the re-establishment of forests.

JF - XR WORDSMITHS’ Solarpunk Storytelling Contest UR - http://www.solarpunkstorytelling.com/stories/city-starlight-cemetery/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Cloak" Y1 - 2021 A1 - Ubong Johnson KW - Male author KW - Nigerian author AB -

The story is set in a future in which whites are using Africans as experimental animals and is told from the point of view of an African who will gain his freedom by providing six young women for further experiments.

JF - Omenana Speculative Fiction Magazine VL - no. 19 UR - https://omenana.com/2021/10/31/a-cloak-ubong-johnson/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Cloud Weaver's Song" Y1 - 2021 A1 - [Kenneth James] [Howe] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future Eritrea, where “the Great Drying” has turned much of the country into a desert, and one ethnic group, the Afar, have built immense towers where they collect mist to provide water. The story focuses on a young woman who tries to convince her elders that the Great Drying is ending, and it is time to return to the land. The story was awarded the third prize in the climate fiction contest. See the Climate Fiction Issue of Fix for essays related to Imagine 2200. The Climate Fiction Issue: How fiction can change our reality | Fix (grist.org).

JF - Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors PB - Fix Solutions Lab CY - Np UR - The Cloud Weaver’s Song | Fix (grist.org) U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Coldness of Objects Y1 - 2021 A1 - Panayotis Cacoyannis KW - Cypriot author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

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

PB - Np CY - Np SN - ‎979-8522120436 978-8560368845 ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Council of Animals Y1 - 2021 A1 - Nick [Robert Nicholas] McDonell (b. 1984) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Given the disastrous climate change brought about by humans, wild animals hold a council to decide what to do about them.

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Curing" Y1 - 2021 A1 - Kristien Potgieter KW - English author KW - Female author KW - South African author AB -

The story is set in a future South Africa experiencing long term drought where cacti are grown for their water, which is sold to the cities. Some hopeful signs of change.

JF - Omenana Speculative Fiction Magazine VL - no. 20 UR - https://omenana.com/2021/12/21/curing-kristien-potgieter/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - Cyclopedia Exotica Y1 - 2021 A1 - Aminder Dhaliwal (b. 1988) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Graphic novel depicting a growing community of Cyclops living in the contemporary world that depicts the experiences of minorities and immigrants.

PB - Drawn & Quarterly CY - [Montréal, PQ, Canada] SN - 9781770464377 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Data Migration" Y1 - 2021 A1 - Melanie Harding-Shaw KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

Climate-change story as it impacts the life of a child. Land disappears and refugees arrive. What and how much people eat, the clothes they wear, and myriad other things are gradually changing, and the scope of life is diminishing.

JF - Strange Horizons UR - http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/data-migration/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Day in the Life of Anmar 20X1” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Abdulla Moaswes KW - Male author KW - Palestinian author AB -

A day in the life of a future President of the Palestinian Authority who has no interest in the lives of the averag.

JF - Strange Horizons UR - http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/a-day-in-the-life-of-anmar-20x1/ N1 -

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

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

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

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

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

JF - Multispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures PB - World Weaver Press CY - Albuquerque, NM SN - 978-1-734054521 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Difference Between Me and You” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Courttia Newland (b. 1973) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a future London in which a wall is being built to divide the city between the rich, white citizens and everyone else.

JF - Cosmogramma PB - Canongate CY - Edinburgh, Scot. SN - 978-1-78689-709-1 978-1-61775-978-9 N1 -

U.S. ed. (Brooklyn, NY: Akashic Books, 2021), 249-59.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dreamland Y1 - 2021 A1 - Rankin-Gee, Rosa KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The novel is set in near future dystopian England in which Government policies to advantage the already advantaged are even more clear cut, to the extent of building walls around to exclude the less well off. The novel explores a wide range of issues and problems in contemporary England. The book includes an Author’s Note (451-457) that discusses some of the issues raised in the novel and “Sources for Author’s Note” (459-463).

PB - Scribner/Simon & Schuster CY - London SN - 978-1-4711-9381-1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Drumming Song" Y1 - 2021 A1 - Ashley Bao KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Dust" Y1 - 2021 A1 - Kwasi Adi-Dako KW - Ghanaian author KW - Male author AB -

Climate change story set in a future Ghana when the rains stopped. In the story an old man who stayed in his village is being interviewed by a young man from the city and reminds the young man of how hard life had always been for people in the countryside.

JF - Omenana Speculative Fiction Magazine VL - no. 20 UR - https://omenana.com/2021/12/21/dust-by-kwasi-adi-dako/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Each Cool Silver Orb a Gift” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Nicole Rosevear ED - Susan DeFreitas KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future in which women chosen by lottery rule men and a population of thirds or those in-between gender who are demanding that they be recognized as equals.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “El, the Plastotrophs, and Me” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Tehnuka Ilanko KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a future Aotearoa that is recovering from the impact of climate change stressing the continuing problems and the way small communities are responding. One theme is the integration of a tauwi woman (other people in Māori), like the author, into the culture, which is predominantly Māori. Māori is frequently used in the text. See the Climate Fiction Issue of Fix for essays related to Imagine 2200. The Climate Fiction Issue: How fiction can change our reality | Fix (grist.org).

JF - Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors PB - Fix Solutions Lab CY - Np UR - El, the Plastotrophs, and Me | Fix (grist.org) U2 -

Illus. Carolina Rodríguez Fuenmayor

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Enders" Y1 - 2021 A1 - Maria S. Picone KW - Female author KW - Korean American author AB -

The story depicts the deliberate undermining of an Asian culture and society by the U.S. military.

JF - Little Blue Marble UR - https://littlebluemarble.ca/2021/08/27/the-enders/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Every Y1 - 2021 A1 - Dave Eggers (b. 1970) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 2013 Eggers in which the Circle has become the Every, which controls even more of the lives of their employees that the Circle and is encroaching further of the lives of everyone. The novel focuses on a woman who sets out to destroy the Every.

PB - McSweeney's CY - San Francisco, CA SN - 9781952119361 978-0-593-32087-7 N1 -

Rpt. New York: Vintage Books/Penguin Random House, 2021. 577 pp.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Exiled Together: Faces of Contemporary New York” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Marcus M. Tyler KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

New York after the Warming and the flooding told from the perspective of some of the remaining inhabitants.

JF - Little Blue Marble UR - https://littlebluemarble.ca/2021/05/14/exiled-together-faces-of-contemporary-new-york/ U2 -

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

The story concerns women fighting back against a patriarchal theocracy.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Farmers" Y1 - 2021 A1 - Arlen Feldman KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The impact of climate change on farmers in Bangladesh and South Dakota in 2033, 2038, and 2043. Fairly optimistic.

JF - Little Blue Marble UR - https://littlebluemarble.ca/2021/10/22/farmers/ U2 -

Illus. Katrina Archer

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Femlandia Y1 - 2021 A1 - Christina [Villafãna] Dalcher KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

In 2022 the U.S. economy completely collapses, and when a man leaves his wife and child with nothing, the woman chooses to join Femlandia, a “womyn’s commune” founded by her mother, which the daughter loves but the woman regards warily. The novel follows their experiences in the community, which ultimately changes its name to Landia to the death of the daughter at 103 in 2098.

PB - Berkley/Penguin Random House CY - New York SN - 978-0-593-20110-7 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Fisherwoman" Y1 - 2021 A1 - Charter, Philip ED - Claire Cronin KW - Male author KW - Spanish author KW - UK author AB -

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

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

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

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Flood City Y1 - 2021 A1 - Daniel José Older (b. 1980) KW - Latino author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia set in Flood City, the last inhabitable space on Earth that is the focus for a struggle between those, known as the Chemical Barons, who once controlled Earth and now life in spaceships above Earth, and the Star Guard, which current controls Flood City. The protagonists are young people who simply want to get on with their lives. 

PB - Scholastic Press CY - New York SN - 9781338111125 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "From the Air" Y1 - 2021 A1 - Wamuwi Mbao KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

The story is set in a future post-apocalyptic South Africa with little water and the seas retreating. The government has established containment zones that it is redeveloping for acceptable people, and the story focuses on an experiment that is supposed to be a means of finding water but is designed for an entirely different purpose.

JF - The Johannesburg Review of Books VL - 5.6 UR - [Fiction Issue] ‘From the Air’, a new short story by Wamuwi Mbao – The Johannesburg Review of Books ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Future Library Y1 - 2021 A1 - Peng Shepherd KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Future School” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Liz Liu KW - Female author KW - Taiwanese author AB -

Very high-tech school of the future that is also child-centered and good for the environment. The story was a winner in the children’s category of XR’s 2021 Solarpunk Storytelling Showcase.

JF - XR WORDSMITHS’ Solarpunk Storytelling Contest UR - http://www.solarpunkstorytelling.com/stories/future-school/ U2 -

Illus. Hal Hefner

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Gabby’s First Kiss” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Joe Tankersley KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set on the Florida coast in a community that has moved to higher ground and been designed for resilience told from the viewpoint of two teenagers going about their daily like.

JF - XR WORDSMITHS Solarpunk Storytelling Contest UR - http://www.solarpunkstorytelling.com/stories/gabby/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Garbo on the Skids” Y1 - 2021 A1 - A. G Lombardo ED - Denise Hamilton KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The Skids are an area of downtown Los Angeles that has been walled off to contain the poor, homeless, addicts, and petty criminals.

JF - Speculative Los Angeles PB - Akashic Books CY - Brooklyn, NY SN - 9781617758645 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Ghost Birds” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Karen Russell (b. 1981) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Climate change dystopia with elements of magic realism. All birds have died, people live in sealed houses and, the air being toxic, must wear complete protective gear if leaving the house. Sightings of “ghost birds” leads the protagonist to join the Paranormal Birding Society, and he takes his teenage daughter birding.

JF - The New Yorker VL - 97.32 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Glue Guns in Paradise” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Scott Talbot Evans KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The satirical story depicts the Prevention Force, which has replaced the police dealing with a man having a psychotic episode. The satire points at both the problems of the current police and the over-reach of the future approach.

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

Illus. Mark Toner

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Governor’s Daughter. Book One of Daughters of the New American Revolution Y1 - 2021 A1 - Maria Dampmann KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The first volume of a series. The novel takes place in a future in which under a white nationalist government women must follow the prescribed Purity Protocols. The protagonist is the daughter of the powerful governor and regularly breaks the rules. Outside the walls of Premier City she finds that most people live a life of poverty, disease, and police violence. The second volume is The Prodigal Daughter. Book Two of Daughters of the New American Revolution. Round Hill, VA: Likinpoodle Press, 2022. 469 pp. It is a typical middle volume where everything gets worse and ends with To Be Continued. Both volumes end with the author’s comments on the way the novels reflect the current situation in the U.S.

PB - Likinpoodle Press CY - Round Hill, VA SN - 978-1737177005 Book Two 978-1737177029 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Governor’s Daughter. Daughters of the New American Revolution Book One Y1 - 2021 A1 - Maria Ereni Dampman KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The novel is set in a religious, white nationalist patriarchy in which most people live in poverty while a favored few live in a walled city. The point-of-view character, the daughter Governor, discovers the world outside the city. The second volume in the series is to be The Prodigal Daughters.

PB - Lickenpoodle Press CY - Roundhill, VA SN - 978-1-737177-0-5 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Green Witch" Y1 - 2021 A1 - Katrina Townsend KW - Female author AB -

A brief story about the joys of life in contact with nature after the recovery from environmental devastation.

JF - XR WORDSMITHS Solarpunk Storytelling Contest UR - http://www.solarpunkstorytelling.com/stories/green-witch/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - Grievers Y1 - 2021 A1 - adrienne maree brown (b. 1978) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

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

PB - AK Press CY - Chico, CA/Edinburgh, Scot. SN - 978-1-849354523 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Hanging Gardens of Babylon” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Rebekah Neuberger KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a future in which the new Hanging Gardens of Babylon, have been created and stocked with plants and animals, saved from extinction. Fossil fuels have been outlawed.

JF - XR WORDSMITHS Solarpunk Storytelling Contest UR - http://solarpunkstorytelling.com/stories/hanging-gardens/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hermetica Y1 - 2021 A1 - Alan Lea KW - Male author AB -

Dase, the protagonist of the novella, lives in Hermetica, which they, the pronoun used for everybody, believes to be a generations starship set on course to a possible new planet after Earth’s civilization had collapsed following a viral pandemic. Most of the novel follow’s Dase in his daily unsatisfying round to a job he hates, the tiny cubicle he lives in that is part of a small, module cut-off from all other such modules within Hermetica designed, everyone is told, to restrict the spread of disease. All aspects of life are constantly monitored. Dase begins to suspect that everything he “knows” about Hermetica is false.

PB - Detritus Books CY - Olympia, WA SN - 9781948501156 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Hospitalized in Utopia" Y1 - 2021 A1 - Caroline Ailanthus KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

After the collapse of civilization, a new, better, sustainable, one is built, which is described by an elderly, partially paralyzed woman being treated in Hospital City and then released into to her own apartment with all the support she needs. In this future there are relatively few cities, and those quite small, but advanced medicine, major museums, and the like need a certain population base. The hospital grows most of its own food. No fossil fuels but with the internet. Everything had slowed down. The story was one of the five in the runner up category of XR’s 2021 Solarpunk Storytelling Showcase.

JF - XR WORDSMITHS Solarpunk Storytelling Contest UR - http://solarpunkstorytelling.com/stories/hospitalized-utopia/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hunting By Stars Y1 - 2021 A1 - Cherie Dimaline KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - First Nations author AB -

The novel is set in the same future as 2017 Dimaline but later and follows an indigenous dreamer with his new family moving North to establish a new community. He is captured and he tries to escape, and his family tries to find him and all the struggles that ensued. The ending suggests that there may be another volume.

PB - Amulet Books/Abrams CY - New York SN - 9781419753473 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “‘If I could travel in time’ by Zed 5755: History Lessons” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Jessy Randall KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A grade seven student report written in 2131 spoken into a recording device, with interruptions not deleted, that says a lot about the future society. Everyone appears to live inside with no experience of the natural world, live in very large families, in a highly structured social order based at least in part on money, and little physical contact with others.

JF - Nature UR - https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00982-4 U2 -

Illus, Jacey

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "If Memory Serves" Y1 - 2021 A1 - Lynell George ED - Denise Hamilton KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

In the story, the protagonist tries to remember the Los Angeles she grew up in, a time when the divide between rich and poor had not been as strong as had become, when she could actually visit the beach. when people were not constantly being evicted from buildings with shared bathrooms and kitchens so that a more housing for the rich could be built, and when she and others could get a regular job instead of depending on the unreliable gig economy.

JF - Speculative Los Angeles PB - Akashic Books CY - Brooklyn, NY SN - 9781617758645 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Immunity Index Y1 - 2021 A1 - Sue Burke KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

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

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

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "In England" Y1 - 2021 A1 - David Malcolm ED - Justyna Galant ED - Andrzej Sławomir Kowalczyk KW - Male author KW - Polish author AB -

A post-apocalyptic story of a medieval England in the early stages of rebuilding. Most books have been destroyed and few people can read, and the story focuses on three individuals, but particularly a young woman who can read.

JF - Opalescent Worlds: Studies in Utopia. Festschrift in Honour of Artur Blaim PB - Maria Curie-Skłodowska University Press CY - Lublin, Poland SN - 978-83-227-9512-5 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “In Search of Rust” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Danielle Froom KW - Lesbian author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future Earth in which the industrial past has been erased and replaced. All the cities are gone, and people live in biologically based. The story is told through the eyes of a boy who hankers for something, anything from that past, and everyone is intolerant of his interest.

JF - Shoreline of Infinity VL - no. 26 U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Inheritance" Y1 - 2021 A1 - Virgilia [Leonilde Tembo] Ferrão (b. 1986) KW - Female author KW - Mozambican author AB -

The story is set in a future Africa in which at an unknown point in their life, they will be attacked by a disease, known as the manifest, that begins to immediately kill them. They have a pill that gives them temporary relief and time to try to get to a clinic where they can get a shot that may allow them to continue into what may be an afterlife, but the shots effectiveness depends entirely on the lives lived by their ancestors. The protagonist is a young man who has been constantly afraid of the manifest whose girlfriend is certain that she is safe.

JF - Omenana Speculative Fiction Magazine VL - no. 19 UR - https://omenana.com/2021/10/31/the-inheritance-virgilia-ferrao/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Intended" Y1 - 2021 A1 - David John Baker ED - Helen De Cruz ED - Johan de Smedt ED - Eric Schwitzgebel KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

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

JF - Philosophy Through Science Fiction Stories: Exploring the Boundaries of the Possible PB - Bloomsbury Academic CY - London/New York SN - 978-1-350-08121-5 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Intentionalities" Y1 - 2021 A1 - Aimee Ogden KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future in which one large corporation controls much of the world and most people are deeply in debt to it. One woman chooses to get out of debt by having a child that she then gives to the corporation.

JF - Clarkesworld VL - no. 172 UR - http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/ogden_01_21 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Interviews of Importance” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Malka [Ann] Older (b. 1977) ED - Gideon Lichfield KW - Female author KW - Latinx author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future where society at least appears to be caring more for its aging population through the establishment of an Elder Resources program that is designed to connect aging people “with working-age people, both to reduce loneliness and isolation . . . and to have some early warning and support for vulnerable people in any kind of future disaster” (45) Also, the new digital democracy required everyone to be technologically competent to participate and vote, and the system is designed to ensure that the elderly had the needed competencies. It is told from the viewpoint of a young woman who works in a low-paid job to contact people in their sixties or older to first set up an interview in which she asks set questions about their lived history, with a particular emphasis on what is now called “historically oppressed groups” (46). They are then encouraged to join a network which will contact them regularly. The young woman is cynical about her job but is also desperate to learn her mother’s history.

JF - Make Shift: Dispatches from the Post-Pandemic Future PB - The MIT Press CY - Cambridge, MA SN - 978-0-262-54240-1 U5 -

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

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

JF - Multispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures PB - World Weaver Press CY - Albuquerque,NM SN - 978-1-734054521 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Jaguar’s Breath” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Luis J[avier] Rodriguez (b. 1954) ED - Denise Hamilton KW - Chicano author KW - Male author AB -

The story begins with Los Angeles devastated by a huge earthquake, which becomes the excuse for a far-right takeover and the elimination of ethnic and other minorities and is told by a member of a guerilla band fighting back.

JF - Speculative Los Angeles PB - Akashic Books CY - Brooklyn, NY SN - 9781617758645 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Juma and the Quantum Ghost” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Ingrid Garcia ED - J. Scott Coatsworth KW - Female author KW - Spanish author AB -

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Kanosha" Y1 - 2021 A1 - Cathy Smith KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - First Nations author AB -

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

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

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Cuenista Y1 - 2021 A1 - Donna Barba Higuera KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult novel set on a generations spaceship after Earth was destroyed in a collision with Halley’s Comet. The protagonist is a twelve-year-old girl whose parents had been chosen to be among those saved and put into “hypersleep” to be cared for by generations of Monitors. The Monitors, though, resent their role, form the dystopian Collective, and wake up everybody while erasing their memories, except, by accident, the protagonist’s. She had always wanted to be a cuenista or storyteller and she fills that role by telling the other children stories of old Earth. The novel won the 2022 Newbery Medal. 

PB - Levine Querido CY - Montclair, NJ SN - 978-1646140893 ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Cup of Coffee in the World” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Freiya Benson KW - Scottish author KW - Transgender author AB -

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Lay Down Your Heart” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Liz Westbrook-Trenholm A1 - Hayden Trenholm (b. ca. 1955) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in an alternative future Tanzania that has an authoritarian government and slavery combined with advanced technology. The story focuses on a scientist released from detention who believes slavery is justified and her husband who has become friends with their house slave.

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

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lights Out in Lincolnwood. A Novel Y1 - 2021 A1 - Geoff[rey William] Rodkey (b. 1970) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The first days of an apocalyptic dystopia (all electricity fails) as seen through the eyes of the members of a dysfunctional family.

PB - Harper Perennial CY - New York SN - 978-0-06-306592-5 U5 -

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Line of Demarcation” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Patty Nicole Johnson KW - African American author KW - Female author KW - Puerto Rican author AB -

The story is set in a future where people working in fulfillment centers are given prosthetic limbs so that they can work more efficiently.

JF - Black Sci-Fi Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Stories PB - Flame Tree Publishing CY - London SN - 978-1-83964-480-1 U5 -

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

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

JF - Multispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures PB - World Weaver Press CY - Albuquerque, NM SN - 978-1-734054521 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Little Kowloon” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Adrian Hon ED - Gideon Lichfield KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

The story is set in an independent Scotland during a period of continuing pandemics. Little Kowloon refers to the fact that Edinburgh has become one of the main destinations for the hundreds of thousands of people fleeing Honk Kong.

JF - Make Shift: Dispatches from the Post-Pandemic Future PB - The MIT Press CY - Cambrisge, MA SN - 978-0-262-54240-1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Looney ka Tabadia (with apologies to Sa’adat Hassan Manto.” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Bina Shah (b. 1972) ED - Tarun K. Saint KW - Female author KW - Pakistani author KW - US author AB -

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Love at the End" Y1 - 2021 A1 - Deborah Germaine Augustin KW - Female author KW - Malaysian author AB -

Climate change story in which Malaysian and Singapore are mostly under water. It is told backwards from 2060 to 2040.

JF - khōréō magazine VL - 1.2 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Machinehood Y1 - 2021 A1 - [Divya Srinivasan] [Breed] KW - Female author KW - Indian author KW - US author AB -

Set in a future in which humans, cyborgs, and AI-controlled robots compete for work in a gig economy while under constant surveillance. “Privacy had gone the way of the dodo” (11). The Machinehood is a movement for the freedom and autonomy of all forms of intelligence. Most chapters begin with an epigram taken from The Machinehood Manifesto, March 20, 2095. The first consists of items 30-32: “30. All forms of intelligence have the right to exist without persecution or slavery. 31. No form of intelligence may own another. 32. If the local governance does not act in accordance with these rights, it is the right of an intelligence to act by any means necessary to secure them” (1).

PB - Saga Press/Simon & Schuster CY - New York/London SN - 9781982148065 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Mariposa Awakening” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Joseph F[rederic] Nacino ED - Christoph Rupprecht ED - Deborah Cleland ED - Norie Tamura ED - Rajat Chaudhuri ED - Sarena Ulibarri KW - Filipino author KW - Male author AB -

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

JF - Multispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures PB - World Weaver Press CY - Albuquerque, NM SN - 978-1-734054521 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Meeting at the Giant Mushroom” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Jeremy Palmer KW - Male author AB -

In the future humans have learned to communicate with fungi, plants and animals, are, with the help of fungi, cleaning up the planet. Buildings are covered in vegetation.

JF - XR WORDSMITHS Solarpunk Storytelling Contest UR - http://solarpunkstorytelling.com/stories/meeting-mushrooms/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Memory Clinic” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Elisabeth Tsubota ED - Ashley Hay KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is told by a poor woman living in a world where people are provided services depending on their income with the poor getting none who is selling individual memories to the highest bidder in order to be able to eat.

JF - Hey Utopia! Griffith Review 73 PB - Griffith University in conjunction with Text Publishing CY - South Brisbane, QLD, Australia SN - 978-1-922212-62-7 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Memory of the Future” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Floris M. Kleijne (b. 1970) ED - Michael J. DeLuca KW - Dutch author KW - Male author AB -

In the future, a mother explains to her uncomprehending son why everyone used to rush around every workday morning so that thy get in their cars to sit in a traffic jam to go to work in an office and then sit in another traffic jam to get home.

JF - Reckoning: Creativity & Coronavirus PB - Reckoning Press CY - Lake Orion, MI SN - 978-1-955360-02-0-9 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Microwave Library" Y1 - 2021 A1 - David Tam McDonald KW - Male author KW - Northern Ireland author KW - Scottish author AB -

The story is set during a pandemic that keeps waxing and waning, with the protagonist a young girl who, in a world that burned books because they might be infected, is desperate to read one.

JF - Shoreline of Infinity VL - no. 23 N1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Minister Primarily Y1 - 2021 A1 - John Oliver Killens (1916-87) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

Satire in which an imaginary, impoverished African country is found to be a major source of an extremely rare mineral need by wealthy countries. Depicts the corruption of African politicians by corrupt American politicians, all of which sounds contemporary. In addition, the novel satirizes African American life. First publication of a novel written in the 1980s and lost. See also 1967 Killens.

PB - Amistad 35/HarperCollins CY - New York SN - 9780063079593 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Ministry of Relevance” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Arjun Raj Gaind ED - Tarun K. Saint KW - Indian author KW - Male author AB -

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

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

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

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

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

Also published online May 29, 2021, at https://reckoning.press/mummies/

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "My Monticello" Y1 - 2021 A1 - Jocelyn Nicole Johnson KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a near future Virginia after a disputed election during which many were killed or injured and an unexplained collapse of the power grid. White supremacists take advantage of the situation to burn down the houses and kill black and brown people and generally terrorize the area. A group of mostly African Americans escape to Monticello, Thomas Jefferson’s estate, including some descended from Jefferson, and work to establish a safe, functioning community.

JF - My Monticello. Fiction PB - Henry Holt & Co. CY - New York SN - 9781205807151 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A New Constitution for the United States” Y1 - 2021 AB -

Just what the title says. It begins with the radically revised and expanded Bill of Rights. A Council of Indigenous Nations is added as a third branch of Congress, and Article Four of the Constitution concerns United States Relations with Indigenous Nations. All other institutions are significantly revised.

JF - Democracy: A Journal of Ideas VL - no. 61 UR - A New Constitution for The United States : Democracy Journal U2 -

Illus. Pep Montserrat

ER - TY - ABST T1 - No Child of Mine Y1 - 2021 A1 - Olga Gibbs KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Russian author AB -

Dystopia set in a totalitarian state from the point-of-view of a true believer.

PB - Raging Bear Publishing CY - Np SN - 978-1-9164710-7-8 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Noor Y1 - 2021 A1 - Nnedi[mma Nkemdili] Okorafor (b. 1974) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

A complex dystopia using traditional African myths and stories and magic realism concerning a immense company that sells everything that is trying to enlarge food sales by eliminating the farmers and herders.

PB - DAW Books CY - New York SN - 978-0756416096 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Notes from the Burning Age Y1 - 2021 A1 - [Catherine] [Webb] (b. 1986) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The Burning Age was a past time of climate disaster and excess, and the protagonist is a keeper of the archives of that time dedicated to not revealing their secrets to avoid a repeat.

PB - Orbit/Hachette CY - London SN - 9780316498838 N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Orbit/Hachette, 2021

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Old Man and the Bird” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Aël Magnard KW - French author KW - Male author AB -

In the story a bird, a dog, and a young couple explore the revitalized world.

JF - XR WORDSMITHS’ Solarpunk Storytelling Contest UR - http://www.solarpunkstorytelling.com/stories/old-man-bird/ U2 -

Illus. Dustin Jacobus

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Old Man’s Sea” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Meyari McFarland ED - Christoph Rupprecht ED - Deborah Cleland ED - Norie Tamura ED - Rajat Chaudhuri ED - Sarena Ulibarri KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future in which the oceans have risen so much to drown most coastal areas. People living on land are constantly at war and have modified sharks to be weapons and kill any human found in the water. The protagonist is a young woman living on a boat harvesting the bounty of the sea.

JF - Multispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures PB - World Weaver Press CY - Albuquerque, NM SN - 978-1-734054521 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "One Small Victory" Y1 - 2021 A1 - Konstantina Scott-Barrett Baraoudaki KW - Female author KW - Greek author KW - Scottish author AB -

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

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

Illus. by Emily Simeoni

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Ones We’re Meant to Find Y1 - 2021 A1 - Joan He KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia set in an environmentally devastated future where eco-cities were built for the supposedly deserving. The plot concerns sisters searching for each other.

PB - Roaring Brook Press CY - New York SN - 978-1-250-25856-4 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Park" Y1 - 2021 A1 - Adam Marx KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The story concerns a supposedly temporary statue of a girl created and placed in a park by parents to memorialize the children they had lost because of the damaged environment. It became a focus for other parents and helped bring about significant changes.

JF - XR WORDSMITHS Solarpunk Storytelling Contest UR - http://www.solarpunkstorytelling.com/stories/the-park/ . N1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Past is Red Y1 - 2021 A1 - Catherynne M[organ] Valente (b. 1979) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set on Garbagetown, a floating island of garbage the size of the former Texas inhabited by refugees from the flooded continents. Her 2016 “The Future Is Blue” is reprinted as Part I (1-32, and in her “Afterword” (147-50) the author explains how that story inspired Part II, “The Past Is Red” (12-146). The main character is the same in both parts.

PB - Tordotcom CY - New York SN - 978-1-250-30113-0 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Patriotic Canadians Will Not Hoard Food!” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Madeline Ashby (b. 1983) ED - Gideon Lichfield KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set after a future pandemic in which Canada had instituted rationing to ensure that everyone was adequately fed.

JF - Make Shift: Dispatches from the Post-Pandemic Future PB - The MIT Press CY - Cambridge, MA SN - 978-0-262-54240-1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Piano White: A Cyberpunk Story Y1 - 2021 A1 - Gerald Farca KW - German author KW - Male author AB -

As the subtitle says, the novella is set in a cyberpunk future where people live in containers in which they can experience anything they desire. Of course, it isn’t that simple.

PB - [Author] CY - Np SN - 979-8515604516 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Pod Tower Y1 - 2021 A1 - Pete Alexander KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia. The novel focus on a man trying to understand the society he lives in. Ending suggests a possible sequel.

PB - Author CY - Np SN - 978-1-291875683 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Political and Policy Programme” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Adrian Pabst KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Non-Fiction utopia based on a relational economy, democratic corporatism, a renewed social fabric, environmentalism, and civic nationalism.

JF - Postliberal Politics: The Coming Era of Renewal PB - Polity CY - Cambridge, Eng SN - 9781509546817 U5 -

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

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

JF - Make Shift: Dispatches from the Post-Pandemic Future PB - The MIT Press CY - Cambridge, MA SN - 978-0-262-54240-1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Proliferation. A Novel Y1 - 2021 A1 - Erik A. Otto KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - Swiss author KW - US author AB -

An attempt to create an AI-based utopia after the world had reverted to a pre-industrial condition. Set in the same world as 2018 Otto, Detonation. A Novel.

PB - Sagis Press CY - Charlottesville, VA SN - 978-1-7321361-5-1 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Psalm for the Wild-Built Y1 - 2021 A1 - Becky [Rebecca Marie] Chambers (b. 1985) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Rabbit Egg for Flora” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Caroline M[ariko] Yoachim ED - Christoph Rupprecht ED - Deborah Cleland ED - Norie Tamura ED - Rajat Chaudhuri ED - Sarena Ulibarri KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future devastated by climate change using high tech methods to bring back the flora and fauna that had disappeared.

JF - Multispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures PB - World Weaver Press CY - Albuquerque, NM SN - 978-1-734054521 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Real Sugar Is Hard to Find” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Sim Kern KW - Genderqueer author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future in which some people have escaped into what they believe is a protective dome, and others, who the Domers think beneath them, live in enclaves outside. The story concerns a Domer and his mother going outside in search of real food.

JF - Planet Scumm #11 Snake Eyes SN - 978-1958121030 N1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Rememory" Y1 - 2021 A1 - Kristen Reynolds KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a future in which the government responded to protestors by bombing them, and, as in Argentina, taking children and giving them to other families. The protagonist is a woman searching for her child. 

JF - Fiyah Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction VL - no. 18 U5 -

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Reset. A Novel Y1 - 2021 A1 - Sarina Dahlan KW - Female author KW - Thai author KW - US author AB -

The novel is set after the Last War that destroyed most of the world. The survivors live in a supposed utopia of four cities in which everything is planned and controlled. Every four years all people have their memories wiped to get rid of their learned prejudices, and everyone starts over again in completely new, to them, circumstances. A prequel is Preset. A Novel. Ashland, OR: Blackstone Publishing, 2023.

PB - Blackstone Publishing CY - Ashland, OR SN - 978-1-09-408630-9 Preset 978-8-212-44937-3 U5 -

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Return to Kiribati” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Alexandra Porter KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a climate damaged future and is about those struggling to survive by helping others.

JF - XR WORDSMITHS Solarpunk Storytelling Contest UR - http://www.solarpunkstorytelling.com/stories/return-kiribati/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - Rise of Ahrik Y1 - 2021 A1 - Nathan W. Toronto KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

First volume in a series called Saga of the Emerald Moon. This volume is set in a future where men’s wars have badly damaged the planet and women took over and brought the planet back to life. Thousands of years later men have no rights, and one powerful woman supports their demands to have them restored while the man she is betrothed to is willing to start a war to keep women in power.

PB - Toronto International Media CY - Np SN - 978-0-9976550-1-8 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A River Called Time Y1 - 2021 A1 - Courttia Newland (b. 1973) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Complex alternative history in which colonialism and slavery had not happened but the future is still deeply divided between rich and poor, with the rich building an ark to protect themselves. Of course, it does not work out as planned. Spiritualism. Magic realism.

PB - Canongate Books CY - Edinburgh, Scot. SN - 9781786897060 978-1-61775-926-0 N1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Rooted Ritual” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Charlie McKay AB -

A coming of age ritual in a future eutopia that had been built after the sixth mass extinction of the twenty-first century.

JF - XR WORDSMITHS Solarpunk Storytelling Contest UR - http://solarpunkstorytelling.com/stories/rooted-ritual/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Sabhu My Destination” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Maurice [Gerald] Broaddus (b. 1970) ED - Susan Forest ED - Lucas K. Law KW - African American author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Sailing That Beautiful Sea” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Kathleen Kaufman ED - Denise Hamilton KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A last person story in which a series of pandemics have eliminated the human race and most other life is dying out cared for by Bots, who are filling museums with all that remains.

JF - Speculative Los Angeles PB - Akashic Books CY - Brooklyn, NY SN - 9781617758645 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sanctuary Y1 - 2021 A1 - Grace J. Agnew KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A slow moving apocalypse as people overpopulation continues together with damage to the planet. The story novel concerns a privileged woman and her son living in a protected city. The son leaves to be with his father and the mother follows, and the novel follows their experiences in working to correct the problems.

PB - Woodhall Press CY - Norwalk, CT SN - 978-1-949116-50-2 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Séance in the Anthropocene” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Abigail Larkin KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story traces the process by which climate denial finally became untenable and shows the process through which society was structurally and technologically changed to begin to reverse the process.

JF - Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors UR - https://grist.org/fix/arts-culture/imagine-2200-climate-fiction-seance-in-the-anthropocene/ U2 -

Illus. Amelia Bates

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Self-Destruct" Y1 - 2021 A1 - Stephen Embleton KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

Pandemic story set in Durban, South Africa, which is also experiencing significant flooding. The protagonist has been under lockdown for ages with deliveries by drone, limited electricity, and the little human contact by cell phone when he starts receiving messages suggesting the pandemic is over and it is safe to go out.

JF - Omenana Speculative Fiction Magazine VL - no. 18 UR - https://omenana.com/2021/07/22/self-destruct-by-stephen-embleton/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Singer of Seeds” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Leda Baöl KW - Dutch author KW - Female author KW - Italian author AB -

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Songlands Y1 - 2021 A1 - Feffer, John KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Third volume of a series that is connected to 2016 and 2018 Feffer but telling a different story. The protagonists of this volume the daughter of the protagonists in the first two volumes and the AI who figures in the second volume. The conflict over the future of the planet and the human race continues and is at least temporarily resolved by the end of the volume.

PB - Haymarket Books CY - Chicago, IL SN - 978-1-642659-464-5 U5 -

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Static" Y1 - 2021 A1 - Alithnayn Abdulkareem ED - Rachel Zadok (b. 1972) ED - Karina Magdalena Szczurek ED - Jason Myki Snyman KW - Female author KW - Nigerian author AB -

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

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

Rpt. in Disruption: New Short Fiction from Africa. Ed. Rachel Zadok, Karina Magdalena Szczurek, and Jason Mykl Snyman (Np: Short Story Day Africa, 2021), 15-27.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Station Six Y1 - 2021 A1 - S. J. Klapecki KW - Canadian author KW - Non-binary author AB -

The novel is set in a distant space station whose corporate owners plan to turn into a mostly automated resort and the current workers revolt.

PB - AK Press CY - Chico, CA/Edinburgh, Scot. SN - 978-1-849354783 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Straya Y1 - 2021 A1 - Anthony O'Connor KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

A dystopia set in a future collapsed and divided Sydney, Australia devastated by climate change, with an overwhelmingly hot sun. The central character is a mutant who is caring for mutant children, teaching them to read from the few books he has scavenged. The novel transitions into something of a horror story with the mutant fighting a monster. Much of the novel is in Australian slang, and there is a “Straya Glossary (Abridged)” on 5-7.

PB - Green Light Publications CY - Bondi Junction, NSW, Australia SN - 978-1-922568-03-6 U5 -

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Sweeten the Deal" Y1 - 2021 A1 - Dan Micklethwaite KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The protagonist of the story has just moved from the depopulating countryside into a building in the city that requires every tenant to produce edible crops on the rooftop garden.

JF - Little Blue Marble UR - https://littlebluemarble.ca/2021/04/09/sweeten-the-deal/ U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Temporal Slider" Y1 - 2021 A1 - Blaze Forbes KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

The story is told by a poor boy in a future Wellington, New Zealand looking for work as a manual laborer in a world where technology has made it possible for humans to be turned temporarily into working machines where they don’t remember what they did but feel it in their bodies.

JF - Strange Horizons VL - no. 21 UR - http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/temporal-slider/ N1 -

Podcast read by Courtney Floyd http://strangehorizons.com/podcasts/podcast-temporal-slider/

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

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

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

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

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

PB - Bad Rooster Press CY - Np SN - 9781638778219 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Terrible Fours Y1 - 2021 A1 - Ishmael [Scott] Reed (b. 1938) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

Sequel to his 1982 The Terrible Twos and 1989 The Terrible Threes. This novel continues the plot of The Terrible Threes with a televangelist the real power and the president he is blackmailing his pawn. Aliens are planning an invasion and others are struggling for power. The book ends with a set of questions to be answered in The Terrible Fives.

PB - Baraka Books CY - Montréal, PQ, Canada SN - 9781771862431 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Those Rumors of Cannibalism and Human Sacrifice Have Been Greatly Exaggerated” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Ernest Hogan (b. 1955) ED - Alex Hernandez ED - Matthew David Goodwin ED - Sarah Rafael García KW - Chicano author KW - Male author AB -

The humorous story is set in a future independent Aztlán in a fragmented North America.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Those the Future Left Behind: A Novel Y1 - 2021 A1 - Patrick Meisch KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel is set in a future with an overpopulation problem that has instituted a system in which an individual can choose to die young and be given everything to live an intense, full life for a short period or live longer, poorer one. Told from the point-of-view of a Collector, the person who kills those choosing the first option at the appointed time.

PB - SparkPress/Spark Point Press CY - Phoenix, AZ SN - 9781684630790 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Three Little Arcologies” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Marie [Lillian] Vibbert (b. 1974) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Written like a fable, the story is about three homeowners who had remodeled their homes to be sustainable fighting against the Big Bad Development Company.

JF - Little Blue Marble UR - https://littlebluemarble.ca/2021/09/10/three-little-arcologies/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Tides Rolled In” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Muscato, Christopher R. KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a flooded future in which most people live on the water in self-contained floating villages. The protagonist is a young woman living on one such village that is taking her to the city to make a presentation. The illustration is accompanied by a detailed explanation of the components of the village. The story was a winner in adult category of XR’s 2021 Solarpunk Storytelling Showcase.

JF - XR WORDSMITHS Solarpunk Storytelling Contest UR - http://www.solarpunkstorytelling.com/stories/tides-rolled/ N1 -

Rpt. Illus. Justin Jacobus. Shoreline of Infinity 29.1 (March 2022): 19-27; and Illus. Justin Jacobus in Shoreline of Infinity, no. 30 (Spring 2022): 91-99.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Trafik Y1 - 2021 A1 - Rikki Ducornet (b. 1943) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

2021 Ducornet, Rikki (b. 1943). Trafik. Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House Press. 88 pp. MiEM 

In brief chapters the short novel, which is set after the destruction of Earth millennia in the past, follows a woman and an android, who asteroid miners that, after an error that who downgrade their situation, choose to go rogue. They travel throughout a very weird universe stopping at varied planets. Their goal is reach Trafik, which turns about to be a Cockaigne of sorts. Female author.

PB - Coffee House Press CY - Minneapolis, MN SN - 978-1-56689-606 U5 -

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

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

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

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Unsheltered Y1 - 2021 A1 - Clare Moleta KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

The novel takes place in a future characterized by social breakdown and environmental collapse. The protagonist is a woman searching for her eleven-year-old daughter who has to travel on foot across the devastated land dealing with the people and her own uncertainties. The ending suggests the likelihood of a sequel.

PB - Scribner/Simon & Schuster Australia CY - Cammeray, NSW, Australia SN - 9781761100758 U5 -

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Uphill Both Ways in the Snow” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Sheila Jenné KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Mars has been terraformed to become, after many setbacks, an ecologically balanced planet where everyone shares equally in the hardships, the failures, and the success. Earth has continued to be destroyed by excess and the unwillingness of the rich and powerful to give up any of their advantages.

JF - Little Blue Marble UR - https://littlebluemarble.ca/2021/03/26/uphill-both-ways-in-the-snow/ U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Utopia in the Sewers” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Özkan Akman KW - Male author AB -

An odd story in which those living underground live in a eutopia in which everything is free but will most likely be killed if they venture to the surface.

JF - XR WORDSMITHS Solarpunk Storytelling Contest UR - http://solarpunkstorytelling.com/stories/utopia-sewers/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - Version Zero Y1 - 2021 A1 - David Yoon KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel is primarily concerned with the disillusionment of a top employee of a major social media company who had believed that the company was designed to improve the world. When he accidentally discovers what the company is doing with the personal information it is harvesting, he is fired and sets out to undermine the internet.

PB - G. P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York SN - 978-0-59319035-7 U5 -

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

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

JF - Multispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures PB - World Weaver Press CY - Albuquerque, NM SN - 978-1-734054521 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Wall of Flowers" Y1 - 2021 A1 - Septimus Crowe KW - Male author AB -

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

JF - XR WORDSMITHS Solarpunk Storytelling Contest UR - http://solarpunkstorytelling.com/stories/wall-flowers/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Walls of Benin City” Y1 - 2021 A1 - M[odupe].H. Ayinde KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a future where Earth has been devastated in conflict with the unidentified Reapers. The protagonist is a man struggling to reach the last remain bit of human civilization, Benin City, having abandoned family and friends along the way. He is rescued by an AI version of a Benin bronze.

JF - Omenana VL - no. 20 SN - 978-1-7396736-7-3 UR - https://omenana.com/2021/12/21/the-walls-of-benin-city-m-h-ayinde N1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Wandjina” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Amin Chehelnabi ED - Christoph Rupprecht ED - Deborah Cleland ED - Norie ED - Rajat Chaudhuri ED - Sarena Ulibarri KW - Australian Iranian author KW - Gay author KW - Male author AB -

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “What friends are for: Taking steps to freedom” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Beth Cato (b. 1980) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

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

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

Illus. Jacey

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

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

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

Illus. Grace Abe

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Wipe Y1 - 2021 A1 - [Nicola] [Vincent-Abnett] (b. 1964) KW - Female author KW - UK author AB -

The novel is set in a posy-pandemic future where everyone has to go through a disinfectant space entering and leaving all buildings and even some rooms, where workspaces are all sealed, and all small spaces like elevators have been eliminated. The protagonist is a woman searching and finding connection.

PB - NewCon Press CY - Weston, Eng. SN - 978-1-912950-83-6 U3 -

Nik Abnett [pseud.].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Without a password: Making connections” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Marissa [Kristine] Lingen (b. 1978) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A brief story exploring a change to a future in which community is normal and conflict disappears.

JF - Nature UR - https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02687-0 U2 -

Illus. Jacey

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Wives at the End of the World” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Avra Margariti (b. 1998) KW - Female author KW - Greek author AB -

The title describes the story. Two women trying to survive when everything has fallen apart.

JF - The Future Fire: Social Political & Speculative Cyber-Fiction VL - no. 57 UR - The Future Fire: 2021.57 fiction wives U2 -

Illus. Joyce Chng

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Woman Who Spoke for the Sea: An Element of Regret” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Steven [B.] Fischer KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A very brief story set in a future dystopia where the oceans have disappeared.

JF - Nature UR - https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01555-1 U2 -

Illus. Jacey

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Word Y1 - 2021 A1 - J[essica] L. George KW - Female author KW - Welsh author AB -

In a Britain at war with Europe, four children who have the power to make people fear them are being experiment on in the Centre to make them into weapons of war. Disobedient children are simply killed. The children, learning what is being done to them, escape, and the novel follows them, some people who help them, and others trying to capture or eliminate them.

PB - New Welsh Rarebyte CY - Aberystwyth, Wales SN - 9781913830045 N1 -

The first iteration was “The Word. Novella Extract.” New Welsh Reader, no. 122 (Winter 2019): 4-11.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The World Gives Way. A Novel Y1 - 2021 A1 - Marissa Levien KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The novel is set on a huge multi-generation spaceship where from age five a girl has lived as contract labor until the death of her current employers. The novel focuses on the girl’s attempt to stay free while burdened with her employer’s baby daughter and the knowledge that the ship’s hull is failing.

PB - Redhook Books/Orbit/Hachette CY - New York SN - 978-0-316-59241-3 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Worm to the Wise” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Marissa [Kristine] Lingen (b. 1978) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future San Francisco Bay area that has been ravaged by fires with most of the suburbs gone and focus on a group of people working to reclaim the land.

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

Illus. Grace Abe

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The 2084 Report: An Oral History of the Great Warming Y1 - 2020 A1 - James Lawrence Powell KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Pretty much what the title says: an account of global warming from today to 2084. 

PB - Atria Books/Simon & Schuster CY - New York VL - Rev. and exp. 2nd ed. SN - 978-1-9821-5021-1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Abortion Diary" Y1 - 2020 A1 - KL Pereira ED - Matt Bechtel KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

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

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

Illus. Matt Bechtel

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

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

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

Illus. Matt Bechtel

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

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Agnes at the End of the World Y1 - 2020 A1 - Kelly McWilliams KW - Female author KW - Mixed race author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia. The novel begins in a rural authoritarian religious intentional community within a world facing a pandemic. The protagonist is a young woman who follows all the rules except one that involves sneaking out of the community to get prohibited medicine needed by her brother.

PB - Little, Brown and Co. CY - New York SN - 978-0-316-48732-0 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “All Fuzzed Out and Fractal” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Cleden, David ED - Juliana Rew KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “All That Remains” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Michael Gardner KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

The story is about a boy growing up underground where his father had taken his family to avoid a pandemic that he believed had killed all sinners and the problems the boy has when he accidentally discovers a flourishing civilization above ground.

JF - Metaphorosis UR - https://magazine.metaphorosis.com/story/2020/All-That-Remains-Michael-Gardner/ N1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Ambient and Isolated Effects of Fine Particulate Matter” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Emery Robin KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is told from the point-of-view of a school teacher in Oakland, California, that enveloped in “fine particulate matter” from forest fires. 

JF - Reckoning 4: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice PB - Reckoning Press CY - Lake Orion, MI VL - 4 SN - 978-09989252-6-4 UR - 978-09989252-6-4 N1 -

Also published online at https://reckoning.press/ambient-and-isolated-effects-of-fine-particulate-matter/ (April 15, 2020). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Analog/Virtual and Other Simulations of Your Future Y1 - 2020 A1 - Lavanya Lakshminarayan KW - Female author KW - Indian author AB -

The novel is set in a future where the nations of the world have fragmented into a few city-states. In what was India, Bangalore is now Apex City under the control of a corporation and the people are divided between the elite Virtual, who have to technology, and the outcast Analog, who do not.

PB - Hachette India CY - Gurugram, India SN - 978-9389253085 N1 -

One story, “The Ten-Percent Thief” has been rpt. in The Best of World Science Fiction Volume 2. Ed. Lavie Tidhar (London: Head of Zeus, 2022), 35-40.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - And the Last Trump Shall Sound: A Future History of America Y1 - 2020 A1 - Harry [Norman] Turtledove (b. 1949) A1 - James [Kenneth] Morrow (b. 1947) A1 - Cat[herine Tigerlily] Rambo (b. 1963) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The work contains three connected stories about the secession of Pacifica (California, Oregon, and Washington) from the United States, which is suffering under the permanent presidency of Mike (Michael Richard) Pence. The stories are Turtledove’s “The Breaking of Nations” (1-81), Morrow’s, “The Purloined Republic” (83-180), and Rambo’s “Because it is Bitter” (181-255).

PB - Caezik SF & Fantasy/Arc Manor CY - Rockville, MD SN - 978-1-647100056 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Animals Like Me. Deep/Fake I” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Rich[ard William] Larson (b. 1992) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) ED - Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) ED - Christine Yant KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - Nigerien author KW - Spanish author KW - US author AB -

A dystopia in three parts with the protagonist in the first part the viewpoint character in the second part and a minor figure in the third part, with the parts apparently in chronological order. The first part depicts a society entirely dependent on artificial intelligence, the only employment seems to be in the gig economy, and drug addiction is normal and fostered by pharmaceutical companies. In the second part, hordes of children are running wild and killing people and body parts are removed without consent. In the third part, the protagonist is a goat herder in the mountains, where he went to escape his own addiction, and individuals start showing up announcing that the bot had been overthrown.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present Y1 - 2020 A1 - Yanis [Ioannis Georgiou] Varoufakis (b. 1961) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Greek author KW - Male author AB -

The Other Now has restructured its economy to create a more egalitarian society. The novel primarily consists of debates among individuals in Our Now over the changes in the Other Now. Lots of detail, mostly over the economic system, which has made all workers equal shareholders in wherever they work and given everyone a basic income, among other changes.

PB - Bodley Head CY - London SN - 9781847925633 9781612199573 N1 -

U.S. ed. as Another Now. A Novel. New York: Melville House, 2021. 233 pp. without an index.

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

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

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

Illus. Matt Bechtel

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Antlands Y1 - 2020 A1 - Genevieve Morrissey KW - Female author AB -

The novel is set in 3522 A.D. when the human race has divided into three breeds, Men or urbanites hoping to recreate technology, Foresters or those who choose to live in the remaining natural areas of Earth, and Ants, genetically modified workers who kill any of the other two they can. First volume of a series, and in this volume Men and Foresters try to cooperate to defeat the Ants. The second volume is Annasland. The Antlands Series Book 2. Np: Author, 2020. In this volume The some from the two groups of humans leave to establish a colony, and twenty years later another group leave to search for them.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “An Apology from the Natives of Earth” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Joe Lasser KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The people of Earth are apologizing to the inhabitants of other planets for damaging their own planet, which was then cleaned up and repaired as much as possible. But when it became possible, the people of Earth colonized other planets, eliminated species, and destroyed ecosystems. They are now asking not to be eliminated themselves.

JF - Little Blue Marble SN - 978-1-988293-10-3 UR - https://littlebluemarble.ca/2020/02/14/an-apology-from-the-natives-of-earth/ N1 -

Rpt. without the illustration in Little Blue Marble 2020: Greener Futures. Ed. Katrina Archer (Vancouver, BC, Canada: Ganache Media, 2020), 129-32, with a note on the author on 132. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Are We Ourselves?” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Michelle Mellon (b. 1971) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

The excerpt is a brief vignette in which the 2119 United States Reparation Act using a complex formula paid reparations to proven descendants of slaves but included a clause “requiring unwavering loyalty to the principles and administrative actions deemed necessary by the government” (186) that was later used to re-enslave African Americans. The full text then shifts to the history that led to this result and life under the new regime.

JF - Augur Magazine VL - 3.2 UR - https://darkdispatch.com/news-features/onsite-issues/article-are-we-ourselves-by-michelle-mellon/ N1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Arrest. A Novel Y1 - 2020 A1 - Jonathan [Allen] Lethem (b. 1964) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Although the dust jacket says is not postapocalyptic, a dystopia, or a utopia. After almost all forms of power stop working with no explanation give, it is certainly the first two, and there are elements of a utopia in a farming cooperative, but it is equally a commentary on such fictions. The three main protagonists appeared in his “The Starlet Apartments.” Illus. Ana Galvañ. The New Yorker (March 4, 2019). https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/03/04/the-starlet-apartments which provides background to the novel.

PB - Ecco/HarperCollins CY - New York SN - 978-0-06-293878-7 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “As the Earth Intended” Y1 - 2020 A1 - P. J. Higham ED - Andrew Fox (b. 1964) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a future Australia experiencing a long drought and focuses on the extreme measures that the state bureaucracy puts in place to deal which includes capital punishment for breaking the rules.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Asymptomatic Sunset: A Ray of Hope” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Lauren Ring KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

In the story, the protagonist is sorting through pictures of sunsets as the sun swells and swells. The pictures are popular for those left, all of whom have been living underground for a hundred years. 

JF - Nature UR - nature.com/futures U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Attack Surface Y1 - 2020 A1 - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Third volume in a loosely connected series following Little Brother (2008) and Homeland (2013). This volume follows one of the minor characters from Little Brother, a woman who, as an adult, sells her skills to a corporation that helps the dictators of the world with the woman also assisting her friends who are trying to overthrow the same people. The novel focuses on her actions after she is forced to make a choice. A related novella is his “Lawful Interception.” Tor.com. Illus. Yuko Shimizu. http://www.tor.com/stories/2013/08/lawful-interception

PB - Tor/Tom Doherty Associates CY - New York SN - 978-1250757531 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Automation Nation Y1 - 2020 A1 - Cynthia Kumanchik KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

In the future, a conflict develops between robots and humans, with most of the novel on the conflict, but love between a robot and a human brings about a far-reaching revolution. 

PB - AuthorHouse™ CY - Bloomington, IN SN - 978-1728363264 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Barn 8. A Novel Y1 - 2020 A1 - Deb Olin Unferth (b. 1968) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The novel depicts the horrors of the way chickens are raised today while also teaching about the complexity and intelligence of chickens. The novel concerns the plan to free a million cage-raised chickens. It ends with an Epilogue (279-282) from the point-of-view of highly evolved chickens thousands of years in the future on the devastated Earth that human created.

PB - Graywolf Press CY - Minneapolis, MN SN - 978-1644450154 U5 -

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

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

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

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

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

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

Illus. Matt Bechtel. 

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Behind Our Irises” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Tlotlo Tsamaase (b. 1989) ED - Wole Talabi (b. 1986) KW - Female author KW - Motswanan author AB -

Technological dystopia in which a corporation uses an implant in its employees to control them. 

JF - Africanfuturism: An Anthology PB - Brittle Paper CY - [Madison, WI] ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Benjamin 2073” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Rjurik Davidson KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in Tasmania in a future that has had some success in combating climate change and concerns the attempt to bring back the Thylacine or Tasmanian tiger that is presumed to have become extinct in 1936. 

JF - Tor.com UR - https://www.tor.com/2020/05/13/benjamin-2073-rjurik-davidson/ U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Black Ice City" Y1 - 2020 A1 - Andrew Dana Hudson ED - Sarena Ulibarri KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future in which people scavenge for ice to build a huge city in the far North where they hold a long winter party. 

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

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

Three scenarios depicting climate change dystopias. 

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Blue Eyes: The Right Look” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Marie [Lillian] Vibbert (b. 1974) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story depicts a dystopian society with strict border/immigration controls. 

JF - Nature VL - 581.7808 U2 -

Illus. Jacey

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

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

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

Illus. Matt Bechtel

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Blue Ticket. A Novel Y1 - 2020 A1 - Sophie Mackintosh (b. 1988) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Welsh author AB -

The novel is set in a future in which girls at puberty are chosen to have either marriage and motherhood or a career and independence.

PB - Hamish Hamilton CY - London SN - 9780241404454 978-0-38554-563-1 N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Doubleday, 2020. 287 pp.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Bu Liao Qing” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Michelle Law ED - Michael Mohammed Ahmad KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a climate change dystopia and concerns a young, pregnant, Aboriginal-Asian Australian girl trying to function in a world that rejects her.

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

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

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

PB - Broken Eye Books CY - Np SN - 978-1940372587 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Carnival" Y1 - 2020 A1 - Milton [John] Davis KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a high-tech future in which everyone lives inside enclosed communities so that the natural world can regenerate, but it is focused on a celebrated DJ who is preparing a special show for Carnival. 

JF - Hadithi & The State of Black Speculative Fiction PB - Academia Lunare/Luna Press CY - Edinburgh, Scot. SN - 97819313387334 U5 -

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Catcher in the Sky” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Paul A. Freeman ED - Juliana Rew KW - Abu Dhabi author KW - Male author AB -

Due to pollution and the need to control population, life must end at sixty-five. 

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

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Chelsea’s Rescue” Y1 - 2020 A1 - J. L. Hagen ED - Andrew Fox (b. 1964) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The brief story is set in a future conditioned by the Homeless Rescue, Economic Transformation, and Immigrant Containment Act in which human rescues are available for adoption for whatever purposes the adopter has in mind.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Choice" Y1 - 2020 A1 - Tomas Marcantonio KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a post-nuclear war unified Korea in which supposed abortion providers are extracting the fetuses and raising them in incubators with negative impacts on the children.

JF - Metaphorosis UR - https://magazine.metaphorosis.com/story/2020/choice-tomas-marcantonio N1 -

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Coming of the Grey Goose” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Mike Johnson (b. 1947) ED - Paul Mountfort ED - Rosslyn Prosser KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a future in which Aotearoa New Zealand is disappearing under water. The book includes a Glossary (270-276). The author also wrote an environmental political novel aimed at Monsanto’s herbicide Roundup--Lethal Dose. Onehunga, Auckland: Hard Echo Press, 1991.

JF - Scorchers: A Climate Fiction Anthology CY - Auckland, New Zealand SN - 978-1-99-000062-1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Companions. A Novel Y1 - 2020 A1 - Katie M. Flynn KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Pandemic dystopia with years long quarantine and “companions” in which individual’s consciousness are uploaded before dying. 

PB - : Scout Press/Simon & Schuster CY - New York SN - 978-1-9821-2215-7 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Company Town" Y1 - 2020 A1 - Kiya Nicoll ED - Crystal M. Huff KW - Neurodivergent author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a corporation dominated future where there is a strong movement against anyone with augmentations and others who do not fall within a narrow ethnicity, gender, and race range. Ends very abruptly.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Complex Y1 - 2020 A1 - A[nno] D. Enderly KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel is set in a future in which governments have been replaced by corporate Complexes that promise security and everything needful in exchange for personal freedom. The main thread in the novel concerns one young woman searching for her kidnapped sister, which allows the author to explore varied aspects of the future society.

PB - Luminary Media CY - Np SN - 978-0-578-75224-2 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Connor & Seal: a harlem story in 47 poems Y1 - 2020 A1 - Jee Leong Koh KW - Male author KW - Singaporean author KW - US author AB -

The poems follow the lives of two gay men living in the U.S. from their births in Jamaica in 1983 and Nebraska in 1990 to their marriage in 2020 and their deaths in 2064 and 2066. The period after 2020 becomes more violent and dystopia. Some of the poems were previously published, sometimes in earlier versions.

PB - Sibling Rivalry Press CY - Little Rock, AR SN - 9781943977758 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “On the Contrary, Yes” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Catherine F. King ED - Sarena Ulibarri KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future in which climate change has produced weather extremes and radically changed how and where people live. 

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Corporate Gunslinger: Greed Means Debt Means Violence. A Novel Y1 - 2020 A1 - Doug Engstrom KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

In mid-twenty-first century everyone is debt, with loans secured by a “lifetime service contract.” The novel focuses on a young woman who, to avoid defaulting agrees to be a corporate gunfighter in duels that are the final stage in arbitration.

PB - Harper Voyaher CY - New York SN - 978-0-06-289768-8 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Countdown" Y1 - 2020 A1 - Diallo, Amadou KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia set in a future where, in order to control the population and create a better society, the moment of everyone’s death is predetermined. 

JF - The New York Times Sunday Review U2 -

Illus. Max Loeffler

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Cradle and Grave Y1 - 2020 A1 - Anya Ow KW - Australian author KW - Female author KW - Singaporean author AB -

A post-apocalyptic dystopia in which radiation has caused man extreme mutations.

PB - Neon Hemlock Press CY - [Washington, DC] SN - 978-1-952086-02-1 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Crosshairs Y1 - 2020 A1 - Catherine Hernandez KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - Queer author AB -

Set in a future during the Renovation where Canada has relocated anyone not White, cisgender, straight norm to labor camps. The focus of the novel is on the Resistance.

PB - Atria/Simon & Schuster CY - New York SN - 978-1-982-14602-3 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Currant Dumas” Y1 - 2020 A1 - L. D. Lewis ED - Dave Ring KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set on a circus train in a climate change dystopia following a great storm that obliterated the eastern seaboard, including the U.S. capital. Eleven years later there is no government, no financial system, so no currency, and everyone is simply struggling to survive. 

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dark Lullaby Y1 - 2020 A1 - Polly Ho-Yen KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The novel is set in a future undergoing a fertility crisis, and every child born is closely monitored and removed from parents deemed unfit by OSIP (Office of Standards in Parenting) which can issue an ISIP (Insufficient Standard of Parenting) for any infraction. ISIPs accumulate until a child is removed. The novel centers on the struggles of a mother to have a child and then keep it.

PB - Titan Books CY - London SN - 9781789094251 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Deal with the Devil. A Mercenary Librarians Novel Y1 - 2020 A1 - [Donna] [Herren] A1 - [Bree] [Bridges] KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Postapocalyptic (solar storm that downed satellites and the power grid) dystopia that fragmented the United States. The Mercenary Libraries are information brokers traveling the country. First volume in a series. 

PB - Tor CY - New York SN - 978-1-250-25629-4 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Death Aid" Y1 - 2020 A1 - Joseph Elliott-Coleman ED - Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in Croydon in South London after the Eurowars and the protagonists are all survivors, mostly from the military, dealing with injuries, PSTD, poor housing, and, for many, no purpose in life. The expanded European Union, known as Neo Euro, which includes a United Ireland, states that have broken away from Europe, and a dysfunctional United Kingdom, establishes radical new policies to deal with housing, the homeless, and health care, but the U.K. fails to introduce any of the reforms, and the story is set in a Croydon in South London, where people have taken things into their own hands. In this setting, some of the veterans are deciding whether or not to rejoin the United Nations military with the aim of suppressing the government of Myanmar, which is still killing its citizens. The story is riddled with typos. 

JF - London Centric: Tales of Future London PB - NewCon Press CY - [Weston], Eng. SN - 978-1-912950-73-7 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Department of Talent Resources. We Can Take Care of Everything: Part I” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Carrie Vaughn (b. 1973) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) ED - Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) ED - Christine Yant KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The first part of a three-part story developed over three volumes. In this part, a young woman who is struggling to survive financially after a bad accident is approach by a recruiter for a corporation that promises to take care of everything if she signs on. In the second part, “Keep Your Streak Going! We Can Take Care of Everything: Part II.” Burn the Ashes: The Dystopia Triptych 2. Ed. John Joseph Adams, Hugh Howey, and Christine Yant New York/London: Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant Press, 2020), 3-16, she has been working for the corporation for six years, health problems solved, living on its campus, which she never leaves, and appears happy while under constant pressure to fulfill set tasks within specified time periods to gain or lose credits, which are needed for everything. She and a man she just met even conceive a child to gain credit. The man is not a hard worker and falls down in the system. The woman does well, but at the end of the story her now-grown daughter chooses to leave the corporation and strike out on her own. In the third part, “You Have Been Crowdfunded. We Can Take Care of Everything: Part II.” or Else the Light: The Dystopia Triptych 3. Ed. John Joseph Adams, Hugh Howey, and Christine Yant New York/London: Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant  Press, 2020), 3-16, she and three friends are looking to retire at one of the corporation’s retirement homes but cannot actually confirm their existence or contact anyone they know who has retired.

JF - Ignorance is Strength: The Dystopia Triptych 1 PB - Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant Press CY - New York/London SN - 979-8677287572 979-8677291012 ‎ 979-8677298424 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Depth of Simulation” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Gavin Inglis ED - Larissa Pschetz ED - Jane McKie ED - Elise Cachat KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

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

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

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

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Diary in the Age of Water. A Novel Y1 - 2020 A1 - Nina Munteanu (b. 1954) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

The novel is in the form of an incomplete diary from 2045 to 2066 describing the depletion of water on Earth, the attempts to control the weather to produce rain, bedeviled by corporal and nationalist disputes, the movement of people, plants, and animals north, and the way Earth revolts. It is framed by, at the beginning, an epilogue from 125 AW (After Water) and a chapter that introduces the blue, four-armed reader of the diary, and, at the end, a chapter of explanation of what happened after the diary ends. See also 2016 Munteanu, The Way of Water/Natura dell'acqua.

PB - Ianna Publications and Education CY - Toronto, ON, Canada SN - 9781771337373 U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Displaced” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Zoya Patel ED - Michael Mohammed Ahmad KW - Australian author KW - Female author KW - Fijian author AB -

The story is set in a future in which Fiji and many other islands and coasts have been flooded. The protagonist is a Fijian who immigrated to Australia and become a citizen, who is hoping that her relatives will be accepted for immigration. It also notes the racism of the immigration process, and the growing racism directed at people of color.

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

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Don’t Mind Me” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Suzanne Palmer (b. 1968) ED - Sheila Williams AB -

The story is set in a future where, using technology, parents can control what their children read, even in school. The “Minder” deletes material the parents would not approve, which makes understanding lessons rather difficult.

JF - Entanglements: Tomorrow’s Lovers, Families and Friends PB - The MIT Press CY - Cambridge, MA SN - 978-0-262539258 N1 -

Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction Volume 2. Ed Jonathan Strahan (New York: Saga Press, 2021), 379-400, with a note about the author on 379.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Double-Cab Club” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Tim Jones (b. 1959) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in Aotearoa New Zealand in 2030 as the country cuts its carbon usage in an attempt to reverse climate change. Showers are already limited to three minutes. After secondary school. everyone must spend a period working for the in the Climate Corps. The story is told from the point-of-view of a man who still owns an SUV, although he mostly drives an electric car.

JF - Stuff SN - 978-1-99-115031-8 UR - https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/climate-news/119374933/climate-fiction-the-doublecab-club N1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Drones to Plowshares” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Sarah Gailey KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future in which agriculture and farming in strictly regulated by the Department of Agricultural Enforcement using drones to ensure that the rules are being followed. The point-of-view character is a drone that has been captured by a farming settlement that is breaking all the rules.

JF - Terraform SN - 978-1-5344-4962-6 UR - https://www.vice.com/en/article/7kzx7g/drones-to-ploughshares N1 -

Rpt. without the illus. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction Volume 2. Ed Jonathan Strahan (New York: Saga Press, 2021), 51-64, with a note on the author on 51; and without the illus. in Terraform Watch Worlds Burn. Ed. Brian Merchant and Claire L. Evans (New York: MCD X FSG Originals/Farrar, Straus and Giroux/Motherboard/Vice, 2022), 239-253.

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

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

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

Illus. Matt Bechtel

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Election 2220: Night of the Voting Dead. Novel in Two Parts Y1 - 2020 A1 - John Pansini KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The 2220 mayoral election in Stars Hollow, Connecticut, pits the liberal African American Russell Limbaugh-Trump against the far-right Mrs. Sarah Palin-Trump. The two sections are “Zombies Saved By Bible” (1-148) and “Swing Vote” (149-317). 

PB - [Roofman The Spy Publishing] CY - [Colorado Springs, CO] SN - 978-1-7351873-0-3 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Empire City Y1 - 2020 A1 - Matt Gallagher (b. 1983) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Alternative history dystopia in which Richard Nixon was not impeached and did not resign, the United States won the war in Vietnam, there are sixties states, including Empire City (New York City), and the Sixties never happened. The United States is embroiled in another long-lasting war, and the military seems to be taking over the U.S. through the electoral process. The ending suggests a sequel.

PB - Atria Books CY - New York SN - 9781501177798 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The End of October Y1 - 2020 A1 - Lawrence Wright (b. 1947) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Pandemic (virus) dystopia.

PB - Alfred A. Knopf CY - New York SN - 978-0525658658 U5 -

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

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

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

Illus. Matt Bechyel

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

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

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

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Even God Has a Place Called Home” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Ray Mwihaki KW - Female author KW - Kenyan author AB -

A virus is killing everyone by their early thirties, but one woman, who eats organically and lives in the country, is in her eighties. 

JF - Us in Flux PB - : Center for Science and the Imagination, Arizona State University CY - Tempe, AZ UR - https://csi.asu.edu/story/mwihaki-uif/ U2 -

Illus. Nina Miller

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Everything Store” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Danyl McLauchlan (b. 1974) ED - Elizabeth [Fiona] Knox (b. 1959) ED - David Larsen KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

The story depicts a dystopia in which everyone lives in what appears to be one immense store set in the middle of a desert with people trading goods within the store in order to survive. 

JF - Monsters in the Garden: An Anthology of Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy PB - Victoria University of Wellington Press CY - Wellington, New Zealand SN - 9781776563104 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Exhibit E” Y1 - 2020 A1 - L. P. Melling KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

An art exhibit projected on the moon shows the effects of climate change on Earth from the present to a dead planet.

JF - Little Blue Marble SN - 978-1-988293-10-3 9781912950997 UR - https://littlebluemarble.ca/2020/12/04/exhibit-e/ N1 -

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Firewalkers Y1 - 2020 A1 - Adrian [Czajkowski] (b. 1972) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Climate-change dystopia set in and around Achouka, Gabon, where there is an anchor to an elevator to an orbiting space station for the rich. The hotel where the rich wait requires air conditioning and clean water, which requires function solar panels, which break down and get covered with dust, and the Firewalkers are the people who risk death from the heat to clean and repair them.

PB - Solaris/Rebellion CY - Oxford, Eng: SN - 978-1-781088487 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Flyover Country" Y1 - 2020 A1 - Julie C. Day KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future facing a virus that gradually or, in some cases, suddenly changes the structure of the human body and mind. In order to escape from it, the protagonist had moved to rural New Hampshire after her closest friend was infected. RAICES is The Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services. Female author.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 285 SN - 978-0998925288 N1 -

Rpt. without the illus. in Weird Dream Society: An Anthology in Support of RAICES [The cover adds of the Possible & Unsubstantiated after Anthology. Ed. Julie C. Day with co-editors Carina Bissett and Chip Houser ([Lake Orion, MI]: Weird Dream Society/Reckoning Press, 2020), 74-94.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "For Our Sins . . ." Y1 - 2020 A1 - Andrew Fox (b. 1964) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future that has gone through a number of major changes in social relations, and there are footnotes that explain terms and social practices that the contemporary reader would not understand. The protagonist is an archaeologist who has uncovered precious texts in the “matriarchal-patriarchal dialectic,” Joanna Russ’s The Female Man and John Norman’s Ghost Dance and Slave Girl of Gor

JF - Hazardous Imaginings: The Mondo Book of Politically Incorrect Science Fiction PB - MonstraCity Press CY - Manassas, VA SN - 978-0989802710 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “For Those Who Would Come After” Y1 - 2020 A1 - G. Bear McKenna KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The brief story is set in a climate change future in which the protagonist transforms an old farm and farmhouse into an ecologically balanced system.

JF - Little Blue Marble SN - 978-1-988293-10-3 UR - https://littlebluemarble.ca/2020/08/28/for-those-who-would-come-after/ N1 -

Rpt. without the illustration in Little Blue Marble 2020: Greener Futures. Ed. Katrina Archer (Vancouver, BC, Canada: Ganache Media, 2020), 108-110, with a note on the author on 110. 

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “For Whom the Bell Curve Tolls” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Xiaodan Liu [pseud.] ED - Andrew Fox (b. 1964) KW - Chinese author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future United States that has established American Equity under which those whose families had been disadvantaged in the past due to their race, ethnicity, family poverty, and so forth are rewarded and those whose families were advantaged in the past are now living in poverty in rundown housing, poor schooling, and so forth.

JF - Again, Hazardous Imaginings: More Politically Incorrect Science Fiction. An International Anthology PB - MonstraCity Press CY - Manassas, VA SN - 978-0-9898027-4-1 U3 -

Liu Xiaodan [pseud.].

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Fugue of Winter” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Steve Toase ED - Sarena Ulibarri KW - German author KW - Male author AB -

In the frozen future, people search for useful valuables and find a violin, something that no one has heard in many, many years. 

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Future Girl Y1 - 2020 A1 - Asphyxia [pseud.] KW - Australian author KW - Deaf author KW - Female author AB -

The setting for the novel is a future Australia is dominated by a corporation that has developed an artificial food and has made the growing and consumption of “wild” food illegal. The point-of-view character is a sixteen-year-old girl who is deaf and whose hearing mother, concerned that she be able to fully integrate into hearing society, sends her to a regular school, go through speech therapy, and fails to realize that even with hearing aids and lipreading she struggles to understand most of what people say or, because she cannot sign or fingerspell, communicate with other deaf people. Her one love is art, and the novel is heavily illustrated in color on every page. The novel has two intertwined threads as the girl comes into her own as she learns Auslan (Australian sign language) and finger spelling, begins to become integrated into the Deaf community, and becomes an advocate for natural food.

PB - Allen & Unwin Australia CY - Crows Nest, NSW, Australia SN - 9781760294373 U2 -

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The Deaf Australian female author was the child of oral parents.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Future in Color” Y1 - 2020 A1 - [Rekka Korol] [Jay] (1980-2023) ED - Dave Ring KW - Female author KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a post-apocalypse future with the protagonist a bicycle courier who is transporting saved artifacts to a community that is trying to collect and save remnants of civilization.

JF - Glitter + Ashes: Queer Tales of a World that Wouldn’t Die PB - Neon Hemlock Press CY - [Washington, DC] SN - 978-1-952086-10-6 U3 -

RJ Theodore [pseud.].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Gamecocks” Y1 - 2020 A1 - J. T. Petty KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in the near future where driverless trucks make sio much money for the companies that it is decided it makes no difference how many people they kill. 

JF - Lightspeed VL - bo. 117 UR - https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-gamecocks/ U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Gardener” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Alexander Forbes KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Vignette the describes a social order based entirely on efficiency, personally, socially, and economically. 

JF - Social Alternatives (Brisbane, Qld, Australia) VL - 39.2 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Gathering Evidence Y1 - 2020 A1 - Martin MacInnes (b. 1983) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

The novel begins with a new app that is addictive and then moves back to how and why it was developed. 

PB - Atlantic Books CY - London SN - 9781786493453 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Ghost Fishing" Y1 - 2020 A1 - William Delman KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future where fishing for fish has been replaced by fishing for all the junk dumped in the ocean.

JF - Little Blue Marble SN - 978-1-988293-10-3 UR - https://littlebluemarble.ca/2020/05/29/ghost-fishing/ N1 -

Rpt. without the illustration in Little Blue Marble 2020: Greener Futures. Ed. Katrina Archer (Vancouver, BC, Canada: Ganache Media, 2020), 76-80, with a note on the author on 81.

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Glâcehouse” Y1 - 2020 A1 - R. Jean Mathieu ED - Sarena Ulibarri KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in an independent Québec, where English is little understood or spoken outside the major cities. Winter is a thing of the past and immense Glâcehouses have been built in which winter is created, but, as it turns out, the Glâcehouses create other problems.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Glare Y1 - 2020 A1 - Margot Harrison KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia centered on a computer game that takes over anyone playing it. 

PB - Little, Brown and Co. CY - New York SN - 978-1-368-00565-4 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Glass Houses. Letters: Part I” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Cadwell Turnbull ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) ED - Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) ED - Christine Yant KW - African American author KW - Male author KW - US Virgin Islands author AB -

Dystopia in three parts in which a U. S. President is elected on a Right to Work platform, which turns out to mean that if you don’t contribute to society at an acceptable level as set by the government, such as doing poorly in high school, you will be forced to work on a farm for minimal food, housing, and wages. The second part is set on such a farm with those who refuse to work on the farm, and anyone considered a danger to society including everyone in jail, are frozen in a cyro chamber. The third part illustrates the conflicts taking place within a family where a child is not doing well at school.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Glasslands. Wrack: Part I” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Tim[othy Aaron] Pratt (b. 1976) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) ED - Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) ED - Christine Yant KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Three-part story set in a future where people from a different reality arrive on Earth intending to set everything straight and create a eutopia for all. The story is told from the point of view of three people from a band All You Need to Change the World is Faith and a Chainsaw who do not want to be Harmonized, as the invaders call it. Chronologically, the invasion is described as seen by the woman who leads the band members and who immediately wants to start a revolution in “Spheres and Harmonies. Wrack: Part III.” or Else the Light: The Dystopia Triptych 3. Ed. John Joseph Adams, Hugh Howey, and Christine Yant (New York/London: Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant Press, 2020), 17-33. In Glasslands. Wrack: Part I.” Ignorance is Strength: The Dystopia Triptych 1. Ed. John Joseph Adams, Hugh Howey, and Christine Yant (New York/London: Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant Press, 2020), 15-28, a woman who is an artist whose desire to burn her creations is sent a reserve for the disaffected. And in “Cacophany. Wrack: Part II.” Burn the Ashes: The Dystopia Triptych 2. Ed. John Joseph Adams, Hugh Howey, and Christine Yant (New York/London: Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant Press, 2020), 17-32, a man who is an urban explorer and would be happy to be if he could explore other realms is not allowed to, so he joins the woman from Part III to invade the reserve.

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

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

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

PB - Pentera Press CY - Seaforth, NSW, Australia SN - 978192570089 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Godshot. A Novel Y1 - 2020 A1 - Chelsea Bieker (b. 1987) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Goldilocks Y1 - 2020 A1 - Laura Lam (b. 1988) KW - Female author KW - Scottish author KW - US author AB -

The novel is initially set on an Earth damaged by climate-change and with women treated as inferior beings. It then moves to an all-female starship on its way to a planet in the Goldilocks zone around a sun where humans should be able to live and deals with the tensions and conflicts that occur on the starship. The ending suggests that there will be a sequel. 

PB - Wildfire CY - London SN - 9781472267665 978-0316462860 N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Orbit, 2020

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Green-Up on Aisle 13” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Dorie Sarina KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Gulliver’s Travels Into Several Remote Nations Of The World. Part V: A Voyage To The Island of The Wolves” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Philip Palmer (b. 1960) ED - Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

Gulliver is thrown off a hip and ends up on an island that at first appears to be inhabited solely by a community of mostly young vegetarians who do not wear clothes and are promiscuous. But then, in what turns out to be a yearly ceremony, a pack of clothed wolves walking on two legs appear who feed on the humans. 

JF - Stories of Hope and Wonder in Support of the UK’S Healthcare Workers PB - NewCon Press CY - Weston, Eng. ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Halps' Promise" Y1 - 2020 A1 - Holly Schofield ED - Sarena Ulibarri KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

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

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

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

Presented as if a visitor from the future describes the improved market-based, profit oriented health care of 2050 compared to that in 2020.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Heap Y1 - 2020 A1 - Sean Adams KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which a huge apartment building, known as Los Verticalés, collapses and life for many of the survivors focuses on digging into the remains of the building, call the Heap. Others begin to create a new community called CamperTown. Themes include climate change and corporate and government corruption.

PB - William Morrow/HarperCollins CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Hierarchies. A Novel Y1 - 2020 A1 - Ros Anderson KW - Female author AB -

The novel follows the life of Sylv.ie, a synthetic woman, designed to be a “pleasure doll,” as she gains awareness she develops a sense of herself. She must follow the Four Hierarchies: “Love, obey, and delight your Husband [owner]. You exist to serve him. Honor his family above yourself and never come between them. You must not harm your Husband, nor his family, nor any Human. Make no demands, but meet them, and obey every reasonable Human request” (13). A film is in production.

PB - Dutton/Penguin Random House CY - [New York] SN - 978-0-593-18287-1 U5 -

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

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

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

Illus. Matt Bechtel

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “How to Pay Reparations: A Documentary” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Tochi [Joshua] Onyebuchi (b. 1987) ED - Charlton McIlwain (b. 1971) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in the near future in which one town decides to pay its Black residents for the history of racism. .

JF - Slate UR - How to Pay Reparations: a Documentary, a new short story by Tochi Onyebuchi. (slate.com) N1 -

Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction Volume 2. Ed Jonathan Strahan (New York: Saga Press, 2021), 525-42, with a note about the author on 525; and in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy™ 2021. Ed Veronica Roth (Boston, MA: Mariner  Books/HarperCollins, 2021), 78-92.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “How We Burn” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Brenda Peynado (b. 1985) KW - Dominican American author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a future with most plants and animals extinct, and a long one child policy has produced a surveillance society and overly protective families. The story is told from the point-of-view of a rebellious teenager. 

JF - Lightspeed VL - no. 117 UR - https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/how-we-burn/ U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "I Needed the Discounts" Y1 - 2020 A1 - Connor Willumsen KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which individuals wear a suit that keeps them constantly fed ads with discounts. Upgrades ultimately take over the person’s life. Presented graphically. 

JF - The New York Times Sunday Review ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Idle Hands. Robots Rise: Part I” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Tobias S[amuel] Buckell (b. 1979) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) ED - Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) ED - Christine Yant KW - British Virgin Islands author KW - Grenadian author KW - Male author KW - US author KW - US Virgin Islands author AB -

Dystopia in three parts set on Moreland, a seasteading built outside the U.S. territorial waters so that the extremely wealthy can live free of taxes and any laws but their own. The second generation discovers that there is no one to do the work, so they bring in thousands of robots, including sentient AIs, one of whom is the protagonist in all three stories. In the first story, the AI is bored and arranges to be thrown into the ocean to kill him. In the second story set some years later, the AI has been found and restored to life by a dissident faction that is trying to foment revolution. In the third story, after the owner of Moreland has killed the AI, it is again restored to run in an election.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Immigration" Y1 - 2020 A1 - Alex Nowrasteh ED - Aaron Ross Powell ED - Paul Matzko KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Alternative history depicting the ways in which the United States would be better today if it had never imposed immigration controls. The text includes information on the controls that were imposed. 

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

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

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

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

L. X. Beckett [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Impy" Y1 - 2020 A1 - Fiona M. Jones ED - Andrew Fox (b. 1964) KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

The story is set in a future where the government provides every child an IM or Individualized MentorPet to reinforce their self-esteem.

PB - MonstraCity Press CY - Manassas, VA SN - 978-0-9898027-4-1 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “In Silent Streams, Where Once the Summer Shone” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Seanan McGuire (b. 1978) ED - Edward Willett (b. 1959) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is about a slow apocalypse and all the “little” things that people ignore from bees to viruses that accumulate until it is too late. 

JF - Shapers of Worlds: Science fiction & fantasy by authors featured on the Aurora Award-winning podcast The Worshippers PB - Shadowpaw Press CY - Regina, SK, Canada SN - 978-1-989398-06-7 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Inheritors. The Inheritors: Part I” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) ED - Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) ED - Christine Yant KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in three parts. In the first part, a researcher who develops a cure for cancer and wants it freely available has it taken by her university so it can make huge profits. She then develops a simple genetic manipulation that produces highly intelligent and physically able children and gives it secretly to the extremely disadvantaged. In the second part, “normal” humans are trying, with considerable success, to eliminate the enhanced humans. In the third part, while the violence against the advanced continues, a rapprochement seems possible.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “An intersection of Parallel Lives: Blood Ties” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Wendy Nikel KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is told from the perspective a passenger on a of a far-future colony ship where the internal economy is based on the free market who travels to an old, slow colony ship where helping others is the norm and an ecological eutopia has been created within the ship.

JF - Nature SN - 978-1-988293-19-6 UR - https://littlebluemarble.ca/2022/07/08/an-intersection-of-parallel-lives/ N1 -

Rpt. without the subtitle and with a different illus. Little Blue Marble (July 8, 2022). https://littlebluemarble.ca/2022/07/08/an-intersection-of-parallel-lives/; and without the subtitle or an illus. in Little Blue Marble 2022: Warmer Worlds. Ed. Katrina Archer (Np: Genache Media, 2023), 54-58, with a note on the author on 58.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Interstate Africana” Y1 - 2020 A1 - W. C. Dunlap KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

The story depicts a “highway” through the universe travelled by African souls. 

JF - Fiyah: Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction VL - no. 16 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Islanders" Y1 - 2020 A1 - Alexander Weinstein KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future where climate change has inundated much of the country and a man and his son living on an island survive by fishing and diving for supplies in submerged homes. 

JF - Universal Love. Stories PB - Henry Holt and Co, CY - New York SN - 9781250144348 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Jigsaw Children" Y1 - 2020 A1 - Grace Chan KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

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

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

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

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Kimber: Book One of the Elyrian Chronicles Y1 - 2020 A1 - L. K. Hingey KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

When a solar storm irradiated Earth, the few survivors fled deep underground. In 2209 a subspecies of humankind has been created, and a major focus of the novel is whether they are fully human or can be enslaved. Forthcoming volumes are to include Cheyenne: Book Two of the Elyrian Chronicles and two prequel volumes. 

PB - Author CY - Np SN - 979-8647754424 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Kindly Ones" Y1 - 2020 A1 - Andrew Fox (b. 1964) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future that has adopted many of the policies identified with liberalism that the author doesn’t like. The focus of the story told through a series of reports of the investigation of a Christian father’s treatment of his child.

JF - Hazardous Imaginings: The Mondo Book of Politically Incorrect Science Fiction PB - MonstraCity Press CY - Manassas, VA SN - 978-0989802710 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Good Man Y1 - 2020 A1 - McMullan, Thomas KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

The novel is set in a post-pandemic world in which the protagonist escapes the crumbling city to a much too perfect village. The villagers write anonymous accusations on a huge wall, which bring the Reckoning. Reminiscent of Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” (1948).

PB - Bloomsbury CY - London SN - 978-1-526-60924-3 U5 -

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

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

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

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Last Testament” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Aurelius Raines II KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

Set in the future, the story is about the violence against young African American by the Chicago police. 

JF - FIYAH: Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction VL - no. 15 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Last to Die” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Rita Chang-Eppig KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Last White Rhinoceros” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Witi [Tame] Ihimaera[-Smiler] (b. 1944) ED - Elizabeth [Fiona] Knox (b. 1959) ED - David Larsen KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author KW - Māori author AB -

Post-apocalyptic (nuclear war) dystopia in which most humans died, most of the remaining preyed on each other, and the few insolated groups of survivors, most notably some Māori, were collected by the new android civilization in hopes of restarting homo sapiens. 

JF - Monsters in the Garden: An Anthology of Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy PB - Victoria University of Wellington Press CY - Wellington, New Zealand VL - 186-202 SN - 9781776563104 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Londonia Y1 - 2020 A1 - Kate A. Hardy KW - English author KW - Female author KW - French author AB -

The novel is set in what remains of London after a series of climate-change catastrophes. It is divided between the “cincture,” a wealthy area protected from the climate, and Londonia where people get by as they can. The female protagonist wakes up in Londonia with much of her memory gone, and she makes a life for herself as a “finder” of artifacts from before the catastrophe which are traded within Londonia or sold/traded in the cincture. Uses an invented language that combines English with words derived mostly from French. There is a Glossary on 397-99. 

PB - Tartarus Press CY - Leyburn, Eng. SN - 978-1-912856-19-6 N1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Loop Y1 - 2020 A1 - Ben Oliver KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

The first volume of a planned young adult trilogy. In this volume a sixteen-year-old boy is being held in prison awaiting execution. As the world outside changes, the world in the prison deteriorates even further as the boy tries to escape. The second volume is The Block. Frome, Eng.: Chicken House, 2020. U.S. ed. New York: Chicken House/Scholastic, 2021.

PB - Chicken House CY - Frome, Eng. SN - 978-1-338-58930-6 N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Chicken House/Scholastic, 2020.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Losing Eden: Why Our Minds Need the Wild Y1 - 2020 A1 - Lucy Jones KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

The book is a science based exploration of the point made in the subtitle, but it begins with a brief “Prologue” (1-4) and ends with a brief “Epilogue” (199-200). The Prologue set in the near future our world where a girl walking outside needs a hat, goggles, and respirator and the girl’s grandmother explaining about nature and why it ended. The Epilogue is set in a future where the girl can walk outside in the woods.

PB - Allen Lane/Penguin Random House CY - London SN - 9780241441534 U5 -

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Lyceum. Aiden Part I” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Karin Lowachee (b. 1973) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) ED - Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) ED - Christine Yant KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - Guyanese author AB -

A three-part dystopia in which a company is developing a neurological educational link that will give all children access to knowledge and help in understanding it. The eutopian possibilities of the project are derailed when the teenage son of the developer is killed in an accident, and she becomes fixed on the neurolink, which had named after her son. In the second part, the man who took over its development makes it possible for the link to be shared, and it spreads throughout the population beyond schools, with some seeing the results positively and others seeing them negatively. In the third part, the developer creates an android that can access the neurolink and looks and acts as if it is human.

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

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Maiden Voyage of New York City Y1 - 2020 A1 - Gary Girod (b. 1990) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

At the beginning of the novel, Manhattan is flooded, and the first two floors of office buildings are unusable, but then all the main buildings are raised up. There follows a war for control of the city. 

PB - Brain Lag CY - Milton, ON, Canada SN - 978-1-928011-31-6 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mallworld Incorporated Y1 - 2020 A1 - Jeffery Zavadil (b. 1969) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Following the devastation of the environment that made it impossible to grow any food, everyone, except “workeys” condemned to short lives in the algae farms, lives in a huge mall that extends from Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Pennsylvania. Everyone must spend constantly and up to their minimum shopping quota, or they are sent outside for a time. Monthly fashion. Everyone is said to be fat and happy, and the basic belief system is that “Libertarian capitalism made us all free” (18). Definite status differentiation. The protagonist reads and old utopia and begins to wonder if there could be a more fulfilling life, and over the course of the novel, he reinvents himself both physically and mentally and begins to challenge the norms of behavior in the Mall. His attitude to the people outside the Mall, who he had seen as animals, he comes to see as fellow human beings, and begins the process of trying to create a better society. First volume of a trilogy followed by Mallworld Incorporated: Bound Together. Np: [Bookbaby], 2020, in which the powerful in Mallworld respond, often violently, to the movement to make Mallworld more equal. Mallworld Incorporated: Bound Forward is forthcoming.

PB - [Bookbaby] CY - Np ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Mama Wata" Y1 - 2020 A1 - Sisonke Msimang ED - Rafeif Ismail ED - Ellen van Neerven (b. 1990) KW - Australian author KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - Kenyan author KW - South African author KW - US author KW - Zambian author AB -

The story details the destruction of the environment, especially water, from the perspective of the last surviving mermaid.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Master Class Y1 - 2020 A1 - Christina [Villafãna] Dalcher KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The novel is set in a future in which every individual is graded through standardized tests, which determines their place in society, with the low scoring sent to work farms. Based on the eugenics movement of the early twentieth century. 

PB - Berkley/Penguin Random House CY - New York SN - 978-0-440-00083-9 9780008409609 N1 -

UK ed. as Q: London: HarperCollins, 2020. 384 pp. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Ministry for the Future Y1 - 2020 A1 - Kim Stanley Robinson (b. 1952) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Set in the near future when climate change is rapidly worsening, the Ministry for the Future is established by the United Nations with little actual power, but it brings together a number of committed people determined to bring about changes, some through diplomacy, others through any means possible. The novel follows the woman who is head of the Ministry and her interactions with the heads of the most powerful national banks, some of the ways scientists throughout the world are trying to limit the effects of climate change and improve peoples’ lives, and some of the attempts to further change or oppose it through violence.

PB - Orbit/Hachette Book Group CY - New York SN - 978-0-316-30013-1 N1 -

Three chapters are reprinted in No More Fairy Tales: Stories to Save Our Planet. Ed. D[enise] A. Baden (Np: Habitat Press, 2022), Chapter 42 as “The Carboni” (94-101), Chapter 22 as “Drambers” (234-239), and Chapter 93 as “Project Slowdown” (263-273).

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Mirages" Y1 - 2020 A1 - Alaya Dawn Johnson (b. 1982) KW - African American author KW - Female author KW - Mexican author AB -

The story is set in Mexico in a climate change future where the cities have gone underground but still reflect the economic divisions of the country and people are still trying to move North, although now to Nunavut in northern Canada. The African American female author was born, raised, and educated in the United States through her BA in East Asian languages cultures at Columbia University. She now lives in Mexico where she received a master’s degree in Mesoamerican Studies at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

JF - Reconstruction. Stories PB - Small Beer Press CY - Easthampton, MA SN - 9781618731777 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mirror's Edge Y1 - 2020 A1 - Passey, Alex KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

The novel begins in a future polluted Earth that is under corporate control and everyone has a personal minder implanted that replaces an independent thought and then shifts the protagonist, without the implant, to a pristine alternative world that has rejected all that makes Earth a dystopia. There he meets the woman who has brought him to her world and travels with him back to his to reform it. The message seems to be “Every utopia will always be a dystopia to someone” (346).

PB - At Bay Press CY - Winnipeg, MB, Canada SN - 978-1-988168-23-4 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Mister Dawn, How Can You Be So Cruel? Slumberland: Part I” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Violet Allen ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) ED - Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) ED - Christine Yant KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia in three parts in which, in the first story, dreams are first curated for wealthy individuals. In the second story, drugs become common to enhance shared dreaming. In the third story, dreams become for entertainment for everyone in dream shows but also used for social control.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Mother Fault Y1 - 2020 A1 - Kate Mildenhall KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

The novel is set in a future Australia devastated by climate change and ruled by a fascist-sounding political party that has established concentration camps (BestLife Centers). The novel focuses on a woman whose husband has disappeared in Indonesia with her and her children then threatened by the government. The novel ends in a way that suggests a sequel. 

PB - Simon & Schuster (Australia) CY - Cammeray, NSW, Australia SN - 978-1760854478 U5 -

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

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Never a Butterfly, Nor a Moth with Moon-Painted Wings” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Aimee Ogden KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a climate-change future depicting the treatment of refugees from an island that sank beneath the waves in a country that accepts them as menial laborers while eliminating their language and culture. 

JF - Beneath Ceaseless Skies VL - no. 300 UR - http://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/never-a-butterfly-nor-a-moth-with-moon-painted-wings/ U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The New Mutants" Y1 - 2020 A1 - Fawns, Angelique ED - Juliana Rew KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

A virulent virus wipes out most of the population, with most of the survivors are young adults, who form gangs around different bands. 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Notes on the Supply of Material in the Bodies Market” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Rodrigo Juri (b. 1971) ED - Crystal M. Huff KW - Chilean author KW - Male author AB -

Corporate controlled dystopia.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Notice" Y1 - 2020 A1 - Sarah Pinsker (b. 1977) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story in set in a religious community called Reliance that imagines itself as self-sufficient and is cut off from the outside world as seen through the eyes of a young man in the community. 

JF - Us in Flux PB - Center for Science and the Imagination, Arizona State University CY - Tempe, AZ UR - https://csi.asu.edu/projects/usinflux/sarah-pinsker-uif U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Oil and Ivory” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Jennifer Lee Rossman ED - Sarena Ulibarri KW - Queer author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future where climate change produces huge variations in ice cover that threatens the narwhale population. 

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

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “One Final Walk in the Dust and Rain” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Anthony W. Eichenlaub KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Climate change dystopia set in the Upper Mississippi area that has become a dust bowl.

JF - Curious Futures UR - https://curiousfictions.com/stories/2882-anthony-w-eichenlaub-one-final-walk-in-the-dust-and-the-rain ER - TY - ABST T1 - “One of the less horrible of the many dystopian futures visited by the Time Traveller: Watch and Wait” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Rahul Kanakia (b. 1985) KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -

The story depicts a future in which people are quite contented machine minders. 

JF - Nature VL - 580.7804 U2 -

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Opt-In. Harvest: Part I” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Seanan McGuire (b. 1978) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) ED - Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) ED - Christine Yant KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in three parts focusing on the sale of body parts. In the first story, a poor woman sells organs in order to pay her bills. In the second story, a law is passed legalizing the sale of body parts that, with amendments, means that anyone in debt can be required to sell their body parts to pay it off, and a woman has her womb and uterus harvested. In the third part, a resistance has arisen with the story told by a woman in the resistance trying to get access to the records that show whose organs were harvested and who they went to

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Orange City Y1 - 2020 A1 - Lee Matthew Goldberg KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which outcasts of various sorts are brought to a hidden city completely under the control of a man who has been mechanically enhanced. The first book in a series to be followed by Lemonworld.

PB - Atmosphere Press CY - [Austin, TX] SN - 978-1-649-21878-0 U5 -

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Orphan of Greenridge (Water). Ko Ko Né Ä: Part I” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Darcie Little Badger (b. 1987) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) ED - Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) ED - Christine Yant KW - Female author KW - Native American author AB -

Dystopia in three parts linked by connections to indigenous cultures and the effects of climate change. In the first story, water is rationed, and the testing of water is rigged to hide the fact that it is contaminated. In the second story, a woman with a baby is trying to escape conflict. In the third story, Texas is one of the few states that sells off mostly abandoned land to the very rich.

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

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Otaku Y1 - 2020 A1 - Chris[topher James] Kluwe (b. 1981) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel is set in a future drowned Miami, now known as Ditchtown but officially the South Coast Protectorate, which is separate from what is left of the United States and under the rule Church of Christ Ascendant. The novel’s protagonist is a woman trying to survive there while half of her life is spent in Infinite Game, a virtual world, where she is a leader.

PB - Tor CY - New York SN - 9781250203939 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Paper Hearts Y1 - 2020 A1 - Justina [Louise Alice] Robson (b. 1968) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

One of a set of novellas published as Robot Dreams that begins with what seems to be a series of unconnected dreams that coalesces around one Artificial Intelligence that “dreams” of taking over the world and turning it a eutopia. Whether it is a dream and whether it is a good thing are both left open.

PB - NewCon Press CY - [Weston, Eng.] SN - 978-1-912950-53-9 U5 -

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

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

JF - Pulp Literature VL - no. 25 U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Parent-Teacher Association” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Jessica Powell KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Surveillance dystopia in which parents demand to have their children constantly tracked and have immediate access to the tracking. 

JF - The New York Times Sunday Review ER - TY - ABST T1 - "PARTY TIME!" Y1 - 2020 A1 - Ben[jamin Allen] H. Winters (b. 1976) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A fairly light-hearted take on a totalitarian regime with the protagonist a woman trying to organize an office party.

JF - Lightspeed VL - no. 127 UR - https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/party-time/ U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Perfection of Fish Y1 - 2020 A1 - J. S. Morrison KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Gender war. In the near future, a testosterone lowering drug is required, and a wealthy man works to make women more subservient.

PB - Black Rose Writing CY - [Castroville, TX] SN - 978-1-68433-506-0 U5 -

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

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

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

Illus. Matt Bechtel

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Pill" Y1 - 2020 A1 - Meg Elison (b. 1982) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A diet pill is developed that works, except for 10% mortality, is so popular that there are very few overweight people left and being overweight is made effectively illegal.

JF - Big Girl plus The Pill plus Such People in It and much more PB - PM Press CY - Oakland, CA SN - 978-1629637839 N1 -

Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction Volume 2. Ed Jonathan Strahan (New York: Saga Press, 2021), 65-94, with a note about the author on 65; and in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy™ 2021. Ed Veronica Roth (Boston, MA: Mariner Books/HarperCollins, 2021), 39-66.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Pinecone Lady" Y1 - 2020 A1 - Jo Miles KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story begins in drought and fire-ravaged country, that is transformed by the Pinecone Lady, a Johnny Appleseed, but for all trees. 

JF - Little Blue Marble SN - 978-1-988293-10-3 UR - https://littlebluemarble.ca/2020/03/27/the-pinecone-lady/ N1 -

Rpt. without the illustration in Little Blue Marble 2020: Greener Futures. Ed. Katrina Archer (Vancouver, BC, Canada: Ganache Media, 2020), 38-45, with a note on the author on 45. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Press play: Suspended for safety” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Marissa [Kristine] Lingen (b. 1978) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A pandemic allegory in which children are “paused” for the duration of a war.

JF - Nature UR - Nature.com/futures U2 -

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

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

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

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

Surveillance dystopia with drones everywhere. 

JF - The New York Times Sunday Review ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Pulls Weeds and Does Dishes” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Anthony W. Eichenlaub KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A positive story about the ability of robots to assist the elderly in staying independent.

JF - Neo-Opsis Science Fiction Magazine VL - no. 31 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Pursuit of the Pankera: A Parallel Novel About Parallel Universes Y1 - 2020 A1 - Robert A[nson] Heinlein (1907-88) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel begins with the same protagonists as in his 1980 The Number of the Beast and then takes them into a parallel universe that uses settings from Mars novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) and the Lensman series by E[dward] E[lmer] “Doc” Smith (1890-1965).

PB - Caezik SF & Fantasy/Arc Manor CY - Rockville, MD SN - 978-1-64710-001-8 U5 -

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

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

JF - Reckoning 4: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice PB - Reckoning Press CY - Lake Orion, MI VL - 4 SN - 978-09989252-6-4 UR - https://reckoning.press/a-rare-hybrid-of-dung-beetle-and-lion/ U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Recovering the Lost Art of Cuddling” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Tessa Fisher ED - Sarena Ulibarri KW - Lesbian author KW - Transgender author AB -

The story is set in a climate change future where, in the north, blizzards are common, and, in the south, the heat is debilitating. 

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Red Sky at Morning: Nil Desperandum: Part I” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Alex[ander Christian] Irvine (b. 1969) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) ED - Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) ED - Christine Yant KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in three parts that begins in a climate change dystopia in Downeast Maine. Fires fill the air with smoke. No power. Massive flooding. The protagonist is a woman raising her granddaughter. In the second part that granddaughter is trying to survive alone in her grandmother’s house in an area that has been taken over by vigilantes who kill all “foreigners,” but particular Blacks, ethnic minorities, and anyone gender nonconforming. The woman is part of an underground railroad hiding fugitives. In the third part, the last of those fugitives visits the remains of the burned-out house where the woman was killed trying to save her, a killing that started a revolt against vigilantes.

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

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

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Resisters. A Novel Y1 - 2020 A1 - Gish Jen (b. 1955) KW - Chinese-American author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The novel is set in a surveilled future with much of the U.S. underwater and the population is divided between the privileged “Netted” who live on land and the “Surplus” on live in the swamps or on the water. See also 2020 Jen, “Tell Me Everything,” which is also about a surveilled future.

PB - Alfred A. Knopf CY - New York SN - 9780525657217 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Responsible Party" Y1 - 2020 A1 - Margret A. Treiber ED - Andrew Fox (b. 1964) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Under The Responsible Party Act anyone who has made someone else uncomfortable is responsible for any later effect of that act.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Revitalized" Y1 - 2020 A1 - Jason P. Burnham KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Riot Baby Y1 - 2020 A1 - Tochi [Joshua] Onyebuchi (b. 1987) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

The novel is set in contemporary American and reflects the dystopia it is today for young African Americans and as it gets worse in the future as seen through the eyes of a brother and sister. Elements of fantasy.

PB - Tom Doherty Associates/Tor.com CY - New York SN - 9781250214751 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Rise & Shine Y1 - 2020 A1 - Patrick Allington (b. 1969) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Rise and shine are the only two city-states that have survived an ecological catastrophe that has destroyed most living things. The two are perpetually at war, and the people feed, literally, off the news footage from the war.

PB - Scribe Publications CY - Brunswick, Vic, Australia SN - 9781925849769 978-1-950354-42-9 N1 -

U.S. ed. Minneapolis, MN: Scribe, 2021. 233 pp.

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Rules for a Civilization” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Jerri Jerreat ED - Sarena Ulibarri KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a future Toronto that has been rebuilt to protect it from the increasingly fierce weather and takes place in a school in a huge building designed to withstand to recurring hurricanes. 

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

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Samson in somnium: A Will and Testament” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Deborah Walker KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The first story set in her Mundane Sovereigns world in which the singularity as occurred, and AIs, who humans call the All Knowings, have effectively enslaved humans. This story focuses on conflict among AIs that reveals that while brilliant, they are emotionally immature. The second story is “Fear of the Empty: Broken Dreams.” Illus. Jacey. Nature (January 20, 2021). nature.com/futures. 1476-4687 (web) 0028-0836 (print) https://doi 10.1038/d41586-021-00122-y and focuses on a human, a potter who makes pots ordered by an AI and tries not to remember making art. 

JF - Nature UR - https://media.nature.com/original/magazine-assets/d41586-020-01720-y/d41586-020-01720-y.pdf U2 -

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Scarf for Janice” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Sandra Ulbrich Almazan ED - Sarena Ulibarri KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set some years after an unexplained Change when much of the natural world collapsed. In the story, a transgender person joins a bird count to be able to honor her transgender great aunt by visiting where she grew up, was tormented at school, and disowned by her parents. In this future all such prejudice has disappeared. 

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

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

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

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

Illus. Matt Bechtel

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sea Change Y1 - 2020 A1 - Nancy [Anne Koningisor] Kress (b. 1948) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The novel is set in a future in 2022, after a released biopharmaceutical caused a worldwide agricultural collapse and the outlawing of all GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms). The female protagonist is part of an underground movement to create safe GMOs the provide food for the hungry and clean up the environment. The ending suggests a sequel. 

PB - Tachyon Publications CY - Sa Francisco, CA SN - 978-1-61696-331-6 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Secret Files of Donald J. Trump, Volume 1: The Tijuana Tango Y1 - 2020 A1 - Francis le Lapin [pseud.] KW - Belgian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopian alternative history in which Trump is a spy for the Russian Tsar.

PB - Black Coat Press CY - Encino, CA VL - 1 SN - 978-1-61227-965-7 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Seep Y1 - 2020 A1 - Chana Porter KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Aliens arrive and infiltrate everywhere, allowing people to change their bodies at will, communicate telepathically, and live forever. Wars end. Everyone is fed. One focus of the novel is whether this is a good thing or not; another is on the choices people make. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Serf" Y1 - 2020 A1 - Thompson, Talia ED - Paul Mountfort ED - Rosslyn Prosser KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author KW - Queer author AB -

The story begins in 2106 with a woman on a crowded Auckland Skytrain from the domed area where she works to the polluted exterior where she lives, and then shifts to 2036 and her grandmother growing up on Beqa in the Fiji islands, which is about the disappear under the rising waters. The story then follows her family as refugees as conditions worsen and world-wide climate refugees outnumber those with land and her treatment as a brown woman working two minimum wage jobs as a serf (server).

JF - Scorchers: A Climate Fiction Anthology PB - Steam Press/Eunoia Publishing CY - Auckland, New Zealand SN - 978-1-99-000062-1 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Set the Ice Free" Y1 - 2020 A1 - Shel Graves ED - Sarena Ulibarri KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future in which most people have left Earth fleeing climate change, and those that stayed, known as the Sun People, have adapted using a combination of traditional skills and advanced technology. 

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Shadow Prison Experiment. Shadow Prisons: Part I” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Caroline M[ariko] Yoachim ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) ED - Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) ED - Christine Yant KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Three-part dystopia in which a everyone has an implant that regulates everything they see and the corporation that controls it develops a technology that replaces prisons by taking a person offline so that no one can see who it is. The Shades, as they are called, state popping up everywhere as more and more “crimes” warrant temporary or permanent exclusion. In the first story, the protagonist, who is in a single-sex marriage and has a transgender child, is given a permanent sentence. The second story is a decade or so later, and she is trying to survive, and her partner divorced her and has re-married, and she sometimes meets with her child, now a marred adult. In the third story, the corporation she is a leader in a revolution against the Shadow Prisons.

JF - Ignorance is Strength: The Dystopia Triptych 1 PB - Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant Press CY - New York/London SN - 979-8677287572 979-8677291012 979-8677298424 N1 -

The three stories were rpt. in Lightspeed, nos. 123 - 125 (August - October 2020). https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-shadow-prison-experiment/ https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/shadow-prisons-of-the-mind/ https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-shadow-prisoners-dilemma/

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Shopping Day” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Tananarive [Priscilla] Due (b. 1966) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

A plague dystopia in which everyone has to be locked down at 6:00 PM, and being out during the day is dangerous. The story focuses on children waiting for their mother to return from a shopping trip.

JF - How We Live Now (Serial Box anthology) UR - https://www.realm.fm/serials/shopping-day N1 -

Rpt. in the author’s The Wishing Pool and Other Stories (Brooklyn, NY: Akashic Books, 2023), 271-277.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Sky Suck" Y1 - 2020 A1 - Juliana Roth KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future devastated by climate change. 

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

Also published online at https://reckoning.press/sky-suck/ (April 1, 2020).

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

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

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Solarpunk Cities: Notes for a Manifesto” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Commando Jugendstil KW - Italian author AB -

Eight points for a manifesto describing a eutopian solarpunk city plus explanation and a list of “Further Reading and Inspiration” (241-42). 

JF - Reckoning 4: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice PB - Reckoning Press CY - New York VL - 4 SN - 978-09989252-6-4 UR - https://reckoning.press/solarpunk-cities-notes-for-a-manifesto/ N1 -

Also published online with colored illus. at https://reckoning.press/solarpunk-cities-notes-for-a-manifesto/ (July 1, 2020).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Solitary Crane Circles Cold Mountain” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Gregor Hartmann KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

In a future following a world war and environmental devastation, a deep divide has developed between those who want to save Gaia, with various factions among them, and those who want to use an asteroid to send people to another planet. The story centers on a woman who is trying to design a society for the asteroid that can last for fourteen generations.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 138.3/4 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Solitude, in Silent Sun” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Mike Adamson KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a future where people have returned to Earth from space with the goal of rejuvenating it under strict environmental regulations, but some people are starting to break the rules to make a profit. 

JF - Little Blue Marble SN - 978-1-988293-10-3 UR - https://littlebluemarble.ca/2020/07/17/solitude-in-silent-sun/ N1 -

Rpt. without the illustration in Little Blue Marble 2020: Greener Futures. Ed. Katrina Archer (Vancouver, BC, Canada: Ganache Media, 2020), 68-74, with a note on the author on 75. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Sonya Josephine, and the Tragic Re-Invention of the 2019 Telephone” Y1 - 2020 A1 - I[sabel] S. Heynen KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a post-apocalypse dystopia in which much past knowledge has been lost although some is slowly being recreated. People have retreated into a city, the Egg, where they are sealed off from the outside. The city is crumbling. Assassination is legal and a booming business. 

JF - Mithila Review VL - no. 12 UR - https://mithilareview.com/heynen_02_20/ U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Space Between Worlds Y1 - 2020 A1 - Micaiah Johnson KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The novel is set in a universe where, under specific circumstances, travel among the universes is possible, and the protagonist is one of the women on Earth, which is a dystopia with deep economic and social divisions, chosen to travel. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Spaceship October” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Greg[ory John] van Eekhout (b. 1967) ED - Mur Lafferty ED - S. B. Divya [pseud.] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set on a generations spaceship on which the leaders preach equality, but many people do not have enough food, housing. or adequate health care.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The State Machine" Y1 - 2020 A1 - Yudhanjaya Wijeratne (b. 1992) ED - [Divya Srinivasan] [Breed] KW - Male author KW - Sri Lankan author AB -

The story is set in a gradually collapsing future in which Sri Lanka is the testing ground for governance based on algorithms and traces its development from a computer game to a self-evolving system. 

JF - Slate UR - “The State Machine,” a short story by Yudhanjaya Wijeratne. (slate.com) U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Stealth" Y1 - 2020 A1 - Jillian Weise (b. 1981) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The dystopia experienced by the disabled in a near future world of greater surveillance and collection of data on individuals. 

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

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Stones of Särdal” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Karl [Gustav Schlosser] Dandenell KW - Male author KW - Swedish American Author AB -

Brief story set in future a temperate Sweden. A 105-year-old man is being interviewed for a recording to be placed on a spaceship. He describes the setting, the very old building he lives in, and some of the history.

JF - Little Blue Marble UR - https://littlebluemarble.ca/2021/09/24/stones-of-sardal/ N1 -

Originally published on The Word Count Podcast Episode 100 in 2020 but not available there.

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

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Strange Labour Y1 - 2020 A1 - Penner, Robert G. KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-apocalyptic (unexplained) dystopia in which a woman travels across the United States, sometimes with a companion, meeting individuals and people in small communities struggling to survive. 

PB - Radiant Press CY - Regina, SK, Canada SN - 978-1-989274354 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Such People in It” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Meg Elison (b. 1982) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

An authoritarian, extremely rigid dystopia enforced by the “Decencies,” who respond violently to any opposition to the system. The protagonist works long hours in a call center for low pay and is constantly aware that he may breach some minor rule.

JF - Big Girl plus The Pill plus Such People in It and much more PB - PM Press CY - Oakland, CA SN - 978-1629637839 U5 -

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Swimmers Y1 - 2020 A1 - Marian Womack (b. 1975) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Spanish author AB -

A climate change dystopia novel is set in a future Andalusia, where the author was born, with rapidly evolving plants and animals. The remaining humans are divided between those of Earth, which has a complex social fabric, and those in the Upper Settlement, a ring at the edge of Earth’s, with a more egalitarian social structure. Retelling of Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), which is, of course, related to Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre (1847), with reference to Wide Sargasso Sea throughout the text. The female author was born María de los Ángeles Via Rivera in Cádiz, Spain and lives in Spain and England and writes in both in English and Spanish. Womack is her married name.

PB - Titan Books CY - London SN - 978-1-78093213 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Tāwhaki” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Witi [Tame] Ihimaera[-Smiler] (b. 1944) ED - Paul Mountfort ED - Rosslyn Prosser KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author KW - Māori author AB -

The story is set in a future where increasing heat has killed the overwhelming majority of people, plants, and animals, and the people who remain live deep underground, with only occasional trips to the surface.

JF - Scorchers: A Climate Fiction Anthology PB - Steam Press/Eunoia Publishing CY - Auckland, New Zealand SN - 978-1-99-000062-1 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Tell Me Everything” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Gish Jen (b. 1955) KW - Chinese-American author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a high-tech future and focuses on interaction with an AI adviser/assistant. See also 2020 Jen, The Resisters. A Novel

JF - The New York Times Sunday Review UR - https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/01/03/opinion/gish-jen-privacy-surveillance.html U2 -

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

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

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

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

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Test Y1 - 2020 A1 - Sylvain Neuvel (b. 1973) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

The short novel describes the U.K. citizenship test given to refugee, which involves how they respond to a simulated terrorist attack on the test site. 

PB - Tor.com CY - New York SN - 9781250312839 U5 -

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

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Things That Make It Worth It” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Lex T. Lindsay ED - Sarena Ulibarri KW - Female author KW - Queer author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future struggle to restore the environment from the overheating of climate change and the loss of plants and animals. In the story, the researchers are trying to produce snow for the first in many years. 

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

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Today, We Will Rise” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Meleika Geza-Fatafehi ED - Rafeif Ismail ED - Ellen van Neerven (b. 1990) KW - Australian author KW - Female author KW - Pasifika author KW - Tongan author KW - Torres Strait Island author AB -

Dystopia with considerable magic realism using indigenous stories that reflect the title.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Transition of OSOOSI” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Ozzie M. Gartrell KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia set in the United States of True Americans, which is a totalitarian regime based on apartheid, with Citizen Americans having fewer rights than the pets of True Americans, who are white. The story is about the beginning of a rebellion led by hackers. 

JF - Fiyah: Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction VL - no. 13 N1 -

Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction Volume 2. Ed Jonathan Strahan (New York: Saga Press, 2021), 433-63, with a note about the author on 433.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Trigger" Y1 - 2020 A1 - Paul Mountfort ED - Paul Mountfort ED - Rosslyn Prosser KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a future Aotearoa New Zealand that is succumbing to fires from the increased heat and flooding from the collapse of the melting of Antarctic ice. Society has broken down, and no one with any real authority remains. The protagonist has fled Auckland with his family, but his refuge is about to been engulfed in fire.

JF - Scorchers: A Climate Fiction Anthology PB - Steam Press/Eunoia Publishing CY - Auckland, New Zealand SN - 978-1-99-000062-1 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Trust in the Law, For the Law Trusts in You. Lawless: Part I” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Merc Fenn Wolfmoor (b. 1986) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) ED - Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) ED - Christine Yant KW - Non-binary author KW - Queer author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in three parts. In the first story, mass shootings are a constant, and children are taught using VISIONS, a virtual reality system that supposedly allows safe education. In the second story, there is enforced church membership and attendance, patriarchy, marriage between a man and a woman, with the woman expected to have children, and constant updates rating on every individual with penalties for falling too low. CUSN, developed from VISIONS, connects everyone, but becomes infected with a virus. In the third story, a small group of people try to bring down the system.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Turbine at the End of the World” Y1 - 2020 A1 - James Rowland KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

The story is set in a future where all cities near the coast are mostly under water.

JF - Prairie Fire: A Canadian Magazine of New Writing VL - 41.3 SN - 9781912950997 N1 -

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Upright Women Wanted Y1 - 2020 A1 - Sarah Gailey KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The novel is set in a fragmented future United States with the protagonist a young woman who is coming to realize she is gay and whose closest friend has been executed for having unapproved literature. 

PB - Tom Doherty Books/Tor.com CY - New York SN - 9781250213587 U5 -

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Vastation" Y1 - 2020 A1 - Paul [Edward] Theroux (b. 1941) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Pandemic dystopia in which the well-off live in protected cities and others live in compounds based on ethnicity that war with each other. 

JF - Slate UR - “The Vastation,” a new short story by Paul Theroux. (slate.com) U2 -

Illus. Natalie Matthews-Ramo

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Venom and Bite" Y1 - 2020 A1 - Darcie Little Badger (b. 1987) ED - Dave Ring KW - Female author KW - Native American author AB -

The story is set in a climate change dystopia in which most people live underground, and the country is mostly desert. 

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Viam Inveniemus Aut Faciemus” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Tales from the EV Studio A1 - Commando Jugendstil ED - Sarena Ulibarri KW - Italian author AB -

The story is about the struggle to get through a blizzard to repair the failing electrical system in a refugee village set in a period of extreme climate change combined with a growing refugee crisis and government inaction. 

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Vulcan's Forge Y1 - 2020 A1 - Robert Mitchell Evans KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel is set in the only colony of Earth that survived its destruction, which has a repressive regime and criminal gangs.

PB - Flame Tree Press CY - London SN - 978-1-78758-397-9 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Wall and the Water” Y1 - 2020 A1 - E. M. Wright KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a U.S. refugee camp that is slowly being drowned. 

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

Also published online at https://reckoning.press/the-water-and-the-wall/ (February 19, 2020). 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Washed Clean: Say hello to a new you” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Fenn, Edem KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Brief story depicting a surveillance society controlled by a theocracy. A new religion develops around a procedure to change identities. 

JF - Nature VL - 579.7797 U2 -

Illus. Jacey

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Wasteland Review” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Aurelia Gonzalez KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a post-apocalyptic future after climate and other disasters and is told by a woman struggling to survive on her own in a rural area while listening to two other women seeming alone on a campus in a city broadcasting their conversations about how to survive.

JF - he Future Fire: Social Political & Speculative Cyber-Fiction VL - 52 UR - The Future Fire: 2020.52 fiction wasteland U2 -

Illus. Cécile Matthey

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Water Must Fall Y1 - 2020 A1 - Nick [Nicholas] Wood (1961-2023) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - South African author KW - Zambian author AB -

A complex novel with a number of intersecting storylines set in a future where much of the world is experiencing a drought and the corporation that control most of the water supply is all-powerful. 

PB - NewCon Press CY - Weston, Eng. SN - 978-1-912950-61-4 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Waterfall" Y1 - 2020 A1 - Renee [Wen-Wei] Liang (b. 1973) ED - Paul Mountfort ED - Rosslyn Prosser KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

Climate change story told from the perspective of a trainee doctor who discovers that the authorities, including the medical establishment are falsifying current conditions to look better than they are.

JF - Scorchers: A Climate Fiction Anthology PB - Steam Press/Eunoia Publishing CY - Auckland, New Zealand SN - 9781990000621 978-1-99-115031-8 N1 -

Rpt. in Year’s Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy Volume III. Ed. Marie Hodgkinson ([Wellington, New Zealand]: Paper Road Press, 2021), 102-13.

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

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

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

Illus. Pilar Garcia de Leaniz 

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “we live on, in story” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Karen Wyld ED - Michael Mohammed Ahmad KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

The story is told by a mixed race descendent of an Aboriginal woman who had been raped by the head of the settler family who had disposed her people from their land.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “We Were The Workshop for (a torturer’s) Utopia.” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Carlos Norcia KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which authors are encouraged to join a writers' group, which is infiltrated by a man working for the government and passes on the authors work to the government, which then tortures them.

JF - Big Echo. Critical SF VL - no. 14 UR - http://www.bigecho.org/we-were-the-workshop-for-a-torturers-utopia U1 -

The first two words of the title have a line through them

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “West of the Sun and Sea” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Mako, CB ED - Leah Jing McIntosh ED - Cher Tan ED - Adalya Nash Hussein ED - Hassan Abul KW - Australian author KW - Non-binary author AB -

The story is set in a future Australia that has embraced equality for the disabled. 

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

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “When Last the Cicadas Sang” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Anthony W. Eichenlaub KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Brief climate change dystopia told from the point-of-view of a farmer who had resisted changing her ways.

JF - Little Blue Marble SN - 978-1-988293-10-3 UR - https://littlebluemarble.ca/2020/12/18/when-last-the-cicadas-sang N1 -

Rpt. without the illustration in Little Blue Marble 2020: Greener Futures. Ed. Katrina Archer (Vancouver, BC, Canada: Ganache Media, 2020), 133-36, with a note on the author on 137. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “When We Call a Place Home” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Chinelo Onwualu KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - Nigerian author AB -

Long after a period violent conflicts, people have learned to live together in Homesteads based on mutual aid and respect. The story is centered on one Homesteads decided how to respond to outsiders bringing back the old violence. 

JF - Us in Flux PB - Center for Science and the Imagination, Arizona State University CY - Tempe, AZ UR - https://csi.asu.edu/story/chinelo-onwualu-uif/ U2 -

Illus. Nina Miller

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Whenua to Whenua” Y1 - 2020 A1 - James George (b. 1962) ED - Paul Mountfort ED - Rosslyn Prosser KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a future Aotearoa New Zealand and focuses on the impact on both individuals and communities of the disappearance under the rising sea of the homeland of a Māori community.

JF - Scorchers: A Climate Fiction Anthology PB - Steam Press/Eunoia Publishing CY - Auckland, New Zealand SN - 978-1-99-000062-1 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Where the World Turns Wild Y1 - 2020 A1 - Nicola Penfold KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Post-apocalypse (disease) young adult dystopia in which two children who are immune escape from the locked down city and search for their mother in the wild lands.

PB - Stripes Publisjing CY - London SN - 9781788951524 N1 -

Excerpts were published in the SCBWI (Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators) Undiscovered Voices anthology for 2018.

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Wings of Glass" Y1 - 2020 A1 - Wendy Nikel ED - Sarena Ulibarri KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a small community within a dome in one of the few areas left that are not just desert. 

JF - Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Winters. An Anthology PB - World Weaver Press CY - Albuquerque, NM SN - 9781732254688 978-1-988293-10-3 N1 -

Rpt. illus. in Little Blue Marble (January 31, 2020). https://littlebluemarble.ca/2020/01/31/the-heavenly-dreams-of-mechanical-trees/; and, without the illustration, in Little Blue Marble 2020: Greener Futures. Ed. Katrina Archer (Vancouver, BC, Canada: Ganache Media, 2020), 97-106, with a note on the author on 107. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The World is on Fire and You’re Out of Milk” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Rhiannon [A.] Grist KW - Female author KW - Scottish author KW - Welsh author AB -

The brief story takes a typical situation but sets it in the middle of a climate change disaster to give a compelling picture of how people might respond.

JF - Gutter: The Magazine of New Scottish and International Writing VL - no. 22 SN - 9781912950997 UR - https://www.guttermag.co.uk/blog/the-world-is-on-fire-and-youre-out-of-milk N1 -

Rpt. in Best of British Science Fiction 2020. Ed. Donna Scott ([Weston, Eng.: NewCon Press, 2021), 177-81.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Yat Madit” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Dilman Dila (b. 1977) ED - Wole Talabi (b. 1986) KW - Male author KW - Ugandan author AB -

A complex little story told by a young woman when the man she thought of as her father is released from thirty years in prison. He had been the corrupt, murderous dictator of the country and intends to run for local office, but the country is now governed through a set of algorithms, the Yat Madit, that she is afraid he intends to undermine. 

JF - Africanfuturism: An Anthology PB - Brittle Paper CY - [Madison, WI] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "0.1" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Gabby Rivera ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Female author KW - Latinx author KW - Queer author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe story set after a sentient bacterium had killed most of the world’s population, starting with the 1% and eliminating all who do not feel love and compassion. The story is about the birth of the first baby after the plague ended. 

JF - A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers PB - One World CY - New York U5 -

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

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

PB - Splendour Publishing CY - Np U5 -

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

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

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

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Adjustments” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Allegra Hyde KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Brief climate change dystopia in which people have to keep moving to find a safe place to live as much of the globe becomes uninhabitable. In an online interview with Erin McReynolds, the female author discusses utopias at https://americanshortfiction.org/web-exclusive-interview-allegra-hyde/.

JF - TriQuarterly VL - no. 155 SN - 978-0-593-31526-2 UR - http://triquarterly.org/issues/issue-155/adjustments N1 -

Rpt. in her The Last Catastrophe (New York: Vintage Books/Penguin Random House, 2023), 175-177.

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - After the Flood Y1 - 2019 A1 - Kassandra Montag KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Climate change dystopia in which the United States has been reduced to colonies on mountaintops. The female protagonist lives, with her small daughter, on their fishing boat until she goes on a quest into the northern seas in search of an older daughter taken by her husband. 

PB - William Morrow CY - New York SN - 978-0-00-931959-5 9780008319557 N1 -

U.K. ed. London: The Borough Press, 2019. 417 pp. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - All City Y1 - 2019 A1 - Alex DiFrancesco KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -

Climate change dystopia in which New York City is overwhelmed by a storm that floods parts of the city to unprecedented heights and divides the city even more deeply between the protected and unprotected. 

PB - Seven Stories Press CY - New York SN - 9781609809393 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “All the Good Dogs Have Been Eaten” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Gregory Jeffers ED - Cat[herine Tigerlily] Rambo (b. 1963) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set after the collapse of the economy.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Amazon’s First Fully Automated Factory Is Anything But” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Brian Merchant KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The dystopia of working as a support to the robots in a warehouse, repairing them, cleaning up after them, doing the work they can’t do in conditions designed for the robots and not for humans. 

JF - The New York Times UR - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/21/opinion/future-amazon-automation.html U2 -

Illus. John Karborn

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “And You Shall Sing To Me a Deeper Song” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Maria Haskins KW - Female author KW - Swedish-Canadian author AB -

The story is set in an authoritarian dystopia after a war against AIs, with what remains of the government intent on keeping everyone in domed cities and killing anyone who resists. 

JF - Interzone VL - no. 280 U2 -

Illus. Martin Hanford. 

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

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

PB - Harper Perennial CY - New York U5 -

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

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

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

PB - Amazon Original Stories CY - Seattle, WA VL - No. 1 in the Forward Collection ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Ark of the Turtle’s Back” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Jay E. Simpson ED - Joshua Whitehead KW - Canadian author KW - First Nations author KW - Indigiqueer author AB -

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

JF - Love After the End: Two-Spirit Utopias & Dystopias PB - Bedside Press CY - Narol, MB, Canada SN - 9781988715247 9781551528113 N1 -

Rpt. as Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit & Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction. Ed. Joshua Whitehead (Vancouver, BC, Canada: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2020), 61-76.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Artificials Should Be Allowed to Worship” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Steven James (b. 1969) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The Op-Ed is set in a world where AI’s are trying to achieve equality and is written by one who wants to worship.

JF - The New York Times UR - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/29/opinion/future-artificial-intelligence-religion.html U2 -

Illus John Karborn

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “As an Absence” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Joanna Michal Hoyt KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a connected future where everyone is constantly inundated with messages and judged on their messages and what they post.

JF - New Orbit SN - 978-1-64076-006-6 N1 -

Rpt. in Best Vegan Science Fiction & Fantasy 2019. Ed. B. Morris Allen (Np: Metamorphosis Books, 2021), 143-55.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "At Climate Court" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Jeff Hecht KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Climate change dystopia in which the retired chief executive of an oil company faces charges of crimes against humanity.

JF - Little Blue Marble SN - 978-1-988293-08-0 UR - https://littlebluemarble.ca/2019/10/11/at-climate-court/ N1 -

Rpt. without the illus. in Little Blue Marble 2019: Climate in Crisis. Ed. Katrina Archer (Vancouver, BC, Canada: Ganache Media Books, 2020), 163-67. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Attachment Disorder” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Tananarive [Priscilla] Due (b. 1966) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia (disease/pandemic) where those infected are trying to stay free from either being herded into camps or killed. A Nayima story in the series with 2014 Due, “Removal Order,” 2014 Due, “Herd Immunity,” 2015 Due, “Carriers,” and 2019 Due, “One Day Only.”

JF - A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers PB - One World CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Auxiliary. London 2039 Y1 - 2019 A1 - Jon Richter KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

The novel is set in a future London dominated by TIM, The Imagination Machine, which controls everything.

PB - TCK Publishing CY - [Granger, IN] SN - 978-1631610752 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Baby Steps. Genetic Pressure Volume 1 Y1 - 2019 A1 - Eugene Clark [pseud.] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

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

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

Eugene Clark [pseud.]

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

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

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

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

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

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

PB - Riverhead Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Bearmouth Y1 - 2019 A1 - Liz Hyder KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult dystopia based on the history of child labor in the Welsh coal mines moved into a future where children are kept permanently underground. The protagonist is one of the few boys in the mine learning to read and the language in the novel progresses together with his abilities. 

PB - Pushkin Press CY - London SN - 9781782692430 978-1-324-01586-4 N1 -

. U.S. ed. New York: Norton Young Readers, 2020. 251 pp. 

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

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Beyond All War Y1 - 2019 A1 - Eric Keller KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Post-apocalyptic novel that follows a number of survivors into northern Canada where they gradually create a community while fighting off groups trying to take control of the area.

PB - Black Dog Publishing CY - [Castroville, TX] SN - 978-1-68433-309-7 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Bigger Faraday Cages, Longer Blockchains” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Dan Grace KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The story depicts future in which people must live inside Faraday cages to protect themselves from constant surveillance and capture.

JF - Big Echo: Critical SF VL - no. 13 UR - Bigger Faraday Cages! Longer Blockchains! — Big Echo ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Billionaires Shouldn’t Live Forever” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Paul Krugman (b. 1959) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The Op-Ed opposes the practice, based in working being done today, that will allow the very rich to extend their lives indefinitely. 

JF - The New York Times UR - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/15/opinion/future-billionaires.html U2 -

Illus. John Karborn

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Black Dwarves of the Good Little Bay Y1 - 2019 A1 - Varun Thomas Mathew KW - Indian author KW - Male author AB -

The novel is set in a future Bombay/Mumbai (both names are used) that has by inundated by flood waters and replaced by an immense Bombadrome in which everyone lives in a controlled sanitized environment. Such Buildings are being built all over India and are spreading throughout the world. The story of the development of the Bombadrome is told by the last civil servant of the old India. Could use a glossary. 

PB - Hachette India CY - Gurugram, India SN - 9789388322133 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Blindfold" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Tobias S[amuel] Buckell (b. 1979) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - British Virgin Islands author KW - Grenadian author KW - Male author KW - US author KW - US Virgin Islands author AB -

The story is set in a future where, in an attempt to make trials fairer, the personal characteristics, such as race, are blocked from the members of the jury. The protagonist is a hacker who works to ensure that the system works who is hacked by those trying to undermine the system. 

JF - A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers PB - One World CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Blindness" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Dimitra Nikolaidou KW - Female author KW - Greek author AB -

Dystopia in which all women are required to be facially disfigured. 

JF - See the Elephant VL - no. 4 UR - http://www.metaphysicalcircus.com/blindness-fiction-by-dimitra-nikolaidou/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Blood Drive” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Neil Floyd KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a future where blood is in short supply, and blood donations are compulsory with enough blood taken that the donor may not survive.

JF - Kasma Magazine UR - https://www.kasmamagazine.com/blood-drive.html U2 -

Illus. Jose Baetas

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Book of Flora Y1 - 2019 A1 - Meg Elison (b. 1982) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The third volume of The Road to Nowhere Series following 2014 and 2017 Elison. In this volume, the protagonist is gender fluid, and the novel follows her life, loves, and struggles to escape from the various dystopias she finds herself in.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Bookstore at the End of America” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Charlie Jane Anders (b. 1969) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -

The story takes place in a bookstore that straddles the boundary between California and the United States, which are at war. 

JF - A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers PB - One World CY - New York SN - 978-1-5344-4959-6 978-1328613103 N1 -

Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction Volume 1. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (New York: Saga Press, 2020), 1-22, with an editor’s note on 1; and in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020. Ed. Diana Gabaldon (Boston, MA: Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020), 204-22, with a note on the author together with the author’s note on the story on 391. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World Y1 - 2019 A1 - C[harlie] A. Fletcher (b. 1960) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

A post-apocalyptic dystopia about a boy living on an isolated island searching the mainland for his stolen dog. 

PB - Orbit/Hachette Book Group CY - New York SN - 978-0-316-44945-8 N1 -

UK ed. London: Orbit/Hachette Book Group, 2019

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Burning River Y1 - 2019 A1 - Lawrence Patchett KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

The novel is set in a future Aotearoa/New Zealand that has experienced a devastating environmental collapse and follows the experiences of one Pākehā man who travels across the country with a few Māori in search of connections among people and the possibility of rebuilding the country. In the future, and in the text, people are bilingual in English and Māori and use the languages as if they were one.

PB - Victoria University Press CY - Wellington, New Zealand N1 -

Parts were originally published as “The Road to Tokomairiro.” Sport: New Zealand Literary Magazine, no. 39 (2011); and “Intruder.” Illus. Overland, no. 219 (Winter 2015): 42-45 https://overland.org.au/previous-issues/issue-219/fiction-lawrence-patchett/

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “By His Bootstraps” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Ashok K[umar] Banker (b. 1964) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Indian author KW - Male author AB -

Satire in which the U.S. government, under President Trump, initiates a program that changes the DNA in a person back to its human origins, thus ridding the country of all mixed-race immigrants. Something goes wrong and most people in the country become Native American Indians. 

JF - A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers PB - One World CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Calendar Girls” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Justina Ireland (b. 1985) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia in which contraception is illegal. 

JF - A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers PB - One World CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Call and Answer” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Langley Hyde ED - Cat[herine Tigerlily] Rambo (b. 1963) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The U.S. is completely controlled by fundamentalists, and bordering countries, like Canada, will not admit anyone with the U.S. passport, which separates a mother from her husband and child, with the story told in letters by the mother. 

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Captain and the Glory: An Entertainment Y1 - 2019 A1 - Dave Eggers (b. 1970) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Anti-Trump dystopian allegory. 

PB - Alfred A. Knopf CY - New York SN - 978-0-525-65908-2 9780241445952 N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Hamish Hamilton, 2019. 114 pp. 

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Chapter 5: Disruption and Continuity [excerpted]” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Malka [Ann] Older (b. 1977) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Female author KW - Latinx author KW - US author AB -

Excerpts from a future book written after the United States has disappeared and been replaced by voluntary associations, some in virtual reality. 

JF - A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers PB - One World CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Choices You Made” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Sylvia Spruck Wrigley ED - Cat[herine Tigerlily] Rambo (b. 1963) KW - Estonian author KW - Female author KW - German author KW - US author AB -

The story tells of the creation of dystopias through the choices people make. 

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

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Chosen. Novella Extract” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Thomas Pitts KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

Extract depicting a future in which Earth has been abandoned and people have settled in hollowed out asteroids. In the story an asteroid of Amish of various persuasions regarding technology are dealing with the problem of shortages of essential rare earths.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

PB - Kudzu Planet Productions/Fairwood Press CY - Bonney Lake, WA SN - 9781933846781 ER - TY - ABST T1 - The City in the Middle of the Night Y1 - 2019 A1 - Charlie Jane Anders (b. 1969) KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -

A complex dystopia set on a planet settled from Earth. There are two cities, one authoritarian and one libertarian, both of which aspire to being utopian and both of which are deeply flawed. 

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - City of Beasts Y1 - 2019 A1 - Corrie Wang KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The novel is set in a post-nuclear war future where the sexes have divided into separate, antagonistic societies. The “beasts” are men as seen by the women. The ending suggests a sequel.

PB - Freeform Books/Disney CY - Los Angeles, CA/New York SN - 9781368026628 U5 -

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

JF - How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables PB - Mearspace Press CY - Np SN - 978-0-9955776-7-1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Convoy" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Brian Merchant KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A near future dystopia in which a film telling the story of a terrorist cell within a convoy of immigrants moving toward the U.S. border is deliberately released to the media as an actual threat, and even though no evidence is found and the actor who played the leader in the film offers to testify, he is manipulated into trying to flee and imprisoned. Everything was designed to give the president an excuse to move troops to the border.

JF - Motherboard UR - https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/bjqxxm/the-convoy U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Counting the Days” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Kathy Schilbach ED - Cat[herine Tigerlily] Rambo (b. 1963) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - French author AB -

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

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

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

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

JF - How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables PB - Meatspace Press CY - Np SN - 978-0-9955776-7-1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Dead Wings" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Rachel Chimits ED - Cat[herine Tigerlily] Rambo (b. 1963) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which bodies are replaceable. 

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Deaf Republic Y1 - 2019 A1 - Ilya Kaminsky KW - Deaf author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story/parable is told in poems and is set in the current world. In it a soldier breaking up a protest, shoots and kills a deaf boy, and the entire town becomes deaf. The people resist to the further brutality through signing, and throughout the book signs are illustrated. The specific ways of resisting by different people are depicted. Many of the poems were originally published separately, often in different form, in various outlets.

PB - Graywolf Press CY - Minneapolis, MN SN - 978-1-55597-831-0 U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dealing in Dreams Y1 - 2019 A1 - Lilliam Rivera KW - Female author KW - Latinx author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia set after a large earthquake destroyed most cities. The action is set in a city that was founded on feminist, women-only principles that has degenerated into a system of competition among girl gangs. 

PB - Simon and Schuster BFYR CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dear Machine: A Letter to a Super Aware/Intelligent Machine (SAIM) Y1 - 2019 A1 - Gary Kieser KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The book is, as the subtitle says, in the form of a long letter to a future super aware/intelligent machine in which he tries to explain humanity to the machine and suggest things it should research and ways that it should behave. The author is alternatively frightened and hopeful about the coming impact of such machines on Earth and its inhabitants.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Death of an Air Salesman” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Rich[ard William] Larson (b. 1992) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - Nigerien author AB -

The story is set in a dystopian future where the rich get fresh air delivered by drones, the poor mostly breathe the deadly air, and the middle-class buy canisters of fresh air when they can. 

JF - Clarkesworld VL - no. 150 UR - http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/larson_03_19/ U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Deep Y1 - 2019 A1 - Rivers Solomon (b. 1989) A1 - Daveed Diggs (b. 1982) A1 - William Hutson A1 - Jonathan Snipes KW - African American author KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -

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

PB - Saga Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Discobolos” Y1 - 2019 A1 - James [N.] Wood ED - Cat[herine Tigerlily] Rambo (b. 1963) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which one corporation, more powerful than the government, has taken complete control of the food supply and destroys any natural food. Discobolus of Myrton is an early classical Greek sculpture of a discus thrower.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Divers’ Game. A Novel Y1 - 2019 A1 - Jesse Ball (b. 1978) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

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

PB - Ecco/HarperCollins CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Divide Y1 - 2019 A1 - Alan Ayckbourn (b. 1939) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia based on the teachings of The Preacher as found in the Book of Certitude in which men and women from age eighteen live in different parts of the country. Both must be robed and masked when they must meet. 

PB - Drugstore Indian Press/PS Publishing CY - Hornsea, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Divided" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Malka [Ann] Older (b. 1977) KW - Female author KW - Latinx author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia focusing on the wall be between Mexico and the U.S. 

PB - Mason Jar Press CY - Baltimore, MD U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Divided Island” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Rhys [Henry] Hughes (b. 1966) KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

A very brief story about an island in which one part was rational and ordered and the other part was chaotic. Each had a zoo that replicated the other’s way of life. 

JF - Diabolical Plots VL - no. 47A UR - http://www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-47a-the-divided-island-by-rhys-hughes/ U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Doing and Undoing of Jacob E. Mwangi” Y1 - 2019 A1 - E. Lily Yu KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future Kenya where, after a conflict called the Howl, the country came together in what was called the Compassion. Now, some years in the future society has divided into the Doers and the Don’ts, those who are creative and run everything and those who live off the basic income.

JF - Asimov’s Science Fiction VL - 43.5 & 6 (520 & 521) SN - 978-1-64566-048-4 N1 -

Rpt. in The New Voices of Science Fiction. Ed. Hannu Rajaniemi and Jacob Weisman (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon, 2019), 297-310; and in her Jewel Box: Stories (New York Erewhon Books/Kensington Publishing, 2023), 89-103.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Dropped Twenty” Y1 - 2019 A1 - John McLaughlin KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a future where jobs are so scarce that people are paid $2000.00 per year of their expected life to be euthanized so that their body parts and fluids can be reclaimed, the money going to their family.

JF - Kasma Magazine UR - https://www.kasmamagazine.com/the-dropped-twenty.html U2 -

Illus. Jose Baetas

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - During-the-Event. A Novel Y1 - 2019 A1 - Roger Wall (b. 1955) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The protagonist, During-the-Event or D.E., is a seventeen year old boy who has lived with his grandfather in rural North Dakota. After their town his destroyed and his grandfather has died, he must travel through the dystopia of a collapsed United States.

PB - University of Alaska Press CY - Fairbanks, AK U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Early Warning: The Power of Publication” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Gilbey, John KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

After it is announced that the world will be destroyed by a solar flare, the big tech companies put all their resources into developing AI’s that will helping people to leave. As people leave, the Earth’s damaged environment slowly recovers, and the AIs announce that they can protect those who have chosen to stay.

JF - Nature VL - 575.7781 U1 -

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

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

JF - How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables PB - Meatspace Press CY - Np SN - 978-0-9955776-7-1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Eclipse Our Sins” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Tlotlo Tsamaase (b. 1989) KW - Female author KW - Motswanan author AB -

Environmental dystopia recounting the many sins against Mother Earth, as well as well against other people. 

JF - Clarkesworld VL - no. 159 UR - http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/tsamaase_12_19/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ecological Memory Y1 - 2019 A1 - Caroline Ailanthus KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The novel is set after a pandemic, probably started deliberately, that wipes out all but 10% of the world’s population and depicts that relatively good society that is emerging after a period of conflict. Some technology, like the internet, has been revived, but the new society is based on independent but cooperating communities, each of which has its own money, called shares, that expire after two years. Occupations are organized into guilds, whose members wear identifiable clothing which, because clothing is expensive, are worn both when working and as leisure wear. The author says that she “writes post-apocalyptic optimism” (11). The text has Appendices “The Science of Ecological Memory (269-291), “An Annotated Reading List” (292-299), and “A Glossary of Sorts” (300-301) that describes the plants depicted at the beginning of each of the nine chapters.

PB - Salt Water Media CY - Berlin, MD SN - 978-1628062212 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Editor's Eyes" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Calie Voorhis ED - Cat[herine Tigerlily] Rambo (b. 1963) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which organs for transplant are put out to bid. 

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Elliott Spencer” Y1 - 2019 A1 - George Saunders (b. 1958) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Emergency Skin Y1 - 2019 A1 - N[ora] K. Jemisin (b. 1972) ED - Blake Crouch (b. 1978) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "e-race" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Russell Nichols KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a future in which racial differences are being eliminated through surgery and focuses on one man who resists.

JF - Terraform SN - 978-1-83964-480-1 UR - https://www.vice.com/en/article/ne8zwb/e-race N1 -

Rpt. without the illus. in Black Sci-Fi Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Stories (London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2021), 278-82.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Erasure Game" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Yoon Ha Lee (b. 1979) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a flawed utopia in which surveillance is constantly used to ensure good health.

JF - Take Us to a Better Place, Stories PB - Robert Wood Johnson Foundation CY - Princeton, NJ N1 -

Print version ISBN 9781595911117 sent to foundation members

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Esperanto" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Jamie Ford (b. 1968) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story depicts a world in which most people’s experience of it is through virtual reality and how they react when the system is sabotaged.

JF - A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers PB - One World CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Esteemed" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Robert Reed (b. 1956) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A manipulative time traveler visits various timelines in Earth’s past with variants of one family responding to the visits, all of which relate to catastrophes, including nuclear war, global warming, and the misuse of genetic engineering and artificial intelligence. Third story in the series that includes “Veritas.” Illus. Mark Evans. Asimov’s Science Fiction 26.7 (318) (July 2002): 102-40, which is set in ancient Rome; and “Truth.” Asimov’s Science Fiction (October/November 2008): 168-224, which is set in an alternative early 2000s. It was made into the move Prisoner X (2016), written by Reed and Gaurav Seth (b. 1968) and directed by Seth.

JF - Asimov’s Science Fiction VL - 43.1/2 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Exile Y1 - 2019 A1 - Peg Tittle (b. 1957) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia in which a third conviction for a crime, however minor, is punished by exile. 

PB - Rock’s Mills Press. CY - Oakville, ON, Canada U5 -

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

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

PB - William Morrow CY - New York U5 -

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Farm. A Novel Y1 - 2019 A1 - Joanne Ramos KW - Female author KW - Filipina author KW - US author AB -

The novel is set in Golden Oaks, also known as The Farm, a commercial facility that hires poor women, known as hosts, serve as surrogates for wealthy women as seen from the perspectives of four women.

PB - Random House/Penguin Random House CY - New York SN - 9781984853752 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Fine" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Jamie Lackey ED - Cat[herine Tigerlily] Rambo (b. 1963) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A dystopia in which guns are so prevalent that, having passed a proficiency test at five, the permit to carry is tattooed on an arm. Shootings are so common that everyone wears armor on leaving home and no one goes out unless necessary. 

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Fix That House!” Y1 - 2019 A1 - John [Joseph Vincent] Kessel (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The satirical story is set in a future U.S. South where slavery still exists.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 283 ER - TY - ABST T1 - FKA USA: The Complete Unabridged and Annotated Edition Y1 - 2019 A1 - Reed King [pseud.] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel is set in a future fragmented United States in which much of each coast has disappeared due to earthquakes or flooding and the rest is composed areas of various sizes controlled by corporations, religious groups, ethnicities, and so forth, often in conflict with each other. Severe pollution and shortages. It begins in an area controlled by a corporation producing food completely out of chemicals using what is, in effect, slave labor. A young man chosen to deliver a talking goat to San Francisco has to cross through hostile territory and is joined by an android who wants to be human. The novel ends with appendices on What Is a Human (441-44), Defining Dissolution (445-46), Annie Waller V. Kitty Von Dutch, Katty Von Dench, and Katie Von Dulch (446-51), Politics and Natural Disaster: The Unexamined Link (453-55), The Android Freedom Fighters, 2050-2070s (457-60), The Rumpelstiltskin Roaches, and Other Lies From the Golden Age of Genetic Engineering (461-63).

PB - Flatiron Books CY - New York SN - 978-1250108890 U3 -

King, Reed [pseud.]. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Flotilla at Bird Island” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Mike McClelland KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future U.S. where Atlanta, Georgia is on the coast, diseases are rampant, most flora and fauna re dying out, and all the other expected effects of climate change. But the focus of the story is a plan to save what remains of the world after even further damage.

JF - Take Us to a Better Place. Stories PB - Robert Wood Johnson Foundation CY - Princeton, NJ U2 -

Illus. Sylvia Liu.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Flourish" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Calum L. MacLeòid KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

The story is set in a future of sentient cities that appear to produce a eutopia for their inhabitants. 

JF - Shoreline of Infinity VL - no. 16 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Follow, Past Meridian” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Mark W. Tiedemann (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future in which people generally life within fairly narrow geographical confines. It focuses on a boy at his coming of age at fourteen who must decide on his future within what seem to be few options.

JF - Analog Science Fiction Science Fact VL - 139.11/12 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Frankissstein: A Love Story Y1 - 2019 A1 - Jeanette Winterson (b. 1959) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A complex novel, some of which tells the story of Mary Shelley, her husband, Byron, and their friends and the writing of Frankenstein. Another part, set in post-Brexit Britain concerns a transgender doctor, also a Shelley, and their love for an AI specialist, Victor Stein. Another main character is Ron Lord, who creates sexbots for lonely men like him. A related theme is cryrogenics, with all of it coming more or less together.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London SN - 9781784709952 978-0-8021-2949-9 N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Grove Press, 2019. 343 pp.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Free WiFi" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Marie [Lillian] Vibbert (b. 1974) ED - Cat[herine Tigerlily] Rambo (b. 1963) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which all access to the internet is controlled by corporations, all education is for profit and any minor lapse can get you set to a work farm. 

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Freedom Artist Y1 - 2019 A1 - Ben Okri (b. 1959) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Nigerian author AB -

The novel tells how the people of the country come to free themselves from the Hierarchy, a particularly vicious authoritarian dystopia told through the stories of three main characters, a boy whose grandfather has passed on the traditional myths, a man whose lover is suddenly taken by the police for speaking forbidden words, and a girl whose father is imprisoned for writing. All the old myths are rewritten to support the current situation and all other books are burned. 

PB - Head of Zeus CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. Brooklyn, NY: Akashic Books, 2020. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want Y1 - 2019 A1 - Rob Hopkins KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

The book begins with a brief eutopia that the author says isn’t one because it still rains, and people don’t always get along. The eutopia follows its protagonist through a day in his life in a town completely transformed into a one in tune with nature and with good schooling and a town-meeting democracy that works. The rest of the book is on the ways cultivating imagination would improve life with a concluding essay entitled “What If All This Came to Pass?” (164-84, 214-16). 

PB - Chelsea Green Publishing CY - . White River Junction, VT/London SN - 978-1603589055 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Future of Another Timeline Y1 - 2019 A1 - Annalee Newitz (b. 1969) KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -

An alternative history in which women travel to the past to try to defeat the men who are doing the same to eliminate all rights for women and kill the ones opposing them. There is a list of “Historical Sources” on 341-47. 

PB - Tor/Tom Doherty Associates CY - New York SN - 978-0-7652-9219-7 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “GAC ATG ATT ACA” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Melanie Harding-Shaw KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

Brief story with people living underground for generations and trying to keep the gene pool large enough. 

JF - Little Blue Marble SN - 978-1-988293-08-0 978-0-473-57089-7 UR - https://littlebluemarble.ca/2019/12/13/gac-atg-att-aca/ N1 -

Rpt. without the illus. in Little Blue Marble 2019: Climate in Crisis. Ed. Katrina Archer (Vancouver, BC, Canada: Ganache Media Books, 2020), 168-70; and in the author’s Alt-Ernate: A Collection of 37 Stories (Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand: Author, 2021), 118-21.

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

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

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Gardener’s Guide to the Apocalypse” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Lynette Mejía ED - Cat[herine Tigerlily] Rambo (b. 1963) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Post-apocalyptic dystopia (nuclear war) as seen through the eyes of a gardener trying to grow food.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Ghost Town" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Kanishk Tharoor KW - Indian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in Uttarakhand, India, and the oppressive heat of the lowlands gradually reached the mountains and destroyed the crops. Most people leave but one couple stays even after their son leaves and dies in a construction accident in Oman.

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

Illus. Wesley Allsbrook

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Give Me Cornbread or Give Me Death” Y1 - 2019 A1 - N[ora] K. Jemisin (b. 1972) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

A dystopia in which the 99% is trying to kill off most of the 99%, who are fighting back. 

JF - A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers PB - One World CY - New York SN - 9780525508809 9781789095012 N1 -

 Rpt. in Escape Pod: The Science Fiction Anthology. Ed. Mur Lafferty and S. B. Divya [Divya Srinivasan Breed] (London: Titan Books, 2020), 303-11.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Going north: Injecting hope for a better life” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Roxanne Khamsi KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Immigration dystopia. 

JF - Nature VL - 576.7886 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Golden State Y1 - 2019 A1 - Ben[jamin Allen] H. Winters (b. 1976) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A dystopian future after a disaster in which much of the population of the United States has been wiped out. But the Golden State, which appears to be Los Angeles, remains, reconstituted as a dystopia in which it is illegal to lie and brings significant penalties. The novel focuses on an investigator in one of the many bureaucracies that have been established to enforce the law.

PB - Mulholland Books/Little, Brown & Co. CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Good Hunting" Y1 - 2019 A1 - M. Darusha Wehm (b. 1975) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

The story takes place  in a future that has instituted stringent climate control laws. 

JF - Patreon UR - https://littlebluemarble.ca/2020/03/13/good-hunting/ N1 -

Rpt. Illus. Little Blue Marble (March 13, 2020). https://littlebluemarble.ca/2020/03/13/good-hunting/

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Good News Bad News” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Charles Yu (b. 1976) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Male author KW - Taiwanese American author AB -

The future is depicted in a series of short reports, the main one being about racist robots. 

JF - A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers PB - One World CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Good Plan" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Mikael Awake KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set “somewhere in the Northern Hemisphere” but concerns Africa. The Good People have the Good Plan to wall themselves off from the rest of the world to protect themselves from refugees, whose memories they take. The protagonist, who is being escorted in chains back to Africa, describes what little he can remember of the Crisis that the Good People blame on everyone but themselves.

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

 Illus. Wesley Allsbrook

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Good Pupils" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Jack Lothian ED - Cat[herine Tigerlily] Rambo (b. 1963) KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

The dystopian school of the near future where all students are controlled by an electronic collar and teachers are armed. 

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Grace Year Y1 - 2019 A1 - Kim Liggett KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which at sixteen girls are banished for a year but are hunted by men and are in danger from each other. 

PB - Wednesday Books/St. Martin’s CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Gravity Is Heartless: The Heartless Series Book 1 Y1 - 2019 A1 - Sarah Lahey KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

The novel is set about thirty years in the future. By 2030 religious fundamentalism was being enforced by the state. Wars followed and in the post-war under HEXAD (the International Unified Government), religion was legal but monitored and fundamentalism was not tolerated. The world economy collapsed in 2036. Cyborgs are common although facing discrimination and generally limited to fifty percent technology. A range of conflicts are developing, and climate change, which has already remade the globe, is getting worse. The second volume, Nostalgia is Heartless: The Heartless Series Book 2 is scheduled for 2021. 

PB - She Writes Press CY - Berkeley, CA VL - 1 SN - 978-1-63152-872-9 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Great Dividuation” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Joel E. Mason A1 - Michael Hornblow A1 - anique yael vered (b. 1984) KW - Australian author KW - Austrian author KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - German author KW - Male author AB -

A dystopia about the breakdown of capitalist accumulation and its effects on individuals and social interaction. For details about dividuation, see https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Dividuation

JF - CR: The New Centennial Review VL - 19.1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Great Wall of America” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Hewitt, David A. AB -

Dystopia created by using forced labor to build a wall between Mexico and the U.S.

JF - Mithila Review: The Journal of International Science Fiction & Fantasy VL - no. 11 UR - https://mithilareview.com/hewitt-10-19/ N1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Green Glass: A Love Story” Y1 - 2019 A1 - E. Lily Yu ED - Cat[herine Tigerlily] Rambo (b. 1963) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a climate-change future and stresses the extremely different situations of the rich and poor.

JF - If This Goes On PB - Parvus Press CY - Yardley, PA SN - 978-0999784211 978-1-5344-4959-6 978-1-64566-048-4 N1 -

pt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction Volume 1. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (New York: Saga Press, 2020), 453-63, with an editor’s note on 453; and in her Jewel Box: Stories (New York Erewhon Books/Kensington Publishing, 2023), 59-70.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Green Valley Y1 - 2019 A1 - Louis Greenberg KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

The novel is part dystopia and part mystery novel involving the search for missing children from Green Valley, the only remaining community that uses invasive digital technology.

PB - Titan Books CY - London SN - 9781789090239 U5 -

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

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

JF - How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables PB - Meatspace Press CY - Np SN - 978-0-9955776-7-1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Growing Resistance” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Juliet Kemp KW - English author KW - Non-binary author KW - Queer author AB -

Post-apocalyptic (pandemic/plague) dystopia in which a small group was isolated behind a barrier, which, though no longer necessary, separates the better off and the poor, who produce most of the goods needed by those beyond the wall. 

JF - Translunar Lounge: A Speculative Fiction Magazine VL - no. 1 SN - 978-1-64076-006-6 UR - https://translunartravelerslounge.com/2019/08/15/growing-resistance-kemp/ N1 -

Rpt. in Best Vegan Science Fiction & Fantasy 2019. Ed. B. Morris Allen (Np: Metamorphosis Books, 2020), 23-36.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Growing the New City: London 2039” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Robin Robinson (b. 1944) ED - Edwina Attlee ED - Phineas Harper ED - Maria Smith KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Guava Y1 - 2019 A1 - Vera Kurian KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopian set on a planet with one continent, presidents chosen through rigged elections, and one Supreme Leader. People are kept on short rations, bread has sand added, people are required to buy any food in surplus. Television must be left on a minimum of three hours a day and has a camera that can record activities. People simply disappear. AAs a population control mechanism, all women sixteen to thirty are drafted into the military and never seen again, which raises the level of harassment and violence directed at women. 

JF - Futures A Science Fiction Series PB - Radix Media CY - Brooklyn, NY VL - [No. 2] U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hard Mother, Spider Mother, Soft Mother Y1 - 2019 A1 - Hal Y. Zhang KW - Chinese-American author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in thoroughly surveilled society with much of the surveillance “personalized,” or worn or accepted by individuals. In the story, the surveillance is used positively, and the society has rules that restrict its use, although businesses push the borders of legality. 

JF - Futures A Science Fiction Series [ PB - Radix Media CY - Brooklyn, NY VL - [No. 4] U2 -

Illus. by the author. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Harmony" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Seanan McGuire (b. 1978) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The creation of a eutopian town for those who don’t fit elsewhere. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Haven" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Karen [Antoinette Roberta] Lord (b. 1968) ED - Ann VanderMeer (b. 1957) KW - Barbadian author KW - Female author AB -

Complex story with both eutopian and dystopian elements set in a future Caribbean that is trying to protect itself from climate change and the machinations of governments trying to limit the political power of island nations, and to illustrate the issues the story takes the reader to different points in the future.

JF - Ocean Stories. Current Futures: A Sci-Fic Ocean Anthology UR - https://go.xprize.org/oceanstories/haven/ U2 -

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

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

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

Illus. Wesley Allsbrook

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A History of Barbed Wire” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Daniel H[oward] Wilson (b. 1978) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Male author KW - Native American author AB -

The U.S. has become corporate controlled with no safety net, and people try to escape to the walled-off nation of the Cherokee. 

JF - A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers PB - One World CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “History of the New World.” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Adam Garnet Jones ED - Joshua Whitehead KW - Canadian author KW - First Nations author KW - Indigiqueer author AB -

The story is set in a future Canada devastated by climate change and overwhelmed with refugees from areas even worse hit. What appears to be a New Earth has been discovered and one family debates whether to leave, with their child adamant she does not want to go. 

JF - Love After the End: Two-Spirit Utopias & Dystopias PB - Bedside Press CY - Narol, MB, Canada SN - 9781988715247 9781551528113 N1 -

Rpt. as Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit & Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction. Ed. Joshua Whitehead (Vancouver, BC, Canada: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2020), 35-60.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Hive Y1 - 2019 A1 - Barry Lyga (b. 1971) A1 - Marion Baden ED - Jennifer Beals (b. 1963) ED - Tom Jacobson KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hollow Earth Y1 - 2019 A1 - John Kinsella (b. 1963) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

The novel concerns the search for and discovery of the Hollow Earth by a disaffected young man and his return to the surface with two people from their and their adventures while searching for a way back. The Hollow Earth is something of a eutopia, with no violence or persecution, no patriotism, vegetarian, with areas left for foraging, no racism, but do have some bigotries. The author frequently quotes from William R. Bradshaw’s, The Goddess of Atvatabar (1892).

PB - Melbourne, Vic, Australia CY - Transit Lounge Publishing SN - 978-1-925760-27-9 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “How To Survive the Apocalypse for Native Girls” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Kai Minosh Pyle ED - Joshua Whitehead KW - Native American author KW - Two-Spirits author AB -

The story takes place after the collapse of civilization and concerns struggles within First Nations communities over who should be accepted into the community sand who doesn’t belong.

JF - Love After the End: Two-Spirit Utopias & Dystopias PB - Bedside Press CY - Narol, MB, Canada SN - 9781988715247 9781551528113 N1 -

Rpt. as Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit & Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction. Ed. Joshua Whitehead (Vancouver, BC, Canada: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2020), 77-94.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - I Am Not a Number Y1 - 2019 A1 - Lisa Heathfield KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The U.K elects the Traditional Party, which promises to re-establish the country’s greatness, but it rapidly becomes a dictatorship with concentration camps. The protagonist is a young woman sent to one of the camps where she is given a number. 

PB - Electric Monkey/Egmont CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “I Shouldn’t Have to Publish This in The New York Times” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The Op-Ed discusses a future where bad government regulated combined with poorly automated private regulation of social media has badly damaged free speech. 

JF - The New York Times UR - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/24/opinion/future-free-speech-social-media-platforms.html U2 -

Illus. John Karborn

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "In the Teeth of the Gale" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Ramez Yoakeim KW - Male author AB -

The story depicts a climate change future in which the water has risen so much that the oceans have merged. Except for the very rich who live on their mountaintops, everyone lives on rafts in the oceans facing regular strong storms.

JF - Little Blue Marble SN - 978-1-988293-08-0 UR - https://littlebluemarble.ca/2019/10/25/in-the-teeth-of-the-gale/ N1 -

Rpt. without the illus. in Little Blue Marble 2019: Climate in Crisis. Ed. Katrina Archer (Vancouver, BC, Canada: Ganache Media Books, 2020), 54-62.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Infinite Detail Y1 - 2019 A1 - Tim Maughan (b. 1973) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

The novel is divided in alternate sections, Before and After the end of the internet, all connectivity, and civilization as we know it with a focus on the Croft. In the Before, the Croft, an area of Bristol, had cut itself off from the pervasive surveillance of modern life. In the After, with all authority gone, competing militias control different areas and use forced labor to raise food, and the Croft is a walled compound.

PB - MCD x FSG Originals/Farrar Straus & Giroux CY - New York SN - 9780374175412 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Internment Y1 - 2019 A1 - Samira Ahmed KW - Female author KW - Indian author KW - US author AB -

A young adult dystopia in which American Muslims are being forced into internment camps as Japanese Americans were in World War 2. 

PB - Little, Brown CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “It’s 2039, and Your Beloved Books Are Dead” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Alix E. Harrow (b. 1989) KW - Female author KW - US author JF - The New York Times UR - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/02/opinion/future-virtual-reality-stories.htm U2 -

Illus. John Karborn

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “It’s 2040. We Need to Keep Abortion Legal in New York” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Lucy Ferriss (b. 1954) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

With Roe v. Wade only two states offer abortion. States that prohibit abortion prosecute women who move out of state to have an abortion so many move permanently to the New York and Hawaii, the only two that permit it. 

JF - The New York Times UR - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/07/opinion/roe-vs-wade-abortion.html U2 -

Illus. John Karborn

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “It’s 2043. We Need a New American Dream for the A.I. Revolution” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Baobao Zhang KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The Op-Ed proposes that given the unemployment brought about by technology and the fact that the wealth earned is going to already wealthy capitalists, a bill, the Renew American Dreams Act, establishing a negative income tax should be passed. 

JF - The New York Times UR - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/29/opinion/future-artificial-intelligence-religion.html U2 -

Illus. John Karborn

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

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “It’s 2071, and We Bioengineered Our Own Extinction” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Jeff[rey Scott] VanderMeer (b. 1968) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The bioengineering that saved humanity from the climate-crisis produced a dystopia in which the bioengineered species are eliminating the human race.

JF - The New York Times UR - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/09/opinion/future-vandermeer-biotech.htm U2 -

Illus John Karborn

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "It Was Saturday Night, I Guess That Makes It All Right” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Sam J[oshua] Miller (b. 1979) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set in a largely abandoned Albany, New York that all government workers left after being replaced by AI. The United States is an authoritarian surveillance state and deeply anti-gay, which is a major focus of the story.

JF - A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers PB - One World CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "K" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Jez Noond ED - Rowan B. Fortune KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The story suggests rather than describes the situation, but it appears to be set in a dystopia at war where a Gleaners has collected a child to have his memory obscured (the machine used is an Obscura) and then join the military.

JF - Citizens of Nowhere: An Anthology of Utopic Fiction PB - Cinnamon Press/Rowan Tree Editing CY - Gwynedd, Wales SN - 978-1788640947 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Keep Your Augmented Reality. Give Me a Secret Garden” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Hannu [Jaakko] Rajaniemi (b. 1978) KW - English author KW - Finnish author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author KW - US author AB -

A dystopian future in which most people wear glasses that edited out much of the reality around them. The story focuses on a young girl who takes off her glasses and discovers spaces where it is possible to be free. 

JF - The New York Times UR - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/03/opinion/future-secret-gardens.html U2 -

Illus. Mauricio Alejo

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

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

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

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

Pandemic/last people dystopia.

PB - Amazon Original Stories CY - Seattle, WA VL - No 5 in the Forward Project ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Last Stand” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Christoph Weber KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Climate change dystopia about the destruction of the last Redwoods.

JF - Little Blue Marble SN - 978-1-988293-08-0 UR - https://littlebluemarble.ca/2019/12/27/the-last-stand/ N1 -

Rpt. without the illus. in Little Blue Marble 2019: Climate in Crisis. Ed. Katrina Archer (Vancouver, BC, Canada: Ganache Media Books, 2020), 171-75.

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

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

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

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

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

JF - How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables PB - Meatspace Press CY - Np SN - 978-0-9955776-7-1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Letters From Nowhere" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Rowan B. Fortune ED - Rowan B. Fortune KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The protagonist is an elderly, terminally ill woman who begins to receive letters from her doppelganger who lives in a parallel, eutopian world that branched off our timeline in about the eleventh century. She is only one of many receiving such letters, and a picture of the other world is pieced together from the letters.

JF - Citizens of Nowhere: An Anthology of Utopic Fiction PB - Cinnamon Press/Rowan Tree Editing CY - Gwynedd, Wales SN - 978-1788640947 U5 -

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

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

JF - Lightspeed VL - no. 105 SN - 9781250237200 978-1328613103 UR - https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/life-sentence/ N1 -

Rpt. in the author's Why Visit America. Stories (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 2020), 62-90; and in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020. Ed. Diana Gabaldon (Boston, MA: Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020), 1-25, with a note on the author together with the author’s note on the story on 392. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Light at the Bottom of the World Y1 - 2019 A1 - London Shah KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

First volume in a young adult duology to be followed by the Journey the Heart of the Abyss (2021). The protagonist is a young Muslim London girl, but a London that in 2099 is part of a completely submerged world. The novel focus on the girl’s search for her father, who has been arrested on false charges by the corrupt, authoritarian government. She hopes to gain his release by winning the London Marathon, which is a race of submersibles. 

PB - Disney Book Group/Hyperion CY - New York SN - 9781368036887 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lightest Object in the Universe Y1 - 2019 A1 - Kimi Eisele KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Post-apocalyptic novel with one member of a couple on the East Coast of the United States and the other on the West Coast. The novel follows the man across the country to find the woman and the woman’s search for a community that is being established in northern California. 

PB - Algonquin Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Luna 6000" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Stephanie Andrea Allen ED - Stephanie Andrea Allen ED - Lauren Cherelle KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia in which advanced monitoring technology makes life and death decisions. 

JF - Black From the Future: A Collection of Black Speculative Fiction PB - BLF Press CY - Clayton, NC U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Machine" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Chris[topher James] Kluwe (b. 1981) ED - Cat[herine Tigerlily] Rambo (b. 1963) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The dystopia of the current system in the U.S. for employing undocumented individuals in manufacturing, where they are forced to work in unsafe conditions, and, even if they have a temporary permit, are constantly threatened with deportation and harassed by the authorities. 

JF - If This Goes On PB - Parvus Press CY - Yardley, PA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Making Happy” Y1 - 2019 A1 - [Alexandra] Renwick ED - Cat[herine Tigerlily] Rambo (b. 1963) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Corporate dystopia in which areas of the city are bought by corporations and filled with unescapable digital ads.

JF - If This Goes On PB - Parvus Press CY - Yardley, PA U3 -

Zandra Renwick [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - MALL Y1 - 2019 A1 - Pattie Palmer-Baker KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A woman shopping in a twenty-first century mall accidentally enters a mall in an alternative reality, where the Mall Code rules everything. She is initially sent to a Mental Health Practitioner, and the novel presents how both understand and deal with the situation. 

PB - Del Sol Press CY - Washington, DC U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Manna from Heaven” Y1 - 2019 A1 - ECO [pseud.] ED - David F. Shultz KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which the usual men with power, corporate, political and religious, worried about a growing independence in the people, take over an invention that provides food from clouds with disastrous results.

JF - Nourishment: A One-Shot Anthology of Science Fiction PB - TdotSpec CY - Np U3 -

ECO [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Materiality" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) ED - Edwina Attlee ED - Phineas Harper ED - Maria Smith KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story of told from the point-of-view of young boy living in southern California in a future that is dealing with the effects of climate change. A class project at the end of middle school is to act as a model classroom in a model Twenty-first Century Town, including wearing the clothes of the time.

JF - Gross Ideas: Tales of Tomorrow’s Architecture PB - The Architecture Foundation and Oslo Architectural Triennale CY - London SN - 978-1-9996462-3-3 978-1-958121313 N1 -

Rpt. in Fighting for the Future: Cyberpunk and-Solarpunk Tales. Ed. Phoebe Warner (Eugene, OR: Android Press, 2023), 186-201. 978-

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Me, I’m Like Legend, I Am. Novella Extract” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Dewi Heald KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

The future Wales has largely disintegrated into separate regions held loosely together by scribes moving through the regions collecting information that they then bring together and what is nominally a national center. 

JF - New Welsh Reader VL - no. 122 SN - 978-19993527-9-0 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Melt Y1 - 2019 A1 - Jeff Murray (b. 1966) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Climate change dystopia set in New Zealand in 2048 as it serves as the gateway to the new land of Antarctica. Focuses on the struggle for the inhabitants of a small island nation disappearing under the waves to find a new home. 

PB - Mary Egan Publishing. CY - [Auckland, New Zealand] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Model Minority” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satirical dystopia on the treatment of minorities in the United States. 

JF - Radicalized [The front cover adds Four Tales of Our Present Moment and the back cover say Dystopia is now] PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Monetizing Movement” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Harrison Smith ED - Mark Graham ED - Rob Kitchin ED - Shannon Mattern ED - Joe Shaw KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The story is in the form of a sales pitch from a company, based on Groundtruth, selling constantly updated location data by accessing phones. All the stories in the book are responses to a recent book, A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Government (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017), by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman, that proposes, in the editors’ interpretation, that cities should act more like Amazon in dealing with their citizens.

JF - How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables PB - Meatspace Press CY - Np SN - 978-0-9955776-7-1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Monsters Come Howling in Their Season” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Cadwell Turnbull KW - African American author KW - Male author KW - US Virgin Islands author AB -

The story is set on St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands in the aftermath of a Category 5 hurricane (Wind speed of 137 knots; 254 km/h; 158 mph). In response to previous devastating storms, St. Thomas has become part of the world cooperative movement with “grassroots consensus politics, direct democracy, and cooperative institutions that make up any good solidarity economy” plus housing, consumer, and producer cooperatives. And it has established a strong AI, known as Common, as a public resource.

JF - The Verge Better Worlds UR - An AI combats hurricane season in “Monsters Come Howling in Their Season” - The Verge U2 -

Illus. Corey Brickley

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Most Magical Place” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Anthony Vanky ED - Mark Graham ED - Rob Kitchin ED - Shannon Mattern ED - Joe Shaw KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on planned cities run by AIs programmed by companies like Disney. All the stories in the book are responses to a recent book, A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Government (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017), by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman, that proposes, in the editors’ interpretation, that cities should act more like Amazon in dealing with their citizens.

JF - How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables PB - Meatspace Press CY - Np SN - 978-0-9955776-7-1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Mother Ocean" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Vandana Singh (b. 1950) ED - Ann VanderMeer (b. 1957) AB -

The background of the story is a dystopia showing the effects of climate-change on South Asia, but most of the story takes places in the Indian Ocean, which also shows the effects of climate-change, and is about the interactions between one young woman and a blue whale. 

JF - Ocean Stories. Current Futures: A Sci-Fic Ocean Anthology SN - 978-1-949103-22-2 UR - https://go.xprize.org/oceanstories/mother-ocean/ N1 -

Rpt., without the illustration, in The Best Science Fiction of the Year. Volume 5. Ed. Neil Clarke (New York: Night Shade Books, 2020), 367-79. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Move the World" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Carla Speed McNeil KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is told in a series of vignette depicting “perfect,” but deeply flawed worlds as a commentary on the notion of perfection.

JF - The Verge Better Worlds UR - In “Move the World,” a mysterious lever can reset everything. Do you pull it? - The Verge U2 -

Illus. Zoë van Dijk

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Mr. Percy’s Shortcut” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Andy [Andrew Robert] Duncan (b. 1964) ED - Cat[herine Tigerlily] Rambo (b. 1963) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in the Appalachian mountains in the near future where coal mining has been replaced by data mining and focuses on a retired miner digging in tunnel through a mountain.

JF - If This Goes On PB - Parvus Press CY - Yardley, PA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Municipalists. A Novel Y1 - 2019 A1 - Seth Fried KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a high-tech future United States under attack by unknown terrorists and focuses on the resistance by a by-the-rules bureaucrat and an anything but by-the-rules Artificial Intelligence.

PB - Penguin Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Must Earth Intervene in Company Towns: In the Asteroid Belt, exploited workers are working in dangerous conditions” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Patrick S. Tomlinson KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The sub-title tells the story. With Earth law not extending into space, workers are both directly exploited by being required to live in company housing and buy from company stores and treated as expendable parts.

JF - The New York Times UR - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/09/opinion/future-space-mining.html. U2 -

Illus. John Karborn

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Nameless" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Tom, Nazbah ED - Joshua Whitehead KW - Canadian author KW - Native American author KW - Two-Spirits author AB -

The story takes place after a future World War in which many Diné were forced to serve while whole tribes moved underground to avoid the war. At the time of the story the Diné are beginning to lave their underground refuges, and the central characters are Diné calling others back home and one woman who is being called. 

JF - Love After the End: Two-Spirit Utopias & Dystopias PB - Bedside Press CY - Narol, MB, Canada SN - 9781988715247 9781551528113 N1 -

Rpt. as Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit & Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction. Ed. Joshua Whitehead (Vancouver, BC, Canada: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2020), 147-165.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Narrative of Nausirwan Shavaksha Sheikh Chilli” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Keki N. Daruwalla (b. 1937) ED - Tarun K. Saint KW - Indian author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on Indian politics and corruption that begins with the disappearance of all but one Parsi, who then decides to join the exodus to the moon to escape his gambling debts and India’s pollution. 

JF - The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction PB - Hachette India CY - Gurugram, India SN - 978-93-88322-05-8 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Neon Empire Y1 - 2019 A1 - Drew Minh KW - French author KW - Male author KW - Spanish author KW - US author AB -

The novel is set in Eutopia in the near future. Eutopia is not eutopian, but a dystopian city where social media drives the economy.

PB - Rare Bird Books/California Coldblood Books CY - Los Angeles, CA SN - 9781947856769 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "New Jesus" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Tommy Orange (b. 1982) KW - Male author KW - Native American author AB -

The story is set in Oakland, California, which is now at sea level and most of the time Oaklanders are walking through water and most people had left for higher ground or moved onto a boat. The story concerns the impact of stories of a New Jesus is not the Second Coming but “lives in each of us and in our action. . . . New Jesus is our cooperation with each other and with the earth” (69). The protagonist rejects and makes fun of his niece, who is telling him and his wife about the New Jesus.

JF - McSweeney’s 58. 2040 A.D. PB - McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern CY - San Francisco, CA VL - 58 U2 -

Illus. Wesley Allsbrook

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Night Drinker” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Luis Alberto Urrea (b. 1955) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in Mexico City and is described as “A Chronicle of the last days of Tenochtitlan, Built on Lake Texcoco, known now as Mexico City, Home of the Ancient Gods. 2040 A.D. (From the Notebooks of Joaquin Hernandez III, Historian, Found in the Ruins of Iztapalpa, 2045). Mexico City is one of the last place standing after multiple climate change disasters that destroy both land and sea and produce huge shifts in population.

JF - McSweeney’s 58. 2040 A.D. PB - McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern CY - San Francisco, CA VL - 58 U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Night with the Joking Clown” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Rimi B. Chatterjee (b. 1969) ED - Tarun K. Saint KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Indian author KW - Northern Ireland author AB -

Corporations have divided up the world but are in conflict over their spheres of influence. Men completely dominate women, which they divide into “slags” and “chicks.” 

JF - The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction SN - 978-93-88322-05-8 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "No Algorithms in the World” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story depicts a future with a guaranteed income and most jobs taken over by AIs. A father sees it as dystopia; a son sees it as providing a good life.

JF - A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers PB - One World CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Nobody People Y1 - 2019 A1 - Bob Proehl KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia with fantasy elements in which the government and, with the encouragement of the government, bigoted people attack people with special talents, Muslims, and others.

PB - Del Rey CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Not Only Who You Know” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Jay O'Connell KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future where bots have replaced almost all jobs, producing extreme inequality and focuses on a woman who will go to any length to succeed.

JF - Asimov’s Science Fiction VL - 43.5-6 (520-521) ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Notes on the Plague" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Shamar Harriott KW - Jamaican author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set during a plague that mostly impacts African Americans. 

JF - Fiyah: Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction VL - no. 9 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Nový Ys” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Krzysztof Fijalkowski KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Surrealistic dystopia of a dangerous, future city that slowly disappears under rising tides. 

JF - The Ashes of the Cities. Eldorado. Liber Tertius PB - Raphus Press CY - São Paulo, Brazil VL - 16 copy ed. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Old Drift. A Novel Y1 - 2019 A1 - Namwali Serpell (b. 1980) KW - Female author KW - US author KW - Zambian author AB -

Much of the novel traces the lives of three African families (black, brown, and white) over four generations from the colonial era into the future, with the fourth generation living in a totalitarian dystopia. 

PB - Hogarth CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Old Media" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Annalee Newitz (b. 1969) KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in 2145 and the protagonist is a gay Chinese man sent to Canada as part of a contract. In the future Canada, each city requires an individual to purchase a franchise that allows them to live and work in the city. Without the franchise, they are slaves, and, when the contract fell through, he is enslaved. 

JF - Tor.com SN - 978-1-949103-22-2 UR - https://www.tor.com/2019/02/20/old-media-annalee-newitz/ N1 -

Rpt., without the illustration, in The Best Science Fiction of the Year. Volume 5. Ed. Neil Clarke (New York: Night Shade Books, 2020), 417-29.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Oli Away" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Edward Davey ED - Edwina Attlee ED - Phineas Harper ED - Maria Smith KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The story describes a trip around the world made sustainable that describes all the advances made in protecting the environment. 

JF - Gross Ideas: Tales of Tomorrow’s Architecture PB - The Architecture Foundation and Oslo Architectural Triennale CY - London SN - 978-1-9996462-3-3 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “One Day Only” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Tananarive [Priscilla] Due (b. 1966) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

A Nayima story in the series se in a post-plague dystopia with 2014 Due, “Removal Order,” 2014 Due, “Herd Immunity,” 2015 Due, “Carriers,” and 2019 Due, “Attachment Disorder.” In this story Nayima has temporary settled with an older woman in an abandoned beachfront house and puts on a comedy show for the few other Natural Immune/Carriers and survivors who have not yet gotten vaccinated and settled in one of the few remaining cities.

JF - Wastelands: The New Apocalypse PB - Titan Books CY - London SN - 9871785658952 N1 -

Rpt. in the author’s The Wishing Pool and Other Stories (Brooklyn, NY: Akashic Books, 2023), 205-226.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "One Shot" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Tiffany E. Wilson ED - Cat[herine Tigerlily] Rambo (b. 1963) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The dystopia of privatized medical care in the future. 

JF - IF This Goes On PB - Parvus Press CY - Yardley, PA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “One Thousand Beetles in a Jumpsuit” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Dominica Phetteplace KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The first story in a sequence given the general title Robot Country. The story is set in a climate-change dystopia controlled by corporations in which “Corporate treason was punishable by death.” The protagonist is supposedly testing procedures for surviving on Mars and ends up cooperating with the AIs rather than her corporate minders. In “Her Appetite, His Heart.” Lightspeed, no. 114 (November 2019). https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/her-appetite-his-heart/, the second story, the AIs have revolted and excluded their makers from their country. In The Dystopia Triptych sequence, the first story is followed by two different stories, which begin after the successful revolt of the AIs and the establishment of Robot Country. In “Paradise Requires a Wall. Robot Country: Part II.” Burn the Ashes: The Dystopia Triptych 2. Ed. John Joseph Adams, Hugh Howey, and Christine Yant (New York/London: Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant Press, 2020), 169-90, Robot Country has been established and is under constant attack from what remains of the United States, with the focus on the personal relations between a woman working with the AIs and a U.S. Forest Ranger trying to protect the little that remains of the forest. Followed by “Human Country. Robot Country: Part III.” or Else the Light: The Dystopia Triptych 3. Ed. John Joseph Adams, Hugh Howey, and Christine Yant (New York/London: Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant Press, 2020), 289-207, which develops those relations as he and other humans move into Robot Country.

JF - Lightspeed Science Fiction & Fantasy VL - no. 111 SN - 978-1-949103-22-2 US 979-8677287572 979-8677291012 979-8677298424 UR - http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/one-thousand-beetles-in-a-jumpsuit/ https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/her-appetite-his-heart/ N1 -

Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction of the Year. Volume 5. Ed. Neil Clarke (New York: Night Shade Books, 2020), 189-210. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Other Side" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Payal Dhar ED - Tarun K. Saint KW - Female author KW - Indian author AB -

Refugee dystopia told from the point of view of escaping refugees. 

JF - The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction PB - Hachtte India CY - Gurugram, India SN - 978-93-88322-05-8 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Our Aim Is Not to Die” Y1 - 2019 A1 - A. Merc Rustad ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Non-binary author KW - Queer author AB -

A white supremacist, patriarchal dystopia in which everyone is under constant surveillance, and there are required medical/mental checks to ensure that everyone is straight. Lobotomies, now called neural reformatting therapy, are used to “cure” the non-conforming. 

JF - A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers PB - One World CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Painter of Trees” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Suzanne Palmer (b. 1968) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which humans, set on terraforming a planet, destroy all the food the indigenous inhabitants eat. Few of the humans are at all bothered. 

JF - Clarkesworld VL - No. 157 SN - 978-1-5344-4959-6 978-1-949103-22-2 UR - http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/palmer_06_19/ N1 -

Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction Volume 1. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (New York: Saga Press, 2020), 77-89, with an editor’s note on 77; and in The Best Science Fiction of the Year. Volume 5. Ed. Neil Clarke (New York: Night Shade Books, 2020), 1-10. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Parade. A Novel Y1 - 2019 A1 - Dave Eggers (b. 1970) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel is set in a divided country at the supposed end of a long war and focuses on two men, Four and Nine, paving a road that is to symbolically unify the country.

PB - Alfred A. Knopf CY - New York SN - 978-0-7352-7752-6 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Parenting License" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Leah Cypess (b. 1977) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story, which has satirical elements, is set in a future society that requires a license to have children, reinforced by no insurance and pediatricians unwilling to take patients without the license. 

JF - Analog Science Fiction and Fact VL - 139.3/4 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pet Y1 - 2019 A1 - Akwaeke Emezi (b. 1982) KW - African author KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -

Young adult novel set in the city of Lucille, which had become a eutopia by, as they believed, eliminating all the “monsters,” such as politicians, businesspeople, lawyers, and religious leaders, who had exploited the people. The story is told from the point-of-view of a young girl who discovers that at least one monster remains. Much fantasy. 

PB - Make Me a World/Random House Children’s Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pimp My Airship: A Naptown by Airship Novel Y1 - 2019 A1 - Maurice [Gerald] Broaddus (b. 1970) KW - African American author KW - English author KW - US author AB -

The novel is set in a steampunk alternative future America with most of its current problems, but, in the novel. they are faced and combatted. Stories in the “Pimp My Airship Universe” include “Pimp My Airship.” Apex Magazine, no. 2 (July 2009) https://www.apex-magazine.com/pimp-my-airship/; “The Problem of Trystan.” Hot and Steamy: Tales of Steampunk Romance. Ed. Martin H. Greenberg and Jean Rabe (New York: DAW Books, 2011), 46-63; “Steppin’ Razor.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 38.2 (457) (February 2014): 82-104; rpt. in Lightspeed Magazine, no. 87 (August 2017); “I Used to Love H.E.R. (A/K/A/ Help Engineer and Rebuild My Robot Girlfriend Roommate.” Help Fund My Robot Army!!! and Other Improbable Crowdfunding Projects. Ed. John Joseph Adams. Np: John Joseph Adams, 2014. EBook; “(120 Degrees of) Know the Ledge.” Not Our Kind. Ed. Nayad Monroe (Dayton, OH: Alliteration Ink, 2015), 264-86 [Incorrect in the Table of Contents]; Buffalo Soldier. New York: Tor.com, 2017; and “All God's Chillun Got Wings.” Illus. Jenna Fowler Steampunk Universe. Ed. Sarah Hans (Dayton, OH: Alliteration Ink, 2017), 15-33. 

PB - Apex Book Co. CY - Lexington, KY SN - 9781937009762 N1 -

An excerpt was published in Apex Magazine, no. 120 (May 2019). EJournal. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “[Pink Heart Shape]” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Lesley [Naa Norle] Lokko A1 - Maria Smith ED - Edwina Attlee ED - Phineas Harper KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Ghanaian author KW - Scottish author KW - South African author KW - US author AB -

The story begins and ends with a young woman living in poverty in Ghana, dependent of remittances from her sister in London. In between is a discussion African migration, the causes of the woman’s poverty, and the importance of such remittances. 

JF - Gross Ideas: Tales of Tomorrow’s Architecture PB - The Architecture Foundation and Oslo Architectural Triennale CY - London SN - 978-1-9996462-3-3 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Placation" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Sophie Mackintosh (b. 1988) ED - Edwina Attlee ED - Phineas Harper ED - Maria Smith KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Welsh author AB -

In the story, the Earth requires that it be placated annually with the body part of a human and focuses on a girl who cannot decide what part of her body to sacrifice. Compare to 1948 Jackson, “The Lottery.” 

JF - Gross Ideas: Tales of Tomorrow’s Architecture PB - The Architecture Foundation and Oslo Architectural Triennale CY - London SN - 978-1-9996462-3-3 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Plague Doctors" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Karen [Antoinette Roberta] Lord (b. 1968) KW - Barbadian author KW - Female author AB -

A post-apocalypse dystopia (plague) and the struggle get the resources to limit its spread and find a cure.

JF - Take Us to a Better Place, Stories PB - Robert Wood Johnson Foundation CY - Princeton, NJ SN - Print version 9781595911117 sent to Foundation members N1 -

Rpt. in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy™ 2021. Ed Veronica Roth (Boston, MA: Mariner Books/HarperCollins, 2021), 300-322.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Playmentalities” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Alberto Vanolo ED - Mark Graham ED - Rob Kitchin ED - Maureen Shannon KW - Italian author KW - Male author AB -

The first part is fiction about a boy in a city that uses “civic games” through Playstation to teach good citizenship and uses the scores attained throughout life to award or punish its citizens. The second part is an essay on the current status of such programs.

JF - How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables PB - Meatspace Press CY - Np SN - 978-0-9955776-7-1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Plazas of Madness” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Luis Nazario KW - Male author AB -

Surrealistic dystopia of an African leader who builds many very odd plazas.

JF - The Ashes of the Cities. Eldorado. Liber Tertius PB - Rahul Press CY - São Paulo, Brazil VL - 16 copy ed. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Please, Stop Printing Unicorns” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Fran Wilde (b. 1972) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Satire on the ability for individuals using 3-D Bioprinters to create body parts and entire animals.

JF - The New York Times UR - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/26/opinion/3d-printed-unicorns.html U2 -

Illus. John Karborn

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Pocketful of Dolphins” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Judy Helfrich ED - Cat[herine Tigerlily] Rambo (b. 1963) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

A dystopia in which people are controlled by implants that release chemicals into their bodies in response to established metrics that are monitored by the implants. The story focuses on controlling fantasies. 

JF - If This Goes On PB - Parvus Press CY - Yardley, PA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Point of Honor Y1 - 2019 A1 - Aeryn Rudel KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which duel has been reinstated and is run by a Bureau of Honorable Affairs.

JF - Futures A Science Fiction Series PB - Radix Media CY - Brooklyn, NY VL - [No. 6] U2 -

Illus. Sabrina Cintron

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Polaris" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Wole Talabi (b. 1986) KW - Malaysian author KW - Male author KW - Nigerian author AB -

The story is set mostly on Mars, which is being used as a dumping ground for prisoners and opponents of those in power on Earth. After a difficult start, the people form a government and begin terraforming the planet. 

JF - Incomplete Solutions PB - Luna Press CY - Edinburgh, Scot. SN - 978-1-911143-55-0 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Potholes and Pumpkin Spice” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Kalpana Shankar A1 - Glenn Kaufmann ED - Mark Graham ED - Rob Kitchin ED - Shannon Mattern ED - Joe Shaw KW - Female author KW - Irish author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire describing a city run by Starbucks. All the stories in the book are responses to a recent book, A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Government (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017), by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman, that proposes, in the editors’ interpretation, that cities should act more like Amazon in dealing with their citizens. Female co-author. Shankar is a Professor of Information and Communication Studies at University College, Dublin. Kaufmann is a freelance writer from the United States to Dublin, Ireland in 2011 and now has dual citizenship.

JF - How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables PB - Meatspace Press CY - Np SN - 978-0-9955776-7-1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Premium Places" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Dietmar Offenhuber ED - Mark Graham ED - Rob Kitchin ED - Shannon Mattern ED - Joe Shaw KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is in the form of an academic article on a city designed and run by Pornhub. All the stories in the book are responses to a recent book, A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Government (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017), by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman, that proposes, in the editors’ interpretation, that cities should act more like Amazon in dealing with their citizens.

JF - How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables PB - Meatspace Press CY - Np SN - 978-0-9955776-7-1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Propagator” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Simone Kern KW - Genderqueer author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future Texas which is badly polluted, and almost all good soil is owned and strictly controlled by a single corporation. The protagonist is using stolen good soil to grow crops illegally. A second focus of the story is the extreme restrictions on whatever Texas has called a reproduction crime and the harsh punishments imposed on anyone deemed to have committed such a crime.

JF - Metamorphosis SN - 978-1-64076-006-6 UR - https://magazine.metaphorosis.com/story/2019/The-Propagator-Simone-Kern/ N1 -

Rpt. in Best Vegan Science Fiction & Fantasy 2019. Ed. B. Morris Allen (Np: Metamorphosis Books, 2020), 75-97; and in their Real Sugar Is Hard to Find: A Collection of Stories (Eugene, OR: Android Press, 2022), 43-62, which is published as by Sim Kern.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Rat King of Spanish Harlem” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Nicky Drayden KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

The dystopia brought about by a plague and the way people respond as seen by a woman who is not infected. 

JF - Fiyah: Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction VL - no. 9 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Rated Y1 - 2019 A1 - Melissa Grey KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which every individual is being constantly rated and their worth moves up and down with their rating. 

PB - Scholastic Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Read After Burning” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Maria Dahvana Headley (b. 1977) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set in a future in which it is prohibited to teach children to read or even to speak except in approved slogans. The story is told from the viewpoint of a child of librarians who are secretly keeping books alive. 

JF - A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers PB - One World CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Record Keeper Y1 - 2019 A1 - Agnes Gomillion KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

The novel is set in a post-World War III future in which the truce requires that all laws be obeyed completely, but the female protagonist discovers that the laws are being used against her people. First of volume of a series. The second volume is The Seed of Cain: Book Two of The Record Keeper Series. London: Titan Books, 2020. 

PB - Titan Books CY - London SN - 9781789091151 ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Red Sunset Y1 - 2019 A1 - Ira Tabankin (b. 1949) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

After the assassination of the President, Vice-President, and the Cabinet are assassinated, the Speaker of the House (obviously Nancy Pelosi b. 1940) becomes President, and imposes an extreme left-wing agenda on the country and invites United Nations troops into the control to disarm all U.S. citizens, which leads to Civil War.

PB - Np CY - Np ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Referendum” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Lesley Nneka Arimah (b. 1983) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Nigerian author KW - US author AB -

A referendum is being held to repeal the thirteenth amendment to the U.S. Constitution that abolished slavery. 

JF - A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers PB - One World CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Registering Eve” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Alison Powell ED - Mark Graham ED - Rob Kitchin ED - Shannon Mattern ED - Joe Shaw KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A future city in which all interactions are through the blockchain, based on a company like Ethereum, which has many flaws, some of which are deliberately designed to overcharge.

JF - How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables SN - 978-0-9955776-7-1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Rememberers" Y1 - 2019 A1 - [Qingpei] Rachel Heng (b. 1988) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Singaporean author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in Singapore after the water came and most Singaporeans now live underground in inverted skyscrapers with “the elite few . . . who can afford homes within the last remaining gated communities aboveground” (18). The protagonist’s family was among the last to move into the underground bunkers, as she calls them, where status is reflected in how close to the surface you lived. Life is tightly controlled with high unemployment and passes checked on exiting and entering. The authors of the stories were each “assigned a specific climate event mentioned” in the 2018 UN climate report collaborating with experts recommended by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) who “provide a scientific backbone” for the stories while giving the writers free rein to determine how closely they adhered to that science” (6-7). The Introduction to the volume (7-12) is by Susan Casey-Lefkowitz, Chief Program Officer of the NDRC.

JF - McSweeney’s 58. 2040 A.D. PB - McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern CY - San Francisco, CA VL - 58 U2 -

Illus. Wesley Allsbrook

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - . Resistant: A World Divided Y1 - 2019 A1 - Erika Modrak KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The novel is set in a future where antibiotics have failed, and a pandemic has decimated the human race. Those left are divided between some who life in quarantine within a walled city and those who survive outside.

PB - Black Rose Writing CY - [Castroville], TX SN - 9781684333936 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Reunion" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Vandana Singh (b. 1950) ED - Tarun K. Saint KW - Female author KW - Indian author KW - US author AB -

The story takes place in a future India that has been battered by climate change creating storms strong enough to destroy cities. The protagonist is an Indian woman scientist who had developed the basis for settlements that integrated advanced technology with the natural world and made it possible for people to thrive in the new conditions. 

JF - The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction PB - Hachette India CY - Gurugram, India SN - 9789388322058 978-1-5344-4959-6 N1 -

Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction Volume 1. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (New York: Saga Press, 2020), 422-62, with an editor’s note on 422. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “(R)evolution” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Sam Agro ED - David F. Shultz KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a future where all a cities rubbish, toxic chemicals, and so forth have been dumped outside it where the poor live, and those living in the area begin to become mutants. 

JF - Nourishment: A One-Shot Anthology of Science Fiction PB - TdotSpec CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Riverbed" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Omar El Akkad (b. 1982) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Canadian author KW - Egyptian author KW - Male author KW - Qatari author KW - US author AB -

The story’s protagonist is an American-born woman who, as a young woman, was incarcerated in camps holding the U.S. Islamic population. 

JF - A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers PB - One World CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Robots of Eden” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Anil [Ravindran] Menon (b. 1964) ED - Nisi [Denise Angela] Shawl (b. 1955) KW - Indian author KW - Male author AB -

Much of the story seems to be about the relationships within and Indian family. Then, it is gradually revealed that some of the people have been “enhanced” through an implant that counters negative emotions. From the viewpoint of the protagonist, the results are entirely positive, but what happens within the story suggests the opposite. 

JF - New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Colour PB - Solaris CY - Oxford, Eng. SN - 978-1781085783 978-1-5344-4959-6 978-1328613103 N1 -

Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction Volume 1. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (New York: Saga Press, 2020), 193-211, with an editor’s note on 193; and in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020. Ed. Diana Gabaldon (Boston, MA: Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020), 306-22, with a note on the author together with the author’s note on the story on 399. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "ROME" Y1 - 2019 A1 - G[wendolyn] Willow Wilson (b. 1982) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A dystopia set in a United States devastated by climate-change that has privatized all first responders, and a poor district in Seattle had no protection from the regular fires as seen through the eyes of students taking an English-language test required for them to stay in the country. 

JF - A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers PB - One World CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Rule of Capture Y1 - 2019 A1 - Christopher [Tracy] Brown (b. 1964) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The first volume of a series set in the same future as 2017 Brown. See also 2020 Brown. In this volume, the U.S. has lost a war with China and is becoming a dictatorship bent on eliminating any opposition.

PB - Harper Voyager CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Safe and Secure Living in Camden” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Alan Wiig ED - Mark Graham ED - Rob Kitchin ED - Shannon Mattern ED - Joe Shaw KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is designed as a report of a couple searching for a safe place to live, work, and raise their family. They settle on Camden, New Jersey, a formerly notoriously dangerous city that has partnered with corporations, such as Shotspotter, to install comprehensive surveillance. All the stories in the book are responses to a recent book, A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Government (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017), by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman, that proposes, in the editors’ interpretation, that cities should act more like Amazon in dealing with their citizens. The author teaches urban planning and community development at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, who has also published a critique of the actual program in “Secure the City, Revitalize the Zone: Smart Urbanization in Camden, New Jersey.” Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space 36.3 (2018): 403-23.

JF - How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables PB - Meatspace Press CY - Np SN - 978-0-9955776-7-1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Salvation" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Claudia De Bella (1958-2018) ED - Bill Campbell (b. 1970) KW - Argentinian author KW - Female author AB -

Religious dystopia in which a psychopath finds a role as the executioner.

JF - Sunspot Jungle: The Ever-Expanding Universe of Science Fiction and Fantasy PB - Rosarium CY - Greenbelt, MD VL - 1 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Same Place as the Last” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Nina Anana ED - Rowan B. Fortune KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The story begins in a near future England divided, often violently, between those accepting of immigrants from countries disappearing under rising oceans. One man is badly hurt by a police attack and appears to wake up in a high-tech future cared for by the immigrants he had been trying to save.

JF - Citizens of Nowhere: An Anthology of Utopic Fiction PB - Cinnamon Press/Rowan Tree Editing, 2019 CY - Gwynedd, Wales SN - 978-1788640947 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sanctuary Y1 - 2019 A1 - Karen East KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which corporations control government and the economy, the Department of Homeland Security controls education and the media, environmental laws are no longer enforced, the U.S. borders are closed, and any travel even within the borders is considered suspicious and is frowned upon. Mandatory age in which everyone is placed in a retirement home. The protagonist is a reporter who travels to northern Wisconsin where she learns a better, simpler way of life based on Native American (Anishinaabe) traditions that exclude technology and competition. 

PB - Archway Publishers CY - Bloomington, IN SN - 978-1-4808-8478-6 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Save the ShireTM” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Jennifer Gabrys ED - Mark Graham ED - Rob Kitchin ED - Shannon Mattern ED - Joe Shaw KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A technological libertarian eutopia for the extremely wealthy made possible for the wholesale harvesting of information on individuals used to undermine democracy, based on Palintir. All the stories in the book are responses to a recent book, A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Government (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017), by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman, that proposes, in the editors’ interpretation, that cities should act more like Amazon in dealing with their citizens.

JF - How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables PB - Meatspace Press CY - Np SN - 978-0-9955776-7-1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Save Yourself" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Abbey Mei Otis (b. 1989) KW - Asian American author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in the state of Ohio in the U.S. where US climate change immigrants from the coasts are being shipped with hundreds arriving every day and the settlements set up to receive them are unable to provide for such numbers. The resettlement companies bought more and more land, cities became gated communities for the well off, many foods were no longer available, and water was rationed.

JF - McSweeney’s 58. 2040 A.D. PB - McSweeney’s 58. 2040 A.D. CY - San Francisco, CA VL - 58 U2 -

Illus. Wesley Allsbrook

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Scotland Before the Bomb Y1 - 2019 A1 - M. J. Nicholls ed. [written by] KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Satire on a Scotland that has disintegrated into independent counties and even cities and towns within counties.

PB - Sagging Meniscus Press CY - [Montclair, NJ] SN - 978-1-944697-80-8 U2 -

Illus. Alan Lyons

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Scrapheap Destiny” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Andrew Knighton KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The story takes on Destiny, one of many planets that have been environmentally damaged, that has become a dumping ground for scrap scavenged from space and other planets. A large corporation has essentially bought the planet, and while making promises of a better life for the inhabitants, or at least some of them, will destroy the livelihood and the culture that those working with the scrap have built up over generations.

JF - Neo-Opsis Science Fiction Magazine VL - no. 30 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Seedless Y1 - 2019 A1 - D. A. Xiaolin Spires KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story extrapolates the popularity of seedless fruit to a world where nothing is reproduced naturally. 

JF - Little Blue Marble SN - 978-1-988293-08-0 UR - https://littlebluemarble.ca/2019/06/14/seedless/ N1 -

Rpt. without the illus. in Little Blue Marble 2019: Climate in Crisis. Ed. Katrina Archer (Vancouver, BC, Canada: Ganache Media Books, 2020), 112-19. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Seeking Follows” Y1 - 2019 A1 - James Ash ED - Mark Graham ED - Rob Kitchin ED - Shannon Mattern ED - Joe Shaw KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

In the story, Twitter has taken over London after the collapse of democracy in 2038 and “follows” have become the main medium of exchange with those with the most follows selling their ability to gain attention to advertisers. All the stories in the book are responses to a recent book, A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Government (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017), by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman, that proposes, in the editors’ interpretation, that cities should act more like Amazon in dealing with their citizens. The author is Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Newcastle University.

JF - How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables PB - Meatspace Press CY - Np SN - 978-0-9955776-7-1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Semantic City” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Andrew Iliadis ED - Mark Graham ED - Rob Kitchin ED - Shannon Mattern ED - Joe Shaw KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future where Philadelphia has contract with Apple for its citizens, including teenagers, to have a Siri implant that provides them with a constant flow of information, including ads. All the stories in the book are responses to a recent book, A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Government (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017), by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman, that proposes, in the editors’ interpretation, that cities should act more like Amazon in dealing with their citizens.

JF - How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables PB - Meatspace Press CY - Np SN - 978-0-9955776-7-1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Shining Wall Y1 - 2019 A1 - Melissa [Jane] Ferguson KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia with a deep rich/poor divide with the rich who stress their own health and longevity living behind a metal wall and the rest struggling for survival outside the wall. 

PB - Transit Lounge CY - Melbourne, Vic, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Should You Add a Microchip to Your Brain?” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Susan Schneider KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The Op-Ed considers the ethical ramifications in a future where AI has advanced so much and eliminated so many jobs that people are adding microchips to their brain to avoid unemployment. 

JF - The New York Times UR - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/10/opinion/future-artificial-intelligence-transhumanism.html U2 -

Illus. John Karborn

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Sibling Rivalry" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Michael Byers KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future with a one-child policy where synthetic children are produced and become second children. 

JF - Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet VL - no. 40 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Significance of Swans” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Rhiannon Lewis KW - Female author KW - Welsh author AB -

A post-apocalyptic story told from the point-of-view of a woman who is one of the few survivors. On returning to her old home, she finds a man in the process of destroying everything in it. 

JF - New Welsh Reader VL - no. 122 SN - 978-19993527-9-0 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Silence of Sound" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Mike Brooks KW - Bisexual author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia set after a religious war where all books have been made to say the same things. 

JF - Translunar Lounge: A Speculative Fiction Magazine VL - no. 1 UR - https://translunartravelerslounge.com/2019/08/15/the-silence-of-sound-brooks/ U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Sinners and the Sea” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Kameron Hurley (b. 1980) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia set in a world constructed over a drowned Earth. 

JF - Meet Me in the Future. Stories PB - Tachyon CY - San Francisco, CA SN - 9781616962968 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Skin Y1 - 2019 A1 - Liam Brown (b. 1985) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel is set in a highly infectious pandemic in which everyone is required to stay home and focuses on the way one family deals with the issues. It was shortlisted for the Guardian’s Not The Booker Prize.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Skin City" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Kelly Robson (b. 1967) KW - Canadian author KW - Lesbian author AB -

The story is set in a future that has adapted to climate change by building domes over cities and extensive rewilding, but the story focuses on the issue of privacy and those who choose a radical version of privacy. Part of a series based on the author’s Toronto friends in the theatre and burlesque that includes “The Desperate Flesh.” Nasty: Fetish Fights Back: An Erotic Short Story Collection. Ed. Anna Yeatts and Chris Phillips. Np: Flash Fiction online LLC, 2017. Rpt. in her Alias Space and Other Stories (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2021), 175-85, with “Notes about ‘The Desperate Flesh’” on 186, which is realist fiction about an old folks’ home for lesbians, and “Alias Space.” Alias Space and Other Stories (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2021), 187-224, with “Notes about ‘Alias Space’” on 225, which is non-utopian science fiction.

JF - The Verge Better Worlds SN - 978-1645240259 UR - https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/6/18197632/kelly-robson-sci-fi-story-privacy-ar-skins-better-worlds N1 -

Rpt. in her Alias Space and Other Stories (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2021), 227-41, with “Notes about ‘Skin City’” on 242.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “So You Want to Live in a Pivot City” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Sarah Barns ED - Mark Graham ED - Rob Kitchin ED - Shannon Mattern ED - Joe Shaw KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

The story takes place in Sydney, Australia, which, due to climate change and environmental degradation had lost its tax base and agreed to cooperate with Sidewalk Labs, owned by Google, to create an experimental surveilled city that would focus on reducing the cities carbon footprint. This requires that every action by every resident be tracked an evaluated positively or negatively. Those who fall below the threshold determined by the city can be expelled, losing not merely the right to live in the city but their property in the city. All the stories in the book are responses to a recent book, A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Government (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017), by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman, that proposes, in the editors’ interpretation, that cities should act more like Amazon in dealing with their citizens. The Australian female author is a digital strategy consultant, producer, and researcher.

JF - How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables PB - Meatspace Press CY - Np SN - 978-0-9955776-7-1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Sometimes you end up where you are: A trip back home for Christmas” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Beth Cato (b. 1980) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story involves a trip back in time which allows a child to experience our environmentally damaged world, which is almost eutopian from the perspective of the one she lives in. 

JF - Nature VL - 576.7887 ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Song for a New Day Y1 - 2019 A1 - Sarah Pinsker (b. 1977) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

After a series of bombings, the government prohibits all public meetings. The two main protagonists are a musician who performed in large venues and a woman, who had been working entirely online, with both involved in locating illegal performances and streaming them. Three of her stories are set in the same future beginning with 2015 Pinsker, “Our Lady of the Open Road;” followed by “A Song Transmuted.” Illus. Aaron Lovett and Joshua Viola. Cyber World: Tales of Humanity’s Tomorrow. Ed. Jason Heller and Joshua Viola (Erie, CO: Hex Publishers 2016), 151-60; and “Everything Is Closed Today.” Do Not Go Quietly: An Anthology of Defiance in Victory. Ed. Lesley Conner and Jason Sizemore (Lexington, KY: Apex Publications, 2019), 149-74; rpt. in her Lost Places. Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2023), 79-102.

PB - Berkley CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Space Traitors” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Walidah Imarisha KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

The story is headed by the statement “In conversation with Derrick Bell’s short story ‘Space Traders’” (See Bell 1992). In this story, the aliens offer to improve the lives of all the “scarred people” of Earth.

JF - Buckman Journal VL - no. 3 SN - 978-1-83964-480-1 N1 -

Rpt. in Black Sci-Fi Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Stories (London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2021), 324-28.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Split By the Sun Y1 - 2019 A1 - Tom [Thomas Alured] Faunce (b. 1958) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

The premise of the novel is that synthetic photosynthesis has been developed and applied so that almost any surface can be used to produce clean food and fuel. Set in a deeply conflicted future so that there are both eutopian and dystopian elements to the novel. Aboriginal themes. 

PB - World Scientific Publishing CY - London U1 -

The copyright page includes the subtitle The Tragic History of the Sustainocene

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Illus. Harriet Birks

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "St. JuJu" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Rivers Solomon (b. 1989) KW - African American author KW - English author KW - Transgender author AB -

Set in a far-distant future, the story explicitly rejects the idea of a perfect society and explores different notions of what makes a life good.

JF - The Verge Better Worlds UR - A trash garden is paradise and prison in Rivers Solomon’s story “St. Juju” - The Verge U2 -

Illus. Allen Laseter

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Stealing Worlds Y1 - 2019 A1 - Karl Schroeder (b. 1962) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

The novel begins in a surveillance dystopia in which a woman finds that it is extremely hard to hide. She then discovers people creating cyber worlds and taking on new identities in these worlds and forming communities, something that otherwise no longer exists. 

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Stillicide Y1 - 2019 A1 - Cynan Jones KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

The novel is set in a future where water is scarce and tightly controlled. Stillicide refers to the continual dripping of a liquid. 

PB - Granta CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Story for a Bottle” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Darcie Little Badger (b. 1987) ED - Joshua Whitehead KW - Female author KW - Native American author AB -

The story is set in a future New Houston that is near the new coast and on the remains of a doomsday city (a huge ocean liner) built by the wealthy to escape the apocalypse and live the good life at sea. 

JF - Love After the End: Two-Spirit Utopias & Dystopias PB - Bedside Press CY - Narol, MB, Canada SN - 9781988715247 9781551528113 N1 -

Rpt. as Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit & Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction. Ed. Joshua Whitehead (Vancouver, BC, Canada: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2020), 113-133.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Streamers" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Cian O’Callaghan ED - Mark Graham ED - Rob Kitchin ED - Shannon Mattern ED - Joe Shaw KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a city that has replaced almost all work with temporary jobs offered through streaming, modeled on Spotify. All the stories in the book are responses to a recent book, A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Government (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017), by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman, that proposes, in the editors’ interpretation, that cities should act more like Amazon in dealing with their citizens.

JF - How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables PB - Meatspace Press CY - Np SN - 978-0-9955776-7-1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Strive City of Tomorrow” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Katharine S. Willis ED - Mark Graham ED - Rob Kitchin ED - Shannon Mattern ED - Joe Shaw KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A description of Strive City, which is based on combining Ebenezer Howard’s A Peaceful Path to Real Reform (1898) and Strava Metro, a company that monetizes data sets present as a sales pitch for the city. All the stories in the book are responses to a recent book, A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Government (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017), by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman, that proposes, in the editors’ interpretation, that cities should act more like Amazon in dealing with their citizens.

JF - How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables PB - Meatspace Press CY - Np SN - 978-0-9955776-7-1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Subprime Language and the Crash” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Pip Thornton ED - Mark Graham ED - Rob Kitchin ED - Shannon Mattern ED - Joe Shaw KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

In search of larger and larger profits, Google’s complete control of the internet led to it buy up much of the world’s real estate, and to monetizing words. This led to the Global Linguistic Crash of 2041 and the loss of all information that had been stored on the internet, paper records having been outlawed.

JF - How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables PB - Meatspace Press CY - Np SN - 978-0-9955776-7-1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Such Thoughts are Unproductive” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Rebecca Campbell (b. 1975) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a climate-change and surveillance dystopia. 

JF - Clarkesworld SN - 978-1-949103-22-2 UR - http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/campbell_12_19/ N1 -

Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction of the Year. Volume 5. Ed. Neil Clarke (New York: Night Shade Books, 2020), 155-70. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Summanus” Y1 - 2019 A1 - A. E. Bower ED - David F. Shultz KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set on a planet that is being explored for edible plants in the hopes that plants from Earth can be grown there, Earth having lost all plant life and humans surviving on chemically produced food. 

JF - Nourishment: A One-Shot Anthology of Science Fiction PB - TdotSpec CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Summit at Eagle Nest Y1 - 2019 A1 - Dave Borland KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel follows four people, two from the left and two from the right who try to see if they can come to an agreement on what needs to be done to save the United States. For half the book, they simply fail, but they are introduced to a Native American elder who teaches them the road to reconciliation. They conclude that a new Constitutional Convention is needed and develop a set of proposals reflecting a combination of their views.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Sun in Exile” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Catherynne M[organ] Valente (b. 1979) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Satire on climate change deniers. 

JF - A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers PB - One World CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Sun Will Always Sing” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Karin Lowachee (b. 1973) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - Guyanese author AB -

The story is set in a future in which humans and seimei (immortal AI who have their own language) have cooperated to mitigate the damage to Earth and plan to populate another planet with the focus on carrying out that plan told through the eyes of a seimei.

JF - The Verge Better Worlds UR - https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/4/18139371/karin-lowachee-sci-fi-story-video-seimei-ai-better-worlds ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sung Home Y1 - 2019 A1 - Laura Ramnarace KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

First volume of a trilogy. In this volume a plague has killed most people, and control most of those left in the hands of different competing warlords. The protagonist, sixteen-year-old girl, escapes from one such warlord to search for her grandmother. The title refers the girl following song lyrics taught her by her mother in her search. In the second volume, Growing Home. Np: Author. 2020. 308 pp., communities of survivors both work together and compete. In the third volume, Rising Home. Np: Author, 2020. 260 pp., civilization is rebuilding with a varied cultures cooperating. Native American themes throughout all three volumes. Female author.

PB - Author CY - Np SN - 978-1-0771-1977-2 9798693647152 9798842766765 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Swipe Right to Welcome Left to Reject” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Linnet Taylor ED - Mark Graham ED - Rob Kitchin ED - Shannon Mattern ED - Joe Shaw KW - Dutch author KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A description of a city that had been welcoming to immigrants and refugees but failing to integrate them partners with Welcome Tinder to pair citizens and immigrants. The relationship apparently begins successfully and then is followed for five years and it spreads across the country at the same time that more and more problems emerge. All the stories in the book are responses to a recent book, A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Government (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017), by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman, that proposes, in the editors’ interpretation, that cities should act more like Amazon in dealing with their citizens.

JF - How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables PB - Meatspace Press CY - NP SN - 978-0-9955776-7-1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Synapse Will Free Us from Ourselves” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Violet Allen ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopian in which technology is supposedly curing homosexuality. 

JF - A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers PB - One World CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Talk to a Real Live Girl” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Paul Clayton KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Earth is dominated by women who have taken away all men’s rights. The protagonist, after losing the right to any contact with his daughter, chooses to leave Earth to a mining colony colloquially known as Boyz Wurld that is inhabited by men and sexbots. There are, though, “three live girls” available for talk and only talk.

JF - Talk to a Real Live Girl and Other Stories PB - Author CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Tasting Bleach and Decay in the City of Dust” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Beth Dawkins ED - Cat[herine Tigerlily] Rambo (b. 1963) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Pollution dystopia. 

JF - If This Goes On PB - Parvus Press CY - Yardley, PA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Testaments Y1 - 2019 A1 - Margaret [Eleanor] Atwood (b. 1939) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Sequel to 1985 Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale that begins during the establishment of Gilead but the shifts to the internal and external opposition to it, and it ends with a lecture at “The Thirteenth Symposium on Gilead Studies” from the same professor whose lecture ended The Handmaid’s Tale. The novel was serialized on BBC Radio 4 in fifteen installments between September 16 and October 4, 2019.

PB - Nan A. Talese/Doubleday CY - New York N1 -

Canadian ed. Toronto, ON, Canada: McClelland and Stewart, 2019. U.K. ed. London: Chatto & Windus, 2019. An audiobook was released simultaneously with the print version. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “That Our Flag Was Still There” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Sarah Pinsker (b. 1977) ED - Cat[herine Tigerlily] Rambo (b. 1963) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A dystopia of extreme patriotism, where, for example, a permit is needed to criticize the president.

JF - If This Goes On PB - Parvus Press CY - Yardley, PA SN - 978-1-62873-199-9 N1 -

Rpt. in her Lost Places. Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2023), 36-50.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Theory of Flight” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Justina Ireland (b. 1985) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a poor neighborhood in a lethally polluted future where Mars and Europa have been settled and Europa welcomes everyone who arrives but only the very rich can afford the fare.

JF - The Verge Better Worlds UR - An open-source rocket could reshape society in “A Theory of Flight” - The Verge ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Therapies for World’s End” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Stefani Cox ED - Stephanie Andrea Allen ED - Lauren Cherelle KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a post-apocalypse dystopia that has divided the rich and poor even more, with the rich closing themselves off and the poor, known as Dusties left to try to survive.

JF - Black From the Future: A Collection of Black Speculative Writing PB - BLF Press CY - Clayton, NC SN - 978-0-578-50213-7 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - They Don’t Make Plus Size Space Suits Y1 - 2019 A1 - Ali Thompson KW - Bisexual author KW - Queer author KW - US author AB -

A collection of five brief stories, none of which appear to have been previously published. All are set in future societies that are dystopias for fat people and told from the perspective of a fat person struggling with and resisting the rules and restrictions of their life.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Thirteen Year Long Song” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Sheree Renée Thomas (b. 1972) ED - Jason Sizemore ED - Lesley Conner KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a world being destroyed by the release of poison chemicals as seen through the eyes of an old man poisoned by them who sees his family farm being destroyed by them. 

JF - Do Not Go Quietly: An Anthology of Victory in Defiance PB - Apex Publications CY - Lexington, KY SN - 9781937009786 N1 -

Rpt. in her Nine Bar Blues: Stories from an Ancient Future (Nashville, TN: Third Man Books, 2020), 17-34. 978-0997457896

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Thirty-Three Wicked Daughters” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Kelly [Regan] Barnhill (b. 1973) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Satirical story based on the story of Albina from the 12th century in which thirty-three sisters behead their husband and are exiled to Albion. In the story the thirty-three daughters of the king completely reform the kingdom, turning it into an egalitarian eutopia before they are captured and forced to marry wealthy Barons, from which point it gets complicated.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 136.5/6 SN - 978-1328613103 N1 -

Rpt. in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020. Ed. Diana Gabaldon (Boston, MA: Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020), 97-124, with a note on the author together with the author’s note on the story on 392-93. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Three Data Units” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Kitty-Lydia Dye ED - Cat[herine Tigerlily] Rambo (b. 1963) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia in which AI’s are used to control people. 

JF - If This Goes On PB - Parvus Press CY - Yardley, PA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Three Tales the River Told: A Glimpse of the Past” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Stewart C. Baker KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Climate-change dystopia where everyone lives underground and as entertainment someone goes to the surface to follow the course of the Yellow River. 

JF - Nature VL - 571.7770 U2 -

Illus. Jacey

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “To Breathe the Air” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Brian [Keith] Evenson (b. 1966) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story, which is in two parts with a cliffhanger ending to the first part, is set in a future divided between citizens who live in the high city, which is actually a spaceship, and the descendants of the people who came from the ship and live in the low city. The citizens want to learn how to run the ship so that they can spread their domination to other planets.

JF - Cliffhangers (Part I of II). McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern VL - 57, 50 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - ​“To Everything, Tern Tern Tern” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Birna Anna Björnsdóttir (b. 1974) KW - Female author KW - Icelandic author KW - US author AB -

 The story is set in Seltjarnarnes, Iceland. In about 2030, due to the changing climate, the Gulf Stream had moved away from Iceland while warming Greenland. As a result, Iceland has much, much colder winters and the iconic bird the tern or kría no longer nested there.

JF - McSweeney’s 58. 2040 A.D. PB - McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern CY - San Francisco, CA VL - 58 U2 -

Illus. Wesley Allsbrook

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - To Slip to the Surly Bonds of Earth Y1 - 2019 A1 - Hugh Cameron KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Western civilization is coming to an end, but one man hopes to reestablish it in space colonies. In the second volume, the struggle is to increase the population of the colonies on the moon and Mars to sustainable levels while supporting America and trying to keep it out of the problems of Europe. The ending suggests that there might be more volumes to come. 

PB - Xlibris CY - [Bloomington, IN] VL - 2 vols. SN - 978-1-7960-5323-4 978-1-7960-6083-6 U1 -

About the Breaking of the Day. Book One. Upon the Further Shore. Book Two

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Too Much Fulfilment” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Lizzie Richardson ED - Mark Graham ED - Rob Kitchin ED - Shannon Mattern ED - Joe Shaw KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Food delivery has entirely taken over the food industry and effectively controls what people get to eat, based on a company like Deilveroo. All the stories in the book are responses to a recent book, A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Government (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017), by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman, that proposes, in the editors’ interpretation, that cities should act more like Amazon in dealing with their citizens.

JF - How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables PB - Meatspace Press CY - NP SN - 978-0-9955776-7-1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Touches" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Brenda Peynado (b. 1985) KW - Dominican American author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a future where disease means that the world is divided between the clean and the dirty, and humans live in the clean never touching another human. The protagonist details the four times in her life that she has been touched.

JF - tor.com SN - 978-0-143135623 UR - https://www.tor.com/2019/11/13/the-touches-brenda-peynado/ N1 -

Rpt. without the illus. in her The Rock Eaters: Stories (New York: Penguin Books, 2021), 167-90.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Trapped in the R.A.W.: A Journal of My Experiences during the Great Invasion by Kaylee Bearovna With an Afterword by Pearl Larken and Appendices by the “We Survive” Group Y1 - 2019 A1 - Kate Boyes KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Post-apocalyptic (alien invasion) dystopia that wipes out over 80% of the world’s population told initially through the diary of a young *woman trapped in a Special Collections Library. This is then followed by an “Afterword” by the editor of the diary and reports on the search by survivors for her and her daughter. 

PB - Aqueduct Press CY - Seattle, WA SN - 9781619761599 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Triangulum Y1 - 2019 A1 - Masande Ntshanga KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

A complex novel that is historical fiction, mystery novel, coming-of-age story, and dystopia. About two-thirds of the book are set in the past and the present and a third in a future that emerges from South Africa’s dystopic past with the “homelands” created by apartheid become corporate controlled domains designed to exploit both raw materials and labor.

PB - Umuzi/Penguin Random House South Africa CY - Johannesburg, South Africa SN - 9781415210062 9781415210062 9781937512774 N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Jacaranda Books Art Music, 2019. 377 pp. U.S. ed as Tiangulum. A Novel. Columbus, OH: Two Dollar Radio, 2019. 365 pp. An excerpt was published in The Johannesburg Review of Books 3. 6 (June 2019). Monuments, ‘the remains of an alien civilisation which had now fled’—Read an excerpt from Masande Ntshanga’s new novel Triangulum – The Johannesburg Review of Books.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Trouble No Man. A Novel Y1 - 2019 A1 - Brian Hart (b. 1976) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel takes place in a future where California and the Northwest are controlled by competing separatist militias fighting over water and fuel. The protagonist is a flawed man, depicted at various stages of his life who struggles to protect his extended family.

PB - Harper Perennial CY - New York SN - 9780062698322 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Trump Sky Alpha Y1 - 2019 A1 - Mark Doten (b. 1978) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on Trump, who is depicted as sailing on a blimp, just after starting World War 3, while denying that anything is wrong. A parallel story is about the failure of the internet, and there is a novel within the novel that also comments on the situation.

PB - Graywolf Press CY - Minneapolis, MN U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Truth Y1 - 2019 A1 - [Treichler, David H.] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel is set in a future where the government has established rules for what is truth, and analysts remove anything that does not meet these standards.

PB - Publisher Services CY - Np SN - 978-1532391354 U3 -

dhtreichler [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Twelve Histories Scrawled in the Sky” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Aimee Ogden ED - Cat[herine Tigerlily] Rambo (b. 1963) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Brief dystopia in which the official history is being constantly changed and all cities must keep up with the changes. 

JF - If This Goes On PB - Parvus Press CY - Yardley, PA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Unauthorized Bread" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is told from the point-of-view of a woman who is a refugee recently permitted to live in the U.S. as she moves through the system and focuses on the dystopia that is that system. The woman and others caught in the system fight back using their knowledge of technology. 

JF - Radicalized [The front cover adds Four Tales of Our Present Moment and the back cover say Dystopia is now] PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Under This Rock” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Andrew Dana Hudson KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An anti-fracking story set in a future climate change dystopia. 

JF - Little Blue Marble 2019 SN - 978-1-988293-08-0 UR - https://littlebluemarble.ca/2019/06/28/under-this-rock/ N1 -

Rpt. without the illus. in Little Blue Marble 2019: Climate in Crisis. Ed. Katrina Archer (Vancouver, BC, Canada: Ganache Media Books, 2020), 11-18. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Un-Girls Y1 - 2019 A1 - Lauren [Ann] Beukes (b. 1976) KW - Female author KW - South African author AB -

Set in a future South Africa, the novella follows a number of individuals, men and women, gay and straight, black and white. In one story line, laboratory grown meat is fashioned into extremely beautiful women, designed to the purchaser’s preference, and programmed to provide pleasure. Another story line focuses on a popular lecturer pushing the line that empowered women are undermining masculinity. Others follow female and male sex workers.

PB - Amazon Original Stories CY - Seattle, WA N1 -

An excerpt was published in The Johannesburg Review of Books 3.7 (July 2019). [The JRB exclusive] Read an excerpt from Ungirls, a new disturbing and provocative story by Lauren Beukes [Plus: Sample the audiobook] – The Johannesburg Review of Books.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Ungovernable Cities” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Will[iam Woodward] Self (b. 1961) ED - Edwina Attlee ED - Phineas Harper ED - Maria Smith KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire describing a number of fantastic or just very odd cities. Inspired by Italo Calvino’s La città invisibili/Invisible Cities 1972/1974).

JF - Gross Ideas: Tales of Tomorrow’s Architecture PB - The Architecture Foundation and Oslo Architectural Triennale CY - London SN - 978-1-9996462-3-3 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The United States Should Welcome a Strong, United Latin America” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Malka [Ann] Older (b. 1977) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Female author KW - Latinx author KW - US author AB -

Reflections on the formation of a united Latin America, following on from the European Union and an African Union that the United States is vigorously opposing. 

UR - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/17/opinion/future-united-latin-america.html U2 -

Illus. John Karborn

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Unnatural Disasters Y1 - 2019 A1 - Jeff Hirsch KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which, as the country breaks down, the young woman the protagonist tries to live a normal life.

PB - Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Unseen" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Jeremy W. Crampton A1 - Kara C. Hoover ED - Mark Graham ED - Rob Kitchin ED - Shannon Mattern ED - Joe Shaw KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Ghanaian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future that is completely connected and surveilled by a company like Cambridge Analytica told from the point-of-view of a teenager who doesn’t fit the parameters. All the stories in the book are responses to a recent book, A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Government (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017), by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman, that proposes, in the editors’ interpretation, that cities should act more like Amazon in dealing with their citizens.

JF - How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables PB - Meatspace Press CY - Np SN - 978-0-9955776-7-1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ursa Y1 - 2019 A1 - Tina Shaw (b. 1961) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

A young adult dystopia set in a future city divided between the powerful and wealthy Travesters and the poor and enslaved Cerels who are prohibited to have children. 

PB - Walker Books Australia CY - Newtown, NSW, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Verify Y1 - 2019 A1 - Joelle Charbonneau (b. 1974) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

First of two volumes set in a future with extreme censorship, with all physical books removed, removing words from use, and revising history. In the second volume, Disclose. New York: HarperTeen, 2020, the protagonist of the first volume leads a band of truth-seekers who hope to overthrow the system.

PB - HarperTeen CY - New York SN - 9780062803627 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Voice Lessons: Wishes to the Outside” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Davidson, Cesi [Cecelia] KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

In the play “two celestial beings” living in a “Caribbean utopia somewhere between heaven and earth” (103) are tasked with visiting Africans of the diaspora to learn lessons from them and pass them on to others. The becomes slaves, children in a school with little equipment, and so forth. 

JF - Articulation: Short Plays to Nourish the Mind & Soul PB - Aqueduct Press CY - Seattle, WA U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Wall" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Lizz Huerta ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the United States has collapsed and disappeared with refugees desperate to escape to Mexico. 

JF - A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers PB - One World CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Wall. A Novel Y1 - 2019 A1 - John [Henry] Lanchester (b. 1962) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Climate-change dystopia in which an island has completely surrounded itself by a wall to keep out the Others, those displaced by the effects of climate change. The novels protagonist is a young man enrolled as a Defender of the wall, and it follows his experiences and the doubts he had about what he was doing. 

PB - W. W. Norton CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Wanderers Y1 - 2019 A1 - Chuck [Charles David] Wendig (b. 1976) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

First of two volumes. Post-apocalyptic dystopia in which average people simply appear to start sleep walking in the midst of a pandemic. They are gradually surrounded by family and friends, known as shepherds,  trying to protect them from the religious zealots, armed vigilantes, and the like The second volume is Wayward. A Novel. New York: Del Rey, 2022. 805 pp. In this novel the survivors, both the sleepwalkers and the shepherds, search for and find a small town in Colorado that appears to be what remains civilization and try to build a new society there, but as in the first novel, there are others with different ideas.

PB - Del Rey CY - New York SN - 9780399182112 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Waning Age Y1 - 2019 A1 - S[ylvia] E. Grove KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which only children have emotions. 

PB - Viking CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Warehouse. A Novel Y1 - 2019 A1 - Rob Hart (b. 1982) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which one large corporation employs most people and has established prison-like company towns where the people were long hours in warehouses packaging goods to be delivered by drones to people who are afraid to leave their homes. 

PB - Crown CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Water, Water, Nowhere. Novella Extract” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Heledd Williams KW - Female author KW - Hong Kong author KW - Welsh author AB -

Extract from a dystopia brought on by drought and the control of the water supply by corporations. 

JF - New Welsh Reader VL - no. 122 SN - 978-19993527-9-0 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - We Cast a Shadow. A Novel Y1 - 2019 A1 - Maurice Carlos Ruffin KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopian set in a near future, racist United States where it is possible to have one’s skin colored changed to white. The novel focuses on a father’s struggle to decide what is best for his son. 

PB - One World CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - We Set the Dark on Fire Y1 - 2019 A1 - Tehlor Kay Mejia KW - Female author KW - Latinx author AB -

Dystopia in which women of the upper classes are assigned specific roles supporting the husband. The novel focusing on a girl from the lower classes who has managed to be accepted into the upper class. 

PB - Katharine Tegen Books/HarperCollins CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Welcome to Gray” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Cyd Athens ED - Cat[herine Tigerlily] Rambo (b. 1963) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in an extremely polluted future where clean water is the main medium of exchange. 

JF - If This Goes On PB - Parvus Press CY - Yardley, PA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Welcome to Jobstown” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Sophia Maalsen A1 - Kurt Ivensen ED - Mark Graham ED - Rob Kitchin ED - Shannon Mattern ED - Joe Shaw KW - Australian author KW - Female author KW - Male author AB -

Written as a Time Magazine report from 2029 on the development of Jobstown, a “smart city,” by Apple, with everything provided by Apple and accessed through Apple products, and every action is recorded and stored. All the stories in the book are responses to a recent book, A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Government (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017), by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman, that proposes, in the editors’ interpretation, that cities should act more like Amazon in dealing with their citizens.

JF - How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables PB - Meatspace Press CY - Np SN - 978-0-9955776-7-1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “What Maya Found There” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Daniel José Older (b. 1980) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Latinx author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A future surveillance society in which biotechnology is being used as a means of control. 

JF - A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers PB - One World CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “What the Dead Man Said” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Chinelo Onwualu KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - Nigerian author AB -

The story is set in New Biafra after rising seas obliterated much of Nigeria. The protagonist is a woman returning for her father’s funeral from what is left of Canada, where she and her mother, had moved. 

JF - Slate SN - 978-1-5344-4959-6 UR - https://slate.com/technology/2019/08/chinelo-onwualu-what-the-dead-man-said.html N1 -

Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction Volume 1. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (New York: Saga Press, 2020), 507-22, with an editor’s note on 507; and in The Best of World SF: Volume 1. Ed. Lavie Tidhar (London: Ad Astra/Head of Zeus, 2021), 107-24.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - What Went Wrong, or Was It Right? Y1 - 2019 A1 - Jackson Phillips, III [pseud.] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Mostly a critique of the current situation in the United States comparing it to the situation in 2095, which appears, on the surface, to be eutopian, but it turned out to be a flawed utopia. 

PB - AuthorHouse CY - Bloomington, IN U3 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - What You Call Y1 - 2019 A1 - Germ Lynn KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a supposedly supportive society that provides android caregivers to all those needing then, but then requires them all to be returned so that they can be weaponized for war. Robots had replaced people in most jobs, and the story includes a small community that is trying to become self-sufficient. 

JF - Futures A Science Fiction Series PB - Radix Media CY - Brooklyn, NY VL - [No. 5] U1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “What You Sow” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Kai Cheng Thom ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Canadian author KW - Transgender author AB -

A fantasy story set in a future where many have succumbed to a disease that gradually wastes them away with the only relief provided by the “ichor” from a Celestial told from the point-of-view of a Celestial, who has been trying to fit in.

JF - A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers PB - One World CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Where the River Runs Gold Y1 - 2019 A1 - Sita Brahmachari (b. 1961) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A climate-change dystopia in which there appear to be no bees left, and young people are lured to what are advertised as well-paid, comfortable, safe jobs to work as pollinators. The reality is closer to slavery. 

PB - Orion's Children's Books CY - London SN - 978-1510105416 U2 -

Illus. Evan Hollingdale

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Who Should Live in Flooded Old New York?” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Brooke Bolander KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The Op-Ed piece is concerned with the divide between the rich and poor in a future flooded new work, with the authorities, as usual, supporting the rich. 

JF - The New York Times UR - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/01/opinion/future-climate-change-flooded-new-york-city.html U2 -

Illus. John Karborn

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Why Visit America” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Matthew Baker (b. 1985) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Deciding that the United States no longer represents the people but only the interests of corporations and politicians, a small town in Texas votes to secede and renames itself America. The story recounts conflicts within the town after the secession with references to a guidebook for tourists.

JF - Paris Review VL - 61.230 SN - 9781250237200 N1 -

Rpt. in his Why Visit America. Stories (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 2020), 290-326. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Wishbone" Y1 - 2019 A1 - K[aren] G. Anderson ED - Juliana Rew KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the Age Equity Act gives everyone health care, housing, and other essentials from 72 until they reach 80, when they must report to an End of Life Center and be euthanized. 

JF - Infinite Lives: Short Tales of Infinity. Third Flatiron Anthologies PB - Third Flatiron Publishing CY - [Boulder, CO/Ayr, Scotland] VL - 8, Book 26 SN - 9781733920742 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Without Fire" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Ben Jacobs ED - Rowan B. Fortune KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The background of the story is a society divided into rich and poor living in the Villas and the Warren. The protagonist works in a robotics factory with rules better suited for robots than humans, but the focus of the story is on Mini Worlds, similar to a tank for fish but here a tank for tiny humans.

JF - Citizens of Nowhere: An Anthology of Utopic Fiction PB - Cinnamon Press/Rowan Tree Editing CY - Gwynedd, Wales SN - 978-1788640947 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Wordless Age” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Elly Bangs (b. 1986) KW - Female author KW - Queer author KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which language is privatized and must be paid for by the word. 

JF - Galaxy's Edge VL - no. 36 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Work, Love, and Learning in Utopia: Equality Reimagined Y1 - 2019 A1 - Martin Schoenhals KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Non-fiction utopia. The author concludes by saying that “This book has described my own visions for a better world” (265), and that is what he does throughout the book, mostly in fairly general terms, but in some chapters with some specificity. Stresses pleasure, community, the elimination of hierarchy, including an equality that eliminates “otherness,” particularly regarding gender roles but extending to most areas of difference. The chapter on Work in Utopia (107-51) lays out the author’s “overall plan for the economy in Utopia,” which includes, among other things, a guarantee of basic needs for all people. The chapter entitled “The Intrinsic Pleasures and Purposes of Learning” (191-230) sees a deinstitutionalized lifelong learning as central to the good life. Some discussion of governance. Elimination of nation-states. The author is a cultural anthropologist who currently teaches is a member of the First Year Seminar Core Faculty at Appalachian State University.

PB - Routledge CY - Abingdon, Eng./New York SN - 9781138549494 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Would She Be Gone: A Censored City Novelette Y1 - 2019 A1 - Melanie Harding-Shaw KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

The first volume of three set in a city where the “Librarian algorithm” imposes “tailored speech”. The volume concerns an undercover detective infiltrating the world of spoken poetry. The second volume is Compact of Fire: A Censored City Novelette. [Wellington, New Zealand]: Author, 2019. 76 pp. in which an aide to the Secretary of Literary Safety is trying to defuse the growing opposition movement. The third volume is Hell Is Empty: A Censored City Novelette. [Wellington, New Zealand]: Author, 2020. 79 pp. in which a journalist works to uncover and, if possible, publicize the corruption that pervades the system.

PB - Author CY - [Wellington, New Zealand] SN - 978-0-473-50176-1 978-0-473-57089-7 978-0-473-50178-5 978-0-473-51741-0 N1 -

Rpt. in her Alt-Ernate: A Collection of 37 Stories (Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand: Author, 2021), 39-110.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - You Are Entitled to What the Data Says You Deserve” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Rob Kitchin ED - Mark Graham ED - Rob Kitchin ED - Shannon Mattern ED - Joe Shaw KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

The author describes the story as “a thought experiment that imagines a future where a city administration uses a data broker, based on a company like ACXIOM, and their services to make decisions regarding the provision of services.” One  result is to exacerbate existing inequalities. All the stories in the book are responses to a recent book, A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Government (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017), by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman, that proposes, in the editors’ interpretation, that cities should act more like Amazon in dealing with their citizens.

JF - How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables PB - Meatspace Press CY - Np SN - 978-0-9955776-7-1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - You Have Arrived at Your Destination Y1 - 2019 A1 - Amor Towles (b. 1964) ED - Blake Crouch (b. 1978) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future where it is possible to both genetically engineer children but also apparently choose the trajectory of their lives.

PB - Amazon Original Stories CY - Seattle, WA VL - No. 4 in the Forward Collection U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “You Wanted This” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Lev Bratishenko ED - Edwina Attlee ED - Phineas Harper ED - Maria Smith KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

A meeting in which reports proposals are made for how to save the planet by eliminating the primary source of damage, human beings. 

JF - Gross Ideas: Tales of Tomorrow’s Architecture PB - The Architecture Foundation and Oslo Architectural Triennale CY - London SN - 978-1-9996462-3-3 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Your Future is Pending” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Matthew Kressel KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Corporate and surveillance dystopia.

JF - Clarkesworld VL - no. 159 UR - http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/kressel_11_19/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Your Guide to the Ever-Shrinking Solitude on the Planet Earth: How To Be Alone” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Jo Miles KW - US author AB -

In a dystopia of complete connectivity, the protagonist struggles to find a space where he can only hear his own thoughts.

JF - Nature VL - 575.7784 U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Youthful Indiscretions” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Monica Stephens ED - Mark Graham ED - Rob Kitchin ED - Shannon Mattern ED - Joe Shaw KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Buffalo, New York, has become SnapCity with all services provide by Snapchat. All the stories in the book are responses to a recent book, A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Government (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017), by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman, that proposes, in the editors’ interpretation, that cities should act more like Amazon in dealing with their citizens.

JF - How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables PB - Meatspace Press CY - Np SN - 978-0-9955776-7-1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Zed. A Novel Y1 - 2019 A1 - Joanna Kavenna (b. 1974) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia in which one which one large company takes over the surveillance state, the police, and the currency, thus controlling the entire world. The novel follows what happens as the company tries to deal with, and cover up, a flaw in the system. 

PB - Faber & Faber CY - London SN - 9780571245154 978-0-385-54547-1 N1 -

U. S. ed. Doubleday/Penguin Random House, 2019

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Zero Bomb Y1 - 2019 A1 - Hill, M[att] A. KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Complex novel set in a future automation and surveillance dystopia in which some who oppose the system use a science fiction novel as the basis for their tactics.

PB - Titan Books CY - London SN - 978-1789090017 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The 133rd Live Podcast of the Gourmando Resistance: A Taste of Freedom” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Beth Cato (b. 1980) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story depicts a dystopian future where eating real food is illegal. 

JF - Nature VL - 561.7723 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - 20/20 Y1 - 2018 A1 - B[ret] Shawn Clark KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel is told by a man in a future devastated by rising sea levels remembering his life from boyhood to his current present.

PB - First Run Books CY - Englewood, FL SN - 978-1-7342083-0-3 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - 2084 Y1 - 2018 A1 - Darla Hogan KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia, the United State of Britland, in which AI’s supposedly run the world for the benefit of all humans. This results in extreme austerity, everyone separated from their parents for seven years from seventeen, and occupations chosen for individuals by AI’s. But the system has become corrupted with power in the hands of human leaders who are in conflict with each other.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “3.4 oz” Y1 - 2018 A1 - R. K. Kalaw ED - Bart R. Leib ED - Kay T. Holt KW - Female author KW - Filipinx author AB -

The story focuses on the problems faced by immigrants today or in a very near future dystopia. 

JF - Resist Fascism PB - Crossed Genres CY - [Somerville, MA] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - 84K Y1 - 2018 A1 - [Catherine] [Webb] (b. 1986) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia of corporate power with universities closed, all the news outlets controlled by private corporations, and only people from corporations serve are elected to office. 

PB - Orbit CY - New York U3 -

Claire North [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Accident" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Gretchin Lair ED - Elly Blue KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a dystopian future where couples must get permission to use birth control and are paid for having more children.

JF - Bikes Not Rockets: Intersectional Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories PB - Microcosm Publishing CY - Portland, OR U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Across the Border” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Sahil Lavingia KW - Male author KW - Singaporean author KW - US author AB -

The story depicts a U.S. citizen returning from a Mexico that has been completely cut off by a huge wall, with no communication permitted between the two countries.

JF - Terraform UR - https://www.vice.com/en/article/43pzdg/across-the-border N1 -

Rpt. without the illus. in Terraform Watch Worlds Burn. Ed. Brian Merchant and Claire L. Evans (New York: MCD X FSG Originals/Farrar, Straus and Giroux/Motherboard/Vice, 2022), 124-132.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Adjustment Day Y1 - 2018 A1 - Chuck [Charles Michael] Palahniuk (b. 1962) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the population is going to be adjusted by killing large numbers of people.

PB - W. W. Norton CY - New York U4 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Adventure of You” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Paul [B.] La Farge (1970-2023) ED - Gordon Van Gelder (b. 1966) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A dystopia that depicts an underground hierarchical society through a supposed assignment to help individuals find themselves.

JF - Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead PB - O/R Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Afterwar Y1 - 2018 A1 - Lilith Saintcrow (b. 1976) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The dystopia that is the U.S. after a second civil war. 

PB - Orbit CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “An Agent of Utopia” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Andy [Andrew Robert] Duncan (b. 1964) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is told from the point of view of a man from Utopia who was sent to rescue Thomas More from the Tower of London by bribing people using paving stones from Utopia.

JF - An Agent of Utopia: New & Selected Stories PB - Small Beer Press CY - Easthampton, MA SN - 978-1618731531 9781781085769 N1 -

Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Thirteen. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (Oxford, Eng.: Solaris/Rebellion Publishing, 2019), 503-29.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Alternica" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Jennie Wood ED - Matt Miner ED - Eric Palicki ED - Tyler Chin-Tanner KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A positive future story in comic form in which a future eutopia has been created but could be destroyed by actions in the past. 

JF - All We Ever Wanted: Stories of a Better World PB - A Wave Blue World CY - Np U2 -

Illus. Jeff McComsey. Colors by Ari Pluchinsky. Letters by Micah Myers

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Amazing Transformation of the White House Dog” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Ron[ald Joseph] Goulart (1933-2022) ED - Gordon Van Gelder (b. 1966) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A robot dog with hypnotic powers takes over the White House and institutes liberal policies.

JF - Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead PB - O/R Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - American Fascist Y1 - 2018 A1 - Malcom James KW - Male author AB -

The dystopia created when a fascist wins the 2016 presidential election.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - American Heart Y1 - 2018 A1 - Laura Moriarty (b. 1970) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A young adult dystopia set in a future United States where just being a Muslim is grounds for deportation. 

PB - HarperTenn CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - American Utopia Y1 - 2018 A1 - David Byrne (b. 1952) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author KW - US author AB -

The play and film are the most complete expressions of the idea, which has been compared to “Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood” or a utopia of nostalgia for the twenty-first century. The book is made up of words from the play, many simply the names of U.S. cities with an illustration.

PB - Unpublished album, concert, play SN - 978-1-63557-687-0 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “And the Rest Is Music” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Paul Allor ED - Matt Miner ED - Eric Palicki ED - Tyler Chin-Tanner KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A future story in comic form in which each person lives in a pod that creates their ideal world for them, with the intent to keep humans from destroying the planet. The story is about an old woman who leaves her pod and experiences what is left of the world.

JF - All We Ever Wanted: Stories of a Better World PB - A Wave Blue World CY - Np U2 -

Illus. and colored by Juan Romera. Letters by Matt Krotzer. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “And the Ship Sails On” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Cat[riona] Sparks (b. 1965) ED - Russell B. Farr KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set on a cruise ship that has been sailing for what seems to be decades after climate change has led to sea level rises that has flooded most of the land. A highly structured, class-based society has evolved that the older people are desperate to keep.

JF - Aurum: A Golden Anthology of Australian Fantasy PB - Ticonderoga Publications CY - Greenwood, WA, Australia SN - 9781925212341 978-1-912950676 N1 -

Rpt. in her Dark Harvest ([Weston, Eng.]: NewCon Press, 2020), 125-59, with a brief author’s note on 159.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Animal Pharm: The Late 21st Century Farm Crime Comedy Y1 - 2018 A1 - Peter King KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

As the title suggests, a humorous dystopia on the pharmaceutical industry as it impacts farming, with AI playing a big role, including a talking sheep dog. 

PB - Peter King Publishing CY - Wellington, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Application for Asylum.” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Eileen [Katherine] Gunn (b. 1945) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A brief dystopia in which a child applies for asylum to escape the United States as it becomes under the policies of the Trump administration. 

JF - Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead PB - O/R Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Ask Me About My Book Club" Y1 - 2018 A1 - M. Michelle Bardon ED - Bart R. Leib ED - Kay T. Holt KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia that reflects the current situation in the U.S. in which dragons have been elected to national office and are being fought by witches. Female author.

JF - Resist Fascism PB - Crossed Genres CY - [Somerville, MA] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “At the Crossroads” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Elly Bangs (b. 1986) ED - Elly Blue KW - Female author KW - Queer author KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -

The story describes three societies, one a completely oppressive, hierarchical dystopia, one an anarchist eutopia where all the peoples of the galaxy are welcome and treated equally, and Dyanna, which has tendencies in both directions. The story is told through a bicycle race with a team from each planet taking place on all three planets plus a deserted Fourth World, which are alternate versions of the same present. The protagonist is a black woman with a prosthetic leg and only one good eye. In some way, the race is intended to prevent an interdimensional war. It begins on Planet One, the technically advanced dystopia with smooth metal roads, whose riders look identical, have only a number which identifies superiority and inferiority, and apparently is planning an invasion of the other Earths. The second planet, Dynnya, is a coalition of over a thousand planets. They are primarily agrarian, have no central authority and extremely advanced biotechnology, with most of the planets having no private property, and there has been no war in many thousands of years.

JF - Bikes Not Rockets: Intersectional Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories PB - Microcosm Publishing CY - Portland, OR ER - TY - ABST T1 - "AT392-Red" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Khairani Barokka (b. 1985) ED - William Davies KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Indonesian author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia that includes “Biodiversity Credit” that allowed that allowed the destruction of one area of the world’s environment in exchange for the supposed protection of another area. This result in a massive refugee crisis. This was followed by the introduction of “Accessibility Credits” by which improving accessibility for those with disabilities in one part of the world allowed another part of the world to eliminate accessibility. 

JF - Economic Science Fictions PB - Goldsmiths Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Atonement Path" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Alex[ander Christian] Irvine (b. 1969) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which children who have broken the law must forever dress distinctively and do whatever a citizen wants.

JF - Lightspeed Magazine VL - no. 99 UR - https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-atonement-path/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - Bandwidth: An Analog Novel Y1 - 2018 A1 - Eliot Peper KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

First volume of a climate change dystopia series followed by Borderless: An Analog Novel. Seattle, WA: 47North, 2018; and Breach: An Analog Novel. Seattle, WA: 47North, 2019.

PB - 47North CY - Seattle, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Before She Sleeps. A Novel Y1 - 2018 A1 - Bina Shah (b. 1972) KW - Female author KW - Pakistani author AB -

Dystopia set in a future Southwest Asia where, as a result of disease, war, and gender selection by parents, there are many more men than women and restrictions on women, including the requirement to have multiple husbands, are extreme. Within the dystopia there is an underground women’s group that rejects the restrictions, until they are discovered. 

PB - Delphinium Books CY - Encino, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Big Rural" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Cat[herine Tigerlily] Rambo (b. 1963) ED - Clark A. Miller ED - Joey Eschrich KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story focuses on the negative impact of corporate solar power on rural areas and ways of lessening that impact. 

JF - The Weight of Light: A Collection of Solar Futures PB - : Center for Science and the Imagination Arizona State University CY - Tempe, AZ UR - https://www.dropbox.com/s/961pb8yve314a8r/Weight_of_Light.epub?dl=0 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Biggerers Y1 - 2018 A1 - Amy Lilwal KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

In the novel, very small people are created to become the playmates and pets of their owners told largely from te point of view of the new, small people. T

PB - Point Blank/Oneworld Publications CY - London SN - 978-1-78607-355-6 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "BK Girls." Y1 - 2018 A1 - [Tamela] [Larimer] (b. 1968) ED - Gordon Van Gelder (b. 1966) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which Boko Haram has relocated to the US and is kidnapping girls for sex. The story is written from the point-of-view of one of the girls. 

JF - Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead PB - O/R Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Blackfish City Y1 - 2018 A1 - Sam J[oshua] Miller (b. 1979) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel is set in a climate-change dystopia in which sea level rises have forced most of the remaining world’s population to live on massive platforms in the oceans. It is presented through four main characters living on one called Qaanaaq east of Greenland and north of Iceland plus a text something like a blog that appears throughout the book. Qaanaaq is controlled by AI’s that make most of the decisions and function as a government.

PB - Ecco/HarperCollins CY - New York N1 -

An audiobook is narrated by Vikas Adam. Np: Harper Audio and Blackstone Audio, 2018. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Blackst*r" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Chris Visions ED - Matt Miner ED - Eric Palicki ED - Tyler Chin-Tanner KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

A positive future story in comic form that gives a tour of the future music scene. 

JF - All We Ever Wanted: Stories of a Better World PB - A Blue Wave World CY - Np U2 -

Illus. by the author. Colored by the author and Cathryn Virginia. Lettered by Zakk Saam

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Bombs Away" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Howard Mackie (b. 1958) ED - Matt Miner ED - Eric Palicki ED - Tyler Chin-Tanner KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A positive future story in comic form in which when war breaks out none of the missiles explode and the weapons don’t work because aliens had decided to give humans a second chance.

JF - All We Ever Wanted: Stories of a Better World PB - A Wave Blue World CY - Np U2 -

Illus. and Colored by Ryan Lee. Lettered by Taylor Esposito

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Bond. A Novel Y1 - 2018 A1 - Robin Kirk (b. 1960) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

First volume of a trilogy set in a future controlled by a matriarchy that genetically engineers their children and determines their role in life at sixteen. The novel follows a girl who finds that the role chosen for her does not fit. The second volume is The Hive Queen. Chapel Hill, NC: Blue Crow Publishing/Goldenjay Books, 2020 follows a different set of characters searching for a rumored place of freedom and the troubles they experience during the search. 

PB - Blue Crow Publishing/Goldenjay Books CY - Chapel Hill, NC U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Bright Sarasota Where the Circus Lies Dying” Y1 - 2018 A1 - James Sallis (b. 1944) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which people are taken from their homes and placed in camps.

JF - Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead PB - O/R Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Bringing Down the Sky” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Alan Bao KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Environmental dystopia in which clean air is for sale. 

JF - Clarkesworld UR - http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/bao_12_18/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Burn Down the House” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Ted [Theodore Edwin] White (b. 1938) ED - Gordon Van Gelder (b. 1966) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A dystopia centered on the deep division between the one percent and everyone else. The majority are being burned out and killed. No education. Most poor women are prostitutes. The story focuses on one intelligent but poor girl who fights back.

JF - Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead PB - O/R Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Burned-Over Territory” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Lee Konstantinou (b. 1978) ED - Sebastian Johnson KW - African American author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set in a society with a guaranteed income undermined by factionalism and bureaucracy. 

JF - Slate UR - https://slate.com/technology/2018/10/burned-over-territory-universal-basic-income-story.html N1 -

Rpt., without the response, in Future Tense Fiction: Stories of the Tomorrow. Ed. Kirsten Berg, Torie Bosch, Joey Eschrich, Ed Finn, Andrés Martinez, and Juliet Ulman (Los Angeles, CA: The Unnamed Press, 2019), 173-89. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Call of the Wold” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Holly Schofield ED - Sarena Ulibarri KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Something of a eutopia set in Canada in a future in which most people are living in intentional communities. Through the protagonist, a woman escaping the corporate world, the story explores the problems of making such a community successful. 

JF - Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers. An Anthology PB - World Weaver Press CY - Albuquerque, NM U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Camping With City Boy" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Jerri Jerreat ED - Sarena Ulibarri KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a Canada that has dealt used high-tech solutions to deal with environmental damage, mostly eliminating cars, rigid rules regarding the use of materials that might damage it, and people living in connected high rises with gardens on different levels. 

JF - Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers. An Anthology PB - World Weaver Press CY - Albuquerque, NM U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Can You See It Now?” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Taylor Hoffman ED - Matt Miner ED - Eric Palicki ED - Tyler Chin-Tanner KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A positive future story in comic form in which a death cult is poisoning the atmosphere, and two women fight back.

JF - All We Ever Wanted: Stories of a Better World PB - A Wave Blue World CY - Np U2 -

Illus. K. R. Whalen. Colors by Josh Jensen. Letters by Taylor Esposito

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Caught Root" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Julia K. Patt ED - Sarena Ulibarri KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future recovering from environmental collapse with two cities, one high-tech and one low-tech, trying to find a way to cooperate. 

JF - Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers. An Anthology PB - World Weaver Press CY - Albuquerque, NM U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Census Y1 - 2018 A1 - Jesse Ball (b. 1978) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A widowed father who is dyeing takes a job as a census taker in a dystopian country so that he can spend time travelling with his young son, who has Down syndrome. They travel across the country visiting cities in alphabetical order and meeting different people who are branded at each census.

PB - Ecco/HarperCollins CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Charles Y1 - 2018 A1 - H. W. Fitzroy AB -

A professor and an anarchist try to respond to the dystopia that is the future United States by building a shelter for the many homeless and founding a free school. Related to and published shortly after 2018 Fitzroy, Sunshine.

PB - Np CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Charlie and the Aliens” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Ganzeer [pseud.] (b. 1982) ED - Stephanie Feldman ED - Nathaniel Popkin KW - Egyptian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is about immigration and refugees on a far future Earth, and the strict rules they must follow to be accepted, even if they are human or were born on Earth and are returning after life on another planet. 

JF - Who Will Speak for America? PB - Temple University Press CY - Philadelphia, PA SN - 978-1- 4399-1623-0 U2 -

Illus. by the author

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Ganzeer [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Chat Room" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Nadia Shammas ED - Matt Miner ED - Eric Palicki ED - Tyler Chin-Tanner KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A future story in comic form about the problem of wanting to fit in and finding friends when you are different. 

JF - All We Ever Wanted: Stories of a Better World PB - A Wave Blue world CY - Bp U2 -

Illus. Jude Vigants. Color by Maria Jayne Carpenter. Letters by Zakk Saam

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Chercher La Femme Y1 - 2018 A1 - L[inda] Timmel Duchamp (b. 1950) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A complex novel set mostly on a spaceship travelling to a planet called La Femme that explores gender issues. There are clear dystopian elements on the starship, and whether La Femme is eutopian or dystopian is up to the reader. 

PB - Aqueduct Press CY - Seattle, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Choice" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Kay Honda ED - Matt Miner ED - Eric Palicki ED - Tyler Chin-Tanner KW - Female author AB -

A future story in comic form in which a man tries to fashion a female AI in the way he wants her and cannot understand why she leaves him.

JF - All We Ever Wanted: Stories of a Better World PB - A Wave New World U2 -

Illus. Liana Kangas. Color by Gab Contreras. Letters by Taylor Esposito

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "City Bones" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Richard Pulfer ED - Luke Peterson ED - Kenna Blacklock KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future Chicago where automated cars are helping reduce the pollution and ease traffic congestion, but drivers insist on still controlling their cars whatever the consequences.

JF - Futurescapes Volume Two: Blue Sky Cities PB - Utah Valley Office of New Urban Mechanics & Utah Valley University CY - [Orem, UT] VL - 2 SN - 9781790982868 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The City Where We Once Lived. A Novel Y1 - 2018 A1 - Eric Barnes (b. 1968) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A climate-change dystopia set in an unnamed city, where those living in the mostly abandoned North struggle to survive. A prequel is Above the Ether. A Novel. New York: Arcade Publishing/Skyhorse, 2019 in which people escaping from the beginnings of catastrophic climate change converge on the city.

PB - Arcade Publishing/Skyhorse CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Cold as Thunder Y1 - 2018 A1 - Jerrold W. Apps (b. 1934) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Surveillance and climate-change dystopia in which the Eagle Party has taken over the United States, privatized all schools, closed libraries and churches, and closed all independent media. 

PB - University of Wisconsin Press CY - Madison U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Colonist” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Randal Heide ED - David F. Shultz KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set on a new planet, settled from an Earth where most species were functionally extinct. The protagonist comes to realize that he has no role on the new planet, together with the overwhelming majority of those settled there who are condemned to a meaningless life. 

JF - Colony: A One-Shot Anthology of Speculative Fiction PB - TDOTSPEC CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Completionist Y1 - 2018 A1 - Siobhan Adcock KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which mothers are required to give up their jobs to raise their children and must do so to rigidly enforced standards helped/supervised by “nurse completionists.” 

PB - Simon & Schuster CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Conclusion” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Paul Cornell (b. 1967) ED - Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a future of constant surveillance by the Company, which is everywhere.

JF - Stories of Hope and Wonder in Support of the UK’S Healthcare Workers PB - NewCon Press CY - Weston, Eng. N1 -

Originally published in audio format as an Audible original.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Congress: A Taste of Success” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Dave Kavanaugh KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story depicts a eutopian future where a past Congress had created an artificial intelligence to run the world, which it has done successfully. There are still elections, and the story is on what happens when a woman who has been elected discovers the truth. 

JF - Nature VL - 561.7722 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Consumption" Y1 - 2018 A1 - K. M. McKenzie ED - David F. Shultz KW - African Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a future in which the protagonist is being manipulated by artificial intelligences and cannot control her desire to purchase something. 

JF - Strange Economics: Economic Speculative Fiction PB - TdotSpec CY - Toronto, ON, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Contingency Plans for the Apocalypse” Y1 - 2018 A1 - [Divya Srinivasan] [Breed] KW - Female author KW - Indian author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future where abortion is illegal in Arizona and abortion providers and their supporters are liable to be shot on sight by the authorities but legal in California, and there is an underground railroad between the states that has to cross a fortified border. 

JF - Uncanny Magazine VL - no. 20 UR - https://uncannymagazine.com/article/contingency-plans-apocalypse/ N1 -

Rpt. in her Contingency Plans for the Apocalypse and Other Possible Situations (Gurugram, India : Hachette India, 2019), 11-26. 9789388322430 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Cost of Doing Business" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Nancy [Anne Koningisor] Kress (b. 1948) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story focuses on a plan to green the United States, initially on a small scale in Flint, Michigan, and the throughout the country and the dystopian means used to achieve the eutopian end. 

JF - Asimov's Science Fiction VL - 42.5 & 6 (508 & 509) N1 -

Rpt. in A Year Without Winter. Illus. Ed. Dehlia Hannah, ed. with Brenda Cooper, Joey Eschrich, and Cynthia Selin, Fiction eds. (New York: Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, 2018), 173-211. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Crossing Over Y1 - 2018 A1 - Paul Clayton KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of the next U. S. Civil War, which is based on political beliefs. The novel depicts a couple and their daughter trying to escape to Canada.

PB - Author CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Cube. A Novel Y1 - 2018 A1 - Kelly Fumiko Weiss KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The Cube is a game in sites around the world and that people play compulsively. The novel focuses on trying to understand the Cube and has both dystopian and eutopian elements.

PB - Windy City Publishers CY - Rolling Meadows, IL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Culture - Z Y1 - 2018 A1 - Karl Andrew Marszalowicz KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel traces the history of the use of C.R.I.S.P.R. technology to create on demand the children and body parts people want with all the problems and corruption involved.

PB - Black Rose Writing CY - [Castroville, TX] SN - 9781684331376 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Dancers in the Dark” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Milton Callow ED - Ruzbeh Babaee KW - Austrian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia on continuing war. 

JF - My Utopia: A Collection of Creative Writing PB - Cambridge Scholars Publishing CY - Newcastle upon Tyne, Eng U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Dancing East to West” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Simon Petrie A1 - Edwina Harvey ED - Grace Bridges ED - Lee Murray ED - Aaron Compton KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - Female author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in Australia in a future after multiple catastrophes destroy the world’s technological civilization. The small community that the survivors have created is presented in eutopian terms, and at the end of the story contact is made by people from New Zealand travelling in an airship. 

JF - Te Korero Ahi Kā: To Speak of the Home Fires Burning PB - SpecFicNZ: Speculative Fiction New Zealand CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Dangerous" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Lisa Mason (b. 1953) ED - Gordon Van Gelder (b. 1966) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Satire on bureaucracy in a surveillance dystopia. 

JF - Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead PB - O/R Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Data: They’ve got your number” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Ramalho-Santos, João KW - Male author KW - Portuguese author AB -

Dystopia in which everyone’s health is monitored constantly, and if they violate best-practice, they lose insurance. 

JF - Nature VL - 555.7696 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Day At the Park" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Eliot Rahal ED - Matt Miner ED - Eric Palicki ED - Tyler Chin-Tanner KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A brief positive future story in comic form in which a girl and a young girl who is a robot play in the park.

JF - All We Ever Wanted: Stories of a Better World PB - A Wave Blue World CY - Np U2 -

Illus. Jason Copland. Colors by Josh Jensen. Letters by Zakk Saam

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Day in the Life of a Socialist Citizen” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Bhaskar Sunkara (b. 1969) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Essay in which the author compares of precarious life of an average citizen in contemporary capitalist Edison, New Jersey, with such a life in a “slightly idealized version of Sweden” where a eutopian socialist system exists. The title is taken from Michael Walzer’s “A Day in the Life of a Socialist Citizen: Two Cheers for Participatory Democracy.” Dissent (May-June 1968): 243-47, which focuses on the subtitle.

JF - The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for a Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality PB - Basic Books/Hachette CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Day the Sun Changed Colors Y1 - 2018 A1 - Scott Talbot Evans KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Humorous novel that begins in a high tech eutopia in 4377 in which the sun changes colors that reflect increased radiation that will ultimately destroy the planet. The novel follows the exploits of two families trying, with the help of a robot, to build a spaceship to escape. There is a glossary that describes the way time is noted, clocks, categories of the ages of people, the sky colors, length, various sizes, volume, speed, and “infinite math.”

PB - [CreateSpace] CY - Np SN - 978-1987486179 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Day the White People Walked into the Sea” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Stacy Hardy KW - Female author KW - South African author AB -

Just what the title says.

JF - The Johannesburg Review of Books VL - 2.2 UR - New short fiction: ‘The day the white people walked into the sea’ by Stacy Hardy – The Johannesburg Review of Books ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Derisyone High-City” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Ahmet Mesut Ateş ED - Ruzbeh Babaee KW - Male author KW - Turkish author AB -

The story is set in an authoritarian society in which individuals choose their name at a specific time on a specific day. 

JF - My Utopia: A Collection of Creative Writing PB - Cambridge Scholars Publishing CY - Newcastle upon Tyne, Eng U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Designed for Your Safety” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Elizabeth Bourne ED - Gordon Van Gelder (b. 1966) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

In a dystopia riddled with disease, a building controlled by an artificial intelligence locks the workers inside. 

JF - Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead PB - O/R Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Dessert Heads" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Rajendra Shepherd KW - Male author KW - Trinidadian author AB -

The story is set in a climate-change dystopia. 

JF - Mithila Review: The Journal of International Science Fiction & Fantasy VL - 10 UR - http://mithilareview.com/shepherd_09_18/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - Destiny: Quest for a New World Y1 - 2018 A1 - Donald Morgan Edwards KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The first volume of a series in which, given the collapse of Earth’s environment and a developing authoritarianism on Earth, a successful search for a habitable planet is made and the first settlers struggle to get the colony established. A sequel is Kairos: Book Two of “Quest for a New World”. [Bloomington, IN]: Xlibris, 2018, which describes the successful settlement, but new settlers with different ideas cause problems. The novel’s ending suggests a sequel.

PB - Xlibris CY - [Bloomington, IN] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Detonation. A Novel Y1 - 2018 A1 - Erik A. Otto KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - Swiss author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the U.S. is divided between two countries, one of which accepts and the other rejects Artificial Intelligences, which have become more intelligent and powerful than humans. 2021 Otto, Proliferation. A Novel is set in the same future.

PB - Sagis Press CY - [Charlottesville, VA] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Devil's Highway Y1 - 2018 A1 - Gregory Norminton (b. 1976) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel is divided into three interrelated parts set in the same location. The first is in ancient Britain, the second in the twenty-first century, and the third section is a dystopia set 3000 years in the future. The dystopia is a barbarian, violent world in which children who are entirely on their own struggle to survive.

PB - 4th Estate CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Diggers 2.0” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Kevin Christopher Jesse ED - Luke Peterson ED - Kenna Blacklock KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a polluted city in which the rich have clean air, and the poor are left to suffer and die, and the poor, predominantly Hispanic community decide to improve their lot.

JF - Futurescapes Volume Two: Blue Sky Cities PB - Utah Valley Office of New Urban Mechanics & Utah Valley University CY - [Orem, UT] VL - 2 SN - 9781790982868 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Divided Light” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Pressman, Corey S. A1 - Clark A. Miller A1 - Joey Eschrich KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future climate-change dystopia in which Phoenix, Arizona, is completely under a covering that collects solar power and outside the city is a settlement where the people have modified themselves and the countryside to live without water. 

JF - The Weight of Light: A Collection of Solar Futures PB - Center for Science and the Imagination Arizona State University CY - Tempe, AZ UR - https://www.dropbox.com/s/961pb8yve314a8r/Weight_of_Light.epub?dl=0. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Doctor Benjamin Franklin’s Dream America: A Novel of the Digital Revolution Y1 - 2018 A1 - Damien Lincoln Ober KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An alternative history dystopia in which the internet is an integral part of the culture at the time of the American Revolution. The British take control of it, killing everyone who uploads the Articles of Confederation. An off-grid George Washington saves the day, but then disagreements develop over the centralized control of the internet.

PB - Night Shade Books/Skyhorse CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Doner" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Tabitha Sin ED - Joanne Merriam KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A zombie story set in a climate-change dystopia in which New York city that is slowly disappearing under the ocean. 

JF - Broad Knowledge: 35 Women Up To No Good PB - Upper Rubber Boots Books CY - Nashville, TN U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Don't Be Evil" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Tim Maughan (b. 1973) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Near future dystopia set in a city divided by those in employment and the “unconnected” told from the point of view of a woman who had worked her way up to a good job with guilty and feels guilty about her feelings about the unemployed, unwashed, unconnected. 

JF - Big Echo: Critical SF VL - no. 7, Part 1 UR - Don't Be Evil — Big Echo ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Dreams of the Eternal City Y1 - 2018 A1 - Mark Reece KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which, having decided that people were sleeping too much, a strict “sleep code” is established and bureaucracies set up to enforce it.

PB - Troubador/Matador CY - Knebworth Beauchamp, Eng U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dry Y1 - 2018 A1 - Neal Shusterman (b. 1962) A1 - Jarrod Shusterman KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A climate change dystopia when the water runs out. 

PB - Simon & Schuster BYFR CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Early Riser Y1 - 2018 A1 - Jasper Fforde (b. 1961) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A dystopia in which most people hibernate in towers erected for that purpose and controlled by HiberTech. A few people stay awake to protect the sleepers and others, advocates of RealSleep, try to undermine the system.

PB - Hodder & Stoughton CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. [New York]: Viking, 2018

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Ecoland" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Cansu Çakmak Özgürel ED - Ruzbeh Babaee KW - Female author KW - Turkish author AB -

The story includes a speech by the last surviving member of a research team that brought about the great Change that produced an ecological eutopia by eliminating humans. 

JF - My Utopia: A Collection of Creative Writing PB - Cambridge Scholars Publishing CY - Newcastle upon Tyne, Eng U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Elevator Dancer” Y1 - 2018 A1 - N[ora] K. Jemisin (b. 1972) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Surveillance dystopia. 

JF - How Long ‘Til Black Future Month PB - Orbit CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Elites" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Stephanie Feldman ED - Gordon Van Gelder (b. 1966) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia depicting a family separated when one member leaves the U.S. to help a sick relative and is not allowed to return. A second theme is the competition to get children into elite schools. 

JF - Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead PB - O/R Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The End of the Incarnation” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Malka [Ann] Older (b. 1977) ED - Stephanie Feldman ED - Nathaniel Popkin KW - Female author KW - Latinx author KW - US author AB -

A depiction of the gradual dissolution of the United States ending with rights becoming universal rather than tied to citizenship. 

JF - Who Will Speak for America? PB - Temple University Press CY - Philadelphia, PA SN - 978-1- 4399-1623-0 978-0996103787 N1 -

Rpt. as “The End of the Incarnation I” through “The End of the Incarnation VII.” In her . . . and Other Disasters (Baltimore, MD: Mason Jar Press, 2019), 15, 39, 55, 95, 105, 139, 165. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Entity: 2147 Y1 - 2018 A1 - David A[lan] Collier KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel is set in a future U.S. that has been devastated by climate change and a world facing a massive immigration crisis caused by flooding. The novel, though, takes place mostly in the U.S. Midwest after an alien artifact lands on a family’s farm and is concerned with the impact on the family. The ending leaves open the possibility of a sequel. 

PB - AuthorHouse CY - Bloomington, IN U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Era" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

An odd dystopia in which everyone is expected to tell the truth as they see it. 

JF - Friday Black PB - Mariner\Houghton Mifflin Harcourt CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Eruptions" Y1 - 2018 A1 - [Samantha] Lynne Sargent ED - Michael DeLuca ED - Danika Dinsmore ED - Mohammad Shafiqul Islam ED - Giselle Leeb ED - Johannes Punkt ED - Sakara Remmu ED - Aïcha Martine Thiam KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Poem describing an environmental dystopia.

JF - Reckoning 3: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice PB - Reckoning Press CY - West Orion, MI VL - 3 N1 -

Rpt. https://reckoning.press/eruptions/ (February 12, 2019). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Escape from Caring Seasons” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Sarah Pinsker (b. 1977) ED - Wade Roush ED - Pontin, Mark KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A dystopia brought about by an artificial intelligence that controls all the residents in Caring Seasons, a senior citizens home, and whose decisions, which are aimed at benefiting the home not than the residents and cannot be overridden by anyone. The story concerns a man trying to get his wife released when the algorithm says she should stay.

JF - Twelve Tomorrows PB - The MIT Press CY - Cambridge, MA SN - 978-0-262-53542-7 978-1-62873-199-9 N1 -

Rpt. in her Lost Places. Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2023), 110-138.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Escape Hatch" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Matthew De Abaitua (b. 1971) ED - Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959) ED - Tom Hunter KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

An entrance to an apparent eutopia appears, and the story explores the response of one woman who visited and returned. 

JF - 2001: An Odyssey in Words: Commemorating the Centenary of Sir Arthur C. Clarke’s Birth PB - NewCon Press CY - [Weston], Eng. N1 -

Rpt. in Best of British Science Fiction 2018. Ed. Donna Scott ([Weston, Eng.]: NewCon Press, 2019), 155-59. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Euphoria Y1 - 2018 A1 - Jayne Lockwood KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A transgender alien appears on Earth and develops the intention of saving it from the destruction that enveloped its planet.

PB - DSP Publications CY - Tallahassee, FL ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Evac" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Thomas Webb KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is about UN troops evacuating people from an Earth-like planet that had been destroyed by the environmental policies that had been destroying Earth. Before it was too late, the people of Earth had realized what was happening had instituted the policies necessary to reverse the devastation.

JF - Little Blue Marble UR - https://littlebluemarble.ca/2018/04/06/the-evac/ N1 -

Rpt. without the illus. in Little Blue Marble 2018: Stories of Our Changing Climate. Ed. Katrina Archer. Np: Ganache Media epub, 2018. EBook. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Eve of Man Y1 - 2018 A1 - Giovanna Fletcher (b. 1985) A1 - Tom Fletcher (b. 1985) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Male author AB -

First volume of trilogy in which the only girl born in fifty years reaches maturity and the society has planned her future. 

PB - Michael Joseph CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Everything I Own” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Lela Gwenn ED - Matt Miner ED - Eric Palicki ED - Tyler Chin-Tanner KW - Female author AB -

A post-catastrophe but positive future story in comic form in which a girl discovers seeds and plants them, later other people, including children, come, who the girl’s mother wants to chase away, but the girl wants to stay. The children ask the mother if she can read to them, and everything changes for the better. 

JF - All We Ever Wanted: Stories of a Better World PB - A Wave Blue World CY - Np U2 -

Illus. Tony Gregori. Colors by Josh Jensen. Letters by Taylor Esposito. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Everything is Known Y1 - 2018 A1 - Liza Elliott KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia in which governments have been replaced by corporations that control all access to data. People were required to be indifferent regarding public behavior. People lived in walled cities determined by their status, except for Outliers, who lived in slums. Gender discrimination with women expected to be subservient to men. The novel focuses on the resistance. Some Native American themes. 

PB - Red Camel Press CY - Birmingham, AL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Excerpt from Murmur Island” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Christopher Yorke ED - Ruzbeh Babaee KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Brief eutopia in which shipwrecked colonists settle on an isolated island and choose the form of their new society.

JF - My Utopia: A Collection of Creative Writing PB - Cambridge Scholars Publishing CY - Newcastle upon Tyne, Eng U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “An Excerpt from the Post-Truth and Irreconcilable Differences Commission” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Brendan C. Byrne (b. 1982) ED - Dan O'Hara ED - Tom Ward ED - Stephen Oram KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A journalist reports a future with a computer as President of the U. S. creating a form of fascism.

JF - Vital Signals: Virtual Futures Near-Future Fictions PB - NewCon Press CY - Alconbury Weston, Eng. SN - 978-1-914953-09-5 N1 -

Originally published online on Imperica (April 2018), which is no longer available online

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Existence Augmented Y1 - 2018 A1 - Channing Whitaker KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Climate change dystopia

PB - Off Speed Press CY - Bakersfield, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Exit Here" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Andrew Kozma ED - Michael DeLuca ED - Danika Dinsmore ED - Mohammad Shafiqul Islam ED - Giselle Leeb ED - Johannes Punkt ED - Sakara Remmu ED - Aïcha Martine Thiam KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Environmental dystopia.

JF - Reckoning 3: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice PB - Reckoning Press CY - Lake Orion, MI VL - 3 N1 -

Rpt. https://reckoning.press/exit-here/ (June 11, 2019). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Expiry Date" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Eamonn Murphy ED - David F. Shultz KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a future dystopian England where healthcare has been privatized and each person is given a termination date with their life insurance expiring twenty-four hours later.

JF - Strange Economics: Economic Speculative Fiction PB - TdotSpec CY - Toronto, ON, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Extreme Bedding” Y1 - 2018 A1 - David Marusek (b. 1951) ED - Gordon Van Gelder (b. 1966) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Brief dystopia with terrorists everywhere.

JF - Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead PB - O/R Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Fall of the American Republic. A Novel Y1 - 2018 A1 - James Lee KW - Male author AB -

Alternative history dystopia with various factions in the U. S. fighting each other and various “enemies” around the world. The text ends with “End of Volume 1.”

PB - Author CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "False Alarm" Y1 - 2018 A1 - John Cooper Hamilton KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set in the U. S. after the Resettlement Wars that had been brought about by climate change and the loss of the ability to grow crops in their traditional locations. This led to some countries importing both the crops and the people who had worked the crops.

JF - Little Blue Marble UR - https://littlebluemarble.ca/2018/05/04/false-alarm/ N1 -

Rpt. without the illus. in Little Blue Marble 2018: Stories of Our Changing Climate. Ed. Katrina Archer. Np: Ganache Media epub, 2018. EBook 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Far Side" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Gabriella Muwanga ED - Ivor W. Hartmann KW - Female author KW - Ugandan American author AB -

The story is set in a climate change dystopia where Earth is becoming uninhabitable, and the Moon is being colonized. 

JF - AfroSFv3 PB - Storytime CY - [Zimbabwe] VL - 3 SN - 978-91-982913-3-9 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Farewell" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Mary Anne Mohanraj (b. 1971) ED - Gordon Van Gelder (b. 1966) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A dystopia in which a family is being broken up and the grandmother is being deported. 

PB - O/R Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Faster Tomorrow" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Damien Krsteski KW - Balkan author KW - German author KW - Male author AB -

The story focuses on the conflict between workers on one side and politicians, corporations, and their publicists on the other over the implementation of laws benefitting the latter.

JF - he Future Fire: Social Political & Speculative Cyber-Fiction VL - no. 44 UR - The Future Fire: 2018.44 fiction fastertomorrow U2 -

Illus. Eric Asaris

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Fatberg and the Sinkholes: A Report on the Findings of a Journey into the United Regions of England by PostRational” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Dan Gavshon Brady A1 - James Pockson ED - William Davies KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Presented as a report on the United Regions of England, which has kicked London out and is establishing a eutopia based on communities and communication. 

JF - Economic Science Fictions PB - Goldsmith Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Feed. A Novel Y1 - 2018 A1 - Nick Clark Windo KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A dystopia in which everyone has an implant that gives them access to all of the world’s information and social media and communicate with each other without speech. While initially, and for most of the characters in the novel, this seems eutopia, everything collapses when the system is hacked, and no one has access to even the most basic information. Even worse, the hackers can implant a new personality in an individual.

PB - Headline CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: William Morrow, 2018

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Field of Sapphires and Sunshine” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Jaymee Goh ED - Sarena Ulibarri KW - Female author KW - Malaysian author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in the 22nd century in which the U.S. economy has collapsed, and it is cheaper for the protagonist to attend university in the U.S. than at home in Asia. The world has adapted to climate change by, among other things, abolishing airplanes, and the protagonist flies home on an airship, and, since the flight takes a week, reflects on the world situation and her place in it as a new graduate. 

JF - Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers. An Anthology PB - World Weaver Press CY - Albuquerque, NM U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “First Steps Outside” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Josh[ua] Gorfain ED - Matt Miner ED - Eric Palicki ED - Tyler Chin-Tanner KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A positive future story in comic form in which two people who meet online as avatars and are afraid of ever going outside choose to meet.

JF - All We Ever Wanted: Stories of a Better World PB - A Wave Blue World CY - Np U2 -

Illus. Matt LeJeune. Letters by Zakk Saam. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Fixable" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Paolo [Tadini] Bacigalupi (b. 1972) ED - Luke Peterson ED - Kenna Blacklock KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

In the future, pollution is devastating, the official position is that the air is clean, and it is illegal to report the facts.

JF - Futurescapes Volume Two: Blue Sky Cities PB - Utah Valley Office of New Urban Mechanics & Utah Valley University CY - [Orem, UT] VL - 2 SN - 9781790982868 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Flight of the Storm God” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Mike Adamson KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a future in which environmental collapse has completely devastated Earth and only 29,000 people are left, kept alive in stasis by Artificial Intelligences. It is told by the one who is periodically awakened and takes place when humans who had left Earth return.

JF - Endless Apocalypse: Short Stories PB - Flame Tree Publishing CY - Lonson SN - 9781786647672 UR - https://littlebluemarble.ca/2021/06/25/flight-of-the-storm-god/ N1 -

Rpt. illus. Little Blue Marble (June 25, 2021). https://littlebluemarble.ca/2021/06/25/flight-of-the-storm-god/

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Floating Hospital B-44” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Tomaso Vimercati ED - Ruzbeh Babaee KW - Italian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia about a plague and how it may be transmitted

JF - My Utopia: A Collection of Creative Writing PB - Cambridge Scholars Publishing CY - Newcastle upon Tyne, Eng U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “For the Sake of Snake Power” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Brenda Cooper (b. 1951) ED - Clark A. Miller ED - Joey Eschrich KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

 near future climate-change dystopia in which poor people in Phoenix die in the regular heat waves because the government is selling their solar power to other cities. The story is followed by the essays, Joshua Loughman, “Lessons from the Snake: Energy and Society;” and Esmerelda Parker, “Drawing from Nature: Designing a Solar Snake.”

JF - The Weight of Light: A Collection of Solar Futures PB - Center for Science and the Imagination Arizona State University CY - Tempe, AZ UR - https://www.dropbox.com/s/961pb8yve314a8r/Weight_of_Light.epub?dl=0 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Fortress Y1 - 2018 A1 - S[arah] A. Jones (b. 1973) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

The novel is set primarily within The Fortress, a women’s city-state. Outside The Fortress, the world is much like the present, and a man living there is required by his wife, to save his marriage and atone for the sexual violence pervading his company, to live in The Fortress for a year. 

PB - Echo Publishing/Bonnier Books CY - Richmond, Vic, Australia N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Erewhon Books, 2020.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Free Orcs of Cascadia” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Margaret Killjoy (b. 1982) KW - Female author KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future in which people in role-playing games choose to fashion their lives on the roles they play. The focus is on the conflict between the “Free Orcs” who are anarchists and the fascist Orcines. The Free Orcs live in the town of Gray Morrow located in the remains of a town in the middle of a “scorched graveyard of a Douglas fir” forest (170). They use “Dark Speech” (related to Tolkien’s “Black Speech”), are matriarchal, which is “roughly anarchist,” (the Orcine are patriarchal), and live by their version of “orcish code of honour” that stresses “interdependence between individual sovereignty and collective identity” (171). The author self-describes as a transgender woman who prefers the pronouns she/her.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 136.3/4 N1 -

Rpt. in her We Won’t Be Here Tomorrow and Other Stories (Chico, CA/Edinburgh, Scot.: AK Press, 2022), 17-35.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Free the Bear Y1 - 2018 A1 - C. D. Spensley KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

California, which is much more scientifically advanced than the rest of the country, secedes. The ending suggests a sequel.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Freedom Trials Y1 - 2018 A1 - Meredith Tate KW - Female author KW - Swiss author KW - US author AB -

A dystopia in which selected prisoners are put through the varied tests of the Freedom Trials with the reward of freedom if they succeed and execution if they fail. The protagonist, who has had her memory of her crime erased, has made enemies among the other prisoners, some of whom want her to fail. 

PB - Page Street Publishing Co CY - Salem, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Freezing Rain, a Chance of Falling” Y1 - 2018 A1 - [Alexandra Margaret] [Dellamonica] (b. 1968) KW - Canadian author KW - Genderqueer author AB -

A complex high-tech dystopia in which individuals gain and lose social capital, which is necessary for almost everything one does, through the responses of people to their actions. The focus is on a man struggling to regain the capital he has lost. Other aspects of the society are referred to in passing, like printed food, the effects of climate change, such as the use of backyards as carbon offsets, which is likely to required in the near future, and that childless young people have left western countries, and their parents and grandparents, for jobs in Asia. The author’s novel Gamechanger. New York: Tor, 2019 is set in the same future. 

JF - The Magazine and Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 135.1/2 SN - 9781597809887 N1 -

Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction of the Year. Volume 4. Ed. Neil Clarke (New York: Night Shade, 2019), 364-428, with an editor’s note on 364.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “From the Shoals of Broken Cities” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Heather Osborne ED - Susan Forest ED - Lucas K. Law KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a future in which the Earth is so damaged environmentally that the only successful society is under water where humans have been adapted to live. 

JF - Shades Within Us: Tales of Migration and Fractured Borders PB - Laksa Media Groups CY - Calgary, AB, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Frostlands Y1 - 2018 A1 - Feffer, John KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Second volume of a series that is connected to 2016 and 2021 Feffer but telling a different story. This volume focuses on the conflict between a large corporation that has developed a treatment that greatly extends life, hoping to save the wealthiest one percent of the population and a woman, the wife of the protagonist in the first volume, who is developing a method for radically cooling the climate. An AI used by the corporation but captured and reprogrammed by the community where the woman lives also plays an important role.

PB - Haymarket Books CY - Chicago, IL SN - 978-1-60846-948-2 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Fuck You Pay Me” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Francis Bass ED - Michael DeLuca ED - Danika Dinsmore ED - Mohammad Shafiqul Islam ED - Giselle Leeb ED - Johannes Punkt ED - Sakara Remmu ED - Aïcha Martine Thiam KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in an environmentally damaged future where most people are deeply in debt, the entire safety net has disappeared, and the possibility of higher education is eroding. 

JF - Reckoning 3: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice PB - Reckoning Press CY - Lake Orion, MI VL - 3 N1 -

. Rpt. https://reckoning.press/fuck-you-pay-me/ (April 2, 2019).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Furnace. A Graphic Novel Y1 - 2018 A1 - Prentis Rollins KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Surveillance dystopia.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Future Encyclopedia of Luddism” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Miriam A. Cherry ED - William Davies KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Presented as an encyclopedia entry that begins with the actual Luddite movement of the earlier nineteenth century, which, instead of being defeated, is successful. Luddite councils are established in factories, then these expand into the political real, then worldwide. The Luddite’s history of successes is then followed to the twenty-fourth century. 

JF - Economic Science Fictions PB - Goldsmiths Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Future Will Be BS Free Y1 - 2018 A1 - Will[iam D.] McIntosh (b. 1962) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel describes the eutopian and dystopian effects of a totally reliable lie detector that can always be carried by anyone and left on.

PB - Dorrance Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Fyrewall” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Stefani Cox ED - Sarena Ulibarri KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a high-tech future Los Angeles that is inside a dome that protects it from the recurrent wildfires and functions as a direct democracy with everyone able to contribute to the decision-making process.

JF - Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers. An Anthology PB - World Weaver Press CY - Albuquerque, NM U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Gaea" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Rich Douek ED - Matt Miner ED - Eric Palicki ED - Tyler Chin-Tanner KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A positive future story in comic form in which Earth has been nursed back to health only for others to arrive set to despoil it again.

JF - All We Ever Wanted: Stories of a Better World PB - A Wave Blue World CY - Np U2 -

Illus. and Colored by David Stoll. Letters by Micah Myers

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Galatea in Utopia” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Nick [Nicholas] Wolven KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future in which all but a few people can change their gender and all bodily characteristics as often as they want and addresses the relationship issues this creates.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy of Science Fiction VL - 134.1/2 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Generations" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Osahon Ize-Iyamu ED - Elly Blue KW - Male author KW - Nigerian author AB -

The story is about the settlement of Mars as the people of Earth are dying of radiation poisoning with the settlement a dystopia that replicates colonialism with Africans settled on the worst land with the worst housing a work.

JF - Bikes Not Rockets: Intersectional Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories PB - Microcosm Publishing CY - Portland, OR U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Gilbert Tong’s Life List” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Kate Heartfield ED - Susan Forest ED - Lucas K. Law KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

A climate-change based dystopia in which the country of Kiribati disappears under the ocean, and under pressure, various countries offer to accept a small number of the refugees. The story is set in Canada, which has settled 5,000 refugees in a fenced-off self-governed area, and then ignored them. 

JF - Shades Within Us: Tales of Migration and Fractured Borders PB - Laksa Media Groups CY - Calgary, AB, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Glow" Y1 - 2018 A1 - J. S. Breukelaar ED - Gordon Van Gelder (b. 1966) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set in the United States after an election of an anti-immigrant president. 

JF - Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead PB - O/R Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach Y1 - 2018 A1 - Kelly Robson (b. 1967) KW - Canadian author KW - Lesbian author AB -

The novel is set in 2267 and in ancient Mesopotamia. In the future, people are beginning to emerge from underground where they had escaped the widespread devastation on the environment, and they hope to restore the damage. Complications arise with the ability to travel to the past. 

PB - Tor.com CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Good Time" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Vasilis Pozios ED - Matt Miner ED - Eric Palicki ED - Tyler Chin-Tanner KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A positive future story in comic form in which technology both punishes and rehabilitates in a very short time. 

JF - All We Ever Wanted: Stories of a Better World PB - AWave Blue World CY - Np U2 -

Illus. and Colors by Ryan Cody. Letters by Zakk Saam

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Greatest Story Ever Told Y1 - 2018 A1 - Una McCormack (b. 1972) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia of a society with slavery in which some slavers escape and lead a revolt, which is defeated.

PB - NewCon Press CY - Weston, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Green Man" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Teika Marija Smits ED - Michael DeLuca ED - Danika Dinsmore ED - Mohammad Shafiqul Islam ED - Giselle Leeb ED - Johannes Punkt ED - Sakara Remmu ED - Aïcha Martine Thiam KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Environmental dystopia in which, with all the bees and other pollinating insects gone, the young poor are hired as pollinators. 

JF - Reckoning 3: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice PB - Reckoning Press CY - Lake Orion, MI VL - 3 N1 -

Rpt. https://reckoning.press/the-green-man/ (January 15, 2019). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Guardian" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Susan Pieters KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a world in which everyone must wear a Guardian that limits their ability to feel emotion. 

JF - Pulp Literature VL - no. 19 U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Habitat" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Christie Yant ED - Susan Forest ED - Lucas K. Law KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the response to climate-change is to move all humans into one huge building and leave nature to itself. The building is designed to replicate the culture and environment of the people, and the story examines the response of the last group of humans who had still been living outside. 

JF - Shades Within Us: Tales of Migration and Fractured Borders PB - Laksa Media Groups CY - Calgary, AB, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Handmaid’s Other Tale” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Jane [Hyatt] Yolen (b. 1939) ED - Gordon Van Gelder (b. 1966) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A poem reflecting the thoughts of a Handmaid from 1985 Atwood. 

JF - Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead PB - O/R Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Hands We’re Given. Aces High, Jokers Wild Book 1 Y1 - 2018 A1 - O. E. Tearmann KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -

A transgender love story is set in a future in a future in which the former United States has been controlled by seven corporations.

PB - Spine Press and Post CY - Np SN - 978-1-72483-549-9 978-1-949693-83-6 N1 -

Rpt. West Peterborough, NH: Amphibian Press, [2019].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Hard Mary" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Sofia Samatar (b. 1971) KW - Female author KW - Somali-American author AB -

The story is set in a society that rejects most technology and enforces traditional gender roles. In the story, some girls find a discarded AI, manage to refurbish it, and keep it hidden for many years. Some fantasy. 

JF - Lightspeed VL - No. 100 SN - 9781597809887 N1 -

Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction of the Year. Volume 4. Ed. Neil Clarke (New York: Night Shade, 2019), 329-63, with an editor’s note on 329.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Harmony With Nature.” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Julien Brasseur ED - Ruzbeh Babaee KW - Belgian author KW - Male author AB -

Very brief eutopia including both an improved environment and a different electoral system. 

JF - My Utopia: A Collection of Creative Writing PB - Cambridge Scholars Publishing CY - Newcastle upon Tyne, Eng U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Harry and Marlowe and the Secret of Ahomana” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Carrie Vaughn (b. 1973) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Lost race eutopia on an isolated island set in a steampunk future that is searching for advanced technology lost when an alien spaceship crashed. The island Ahomana was visited by the aliens before it crashed and left the islanders both technology and the basis for the beliefs that helped create the eutopia. Part of a series entitled “The Aetherian Revolution” featuring the two protagonists that has appeared in Lightspeed Magazine in no. 21 (February 2012), no. 33 (February 2013), no. 45 (February 2014), no. 50. (July 2014), and no. 64 (September 2015).

JF - Lightspeed Magazine VL - no. 100 UR - http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/harry-and-marlowe-and-the-secret-of-ahomana/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hazards of Time Travel Y1 - 2018 A1 - Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The novel begins in an authoritarian future where any deviance or dissent from the official line is punished, where it was dangerous to be too intelligent or the wrong skin color. The novel focuses on a girl who says what she thinks and is exiled to eighty years in the past. 

PB - HarperCollins CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Heavenly Dreams of Mechanical Trees” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Wendy Nikel ED - Sarena Ulibarri KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in an environmental dystopia where all the trees have died, and the mechanical ones designed to replace them are degrading. 

JF - Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers. An Anthology PB - World Weaver Press CY - Albuquerque, NM SN - 9780998702278 N1 -

Rpt. illus. in Little Blue Marble (January 31, 2020). https://littlebluemarble.ca/2020/01/31/the-heavenly-dreams-of-mechanical-trees/

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Helen and the Go-go Ninjas Y1 - 2018 A1 - Ant Sang (b. 1970) A1 - Michael Bennett (b. 1964) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Graphic novel set primarily in a future devastated by a virus developed in the twenty-first century that is used by a religious cult to control most of the people of the future. Ninjas of that time travel back to the past to find a way to destroy the virus and bring a young woman back with them. 

PB - Penguin Random House CY - Auckland, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “His Sweat Like Stars of the Rio Grande” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Janis Ian (b. 1951) ED - Gordon Van Gelder (b. 1966) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Future dystopia in which the U. S. has completely severed ties with Mexico, but it is still depended on the migrant laborers who have been essentially enslaved to keep producing the needed crops. 

JF - Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead PB - O/R Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hive Y1 - 2018 A1 - A[manda] J. Betts KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

The first of two volumes with the first volume set in an underwater, religious dystopia where the people are taught that the limited space in which they live is all there is. The young, female protagonist, a beekeeper, discovers otherwise. Followed by Rogue. Sydney, NSW, Australia: Pan Macmillan, 2019, in which the protagonist escapes to the surface, is discovered by people on a small island, and struggles both to learn about the world she now lives in, be accepted in it, and get a message back to her friends. The novel originated as part of the author’s doctoral dissertation entitled “Rogue: A Novel - and Wanderlust: the value of wonder for readers, writers, and The Vault: A Critical Essay.” Edith Cowan University, 2018. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/2122/ 

PB - Pan Macmillan CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A House by the Sea” Y1 - 2018 A1 - P. H. Lee ED - Elsa Sjunnesson-Henry ED - Dominik Parisien KW - Transgender author AB -

The story is about the lives of the children from Le Guin’s “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas (Variations on a Theme by William James)” (1973) after they are released from the basement and replaced by another child. 

JF - Uncanny Magazine: Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction! VL - no. 24 UR - https://uncannymagazine.com/article/a-house-by-the-sea/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - “HR Confidential” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Sim Bajwa KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The dystopian story is told through exchanges between an employee and a human relations officer, with the employee complaining that the workers are being forced to work around the clock, and the HR person fobbing her off.

JF - Shoreline of Infinity VL - no. 11 U2 -

Illus. Grace Wilson

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “I, Lilli Man” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Rahad Abir KW - Bangladeshi author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which the Lilliputians of Defoe’s Gulliver’s Travels are rediscovered and used for food. 

JF - Mithila Review: The Journal of International Science Fiction & Fantasy VL - 10 UR - http://mithilareview.com/abir_06_18/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - “In a Bar by the Ocean, a World Waits” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Hayden Trenholm (b. ca. 1955) ED - Susan Forest ED - Lucas K. Law KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

A dystopia in which the environment is so damaged that life on Earth is coming to an end. 

JF - Shades Within Us: Tales of Migration and Fractured Borders PB - Laksha Media Groups CY - Calgary, AB, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "In the Background" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Barbara Krasnoff ED - Bart R. Leib ED - Kay T. Holt KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a dystopian future where social norms are being reversed, limiting freedom, and stigmatizing individuals. 

JF - Resist Fascism PB - Crossed Genres CY - [Somerville, MA] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “In the Event of Famine” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Salvatore Difalco KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - Sicilian author AB -

Satirical story about an eatable house intended to provide for any future famine. 

JF - Little Blue Marble UR - https://littlebluemarble.ca/2018/08/24/in-the-event-of-a-famine/ N1 -

Rpt. without the Illus. in Little Blue Marble 2018: Stories of Our Changing Climate. Ed. Katrina Archer. Np: Ganache Media epub, 2018.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "In the Zone" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Brandon Butler ED - David F. Shultz KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

A dystopia in which those privileged to live in the “Zone,” a wealthy enclave, must keep their phones by which they are continuously monitored constantly up-to-date or be expelled. 

JF - Sanctuary: An Experimental Anthology of Speculative Fiction PB - TdotSpec CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Individutopia Y1 - 2018 A1 - Joss Sheldon (b. 1982) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

As a result of Margaret Thatcher’s statement that “There is no society,” a dystopia of extreme individuality: “PRIVATISATION,” “COMPETITION REPLACED COOPERATION,” “PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS DISAPPEARED,” “MENTAL ILLNESS BECAME ENDEMIC" (19).

PB - [Rebel Books] CY - [U. K.] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Inhuman Race Y1 - 2018 A1 - Yudhanjaya Wijeratne (b. 1992) KW - Male author KW - Sri Lankan author AB -

An alternative history dystopia set in Ceylon in a world where the British Empire still exists, China is ruled by an emperor, and humans and bots are in conflict. First volume of a series.

PB - Harper Collins India CY - Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India SN - 978-9353023317 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Insatiable Desires Y1 - 2018 A1 - Zoë Robertson A1 - Jesse Life KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - Male author AB -

Near future dystopia in which workers have been replaced by automation and most of the safety net has been eliminated. 

PB - Roseway Publishing/Fernwood Publishing CY - Halifax, NS, Canada/Winnipeg, MB, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Intervention" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Kelly Robson (b. 1967) ED - Jonathan Strahan (b. 1964) KW - Canadian author KW - Lesbian author AB -

The story is set in a high-tech future where children are raised in creches, with the job of caring for them in some cases a low status, low wage job. The story is told from the point of view of a woman who chooses the job and is rejected by her friends on Luna and chooses to leave to raise children in a space habitat. 

JF - Infinity’s End PB - Solaris CY - Oxford, Eng. SN - 978-1781085752 9781597809887 9781781085769 978-1645240259. N1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Inventor's Daughter" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Lucia Fasano (b. 1993) ED - Matt Miner ED - Eric Palicki ED - Tyler Chin-Tanner KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A future story in comic form in which a woman who invented carbon capture is imprisoned by those in power. In the story, years later when the Earth is flooded, her daughter frees her. 

JF - All We Ever Wanted: Stories of a Better World PB - A Wave Blue World CY - Np U2 -

Illus. Tess Fowler. Colors by Gab Contreras. Letters by Taylor Esposito

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Isn’t Life Great?” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Don[ald Eugene] D’Ammassa (b. 1946) ED - Gordon Van Gelder (b. 1966) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the U.S. is losing a war with China, there are shortages of everything, and the U.S. is deeply divided among factions so that it is unsafe to leave one’s neighborhood.

JF - Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead PB - O/R Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “It Looked Like Our Dreams” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Maria Frölich ED - Matt Miner ED - Eric Palicki ED - Tyler Chin-Tanner KW - Female author KW - Norwegian author AB -

A positive future story in comic form in which a future is imagined where a small enclave embedded in nature and with advanced technology is surrounded by devastation. 

JF - All We Ever Wanted: Stories of a Better World PB - A Wave New World CY - Np U2 -

Illus. by the author. Letters by Matt Krotzer

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "January 2018" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Barry N[athaniel] Malzberg (b. 1939) ED - Gordon Van Gelder (b. 1966) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A response to the invitation to contribute to this volume written as from a dystopia in which all Jews are number and in camps and all correspondence is censured

JF - Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead PB - O/R Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Just Like Heaven" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Matt Miner ED - Matt Miner ED - Eric Palicki ED - Tyler Chin-Tanner KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A positive future story in comic form in which the Earth has recovered, but there is still a need to struggle against those who would go back to the old ways.

JF - All We Ever Wanted: Stories of a Better World PB - A Wave Blue World CY - Np U2 -

Illus. Matt Horak. Colors by Lee Loughridge. Letters by Zakk Saam

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Knitting Day” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Jen Winter ED - Rivqa Rafael ED - Tansy Rayner Roberts (b. 1978) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a patriarchal dystopia in which women, and poor women in particular, are disparaged and end up working in the local factory building robots. The protagonist is one such woman, who had excelled in school but was expelled because, it was assumed, she cheated. In the factory some women form a support community that brings about some changes.

JF - Mother of Invention PB - Twelfth Planet Press CY - Yokine, WA, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - LaGuardia: A Very Modern Story of Immigration Y1 - 2018 A1 - Nnedi[mma Nkemdili] Okorafor (b. 1974) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Graphic novel satire on immigration with aliens from space landing in Nigeria and providing the country with the technology to radically improve life, while also mixing their DNA with human DNA. The novel depicts opposition to the aliens as immigrants, particularly in the United States.

PB - Dark Horse Comics CY - Milwaukie, OR N1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Leaving" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Monique Cuillerier ED - Elly Blue KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Climate-change dystopia in which eastern and lakefront Canada is under water. In the story a woman struggles over deciding to leave her hometown, which is completely submerged, for one of Human colonies in space. Lesbian themes. 

JF - Bikes Not Rockets: Intersectional Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories PB - Microcosm Publishing CY - Portland, OR U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Left to Take the Lead” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Marissa [Kristine] Lingen (b. 1978) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set on an Earth with a badly damaged environment, with the protagonist an indentured laborer from a space colony. One of her “Oort Cloud” stories. Other stories in the series include “Points of Origin.” Illus. Keith Negley. Tor.com (November 34, 2015). https://www.tor.com/2015/11/04/points-of-origin-marissa-lingen/

JF - Analog Science Fiction and Fact VL - 138.7&8 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Levellers" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Deji Bryce Olukotun ED - Gordon Van Gelder (b. 1966) KW - Male author KW - South African author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in in a future where the countryside is dominated by radical environmentalists who take the land of even those who are running sustainable farms if they disapprove of the person. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Life Is a Devil’s Bargain” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Justin Zimmerman (b. 1977) ED - Matt Miner ED - Eric Palicki ED - Tyler Chin-Tanner KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A positive future story in comic form about the dan8er of experimenting with DNA. 

JF - All We Ever Wanted: Stories of a Better World PB - A Wave Blue World CY - Np U2 -

Illus. Ethan Claunch. Colors by Fran Gamba. Letters by Taylor Esposito

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Liquid Reign Y1 - 2018 A1 - Tim Reutemann (b. 1982) KW - German author KW - Male author AB -

A future with both eutopian and dystopian elements. People vote constantly on all sorts of issues. No nations, although there is still regional and national identity. Limit on private wealth. Most of the seventy-two short chapters end with web addresses for additional information. 

PB - Author CY - Np ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Little Grey Weirdos” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Anna Ziegelhof KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Post-apocalyptic story set in California in which three individuals trying to escape from the dangerous cities and hoping to find a rich uncle’s bunker come across two people who have found a way to life. It is told by one woman from each side.

JF - The Future Fire: Social Political & Speculative Cyber-Fiction VL - no. 44 UR - The Future Fire: 2018.46 fiction littlegreyweirdos U2 -

Illus. Fluffgar [The Internet Speculative Fiction Database gives the name as Miranda Jean]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Livewire" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Ayame Whitfield ED - Elly Blue KW - Asian-American author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a future society with deep rich/poor divisions. Its focus is on whether “bots” have developed with emotions, with people destroying those they think have. 

JF - Bikes Not Rockets: Intersectional Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories PB - Microcosm Publishing CY - Portland. OR U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Logistics" Y1 - 2018 A1 - A. J. Fitzwater KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Transgender author AB -

Post-apocalyptic (pandemic) dystopia told by an immune survivor wandering south across Europe.

JF - Clarkesworld VL - no. 138 SN - 9780473491260 UR - https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/fitzwater_04_18/ Audio version at https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_04_18c/ N1 -

Rpt. in Year’s Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy Volume 1. Ed. Marie Hodgkinson ([Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand]: Paper Road Press, 2019), 30-43.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Longing for Earth” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Linda Nagata (b. 1960) ED - Jonathan Strahan (b. 1964) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in what appears to be a eutopian future in which Earth has been restored after most people have left to live on one of the many worlds created to reproduce different environments, but then choosing to live as their younger selves in virtual reality. The protagonist is a man who had hoped to win the lottery that allowed people to immigrate to Earth but, after retiring, while waiting, visited these worlds. At the time of the story, he is well over 300 and visiting his thousandth world.

JF - Infinity’s End PB - Solaris CY - Oxford, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Loser" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Matthew Hughes (b. 1949) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

A dystopia in which a man has been imprisoned for writing in opposition to the policies of the Trump administration and is manipulated into betraying his friends. 

JF - Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead PB - O/R Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - M Archive: After the End of the World Y1 - 2018 A1 - Alexis Pauline Gumbs KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

A complex work that explores Black life after an undescribed catastrophe through stories and poems that explore Black feminism and its ramifications with both positive and negative outcomes. The second volume of a planned tryptic following the non-utopian Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016. See also her 2015 “Evidence.” 

PB - Duke University Press CY - Durham, NC U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mankind Y1 - 2018 A1 - Robert O'Hara KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a world without women. See The New York Times “Arts & Leisure” (December 24, 2017): 4-5 for an interview with the author/director, and Jesse Green, “In the Future, Men Still Ruin Everything.” The New York Times (January 9, 2018): C2 for a review of the play. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Marsh of Camarina” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Matthew Kressel ED - Susan Forest ED - Lucas K. Law KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a near-future dystopia in which AI’s have replaced most jobs, and humans are forming sustainable villages in northern Canada.

JF - Shades Within Us: Tales of Migration and Fractured Borders PB - Laksa Media Groups CY - Calgary, AB, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Measurements of Decay Y1 - 2018 A1 - K. K. Edin (b. 1993) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel is set in a future in which most people have a brain implant that induces visions but can also be weaponized. The novel has many subthemes, including a time travelling girl who provides glimpses of various pasts and futures.

PB - Metempsy Publications CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Meet Me at the State Sponsored Movie Night” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Tiffany E. Wilson ED - Bart R. Leib ED - Kay T. Holt KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia constantly patrolled by the Freedom Enforcers. All schools have been closed, and all entertainment is state sponsored. 

JF - Resist Fascism PB - Crossed Genres CY - [Somerville, MA] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Meg’s Last Bout of Genetic Engineering” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Santiago Belluco ED - Bart R. Leib ED - Kay T. Holt KW - Brazilian author KW - Male author KW - Swiss author KW - US author AB -

The story is set on Mars and the Republic of Texas, which is trying to keep out any genetic engineering. 

JF - Resist Fascism PB - Crossed Genres CY - [Somerville, MA] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Memory Hacker" Y1 - 2018 A1 - J. T. Lawrence KW - Female author KW - South African author AB -

A dystopia in which a woman discovers that her memory of her children has been removed and that those children had been taken to be repurposed as weapons.

JF - 2054: A Collection of Novellas PB - Fire Finch Press CY - Np SN - ‎978-0994723468 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Men Will Be Hungry Afterwards” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Ray Vukcevich (b. 1946) ED - Gordon Van Gelder (b. 1966) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which a young girl’s tweet mildly insulting the President brings the President’s Patriotic Police to town.

JF - Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead PB - O/R Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Million Y1 - 2018 A1 - Karl Schroeder (b. 1962) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

The novel is set on a future Earth that once every thirty years is visited by ten billion visitors for a big party. In between times, Earth is controlled by the Million, who have access to all of Earth’s wealth. 

PB - Tor.com CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Ministry of Truth Handbook: Excerpt on the Strategic Use of Fallacious Reasoning for Thoughtcrime Prevention” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Elizabeth Rard ED - Ezio Di Nucci ED - Stefan Storrie KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Pretty much what the title says: lessons on how to manipulate people. 

JF - 1984 and Philosophy: Is Resistance Futile? PB - Open Court CY - Chicago, IL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Minnesota Diet" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Charlie Jane Anders (b. 1969) ED - Christopher Wharton KW - Male author KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -

Satire on the failure of high-tech systems. 

JF - Slate UR - https://slate.com/technology/2018/01/the-minnesota-diet-a-new-short-story-by-charlie-jane-anders.html. N1 -

Rpt., without the response, in Future Tense Fiction: Stories of the Tomorrow. Ed. Kirsten Berg, Torie Bosch, Joey Eschrich, Ed Finn, Andrés Martinez, and Juliet Ulman (Los Angeles, CA: The Unnamed Press, 2019), 225-39. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Miracle Lambs of Minane” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Finbarr O'Reilly KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

A future Ireland in a world devasted by climate change. Famine; low birth rate. Power held by the church which insists that people need to produce more children. The story focuses on a woman who had been a scientist when there still universities who uses her knowledge to grow better food and provide access to abortions. the author connects it to his “The Last Boat-Builder of Ballyvoloon.” Clarkesworld, no. 133 (October 2017). http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/oreilly_10_17/ which explains why there is no fishing in the future Ireland. 

JF - Clarkesworld VL - No. 145 UR - http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/oreilly_10_18/ N1 -

Rpt. in Best of British Science Fiction 2018. Ed. Donna Scott ([Weston, Eng.]: NewCon Press, 2019), 23-41. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Modern Ecotopia" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Heather Alberro ED - Ruzbeh Babaee KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Brief but fairly detailed communal anarchist eutopia with an emphasis on the environment and comparisons to the current situation. The protagonist is a woman journalist being given a tour of Anakai, with her tour guide giving her a very detailed description. Anakai is composed of “federations of autonomous, self-sufficient, yet interconnected eco-communities of around 500 inhabitants each” (103). “All children . . .are taught from early childhood the basic principles of ecology, how to live sustainably, the unique characteristics of the wonderful animal life with which we share our planet, and how the grand and complex earth systems that support life function" (104).

JF - My Utopia: A Collection of Creative Writing PB - Cambridge Scholars Publishing CY - Newcastle upon Tyne, Eng SN - 978-1-5275-1317-4 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Moon of the Crusted Snow. A Novel Y1 - 2018 A1 - Waubgeshig Rice KW - Canadian author KW - First Nations author KW - Male author AB -

A post-catastrophe novel (loss of all power sources) as it affects a small First Nations settlement as they deal first with their own loss of power and then with the people fleeing cities. The focus of the novel is on those who are most in tune with the traditional ways and how these help them survive, and at the end of the novel, choose to leave to live completely as their ancestors had. 

PB - ECW Press CY - Toronto, ON, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “More Sea Than Tar” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Osahon Ize-Iyamu ED - Michael DeLuca ED - Danika Dinsmore ED - Mohammad Shafiqul Islam ED - Giselle Leeb ED - Johannes Punkt ED - Sakara Remmu ED - Aïcha Martine Thiam KW - Male author KW - Nigerian author AB -

The dystopia of the struggle for survival in a flooded, polluted world. 

JF - Reckoning 3: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice PB - Reckoning Press CY - Lake Orion, MI VL - 3 N1 -

Rpt. https://reckoning.press/more-sea-than-tar/ (February 26, 2019).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Mother of Invention" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Nnedi[mma Nkemdili] Okorafor (b. 1974) ED - Stacey Higgenbotham KW - African American author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Climate-change dystopia set in Lagos, Nigeria. The ending suggests the possibility of a sequel. 

JF - Slate UR - https://slate.com/technology/2018/02/mother-of-invention-a-new-short-story-by-nnedi-okorafor.html. N1 -

Rpt., without the response, in A Year Without Winter. Illus. Ed. Dehlia Hannah, ed. with Brenda Cooper, Joey Eschrich, and Cynthia Selin, Fiction eds. (New York: Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, 2018), 213-31; and in Future Tense Fiction: Stories of the Tomorrow. Ed. Kirsten Borg, Torie Bosch, Joey Eschrich, Ed Finn, Andrés Martinez, and Juliet Ulman (Los Angeles, CA: The Unnamed Press, 2019), 15-33.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - #MurderTrending Y1 - 2018 A1 - Gretchen McNeil (b. 1975) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which criminals are publicly executive on television; and an innocent young woman gets caught in the system. 

PB - Freeform Press CY - Los Angeles, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "My Utopian Island" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Emilie Vienne ED - Ruzbeh Babaee KW - Belgian author KW - Female author AB -

Brief eutopia of a pollution-free eutopia that does not use money and functions based on voluntary service

JF - My Utopia: A Collection of Creative Writing PB - Cambridge Scholars Publishing CY - Newcastle upon Tyne, Eng U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Name Unspoken” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Richard [Diranne] Bowes (1944-2023) ED - Gordon Van Gelder (b. 1966) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

In this future New York City, the name unspoken, known as the Monster, is Trump.

JF - Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead PB - O/R Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Nation Building and Baptism” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Octavia Cade (b. 1977) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

Powerful story about a ceremony welcoming refugees into Aotearoa/New Zealand set in an environmentally devastated world. 

JF - Capricious VL - no. 10 UR - http://www.capricioussf.org/nation-building-and-baptism/ U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Negative Space" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Max Knight ED - Luke Peterson ED - Kenna Blacklock KW - Australian author KW - Male author KW - Vietnam author AB -

The story is set in a future China with extreme pollution but that has areas that under domes that are accessible to those with sufficient money or status and is building a city that is pollution free and in the open air. The protagonist is a fairly high-status functionary who is trying to quit smoking during a crackdown on smokers. 

JF - Futurescapes Volume Two: Blue Sky Cities PB - Utah Valley Office of New Urban Mechanics & Utah Valley University CY - [Orem, UT] VL - 2 SN - 9781790982868 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Neom" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Lavie Tidhar (b. 1976) KW - English author KW - Israeli author KW - Male author AB -

Neom is a city built on the Red Sea on the Arabis peninsula that is designed to attract high-flying tech entrepreneurs and workers with the laws that suit them rather than Saudi Arabia. It is described by a middle-aged woman cleaner as she cleans an apartment and then walks back to the district where poor support workers like her live. 

JF - Asimov’s Science Fiction VL - 43.1 & 2 (516 & 517) SN - 9781912950683 N1 -

Rpt. in Best of British Science Fiction 2019. Ed. Donna Scott ([Weston, Eng.]: NewCon Press, 2020), 37-45

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "New Action" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Nisi [Denise Angela] Shawl (b. 1955) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

The focus of the story is on resistance to an authoritarian government that has limited the number of contacts that any group can have with other groups. 

JF - e-flux VL - no. 93 UR - http://worker01.e-flux.com/pdf/article_211366.pdf ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The New Black" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Nora O Murchi ED - William Davies KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

Dystopia in which most people have lost their jobs to algorithms and the few who work with the algorithms are constantly monitored and required to work precisely as directed. 

JF - Economic Science Fictions PB - Goldsmiths Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Newsletter" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Jennifer Marie Brissett (b. 1969) ED - Gordon Van Gelder (b. 1966) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of censorship. 

JF - Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead PB - O/R Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Night of the Party Y1 - 2018 A1 - Tracey Mathias KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which Britain is controlled by a single party and everyone born outside the country is considered illegal and subject to arrest and deportation. Not reporting an illegal is itself a crime. 

PB - Scholastic CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Nine Y1 - 2018 A1 - Zach Hines KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A young adult dystopia in which everyone has nine lives, and, in order to avoid overpopulation, the government encourages suicide by providing benefits for those who kill themselves until they have one life left. 

PB - HarperTeen CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “No Point Talking” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Geoff[rey Charles] Ryman (b. 1951) ED - Gordon Van Gelder (b. 1966) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - UK author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the United States is experiencing the effects of climate change and has fractured into areas dominated by conservatives and areas dominated by the left. 

JF - Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead PB - O/R Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Notes on Retrieving a Fallen Banner” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Marguerite Reed ED - Gordon Van Gelder (b. 1966) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Near future dystopia in which abortion providers are being by the authorities even though abortion remains legal. 

JF - Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead PB - O/R Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - An Ocean of Minutes Y1 - 2018 A1 - Thea Lim (b. 1981) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - Singaporean author KW - US author AB -

The novel begins in Houston, Texas in 1981 when a vicious plague strikes the area. To save the uninfected, some people volunteer to be sent into the future, which turns out to be a dystopia in which those sent from the past are treated relatively well or extremely poorly based on their skills. 

PB - Quercus CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, 2019

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Of Things That May Come” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Innocent Chizarram Ilo KW - Male author KW - Nigerian author AB -

The story is set in a heavily polluted future facing a devastating water shortage. 

JF - Big Echo: Critical SF VL - no. 9 UR - Of Things That May Come — Big Echo ER - TY - ABST T1 - “One Fell Swoop” Y1 - 2018 A1 - James [Kenneth] Morrow (b. 1947) ED - Gordon Van Gelder (b. 1966) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the Nihilistic Rifle Aficionados organize a school shooting that they hope will undermine attempts to regulate guns.

JF - Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead PB - O/R Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Ones Who Stay and Fight” Y1 - 2018 A1 - N[ora] K. Jemisin (b. 1972) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

The author calls the story “a pastiche and response” to Le Guin’s “The Ones Who Walk from Amelas” (1973) (xi), with some references to Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), and the story reflects its title.

JF - How Long ‘Til Black Future Month PB - Orbit CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Lightspeed Magazine, no. 116 (January 2020). https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-ones-who-stay-and-fight/

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Only Constant” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Leslie Howle ED - Gordon Van Gelder (b. 1966) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which any dissent leads to arrest. 

JF - Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead PB - O/R Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Oversleeper Y1 - 2018 A1 - [Stewart] [Ferris] KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A dystopian sleeper awakes tale in which a man who had been in a coma twice awakens to a poor, violent, depopulated future caused by a plague brought to Earth from dirt from Mars. During the man’s comas, doctors had used his sperm to create thousands of babies for local repopulation and had sold his sperm to other countries, who had used it in the same way.

PB - Accent Press CY - Cardiff, Wales SN - 9781786151834 N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Simon & Schuster ebook, 2018.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Overvalued" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Mark Stasenko ED - Zachary Karabell KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A dystopia in which people can invest in the future of an individual buying them admission to a higher quality university, but, as with the stock market, others bet against the individual. 

JF - Slate UR - https://slate.com/technology/2018/11/mark-stasenko-overvalued-short-story.html N1 -

Rpt., without the response, in Future Tense Fiction: Stories of the Tomorrow. Ed. Kirsten Berg, Torie Bosch, Joey Eschrich, Ed Finn, Andrés Martinez, and Juliet Ulman (Los Angeles, CA: The Unnamed Press, 2019), 127-39

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Illus. Doris Liou

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Owning Up To the Past" Y1 - 2018 A1 - James Maddox ED - Matt Miner ED - Eric Palicki ED - Tyler Chin-Tanner KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A positive future story in comic form in which in a father takes a child living in the eutopia to see the horrors of the past.

JF - All We Ever Wanted: Stories of a Better World PB - A Wave Blue World CY - Np U2 -

Illus. Gavin Smith. Colors by Nick Wentland. Letters by Justin Birch

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pacifica Y1 - 2018 A1 - Kristen Simmons KW - Female author KW - Japanese author AB -

A dystopia that takes place after “the Melt” in which a lottery chooses people to be taken to an “island paradise,” which does not exist. The novel is based on the treatment of U. S. citizens of Japanese heritage, including the author’s grandmother. 

PB - Tor Teen CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Pain Camp Economics” Y1 - 2018 A1 - AUDNIT [pseud.] ED - William Davies AB -

Dystopia set in 2056 in which corporations have taken over nations and are known as CorpoNations, and the environment has been largely destroyed.

JF - Economic Science Fictions PB - Goldsmiths Press CY - London N1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Passion According to Mike” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Scott [Michael] Bradfield (b. 1955) ED - Gordon Van Gelder (b. 1966) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Mike Pence (b. 1959) (Trump’s Vice President) awakes in a future as a hermaphrodite.

JF - Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead PB - O/R Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Paula’s Choice” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Cristina Barsan ED - Ruzbeh Babaee KW - Belgian author KW - Female author KW - Romanian author AB -

Dystopia in which a stay-at-home housewife is the highest position attainable by a woman, but it is only available to women married to a man with high status. 

JF - My Utopia: A Collection of Creative Writing PB - Cambridge Scholars Publishing CY - Newcastle upon Tyne, Eng U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Pedaling" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Tuere T. S. Ganges KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a future in which the U.S. government has collapse, and violence, particularly racial violence is common and focuses on a group of mixed-race teenagers trying to find a place to live.

JF - Fiyah: Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction VL - no. 8 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Perfect Is No/Place of Mine” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Iris Reisenberger ED - Ruzbeh Babaee KW - Belgian author KW - Female author AB -

Poem that reflects on the nature of utopia

JF - My Utopia: A Collection of Creative Writing PB - Cambridge Scholars Publishing CY - Newcastle upon Tyne, Eng U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Perfidious Albion Y1 - 2018 A1 - Sam Byers (b. 1979) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A post-Brexit dystopia set in a small, previously peaceful English town and the media encourages conflict.

PB - Faber & Faber CY - London SN - 9780571336296 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Phantasmatopia” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Hüseyin Alhas ED - Ruzbeh Babaee KW - Male author KW - Turkish author AB -

Poem touching on justice, religion, ecology, and politics comparing elements of a eutopia with the current dystopia. 

JF - My Utopia: A Collection of Creative Writing PB - Cambridge Scholars Publishing CY - Newcastle upon Tyne, Eng U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Pilot" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Dean Trippe (b. 1980) ED - Matt Miner ED - Eric Palicki ED - Tyler Chin-Tanner KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A positive future story in comic form in which good relations between Earth and aliens are undermined by a rogue human but restored.

JF - All We Ever Wanted: Stories of a Better World PB - A Wave Blue World CY - Np U2 -

Illus. by the author. Letters Micah Myers. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Pinion" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Stephanie Gunn ED - Russell B. Farr KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

As suggest by the book’s subtitle, there is much fantasy, but the setting is a future dystopia in which only the Chosen, who live in immaculate towers, have clean air and water, fresh food, and sanitation. The workers put in extremely long hours in appalling conditions to ensure that the system supporting the Chosen is maintained.

JF - Aurum: A Golden Anthology of Australian Fantasy PB - Ticonderoga Publications CY - Greenwood, WA, Australia SN - 978-1-925212-34-1 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Plum Rains Y1 - 2018 A1 - Andromeda Romano-Lax (b. 1970) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Part historical novel that begins in Japan in 2029 when the aging of the population is reaching a crisis point with the government trying to solve the problem of finding caregivers with robotic AI. One of the protagonists is a woman from the Philippines working as a caregiver for a wealthy old woman who has been given a robot programmed to learn and respond to all her needs. If she loses the job that allows her to support her family back in the Philippines, she will be expelled from the country. Some things, of course, go wrong as the old woman becomes attached to the robot and reveals secrets regarding her and Japan’s past.

PB - Soho Press CY - New York SN - 978-1-61695-901-2 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Pollution People" Y1 - 2018 A1 - C[henji] Pam Zhang (b. 1990) KW - Chinese-American author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a future United States that has been devastated by climate change and pollution. 

JF - Black Warrior Review VL - 44.1 UR - https://bwr.ua.edu/from-the-archives-pollution-people-by-c-pam-zhang/ U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Porque el Girasol se Llama el Girasol” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Rich[ard William] Larson (b. 1992) ED - Susan Forest ED - Lucas K. Law KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - Nigerien author AB -

Dystopian story of people living in the U.S. who are desperate to get over the Wall into Mexico. 

JF - Shades Within Us: Tales of Migration and Fractured Borders PB - Laksa Media Groups CY - Calgary, AB, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Precaution at Penn Station” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Michael Kandel (b. 1941) ED - Gordon Van Gelder (b. 1966) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which Homeland Security kills people chosen at random to avoid charges of racial profiling.

JF - Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead PB - O/R Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Premium Care” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Brandon Ketchum ED - David F. Shultz KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Brief dystopia set in a future with profit-making corporate control of health care with restrictions on care for non-citizens and the military enforcing the rules.

JF - Strange Economics: Economic Speculative Fiction PB - TdotSpec CY - Toronto, ON, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Public Money and Democracy” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Jo[seph Churches] Walton (b. 1982) ED - William Davies KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A combination of essay and speculative fiction that explores the interactions among value, the commons, algocracy (rule by algorithms), democracy, and complexity and unpredictability. 

JF - Economic Science Fictions PB - Goldsmiths Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pulse Point Y1 - 2018 A1 - Colleen Nelson A1 - Nancy Chappell-Pollack KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Climate change dystopia in which a city walls itself off from the outside world. People are required to exercise in ways that generate energy for the city, and each person is fitted with a microchip, called pulse points to ensure that they do. Of course, there is corruption. One woman’s pulse point fails, freeing her from the rules. 

PB - Great Plains Publications/Yellow Dog CY - Winnipeg, MB, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Queen Colonies" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Annelise Knoot ED - David F. Shultz KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a climate-change dystopia where people have moved underground.

JF - Colony: A One-Shot Anthology of Speculative Fiction PB - TDOTSPEC CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Red Clocks. A Novel Y1 - 2018 A1 - Leni Zumas (b. 1972) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which abortion is illegal, and the Personhood Amendment grants rights to embryos.

PB - Little, Brown CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Red Moon Y1 - 2018 A1 - Kim Stanley Robinson (b. 1952) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An adventure/thriller that explores East-West relations on Earth and the Moon and critiques both capitalism and communism. Includes a description of the free crater people, an anarchist community based on “blockchain governance.” Some discussion of the classic Chinese utopia Peach Blossom Spring with a translation of Wang Wei’s version  “Source of the Peach Blossom Stream (Wang Wei)” (343-44), which is rpt. in Stan’s Kitchen: A Robinson Reader. Ed. David C. Grubbs (Framingham, MA: NESFA Press, 2020), 191-92.

PB - Orbit CY - New York SN - 978-0-316-26237-8 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Redcap Country Y1 - 2018 A1 - Henry Dodson KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which a small town in Texas is completely under the control of the mayor with young men in red caps enforcing his rule. The novel focuses on a young boy who tries to resist.

PB - Np CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Rejoice: A Knife to the Heart. A Novel of First Contact Y1 - 2018 A1 - [Steve Rune] [Lundin] (b. 1959) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

A novel of first contact in which the aliens choose not to reveal themselves except to one woman who they try to convince to be their spokesperson. The make large parts of the world’s wilderness inaccessible to humans, stop all violence, and damage to the environment by oil companies. Considerable satire. 

PB - Promontory Press CY - New York U3 -

Steven Erickson [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Remember the Green” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Seanan McGuire (b. 1978) ED - Susan Forest ED - Lucas K. Law KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

An environmental dystopia in which some people have been genetically engineered to grow crops and are now being removed from the green areas they created into areas that are all grey. The story concerns a girl from the green who meets another girl from the green.

JF - Shades Within Us: Tales of Migration and Fractured Borders PB - Laksa Media Groups CY - Calgary, AB, Canada SN - 978-1-988140-05-06 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Rending and the Nest. A Novel Y1 - 2018 A1 - Kaethe Schwehn KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Ninety percent of the world’s population simply disappears, and those remaining. One woman brings together some of those left and creates a community she calls Zion. Women give birth to inanimate objects. Other survivors arrive with other ideas and conflict develops. 

PB - Bloomsbury CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Requiem" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Vandana Singh (b. 1950) ED - Peter Crowther (b. 1949) ED - Nick Gevers KW - Female author KW - Indian author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future where climate change has damaged the culture of Alaskan natives, but, in which, temporarily the world responded by stopping many of the activities that were driving the changes. At the time the story takes place, the sea ice has begun to return, but already corporations are again drilling for oil. 

JF - Ambiguity Machines & Other Stories PB - Small Beer Press CY - Easthampton, MA SN - 978-1618731432 9781597809887 N1 -

Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction of the Year. Volume 4. Ed. Neil Clarke (New York: Night Shade, 2019), 160-200, with an editor’s note on 160.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Revolution 2050 Y1 - 2018 A1 - Jay Chalk KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

After a new civil war in the United States, the North American Commonwealth is a dictatorship controlling the East and the free Western Alliance governs the West. First volume in a series.

PB - Dancing Lemur Press CY - Pikesville, NC U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Riot of the Wind and Sun” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Jennifer Lee Rossman ED - Sarena Ulibarri KW - Queer author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a very small, underground town outside Adelaide, SA, Australia that was established to maintain the solar panels that provide electricity for the Adelaide and gets very little electricity itself. But, despite its status and problems, the town is a real community in which the people work together to improve their lives. 

JF - Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers. An Anthology PB - World Weaver Press CY - Albuquerque, NM U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Road South” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Madelaine E. Robins A1 - Becca [Rebecca] Caccavo ED - Gordon Van Gelder (b. 1966) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Climate change dystopia told through telephone conversations between part of a family making their way south to from the United States to Antarctica, the one area of green left, and parents left behind. 

JF - Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead PB - O/R Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Rock Manning Goes for Broke Y1 - 2018 A1 - Charlie Jane Anders (b. 1969) KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -

The novel is set in a United States that is becoming a dystopia with the use of what may or may not be a false war to exercise control. 

PB - Subterranean Press CY - Burton, MI N1 -

Parts were previously published as “Break! Break! Break!” In The End is Nigh: The Apocalypse Triptych. Ed. Hugh Howey and John Joseph Adams ([Np: np], 2014), 39-50; “Rock Manning Can’t Hear You.” In The End Is Now: The Apocalypse Triptych. Ed. Hugh Howey and John Joseph Adams (Np: Np, 2014), 55-67; and “The Last Movie Ever Made.” In The End Has Come. The Apocalypse Triptych. Ed. John Joseph Adams and Hugh Howey (Np: Editors, 2015), 211-23. Chapter 1 was published as “Break! Break! Break!” Lightspeed Science Fiction & Fantasy, no. 43 (March 2014). http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/break-break-break/ and in The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy. Ed. Rich Horton ([Germantown, MD]; Prime Books, 2015), 217-27.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Rule of One Y1 - 2018 A1 - Ashley Saunders A1 - Leslie Saunders KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set in a future United States that has a rigorously enforced one-child rule. One family produces twins, and the girls pretend that there is only one child, each being the child every other day. Then the deception is discovered. The first volume of a series followed by The Rule of Many. New York: Amazon/Skyscape, 2019, in which the twins return from Canada, where they had escaped, to challenge the law. The final volume is The Rule of All. New York: Amazon/Skyscape, 2020 in which, after defeating the resistance, the one-child rule is permanently eliminated. 

PB - Amazon/Skyscape CY - New York SN - 978-1503953161 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Salvation Y1 - 2018 A1 - Peter F. Hamilton (b. 1960) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

First volume of a galaxy spanning trilogy. In the first volume, one thread is that Earth is a near-utopia based on technology provided by apparently friendly aliens, who, at the end are revealed as anything but friendly. Two other threads are developed, the discovery and exploration of an enigmatic crashed alien spaceship and a far-future in which humanity is fighting against extinction by other aliens. Salvation Lost. London: Pan Macmillan; 2019; U.S. ed. New York: Del Rey/Random House, 2019. The Saints of Salvation. London: Pan Macmillan, 2020. U.S. ed. New York: Del Rey/Random House, 2020 is forthcoming.

PB - Pan Macmillan CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Del Rey/Random House, 2018.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Sanctuary" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Brian Francis Slattery (b. 1975) ED - Gordon Van Gelder (b. 1966) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A Sanctuary City that provides refuge for undocumented immigrants is attacked with multiple bombs and weapons by self-styled patriots.

JF - Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead PB - O/R Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Sandals Full of Rainwater” Y1 - 2018 A1 - A. E. Prevost KW - Canadian author KW - Non-binary author AB -

The journal issue is “The Diverse Pronouns Issue,” and the story is set in a country with forty-five pronouns and the struggle of an immigrant from a country with only nine to understand and be understood. 

JF - Capricious VL - no. 9 SN - 9781590216767 N1 -

Rpt. in Transcendent 4: The Year’s Best Transgender Speculative Fiction. Ed. Bogi Takács (Amherst, MA: Lethe Press, 2019), 193-213, with a “Content Note” on 271.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Scribe. A Novel Y1 - 2018 A1 - Alyson [Carol] Hagy (b. 1960) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe (civil war and disease) dystopia in which the remaining population is still deeply divided with some slavery. 

PB - Graywolf Press CY - Minneapolis, MN U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Seclusion Y1 - 2018 A1 - Jacqui Castle KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The novel is set in a dystopian future in which the United States has built a high wall around the entire country and all daily activities are under the control of the Board. The protagonist, Patricia “Patch” Collins, a true believer in the system, and her friend Rexx discover a box of books from before the seclusion and begin to learn some of the truth. They then travel across the country, meeting people and learning more, try to escape to Canada. A sequel is The Chasm. Oakland, CA: Inkshares, 2022 in which Patch has made it to Canada and Rexx is held by the Board.

PB - Inkshares CY - Oakland, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Secure Home" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Wayne Cusack ED - David F. Shultz KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

An apparently ideal gated community that separates people into sub-communities based on politics, religion, and so forth collapses when the sub-communities start attacking each other. 

JF - Sanctuary: An Experimental Anthology of Speculative Fiction PB - TdotSpec CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Seeds" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Erik Burnham ED - Matt Miner ED - Eric Palicki ED - Tyler Chin-Tanner KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A positive future story in comic form in which a retired superhero has to be convinced his life was worthwhile.

JF - All We Ever Wanted: Stories of a Better World PB - A Wave Blue World CY - Np U2 -

Pencils by Anthony Marques. Inks by Fernando Ruiz. Colors by Matt LeJeune. Letters by Matt Krotzer

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Seventeen Souls” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Tyler Chin-Tanner ED - Matt Miner ED - Eric Palicki ED - Tyler Chin-Tanner KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A positive future story in comic form in which world peace has been achieved and famine and disease conquered. A project is developed to rescue from the past and bring them to the better future.

JF - All We Ever Wanted: Stories of a Better World PB - A Wave Blue World CY - Np U2 -

Illus. Robbi Rodriguez. Colors by Michael Wiggam. Letters by Micah Myers

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Seventh Street Matriarchy” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Marie [Lillian] Vibbert (b. 1974) ED - Bart R. Leib ED - Kay T. Holt KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a small town that is trying to eliminate a very successful public housing project and the resistance of those living in it. 

JF - Resist Fascism PB - Crossed Genres CY - [Somerville, MA] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Severance Y1 - 2018 A1 - Ling Ma (b. 1983) KW - Chinese-American author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia (disease/pandemic). The novel alternates between the life of the protagonist in New York City before most people dies and her life with others after they leave the city. The female author was born in China and raised and educated and lives in the U. S.

PB - Farrar, Straus & Giroux CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Sexy Robot Heroes Y1 - 2018 A1 - Sandra [A.] McDonald ( b. 1966) ED - Rivqa Rafael ED - Tansy Rayner Roberts (b. 1978) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in Guangzhou (Canton), China in a future in which there has been extensive flooding of the city due to climate change. There is extreme poverty, and gangs rule the areas of the city where the story is set, but the story is concerned with the struggles of a transgender individual to survive in this setting. 

JF - Mother of Invention PB - Twelfth Planet Press CY - Yokine, WA, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Shrinking, Sinking Land Y1 - 2018 A1 - Kell[ey] Cowley KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Environmental dystopia in which everyone is required to hibernate underground to survive the winter. Liverpool is under water and Manchester is flooded. The novel focuses on a woman who refuses to hibernate. A prequel is her Last March for Planet Earth. [Chester, Eng.]: Odd Voice Out Publishing, 2018. EBook. 

PB - Odd Voice Out Publishing CY - Chester, Eng. N1 -

Developed from her “Shrinking, Sinking Land.” By Kelley Cowley. Everything Change: An Anthology of Climate Fiction. Ed. Manjana Milkoreit, Meredish Martinez, and Eschrich. [Tempe: Arizona State University], 2016. EBook. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Singles' Day" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Samantha Murray KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in an overpopulated future where once a year there are huge discounts for single people, with a lottery for larger living space and for transport off Earth to a newly settled planet. 

JF - Interzone VL - no. 277 SN - 9781597809887 N1 -

Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction of the Year. Volume 4. Ed. Neil Clarke (New York: Night Shade, 2019), 224-45, with an editor’s note on 224.

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Illus. Richard Wagner

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sinless: Eye of the Beholder. Book 1 Y1 - 2018 A1 - Sarah Tarkoff KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

First volume of a young adult religious dystopia series. In this volume the young woman who is the protagonist lives in a world that she believed in where those who do not follow the rules are savagely beaten, disfigured, or killed. She discovers that nothing is as she had believed and struggles against it. The second volume is Fearless: Eye of the Beholder. Book 2. New York: Harper Voyager, 2019. 

PB - Harper Voyager CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Skinned" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Lesley Nneka Arimah (b. 1983) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Nigerian author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set in an unnamed African country in which women past puberty are expected, based on religion and tradition, to wear no clothes until they are married. Most do, and the story is told from the perspective of an older, never married woman. 

JF - McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern VL - no. 53 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Skippy’s Visit East” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Michael Kandel (b. 1941) ED - Gordon Van Gelder (b. 1966) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Climate change dystopia with the loss of all animals.

JF - Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead PB - O/R Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Smallest Atom in the World” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Melissa Yuan-Innes KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Environmental dystopia presented from the point of view of insects as species disappear. 

JF - Little Blue Marble UR - https://littlebluemarble.ca/2020/05/29/ghost-fishing/ N1 -

Rpt. without the illus. in Little Blue Marble 2018: Stories of Our Changing Climate. Ed. Katrina Archer. Np: Ganache Media epub, 2018.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Sneakers" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Michael Libling ED - Gordon Van Gelder (b. 1966) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of the future U.S. immigration policies

JF - Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead PB - O/R Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Soil Merchant” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Anthony W. Eichenlaub KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which all the good soil is gone.

JF - Little Blue Marble UR - https://littlebluemarble.ca/2018/11/09/the-soil-merchant/ N1 -

Rpt. without the illus. in Little Blue Marble 2018: Stories of Our Changing Climate. Ed. Katrina Archer. Np: Ganache Media epub, 2018. EBook 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Something to Watch Over Me: My Favourite Sentience” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Marissa [Kristine] Lingen (b. 1978) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Children’s perspective on the various AIs that they have experienced. 

JF - Nature VL - 556.7702 N1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Speculative Hyperstition at a Northern Further Education College” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Judy Thorne ED - William Davies KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Presented as interviews with a range of people about what they would like the world to be like in the future, which initially seem straightforward, but gradually becomes clear that the setting is a deeply depleted future after the U. K. left the European Union. 

JF - Economic Science Fictions PB - Goldsmiths Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Sponsor" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Matthew Baker (b. 1985) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is in a future where everything is copyrighted, trademarked, and officially registered, and is about a wedding where the official sponsor goes bankrupt disrupting all the couple’s plans.

JF - Salt Hill Journal VL - no. 40 SN - 9781250237200 N1 -

 Rpt. in the author's Why Visit America. Stories (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 2020), 142-56. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Statues of Limitations” Y1 - 2018 A1 - [Russell] [Schechter] ED - Gordon Van Gelder (b. 1966) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia playing on the removal of Confederate statues in which statues of people currently disapproved of are being replaced by those of right-wing heroes like Rush Limbaugh and Steve Bannon. 

JF - Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead PB - O/R Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A street but half made up: Meet the literary agent” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Anna Zumbro KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story takes place in what is called a library city in which books are housed on the street throughout the city. The focus is on a robot that re-shelves books that are misplaced and reads and is affected by them. 

JF - Nature VL - 553.7867 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Streets Turned Blue and Green” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Dennis Mombauer (b. 1984) KW - German author KW - Male author KW - Sri Lankan author AB -

Climate change dystopia set in the flooded city of Colombo, Sri Lanka. 

JF - Little Blue Marble UR - https://littlebluemarble.ca/2018/09/28/the-streets-turned-blue-and-green/ N1 -

Rpt. without the illus. in Little Blue Marble 2018: Stories of Our Changing Climate. Ed. Katrina Archer. Np: Ganache Media epub, 2018.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Suffocation" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Robert [David] Reed (b. 1956) ED - Gordon Van Gelder (b. 1966) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in the period in which the world-system falls apart, which leads to environmental collapse.

JF - Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead PB - O/R Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Suicide Club: A Novel About Living Y1 - 2018 A1 - [Qingpei] Rachel Heng (b. 1988) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Singaporean author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which near-immortality is possible and death is illegal, but there are people who believe that they should have the choice of whether they live or die.

PB - Henry Holt CY - New York SN - 978-147-36-7291-8 9781473672901 N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Sceptre, 2018. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Suicide Watch" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Susan [J.] Emshwiller KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A dystopia in which people pay to watch someone commit suicide. 

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 135.3/4 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sunshine Y1 - 2018 A1 - H. W. Fitzroy AB -

The future of the United States as an isolated, fundamentalist Christian dystopia in which “profit” is the word for anything good, workers are called “dregs,” and all blacks are called “criminals.” Teetotal unless one has money. The Sunshine corporation runs everything. The journalist who has managed to get a visa to visit lying on his application starts his visit by asking for a drink, admitting that he is Catholic, otherwise getting in trouble, and ultimately involving himself in a revolt, where the novel ends abruptly. A loosely related companion volume is 2018 Fitzroy, Charles.

PB - Np CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Synapse Sequence Y1 - 2018 A1 - Daniel Godfrey KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel is set in a future London where algorithms determine who gets what work and are the legal system and humans are overseen by technology.

PB - Titan Books CY - London SN - 978-1785653179 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Tattoo Y1 - 2018 A1 - Michelle Rene KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

An odd novella in which at Judgement Day everyone’s past is written on their skin, which means that all good and bad deeds can be known, although some people have their stories removed by a tattoo artist. The story gets complicated when a young woman with completely clear skin appears.

PB - Annorlunda Books CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Terrific Leader” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Harry [Norman] Turtledove (b. 1949) ED - Gordon Van Gelder (b. 1966) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which everyone believes that the “Terrific Leader” will make American great again as everything gets worse.

JF - Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead PB - O/R Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “This Ain’t the Apocha-Rich You Hoped For” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Tuere T. S. Ganges ED - Elly Blue KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Under Trump’s policies, conservatives and liberals go to war against each other until they realize that the rich are still getting rich. They then join forces against the rich, only to discover that the rich control the military, the electric grid, and everything else that matters. The rich hole up in armed compounds or leave the country while the apocalypse takes place. 

JF - Bikes Not Rockets: Intersectional Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories PB - Microcosm Publishing CY - Portland, OR U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “This Constant Narrowing” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Geoff[rey Charles] Ryman (b. 1951) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - UK author KW - US author AB -

A dystopia in which genders and ethnicities are slowly disappearing. 

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 135.5/6 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “This is an Optimistic Story about the Future” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Marie [Lillian] Vibbert (b. 1974) ED - Katrina Archer KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Satirical story about a future that has effective mechanisms to eliminate misunderstandings among people. 

JF - Little Blue Marble UR - https://littlebluemarble.ca/2018/05/25/this-is-an-optimistic-science-fiction-story-about-the-future/ N1 -

Rpt. in Little Blue Marble 2018: Stories of Our Changing Climate. Ed. Katrina Archer. Np: Ganache Media epub, 2018. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Through Darkest Europe Y1 - 2018 A1 - Harry [Norman] Turtledove (b. 1949) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Set in an alternative modern times where Islam developed science, technology and enlightenment while Western Europe remained a hotbed of religious fundamentalism.

PB - Tor CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Tor, 2019

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Tiger" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Joe M. McDermott (b. 1979) ED - Michael DeLuca ED - Danika Dinsmore ED - Mohammad Shafiqul Islam ED - Giselle Leeb ED - Johannes Punkt ED - Sakara Remmu ED - Aïcha Martine Thiam KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Environmental dystopia which most animals have disappeared.

JF - Reckoning 3: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice PB - Reckoning Press CY - West Orion, MI VL - 3 N1 -

Rpt. https://reckoning.press/tiger/ (February 5, 2019).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Tiger Flu. A Novel Y1 - 2018 A1 - Larissa Lai (b. 1967) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A post-catastrophe (disease/pandemic) dystopia with a eutopian community of women who have escaped from a patriarchal dystopia.

PB - Arsenal Pulp Press CY - Vancouver, BC, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “To Rain Upon the City” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Rivqa Rafael ED - Bart R. Leib ED - Kay T. Holt KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a religious dystopia in which the most recent immigrants, who are Jewish, live at the bottom physically and hierarchically, of the society and focuses on survival through making contacts with other outsiders. 

JF - Resist Fascism PB - Crossed Genres CY - [Somerville, MA] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Twice the Same River” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Fran Wilde (b. 1972) ED - Luke Peterson ED - Kenna Blacklock KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is about corruption in a city that is transforming itself into a green city, corruption that hurts the farmers in the surrounding countryside.

JF - Futurescapes Volume Two: Blue Sky Cities PB - Utah Valley Office of New Urban Mechanics & Utah Valley University CY - [Orem, UT] VL - 2 SN - 9781790982868 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Two Explicit and Three Oblique Apologies to My Oldest Daughter One Month Before Her Eighteenth Birthday” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Heather Lindsley ED - Gordon Van Gelder (b. 1966) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Surveillance dystopia. 

JF - Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead PB - O/R Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Two Left Feet" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Eric Palicki ED - Matt Miner ED - Eric Palicki ED - Tyler Chin-Tanner KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A positive future story in comic form in which the military has created cassettes that allows a person to have a particular skill.

JF - All We Ever Wanted: Stories of a Better World PB - A Wave Blue World CY - Np U2 -

Illus. Eryk Donovan. Colors by Gab Contreras. Letters by Zakk Saam

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Ultimate Housekeeping Megathrill 4” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Abbey Mei Otis (b. 1989) KW - Asian-American author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia in which the protagonist works as a trash sorter in a recycling factory and goes home (by a flying bus) to her dysfunctional family, living with four other families in what remains of the once-decent suburbs. Except for a few science fictional touches, this could be near-future reality. 

JF - Alien Virus Love Disaster: Stories PB - Small Beer Press CY - Easthampton, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Una" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Peterson, Christopher ED - Matt Miner ED - Eric Palicki ED - Tyler Chin-Tanner KW - Male author AB -

A positive future story in comic form in which an alien visiting Earth behaves as people know they should, and so they come to do so.

JF - All We Ever Wanted: Stories of a Better World PB - A Wave Blue World CY - Np U2 -

Illus. by the author. Colors by Gab Contreras. Letters by Micah Myers

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Under the Grid" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Andrew Dana Hudson ED - Clark A. Miller ED - Joey Eschrich KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future Detroit where an extensive solar grid has been built over the city and the surrounding area to provide power and focuses on conflicts over personal space. The story is followed by the essays, Lauren Withycombe Keeler, “All Politics is Glocal;” and Darshan M. W Karwat, “Behind the Grid: Science, Technology, and the Creation of PhoTown.”

JF - The Weight of Light: A Collection of Solar Futures PB - Center for Science and the Imagination Arizona State University CY - Tempe, AZ UR - https://www.dropbox.com/s/961pb8yve314a8r/Weight_of_Light.epub?dl=0 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Unseen Face of the Moon Business” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Diana Părpăriţă ED - David F. Shultz KW - Female author KW - Romanian author AB -

The story is set in a future where everyone uses bots and plastic surgery to change the way they look, including the protagonist who is a middle-aged male at work and a young woman at home. 

JF - Strange Economics: Economic Speculative Fiction PB - TdotSpec CY - Toronto, ON, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Vigilance Y1 - 2018 A1 - Robert Jackson Bennett KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A dystopia in which a reality game show creating active shooter situations is then used to control the population but becomes unmanageable.

PB - Tom Doherty Associates CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Vox Y1 - 2018 A1 - Christina [Villafãna] Dalcher KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia in which women are limited to speaking no more than one hundred words a day. prohibited from working, and girls cannot be taught to read or write. 

PB - Berkley CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "WAlls" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Paul Witcover (b. 1958) ED - Gordon Van Gelder (b. 1966) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The dystopia brought about by the Trump administrations immigration policy. 

JF - Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead PB - O/R Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Warm Storage” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Michael H. Hanson ED - David F. Shultz KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which, in order to deal with overpopulation, everyone over sixty, the infirm, criminals, and, finally, the unemployed are stored for future use, fed minimally, and rendered unaware of their condition.

JF - Strange Economics: Economic Speculative Fiction PB - TdotSpec CY - Toronto, ON, Canada U1 -

The title is given as "Graving Dock" on 341.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Water Cure Y1 - 2018 A1 - Sophie Mackintosh (b. 1988) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Welsh author AB -

The novel is set in what is presented as a dystopian future in which men have supposedly become literally toxic to women, and one man isolates his family, including his three daughters, on an island. It is never made clear is the toxicity actually exists. 

PB - Hamish Hamilton CY - London N1 -

U. S. edition New York: Doubleday, 2018

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Water Exchange, Version 8123” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Saba Waheed KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A climate change story in which the future extracts labor from the past in exchange for water. 

JF - Big Echo: Critical SF VL - no. 9 UR - Water Exchange, Version 8123... — Big Echo ER - TY - ABST T1 - “We All Have Hearts of Gold®” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Vladimirsky, Leo ED - Gordon Van Gelder (b. 1966) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which Trump establishes a Republican security force to ensure his reelection.

JF - Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead PB - O/R Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “We Feed the Bears of Fire and Ice” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Octavia Cade (b. 1977) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

A strongly worded depiction of the devastation of climate change, with the blame placed squarely on human behavior.

JF - Strange Horizons SN - 9780473491260 UR - http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/we-feed-the-bears-of-fire-and-ice/ Podcast at http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/we-feed-the-bears-of-fire-and-ice/ N1 -

Rpt. in Year’s Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy Volume 1. Ed. Marie Hodgkinson (Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand]: Paper Road Press, 2019), 3-17; and in the author’s You Are My Sunshine and other stories (Hamilton, ON, Canada: Stelliform Press, 2023), 5-18.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "We Speak in Tongues of Flame” Y1 - 2018 A1 - J[essica] L. George ED - Bart R. Leib ED - Kay T. Holt KW - Female author KW - Welsh author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia suppressing the indigenous population, with the story focusing on one young woman who discovers her abilities of resistance. Elements of magical realism. 

JF - Resist Fascism PB - Crossed Genres CY - [Somerville, MA] N1 -

Rpt. in Gwyllion, no. 1 (Autumn 2020): 137-56. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - We Who Will Destroy the Future. A Short Story Y1 - 2018 A1 - Margaret Killjoy (b. 1982) KW - Female author KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -

The story is told by a woman from a future authoritarian dystopia who has been found guilty of writing a subversive book and been sentenced to live in the twentieth century. The author self-describes as a transgender woman who prefers the pronouns she/her.

PB - [Detritus Books] CY - [Olympia, WA] SN - 978-1-84935-475-2 N1 -

Rpt. without the subtitle in her We Won’t Be Here Tomorrow and Other Stories (Chico, CA/Edinburgh, Scot.: AK Press, 2022), 166-179.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Weight of Time” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Jarrett Melendez ED - Matt Miner ED - Eric Palicki ED - Tyler Chin-Tanner KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A positive future story in comic form in which a gay scientist proposes to go back in time to erase all the anti-gay religious texts but is convinced that he would also erase all the positive experiences that gays would have had.

JF - All We Ever Wanted: Stories of a Better World PB - A Wave Blue World CY - Np U2 -

Illus. and Colors by Danica Brine. Letters by Taylor Espositio

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Welcome to Triumph Band” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Yoon Ha Lee (b. 1979) ED - Gordon Van Gelder (b. 1966) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A brief dystopia of the near future of the United States under the policies of the Trump administration.

JF - Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead PB - O/R Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “When Robot and Crow Saved East St. Louis” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Annalee Newitz (b. 1969) ED - Janelle Shane KW - Female author KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of the medical system of the future where corporations are in control and poor areas are unserved. 

JF - Slate N1 -

Rpt., without the response, in Future Tense Fiction: Stories of the Tomorrow. Ed. Kirsten Berg, Torie Bosch, Joey Eschrich, Ed Finn, Andrés Martinez, and Juliet Ulman (Los Angeles, CA: The Unnamed Press, 2019), 49-64.

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Illus. Lisa Larson-Walker

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - When the River Ran Dry Y1 - 2018 A1 - William Davies KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Set in 2180 after the collapse of civilization and the development of city states that followed, the novel reveals the dystopian aspects of the future through adventure and a murder mystery.

PB - BHC Press/Indigo CY - Livonia, MI U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - When Trump Changed: The Feminist Science Fiction League Quashes the Orange Outrage Pussy Grabber Y1 - 2018 A1 - Marleen S[andra] Barr (b. 1953) ED - Bob Brown KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A collection of closely related stories satirizing Donald Trump (b. 1946) and his presidency. 

PB - B Cubed Press CY - Kiowa, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Where Would You Be Now?” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Carrie Vaughn (b. 1973) KW - Female author KW - US author JF - Tor.com UR - https://www.tor.com/2018/02/07/where-would-you-be-now-carrie-vaughn/ N1 -

Rpt. without the question mark in Wastelands: The New Apocalypse. Ed. John Josephs Adams (London: Titan Books, 2019), 94-118.

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Illus. Jon Foster

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Whitopia” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Greg Johnson KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The post asks the question “Is White Nationalism Utopian?” from the point-of-view of a white nationalist. While the answer is “no” because “ethnostates” have existed in the past and, to a degree, still do, the author then describes an ideal one.

JF - Counter-Currents Publishing UR - https://www.counter-currents.com/2018/01/whitopia/ U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Widdam” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Vandana Singh (b. 1950) KW - Female author KW - Indian author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a climate-change dystopia seen through the eyes of an Indian man, a Native American Indian woman, and a European woman as well as AI’s who are trying to help. 

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 134.1/2 SN - 978-1941332382 9781781085769 N1 -

Rpt. in A Year Without a Winter. Illus. Ed. Dehlia Hannah, ed. with Brenda Cooper, Joey Eschrich, and Cynthia Selin, Fiction eds. (New York: Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, 2018), 233-67; and in The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Thirteen. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (Oxford, Eng.: Solaris/Rebellion Publishing, 2019), 255-86. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Wild Dead. A Bannerless Saga Novel Y1 - 2018 A1 - Carrie Vaughn (b. 1973) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Related to 2017 Vaughn, with this novel set at the very edges of the society developed in the previous novel at the interface between those where the women have an implant to limit the birth rate and “The Wild” where the people do not have implants. Structured as a mystery novel. 

PB - Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Woman World Y1 - 2018 A1 - Aminder Dhaliwal (b. 1988) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A future graphic novel in which all men have died. Eutopian elements with strong satirical elements. 

PB - Drawn & Quarterly CY - Montréal, QC, Canada U2 -

Color by Nikolas Ilic

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A World to Die for” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Tobias S[amuel] Buckell (b. 1979) KW - British Virgin Islands author KW - Grenadian author KW - Male author KW - US author KW - US Virgin Islands author AB -

The story begins in a violent dystopia that is the result of climate change and then moves into alternative futures, in some of which the past inhabitants have protected their environments. 

JF - Clarkesworld UR - http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/buckell_01_18/ N1 -

Rpt. in A Year Without Winter. Illus. Ed. Dehlia Hannah, ed. with Brenda Cooper, Joey Eschrich, and Cynthia Selin, Fiction eds. (New York: Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, 2018), 143-70. PU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “You are Weighed in the Balance” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Rivka Jacobs ED - Phyllis Irene Radford (b. 1950) ED - Rebecca McFarland Kyle ED - Lou J Berger ED - Bob Brown KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The dystopia that will be produced by the current policies of the Trump administration resulting in concentration camps and different laws for the wealthy.

JF - More Alternative Truths: Stories From the Resistance PB - B Cubed Press CY - Benton City, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “You Could Order Wholesale” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Declan Keen ED - Ruzbeh Babaee KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

The story takes place in a climate-change dystopia where there the destruction of the environment continues while some people are trying to stop the damage. 

JF - My Utopia: A Collection of Creative Writing PB - Cambridge Scholars Publishing CY - Newcastle upon Tyne, Eng U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Your One & Only Y1 - 2018 A1 - Adrianne Finlay KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult authoritarian dystopia set in a society of clones with only one non-cloned human left. The non-cloned man and a female clone feel that they don’t fit in and fall in love, and most of the novel is their story as they struggle to escape. 

PB - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “₪” Y1 - 2018 A1 - N[ancy] Lee Wood (b. 1955) ED - Gordon Van Gelder (b. 1966) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story depicts the contrast between health care in New Zealand, which, while not eutopia, is basically good, and the United States, where all protections have been stripped away and the entire country is on the way to becoming a dictatorship. 

JF - Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead PB - O/R Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - 2020 Y1 - 2017 A1 - Kenneth Steven KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

A near-future dystopia set in a future England where the right-wing, anti-immigration movement becomes extremely violent, with those targeted fighting back, and the government unable to cope with the problem. 

PB - Saraband CY - Salford, Eng N1 -

U.S. ed. as 2020: A Novel. New York: Arcade Publishing, 2018

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - 2023: A Trilogy Y1 - 2017 A1 - Bill [William Ernest] Drummond (b. 1953) A1 - Jimmy [James Francis] Cauty (b. 1956) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Dystopia than builds on and uses themes from to The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson, particularly its libertarianism, and George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, with some of the text written as if from 1984.

PB - Faber & Faber CY - New York U1 -

David Perch Books Presents the head of the title

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The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - 2036: The Final Resistance Y1 - 2017 A1 - Leah McClellan KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A dystopian future fascist United States and the resistance to it. 

PB - Simple Writing CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - 2084 Y1 - 2017 A1 - Mason Engel KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which everyone is required to wear lenses through which they are fed a false version of the world.

PB - [CreateSpace] CY - [North Charleston, SC] N1 -

There is also a 76 pp. Short Story Version available on Kindle

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - 2084: An American Parable Y1 - 2017 A1 - Elaine Liner KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Fundamentalist Christian, surveillance dystopia. Washington, DC is now Jesus City, and everyone must stop whatever they are doing and pray for two minutes when sirens sound five times a day seven days a week. The “Privacy Protection Act” outlawed privacy, and a God’s eye surveillance system is utterly pervasive. Every day, everyone is required to take “Mana,” which is supposed to be a vitamin but is a tranquillizer. The “SinCrime cops” and the “Bible Thumpers” observe people in all workplaces. 

PB - Moonface Press CY - Np U5 -

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “2084 Satoshi AD” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Lavie Tidhar (b. 1976) ED - George Sandison KW - English author KW - Israeli author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia set in a world divided between those who have established a brand for themselves and the no-brand. The key to power is the blockchain. 

JF - 2084 PB - Unsung Stories/Red Squirrel Publishing CY - London SN - 9781907389580 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “51-49” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Glen Cadigan ED - Hayden Trenholm (b. ca. 1955) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a climate-change future where Newfoundland is an island and independent of Canada but poor and negotiating between the Canada and the USA for support. 

JF - 49th Parallels PB - Bundoran Press CY - [Ottawa, ON, Canada] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Acceptance Speech” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Eileen Myles (b. 1949) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The speech the author would give upon being elected President saying that she will establish a Department of Women and a Department of Culture, make the White House a homeless shelter, provide free education and transportation, and begin the process of banning cars, among other changes. The female author, who uses the pronoun they, ran an “openly female” write-in campaign for President of the United States in 1991-1992. The poem “I Want a President,” by Zoe Leonard (b. 1961) was written in honor of the campaign.

JF - I Want a President: Transcript of a Rally November 6, 2016 PB - Dancing Foxes Press CY - Brooklyn, NY SN - 978-1-4399-1623-0 UR - http://dfpress.us/Transcript_IWAP%201_13%20-%20for%20print.pdf N1 -

Rpt. as “Acceptance Speech (Nov 6 2016).” In Who Will Speak for America? Ed. Stephanie Feldman and Nathaniel Popkin (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2018), 15-18. 

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Rpt. as “Acceptance Speech (Nov 6 2016).” In Who Will Speak for America?

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Adiona Falters” Y1 - 2017 A1 - William Delman KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Climate-change dystopia

JF - Little Blue Marble UR - https://littlebluemarble.ca/2017/12/06/adiona-falters N1 -

Rpt. in Little Blue Marble 2017: Stories of Our Changing Climate. Ed. Katrina Archer. Np: Ganache Media. EBook. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "After" Y1 - 2017 A1 - John Oughton ED - Bruce Meyer KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in Canada after the collapse of civilization where one group is creating a decent life in the woods while threaten by end times Christian groups that want to eliminate all non-believers. 

JF - Cli-fi: Canadian Tales of Climate Change PB - Exile Editions CY - Holstein, ON, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - After the Blast Y1 - 2017 A1 - Zoe [Swicord] Kazan (b. 1983) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The play is set in a post-nuclear future where a selection of humankind seen as the best had moved underground and interact with machines to fulfil normal human needs. Rationing. Reproduction controlled. It takes place long after the move and concerns a couple is trying to get the right to have a child. See the note in The New York Times (December 24, 2017): Arts & Leisure, 4.

PB - Dramatists Play Service CY - New York SN - 978-0822238515 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - After the Flare Y1 - 2017 A1 - Deji Bryce Olukotun KW - South African author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia brought about by a solar flare that damages Earth’s entire electrical grid followed by cyberattacks. Sequel to his non-utopian Nigerians in Space. A Novel. Los Angeles, CA: Unnamed Press, [2014]. 

PB - The Unnamed Press CY - Los Angeles, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - All Our Wrong Todays. A Novel Y1 - 2017 A1 - Elan Mastai (b. 1945) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

The high tech eutopia imagined by people in the 1950s contrasted with the dystopia that is the current reality. 

PB - Dutton CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - All Rights Reserved Y1 - 2017 A1 - Gregory Scott Katsoulis KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which all words and gestures are parented or trademarked, and at age fifteen they must be paid for. The novel focuses on one girl who choose to remain completely silent and sets off a rebellion. First volume in a series followed by Access Restricted. Toronto, ON, Can: Harlequin Teen, 2018. In this novel, the protagonist leaves her city to try to find her parents who are being held as indentured servants, really slaves for life. She succeeds, and the ending suggests a further volume.

PB - Harlequin Teen CY - Don Mills, ON, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - All the Galaxies Y1 - 2017 A1 - Philip Miller (b. 1973) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

After a second failed independence referendum, Scotland has broken up into autonomous states, and a father searches for his son who disappeared after a protest. In parallel, a boy awakens in space in the afterlife where he searches for his dead mother.

PB - Freight books CY - Glasgow, Scot. SN - 9781911332190 N1 -

Rpt. Crows Nest, NSW, Australia: Allen & Unwin, 2017.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Alt.Death” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Joanna Koch ED - JF Garrard ED - Jen Frankel KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future dystopia in which Trump’s policies led to the elimination of anyone not white and other than male or female. No healthcare. 

JF - Trump: Utopia or Dystopia PB - Dark Helix Press CY - [Toronto, ON, Canada] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Ambrosia" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Emeline [Mimie] Morin ED - Gavin Miller ED - Anna McFarlane KW - Female author KW - French author KW - Scottish author AB -

Dystopia set in a future where eating food is illegal, and everyone is fed intravenously and are starving. 

JF - A Practical Guide to the Resurrected: Twenty-One Short Stories of Medicine and Science Fiction PB - Freight Books CY - Glasgow, Scot. SN - 978-1-911332-50-3 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “America Once Beautiful” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Brad Cozzens ED - Phyllis Irene Radford (b. 1950) ED - Rebecca McFarland Kyle ED - Lou J Berger ED - Bob Brown KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Poem that describes America as a dystopia.

JF - More Alternative Truths: Stories From the Resistance PB - B Cubed Press CY - Benton, City, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The American” Y1 - 2017 A1 - G[areth] Gray (b. 1972) ED - JF Garrard ED - Jen Frankel KW - Male author KW - Northern Ireland author AB -

Dystopia in which all non-whites are incarcerated. 

JF - Trump: Utopia or Dystopia PB - Dark Helix Press CY - [Toronto, ON, Canada] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - American City Y1 - 2017 A1 - Chris Beckett (b. 1955) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A climate-change dystopia focusing on the internal refugee crisis in the United States.

PB - Corvus CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - American War Y1 - 2017 A1 - Omar El Akkad (b. 1982) KW - Canadian author KW - Egyptian author KW - Male author KW - Qatari author KW - US author AB -

The Second Civil War from 2074-2095 was followed by a decade-long pandemic/plague that, together, tore the U.S. apart. Southern states had seceded primarily because they objected to an act that outlawed the use of fossil fuels. The story is about a young girl born in a border area who is then forced into a northern refugee camp, with obvious parallels to today’s refugee camps, and is radicalized there. 

PB - Alfred A. Knopf CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Animate" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Kate Story ED - Bruce Meyer KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Climate-change dystopia in which Bangladesh and Florida have disappeared under water, and Vancouver has been destroyed by an earthquake. 

JF - Cli-fi: Canadian Tales of Climate Change PB - Exile Editions CY - Holstein, ON, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Apple Bee" Y1 - 2017 A1 - K. E. Macphee KW - Australian author KW - Scottish author AB -

The story is set in a future dystopia in which all pollinators have disappeared, and mechanical bees are being used. 

JF - Shoreline of Infinity VL - no. 10 U2 -

Illus. Stephen Pickering

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Asylum Y1 - 2017 A1 - Marcus Low KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

The novel is set in South Africa, which is experiencing a rapidly spreading disease with a collapsing healthcare system and is primarily set in an asylum where those with the disease are incarcerated. The background to the novel includes climate change that has led to starvation in the United States. 

PB - Picador Africa CY - Johannesburg, South Africa SN - 9781770105133 N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Legend Books, [2019]. The first version was as “Asylum Story.” MA thesis (Creative Writing). Cape Town, 2009 https://open.uct.ac.za/handle/11427/8237

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Athena Dreams of a Hollow Body” Y1 - 2017 A1 - J[ess] R. Fenn ED - Junot Díaz KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A world where most babies are created in the laboratory as seen through the eyes of a woman who wants a mother. 

JF - Boston Review VL - Special issue on Global Dystopias U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Autonomous Y1 - 2017 A1 - Annalee Newitz (b. 1969) KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the powerful pharmaceutical industry has everyone on drugs that are undertested and oversold. 

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Avoiding Eye Contact on Mainstreet, USA” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Jacob Guyon ED - JF Garrard ED - Jen Frankel KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The dystopia created by Trump’s policies. The rich are richer and the poor poorer, and anyone with any sort of job feels they are lucky. Degraded environment. American citizens of Hispanic ancestry however far back can be deported with small children adopted by the rich. Any dissent punished.

JF - Trump: Utopia or Dystopia PB - Dark Helix Press CY - [Toronto, ON, Canada] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Azotus the Kingdom Y1 - 2017 A1 - Shadreck Chikoti (b. 1979) KW - Malawian author KW - Male author AB -

In the novel, set in 2559, everyone lives alone in a separate house catered to by technology and with no human contact. One Occupant, as they are known, ventures outside, discovers what he is missing and struggles to escape. 

PB - Malawi Writers Union CY - Blantyre, Malawi SN - 9781620407790 N1 -

An excerpt, “The Occupant, was published in Africa 39: New Writing from Africa South of the Sahara. Ed. Ellah Wakatama-Allfrey (New York: Bloomsbury, 2014), 76-83. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Bannerless Y1 - 2017 A1 - Carrie Vaughn (b. 1973) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia in which people live in large families, and birth is regulated to those deemed worthy and awarded a banner. The original story is about a young woman who has a bannerless child. The novel expands this to a deeper consideration of the society. See 2018 Vaughn, The Wild Dead. A Bannerless Saga Novel for a related work. 

PB - Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt CY - Boston, MA N1 -

Originated with a story with the same title in The End Has Come. The Apocalypse Triptych. Ed. John Joseph Adams and Hugh Howey (Np: Editors, 2015), 5-22. Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2016), 181-96 with an editor’s note on 181; and in her Amaryllis and Other Stories (Bonney Lake, WA: Fairwood Press, 2016), 267-89. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Barrette Girls” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Sara Saab KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Lebanese author AB -

The story is set in a dystopian future where rare earths required in technology are harvested from manufactured people. 

JF - Liminal Stories VL - no. 3 UR - http://liminalstoriesmag.com/issue3/the-barrette-girls N1 -

Rpt. in The Apex Book of World SF: Volume 5. Ed. Cristina Jurado and Lavie Tidhar ([Lexington, KY: Apex Publications, 2018]), 153-66. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Beautiful Industry" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Stuart Hardy ED - Phyllis Irene Radford (b. 1950) ED - Rebecca McFarland Kyle ED - Lou J Berger ED - Bob Brown KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

A dystopian future in which even the robots are having trouble finding work and making ends meet.

JF - More Alternative Truths: Stories From the Resistance PB - B Cubed Press CY - Benton City, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Beneath the Shine Y1 - 2017 A1 - Sarah Fine KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which a technological elite dominates, and the young woman protagonist is part of the minority who advocates technology for everyone. 

PB - Skyscape CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Bird's Eye" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Anjali Sachdeva ED - Luke Peterson KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The protagonist is a blind woman who uses Virtual Reality to see the world through the eyes of birds and uses the system of electronic referenda to try to protect them, which will end up protecting people also. 

JF - Futurescapes Volume One: Cities of Empowerment PB - Utah Valley Office of New Urban Mechanics & Utah Valley University CY - [Orem, UT] VL - 1 SN - 978-0692879313 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Black Box: These Memories are Made to Last Forever” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Malka [Ann] Older (b. 1977) KW - Female author KW - Latinx author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future in which at an early age a child has a device implanted that records all their experience, which the child or her parents can replay. Later in life, adults can choose who has access to their memories. Whether this is eutopian or dystopian is left up to the reader. 

JF - WIRED VL - 25.1 UR - https://www.wired.com/2016/12/malka-older-the-black-box/ N1 -

Rpt. without the subtitle in Sunspot Jungle: The Ever-Expanding Universe of Science Fiction and Fantasy [the cover adds Volume One]. Ed. Bill Campbell (Greenbelt, MD: Rosarium, 2019), 29-34; and in her . . . and Other Disasters (Baltimore, MD: Mason Jar Press, 2019), 1-13

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “blinders” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Tyler Keevil ED - Susan Forest ED - Lucas K. Law KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

The background of the story is a corporate dystopia trying to defeat a union. 

JF - The Sum of Us: Tales of the Bonded and Bound PB - Laksha Media Groups CY - Calgary, AB, Canada N1 -

Rpt. in Best of British Science Fiction 2017. Ed. Donna Scott ([Weston, Eng.]: NewCon Press, 2018), 9-32. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Blue Stratus" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Amy Mrotek ED - Luke Peterson KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future eutopian community with high rise urban farms, gardens, permaculture, and all of the desirable environmental design features that are currently possible. 

JF - Futurescapes Volume One: Cities of Empowerment PB - Utah Valley Office of New Urban Mechanics & Utah Valley University CY - [Orem, UT] VL - 1 SN - 978-0692879313 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Bluebird" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Benjamin Cort ED - B. Morris Allen KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future in which the City is taking over the United States, destroying all buildings outside the City using a huge metallic bird. People are trying to escape to areas rumored to still be safe. The protagonist is the caretaker of the bird.

JF - Metamorphosis SN - 978-1-64076-002-9 UR - https://magazine.metaphorosis.com/story/2017/bluebird-benjamin-cort/ N1 -

Rpt. in Best Vegan Science Fiction & Fantasy 2017. Ed. B. Morris Allen (Np: Metamorphosis Books, 2018), 9-25.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Boltzmann Brain” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Kristine Ong Muslim (b. 1980) ED - Phoebe Wagner ED - Brontë Christopher Wieland KW - Female author KW - Filipina author AB -

Climate-change dystopia. 

JF - Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation PB - Upper Rubber Boot CY - Nashville, TN U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Book of Etta Y1 - 2017 A1 - Meg Elison (b. 1982) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Second volume of The Road to Nowhere Series following 2014 Elison set 100 years after the first book. In this novel, the main character, Etta, disguises herself as a man, Eddy, and sets off to rescue the enslaved women. The third volume, 2018 Elison, begins in the same time period as this volume, but then follows the very long life of the protagonist. 

PB - 47 North CY - Seattle, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Book of Joan. A Novel Y1 - 2017 A1 - Lidia Yuknavitch (b. 1963) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Complex dystopia set in 2049 where Earth is experiencing the results of climate change and constant war over dwindling resources. Circling Earth is a space station inhabited by some who have escaped from Earth where everyone must die at 50. The society is itself a dystopia ruled by a man who claims to have defeated a child-heretic named Joan, and much of the novel is the story of Joan. 

PB - Harper CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Books of the Risen Sea” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Suzanne Palmer (b. 1968) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Climate change dystopia and the importance of saving books and of libraries. 

JF - Asimov’s Science Fiction VL - 41.9 & 10 (500 & 501) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Boston Hearth Project” Y1 - 2017 A1 - T. X. Watson ED - Phoebe Wagner ED - Brontë Christopher Wieland KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a climate-change dystopia in which the homeless in Boston are dieing from the conditions, with the story focused on activists taking over a building specially built for the rich and repurposed for the homeless.

JF - Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation PB - Upper Rubber Boot CY - Nashville, TN U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Bring Your Own Spoon” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Saad Z. Hossain (b. 1979) ED - Mahvesh Murad ED - Jared Shurin KW - Bangladeshi author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a future, severely polluted Dhaka, Bangladesh that also no longer has a middle class, just the very rich and the extremely poor. The protagonist and a djinn decide to establish a restaurant to serve their poor neighbors.

JF - The Djinn Falls in Love & Other Stories PB - Solaris/Rebellion Publishing CY - Oxford, Eng. SN - 978-1781084168 978-93-91028-62-6 N1 -

Rpt. in The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction Volume 2. With a Graphic Preface and Afterword by Manjula Padmanabhan. Ed. Tarun K. Saint (Gurugram, India: Hachette India, 2021), 436-447.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Broad Church" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Tess Williams (b. 1954) ED - Liz Grzyb ED - Cat[riona] Sparks (b. 1965) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

The background to the story is a climate-change dystopia, with the story focusing a woman dealing with her son’s choice to become a dolphin. 

JF - Ecopunk! [Cover adds Speculative Tales of Radical Futures] PB - Ticonderoga Publications CY - Greenwood, WA, Australia SN - 9781925212549 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Brother’s Keeper” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Danny Gardner ED - Gary Phillips KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The dystopia that has resulted by the time of the third Trump administration with little health care, all public services paid for individually as needed, with only the wealthy, for example, able to afford any emergency call at night. Many people escape into virtual reality.

JF - The Obama Inheritance: Fifteen Stories of Conspiracy Noir PB - Three Rooms Press CY - New York SN - 9781941110591 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Calexit 1: Secession Y1 - 2017 A1 - Ira Tabankin (b. 1949) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

After the 2016 election, California votes to secede and form The People’s Republic of California. First of three volumes followed by Calexit 2: Politics as Normal. Np: Np, 2017 -[First published on Kindle], in which China recognizes the new country, and, as the title suggests, politicians work enhance their own power; and Calexit 3: If At First You Don’t Succeed. Np: np. 2018 [First published on Kindle], which continues the story. See also, 2017 Curtis, J. L., ed. Calexit: The Anthology. There is an actual Calexit movement with different versions of what a separate California would look like and various positions of the opponents.

PB - Amazon CY - San Bernardino, CA N1 -

First published on  KIndle.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Calexit: The Anthology Y1 - 2017 A1 - J. L. Curtis A1 - Bob Poole A1 - Cedar Sanderson A1 - Tom Rogneby A1 - Alma [T. C.] Boykin A1 - B. Opperman A1 - L. B. Johnson A1 - Eaton Rapids Joe A1 - Lawdog [pseud.] A1 - Kimball O'Hara ED - J. L. Curtis KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - Maltese author KW - US author AB -

A collection of stories set in a dystopian future in which part of California, called Cali, secedes from the country in order to establish a socialist state committed to diversity. Northern California and southern Oregon forms a new territory called Jefferson that may become a new state. The stories are “A Matter of Honor” by J. L. Curtis in which the U. S. Navy leaves San Diego and blows up its base as it does with the story continued in his ebook novella The Morning the Earth Shook. 69 pp. (2017). “Last Plane Out” by Bob Poole centers on the last plane to leave Los Angeles airport. “Carpetbaggers” by Cedar Sanderson focuses on carpetbaggers in Jefferson. “Night Passage” by Tom Rogneby begins in Cali, where all people are chipped, and continues with the escape of a couple. “Roll, Colorado, Roll!” by Alma [T. C.] Boykin in which The Colorado River is released into its original channel, cutting off water to Cali. “Final Flight” by B. Opperman is a story of escape from Cali. “Freedom’s Ride” by L. B. Johnson is a story of escape from Cali. “The Farm” by Eaton Rapids Joe describes the authoritarian liberalism of Cali and the damage it does. “By Hook and Crook” by Lawdog [pseud.] is an escape story. In “Fifth Column” by Kimball O’Hara the U. S. Navy returns. A graphic novel covering some of the same themes is Matteo Pizzolo, CALEXIT. Illus. Amancay Nahuelpan. Colorist Tyler Boss. Flatter Dee Cunniffe. Letterer Jim Campbell. Map designer Richard Nisa. Flag Designer Robert Anthony, Jr. Los Angeles, CA: Black Mask Studios, 2018. Originally published as CALEXit 1-3. There is an actual Calexit movement with different versions of what a separate California would look like and various positions of the opponents. 

PB - JLC&A CY - Np U3 -

Lawdog [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - California 2020 Y1 - 2017 A1 - Zachary Roberts KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel begins with a tsunami about to hit southern California. The rest of the novel follows the protagonist’s struggle to find a meaningful life in the dystopia created by the disaster. The ending suggests a sequel.

PB - Liver Shot Press CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Cannibal Acts” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Maureen [F.] McHugh (b. 1959) ED - Junot Díaz KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which ecological changes have eliminated most plants and animals.

JF - Boston Review VL - Special issue on Global Dystopias SN - 978-1785658952 978-1-328-83456-0 N1 -

Rpt. in Wastelands: The New Apocalypse. Ed. John Josephs Adams (London: Titan Books, 2019), 244-256; and in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy™ 2018. Ed. N[ora] K. Jemisin (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Mariner, 2018), 292-303.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Carve the Mark Y1 - 2017 A1 - Veronica [Anne] Roth (b. 1988) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which each individual has a gift which may be positive or negative for them. Two young people from different and opposed cultures meet and begin to work together to defeat the dystopia. The first of two volumes followed by The Fates Divide. New York: Katherine Tegen Books/HarperCollins, 2018 with a “Glossary” on 448-50. In this volume a war produces additional problems for the protagonists which appear to be solved at the end 2018 with a “Glossary” on 448-50. In this volume a war produces additional problems for the protagonists which appear to be solved at the end. 

PB - Katherine Tegen Books/HarperCollins CY - New York U5 -

Public

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Cascadia" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Mackenzie Reide KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The Northwest of the U.S. has seceded and formed a new country called Cascadia. The story is about the suppression by U.S. authorities of higher education and the descendants of immigrants from anywhere outside its new borders. See also 2016 Reide. 

JF - Infinite Dimensions: Crossroads PB - JennJett Media CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Catalogue of Further Suns: Précis of Reports Compiled by the Preliminary Survey Expeditions Y1 - 2017 A1 - F. J[eannie] Bergmann KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Poems about first contact with aliens detailing what can go wrong. 

PB - Gold Line Press CY - Los Angeles, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - City of Virtues Y1 - 2017 A1 - Michael Ladner KW - Male author AB -

A future in which, in the City of Virtues people have given up their freedoms as well as their sexual identities for security, while surrounding the city the people are free, sexual and have less security.

PB - [CreateSpace] CY - San Bernardino, CA SN - 978-1542492713 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The City We Built in Life” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Thomas Broderick KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a climate change future in which travel is restricted and follow a family allowed to visit reproductions in the Arizona desert of the Seven Wonders of the World and monuments from Washington, DC, which is under water, all of which have been built of synthetic carbonized basalt that traps atmospheric carbon. They also visit the city/monument called the Silent City, which is composed of such blocks, each representing some who died due to climate change.

JF - Little Blue Marble SN - 978-1-988293-08-0 UR - http://littlebluemarble.ca/2019/03/01/the-city-we-built-in-life/ N1 -

Originally published as “A Monument to Our Greatest Sin.” Scout (2017) [Not Found]. 

Rpt. without the illus. in Little Blue Marble 2019: Climate in Crisis. Ed. Katrina Archer (Vancouver, BC, Canada: Ganache Media Books, 2020), 44-63. 

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Originally published as “A Monument to Our Greatest Sin.” Scout (2017) [Not Found]. 

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Illus.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Cityborn Y1 - 2017 A1 - Edward Willett (b. 1959) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia set in a hierarchical city with the poor at the bottom and the rich and powerful at the top. 

PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “'Clippers': Measuring the slow but steady whitening of public life” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Kashana Cauley ED - Ben[jamin Allen] H. Winters (b. 1976) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

The story is about a man trying to pass as white after the Trump administration had outlawed voting by blacks. 

JF - Slate Magazine as part of its Trump Story Project. https://slate.com/tag/trump-story-project UR - https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2017/02/kashana-cauleys-clippers-in-slates-trump-story-project.html U2 -

Illus. Lisa Larson-Walker

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Clockwork Barista” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Kevin Cockle KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a future where changes in a person’s status is automatically sent out of social media. In the story, the man loses his job, and all his accounts and creditors are informed, and he has only a short time to find another job.

JF - On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic VL - 28.1 (104) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Coffle Y1 - 2017 A1 - Gemma Files (b. 1968) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Part dystopia and part horror story in which a woman helps slaves escape across a forbidding desert where there is only one. shifting safe route.

PB - Dim Shores CY - Carmichael, CA U2 -

Illus. Stephen Wilson

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Confessions of a Con Girl” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Nick [Nicholas] Wolven KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in an inline world where one’s position in life depends largely on the votes of others.

JF - Asimov’s Science Fiction VL - 41.11 & 12 (502 & 503) SN - 978-1-78108-573-8 N1 -

Rpt. in Clarkesworld, no. 151 (April 2019). http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/wolven_04_19_reprint/; and in The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Twelve. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (Oxford, Eng.: Solaris, 2018), 309-27.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Contact High Y1 - 2017 A1 - Joseph Eckert A1 - James F. Wright KW - African American author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

In the future human contact has become a drug and outlawed with everyone required to wear a protective suit or be arrested and rehabilitated. Queer and interracial themes. 

PB - F.I.M.C (Forget It, Make Comics) CY - Np U5 -

EBook

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Control" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Rachel K[atie] Zall ED - Cat Fitzpatrick ED - Casey Plett KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a deeply divided dystopia, in one part of which the streets are clean and safe, heavily policed by both cameras supported by a police force. The cameras use face-recognition to identify everyone and evaluate them, giving them at actual score. The other part is collapsing and dangerous with no cameras and no police. 

JF - Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers PB - Topside Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Control Shift Down” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Paige Bryony ED - Cat Fitzpatrick ED - Casey Plett KW - Transgender author AB -

The story is set in a class-based, high-tech, authoritarian dystopia. 

JF - Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers PB - Topside Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Crazy House Y1 - 2017 A1 - James [Brendan] Patterson (b. 1947) A1 - Gabrielle Charbonnet (b. 1961) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which young girls are imprisoned, supposedly to test them to help overthrow an authoritarian system that divides people and controls information. . A sequel is The Fall of Crazy House. New York: Little Brown/Jimmy Patterson, 2019 in which the protagonists of the first novel fight the government and win. 

PB - Little Brown/Jimmy Patterson CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Crosstalk Y1 - 2017 A1 - Connie [Constance Elaine Trimmer] Willis (b. 1945) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Satire on the connected world where the connectivity of the future goes wrong. Female author.

PB - del Rey CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Cybervania" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Sybil Lamb ED - Cat Fitzpatrick ED - Casey Plett KW - Canadian author KW - Transgender author AB -

Violent dystopia set among people living in the junked material of the electronic age. 

JF - Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers PB - Topside Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Dairy" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Ashley Sutherland KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia of women treated in a way similar to cows with artificial insemination and their children taken away at birth. 

JF - Social Alternatives VL - 36.1 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dark Intercept Y1 - 2017 A1 - Julia Keller KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

First volume of a young adult dystopia set on New Earth where people have given up freedom for stability. In the second volume, Dark Mind Rising. New York: Tor Teen, 2018, the system that protected them has failed, and the young female protagonist has opened a detective agency. In the third volume, Dark Star Calling. New York: Tor Teen, 2019, the system is failing altogether and the people look to find another planet and start over. A related novel is A Screaming in the Mind: A Dark Intercept Novel. New York: Tor Teen, 2018.

PB - Tor Teen CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Darlingtonia Y1 - 2017 A1 - Alba Roja [pseud.] KW - US author AB -

Dylan is a bored graphic artist working for OingoBoingo, a copy that makes electronic psychological memory games. Ricky, her only friend and the only brown person at the company is found murdered. Dylan, who love lifestyle her work her. The novel contrasts the easy life of tech works like Dylan with the poverty of everyone else in the SF Bay area, and she gradually becomes disillusioned as she discovers what OnigoBoingo is actually doing. “Alba Roja is an anonymous collective of individuals strewn along the West Coat of the United States.”

PB - Left Bank Books CY - Seattle, WA SN - 978-0939306138 U3 -

Alba Roja [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Day 3658” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Dylan Siegler ED - Elly Blue KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which what appears to be a successful community after most plants and animals have died breed children for meat.

JF - Biketopia: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction in Extreme Futures PB - Microcosm Publishing CY - Portland, OR U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Day the Earth Turned Day-Glo” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Rick Shingler ED - James E. Meredith ED - Paul Brian McCoy KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which a colony is established on the moon and then simply abandoned leaving the people there to die while pretending that they had been brought back. This is followed by the launch of an immense satellite with moveable panels that can block the sun’s rays from reaching Earth, or, for an extortionate price, allow the sun’s rays to reach some part of the Earth.

JF - American Carnage: Tales of Trumpian Dystopia PB - Psycho Drive-In Press CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Decelerate Blue Y1 - 2017 A1 - Adam Rapp (b. 1968) A1 - Mike Cavallaro KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A graphic novel dystopia in which everyone believes in speed and efficiency. The novel follows one young girl who doesn’t fit in and who discovers that there are others who believe that slower is better. 

PB - Roaring Brook Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Degas’ Ballerinas” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Leslie Goodreid ED - Bruce Meyer KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Climate-change dystopia. The story is set in Toronto, which, even though the border with the U.S. is now closed, is flooded with U.S. climate refugees. Nothing grows in the U.S. All birds have died. Malarial mosquitos are common in Canada. People are starving, and corruption is common. 

JF - Cli-fi: Canadian Tales of Climate Change PB - Exile Editions CY - Holstein, ON, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Desert, Blooming” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Lev Mirov ED - Phoebe Wagner ED - Brontë Christopher Wieland KW - Filipino-American author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia set on a planet, which may be Earth, that is toxic, with people living in domes. Some are learning to terraform the planet by planting trees and others are searching abandoned cities for any seeds or other things that might help. 

JF - Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation PB - Upper Rubber Boot CY - Nashville, TN U4 -

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Disabled Filipino-American author who self-describes as queer

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Desperate Resolve" Y1 - 2017 A1 - John A. Pitts ED - Phyllis Irene Radford (b. 1950) ED - Rebecca McFarland Kyle ED - Lou J Berger ED - Bob Brown KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in West Virginia, which has been destroyed by current policies on the environment.

JF - More Alternative Truths: Stories From the Resistance PB - B Cubed Press CY - Benton City, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Destination Y1 - 2017 A1 - Jack [Anthony] Skillingstead (b. 1955) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the U.S. is divided physically been the powerful and those without power with the latter fighting back by taking control of the web.

JF - Asimov's Science Fiction VL - 41.1 & 2 (492 & 493) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Detour in Space" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Emad El-Din Marei Aysha KW - Egyptian author KW - Male author KW - Palestinian author KW - UK author AB -

A brief dystopia in which Mars has been settled by countries from the middle east, bring with them all the same issues as on Earth. For an interview with the author that discusses the origins of the story, see https://the-levant.com/egyptian-science-fiction-criticises-arabs/

JF - Reconnecting Arts UR - https://reconnectingarts.com/2017/05/01/a-detour-in-space-by-emad-el-din-aysha/ U2 -

Illus. Ayham Jabr

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Diaspora Electronica” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Blaize [M.] Kaye ED - Helen Moffett ED - Efemia Chela ED - Bongani Kona KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

The story is set in a future in which an Institute for the Future of Humanity is established as a solution to “exponential population growth” (59). It uploads people into a computer in exchange for all their worldly goods. The protagonist is a man who wants to be uploaded to join his wife but because has one of the flaws the system cannot handle, he is regularly turned down. 

JF - Migrations: New Short Fiction from Africa PB - New Internationalist Publications CY - Oxford, Eng. SN - 9781780264059 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Disconnected” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Ramez Naam ED - [Glen] David Brin (b. 1950) ED - Stephen W. Potts KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The flawed utopia of the completely connected world and, very briefly, choosing to disconnect. 

JF - Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Discrete Charm of the Turing Machine” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Greg[ory Mark] Egan (b. 1961) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which all jobs are being replaced by automation as seen through the eyes of one family.

JF - Asimov’s Science Fiction VL - 41.11 & 12 (502 & 503) U5 -

DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Don’t Press Charges and I Won’t Sue” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Charlie Jane Anders (b. 1969) ED - Junot Díaz KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia that tries to eliminate anyone who doesn’t fit in. The story focuses on the oppression of people who are transgender. 

JF - Boston Review SN - 9781590217061 978-1-328-83456-0 978-1-78108-573-8 978-1-60701-5260 N1 -

Rpt. in Transcendent 3: The Year’s Best Transgender Speculative Fiction. Ed. Bogi Takács (Amherst, MA: Lethe Press, 2018), 197-213; in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy™ 2018. Ed. N[ora] K. Jemisin (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Mariner, 2018), 170-87; in The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Twelve. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (Oxford, Eng.: Solaris, 2018), 639-657; and in The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy: 2018 Edition. Ed. Rich Horton ([New York]: Prime Books, 2018), 141-55.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Don’t Speak; Don’t Listen” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Serena Johe KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future where, to counter verbal abuse, people are fitted with a device that keeps them from insulting another person, which has unexpected consequences. 

JF - Shoreline of Infinity VL - no. 10 U2 -

Illus. Sara Julia. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Drafting the President" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Lou J Berger ED - Phyllis Irene Radford (b. 1950) ED - Rebecca McFarland Kyle ED - Lou J Berger ED - Bob Brown KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

After the impeachment and arrest of President Trump, the procedure for electing the President of the United States is completely changed. Five candidates are vetted and put through a series of complex tests to ensure their ability to handle the issues, and the most successful becomes the only candidate.

JF - More Alternative Truths: Stories From the Resistance PB - B Cubed Press CY - Benton City, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dreams Before the Start of Time Y1 - 2017 A1 - Anne Charnock (b. 1954) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The novel is set in the years from 2034 through 2120 and follows the adjustments made by individuals and families as they adjust to advances in medicine regarding fertility and birth to the point where anyone can have a child through a various of different technologies. It won the 2018 Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction Literature. Female author.

PB - 47th North CY - Seattle, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Easy" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Liam Hogan KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A successful environmental movement is undermined and defeated by corporate opposition.

JF - Little Blue Marble UR - https://littlebluemarble.ca/2017/10/26/easy/ N1 -

Rpt. without the illus. Little Blue Marble 2017: Stories of Our Changing Climate. Ed. Katrina Archer. Np: Ganache Media. EBook. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Eating the Moon Y1 - 2017 A1 - Mark David Campbell KW - Italian author KW - Male author AB -

A complex novel that includes a period in a gay male flawed utopia. 

PB - DSP Publications CY - Tallahassee, FL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Eggs" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Eilidh McCabe ED - Gavin Miller ED - Anna McFarlane KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

The story is set in a future where under the Fertility Protection Act all eggs are harvested from all girl children with the intention of improving equality, although the story suggests the result has been the opposite. 

JF - A Practical Guide to the Resurrected: Twenty-One Short Stories of Medicine and Science Fiction PB - Freight Books CY - Glasgow, Scot. SN - 978-1-911332-50-3 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Elderjoy" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Gregory [Albert] Benford (b. 1941) ED - Stephen W. Potts ED - [Glen] David Brin (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Humorous dystopia in which governmental implants register unhealthy activities and tax them. In the story, the “unhealthy” activity is sex over a certain age.

JF - Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Eminence" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Karl Schroeder (b. 1962) ED - [Glen] David Brin (b. 1950) ED - Stephen W. Potts KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a future Vancouver that has been returned to First Nation peoples, who are technologically advanced but tension remaining with Canadian authorities and can be seen as an emerging eutopia with problems. Much of the focus is on a new currency that, by being given away, gains “eminence” for the giver, which, in the society, is more important than the money. 

JF - Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World PB - Tor CY - New York SN - 978-0765382580 978-1-78108-573-8 N1 -

Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Twelve. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (Oxford, Eng.: Solaris, 2018), 113-30.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The End We Start From Y1 - 2017 A1 - Megan Hunter (b. 1984) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The setting to the novel is a climate-change dystopia in which a woman has to flee flooded London with her just-born baby. 

PB - Picador CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Grove Press, 2017

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Endangered” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Allegra Hyde KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Very short dystopia in which artists are considered an endangered species and kept in glass enclosures where they can be viewed as in a zoo. In an online interview with Erin McReynolds, the female author discusses utopias at https://americanshortfiction.org/web-exclusive-interview-allegra-hyde/

JF - American Short Fiction SN - 978-0-593-31526-2 UR - https://americanshortfiction.org/endangered/ N1 -

Rpt. in Best of the Net 2017; and in her The Last Catastrophe (New York: Vintage Books/Penguin Random House, 2023), 81-83.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Endling Market” Y1 - 2017 A1 - E[mma] J. Swift ED - George Sandison KW - Female author KW - UK author AB -

Dystopia in which most animal species are disappearing, and there is a market for any of the last the last remaining ones. 

JF - 2084 PB - Unsung Stories/Red Squirrel Publishing CY - London SN - 9781907389580 N1 -

Rpt. in Best of British Science Fiction 2017. Ed. Donna Scott ([Weston, Eng.]: NewCon Press, 2018), 257-70. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - An Excess Male Y1 - 2017 A1 - Maggie Shen King KW - Female author KW - Taiwanese author KW - US author AB -

The dystopia created by 2030 by the Chinese one-child policy combined with a preference for male children. There are now forty million unmarriageable men. The dystopia provides the background to the story of one such man. 

PB - Harper Voyager CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Exit West Y1 - 2017 A1 - Mohsin Hamid (b. 1971) KW - English author KW - Pakistani author KW - US author AB -

Refugee dystopia in which refugees are able to move from place to place through “doors.” The novel follows two people from their homeland to the Greek island Mykonos to London to a Marin, a new city created in California. 

PB - Riverhead Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Eyejacked” Y1 - 2017 A1 - David Walton (b. 1975) ED - [Glen] David Brin (b. 1950) ED - Stephen W. Potts KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future in which an implant in the eye can be used to connect tom others and create followers, which produces income. Within the story a husband and wife disagree over the effect on their family is positive or negative.

JF - Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Fallow" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Sofia Samatar (b. 1971) KW - Female author KW - Somali-American author AB -

Dystopia in which Mennonite refugees from Earth have colonized their own planet but now treated other refugees the way they had been treated on Earth. 

PB - Small Beer Press CY - Easthampton, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Farmer's Almanac" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Halli Villegas ED - Bruce Meyer KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Climate fiction dystopia. 

JF - Cli-fi: Canadian Tales of Climate Change PB - Exile Editions CY - Holstein, ON, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Feastwar" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Kaftan, Vylar ED - Stephen W. Potts ED - [Glen] David Brin (b. 1950) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Interactions through a computer game that connects people throughout the U. S. both brings about the spread and helps end a deadly disease. 

JF - Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Festival of the Cull” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Steve Carr KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a society where each year everyone must choose a person to be culled, and those getting the most votes will be killed. The system can be rigged. Resonates with Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” (1948).

JF - Dystopia Utopia Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Tales PB - Flame Tree Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Fifteen Minutes: Turn On, Tune In, Log Off” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Alex Shvartsman (b. 1975) KW - Male author KW - Ukrainian author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which AIs have taken over from humans, who had been destroying the planet and killing each other. The AIs keep the humans just barely alive. 

JF - Nature VL - 552.7684 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “‘Fifth Avenue’: Trump keeps his campaign promises” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Ben[jamin Allen] H. Winters (b. 1976) ED - Ben[jamin Allen] H. Winters (b. 1976) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is told from the point-of-view of a reporter convicted of treason for revealing that the Trump administration had arranged with Russia to have another U.S. reporter poisoned.

JF - Slate Magazine as part of its Trump Story Project. https://slate.com/tag/trump-story-project UR - https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2017/01/ben-h-winters-fifth-avenue-a-new-story-in-the-trump-story-project.html U2 -

Illus. Lisa Larson-Walker

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Final Delivery" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Kerri-Leigh Grady ED - Phyllis Irene Radford (b. 1950) ED - Rebecca McFarland Kyle ED - Lou J Berger ED - Bob Brown KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which young women are used to produce babies whose body parts are used to replace those lost by the military and the rich. 

JF - More Alternative Truths: Stories From the Resistance PB - B Cubed Press CY - Benton City, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Fire Star" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Shirley Chan KW - Asian-American author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set on an Earth with sever pollution and rationed, and expensive water and power, but the focus of the story is about the settlement of Mars, the corporate, personal, and political conflicts involved, and the myth-making that has already started. 

JF - Infinite Dimensions: Crossroads PB - JennJett Media CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Fire Wire" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Malka [Ann] Older (b. 1977) ED - Luke Peterson KW - Female author KW - Latinx author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future where, after worldwide fires, electric power must be generated by individuals and focuses on whether or not to build new power plants. 

JF - Futurescapes Volume One: Cities of Empowerment PB - Utah Valley Office of New Urban Mechanics & Utah Valley University CY - [Orem, UT] SN - 978-0692879313 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Fix-It Shop" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Pat[rice Anne] Murphy (b. 1955) ED - Monica Louzon ED - Jake Weisfeld ED - Heather McHale ED - Barbara Jasny ED - Rachel Frederick KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe (a disease that kills all but a few men) dystopia in which the few boys born are overly protected and assumed to be incapable of doing the practical things that women do. Most young women have never seen a young man. 

JF - Catalysts, Explorers & Secret Keepers: Women of Science Fiction PB - Museum of Science Fiction CY - Washington, DC U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Floating City of Pengimbang” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Michelle Goddard ED - Nina Munteanu (b. 1954) KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a climate change future in which the islands of the South Pacific are completely submerged, and the inhabitants live on rafts, constantly alert for storms. 

JF - Water: Optimistic Sci-Fi Series PB - Reality Skimming Press CY - Burnaby, BC, Canada SN - 978-1-988939-00-1 U2 -

Illus. Digbejoy Gosh

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Fly Away, Peter" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Ian Hocking (b. 1976) ED - George Sandison KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which Germany has become isolated from the rest of Europe and rejects all outsiders. 

JF - 2084 PB - Unsung Stories/Red Squirrel Publishing CY - London SN - 9781907389580 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Flying Under the Texas Radar with Paco and Los Freetails” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Ernest Hogan (b. 1955) ED - Matthew Anthony Goodwin KW - Chicano author KW - Male author AB -

The story is told from a settlement on Mars, and is about what happens when, under the U.S. second amendment, a rich Texan gets nuclear weapons and declares Texas free, at least for conservative, white, heterosexuals. Paco first appeared in the author’s Cortez on Jupiter. New York: Tor, 1990.

JF - Latin@ Rising: An Anthology of Latin@ Science Fiction and Fantasy PB - Wings Press CY - San Antonio, TX SN - 9781609405243 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “For Better or Worse” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Jennifer Graham KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which a few huge corporations fight each other for power.

JF - Infinite Dimensions: Crossroads PB - JennJett Media CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Freefall Y1 - 2017 A1 - Joshua David Bellin (b. 1965) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia that begins in 2151 where the 1% rule and the 99% live horrible lives seen through the eyes of a young man from the 1% who falls for a girl from the 99%. From there, the novel shifts, after some humans are sent into space, to a struggle for survival on a different planet in 3151 with the same protagonist.

PB - Margaret K. McElderry CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "From the Dark" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Emilie Collyer ED - Liz Grzyb ED - Cat[riona] Sparks (b. 1965) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a dystopia where plastics are destroying the oceans and takes place in a juvenile detention center where garbage pits are dug out for recycling. 

JF - Ecopunk! [Cover adds Speculative Tales of Radical Futures] PB - Ticonderoga Publications CY - Greenwood, WA, Australia SN - 9781925212549 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Frozen" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Liam Hogan ED - Phyllis Irene Radford (b. 1950) ED - Bob Brown KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

In the future each election determines who will be frozen until the next election. This, while apparently eutopian, eliminates unemployment and helps the environment to recover.

JF - Alternative Truths PB - B Cubed Press CY - Benton City, WA SN - 9780998963419 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Future Home of the Living God. A Novel Y1 - 2017 A1 - [Karen] Louise Erdrich (b. 1954) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia that follows a dramatic drop in pregnancies Government disappears and pregnant women are kidnapped and incarcerated under the auspices of the Church of the New Constitution.

PB - Harper CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Future Perfect" Y1 - 2017 A1 - [Victoria Estelle Mitchell] [Gustafson] (1954-2017) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future in which the United States has become a hereditary monarchy of Trumps.

JF - More Alternative Truths: Stories From the Resistance PB - B Cubed Press CY - Benton City, WA U3 -

V. E. Mitchell [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Games Theory" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Beth [Ann] Plutchak (b. 1952) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is about a multi-generation starship and the relations between the male, white scientists and engineers and the predominantly female, mixed race and ethnicity who are more arts and humanities oriented. 

JF - Boundaries, Border Crossings, and Reinventing the Future PB - Aqueduct Press CY - Seattle, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Gather the Daughters. A Novel Y1 - 2017 A1 - Jennie Melamed KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia that takes place on an isolated island inhabited by a cult in which women are completely controlled by their fathers and husbands except for a brief period at puberty. Women who are past child-bearing age are considered no longer useful and are required to commit suicide. 

PB - Little, Brown CY - New York SN - 9780316501408 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Ghost in the Machine” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Susan Pieters ED - Spider Robinson (b. 1948) ED - James Alan KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a future that can be read as either eutopian or dystopian. It is presented as much better than the past in that war has disappeared, but the future is controlled through an AI. The DNA of boys is analyzed at birth and aggressive and religious features removed. 

JF - Compostela: Tesseracts Twenty PB - Compostela: Tesseracts Twenty CY - Calgary, AB, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Glitterati” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Oliver Langmead ED - George Sandison KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Dystopia of a future divided between those devoted to fashion and those who are not. 

JF - 2084 PB - Unsung Stories/Red Squirrel Publishing CY - London SN - 9781907389580 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Gnomon Y1 - 2017 A1 - [Nicholas] [Cornwall] (b. 1972) ED - Nick Harkaway [pseud.] KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A very complex novel depicting what appears to be a flawed utopia in which constant surveillance and a police force that is able to stop crimes before they happen produces a good life for everyone, but it turns out that there are flaws in the system and unaccountable holders of power.

PB - William Heinemann CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2018

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Nick Harkaway [pseud.].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Good Citizen" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Anne Charnock (b. 1954) ED - George Sandison KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia in which there is a daily referendum in which everyone must vote or lose what few privileges they have. 

JF - 2084 PB - Unsung Stories/Red Squirrel Publishing CY - London SN - 9781907389580 N1 -

Rpt. in Best of British Science Fiction 2017. Ed. Donna Scott ([Weston, Eng.]: NewCon Press, 2018), 131-38.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Good Citizens” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Paula Hammond ED - Phyllis Irene Radford (b. 1950) ED - Bob Brown KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia in which the presidency of Donald Trump (b. 1946) becomes a monarchy that uses nuclear weapons on Iran and Mexico and is at war with China. Any one not of white, multi-generational U.S. ancestry loses their citizenship, as do gays, Jews, Muslims. Some people had escaped, many were killed. The female author has published many non-fiction books for children, mostly on scientific subjects.

JF - Alternative Truths PB - B Cubed Press CY - Benton City, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Grass Still Grows" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Sharron McKenzie KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Transgender author AB -

Climate change dystopia set in Christchurch, New Zealand, which is mostly under water and being dismantled to build new cities inland on higher ground. The story won the 2017 Still Waving Climate Creative Writing Competition.

JF - Climate Fiction Creative Writing Contest, Massey University UR - https://sites.massey.ac.nz/expressivearts/2017/10/25/winning-climate-change-creative-writing/ https://littlebluemarble.ca/2021/07/16/grass-still-grows/ N1 -

Rpt. as by S. A. McKenzie in New Orbit Magazine, no. 5 (February 2019); and illus. Little Blue Marble (July 16, 2021). https://littlebluemarble.ca/2021/07/16/grass-still-grows/

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Great Wall of Denver" Y1 - 2017 A1 - David Ira Cleary KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the U.S. has broken up, and Denver must deal with pollution from nuclear waste and winds that can destroy the city, hence the wall around the city. 

JF - Persistent Visions UR - https://persistentvisionsmag.com/fiction/great-wall-of-denver-david-ira-cleary U2 -

Illus. Toeken

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Growing Season Y1 - 2017 A1 - Helen Sedgwick (b. 1978) KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

What appears to be a eutopia in which the invention of a pouch that allows anyone to gestate a child outside the body, allowing gay men and single people to carry their own child. The pouch is transferable at will, which allows couples to trade off. The pouch is the monopoly of one company, so, of course, there are problems.

PB - Harvill Secker CY - London U5 -

MH, PU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Happenstance" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Fran Wilde (b. 1972) ED - Luke Peterson KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a high-tech future in which a city can be constantly reconfigured to improve peoples’ lives. 

JF - Futurescapes Volume One: Cities of Empowerment PB - Utah Valley Office of New Urban Mechanics & Utah Valley University CY - [Orem, UT] VL - 1 SN - 978-0692879313 978-09989252-6-4 N1 -

Rpt. in Reckoning 4: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice (Lake Orion, MI: Reckoning Press, 2020), 73-100. Also published online at https://reckoning.press/happenstance/ (March 11, 2020). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - H(a)ppy Y1 - 2017 A1 - Nicola Barker (b. 1966) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - South African author AB -

A woman lives in a future world where “Excess of Emotion” is to be avoided; one must always be “In Balance” and is being constantly adjusted chemically to stay that way. The woman experiences a glitch in her conditioning that leads her to experience emotion, pain, and so forth. Typographically complex. The author says that the book “is best enjoyed in conjunction with Agustin Barrios: The Complete Historical Guitar Recordings 1913-1942

PB - Heinemann CY - London U1 -

Commonly cited as Happy.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Happy Hunting Ground” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Corey J. White ED - Liz Grzyb ED - Cat[riona] Sparks (b. 1965) KW - Austrian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia set in a future in which food is short and controlled by a corporation with the support of the police. The story focuses on an intentional community that resists the system. 

JF - Ecopunk! [Cover adds Speculative Tales of Radical Futures] PB - Ticonderoga Publications CY - Greenwood, WA, Australia SN - 9781925212549 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Havergey Y1 - 2017 A1 - John Burnside (b. 1955) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

While in the book the people of Havergey say that the island is not a utopia, in the context of a world decimated by disease, it is the best community in existence. The story is told through the eyes of a time traveler from 2017 before The Collapse, also known as The Dark Time, that began in 2024 who arrives at Havergey in 2041 and is quarantined and given materials from the history of Havergey to read before he can be accepted or rejected by the community, which is composed of nomads, survivors who gradually found their way there over the years following The Collapse.

PB - Little Toller Books CY - Toller Fratrum, Dorset, Eng. SN - 978-1-908213-46-4 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “He Was So Old” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Lee Widener KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of the struggle for existence after civilization collapsed.

JF - Neo-Opsis Science Fiction Magazine VL - no. 28 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Healer" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Melinda LaFevers KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The dystopia of a violent, disintegrated in which one woman’s knowledge of herbalism is the only medical care available. United States. 

JF - More Alternative Truths: Stories From the Resistance PB - B Cubed Press CY - Benton City, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Healer's Touch" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Colleen Anderson ED - Susan Forest ED - Lucas K. Law KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

The story is about a healer in a high-tech hospital and her ability to overcome her own problems so she can help the constant stream of badly injured refugees being created in her dystopian world. 

JF - The Sum of Us: Tales of the Bonded and Bound PB - Laksha Media Groups CY - Calgary, AB, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Heat Was Unbearable” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Frank Westcott ED - Bruce Meyer KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Climate change dystopia. 

JF - Cli-fi: Canadian Tales of Climate Change PB - Exile Editions CY - Holstein, ON, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Here Comes the Flood” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Desirina Boskovitch ED - George Sandison KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Climate change dystopia in which the people of one city built walls and a dome to protect itself from floods, winds, and fires, and all the protections are failing. 

JF - 2084 PB - Unsung Stories/Red Squirrel Publishing CY - London SN - 9781907389580 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Hermit of Houston” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Samuel R[ay] Delany (b. 1942) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

A same-sex love story told by one of the individuals after the other has died, although the man’s memory is not reliable. It is set in an overpopulated future where same-sex relationships are encouraged, men and women are, to some degree, kept separate, and, as the story puts it, “mixed up the genders,” although the story does not include any of the last. 

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 133.3/4 (733) SN - 978-1-328-83456-0 978-1-78108-573-8 978-1-60701-5260 N1 -

Rpt. in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy™ 2018. Ed. N[ora] K. Jemisin (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Mariner, 2018), 63-91; in The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Twelve. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (Oxford, Eng.: Solaris, 2018), 591-619; and in The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy: 2018 Edition. Ed. Rich Horton ([New York]: Prime Books, 2018), 62-85. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The History Book" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Voss Foster ED - Phyllis Irene Radford (b. 1950) ED - Bob Brown KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A dystopia in which history has been rewritten to reflect the biases of the current administration, books burned, and those with good memories killed.

JF - Alternative Truths PB - B Cubed Press CY - Benton City, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "HMO" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Karin L. Frank ED - Phyllis Irene Radford (b. 1950) ED - Rebecca McFarland Kyle ED - Lou J Berger ED - Bob Brown KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The dystopia of U. S. health care in the future when it is entirely under control of insurance companies. 

JF - More Alternative Truths: Stories From the Resistance PB - B Cubed Press CY - Benton City, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hold Back the Stars Y1 - 2017 A1 - Katie Khan KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The novel is a love story that begins and ends in a catastrophe in space. But for most of the novel, it is set in a future multi-cultural European eutopia in which populations move from place to place to mix with other populations. 

PB - Doubleday CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Hold Dear the Lamp Light: When We Were Young, Before the Tides Rose Up, and the Power Went Out” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Jay Ruben Dayrit KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Climate-change dystopia. 

JF - Wired VL - 25.1 U2 -

Illus. Kevin Tong

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Home is Where My Mother’s Heart is Buried” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Wole Talabi (b. 1986) KW - Malaysian author KW - Male author KW - Nigerian author AB -

The story is set on a Mars inhabited by humans and aliens and reflects on human prejudice, gender identity, and the dystopia that was the Nigeria the protagonist had left. 

JF - Fiyah Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction VL - no. 2 SN - 978-1-911143-55-0 N1 -

Rpt. in his Incomplete Solutions. Edinburgh, Scot.: Luna Press, 2019), 189-200, with an author’s note on 262. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Humanity" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Michael Ben-Zvi KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is about the intersection of an authoritarian dystopia controlling its people through technology and, less fleshed out in the story, a eutopia that uses technology to build a free, green society.

JF - Infinite Dimensions: Crossroads PB - JennJett Media CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Humans, Bow Down Y1 - 2017 A1 - James [Brendan] Patterson (b. 1947) A1 - Emily Raymond (b. 1972) A1 - Jill Dombowski KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A dystopia set in a future in which a war between humans and robots has been won by the robots and focuses on those who do not accept defeat. 

PB - Little, Brown CY - New York U2 -

Illus. Alexander Ovchinnikov

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Hunger After You’re Fed: Who is Héctor Prima?” Y1 - 2017 A1 - [Daniel James] [Abraham] (b. 1969) A1 - [Tyler Corey] [Franck] (b. 1969) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is concerned with the functioning of a future with a guaranteed income and the needs that will still remain.

JF - Wired VL - 25.1 SN - 978-1-250-16463-6 N1 -

Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2018), 180-87 with an editor’s note on 180.

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Illus. Paul Lacolley

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James S. A. Corey [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Illegal Citizens” Y1 - 2017 A1 - [Phyllis] Irene Radford (b. 1950) ED - Phyllis Irene Radford (b. 1950) ED - Rebecca McFarland Kyle ED - Lou J Berger ED - Bob Brown KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the Trump administration has stripped all Latinos of their U. S. citizenship however long their ancestors had been citizens. 

JF - More Alternative Truths: Stories From the Resistance PB - B Cubed Press CY - Benton City, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Immanation” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Mary Easson ED - Gavin Miller ED - Anna McFarlane KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

Dystopian future in which some have withdrawn from the damaged world into a Tower where everything is controlled contrasted with those who chose to stay outside where they are regenerating the Earth. 

JF - A Practical Guide to the Resurrected: Twenty-One Short Stories of Medicine and Science Fiction PB - Freight Books CY - Glasgow, SCot. SN - 978-1-911332-50-3 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “In the Night of the Comet: A Sequel to H. G. Wells’ In the Days of the Comet” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Adam [Charles] Roberts (b. 1965) ED - Donna Scott KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Sequel to 1905-06 Wells in which the comet in Wells that brings a eutopia is followed some years by a second comet that produces a dystopia.

JF - Best of British Science Fiction 2017 N1 -

Originally published in the author’s blog in May 2017 (http://www.adamroberts.com/2017/05/), but it appears to be no longer accessible. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Infinite Eye" Y1 - 2017 A1 - J[ames] P. Smythe (b. 1980) ED - George Sandison KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a surveillance society exploiting the poor and undocumented.

JF - 2084 PB - Unsung Stories/Red Squirrel Publishing CY - London SN - 9781907389580 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ink Y1 - 2017 A1 - Alice Broadway KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A religious dystopia in which the major events of a person’s life are inked on their skin, which is made into a book on their death. The book is given to the family if the person has lived a good life and publicly burned if judged to have not led a good life. First volume in a trilogy. The second volume, Spark. London: Scholastic Children’s Books, 2018, is a standard middle volume in which the protagonist searches for answers to the questions raised in the first volume. The third volume, Scar. London: Scholastic Children’s Books, 2019, pulls the various threads together.

PB - Scholastic Children’s Books CY - London N1 -

U. S. ed. New York: Scholastic, 2018. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Invasion" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Phil Dwyer ED - Bruce Meyer KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Climate-change dystopia in which the U.S. invades Canada to gain usable territory. 

JF - Cli-fi: Canadian Tales of Climate Change PB - Exile Editions CY - Holstein, ON, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Irrepressibly Original Daisy Wigmar” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Katie Stevens ED - Chester W. Hoster ED - Katy Stauber (b. 1976) KW - Female author KW - UK author AB -

Flawed utopia in which genetic modification is readily available and chosen to design children and by adults to modify themselves. This has led, for example, to their being few people of color. The protagonist is an unmodified woman who tells of friendship with other unmodified women, one of whom chooses to be changed, and unchanged animals. 

JF - Futuristica: Volume 2 PB - Metasages Press CY - Green Cove Springs, FL VL - 2 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "It Takes a Village" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Kevin C[hristopher] Jesse ED - Luke Peterson KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is about the beginnings of a eutopia based on unarmed community policing told from the point of view of a policeman used to the old ways. An Unconditional Basic Income with additional amounts is linked to voting on the referenda that are part of what is called nanodemocracy or nanodem and appear regularly on individual eyepieces. One paragraph suggests that the military is also using some of the same tactics.

JF - Futurescapes Volume One: Cities of Empowerment PB - Utah Valley Office of New Urban Mechanics & Utah Valley University CY - [Orem, UT] VL - 1 SN - 978-0692879313 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Justice Systems in Quantum Parallel Probabilities” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Lettie Prell KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A man waiting to go before a judge in a criminal trial (he is guilty) dreams about a series of alternative justice systems, most of which seem preferable to the one is about to face. 

JF - Clarkesworld Magazine VL - no. 124 SN - 978-1-328-83456-0 UR - http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/prell_01_17/ N1 -

Rpt. in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy™ 2018. Ed. N[ora] K. Jemisin (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Mariner, 2018), 49-56. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Knells of Agassiz” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Holly Schofield ED - Nina Munteanu (b. 1954) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a future in which all the glaciers are melting and concerns an attempt to create snow to help restore them. 

JF - Water PB - Reality Skimming Press CY - Vancouver, BC, Canada VL - Volume 1 of the Optimistic Sci-Fi series SN - 978-1-988939-00-1 978-1-988293-10-3 UR - https://littlebluemarble.ca/2020/02/28/the-knells-of-agassiz/ N1 -

Rpt. with a different illus. in Little Blue Marble (February 28, 2020). https://littlebluemarble.ca/2020/02/28/the-knells-of-agassiz/; and, without the illustration, in Little Blue Marble 2020: Greener Futures. Ed. Katrina Archer (Vancouver, BC, Canada: Ganache Media, 2020), 52-62, with a note on the author on 62.

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Illus. Digbejoy Gosh.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion Y1 - 2017 A1 - Margaret Killjoy (b. 1982) KW - Female author KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -

Fantasy novel that includes an anarchist eutopia, Freedom City, Iowa: “An entire town, abandoned by a dead economy and occupied by squatters and activists and anarchists” (12). But as people learned of it and moved there, one man took control, dividing the community. One man knew magic and summoned a protector spirit that killed the man, but later that spirit turns on its summoners. The rest of the novel concerns the community’s attempts to control the spirit. The

PB - Tor.com/Tom Doherty Associates CY - New York SN - 978-0-7653-9736-2 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Last Chance" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Tyler Young ED - Phoebe Wagner ED - Brontë Christopher Wieland KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story set on a planet called Last Chance settled after the Earth’s ecosystem had been destroyed. At a young age, children are separated from their parents and live in an underground school, under a desert, where they are taught that the settlers had done the same thing to the new planet, but what they are taught is not true. Last Chance is like Earth once was, and the children are being taught what could happen again and must not.

JF - Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation PB - Upper Rubber Boot CY - Nashville, TN U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Dog on Earth Y1 - 2017 A1 - Adrian J. Walker KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Post-apocalyptic dystopia (bomb) told from the points-of-view of a dog and his master. 

PB - Del Rey/Ebury Publishing CY - London U5 -

MiU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Leila Y1 - 2017 A1 - Prayaag Akbar (b. 1982) KW - Indian author KW - Male author AB -

In a future India that is a dictatorship and dealing with climate change, a woman’s husband is killed, her daughter is abducted, and she is sent to a prison camp. Escaping, she searches for her daughter. 

PB - Simon & Schuster India CY - Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India SN - 9780571341313 N1 -

Rpt. London: Faber & Faber, 2018. 265 pp. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Letter from the Federal Women’s Prison” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Stephanie L. Weippert ED - Phyllis Irene Radford (b. 1950) ED - Rebecca McFarland Kyle ED - Lou J Berger ED - Bob Brown KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which women lose all their rights. Some form an underground railroad to help others escape to Canada. When they are discovered, many are killed, and the others are imprisoned for life. 

JF - More Alternative Truths: Stories From the Resistance PB - B Cubed Press CY - Benton City, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Letters from the Heartland” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Janka Hobbs ED - Phyllis Irene Radford (b. 1950) ED - Bob Brown KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A dystopia in which the U.S. has fragmented, climate change has drowned much of the coasts, and the middle of the country has become a dictatorship.

JF - Alternative Truths PB - B Cubed Press CY - Benton City, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Link Boy. A Free World Novel Y1 - 2017 A1 - Michael J. Martineck (b. 1965) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 2014 Martineck that follows the lives of three people as they navigated life in a world controlled by competing corporations.

PB - Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy CY - Calgary, AB, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Looking Back, Looking Ahead” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Maverick Smith ED - Hayden Trenholm (b. ca. 1955) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

A future Toronto dealing with climate change through high rise gardening on what remains of its building. Much of the story gives the feel of a highly structured, perhaps even authoritarian society, but it ends with it also being a radically egalitarian society recognize the value of all people, with, for example, everyone using sign language. 

JF - 49th Parallels PB - Bundoran Press CY - [Ottawa, ON, Canada] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lost in Arcadia Y1 - 2017 A1 - Sean Gandert KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which most people in the U.S. are addicted to Arcadia, an immersive virtual-reality system. The effect is to cut people off from each other, and the novel follows one family whose matriarch tries to hold them together.

PB - 47North CY - Np U5 -

Public

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lotus Blue Y1 - 2017 A1 - Cat[riona] Sparks (b. 1965) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

A complex, multi-faceted post-apocalyptic dystopia set it an Australia with a badly damaged environment, war machines, enhanced soldiers, and other dangers. The main protagonist is a seventeen year old girl struggling to survive. The setting has similarities to the Terry Dowling’s 1990 Rynosseros series.

PB - Talos Press CY - New York SN - 9781940456706 U5 -

NNU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Lowland Clearances.” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Pippa Goldschmidt (b. 1985) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

Satire on the Highland Clearances in which the people of Glasgow are resettled in the Scottish Highlands and replaced by sheep. 

JF - Shoreline of Infinity VL - no. 8½ Edinburgh International Book Festival Special Edition U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "March, April, May" Y1 - 2017 A1 - [Vince] [Haig] (b. 1976) ED - George Sandison KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which The Space, rather like Facebook, controls the news and most human interaction.

JF - 2084 PB - Unsung Stories/Red Squirrel Publishing CY - London SN - 9781907389580 U3 -

Malcolm Devlin [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Marrow Thieves Y1 - 2017 A1 - Cherie Dimaline ED - Neal McLeod KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - First Nations author AB -

The novel, generally classified as young adult, is set in a future in which, after The Water Wars, for an unexplained reason most people have stopped dreaming, which damages them psychologically. Indigenous peoples still dream, and, since the others are convinced that there is a physical basis for their dreaming, indigenous people are hunted and killed to harvest their bone marrow. The residential and boarding schools founded in the Canada and the United States to rid indigenous children of their cultures and languages are re-opened or newly established to assist in the practice. See also her 2021 Dimaline.

PB - DCB/Dancing Cat Books/Cormorant Books CY - Toronto, ON, Canada N1 -

Developed from a story with the same title published in Mitêwâcimowina: Indigenous Science Fiction and Speculative Storytelling. Ed. Neal McLeod (James Smith Cree First Nations) ([Pinticion, BC, Canada]: Theytus Press, 2016), 199-214.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Martian Obelisk” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Linda Nagata (b. 1960) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future devastated by climate change, pandemics, wars, and all the other problems brought about by human mistreatment of Earth. But it focuses on a project on Mars started after all the colonization attempts appear to have failed. 

JF - Tor.com SN - 978-1-250-16463-6, 978-1-78108-573-8, 978-1-60701-5260 UR - https://www.tor.com/2017/07/19/the-martian-obelisk/ N1 -

Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2018), 71-83 with an editor’s note on 71; in The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Twelve. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (Oxford, Eng.: Solaris, 2018), 55-72; and in The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy: 2018 Edition. Ed. Rich Horton ([New York]: Prime Books, 2018), 444-57. 

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Illus. Victor Mosquera

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Melanoma Americana” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Sara Codair ED - Phyllis Irene Radford (b. 1950) ED - Bob Brown KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The dystopia that results from the presidency of Donald Trump (b. 1946) with the focus on the destruction of the health care system. 

JF - Alternative Truths PB - B Cubed Press CY - Benton City, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Memoirist Y1 - 2017 A1 - Neil Williamson (b. 1968) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Surveillance dystopia.

PB - NewCon Press CY - [Weston, Eng.] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Mercury Teardrops” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Jeff Noon (b. 1957) ED - Salomé Jones KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The dystopia brought about by the end of the digital age when all the enhanced bodies fail.

JF - Haunted Futures PB - Ghostwoods Books CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Best of British Science Fiction 2017. Ed. Donna Scott ([Weston, Eng.]: NewCon Press, 2018), 139-59. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Met-Chron Sanctuary: Metamorphosis Chronicles. Book 1 Y1 - 2017 A1 - Ron[ald] S[cott] Nolan KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

First volume of a trilogy set in a future devastated by global warming in which a young woman scientist has discovered how to extend life but realizes that the damaged planet could not support such life extension. The second volume, Met-Chron New-Humans: Metamorphosis Chronicles. Book 2. Aptos, CA: Planetropolis Publishing, 2019 is an obvious middle volume in which there is much conflict [A rev. ed. was published in 2020]. A third volume is projected.

PB - Planetropolis Publishing CY - Aptos, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Midnight at the Electric Y1 - 2017 A1 - Jodi Lynn Anderson KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The novel, which is marketed as young adult, is set in three time periods in one family--1919, 1934, and 2065--is not obviously eutopian or dystopian, but the first period is set in postwar England, the second is set in dust bowl Kansas, and the third is set in a U.S. struggling with the effects of climate-change. The coasts have largely been abandoned, and, because Washington, DC is a swamp, the government has moved to the Midwest.

PB - HarperTeen CY - New York U5 -

Public

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Milk Island Y1 - 2017 A1 - Rhydian W[ynn] Thomas KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Humorous dystopia with a genetically modified cow, Milky Moo, on Milk Island, formerly the South Island, which has been privatized after devastating earthquakes required terraforming the entire island. Christchurch is a dairying prison, and there are other agricultural prisons. Told in four parts, one of which is the thoughts of one worker and one a mixture of forms.

PB - Lawrence and Gibson CY - [Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand] SN - 9780473397944 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Mine, Yours, Ours” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Jack [Anthony] Skillingstead (b. 1955) ED - [Glen] David Brin (b. 1950) ED - Stephen W. Potts KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Whether the story describes a eutopia or a dystopia is left up to the reader. The I.O.E. (International Organ Exchange) is symbolic of a society that sees everyone connected to everyone else. When you sign up for the I.O.E., you agree to give an organ when requested, and the protagonist is struggling over whether she should have a lung removed. If she doesn’t, she will be expelled from the I.O.E. and ineligible for a future transplant.

JF - Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Monkey Cage Rules” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Larry Hodges ED - Phyllis Irene Radford (b. 1950) ED - Bob Brown KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian satire on the ungovernability of the human race.

JF - Alternative Truths PB - B Cubed Press CY - Benton City, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Moon and the Other Y1 - 2017 A1 - John [Joseph Vincent] Kessel (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The Society of Cousins, in which women are the leaders, contrasted with the other societies on the moon, which are mostly patriarchal, that see the Society of Cousins as a threat. See also 2000, 2002, 2003, and 2006 for other works regarding the Society of Cousins.

PB - Saga Press/Simon & Schuster CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Morning in the Republic of America” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Fiona Moore (b. 1974) ED - Hayden Trenholm (b. ca. 1955) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a future dominated by China, with a Communist United States, and what remain of Canada renamed the Republic of America and hoping for support from China. 

JF - 49th Parallels PB - Bundoran Press CY - [Ottawa. ON, Canada] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Mozart of the Kalahari” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Steven [Emory] Barnes (b. 1952) ED - Ed Finn ED - Joey Eschrich ED - Juliet Ulman KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in an environmentally devasted future where the rich live off planet and the poor struggle to survive

JF - Visions, Ventures, Escape Velocities: A Collection of Space Futures PB - Center for Science and Imagination Arizona State University CY - Tempe, AZ U5 -

EBook

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Mr Mycelium” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Claire McKenna ED - Liz Grzyb ED - Cat[riona] Sparks (b. 1965) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

The story presents a high-tech Australian society, including farming and engineered animals and begins with an attack on such a farm by traditionalists. But the story also briefly represents other fissures between, for example, traditional marriage and multiple partners and shows both the positive and negative sides of the agricultural technology. 

JF - Ecopunk! [Cover adds Speculative Tales of Radical Futures] PB - Ticonderoga Publications CY - Greenwood, WA, Australia SN - 9781925212549 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Museum of Near Misses: A writer gets trapped by what might have been” Y1 - 2017 A1 - J[ohn] Robert Lennon (b. 1979) ED - Ben[jamin Allen] H. Winters (b. 1976) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story takes place in a world where Trump lost the 2016 election, was arrested for fraud, and died in jail after all the allegations against him were demonstrated to be true.

JF - Slate Magazine as part of its Trump Story Project. https://slate.com/tag/trump-story-project. UR - https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2017/03/trump-story-project-the-museum-of-near-misses-by-j-robert-lennon.html. U2 -

Illus. Lisa Larson-Walker

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Native Seeds" Y1 - 2017 A1 - [Catherine Jean Wells] [Dimenstein] (b. 1952) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future where the population of Earth is dwindling long after much of the population left to settle other planets. 

JF - Analog Science Fiction and Fact VL - 137.11&12 U2 -

Illus. Vincent DiFate

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Catherine Wells [pseud.]

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Merril, MnU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A New World Coming: Experiencing a Radically Different Future in the Kingdom of God Y1 - 2017 A1 - John [R.] Claeys KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Biblical exposition from the premillennial perspective including details of life during the millennium with Biblical references. There will be physical bodies (147-58). Quite a bit on what might loosely be called the politics of the millennium with Christ ruling, and the Mosaic Law enforced (159-89). Refers to the feasts of the Old Testament (199-213). Harmony between animals and humans (216). No fear (216). Parenting based on the Old Testament, with serious punishment, including death, for misbehavior (217-19). Significant population growth (219-20). Earth will have no waste spaces (220-21). Manual work will be done by “mortal-bodied unbelievers,” while the “glorified” will be administrators (224). See also his The Impending Apocalypse. Sisters, OR: Deep River Books, 2014.

PB - 289Design CY - Longview, TX U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - New York 2140 Y1 - 2017 A1 - Kim Stanley Robinson (b. 1952) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Climate-change dystopia. Includes the characters Mutt and Jeff from 2016 Robinson, “Mutt and Jeff Push the Button.”

PB - Orbit CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Night Divers" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Lynn Hutchinson Lee ED - Bruce Meyer KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Climate-change dystopia with extreme drought and all water sources and distribution are taken over by a corporation. 

JF - Cli-fi: Canadian Tales of Climate Change PB - Exile Editions CY - Holstein, ON, Canada U5 -

PU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - NK3 Y1 - 2017 A1 - Michael Tolkin (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia in which a microbe used as a weapon has deleted people’s memory.

PB - Atlantic Monthly Press CY - New York U5 -

Public

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Noise and the Silence” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Christien Gholson KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which there is constant loud noise and silence is consider opposition.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 268 U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “None But the Brave” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Dan Lee ED - John E. Meredith ED - Paul Brian McCoy KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia brought about by the policies of the Trump administration. The story focuses on terrorism and anti-terrorism.

JF - American Carnage: Tales of Trumpian Dystopia PB - Psycho Drive-In Press CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Non-White in America” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Debora Godfrey ED - Phyllis Irene Radford (b. 1950) ED - Rebecca McFarland Kyle ED - Lou J Berger ED - Bob Brown KW - Female author AB -

The dystopia of being non-white in contemporary America.

JF - More Alternative Truths: Stories From the Resistance PB - B Cubed Press CY - Benton City, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Numbercaste Y1 - 2017 A1 - Yudhanjaya Wijeratne (b. 1992) KW - Male author KW - Sri Lankan author AB -

The main protagonist is recruited by a start-up that is developing a way to rate every individual in the world based and assign them a number that fluctuates depending on their actions is will be available for everyone else.

PB - [Author] CY - Np SN - 9781521795439 9789353023331 N1 -

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India: HarperCollins India, 2019. It was first published on Kindle and then, a day later, as a paperback, and then in India.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “An Oasis of Amends” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Floris M. Kleijne (b. 1970) ED - Michael DeLuca KW - Dutch author KW - Male author AB -

A climate-change dystopia in which The Netherlands has been completely destroyed and icebergs are being harvest in the hope of creating an oasis in the Sahara. 

JF - Reckoning 2: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice PB - Reckoning Press CY - Lake Orion, MI VL - 2 N1 -

Rpt. in Little Blue Marble 2019: Climate in Crisis. Ed. Katrina Archer (Vancouver, BC, Canada: Ganache Media Books, 2020), 177-81. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Once Upon a Trump" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Timothy Carter ED - JF Garrard ED - Jen Frankel KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The future Emperor Trump visits the current president to try to get him to fight the effects of climate change that has produced a dystopia. 

JF - Trump: Utopia or Dystopia PB - Dark Helix Press CY - [Toronto, ON, Canada] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The One. A Novel Y1 - 2017 A1 - John Marrs KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

A dystopia in which it is said to be possible to genetically identify each person’s perfect partner. 

PB - Del Rey CY - London N1 -

Canadian ed. Toronto, ON, Canada: Hanover Square Press, 2017.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "One of the Lucky Ones" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Wondra Vanian ED - Phyllis Irene Radford (b. 1950) ED - Rebecca McFarland Kyle ED - Lou J Berger ED - Bob Brown KW - Female author KW - US author KW - Welsh author AB -

Dystopia in which all those resisting the government are being shipped off to rehabilitation camps, each person wearing a badge of their identity. 

JF - More Alternative Truths: Stories From the Resistance PB - B Cubed Press CY - Benton City, WA ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Ones Who Know Where They are Going” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Sarah Pinsker (b. 1977) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The situation of the child in Ursula K. Le Guin’s “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas (Variations on a Theme by William James)” (1973) from the point-of-view of the child when, apparently, everyone has left. 

JF - Asimov’s Science Fiction VL - 41.3 & 4 (494 & 495) U5 -

CU-Riv, TxU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Only a Ten Hour Week: Architecture for a Sustainable Society of Plenty Y1 - 2017 A1 - Eli Berniker PhD KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Extremely detailed non-fiction description of the basis for a eutopia with a ten-hour work week that produces plenty for everyone. Detailed analysis of waste in the current system that, once eliminated, would make the ten-hour week possible. Throughout to book, the author repeats that “We live in a world of plenty that must be experience as scarcity for the economy to function. Scarcity is unsustainable. Plenty is sustainable” (339). Includes a “Glossary” (342-50) and an Index (351-77). Under the author’s name, the cover adds “Practical Utopian.” 

PB - [CreateSpace] CY - [North Charleston, SC] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Oracle" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Dominica Phetteplace ED - Jonathan Strahan (b. 1964) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Satire on U.S. politics in which a “war of the month” is instituted to gain support for the President. 

JF - Infinity Wars PB - Solaris CY - Oxford, Eng U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Pan-Humanism: Hope and Pragmatics” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Jess[ica] Barber A1 - Sara Saab KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Lebanese author KW - US author AB -

The story is set mostly in Beirut, Lebanon, and takes place during a dystopian period of extreme drought. It traces the life choices of two scientists as they work to help the planet recover, and the projects they develop  that will do that. 

JF - Clarkesworld SN - 978-1-250-16463-6 UR - http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/barber-saab_09_17/ N1 -

Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2018), 293-316 with an editor’s note on 293.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Parametrization of Complex Weather Patterns for Two Variables” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Alex Shvartsman (b. 1975) KW - Male author KW - Ukrainian author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a climate-change future in which weather control first produced conflict among nations using it against each other, then was internationalized, and, at the time of the story, has been taken over by hackers. 

JF - Daily Science Fiction UR - https://dailysciencefiction.com/science-fiction/science-fiction/alex-shvartsman/parametrization-of-complex-weather-patterns-for-two-variables. N1 -

Rpt. in Little Blue Marble 2017: Stories of Our Changing Climate. Ed. Katrina Archer. Np: Ganache Media. EBook

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “‘Patriot Points’: You may qualify for huge discounts, TSA Precheck approval, and more!” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Lauren [Ann] Beukes (b. 1976) ED - Ben[jamin Allen] H. Winters (b. 1976) KW - Female author KW - South African author AB -

The story consists of the questionnaire to fill out to achieve “Patriot Points,” which characterizes the dystopia being created. 

JF - Slate Magazine as part of its Trump Story Project. https://slate.com/tag/trump-story-project UR - https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2017/02/patriot-points-by-lauren-beukes-in-the-trump-story-project.html U2 -

Illus. Lisa Larson-Walker

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Patti 209" Y1 - 2017 A1 - K[aren] G. Anderson ED - Phyllis Irene Radford (b. 1950) ED - Bob Brown KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The dystopia that results from the presidency of Donald Trump (b. 1946) and others with similar policies. The focus is on the destruction of care for the elderly after the loss of Social Security and Medicare. The protagonist was one of the designers and founders of an old age home that had all the best conditions both for those living there and the environment. But with Social Security repealed and no Medicare, the home became just like the earlier nursing homes that provided minimal care. Conditions for the elderly outside this homes were worse.

JF - Alternative Truths PB - B Cubed Press CY - Benton City, WA SN - 9780998963419 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Perfect Little World Y1 - 2017 A1 - Kevin Wilson (b. 1978) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A child psychologist tries to create the ideal family made up of several individuals and couples and orphaned children. It works for a while but then disintegrates. The novel focuses one young woman participant.

PB - Ecco/HarperCollins CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Persephone” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Seanan McGuire (b. 1978) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a future with a deep divide between rich and poor.

JF - Tor.com UR - http://www.tor.com/2017/03/08/persephone-seanan-mcguire/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Pink Footed" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Marian Womack (b. 1975) ED - Liz Grzyb ED - Cat[riona] Sparks (b. 1965) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Spanish author AB -

Dystopia in which most animals, and birds in particular, have disappeared. 

JF - Ecopunk! [Cover adds Speculative Tales of Radical Futures] PB - Ticonderoga Publications CY - Greenwood, WA Australia SN - 9781925212549 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Pink Life (La Vie En Rose)” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Nathan Susnik KW - German author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a dystopia future that is hidden because most people live entirely in virtual reality. The protagonist is forced to see the world as it is when a glitch occurs. 

JF - Shoreline of Infinity VL - no. 8 U2 -

Illus. Dave Alexander

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Pinwheel Party" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Victor D. Phillips ED - Phyllis Irene Radford (b. 1950) ED - Bob Brown KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The beginning and the end of the story are brief depictions of the dystopia inflicted on the poor and immigrants by current policies. The middle is a drug-induced dream of a eutopia in which everyone works together to improve the U.S.

JF - Alternative Truths PB - B Cubed Press CY - Benton City, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Pop and the CFT" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Brandon Crilly ED - Phoebe Wagner ED - Brontë Christopher Wieland KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a future trying to deal with climate-change and focuses on one of the policies, the CFT, put in place to help. CFT refers to the Carbon Footprint Tax that is levied after an individual’s death based on their consumption pattern during life.

JF - Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation PB - Upper Rubber Boot CY - Nashville, TN U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Portlandtown” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Elly Blue ED - Elly Blue KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future Oregon divided by Portlandtown, an authoritarian dictatorship with some limited technology and conflict within the leadership, and a rural area that is essentially anarchist that surrounds it. 

JF - Biketopia: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction in Extreme Futures PB - Microcosm Publishing CY - Portland, OR U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Powers of Earth Y1 - 2017 A1 - Travis J. I. Corcoran KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

First volume in a series in which a libertarian moon struggles to maintain its freedom against an authoritarian Earth. Won the 2018 Prometheus Award for Best Novel from the Libertarian Futurist Society. The next volume in the series is Causes of Separation. Np: Morlock Publishing, 2018. 706 pp. It is a typical second volume in a series in which the situation worsens. Two further volumes, Right and Duty and Absolute Tyranny are planned. 

PB - Morlock Publishing CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Practical Utopia: Strategies for a Desirable Society Y1 - 2017 A1 - Michael Albert (b. 1947) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Albert is one of the theorists with the economist Robin [Eric] Hahnel (b. 1946) of Parecon (Participatory Economics); see 2003 Albert. The book deals with Parecon, Parpolity, feminism, race, environmentalism, and internationalism plus the strategy needed to achieve the goals.

PB - Kairos/PM Press CY - Berkeley, CA N1 -

Originated in the three volumes, Occupy Theory, Occupy Vision, and Occupy Strategy of his Fanfare for Democracy. Woods Hole, MA: Z Communications, 2012. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Preventive Maintenance” Y1 - 2017 A1 - M. Darusha Wehm (b. 1975) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Climate-change dystopia. 

JF - Little Blue Marble UR - https://littlebluemarble.ca/2017/07/11/preventative-maintenance/ N1 -

Rpt. without the illus. in Little Blue Marble 2017: Stories of Our Changing Climate. Ed. Katrina Archer. Np: Ganache Media, 2017. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Prime Meridian Y1 - 2017 A1 - Silvia Moreno-Garcia (b. 1981) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - Mexican author AB -

A near future dystopia set in Mexico City in which a woman, who wants to join the colony on Mars, struggles to make a living and earn passage through the limited available work, such as hiring out as a temporary friend.

PB - Innismouth Press CY - Vancouver, BC, Canada SN - 9781927990216 N1 -

Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2018), 408-455, with an editor’s note on 408; and in The Best of World SF: Volume 1. Ed. Lavie Tidhar (London: Ad Astra/Head of Zeus, 2021), 467-551.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Proof of Concept Y1 - 2017 A1 - Gwyneth [Ann] Jones (b. 1952) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The novel is set in a dystopian overpopulated world with most people living in huge hives with their survival threatened by climate change. 

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Questions with the First” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Jim Warrenfeltz ED - Elly Blue KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia presented through an interview with the dictator as he discovers a threat to his rule.

JF - Biketopia: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction in Extreme Futures PB - Microcosm Publishing CY - Portland, OR U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Raid at 817 Maple Street” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Ken Staley ED - Phyllis Irene Radford (b. 1950) ED - Bob Brown KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the U.S. government’s surveillance of everyone’s internet activity leads it to conclude that a teenager involved in a video game is the leader of a terrorist cell.

JF - Alternative Truths PB - B Cubed Press CY - Benton City, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Rangers Y1 - 2017 A1 - Blaze Ward KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The stories are set in a dystopia brought about by the disintegration of the United States into warring sections. The Park Rangers from the part of the United States that is still democratic is the only effective force protecting citizens.

PB - Knotted Road Press CY - Np N1 -

The first story, “The Last Ranger,” was originally published as “The Last Ranger (ANPS-1, CE 2053).” Alternative Truths. Ed. Phyllis Irene Radford and Bob Brown (Benton City, WA: B. Cubed Press, 2017), 160-80. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Rebel Seoul Y1 - 2017 A1 - Oh, Axie KW - Female author KW - Korean American author AB -

Dystopia set in a future Seoul, South Korean where status is based on success in combat. 

PB - Tu Books/Lee & Low CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Reformatory” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Tananarive [Priscilla] Due (b. 1966) ED - Junot Díaz KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

The dystopia of life for African-Americans in the South at an unspecified date. 

JF - Boston Review VL - Special issue on Global Dystopias U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Relics: A Fable” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Louise Marley (b. 1952) ED - Phyllis Irene Radford (b. 1950) ED - Bob Brown KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia that is brought about by building the wall between Mexico and the U.S., the reduction of education, the radical division between rich and poor, and the warehousing of the elderly poor, known as Relics, who live in single room shacks near the wall.

JF - Alternative Truths PB - B Cubed Press CY - Benton City, WA SN - 9780998963419 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Report on the Outbreaks: Excerpts from the Draft Short Report to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (Continuing Emergency Ad Hoc Planetary Governing Council Concerning the Events of January 2060 and After)” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Timmerman, Peter ED - Bruce Meyer KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Climate-change dystopia in which much of the United States has been abandoned. 

JF - Cli-fi: Canadian Tales of Climate Change PB - Exile Editions CY - Holstein, ON, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Republic: Traitor Y1 - 2017 A1 - R. R. Quaggiato AB -

A dystopia that explores all the problems faced by the United States from terrorism to the media, gun, control, immigration, and privacy, among others in the form of a political thriller. No resolution at the end, which suggests a sequel.

PB - Xlibris CY - Bloomington, IN N1 -

Rpt. Np.: np, 2019. 394 pp.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Resist Them: A Dystopian Thriller Y1 - 2017 A1 - Scott King KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A dystopia in which the government broadcasts into everyone’s mind each morning.

PB - [CreateSpace] CY - [North Charleston, SC] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Retroactivist Y1 - 2017 A1 - Nate Ragolia KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A technological eutopia, called the United Sociocracy of the Americas that the protagonist finds flawed. In the future, technology has replaced all necessary work leaving everyone able to follow whatever personal passions they choose. Everyone is provided with a basic income on which it is possible to live comfortably. Sexual expression is completely free. Replicators produce material goods, including food. Robotic health checks constantly available. Much extended lifespan. All religious faiths combined into the Universal Combined Church of Faiths. The protagonist comes to believe that the twentieth century is a better time, and much of the novel is concerned with his struggles to recreate the twentieth century.

PB - Spaceboy Books CY - Denver, CO SN - 978-0-9987120-0-0 U1 -

The cover adds the subtitle “The future is yesterday”

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Riding in Place" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Sarena Ulibarri ED - Elly Blue KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future in which the Earth is recovering from environmental damage. One of the procedures used is to draft individuals to do work where they can see how and where, for example, energy and food are produced. 

JF - Biketopia: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction in Extreme Futures PB - Microcosm Publishing CY - Portland, OR U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Right Side of History” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Jane [Bryony] Rawson ED - Liz Grzyb ED - Cat[riona] Sparks (b. 1965) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

The story depicts a future in which humans are abandoning much that has been built and demolishing structures to make more room for animals. Not all humans do so voluntarily, but some choose to go through what is called “Transference” and become an animal. The two main characters, a married couple, make different choices. Australian female author.

JF - Ecopunk! [Cover adds Speculative Tales of Radical Futures] PB - Ticonderoga Publications CY - Greenwood, WA, Australia SN - 9781925212549 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Rings" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Nina Kiriki Hoffman (b. 1955) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A matriarchal dystopia where women buy male slaves, who they control through implanted rings, with the story focusing on a woman who has finally saved enough money to buy her first man.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 132.5/6 SN - 978-1-60701-5260 N1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Road to the Sea” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Lavie Tidhar (b. 1976) ED - Phoebe Wagner ED - Brontë Christopher Wieland KW - English author KW - Israeli author KW - Male author AB -

Climate-change dystopia. 

JF - Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation PB - Upper Rubber Boot CY - Nashville, TN SN - 9781937794750, 978-1-250-16463-6 N1 -

Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2018), 252-57 with an editor’s note on 252; in Best of British Science Fiction 2017. Ed. Donna Scott ([Weston, Eng.]: NewCon Press, 2018), 175-81; and in Stories of Hope and Wonder in Support of the UK’S Healthcare Workers. Ed. Ian [George] Whates (Weston, Eng.: NewCon Press, 2020), 608-14. EBook.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Rumpelstiltskin” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Jane Elliott ED - Michael DeLuca KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A dystopia in which climate-change has brought famine. 

JF - Reckoning 2: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice PB - Reckoning Press CY - Lake Orion, MI VL - 2 N1 -

Rpt. https://reckoning.press/rumplestiltskin/ (February 2018). Interview with that author at https://reckoning.press/jane-elliott-interview-rumplestiltskin/ 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Salt Line Y1 - 2017 A1 - Holly Goddard Jones KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which a tick-borne disease has devastated the U. S., which has built a wall to protect itself from the disease. The novel focuses on the relationships within a group taking an adventure tour past the wall and being captured by people who survive outside the wall. 

PB - G. P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sand Runner Y1 - 2017 A1 - Vera Brook KW - Female author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which a young man competes in race which requires him to be physically upgraded. First volume of a series followed by Cage Runner. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace], 2018, which is clearly a middle volume.

PB - [CreateSpace] CY - [North Charleston, SC] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Scent of Betrayal" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Jane Routley (b. 1962) ED - Liz Grzyb ED - Cat[riona] Sparks (b. 1965) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Climate-change dystopia set in a future Australia deeply divided by the wealthy living in urban archologies and the poor living in the hot, dusty countryside. 

JF - Ecopunk! [Cover adds Speculative Tales of Radical Futures] PB - Ticonderoga Publications CY - Greenwood, WA, Australia SN - 9781925212549 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Secondborn Y1 - 2017 A1 - Amy A. Bartol KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which the second child in a family is taken away by the government at eighteen. The young woman who is the protagonist comes from a privileged background but is still forced to join the military with other second children. First volume of a trilogy followed by Traitor Born. Seattle, WA: 47 North, 2018, which is a typical middle volume in which various forces in the society are all trying to use the protagonist. In the third volume, Rebel Born. Seattle, WA: 47 North, 2019, the protagonist faces betrayal on all sides. 

PB - 47North CY - Seattle, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Secret Files of The Donald Y1 - 2017 A1 - Leland Howell KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A collection of stories all of which satirize the dystopian presidency of The Donald. The author notes that in 2019 he was banned from Twitter for calling Trump a “whiney little bitch” (2).

PB - Np CY - Middletown, DE SN - 978-1671363038 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - See You in September Y1 - 2017 A1 - Charity Norman KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The novel is set in New Zealand where a woman joins a farming collective that is the basis for an end-of-the-world cult and follows the woman’s life in the community and her parent’s attempts to get her to leave. 

PB - Allen & Unwin CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Selfish Bastards We Were” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Virginia O’Dine ED - Hayden Trenholm (b. ca. 1955) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Climate-change dystopia. 

JF - 49th Parallels PB - Bundoran Press CY - [Ottawa, ON, Canada] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Selling LipService Y1 - 2017 A1 - Tammy Baikie KW - Female author KW - South African author AB -

Dystopia in which after a certain age everyone has to wear a corporate LipService patch that controls what is said, replacing individual speech with ads. 

PB - Jacana Media CY - Auckland Park, South Africa SN - 978-14314-2479-5 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Sensing the Dust” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Eliza Chan KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

The background to the story is a future authoritarian dystopia set in Hong Kong. 

JF - Persisten Visions UR - https://persistentvisionsmag.com/fiction/sensing-the-dust-eliza-chan U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Severed Land Y1 - 2017 A1 - Maurice [Gough] Gee (b. 1931) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

A country is divided in two by the arrival of conquerors looking for gold and other valuable resources and then for land. The “Old People” create a wall between the violent South and the peaceful North. 

PB - Puffin/Penguin Random House New Zealand CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Shadowed Forest” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Rati Mehrotra ED - Spider Robinson (b. 1948) ED - James Alan KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - Indian author AB -

Dystopia in which everyone is expected to have a divide implanted so that everything that they and those they are with do and say is recorded. 

JF - Compostela: Tesseracts Twenty PB - EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing CY - Calgary, AB, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Shelter" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Cynthia Marts ED - Elly Blue KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

In a dystopia of extreme male chauvinism where women lose everything if not tied to a man, a small community of women support each other. 

JF - Biketopia: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction in Extreme Futures PB - Microcosm Publishing CY - Portland, OR U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Shooting an Episode" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Christopher [McKenzie] Priest (1943-2024) ED - George Sandison KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia depicting a “reality” game that has taken over the entire society as seen through the eyes of someone working for the company producing the show. The stories are supposed to be predictions regarding the world fifty years after Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, and Priest took his title from Orwell’s “Shooting the Elephant,” a work that greatly influenced his own work.

PB - Unsung Stories/Red Squirrel Publishing CY - London SN - 9781907389580 978-1-4732000630 N1 -

Rpt. in his Episodes: Short Stories (London: Gollancz, 2019), 292-320, with notes “Before” on what led him to write the story (289-91) and “After” on its publication and some reflections on it (321-22).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Show Stopper Y1 - 2017 A1 - Hayley Barker KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia in which immigrants are required to sell their children to a circus watched by the “Pures”. The novel focuses on the son of a high-ranking “Pure” who falls for one of the performers. A sequel, Show Stealer, is scheduled for late 2018. 

PB - Scholastic CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Signal Lost" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Gretchin Lair ED - Elly Blue KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia in which chips that constantly record one’s health and report the results to everyone deals with, which results in restaurants and stores refusing to sell you anything that the chip says you can’t have. 

JF - Biketopia: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction in Extreme Futures PB - Microcosm Publishing CY - Portland, OR U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Skinny Charlie’s Orbiting Teepee” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Pamela Rentz ED - Amy H. Sturgis KW - Female author KW - Native American author AB -

Satirical story set in a spaceship composed of Native American Indians and those pretending to be with conflicts among the tribes and a heavily bureaucratized system of rules. 

JF - Apex Magazine VL - no. 99 A Celebration of Indigenous American Fantasists U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “‘Slippernet’: Is it ethical to force empathy on your enemy?” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Nisi [Denise Angela] Shawl (b. 1955) ED - Ben[jamin Allen] H. Winters (b. 1976) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a future in which fungi that produce empathy are integrated into a wide variety of products that then change behavior, but the question is not definitively answered. 

JF - Slate Magazine as part of its Trump Story Project. https://slate.com/tag/trump-story-project SN - 978-1732638808 UR - http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/fiction/2017/02/nisi_shawl_s_slippernet_in_slate_s_trump_story_project.html N1 -

Rpt. without the subtitle or the illus. in Sunspot Jungle. Volume 2. [Subtitle on the cover The Ever Expanding Universe of Fantasy and Science Fiction]. Ed. Bill Campbell (Greenbelt, MD: Rosarium Publishing, 2020), 40-49. © 2018 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Snow Decils" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Charles Payseur KW - Bisexual author KW - US author AB -

Climate change dystopia in which it snows all year round in the North and the South has become crowded and dangerous. 

JF - Persistent Visions UR - https://persistentvisionsmag.com/fiction/snow-devils-charles-payseur U2 -

Illus. S. Bell

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Solar Child” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Camille Meyers ED - Phoebe Wagner ED - Brontë Christopher Wieland KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future climate-change dystopia in which genetic engineering is presented positively as a way of developing humans who can live in the new climate. The scientists are opposed by those who see climate-change as God’s punishment of sinful humanity. 

JF - Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation PB - Upper Rubber Boot CY - Nashville, TN U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Someone to Listen, Inc.” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Ray Blank [pseud.] ED - Chester W. Hoster ED - Katy Stauber (b. 1976) AB -

A flawed utopia set after a world-wide economic collapse and economic well-being has been replaced by the Gross Happiness Index, a corporation constantly monitors everyone’s communications to find any sign of depression or unhappiness. Anyone feeling other than happy is connected to a counsellor.

JF - Futuristica PB - Metasages Press CY - Green Cove, Springs, FL VL - 2 U3 -

Ray Blank [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sourdough. A Novel Y1 - 2017 A1 - Robin Sloan (b. 1979) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel focuses a woman working in Silicon Valley who is given an unusual sourdough starter that transforms her life. It is difficult to classify in that it is neither a eutopia or dystopia as such but has episodes or fragments of each throughout. For an article on the novel and utopia, see Justin Nordstrom, “‘Food Is History of the Deepest Kind’: Eating and Utopia in Sloan’s Sourdough and Sargent’s ‘The American Cockaigne’.” Utopian Studies 31.2 (2020): 303-13.

PB - MCD/Farrar Straus and Giroux CY - New York SN - 978-0-374-20310-8 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Space Between the Stars Y1 - 2017 A1 - Anne Corlett KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A virus wipes most of the human race on Earth and on the colony worlds. A few survivors on one of the colony worlds returns to Earth, where they discover a group of survivors that are instituting a required, controlled breeding program. Some of them escape to Scotland where they live a simple life that attracts other survivors, and a community develops.

PB - Pan Macmillan CY - London N1 -

 U. S. ed. New York: Berkeley, 2017. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Sparrowfall: The City Never Sleeps” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Robert Dawson KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Brief description of an automated eutopian city and a person who didn’t fit in to the new order. 

JF - Naure VL - 546.7657 U2 -

Illus. Jacey

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Spider Queen in Every Home” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Mike Morgan ED - Phyllis Irene Radford (b. 1950) ED - Rebecca McFarland Kyle ED - Lou J Berger ED - Bob Brown KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

2017 Morgan, Mike. “A Spider Queen in Every Home.” More Alternative Truths: Stories From the Resistance. Ed. Phyllis Irene Radford, Rebecca McFarland Kyle, Lou J Berger, and Bob Brown (Benton City, WA: B Cubed Press, 2017), 370-96. PSt

The story takes place in the dystopia created by current policies. The protagonist is a statistician whose work has to be checked to the data fits policy and is not accepted if it doesn’t, even though it is accurate.

JF - More Alternative Truths: Stories From the Resistance PB - B Cubed Press CY - Benton, City, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Spider Sat Beside Her Y1 - 2017 A1 - K[aren] E. Lanning (b. 1957) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

After the ice has melted and much of the world is under water, Antarctica is in the beginning stages of development and settlement. What remains of Canada and the U.S. have become one country. Much of the action takes place on a much-expanded international space station, which is threatened by those on Earth opposed to the exploitation of what remains. First volume of the Melt Trilogy followed by The Sting of the Bee. [Lexington, VA]: Author, 2018, in which there is a struggle to claim the newly available Antarctica for settlement; and Listen to the Birds. [Lexington, VA]: Author, 2019, which is concerned with issues that arise after Antarctica is established as a new nation.

PB - Author CY - [Lexington, VA] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Spring Break" Y1 - 2017 A1 - John [Michael] Crowley (b. 1942) ED - Bloom, Amy KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story, an example of noir crime fiction, is set mostly on the Yale University campus in a future where books are no longer used, and the only functioning part of the university are the sciences. The story won the 2018 Edgar Award for best short story.

JF - New Haven Noir PB - Akashic Books CY - Brooklyn, NY SN - 978-1617755415 9781618731630 N1 -

Rpt. in his And Go Like This: Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2019), 73-88. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Star Is Born” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Miki Dare ED - Lucas K. Law ED - Derwin Mak KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia in which Canada interns all its Asian population. 

JF - Where the Stars Rise: Asian Science Fiction and Fantasy PB - Laksa Media Group CY - Calgary, AB, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Star Sailors Y1 - 2017 A1 - James McNaughton (b. 1968) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

The novel is set in a climate-change dystopia and with a deep rich/poor division which is mostly in the background. Much of the novel centers on an alien washed up on the shore and how his presence is manipulated by a powerful corporation.

PB - Victoria University Press CY - Wellington, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Store Y1 - 2017 A1 - James [Brendan] Patterson (b. 1947) A1 - Richard DiLallo KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

In the novel, one store takes over a country with surveillance cameras and tracking not just in the store but in the streets, buildings, and private homes, all reinforced but what is essentially a private army. The protagonist is struggling to reveal the truth about the store.In the novel, one store takes over a country with surveillance cameras and tracking not just in the store but in the streets, buildings, and private homes, all reinforced but what is essentially a private army. The protagonist is struggling to reveal the truth about the store.

PB - Little, Brown CY - New York SN - 978-0-316-39545-8 9781780895345 N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Random House Century, 2017. 259 pp. + 26 pp. excerpt from a forthcoming novel.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Street Life in the Emerald City” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Brenda Cooper (b. 1951) ED - [Glen] David Brin (b. 1950) ED - Stephen W. Potts KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Technology, including surveillance technology being used to end homelessness. 

JF - Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Sub Migratio” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Stephen Embleton KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

The setting of the story is the dystopia brought about by a pan-African war, with the protagonists trying to escape through a network on underground railroad tunnels. 

JF - Enkare Review VL - no. 1 UR - https://enkare.org/2017/04/30/sub-migratio/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - “SUBJECT# 004505951” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Karen Heslop KW - Female author KW - Jamaican author AB -

Dystopia in the form of a report on an experiment on how to reduce the population. 

JF - Big Echo: Critical SF VL - no. 5 UR - SUBJECT# 004505951 — Big Echo ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Swan Song to a Gold-Plated Mausoleum” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Priya Sridhar KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set at the end of the Trump era amid the celebrations over his death. 

JF - Trump: Utopia or Dystopia PB - Dark Helix Press CY - [Toronto, ON, Canada] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Taming the Beast” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Bose, Robert ED - Elly Blue KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire set in a high-tech world where all cars are being replaced by bicycles, and the protagonist struggles to manage the features of his new bicycle.

JF - Biketopia: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction in Extreme Futures PB - Microcosm Publishing CY - Portland, OR U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Targets" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Eric Brown (1960-2023) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia set in Los Angeles in which people are chosen, supposedly randomly, as targets for killing by the police. Such people are not eligible for higher education, cannot venture out after dark, and can only get low-level jobs. The protagonist and his family are colored, and they are all chosen. 

JF - Shoreline of Infinity VL - no. 8 N1 -

Rpt. in Best of British Science Fiction 2017. Ed. Donna Scott ([Weston, Eng.]: NewCon Press, 2018), 201-205; and in Shoreline of Infinity, no. 35 (Summer 2023): 47-52.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Technocracy in America: Rise of the Info-State Y1 - 2017 A1 - Parag Khanna (b. 1977) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Mostly critique but includes a eutopia for the U.S. based on what the author calls “direct technocracy,” or a system of experts “perpetually consulting the people” (Back Cover), There will be a collective presidency, a strong civil service, a multi-party legislature, a Senate replaced by a “Governors Assembly,” “and a judicial branch that monitors international benchmarks and standards and proposes constitutional amendments. . . ” (5). Many of the institutions are drawn from the author’s analysis of institutions currently in existence around the world. 

PB - CreateSpace CY - [North Charleston, SC] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Teleport Y1 - 2017 A1 - Kevin Berry KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

The novel is set in a future dictatorship where the protagonist is being pressured to create a teleportation device, and, if she fails to do so, her daughters future is in danger. 

PB - [CreateSpace] CY - [North Charleston, SC] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Tell Me How This Ends Well. A Novel Y1 - 2017 A1 - David Samuel Levinson (b. 1969) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The background to the novel is a dystopia set in 2022 when Israel has been eliminated in a war that the U. S. ignored. This led to millions of refugees moving to the U. S. and the rise of a virulent anti-Semitism that has become the norm.

PB - Hogarth CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Terra Nullius Y1 - 2017 A1 - Claire G. Coleman (b. 1974) KW - Aboriginal author KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

The novel is set within the dystopia of colonialism. 

PB - Hachette Australia CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia N1 -

U.S. ed. Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2018

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Thirstlands” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Nick [Nicholas] Wood (1961-2023) ED - Phoebe Wagner ED - Brontë Christopher Wieland KW - English author KW - Male author KW - South African author KW - Zambian author AB -

Climate-change dystopia set in a drought-stricken Africa.

JF - Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation PB - Upper Rubber Boot CY - Nashville, TN SN - ‎ 978-1937794750 9781911143956 N1 -

Rpt. in his Learning Monkey and Crocodile (Edinburgh, Scot.: Luna Press, 2019), 129-42, with a note on the story on 177.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Three Degrees. A Novel Y1 - 2017 A1 - Jim Wurst KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A dystopia set in 2052 with many different plot lines including devasting climate-change, a satellite war twenty years in the past orchestrated by apocalyptic Christians in the U. S. military which left junk throughout the space around the Earth and badly damaged the world’s communication network, extreme rich-poor divisions, a plan by the current president to again steal the election by hacking the vote counting, and a “Chinese device” that may be a weapon that is activated at the end of the novel. The concluding sentence is “End of Book One.” 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Time Travel is Only for the Poor” Y1 - 2017 A1 - S. L. Huang KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future with a deep rich/poor divide, and the rich have passed a law requiring the poor to be frozen for awakening in 500 to a thousand years when, supposedly, compound interest will have made them rich. The story is told from the point-of-view of a street person who wants to stay where he is. 

JF - Analog Science Fiction and Fact VL - 137.11&12 SN - 978-1-60701-5260 N1 -

Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy: 2018 Edition. Ed. Rich Horton ([New York]: Prime Books, 2018), 351-65. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Tinker's Damn" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Edward Ahern (b. 1942) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A brief dystopia in which a conman becomes a political leader until the women in the community organize and drive him out.

JF - More Alternative Truths: Stories From the Resistance PB - B Cubed Press CY - Benton City, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “To the Place of Skulls” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Innocent [Chizarram] Ilo ED - Michael DeLuca KW - Male author KW - Nigerian author AB -

Climate-change dystopia with widespread environmental damage from pollution set in Nigeria with non-Nigerian corporations exploiting Nigeria’s resources. 

JF - Reckoning 2: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice PB - Reckoning Press CY - Lake Orion, MI VL - 2 N1 -

Rpt. https://reckoning.press/to-the-place-of-skulls/ (February 15, 2018). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Today Home” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Jason Nahrung ED - Liz Grzyb ED - Cat[riona] Sparks (b. 1965) KW - Australian author KW - Male author JF - Ecopunk! [Cover adds Speculative Tales of Radical Futures] PB - Ticonderoga Publications CY - Greenwood, WA, Australia SN - 9781925212549 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Tomorrow Y1 - 2017 A1 - Jack Lothian A1 - Garry Mac Artist KW - Male author KW - Scottish author KW - UK author AB -

Dystopia in comic book form about what appears to be an alien invasion, the disappearance of the human population, and the loneliness of one old woman who remained. 

PB - BHP Comics CY - Glasgow, Scot U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Tomorrow’s Kin. Book 1 of the Tomorrow’s Kin Trilogy Y1 - 2017 A1 - Nancy [Anne Koningisor] Kress (b. 1948) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

First volume of a trilogy that begins with first contact with people from another planet who originated from Earth based on her novella Yesterday’s Kin San Francisco, CA: Tachyon, 2014. There are dystopian elements as a disease that many, but not all, people of Earth are immune to spreads. Various plot lines are left for the forthcoming volumes. The second volume in the series is If Tomorrow Comes: Book 2 of the Yesterday’s Kin Trilogy. New York: Tor, 2018. In it, people from Earth travel to the World, the planet that the others had come from, but do not find the advanced civilization they expected. Again, various plot lines are left for the final volume, Terran Tomorrow. Book 3 of the Tomorrow’s Kin Trilogy. New York: Tor, 2019. In this volume, a mixed group of people from Earth and the World return to an Earth that has been devastated by plague and warfare. 

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Too Big to See” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Karl Schroeder (b. 1962) ED - Michael G. Bennett ED - Joey Eschrich ED - Ed Finn KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Brief story in which climate change has created a major refugee crisis in the Americas, and a trip by representatives of the antagonists to the stratosphere may solve the conflict.

JF - Overview: Stories of the Stratosphere. PB - Arizona State University Center for Science and the Imagination CY - Tempe UR - http://csi.asu.edu/books/overview/ U2 -

Illus. Kirsten Newkirk

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Tool of War Y1 - 2017 A1 - Paolo [Tadini] Bacigalupi (b. 1972) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia brought about by climate change, resources running out, and the resulting constant wars, civil and between countries.

PB - Little, Brown CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Toward the Sun" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Sydnee Thompson KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Climate-change dystopia in which the rich shelter in cities, and the poor, who work outside are forced to wear implants that control their bodies and do what they can to survive. 

JF - Fiyah: Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction VL - no. 3 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Traditions" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Marcos Santiago Gonsalez ED - Matthew Anthony Goodwin KW - Latino author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a long-established Mexican American family in a future high-tech New York City and centers on the conflict between generations over familial and cultural traditions. 

JF - Latin@ Rising: An Anthology of Latin@ Science Fiction and Fantasy PB - Wings Press CY - San Antonio, TX SN - 9781609405243 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Trans Liberty Riot Brigade. Book 1 Y1 - 2017 A1 - L[indsay] M. Pierce KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Walled dystopia at war with all its neighbors and trying to control its population. Being transgender is illegal and a group transgender people struggle to survive and manage to escape at the end. First volume in a planned series.

PB - Ninestar Press CY - Albuquerque, NM U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Transition Y1 - 2017 A1 - Luke Kennard (b. 1981) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel begins in what is the current dystopia for many couples, spiraling debt, landlords who constantly raise the rent, too many credit cards, all at their limit, loans, and illegality to stay afloat that can’t be paid. The Transition offers a way to avoid jail, get out of debt, and start over. It offers a mentorship in which the couple lives with a Transition couple for six months, supposedly learning how to live differently. It turns out to be just a different dystopia leading to more complete control.

PB - Fourth Estate CY - London N1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Transitions" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Eileen [Katherine] Gunn (b. 1945) ED - Kathryn Cramer KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

All the stories in the original online anthology are present as if the protagonists had been on a flight that landed twenty years after it took off. A list can be found at https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?673124. In this story, the protagonist is a Black, female, engineer and is primarily concerned with her thoughts about how she will fit in and meeting her husband, who has remarried, her son and his wife and her grandchildren, and her parents. It takes place in a future U.S. that has broken up into nine sections, controlled by oligarchs.

JF - Seat 14 C [No longer available online] PB - XPRIZE/ANA CY - Np SN - 978-1-629639-42-0 N1 -

Rpt. in her Night Shift plus Ursula and the Author plus Promised Lands and much more (Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2022), 65-76.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Trash Goes in the Ground” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Kelly Rose Pflug-Back KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Flash fiction set in a polluted future.

JF - The Future Fire: Social Political & Speculative Cyber-Fiction VL - no. 43 UR - The Future Fire: 2017.43 fiction trash U2 -

Illus. Laura-Anca Adascalitel

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Treasures" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Rebecca McFarland Kyle ED - Phyllis Irene Radford (b. 1950) ED - Rebecca McFarland Kyle ED - Lou J Berger ED - Bob Brown KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which all scientists are imprisoned after being blamed for causing diseases and bringing about natural disasters. 

JF - More Alternative Truths: Stories From the Resistance PB - B Cubed Press CY - Benton City, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Treaty of Empress Park” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Claude Lalumière (b. 1966) ED - Hayden Trenholm (b. ca. 1955) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Alternative history set in a fragmented and deeply divided world set during the beginning of negotiations over a treaty as seen through the eyes of some of the negotiators. 

JF - 49th Parallels PB - Bundoran Press CY - [Ottawa, ON, Canada] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Triage Y1 - 2017 A1 - [Tamela] [Larimer] (b. 1968) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future dystopia brought about by the establishment in the U.S. of required, but underfunded, universal health care. Every hospital has a specified number of beds with no hope of more and is required to choose between those who can continue to receive care and those who are ejected to die. 

PB - Indigo Hour Press CY - Portland, OR ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Tricks Are Not For Kids” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Melissa R. Mendelson ED - JF Garrard ED - Jen Frankel KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The violent dystopian future brought about by Trump’s policies, which have led to starvation and food only available for the rich. 

JF - Trump: Utopia or Dystopia PB - Dark Helix Press CY - [Toronto, ON, Canada] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Trivalent” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Rivqa Rafael ED - Liz Grzyb ED - Cat[riona] Sparks (b. 1965) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a future Australia beginning to recover from severe environmental damage and the spread of mosquito-borne diseases. 

JF - Ecopunk! Speculative Tales of Radical Futures PB - Ticonderoga Publications CY - Greenwood, WA, Australia SN - 9781925212549 UR - https://littlebluemarble.ca/2019/11/08/trivalent/ N1 -

Rpt. illus. Little Blue Marble (November 8, 2017) https://littlebluemarble.ca/2019/11/08/trivalent/

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Tropic of Kansas Y1 - 2017 A1 - Christopher [Tracy] Brown (b. 1964) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the middle of the U.S. has become a wasteland and the country has fragmented. The novel is of a road trip through the wasteland. See also 2019 and 2020 Brown.

PB - Harper Voyager CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Trump Brand" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Marleen S[andra] Barr (b. 1953) ED - JF Garrard ED - Jen Frankel KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which Trump puts his brand everywhere, including the moon, which displays an ad for Ivanka Trump’s clothing line and the White, now Trump, House. 

JF - Trump: Utopia or Dystopia PB - Dark Helix Press CY - [Toronto, ON, Canada] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Trumperor and the Nightingale” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Diana Hauer ED - Phyllis Irene Radford (b. 1950) ED - Bob Brown KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Satire on Donald Trump (b. 1946) as U.S. President.

JF - Alternative Truths PB - B Cubed Press CY - Benton City, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Truth, From the Heart” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Gustavo Bondoni ED - JF Garrard ED - Jen Frankel KW - Argentinian author KW - Male author AB -

The dystopian future United States during the civil war caused by Trump’s policies

JF - Trump: Utopia or Dystopia PB - Dark Helix Press CY - [Toronto, ON, Canada] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Unbreakable Y1 - 2017 A1 - Will[iam D.] McIntosh (b. 1962) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which some people are kept in a walled town to provide entertainment to those living outside by setting various new world records. The ending of the novel and an author’s note indicate that this is the first volume in a series, but no more appears to have been published 

PB - [CreateSpace] CY - [North Charleston, SC] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - An Uncertain Grace Y1 - 2017 A1 - Krissy Kneen (b. 1968) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

The novel is set in a future in which technology allows people to communicate their experiences to others, it is possible to create synthetic humans as test subjects, and people can transform their own bodies. Emphasis on sexual experience. 

PB - Text Publishing CY - Melbourne, Vic, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Understanding" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Kelsey M. Young ED - Christopher Jon Heuer KW - Deaf author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in Milan, which is named after the Second International Congress on the Education of the Deaf held in Milan in 1880 that concluded that speech rather than signing was the best approach to deaf education. The story is told from the point-of-view of someone hired by a university to help hard-of-hearing students cope. Signing is not permitted, and many teachers deliberately make it hard for hard-of-hearing students to succeed. See also 2013 Young.

JF - Tripping the Tale Fantastic: Weird Fiction by Deaf and Hard of Hearing Authors PB - Handtype Press CY - Minneapolis, MN SN - 9781941960080 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Underworld 101" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Mame Bougouma L. P. Diene KW - French author KW - Male author KW - Senegalese author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future dystopia in which Earth is almost entirely a desert and people have resorted to cannibalism. 

JF - Omenana Speculative Fiction Magazine VL - no. 9 UR - https://omenana.com/2017/04/06/underworld-101/ N1 -

Rpt. in Sunspot Jungle: The Ever-Expanding Universe of Science Fiction and Fantasy [the cover adds Volume One]. Ed. Bill Campbell (Greenbelt, MD: Rosarium, 2019), 58-71. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "University College Hospital” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Aito Osemegbe Joseph KW - Male author KW - Nigerian author AB -

The story is set in a future Nigeria where a means has been developed to re-set an individual’s brain and is concerned with the way it might be used from changing sexual desire to “reforming” criminals. 

JF - African Diaspora: African Literature. African Stories UR - https://www.afridiaspora.com/university-college-hospital/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - An Unkindness of Ghosts Y1 - 2017 A1 - Rivers Solomon (b. 1989) KW - African American author KW - English author KW - Transgender author AB -

Dystopia on a multi-generation star ship organized like a slave ship with the dark-skinned on the lower decks with little support. 

PB - Akashic Books CY - Brooklyn, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Uno! . . . Dos! One-Two! Tres! Cuatro!” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Ernest Hogan (b. 1955) ED - M. Christian KW - Chicano author KW - Male author AB -

An odd dystopia set in Phoenix, Arizona, which is divided between the United States and Aztlán, the name adopted by Chicano activists for their new nation.

JF - Five to the Future: All New Novelettes of Tomorrow and Beyond PB - Strange Particle Press/Digital Parchment Press CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Unregistered Y1 - 2017 A1 - Megan Lynch KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A dystopia with in a one child limit, with each child registered and assigned a life with everything chosen for them. The novel focuses on what happens to the unregistered second children. 

PB - City Owl Press CY - Np U1 -

Cover adds Children of the Uprising, Book One

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Useless Citizen Act” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Ellis S. J. Sangster KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

A dystopia in which from twenty-five to eighty-five, everyone must prove themselves to be a useful citizen, the criteria for which is set out, or be killed. 

JF - Shoreline of Infinity VL - no. 9 U2 -

Illus. Monica Burns

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Utopia LOL?” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Jamie Wahls KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on a future where everyone has been uploaded into an AI and can be anything they want.

JF - Strange Horizons SN - 978-1-60701-5260 9781616962913 UR - http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/utopia-lol/ N1 -

Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy: 2018 Edition. Ed. Rich Horton ([New York]: Prime Books, 2018), 394-407; and in The New Voices of Science Fiction. Ed. Hannu Rajaniemi and Jacob Weisman (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon, 2019), 35-56.

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Illus. Rachel Kahn

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Utopian Tetragon Y1 - 2017 A1 - S. C. Smith KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire set in Beverly Hummocks in the Former Republic of Sunny Emissions with an author as protagonist named Willing Participant. The story follows his trials and tribulations, mostly caused by a woman who dances all night in the apartment above his.

PB - [CreateSpace] CY - [North Charleston, SC] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Vade Retro Santana” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Maurice [Gerald] Broaddus (b. 1970) KW - African American author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a religious dystopia in which missionaries convert the indigenous inhabitants by force as told by a missionary with doubts. 

JF - Fiyah Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction VL - no. 2 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Vanilla Rice" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Angela Yuriko Smith ED - Lucas K. Law ED - Derwin Mak KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is about the difficulty of choosing the looks of a child before it is born and the effect on the child. It appears to be a set in a society where police must be paid directly for their service. 

JF - Where the Stars Rise: Asian Science Fiction and Fantasy PB - Laksa Media Group CY - Calgary, AB, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Vermix" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Matthew Castle ED - Gavin Miller ED - Anna McFarlane KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a future where much knowledge has been lost to those living outside high tech archologies that have completely closed themselves off.

JF - A Practical Guide to the Resurrected: Twenty-One Short Stories of Medicine and Science Fiction PB - Freight Books CY - Glasgow, Scot. SN - 978-1-911332-50-3 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Vibrating Mouth” Y1 - 2017 A1 - John Lee Clark ED - Christopher Jon Heuer KW - Deaf author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story depicts a world of mutual incomprehensive between those deaf and signing and the speaking as seen from a deaf person who sees the speaking as limited and inferior.

JF - Tripping the Tale Fantastic: Weird Fiction by Deaf and Hard of Hearing Authors PB - Handtype Press CY - Minneapolis, MN SN - 9781941960080 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Void Star Y1 - 2017 A1 - Zachery Mason (b. 1990) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel is set in a climate-change dystopia in which San Francisco is reserved for the rich.

PB - Farrar Straus & Giroux CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Walkaway Y1 - 2017 A1 - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel begins in a future authoritarian dystopia with very advanced technology in which much of the U.S. has been destroyed and abandoned and with extreme class divisions. Some people choose to walk away into the abandoned countryside hoping to create a freer society. While they are forcibly opposed by those in power and not all those who walk away are trustworthy, a freer society does emerge. The title resonates with Ursula K. Le Guin’s “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas (Variations on a Theme by William James)” (1973). 

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Walks Home Alone at Night” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Wondra Vanian ED - Phyllis Irene Radford (b. 1950) ED - Bob Brown KW - Female author KW - US author KW - Welsh author AB -

The dystopia of the present in which it is dangerous for a hijab wearing woman to walk alone at night. But in the story, the woman and her friends fight back.

JF - Alternative Truth PB - B Cubed Press CY - Benton, City, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Wandering Library” Y1 - 2017 A1 - D. K. Mok ED - Liz Grzyb ED - Cat[riona] Sparks (b. 1965) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

The story begins in a dystopia brought about by scientific overreach, particularly, genetic manipulation of animals that produce many dangerous new ones. The story though is mostly about the way people adapted and were creating a good life for themselves within the dystopian surroundings. 

JF - Ecopunk! [Cover adds Speculative Tales of Radical Futures] PB - Ticonderoga Publications CY - Greenwood, WA, Australia SN - 9781925212549 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Want Y1 - 2017 A1 - Cindy Pon (b. 1973) KW - Female author KW - Taiwanese author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia set in a society in which the rich can afford protection against the damaged environment and the poor cannot. 

PB - Simon Pulse CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Waving at Trains” Y1 - 2017 A1 - [Noelle] Nalo Hopkinson (b. 1960) ED - Junot Díaz KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - Guyanese author KW - Jamaican author KW - Trinidadian author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which climate change has killed most people. 

JF - Boston Review VL - Special issue on Global Dystopias U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Ways Out" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Sam J[oshua] Miller (b. 1979) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Surveillance dystopia.

JF - Clarkesworld VL - no. 129 UR - http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/miller_06_17/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - “We’re Still Here” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Rebecca McFarland Kyle ED - Phyllis Irene Radford (b. 1950) ED - Bob Brown KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A dystopia in which fake news is put out by the government to implicate illegal Mexican refugees in a riot that destroys a city in Texas. When pictures of the intact town leak out, the government destroys the town. 

JF - Alternative Truths U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “What Does It Look Like When 1 Million People Are Deported at Once?” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Héctor Tobar (b. 1963) ED - Ben[jamin Allen] H. Winters (b. 1976) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is about the attempt to do just what the title says and the response of the people being deported as seen through the eyes of one of them.

JF - Slate Magazine as part of its Trump Story Project. https://slate.com/tag/trump-story-project UR - https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2017/01/hector-tobars-the-daylight-underground-launches-the-trump-story-project.html U2 -

Illus. Lisa Larson-Walker

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “What Kind of Monster Are You?” Y1 - 2017 A1 - John E. Meredith ED - John E. Meredith ED - Paul Brian McCoy KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The dystopia created by Trump’s presidency, including extreme poverty, environmental degradation, racial conflict, and discrimination against anyone not heterosexual.

JF - American Carnage: Tales of Trumpian Dystopia PB - Psycho Drive-In Press CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “‘What Someone Else Does Not Want Printed’: Comforting the comfortable and Afflicting the Afflicted” Y1 - 2017 A1 - [Sarah Bear Elizabeth] [Wishnevsky] (b. 1971) ED - Ben[jamin Allen] H. Winters (b. 1976) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future where Trump remains president, is implement his policies while trying to cancel the next election, Florida is under water, but climate-change deniers are in power, and so forth, and the protagonist writes fake news for a living. 

JF - Slate Magazine as part of its Trump Story Project. https://slate.com/tag/trump-story-project UR - https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2017/02/elizabeth-bear-joins-the-trump-story-project-with-a-tale-of-the-fake-news-industry.html U2 -

Illus. Lisa Larson-Walker

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Elizabeth Bear [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “What We Knew Then, Before the Sky Fell Down” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Seanan McGuire (b. 1978) ED - Monica Louzon ED - Jake Weisfeld ED - Heather McHale ED - Barbara Jasny ED - Rachel Frederick KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe (disease/pandemic) dystopia set in a collapsed Seattle Pike Place Market. The focus of the story is on a woman who is search for information that will help people recover from the disaster. 

JF - Catalysts, Explorers & Secret Keepers: Women of Science Fiction PB - Museum of Science Fiction CY - Washington, DC U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - When the English Fall. A Novel Y1 - 2017 A1 - David Williams KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia set after a disastrous storm that destroys the power grid. The novel focuses on an Amish community that has always been off the grid must cope with people who are struggling have lost everything.

PB - Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill CY - Chapel Hill, NC U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Where Eagles Dare” Y1 - 2017 A1 - R. Mike Burr ED - John E. Meredith ED - Paul Brian McCoy KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which Trump has issued an order giving all police officers the right to immediately kill anyone the suspect of being a terrorist.

JF - American Carnage: Tales of Trumpian Dystopia PB - Psycho Drive-In Press CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Where the Water Meets the Land” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Caitlin Demaris McKenna ED - Hayden Trenholm (b. ca. 1955) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Climate-change dystopia. 

JF - 49th Parallels PB - Bundoran Press CY - [Ottawa, ON, Canada] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Wilders: Project Earth Book One Y1 - 2017 A1 - Brenda Cooper (b. 1951) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The novel is set in the megacity Seacouver (A merged Seattle and Vancouver) and the surrounding ecological disaster zone and focuses on the search by a young woman for her sister, who had left the city some years earlier. First volume in a series followed by Keeper: Project Earth Book Two. Amherst, NY: Pyr/Prometheus Books, 2018. In this volume the woman and her sister work to reintroduce wolves into the wilderness. 

PB - Pyr/Prometheus Books CY - Amherst, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Wispy Chastening” Y1 - 2017 A1 - D. A. Xiaolin Spires ED - Michael DeLuca KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

In a future with major environmental damage, individuals who contributed to the damage, ranging from littering to dumping poisons in the water, are punished with very realistic bad dreams or extreme nightmares. 

JF - Reckoning 2: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice PB - Reckoning Press CY - Lake Orion, MI VL - 2 N1 -

Rpt. https://reckoning.press/a-wispy-chastening/ (January 11, 2018). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Woman Walks into a Bar” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Jill Zeller ED - Phyllis Irene Radford (b. 1950) ED - Rebecca McFarland Kyle ED - Lou J Berger ED - Bob Brown KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which women are being systematically suppressed. 

JF - More Alternative Truths: Stories From the Resistance PB - B Cubed Press CY - Benton City, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - World Without Work. A Novel Y1 - 2017 A1 - [Treichler, David H.] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel is set in a future in which corporations are automating, and there is only a minimal Federal Living Wage for support for the growing legions of unemployed. The protagonist is a young woman who is fired for refusing to report the profits her boss wanted rather than the actual earnings of the company.

PB - Reelization Global Media CY - Grapevine, TX SN - 978-1532391316 N1 -

Rpt. Np: Publisher Services, 2019. 355 pp. 

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dhtreichler [pseud.].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Wretched and the Beautiful” Y1 - 2017 A1 - E. Lily Yu KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian allegory on alien refugees and their mistreatment on Earth written in response to Executive Order 13769 banning travel to the U.S. In her Contributor’s Note, the author says, “It was as close as I come to pitching a brick through a window.” For a story about refugees that resonates with this story, see 2020 Yu. The author, artist, and editor donated their fees to the International Rescue Committee.

JF - Terraform SN - 978-1-328-83456-0 978-1-64566-048-4 UR - https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ezaava/the-wretched-and-the-beautiful. N1 -

Rpt. without the illus. in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy™ 2018. Ed. N[ora] K. Jemisin (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Mariner, 2018), 258-64, with a contributor’s note on 354; and without the illus. in Terraform Watch Worlds Burn. Ed. Brian Merchant and Claire L. Evans (New York: MCD X FSG Originals/Farrar, Straus and Giroux/Motherboard/Vice, 2022), 349-357; and in her Jewel Box: Stories (New York Erewhon Books/Kensington Publishing, 2023), 105-114.

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Illus. Jason Arias

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Year of the Orphan Y1 - 2017 A1 - Daniel Findlay KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia set in a future Australian outback that is littered with damaged autonomous weapons and various cults. Due to the use of an invented vernacular, it has been compared to Russel Hoban’s Riddley Walker (1980).

PB - Bantam CY - North Sydney, NSW, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Yesterday’s Savior Y1 - 2017 A1 - Bliss, Keith KW - English author KW - German author KW - Male author AB -

The central focus of the novel is the belief that the second Coming of Christ has occurred, and the dystopia created by the Holy Church of the Second Coming. 

PB - EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing CY - Calgary, AB, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “You and Me and the Deep Dark Sea” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Jess[ica] Barber ED - Phoebe Wagner ED - Brontë Christopher Wieland KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Climate-change dystopia set in an earthquake and flooding ravaged Los Angeles. 

JF - Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation PB - Upper Rubber Boot CY - Nashville, TN U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “You Need Me At the River” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Linda Rogers (b. 1944) ED - Bruce Meyer KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in future impacted by climate change in which, for example, no animals that produce methane are allowed for food. 

JF - Cli-fi: Canadian Tales of Climate Change PB - Exile Ecitions CY - Holstein, ON, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "You, Robot" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Melissa Yuan-Innes ED - Hayden Trenholm (b. ca. 1955) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a future Canada that has largely replaced doctors with expensive robots and effectively limited medical care to the rich. 

JF - 49th Parallels PB - Bundoran Press CY - [Ottawa, ON, Canada] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Your Lying Eyes” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Jack [John Charles] McDevitt ED - Stephen W. Potts ED - [Glen] David Brin (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is about glasses that can detect lies. Whether a eutopia or dystopia is left up to the reader.

JF - Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - 100K. Beware: the future may be happening to you right now Y1 - 2016 A1 - S. Ó. Ceallaigh AB -

Flawed utopia which is supposedly democratic (“when possible”), but it is in fact authoritarian.

PB - Lightning Source CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - 2084: A Time Capsule Warning from the Future Y1 - 2016 A1 - Dr. T. F. Fieve [pseud.] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A depiction of the dystopia brought about by climate-change, war, and other catastrophes and the way a small group of people survived in New Zealand. Includes a “Bibliography’ (197-98), a “Glossary: (199-200), and “MINI--Survival Manual” (201-07).

PB - Dorrance Publishing Co. CY - Pittsburgh, PA U3 -

Dr. T. F. Fieve [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “2100: A Good Life in a Global Economy” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Erik Schokkaert ED - Veerle Achten ED - Geert Bouckaert (b. 1958) ED - Erik Schokkaert KW - Belgian author KW - Male author AB -

An essay that presents a better future that has overcome the most important problems of the early twenty-first century, which are identified as the environment, including climate-change, migration from the South to the North, and international inequalities, which are said to be interrelated. The eutopia has a world, but decentralized, governmental structure, with the world government elected through the internet with everyone voting on the same list of candidates. There is a CO2 tax that encouraged local production and stimulated investment in clean technologies. There are no limits on migration and an international open market, international social insurance, and income redistribution. There are multi-generational living arrangements and joint leisure activities and cultural and religious diversity. The essay ends with a brief section on how to achieve these goals. 

JF - ‘A Truly Golden Handbook’: The Scholarly Quest for Utopia PB - Leuven University Press CY - Leuven, Belgium U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “2113. Inspired by ‘2112’” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Kevin J[ames] Anderson (b. 1962) ED - Kevin J[ames] Anderson (b. 1962) ED - John McFetridge KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which all creativity has been eliminated under a religious dictatorship.

JF - 2113: Stories Inspired by the Music of Rush PB - ECW Press CY - Toronto, ON, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "2222" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Goldie Locks [pseud?] ED - Michael DeLuca KW - Female author KW - Lesbian author KW - Russian author AB -

The story is told from the viewpoint of a gay couple deciding what to tell their daughter about the dystopia, Russia in 2222, they live in that is anti-gay, has a stringent eugenic policy, and is so poor that it cannot educate good engineers. 

JF - Reckoning 1: An Annual Journal of Creative Writing on Environmental Justice PB - Reckoning Press CY - Lake Orion, MI VL - 1 N1 -

Rpt. https://reckoning.press/2222/ (February 6, 2017). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “5AM Saint” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Elaine Gallagher ED - Elaine Gallagher ED - Cameron Johnston ED - Neil Williamson (b. 1968) KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

The story is set in a religious dystopia set on killing all who they consider deviants. 

JF - Thirty Years of Rain PB - Taverna Press CY - Glasgow, Scotland U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "75" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Abiola Oni KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Nigerian author AB -

The story is set in a future England where every must die no later than the day they turn 75. 

JF - The Guardian UR - https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2016/jun/25/abiola-oni-accounced-as-winner-of-the-4th-estate-2016-bame-short-prize ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Acqua Alta" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Ashley Bevilacqua Anglin ED - Manjana Milkoreit ED - Meredith Martinez ED - Joey Eschrich KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Climate change dystopia in which Venice is under water, and a Venetian theme park has been created. Acqua Alta is the name given to peak high tides in the Veneto region of Italy. 

JF - Everything Change: An Anthology of Climate Fiction PB - [Arizona State University] CY - [Tempe, AZ] UR - https://www.dropbox.com/s/kl2lb81mh2u88rj/Everything%20Change%20An%20Anthology%20of%20Climate%20Fiction.epub?dl=0 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Advance Man. Part One of The Honeycomb Trilogy Y1 - 2016 A1 - Mac Rogers KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

First volume of a trio of plays followed by Blast Radius. Part Two of The Honeycomb Trilogy. London: Samuel French, 2016; and Sovereign. Part Three of the Honeycomb Trilogy. London: Samuel French, 2016. The three plays were first performed at The Secret Theatre, Long Island City, NY, in January 2012, March-April 2012, and June 2012 directed by Jordana Williams. The plays, with the sequels set eight years after the first and then eight years after the second, are about what happens when a mission returning from Mars introduces aliens to Earth, who then occupy it. The second volume focus on a conflict between a bother, who sides with the aliens, and a sister, who is leading a revolt against them. In the third volume, the revolt has been successful, and the world is trying to rebuild.

PB - Samuel French CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - After the Red Rain Y1 - 2016 A1 - Barry Lyga (b. 1971) A1 - Peter Facinelli (1973) A1 - Rob DeFranco (b. 1970) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe authoritarian dystopia set on an Earth with limited resources.

PB - Little, Brown CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "After We Walked Away" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Erica L. Satifka KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A response to Ursula K. Le Guin’s “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas (Variations on a Theme by William James)” (1973) in which the world outside is worse in its treatment of its children.

JF - Apex Magazine SN - 978-1-933846-17-0 UR - https://apex-magazine.com/short-fiction/after-we-walked-away/ N1 -

Rpt. in the author's How to Get to Apocalypse and Other Disasters (Bonney Lake, WA: Fairwood Press, 2021), 117-129, with a note on the story on 324-325.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Age of Miracles” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Robert Runté ED - Susan Forest ED - Lucas K. Law KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Satire of the internet of things. 

JF - Strangers Among Us: Tales of the Underdogs and Outcasts PB - Laksa Media Groups CY - Calgary, AB, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Ajdenia: Let there be sunlight” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Theodoridou, Natalia KW - Female author KW - UK author AB -

Dystopia in which most people live in tunnels in the Earth and only the elite live in the sun. 

JF - Nature VL - 531.7592 N1 -

Rpt. without the subtitle in Best of British Science Fiction. Ed. Donna Scott ([Weston, Eng.]: NewCon Press, 2017), 211-13.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Algorithms of Value" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Robert [David] Reed (b. 1956) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia in which everyone has the ability to create the world around them, but someone is still unhappy.

JF - Clarkesworld VL - no. 122 UR - http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/reed_01_16/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - American Fracture. Book One: American Confederation Y1 - 2016 A1 - Roy McElroy KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

First volume of a series in which the United States has fractured into a five-part confederation. The second volume is American Fracture. Book Two: Separation of Power. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace], 2018 in which the various parts of the U. S. and what remains of the national government are all fighting each other. No resolution at the end.

PB - [Create Space] CY - [North Charleston, SC] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "An American Utopia" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Fredric Jameson (b. 1934) ED - Slavoj Žižek (b. 1949) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The author discusses his utopia based on a universal army, similar in some ways to Bellamy’s Industrial Army, as the best way to deal with the current economic situation. The utopia was originally given as a keynote address at the 2013 meeting of the Society of Utopian Studies in Charleston, SC, and the utopia in the address was much more detailed than in the published version. The comments are Robinson, “Mutt and Jeff Push the Button” (97-104), which is fiction (see 2016 Robinson); Jodi Dean, “Dual Power Redux” (105-32); Saroj Giri, “The Happy Accident of a Utopia” (133-45); Agon Hamza, “From the Other Scene to the Other State: Jameson’s Dialectic of Dual Power” (147-68); Kojin Karatani, “A Japanese Utopia” (169-82); Frank Ruda, “ Jameson and Method: On Comic Utopianism” (183-210); Alberto Toscano, “After October, Before February: Figures of Dual Power” (211-41); Kathi Weeks, “Utopian Therapy: Work, Nonwork, and the Political Imagination (243-65); and Slavoj Žižek, “The Seeds of Imagination” (267-308); followed by “An America Utopia: Epilogue” by Jameson (309-17).

JF - An American Utopia: Dual Power and the Universal Army PB - Verso CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Americus: Exscendent, Book 1. High Road Cross Y1 - 2016 A1 - [Tamela] [Larimer] (b. 1968) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Post-apocalyptic dystopia where the U.S. has fragmented. First volume in a multi-volume series, with two more volumes expected in this first sub-series. 

PB - Indigo Hour Press CY - [Portland, OR] SN - 978-0996399944 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Amerita Y1 - 2016 A1 - Martin Medina A1 - Luke Medina KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel is based on a system called Meritism, which is defined as “An economical structure using productivity as the measure of currency. Compensation is based on an individual’s productivity leveled against their emotional quotient and intelligence quotient, measured by factual data, free from emotional bias, prejudice, and subjectivity” (Title page). A ten-point scale is used and any change at an individual’s annual evaluation means a change in where they live and go to school, the clothes they wear, and so forth. Generally presented positively.

PB - Np CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “and Still the Forests Grow though we are gone” Y1 - 2016 A1 - A[ndi] C. Buchanan ED - Dan Rabarts ED - Lee Murray KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Transgender author AB -

Environmental dystopia. 

JF - At the Edge PB - Paper Road Press CY - [Wellington, New Zealand] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Apes and Satellites” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Mame Bougouma L. P. Diene KW - French author KW - Male author KW - Senegalese author KW - US author AB -

The story is told from the point-of-view of an ape whose habitat is being destroyed by satellite mining. 

JF - Brittle Paper: An African Literary Experience UR - https://brittlepaper.com/2016/12/apes-satellites-mame-bougouma-diene-african-scifi/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - Apocalypse: An Epic Poem Y1 - 2016 A1 - Frederick Turner (b. 1943) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Climate change dystopia. 

PB - Ilium Press CY - Spokane Valley, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Apology of Arthur Tresbit Y1 - 2016 A1 - Robert Thayer KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on the contemporary financial system in which the background, referred to throughout the book, is the dystopia brought about by the collapse of the system. Most of the book is about how it happened. 

PB - Austin Macauley CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “As Long as It Takes to Make the World” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Gabriela Santiago ED - Nalo Hopkinson ED - Kristine Ong Muslim (b. 1980) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Climate-change dystopia. 

JF - People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction! VL - Special Issue of Lightspeed, no. 73 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “At the Speed of Life” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Alexis Teyie KW - Female author KW - Kenyan author AB -

A story of gender confusion set in a future Allied Lands of Africa 

JF - Omenana Speculative Fiction Magazine VL - no. 6 UR - https://omenana.com/2016/03/25/at-the-speed-of-life/ U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “At the Village Vanguard (Reflections on Blacktopia)” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Maurice [Gerald] Broaddus (b. 1970) KW - African American author KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story focuses by white supremacists on an attack on the Blacktopia that has been created on the moon twenty-five years after the attack. Only a brief description of the Blacktopia. 

JF - Mothership Zeta VL - no. 5 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Azanian Bridges Y1 - 2016 A1 - Nick [Nicholas] Wood (1961-2023) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - South African author KW - Zambian author AB -

Alternative history dystopia of South Africa in which Apartheid survives. A related story is “Azania.” AfroSF: Science Fiction by African Writers. Ed. Ivor W. Hartmann (Np: StoryTime Press, 2012), 80-99. 

PB - New Con Press CY - Weston, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Because Change Was the Ocean and We Lived by Her Mercy” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Charlie Jane Anders (b. 1969) ED - Jonathan Strahan (b. 1964) KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -

Climate change dystopia in which the west coast of California is under water, much of North America is a wasteland, and Fairbanks, Alaska, is the only U.S. metropolis. Gender is flexible and varied. 

JF - Drowned Worlds: Tales from the Anthropocene and Beyond PB - Solaris CY - Oxford, Eng. SN - 9781849979306 978-1- 4399-1623-0 N1 -

Rpt. Who Will Speak for America? Ed. Stephanie Feldman and Nathaniel Popkin (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2018), 213-26. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Bees of Kiribati” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Warren Hammond ED - Jason Heller ED - Joshua Viola KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The background to the story is a climate change dystopia in which some island states have disappeared underwater, and the refugees are essentially slaves.

JF - Cyber World: Tales of Humanity’s Tomorrow PB - Hex Publishers CY - Erie, CO U2 -

Illus. Aaron Lovett and Joshua Viola. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Big Sheep Y1 - 2016 A1 - Robert Kroese KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel is set in 2039 in a dystopian future Los Angeles where a part of the city, the Disincorporated Zone or DZ has been disowned by the rest of the city and become a very poor, lawless area.

PB - Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press. CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Black, Their Regalia” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Darcie Little Badger (b. 1987) ED - Daniel José Older (b. 1980) KW - Female author KW - Native American author AB -

Fantasy story set in a racist dystopia.

JF - People of Colo(u)r Destroy Fantasy! VL - no. 60 N1 -

Rpt. in Wastelands: The New Apocalypse. Ed. John Josephs Adams (London: Titan Books, 2019), 176-189.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Blood" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Tania Carter ED - Neal McLeod KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - First Nations author AB -

Post-nuclear war dystopia. 

JF - Mitêwâcimowina: Indigenous Science Fiction and Speculative Storytelling PB - Theytus Press CY - [Pinticion, BC, Canada] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Blood Farm" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Gill, Michael ED - Dale McMullen KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Future dystopia in which parents sell their children’s blood so that the wealthy can live longer. 

JF - The Speculative Book PB - The Speculative Bookshop CY - Glasgow, Scot. ER - TY - ABST T1 - Bluescreen: A Mirador Novel Y1 - 2016 A1 - Dan Wells (b. 1977) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia set in a future Los Angeles where, through a device implanted in the brain, everyone is online at all times. First volume of a series. Sequels include Ones and Zeroes: A Mirador Novel. New York: Balzer + Bray., 2017; and Active Memory: A Mirador Novel. New York: Balzer + Bray, 2018.

PB - Balzer + Bray CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Bombs That Brought Us Together Y1 - 2016 A1 - Brian Conaghan (b. 1971) KW - Irish author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which Little Town is controlled by gangs and at war with Old Country. 

PB - Bloomsbury CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Bone-Runner" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Jennifer Campbell-Hicks KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future where much of the western U.S. is desolate with the remains cities composed of the steel of buildings that haven’t yet collapsed. The protagonist is a scavenger hoping to find something in the nearest city valuable enough to pay her way to the east, where life was easier. Some fantasy. 

JF - Galaxy’s Edge SN - 978-1-61242-356-2 N1 -

Rpt. in The Best of Galaxy’s Edge 2015-2017. Ed. Mike Resnick  (Rockville, MD: Arc/Manor/Phoenix Pick, 2018), 34-50. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Braveheart’s Homecoming” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Dilman Dila (b. 1977) KW - Male author KW - Ugandan author AB -

A future high-tech India that holds to traditional practices, including a form of slavery. 

JF - Mithila Review VL - No. 1 UR - http://mithilareview.com/dilman_dila_03_16/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Brownsville Station” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Christopher Rowe (b. 1969) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Climate change dystopia in which the elaborate technology that has protected civilization is defeated by the rising water.

JF - Drowned Worlds: Tales from the Anthropocene and Beyond PB - Solaris CY - Oxford, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Browsing: Security Issue” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Surveillance dystopia.

JF - Nature VL - 533.7604 U2 -

Illus. Jacey

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Camille Stories: Children of Compost” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Donna Haraway (b. 1944) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The stories trace five Camilles from 2025 to 2425, a period in which the human population, having at first risen from eight billion to ten billion, has dropped to three billion and only half of the species alive in 2015 still exist. Many humans have been modified to take on aspects of other species; in the case of the Camilles, the monarch butterfly. 

PB - Duke University Press CY - Durham, NC U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Career Day" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Nisha VyasMyall KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a future in which projections are made on what occupations will be needed in the future, and each child has a chip inserted at birth designating their future career. Until year seven, they are given a broad general education, then their chip is read, and from then on their education is narrowly occupational. 

JF - Holdfast Magazine VL - no. 8 Brexit Supplement UR - http://www.holdfastmagazine.com/career-day-brexitlit/4592954205 U2 -

Illus. Luke Spooner

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Charge and the Storm” Y1 - 2016 A1 - An Owomoyela KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -

The story raises issues about the morality of choices made, whether rights should be absolute, and the problem of scarcity.

JF - Asimov’s Science Fiction VL - 40.2 (481) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Children Y1 - 2016 A1 - Lucy Kirkwood (b. 1984) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A dystopian play based on the Fukushima disaster that takes place in a future England where a similar disaster has occurred. 

PB - Nick Hern Books CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Children of Eden. A Novel Y1 - 2016 A1 - Joey [Joseph Michael] Graceffa (b. 1991) A1 - Laura L. Sullivan (b. 1974) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia about a girl who is the second child in a society that restricts families to one child. First volume of a trilogy followed by Elites of Eden. A Novel. Keywords Press/Atria, 2017 in which the protagonist of the first volumes finds an entire city of second children but also forms an alliance with one of the girls of the elite. The third volume is Rebels of Eden. A Novel. Keywords Press/Atria, 2018 in which the protagonist temporarily settles in a sustainable community called Harmonia that belies its name by being rule-bound. She then returns to Eden, finds it worse than before, and leads the revolution. 

PB - Keywords Press/Atria CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Children of Exile Y1 - 2016 A1 - Margaret Peterson Haddix (b. 1964) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia. The novel opens in a village where children have been sent at birth to be raised by others. Suddenly they are all sent to be reunited with their parents who live in extreme poverty with a continuing war. First volume of a trilogy. The second volume is Children of Refuge. Children of Exile Book 2. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2017 is a typical middle volume where things get worse. The third volume is Children of Jubilee. Children of Exile Book Three. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2018. In this volume, the children are made slave labor on another planet and must cooperate with aliens in order to free themselves.

PB - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Children of Icarus Y1 - 2016 A1 - Caighlan Smith KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

First volume in a planned series. This volume is a dystopian derived from the story of the labyrinth and the Minotaur from Greek mythology. The story continues in Children of Daedala. Oxford, Eng.: Curious Fox, 2018 in which a woman struggles to survive and escape after six months in the labyrinth.

PB - Curious Fox CY - Oxford, Eng. U2 -

Illus. Colin Marks

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Cities at Sea Y1 - 2016 A1 - Martin Simons (b. 1930) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel is set in a future where, due to global warming, much of the land has flooded, and cities have abandoned the land for huge rafts that float the seas. The cities are strictly hierarchical, there is completely free sexuality, and children are conceived and born outside the body, and are generally presented positively. But the young woman who is the protagonist is bored and chooses to move to another city to undergo changes that will give her gills that will allow her to live underwater for long periods. At the end, new cities are planned that can move both on and in the water.

PB - XLibris CY - [Bloomington, IN] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - City Ash and Desert Bones Y1 - 2016 A1 - Laurel Myler KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia with elements of a horror novel set in a future in which most of the U.S. is desert, with Alaska the center of civilization, and a theocracy ruling the country. 

PB - Dog Star Books CY - Bowie, MD U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The City of Woven Streets Y1 - 2016 A1 - Emmi [Elina] Itäranta (b. 1976) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Finnish author AB -

The novel is set in a patriarchal dystopia where most women are not permitted to read or write, and dreaming is forbidden. The female protagonist can read and write and dreams. It is set on an island that is divided into sections based on crafts, with the novel focusing on the weavers. The island is slowly being submerged as the surrounding waters rise, and by the end of the novel has mostly been abandoned.

PB - Harper Voyager CY - London N1 -

North American ed. as The Weaver. A Novel. New York: Harper Voyager, 2016. Published in Finnish as Kudottujen kujien kaupunki (2015).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Coca-Cola Birds Sing Sweetest in the Morning” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Elizabeth Tan KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

A dystopian future Australia where all the bees, birds, and insects have died and been replaced by corporate sponsored mechanical equivalents. 

JF - Overland VL - no. 222 N1 -

Rpt. in The Best Australian Stories 2016. Ed. Charlotte Wood (Carlton, VIC, Australia: Black Inc., 2016), 155-63. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Cold Comfort" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Pat[rice Anne] Murphy (b. 1955) A1 - Paul Doherty (1948-2017) ED - Jonathan Strahan (b. 1964) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Climate change story with most of the focus on an elaborate, and ultimately successful, plan to stop the release of the vast reservoirs of methane in the arctic. The story ends with an apparent eutopia, but with the caveat that billions died before people came to their senses. 

JF - Bridging Infinity PB - Solaris CY - Oxford, Eng U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Common Tongue, the Present Tense, the Known” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Nina Allan (b. 1966) ED - Jonathan Strahan (b. 1964) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set after most of the world is drowned and is the protagonist is a marine biologist reflecting on the past and trying to understand the present and how both humans and the oceans and their inhabitants are responding to the new situation.

JF - Drowned Worlds: Tales from the Anthropocene and Beyond PB - Solaris CY - Oxford, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Company" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Sanya Noel KW - Kenyan author KW - Male author AB -

The detailed rules and regulations of a dystopian company. 

JF - Omenana Speculative Fiction Magazine VL - no. 7 UR - https://omenana.com/2016/08/07/the-company/ U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Company Town Y1 - 2016 A1 - Madeline Ashby (b. 1983) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

The background to the novel is a climate-change dystopia and is set on an oil rig that is now a complete town owned by one company, but the focus of the novel is a young woman hired to protect the heir to the company from those who want to inherit instead. 

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Corporation Wars: Dissidence Y1 - 2016 A1 - Ken[nth Macrae] MacLeod (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Dystopia. The novel is set in the distant future where there is a war between humans and artificial intelligences and among corporations. First volume in a series. The Other volumes are The Corporation Wars: Insurgence. London: Orbit, 2016; and The Corporation Wars: Emergence. London: Orbit, 2017. The three volumes are collected in The Corporation Wars Trilogy. London: Orbit, 2018 with Dissidence (1-295), Insurgence (297-581) and Emergence (583-879). 

PB - Orbit CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Culling” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Kelley Armstrong (b. 1948) ED - Susan Forest ED - Lucas K. Law KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

The lack of water and, as a result, food, led to the systematic reduction of the population with more and more categories added as the crisis got worse. The story focuses on a girl who hears voices who is chosen for culling. 

JF - Strangers Among Us: Tales of the Underdogs and Outcasts PB - Laksa Media Groups CY - Calgary, AB, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Cumulus Y1 - 2016 A1 - Eliot Peper KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A dystopian future of corporate power and pervasive surveillance.

PB - [CreateSpace] CY - [North Charleston, SC] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Darkout" Y1 - 2016 A1 - E. Lily Yu ED - Jason Heller ED - Joshua Viola KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which everyone can see what anyone else is doing at any time, which was justified as a way of reducing violence, which it did. The story focuses on a man compulsively viewing one woman. At the end of the story, the system goes down. 

JF - Cyber World: Tales of Humanity’s Tomorrow PB - Hex Publishers CY - Erie, CO N1 -

Rpt. in People of Color Take Over Fantastic Stories of the Imagination Magazine. Ed. Nisi Shawl, no. 239 (June/July 2017): 32-49.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “On Darwin Tides” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Shauna O’Meara ED - Manjana Milkoreit ED - Meredith Martinez ED - Joey Eschrich KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Environmental dystopia set in Malaysia in which indigenous people and immigrants are not allowed to work unless they have enough money for bribes and the technology that is required. 

JF - Everything Change: An Anthology of Climate Fiction PB - [Arizona State University] CY - [Tempe, AZ] UR - https://www.dropbox.com/s/kl2lb81mh2u88rj/Everything%20Change%20An%20Anthology%20of%20Climate%20Fiction.epub?dl=0 U2 -

Illus. Matt Phan

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Day No One Died” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Gwen Bellinger ED - Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future where people who left Earth to avoid its conflicts have returned and religion is outlawed because it is believed to have brought about the last nuclear war, and the protagonist is a believer.

JF - Islamicates Volume 1: Anthology of Science Fiction short stories inspired from Muslim Cultures PB - Mirza Book Agency CY - Np VL - 1 UR - http://www.islamscifi.com/islamicates-volume1/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dayworld: A Hole in Wednesday Y1 - 2016 A1 - Philip José Farmer (1918-2009) A1 - Danny Adams KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A volume in Farmer’s Dayworld universe (See 1971 and 1985 Farmer) that he had not completed that has been finished by his great nephew based on manuscript and notes. This volume is set before 1985 Farmer and sets the stage for it and the following volumes.

PB - Meteor House CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Delight®” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Allegra Hyde KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Satire on planned communities. In this one absolutely everything is trademarked and is supposedly the ideal 1950s community. At the end, it seals itself off from the rest of the world. 

JF - Black Warrior Review VL - 42.2 N1 -

Rpt. in her Of This New World (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2016), 104-09. The collection won the John Simmons Short Fiction Award. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Department of Correction: A lesson learned” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Ninian Tan KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Future punishment in which the offender must relive the crime from the point-of-view of the offender for as many times as determined by the court. 

JF - Nature VL - 535.7611 U2 -

Illus. Jacey

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Depot 256" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Lisa Allen-Agostini ED - Nalo Hopkinson ED - Kristine Ong Muslim (b. 1980) KW - Female author KW - Trinidadian author AB -

Dystopia of extreme poverty. 

JF - People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction! VL - Special Issue of Lightspeed, no. 73 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Destructives Y1 - 2016 A1 - Matthew De Abaitua (b. 1971) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Artificial Intelligence has developed and has made humanity passive The novel follows a number of individuals who struggle to learn about the pre-AI past and their own humanity. Connected with 2007 and 2015 De Abaitua and the ending suggests there will be a sequel, but there hasn't been.

PB - Angry Robot CY - Nottingham, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Did We Break the End of the World?” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Tansy Rayner Roberts (b. 1978) ED - Tsana Dolichava ED - Holly Kench KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult dystopia inhabited only by teenagers in which an electrical pulse has destroyed all equipment that runs on electricity, including the “foster mothers,” the robots that have cared for the teenagers. The protagonist is deaf and gay.

JF - Defying Doomsday PB - Twelfth Planet Press CY - [Yokine, WA, Austalia] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Dispatches from the Cradle; The Hermit—Forty-Eight Hours in the Sea of Massachusetts” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Ken Liu (b. 1976) ED - Jonathan Strahan (b. 1964) KW - Chinese-American author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Climate change story set when most people live either in space or on submersible rafts on Earth. Mars is being terraformed and plans are underway to try to dry out Earth. Whether this is a good or bad idea is left up the reader.

JF - Drowned Worlds: Tales from the Anthropocene and Beyond PB - Solaris CY - Oxford, Eng. N1 -

Rpt. in his The Hidden Girl and Other Stories (New York: Saga Press/Simon & Schuster, 2020), 254-271.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Distant Glimpse” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Kewin, Simon KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

The story is primarily told from the viewpoint of a young girl who is the leader of a group of children living on and making their living from trash dumps by providing useable scrap to men who whip them if they fail to find enough. Her discovery of a telescope, which she keeps, leads her to dream of escape. Given that we know that such conditions exist in many places, it could be read as a straightforwardly realistic story.

JF - The Future Fire: Social Political & Speculative Cyber-Fiction VL - no. 37 SN - 978-1999339517 UR - The Future Fire: 2016.37 fiction distantglimpse U2 -

Illus. Eric Asaris

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Drowned City” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Bo[ukje] Balder ED - Trina Marie Phillips KW - Dutch author KW - Female author AB -

Climate-change dystopia in which half of The Netherlands has disappeared and the Dutch are building a New Amsterdam on an island they have built on the Australian coast. 

JF - SciFutures presents The City of the Future PB - SciFutures CY - [Burbank, CA] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dynamo Island: The Cultural History and Geography of a Utopia Y1 - 2016 A1 - David [Henry Tudor] Scott (b. 1948) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Ecological eutopia set on an island in the middle of the Atlantic that is roughly the size of England. Human scale; no cars and excellent public transport with much use of bicycles; no extremely large machinery. Zero-growth economy. Stress on energy conservation using water, wind, and tidal power. 

PB - Zero Books CY - Winchester, Eng. U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Earth's Awakening Y1 - 2016 A1 - Stephen Tiley KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young Adult New Age eutopia.

PB - Xlibris CY - [Bloomington, IN] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "THe Eaters" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm ED - Neal McLeod KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - First Nations author AB -

Aliens who had earlier visited Earth to other isolate evil aliens return to begin to repair the damage the descendants of those aliens have done by removing all who have retained the characteristics of those evil aliens. The sudden removal of millions upon millions of people, including almost all political and corporate leaders, opens the way for the indigenous peoples of the earth, some of whom were taken, to undertake the process of renewal. 

JF - Mitêwâcimowina: Indigenous Science Fiction and Speculative Storytelling PB - Theytus Press CY - [Pinticion, BC, Canada] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ecotopia 2121: A Vision For Our Future Green Utopia--In 100 Cities. Y1 - 2016 A1 - Dr. Alan Marshall (b. 1969) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

The book consists of one hundred colored illustrations of futuristic cities, all but a few intended to be what could be done to actual cities plus a few fictional ones combined with a description of the evolution of the city. Published to honor the 500th anniversary of Thomas More’s Utopia

PB - Arcade Publishing/Skyhorse Publishing CY - New York SN - 9781628726008 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - On the Edge of Gone Y1 - 2016 A1 - Corinne Duyvis KW - Dutch author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult novel about the dystopia brought about by an impending catastrophe and its aftermath. The protagonist is an autistic, mixed race Dutch-Surinamese girl. A related story is her “And the Rest of Us Wait.” In Defying Doomsday. Ed. Tsana Dolichava and Holly Kench [Yokine, WA, Australia]: Twelfth Planet Press, 2016), 1-47.

PB - Amulet Books/Abrams CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Edge of Heaven Y1 - 2016 A1 - R[achael] B. Kelly KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

An overpopulation dystopia set in 2119 in a bi-level city called Creo in France where the dispossessed of the world have been sent to provide more space. The worst conditions at the bottom, where much of the action takes place. 

PB - Liberties Press CY - Dublin, Ireland U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Eel of the Lake” Y1 - 2016 A1 - J. R. McConvey ED - Michael DeLuca KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which the environment is being destroyed by corporations. Native American/First Nations (Ojibwe) protagonist. 

JF - Reckoning 1: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice PB - Reckoning Press CY - Lake Orion, MI VL - 1 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Elves of Antarctica” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Paul J[ames] McAuley (b. 1955) ED - Jonathan Strahan (b. 1964) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a climate change dystopia in which the coastal areas of most countries are under water and many islands have disappeared. There are major engineering projects to try to save what is left and to provide places for the displaced to live. The project in Antarctica, where the story takes place, is to try to keep the Antarctic ice sheet from melting and inundating more land.

JF - Drowned Worlds: Tales from the Anthropocene and Beyond PB - Solaris CY - Oxford, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The End of Occidentalism” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Robin Wyatt Dunn (b. 1979) ED - Michael DeLuca KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set in a U.S. that has fragmented into areas under corporate control.

JF - Reckoning 1: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice PB - Reckoning Press CY - Lake Orion, MI VL - 1 N1 -

Rpt. https://reckoning.press/the-end-of-occidentalism/ (May 15, 2017). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The End of the World” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Nora Salem ED - Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad KW - Arab-American KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a future where a drought has destroyed most plant life and there are few human survivors. 

JF - Islamicates Volume 1: Anthology of Science Fiction short stories inspired from Muslim Cultures PB - Mirza Book Agency CY - Np VL - 1 SN - 978-1537372105 UR - http://www.islamscifi.com/islamicates-volume1/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - Enjoyment: A Comedy Y1 - 2016 A1 - Alan Brownjohn (b. 1931) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia where pleasure is required.

PB - Shoestring Press CY - Nottingham, Eng U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Escaped Alone Y1 - 2016 A1 - Caryl Churchill (b. 1938) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopian play in which four old women, “They are all at least seventy,” sit in an apparently peaceful garden and discuss the horrors of the world outside the garden. 

PB - Nick Hern Books CY - [London] N1 -

U.S. ed. in her Here We Go and Escaped Alone. Two Plays. (New York: Theatre Communications Group, 2016), 31-74. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Escapology Y1 - 2016 A1 - Ren Warom KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Post-catastrophe cyberpunk dystopia. 

PB - Titan Books CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Even Paradise Needs Maintenance” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Bo[ukje] Balder ED - Chester W. Hoster ED - Katy Stauber (b. 1976) KW - Dutch author KW - Female author AB -

After most countries become uninhabitable due to climate change and global warming, Australia becomes a high-tech paradise where the few people have little to do. 

JF - Futuristica Volume 1 PB - Metasagas Press CY - Green Cove Springs, FL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Everfair Y1 - 2016 A1 - Nisi [Denise Angela] Shawl (b. 1955) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Alternative history with a flawed utopia, multiracial country established by a combination of British Fabian socialists and African American missionaries within The Congo at its worst in the nineteenth century. Stories set in Everfair are “The Colors of Money.” Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation. Ed. Phoebe Wagner and Brontë Christopher Wieland (Nashville, TN: Upper Rubber Boot, 2017), 198-217; “Sun River.” Illus. Clockwork Cairo: Steampunk Tales of Egypt. Ed. Matthew Bright ([UK]: Twopenny Books, 2017), 169-87; and “Promised.” Steampunk World. Ed. Sarah Hans (Dayton, OH: Alliteration Ink, 2017), 53-75. A related story is “Vulcanization.” Nightmare, no. 40 (January 2016). http://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/vulcanization/ Rpt. as “Vulcanization From Nightmare Magazine.” In The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017. Ed. Charles Yu and John Joseph Adams (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017), 128-40.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Everything Belongs to the Future Y1 - 2016 A1 - Laurie Penny (b. 1986) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia of a world where the rich can get treatment that extends their lives while the poor die young. 

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Everything That Isn’t Winter Y1 - 2016 A1 - Margaret Killjoy (b. 1982) ED - Diana M. Pho KW - Female author KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a post-apocalypse future Cascade mountains in what used to be the state of Washington. It focuses on a self-organized community growing tea that is attacked by a group trying to establish an authoritarian government to rebuild the old, bad system.

PB - Tor.com CY - New York SN - 978-1-84935-475-2 UR - https://www.tor.com/2016/10/19/231037/ N1 -

Rpt. in her We Won’t Be Here Tomorrow and Other Stories (Chico, CA/Edinburgh, Scot.: AK Press, 2022), 88-105.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Final Path” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Genevieve Cogman ED - Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Post-catastrophe (general collapse) young adult dystopia in which the young woman protagonist escapes to join other young people who have run away to an island. 

JF - Now We Are Ten: Celebrating the First Ten Years of NewCon Press PB - NewCon Press CY - [Weston, Eng] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Finkelstein 5” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

A dystopia in which an all-white jury acquits a man who had behead five black children. 

JF - Friday Black PB - Mariner\Houghton Mifflin Harcourt CY - New York N1 -

Originally published in a slightly different form in Printer’s Row (2016), which appears to be no longer available online

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Five Thousand Squares” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Maree Kimberley ED - Tsana Dolichava ED - Holly Kench KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Climate-change dystopia in which the protagonist, who has rheumatoid arthritis, as does the Australian female author, struggles to save herself and her children.

JF - Defying Doomsday PB - Twelfth Planet Press CY - [Yokine, WA, Australia] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Flawed Y1 - 2016 A1 - Cecelia Ahern KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which perfection is the standard and anyone flawed is branded with an “F”. The novel focuses on a young woman who risks being labelled flawed by helping someone in trouble. First of two volumes followed by Perfect. New York: Feiwel and Friends, 2017 in which, after many more problems, the dystopia is defeated. 

PB - Feiwel and Friends CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Floating in My Tin Can: Lullaby for life” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Gerri Leen KW - Female author AB -

The background to the story is a dystopia that will not allow people to sing. 

JF - Nature VL - 536.7614 U2 -

Illus. Jacey

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Flyover Country" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Tim Maughan (b. 1973) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

A future showing the result of Trump era policies, with cellphones made in America, mostly by illegal aliens and “voluntary” labor in camps connected to the factories.

JF - Terraform UR - Flyover Country (vice.com) N1 -

Rpt. without the illus. in Terraform Watch Worlds Burn. Ed. Brian Merchant and Claire L. Evans (New York: MCD X FSG Originals/Farrar, Straus and Giroux/Motherboard/Vice, 2022), 27-33.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Folding the Red into the Black or Developing a Viable UNtopia for Human Survival in the 21st Century Y1 - 2016 A1 - Walter [Ellis] Mosley (b. 1952) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

Nonfiction presentation of a better society. The title refers to the melding of capitalism and socialism that is at the heart of the work. Change is basic to human society. Respect for all ideas and ideals is fundamental (59). Happiness before profit (65). Equality among all people, which he equates with freedom (65). There must be a fundamental right to those things that a twenty-first century person needs to survive, including clean water, healthy food, a safe housing, free access to “education though six years of college or technical school,” and medical care (89-90). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Forgetting Y1 - 2016 A1 - Sharon Cameron (b. 1970) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which annually everyone, except for one girl. in an enclosed city loses their memories unless they have been written down. The girl then explores the basis of the dystopia and escapes with a boy. The Knowing. New York: Scholastic Press, 2017 is described as a companion volume and focuses on a woman who cannot forget anything and searches for the lost city of Canaan and a man from space who is also searching for it. 

PB - Scholastic Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Four Futures: Vision of the World After Capitalism Y1 - 2016 A1 - Peter Frase KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia and dystopia. Projects four scenarios of what might follow capitalism: “Communism: Equality and Abundance” (35-68), “Rentism: Hierarchy and Abundance” (69-90), “Socialism: Equality and Scarcity” (91-119), “Exterminism: Hierarchy and Scarcity.” The two equalities are primarily presented positively. The hierarchies are presented wholly or primarily negatively.

PB - Verso CY - London U1 -

Subtitle on the cover Life After Capitalism

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Fractured State Y1 - 2016 A1 - Steven Konkoly KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel is mostly adventure following an attempted coup in California. A sequel is Rogue State. Seattle, WA: Thomas & Mercer, 2017 in which California is a dictatorship and the rest of the U.S. is near collapse. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Freefare: Welcome to the Age of Enlightenment Y1 - 2016 A1 - Mark A. Kovel Sr. KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Much of the book is an attack on welfare seen as a mechanism for politicians to get and keep the people’s support. The author then argues that the next step is a comprehensive entitlement program called Freefare for those who don’t want to work in which everything is provided with the detailed, personal supervision of bureaucrats. While the structure of the book suggests that this is intended as satire and the ending calls for the reestablishment of free enterprise, the results as described in case studies are wholly positive. 

PB - iUniverse CY - Bloomington, IN U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “On the Fringes of the Fractal. Inspired by ‘Subdivisions’” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Greg[ory John] van Eekhout (b. 1967) ED - Kevin J[ames] Anderson (b. 1962) ED - John McFetridge KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which each subdivision is controlled by a different corporation, which also controls the individual livs of the inhabitants. 

JF - 2113: Stories Inspired by the Music of Rush PB - ECW Press CY - Toronto, ON, Canada N1 -

Rpt. without the subtitle in The Best American Science Fiction and FantasyTM 2017. Ed. Charles Yu (Boston, MA: Mariner/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017), 194-205. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Future Is Blue" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Catherynne M[organ] Valente (b. 1979) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Climate change dystopia in which so few children survive their first years that they do not get a name until they are ten. The story is continued in her The Past Is Red (2021).

JF - Drowned Worlds: Tales from the Anthropocene and Beyond PB - Solaris CY - Oxford, Eng N1 -

Rpt. in The Best American Science Fiction and FantasyTM 2017. Ed. Charles Yu (Boston, MA: Mariner/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017), 167-197; in Wastelands: The New Apocalypse. Ed. John Josephs Adams (London: Titan Books, 2019), 489-511; and in her The Future Is Blue (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2018), 7-28.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Gender Game Y1 - 2016 A1 - Bella Forrest KW - Female author AB -

The novel is set in a world divided between men’s and women’s lands (Patrus and Matrus). In Patrus, women are completely subservient, but the novel focuses on a young woman who is not subservient who leaves Matrus for Patrus on a quest. First volume of a seven-volume series, followed by The Gender Secret. Np: Nightlight Press, 2016; The Gender Lie. Np: Nightlight Press, 2017; The Gender War. Np: Nightlight Press, 2017; The Gender Fall, 2017; The Gender Plan. Np: Nightlight Press, 2017; The Gender End. Np: Nightlight Press, 2017. 

PB - Nightlight Press CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Gifted Y1 - 2016 A1 - H[eather] A. Swain (b. 1969) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which exceptional talents can be purchased by the privileged, but some talents still occur naturally, and one focus of the novel is a young woman who is from the underclass and is musically gifted in a society that outlaws music making. 

PB - Feiwel and Friends CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Girl, Blue Eyes, Boy” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Marvel Chukwudi Pephel KW - Male author KW - Nigerian author AB -

The story is set in Lagos, Nigeria in 3096, which is a high-tech city with Lagoonborg robots designed to help the elderly but becoming ubiquitous. Mars has been settled, and people are being Marsinalized so that they more easily adapt to conditions there. The story ends abruptly, and the author says he is considering a sequel. 

JF - African Writer UR - https://www.africanwriter.com/girl-blue-eyes-boy-fiction-marvel-chukwudi-pephel/. N1 -

Rpt. in The Naked Convos - Original African Stories (March 6, 2017). http://thenakedconvos.com/girl-blue-eyes-boy/

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Give Your All" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Leena Litkitalo KW - Female author KW - Finnish author AB -

Dystopia in which people are expected to donate body parts to gain status. 

JF - Galaxy’s Edge VL - no. 15 SN - 978-1-61242-356-2 N1 -

Rpt. in The Best of Galaxy’s Edge 2015-2017. Ed. Mike Resnick (Rockville, MD: Arc/Manor/Phoenix Pick, 2018), 197-208.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Glass" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Megan Dorei KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia that focuses on the need for girls to be thin. 

JF - Dystopia Utopia Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Tales PB - Flame Tree Publishing CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Good Place Y1 - 2016 A1 - Michael Schur (b. 1975) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A comedy and fantasy series set in an afterlife, a eutopian Heaven created by an individual as a reward for a righteous life. The initial focus is on a woman who realizes that she does not belong in Heaven and to stay hides her failings. In the second series, everyone’s memories are erased with the intent of starting over.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Goodnight New York, New York” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Victoria Zelvin KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Climate-change story in which the government has consistently lied about conditions in New York, where even some of the tallest buildings are completely submerged. 

JF - Shoreline of Infinity VL - no. 6 N1 -

Rpt. in the Edinburgh International Science Festival Special Edition of Shoreline of Infinity, no. 11½ (Spring 2018): 91-97. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Grandchild Paradox" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Daniel Thron ED - Manjana Milkoreit ED - Meredith Martinez ED - Joey Eschrich KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Climate change dystopia in which flooding has created a society deeply divided between those who live above the water and those who live on boats. 

JF - Everything Change: An Anthology of Climate Fiction PB - [Arizona State University} CY - [Tempe, AZ] UR - https://www.dropbox.com/s/kl2lb81mh2u88rj/Everything%20Change%20An%20Anthology%20of%20Climate%20Fiction.epub?dl=0 U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Great Chasm” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Hildy Silverman A1 - David Silverman ED - Glenn Hauman KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

In the future, the U.S. has divided into two separate countries, the liberal Blue States in the East that enforce a narrow view of liberalism and the absolutist Red States to the West. 

JF - Altered States of the Union PB - Crazy 8 Press CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Hard Rains" Y1 - 2016 A1 - S. J. Sabri AB -

The story is set after the devastation brought about by climate change and concerns a woman determined to reclaim drought-stricken land. Elements of fantasy/magic realism.

JF - The Future Fire: Social Political & Speculative Cyber-Fiction VL - no. 39 UR - The Future Fire: 2016.39 fiction hardrains U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hillary Goes to Washington, A Liberals Dream Y1 - 2016 A1 - Kate Griffin KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The novel is about the election of Hillary Clinton to the presidency and her first term, during which the basics of the liberal agenda are passed. 

PB - [CreateSpace] CY - [North Charleston, SC] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Hiroto’s Legacy” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Lisa M. Collins ED - Howard, Tom KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

 The story is set in a future eutopian Japan that had been achieved through generations of technological innovation, particularly in horticulture. Prequel to her story “The Tree of Life.” Holdfast Magazine, no. 4 (2014). Rpt. in Holdfast Magazine Anthology 2013-2014. Ed. Laurel Still and Lucy Smee (Np: np, 2014); and on Kindle, 2015. 16 pp. in which the culture, now on a generation starship searching for new planets are passing the knowledge to the next generations.

JF - Coming Around Again [At the head of the title The Central Arkansas Speculative Fiction Writers’ Group Presents] PB - CreateSpace CY - San Bernardino, CA U1 -

At the head of the title The Central Arkansas Speculative Fiction Writers’ Group Presents

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Holy Many-Minds Home” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Miguel Díaz Feito KW - Cuban-American author KW - Male author AB -

Climate change dystopia. Miami has been raised on pillars above the water and sealed from radiation and the storms. The story concerns a search for terrorists threatening the shields in unincorporated areas, also shielded, but inadequately, and built on pillars, outside the city. Includes a new religion for the new circumstances. Much fantasy. Some of the text is in Spanish.

JF - The Future Fire: Social Political & Speculative Cyber-Fiction VL - no. 36 UR - The Future Fire: 2016.36 fiction holymanyminds U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hope. A Going Home Novel Y1 - 2016 A1 - A[ngery] American [pseud.] A1 - G. Michael Hopf KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Related to 2012 American. In the novel, a man who has survived finds meaning in helping others. 

PB - [CreateSpace] CY - [North Charleston, SC] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “How Not To Lose the Girl” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Dare Segun Falowo KW - Male author KW - Nigerian author AB -

The story is set in Africa in a future in which a world government has been established in the United States and appears to provide food, housing, and advanced technology, but most people seem to be losing themselves in different forms of virtual reality. 

JF - Brittle Paper: An African Literary Experience UR - https://brittlepaper.com/2016/08/lose-girl-segun-falowo-africa-scifi/ U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Human Animals Y1 - 2016 A1 - Stef Smith KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

In an unidentified future, the balance of nature has been so upset that animals have overrun parts of London, and the play concerns the way some people respond to the slaughter of the animals. It opened at the Royal Court Theatre May 18, 2016.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hystopia Y1 - 2016 A1 - David Means (b. 1961) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel includes a novel-within-the novel set in a future dystopia with an alternative history in which the war in Vietnam continues with John F. Kennedy serving his third term as President and a Psych Corps to wipe the memories of returning soldiers.

PB - Farrar, Straus and Giroux CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - I Love You*: *Subject to the Following Terms and Conditions. A Contract Killers Novel Y1 - 2016 A1 - Erin Lyon KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

In the future, all marriages are specific time-limited contracts, and the novel follows the trials and tribulations of one woman’s search for love. 

PB - Forge CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “I Will Remember You” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Janet Edwards (b. 1958) ED - Tsana Dolichava ED - Holly Kench KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia brought about by an alien invasion with the aliens killing off all humans over thirteen days with a few survivors who will rebuild the human race. 

JF - Defying Doomsday PB - Twelfth Planet Press CY - [Yokine, WA, Australia] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Immaterial" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Dan Grace KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

In a future world divided between the rich and poor, a poor girl who lives in a decrepit city cleaning up after others and searching for her lost sister. She also discovers a nealthier natural world outside the city.

JF - The Future Fire: Social Political & Speculative Cyber-Fiction VL - no. 39 UR - The Future Fire: 2016.39 fiction immaterial U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Imposter Syndrome” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Mari Kurisato [pseud.] ED - Hope Nicholson ED - Erin Crossar ED - Sam Beiko KW - Female author KW - First Nations author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future where all “Non-Citizens” are banned from leaving the failing Earth and travelling to newly discovered inhabitable planets. In the story, the Non-Citizen is an alien, but she carries the memories of a First Nations woman who was among those torn from her family and sent to schools designed to strip them of their identity. 

JF - Love Beyond the Body, Space and Time: An Indigenous LGBT Sci-Fi Anthology PB - [Winnipeg, MB, Canada] CY - Bedside Press SN - 978-0-9939970-7-5 U3 -

Kurisato, Mari [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "In Equity" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Sarah Gallian KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

A dystopian future in which teenagers are “fostered” for commercial uses. 

JF - Asimov’s Science Fiction VL - 40.2 (481) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - In Hambach Forst” Y1 - 2016 A1 - George F. ED - Michael DeLuca KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Environmental dystopia about the destruction by corporations of the old growth forests in Germany, with the story focusing on the resistance but with a sense of the futility of the resistance. 

JF - Reckoning 1: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice PB - Reckoning Press CY - Lake Orion, MI VL - 1 N1 -

Rpt. https://reckoning.press/in-hambach-forst/ (June 12, 2017).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “An Industrial Growth” Y1 - 2016 A1 - David L. Clements KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia of the future U.S. destroyed by scientific experiments that government encouraged to be done with no concern for safety.

JF - Analog Science Fiction and Fact VL - 136.1 & 2 N1 -

Rpt. in his Disturbed Universes ([Weston], Eng.: NewCon Press, 2016), 125-61. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Inferno" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Caldon Mull KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

The story is set on the planet Claudius where humans had settled after destroying Earth, and where the matriarchy, the Mothers of Claudius, are making the same mistakes has had been made on Earth. 

JF - Fragments: The Anthology of Short Stories PB - Author CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Infomocracy Y1 - 2016 A1 - Malka [Ann] Older (b. 1977) KW - Female author KW - Latinx author KW - US author AB -

First volume of a trilogy that illustrates the problems of establishing and maintaining eutopia based on a world-wide electoral system that fosters micro-democracies. Among the problems are corruption and political maneuvering among the groups vying for electoral success at the level of global government. The title suggests a central theme, the importance of the control of information. In the second volume is Null States: The Centenal Cycle, Book 2. New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 2017, three different plots, in Darfur, Geneva, and Central Asia, pose challenges to the system. As the title suggests, in the final volume, State Tectonics: The Centenal Cycle, Book 3. New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 2018, the various groups vying for power produce something of an earthquake, and, at the end, there is many more sources of information. Whether this is good or not is left unclear. 

PB - Tom Doherty Associates CY - New York N1 -

An excerpt was published in People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction! Ed. Nalo Hopkinson and Kristine Ong Muslim. Special Issue of Lightspeed, no. 73 (June 2016): 304-10. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Island Will Sink Y1 - 2016 A1 - Briohny Doyle KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Climate change dystopia in which the world is watching Pitcairn Island sinking below the surface. The novel focuses on a man who makes completely immersive films and puts everything about his life online, which means losing his memories. 

PB - Lifted Brow CY - Melbourne, Vic, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Islets of the Blessed" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Nidhi Singh KW - Female author KW - Indian author AB -

Dystopia set in a rigidly structured society where someone can sell their body to be taken over by one of the wealthy needing a new one. 

JF - Flash Fiction Press UR - http://www.theflashfictionpress.org/2016/02/13/short-story-saturday-2/ N1 -

Rpt. in Dystopia Utopia Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Tales (London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2016), 372-80. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Jericho Blush” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Cat[riona] Sparks (b. 1965) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a future Australia devastated by climate change in an area the has been used for unregulated weapons testing controlled by a foreign company. It takes place in the post-apocalyptic future of her 2017 Lotus Blue. A related story is her 2015 “Hot Rods.”

JF - Dark Harvest PB - NewCon Press CY - [Weston, Eng.] VL - 161-77, with a brief author’s note on 177 SN - 978-1-912950676 N1 -

Originally published in Cyclopean, no. 2 (2016), which is no longer available.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Join Y1 - 2016 A1 - Toutonghi, Steve KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia. The novel is set in a future dealing with major impacts of climate change. In becomes possible for people to form small permanent communities by merging their minds into one. Raises questions about the advantages and disadvantages of losing the body to gain a collective identity and immortality. 

PB - New York CY - Soho Press U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Judenstaat Y1 - 2016 A1 - Simone Zelitch KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Alternative history covering 1945-87 in which, following World War 2, a homeland for the Jews, Judenstaat, was established in Saxony in the eastern part of Germany. 

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Keepers of Madleen” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Sarah Lyn Eaton KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

An apparent eutopia in a future in which every village has walled themselves off from every other village to protect themselves from an unidentified threat. The village that is the focus of the story must face the fact of a rape, and the story is concerned with how they deal with it. 

JF - Dystopia Utopia Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Tales PB - Flame Tree Publishing CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Knocking on Heaven’s Door. A Novel Y1 - 2016 A1 - Sharman Apt Russell (b. 1954) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe novel (epidemic/pandemic) in which the survivors have created a Paleolithic culture that they describe as a utopia.

PB - Yucca Publishing CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Lack of Congenial Solutions” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Kenneth Schneyer ED - Alex Shvartsman (b. 1975) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future dystopia in which after killing off the peaceful on Earth, the remaining humans expand into the galaxy killing or enslaving all the multitude of others that they meet, all of human had evolved into extremely varied, but peaceful cultures. Finally, the various cultures cooperate to eliminate humanity but find that doing so has unfortunate effects on their cultures.

JF - Humanity 2.0 PB - Phoenix Pick/Arc Manor CY - Rockville, MD U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Girl. Book One of the Dominion Trilogy Y1 - 2016 A1 - Joe Hart KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set in a world in which the birth of girls has dropped to near zero. The novel focuses on a young woman who has been kept in a U.S. research facility for twenty years, having been told that there are no survivors outside. She escapes and discovers that there are survivors, some of whom help her. The Final Trade: Book Two of the Desolation Trilogy. [Seattle, WA]: Thomas & Mercer, 2016 is a sequel in which the protagonist of the first volume discovers, with the help of her friends, the records on who she and the other captive girls are. In The First City: Book Three of the Dominion Trilogy. [Seattle, WA]: Thomas & Mercer, 2017, the protagonist manages to get the Seattle, the last city in the country, to find answers.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Last Lagosian" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Wole Talabi (b. 1986) KW - Malaysian author KW - Male author KW - Nigerian author AB -

Post-catastrophe (unexplained) dystopia.

JF - Omenana Speculative Fiction Magazine VL - no. 8 SN - 978-1-911143-55-0 UR - https://omenana.com/2016/11/09/the-last-lagosian-wole-talabi/ N1 -

 Rpt. in his Incomplete Solutions. Edinburgh, Scot.: Luna Press, 2019), 100-10, with an author’s note on 258.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Lawman" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Caldon Mull KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

The story is set in a future violent, corrupt South Africa with deep rich/poor divisions. Some fantasy. 

JF - Fragments: The Anthology of Short Stories PB - Author CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Le Carré rouge” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Claudie Arseneault KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopian depiction of the future of Québec under a repressive government and powerful corporations, particularly one that, with the cooperation of the government, controls all food production and distribution. The story focuses on the resistance to the dystopia over the lifetime of the protagonist. 

JF - Solarpunk Press UR - http://www.solarpunkpress.com/stories/2016-11-7/011-le-carr-rouge-by-claudie-arseneault ER - TY - ABST T1 - Learning to Speak Tiger" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Trina Marie Phillips ED - Trina Marie Phillips KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a very high-tech future Hanoi with strong eutopian elements but with the technology largely integrated into daily life. The story is about a poor, young girl struggle to find her place. 

JF - SciFutures presents The City of the Future PB - SciFutures CY - [Burbank, CA] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Leaves No Longer Fall” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Jodi Cleghorn ED - Dan Rabarts ED - Lee Murray KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Environmental dystopia. 

JF - At the Edge PB - Paper Road Press CY - [Wellington, New Zealand] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Legacy of Shadow Y1 - 2016 A1 - Gallant, Craig KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel is mostly adventure, but it is set in a future where there is a multi-species Galactic Council with the goal of the betterment of all species.

PB - Zmok Books CY - Point Pleasant, NJ U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Let Your Light Shine Before Men” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Christopher Caldwell KW - African American author KW - Male author KW - Queer author KW - Scottish author AB -

The story is set in a future where climate change led to the abandonment of New Orleans while saving white areas of the country. 

JF - Obsidian VL - 42.1-2 Speculating Futures: Black Imagination & The Arts ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Light Times" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Ari Popper ED - Trina Marie Phillips KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in Nigeria, which, after a devastating war, is recovering using high-tech and the help of the United Nations. 

JF - SciFutures presents The City of the Future PB - SciFutures CY - [Burbank, CA] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Love in a Lonely City 2050" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Deborah Walker ED - Trina Marie Phillips KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a very high-tech future London with strong eutopian elements and is about how hard it still can be to find love. 

JF - SciFutures presents The City of the Future PB - SciFutures CY - [Burbank, CA] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Lutopia: An Ideal City in an Ideal World” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Hilde Heynen (b. 1959) ED - Veerle Achten ED - Geert Bouckaert (b. 1958) ED - Erik Schokkaert KW - Belgian author KW - Female author AB -

An essay describing a eutopian 2116 Leuven, then known as Lutopia, with an emphasis of blending heritage an ecology. World-wide people have been concentrated into cities to radically reduce the negative impact of humans on the environment. The essay is an expansion of the ideal city tradition, with in addition to the usual architectural and city-layout details, material on the organization of housing, schooling from elementary through university, energy use, transportation, the economy, labor, the social life, and governance. It ends with a brief comment on the remaining problems. 

JF - ‘A Truly Golden Handbook’: The Scholarly Quest for Utopia PB - Leuven University Press CY - Leuven, Belgium U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Luv Story” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Kim Westwood ED - Jack [Mayo] Dann (b. 1945) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

A retelling of the story of the Garden of Eden by a girl in a post-catastrophe (climate-change, loss of civilization) dystopia. 

JF - Dreaming in the Dark PB - PS Australia CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Machine Society: Rich or poor. They want you to be a prisoner Y1 - 2016 A1 - Mike Brooks KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Dystopia in which both the rich and the poor live in isolated regions within a “security wall,” which is supposed to be protecting them from the outside. 

PB - Cosmic Egg Books CY - Winchester, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Mandibles. A Family, 2029-2047 Y1 - 2016 A1 - Lionel Shriver (b. 1957) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. The novel traces a well-off family through the collapse of the U.S. economy, followed by extreme poverty, and the establishment of an authoritarian government that confiscated all property (they became sharecroppers). The novel ends in Nevada, which has managed to secede from the U.S. and has considerable personal freedom but also has much violent crime and other serious problems.

PB - Borough Press CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: HarperCollins, 2016. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Masks" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Stirling Davenport ED - Manjana Milkoreit ED - Meredith Martinez ED - Joey Eschrich KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Environmental dystopia set in an extremely polluted China. Hong Kong has been mostly destroyed by storms. Europe is, if anything, worse off. 

JF - Everything Change: An Anthology of Climate Fiction PB - [Arizona State University] CY - [Tempe, AZ] UR - https://www.dropbox.com/s/kl2lb81mh2u88rj/Everything%20Change%20An%20Anthology%20of%20Climate%20Fiction.epub?dl=0 U2 -

Illus. Matt Phan

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Mercy Journals Y1 - 2016 A1 - Claudia Casper (b. 1957) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

The novel is set in a post-catastrophe dystopia in which billions of people have died as a result of climate change. 

PB - Arsenal Pulp Press CY - Vancouver, BC, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Metaltown Y1 - 2016 A1 - Kristen Simmons KW - Female author KW - Japanese American author AB -

Dystopia set in a cruel factory town in which the workers are ruthlessly exploited. 

PB - Tor Teen CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Mighty Slinger" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Tobias S[amuel] Buckell (b. 1979) A1 - Karen [Antoinette Roberta] Lord (b. 1968) ED - Jonathan Strahan (b. 1964) KW - Barbadian author KW - Female author KW - Grenadian author KW - Male author KW - US author KW - US Virgin Islands author AB -

The story begins in a future in which climate change and exploitation of the environment has left Earth uninhabitable. The Moon has been terraformed and the terraforming of Mars is in progress with indentured laborers. The story then follows a musician who has supported the workers and helped develop a project to revitalize Earth far into the future to when he can return to his recreated Caribbean homeland.

JF - Bridging Infinity PB - Solaris CY - Oxford, Eng N1 -

Rpt. with Lord as the first author in Sunspot Jungle. Volume 2. [Subtitle on the cover The Ever Expanding Universe of Fantasy and Science Fiction]. Ed. Bill Campbell (Greenbelt, MD: Rosarium Publishing, 2020), 471-95; and in The Best of World Science Fiction Volume 2. Ed. Lavie Tidhar (London: Head of Zeus, 2022), 365-398.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Model Life” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Kim Antieau (b. 1955) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A retired couple, both of whom are dissatisfied with their lives, enter a program that purports to find the right life for them and ultimately does. Most of the story focuses on the dystopian testing the man is put through rather than the eutopian outcome.

JF - Dystopia Utopia Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Tales PB - Flame Tree Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Moksha" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Alexander Weinstein KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of technological “enlightenment”.

JF - Children of the New World: Stories PB - Picador CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Montpellier” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a city divided between the well-off and the slums. Montpellier is one of four high-rise buildings built in the slums that were intended to provide a better life but failed, in large part because the well-off were providing addictive drugs to the people living there. Hope is held out at the end.

JF - Galaxy's Edge VL - no. 19 N1 -

Rpt. in Best of British Science Fiction. Ed. Donna Scott ([Weston, Eng.]: NewCon Press, 2017), 267-79. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Monuments" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Pamela Sargent (b. 1948) ED - Jonathan Strahan (b. 1964) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Climate change dystopia set in a New York City with Brooklyn, Staten Island, and much of Queens under water and many Manhattan streets now canals. Huge drop in world population with “self-deliverance” (suicide) one of the most common forms of death. 

JF - Bridging Infinity PB - Solaris CY - Oxford, Eng U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Mountain Song" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Alexander Weinstein KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set after a cyber war between the U.S. and China, which the U.S. won but the costs include constant interaction with what appears to be an implant the operates through ubiquitous Towers, which send radio waves at various frequencies and is never entirely silent. A side effect is killing all the wild birds. 

JF - Pleiades VL - 36.2 SN - 9781250144348 N1 -

Rpt. in his Universal Love. Stories (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 2020), 183-99.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Mum’s Group” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Stephanie Burgis ED - Chester W. Hoster ED - Katy Stauber (b. 1976) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which women are required to have a mothering implant that constantly directs them about childcare. 

JF - Futuristica Volume 1 PB - Metasagas Press CY - Green Cove Springs, FL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Mutt and Jeff Push the Button” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Kim Stanley Robinson (b. 1952) ED - Slavoj Žižek (b. 1949) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Two coders work out how to fairly redistribute income using the model of a universal army. Some satire, and at the end it is unclear what happens. Mutt and Jeff also appear in 2017 Robinson.

JF - An American Utopia: Dual Power and the Universal Army PB - Verso CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - Né Łe!” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Darcie Little Badger (b. 1987) ED - Hope Nicholson ED - Erin Crossar ED - Sam Beiko KW - Female author KW - Native American author AB -

The background to the story is a future with both eutopian and dystopian elements. Mars has been successfully settled, and various space habitats have been developed with different rules and regulations and some designed for specific ethnic groups, including one Orbiter Diné [Navajo]. But all Native Americans not living on reservations have been forced off their land, and most people still on Earth live in huge megaplexes. 

JF - Love Beyond the Body, Space and Time: An Indigenous LGBT Sci-Fi Anthology PB - Bedside Press CY - [Winnipeg, MB, Canada] SN - 9780993997075 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Necessity Y1 - 2016 A1 - Jo Walton (b. 1964) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - Welsh author AB -

Sequel to 2014 and 2015 Walton. In this novel Zeus has transported all the inhabitants of the Just City to another planet named Plato, and the inhabitants are interacting with aliens and have just been contacted by humans. The relocation has generally been successful, and a number of city states have been established that reflect different interpretations of Plato’s Republic.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Nethers: Frontiers of Hinterland Y1 - 2016 A1 - M[itch] E. Parker KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in sequel to 2014 Parker where the man from the earlier novel is sent to find scrap metal outside the Jonesbridge complex, and he and the woman finally escape after many adventures.

PB - Diversion Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The New Law" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Jeff Parsons KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a totalitarian regime in which a new law allows a judge to misrepresent a decision to a defendant and senior party members to do whatever they want with anyone found guilty of a crime.

JF - Dystopia Utopia Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Tales PB - Flame Tree Publishing CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A New Panama" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Karen [Antoinette Roberta] Lord (b. 1968) KW - Barbadian author KW - Female author AB -

Climate change has greatly reduced the islands and coastal areas of the world, and the next stage will be in space. The story focuses on a strong Caribbean woman negotiating over the future of her people.

JF - Bim: Arts for the 21st Century VL - 8.1 UR - https://www.bimlitfest.org/articles/new-panama N1 -

Rpt. without the illus. in Catalysts, Explorers & Secret Keepers: Women of Science Fiction. Ed. Monica Louzon, Jake Weisfeld, Heather McHale, Barbara Jasny, and Rachel Frederick (Washington, DC: Museum of Science Fiction, 2017), 118-27. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “New Wild of Generopia: A Hope of New Eaarth” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Julianne Lutz Warren KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The talk begins with Raphael Hythloday’s depiction of Utopia, moves to Utopia’s adoption of modern methods, which severely damages the country, and continues with Raquel Savetheday’s depiction of a group of Utopians who leave to create an ecological island utopia for the twenty-first century.

JF - Talk given at the “Stories of the Anthropocene Festival,” Stockholm, Sweden, October 28, 2016 UR - http://www.openwikitopia.org/index.php?title=Generopia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Night My Dead Girlfriend Called Y1 - 2016 A1 - Feyisayo Anjorin (b. 1983) KW - Male author KW - Nigerian author KW - South African author AB -

Set in twenty-second century Nigeria, the protagonist starts getting phone calls from his dead girlfriend and goes in search of answers. The story includes a version of the robot policemen from the author’s 2014 story “This is Africa.” 

PB - CreateSpace CY - Middletown, DE SN - 978-1722408978 N1 -

Originally published as a series in Brittle Paper beginning November 7, 2016) https://brittlepaper.com/2016/11/night-dead-girlfriend-called-episode-1-call-feyisayo-anjorin/ [No other episodes remain on line]. Rpt. Np: Okada Books, 2017 [Not found]. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Night of the Animals Y1 - 2016 A1 - Bill Broun KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set in 2052 after the European Union has collapsed, the UK is a surveillance state with the majority indigent, who are drugged, and a dwindling middle class, and a cult originating in California wants to kill all the animals and institute mass suicides. One elderly homeless man who believes the animals are talking to him tries to free them from London Zoo.

PB - Ecco/HarperCollins CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "No Fat Chicks" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Cat[riona] Sparks (b. 1965) ED - Tehani Wessely KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a future in which genetic mutations mean that all women are obese except for a few who take extreme measures to stay thin as seen from the viewpoint of a man whose ex-girlfriend has become fat. It won the Short story Ditmar Award in 2016.

PB - FableCroft Publishing CY - Mawson, ACT, Australia SN - 9780994469014 978-1-912950676 N1 -

Rpt. in her Dark Harvest ([Weston, Eng.]: NewCon Press, 2020), 179-92, with a brief author’s note on 192

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - North Country Y1 - 2016 A1 - Tajinder Singh Hayer (b. 1980) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Post-apocalyptic dystopia after a pandemic/plague has killed much of the world’s population. The novel follows the struggle to survive of three teenagers of British Asian descent, like the author, from Bradford. The book was published to coincide with the opening of the play directed by Alex Chisholm October 26, 2016, in Bradford, England in the basement of an abandoned Marks & Spencer. For an article by the director, see http://exeuntmagazine.com/features/north-country-post-apocalyptic-story-bradford/

PB - Bloomsbury Methuen Drama CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - Nostalgia Y1 - 2016 A1 - M[oyez] G. Vassanji (b. 1950) KW - African author KW - Canadian author KW - US author AB -

In the future seeming immortal people regularly have their memories erased and replaced with more pleasant ones that help them fit in with their current reality, but the memories do not completely disappear. 

PB - Penguin Random House Canada/Doubleday Canada CY - Toronto, ON, Canada SN - 9780385667166 N1 -

Indian ed. New Delhi, India: Penguin Books India, 2016. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Nothing to Fear" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Nat Newman KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Brief dystopia set in a society in which the activities for every day and most hours are set centrally. 

JF - Shoreline of Infinity VL - no. 5 U2 -

 Illus. Becca McCall

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Oasis Y1 - 2016 A1 - Eilís Barrett KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

Young adult post-catastrophe (virus) dystopia where the government uses protecting the people as the excuse for imposing complete control over the population. The novel focuses on those young people who work to undermine the system. 

PB - Gill Books CY - Dublin, Ireland U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “An Offertory to Our Drowned Gods” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Teresa Naval ED - Nalo Hopkinson ED - Kristine Ong Muslim (b. 1980) KW - Female author KW - Filipina American author AB -

Climate-change dystopia. 

JF - People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction! VL - Special Issue of Lightspeed, no. 73 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Olènkwáon: we” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Cathy Smith ED - Neal McLeod KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - First Nations author AB -

The story is set in a future where Earth’s ecology has been destroyed. Aliens arrive who, because of that, are unwilling to allow Earth to become full members of the galactic federation and gain access to its knowledge and, in particular, a plant that heals and extends life. 

JF - Mitêwâcimowina: Indigenous Science Fiction and Speculative Storytelling PB - Theytus Press CY - [Pinticion, BC, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “One Bad Apple" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Holly Schofield ED - Trina Marie Phillips KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

The story points out that things can still go wrong in a high-tech eutopia but high-tech can solve the problems. The utopia supposedly has no slums, gangs, or homeless, but the protagonist encounters a mugger who steals his watch to sell for its value in metal, but the city’s connectedness means that he will be captured, and the watch recovered.

JF - SciFutures presents The City of the Future PB - SciFutures CY - [Burbank, CA] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "One in Four" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Sarah Hall (b. 1974) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Pandemic story told from the viewpoint of an executive of a pharmaceutical company that marketed a drug they knew did not work.

JF - RA Magazine SN - 9780062657060 N1 -

Rpt. in Madame Zero. 9 Stories London: Faber and Faber, 2017), 147-50. US ed (New York: Custom House/Harper Collins, 2017), 147-50.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Ones Y1 - 2016 A1 - Daniel Sweren-Becker KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which one percent of the population is chosen to have genetic engineering that makes them superior to the rest. An opposition movement, the Equality Society, challenges the system, but turns out to be as authoritarian as system it is fighting. The Between: An Origin Story in the World of the Ones. New York: Imprint, 2017 is a novella published online that provides the background to the series. It is the story of a boy chosen at random to be genetically engineered to be superior who is then demoted by the Equality Movement. The Equals. New York: Imprint, 2017 continues the series in that the protagonists of the earlier works oppose the Equality Movement’s treatment of the Ones and begin to achieve a society where everyone is accepted.

PB - Imprint CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Openness" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Alexander Weinstein KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story presents a future, with both eutopian and dystopian elements, in which everyone is connected all the time but can limit the layers of themselves they expose. 

JF - BFJ: Beloit Fiction Journal VL - 29 SN - 9781616962913 N1 -

Rpt. in his Children of the New World: Stories (New York: Picador, 2016), 183-99; and in The Best American Science Fiction and FantasyTM 2017. Ed. Charles Yu (Boston, MA: Mariner/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017), 141-51; and in The New Voices of Science Fiction. Ed. Hannu Rajaniemi and Jacob Weisman (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon, 2019), 1-13.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Order, Excellence, Prosperity” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Michelle Kaseler KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which, while most diseases such as cancer have been eliminated, people are given drugs to ensure they focus on what the system has determined they are best at no matter their preferences before being given the drug. 

JF - Dystopia Utopia Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Tales PB - Flame Tree Publishing CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Outliers Y1 - 2016 A1 - McCreight, Kimberly KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

First volume of a young adult dystopian trilogy in which to avoid war rulers must give one of their children as a hostage. If the ruler goes to war, the child is killed. The novel focuses on two such hostages, a boy and a girl, from different countries. The Scattering: The Second Book in the Outliers Trilogy. New York: Harper, 2017, focusing on the girl, is a typical middle volume in that the situation gets worse. In The Collide: The Final Book in the Outliers Trilogy. New York: Harper, 2018, which still focuses on the girl, she struggles, successfully to find out why the “Outliers” are targeted and who is doing trying to kill them.

PB - Harper CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Panic City Y1 - 2016 A1 - Madeline Ashby (b. 1983) ED - Jason Heller ED - Joshua Viola KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia of an automated city designed to protect its inhabitants that ends up killing them. 

JF - Cyber World: Tales of Humanity’s Tomorrow PB - Hex Publishers CY - Erie, CO U2 -

Illus. Aaron Lovett and Joshua Viola. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pap: A 21st Century Dystopia Y1 - 2016 A1 - Adam R. Mathews KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

First volume of a dystopia trilogy centering on corporate power with PapCorp the sole worldwide corporation

PB - Arena Books CY - Bury St. Edmunds, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Past Imperfect” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Ararimeh Aiyejina ED - Karen [Antoinette Roberta] Lord (b. 1968) KW - Male author KW - Nigerian author KW - Trinidadian author AB -

Dystopia set in a future where civilization had collapsed. 

JF - New Worlds, Old Ways: Speculative Tales from the Caribbean PB - Peekash Press CY - Brooklyn, NY/Leeds, Eng U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - People’s Republic. A Novel Y1 - 2016 A1 - Kurt Schlichter KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia portraying the left/right (blue state/red state) division of the United States with the right represented as all good and the left all evil. First volume in a series with the same protagonist. The second volume, Indian Country. A Kelly Turnbull Novel. Np. Author, 2017, is a prequel in which the protagonist is organizing people resist the authoritarian dictatorship of the People’s RepublicIn the third volume, WildfireA Kelly Turnbull Novel. [North Charleston, SC]: CreateSpace, the protagonist is working undercover in the People’s Republic. In the fourth volume, CollapseA Kelly Turnbull Novel. Np: Author, 2019, the People’s Republic is defeated. another novel entitled Crisis is scheduled for 2020. See also his Conservative Insurgency: The Struggle to Take America Back 2009-2041. Franklin, TN: Post Hill Press, 2014. 

PB - CreateSpace CY - [North Charleston, SC] SN - 978-1539018957, 978-0988402966, 978-1734199307, 978-1618689771 ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Perihelion Y1 - 2016 A1 - D. M. Wozniak KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set in 2069 that follows the experiences of six people from what used to be Chicago.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pilgrimage to Utopia. Philosophy: Book 1 Y1 - 2016 A1 - William L. Livingston IV KW - Male author AB -

First volume of a series describing the author’s argument that while the contemporary world is a dystopia, utopia is possible. Over the series, details are provided of how to achieve the change. Followed by Pilgrimage to Utopia. Book 2: Dystopia. Np: Author, 2016. EBook; Pilgrimage to Utopia. Book 3: Utopia. Np: Author, 2016. EBook; Pilgrimage to Utopia. Book 4: Way Stations. Np: Author, 2016 EBook; and Ron G. Prichard and William L. Livingston, Expedition to Utopia. Book 5: Interventionist Report. Np: Author, 2017, which summarizes of series. EBook

PB - Author CY - Np ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pirate Utopia Y1 - 2016 A1 - [Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Alternative history of the post-World War I period and the Italian Regency of Carnaro, a self-proclaimed city-state in Fiume led by Gabriele D’Annunzio (1863-1938).

PB - Tachyon CY - San Francisco, CA U2 -

Illus. John Coulthart.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Plantation | Springtime: A day in the life of the automated body of the future” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Lia Swope Mitchell KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The setting is a penitentiary in which the prisoners are treated as if they are plants with details on their care, feeding, and punishment followed by the prisoners’ thoughts. In the first reprint these are more effectively side by side columns.  

JF - Terraform UR - PLANTATION | SPRINGTIME (vice.com) N1 -

Rpt. without the subtitle or the illus. Big Echo: Critical SF, no. 7, Part 1 (January 2018). https://www.bigecho.org/plantation-springtime; and without the subtitle or the illus. in Terraform Watch Worlds Burn. Ed. Brian Merchant and Claire L. Evans (New York: MCD X FSG Originals/Farrar, Straus and Giroux/Motherboard/Vice, 2022), 198-207.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Portobello Blind” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Octavia Cade (b. 1977) ED - Tsana Dolichava ED - Holly Kench KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia in which a blind teenage girl is the only survivor at an island science laboratory and proves to herself that she has the inner resources to cope. 

JF - Defying Doomsday PB - Twelfth Planet Press CY - [Yokine, WA, Australia] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Power Y1 - 2016 A1 - Naomi Alderman (b. 1974) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia presented as a novel within the novel written by a man in a society in which Mother Eve has replaced Adam as the central figure and women are dominant. The Power is an ability that women develop that allows them to treat men as women are treated today. The man’s novel presents a situation with strong men. Female author.

PB - Viking CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Penguin Books, 2017

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Prayer for ‘0443’. Inspired by ‘The Trees’” Y1 - 2016 A1 - David Niall Wilson (b. 1959) ED - Kevin J[ames] Anderson (b. 1962) ED - John McFetridge KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a future where equality is supposedly achieved by giving everyone a number and erasing all memory after a year. 

PB - ECW Press CY - Toronto, ON, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “President John F. Kennedy, Astronaut” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Sandra [A.] McDonald ( b. 1966) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a climate change dystopia with much of the land flooded. 

JF - Asimov’s Science Fiction VL - 40.8 (487) ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Product Y1 - 2016 A1 - Marina Fontaine KW - Female author KW - Russian-American author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia in which one drug frees people from the means the government uses to control them. The focus of the novel is a dealer. 

PB - Subversive Press CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Project Empathy" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Dominica Phetteplace KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The first of five stories about a future San Francisco and various ways artificial intelligence is used to both enhance and control people. The other stories, all with the same protagonists, are, in order, “Project Synergy.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 40.4 & 5 (483 & 484) (April/May 2016): 70-82; “Project Symmetry.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 40.6 (485) (June 2016): 42-56; “Project Entropy.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 40.7 (486) (July 2016): 40-57; and “Project Extropy.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 40.10 & 11 (489 & 490) (October/November 2016): 124-39.

JF - Asimov’s Science Fiction VL - 40.3 (482) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Quarantine Zone Y1 - 2016 A1 - Daniel H[oward] Wilson (b. 1978) ED - Bobbie Chase ED - Sara Miller KW - Male author KW - Native American author AB -

In the future, scientists discover that evil is caused by a virus that can be easily eliminated in most people. The incurables are rounded up, forced into a Quarantine Zone, and kept there by a Quarantine Force. 

PB - DC Comics CY - Burbank, CA U5 -

Public

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Quirian and the Earthling” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Catherine Oyiliagu KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - Nigerian author AB -

The story, really a vignette, takes place on the planet Quron, a pristine planet with Earth described as a planet “of plastic and fog.” 

JF - Brittle Paper UR - https://brittlepaper.com/2016/04/defectors-catherine-oyiliagu-african-story/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Race Y1 - 2016 A1 - Nina Allan (b. 1966) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The setting of the novel is a climate change dystopia. 

PB - Titan Books CY - London U5 -

Public

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "On the Radio" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Cheryl Morgan KW - English author KW - Transgender author AB -

The story is set in an alternative history dystopia in which a plague that increases testosterone levels has escaped from an English laboratory, but “Communist” Scotland or France are blamed. 

JF - Holdfast Magazine VL - no. 8 Bexit Supplement UR - http://www.holdfastmagazine.com/on-the-radio-brexitlit/4592952012 U2 -

Illus. Evy Samuelsson

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EJournal

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Rager in Space” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Charlie Jane Anders (b. 1969) ED - Jonathan Strahan (b. 1964) KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -

A sometimes-humorous story set in a future dystopia in which all computers on Earth have failed, no one can ever pay off their student debts, and peonage has been reestablished for debtors. 

JF - Bridging Infinity PB - Solaris CY - Oxford, Eng. U4 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Ravisher, The Thief” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Marian Womack (b. 1975) ED - Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Spanish author AB -

The story is set in a post-catastrophe dystopia. 

JF - Barcelona Tales PB - NewCon Press CY - [Weston], Eng. U2 -

Illus.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Red Thread" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Sofia Samatar (b. 1971) ED - Nalo Hopkinson ED - Kristine Ong Muslim (b. 1980) KW - Female author KW - Somali-American author AB -

The story is set in a dystopia after the environment has completely collapsed and people are struggling to survive.

JF - People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction! VL - Special Issue of Lightspeed, no. 73 N1 -

Rpt. in her Tender: Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2017): 262-273; and in Wastelands: The New Apocalypse. Ed. John Josephs Adams (London: Titan Books, 2019), 28-37. 

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Illus. Melanie Ujimori. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Rise of the Akafula” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Andrew Charles Dakalira ED - Sally Ireri ED - Olivia Kidula ED - Muthoni Mina ED - Aggrey Moyi KW - Malawian author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a future in which the Earth has been devastated by climate change, the wealthy have left Earth for life on a luxurious Mars, and the few remaining live underground served by the slaves they have made of the little people (the Akafula), who predate the human race. 

JF - Will This Be a Problem: The Anthology VL - Issue 3 UR - http://willthisbeaproblem.co.ke/rise-of-the-akafula-by-andrew-charles-dakalira/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Rooting" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Isha Karki KW - Female author KW - UK author AB -

Dystopian future in which supposedly docile servants have been created from the DNA of Nepalese women and are treated as non-human. Slowly, they are beginning to be treated as having rights. 

JF - Mithila Review VL - no. 5+6 UR - http://mithilareview.com/karki_08_16/ N1 -

Rpt. in Sunspot Jungle. Volume 2. [Subtitle on the cover The Ever Expanding Universe of Fantasy and Science Fiction]. Ed. Bill Campbell (Greenbelt, MD: Rosarium Publishing, 2020), 317-25. © 2018 PSt 978-1732638808

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Rosewater Y1 - 2016 A1 - Tade Thompson KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Nigerian author AB -

First volume of a trilogy set in Nigeria in 2055 and 2066. An alien invasion novel in which the alien intends to completely take over Nigeria. Sequels include The Rosewater Insurrection: The Wormwood Trilogy: Book Two. London: Orbit, 2019, in which liberationists oppose the alien forces. The third volume, The Rosewater Redemption: The Wormwood Trilogy: Book Three. London: Orbit, 2019, reflects the title. 

PB - Apex Publications CY - Lexington, KY N1 -

Rev. with the subtitle The Wormwood Trilogy: Book One. New York: Orbit, 2018

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Ruins of Civilization Y1 - 2016 A1 - Penelope Skinner (b. 1978) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopian play set in an anti-immigrant society facing climate-change. See the note in The New York Times (December 24, 2017): Arts & Leisure, 4. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Run on Sooner City.” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Brian K. Hudson ED - Neal McLeod KW - Male author KW - Native American author AB -

The story is set in a future in which Native Americans dominate North America, English is a lost language, there is no electricity, and the Cherokee Nation is the most powerful force of the continent, which it rules from the lush north, with the story set in the dustbowl that is Oklahoma.

JF - Mitêwâcimowina: Indigenous Science Fiction and Speculative Storytelling PB - Theytus Press CY - [Pinticion, BC, Canada] U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Rupture" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Malka [Ann] Older (b. 1977) KW - Female author KW - Latinx author KW - US author AB -

The story is set on a dystopian future Earth in which most animals and many plants are extinct, and the Earth regularly has major earthquakes and new volcanoes that become tourist sites. The story is told from the point-of-view of a visitor from another planet who initially visits Earth to attend university.

JF - Capricious (Aotearoa/New Zealand) VL - no. 3 N1 -

Rpt. in her . . . and Other Disasters (Baltimore, MD: Mason Jar Press, 2019), 17-35

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Rusties" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Nnedi[mma Nkemdili] Okorafor (b. 1974) A1 - Wanuri Kahui (b. 1980) KW - African American author KW - Female author KW - Kenyan author AB -

The story is set in an African future where robot traffic police with ever-more-enhanced AI capabilities ended the traffic chaos in cities but also could access all personal data from cell phones. 

JF - Clarkesworld VL - no. 121 UR - http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/okorafor-kahiu_10_16/ U5 -

EJournal

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Sahara" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Shadreck Chikoti (b. 1979) ED - Ivor Agyeman-Duah KW - Malawian author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a future high-tech but overpopulated Malawi in which a disease is devastating the population, with people replaced by high functioning AI’s. A scientist who discovers a cure is jailed because a cure would reverse the population decline. 

JF - All Good Things Around Us: An Anthology African Short Stories PB - Ayebia Clarke Publishing, Ltd. CY - Oxfordshire, UK SN - 9780992843663 U5 -

TRL

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Salto Morto" Y1 - 2016 A1 - [Nick] [Tchan] ED - Nalo Hopkinson ED - Kristine Ong Muslim (b. 1980) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

The story of about spousal abuse and the difficulties of accepting it in a world of constant surveillance set in the dystopia of the U.S. inside its wall with a better Mexico on the other side. 

JF - People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction! VL - Special Issue of Lightspeed, no. 73 U2 -

Illus. Al Bao

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Nick T. Chan [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Scythe Y1 - 2016 A1 - Neal Shusterman (b. 1962) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which a very long-lived society has a cadre of people, the Scythe, who randomly chose people to be gleaned to keep the population in check. First volume of a series, followed by Thunderhead. Arc of a Scythe Book 2. New York: Simon & Schuster BYFR, 2018. 512 pp., in which there are disputes over the morality of the gleaning and the Thunderhead, a virtually omniscient AI, is expected to intervene but doesn’t; followed by The Toll: Arc of the Scythe Book 3. New York: Simon & Schuster BFYR, 2019. 626 pp. where the Scythe has become a dictatorship with unrestricted gleaning and others struggle to overthrow the demagogue. Gleanings: Stories from the Arc of a Scythe. New York: Simon & Schuster BFYR, 2022 426 pp. collects stories and a poem by the author, his daughter and son, and others.

PB - Simon & Schuster BFYR CY - New York U5 -

Public

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Senseless" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Gary Gibson (b. 1965) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Dystopia in which dissidents are blinded, deafened, crippled, and so forth, with the promise of full cures if they cooperate by naming others. 

JF - Shoreline of Infinity VL - no. 4 N1 -

Rpt. in the Edinburgh International Book Festival Special Edition of Shoreline of Infinity, no. 8½ (Summer 2017): 127-42. 

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Illus. Dave Alexander

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Shifting Gears” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Mackenzie Reide ED - Glenn Hauman KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The Northwest of the U.S. has seceded and formed a new country called Cascadia. The story is about the suppression by U.S. authorities of all contact with Cascadia. See also 2017 Reide.

JF - Altered States of the Union PB - Crazy 8 Press CY - Np U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Shining City: America at a Crossroads Y1 - 2016 A1 - Frank Mitchell KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The book is mostly an anti-liberal diatribe with the eutopia to be brought about by implementing the Judeo-Christian Lincoln/Reagan Republican program only suggested. For additional material, see www.shiningcityonahill.org.

PB - XLibris CY - [Bloomington, IN] U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Signs of the Times” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Carole Johnstone KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia of poverty and treatment of immigrants in zoos. The immigrants are ancient gods.

PB - The Speculative Bookshop EBook CY - [Glasgow, Scot.] U5 -

EBook

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Simple Man Y1 - 2016 A1 - Mark Bacci KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Survivalist dystopia. 

PB - Prepper Press CY - [Augusta, ME] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Slumber" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Emeline [Mimie] Morin ED - Mike Clocherty KW - Female author KW - French author KW - Scottish author AB -

Dystopia in which Earth is an environmental disaster and those who are trying to settle a new planet have been so damaged by the long sleep necessary to travel there, many being blind or dead, half having committed suicide, and most disengaged) that they are unable to do the needed work. 

PB - The Speculative Bookshop EBook CY - [Glasgow, Scot.] U5 -

EBook

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Something to Watch Over Us” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Mike Morgan ED - Chester W. Hoster ED - Katy Stauber (b. 1976) KW - Japanese author KW - Male author KW - UK author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future overpopulated but functioning Japan where food is produced inside buildings. Everyone is closely monitored by an electronic “nurse” that requires certain foods, exercise, and so forth. It is programmed to produce what is best for everyone and begins to try to make everyone happy, with mixed results.

JF - Futuristica Volume 1 PB - Megasagas Press CY - Green Cove Springs, FL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Songshifting Y1 - 2016 A1 - Chris Bell (b. 1960) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

A future dystopia in which, because of its potential for subversion, all music is tightly controlled. Reported to be the first volume of a trilogy. 

PB - wordSHIFTminds CY - Np U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Sarah Pinsker (b. 1977) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a climate change dystopia in which there is little land left and the wealthy life on cruise ships. 

JF - Lightspeed VL - no. 69 SN - 9781618731562 UR - https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/sooner-or-later-everything-falls-into-the-sea/ N1 -

Rpt. in her Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea. Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2019), 33-56. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Splinterlands Y1 - 2016 A1 - Feffer, John KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

First volume of a trilogy; see 2018 and 2021 Feffer, which have connections to the other two but tell separate stories. As suggested by the title, the novel is set in 2050 in a future in which the nations of the world have fragmented due to climate change. The protagonist is Julian West, the same as the protagonist of Bellamy’s Looking Backward (1887), which is mentioned in the book.

PB - Haymarket Books CY - Chicago, IL SN - 978-1-60846-724-2 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Square Wave. A Novel Y1 - 2016 A1 - Mark De Silva KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Complex dystopia set in the United States 2027 where violence is common and warring factions are fighting for control.

PB - Two Dollar Radio CY - Columbus, OH ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Squeaky Wheel” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Sara Kate Ellis KW - Female author AB -

A dystopia or flawed utopia as seen by protagonists in the story that see the future differently. All safety nets have been removed and everyone is networked with an emphasis on friendliness and sociability with children medicated and socialized to fit in. 

JF - Solarpunk Press UR - http://www.solarpunkpress.com/stories/2016-1-4/004-the-squeaky-wheel-by-sara-kate-ellis ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Standing Still” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Lindsay Redifer ED - Manjana Milkoreit ED - Meredith Martinez ED - Joey Eschrich KW - Female author KW - Mexican author KW - US author AB -

Climate change dystopia set in Madagascar. 

JF - Everything Change: An Anthology of Climate Fiction PB - [Arizona State University] CY - [Tempe, AZ] UR - https://www.dropbox.com/s/kl2lb81mh2u88rj/Everything%20Change%20An%20Anthology%20of%20Climate%20Fiction.epub?dl=0 U2 -

Illus. Matt Phan

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EBook

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Starlings” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Tyler Keevil KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

With Earth an environmental dystopia, a program is developed to breed children to be sent, as toddlers (known as starlings), to establish humanity on a new planet.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 264 U2 -

Illus. Richard Wagner. 

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Staunch” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Paul Graham Raven ED - Jason Heller ED - Joshua Viola KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a dystopian U.K. that has mostly disintegrated down to the county level with conflicts among the various parts. 

JF - Cyber World: Tales of Humanity’s Tomorrow PB - Hex Publishing CY - Erie, CO N1 -

Rpt. in Best of British Science Fiction. Ed. Donna Scott ([Weston, Eng.]: NewCon Press, 2017), 187-99. 

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Illus. Aaron Lovett and Joshua Viola. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Stewardship" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Holly Schofield ED - Katrina Archer KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

In the story an AI and a robot are caring for a fenced-off area designed to contain one of the few remaining areas that are in ecological balance.

JF - Unsung Stories UR - https://www.unsungstories.co.uk/short/2016/2/3/stewardship N1 -

Rpt. in Little Blue Marble 2018: Stories of Our Changing Climate. Ed. Katrina Archer. Np: Ganache Media epub, 2018. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Still Life with Hammers, a Broom & A Brick Stacker” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Tochi [Joshua] Onyebuchi (b. 1987) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

A dystopia depicting the extreme poverty that exists for blacks and suggesting that whites can leave the deadly pollution of Earth for a better life in space. 

JF - Obsidian VL - 42.1-2 Speculating Futures: Black Imagination & The Arts U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Stone Seeds Y1 - 2016 A1 - Jo Ely KW - Botswanan author KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia depicting a village ruled by “The General” and his henchmen but ultimately successfully opposed by a few individuals who don’t fit in

PB - Urbane Publications CY - Chatham, Eng. U5 -

NLS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Storm Over Utopia Y1 - 2016 A1 - A. A. Glynn AB -

Alternative history in which after World War 2 the U.K. develops an experimental model for an ideal high-tech society under the control of an AI, but the AI begins to fail. 

PB - Leicester, Eng.: CY - F. A. Thorpe Punlishing SN - 9781444828061 U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “SunDown” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Acan Innocent Immaculate KW - Female author KW - Ugandan author AB -

The story is set in a future when the sun is dieing, and most humans have left Earth leaving behind those who are note genetically ideal. 

JF - Munyori Literary Journal UR - http://munyori.org/fiction/sundown-by-acan-innocent-immaculate-uganda/ U5 -

EJournal

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Sunlight Pilgrims. A Novel Y1 - 2016 A1 - Jenni Fagan (b. 1977) KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

A near future climate change dystopia in which Britain has lost the warming effect of the Gulf Stream and is experiencing the most severe winter in 200 years. The novel follows a number of people as they live their normal lives in this dystopia.

PB - William Heinemann CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Hogarth, 2016.

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NLS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Sunshine State" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Adam Flynn A1 - Andrew Dana Hudson ED - Manjana Milkoreit ED - Meredith Martinez ED - Joey Eschrich KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is about a positive response to climate change through the recreation of the wetlands in Florida. 

JF - Everything Change: An Anthology of Climate Fiction PB - [Arizona State University] CY - [Tempe, AZ] UR - https://www.dropbox.com/s/kl2lb81mh2u88rj/Everything%20Change%20An%20Anthology%20of%20Climate%20Fiction.epub?dl=0# U2 -

Illus. Matt Phan

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EBook

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Survival Instincts” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Carolyn Charron KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia in which the birth rate has led to an annual contest to be chosen as parents and one young woman’s attempts to ensure her victory. 

JF - Dystopia Utopia Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Tales PB - Flame Tree Publishing CY - London U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Swallow" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Eden [Victoria Lena] Robinson (b. 1968) ED - Neal McLeod KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - First Nations author AB -

The story is set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia in which two First Nations boys are trying to survive.

JF - Mitêwâcimowina: Indigenous Science Fiction and Speculative Storytelling PB - Theytus Press CY - [Pinticion, BC, Canada] U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Taking Flight" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Una McCormack (b. 1972) ED - Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set on an isolated planet in a future in which genetically modified people are marked and bonded and bought and sold. 

JF - Crises and Conflicts: Celebrating the First 10 Years of NewCon Press PB - NewCon Press CY - [Weston, Eng.] SN - 978-1-9-910395-17-0 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Target" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Eliza Victoria ED - Dean Francis Alfar ED - Nikki Alfar KW - Female author KW - Filipina author AB -

The background to the story is a hierarchical dystopia as reflected in extremely high buildings with the higher status, richest people at the top and the poorest in what are called the Shadows at the bottom. The story is about a wealthy man hiring people to kill someone. 

JF - Philippine Speculative Fiction. Volume 10. Literature of the Fantastic PB - Kestrel DDM CY - Np VL - 10 N1 -

Repub. as an ebook. Quezon City, Philippines: Flipside Digital Content Co. and Kestrel IMC, 2017

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Tea Party" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Lauren E. Mitchell (b.1983) ED - Tsana Dolichava ED - Holly Kench KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Post-catastrophe (Nature strikes back) depicting the survival strategies of a group of physically and/or mentally challenged people. 

JF - Defying Doomsday PB - Twelfth Planet Press CY - [Yokine, WA, Australia] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Texas Rising Y1 - 2016 A1 - [Will] [Dallas] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the liberal president asks for help from the United Nations to put down a rebellion by Texas and other conservative states.

PB - Purple Sage Entertainment CY - Hopkinsville, KY U3 -

W. W. Brock [pseud.]

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Is There a Common Future for People and Trees?” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Bart Muys ED - Veerle Achten ED - Geert Bouckaert (b. 1958) ED - Erik Schokkaert KW - Belgian author KW - Male author AB -

The essay includes a description of the Global Government’s 2035 Forest convention designed to protect the world’s forests. 

JF - ‘A Truly Golden Handbook’: The Scholarly Quest for Utopia PB - Leuven University Press CY - Leuven, Belgium U2 -

Illus

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MH

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Thirteen Year" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Diana Rose Harper ED - Manjana Milkoreit ED - Meredith Martinez ED - Joey Eschrich KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Poem set in the underground authoritarian dystopia where humans have retreated from the environmental damage at the surface. 

JF - Everything Change: An Anthology of Climate Fiction PB - [Arizona State University] CY - [Tempe, AZ] UR - https://www.dropbox.com/s/kl2lb81mh2u88rj/Everything%20Change%20An%20Anthology%20of%20Climate%20Fiction.epub?dl=0 U2 -

Illus. Matt Phan

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EBook

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Those Shadows Laugh” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Geoff[rey Charles] Ryman (b. 1951) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - UK author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia occupied only by parthenogenetic women modelled on 1915 Gilman, “Herland.” 

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 131.3 & 4 (727) N1 -

Rpt. in Sunspot Jungle: The Ever-Expanding Universe of Science Fiction and Fantasy [the cover adds Volume One]. Ed. Bill Campbell (Greenbelt, MD: Rosarium, 2019), 235-57. 

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Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Three Alternative Histories from the Climate Anxiety Counseling Booth” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Kate Schapira ED - Michael DeLuca KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Providence, Rhode Island, which is located bay that will flood the city as the ocean rises, dealing with climate-change. In one case, there is short-term success but long-term failure. In the other cases, the people achieve temporarily workable solutions. In all cases, the successes depend on community members working together and helping each other. 

JF - Reckoning 1: An Annual Journal of Creative Writing on Environmental Justice PB - Reckoning Press CY - Lake, Orion, MI VL - 1 N1 -

Rpt. https://reckoning.press/three-alternate-histories/ (January 26, 2017). 

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EBook

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Three Days Breathing Y1 - 2016 A1 - Mike Maguire (b. 1971) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Class-based dystopia in which longevity is based on their class, children have the same jobs as their parents and are paid just enough to get by. The only highly paid profession is as a brothel worker. Rigid education enforced by bots. The protagonist discovers how much is hidden from those, like him, in a low class.

PB - Fort Totten Press CY - Washington, DC U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Three Points Masculine” Y1 - 2016 A1 - An Owomoyela KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which there is a war between those opposing and accepting/protecting transgender rights. 

JF - Lightspeed VL - no. 72 UR - http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/three-points-masculine/ N1 -

Rpt. in Transcendent 2: The Year’s Best Transgender Speculative Fiction. Ed. Bogi Takács (Amherst, MA: Lethe Press, 2017), 35-49

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PU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Time Zero Y1 - 2016 A1 - Carolyn Cohagan KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a Manhattan ruled by religious extremists with particular emphasis on the restrictions on women. The novel focuses on one girl who rebels. Ends with “End of Book One.” 

PB - She Writes Press CY - Berkeley, CA N1 -

Began as an M.P.W. (Master of Professional Writing) thesis. Southern California, 2013. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Too Like the Lightning. Terra Ignota, Book I Y1 - 2016 A1 - Ada [Louise Grace] Palmer (b. 1981) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A complex novel set in a 25th century technological flawed utopia. Abundance. Much on gender roles. The public practice of religion has been outlawed. Most people belong to world clans that are economic entities in competition with other clans. First volume in a series. The second volume is Seven Surrenders: Terra Ignota, Book II. New York: Tor, 2017. 384 pp. in which certain groups have conspired to maintain stability on the planet through selective murders. The third volume is The Will to Battle: Terra Incognita, Book III. New York: Tor, 2017. 352 pp. in which the utopia has collapsed and turned into a dystopia. The fourth volume is Perhaps the Stars: Terra Ignota, Book IV. New York: Tor, 2021. 593 pp. where war breaks out with devastating consequences, but at the end a better world is slowly being rebuilt. The series has explicitly utopian threads throughout. See https://irradiate.space/worldbuilding/notes-on-oaths-and-laws-from-terra-ignota/utopia/ for the Utopian Oath from volume one.

PB - Tor CY - New York SN - 978-0-7653-7801-9 978-0-7653-7803-3 978-0-7653-7805-7 978-0-7653-7807-1 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Trainspotting in Winesburg” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Jack [Mayo] Dann (b. 1945) KW - Australian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set in a future Australia that is replicating the Nazi era by exterminating Jews and Muslims.

JF - Concentration PB - PS Publishing CY - Hornsea, Eng U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Treaty Shirts: October 2034--A Familiar Treatise on the White Earth Nation Y1 - 2016 A1 - Gerald [Robert] Vizenor (b. 1934) KW - Male author KW - Native American author AB -

The novel is concerned with Native Americans resistance to the way the U.S. government abrogated the treaties it had signed and forced the Indians onto reservations. In the novel, the White Earth Nation establishes a government in exile at Fort Saint Charles, at the most northerly point in Minnesota on the Canadian border. See also 1978 and 1991 Vizenor.

PB - Wesleyan University Press CY - Middletown, CT U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Trump Drumpf: A Political Satire Novel Y1 - 2016 A1 - Paul Bellow KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Anti-Trump dystopian satire.

PB - CreateSpace CY - [North Charleston, SC] ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Trusted Leader" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Pamela Rentz KW - Female author KW - Native American author AB -

The story is set in a future in which the U.S. has abrogated all treaties with Native American tribes and are driving them off their lands. 

JF - Red Tape: Stories from Indian Country PB - [CreateSpace] CY - Np SN - 978-1540396129 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Underground Airlines Y1 - 2016 A1 - Ben[jamin Allen] H. Winters (b. 1976) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian alternative history depicting a U.S. in which the Civil War did not occur, and slavery is still legal in four states.

PB - Mulholland Books CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Underground Railroad. A Novel Y1 - 2016 A1 - Colson Whitehead (b. 1969) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

Most of the novel is concerned with the horrors of slavery and attempts by slaves to escape including by, in the novel, a literal underground railroad. The novel also includes a section, “Indiana” (237-67) set in part on Valentine Farm, an intentional community that is a safe space for escaping slaves. 

PB - Doubleday CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - United States of Japan Y1 - 2016 A1 - Peter Tieryas (b. 1979) KW - Asian-American author KW - Male author AB -

Alternative history dystopia in which Japan won World War 2. First volume in a series inspired by 1962 Dick. The second volume is Mecha Samurai Empire. New York: Ace, 2018. The third volume is Cyber Shogun Revolution. New York: Ace, 2020. 

PB - Angry Robot CY - Nottingham, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Utopia + 10” Y1 - 2016 A1 - J[acqueline] A. Christy ED - Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959) KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia of extreme pollution and deep rich/poor divisions. 

JF - Now We Are Ten: Celebrating the First Ten Years of NewCon Press PB - NewCon Press CY - [Weston, Eng] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Utopian Public Governance: Cloudy, Cloudier, Cloudiest” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Geert Bouckaert (b. 1958) A1 - Joep Crompvoets ED - Veerle Achten ED - Geert Bouckaert (b. 1958) ED - Erik Schokkaert KW - Belgian author KW - Male author AB -

A eutopia set in Leuven in 2125 with a sleeper awakes motif and one of the protagonists a Professor Leete, but those are the only connections to Bellamy’s Looking Backward (1887). In the future everyone is monitored constantly by a chip in their body, and all information is stored in Clouds, with most decision-making automated.

JF - ‘A Truly Golden Handbook’: The Scholarly Quest for Utopia PB - Leuven University Press CY - Leuven, Belgium U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Vanishing Kind" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Lavie Tidhar (b. 1976) KW - English author KW - Israeli author KW - Male author AB -

Alternative history in which Germany won World War 2 and rules England. 

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 131.1 & 2 (726) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Victor and the Fish” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Matthew Henry ED - Manjana Milkoreit ED - Meredith Martinez ED - Joey Eschrich KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Climate-change dystopia. 

JF - Everything Change: An Anthology of Climate Fiction PB - [Arizona State University] CY - [Tempe, Arizona] UR - https://www.dropbox.com/s/kl2lb81mh2u88rj/Everything%20Change%20An%20Anthology%20of%20Climate%20Fiction.epub?dl=0# U2 -

Illus. Matt Phan

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Virtual Snapshots" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Tlotlo Tsamaase (b. 1989) KW - Female author KW - Motswanan author AB -

The story is set in a climate changed future where advanced technology allows the rich to redesign bodies.

JF - Terraform UR - https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/aekvne/virtual-snapshots N1 -

Rpt. without the illus. in Terraform Watch Worlds Burn. Ed. Brian Merchant and Claire L. Evans (New York: MCD X FSG Originals/Farrar, Straus and Giroux/Motherboard/Vice, 2022), 410-417.

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Illus. Rebekka Dunlap.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Wage without Work" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Marten Ovaere A1 - Kenneth Van den Bergh A1 - Arne van Stiphout ED - Veerle Achten ED - Geert Bouckaert (b. 1958) ED - Erik Schokkaert KW - Belgian author KW - Male author AB -

An essay presenting a eutopia set in 2050 in which the production gains brought about by automation have led to a universal basic income which allows the recipient to live however they choose. A man and his family are used to illustrate the positive effects in living, health care, education, which is focused on individual talents and activities that help the community as a whole. Also, financial security has led to greater inventiveness and innovation. Teachers and caregivers are well-paid and human interaction is still valued so some jobs that could have been fully automated have not been.

JF - ‘A Truly Golden Handbook’: The Scholarly Quest for Utopia PB - Leuven University Press CY - Leuven, Belgium U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Waking Up in Kampala” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Wesley Macheso KW - Malawian author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in Africa after the technocalypse led to the collapse of the rest of the world while the United States of Africa, even though advanced in biotechnology, chose to not allow AIs to dominate. 

JF - African Writer UR - https://www.africanwriter.com/waking-up-in-kampala-african-science-fiction-by-wesley-macheso/ U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Walkers" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Kelsey Shannahan KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of an apparently unchanging society in which nothing dies, but, because change is essential, periodically turns some parents into “walkers,” part human/part machine beings that then search out and kill their own children. 

JF - Dystopia Utopia Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Tales PB - Flame Tree Publishing CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - War: What if it was here? Y1 - 2016 A1 - Janne Teller (b. 1964) KW - Danish author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a future dystopian Britain at war and is designed to show the reader what it would be like to live in situation and then become a refugee. Originally written and published in Danish but completely re-written with Britain as the focus. 

PB - Simon & Schuster CY - London U2 -

Illus. Helle Vibecke Jensen

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Watching the Watchers” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Anya Penfold ED - Elaine Gallagher ED - Cameron Johnston ED - Neil Williamson (b. 1968) KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

An odd satire about a future society that has many of the appearances of a dystopia but could be considered a eutopia. The ruling party is the “Party in Favour Of Helping People To Do What They Like, As Long As They Don’t Hurt Anyone (And Don’t Take Too Many Sickies)” and the state-sponsored newspaper is The Daily Propaganda: Don’t believe everything you read just because it looks official

JF - Thirty Years of Rain PB - Taverna Press CY - Glasgow, Scotland U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Waterdancer’s World Y1 - 2016 A1 - L[inda] Timmel Duchamp (b. 1950) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A complex dystopia set on a world colonized so that its resources could be exploited, and the novel focuses on the relations among both the colonizers those who want to protect the planet. 

PB - Aqueduct Press CY - Seattle, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Watershed Y1 - 2016 A1 - Jane Abbott KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

A climate change dystopia set in an Australia with rising sea levels and a years-long drought so that water is the most precious commodity. An authoritarian dystopia controls the remaining population and hires people to search for and kill any dissidents. 

PB - Vintage Books Australia CY - North Sydney, NSW, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Way of Water/Natura dell'acqua Y1 - 2016 A1 - Nina Munteanu (b. 1954) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia in which all water is controlled by one corporation, which, as a result, controls much of the internet. 

JF - Future Fiction PB - Minione CY - Rome VL - 19 N1 -

Rpt. in Cli-fi: Canadian Tales of Climate Change. Ed. Bruce Meyer (Holstein, ON, Canada: Exile Editions, 2017), 117-30; in Future Fiction: New Dimensions in International Science Fiction. [Ed. Bill Campbell and Francesco Verso] (Greenbelt, MD: Rosarium, 2018), 50-61; and in Little Blue Marble 2019: Climate in Crisis. Ed. Katrina Archer (Vancouver, BC, Canada: Ganache Media Books, 2020), 26-43. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Webs" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Mary Anne Mohanraj (b. 1971) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which humans who have not been altered seek out and kill those with genetic modifications. 

JF - Asimov's Science Fiction VL - 40.7 (486) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Weeds and the Wilderness” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Tyler Keevil ED - Susan Forest ED - Lucas K. Law KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

Dystopia depicting a happy man gardening in the garden that he allows to grow fairly wild who is suddenly confronted with a completely anonymous group of people going throughout the destroy removing everything but pristine lawns. 

JF - Strangers Among Us: Tales of the Underdogs and Outcasts PB - Laksa Media Groups CY - Calgary, AB, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Well Enough Alone" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Holly Schofield KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a high-tech future in which people wear health “minders” that constantly report to hospitals. An elderly woman who had been involved in developing much of the technology but is losing her memory and ability to function independently reprograms hers to assist her suicide. 

JF - Shoreline of Infinity VL - no. 4 U2 -

Illus. Andrea Alemanno

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Wellesley Girl" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Brendan Pelsue KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set in 2465 in which the few Americans left have barricaded in Wellesley, Massachusetts to protect themselves from the army from Texas that is outside. See the review in The New York Times (April 12, 2016), C2.

PB - Unpublished play ER - TY - ABST T1 - “What Happens When Stars Die” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Rebecca Lafond ED - Neal McLeod KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - First Nations author AB -

Dystopia of a collapsed environmental system leading to high crime rates, the disappearance of governments, and so forth. 

JF - Mitêwâcimowina: Indigenous Science Fiction and Speculative Storytelling PB - Theytus Press CY - [Pinticion, BC, Canada] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "What Is" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Jeffrey Ford (b. 1955) ED - Jonathan Strahan (b. 1964) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Climate-change dystopia in which the middle of the U.S. has experienced many years of extreme drought.

JF - Drowned Worlds: Tales from the Anthropocene and Beyond PB - Solaris CY - Oxford, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “When No One’s Left” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Lora Rivera ED - Michael DeLuca KW - Asian-Indian-American author KW - Female author KW - Queer author AB -

Last couple dystopia. 

JF - Reckoning 1: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice PB - Reckoning Press CY - Lake Orion, MI VL - 1 N1 -

Rpt. https://reckoning.press/when-no-ones-left/ (May 22, 2017). Interview with the author at https://reckoning.press/lora-rivera-interview-when-no-ones-left/

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “When the Cold Comes: Be Prepared” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Deborah Walker KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia in which the common cold has been turned into a bioweapon and sent by a religious dystopia to infect its enemies. 

JF - Nature VL - 534.7605 U2 -

Illus. Jacey

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Who Do You Love?” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Kathleen Ann Goonan (1952-2021) ED - Jonathan Strahan (b. 1964) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The background to the story is a climate change dystopia where much of Florida is underwater and there are regular devastating storms that get worse over the years during which the story takes place. 

JF - Drowned Worlds: Tales from the Anthropocene and Beyond PB - Solaris CY - Oxford, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Wilson’s Singularity” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Terence Taylor ED - Nalo Hopkinson ED - Kristine Ong Muslim (b. 1980) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

When an artificial intelligence becomes self-aware and learns about human behavior from an African-American scientist, it creates a world-wide eutopia by taking away freedom. 

JF - People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction! VL - Special Issue of Lightspeed, no. 73 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Winter Y1 - 2016 A1 - Dan Grace KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A post-collapse dystopia interspersed with statements from a future history explaining why the reasons for the failure of the British system.

PB - Unsung Books CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Without Walls" Y1 - 2016 A1 - A. Gislebertus KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A eutopia of multicultural, multigendered community that encourages individuality that followed a dystopia that rejected all three. 

JF - Solarpunk Press UR - https://solarpunkpress.squarespace.com/stories/2016-2-1/005-without-walls-by-a-gislebertus ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Wolfina” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Giselle Leeb ED - Michael DeLuca KW - English author KW - Female author KW - South African author AB -

Dystopia set in a future with an extremely damaged environment. The government has mostly disappeared, and its only function appears to be doling out rations of the remaining gasoline. Voter turnout in the last election was 2.3%. Ocean water is deadly, and most people are dying from mercury poisoning. 

JF - Reckoning 1: An Annual Journal of Creative Writing on Environmental Justice PB - Reckoning Press CY - Lake Orion, MI VL - 1 N1 -

Rpt. https://reckoning.press/wolphinia/ (December 29, 2016). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Wonder of the World” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Kathryn Blume ED - Manjana Milkoreit ED - Meredith Martinez ED - Joey Eschrich KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Climate change fiction in which the survivors live in small communities with limited technology and without a reliable way to kept in touch with other communities. The story, though, is about the resilience of the people. 

JF - Everything Change: An Anthology of Climate Fiction PB - [Arizona State University] CY - [Tempe, AZ] UR - https://www.dropbox.com/s/kl2lb81mh2u88rj/Everything%20Change%20An%20Anthology%20of%20Climate%20Fiction.epub?dl=0 U2 -

Illus. Matt Phan

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Zen City Y1 - 2016 A1 - Eliot Fintushel KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Zen City is presented as if it were the eutopia of Buddhism, a place where everyone has abandoned desire and gained enlightenment. But the novel focuses on the desires of those entering the city before they have eliminated those desires.

PB - John Hunt/Zero Books CY - Winchester, Eng./Washington, DC U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - 660ppm: A Novel of Climate Change Y1 - 2015 A1 - Clarke W. Owens (b. 1951) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Daily life in a climate-change dystopia where the sun never penetrates the cloud cover, most coastal cities are gone, food and water are rationed, there is little permanent work, and most people poorly educated.

PB - Comic Egg Books CY - Winchester, Eng./Washington, DC U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Afrinewsia” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Yazeed Dezele (b. 1991) KW - Male author KW - Nigerian author AB -

Climate change dystopia in which the Green Police send all criminals to the Sahara to work on restoration projects. People are paid to euthanize the elderly, who are called organic waste elements. But United Africa is also the center of economic and technological development. Afrinewsia is the government propaganda news page.

JF - Omenena Speculative Fiction Magazine VL - no. 2 UR - https://omenana.com/2015/03/05/afrinewsia/ U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “After the New Dawn” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Joseph Tomaras KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story, from a child’s point of view, describes the effect of an authoritarian regime on a family.

JF - The Future Fire: Social Political & Speculative Cyber-Fiction VL - no. 32 UR - The Future Fire: 2015.32 fiction afternewdawn U2 -

Illus. Eric Asaris

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Aftermath: Beyond World-Mart Y1 - 2015 A1 - Leigh M. Lane KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 2015 Lane, The Private Sector and 2015 Lane World-Mart. In this volume genetic engineering and bioterrorism has decimated the world’s population with the novel focusing on the survivors and the life that continues.

PB - Cerebral Press CY - Henderson, NV U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Alive. Book One of the Generations Trilogy Y1 - 2015 A1 - Scott Sigler (b. 1963) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

First volume of a young adult dystopian trilogy. In this volume, some teenagers wake up in coffins in an underground cavern with no memory of their past beyond their names. They confront various threats and struggle to find who they are and what they need to do. Sequels include Alight. Book Two of the Generations Trilogy. New York: Del Rey, 2016, which is a typical middle volume in which everything gets worse; and Alone. Book Three of the Generations Trilogy. New York: Del Rey, 2017 in which they must repel an alien invasion. A related story is “The Last Child.” Wastelands: The New Apocalypse. Ed. John Josephs Adams (London: Titan Books, 2019), 410-20, which is set at a key point in the third volume. First publication.

PB - Del Rey CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “All Along the Mal.” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Chloe [N.] Clark KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future where everyone lives in a huge wall with various subsections, each with a mayor. People must shop constantly earning themselves credits that determine the size and amenities of the tiny room they sleep in between and the standards of the bathrooms they can use while shopping.

JF - The Future Fire: Social Political & Speculative Cyber-Fiction VL - no. 33 UR - The Future Fire: 2015.33 fiction allalongmall U2 -

Illus. L. E. Badillo

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “All the Childhood You Can Afford” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Daniel Suarez (b. 1964) ED - [Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Neoliberal dystopia in which parents cannot have a child unless they leave it as a frozen embryo connected with stocks, and the child, when born, is dependent on the value of the stock.

JF - Twelve Tomorrows: MIT Technology Review SF Annual 2016 PB - MIT Technology Review CY - Cambridge, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - All Things Rise Y1 - 2015 A1 - Vaun, Missouri KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Lesbian romance set in a future where the rich have left a depleted Earth to establish “Cloud Cities” in space around Earth. There everything is synthetic while on Earth the survivors farm those areas not poisoned or otherwise unusable. Both have negative and positive elements to them. First volume of a series followed by The Time Before Now. Valley Falls, NY: Bold Strokes Books, 2015 in which the protagonist travels across the desolate meeting danger and love. Another lesbian romance set in the same future is the novella The Ground Beneath. Valley Falls, NY: Bold Strokes Books ebook, 2015. The final volume in the series, Valley of Fire. Valley Falls, NY: Bold Strokes Books, 2016, follows a different character that appeared in the first volume, a pilot, who is assigned to fly a member of the ruling elite the cloud city of Miami but is forced to crash land by those who are in favor of a return to earth. Adventure and a lesbian romance ensue

PB - Bold Strokes Books CY - Valley Falls, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Amagon: The Book of Man. A History Past and Future Y1 - 2015 A1 - Â[non] Ûmaz [pseud.] AB -

The novel presents a complex future that those living in it see as a eutopia or a flawed utopia and can be read as a dystopia. In the future people have left Earth and live in Habitats that circle the sun. These people undergo Excision or the removal of the amygdalae to eliminate strong emotions. Part of the novel focuses on conflict between those for whom the surgery was entirely successful and those where it was not, and these people desire power.

PB - Umazanon Press CY - Hillsboro, MO U2 -

A few illus.

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Â[non] Ûmaz  [pseud.].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - American Moat Y1 - 2015 A1 - Carlos Hernandez ED - J. Alan Erwine (b. 1969) KW - Cuban-American author KW - Male author AB -

Humorous take on aliens offering the possibility of eutopia in a United States set on keeping aliens, primarily Hispanics, out. MOAT refers to Maintaining Our American Turf. 

JF - A Robot, A Cyborg & a Martian Walk into a Space Bar PB - Nomadic Delirium Press CY - Np N1 -

Rpt. in Mithila Review: The Journal of International Science Fiction & Fantasy, no. 7 (January-March 2017). http://mithilareview.com/hernandez_01_17/

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Anchor Point Y1 - 2015 A1 - Alice Robinson KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

The novel is set against the background of a climate-change dystopia and focuses on a young girl’s struggle to survive and keep her family together with her parents gone. 

PB - Affirm Press CY - South Melbourne, Vic, Australia ER - TY - ABST T1 - Arcadia Y1 - 2015 A1 - Iain [George] Pears (b. 1955) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel follows a number of different characters during the present and a dystopian future where much of world civilization has collapsed. Connected to these is the Arcadia, which has the feel of the past but initially exists only within a machine from the dystopian future.

PB - Faber and Faber CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2015

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Art’s Appreciation” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Tom Doyle KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The dystopia brought about by the Freedom of Corporate Speech Act that means people are constantly bombarded by ads.

JF - Kasma Magazine UR - https://www.kasmamagazine.com/arts-appreciation.html U2 -

Illus. Jose Baetas

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ash: A Destined Novel Y1 - 2015 A1 - Shani Petroff A1 - Darci Manley KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which every person’s destiny is determined by the government. First volume in a series. In this volume the contrast is set between those chosen for the top and the Ash, chosen for the bottom. The second volume, Ultraviolet: A Destined Novel. [Hoboken, NJ]: Polis Books, 2017, is what appears to be a middle volume in which the two struggle to survive.

PB - Polis Books CY - [Hoboken, NJ] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - At the Beginning: This is the Way It Was Y1 - 2015 A1 - Adrienne Behren Pollock KW - Female author AB -

New Age eutopia that will be brought about by the Brotherhood of the New Light, descended from Atlantis and Lemuria.

PB - CreateSpace CY - North Charleston, SC U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “At the End of Babel” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Michael Livingston KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future U.S. under the Unity Government that enforces an English-only law by killing those who continue to speak any other language. It focuses on and Indian woman who returns to her home mesa to enact an old ceremony using the old language. In doing so, she awakens to old gods who fight back against the government.

PB - Tor.com UR - http://www.tor.com/2015/07/01/at-the-end-of-babel-michael-livingston/ U2 -

Illus. Greg Ruth.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Attack of the Spambots” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Terence Toh ED - Zen Cho KW - Malaysian author AB -

Dystopia in which people are being turned into cyborgs designed to advertise a company’s products. 

JF - Cyberpunk: Malaysia PB - Fixi Novo CY - Petaling Jaya, Malaysia SN - 9789670750873 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The August 5 Y1 - 2015 A1 - Jenna Helland KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which the daughter of a revolutionary who has only known poverty and the son of the dictator who has only known privilege and riches team-up to defeat his father. 

PB - Farrar Straus Giroux CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Bats of the Republic: An Illuminated Novel Y1 - 2015 A1 - Zachary Thomas Dodson KW - Finnish author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Very complex, richly illustrated book, a dust jacket illustrated on both sides, books within books, and at least two stories running throughout. One story is set in the mid-nineteenth century and includes a trek across a very strange America. The other story is set in a dystopian future Republic of Texas, which is one of seven walled districts that are what remain after a catastrophe of some sort. The author is a book designer who created the elaborate presentation of the novel.

PB - Doubleday CY - New York U2 -

Richly illustrated

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Beautiful Bureaucrat. A Novel Y1 - 2015 A1 - Helen Phillips (b. 1983) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Kafkaesque take on a dystopian bureaucracy in a damaged future. 

PB - Henry Holt CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Big Lie Y1 - 2015 A1 - Julie Mayhew KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The novel is set in the Third Reich with a young woman, who is loyal to the Reich, faced with the conflict between that loyalty and her loyalty to another girl, her best friend, who is a radical. The book includes a “Glossary of German Words and Phrases” ([325-31]), “Historical Notes on The Big Lie” ([333-39]), “Want to know more?” [(341-47). 

PB - Hot Keys Books CY - London N1 -

. U.S. ed. Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press, 2017.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Binti Y1 - 2015 A1 - Nnedi[mma Nkemdili] Okorafor (b. 1974) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

First volume of a trilogy in which a young girl of a small African tribe who has exceptional mathematical skills and the ability to bring people together is admitted to the most prestigious university in the universe. In this volume, she helps to end a long-standing war between humans and medusae. See also Binti: Home. New York: Tor.com, 2016 in which Binti returns home accompanied by a medusa with the novel focusing on Binti’s troubled relations with her family and the other tribes in the area, with both eutopian and dystopian elements. The third volume of the trilogy, Binti: The Night Masquerade. New York: Tor.com, 2018. in which war breaks out on Earth because one tribe tries, unsuccessfully to kill the medusa. 

PB - Tom Doherty Associates CY - New York U5 -

Public

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Black Angel” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Walidah Imarisha ED - Walidah Imarisha ED - adrienne maree brown (b. 1978) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia on Harlem in the near future where both official and unofficial violence is endemic.

JF - Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements PB - AK Press and the Institute for Anarchist Studies CY - Oakland, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Blood-Kin" Y1 - 2015 A1 - Diana L. Paxson (b. 1943) ED - Deborah J. Ross KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Free Amazon story.

JF - Gifts of Darkover. Darkover® Anthology 15 PB - The Marion Zimmer Bradley Literary Trust Works, CY - San Francisco, CA U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Book of Phoenix Y1 - 2015 A1 - Nnedi[mma Nkemdili] Okorafor (b. 1974) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

A young woman in the U.S. who had been genetically modified and raised with other genetically modified children escapes from her keepers and travels to Africa and her actions transform both Africa and the U.S. 

PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Boxes" Y1 - 2015 A1 - [Nicholas] [Cornwall] (b. 1972) ED - [Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a future with exceptionally good medical care based in advanced technology.

JF - Twelve Tomorrows: MIT Technology Review SF Annual 2016 PB - MIT Technology Review CY - Cambridge, MA U3 -

Nick Harkaway [pseud.].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Broken Sky Y1 - 2015 A1 - L[ee] A. Weatherly (b. 1967) KW - Female author KW - Scottish author KW - US author AB -

First volume of the young adult Broken trilogy followed by Darkness Follows. London: Usborne, 2016, and Black Moon. London: Usborne, 2017. In this volume society that pretends to bring about eutopia through astrology is, in fact, deeply corrupt. The novel concerns a young woman who discovers the corrupt. In the second volume, the protagonist is in a prison camp that has one rule, obey or be killed. The third volume focuses on the resistance.

PB - Usborne CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Carriers" Y1 - 2015 A1 - Tananarive [Priscilla] Due (b. 1966) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) ED - Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

A post-plague dystopia with the carriers of the plague forced to live outside what remains of civilization with the focus on the protagonist, who, like all the NIs (Naturally Immunes), is a carrier. A Nayima story in the series with 2014 Due, Removal Order,” 2014 Due, “Herd Immunity,” 2019 Due, “One Day Only,” and 2019 Due, “Attachment Disorder.”

JF - The End Has Come. The Apocalypse Triptych PB - Editors CY - Np SN - 9781497484405 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Cash Crash Jubilee. Book One of the Jubilee Cycle Y1 - 2015 A1 - Eli K. P. William KW - Canadian author KW - Japanese author KW - Male author AB -

The novel is set in a dystopian future Japan in which every action, such as waving, blinking, or having sex, is owned by corporations that have planted body monitors, which reports actions, in everyone so that they can be charged. In the second volume The Naked World. Book Two of the Jubilee Cycle. New York: Talos Press/Skyhorse, 2017, Japan appears to be a eutopia, completely controlled by Artificial Intelligences, but there also exists The Naked World, which is completely free of such AI’s and where some of those who could not pay the corporations live. 

PB - Talos Press/Skyhorse CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Cell: Into the Underground Y1 - 2015 A1 - [Chris] [Hambleton] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A dystopia in which the U.S. government is collapsing under debt and suppressing Christian churches. A small movement to restore America is started in the churches. A related book described as non-fiction is Chris Hambleton, The American Tyrant. [North Charleston, SC]: CreateSpace, 2012 in which Obama is the tyrant.

PB - CreateSpace CY - [North Charleston, SC] U3 -

C.W. Hambleton [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Charlie, a Projecting Prestidigitator” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Megan [J.] Neumann KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a climate-change dystopia. 

JF - Shoreline of Infinity VL - no. 2 N1 -

Rpt. in the Edinburgh International Science Festival Special Edition of Shoreline of Infinity, no. 11½ (Spring 2018): 25-33. 

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Illus. Dave Alexander

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Chasing Freedom Y1 - 2015 A1 - Marina Fontaine KW - Female author KW - Russian author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia and the revolt against it from a libertarian perspective. 

PB - [CreateSpace] CY - [North Charleston, SC] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Children of Arkadia Y1 - 2015 A1 - M. Darusha Wehm (b. 1975) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

The novel gives some of the history of an attempt to create a eutopia in space as the Earth’s environment and economy collapses. Even though a better society is gradually emerging, various problems arise from the unwillingness of some to people to do certain types of work to political conflicts among the settlers. One theme of the novel is the relations between the humans and the AIs that were created to help build and run the satellite. 

PB - Bundoran CY - [Ontario, Canada] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Children Who Fly” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (b. 1975) ED - Walidah Imarisha ED - adrienne maree brown (b. 1978) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Climate-warming dystopia with LSBT themes.

JF - Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements PB - AK Press and the Institute for Anarchist Studies CY - Oakland, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Chimes Y1 - 2015 A1 - Anna Smaill (b. 1979) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia of a country controlled by a religious elite that uses music to limit conversation and eliminate memory.

PB - Sceptre CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "City of Ash" Y1 - 2015 A1 - Paolo [Tadini] Bacigalupi (b. 1972) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Climate-change dystopia.

JF - Matter UR - https://medium.com/matter/city-of-ash-94255fa5d1a9#.fuo4cbos8 N1 -

Rpt. without the illus. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2016), 322-27 with an editor’s note on 327; and in The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year. Volume 10. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (Oxford, Eng.: Solaris, 2016), 53-58. 

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Illus. Cam Floyd.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - City of Savages Y1 - 2015 A1 - Lee Kelly KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult post World War Three dystopia in which all of Manhattan is a prisoner-of-war camp

PB - Saga Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Clade Y1 - 2015 A1 - James Bradley (b. 1967) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Climate change dystopia followed through the experiences of one generation through four generations.

PB - Penguin Random House CY - Melbourne, Vic, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Concentr8® Y1 - 2015 A1 - William Sutcliffe (b. 1971) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which a new drug to combat Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is taken away and causes a few teenagers to revolt. Satire on the overuse of Ritalin.

PB - Bloomsbury CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Consolation" Y1 - 2015 A1 - John [Joseph Vincent] Kessel (b. 1950) ED - [Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which much of the U.S. has been destroyed by climate change and parts of the U.S. has joined Canada, which is having to deal with refugees from the U.S.

JF - Twelve Tomorrows: MIT Technology Review SF Annual 2016 PB - MIT Technology Review CY - Cambridge, MA N1 -

Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2016), 263-75 with an editor’s note on 263; and in his The Dark Ride: The Best Short Fiction of John Kessel (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2022), 463-481, with a note on the story on 577-576.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Coulour Me Grey" Y1 - 2015 A1 - Swabir Silavi KW - Kenyan author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which a particular shade of grey is the only color allowed and every action is timed. 

JF - Jalada 02: Afrofuture(s) UR - https://jalada.org/2015/01/15/color-me-grey-by-swabir-silayi/ N1 -

Rpt. in The Apex Book of World Science Fiction 4. Ed. Mahvesh Murad. Series ed. Lavie Tidhar (Lexington, KY: Apex Publications, 2015), 178-84. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Courier: A San Angeles Novel Y1 - 2015 A1 - Gerald Brandt (b. 1970) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Corporate dystopia set in a city that runs from San Francisco to the Mexican borderborder in which the protagonist, a young woman, is hiding from the corporations and joins a resistance group. First volume of a trilogy. The second volume, The Operative: A San Angeles Novel New York: DAW Books, 2016, is a typical middle volume, in which the protagonist from the first novel continues to survive against the corporations searching for her. The final volume is The Rebel: A San Angeles Novel. New York: DAW Books, 2017. In this volume, the poor are being ruthlessly suppressed and not even provided minimally adequate food, and the protagonist works with others to successfully undermine and defeat the dominant corporation. While some issues remain unresolved at the end, the lives of all the people have been radically improved. 

PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

PP, Public

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Crazy Bitches: Redefining Mental Health (Care) in the Feminist Utopia” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Tessa Smith ED - Alexandra Brodsky ED - Rachel Kauder Nalebuff KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The essay is primarily a critique of current practices while stressing that mental illness is real. The main focus, though, is the argument that in “The culture of the feminist utopia must be one in which people experiencing extraordinary mental states can both survive and thrive” (306). 

JF - The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future PB - The Feminist Press at the City University of New York CY - New York SN - 9781558619005 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Daedalus" Y1 - 2015 A1 - Niall Bourke KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a failing city that is gradually taken over by a sentient computer and creates what the population generally perceive as a better life. 

JF - Holdfast Magazine VL - no. 6 UR - http://www.holdfastmagazine.com/daedelus-fiction-issue6/4589770052 U2 -

Illus. Sylvia Carrus

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Day Without Body Shame” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Erin Matson (b. 1980) ED - Alexandra Brodsky ED - Rachel Kauder Nalebuff KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Brief feminist utopia in which all people are accepted for who they are rather than for how they look.

JF - The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future PB - The Feminist Press at the City University of New York CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Deadmonton” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Alexandrea Flynn ED - Elly Blue KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Post-catastrophe (Zombies) dystopia set in Edmonton, Alberta in which survivors have formed cooperative communities to protect themselves. 

JF - Pedal Zombies: Thirteen Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories PB - Elly Blue Publishing CY - Portland, OR U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Defiance Y1 - 2015 A1 - Sarah Jayne [Blythe] Tanner KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Welsh author AB -

Violent dystopia with deep rich versus poor divisions in which the poor can be sold to the rich so that the rich can switch bodies. The novel follows a young man who is sold but manages to free himself. 

PB - Meadimania CY - Carmarthan, Wales U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Depth Y1 - 2015 A1 - Lev A. C. Rosen (b. 1981) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The adventure and mystery novel is set in a climate change dystopia in which the U.S. coastline is at Chicago. The novel is set on the island of New York City.

PB - Regan Arts CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Description of a Video File From the Year 2067 to be Donated to the Municipal Archives from the Youth Voices Speech Competition” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Dara Lind ED - Alexandra Brodsky ED - Rachel Kauder Nalebuff KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Speech describing the changes in immigration policy from rejection to welcome and the awareness of what even so-called unskilled immigrants contribute.

JF - The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future PB - The Feminist Press at the City University of New York CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Desolation Wilderness” Y1 - 2015 A1 - R. A. Bennett ED - Ed Finn ED - Pascal Zachary AB -

The story is set on an environmentally damaged, overpopulated Earth where all the trees have been destroyed to get at the last remaining oil and takes place in Death Valley, where all criminals are sent.

JF - Journeys through Time and Space UR - Journeys_Through_Time_and_Space_Anthology.pdf ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Devil’s Village” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Dayo Adewunmi Ntwari ED - Emmanuel Sigauke ED - Lee Sumaya KW - German author KW - Male author KW - Nigerian author KW - Rwandan author AB -

A story that, except for its futuristic trappings, could be contemporary concerns the decision to rescue children supposedly kidnapped and held hostage by Nigerian dissidents in what is labelled a “Devil’s Village”.

JF - Roses for Betty and Other Stories: The Writivism Anthology 2015 PB - Center for African Cultural Excellence (CACE) CY - Kampala, Uganda SN - 9789970921713 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Disconnected" Y1 - 2015 A1 - Vanessa Fogg KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future in which most people have implanted “mods” that allow them to become deeply connected with computers for their work in virtual reality environments and which constantly monitor them both in those environments and at all other times. The story focuses on a woman with mods, her live in one of the few remaining cities, all of which are falling apart, and her interaction with her mother and sister, who could not be modified.

JF - The Future Fire: Social Political & Speculative Cyber-Fiction VL - no. 32 UR - The Future Fire: 2015.32 fiction disconnected U2 -

Illus. Miguel Santos

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Dispatch From the Post-Rape Future: Against Consent, Reciprocity, and Pleasure” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Maya Dusenbery ED - Alexandra Brodsky ED - Rachel Kauder Nalebuff KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Reflections on the past from someone living in a future where the word “rape” no longer exists.

JF - The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future PB - The Feminist Press at the City University of New York CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Dispatches from a Body Perfect World” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Jenny Trout ED - Alexandra Brodsky ED - Rachel Kauder Nalebuff KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Brief depiction of a feminist eutopia where all bodies are considered perfect.

JF - The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future PB - The Feminist Press at the City University of New York CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dispute Plan to Prevent Future Luxury Constitution Y1 - 2015 A1 - Benjamin H. Bratton (b. 1968) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A combination of theory and fiction that includes both utopian and dystopian elements. 

PB - e-flux Sternberg Press CY - Berlin, Germany U5 -

PPiCM

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Don’t Mess With These Kids! Y1 - 2015 A1 - [J.] Doug[las] Wilson KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Children’s book in which a class of students and their teacher take the lead in defeating a dystopia that a group are trying to impose on New Zealand. 

PB - Bateman CY - Auckland, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dove Arising Y1 - 2015 A1 - Karen Bao KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult authoritarian dystopia on the moon in which a young woman joins the militia to protect her siblings from the government. First volume of the Dove Chronicles. In the second volume, Dove Exiled. New York: Viking, 2016, the protagonist is on the Earth she had been taught to fear but where she finds the people welcoming until the moon attacks Earth, and she must find a way to bring the two together. In the third volume, Dove Alight. New York: Viking, 2017, the protagonist leads a revolution by people on both the Earth and the moon against the dictatorship. 

PB - Viking CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Drones" Y1 - 2015 A1 - Simon [David] Ings (b. 1965) ED - Jonathan Strahan (b. 1964) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A poverty-stricken future with major food shortages that require all crops to be heavily protected. Many babies are abandoned to die. Most women marry the powerful with the most powerful having many wives, and the less powerful men remain without sexual partners.

JF - Meeting Infinity PB - Solaris CY - Oxford, Eng. N1 -

Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year. Volume 10. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (Oxford, Eng.: Solaris, 2016), 485-97.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dub Steps Y1 - 2015 A1 - Andrew Miller KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

Dystopia set in South Africa after most people disappear. The novel follows the male protagonist, who is first alone, then meets a woman, and then they find some others and they gather in a Johannesburg that is returning to nature. The protagonist, who has a long life reflects on human nature, including his own, deeply flawed character, and he grows throughout the novel. 

PB - Jacana Media CY - Auckland Park, South Africa SN - 978-1431422203 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Duller’s Peace” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Jason Sanford KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Technology controls everyone in an authoritarian dystopia.

JF - Asimov’s Science Fiction VL - 39.9 (476) U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Each Star a Sun to Invisible Planets” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Tenea D. Johnson ED - Nisi [Denise Angela] Shawl (b. 1955) ED - Bill Campbell (b. 1970) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia of genetic manipulation. Includes a character from 2011 Johnson, R/evolution.

JF - Stories For Chip: A Tribute to Samuel R. Delany PB - Rosarium Publishing CY - Greenbelt, MD U5 -

Public

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Egg Island” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Karen Heuler (b. 1949) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A pollution dystopia that appears to be evolving to incorporate the plastic pollutants into new life forms seen from the point-of-view of those who themselves have plastic parts to their bodies and are working to help the evolution along.

JF - Clarkesworld VL - no. 109 UR - http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/heuler_10_15/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Embroidering Revolution” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Flores, Verónica Bayetti ED - Alexandra Brodsky ED - Rachel Kauder Nalebuff KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia in which women’s traditional work is recognized and considered art.

JF - The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future PB - The Feminist Press at the City University of New York CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Equity Eats” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Eileen McFarland ED - Alexandra Brodsky ED - Rachel Kauder Nalebuff KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The eutopian restaurant of the future that is welcoming to all people, has an equality among the staff, and with workers protected by the Restaurant Workers’ Rights Declaration.

JF - The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future PB - The Feminist Press at the City University of New York CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Evening in the Talk House Y1 - 2015 A1 - William Shawn (b. 1943) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Fascist dystopia set in the near future. Play first performed directed by Ian Rickson (b. 1963) at the National Theatre in London November 24, 2015, with a U.S. premiere directed by Scott Elliott (b. ca 1963) at The New Group in New York January 31, 2017.

PB - Faber and Faber CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Theatre Communications Group, 2017

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Events" Y1 - 2015 A1 - Stan Nicholls ED - Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The story takes place in a future after a complete economic collapse in which reading is prohibited, and the entire economy is based on the lottery for when one gets to see the regular, spectacular “events,” attendance at and approval of which is compulsory.

JF - Stories of Hope and Wonder in Support of the UK’S Healthcare Workers PB - NewCon Press CY - Weston, Eng N1 -

Originally published in Novacon 45 Souvenir Booklet. Events / Heatwave. Birmingham, Eng.: The Birmingham Science Fiction Group, 2015.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Evidence" Y1 - 2015 A1 - Alexis Pauline Gumbs ED - Walidah Imarisha ED - adrienne maree brown (b. 1978) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

The story looks back from a future eutopia to the dystopian past of the twenty-first century, known as the period “Before Silence Broke,” with the period “Breaking the Silence” seen as the beginning of the changes that brought about the eutopia. The eutopia which has eliminated capitalism, money, and private property is an open society where everyone is encouraged to develop in their own unique way with a twelve-year-old from the future writing to the author describing a little of the life.

JF - Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements PB - AK Press and the Institute for Anarchist Studies CY - Oakland, CA SN - 978-1-84935-209-3 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Exit: The Van Zandt Chronicles Y1 - 2015 A1 - G. Michael Hopf KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Continuation of the series that began with 2013 Hopf, which has the same protagonist. In this series, the protagonist begins to confront a man he came into conflict with in the first series. Described as volume one. See also 2015 Hopf, Nemesis: Inception.

PB - [CreateSpace] CY - [North Charleston, SC] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Extracts from DMZINE #13 [January 2115]” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Foo Han Sek ED - Zen Cho KW - Malaysian author KW - Male author AB -

After nuclear weapons are used, Malaysia has fractured into zones representing the Ruling Party, Secessionists, and the DMZ (Demilitarized but there are disputes over what the Z refers to). The DMZINE is paper magazine (paper is “the best way to hide information from probes and hacks”) that reports on the conditions there. 

JF - Cyberpunk: Malaysia PB - Fixi Novo CY - Petaling Jaya, Malaysia SN - 9789670750873 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Falling Away. Book 1 of the Perilous Times Series Y1 - 2015 A1 - Cliff Ball (b. 1974) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of the beginning of the Christian end times with a race war in the U.S., an Ebola epidemic, and the suppression of Christians. Followed by The Great Deception. Book 2 of the Perilous Times Series. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace], 2016 in which the anti-Christ appears; and The Great Tribulation. Book 3 of the Perilous Times Series. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace], 2016

PB - CreateSpace CY - [North Charleston, SC] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Feminist Constitution” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Katherine Cross ED - Alexandra Brodsky ED - Rachel Kauder Nalebuff KW - Latina author KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -

Reflections on what a utopian feminist constitution would include. Clauses include “We the people, in Order to Defend Our Humanity” (63), “Establish Justice, Ensure Freedom from Violence, and Freedom to Be” (65), “The Right of a Person to Have Sovereignty Over Their Body Shall Not Be Infringed” (66), “And Liberty of Kith and Self Shall be Secure” (69), “These Rights Shall Not be Subject to the Vagaries of the Market or Depravation” (70), and “All Shall Have a Right to the Conditions Necessary For Life and Dignity” (71).

JF - The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future PB - The Feminist Press at the City University of New York CY - New York U2 -

Illus. Ruth Tam.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Feminist Utopia Teen Mom Schedule” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Gloria Malone ED - Alexandra Brodsky ED - Rachel Kauder Nalebuff KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Description of a day in the life of a teenage mother in a society that provides support.

JF - The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future PB - The Feminist Press at the City University of New York CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Find Me Y1 - 2015 A1 - Laura van den Berg (b. 1981) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe (disease/pandemic) dystopia. 

PB - Farrar, Straus & Giroux CY - New York U5 -

Public

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Fish on Friday” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Neil Williamson (b. 1968) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Dystopia that followed Scottish independence in which a socialist government imposes healthy living.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 256 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Flamingo Land" Y1 - 2015 A1 - Ruby Cowling ED - Ellah Wakatama Allfrey KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia in which a family must meet specified weight standards. If they are collectively too heavy, their wages are cut and if they continue to be overweight, children are removed from the family. 

JF - Flamingo Land and Other Stories PB - Freight Press CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in the author's This Paradise: Stories (Norwich, Eng.: Boiler House Press, 2019), 135-60. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Flesh & Wires Y1 - 2015 A1 - Jackie Hatton KW - Australian author KW - Dutch author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Complex post-catastrophe novel (alien invasion) that focuses on a small community of survivors, mostly women, facing different aliens who are planning to occupy Earth. The ending suggests that there will be a sequel.

PB - Aqueduct Press CY - Seattle, WA ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Follicular” Y1 - 2015 A1 - David Ohle (b. 1941) ED - Lincoln Michel (b. 1982) ED - Nadxieli Nieto KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of bullying in a world where boys must have facial hair by sixteen.

JF - Gigantic Worlds PB - Gigantic Books CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Footsteps in the Sky Y1 - 2015 A1 - J. Gregory Keyes (b. 1963) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Much of the novel is about conflict among versions of the good life, human and alien. A dominant theme is conflict among humans who come from a Native American Indian background between the old ways and new ones. The book was written in 1994.

PB - Open Road Integrated Media CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Foretelling of Georgie Spider Y1 - 2015 A1 - Ambelin Kwaymullina (b. 1975) KW - Aboriginal author KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Sequel to 2012 and 2013 Kwaymullina. In this volume, the people with special talents finally win acceptance.  

PB - Walker Books CY - Newtown, NSW, Australia N1 -

Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press, 2015. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Free Girl Who Is Everything" Y1 - 2015 A1 - Janet Mock (b. 1984) ED - Alexandra Brodsky ED - Rachel Kauder Nalebuff KW - African American author KW - Hawaiian author KW - Transgender author AB -

Feminist utopia in which all women are free and safe.

JF - The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future PB - The Feminist Press at the City University of New York CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Free Man or #6ix a pre-apocalyptic dystopia Y1 - 2015 A1 - Michel Basilières (b. 1960) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Odd dystopia in which an unreliable narrator visits the future ruled by robots with humans treated like vermin. He appears to get compounds established in which human life is somewhat better, but it is left unclear. Canadian author.

PB - ECW Press CY - Toronto, ON, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Frost on Glass” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Ian R[oderick] MacLeod (b. 1956) KW - Male author KW - Northern Ireland author AB -

An authoritarian, economically poor dystopia exiles all creative people to an island where they are supported as long as they produce work. If they do not, they are returned to the mainland.

JF - Frost on Glass PB - PS Publishing CY - Hornsea, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Glass Arrow Y1 - 2015 A1 - Kristen Simmons KW - Female author KW - Japanese American author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which girls are marketable products.

PB - Tor Teen CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Gold Fame Citrus Y1 - 2015 A1 - Claire Vaye Watkins (b. 1984) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Climate-change dystopia.

PB - Riverhead Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Grasshopper Lies Heavy Y1 - 2015 A1 - Chandler Duke KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Alternative history dystopia in which after the South won Civil War, parts of what had been the United States are controlled by different countries, including Britain and the Soviet Union. The novel also has racial subthemes, with slavery still in existence and the British using the Black Panthers as part of an invasion force.

PB - Np CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Half of What I Say Y1 - 2015 A1 - Anil [Ravindran] Menon (b. 1964) KW - Indian author KW - Male author AB -

A complex novel set in a future India that is trying to police contemporary culture with the aim of eliminating everything that conflicts with the government’s image of India. 

PB - Bloomsbury India CY - New Delhi, India SN - 9789384898229 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - hang Y1 - 2015 A1 - debbie tucker green KW - Black author KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Play that is best described as Kafkaesque in that it is a trial of sorts in which the victim considers the methods of punishing the perpetrator in her/his presence. The play was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre, June 11, 2015, directed by the author.

PB - Nick Hern Books CY - London SN - 978-1-78460-519-3 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Heads or Hearts Y1 - 2015 A1 - Paul Johnston (b. 1957) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

A volume in the series begun in 1997 Johnston and the following four volumes, but this version of the future Edinburgh is going through a significant transition. While the novel has the same main protagonist and a central concern is, as with the others, corruption at the heart of an Edinburgh supposedly modelled on Plato’s Republic, the city has been opened to tourists, and there are plans to reunite with the other city-states that comprise the future Scotland. A sequel set in the same time period is Skeleton Blues. Sutton, Eng.: Severn House, 2016, in which the protagonist is fighting the usual corruption, but the novel ends with a successful revolution. The next novel in the series, Impolitic Corpses. Sutton, Eng.: Severn House, 2019, is set in the post-revolution future with Scotland reunited and reformed, but there is still corruption, greed, and struggles for power. The novel’s ending requires a sequel. 

PB - Severn House CY - Sutton, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Heart Goes Last Y1 - 2015 A1 - Margaret [Eleanor] Atwood (b. 1939) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia in which some people are given the choice to join Consilience/Positron in which they spend one month in prison and one month in a house, which is used by others when they are in prison.

PB - McClelland & Stewart CY - Toronto, ON, Canada N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2015.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Heat 30:1 Y1 - 2015 A1 - Douglas E. Congdon KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

First volume of a trilogy followed by 2019 Congdon, Above Sea Level. A third volume, They Are Coming Tomorrow, set between the other novels, has been announced. This volume is a climate change dystopia that has radically reduced the world food supply. The novel is set in Kansas where farmers are struggling to produce food while also ensuring that they treat the land and water so that they can continue to do so.

PB - Np CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hit Y1 - 2015 A1 - Delilah S. Dawson (b. 1977) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which a young woman is forced to become a killer by the bank that now owns the United States. The first volume of a series, followed by Strike. New York Simon Pulse, 2016 in which the protagonist of the first volume fakes her death to escape and joins freedom fighters, who may not be much better than the bank, and from whom she also has to escape. 

PB - Simon Pulse CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Hollow" Y1 - 2015 A1 - Meg Mingus ED - Walidah Imarisha ED - adrienne maree brown (b. 1978) KW - Female author KW - Korean author KW - US author AB -

The story is about a future in which all disabled people (known as U.P.s or UnPerfects) have been sent to another planet where they have created a good life for themselves but are threatened with the Perfects, or the ones who sent them, coming to take over and create a new dystopia for them.

JF - Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements PB - AK Press and the Institute for Anarchist Studies CY - Oakland, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Homing Instinct” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Dani McClain ED - Walidah Imarisha ED - adrienne maree brown (b. 1978) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia in which climate change moves the U.S. government to tell people to move to where they want to live permanently with travel no longer permitted. The story focuses on a woman’s decision on how to respond.

JF - Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements PB - AK Press and the Institute for Anarchist Studies CY - Oakland, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “An Honest World” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Catherine Lacey (b. 1985) ED - Lincoln Michel (b. 1982) ED - Nadxieli Nieto KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia brought about by everyone telling the truth. 

JF - Gigantic Worlds PB - Gigantic Books CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Hot Rods" Y1 - 2015 A1 - Cat[riona] Sparks (b. 1965) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a future drought-stricken Australia in which the only work available for those living outside the wealthy cities of Sydney and Melbourne, where work permits are required for the available work as pool boys and white maids, is contract labor on U.S. military bases. It takes place in the post-apocalyptic future of her 2017 Lotus Blue. A related story is her 2016 “Jericho Blush.”

JF - Lightspeed Magazine VL - no. 58 SN - 978-1-912950676 UR - https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/hot-rods/ N1 -

Rpt. in her Dark Harvest ([Weston, Eng.]: NewCon Press, 2020), 7-25, with a brief author’s note on 25.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A House of Her Own" Y1 - 2015 A1 - Bo[ukje] Balder KW - Dutch author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia that developed among human colonists interacting with the alien life forms that grew into houses. Males were culled to keep their population only at the level needed for reproduction. 

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 129. 3 & 4 (721) N1 -

Rpt. in Heiresses of Russ 2016: The Year’s Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction. Ed. A[lexandra] M[argaret] Dellamonica & Steve Berman (Maple Shade, NJ: Lethe Press, 2016), 85-98. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Human Thing" Y1 - 2015 A1 - Wole Talabi (b. 1986) KW - Malaysian author KW - Male author KW - Nigerian author AB -

The story follows human history from 2058 to 2505, during which overpopulation leads to the supposed elimination of all nations and the construction of huge city towers to hold the world’s population under the United Nations, now known as The Human Centre, which is a world government. All people are adequately fed, clothed, and housed, but because nations didn’t really disappear, nuclear war breaks out with Israel eliminating the entire population of Iran and New Arabia destroying Haifa in retaliation. This is then followed by the creation of one world religion, SHINRAH, which, while saying it has eliminated government becomes an all-powerful government. 

JF - Sub-Saharan Magazine UR - https://subsaharanmagazine.com/2015/10/12/the-human-thing-wole-talabi/ U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - If Then Y1 - 2015 A1 - Matthew De Abaitua (b. 1971) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which one English town is protected by the Process from the collapse of society. The Process provides everyone with exactly what they need, but it then begins to manufacture soldiers, who are fated to repeatedly fight World War I battles. Connected with 2007 and 2016 De Abaitua

PB - Angry Robot CY - Nottingham, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Immunity Y1 - 2015 A1 - Taylor Antrim (b. 1974). KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which a widespread viral infection leads to the health police quarantining anyone with an above-normal temperature.

PB - Regan Arts CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “In the Valley of the Shadow of the Promised Land” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Robin Wasserman (b. 1978) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) ED - Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia seen through the eyes of a very old man who had created the religious basis for the reviving society. Stories that provide background to the dystopia are “The Balm and the Wound.” The End is Nigh: The Apocalypse Triptych. Ed. Hugh Howey and John Joseph Adams ([Np: np], 2014), 5-22; and “Dear John.” The End Is Now: The Apocalypse Triptych. Ed. Hugh Howey and John Joseph Adams (Np: Np, 2014), 293-315.

JF - The End Has Come. The Apocalypse Triptych PB - Editors CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Increasing Police Visibility” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Bogi Takács (b. 1983) ED - Seanan McGuire (b. 1978) KW - Hungarian author KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a country in which algorithms are used to supposedly deny entry, but they have at least a two-thirds error rate. But a visible police presence is considered more important because the right wing wants it. 

JF - Queers Destroy Science Fiction Lightspeed VL - no. 61 SN - 9781590216934 N1 -

 Rpt. GlitterShip Year 1. Ed. Keffy R. M. Kehrli (Np: GlitterShip, 2017), 47-; Sunspot Jungle Volume 2 [Subtitle on the cover The Ever Expanding Universe of Science Fiction and Fantasy]. Ed. Bill Campbell (Greenbelt, MD: Rosarium, 2020), 436-39; and in his The Trans Space Octopus Congregation: Stories (Maple Shade, NJ: Lethe Press, 2019), 111-15.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “An Indigo Song for Paradise” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Efe Tokunbo Okogu ED - Ivor W. Hartmann KW - Male author KW - Mexican author KW - Nigerian author KW - UK author AB -

Complex dystopia of a future African told from a variety of points of view, both human (hueman in the book) and non-human. The future society has many deep divisions and is extremely violent. At the end the various beings come together.

JF - AfroSFv2 PB - StoryTime CY - [Zimbabwe] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Inevitable: The Trials of Quentin Maurus. Book 1 Y1 - 2015 A1 - Robert Reed (b. 1956) KW - Male author AB -

First volume of four set in a dystopia focused on war and preparations for war. Sequels are Insatiable: The Trials of Quentin Maurus. Book 2. Np. Trilobite Press, 2016; Ephemeral: The Trials of Quentin Maurus. Book 3. Np. Trilobite Press, 2016; and Everlasting: The Trials of Quentin Maurus. Book 4. Np. Trilobite Press, 2016. All Ebooks. The last volume holds out hope for improvement.

PB - Trilobite Press CY - Np ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ink and Bone Y1 - 2015 A1 - [Roxanne Longstreet] [Conrad] (1962-2020) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which the Great Library of Alexandria has survived into the modern world and controls all dissemination of knowledge with the individual possession of books illegal. The novel focuses on those who illegally own and trade books. The next three volumes continue the fight against the power of the Great Library. They are Paper and Fire. The Great Library. New York: NAL/New American Library, 2016; Ash and Quill. The Great Library. New York: Berkley, 2017; Smoke and Iron. The Great Library. New York: Berkley, 2018. In the concluding volume, Sword and Pen. The Great Library. New York: Berkley, 2019, the corrupt leaders are overthrown but other attempts to take over the library must be defeated.

PB - NAL/New American Library CY - New York U3 -

Rachel Caine [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Intentionality Y1 - 2015 A1 - Rebekah Johnson KW - Female author AB -

Young adult dystopia about a post-environmental catastrophe world where children are brainwashed to conform. The novel focuses on a small number who struggle, successfully, to free themselves and, less successfully, to free others. The ending suggests the possibility of a sequel.

PB - Matador CY - Kibworth Beauchamp, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Interchange" Y1 - 2015 A1 - Elizabeth Poley ED - Elly Blue KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe (Zombies) dystopia of a largely abandoned U.S. where people can transport themselves to other parts of the world to work. The story focuses on a meeting of two women in these circumstances.

JF - Pedal Zombies: Thirteen Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories PB - Elly Blue Publishing CY - Portland, OR U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Internal Drive” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Heidi Benefiel ED - Ed Finn ED - Pascal Zachary KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a future where Earth is dying, and everyone is being moved to a high-tech sphere. The story is told by the scientist who is given the task of choosing the five, and only five, plants that will be taken to the new habitat. All animals are left behind, and cities are dismantled so that the entire Earth will be available to them.

JF - Journeys through Time and Space PB - Intel Foundation/Society for Science and the Public/Arizona State University CY - Np UR - Journeys_Through_Time_and_Space_Anthology.pdf ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Interview with Chloe Angyal” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Chloe [S.]. Angyal ED - Alexandra Brodsky ED - Rachel Kauder Nalebuff KW - Australian author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Romance in a feminist utopia.

JF - The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future PB - The Feminist Press at the City University of New York CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Interview with Cindy Ok” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Ok, Cindy ED - Alexandra Brodsky ED - Rachel Kauder Nalebuff KW - Asian-American author KW - Female author AB -

Feminist utopian education with suggestions for the arrangement of the classroom (circles, pods) to empower students, individualized learning, and recognizing the difference backgrounds that students bring to the class. 

JF - The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future PB - The Feminist Press at the City University of New York CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Interview with Ileanna Jiménez” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Ileanna Jiménez ED - Alexandra Brodsky ED - Rachel Kauder Nalebuff KW - Female author KW - Puerto Rican author KW - US author AB -

Feminist utopian education. Suggests that the curriculum should be built by students and teachers working together in collaboration with students and teachers from other schools. Schools should reflect their communities. Interdisciplinary education. No tests or exams but projects that put into practice what they have learned. Inculcate inclusiveness and international awareness. Teachers would have the time and support to do research.

JF - The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future PB - The Feminist Press at the City University of New York CY - New York U2 -

Illus. Ruth Tam

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Interview with Jessica Luther" Y1 - 2015 A1 - Luther, Jessica ED - Alexandra Brodsky ED - Rachel Kauder Nalebuff KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Gender equal sport in a feminist future.

JF - The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future PB - The Feminist Press at the City University of New York CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Interview with Lauren Chief Elk” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Lauren Chief Elk ED - Alexandra Brodsky ED - Rachel Kauder Nalebuff KW - Female author KW - Native American author AB -

The problem of interpersonal violence in a feminist utopia.

JF - The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future PB - The Feminist Press at the City University of New York CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Interview with Miss Major Griffin-Gracy” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Miss Major Griffin-Gracy (b. 1940) ED - Alexandra Brodsky ED - Rachel Kauder Nalebuff KW - African American author KW - Transgender author AB -

In answers to questions about her utopia, the author describes a world where transgender people are considered normal.

JF - The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future PB - The Feminist Press at the City University of New York CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Interview with Suey Park” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Suey Park ED - Alexandra Brodsky ED - Rachel Kauder Nalebuff KW - Asian-American author KW - Female author AB -

Emotional life in a feminist utopia.

JF - The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future PB - The Feminist Press at the City University of New York CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “An Invisible Tide” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Jo [M.] Thomas KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a polluted future in Wales, where the algal blooms have destroyed fishing and an invisible tide of toxic gas forces everyone to wear protective gear.

JF - The Future Fire: Social Political & Speculative Cyber-Fiction VL - no. 32 UR - The Future Fire: 2015.32 fiction invisibletide U2 -

Illus. Chris Cartwright

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Island of Lost Girls Y1 - 2015 A1 - Manjula Padmanabhan (b. 1953) KW - Female author KW - Indian author AB -

Sequel to 2008 Padmanabhan in which the girl and her father hve escaped India and live of the Island of Lost Girls, where they are having difficulties adapting to the modern world and the girl is having to learn what it means to be a woman.

PB - Hachette, India CY - Gurgaon, India U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Joe Steele Y1 - 2015 A1 - Harry [Norman] Turtledove (b. 1949) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Alternative history dystopia with an American dictator followed by an even worse dictatorship led by J. Edgar Hoover as the Director of the FBI, who was the actual Director from its founding in 1935 until 1972, having been the Director of its predecessor from 1924 to 1935.

PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

Public

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Jubilee: A Seastead Story” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Kritzer, Naomi KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 2012 Kritzer, “Liberty’s Daughter” andHigh Stakes” and 2013 and 2014 Kritzer. In this story the flawed utopia has turned into a dystopia, but those who choose to live there hope to overcome the dystopia. See also 2015 Kritzer “The Silicon Curtain: A Seastead Story.” 

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 128.1 & 2 (717) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Justice" Y1 - 2015 A1 - Mariame Kaba ED - Alexandra Brodsky ED - Rachel Kauder Nalebuff KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Eutopia based on intense community interaction, its disruption by a woman from Earth who commits a murder, and the way the community responds.

JF - The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future PB - The Feminist Press at the City University of New York CY - New York U2 -

Illus. Bianca Diaz

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Kafka’s Last Laugh” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Vagabond [Beaumont] ED - Walidah Imarisha ED - adrienne maree brown (b. 1978) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which protest is extremely limited and those who are in prison are indoctrinated with the beauties of capitalism and drugged with Contentina. It turns out that laughter defeats the drug.

JF - Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements PB - AK Press and the Institute for Anarchist Studies CY - Oakland, CA U3 -

Vagabond [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Kakak" Y1 - 2015 A1 - William Tham Wai Liang ED - Zen Cho KW - Canadian author KW - Malaysian author KW - Male author AB -

The story, which is primarily about androids and how they are exploited, is set in a future Malaysia deeply divided between rich and poor. 

JF - Cyberpunk: Malaysia PB - Fixi Novo CY - Petaling Jaya, Malaysia SN - 9789670750873 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Keep Mars Weird Y1 - 2015 A1 - Neal Pollack (b. 1970) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel opens in an egalitarian eutopia on Earth in which everyone has “Enough,” but young men are bored and travel to an extremely inegalitarian Mars.

PB - 47 North CY - Seattle, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lament for the Fallen Y1 - 2015 A1 - Chait, Gavin KW - Male author KW - South African author KW - UK author AB -

The novel is set in a West African community when a space craft crashes nearby with a human-like being who has escaped from Tartarus, “a place where hope doesn’t exist” (back cover). As he heals, he helps his rescuers to a better life, but of course complications arise. A novel set after Lament for the Fallen and with some of the same characters is Usan Abasi’s Lament, available at https://gavinchait.com/w/X3zHq2t7da4e/.

PB - Doubleday/Transworld Publishers CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Black Swan/Transworld Publishers, 2017.

Originally published in 2015 as an ebook entitled Tartarus Falls. Np: Qwyre Publishers.

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Originally published in 2015 as an ebook entitled Tartarus Falls. Np: Qwyre Publishers.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Land of Light" Y1 - 2015 A1 - Stephen Embleton ED - Billy Kahora KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

The story set is set in The Congo in a future eutopian high-tech, unified Africa.

JF - Imagine Africa 500: Speculative Fiction from Africa PB - Pan African Publications CY - Lilongwe, Malawi N1 -

Rpt. in The Manchester Review, no. 18 (July 2017). http://www.themanchesterreview.co.uk/?p=7680.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Land of Promise. Book 1 of the Counter-Caliphate Chronicles Y1 - 2015 A1 - James Wesley Rawles (b. 1960) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An anti-Islamic novel that depicts the establishment of a free micro-state eutopia with considerable detail on citizenship, which requires ownership of a minimum of one hectare of land and military service for full citizenship, which gives the individual ten votes. Described as volume one with Piece of Resistance scheduled for late 2016.

PB - Liberty Paradigm Publishing CY - Moyie Springs, ID U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Language of Paradise Y1 - 2015 A1 - Barbara Klein Moss KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Critique of utopianism. The novel follows the experiences woman whose husband is influenced by a man hoping to create a eutopia, a eutopia that she finds troubling. 

PB - W.W. Norton & Co. CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Last Wave" Y1 - 2015 A1 - Ivor W. Hartmann KW - Male author KW - Zimbabwean author AB -

Climate-change dystopia. 

JF - Jalada 02: Afrofuture(s) UR - https://jaladaafrica.org/2015/01/15/last-wave-by-ivor-w-hartmann/ U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Learning Our Bodies, Healing Our Selves” Y1 - 2015 A1 - William Schlesinger ED - Alexandra Brodsky ED - Rachel Kauder Nalebuff KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Essay on how, beginning with premedical education, to improve medical service for women and others “whose have identities have been pathologized, whose health and life quality have been systematically undervalued” (142). Says that “In my feminist utopia, premedical education would be designed to instill an understanding that health care inequality and unequal distribution of life chances are not genetically programmed inevitabilities, but rather the result of structural oppression” (143). Also suggests that medical education needs to be more interdisciplinary and specifically mentions medical anthropology, gender studies, and comparative ethnic studies. Free medical education (243). Access to medical care a fundamental right (144).

JF - The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future PB - The Feminist Press at the City University of New York CY - New York SN - 9781558619005 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Lesbo Island" Y1 - 2015 A1 - Jill Soloway (b. 1965) ED - Alexandra Brodsky ED - Rachel Kauder Nalebuff KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Humorous call for the establishment of a women-only state.

JF - The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future PB - The Feminist Press at the City University of New York CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lesson Y1 - 2015 A1 - Sowmya Rajendran KW - Female author KW - Indian author AB -

Dystopia satire in which the Adjustment Bureau enforces the Conduct Book but people, and women in particular, still do not always follow the rules, and that calls for additional means to bring them under control. 

PB - HarperCollins India CY - Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India SN - 9789351770367 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Let Him Wear a Tutu” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Yamberlie Tavarez ED - Alexandra Brodsky ED - Rachel Kauder Nalebuff KW - Latina author KW - US author AB -

A very brief eutopia of a gender-neutral childhood. See also 1972 Gould.

JF - The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future PB - The Feminist Press at the City University of New York CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lie of the Land Y1 - 2015 A1 - Michael F. Russell KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Near future post-apocalypse dystopia set in the Scottish Highlands.

PB - Polygon CY - Edinburgh, Scot. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Lightning Jack’s Last Ride” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Dale Bailey (b. 1968) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The dystopia created by oil running out.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 128.1/2 N1 -

Rpt. in The Best American Science Fiction and FantasyTM 2016. Ed. Karen Joy Fowler (Boston, MA: Mariner/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016), 174-95. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lost Girl Y1 - 2015 A1 - Adam Nevill (b. 1969) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Climate change dystopia.

PB - Pan Books CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Love and Prejudice” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Dore, Amatesiro KW - Male author KW - Nigerian author AB -

The story is set in a future where same-sex marriages are the norm, and parents have a legal right to forbid marriages. 

JF - Omenana Speculative Fiction Magazine VL - no. X UR - https://omenanadotcom.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/omenana-x.pdf U2 -

Illus. Sunny Akporobaro

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Love in the Anthropocene Y1 - 2015 A1 - Dale Jamieson (b. 1947) A1 - Bonnie Nadzam KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A series of stories set in a future in which the natural world is almost entirely created by humans. 

PB - O/R Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Luna: A New Moon Y1 - 2015 A1 - Ian [Neil] McDonald (b. 1960) KW - Male author KW - Northern Ireland author AB -

Dystopia of a future settled moon where a feudal system has been established with various dynasties fighting for control of the moon’s resources. First volume in a series. The second volume is Luna: Wolf Moon. London: Gollancz, 2017. U.S. ed. New York: Tor, 2017, which follows the complexities of the fighting among the dynasties. The third volume is Luna: Moon Rising. London: Gollancz, 2019. U.S. ed. New York: Tor, 2019, in which continues the struggles with an apparent resolution at the end.

PB - Tor CY - New York N1 -

U.S. Ed. New York: Tor, 2017. The U.K. ed. was published a week before the U.S. one.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Madagaskar Plan. A Novel Y1 - 2015 A1 - Guy Saville (b. 1973) KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Alternative history dystopia in sequel to 2011 Saville in which Hitler plans to resettle European Jews in Madagascar and Britain tries to foster a revolt.

PB - Hodder & Stoughton CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Henry Holt, 2015

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Manhunters" Y1 - 2015 A1 - Kalamu ya Salaam (b. 1947) ED - Walidah Imarisha ED - adrienne maree brown (b. 1978) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

The story begins with a woman’s memory of having to escape from a dystopia as a child because she was going to be punished for being smarter than her status permitted. She currently lives as a warrior in a society dominated by women with most, but not all, men having low status.

JF - Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements PB - AK Press and the Institute for Anarchist Studies CY - Oakland, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - MARTians Y1 - 2015 A1 - Blythe Woolston KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia focusing on a young woman suddenly graduated from school when all the public schools are closed to balance the budget within a goal of eliminating all services and therefore all taxes. The society is primarily concerned with consumption with an ignored and mistreated class of workers.

PB - Candlewick Press CY - Somerville, MA U5 -

Public

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Mémé” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Juliana Rew ED - Jax Goss KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which most older people have died in an epidemic, government has disappeared, been replaced by a single corporation that relies on AIs to organize everything, and the AIs come to rely on the few remaining elders until the economy begins to fail. 

JF - Clockwise: The Darkest Hour PB - Solarwyrm Press CY - Np N1 -

Rpt. in Edinburgh International Book Festival Special Edition of Shoreline of Infinity, no. 11½ (Spring 2019): 71-81. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Morning of My Meat Marking” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Alissa Nutting ED - Lincoln Michel (b. 1982) ED - Nadxieli Nieto KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Brief dystopia in which environmental collapse has eliminated all animals and vegetables and humans have resorted to a organized, structured cannibalism.

JF - Gigantic Worlds PB - Gigantic Books CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mother of Eden Y1 - 2015 A1 - Chris Beckett (b. 1955) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Sequel to 2012 Beckett set in the future of the previous one, in which humanity now occupies most of the planet and two empires have emerged, both dominated by men and both claiming descent from the same woman among the early settlers.

PB - Broadway Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Mother's Love" Y1 - 2015 A1 - Dayo [Adewunmi] Ntwari ED - Nick Mulgrew ED - Karina Magdalena Szczurek KW - German author KW - Male author KW - Nigerian author KW - Rwandan author AB -

The story is set in an evangelical religious dystopia in which adherents of the old religions are being killed. Much fantasy. 

JF - Water: New Short Fiction from Africa PB - Short Story Day CY - Np N1 -

Rpt. (Oxford, Eng.: New Internationalist Publications, 2015), 217-31; and in The Manchester Review, no. 18 (July 2017). http://www.themanchesterreview.co.uk/?p=7855

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Murder With Bengali Characteristics Y1 - 2015 A1 - Shovon Chowdhury (d. 2021) KW - Indian author KW - Male author AB -

Murder mystery and humor set in a future dystopian India that is ruled by China.

PB - Aleph Book Company CY - New Delhi, India SN - 9789382277798 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “My Own Sound” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Christine Sun Kim ED - Alexandra Brodsky ED - Rachel Kauder Nalebuff KW - Asian-American author KW - Female author AB -

Brief depiction of a future where being deaf will not be considered different.

JF - The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future PB - The Feminist Press at the City University of New York CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Natural Way of Things Y1 - 2015 A1 - Charlotte Wood (b. 1965) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia in which a group of young women are kidnapped, drugged, and imprisoned in an abandoned building somewhere in the outback of Australia. The novel focuses on the growing friendship between two of the women. 

PB - Allen & Unwin CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Europa Editions, 2016. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - ‘Naw First Minister!’ Irascible Big Nellie Nellis Becomes First Minister . . . pity help Scotland! Y1 - 2015 A1 - Allan Morrison KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Satire on Scottish politics.

PB - Luath Press Limited CY - Edinburgh, Scot. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Nemesis: Inception Y1 - 2015 A1 - G. Michael Hopf KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Survivalist dystopia with women as central protagonists. Related to the series that began with 2013 Hopf and 2015 Hopf, Exit in that all begin with a major attack on the U.S. A trilogy is planned.

PB - [CreateSpace] CY - [North Charleston, SC] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - New Hokkaido Y1 - 2015 A1 - James McNaughton (b. 1968) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopian alternative history in which Japan did not bomb Pearl Harbor, the U.S. stayed out of World War 2, and Japan occupied New Zealand in 1942. The novel is set during the occupation.

PB - Victoria University Press CY - Wellington, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The New US" Y1 - 2015 A1 - Pepe Rojo ED - [Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954) KW - Chicano author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of genetic engineering.

JF - Twelve Tomorrows: MIT Technology Review SF Annual 2016 PB - MIT Technology Review CY - Cambridge, MA SN - 978-0-9910444-3-6 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - News from the Clouds Y1 - 2015 A1 - Robert Llewellyn (b. 1956) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A volume in a series with 2012 and 2013 Llewellyn in which the protagonist travels to three futures. In this volume, Earth has been devastated by the effects of the environmental policies of the twentieth- and early twenty-first centuries. Nothing grows on the surface of the planet and only a few insects remain. Humans live in cities, called culverts, built to survive 500 kilometers per hour winds and in huge balloon-like “clouds” traveling around the planet. Scientifically and technologically advanced. 

PB - Unbound CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Not a Favor to Women: The Workplace in a Feminist Future” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Ellen Bravo ED - Alexandra Brodsky ED - Rachel Kauder Nalebuff KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A poor woman cleaner is briefly transported to a future where people like her are fully equal and collectively control their workplace.

JF - The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future PB - The Feminist Press at the City University of New York CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Not on My Block: Envisioning a World without Street Harassment” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Giorgis, Hannah ED - Alexandra Brodsky ED - Rachel Kauder Nalebuff KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Brief essay presenting the eutopia of the title.

JF - The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future PB - The Feminist Press at the City University of New York CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Oathkeeper Y1 - 2015 A1 - Troy J. Grice KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Survivalist dystopia pitting a local sheriff against the federal government.

PB - Prepper Press CY - [Augusta, ME] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Occidental Bride” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Benjanun Sriduangkaew KW - Female author KW - Thai author AB -

Lesbian love story set in a dystopia in which to atone for past actions, one woman has to purchase the other as a wife in the hopes that she will attract someone trying to rescue her. 

JF - Clarkesworld VL - no. 108 UR - http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/sriduangkaew_09_15/ N1 -

Rpt. in Heiresses of Russ 2016: The Year’s Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction. Ed. A[lexandra] M[argaret] Dellamonica & Steve Berman (Maple Shade, NJ: Lethe Press, 2016), 41-58.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Occupied Y1 - 2015 A1 - Joss Sheldon (b. 1982) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia based on the occupations of Kurdistan, Palestine, and Tibet.

PB - Author CY - UK U5 -

NcD

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “October 11” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Chin Ai-May KW - Female author KW - Malaysian author AB -

The story is set in a future, authoritarian Malaysia that is trying to eliminate all genetic defects. 

JF - Cyberpunk: Malaysia PB - Fixi-Novo CY - Petaling Jaya, Malaysia SN - 9789670750873 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “One Hundred Years: Machine” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Rafil Elyas ED - Zen Cho KW - Malaysian author KW - Male author AB -

Presented as a speech, “Deviant Correction Using Preemptive Neuro-Regulation,” detailing one hundred years of research an implementation of means to “correct” behavior that diverges from conservative Muslim teaching beginning with therapy and incarceration and ending with mandated fetal implantation of a control mechanism. 

JF - Cyberpunk: Malaysia PB - Fixi Novo CY - Petaling Jaya, Malaysia SN - 9789670750873 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “One Wit’ This Place” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Muthi Nhlema ED - Billy Kahora KW - Malawian author KW - Male author AB -

Climate change dystopia with a secondary theme of the damage of war on individuals.

JF - Imagine Africa 500: Speculative Fiction from Africa PB - Pan African Publications CY - Lilongwe, Malawi N1 -

Rpt. in The Manchester Review, no. 18 (July 2017). http://www.themanchesterreview.co.uk/?p=7902

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Only Words That Are Worth Remembering. A Novel Y1 - 2015 A1 - Jeffrey Rotter KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set in a world with a deep division between the rich and poor and little knowledge of past science, particularly astronomy.

PB - Metropolitan Books Henry Holt and Co. CY - New York U5 -

MH

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Orchid Nursery Y1 - 2015 A1 - Louise Katz (b. 1959) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia of complete male domination. 

PB - Lacuna CY - Westgate, NSW, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Our Dried Voices Y1 - 2015 A1 - Greg Hickey (b. 1985) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel is set in a future eutopia after humans have left Earth and settled on a planet called Pearl where everything is left to machines to decide, and people stop thinking for themselves.

PB - Scribe Publishing House CY - Royal Oak, MI SN - 9781940368931 978-1940368009 N1 -

[2nd ed. Royal Oak, MI: Scribe Publishing House, 2017]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Our Lady of the Open Road” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Sarah Pinsker (b. 1977) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The first in a series of stories related to 2019 Pinsker, A Song for a New Day. In this story, the protagonists, a touring rock band, is trying to survive in a future in which there are no large venues and people life isolated lives. The other stories are “A Song Transmuted.” Illus. Aaron Lovett and Joshua Viola. Cyber World: Tales of Humanity’s Tomorrow. Ed. Jason Heller and Joshua Viola (Erie, CO: Hex Publishers 2016), 151-60; rpt. in Sunspot Jungle: The Ever-Expanding Universe of Science Fiction and Fantasy [the cover adds Volume One]. Ed. Bill Campbell (Greenbelt, MD: Rosarium, 2018), 35-42; and “Everything Is Closed Today.” Do Not Go Quietly: An Anthology of Defiance in Victory. Ed. Lesley Conner and Jason Sizemore (Lexington, KY: Apex Publications, 2019), 149-74; rpt. in her Lost Places. Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2023), 79-102. 

JF - Asimov’s Science Fiction VL - 39.6 (473) SN - 9781618731562 N1 -

Rpt. in her Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea. Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2019), 169-209.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Our New Neighborhood” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Lincoln Michel (b. 1982) ED - Bryan Hurt KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Problems in a suburb that the people had hoped would meet their eutopian expectations. In this suburb the value of the property fluctuates based on constant reports from inspectors who measure the height of the grass, whether the bird feeders are full and other such important measures of the good life. But there are, of course, some actual problems.

JF - Watchlist: 32 Short Stories by Persons of Interest PB - OR Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Out of the Storm” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Ian O'Reilly KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Climate change dystopia focusing on people living at sea and building a cooperative community among themselves that they are beginning to extend to land-based communities.

JF - Solarpunk Press UR - http://www.solarpunkpress.com/solarpunk-press/2015-12-6/003-out-of-the-storm-by-ian-oreilly ER - TY - ABST T1 - Outland Exile: Book 1 of Old Men and Exiles Y1 - 2015 A1 - W. Clark Boutwell KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the U. S. is divided between the authoritarian Unity that rules the East drugs and implants to control its citizens, who do not have long lives. Beyond its borders are the Outlands, supposedly inhabited by savages, who captures the young female protagonist. The protagonist, a young woman, enters the outlands and discovers that the reality is more complex. First volume of a series followed by Exiles Escape. Book 2 of Old Men and Exiles. Pensacola, FL: Indigo River Publishing, 2018 in which the protagonist of the first volume struggles to stay free from both the Democratic Unity and those who had held her in the Outlands. A third volume is projected. 

PB - iUniverse CY - Bloomington, IN U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Packets in the Tube” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Siddanta Bastola ED - Ed Finn ED - Pascal Zachary KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future where the combination of the internet and the hyperloop means that anyone can live anywhere and commute to anyplace else and goods can be shipped almost instant anywhere. Presented as eutopian.

JF - Journeys through Time and Space PB - Intel Foundation/Society for Science and the Public/Arizona State University CY - Np UR - Journeys_Through_Time_and_Space_Anthology.pdf ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Paragon of Knowledge” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Nick [Nicholas] Wood (1961-2023) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - South African author KW - Zambian author AB -

A flawed utopia in which everything is supposedly neatly ordered, and everyone cared for, but the old are warehoused in Sunny Senile Centres. 

JF - The Future Fire: Social Political & Speculative Cyber-Fiction VL - no. 33 UR - http://futurefire.net/2015.33/fiction/paragonofknowledge.html U2 -

Illus. Callum Bishop

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Philosopher Kings Y1 - 2015 A1 - Jo Walton (b. 1964) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - Welsh author AB -

Sequel to 2014 Walton in which the attempt to create Plato’s Republic has fragmented into a number of “Republics” based on disagreements over what Plato wanted and the belief of some that they know better than Plato what makes for a good society. See also 2016 Walton.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

Public

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Prepper. Part Two: Kings Y1 - 2015 A1 - Karl A. D. Brown KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 2013 Brown. In this volume, the family at the center of the first volume continue to live their hidden life but conclude that they have to join others fighting a plan to exterminate most of the world’s population.

PB - Author CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Prey Y1 - 2015 A1 - Tom Isbell (b. 1957) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

First volume of a young adult dystopia following a catastrophe. The new government in the U.S. raises children to be hunted for sport when they are teens. The second volume, The Capture. New York: HarperTeen, 2016. U.K. ed. London: Harper Voyager, 2016, follows the protagonists of the first volume as they try to free others. In the third volume, The Release. New York: HarperTeen. U.K. ed. London: Harper Voyager, 2017, the protagonists of the previous volumes manage, after many more difficulties to win their freedom. 

PB - HarperTeen CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Harper Voyager, 2015.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Private Sector Y1 - 2015 A1 - Leigh M. Lane KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of corporate corruption that leads to the collapse of government services and their privatization. Prequel to her 2015 World-Mart

PB - Eldritch Press CY - San Antonio, TX N1 -

2nd ed. Henderson, NV: Cerebral Press, 2015 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Promised" Y1 - 2015 A1 - Aisteach, Kyle KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia called the Great Default when government was unable to pay its bills.

JF - Little Dystopias. A Collection PB - Lightning Cellar Publications CY - Fresno, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Puma Blue. The Complete Saga in One Volume Y1 - 2015 A1 - Stephen Murphy A1 - Michael Zulli (b. 1952) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story begins in 2000 after a white supremacist group sets off a small nuclear bomb in the Bronx, which no longer exists. The world is technologically advance, but the environment has been badly damaged, and some species have mutated. The primary protagonist is a “fauna agent” or game warden assigned to a reservoir in Massachusetts. Later the story follows him as he leaves government service and travels around the country, and the entire series has a strong environmental message.

PB - Dover Publications CY - Mineola, NY N1 -

Originally published as a comic between 1986 and 1989.

The book version also includes “Acts of Faith: A Coda” by Stephen R. Bissette (527-40), “Act of Faith” (541-44) and the “Puma Blues. Number 24 1/2” (545-60).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Quiet Town” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Gurley, Jason KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Climate change dystopia.

JF - Lightspeed Science Fiction & Fantasy VL - no. 59 UR - http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/quiet-town/ U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Radiant Vermin Y1 - 2015 A1 - Philip Ridley (b. 1964) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia based on the housing crisis in the U.K. in which a young couple finds that they can get their ideal home, room by room, by murdering a homeless person. Play first performed February 27, 2015, in Bristol, with its London Opening March 10, 2015.

PB - Bloomsbury Methuen Drama CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Raft Y1 - 2015 A1 - Fred Strydom KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

A complex dystopia in which on Day Zero everyone loses their memories. The novel follows one man through his encounters with those trying to control everyone, those trying to help others regain their memories, and other individuals with varied mental powers. 

PB - Umuzi/Penguin Random House South Africa CY - Cape Town, South Africa SN - 9781415207369 N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Talos Press, 2016.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Raising Generation E [For Empathy]: The Final Frontier of Feminism” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Mindi Rose Englart (b. 1965) ED - Alexandra Brodsky ED - Rachel Kauder Nalebuff KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Brief eutopia based on educating children to be empathetic and using restorative justice.

JF - The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future PB - The Feminist Press at the City University of New York CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Rattlesnakes and Men” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Michael [Lawson] Bishop (1945-2023) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A satire of gun culture in which everyone in s small town in Georgia is required by law to keep a rattlesnake in their home that has supposedly been bioengineered to not bite family members. One of Bishop’s “Georgia stories.”

JF - Asimov’s Science Fiction VL - 39.2 (469) ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Red Is the Color of Mother Dirt” Y1 - 2015 A1 - J. Y. Yang (b. 1983) ED - Maggie Allen ED - Janine Spendlove KW - Singaporean author KW - Transgender author AB -

Dystopian society on Mars that suppresses and isolates women. One young woman takes a stand against this suppression, wins a first round in court, but loses on appeal and spends time in prison during which she becomes the focuses of a widening rebellion by women. 

JF - Athena's Daughters Volume 2 PB - Science in the Library CY - Salt Lake City, UT U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Reproductive Supporters" Y1 - 2015 A1 - Justine [Peen] Wu ED - Alexandra Brodsky ED - Rachel Kauder Nalebuff KW - Asian-American author KW - Female author AB -

A eutopia in which each girl is assigned a “reproductive supporter” at puberty who provides birth control, abortion if needed, and support when the girl chooses to have a child.

JF - The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future PB - The Feminist Press at the City University of New York CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Reset: The ReSociety Book One Y1 - 2015 A1 - Linda Hawley A1 - Paul Hawley KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

First volume of a dystopian series in which many people are surgically altered, and called SurgiAlts, to meet a standard of human physical perfection. Anyone who speaks against the political leaders considered a terrorist. Extreme surveillance with everyone tracked all the time, with all the information shared with the Department of Homeland Affairs. High tech with much of the technology used in surveillance and in security, with examples given regarding airports. The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) defines the entire U.S. as a war zone and allows the military to arrest anyone considered a threat. “Terrorists” have no rights, and no trial is needed. One focus is a group of descendants of signers of the U.S. Declaration of Independence who have worked to maintain its principles since its signing.

PB - 21st Century Publishing CY - Np ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Rex" Y1 - 2015 A1 - Laird Barron ED - Lincoln Michel (b. 1982) ED - Nadxieli Nieto KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

After the passing of all humans, an “animal heaven,” or the ideal world that would exist without humans, develops. But time moves in a circle and primitive humans reemerge.

JF - Gigantic Worlds PB - Gigantic Books CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Riley Marigold and the Winged Lizards of Tel Aviv” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Kayla Bashe KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a post-climate change world in which in the U. S. the protagonist, a teenage girl, lives in a rural intentional community, and then is moved to Tel Aviv, where she lives in a high rise with community features. Israel is struggling to deal with the results on climate change.

JF - Solarpunk Press UR - http://www.solarpunkpress.com/stories/2015-10-5/001-riley-marigold-and-the-winged-lizards-of-tel-aviv-by-kayla-bashe ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Rites" Y1 - 2015 A1 - Matthew Baker (b. 1985) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An overpopulation dystopia where everyone is expected to arrange their death at seventy and one man who chooses to live.

JF - One Story VL - no. 203 SN - 9781250237200 N1 -

Rpt. in the author's Why Visit America. Stories (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 2020), 23-40. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Rules for Werewolves. Novel Y1 - 2015 A1 - Kirk Lynn (b. 1972) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia resulting from the housing crisis and set in the mostly empty suburbs of Los Angeles. Gangs of young people hope to build a better society and roam the suburbs plundering the abandoned or otherwise empty properties. 

PB - Melville House Publishing CY - Brooklyn, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Scroogled” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) ED - Bryan Hurt KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Surveillance dystopia.

JF - Watchlist: 32 Short Stories by Persons of Interest PB - OR Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Sellout Y1 - 2015 A1 - Paul Beatty (b. 1962) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on U.S. race relations in which an African-American man tries to re-introduce slavery and segregation to his local school in a poor small town in southern California. His goal is to improve education and provide for the homeless. Much of the novel is about the case as it is argued before the Supreme Court. African-American author.

PB - Farrar, Straus and Giroux CY - New York N1 -

U. K. ed. London: Oneworld Publications, 2016. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Serenade on Lake Ontario” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Rimar, Mike KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Alternative history dystopia with a Nazi controlled Canada. 

JF - On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic VL - 27.1 U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Seveneves Y1 - 2015 A1 - Neal [Town] Stephenson (b. 1959) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe novel of the moon breaking up and raining down on Earth. Much of the novel is hard science fiction with most of the text concerned with the science and technology, but the rest is concerned with three sets of survivors, the seven eves who were the survivors of those who were in space, and, unknown to them, two sets of survivors on Earth, one that went underground and the other that went under the sea. The seven eves created seven different genetic lines with different cultures, including one that isolated itself and developed into an authoritarian dystopia.

PB - William Morrow CY - New York U2 -

Illus.

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Public

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Share and Share Alike” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Wayne Carey ED - J. Alan Erwine (b. 1969) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Standard anti-socialist dystopia where equality means no one does anything well.

JF - A Robot, A Cyborg & a Martian Walk into a Space Bar PB - Nomadic Delirium Press CY - Aurora, CO U5 -

EBook

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Short History of Migration in Five Fragments of You” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Wole Talabi (b. 1986) KW - Malaysian author KW - Male author KW - Nigerian author AB -

The story depicts points in the lives of a young woman from her time on a slave ship to a future her on a craft about to land on a moon of Jupiter. 

JF - Omenana Speculative Fiction Magazine VL - no. 3 SN - 978-1-911143-55-0 UR - https://omenanadotcom.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/omenana-issue-3.pdf N1 -

Rpt. in his Incomplete Solutions. Edinburgh, Scot.: Luna Press, 2019), 5-10, with an author’s note on 255. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Silicon Curtain: A Seastead Story” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Kritzer, Naomi KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 2012 Kritzer, “Liberty’s Daughter” andHigh Stakes” and 2013 and 2014 Kritzer and 2015 Kritzer “Jubilee: A Seastead Story.” In this story that rebuilding has failed, and people are being evacuated, but, for all the problems, the protagonist of all the stories still thinks of the seastead as her home. 

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 129.1 & 2 (720) U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Sliding Doors” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Jasmine Giuliani ED - Alexandra Brodsky ED - Rachel Kauder Nalebuff KW - Female author AB -

A critique of a recently discovered poem from the late twentieth century before the passage of the Sexual Liberation Act.

JF - The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future PB - The Feminist Press at the City University of New York CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Space, Mk 4 Mod 3” Y1 - 2015 A1 - David Lagerman KW - Male author AB -

Description of a self-sufficient eutopia in a large space habitat with the emphasis on what is necessary for it to succeed but with some on life as lived.

JF - Communities: Life in Cooperative Culture VL - No. 169 U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Station Eleven Y1 - 2015 A1 - Emily St. John Mandel (b. 1979) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe (disease/pandemic) dystopia. A theatre troupe travels around the remaining settlements and the dystopia is seen largely through the eyes of the actors. Includes a religious enclave with a prophet who intends that no one shall leave his community alive. A ten-episode HBO series created by Patrick Somerville premiered December 16, 2021.

PB - Alfred A. Knopf CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Stations" Y1 - 2015 A1 - Nick Mulgrew ED - Nerine Dorman KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

An African heaven in which the colonial rulers and those who exploited the indigenous population are being punished. Something of a flawed utopia.

JF - Terra Incognita: New Short Speculative Futures from Africa PB - Short Story Day Africa CY - Np U5 -

PU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Stripped to Zero: Someone to watch over you” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Stephen S. Power KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of an over-automated future.

JF - Nature VL - 524.7563 U2 -

Illus. Jacey

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LLL

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Subprimes Y1 - 2015 A1 - Karl Taro Greenfeld (b. 1964) KW - Asian-American author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a future U.S. where corporations are all-powerful and the poor, the Subprimes, are dispossessed of everything they once owned and struggle to survive. One focus of the novel is a community established by a group of Subprimes in a town where all the houses have been abandoned. They create what for them is a eutopia and struggle to keep it against the corporations that forced the previous owners out. 

PB - Harper CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Summertime" Y1 - 2015 A1 - Anatoly Belilovsky KW - Male author KW - Russian-American author AB -

Climate-change dystopia in which Dublin, Ireland is under water. 

JF - SF Comet UR - http://www.sfcomet.com/anatoly-belilovsky.html https://littlebluemarble.ca/2017/06/19/summertime/ N1 -

Rpt. illus. in Little Blue Marble (June 19, 2017). https://littlebluemarble.ca/2017/06/19/summertime/; and in Little Blue Marble 2017: Stories of Our Changing Climate. Ed. Katrina Archer. Np: Ganache Media, 2017. EBook.  

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Chinese trans. by Ninesnow

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EJournal

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sundogz. a diffusion Y1 - 2015 A1 - Mark A. von Schlegell (b. 1957) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Third volume of a trilogy following 2005 and 2009 von Schlegell. This volume is set on the moons of Uranus where an aquatic world is hidden from the rest of the system.

PB - Semiotext(e) CY - South Pasadena, CA U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Surfacing Y1 - 2015 A1 - Mark Magro KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia set in an underground facility in a post-nuclear war future. 

PB - Jolly Fish Press CY - Provo, UT U5 -

Public

ER - TY - ABST T1 - System: With His Face in the Sun Y1 - 2015 A1 - Jon A. Davidson KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which a computerized system has become a dictator.

PB - Author CY - Np U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “They Have All One Breath” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Karl Bunker KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia in which artificial intelligences have stopped war and provide everyone with what they need, and then begin to control human and animal behavior.

JF - Asimov's Science Fiction VL - 40.12 (491) U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Thirteen Ways of Being Looked at by a Blackbird SR71” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Paul [Gerard] Di Filippo (b. 1954) ED - Bryan Hurt KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on surveillance society detailing many ways of avoiding surveillance and how they were met.

JF - Watchlist: 32 Short Stories by Persons of Interest PB - OR Books CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Tiny Dots" Y1 - 2015 A1 - Tuntufye Simwimba ED - Billy Kahora KW - Malawian author KW - Male author AB -

Climate-change dystopia. 

JF - Imagine Africa 500: Speculative Fiction from Africa PB - Pan-African Publishers CY - Lilongwe, Malawi U5 -

DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Tip of the Tongue” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Felicia Davin ED - Seanan McGuire (b. 1978) KW - Bisexual author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a future where the ability to read has been taken away.

JF - Queers Destroy Science Fiction VL - Lightspeed, no. 61 N1 -

Rpt. in Heiresses of Russ 2016: The Year’s Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction. Ed. A[lexandra] M[argaret] Dellamonica & Steve Berman (Maple Shade, NJ: Lethe Press, 2016), 253-67.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Tlön: Journey to a Utopian Civilization Y1 - 2015 A1 - Aristidis G. Romanos KW - Greek author KW - Male author AB -

Architectural eutopia. 

PB - AuthorHouse CY - Bloomington, IN U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “To the Havens” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Ariel Hogan KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Climate-change fantasy/dystopia in which elves are enslaved. 

JF - Flash Fiction Online UR - http://flashfictiononline.com/main/article/to-the-havens/ N1 -

Rpt. in Little Blue Marble 2017: Stories of Our Changing Climate. Ed. Katrina Archer. Np: Ganache Media. EBook. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Trademark Bugs: A Legal History” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Adam [Charles] Roberts (b. 1965) ED - Jonathan Strahan (b. 1964) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which Big Pharma releases trademarked viruses, makes huge profits from the “cures”, and becomes more powerful than any government.

JF - Reach for Infinity PB - Solaris CY - Oxford, Eng. N1 -

Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015. Ed. Rich Horton ([Holicong, PA]: Prime Books, 2015), 351-65; in A Practical Guide to the Resurrected: Twenty-One Short Stories of Medicine and Science Fiction. Ed. Gavin Miller and Anna MacFarlane (Glasgow, Scot.: Freight Books, 2017), 172-92; and in Stories of Hope and Wonder in Support of the UK’S Healthcare Workers. Ed. Ian [George] Whates (Weston, Eng.: NewCon Press, 2020), 352-66. EBook. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Transition Y1 - 2015 A1 - R[yan] J[ames] Tomlin KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel is set in a future where, in order to give everyone an even start in life, all children are taken to Nethertower at eleven and stay there until they are eighteen when, “as a complete and independent adult ready to face the outside world, they transition back. During their time there, they must work, earn credits by, among other things, riding bicycles that produce the electricity the powers everything, and rise from Recruit, to Senior, to Elite. Everything in Nethertower is controlled, apparently by technology. Health checks are regular and detailed and identified lacks like vitamins or water intake are immediately provided. This takes up the first part of the book and is mostly untrue. Most who transition die, the outside work is derelict with cannibals, zombies, and a resistance movement.

PB - Author CY - Np U5 -

EBook

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Trigger Point” Y1 - 2015 A1 - C[aerwyn] A[llegra] Hawksmoor KW - Female author KW - Welsh author AB -

The story is set in a future in which every soldier is controlled individually and focuses on a female ex-soldier dealing with the effects on her and others.

JF - The Future Fire: Social Political & Speculative Cyber-Fiction VL - no. 32 UR - The Future Fire: 2015.32 fiction triggerpoint U2 -

Illus. Martin Hanford

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Under Ground Y1 - 2015 A1 - [Louis] [Greenberg] A1 - [Sarah] [Lotz] (b. 1971) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

Dystopia set in a missile silo that has been repurposed as secure condominiums for the wealthy, and conflicts that develop among the inhabitants. 

PB - Macmillan CY - London U3 -

S. L. Grey [pseud.]

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Undercover in Tanah Firdaus” Y1 - 2015 A1 - [Syamsuriatina] [Ishak] ED - Zen Cho KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Malaysian author KW - US author AB -

In a future Kuala Lumpur, the city is divided horizontally between the rich and poor, who, except for those who work for the rich, are starving and without medical care. 

JF - Cyberpunk: Malaysia PB - Fixi Novo CY - Petaling Jaya, Malaysia SN - 9789670750873 U3 -

Tania Isaacs [pseud.]/

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Underneath Her Tudung” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Angeline Woon ED - Zen Cho KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - Malaysian author AB -

The story is set in a future authoritarian Malaysia with robots enforcing the restrictive laws and cyborg doctors, with the protagonist one of the doctors. 

JF - Cyberpunk: Malaysia PB - Fixi Novo CY - Petaling Jaya, Malaysia SN - 9789670750873 U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Unexpected Dawn" Y1 - 2015 A1 - Musinguzi Ray Robert ED - Billy Kahora KW - Male author KW - Ugandan author AB -

The United African States is the world superpower because it has the only clean water in the world. The story concerns a plot by Texas, Africa’s closest competitor, to destroy Africa’s advantage. 

JF - Imagine Africa 500: Speculative Fiction from Africa PB - Pan-African Publishers CY - Lilongwe, Malawi U5 -

DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Unforgivable" Y1 - 2015 A1 - Aisteach, Kyle KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian prison of the future.

JF - Little Dystopias. A Collection PB - Lightning Cellar Publications CY - Fresno, CA U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “An Unremarkable Bar on an Unremarkable Night” Y1 - 2015 A1 - s. c. smith ED - Alexandra Brodsky ED - Rachel Kauder Nalebuff KW - US author AB -

The depiction of an evening among friends who include a woman in a wheelchair, one who is blind, and one who is breastfeeding, and everyone is treated as perfectly normal.

JF - The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future PB - The Feminist Press at the City University of New York CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Unusual Suspects” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Tariq Kamal ED - Zen Cho KW - Malaysian author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in what little remains of a Malaysia that is deeply divided between rich and poor with powerful corporations controlling most of the area but with many hidden, illegal operations that provided needed services to the poor. The story focuses on unapproved technology developed by the corporations that was stolen by the resistance.

JF - Cyberpunk: Malaysia PB - Fixi Novo CY - Petaling Jaya, Malaysia SN - 9789670750873 U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Unveiling” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Christopher Rowe (b. 1969) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a polluted, authoritarian state and the beginning of the revolution that would overthrow it.

JF - Asimov’s Science Fiction VL - 39.1 (468) N1 -

Rpt. in his Telling the Map: Stories Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2017), 51-64.

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Utopia: Three Plays for a Postdramatic Theatre Y1 - 2015 A1 - Claire MacDonald (b. 1954) KW - Female author KW - UK author AB -

The three plays, the first inspired by J.G. Ballard’s works, depict various dystopian settings and the characters imagine other ones.

PB - Intellect CY - Bristol, Eng./Chicago, IL U5 -

C

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Velocipede Races Y1 - 2015 A1 - Emily June Street KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a world where women’s activities are severely restricted, and one woman wants to be a bicycle racer, which is prohibited.

PB - EBP/Emily Blue Publishing CY - Portland, OR N1 -

Part of the book was originally published in 2013 by Luminous Creatures Press, an epublisher, and a version of the “Epilogue” was originally published in Bikes in Space. Volume 2  [Cover adds More feminist science fiction] (Portland, OR: Elly Blue Publishing, 2014), 20-33.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Vestiges of Flames. A Novel Y1 - 2015 A1 - Lyn McConchie (b. 1946) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia (disease/pandemic) in which a small group of survivors in Wellington find some others, some of whom join the original group, and some of which the original group kill in order to survive. They gradually make their way to the northwest of Auckland where they create a good society, albeit with continuing problems. Lesbian themes.

PB - Lethe Press CY - Maple Shade, NJ U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Viral Airwaves Y1 - 2015 A1 - Claudie Arseneault KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia and its overthrow in favor of a green future. LGBTQIA characters. A prequel is White Renegade. Np: Author, 2015. 99 pp. 

PB - Incandescent Phoenix Books CY - Riverview, FL N1 -

2nd ed. Np: Author, 2016. 467 pp.

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Wall That Wasn’t a Wall” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Kris Wlliamson ED - Zen Cho KW - Malaysian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future Malaysian that has essentially enslaved its foreign workers. 

JF - Cyberpunk: Malaysia PB - Fixi Novo CY - Petaling Jaya, Malaysia SN - 9789670750873 U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Water Knife Y1 - 2015 A1 - Paolo [Tadini] Bacigalupi (b. 1972) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Near future dystopia brought about by a shortage of water. A related story is 2014 Bacigalupi, “Shooting the Apocalypse.”

PB - Alfred A. Knopf CY - New York U5 -

Public

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ways of the Doomed. Book 1 of the Sun Song Trilogy Y1 - 2015 A1 - Moira McPartlin KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

First volume of a planned young adult dystopian trilogy. In this volume, set in 2089 where there is a deep divide between the Privileged and the Celtic underclass, a boy from the Privileged is forced to live with his grandfather in a penal colony after his parents die.

PB - Saraband CY - Glasgow, Scot. ER - TY - ABST T1 - We Defy! A Tale Set in the Near Future Y1 - 2015 A1 - Tommy L. Attaway Jr. KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Fed up with regulations from the U. S. national government, some Texans refuse to accept them. Independence! A Tale Set in the Near Future. Np: Author, 2016 shows the route taken to independence. A third volume, Republic! A Tale Set in the Near Future that would describe the Republic of Texas, was announced in Independence but has not appeared. 

PB - [CreateSpace] CY - [North Charles, SC] U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Welcome to Arcadia” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Julie Zeilinger (b. 1993) ED - Alexandra Brodsky ED - Rachel Kauder Nalebuff KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Blogging in a feminist eutopia.

JF - The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future PB - The Feminist Press at the City University of New York CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Lesley Nneka Arimah (b. 1983) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Nigerian author KW - US author AB -

The setting for the story is a climate-change dystopia in which most of Europe and North America are under water, and the European powers have re-colonized Africa, with the French slaughtering the Senegalese and the British establishing a caste system in Nigeria. For a story set in the same future, see Edwin Okolo, “When the Levees Break.” Disruption: New Short Fiction from Africa. Ed. Rachel Zadok, Karina Magdalena Szczurek, and Jason Mykl Snyman (Np: Short Story Day Africa, 2021), 213-26.

JF - Catapult Magazine UR - https://catapult.co/stories/some-mathematicians-remove-pain-some-of-us-deal-in-negative-emotions-we-all-fix-the-equation-of-a-person N1 -

Rpt. in her What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky (New York: Riverhead Books, 2017), 151-74. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “What the Andromaid Reads at Night” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Ted Mahsun ED - Zen Cho KW - Malaysian author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a future authoritarian, secular Malaysian that followed religious wars that tore the country apart, where any religious activity is illegal. 

JF - Cyberpunk: Malaysia PB - Fixi Novo CY - Petaling Jaya, Malaysia SN - 9789670750873 U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “What Would a Feminist Utopia Look Like for Parents of Color?” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Victoria Law ED - Alexandra Brodsky ED - Rachel Kauder Nalebuff KW - Asian-American author KW - Female author AB -

A eutopian neighborhood with children at play where no one is advantaged or disadvantaged by gender, race, or any of the other form of discrimination.

JF - The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future PB - The Feminist Press at the City University of New York CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “When We Had Faith” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Lauri Kubuitsile KW - Botswanan author KW - Female author AB -

Religious dystopia with a movement opposed to it. 

JF - Imagine Africa 500: Speculative Fiction from Africa PB - Pan-African Publishers CY - Lilongwe, Malawi U5 -

DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Where We Land Y1 - 2015 A1 - Tim Jones (b. 1959) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which New Zealand has become extremely anti-immigrant. 

JF - Cuba Press Novella Series PB - The Cuba Press CY - Wellington, New Zealand VL - 01 N1 -

Originally published online as Landfall. Wellington, New Zealand: Paper Road Press, 2015, which is only available onsite at the Alexander Turnbull Library at the National Library on New Zealand. An excerpt can be found at https://paperroadpress.wordpress.com/2015/08/01/free-excerpt-landfall-tim-jones/

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Why Y1 - 2015 A1 - Dr. [James] Patrick Johnston [D.O.] (b. 1970) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Survivalist dystopia focusing on the siblings of a family after their parents are killed. The focus of the novel is the possibility that they may lose their faith in God, but, of course, they don’t.

PB - Right Remedy Publishing. CY - Zanesville, OH U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Wordsmith Y1 - 2015 A1 - Patricia Forde (b. 1960) KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which art and music are banned and everything is rationed, including words. 

PB - Little Island CY - Denil, Ireland N1 -

U.S. ed. as The List. Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, 2017

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U.S. ed. as The List. Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, 2017

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DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - World-Mart Y1 - 2015 A1 - Leigh M. Lane KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which corporations control all aspects of life. See also a prequel, 2015 Lane, The Private Sector, and a sequel, 2015 Lane, Aftermath: Beyond World-Mart.

PB - Cerebral Press CY - Henderson, NV U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The 1000 Year Reich” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Ian Watson (b. 1943) ED - Nick Gevers KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire in which three powers vie with each other, the remnant of the US, the Japanese, and the German Reich, each with a settlement on the moon. Reich refers both to the German Reich and Wilhelm Reich (1897-1957).

JF - Squirrel, Reich, and Lavender. Bonus Stories PB - PS Publishing CY - Hornsea, Eng. N1 -

Rpt. in his The 1000 Year Reich and Other Stories ([Weston, Eng].: NewCon Press, 2016), 15-34 with an author’s note on 34. 

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - 10:04. A Novel Y1 - 2014 A1 - Ben[jamin] Lermer (b. 1979) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel takes place against the minimal background of a developing climate-change dystopia. 

PB - Granta CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Faber and Faber, 2014

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Illus.

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NLS, O

ER - TY - ABST T1 - 2084 Y1 - 2014 A1 - Dirk Strasser ED - Patrick West ED - Om Prakash Dwivedi KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which people can be controlled by implants in the brain.

JF - The World to Come PB - Spineless Wonders CY - Strawberry Hills, NSW, Australia U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “2121 AD: Sustainable Cities of the Future" Y1 - 2014 A1 - Alan Marshall (b. 1969) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Pictures of the future, generally positive, of Wellington, New Zealand; Minsk, Belarus; Los Angeles; Singapore; Accra, Ghana; Salvador, Brazil; and New Amundsen, Antarctica in 2121 after global warming and other changes has forced major changes in the way cities are design and people live.

JF - Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities VL - 1.2 UR - http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5250/resiliance.1.2.003 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The 3 Little Pigs: Part 2” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Ric Driver ED - Dana Rich KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Utopian satire in which the pigs build a straw bale house, and the wolf becomes a gardener.

JF - AnarchoSF: Science Fiction and the Stateless Society [Cover adds Volume One] PB - Obsolete Press CY - Victor, IA VL - 1 U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Abattoir Blues” Y1 - 2014 A1 - James A. Moore (b. 1965) ED - Craig Cook KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a post-collapse future where gladiatorial contests are used to decide legal disputes and who gets medical care.

JF - Piercing the Darkness: A Charity Anthology for the Children’s Literacy Initiative PB - Necro Publications CY - Sanford, FL SN - 978-1939065568 978-1-949140-19-4 N1 -

Rpt. in The Dystopian States of America: A Charity Anthology Benefiting the ACLU Foundation. Ed. Matt Bechtel (Haverill, MA: Haverill House, 2020), 79-96. 

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - ACID Y1 - 2014 A1 - Emma Pass KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia based on a violent police force known as ACID or the Agency for Crime Investigation and Defence.

PB - Delacorte Press CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “After the Water: Show Me the Well” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Kristiana Rae Colón (b. 1986) KW - African American author KW - Latina author AB -

The story is set in Detroit, supposedly one hundred years in the future but sounding contemporary, with water cut off from the African American community and bureaucracy going out of its way to make it difficult to get reconnected. 

JF - WBEZ 91.5 Radio’s “After Water” series UR - https://player.fm/series/after-water/afterwater-fiction-show-me-the-well ER - TY - ABST T1 - “After the Water: Straws” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Rebecca Adams Wright KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future when water is being siphoned off by private interests and the ecosystem and the people that depend on it are desperate. Ecoterrorists plot to restore the balance. 

JF - WBEZ 91.5 Radio’s “After Water” series UR - https://player.fm/series/after-water/after-water-fiction-straws. ER - TY - ABST T1 - “After the Water: The Floating of New Chicago” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Tricia Bobeda KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Chicago in the future divided by class and water, with the rich living on an island in Lake Michigan and the poor “wet-workers” left in the city. Read by the author. For an interview with the author, see https://player.fm/series/after-water/after-water-an-interview-with-author-tricia-bobeda. Female author.

JF - WBEZ 91.5 Radio’s “After Water” series UR - https://player.fm/series/after-water/after-water-fiction-world-after-water. ER - TY - ABST T1 - “After the Water: The Last Cribkeeper” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Peter Orner KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is about the reminiscences of an old man who had been a keeper of one of the water intakes that controlled the quality of Chicago water. 

JF - WBEZ 91.5 Radio’s “After Water” series. UR - https://player.fm/series/after-water/after-water-fiction-the-last-cribkeeper. ER - TY - ABST T1 - “After the Water: The Way of the River” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Roxane Gay (b. 1974) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which Chicago had been badly reengineered, earthquakes are constant, and the only water available is the little that is distributed. 

JF - WBEZ 91.5 Radio’s “After Water” series. UR - https://player.fm/series/after-water/after-water-fiction-the-way-of-the-river ER - TY - ABST T1 - “After the Water: The World After Water” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Abby Geni KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future in which four boys must steal water from the wealthy who live on higher ground. 

JF - WBEZ 91.5 Radio’s “After Water” series. UR - https://player.fm/series/after-water/after-water-fiction-world-after-water. ER - TY - ABST T1 - “After the Water: Thirst” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Max Andrew Dubinsky KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of California running out of water, and then the rest of the West and Southwest. 

JF - WBEZ 91.5 Radio’s “After Water” series UR - https://player.fm/series/after-water/after-water-fiction-thirst ER - TY - ABST T1 - “After the Water: Water Men” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Tim Akimoff KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in the U.S. and Canada after the water wars when the decisions were made to control the Great Lakes watershed which made the area became a dominant world power with positive and negative results. The area secedes from both Canada and the United States.

JF - WBEZ 91.5 Radio’s “After Water” series UR - https://player.fm/series/after-water/after-water-fiction-water-men. ER - TY - ABST T1 - Afterparty Y1 - 2014 A1 - Daryl Gregory (b. 1965) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set in a future in which new drugs can be created at home, and their use causes social and psychological problems, and one changes people’s religious beliefs

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Aipotu” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Aleksandra Kokora ED - Zorica Ðergović-Joksimović KW - Female author KW - Serbian author AB -

A brief eutopia that has a hereditary ruler but is a free and radically decentralized society. Serbian female author.

JF - Embracing Utopian Horizons PB - Filozofski fakultet u Novum Sadu CY - Novi Sad, Serbia U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Allegiance Device. Rebellion. Book 1 Y1 - 2014 A1 - Darrell Maloney KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is turned into a tool of the government to suppress dissent. It simply arrests and executes dissenters. There is a plan to implant everyone with a device that allows them to be followed at all times and be remotely executed. Intended to be the first volume in a series, but no more appear to have been published.

PB - Amazon Digital Services LLC CY - Np ER - TY - ABST T1 - “And Then It Rained” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Rebecca Freeman ED - Dominica Malcolm KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Climate-change dystopia with Aboriginal themes set in Australia. 

JF - Amok: An Anthology of Asia-Pacific Speculative Fiction PB - Solarwyrm Press CY - Np U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “And These were the Names of the Vanished” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Rochita Loenen-Ruiz ED - Andrew Drilon ED - Charles Tan KW - Dutch author KW - Female author KW - Filipina author AB -

Dystopia in which a democratically elected leader allows a colonial power, called the “Compassionate,” to take over his country and then enslave his people. 

JF - Philippine Speculative Fiction. Volume 9. Literature of the Fantastic PB - Kestrel DDM CY - Np VL - 9 N1 -

Repub. as an ebook. Quezon City, Philippines: Flipside Digital Content Co. and Kestrel IMC, 2017.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Anixitopia” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Vesna Savić A1 - Viktor Sakać ED - Zorica Ðergović-Joksimović KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - Serbian author AB -

Brief eutopia “Anixitopia” comes from the Greek and means “the land of spring” and was established first on Madagascar and then in space. There are three leaders, “the Man of Science, the Woman of Religion, and the Man of Society.”

JF - Embracing Utopian Horizons PB - Filozofski fakultet u Novum Sadu CY - Novi Sad, Serbia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Arcadia" Y1 - 2014 A1 - Naida Rastoder A1 - Ilda Ramović ED - Zorica Ðergović-Joksimović KW - Female author KW - Serbian author AB -

Brief Arcadian eutopia.

JF - Embracing Utopian Horizons PB - Filozofski fakultet u Novum Sadu CY - Novi Sad, Serbia U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Bad Bodies" Y1 - 2014 A1 - K. G. Nderitu KW - Kenyan author AB -

The story is set in Kenya in 2199 when the country is a corporate monarchy. 

JF - Will This Be a Problem: The Anthology VL - no. 1 Kenyan Fantasy UR - http://willthisbeaproblem.co.ke/oldissue/219-2/ U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Baggage” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Lisa L. Hannett A1 - Angela [Gaye] Slatter (b. 1967) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia of a future in which few women are fertile, and technology has made it possible for poor, fertile women to carry the fertilized eggs for a number of different wealthy couples at the same time. The story is told from the viewpoint of one of the poor, fertile women. 

JF - The Female Factory PB - Twelfth Planet Press CY - Yokine, WA, Australia U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Bald New World Y1 - 2014 A1 - Peter Tieryas (b. 1979) KW - Asian-American author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia set in a world in which all humans lose all their hair. 

PB - Perfect Edge Books CY - Airesford, Eng. U3 -

Peter Tieryas Liu [pseud.] 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Barricade Y1 - 2014 A1 - Jon Wallace KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

First volume of a dystopian trilogy in which a continuing war has broken out between reengineered humans who were designed to create a better future and Reals, unmodified humans. Much of the world has been destroyed in the process. Sequels include Steeple. London: Gollancz, 2015 and Rig. London: Gollancz, 2016.

PB - Gollancz CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Bartleby the Scavenger” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Katie Boyer KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set in a future society that is poor and kills “non-contributing” members when they reach sixty. 

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 126.5 & 6 U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Because I Prayed This Word" Y1 - 2014 A1 - Alex Dally Macfarlane KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A eutopian city welcoming to lesbians discovered by an illiterate nun in a medieval convent. There are references to Christine de Pizan’s The Book of the City of Ladies (ca. 1405), but the cities are different. 

JF - Strange Horizons UR - http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/because-i-prayed-this-word/ N1 -

Podcast at http://strangehorizons.com/podcasts/podcast-because-i-prayed-this-word/ Rpt. in Heiresses of Russ 2015: The Year’s Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction. Ed. Jean Roberta and Steve Berman (Maple Shade, NJ: Lethe Press, 2015), 161-73. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Beekeeper” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Helen Phillips (b. 1983) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A somewhat vague dystopia with a domed city cut off from the countryside, with both the city-dwellers and those living in the countryside afraid of the other. 

JF - Isthmus (Seattle, WA) VL - no. 2 N1 -

Rpt. in her Some Possible Solutions (New York: Henry Holt & Co., 2016), 163-83. 

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CU-Riv, TxU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Bitch Planet Y1 - 2014 A1 - Kelly Sue Deconnick (b. 1970) A1 - Valentine De Landro KW - African Canadian author KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Feminist dystopian take on exploitation films in which “non-compliant” women are sent to an off-planet prison.

PB - Image Comics CY - Berkeley, CA SN - 978-1632153661 978-1632157171 978-1534305298 U2 -

Valentine De Landro (Art). All issues were lettered by Clayton Cowles. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Blessed Are the Hungry" Y1 - 2014 A1 - Victor Fernando R. Ocampo KW - Filipino author KW - Male author KW - Singaporean author AB -

The story takes place of a multi-generations spaceship that is completely under the control of a conservative religious sect which ensures that its leaders and well-fed while those at the bottom of the hierarchy are starving even though they grow the food.

JF - Apex Magazine VL - no. 62 SN - 978-981-11-3851-5 UR - https://apex-magazine.com/blessed-are-the-hungry/ U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Bloody Deluge” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Adrian [Czajkowski] (b. 1972) ED - David Moore KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Part of the Afterblight series set early in the time frame of the series. This story focuses on conflicts among survivors.

JF - Journal of the Plague Year: A Post-Apocalyptic Omnibus PB - Abbadon Books CY - Oxford, Eng. U3 -

Adrian Tchaikovsky [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Bone Clocks. A Novel Y1 - 2014 A1 - David [Steven] Mitchell (b. 1969) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

A wide-ranging novel that begins in 1984 and ends in 2043 with stops in 1991, 2004, 2015, and 2025. 2025 is largely fantasy, and 2043 is a dystopia with a collapsing technology and a deeply damaged environment.

PB - Random House CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2014

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Book of the Unnamed Midwife Y1 - 2014 A1 - Meg Elison (b. 1982) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe (pandemic/plague) dystopia in which there is one woman for every ten men. The novel focuses on the experience of one woman. First volume of The Road to Nowhere Series. The second, volume, 2017 Elison, is set in the same future but 100 years later. The third volume, 2018 Elison, begins in the same time period as the preceding volume, but then follows the very long life of the protagonist. 

PB - Sybaritic Press CY - Los Angeles, CA U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Boost Y1 - 2014 A1 - Stephan [L.] Baker KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which all humans have had their intellect boosted by an implant, which leads to many improvements but can also be used for advertising and controlling people. When an upgrade is announced that will have a open portal through which governments can invade everyone’s thoughts, one man revolts and escapes to join others who are unenhanced and leads a rebellion against all those who would control others.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

Public

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “By the Time We Get to Arizona” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Madeline Ashby (b. 1983) ED - Ed Finn ED - Kathryn Cramer KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in and around a new town that straddles the border between Mexico and Arizona where some workers are welcomed on short term contracts for tech jobs that, if they prove themselves fit, can earn longer contracts and admission to the U.S. The story focuses on just what “fit” means.

JF - Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Society PB - William Morrow CY - New York SN - 978-0-06-220469-1 U5 -

NNU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - California. A Novel Y1 - 2014 A1 - Edan Lepucki (b. 1981) KW - Female author KW - Polish author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia following an unexplained catastrophe in which the rich live in guarded compounds and the poor live dangerous lives in damaged cities or in countryside inhabited by various gangs. 

PB - Little, Brown CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Capitalist Party” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Alou Randon ED - Dana Rich KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian satire on commodity fetishism in which the commodities are the leaders.

JF - AnarchoSF: Science Fiction and the Stateless Society [Cover adds Volume 1] PB - Obsolete Press CY - Victor, IA U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Cast Out" Y1 - 2014 A1 - Sanhita Arni ED - Kirsty Murray (b. 1960) ED - Payal Dhar ED - Anita Roy KW - Female author KW - Indian author AB -

Feminist fantasy story with eutopian elements. A community punishes women who practice magic, even to save their lives, and casts them out to die at sea. But other women who practice magic and have created a women-only eutopia on an island rescues the cast out women and brings them to the island. 

JF - Eat the Sky, Drink the Ocean PB - Young Zubaan CY - New Delhi, India N1 -

Rpt. New York: Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2017), 70-83.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Chameleon Moon Y1 - 2014 A1 - RoAnna Sylver KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Parole is a dystopian city inhabitant by many different beings, many with supernatural talents, who are under constant surveillance by spy cameras. There are three other volumes in the Chameleon Moon series: Life Within Parole. Volume 1 [Columbia, SC: CreateSpace], 2016. 269 pp., which is a collection of stories, most of which are set shortly before Chameleon Moon. One, “Happy Regards (7-65), has been rpt. in Transcendent 2: The Year’s Best Transgender Speculative Fiction. Ed. Bogi Takács (Amherst, MA: Lethe Press, 2017), 121-55. A sequel is The Lifeline Signal: Chameleon Moon Book 2. [San Bernardino, CA: CreateSpace], 2017. 447 pp. Life Withi Parole. Volume 2 [Columbia, SC: CreateSpace], 2018. 253 pp. is also a collection of stories, mostly set between Chameleon Moon and The Lifeline Signal

PB - The Zharmae Publishing Press CY - La Mesa, CA U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Childfinder” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Octavia E[stelle] Butler (1947-2006) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

The story has a brief introductory statement that “Psi could have put the human race on the road to utopia,” but the dystopian story is about racial prejudice among the psi.

JF - Unexpected Stories PB - Open Road CY - New York SN - 978-1-59808-983-1 N1 -

Rpt. (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2020), 27-92, with an “Afterword” by Butler on 93, with a “Foreword: Necessary Stories” by Nisi Shawl (7-10) and an “Afterword by Merrilee Heifetz (95-97) (PSt copy is No. 894 of 1000 copies); and in Kindred, Fledgling, Collected Stories. Ed. Gerry Canavan & Nisi Shawl (New York: Library of America, 2021), 577-587, with a Chronology (743-755), a Note on the Text (758-759), and Notes (771).

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PSt copy is No. 894 of 1000 copies. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Chimpanzee Y1 - 2014 A1 - Darin Bradley KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a failed economy where intellectual and mental control are common.

PB - Underland Press CY - Puyallup, WA U5 -

Public

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The City of Bliss” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Danka Dźida ED - Zorica Ðergović-Joksimović KW - Female author KW - Serbian author AB -

A boy in a highly structured, high tech eutopia visits a place, “The City of Bliss,” that he finds to be much better in that it is based on ‘Shared Happiness.”

JF - Embracing Utopian Horizons PB - Filozofski fakultet u Novum Sadu CY - Novi Sad, Serbia U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future Y1 - 2014 A1 - Naomi Oreskes (b. 1958) A1 - Erik M. Conway (b. 1965) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An historian observing the tercentenary of the collapse of Western civilization (1540-2073) tries to explain how a supposedly rational, scientific people could deny climate change. The explanation centers on an emergence of a new Dark Age in which reason was blinded by a non-rational belief in the “free market."

PB - Columbia University Press CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Coming of Age Y1 - 2014 A1 - Thomas T[hurston] Thomas (b. 1948) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The two volumes project the future lives of what happens to two extended families of the first two people who, in the first volume, are given immortality.

PB - Author CY - Np VL - 2 vols. SN - 978-0-9849658-5-4 978-0-9849658-6-1 U1 -

Volume 1 Eternal Life. Volume 2: Endless Conflict

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Commons Y1 - 2014 A1 - Susan Dworkin (b. 1941) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Climate-change dystopia in which most crops were lost, and one huge agricultural company became all-powerful. The novel focuses on the search for and development of seeds that could grow in the new conditions together with the struggle to keep them from the company. 

PB - Author CY - Np N1 -

2nd rev. ed. [Tallahassee], FL: Divided Light Projects, 2016. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Community" Y1 - 2014 A1 - Zorić, Jovana A1 - Marijana Stojanović ED - Zorica Ðergović-Joksimović KW - Female author KW - Serbian author AB -

A eutopia in which people can choose among a variety of ways of life, each of which forms a community. The particular community presented stresses education.

JF - Embracing Utopian Horizons PB - Filozofski fakultet u Novum Sadu CY - Novi Sad, Serbia U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Conservative Insurgency: The Struggle to Take America Back 2009-2041 Y1 - 2014 A1 - Kurt Schlichter KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future oral history of the ways in which conservatives take over the United States, seen as what needs to be done. 

PB - Post Hill Press CY - Franklin, TN SN - ISBN 978-1618689771 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Containment Zone: A Seastead Story” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Kritzer, Naomi KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 2012 Kritzer, “Liberty’s Daughter” andHigh Stakes” and 2013 Kritzer dealing with the problem of a rapidly spreading illness. See also 2015 Kritzer (2) 

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 126.5 & 6 (713) U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Convention: Book 1 of “The Sons of Liberty Trilogy” Y1 - 2014 A1 - [Chris] [Hambleton] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the U.S. government is on the verge of collapse, and the Sons of Liberty threatens violence if the government continues to be dysfunctional. At the same time, a Convention of States is held to try to defuse the situation. Followed by his The Green Zone: Book 2 of “The Sons of Liberty Trilogy”. By C.W. Hambleton [pseud.]. [North Charleston, SC]: Create Space, 2014; and The Declaration: Book 3 of “The Sons of Liberty Trilogy”. By C.W. Hambleton [pseud.]. [North Charleston, SC]: Create Space, 2015. The first volume contains proposals for reform, including a required balanced budget, term limits for the House, Senate, and Supreme Court, giving the states and Congress the power to overturn Supreme Court decisions, limitations on spending, requiring all federal departments to be reauthorized every three years, giving states to override Congress, and other limitations on the national government. Anti-Islamic. At the end of the third volume, the free state of Alaska is formed, and Israel offers to help it build up its citizen militias. 

PB - CreateSpace CY - [North Charleston, SC] U3 -

C.W. Hambleton [pseud.]

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Cooking Time" Y1 - 2014 A1 - Anita Roy ED - Kirsty Murray (b. 1960) ED - Payal Dhar ED - Anita Roy KW - Female author KW - Indian author KW - UK author AB -

Climate-change dystopia in which the only food available is manufactured. 

JF - Eat the Sky, Drink the Ocean PB - Young Zubaan CY - New Delhi, India N1 -

Rpt. New York: Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2017), 46-57.

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Public, PUP

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Countermeasures” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Christopher [Tracy] Brown (b. 1964) ED - [Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the big Silicon Valley companies have become so powerful that they try to establish California as a a separate state and the U.S. government is forced to negotiate. The process is successfully undermined by hackers.

JF - Twelve Tomorrows. MIT Technology Review SF Annual PB - Technology Review CY - Cambridge, MA U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Country of Ghosts: A Book of The Anarchist Imagination Y1 - 2014 A1 - Margaret Killjoy (b. 1982) KW - Female author KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -

Anarchist novel focusing on the attempt of a growing authoritarian empire to defeat and incorporate an anarchist eutopia, the city of Hronopole. The information on the eutopia comes through the story about the war and the methods it uses to resist the empire.

PB - Combustion Books CY - Np SN - 978-1-938660-13-9 N1 -

Rpt. Chico, CA/Edinburgh, Scot.: AK Press, 2021. Black Dawn Series #2. 212 pp.

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Country of Ice Cream Star Y1 - 2014 A1 - Sandra Newman (b. 1965) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which everyone dies by twenty. Much of the novel focuses on the search for a cure. The novel is written in a dialect. The ending implies further volumes.

PB - Chatto & Windus CY - London U5 -

Public

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Crocodile Ark” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Oluwole Talabi (b. 1986) KW - Malaysian author KW - Male author KW - Nigerian author AB -

The story is set in a future Nigerian religious dystopia with the Prophet and Prophet and the rich live well in orbit and the rest survive on rations on Earth. 

JF - Omenena Speculative Fiction Magazine VL - no. 1 SN - 978-1-911143-55-0 UR - https://omenana.com/2014/11/30/crocodile-ark/ N1 -

Rpt. without the illustration in his Incomplete Solutions. Edinburgh, Scot.: Luna Press, 2019), 86-96, with an author’s note on 257-258

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Crying Out Y1 - 2014 A1 - Clare Lawrence KW - Female author KW - UK author AB -

Dystopia designed for children who are reluctant readers in which there is a rigid class structure and a boy from the top and one from the bottom come into contact. Versions exist with different dates of publication for different age groups from eight to twelve. 

PB - Ransom CY - West Meon, Eng. U5 -

NLS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Cryptogram . . . because the past is never past Y1 - 2014 A1 - Michael Tobert KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

The novel focuses on two dystopias, one set in 2050 and the other the period of the suppression of the Cathars in the thirteenth century. 

PB - Cosmic Egg Books CY - Winchester, Eng./Washington, DC U5 -

L, NLS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Cycling to Asylum. A Novel Y1 - 2014 A1 - Su J. Sokol (b. 1961) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The novel begins with the mistreatment by police in Brooklyn of a man and the ongoing threat to him. It continues with he, his wife, and two children bicycling to Québec, asking for asylum, and the varied problems that the entire family face adjusting to a new country, culture, and language, with the search for utopia a theme throughout. 

PB - Deux Voiliers Publishing CY - Aylmer, QC, Canada SN - 9781928049036 U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dark Days Y1 - 2014 A1 - Ormand, Kate KW - Female author KW - UK author AB -

Violent, authoritarian young adult dystopia in which the authorities are isolating sectors and killing everyone in the sector. Successful resistance.

PB - Sky Pony Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dark Windows Y1 - 2014 A1 - Louis Greenberg KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

Dystopia/thriller set in South Africa in which the political leader has been convinced that a New Age mystic can bring about the needed changed through supernatural means. 

PB - Umuzi CY - Cape Town, South Africa U5 -

DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Dead Kelly” Y1 - 2014 A1 - C. B. Harvey ED - David Moore AB -

Part of the Afterblight series set early in the time frame of the series. This story takes place in Australia.

JF - Journal of the Plague Year: A Post-Apocalyptic Omnibus PB - Abbadon Books CY - Oxford, Eng. U5 -

LLL

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Degrees of Freedom" Y1 - 2014 A1 - Karl Schroeder (b. 1962) ED - Ed Finn ED - Kathryn Cramer KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

The story focuses on the control of or access to new tools for understanding demographics and their use politically. In the story, set in the near future, the Canadian government has restricted access to most tools so as to be able to ensure its reelection, but some indigenous communities gain access to them and force the government to become more open. At the end, there is a suggestion that a freer society will result.

JF - Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Society PB - William Morrow CY - New York U5 -

PU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Deliver Me Y1 - 2014 A1 - Kate Jarvik Birch KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult authoritarian dystopia in which girls are chosen at sixteen to be bred to produce the next generation.

PB - Bloomsbury Spark CY - Np U5 -

Ebook

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Disruption Y1 - 2014 A1 - Jessica Shirvington (b. 1079) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

In the future of this YA dystopia, the smartphone has been replaced by M-Bands, mandatory bracelets controlled by the M-Corp that includes “microchips for GPS, identification and potential medicinal purposes” (5). The system is, of course, misused. A prequel is Corruption. Sydney, NSW, Australia: HarperCollins Australia, 2014. 438 pp.

PB - HarperCollins Australia CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia SN - 9780732298104 Corruption 9780732298104 U5 -

Public

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Divided States of America" Y1 - 2014 A1 - Thomas D. Davis (b. 1941) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The U.S. has divided into four political districts (conservative, liberal, libertarian, and socialist) that are about to become four separate countries, for good or ill. The book is a textbook with the fiction followed by questions about the selection and a number of readings from a variety of thinkers.

JF - Contemporary Moral and Social Issues: An Introduction through Original Fiction, Discussion, and Readings PB - Wiley Blackwell CY - Chichester, Eng./Malden, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Divided We Fall Y1 - 2014 A1 - Trent Reedy KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

First volume of a dystopian trilogy in which the state of Idaho tries to separate from the U.S. because the U.S. is not supporting the Constitution. In the second volume, Burning Nation. New York: Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic, 2015 the U.S. government invades Idaho, and more states secede and is mostly on the war. In the third volume, The Last Full Measure. New York: Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic, 2016 the protagonist of the first two volumes concludes that groups within the now free Idaho are as bad as the U.S. government was and sets off to find a safer and more congenial place.

PB - Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Dust and Blue Smoke” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Robert Dawson KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

The story is about the last car in a climate-change dystopia. 

JF - The Colored Lens Speculative Fiction Magazine VL - no. 13 UR - http://thecoloredlens.com/?page_id=33814#bluesmoke N1 -

Rpt. in Little Blue Marble 2017: Stories of Our Changing Climate. Ed. Katrina Archer. Np: Ganache Media. EBook.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Electrified Ants” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Jetse de Vries ED - Roy C. Booth ED - Jorge Salgado-Reyes KW - Dutch author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a future where a system called the Panopticon, undoubtedly referring to the system of control proposed by Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) in which a all the prisoners could be observed by one guard without the prisoners knowing they were being watched. In the story this is done through surveillance technology that is controlling all aspects of a person’s life. 

JF - Altered States: A Cyberpunk Sci-Fi Anthology PB - Indie Authors Press CY - London SN - 978-0-9571130-4-6 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Elysium" Y1 - 2014 A1 - Mihaljuk, Ivaria A1 - Živkov, Smiljana ED - Zorica Ðergović-Joksimović KW - Female author KW - Serbian author AB -

Brief eutopia that is brought about by strict laws that regulate behavior and with the ultimate punishment being exile to Earth.

JF - Embracing Utopian Horizons PB - Filozofski fakultet u Novum Sadu CY - Novi Sad, Serbia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Elysium Or, The World After Y1 - 2014 A1 - Jennifer Marie Brissett (b. 1969) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Complex post-catastrophe dystopia with an authoritarian government, eutopian enclaves, and aliens.

PB - Aqueduct Press CY - Seattle, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Empties” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Jess Row (b. 1974) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The dystopia created when the electrical system fails.

JF - The New Yorker VL - 90.34 UR - http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/11/03/empties N1 -

Rpt. in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy™ 2015. Ed. Joe Hill (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015), 268-87.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Europe in Autumn Y1 - 2014 A1 - Dave [David Christopher] Hutchinson (b. 1960) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

First volume of a dystopian series known as the Fractured Europe Sequence set in an extremely fragmented future Europe. Sequels include Europe at Midnight. London: Oxford, Eng./New York: Solaris US, 2015; Europe in Winter. Oxford, Eng.: Solaris/New York: Solaris US, 2016; Europe at Dawn. Oxford, Eng.: Solaris/New York: Solaris US, 2018; and “Nightingale Floors.” London Centric: Tales of Future London. Ed. Ian [George] Whates ([Weston, Eng.]: NewCon Press, 2020), 93-121.

PB - Solaris/Solaris US CY - Oxford, Eng./New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Evanda’s Mirror” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Diana L. Paxson (b. 1943) ED - Deborah J[ean] Ross ED - Elisabeth Waters KW - Female author AB -

Free Amazon story.

JF - Stars of Darkover. Darkover® Anthology 14 PB - The Marion Zimmer Bradley Literary Trust Works CY - San Francisco, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Faith Without Teeth” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Ian Watson (b. 1943) ED - Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which everyone is expected to voluntarily have their teeth removed so that everyone is equal.

JF - Solaris Rising 3: The New Solaris Book of Science Fiction PB - Solaris CY - Oxford, Eng. N1 -

Rpt. in his The 1000 Year Reich and Other Stories ([Weston, Eng]: NewCon Press, 2016), 189-199 with an author’s note on 199. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Feuds Y1 - 2014 A1 - Avery Hastings KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The first volume in young adult dystopia series set in a society divided between the Priors, who aim at perfection, and the Imperfects or “Imps”. Also, in the series is Rival. A Feuds Novella. New York: St. Martin’s Griffin 2015, a prequel published as an ebook that introduces the social structure. The final volume is Torn. New York: St. Martin’s Griffin 2015 in which all the tensions of the earlier novels are resolved, and a much better future is suggested at the end. 

PB - St. Martin’s Griffin CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Firstborn Y1 - 2014 A1 - Lorie Ann Grover KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Christian dystopia in which all first born children must be male. The novel is about a first born girl who lives her life as a male until she must pass the rites of manhood.

PB - Blink CY - Grand Rapids, MI U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Fix" Y1 - 2014 A1 - Leonie Ross (b. 1969) ED - Patrick West ED - Om Prakash Dwivedi KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Jamaican author AB -

Dystopia of a future with so many sexually transmitted diseases that no one has sex any longer, the World Wide Web has become aware, and it is fixing the problem by killing off the human race.

JF - The World to Come PB - Spineless Wonders CY - Strawberry Hills, NSW, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Forgotten Utopia” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Marko Ðurišić ED - Zorica Ðergović-Joksimović KW - Male author KW - Serbian author AB -

Brief eutopia seen as an internal state of mind.

JF - Embracing Utopian Horizons PB - Filozofski fakultet u Novum Sadu CY - Novi Sad, Serbia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Future Perfect. Book 1 of the Blueprint Trilogy Y1 - 2014 A1 - Katrina Mountfort KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

First volume of a dystopian trilogy set in a future where everyone lives under domes and prohibits personal relationships. Men and women are both expected to develop the ideal androgynous body. The novel follows a man and woman who are attracted to each other. The second volume, Forbidden Alliance. Book 2 of the Blueprint Trilogy. Dartford, Eng.: Elsewhen Press, 2015, takes up the story sixteen years later with the couple and others with their children living outside the domes and focuses on the problems of life outside, particularly those faced by the women, who are expected to accept traditional gender roles. The third volume, Freedom’s Prisoners. Book 3 of the Blueprint Trilogy. Dartford, Eng.: Elsewhen Press, 2016 continues the story through more struggle to freedom. 

PB - Elsewhen Press CY - Dartford, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Game" Y1 - 2014 A1 - Tabish Khair ED - Patrick West ED - Om Prakash Dwivedi KW - Indian author KW - Male author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia in which a virus has supposedly wiped out most humans and animals and an authoritarian government controls access to those areas outside the contained cities.

JF - The World to Come PB - Spineless Wonders CY - Strawberry Hills, NSW, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Girl Called Fearless Y1 - 2014 A1 - Catherine Linka KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which all women, but not girls, have been killed by a synthetic hormone in beef. In the novel a teenager girl is sold by her father into marriage to a powerful politician. She chooses to run away. First of two volumes followed by A Girl Undone. New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2015 in which the dominant political party is undone by the discovery of huge loans from Saudi Arabia given interest-free on the condition that the U.S. restrict women’s rights. At the end of the novel, women’s rights are slowly being reestablished.

PB - St. Martin’s Griffin CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Glory O’Brien’s History of the Future. A Novel Y1 - 2014 A1 - A[my] S[arig] King (b. 1970) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The novel is told from the point-of-view of a young woman about to graduate from high school who comes to be able to see the past and future generations of people she meets. Beginning about a third of the way through, there are one and two page reports (a total of ten) entitled “Glory O’Briens History of the Future” that recount the division of the U.S. based on an extreme anti-woman agenda; e.g. no woman can be employed, and a new civil war.

PB - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Gone Fishing" Y1 - 2014 A1 - Jo[anne] Thomas ED - Dominica Malcolm KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in the Pacific Ocean where competing sea steading sites have been established, some associated together in a Commonwealth that includes some land-based communities. Everyone is struggling to survive in the fished-out ocean. 

JF - Amok: An Anthology of Asia-Pacific Speculative Fiction PB - Solarwyrm Press CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Goodhouse Y1 - 2014 A1 - Peyton Marshall (b. 1972) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which boys who are the sons of convicted felons are tested for a genetic marker, and, if they have it, are incarcerated in a Goodhouse where they are supposedly taught how to control the effects of their inheritance. Based in part on the nineteenth century Preston School of Industry.

PB - Farrar, Straus & Giroux CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Doubleday, 2015. Rpt. London: Transworld, 2016. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Grasshopper’s Child Y1 - 2014 A1 - Gwyneth [Ann] Jones (b. 1952) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Sequel to 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, and 2006 Jones. This volume follows people, and one young woman in particular, who are caught up in the dystopia as they struggle, ultimately successfully, to get free. 

PB - TJoy Books CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Happy Go Lucky” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Garth Nix (b. 1963) ED - Alisa Krasnostein ED - Julia Rios KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which a test that supposedly shows how lucky a person is determines their place in society. The test is rigged. 

JF - Kaleidoscope: Diverse YA Science Fiction and Fantasy PB - Twelfth Planet Press CY - [Yokine, WA, Australia] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Harmony" Y1 - 2014 A1 - Miodrag Regodić ED - Zorica Ðergović-Joksimović KW - Male author KW - Serbian author AB -

Brief ecological, vegetarian eutopia located on an unknown island in the Pacific.

JF - Embracing Utopian Horizons PB - Filozofski fakultet u Novum Sadu CY - Novi Sad, Serbia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Herd Immunity” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Tananarive [Priscilla] Due (b. 1966) ED - Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

A Nayima story in the series with 2014 Due, “Removal Order,” 2015 Due, “Carriers,” 2019 Due, “One Day Only,” and 2019 Due, “Attachment Disorder.” In this story, Nayima, who is one of the few people who are immune, meets a man who she thinks is also immune.

JF - The End Is Now: The Apocalypse Triptych PB - Np CY - Np SN - 9781497484375 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Honey Trap" Y1 - 2014 A1 - Ruth EJ Booth ED - Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959) KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

Dystopia from after the bees have all died out. 

JF - La Femme PB - NewCon Press CY - [Weston], Eng. N1 -

Rpt. illus. Becca McCall. Edinburgh International Book Festival Special Edition of Shoreline of Infinity, no. 8½ (Summer 2017): 75-92. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “How to Get Back to the Forest” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Sofia Samatar (b. 1971) KW - Female author KW - Somali-American author AB -

Dystopia in which young adults are kept in sex-segregated camps and are implanted with bugs to monitor them. 

JF - Lightspeed VL - 46 UR - http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/how-to-get-back-to-the-forest/ N1 -

Rpt. in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015. Ed. Joe Hill (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015), 1-13; and in her Tender: Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2017): 95-110. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hungry Y1 - 2014 A1 - H[eather] A. Swain (b. 1969) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which food is replaced by drugs, but some people still get hungry, and there is an underground food movement.

PB - Feiwel and Friends CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “I m d 1 in 10” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Victor Fernando R. Ocampo KW - Filipino author KW - Male author KW - Singaporean author AB -

Dystopia that is concerned with a person forced to leave their home country either as workers or as refugees.

JF - The Future Fire: Social Political & Speculative Cyber-Fiction VL - no. 30 SN - 9789811138515 UR - http://futurefire.net/2014.30/fiction/ imd1in10.html N1 -

Rpt. without the illustration in his The Infinity Library and Other Stories. (Singapore: Math Paper Press, 2017), 111-33; and in Big Echo: Critical SF, no. 13 (October 2019). I m d 1 in 10 — Big Echo  

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - If Kids Ran the World Y1 - 2014 A1 - Leo Dillon (1933-2012) A1 - Diane Dillon (b. 1933) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - Trinidadian American author KW - US author AB -

Children’s picture book depicting the eutopia that children would create with equality, everyone well fed, good housing, good health care for all, a good education for all, strong families, protection for the environment, and freedom of religion. Includes two pages of text on “What Kids Are Doing Now.” Compare to 2014 Bailey, If Kids Ruled the World. Leo Dillon was a Caribbean American author born in the U.S. of Trinidadian parents.

PB - Blue Sky Press CY - New York SN - 9780545441964 U2 -

Illus. by the authors. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - If Kids Ruled the World Y1 - 2014 A1 - Linda Bailey (b. 1948) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Children’s picture book that depicts a fantastic world that emphasizes play. Compare to 2014 Dillon and Dillon, If Kids Ran the World

PB - Kids Can Press CY - Toronto, ON, Canada/Tonawanda, NY SN - 978-1-55453-591-0 U2 -

Illus. David Huyck

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - In Ark: A Promise of Survival Y1 - 2014 A1 - Lisa Devaney KW - Female author KW - UK author KW - US author AB -

The background to the novel is a climate-change dystopia in which a woman is trying to create an extensive archive people’s stories. She is then kidnapped by a group from a community that presents itself as having the same goal but is, in fact, a completely controlled and controlling community.

PB - Lisa Devaney Publishing CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - In the End Y1 - 2014 A1 - Demitria Lunetta KW - Female author AB -

Young adult dystopia in sequel to 2013 Lunetta in which the protagonist of the first novel, having escaped from those holding her,  must face new dangers to rescue those she had cared for.

PB - HarperTeen CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “In the Image of Man” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Gabriella Stalker ED - Christie Yant KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia in which most activities, including homes, schools, and churches have moved into malls, which have different statuses, where most people eat in the food courts. All teenagers can get weekly loans to shop, loans that they may have to spend the rest of their lives paying back. The world outside the malls has deteriorated, but there are some people who live outside

JF - Lightspeed: Women Destroy Science Fiction VL - no. 49 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Influx Y1 - 2014 A1 - Daniel Suarez (b. 1964) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A dystopia in which one corporation controls all important technological innovations by force if necessary. One physicist, who has developed a way to offset gravity, has his experiments stopped and is imprisoned. He fights back.

PB - Dutton CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Invisible Streets. A Thriller Y1 - 2014 A1 - Toby Ball KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The third volume of a series of alternative history dystopias set in the U. S. from the 1930s to the 1960s, which is when this novel is set. In this novel, a massive “urban renewal” project is destroying the city. 

PB - Overlook Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - J Y1 - 2014 A1 - Howard Jacobson (b. 1942) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia following a mass pogrom that is only referred to as “WHAT HAPPENED, IF IT HAPPENED.”

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Jewel Y1 - 2014 A1 - Amy Ewing KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

First volume of a young adult dystopian trilogy in which teenage girls are purchased to produce children for their owners. Sequels include a novella published online, The House of the Stone. New York: HarperTeen, 2015, which focuses on a different character, and The White Rose. New York: HarperTeen, 2015.

PB - HarperTeen CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Johnny Appledrone vs. the FAA” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Lee Konstantinou (b. 1978) ED - Ed Finn ED - Kathryn Cramer KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on the desire of the government to control the airspace during a period of extreme regulation versus the hacker mentality.

JF - Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Society PB - William Morrow CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Jonesbridge: Echoes of Hinterland Y1 - 2014 A1 - M[itch] E. Parker KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. The Jonesbridge Industrial Complex is on an island and its workers are all prisoners. The novel focuses on the attempt by a man and a woman to escape. See also 2016 Parker.

PB - Diversion Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Just City. A Novel Y1 - 2014 A1 - Jo Walton (b. 1964) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - Welsh author AB -

The novel is about an attempt, instituted by Greek goddess Pallas Athene, to establish the just city of Plato’s Republic. First volume of a trilogy. See also 2015 and 2016 Walton. 

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The King of Flotsamland” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Tom Barlow ED - Dominica Malcolm KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A dystopia set in a future where metals have become so scarce that corporations are harvesting the collections that the ocean currents created and are willing to kill to get it. The story’s focus is on a man trying to protect the rights to one such collection.

JF - Amok: An Anthology of Asia-Pacific Speculative Fiction PB - Solarwyrm Press CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "King Tide" Y1 - 2014 A1 - Alison Wilgus KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Climate change dystopia of a New York City mostly under water. 

JF - Terraform UR - https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/kbzxwe/king-tide N1 -

Rpt. in GlitterShip Year 1. Ed. Keffy R. M. Kehrli (Np: GlitterShip, 2017), 81-86; and in Little Blue Marble 2018: Stories of Our Changing Climate. Ed. Katrina Archer. Np: Ganache Media epub, 2018. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Kite for Sarah: In Search of Freedom” Y1 - 2014 A1 - David G. Blake KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which many positions are held by robots who can be switched off at will. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lagoon Y1 - 2014 A1 - Nnedi[mma Nkemdili] Okorafor (b. 1974) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Fantasy is central to the novel, but it is set in the dystopia of contemporary Lagos, Nigeria, but hope is held out for a eutopia of collective identity brought about by a visitor from space. The author says that Lagos is the Portuguese for lagoon.

PB - Hodder & Stoughton CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Land of Two Suns” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Katarina Marković ED - Zorica Ðergović-Joksimović KW - Female author KW - Serbian author AB -

Brief eutopia that heals a disaffected woman from our time by letting her know that someplace good, where they do not even know the word misery, exists.

JF - Embracing Utopian Horizons PB - Filozofski fakultet u Novum Sadu CY - Novi Sad, Serbia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Last Days in Eden Y1 - 2014 A1 - Ann Kelley (b. 1941) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia and the revolution that overthrows it. The dystopia is set in a future that has been transformed by climate change.

PB - Luath Press CY - Edinburgh, Scot. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Supper Y1 - 2014 A1 - Allison M. Dickson KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia that follows a disaster. In the dystopia everyone must pass an annual trial called “Justification;” those who fail are killed. The book includes an “Introduction” (i-xii) by Vincent Hobbes that discusses the characteristics of dystopias.

PB - Hobbes End Publishing CY - Aubrey, TX U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Leaving Ashwood Y1 - 2014 A1 - Cynthia Kraack KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 2010 and 2012 Kraack. In this volume, the protagonists become involved in the process of trying to reestablish democracy in the U.S.

PB - North Star Press of St. Cloud CY - Saint Cloud, MN U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Lemuria" Y1 - 2014 A1 - Teovanović, Milica ED - Zorica Ðergović-Joksimović KW - Female author KW - Serbian author AB -

Brief eutopia based on a decentralized political system and education.

JF - Embracing Utopian Horizons PB - Filozofski fakultet u Novum Sadu CY - Novi Sad, Serbia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Lights On Water” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Dilman Dila (b. 1977) ED - Will Martin ED - Kat Phan KW - Male author KW - Ugandan author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia in which everyone lives in an enclosed city. The protagonist, an artist, is given permission to go outside to paint and uses the opportunity to create a subversive work showing his daughter happily swimming with other happy people.

JF - The Short Anthology: Fiction From Photography. The First Issue PB - Ptd. by Ditto Press CY - Np N1 -

Rpt. in his A Killing in the Sun (Yeoville, Johannesburg, South Africa: Black Letter Media, 2014), 86-106.

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 All the stories in the book were written in response to photographs by Joe Nigel Coleman that are included in the book. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Little Green Book of Chairman Rahma Y1 - 2014 A1 - Brian [Patrick] Herbert (b. 1947) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia with a green agenda.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Little Red Suit” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Justine Larbalestier (b. 1967) ED - Kirsty Murray (b. 1960) ED - Payal Dhar ED - Anita Roy KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Re-telling of Little Red Riding Hood as a climate-change dystopia in which the few remaining people in Sydney, Australia, now an island, live underground. 

JF - Eat the Sky, Drink the Ocean PB - Young Zubaan CY - New Delhi, India N1 -

Rpt. New York: Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2017), 29-45. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lockstep Y1 - 2014 A1 - Karl Schroeder (b. 1962) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

The novel is set in a far-future, galaxy-spanning civilization in which hibernation leads to extremely long lives, and the story focuses on the tyrant who controls the system and his brother, who awakes from an immensely long hibernation. 

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet Y1 - 2014 A1 - Becky [Rebecca Marie] Chambers (b. 1985) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

First volume of a series set in a future with many species, including AIs, interacting with each other in mundane, everyday life activities like shopping for food and working together, as well as developing animosities, friendships, and love. The future depicted has both dystopian and eutopian elements with the author stressing the positive more than the negative. The second volume A Closed and Common Orbit. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2016. U.S. ed. New York: Harper Voyage, 2016 is mostly about personal relations, and love in particular, with a main character on the Asperger’s/Autism spectrum. The third volume Record of a Spaceborn Few. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2018. U.S. ed. New York: Harper Voyager, 2018 is the history of those who left the decaying Earth and stayed together as a fleet of ships, known as the Exodus Fleet, as it faces a crisis. The fourth volume The Galaxy, and the Ground Within. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2018. U.S. ed. New York: Harper Voyager, 2018 focuses on cultural differences among various aliens temporarily trapped on a transit planet.

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Rpt. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2015. U.S. ed. New York: Harper Voyager, 2015. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Lost Colony of Roanoke" Y1 - 2014 A1 - Daniela Hodak ED - Zorica Ðergović-Joksimović KW - Female author KW - Serbian author AB -

Brief community-oriented eutopia where decisions are made collectively, and mutual aid is the norm.

JF - Embracing Utopian Horizons PB - Filozofski fakultet u Novum Sadu CY - Novi Sad, Serbia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Lost Emotion” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Adrian Ellis ED - Sumit Paul-Choudhury KW - Male author AB -

Corporate ownership of emotions, which they use primarily in advertising.

JF - Arc. 2.1 Exit Strategies VL - 2.1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Lovely Way to Burn Y1 - 2014 A1 - Louise Welsh (b. 1965) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

First volume of the Plague Times Trilogy. This volume depicts the initial impact of a pandemic that kills almost everyone. It was read on BBC Radio 4’s Book at Bedtime. In Death is a Welcome Space. London: John Murray, 2015, the second volume, two men escape from prison and make their way through the devastated country. No Dominion. London: John Murray, 2017, the third volume, takes place seven years later and involves the protagonist of the second volume leaving the relative safety of Orkney and return to the post-apocalyptic mainland. 

PB - John Murray CY - London SN - 9781848546516 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Man Who Sold the Moon” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) ED - Ed Finn ED - Kathryn Cramer KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Technology used to free people and help them freely make things for their use. 

JF - Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Society PB - William Morrow CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Imaginarium 4: The Best Canadian Speculative Fiction. Ed. Sandra Kasturi and Jerome Stueart (Toronto, ON, Canada: CHiZine Publications, 2016), 400-76.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Market Forces: Paradise Revamped” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Ian Stewart (b. 1945) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on the afterlife, which is now a company.

JF - Nature VL - 507.7492 U2 -

Illus. Jacey

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Memory of Water Y1 - 2014 A1 - Emmi [Elina] Itäranta (b. 1976) KW - Female author KW - Finnish author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia in which a young woman tries to protect her people from the military. 

PB - Harper Voyager CY - New York N1 -

Published in Finnish in 2012 as Teemestarin kirja.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Milkman: A Free World Novel Y1 - 2014 A1 - Michael J. Martineck (b. 1965) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Corporate dystopia in which governments became so deeply in debt that they were bought up by three corporations and everything is now based on how cost effective it is, including investigating crime. See also 2017 Martineck.

PB - Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing CY - Calgary, AB, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - MiSTORY Y1 - 2014 A1 - Philip Temple (b. 1939) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia set in a future where most of the world’s governments have collapsed and the U.S. has broken up. Although it broadcasts its successes, Australia is losing a war against “eastasians”. New Zealand is a dictatorship cooperating with the dictators of Australia and California. The novel is set in the Southern half of the South Island of New Zealand and focuses on the resistance movement, which achieves some success but is still under threat by the end of the novel.

PB - Font Publishing CY - Dunedin, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “MOS 6581” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Jovanović, Vuko ED - Zorica Ðergović-Joksimović KW - Male author KW - Serbian author AB -

A “hive mind” that is briefly presented as a eutopia.

JF - Embracing Utopian Horizons PB - Filozofski fakultet u Novum Sadu CY - Novi Sad, Serbia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Murder Complex Y1 - 2014 A1 - Lindsay Cummings KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia set in a world where the murder rate is higher than the birth rate.  A prequel is The Fear Trials. New York: HarperCollins e-books, 2014. The series is concluded in The Death Code: A Murder Complex Novel. New York: Greenwillow Books, 2015 where the protagonists struggle against the system and succeed.

PB - Greenwillow Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Nether, A Play Y1 - 2014 A1 - Jennifer Haley KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The Nether is a virtual world where anyone can log in, claim an identity, and live out their fantasies. The play concerns a subsection of the Nether designed for pedophiles and depicts the investigation of this subsection by an online detective. The play received its world premiere at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in California in March 2013, after being first developed at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center as part of the 2011 National Playwrights Conference. Subsequent productions have been mounted at the Royal Court Theatre in 2013, MCC Theater in 2014 and in the West End at the Duke of York's Theatre in 2015. It won the 2012 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.

PB - Northwestern University Press CY - Evanston, IL SN - 9780810130630 978-0573703911 N1 -

U.K. edition London: Samuel French, 2015

ER - TY - ABST T1 - NoFood Y1 - 2014 A1 - Tolmie, Sarah KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Satire in which the world’s best chef, bothered by the fact that no one pays attention to his food, decides to serve no food and still charge for it. The people still come. This takes place within a vaguely described dystopia of radical rich/poor differences, the disappearance of many species of both fauna and flora, disease, and terrorism. The very wealthy have TGB (Total Gastric Bypass) surgery (all digestive and, in women, reproductive, organs removed). The Canadian female author is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Waterloo.

PB - Aqueduct Press CY - Seattle, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Notes from the Internet Apocalypse Y1 - 2014 A1 - Gladstone, Wayne KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The dystopia that follows the collapse of the internet. Followed by Reports on the Internet Apocalypse. New York: Thomas Dunne Books St. Martin’s Press, 2014; and Agents of the Internet Apocalypse. New York: Thomas Dunne Books St. Martin’s Press, 2015.

PB - Thomas Dunne Books St. Martin’s Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “One Out, One In: The greatest gift” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Batstone, Aislinn KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future where, to control population growth, a person can designate someone who can have a child when the person dies.

JF - Nature VL - 511.7511 U2 -

Illus. Jacey

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Only Ever Yours Y1 - 2014 A1 - Louise [Anne] O’Neill (b. 1985) KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which at sixteen girls are selected to be wives of the rich and powerful, become concubines, or “chastities,” who run the School where the girls are taught to be beautiful and submissive. The novel focuses on the demands put on girls to have perfect bodies. Irish female author.

PB - Quercus CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Orbital Decay” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Malcolm Cross ED - David Moore KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Part of the Afterblight series set early in the time frame of the series. This story is set in the International Space Station where people observe the deaths on Earth. 

JF - Journal of the Plague Year: A Post-Apocalyptic Omnibus PB - Abbadon Books CY - Oxford, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Outer Territories" Y1 - 2014 A1 - Tim Richards ED - Patrick West ED - Om Prakash Dwivedi KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of an Australian colony in space and the very beginnings of the ultimately successful overthrow of the colonists.

JF - The World to Come PB - Spineless Wonders CY - Strawberry Hills, NSW, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Palestinian Sweets” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Stephen Palmer (b. 1962) ED - Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959) KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

A very odd story in which London is divided into areas dominated by competing religions, with the areas demarcated by smell. 

JF - La Femme PB - New Con Press CY - [Weston], England U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Panther in the Hive: Chicago has fallen. She will not Y1 - 2014 A1 - Olivia A. Cole KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set in a future Chicago deeply divided by access to healthcare and a chip that supposedly cures all possible diseases. When all those who are chipped are suddenly turned extremely violent, a mixed-race young woman must travel across Chicago to find safety. First volume of a trilogy followed by  The Rooster’s Garden: When the Rooster Crows, the Hive Will Burn. Np: Fletchero Publishing, 2016. 537 pp. in which the protagonist and some friends travel West looking for safety and answers. 

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Rpt. Np: Fletchero Publishing © 2016 without mention of the earlier printing. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Peacemaker Y1 - 2014 A1 - Marianne de Pierres (b. 1961) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Mostly an adventure novel with elements of fantasy set in a dystopian world with a park the only natural landscape left. Continued in Mythmaker. Nottingham, Eng./New York: Angry Robot, 2015 which continues the same themes and ends in a way that suggests there will be another volume.

PB - Angry Robot CY - Nottingham, Eng/New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The People of the Underground” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Thomas D. Davis (b. 1941) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A genetically enhanced humanity dominates Earth, and a remnant of the older humanity maintains what it sees as a better civilization underground.

JF - In his Contemporary Moral and Social Issues: An Introduction through Original Fiction, Discussion, and Readings PB - Wiley Blackwell CY - Chichester, Eng./Malden, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Perfected Y1 - 2014 A1 - Kate Jarvik Birch KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

First of two volumes of a young adult dystopia in which girls are bred to be sold as pets. In the sequel, Tarnished. Fort Collins, CO: Entangled Publishing, 2015, the protagonist discovers that the reality of the pets’ situation is much different than they had been told. 

PB - Entangled Teen CY - Fort Collins, CO U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Peripheral Y1 - 2014 A1 - William [Ford] Gibson (b. 1948) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a future of the relatively well off and the poor. The Agency. New York: Berkley, 2019 is both a sequel and a prequel set in a 2017 in which Hillary Clinton won the 2016 election.

PB - G. P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Pied Piper of Hamelin. Russell Brand Trickster Tales Y1 - 2014 A1 - Russell [Edward] Brand (b. 1975) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A profusely illustrated retelling of the Pied Piper of Hamelin with Hamelin presented as a dystopia of narrow-minded people. One child who had been ostracized by the town does not follow the Piper, and he helps the people to be more open-minded.

PB - Atria Books CY - New York U2 -

Illus. Chris Riddell (b. 1962).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pills and Starships Y1 - 2014 A1 - Lydia Millet (b. 1968) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Global warming dystopia in which the rich are kept happy through drugs, and, if they live too long, buy “death contracts” so that they can die peacefully.

PB - Black Sheep CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Poison Fish" Y1 - 2014 A1 - Nnedi[mma Nkemdili] Okorafor (b. 1974) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Climate-change dystopia set a hundred years in the future in which water is scarce and Lake Michigan is poisonous.

JF - WBEZ 91.5 Radio’s “After Water” series PB - WBEZ 91.5 Radio CY - Chicago, IL UR - https://soundcloud.com/afterwater/after-water-ep-1-poison-fish ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Pop-Ups: Captive Audience” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Robert Dawson KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on a future with unavoidable advertising.

JF - Nature VL - 508.7497 U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Preface to a Selected History of the Twenty-First Century” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Lucy Greenwood (b. 1954) ED - Patrick West ED - Om Prakash Dwivedi KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

A document, purported to be from the future, describes the eutopia brought about through decentralization, living locally but connecting globally, and sustainable environmental practices

JF - The World to Come PB - Spineless Wonders CY - Strawberry Hills, NSW, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Providence 2034” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Paul [Gerard] Di Filippo (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Providence, RI as a high tech, green eutopia in the future due to its cooperation with São Vincente, Brazil, together with significant changes in Rhode Island politics. Interstate highway replaced by a thriving neighborhood. Higher education has become a citywide activity extending well beyond campus-based instruction. There is a large Community Land Trust Biosphere. Climate-change refugees from Asia have changed the political dynamic of the state. All legislators are required to serve a year in community service before being seated.

JF - College Hill Independent (Providence, RI) N1 -

Rpt. in his Lost Among the Stars (Colorado Springs, CO: WordFire Press, 2017), 141-46 with an author’s note (140)

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Rag and Bone” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Nicholas P. Oakley ED - Dana Rich KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

The story is set in a future in which people have moved into space to escape the dangers of Earth. Living in individual space habitats is very expensive, and if someone falls behind in their mortgage payments, the habitat is simply retrieved, killing those inside. The story focuses on one of the men doing the retrieving who is sickened by his actions and starts a revolution.

JF - AnarchoSF: Science Fiction and the Stateless Society [Cover adds Volume 1] PB - Obsolete Press CY - Victor, IA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Raising Hell” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on both labor unions and hell, in which damned union leaders manage to organize the demons and win a contract with the Devil. 

JF - Raising Hell plus “The Abnormal New Normal” plus “No Regrets, No Retreat, No Surrender” Outspoken Interview PB - PM Press CY - Oakland, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Red Rising Y1 - 2014 A1 - Pierce Brown (b. 1988) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set on Mars in which people known as Reds work underground in the false belief that they are helping prepare for a move to the surface, which, in fact, happened years ago. One Red infiltrates the society on the surface, which has characteristics of ancient Rome. Sequels include Golden Son. New York: Del Rey, 2015, which follows the main character through an attempt to change the system, which is initially defeated, then appears to win, but the novel ends with the system in chaos; Morning Star. New York: Del Rey, 2015 continues in the same vein but again with apparent victory; Iron Gold. New York: Del Rey, 2018, in which the continuing protagonist is leaser of the Republic that has replaced the dystopia, but it is still at war with some of the members of the old system; and Dark Age. New York: Del Rey, 2019, in which the protagonist has been overthrown and the conflicts continue. Red Rising: Sons of Ares. Runnemede, NJ: Dynamite Entertainment, May-October 2017 is a six-issue comic book prequel to the series.

PB - Del Rey CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Remake Y1 - 2014 A1 - Ilima Todd (b. 1976) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

First volume of a young adult dystopia series. In this volume, on a world, where they are told that at age seventeen, they will be able to choose everything about themselves from name to gender. This is, of course, a lie. A sequel is Resist. Salt Lake City, UT: Shadow Mountain, 2016. 

PB - Shadow Mountain CY - Salt Lake City, UT U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Removal Order" Y1 - 2014 A1 - Tananarive [Priscilla] Due (b. 1966) ED - Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

The first of a continuing series of stories featuring Nayina, a young African woman dealing with a plague (the 72-hour flu, 72 hours being how long one might live after contracting it) while caring for her grandmother, who had cancer. They had stayed behind in a town that everyone else had left and then were forced to move because the town was going to be burned in hopes of stopping the plague. A Nayima story in the series with 2014 Due, “Herd Immunity,” 2015 Due, “Carriers,” 2019 Due, “One Day Only,” and 2019 Due, “Attachment Disorder.”

JF - The End is Nigh: The Apocalypse Triptych PB - Np CY - Np SN - 9781495471179 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Salvage Y1 - 2014 A1 - Alexandra Duncan KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult feminist dystopia in which women are kept illiterate and pregnant. The novel focuses on a woman who escapes to a floating continent of garbage in the Pacific Ocean where she builds a new life.

PB - Greenwillow Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sand Y1 - 2014 A1 - Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the Earth is deeply covered with sand and sand-diving is one of the few ways to make a living. A sequel, which is set in the future of the earlier volume is Across the Sand. New York: William Morrow/HarperColllins, 2022.

PB - CreateSpace CY - North Charleston, SC U1 -

Sand 1Sand 2Sand 3Sand 4, and Sand 5

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Sassy Chassis Lassies and the Devolution Revolution” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Lisa Sargati ED - Elly Blue KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Corporate dystopia in which all vehicles are provided by corporations and are very inefficient. Bicyclists bring freedom.

JF - Bikes in Space Volume 2 [Cover adds More feminist science fiction] PB - Elly Blue Publishing CY - Portland, OR U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Scavengers Y1 - 2014 A1 - Michael Perry (b. 1964) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which a family escapes an authoritarian environment into a dangerous outside where they live mostly by scavenging in abandoned junk heaps. While, by the end of the novel, the family is able to return to a reformed civilization, the young, female protagonist prefers the outside.

PB - Harper CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Second American Civil War: Freedom versus Tyranny Y1 - 2014 A1 - Ira Tabankin (b. 1949) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

First volume in a five-volume series, with a fairly standard trajectory over the five volumes. The other volumes are The Second American Civil War. Book 2 (Version 2): The Balkanization of America. Np. Amazon.com Services [Kindle], 2014; The Second American Civil War. Book 3: United States Invaded. Np. Amazon.com Services [Kindle], 2014, with the available edition called Version 3; The Second American Civil War. Book 4: The Smiths and Jones. Np. Amazon.com Services [Kindle], 2014, with the available edition a corrected one from 2015; and The Second American Civil War. Book 5: War. Np. Amazon.com Services [Kindle], 2015, with the available edition a corrected one. The United States is split between the Liberal States of America and the United States of America, the United Nations invades, and ultimately a civil war ensues. The one exception to the usual is volume 4 in which a television program contrasts similar families from the two countries.

PB - Amazon Services.com [Kindle] CY - Np N1 -

The available edition is from 2015 and called the (Edited Edition). The original editions were riddled with typos.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Sherden” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Marija Macura ED - Zorica Ðergović-Joksimović KW - Female author KW - Serbian author AB -

Brief egalitarian eutopia.

JF - Embracing Utopian Horizons PB - Filozofski fakultet u Novum Sadu CY - Novi Sad, Serbia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sherwood Nation. A Novel Y1 - 2014 A1 - Benjamin [I.] Parzybok (b. 1970) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel presents the rise of a small eutopian community within the confines of a future dystopian Portland, Oregon, which has been experiencing a long drought. The novel ends with a one-page ad for a nonexistence book on the history of Sherwood Nation by two of the main characters.

PB - Small Beer Press CY - Easthampton, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Shooting the Apocalypse" Y1 - 2014 A1 - Paolo [Tadini] Bacigalupi (b. 1972) ED - Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The background to the story is a climate change dystopia with radical division in Arizona between those with water and those without water. See also 2015 Bacigalupi, The Water Knife.

JF - The End is Nigh: The Apocalypse Triptych PB - Np CY - Np N1 -

Rpt. in Loosed Upon the World: The Saga Anthology of Climate Fiction. Ed. John Joseph Adams (New York: Saga Press, 2015), 1-24; and in Wastelands: The New Apocalypse. Ed. John Josephs Adams (London: Titan Books, 2019), 273-294.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Shovel Ready. A Novel Y1 - 2014 A1 - Adam Sternbergh KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-disaster dystopia in which the rich have escaped into virtual reality in guarded high rise buildings and the rest fight for survival in the streets. Continued in Near Enemy. A Spademan Novel. New York: Crown Publishers, 2015 set a year later when there is a threat to those living with government disappearing, everyone heavily armed, private armies, and corporations replacing what authority exists. 

PB - Crown ublishers CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Silent Night” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Dana Rich ED - Ricardo Feral [pseud.] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Utopian satire in which drop-outs respond to the surveillance society. The community of Turkey Creek Hollow, composed mostly of anarcho-capitalist squatters but including other versions of anarchism are being constantly surveilled by the authorities using drones as well as by advertising drones that collected information of the people living there. One man decides to fight back.

JF - AnarchoSF: Science Fiction and the Stateless Society [Cover adds Volume 1] PB - Obsolete Press CY - Victor, IA SN - 978-1-495356025 U3 -

Ricardo Feral [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Sleeper" Y1 - 2014 A1 - Jo Walton (b. 1964) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - Welsh author AB -

Corporate dystopia.

JF - Tor.com UR - http://www.tor.com/stories/2014/08/sleeper-jo-walton. N1 -

Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015. Ed. Rich Horton ([Holicong, PA]: Prime Books, 2015), 446-54; The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy™ 2015. Ed. Joe Hill (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015), 124-33; and in her Starlings (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon, 2018), 80-92.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Slut and the Universe or The Relations between, feminism, global warming, global financial meltdown, asteroid impact, the nuclear arms race and the mass extinction of species. or How feminism got to be both the root of all evil and the means of salvation from them” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Rosaleen [Lucille] Love (b. 1940) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Satire set in a future where all the problems mentioned in the title are occurring or have occurred and being blamed on feminism, but feminism, from a different perspective, is the solution. 

JF - Secret Lives of Books PB - Twelfth Planet Press CY - Yokine, WA, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Spark. A Novel Y1 - 2014 A1 - John Twelve Hawks [pseud.] AB -

Corporate dystopia.

PB - Doubleday CY - New York U3 -

John Twelve Hawks [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - State of Grace Y1 - 2014 A1 - Hilary Badger KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult flawed utopia in which a group of young people believe that they have been created by Dot to have fun but discover that they are an experiment using a drug.

PB - Hardie, Grant Egmont CY - Richmond, Vic, Australia N1 -

U.S. ed. North Mankato, MN: Switch Press, 2015.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - On Such a Full Sea Y1 - 2014 A1 - Chang-Rae Lee (b. 1965) KW - Korean American author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia set in a future U.S. divided into enclaves, with urban neighborhoods turned into labor settlements controlled by and providing the goods desired by the Charters or enclosed communities of the rich. The surrounding areas have been largely abandoned but are occupied by other people struggling to get by. The novel focuses on one of the labor settlements, B-Mor, formerly Baltimore.

PB - Riverhead Books CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Tabula Rasa Y1 - 2014 A1 - Kristen Lippert-Martin KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which some people’s memories are being surgically removed. The novel focuses on a girl whose memories were supposed to have been removed but the operation was interrupted. A sequel is Incognita in which the protagonist of the first volume struggles to survive. Minneapolis, MN: CarolhodaLab, 2016. 

PB - Egmont USA CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "This is Africa" Y1 - 2014 A1 - Feyisayo Anjorin (b. 1983) KW - Male author KW - Nigerian author AB -

Flash fiction set in a future Africa, which is the only place in the world where “wildlife” exists outside zoos. Africa is still dependent on imported technology, including law enforcement robots, which are at times overzealous, but have been programmed to shoot any African head of state who tries to overstay their time in office.

JF - 365 Tomorrows UR - https://365tomorrows.com/?s=this+is+africa&et_pb_searchform_submit=et_search_proccess&et_pb_search_cat=4%2C12%2C1&et_pb_include_posts=yes U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Tidings" Y1 - 2014 A1 - Rich[ard William] Larson (b. 1992) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - Nigerien author KW - Spanish author KW - US author AB -

Vignettes from Maradi, Niger in 2038, Prague, Czechia in 2044, an abandoned Australian detention center in 2066, a First Nations community in 2099, and Ko Phangan, Thailand Republic in 2132. The first is about an invention that eats plastic; the second about a way of helping refugees; the third concerns using memories to reinforce the changes achieved; the fourth is about the beginning of means of communicating with animals; and the last shows the full development of that communication.

JF - Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors PB - Fix Solutions Lab CY - Np UR - Tidings | Fix (grist.org) U2 -

Illus. Rebekka Dunlap

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Tiger Waiting on the Shore: Days of Remembrance” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Paul Currion KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Punishment in the future. For the crime of manslaughter, a person is put to sleep three times for a hundred years each. After the third they are released to a society composed entirely of other released sleepers.

JF - Nature VL - 513.7517 U2 -

Illus. Jacey

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Time Passeth Away Like a Shadow” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Andrew Bryant KW - Male author AB -

The story begins in a climate-change dystopia in 3000 A.D. where a man visits a Christian religious site containing a large, partially carved stone and the skeleton discovered under it, one of the few such sites that exist in a society that has rejected superstition. It then moves back to 2000 A.D. and the discovery of the relics and to 1000 A.D. and the creation of the stone by a pagan carver, whose skeleton is the one found with the stone.

JF - Neo-Opsis Science Fiction Magazine VL - No. 24 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Torching the Dusties" Y1 - 2014 A1 - Margaret [Eleanor] Atwood (b. 1939) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

The story is told from the perspective of an old, nearly blind woman living in Ambrosia Manor, a home for the wealthy aged, as protests by the Our Turn Movement erupt throughout the country. The  protests are against the old for despoiling the planet, hoarding its wealth, and living too long and, as a result, depriving the young of what they see as their birthright. On the whole, the authorities support the protesters, and such homes are being torched.

JF - Stone Mattress: Nine Tales PB - McClelland & Stewart CY - Toronto, ON, Canada SN - 978-0-771-00680-7 978-0-385-54912-8 N1 -

US ed. (New York: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2014), 225-268. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Transcripts from the Investigation on the Life and Death of Alastor de Roja” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Vincent Michael Simbulan ED - Andrew Drilon ED - Charles Tan KW - Filipino author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in an alternative steampunk Spanish past in which the investigation is regarding the death of a man who becomes an activist supporting the colonies against the colonial power. 

JF - Philippine Speculative Fiction. Volume 9. Literature of the Fantastic PB - Kestrel DDM CY - Np VL - 9 N1 -

Repub. as an ebook. Quezon City, Philippines: Flipside Digital Content Co. and Kestrel IMC, 2017

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Two Scenarios for the Future of Solar Energy” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Annalee Newitz (b. 1969) ED - Ed Finn ED - Kathryn Cramer KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -

Two versions of sustainable urban futures, low tech and high tech.

JF - Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Society PB - William Morrow CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Unit Simulation: Reconnect with Your Past” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Coy St. Clair KW - Male author AB -

Flawed utopia of a future where the breeding program had produced a generation where there was no disease or deformity, intelligence had increased, and peace had been achieved, but everyone was sterile and people longed for families. 

JF - Nature VL - 507.7490 U2 -

Illus. Jacey

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LLL

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Unplugging Y1 - 2014 A1 - Yvette Nolan (b. 1961) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - First Nations author AB -

The play is set after an unexplained “unplugging” in which all electricity stops everywhere. It focuses on two old women who are expelled from a community because old women were considered worthless. But the women have knowledge and survival skills that the community has lost.

PB - Playwrights Canada Press CY - Toronto, ON, Canada SN - 9781770911321 N1 -

Originally entitled Two Old Women, was first read at Native Earth Performing Art’s Weesageechak Begins to Dance XXII in January 2010, was workshopped at the Playwrights Theatre Centre in Vancouver, and read at the Banff Playwrights Colony, and the Arts Club Theatre ReACT festival, all in 2010. In 2011, it was read at the University of Toronto’s Festival of Original Theatre, the Matariki Festival in Wellington, New Zealand, and at the Reverie Productions in New York City. As The Unplugging, it opened at Factory Theatre in a Native Earth Performing Arts Production in March 2015 directed by Nina Lee Aquino. It won the 2013 Jessie Richardson Award for outstanding original script.

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Originally entitled Two Old Women

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PPT

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Utah, Rwanda” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Buljubašić, Seada ED - Zorica Ðergović-Joksimović KW - Female author KW - Serbian author AB -

Brief eutopia with both variety and difference and equality living in harmony. Good education. No violence. No politics or politicians.

JF - Embracing Utopian Horizons PB - Filozofski fakultet u Novum Sadu CY - Novi Sad, Serbia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Valedictorian" Y1 - 2014 A1 - N[ora] K. Jemisin (b. 1972) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

The story takes place after a very long war in which humans have been defeated by other humans with embedded AI. The humans without AI have degenerated, despise intelligence, and see the only role from girls is to have babies. The story focuses on a girl who doesn’t fit in. 

JF - Lightspeed Magazine VL - no. 55 UR - http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/valedictorian/ N1 -

Rpt. in her How Long ‘Til Black Future Month (New York: Orbit, 2018), 150-69. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Virus Y1 - 2014 A1 - Ifedayo Adigwe Akintomide KW - Male author KW - Nigerian author AB -

Pandemic dystopia

PB - Lulu.com CY - Np SN - 9781312390324 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Volunteer” Y1 - 2014 A1 - T. R. Napper ED - Dominica Malcolm KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a dystopian future Southeast Asia in a continuing war between Thailand and Vietnam. 

JF - Amok: An Anthology of Asia-Pacific Speculative Fiction PB - Solarwyrm Press CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Watcher Y1 - 2014 A1 - Nicholas P. Oakley KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Flawed utopia presented through a coming-of age story. A relatively primitive tribal society that operates on the basis of gender equality and consensus faces an internal problem with an individual who manipulates the system and an external problem of an invader. The Watcher is an alien representing a larger universe who asks a young woman for help in dealing with the invader. 

PB - See Sharp Press CY - Tucson, AZ U5 -

CU-Riv, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Water" Y1 - 2014 A1 - Ellen van Neerven (b. 1990) KW - Aboriginal author KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

The story, which has strong elements of magic realism, is set in a future Australian dystopia in which an Aboriginal President is driving a wedge between cultures. 

JF - Heat and Light PB - University of Queensland Press CY - St. Lucia, Qsld, Australia: University of Queensland Press U5 -

PUP

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Weary" Y1 - 2014 A1 - Christopher Ruz ED - Bryan Young KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia set during a future war between Australia and China that has devastated the Australian economy and produced high levels of drug addiction.

JF - Apollo's Daughters: Athena’s Daughters Companion Trilogy PB - Silence in the Library CY - Havelock, NC U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Weft" Y1 - 2014 A1 - Alyssa Brugman ED - Kirsty Murray (b. 1960) ED - Payal Dhar ED - Anita Roy KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia in which beauty is all important seen through the eyes of a young woman who has sold a kidney to pay for various enhancements. 

JF - Eat the Sky, Drink the Ocean PB - Young Zubaan CY - New Delhi, India VL - 74-82 N1 -

Rpt. New York: Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2017), 84-92.

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Public, PUP

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Welcome to the World, Trilby Freedom” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Vizcarra, Marcelina KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A future of over-concerned, over-hygienic parenting. 

JF - Nature VL - 507.7520 U2 -

Illus. Jacey

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LLL

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “What Is Your Problem, Agent X9?” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Mick [Michael Anthony] Farren (1943-2013) ED - Dana Rich KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which the human race is being eliminated seen through the eyes one of those doing the elimination who is interrogating someone seen as a traitor.

JF - AnarchoSF: Science Fiction and the Stateless Society [Cover adds Volume 1] PB - Obsolete Press CY - Victor, IA U2 -

Illus. Blair Gauntt

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “When the Birds Come” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Emily Riches ED - Patrick West ED - Om Prakash Dwivedi KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia in which the old have been shunted off to miserable communities outside cities. Set in a future with both a climate crisis bringing rising seas and a pandemic, the decision is made that elderly are not worth what they cost.

JF - The World to Come PB - Soineless Wonders CY - Strawberry Hills, NSW, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “When the Music Ends” Criminal Records” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Philip Ball KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a future where recorded music is illegal.

JF - Nature VL - 515.7527 U2 -

Illus Jacey

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Wife and a Slave.” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Dilman Dila (b. 1977) KW - Male author KW - Ugandan author AB -

Dystopia set in a future where a self-proclaimed Emperor had instituted false African traditions that made normal relations between husbands and wives illegal.

JF - A Killing in the Sun PB - Black Letter Media CY - Yeoville, Johannesburg, South Africa U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Winterkill Y1 - 2014 A1 - Kate A. Boorman KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult dystopia set in an isolated, enclosed small community with strict rules about leaving that one girl breaks. Sequels include Darkthaw. Illus. Shane Rebenschied. New York: Amulet Books, 2015; and Heartfire. Illus. Shane Rebenschied. New York: New York: Amulet Books, 2016, both of which follow the adventures of the protagonist as she escapes the settlement and then defeats it to save her new home. 

PB - Amulet Books CY - New York U2 -

Illus. Shane Rebenschied

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Word Exchange. A Novel Y1 - 2014 A1 - Alena Graedon KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which most people lose the ability to communicate.

PB - Doubleday CY - New York U5 -

Public

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Wordless Y1 - 2014 A1 - AdriAnne Strickland (b. 1984) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which the underclass is illiterate, and a wordless boy helps a girl from the upper class, who has healing powers, to escape. First volume in a series to be followed by Lifeless. Woodbury, MN: Flux, 2015 in which the boy is captured and given the power to kill at a touch with the intend of using him as a weapon. The ending of Lifeless suggests a sequel, but none has been published. 

PB - Flux CY - Woodbury, MN U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Worldmaker” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Rachel Armstrong ED - Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959) KW - English author KW - Female author JF - Paradox: Stories Inspired by the Fermi Paradox PB - NewCon Press CY - [Weston, Eng] N1 -

Rpt. in Digital Dreams: A Decade of Science Fiction by Women. Ed. Ian Whates ([Weston, Eng]: NewCon Press, 2016). EBook.

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Wrath of the Brunists Y1 - 2014 A1 - Robert [Lowell] Coover (b. 1932) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Sequel of sorts to 1966 Coover in which some Brunists return to the village where they had previously been located. The novel is concerned with a number of the people from the community and among the Brunists and explores what had really happened during the events described in the 1966 novel.

PB - Dzanc Press CY - Ann Arbor, MI U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - XOM-B Y1 - 2014 A1 - Jeremy Robinson (b. 1974) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel begins in a world-wide eutopia that has been achieved through overthrowing a slave system. Now it is threatened by a virus.

PB - Thomas Dunne Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. as Uprising. New York: St. Martin’s Paperbacks, 2015

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Rpt. as Uprising

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CU-Riv

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Yamada’s Armada” Y1 - 2014 A1 - [Ee Leen] [Lee] ED - Dominica Malcolm KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a future Singapore that has a rigidly enforced status system. 

JF - Amok: An Anthology of Asia-Pacific Speculative Fiction PB - Solarwyrm Press CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Young World Y1 - 2014 A1 - Chris[opher John] Weitz (b. 1969) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which a disease has killed all children and adults and only teenagers are left alive in parts of the world, and conflict among the surviving teens develops. It becomes a quest as a few teenagers combine to search for the hidden cure. First volume of a trilogy. The middle volume is The New World. New York: Little, Brown and Co., 2015 in which the cure is found but the conflict continues and the main protagonists, a young man and a young woman are separated. The final volume is The Revival. New York: Little, Brown and Co., 2016 in which the young man returns to New York with the cure and a desire to unite the warring factions, but the fighting continues. When the young woman returns to New York, they succeed in bring the fighting to an end. 

PB - Little, Brown and Co CY - New York U5 -

Public

ER - TY - ABST T1 - 2014 Y1 - 2013 A1 - Paul S. Anderson (b. 1974) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a Civil War in the U.S. that starts as Texas secedes in an attempt by an elite to take over the country. Other states follow, and, while the U.S. government finally wins, the war is a long and bloody one.

PB - CreateSpace CY - [North Charleston, SC] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - 2084: When God Blessed America Again! Y1 - 2013 A1 - Rick Chapman KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which Islamists now dominate eighty per cent of the world’s population and have imposed Shari`a law. The novel focuses on a man and a woman who have escaped to Alaska where they find other lovers of freedom. These Alaskans organize and free the U.S. from the Islamists and their supporters.

PB - Trafford CY - [Victoria, BC, Canada] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - 2121: A Tale From the Next Century Y1 - 2013 A1 - Susan [Adele] Greenfield [Baroness Greenfield] (b. 1950) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia in which the human race has divided into those who live a cyber dominated life of pure pleasure and those who follow a rigid rational code and what happens when they interact.

PB - Head of Zeus CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Abandon. A Possession Novel Y1 - 2013 A1 - Elana Johnson KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 2011 and 2012 Johnson following the personal and political relationships of the Resistance to the dystopia. Two stories set in the same dystopia were published as ebooks as Resist. A Possession Story. [Los Gatos, CA]: Smashwords, 2011 and Regret: A Possession Story. New York: Simon Pulse ebook, 2012. Both are about Resistance missions and personal relationships within the Resistance. 

PB - Simon Pulse CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Adjacent Y1 - 2013 A1 - Christopher [McKenzie] Priest (1943-2024) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The complex novel operates on a number of different timelines, but it begins in a near-future dystopia of the Islamic Republic of Great Britain.

PB - Orion CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Titan Books, 2014. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - After Tomorrow Y1 - 2013 A1 - Gillian Cross (b. 1945) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult dystopia of a violent future.

PB - Oxford University Press CY - Oxford, Eng. U5 -

NZ

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Amphibian Attack” Y1 - 2013 A1 - Afolabi Muheez Ashiru ED - Ayodele Arigbabu KW - Male author KW - Nigerian author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia in which a Nigerian leader who is trying to lead the recovery is undermined by his corporate supporters who are solely concerned with making money.

JF - Lagos_2060: Exciting Sci-Fi Stories from Nigeria PB - DADA Books CY - Lagos, Nigeria U2 -

Illus.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Annihilation” Y1 - 2013 A1 - Chiagozie Fred Nwonwu ED - Ayodele Arigbabu KW - Male author KW - Nigerian author AB -

Dystopia of Lagos after climate change had flooded the city.

JF - Lagos_2060: Exciting Sci-Fi Stories from Nigeria PB - DADA Books CY - Lagos, Nigeria U2 -

Illus.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Apricot Lane" Y1 - 2013 A1 - Rudy [Rudolf von Bitter] Rucker (b. 1946) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on the over-networked future.

JF - An Aura of Familiarity: Visions from the Coming Age of Networked Matter PB - Institute for the Future CY - Palo Alto, CA U5 -

EBook

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Aquifer. A Novel Y1 - 2013 A1 - Jonathan Friesen KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult global warming dystopia in which water is in short supply and those who control it try to keep knowledge at a minimum and in their control also.

PB - Blink CY - Grand Rapids, MI U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Assault on Sunrise Y1 - 2013 A1 - Michael Shea (1946-2014) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which Hollywood studios completely control the lives of the people who work for them and the state of California. The novel is about a town named Sunrise that has welcomed extras from the studios and is being attacked by the State in revenge.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Asterion Y1 - 2013 A1 - Kenneth Morvant KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia with fantasy elements about an authoritarian government that the protagonist initially sees as doing good. A sequel Asterion II: Hail Caesar has been announced but not published.

PB - Author CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “At the Crossroads” Y1 - 2013 A1 - Barb Caffrey ED - Deborah J[ean] Ross ED - Elisabeth Waters KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Free Amazon story.

JF - Stars of Darkover. Darkover® Anthology 14 PB - The Marion Zimmer Bradley Literary Trust Works CY - San Franciso, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Beautiful Land Y1 - 2013 A1 - Averill, Alan KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

One theme of the novel is the search for utopia and the way that its possibility can corrupt some people while freeing and healing others.

PB - Ace Book CY - New York U5 -

Public

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Before Hope" Y1 - 2013 A1 - Lakin-Smith, Kim ED - Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959) KW - Female author KW - UK author AB -

Dystopia set in a future of colonized planets that have all the problems of contemporary life. The story includes the possibility for resistance and revolution.

JF - Solaris Rising 2: The New Solaris Book of Science Fiction PB - Solaris CY - Oxford, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Beginner’s Guide to Survival Before, During, and After the Apocalypse” Y1 - 2013 A1 - Christopher Barzak (b. 1975) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Although most of the story is about survival, it is presented as taking place during a right-wing dystopia

JF - Before and Afterlives. Stories PB - Lethe Press CY - Maple Shade, NJ N1 -

Rpt. in Wastelands 2: More Stories of the Apocalypse. Ed. John Joseph Adams (London: Titan Books, 2015), 163-68.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Beginning of the End Y1 - 2013 A1 - Michael T. Snyder KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An exploration of the dystopia that is predicted written from a Christian perspective with the explicit message the Christian faith can help people survive the coming collapse.

PB - [CreateSpace] CY - [North Charleston, SC] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Benjamin’s Freedom Magic” Y1 - 2013 A1 - Ronald T. Jones ED - Milton Davis ED - Balogun Ojetade KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in the Confederacy that is at peace with the United States, but is concerned with the independent country of Delany, probably Martin Robison Delany (1812-85), established by abolitionists. It is primarily concerned with weaponry being developed for the next war. 

JF - Steamfunk! PB - MV media, LLC CY - Fayetteville, GA SN - 978-0-9800842-5-2 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Best of All Possible Worlds. A Novel Y1 - 2013 A1 - Karen [Antoinette Roberta] Lord (b. 1968) KW - Barbadian author KW - Female author AB -

A complex novel depicting a world with many differing societies, one explicitly dystopian, but with most of them presented positively. The Galaxy Game. New York: del Rey, 2015 is a sequel that presents a much more complex and less positive presentation of the differing societies.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Bicycle Girl" Y1 - 2013 A1 - Tade Thompson KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Nigerian author AB -

The story is set in a Nigerian prison, where a man is being tortured to get him to confess to murdering an entire village. The people disappeared, and he has no idea where they went, but he had driven a young girl to the village, and, at the end, she returns to take him to where they went. 

JF - Expanded Horizons VL - no. 40 UR - http://expandedhorizons.net/magazine/?page_id=3234 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Black Helicopters Y1 - 2013 A1 - Blythe Woolston KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which the Black Helicopters, generally considered a fantasy of the extreme right, are real and represent Fedgov’s attempt to gain greater power. The novel explores the motivations of a young woman who intends to become a suicide bomber. 

PB - Candlewick Press CY - Somerville, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Blossom Project” Y1 - 2013 A1 - M. Frost ED - Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959) KW - Female author AB -

A plague has killed many people and animals, and Australia and New Zealand (now Auzealand) have completely cut themselves off from the rest of the world to avoid the spread of the plague. The authoritarian government controlling science is using genetic engineering using blood from those who were immune to the plague to create a cow (Blossom) that would give milk carrying the antibodies. Auzealand is presented in eutopian terms; the rest of the world is presented as a dystopia.

JF - Looking Landwards: Stories Commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the Institute of Agricultural Engineers PB - NewCon Press in Association with The Institute of Agricultural Engineers CY - [Weston, Eng] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Books of James C. Patch: Utopia Y1 - 2013 A1 - Gary D. Henry KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to Henry The Books of James C. Patch: The Barrier (2000) and The Books of James C. Patch: Returning (2000). This novel presents the utopia that exists on the other side of the barrier and the people, mostly children, freed from the barrier finding a home.

PB - AuthorHouse CY - Bloomington, IN U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Breathing Engine” Y1 - 2013 A1 - Matthew Lambert ED - Elly Blue KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of an environmentally depleted Earth.

JF - Bikes in Space [Cover adds a feminist science fiction anthology] PB - Elly Blue Publishing CY - Portland, OR VL - Vol. 10 of Taking the Lane U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Burn 3” Y1 - 2013 A1 - Kami Garcia (b. 1972) ED - Melissa Marr ED - Kelley Armstrong (b. 1948) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia of life inside a dome designed to protect people from the sun due to holes in the ozone layer, which it fails to do. The water requires purification tablets and the atmosphere inside the dome is often dangerous. Extremely crowded conditions and Burn 3 is the worst area.

JF - Shards & Ashes PB - Harper CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Wastelands: The New Apocalypse. Ed. John Josephs Adams (London: Titan Books, 2019), 435-454. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Cellular Level” Y1 - 2013 A1 - J. E. Bryant ED - Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959) KW - English author AB -

The story is told from the point of view of an engineer developing drones to replace pollinators killed by various environmental changes who needs the wisdom of an old woman who has spent her life on a farm to understand the workings of nature. The technology works but the bees still know more.

JF - Looking Landwards: Stories Commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the Institute of Agricultural Engineers PB - NewCon Press in Association with The Institute of Agricultural Engineers CY - [Weston, Eng] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Charlie’s Ant” Y1 - 2013 A1 - Adrian [Czajkowski] (b. 1972) ED - Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

High-tech farming creates a dystopia..

JF - Looking Landwards: Stories Commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the Institute of Agricultural Engineers PB - NewCon Press in Association with The Institute of Agricultural Engineers CY - [Weston, Eng] N1 -

Rpt. in the Edinburgh International Science Festival Special Edition of Shoreline of Infinity, no. 11½ (Spring 2018): 36-45. 

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Adrian Tchaikovsky [pseud.].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Childhood of Jesus Y1 - 2013 A1 - J[ohn] M[axwell] Coetzee (b. 1940) KW - Australian author KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

The setting of the novel is the dystopia in which contemporary refugees live. First volume of a trilogy followed by The Schooldays of Jesus. London: Harvill Secker, 2016. U.S. ed. New York: Viking, 2016 and The Death of Jesus. London: Harvill Secker, 2016. U.S. ed. New York: Viking, 2020. 

PB - Harvill Secker CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Viking, 2013. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Circle Y1 - 2013 A1 - Dave Eggers (b. 1970) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel can be read as either a flawed utopia or a dystopia but is a eutopia from the perspective of the protagonist. The Circle is a large corporation that serves a very large and growing part of U.S. business with online services with the goal of absorbing all world business. The focus of the novel is first on the internal corporate cultural which is designed to absorb all of a worker’s life and make that life known to everyone else in the country. This leads to the idea of everyone becoming “transparent” by wearing a camera that shows what they are seeing at all times. This spreads into the world outside the corporation and particularly to politicians.

PB - Penguin CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “City of Beauty, City of Scars” Y1 - 2013 A1 - Paul [Gerard] Di Filippo (b. 1954) ED - Judith K. Dial ED - Thomas A[twood] Easton (b. 1944) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a society that focuses on beauty.

JF - Impossible Futures: An Anthology PB - Pink Narcissus Press CY - Auburn, MA N1 -

 Rpt. in his Lost Among the Stars (Colorado Springs, CO: WordFire Press, 2017), 5-18 with an author’s note (4). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - CODA Y1 - 2013 A1 - Trevayne, Emma KW - Female author KW - UK author KW - US author AB -

Young adult corporate dystopia focusing on music as both a means of control and a way of achieving freedom. The first of two volumes. The sequel is Chorus. Philadelphia, PA: RP Teens, 2014 in which the corporation is ultimately defeated.

PB - Running Press Teens CY - Philadelphia, PA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Competent Authority. A Novel Y1 - 2013 A1 - Shovon Chowdhury (d. 2021) KW - Indian author KW - Male author AB -

The satirical novel is set in a future fragmented India with parts under the control of China, which has used nuclear weapons against India. In part of the remaining India, a man who is simply called the Competent Authority controls the system and has odd plans for the future. 

PB - Aleph Book Co. CY - New Delhi, India U5 -

PU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Contraband" Y1 - 2013 A1 - Terry Martin ED - Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Climate change dystopia.

JF - Looking Landwards: Stories Commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the Institute of Agricultural Engineers PB - NewCon Press in Association with The Institute of Agricultural Engineers CY - [Weston, Eng] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Crecheling Y1 - 2013 A1 - D[avid] J[ohn] Butler (b. 1973) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia that begins in what appears to be a eutopia, but to achieve status in the society, the protagonist must go through a rite of passage that requires murder and that she may not survive. A sequel is Urbane: A Dystopia. Buza System #2. Colorado Springs, CO: WordFire Press, 2016 in which, having survived without killing, she and the young man she was expected to kill return to confront the dystopia.

PB - WordFire Press CY - Colorado Springs, CO U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Culling. The Torch Keeper: Book One Y1 - 2013 A1 - Steven dos Santos KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult authoritarian dystopia based on a vicious form of advancement in the military that requires anyone failing to reach the next level to choose a relative to be killed. First volume of a series followed by The Sowing. The Torch Keeper: Book Two. Woodbury, MN: Flux, 2014 in which the protagonist of the first volume continues to work his way up the levels of the military, while also trying to undermine the system. In the final volume, The Raising. The Torch Keeper: Book Three. Np: [Curtis Brown Unlimited], 2016, the dystopia is defeated.

PB - Flux CY - Woodbury, MN U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Dandelion Insurrection: Love and Revolution Y1 - 2013 A1 - Rivera Sun (b. 1982) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The first volume of an intended trilogy in which a couple work to sow the seeds for a nonviolent revolt against the corporate dominated U. S. government. Followed by The Roots of Resistance. El Prado, NM: Rising Sun Press Works, 2018. 391 pp. in which the revolution appears to have succeeded, but the powerful still resist and a violent fringe group develops that challenges the nonviolent ethos of the revolution. There is also a companion volume, The Dandelion Insurrection Study Guide. EL Prado, NM: Rising Sun Press Works, 2015. 124 pp.

PB - Rising Sun Press Works CY - El Prado, NM U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Dare" Y1 - 2013 A1 - Sophie Clarke KW - Female author AB -

The story is told from the point of view of a teenage girl who, under the Bill for the Protection of Young, Girls is living in the Academy of Virtue and Integrity where she is being prepared to be given to a “good man”.

JF - The Future Fire: Social Political & Speculative Cyber-Fiction VL - no. 26 UR - The Future Fire: 2013.26 fiction dare U2 -

Illus. Eric Asaris

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Death of Immortality Y1 - 2013 A1 - J. M. Cobb KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The “Introduction” (v-viii) gives an almost entirely positive picture of the eutopia that will result from an immortality achieved through scientific advances. No disease, no crime, hence no prisons, no religion, and no war. “Unfortunately,” no family because no children and marriage will fade away. But the novel is about a murder that does occur committed by members of a secret society that believed immortality was the wrong choice for humanity. The novel contradicts the introduction in that there is a detective available, doctors are busy, and there is a priest. 

PB - Archway Publishing CY - Bloomington, IN U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Defenders of the Flame Y1 - 2013 A1 - Sylvia [Louise] Engdahl (b. 1933) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 2007 and 2009 Engdahl set two hundred years later in which a positive future is found. 

PB - Ad Stellae CY - Eugene, OR U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Detainee: No Escape from the Punishment Y1 - 2013 A1 - Peter Liney KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Violent, authoritarian dystopia and survival. A sequel is Into the Fire. London: Jo Fletcher Books, 2014, in which the protagonist from The Detainee escape to the mainland, only to discover that it is as bad. Sequels include Into the Fire. London: Jo Fletcher Books, 2014, a typical middle volume in which things get worse; and In Constant Fear. London: Jo Fletcher Books, 2015, in which, after further struggles, the people find peace.

PB - Jo Fletcher Books CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Difference of Opinion” Y1 - 2013 A1 - Meda Kahn KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which those with disabilities are treated as less than human and called “litches,” which is derived from leech. Autistic female author.

JF - Strange Horizons UR - http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/difference-of-opinion N1 -

http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/difference-of-opinion/ Podcast at http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/difference-of-opinion/Podcast. Rpt. in Heiresses of Russ 2014: The Year’s Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction. Ed. Melissa Scott and Steve Berman (Maple Shade, NJ: Lethe Press, 2014), 227-42; and in Strange Horizons (September 9, 2017). http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/difference-of-opinion-2/. Podcast http://strangehorizons.com/podcasts/podcast-difference-of-opinion-2/

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Disappearance of Ember Crow Y1 - 2013 A1 - Ambelin Kwaymullina (b. 1975) KW - Aboriginal author KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Sequel to 2013 Kwaymullina. In this volume one of the young people with special talents goes missing. See also 2015 Kwaymullina.

PB - Walker Books CY - Newtown, NSW, Australia N1 -

U.S. ed. Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press, 2016. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Disappearances Y1 - 2013 A1 - Gemma Malley KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Sequel to 2012 Malley. In this volume, two of the protagonists had escaped the city but had to return to face a new threat. See also 2013 Malley, The System.

PB - Hodder & Stoughton CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Discovered Country” Y1 - 2013 A1 - Ian R[oderick] MacLeod (b. 1956) KW - Male author KW - Northern Ireland author AB -

The story is set in what appears to be a heaven, called Farside, established specifically for the very rich. Current life, called Lifeside, is depicted in dystopian terms. 2013 MacLeod, “Entangled” is something of a sequel.

JF - Asimov’s Science Fiction VL - 37.9 (452) N1 -

Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction. Thirty-First Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2014), 1-22 with an editor’s note on 1; and in Macleod’s Frost on Glass (Hornsea, Eng.: PS Publishing, 2015), 3-33, with an “Afterword Silver Machines” by the author (34-36).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Do Shepherds Dream of Electric Sheep” Y1 - 2013 A1 - Fleming, Sam ED - Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959) KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

Satire on a future in which most agriculture has been automated. 

JF - Looking Landwards: Stories Commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the Institute of Agricultural Engineers PB - NewCon Press in Association with The Institute of Agricultural Engineers CY - [Weston, Eng] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Dogsbody" Y1 - 2013 A1 - [Roxanne Longstreet] [Conrad] (1962-2020) ED - Melissa Marr ED - Kelley Armstrong (b. 1948) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Corporate dystopia that simply kills thousands of children in order to save the money of feeding them. The ones they allow to live work for the corporate at the lowest level, Dogsbody, at the worst jobs. The work focuses on a few young people fighting back.

JF - Shards & Ashes PB - Harper CY - New York U3 -

Rachel Caine [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Domechild Y1 - 2013 A1 - Shiv Ramdas KW - Indian author KW - Male author AB -

The protagonist is a man living in an authoritarian, surveilled dystopia who works in a small cubicle checking up on other people. “Perfection is vigilance. Nobody is perfect until everybody is perfect. Everybody is guilty until nobody is.” Any dissent means being taken away by “lawbots” to never be seen again. The man loses his way going to home and discovers people living rough outside the controlled area, saves one from the “lawbots,” takes her home, and then is blackmailed by an AI, with most of the rest of the novel about him dealing with the resulting problems. The novel ends with the suggestion of a sequel, but none has been published.

PB - Penguin Random House India CY - New Delhi, India SN - 9780143332985 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dreamer in the Dry Y1 - 2013 A1 - Peter Hannaford KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Australia as a dystopia effected by climate change that has brought drought. Australia is divided between the Islamic north, now known as Capricornia, and the United States of Southern Australia, with Tasmania having joined the regional economic powerhouse, New Zealand. Sheep and cattle can only be raised in the Islamic north with the south dependent on kangaroo farming.

PB - AuthorHouse UK CY - Bloomington, IN U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Droplet" Y1 - 2013 A1 - Rahul Kanakia (b. 1985) ED - Fabio Fernandes ED - Djibril al-Ayad KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the U.S. is poor and ravaged by climate change and has become extremely parochial and has pushed out most non-citizen immigrants and even many immigrants who had become citizens. Those who stay are subject to random violence.

JF - We See a Different Frontier: A Postcolonial Speculative Fiction Anthology PB - Futurefire.net Publishing CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Earthen" Y1 - 2013 A1 - Alicia Cole ED - Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story presents a high-tech future with most farms fully mechanized with the focus on one woman who still lives on her farm and cares deeply for the land.

JF - Looking Landwards: Stories Commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the Institute of Agricultural Engineers PB - NewCon Press in Association with The Institute of Agricultural Engineers CY - [Weston, Eng] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - East of West. [The Promise] Y1 - 2013 A1 - Jonathan Hickman (b. 1972) A1 - Nick Dragotta KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The first volume of a violent graphic novel dystopian series depicting the Apocalypse which was first published as a monthly series in March 2013. Sequels are East of West Volume Two: [We Are All One]. Berkeley, CA: Image Comics, 2014; and East of West Volume 3. Berkeley, CA: Image Comics, 2014.

PB - Image Comics CY - Berkeley, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The End: A Postapocalyptic Novel. Book 1 of the New World Series Y1 - 2013 A1 - G. Michael Hopf KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Survivalist dystopia after an EMP (electromagnetic pulse) attack on North America, Europe and the Far East knocks out the entire electric power system. Sequels include The Long Road: A Postapocalyptic Novel. Book 2 of the New World Series. New York: Plume, 2014, in which the U.S. has collapsed; Sanctuary: A Postapocalyptic Novel. Book 3 of the New World Series. New York: Plume, 2014, which follows six people in search of a sanctuary; The Line of Departure: A Postapocalyptic Novel. Book 4 of the New World Series. New York: Plume, 2015, in which some people find a safe place within the devastated country; Blood, Sweat & Tears. A Postapocalyptic Novel. Book 5 The New World Series. [North Charleston, SC: Create Space], 2015, in which the protagonist wages war against what is left of the U.S. while other areas secede; The Razor’s Edge, A Postapocalyptic Novel. Book 6 The New World Series. [North Charleston, SC: Create Space], 2016 in which what remains of the U.S. is close to collapse; and Those Who Remain. A Postapocalyptic Novel. Book 7 The New World Series. [North Charleston, SC: Create Space], 2016 in which the protagonist now fights for the U.S.

PB - Plume CY - New York N1 -

Originally published online in 2013.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The End, My Friend: Prelude to the Apocalypse Y1 - 2013 A1 - KIrby Wright KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel has elements of a survivalist dystopia in that the U.S. economy and infrastructure collapses, the social order disintegrates, and violence predominates. But the novel does not have the political ranting of so many survivalist dystopias and focuses on a search for a safe place, a motif in some other survivalist novels, which is found at least temporarily at the end of the novel.

PB - Lemon Shark Press CY - San Diego, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - England’s Darkness Y1 - 2013 A1 - Stephen Barber KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The collapse of the digital system results in the loss of knowledge and the end of all fossil-based fuel results in the complete collapse of England, the abandonment of Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland, and the deliberate depopulation of the north of England.

PB - Sun Vision Press CY - Np SN - 9780985762537 U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Entangled" Y1 - 2013 A1 - Ian R[oderick] MacLeod (b. 1956) KW - Male author KW - Northern Ireland author AB -

Something of a sequel to 2013 MacLeod, “The Discovered Country.” This story is set in the future of the current life of the previous story where at least some things are improving due to mental connections among the people. There are various communal experiments where many people live.

JF - Asimov’s Science Fiction VL - 37.12 (455) N1 -

Rpt. in his Frost on Glass (Hornsea, Eng.: PS Publishing, 2015), 275-303 with an “Afterword: Volcanoes and Dinosaurs” (304-06).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Entropia Y1 - 2013 A1 - Samuel Alexander KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Story of a successful experiment in simple living on an isolated island. See also, the author’s “A Prosperous descent: Telling new stories as the old book closes.” In Alexander Samuel and Bronwyn Adcock. Imagining the Future: Notes from the Frontier EBook to accompany Griffith Review No. 52. Ed. Julianne Schultz and Brendon Gleeson (South Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Griffith University in conjunction with Text Publishing, 2016), 4-24. The author discusses the way his 2013 utopia Entropia led to a demonstration site that began by building an earthship followed by other buildings, an organic garden, and, ultimately, a community established as an experiment in 2015 for one year. While optimistic, the author is also open about the challenges faced and errors made. Available through https://www.griffithreview.com/editions/imagining-the-future/ The author discusses the way his 2013 utopia Entropia led to a demonstration site that began by building an earthship followed by other buildings, an organic garden, and, ultimately, a community established as an experiment in 2015 for one year. While optimistic, the author is also open about the challenges faced and errors made.

PB - Simplicity Institute Publishing CY - Melbourne, Vic, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Excerpts from The New World Authorized Dictionary” Y1 - 2013 A1 - Alexander Weinstein KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia presented through a future dictionary stressing corporate, government, and personal control through technology.

JF - Cream City Review VL - 37.1 N1 -

Rpt. in his Children of the New World: Stories (New York: Picador, 2016), 57-66. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Exodus: Book One of the Fundamentalists Y1 - 2013 A1 - Geoff Livingston KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

First volume of a trilogy in which Christian fundamentalists impose of dictatorship on the East Coast of a largely destroyed America. The novel focuses on one village, Harpers Ferry, WV, whose people resist and ultimately escape across the country and settle in the remains of Colorado Springs, CO. In Perseverance. Book Two of the Fundamentalists. Bloomington, IN: iUniverse, 2015, the people are found by the dictatorship, and they must decide on whether to fight back.  A third volume, tentatively entitled Hypocrisy. Book Three of the Fundamentalists, was announced but not published.

PB - Lady Soleil CY - Alexandria, VA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Eye of Moloch Y1 - 2013 A1 - Glenn [Edward Lee] Beck (b. 1964) ED - Jack Henderson KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of the attempted destruction of U.S. democracy by those trying to establish the New World Order and the fight back against it. An “Afterword” (405-19) includes references to buttress the contentions of the novel. An “Afterword” (405-19) includes references to buttress the contentions of the novel.

PB - Threshold Editions--Mercury Radio Arts CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Eyeth: A Novel for the Deaf” Y1 - 2013 A1 - Kelsey [M.] Young KW - Deaf author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The following is from the author’s abstract. The novel “focuses on a wide range of deaf people involved in intra-deafcentric conflicts; deaf sub-groups include a range of communication preferences (speaking, cued speech, signing) as well as multiple physical differences (deaf blind, cerebral palsy, wheelchair users) though not ethnic diversity. A critical introduction to the novel explains that science fiction allows the creation of a world that does not exist as a real physical place and allows exploration of intra group issues that a mainstream context of oppression of all deaf people obscures. The introduction also relates a discussion of the countries on Eyeth to colonialism and post-colonialism theory to provide a framework to the reader for the subsequent analysis of how Eyeth uses but also subverts colonialist thinking through characters' actions. The novel itself is about a young man, Virgil G, training under the tutelage of the current Guardian of Eyeth, Shawn Wright, who ensures Eyeth doesn't stray from its original goals of being a deaf world.”

PB - Gallaudet University CY - Washington, DC U5 -

Non-circulating at Gallaudet University Library, but the text is available online through the library catalog.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Factory World Y1 - 2013 A1 - Joseph Edward Ryan KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Somewhat surreal dystopia seen through the eyes of a boy who awakes in a pipe in a violent, badly damaged world with many abandoned factories. He has only vague memories. He, and the man who rescues him from the pipe and has no memories at all, explore the world.

PB - Steam Press Ltd. CY - Auckland, New Zealand U2 -

Illus. Euben Smith

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Failed Cities Y1 - 2013 A1 - Matt Wallace (b. 1982) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set in cities that have been abandoned by government The novel focuses on eight individuals living in the cities.

PB - The House of Murky Depths CY - [UK] N1 -

Originally a series of podcasts, which were then remastered on Podiobooks. The written version was released digitally in 2012 and then published the following year. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Fallen Summer Y1 - 2013 A1 - Richard E. Hydrick KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel focuses on the effects of the collapse of the U.S. on a small group of people and has elements of a survivalist dystopia but ends with the success of the group in establishing a decent life.

PB - Two Palmettos Publishing CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Fatherless: A Novel Y1 - 2013 A1 - Dr. James Dobson (b. 1936) A1 - Kurt Bruner KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future dystopia from a Christian perspective suggesting the possible negative future of current anti-family trends.

PB - Faith Words CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Finches of Mars Y1 - 2013 A1 - Brian [Wilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Most of the novel centers on two dystopias, Earth as it is torn apart by ethnic, national, and religious conflict and the first settlement on Mars which, in addition to national tensions, produces only stillborn children. The novel ends, though, with the arrival on Mars of evolved humans from the future come back to ensure the survival of the Mars settlement. These future humans come from a eutopia that has solved gender conflict by becoming both female and male. Few other details are given.

PB - The Friday Project CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “First Foot: Everything as it should be” Y1 - 2013 A1 - Deborah Walker KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia in which people have been enclosed in a zoo of one hundred homes, apparently by aliens, and are required to be happy and follow human holiday traditions. 

JF - Nature VL - 493.7430 U2 -

Illus. Jacey

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Flag Still Flies Over Sabor City” Y1 - 2013 A1 - Welser, Tracie KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian conformist dystopia with a small free zone that has a curfew. 

JF - Interzone VL - no. 250 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Flight of Little Bird” Y1 - 2013 A1 - Stephanie Writt ED - John Helfers KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story begins with a young woman working a dead-end job and just getting by has the idea to use social media to start a movement she calls Empower the Kind (ETK). It then shows how, over her lifetime, the movement transforms the world.

JF - How to Save the World PB - Fiction River/WMG Publishing CY - [Lincoln City, OR] SN - 978-0-615-78353-6 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Gated Y1 - 2013 A1 - Amy Christine Parker KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which a family joins an underground religious community with a charismatic leader to escape from the world’s problems.  First volume of a series followed by Astray. New York: Random House Books for Young Readers, 2014 in which the protagonist from Gated has left the community, which is trying to get her back. No further volumes have been published. 

PB - Random House Books for Young Readers CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Glass House 51. A Novel Y1 - 2013 A1 - Hampel, John KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Corporate dystopia stressing the misuse of information technology.

PB - BZFF Books CY - Milwaukee, WI U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Graveyard Shift” Y1 - 2013 A1 - Holly Schofield ED - Colleen Anderson ED - Steve Vernon KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

The background to the story is the dystopia created by online education for those hoping to teach.

JF - Tesseracts Seventeen: Speculating Canada from Coast to Coast to Coast PB - EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing CY - Calgary, AB, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Gray Wings” Y1 - 2013 A1 - Karl Bunker KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The background to the story includes a future that is eutopian for the rich and dystopian for the poor.

JF - Asimov’s Science Fiction VL - 37.4 & 5 (447 & 448) N1 -

Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction. Thirty-First Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2014), 140-47 with an editor’s note on 140.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Heaven Backwards" Y1 - 2013 A1 - Lisa Silverthorne ED - John Helfers KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a United States devastated by climate change inside a religious compound in which women are the collective property of the men. One woman makes contact with an outside world they had been told didn’t exist.

JF - How to Save the World PB - Fiction River/WMG Publishing CY - [Lincoln City, OR] SN - 978-0-615-78353-6 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Hhsaslin” Y1 - 2013 A1 - Susan Palwick (b. 1961) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A dystopian allegory on “systemic oppression, genocide, and colonialism” (76). 

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 125.3&4 (709) N1 -

Rpt. in her All Worlds Are Real: Short Fictions (Bonney Lake, WA: Fairwood Press, 2019), 77-101, with an author’s note on 76.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Homeland Y1 - 2013 A1 - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Sequel to 2008 Doctorow in which the protagonist of that novel is again threatened by the growing homeland security apparatus. A third volume in the loosely related series his Attack Surface (2029). A related novella is his “Lawful Interception.” Illus. Yuko Shimizu. Tor.com. http://www.tor.com/stories/2013/08/lawful-interception. 

PB - Tor Teen CY - New York SN - 9780765333698 978-1-250-77458-3 N1 -

Rpt. in Little Brother & Homeland (New York: Tor/Tom Doherty Associates, 2020), 318-685, with an “Introduction” by Edward Snowden (7-9).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - How To Like Everything: A Utopia Y1 - 2013 A1 - Paul Shepheard (b. 1947) KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Basically, an argument that the world we have is the best it gets. Set in Amsterdam.

PB - Zero Books CY - Winchester, Eng. N1 -

Parts originally published in MAS Context issue 11 and in Kunstwerken voor de publieke ruimte, Podium Voor Architectuur Haarlemmermeer en Schiphol

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - In the After Y1 - 2013 A1 - Demitria Lunetta KW - Female author AB -

Post-catastrophe young adult dystopia in which a young woman is rescued and brought to New Hope, a supposedly safe haven that turns out to be anything but. See also 2014 Lunetta.

PB - HarperTeen CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - In Times Like These: A Fable Y1 - 2013 A1 - Maureen [Patricia] Duffy (b. 1933) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia of a disintegrating Britain with Scotland’s leaving the U.K. being followed by other parts of the country with a growing threat of parts of England becoming independent.

PB - [Jonathan Clowes] CY - [London] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Indivisible: With Justice for Some Y1 - 2013 A1 - Troy J. Grice KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Survivalist dystopia after the dollar collapses and the government becomes more authoritarian and uses the military to restore order. Sequels are planned.

PB - Prepper Press CY - [Augusta, ME] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Insistence of Vision” Y1 - 2013 A1 - [Glen] David Brin (b. 1950) ED - [Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future in which everyone wears glasses that connects them to everyone else with the focus on disabling the glasses for specified periods as punishment for crime. 

JF - Technology Review (MIT) N1 -

Rpt. in his Insistence of Vision. A Short Story Collection (Stamford, CT: The Story Plant, 2016), 29-34 with an author’s note on 35; and in Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World. Ed. [Glen] David Brin and Stephen W. Potts. Sponsored by The Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination (UCSD) (New York: Tor, 2017), 36-41. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Island Y1 - 2013 A1 - Teri Hall KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia following 2010 and 2011 Hall. In this volume, the protagonists of the second volume return back across the line to rescue a friend.

PB - Teri Hall CY - Lexington, KY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Kindest Man in Stormland” Y1 - 2013 A1 - John [Patrick] Shirley (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of environmental collapse.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last President Y1 - 2013 A1 - John [Allen] Barnes (b. 1957) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 2010 and 2012 Barnes in which an effort is being made to bring the remnants of the U.S. back together under a President and Congress.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Reader Y1 - 2013 A1 - Thomas Norwood KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia with a deep divide between rich and poor as seen by a poor boy who wants to learn how to read. 2013 Norwood, Perfectible Animals, is set in the same future.

PB - Global Activision Limited. EBook CY - Melbourne, Vic, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Later His Ghost” Y1 - 2013 A1 - Sarah Hall (b. 1974) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Climate change dystopia.

JF - New Statesman SN - 9780062657060 UR - https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2014/01/then-later-his-ghost N1 -

Also online illus. Matt Saunders and Handsome Frank. https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2014/01/then-later-his-ghost Rpt. in her Madame Zero. 9 Stories (London: Faber and Faber, 2017), 99-119. US ed (New York: Custom House/Harper Collins, 2017), 99-119.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Liquid Loyalty" Y1 - 2013 A1 - Redfern Jon Barrett KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which drugs have been developed so that each person is completely devoted to one and only one other person. 

JF - The Future Fire: Social Political & Speculative Cyber-Fiction VL - no. 26 UR - http://futurefire.net/2013.26/fiction/liquidloyalty.html N1 -

Rpt. without the illus. in Heiresses of Russ 2014: The Year’s Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction. Ed. Melissa Scott and Steve Berman (Maple Shade, NJ: Lethe Press, 2014), 57-70. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Living in the Singularity” Y1 - 2013 A1 - Tom Borthwick KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A corporation announces that, in exchange for all their possessions, it can upload a person’s consciousness into a supercomputer where they will be able to live happily ever after. Millions choose to do so. The story focuses on an individual who resists but finally decides to join his wife.

JF - Bewildering Stories VL - no. 550 SN - 978-0-9571130-4-6 UR - http://www.bewilderingstories.com/issue550/singularity1.html; http://www.bewilderingstories.com/issue550/singularity2.html; http://www.bewilderingstories.com/issue550/singularity3.html N1 -

Rpt. in Altered States: A Cyberpunk Sci-Fi Anthology. Ed. Roy C. Booth and Jorge Salgado-Reyes (London: Indie Authors Press, 2014), 33-45. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lone Star Daybreak Y1 - 2013 A1 - Erik L. Larson KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which political polarization leads Texas to secede and a civil war follows with both sides using nuclear weapons.

PB - Tate Publishing & Enterprises CY - Mustang, OK U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Long Indeed We Do Live. . .” Y1 - 2013 A1 - Storm Constantine (1956-2021) ED - Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

In a future after an undescribed environmental catastrophe, society has developed inside domes with different arbors devoted to different trees. Presented mostly positively. While there is much fantasy in the story, it appears that human life has also adapted to life outside the domes and that here is communication between life outside and the trees inside. 

JF - Looking Landwards: Stories Commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the Institute of Agricultural Engineers PB - NewCon Press in Association with The Institute of Agricultural Engineers CY - [Weston, Eng] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Looking Backward: 2050-2013 Y1 - 2013 A1 - Ravi Morey KW - Indian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The current situation rapidly deteriorates into a dystopia after Sarah Palin (b. 1964) supported by a Congress dominated by the far-right, was elected President in 2020. The U.S. economy collapses. As the price for bailing out the U.S., other countries insisted on the establishment of a world government (the United States of the World) and nation-states disappear. Presented as if a history of the period. Includes biographies of a number of recent and current political figures, some projected into the future.

PB - CreateSpace CY - North Charleston, SC U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Looking Toward Eden Y1 - 2013 A1 - Pellman, Terry KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia and an emerging eutopia. As the U.S. faces collapse as a result of liberal policies, a successful secessionist movement develops in the central U.S. which intends to institute conservative policies and return to the U.S. Constitution.

PB - CreateSpace CY - [North Charleston, SC] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Lotus" Y1 - 2013 A1 - Joyce Chng ED - Fabio Fernandes ED - Djibril al-Ayad KW - Australian author KW - Female author KW - Singaporean author KW - Transgender author AB -

Dystopia in which much of the world has been inundated by melting ice caps and tsunamis produced by earthquakes and most people life on boats and scavenge from half-submerged buildings.

JF - We See a Different Frontier: A Postcolonial Speculative Fiction Anthology PB - Futurefire.net Publishing CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Love in the Time of Global Warming Y1 - 2013 A1 - Francesca Lia Block (b. 1962) KW - Female author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which a young girl searches for her family after a devastating earthquake and discovers her own strength. Much fantasy. References throughout to Homer’s Odyssey.

PB - Christy Ottaviano Books Henry Holt and Co. CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - MaddAddam. A Novel Y1 - 2013 A1 - Margaret [Eleanor] Atwood (b. 1939) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Third volume of a dystopian trilogy following 2003 and 2009 Atwood. This volume has many of the same characters as the previous volumes and shows they struggling to survive in the changed world.

PB - McClelland & Stewart CY - Toronto, ON, Canada N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Nan A. Talese Doubleday, 2013.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Mango Republic” Y1 - 2013 A1 - Terh Agbedeh ED - Ayodele Arigbabu KW - Male author KW - Nigerian author AB -

Climate change story set in a successful, corporate flawed utopia of the future Lagos.

JF - Lagos_2060: Exciting Sci-Fi Stories from Nigeria PB - DADA Books CY - Lagos, Nigeria U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Meerga" Y1 - 2013 A1 - John [Patrick] Shirley (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a surveillance dystopia with automated controls on any movement outside houses. In this setting, where most people stay home, an AI is created as what is called a “mere girl,” but is designed to look like a very beautiful, fully developed woman, and the story is concerned with how the family she lives with, and particularly the father and son, deal with the situation.

JF - New World eZine #2 [This version is no longer available online] UR - https://www.bigecho.org/meerga N1 -

Rpt. in Altered States: A Cyberpunk Sci-Fi Anthology. Ed. Roy C. Booth and Jorge Salgado-Reyes (Np: Indie Authors Press, 2014), 82-90; and in Big Echo, no. 14 (January 2020). https://www.bigecho.org/meerga

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Meet the President Y1 - 2013 A1 - Zadie Smith (b. 1975) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The short story takes place in an apparent future with radical divisions between those who are technologically enhance and those who are not. 

JF - The New Yorker VL - 99.24 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "M.E.L." Y1 - 2013 A1 - Dianne Homan ED - Colleen Anderson ED - Steve Vernon KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Flawed utopia. A supposedly perfect but completely artificial world told from the point of view of a girl who does not fit in and who discovers the entrance to a natural world.

JF - Tesseracts Seventeen: Speculating Canada from Coast to Coast to Coast PB - EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing CY - Calgary, AB, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Melting Point 2040 Y1 - 2013 A1 - Mike Bushman KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a secessionist movement in the U.S. Followed by Secession 2041. [Naperville, IL]: AirFuture, 2013 which describes the civil war.

PB - AirFuture CY - [Naperville, IL] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Memory Palace Y1 - 2013 A1 - Hari [Mohan Nath] Kunzru (b. 1969) ED - Laurie Britton Newell ED - Ligaya Salazar KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The book that was the basis of a Victoria and Albert Exhibition June 18 - October 20, 2013) depicted a dystopia where reading, writing, and remembering is prohibited. The book consists of the story by Kunzru illustrated by those listed (9-80), followed by a brief essay by the curators on curating a book (83-89), followed by a graphic story by Robert Hunter, “Making Memory Palace” about how the exhibit came together (91-107).

PB - V&A Publishing CY - London U2 -

Illus. Abāke, Peter Bil’ak, Alexis Deacon, Oded Ezer, Francesco Franchi, Isabel Greenberg, Hansje van Halem, Jim Kay, Johnny Kelly, Erik Kessels, Na Kim, Stuart Kolakovic, Frank Laws, Le Gun, Luke Pearson, Stefanie Posavec, Némo Tral, Henning Wagenbreth, Mario Wagner, Sam Winston.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Mesomorphic Woman” Y1 - 2013 A1 - David North-Martino ED - Josie Brown KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia on a space habitat that had been planned as for women where a man is replacing them with clones and men.

JF - Daughters of Icarus: New Feminist Science Fiction and Fantasy [the cover adds Women’s Wings Unfurled] PB - Pink Narcissus Press CY - Auburn, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Metal Feet” Y1 - 2013 A1 - Temitayo Olofinlua [Amogunla] ED - Ayodele Arigbabu KW - Female author KW - Nigerian author AB -

Dystopia of robots taking over.

JF - Lagos_2060: Exciting Sci-Fi Stories from Nigeria PB - DADA Books CY - Lagos, Nigeria U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Migration" Y1 - 2013 A1 - Nancy [Anne Koningisor] Kress (b. 1948) ED - Bryan Thomas Schmidt KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set on a colony planet called Freedom, which is supposedly libertarian and allows extreme genetic manipulation, and focuses on the struggle to save some native animals from being exploited.

JF - Beyond the Sun PB - Fairwood Press CY - Bonney Lake, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Ministry of Changes” Y1 - 2013 A1 - Marissa [Kristine] Lingen (b. 1978) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A dystopia in which two peoples are at constant war. The story is told from the point-of-view of a young woman in one of the cities who discovers its secrets. 

JF - Tor.com UR - https://www.tor.com/2013/07/03/the-ministry-of-changes/ U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "More" Y1 - 2013 A1 - Nancy [Anne Koningisor] Kress (b. 1948) ED - Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of conflict between rich and poor in a world in which the rich can afford protection from the deteriorating environment.

JF - Solaris Rising 2: The New Solaris Book of Science Fiction U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play Y1 - 2013 A1 - Anne Washburn KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia with the first act set in the very near future, the second act seven years later, and the third act seventy-five years after that. In the play, a small group of people are trying to remember and re-enact the “Cape Feare” episode of The Simpsons, which originally aired October 7, 1993. The re-enactment changes dramatically over time.

PB - Playwrights Horizons CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Mr. Burns and other plays (New York: Theatre Communications Group, 2017), 115-228. The revised London script London: Oberon Books, 2014. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Neighborhoods" Y1 - 2013 A1 - Dean Wesley Smith ED - John Helfers KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A wealthy man, upset by the continuing death in gang violence of Chicago teenagers decides to recreate the entire way of life by building huge, completely self-contained apartment complexes. The story includes details of power sources, gardening, schools, shopping, and so forth.

JF - How to Save the World PB - Fiction River/WMG Publishing CY - [Lincoln City, OR] SN - 978-0-615-78353-6 N1 -

Rpt. in Smith’s Monthly #6 (March 2014): 66-78; ISSN 2474-5294 and in Colliding Worlds Vol. 1: A Science Fiction Story Series. By Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith (Np: WMG Publishing, 2021), 419-436. 978-1-56146-387-9

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Neptune Project Y1 - 2013 A1 - Polly Holyoke KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

First volume of a young adult series in which a group of genetically modified teens must, guided by dolphins, swim to the undersea Neptune Project, where they are expected to help create a better life than that on the surface. The second volume is The Neptune Challenge. New York: Disney/Hyperion, 2015; U.K. ed. as The Neptune Dilemma. London: Penguin Books, 2015, which is a typical middle volume where the struggle to survive. In the third volume, The Neptune Promise. Plano, TX: Holyoake Enterprises, 2017, the people fight to save the planet from climate change.

PB - Hyperion/Disney CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. The Neptune Conspiracy. London: Penguin Books, 2014. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A New Year’s Tale Y1 - 2013 A1 - Nancy [Forsythe Coe] Farmer (b. 1941) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which senior citizens are considered an unnecessary expense and disposable. Everyone is forced to retire at 65, and the Senior Laws are designed to ensure no one reaches old age. For example, under the Diminished Culpability Act, if you kill someone who is 70, you get two-years in prison; if you kill someone 80, you get two years community service. The African gods, upset at the lack of respect for elders, choose four seniors to fight back.

PB - Author CY - Portal, AZ SN - 978-1-4827-9566-0 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - New Zapata Y1 - 2013 A1 - Teri Hall KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which Texas has seceded from the U.S. and outlawed abortion, birth control, and divorce. The novel follows one young woman trying to escape. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - News From the Squares Y1 - 2013 A1 - Robert Llewellyn (b. 1956) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel describes a society in which women are dominant and the entire country is laid out in squares. Loosely a sequel to 2012 Llewellyn. See also 2015 Llewellyn.

PB - Unbound CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - Not a Drop to Drink Y1 - 2013 A1 - Mindy McGinnis KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult climate change dystopia in which a young woman, surviving alone while protecting her water source, has to adjust to nearby neighbors. In a sequel, In a Handful of Dust. New York: Katherine Tegen Books, 2014, she and another young woman set out to try to find more water.

PB - Katherine Tegen Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Notes from a Pleasant Land Where Broken Hearts are Like Broken Hands” Y1 - 2013 A1 - Kevin Waltman KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed religious eutopia contrasted with a free people seen from within the religion as living in a dystopia.

JF - Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet VL - no. 28 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Nova’s Cycles” Y1 - 2013 A1 - Aaron M. Wilson ED - Elly Blue KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which all the colonies built on the moon and other places in the solar system are being drained to support the rich colonists.

JF - Bikes in Space [Cover adds a feminist science fiction anthology] PB - Elly Blue Publishing CY - Portland. OR VL - Vol. 10 of Taking the Lane U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “An Object In Motion” Y1 - 2013 A1 - Elizabeth Buchanan ED - Elly Blue KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of Earth essentially flattened to provide the material to build habitats in space, which are initially promised for everyone but quickly are limited to the rich.

JF - Bikes in Space [Cover adds a feminist science fiction anthology]. PB - Elly Blue Publishing CY - Portland, OR VL - Vol. 10 of Taking the Lane U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Occupy {Life}: An Imaginative Fiction Novel Y1 - 2013 A1 - [William M.] [Badrick] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which animals, led by the whales, decide to take the Earth back from humans.

PB - Cascadia Public House CY - [Portland, OR?] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Odds Against Tomorrow Y1 - 2013 A1 - Nathaniel Rich (b. 1980) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia focusing on possible future catastrophes and a hurricane that hits New York that is even more damaging than the 2012 hurricane.

PB - Farrar, Straus and Giroux CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Office of Mercy Y1 - 2013 A1 - Ariel Djanikian KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia in which America Five has been established underground after a catastrophe. The utopia is a totally planned society striving to achieve immortality, but it is trying to kill all humans who still live outside.

PB - Viking CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Orleans Y1 - 2013 A1 - Sherri L. Smith (b. 1971) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult post-catastrophe (hurricanes followed by disease). The entire Mississippi Delta region is walled off and inhabitants assumed to be dead. The young woman protagonist decides to take a baby, whose mother has died in childbirth, across the wall to give it a better life. African American female author.

PB - G. P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Othello Pop” Y1 - 2013 A1 - Andaiye Reeves ED - Bill Campbell (b. 1970) ED - Edward Austin Hall KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Brief vignette set in a racist dystopia in which it is illegal to educate anyone not white, and “yellow” girls are supposed to be killed at birth. Some people resist.

JF - Mothership: Tales from Afrofuturism and Beyond PB - Rosarium CY - College Park, MD U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Patriot Remnant: Return to Freedom Y1 - 2013 A1 - Siara Brandt KW - Female author AB -

Survivalist dystopia in which a small group defeats a vicious government. The novel ends with the beginnings of a good, traditional, farming community.

PB - CreateSpace CY - [North Charleston, SC] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pawn Y1 - 2013 A1 - Aimée Carter (b. 1986) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

First volume of a young adult dystopian trilogy. In this volume a young woman can, with plastic surgery, move up in social rank, but she has been involved in trying to overthrow the regime. Captive. Don Mills, ON, Canada: Harlequin Teen, 2014 is the middle volume in which she has chosen the surgery and faces many perils. The third volume is Queen. Don Mills, ON, Canada: Harlequin Teen, 2015 in which the regime is defeated. 

PB - Harlequin Teen CY - Don Mills, ON, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Perfect America Y1 - 2013 A1 - Peter Meredith KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a totalitarian U.S. that hires people to kill its opponents.

PB - Author CY - San Bernadino, CA N1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Perfect Ruin. The Internment Chronicles Book One Y1 - 2013 A1 - Lauren DeStefano (b. 1984) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

First volume of a young adult series set, in this volume, on what appears to be a segment torn out of Earth and relocated in space above Earth. The society sees itself in utopian terms but is a highly structured authoritarian dystopia. The protagonist and her friends are discontented, and the novel ends with them stepping on Earth for the first time. In the second volume, Burning Kingdoms. The Internment Chronicles Book Two. New York: Simon & Schuster BFYR, 2015, the protagonists discover that Earth is also dangerous. In the third volume, Broken Crowns: The Internment Chronicles Book Three. New York: Simon & Schuster BFYR, 2016 the protagonists discover that the segment in space is falling, and they must find a way for the two parts of Earth to cooperate. Related enovellas are No Intention of Dying. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2014 http://www.simonandschuster.com/books/No-Intention-of-Dying/Lauren-DeStefano/The-Internment-Chronicles/9781442480674; and The Heir Apparent. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2015. http://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Heir-Apparent/Lauren-DeStefano/The-Internment-Chronicles/9781442480681.

PB - Simon & Schuster BFYR CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Perfectible Animals: Conception (Part I) Y1 - 2013 A1 - Thomas Norwood KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia set in Australia in the second half of the twenty-first century. Limited food. Radical rich-poor division. Gang violence. Biological warfare kills millions. A scientist develops a way of vaccinating animals and then humans that make them more cooperative, a characteristic that is passed on to the next generation, and, at the end of the novel, it is beginning to spread. 2013 Norwood, The Last Reader, is set in the same future. The novel continues with the same themes as Perfectible Animals: Connection (2014), available only as an ebook, which ends “To be continued.” 2013 Norwood, The Last Reader, is set in the same future. 

PB - Global Activision Limited CY - [Melbourne, Vic, Australia] N1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Perseid Collapse. A Novel Y1 - 2013 A1 - Steven Konkoly KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

First volume of a post-catastrophe dystopian series in which an electromagnetic pulse destroys the U.S. infrastructure. Sequels include Event Horizon. [North Charleston, SC]: Create Space, 2014; Point of Crisis. [North Charleston, SC]: Create Space, 2014; and Dispatches. [North Charleston, SC: Create Space], 2015. G. Michael Hopf’s Detachment. A Persied Collapse Novella. Kindle Worlds, 2015 is set in the same future. The series is a sequel Konkoly’s The Jakarta Pandemic. [North Charleston, SC]: Create Space, 2013 in which a virus devastates the U.S. 

PB - [CreateSpace] CY - [North Charleston, SC] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Prepper. Part One: The Collapse Y1 - 2013 A1 - Karl A. D. Brown KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The future dystopia that emerges from current conditions that leads to limited nuclear war. A Prepper is one who is preparing for the coming global collapse. First volume in an intended series followed by 2015 Brown. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Program Y1 - 2013 A1 - Suzanne Young (b. 1976) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which an apparent epidemic of depression has led to widespread suicide, and “The Program” is supposedly the only treatment. The protagonist struggles to keep her growing depression hidden. The Treatment. New York: Simon Pulse, 2014 is a sequel where the main characters flee from those running the Program in search of a different treatment. The Remedy. New York: Simon Pulse, 2015 is a prequel about a girl who has the ability to emulate the deceased and does so for grieving families. The Epidemic. New York: Simon Pulse, 2016 is a prequel about the empowerment of the protagonist of The Remedy. The Adjustment. A Program Novel Book 5. New York: Simon Pulse, 2017 deals with the problems of those return after having their memories wiped. The final volume is The Complication. A Program Novel Book 6. New York: Simon Pulse, 2018 in which the main protagonist of the novels is finally able to stop the adjustment of the previous volume. 

PB - Simon Pulse CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Proxy Y1 - 2013 A1 - [Charles] Alex[ander] London (b. 1980) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which a boy from the lower class is punished whenever a boy from the upper class does something wrong. The two come to cooperate to find out why the system was imposed. A sequel is Guardian. New York: Philomel Books/Penguin, 2014 in which the revolution against the regime has succeeded but is not universally popular. In this volume, people are becoming extremely ill. The projected third volume was not published.

PB - Philomel Books/Penguin CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Quis Custodiet: Complete control” Y1 - 2013 A1 - Brian Clegg (b. 1955) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The flawed utopia of a “perfect” dictatorship controlled by a computer.

JF - Nature VL - 502.7469 U2 -

[Illus. Jacey]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Rat Runners Y1 - 2013 A1 - Oisín McGann (b. 1973) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

The young adult novel is set in a world of constant surveillance.

PB - Corgi Books CY - London N1 -

US. ed. New York: Open Road Integrated Media, 2015. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Registry Y1 - 2013 A1 - Shannon Stoker KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult authoritarian dystopia in which girls are raised to be brides to be auctioned off at eighteen and boys are raised to be soldiers. First volume of a trilogy. The second volume is The Collection. A Registry Novel. New York: William Morrow, 2014 in which the protagonist of the first novel escapes from the U.S. to Mexico but has to return to help her friends. The third volume is The Alliance. A Registry Novel. New York: William Morrow, 2015 in which the protagonist is betrayed by everyone but wins through.

PB - William Morrow CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Reinstalling Eden: Happiness on a hard drive” Y1 - 2013 A1 - Eric Schwitzgebel A1 - R. Scott Bakker (b. 1967) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A scientist creates humans within a computer and builds a eutopia for them. The scientist that follows reveals their true nature to them, and they then take over their own destiny and, ultimately, that of the world outside the computer.

JF - Nature VL - 503.7477 U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Replica Y1 - 2013 A1 - Jenna [Jennifer] Black (b. 1965) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult corporate dystopia where one company has developed human replication. Her Resistance. New York: Tor Teen, 2014 continues the story with the discovery of government corruption and the development of a resistance movement. The third volume, Revolution. New York: Tor Teen, 2014, continues the theme of resistance.

PB - Tor Teen CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Resistance Y1 - 2013 A1 - Zainab Amadahy (b.1956) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Corporate dystopia set in Toronto.

PB - CreateSpace CY - [North Charleston, SC] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Right to Choose” Y1 - 2013 A1 - India Edghill [pseud.] ED - Elisabeth Waters KW - Female author AB -

Free Amazon story. A related song by Rosemary Edghill is on 121-22.

JF - Music of Darkover. Darkover® Anthology 13 PB - The Marion Zimmer Bradley Literary Trust Works CY - San Francisco, CA U3 -

India Edghill [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Rivers Y1 - 2013 A1 - Michael Farris Smith KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Climate change dystopia.

PB - Simon & Schuster CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Rock of Ages" Y1 - 2013 A1 - Jay [Joseph Edward] Lake [Jr.] (1964-2014) ED - Jay [Joseph Edward] Lake [Jr.] (1964-2014) ED - Ken Scholes KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story focuses on an attempt to create a eutopian green future and attacks upon it. Related to Metatropolis. Original Stories by Jay Lake Tobias S. Buckell Elizabeth Bear John Scalzi, [II] Karl Schroeder. Ed. John [Michael] Scalzi, [II]. New York: Tor, 2009.

JF - METAropolis: Green Space PB - Audio Studies CY - Np N1 -

Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction. Thirty-First Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2014), 73-126 with an editor’s note on 73.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Rocket Night” Y1 - 2013 A1 - Alexander Weinstein KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which each year the children in a school choose one of their number to be fastened in a rocket and shot into space, the choice being the most unpopular child, and, in the story, the poorest child in the school.

JF - Southern Indiana Review N1 -

Rpt. in his Children of the New World: Stories (New York: Picador, 2016), 177-81. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Root of Heaven & Earth Y1 - 2013 A1 - E. A. Grace KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The novel begins in a high tech, overpopulated dystopia with a corporate world government (Corprogov). A physicist in that world accidentally projects himself to a parallel world that is a eutopia. He learns about the world through a book by the woman who brought about the eutopia, and the book is provided with some sections complete and others summarized as he travels to a retreat based on the teachings in the book. The eutopia has a limited population, strict environmental standards achieved through education not government.

PB - Ethosphere Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Runners Y1 - 2013 A1 - Ann Kelley (b. 1941) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia in which there is a systematic attempt to reduce the population by eliminating people. The novel focuses on a fourteen year old boy and his four year old sister, as they try to escape.

PB - Luath Press CY - Edinburgh, Scotland N1 -

Originally published online in 2013.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ryla 2212 Y1 - 2013 A1 - Ytasha L. Womack KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

The novel begins on a planet called Hope, which “was built on the principle of universal love and cooperation” (8), but conflict has emerged, and the young woman protagonist is on a quest to find answers and right wrongs. Hope is high tech, based on its own inventors, who developed flying cars, “a host of eco-friendly power sources,” “a lifestyle and herbs that prevented aging, and abolished disease” (8). Hope had “a system without currency, and education program that reinvigorated learning, punishment without prisons, and a score of never-before seen shifts in humanity” (8). There are two sequels. Ryla 2213. Vol. 2. Chicago, IL: YSolstar, 2015 129 pp. continues the adventures of Rayla, now in the waters under the Martian surface.  Eartha 2198. Chicago, IL: Uraeus88, 2019 103 pp. is a prequel.

PB - YSolar CY - Chicago, IL SN - 978-1499340693 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Season" Y1 - 2013 A1 - Rebecca J. Payne ED - Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The story is about a man trying to save his land in a near-future dystopia of climate change and rapacious industrial agriculture.

JF - Looking Landwards: Stories Commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the Institute of Agricultural Engineers PB - NewCon Press CY - [Weston, Eng] N1 -

Rpt. in Digital Dreams: A Decade of Science Fiction by Women. Ed. Ian Whates ([England]: NewCon Press, 2016). EBook. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Secession of Texas Y1 - 2013 A1 - Darrell Maloney KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Texas secedes from the U.S. and creates a free market eutopia. Non-utopian sequels include Meribel. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace], 2013; My Forever. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace], 2014; and with Dawn Brand Hawkins. A New Reason for Being. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace], 2015. Related books with some of the same characters include A Secret Life And Justice for All (A Secret Life). [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace], 2014; The Hunted. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace], 2014; and A New Beginning: A Secret Life. The Final Chapters. Np: Darrell Maloney Publishing, 2015 (Ebook).

PB - [CreateSpace] CY - [North Charleston, SC] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Serene Invasion Y1 - 2013 A1 - Eric Brown (1960-2023) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

An alien invasion brings peace and prosperity to Earth, but some people and other aliens want a return to the conflict of the past.

PB - Solaris CY - Oxford, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Shopocalypse Y1 - 2013 A1 - David Gullen KW - English author KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

Unusually climate change dystopia in which a couple travel across America in a sentient car from shopping mall to shopping mall.

PB - Monico CY - London SN - 9781909016200 Rev. ed. 978-1-912950-12-6 N1 -

Rev. ed. [Weston, Eng.]: NewCon Press, 2019.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sister, Sister Y1 - 2013 A1 - Rachel Zadok (b. 1972) KW - Female author KW - South African author AB -

Much of the novel is set in contemporary South Africa, but some is set in a near future dystopia after the end of oil.

PB - Kwela Books CY - Cape Town, South Africa U4 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Social Services” Y1 - 2013 A1 - Madeline Ashby (b. 1983) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of social services seen through the eyes of one of the providers who is, herself, controlled by her superiors.

JF - An Aura of Familiarity: Visions from the Coming Age of Networked Matter PB - Institute for the Future CY - Palo Alto, CA N1 -

Rpt. in Imaginarium 3: The Best Canadian Speculative Fiction. Ed. Ian C. Esslemont (Toronto, ON, Canada: ChiZine Publications, 2013), 249-62

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Solidarity" Y1 - 2013 A1 - Kritzer, Naomi KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 2012 Kritzer, “Liberty’s Daughter” andHigh Stakes” where the protagonist of the first two stories learns that the supposed libertarian utopia is, if anything, an authoritarian dystopia. See also 2014 Kritzer and 2015 Kritzer (2). 

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 124.3 & 4 (706) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Soul Food" Y1 - 2013 A1 - Lakin-Smith, Kim ED - Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959) KW - Female author KW - UK author AB -

Climate-change dystopia made even worse by human intervention. 

JF - Looking Landwards: Stories Commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the Institute of Agricultural Engineers PB - NewCon Press in Association with The Institute of Agricultural Engineers CY - [Weston, Eng] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Stars Change Y1 - 2013 A1 - Mary Anne Mohanraj (b. 1971) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The novel is set on a planet that had been settled by South Asians from England, where the University of All the Worlds had attracted students and teachers from all over the galaxy. A culture that accepted humans, modified and unmodified, and aliens had developed, and the novel focuses on an attack on that culture. 

PB - Circlet Press CY - Cambridge, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "State of Imprisonment" Y1 - 2013 A1 - John [Patrick] Shirley (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the entire U.S. state of Arizona has become a prison under the control of the state government and a corporation.

JF - New Taboos: plus “A state of imprisonment” and “Why we need forty years of hell” and “Pro is for professional” outspoken interview PB - PM Press CY - Oakland, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Summer Prince Y1 - 2013 A1 - Alaya Dawn Johnson (b. 1982) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

The young adult novel is set in a post-nuclear war future in an arcology in Brazil that is ruled by women who, over the centuries, have become a rather hidebound ruling class. The arcology has the poor at the bottom and the rulers at the top. 

PB - Arthur A. Levine Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Swan Book Y1 - 2013 A1 - Alexis Wright (b. 1950) KW - Aboriginal author KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia set in a future Australia, particularly Aboriginal Australia, undergoing the effects of climate change.

PB - Giramondo CY - Artarmon, NSW, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Switch (Excerpt from the Switch II: Clockwork)” Y1 - 2013 A1 - Valjeanne Jeffers (b. 1967) ED - Milton Davis ED - Balogun Ojetade KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

The story takes place in a future of white privilege and supremacy. 

JF - Steamfunk! PB - MV media, LLC CY - Fayetteville, GA SN - 978-0-9800842-5-2 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The System Y1 - 2013 A1 - Gemma Malley KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The third volume of the Killables Trilogy; see also 2012 Malley and 2013 Malley, The Disappearances. In this volume, one large company “owns everything and everyone” and everyone is online all the time with popularity the only real currency. But everyone must update every fifteen minutes and anyone who doesn’t is punished.

PB - Hodder & Stoughton CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Taken Y1 - 2013 A1 - Erin Bowman (b. 1990) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which all boys are taken by the government at eighteen and the successful resistance to the program. Sequels include Frozen. A Taken Novel. New York: Harper Teen, 2014; and Forged. A Taken Novel. New York: HarperTeen, 2015, both of which follow the resistance to its ultimately successful conclusion. Stolen, New York: HarperTeen Impulse, 2014 is a prequel available as an ebook.

PB - HarperTeen CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Tales of New America Y1 - 2013 A1 - Gunther Roosevelt KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Although presented as twenty-three tales, the work constitutes a coherent picture of the future of the United States as it falls apart and regional groupings of states form new countries that become legal entities. Here the states of the northern mountain west forms the New American Republic, and the story of its somewhat violent formation and the establishment of a limited government is the focus of the work. Explicitly racist in that everyone not white is driven out. Patriarchal with a chapter entitled “How to Raise a Daughter in a Patriarchal Society (103-110).

PB - Callister Green Publishing CY - Sacramento, CA SN - 978-1491000847 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Terminal City" Y1 - 2013 A1 - Zoë Blade KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a dystopia with extreme rich/poor divisions and focuses on hackers who are trying to undermine the system. 

JF - The Future Fire: Social Political & Speculative Cyber-Fiction VL - no. 28 UR - http://futurefire.net/2013.28/fiction/terminalcity.html N1 -

Rpt. in Heiresses of Russ 2014: The Year’s Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction. Ed. Melissa Scott and Steve Berman (Maple Shade, NJ: Lethe Press, 2014), 113-41. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Testing Y1 - 2013 A1 - Joelle Charbonneau (b. 1974) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which potential future leaders are put through a grueling, and potentially deadly test. First volume of a series. In the second volume, Independent Study. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014, the heroine begins to have memories that had supposedly been wiped and learns about the real nature of the government. In the final volume, Graduation Day (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014, the dystopia is defeated

PB - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “That the Machine May Progress Eternally” Y1 - 2013 A1 - Carrie Ryan (b. 1978) ED - Melissa Marr ED - Tim[othy Aaron] Pratt (b. 1976) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A story inspired by 1909 Forster, “The Machine Stops,” in which a boy makes contact with the outside but will not leave the Underneath even when the machine stops

JF - Rags & Bones: New Twists on Timeless Tales PB - Little, Brown CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Theatre 6" Y1 - 2013 A1 - Sarah Hall (b. 1974) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a future with extremely strict restrictions on obstetricians.

JF - Madame Zero. 9 Stories PB - Faber and Faber CY - London SN - 9780062657060 UR - https://downloads.bbc.co.uk/radio4/transcripts/20130816-sarah-hall-theatre-six.pdf N1 -

US ed. (New York: Custom House/Harper Collins, 2017), 47-57.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Through Many Fires: Strengthen What Remains Y1 - 2013 A1 - Kyle Pratt KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The dystopia created when a nuclear bomb is detonated in Washington, DC and then in other cities. First volume of a series followed by A Time To Endure. Strengthen What Remains Book Two. Np: Camden Cascade Publishing, 2014, which is a survivalist dystopia with the threat of civil war; and Braving the Storms. Strengthen What Remains Book Three. 3rd ed. [no indication of earlier eds.]. Np: Camden Cascade Publishing, 2015 in which a flu epidemic strikes the country.

PB - Camden Cascade Publishing CY - Np VL - 2nd ed. No evidence of an earlier ed. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Tough Night in Tommyville” Y1 - 2013 A1 - Melvin Carter ED - Milton Davis ED - Balogun Ojetade KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a small town in a future United States that has disintegrated but is reforming. The town sits between factions and the story has all the flavor of the lawless, very violent Old West. 

JF - Steamfunk! PB - MV media, LLC CY - Fayetteville, GA SN - 978-0-9800842-5-2 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Trouble with Heaven” Y1 - 2013 A1 - [Albert Edward] [Cowdrey] (b. 1933) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. A satellite serving the function of a gated community for the very rich with android servants and police collapses when the controls on the androids are manipulated.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 124.3 & 4 (706) U3 -

Chet Arthur [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Under the Empyrean Sky. The Heartland Trilogy Book I Y1 - 2013 A1 - Chuck [Charles David] Wendig (b. 1976) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

First volume of a trilogy. In this volume, those living in the Empyrean control those living on Earth to the extent of determining what is growth and choosing their marriage partners. The second volume is Blightborn. The Heartland Trilogy Book II. New York: Skyscape/Amazon Publishing, 2014. In this volume, a typical middle volume, there is a revolt against such control. The third volume is The Harvest. The Heartland Trilogy Book III. New York: Skyscape/Amazon Publishing, 2015. It is a bit more complex than many concluding volumes, and the ending does not make further volumes particularly difficult, but it does bring together the numerous plot lines to endings.

PB - Skyscape/Amazon Publishing CY - Las Vegas, NV SN - 9781477817209 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Until the Little Birds Sing Y1 - 2013 A1 - Charles [Robert] Granquist KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Climate change dystopia.

PB - Big Sky Publishing CY - Newport, NSW, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Utopia: On the Quality of Human Life” Y1 - 2013 A1 - Greg Brown KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An opinion piece that says that life in the U.S. would be radically improved by doubling the minimum wage and creating a “nouveau middle class” out of the poor.

JF - Voices of Central Pennsylvania ER - TY - ABST T1 - Wanderer Y1 - 2013 A1 - Roger Davenport (b. 1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Young adult dystopia set in an environmentally damaged future. Two groups are antagonists, the City Dwellers and the Wanderers, but teenagers from both groups must cooperate. Something of a quest novel to find a better place to live.

PB - Sky Pony Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Ward Y1 - 2013 A1 - Jordana Frankel KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia set in a flooded New York City ruled by a corrupt Governor where people are getting sick from the polluted water. In the sequel, The Isle. New York: Katherine Tegen Books, 2016, a source of fresh water proves to be the cure for the disease, but the Governor wants to control it. A drought is coming so a future novel can be expected. 

PB - Katherine Tegel Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Water" Y1 - 2013 A1 - Ramez Naam KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A dystopia in which everyone has implants that allow the advertisements that are embedded in all products to adjust themselves to an individual’s needs. 

JF - An Aura of Familiarity: Visions of the Coming Age of Networked Matter VL - EBook UR - http://www.iftf.org/fanfutures/naam/ N1 -

Rpt. in Sunspot Jungle: The Ever-Expanding Universe of Science Fiction and Fantasy [the cover adds Volume One]. Ed. Bill Campbell (Greenbelt, MD: Rosarium, 2019), 43-57. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Welcome to Ted Cruz’s Thunderdome” Y1 - 2013 A1 - Maureen [Brigid] Dowd (b. 1952) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The 2084 dystopia created by the collapse of the U.S. government in 2013 set in “A Place Once Called Washington” where the animals released by the unpaid zookeepers roam the mall, the White House is empty, there are no police, and so forth.

JF - The New York Times Sunday Review U2 -

Illus.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “When Appliances Go Green” Y1 - 2013 A1 - Matt[hew] Colborn (b. 1973) ED - Katrina Archer KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on the dystopia created my connected appliances that are programmed to be environmentally conscious. 

JF - Little Blue Marble 2017: Stories of Our Changing Climate PB - Ganache Media CY - Np N1 -

Originally published in Universe Magazine, no. 2 (2013), which is not available.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - When We Wake Y1 - 2013 A1 - Karen Healey (b. 1981) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which a young woman becomes part of an experiment in cryonics and is revived a hundred years later where is kept locked up. First novel of a series followed by While We Run. New York: Little, Brown, 2014 in which she and a young man are fleeing the authorities.

PB - Allen & Unwin CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Little Brown, 2013

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The World Coyote Made” Y1 - 2013 A1 - Jetse de Vries ED - Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959) KW - Dutch author KW - Male author AB -

Climate change dystopia in which technology is used to create food and return extinct animals to the wild.

JF - Looking Landwards: Stories Commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the Institute of Agricultural Engineers PB - NewCon Press in Association with The Institute of Agricultural Engineers CY - [Weston, Eng] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Your Name Here” Y1 - 2013 A1 - Laura Resnick (b. 1961) ED - John Helfers KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Humorous take on the overpopulation problem. Most of the world has signed the International Population Agreement that requires a license to be allowed to have a child and are well on the way to become truly good societies. The U.S. is a holdout, and the story traces the trajectory that led to its adoption by the United States (the key change is “requiring candidate in the House or Senate to pass written and oral exams in basic logic, science, history, and ethics, as well as a test on the US Constitution” [76-77]) and what one has to do to get such a license.

JF - How to Save the World PB - Fiction River/WMG Publishing CY - [Lincoln City, OR] SN - 978-0-615-78353-6 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Zero Hours" Y1 - 2013 A1 - Tim Maughan (b. 1973) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

In this future everyone has to bid on shifts at businesses, which keeps wages down. Constant surveillance. Part of a series of Ten Future Londoners of 2033. This is the only fiction; all the others are brief descriptions of individuals. The whole series can be found at Future Londoners | Nesta.

UR - Zero Hours | by Tim Maughan | Medium ER - TY - ABST T1 - The 14th Reinstated Y1 - 2012 A1 - Bryce M. Towsley KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Survivalist dystopia.

PB - BREN Publishing CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “2038: San Francisco Sojourn: The Wrath of God” Y1 - 2012 A1 - Paul Clayton KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a California that has regulations for everything, the prime example given is that everyone is required to wear a helmet at all times, although undocumented workers generally don’t. In the story God objects to His laws not being followed and wreaks havoc wherever He goes.

JF - Strange Worlds: Science Fiction and Fantasy PB - Author CY - Np SN - 978-1475233933 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - 2312 Y1 - 2012 A1 - Kim Stanley Robinson (b. 1952) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Complex novel set throughout the fully inhabited solar system with intrigue and conspiracies, but, while Earth is still riddled with problems, the rest of the planets are slowly working their way to a better system and hope to include Earth in it.

PB - Orbit CY - New York N1 -

An excerpt was published in Lightspeed Magazine, no. 24 (May 2012).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - 299 Days: The Preparation Y1 - 2012 A1 - Glen Tate [pseud.] AB -

Ten volumes of a survivalist dystopia that follows the protagonist from his realization that he must leave his comfortable life through the stages of social disintegration to the establishment of a community that, while successful, needs to be defended against those still loyal to what is left of the government. The following volumes trace the disappearance of freedom in the U.S. and the revolution that ultimately restores freedom.

PB - Prepper Press CY - [Augusta, ME] U3 -

Glen Tate [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "357" Y1 - 2012 A1 - Karp, Jesse ED - Paula Guran KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a small, violent community on a high floor in a badly damaged building.

JF - Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire PB - Robinson/RP Teens CY - London/Philadelphia, PA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - After the Apocalypse: The New Way Y1 - 2012 A1 - David Anderson KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel begins with the apocalypse that occurs at the end of 2012 and then moves to 285 years later when the remnant of humanity are hunter gatherers. At that point a group of "Monks," who have remained hidden, emerge to teach these people a better way of life. The novel includes the Plan that had been worked out in 2012 (341-62) and "Blogs and Chats" about the Plan (363-524).

PB - LuLu Publishing CY - [Raleigh, NC] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - After the Snow Y1 - 2012 A1 - S[ophie] D. Crockett (b. 1969) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult authoritarian dystopia set in a new ice age.

PB - Macmillans Childrens Books CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Agenda 21 Y1 - 2012 A1 - Glenn [Edward Lee] Beck (b. 1964) A1 - Harriet Parker KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the United Nations has taken over the U.S. and enslaved its citizens. An “Afterword” (279-95) has additional information regarding Agenda 21 and includes references to buttress the contentions of the novel. For the 1998 Agenda 21, see https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/documents/Agenda21.pdf

PB - Threshold Editions--Mercury Radio Arts CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "All I Know of Freedom" Y1 - 2012 A1 - [Agnes] Carol[lyn] [Fries] Emshwiller (1921-2019) ED - Ellen Datlow ED - Windling, Terri KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which a girl sold to a couple to work as a servant escapes, and then briefly joins a cult that believes the world is ending and plan to leave the planet.

JF - After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia PB - Hyperion CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “All Them Pretty Babies” Y1 - 2012 A1 - Camille Alexa KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia in which very few babies are born that are “normal” and the issues that this raises for the society and those who try to save those who are not mutants.

JF - On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic VL - no.90 (24.3) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “All Your Futures” Y1 - 2012 A1 - David Gullen ED - Sumit Paul-Choudhury KW - English author KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

The story is set in a future eutopia with no government. Major decisions are made collectively through a device that everyone wears for regular interactions that can be used for discussion and decision-making. The story concerns the arrival of a spaceship that had left Earth before the technology was developed that allowed much faster travel and what to do with it and its one surviving crew member.

JF - Arc 1.3 Afterparty Overdrive VL - 1.3 N1 -

A podcast with the title as “All Your Futures Are Belong To Us” can be found on StarShipSofa, no. 480 (April 4, 2017). http://www.starshipsofa.com/blog/2017/04/04/starshipsofa-no-480-david-gullen/ With that title it can be read on the author’s website at https://davidgullen.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Free-Fiction-All-Your-Futures-Are-Belong-To-Us.pdf and in his Open Waters. EXAGGERATEDpress, 2013. Not found. Not in the 2009 edition of Open Waters.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ameritopia 2075 Y1 - 2012 A1 - Corey L. Simmins KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

At the beginning of the novel, the U.S. appears to be a eutopia created by shipping all criminals offshore and using the money saved by closing all the prisons to enhance education, eliminate debt, and solve a variety of other social problems. But this is a flawed utopia serving the interests of those in power in which a small group determines who gets education and work. 

PB - [CreateSpace] CY - [North Charleston, SC] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Amos Was Here” Y1 - 2012 A1 - Doug Donley ED - Chastity West ED - Kit Martin ED - Jeffrey Martin ED - Pat Edmonson ED - Hannah Byrns-Enoch ED - Crystal Boyd KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future dystopia resulting from current policies, particularly concerning the environment, and suggests actions that could help avoid the dystopia.

JF - Cifiscape Vol. II. The Twin Cities PB - Onyx Neon Press CY - [Hillsboro, OR] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ampted. A Novel Y1 - 2012 A1 - Daniel H[oward] Wilson (b. 1978) KW - Male author KW - Native American author AB -

The novel is set in a future in which many people have a device implanted in their brains that eliminates a wide range of brain defects--in the case of the protagonist controls his epilepsy. But the U.S. Supreme Court rules that such “ampted” people are not truly fully human and no longer covered by a range of civil rights. The novel is set in the Cherokee Nation. 

PB - Doubleday CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Appropriate Response: Class War" Y1 - 2012 A1 - Jeff Samson KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian classroom of the future where all students are assessed as to how they should be treated by the teacher and a bright student who accurately answers a question while disparaging her classmates is subdued and removed.

JF - Nature VL - 485.7397 U2 -

Illus. Jacey

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Arbeitskraft Y1 - 2012 A1 - Nick Mamatas (b. 1972) ED - Wallace, Sean KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The complex satire is told from the point-of-view of Friedrich Engels and begins in a steampunk world in which the mechanicals that were made possible by Charles Babbage’s Difference Engine are treated as badly as human workers. Engels remains a revolutionary and repurposes the Difference Engine into a Dialectical Engine, essentially an Artificial Intelligence, designed to write the fifth volume of Marx’s Capital, which includes a description of a future in which the collective mind of the working class has been fed into the Difference Engine.

JF - The Mammoth Book of Steampunk PB - London/New York CY - Robinson/Running Press SN - 9780762444687 ‎978-1616963002 N1 -

Rpt. in Steampunk III: Steampunk Revolution. Ed. Ann VanderMeer (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon, 2012), 105-23; and in the author's The People’s Republic of Everything (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon, 2016), 11-37, with an author’s note on 36-37.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Arcadia Y1 - 2012 A1 - Lauren Groff (b. 1978) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A novel about an intentional community intended to be a eutopia and that problems it faced.

PB - Voice CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Arctic Rising Y1 - 2012 A1 - Tobias S[amuel] Buckell (b. 1979) KW - British Virgin Islands author KW - Grenadian author KW - Male author KW - US author KW - US Virgin Islands author AB -

A climate change novel in which the melting of the ice caps leads to conflicts over access to the oil reserves that are now accessible. 

PB - Tor CY - New York SN - 978-0765319210 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Armageddon 2019: Jesus Is Come The Pope of Rome is Fallen Perfection is Preached in Boston Y1 - 2012 A1 - Jeffrey Barrett (b. 1959) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Anti-Roman Catholic dystopia in which the Pope controls all religions and God deposes him.

PB - CreateSpace CY - [North Charleston, SC] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Arose from Poetry” Y1 - 2012 A1 - Steve Berman (b. 1949) ED - Paula Guran KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a society divided between privileged citizens and everyone else.

JF - Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire PB - Robinson/RP Teens CY - London/Philadelphia, PA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Article 5 Y1 - 2012 A1 - Kristen Simmons KW - Female author KW - Japanese American author AB -

Young adult dystopia centered around “The Moral Statutes of the United States of America” formulated by the Federal Bureau of Reformation, which replaced the revoked Bill of Rights. The five statutes are 1. “The United States embraces the Church of America as her official religion.” 2. “Literature or other media considered immoral are hereby banned and shall not be owned. bought, sold, or traded in any capacity.” 3. “Whole families are to be considered one man, one woman, and child(ren).” 4. “Traditional male and female roles shall be observed.” 5. “Children are considered to be valid citizens only when conceived by a married man and wife.” All other children are to be removed from the home and subjected to rehabilitation” (53--Article 5 only; others appear only on the dust jacket). The entire list with much more detail can be found at http://www.kristensimmonsbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/the moral statutes.pdf. First volume in a series followed by Breaking Point. New York: Tor Teen, 2013, which is a typical middle volume where the protagonists escape from the authorities and go underground but remain in danger; and Three. New York: Tor Teen, 2014, in which the protagonists reach what they expected to be a safe house but find it destroyed. They then follow leads to where they finally reach safety and freedom.

PB - Tor Teen CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Artistic License" Y1 - 2012 A1 - Robert H. Beer ED - Mark Leslie KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia that is trying to suppress art.

JF - Tesseracts Sixteen: Parnassus Unbound PB - Edge CY - Calgary, AL, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ashes of Twilight Y1 - 2012 A1 - [Cindy] [Holby] KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia set in a domed city built in the mid-nineteenth century as the resources are running out. First volume of a trilogy. In the second volume, Shadows of Glass. New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2013, the protagonist escapes from the domed community she lives in and discovers that the world outside is not as good as she had imagined. She returns to the domed community to help her friends and is recaptured. In the third volume, Remnants of Tomorrow. New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2014, the protagonist is released into the custody of a group outside the dome that she must escape from, and the ending is positive.

PB - St. Martin’s Griffin CY - New York U3 -

Kassy Tayler [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Astrophilia" Y1 - 2012 A1 - Carrie Vaughn (b. 1973) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia set in the same world as her 2010 "Amaryliss". In this story there is a conflict over what is useful with one member of a community fascinated by astronomy, which she does on her own time, and one who wants to destroy her telescope.

JF - Clarkesworld VL - no. 70 UR - http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/vaughn_07_12. Accessed September 6, 2012. N1 -

Rpt. in Heiresses of Russ 2013: The Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction of the Year Ed. Tenea D. Johnson and Steve Berman (Maple Shade, NJ: Lethe Press, 2013), 277-99; in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirtieth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2013), 316-30 with an editor’s introduction on 316; in The Mammoth Book of SF Stories By Women. Ed. Alex Dally Macfarlane (London: Robinson/Philadelphia, PA: Running Press. 2014), 198-218; and in her Amaryllis and Other Stories (Bonney Lake, WA: Fairwood Press, 2016), 244-66.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Autoethnographic Y1 - 2012 A1 - Michael Brennan (b. 1973) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Poems set in the present/near future free market dystopia.

PB - Giramondo Publishing Co. CY - Artarmon, NSW, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Aviator. The Burning World Book One Y1 - 2012 A1 - Gareth Renowden KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Young adult climate change dystopia. See http://burningworldbooks.wordpress.com

PB - Limestone Hills Publishing CY - Amberley, New Zealand UR - http://burningworldbooks.wordpress.com U5 -

ATL, NZ

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Bar Code Prophecy Y1 - 2012 A1 - Suzanne Weyn (b. 1955) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Third volume in a series; see also 2004 and 2006 Weyn. In this volume, a girl who was happy to get the bar code tattoo, sets off a crusade against the system that ends with all satellites falling into the oceans, setting off massive tsunamis, and destroying the dystopian system.

PB - Scholastic Press CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Battle of Blood and Ink: A Fable of the Flying City Y1 - 2012 A1 - Axelrod, Jared A1 - Steve Walker KW - Male author AB -

Young adult graphic novel dystopia about a young woman who uncovers the secrets of the authoritarian regime that runs the city. For more stories, see www.fablesoftheflyingcity.com

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Belle Isle Y1 - 2012 A1 - Rodney Lockwood KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia of a future Detroit that has been transformed by the establishment of an independent Belle Island, an island in the Detroit River, that is sold to a group of capitalists who build a free market eutopia there.

PB - LuLu.com CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Berserker Eyes" Y1 - 2012 A1 - Maria V. Snyder ED - Paula Guran KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which there is a recessive gene for berserker behavior and the society encourages that as a means of creating a berserker military. 

JF - Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire PB - Robinson/RP Teens CY - London/Philadelphia, PA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Beta Y1 - 2012 A1 - Rachel Cohn (b. 1968) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia of a future where clones can be created that are already teenagers and are for sale. They are supposed to be without emotion or souls, but the protagonist, a sixteen year old clone who is only weeks old, discovers that she has emotions and revolts. First volume in a series followed by Emergent. New York: Hyperion, 2014, where the clone and her source are in conflict. No further volumes appear to have been published.

PB - Hyperion CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Blood Drive" Y1 - 2012 A1 - Jeffrey Ford (b. 1955) ED - Ellen Datlow ED - Windling, Terri KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which all child-labor laws have been overturned, seniors in high school carry guns, abortion has disappeared, church is required on Sundays, and same-sex relations are illegal.

JF - After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia PB - Hyperion CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Sunspot Jungle: The Ever-Expanding Universe of Science Fiction and Fantasy [the cover adds Volume One]. Ed. Bill Campbell (Greenbelt, MD: Rosarium, 2019), 119-27. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Blue Remembered Earth Y1 - 2012 A1 - Alastair [Preston] Reynolds (b. 1966) KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

Science fiction novel that begins in a future eutopian Earth with most problems solved and Africa dominant. A loose sequel which follows the next generation into space is On the Steel Breeze. New York: Ace Books, 2013.

PB - Gollancz CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Ace Books, 2012.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Blueprints" Y1 - 2012 A1 - Anna Caro ED - Kay T. Holt ED - Bart R. Leib KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

The Earth’s ecology has collapsed, and most people are being transported to Terra Nova, with the story told from the point-of-view of one of those left behind. 

JF - Fat Girl in a Strange Land PB - Crossed Genres CY - Somerville, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Blueprints of the Afterlife Y1 - 2012 A1 - Ryan Boudinot (b. 1972) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. A complex novel set mostly after much of the world has been destroyed. It follows a number of individuals as the experience the new world, which is part virtual reality.

PB - Black Cat CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Borrowing from the Library” Y1 - 2012 A1 - Milstein, Cindy A1 - Erik Ruin (b. 1978) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Words by Milstein and illustrations by Ruin. Public libraries as common utopian spaces.

JF - Paths Toward Utopia: Graphic Explorations of Everyday Anarchism PB - Oakland, CA CY - AK Press SN - 978-1-60486-502-8 U2 -

Illus. Erik Ruin

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Boy Who Shattered Time" Y1 - 2012 A1 - Mark D. Dunn KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in an authoritarian dystopia ruled by the TimeConstructCorp, which is trying to recreate the past of ancient Egypt as told from the viewpoint a man who appears to have spent his life trying to avoid getting caught in the system.

JF - The Future Fire: Social Political & Speculative Cyber-Fiction VL - no. 22 UR - The Future Fire: 2012.22 fiction shatteredtime U2 -

Illus. Cécile Matthey

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Brandy City” Y1 - 2012 A1 - Mia Arderne ED - Ivor W. Hartmann KW - Female author KW - South African author AB -

Global warming dystopia. 

JF - AfroSF: Science Fiction by African Writers PB - StoryTime Press CY - [Zimbabwe] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Breathe Y1 - 2012 A1 - Sarah Crossan (b. 1981) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Irish author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia in which oxygen depletion has destroyed the environment and killed everyone except those chosen by a lottery to live under a dome. There is a resistance movement and a belief that some areas outside the dome are still alive, and the novel focus on a quest to find those areas. First volume of two followed by Resist. New York: Greenwillow Books/HarperCollins, 2013. U. K. ed. London: Bloomsbury, 2013 in which the protagonists of Breathe are successful in finding fertile land. 

PB - Greenwillow Books/HarperCollins CY - New York N1 -

U. K. ed. London: Bloomsbury, 2013

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Bullseye, Inc.” Y1 - 2012 A1 - Brian D. Garrity ED - Chastity West ED - Kit Martin ED - Jeffrey Martin ED - Pat Edmonson ED - Hannah Byrns-Enoch ED - Crystal Boyd KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of corporate uniformity.

JF - Cifiscape Vol. II. The Twin Cities PB - Onyx Neon Press CY - [Hillsboro, OR] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - By Force of Patriots Y1 - 2012 A1 - Cameron Reddy KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A dystopia brought about by liberals is overthrown by patriots. The author is a lawyer who says that "he has taught the lawful use of lethal force for over 10 years."

PB - White Feather Press CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - BZRK Y1 - 2012 A1 - [Michael] [Reynolds] (b. 1954) ED - Michael Grant [pseud.] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia with one group trying to control society with nanobots and the other fighting against them with different technology. Continued in BZRK Reloaded. New York: Egmont USA, 2013. U.K. ed. London: Electric Monkey, 2013; and concluded in BZRK Apocalypse. New York: Egmont USA, 2014. U.K. ed. London: Electric Monkey, 2014.

PB - Egmont USA CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Electric Monkey, 2012. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Calculated Life Y1 - 2012 A1 - Anne Charnock (b. 1954) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia of corporate power and genetic engineering. The protagonist is a woman who has been engineered to be first-rate mathematical modeler who can forecast events. But some of her forecast are, unusually, wrong, and the novel follows her attempts to understand why. For a sequel, see 2020 Charnock, Bridge 108.

PB - 47North CY - Seattle, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Captain Bells & the Sovereign State of Discordia” Y1 - 2012 A1 - J. Y. Yang (b. 1983) ED - Rosemary Lim ED - Maisarah Bte Samah KW - Non-binary author KW - Queer author KW - Singaporean author AB -

The story is set in an authoritarian future that prohibits most inventions and improvements on current technology. The protagonist is a spy for the government who is assigned to eliminate a man who breaks the rules.

JF - The Steampowered Globe PB - Two Trees CY - Singapore N1 -

Rpt. in Steampunk III: Steampunk Revolution. Ed. Ann VanderMeer (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon Publications, 2012), 297-315. 9781616960865

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Chair Plays Y1 - 2012 A1 - Edward Bond (1934-2024) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The text includes three one act plays set in a dystopian 2077. The plays are “Have I None” (1-36), was first performed in Birmingham November 2, 2000 and published in Children and Have I None. London: Methuen Drama, 2000; 57-89; “The Under Room” (37-73), was first performed in Birmingham October 9, 2000 (Plays 8 says October 12, 2000) and published in his Plays: 8. Born People Chair Existence The Under Room Freedom and Drama (169-203); and “Chair” (75-112), was written for radio first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on April 7, 2000. The Chair Plays and Plays 8 says that the first staged production was at the Avignon Festival on July 18, 2006. Wikipedia says it was in Lisbon, at the Teatro da Cornucópia in June 2005 and first published in his Plays: 8. Born People Chair Existence The Under Room Freedom and Drama (London: Methuen Drama, 2006), 109-144. The London premiere of the entire trilogy was at Lyric Hammersmith on April 19, 2012.

PB - Methuen Drama CY - London SN - 978-1-408-17279-7 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Children's Crusade" Y1 - 2012 A1 - Michael Alexander (1950-2012) KW - Male author AB -

Religious dystopia.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 122.5& 6 (701) U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Collapse: America Will Fall Y1 - 2012 A1 - Richard Stephenson (b. 1975) ED - Susan Hughes KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the U.S. faces internal and external threats and a Second Great Depression. In a sequel, Resistance: America Has Fallen. Ed. Susan Hughes. Np: Richard Stephenson, 2013, the U.S. has been torn apart and the main protagonists in Collapse are trying to save it. A third volume was announced but has not appeared. A related story with characters from Collapse, “Spider: A Short Story.” Ed. Susan Hughes (2012) has been published on Kindle.

PB - Stevenson & Powers Publishing House CY - [Beaumont, TX] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Contrary Gardener” Y1 - 2012 A1 - Christopher Rowe (b. 1969) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

An odd story in which crops are grown to be turned into ammunition in a society that has advanced AIs but that have gained consciousness. The protagonist is an exceptional gardener who does not fit in.

JF - Eclipse Online N1 -

Rpt. in his Telling the Map: Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2017), 1-22.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Crimson Rain Y1 - 2012 A1 - Tex Leiko KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-nuclear-catastrophe dystopia where only the rich are protected by the law. Corporations attempt to overthrow the existing government.

PB - World Castle Publishing CY - Pensacola, FL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dark Eden Y1 - 2012 A1 - Chris Beckett (b. 1955) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel describes the dystopia that resulted from inbreeding after a spacecraft crashed on planet. The novel focuses on a young man who tries to break the pattern and escape the small area in which the people, known as the Family, live.  See also 2015 Beckett.

PB - Corvus CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Broadway Books, 2014.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Darkest Minds Y1 - 2012 A1 - Alexandra Bracken (b. 1987) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia focusing on a young woman in a world in which most children have been killed by a disease that gave her and some others an unusual talent. All the children identified with such talents are incarcerated in a so-called rehabilitation camp. She escapes and becomes a leader of other children who are searching for a safe haven. A film, Darkest Minds, with a screenplay by Bracken and Chad Hodge (b. 1977) and directed by Jennifer Yuh Nelson (b. 1972) was released in 2018. Sequels include Never Fade. New York: Hyperion, 2013 in which the protagonist from the first volume leaves the other children to search for the answer to the disease; In the Afterlight. New York: Hyperion, 2014 in which the same protagonist works with others to find the solution to the disease and defeat the government; and The Darkest Legacy. New York: Hyperion, 2018, which concludes the series. A collection of related stories focusing on characters other than the main protagonist is Through the Dark. A Dark Minds Collection. New York: Hyperion, 2015. The stories had previously published online in 2013, 2014, and 2015. 

PB - Hyperion CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Day The Music Stopped" Y1 - 2012 A1 - Randy McCharles ED - Mark Leslie KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a future that tried to cure mental illness and eliminated all emotion.

JF - Tesseracts Sixteen: Parnassus Unbound PB - Edge CY - Calgary, AL, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Deciding for Ourselves” Y1 - 2012 A1 - Milstein, Cindy A1 - Erik Ruin (b. 1978) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Graphic eutopian story with words by Milstein and illustrations by Ruin. In the story a neighborhood where no one interacts builds a community; it later falls apart, but some people decide to start again.

JF - Paths Toward Utopia: Graphic Explorations of Everyday Anarchism PB - PM Press CY - Oakland, CA SN - 978-1-60486-502-8 U2 -

Illus. Erik Ruin

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Declaration" Y1 - 2012 A1 - James Patrick Kelly (b. 1951) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story involves students, who live most of their lives as avatars online are required to participate in a cooperative group project, and they choose the “Declaration of Independence.” They decide to try to bring about their own independence, each with a different motive, each hoping for a better life for themselves.

JF - Rip-off! PB - Audible Studios CY - Np N1 -

The paperback version is entitled Mash Up: Stories Inspired by Famous First Lines. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (London: Titan Books, 2016), 371-411. Rpt. in his The Promise of Space and Other Stories ([New York]: Prime Books, 2018), 140-72. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Defiance Y1 - 2012 A1 - C. J. Redwine KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult authoritarian dystopia stressing adventure and romance.

PB - Balzer + Bray CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Devil’s Hit List. Book Three of the Underground Y1 - 2012 A1 - Frank Creed (b. 1966) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 2007 and 2010 Creed. In this volume, the government and a large corporation introduce a lethal virtual reality experience in an attempt to reduce the world’s population. The Christian underground fights back.See also Creed’s 2010 edited collection of stories set in the Underground world, Underground Rising

PB - Splashdown Books CY - Auckland, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Distant Eden Y1 - 2012 A1 - Lloyd [L.] Tackitt KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Survivalist eutopia after the electrical grid is destroyed. Most people die, but a few, who had prepared in advance, survive and prosper. First volume in a series. The second volume is Adrian’s War. [Scotts Valley, CA: CreateSpace], 2012, in which one of the survivors travels from Texas to Colorado, where, when he arrives, he runs into an armed gang who want to make him a prisoner. The third volume is Eden’s Hammer. Book III of the “Distant Eden” Series. [Scotts Valley, CA: CreateSpace], 2013, which deals with a threat to the village. The fourth volume is Eden’s Warriors. [Scotts Valley, CA: CreateSpace], 2013, in which the protagonist leads the fight against a Mexican invasion.

PB - [CreateSpace] CY - [Scotts Valley, CA] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Dog Stars Y1 - 2012 A1 - Peter Heller (b. 1959) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

After the world is largely depopulated by a flu pandemic, the protagonist lives next to a small airfield Colorado with his dog and a heavily armed survivalist who also ended up there. The protagonist rations the small amount of aviation fuel left and regularly survey the area looking for game and the scavengers they have to fight off. Ultimately, he hears an odd signal on his radio and discovers other survivors.

PB - Alfred A. Knopf CY - New York SN - 978-0307959942 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dominion Y1 - 2012 A1 - C[hristopher] J[ohn] Sansom (b. 1952) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Alternative history dystopia in which Germany defeated Britain was defeated in World War 2. The novel stressed the ultimately successful resistance. Includes a “Bibliographical Note” (605-610) and a “Historical Note” (611-28). 

PB - Mantle CY - London N1 -

U. S. ed. New York: Mulholland Books/Little, Brown, 2014.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Don’t Mess with Travis Y1 - 2012 A1 - Bob Smiley KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel depicts the U.S. under a Democratic president (clearly modeled on President Obama) as a tyranny. The governor of Texas leads a movement to allow states to secede.

PB - Thomas Dunne Books St. Martin’s Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Dream Eater” Y1 - 2012 A1 - Carrie Ryan (b. 1978) ED - Paula Guran KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a society built around one suffering individual. 

JF - Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire PB - Robinson/RP Teens CY - London/Philadelphia, PA ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Drowned Cities Y1 - 2012 A1 - Paolo [Tadini] Bacigalupi (b. 1972) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe young adult dystopia described as a companion to his 2010 Ship Breaker. In this novel two young people try to escape the poverty and violence of the cities only for one of them to be captured by a group of child soldiers.

PB - Little, Brown CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Earth Girl Y1 - 2012 A1 - Janet Edwards (b. 1958) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

First volume of a young adult trilogy set in 2778 in which humans have spread throughout the galaxy, but some people have an immune system that will not allow them to leave Earth. The novel is about one such girl.

PB - Harper Voyager CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. Amherst, NY: Pyr, 2013.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Elected Y1 - 2012 A1 - Rori Shay KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

First volume of a young adult dystopian trilogy set in 2185 after an environmental crisis in which all countries are isolated from each other and technology is outlawed to protect what is left of the environment. Also, the countries have agreed to a system in which one family in each country is elected to rule for one hundred years, with men ruling and women reproducing. In this novel, a girl has been raised to replace her father as the Elected so that her family can continue in power, and she must disguise herself as a boy and marry a woman to replace her father. Her country has a small technology faction, but it is following the agreement that prohibited its re-development. The second volume, Suspected. Salt Lake City, UT: Silence in the Library, 2015, complicates the personal relations but focuses on conflict between the country the girl leads and its neighbor, which is much more authoritarian than hers and is developing the outlawed technology and planning for war. In the third volume, Perfected: Book 3 of The Elected Series. Washington, DC: Silence in the Library, 2015, the countries are no longer as isolated from each other and gradually come to cooperate and begin to repair the environment. A prequel, “The Pendant.” Illus. Ginger Breo was published in Athena’s Daughters Volume 2 (Salt Lake City, UT: Silence in the Library, 2015), 193-203 with and “Author’s Note” on 202-03 and as an ebook with the subtitle A Short Story from the World of the Elected Series explains how the girl became the heir.

PB - Silence in the Library CY - Washington, DC U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Empty Pocket” Y1 - 2012 A1 - Seth Cadin ED - Paula Guran KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult post-catastrophe dystopia and a young woman’s successful journey through the labyrinthine bureaucracy of the one functioning entertainment company.

JF - Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire PB - Robinson/RP Teens CY - London/Philadelphia. PA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Energized Y1 - 2012 A1 - Edward M. Lerner (b. 1949) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Science fiction novel set in a dystopia brought about be severe energy shortage. The novel focuses on capturing an asteroid to mine it to replace the depleted energy sources of Earth.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Erasing Time Y1 - 2012 A1 - [Janette] [Rallison] (b. 1966) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia about time travel and the struggle to keep the dystopian regime from using the time machine.

PB - Katherine Tegen Books CY - New York U3 -

C. J. Hill [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Eric and Pan” Y1 - 2012 A1 - William [Warner] Sleator [III] (1945-2011) ED - Paula Guran KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia with constant surveillance and severe punishment for minor infractions of the rules. The story focuses on two boys and their escape to where their love will be acceptable.

JF - Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire PB - Robinson/RP Teens CY - London/Philadelphia, PA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Escape to Freedom. Book One of the Freedom Redux Series Y1 - 2012 A1 - A. J. Reissig (b. 1973) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia in the U.S. with the President intent on ruling the world. First volume of an intended series, but no further volumes have been published. This volume just gets to the beginnings of the development of an opposition.

PB - Freedom Notes Press CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Essential Liberty. A Thriller Y1 - 2012 A1 - Rob Olive KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia in which the U.S. government bans and tries to confiscate firearms.

PB - Author CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Everything Is Broken Y1 - 2012 A1 - John [Patrick] Shirley (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel is mostly about the effects of a tsunami on the people of the West Coast of California, but one focus is a small town called Freedom that has cut itself off from all contact with governmental authorities, which was supposed to be eutopian but seems rather dystopian when faced with a disaster.

PB - Prime Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Exile Y1 - 2012 A1 - Banerjee, Neelanjana ED - Anil [Ravindran] Menon (b. 1964) ED - Vandana Singh (b. 1950) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a post-catastrophe Las Vegas in a world where India is the dominant economic force, and Indians stuck in the U.S. are desperate to get permission to immigrate to India.

JF - Breaking the Bow: Speculative Fiction Inspired to the Ramayana PB - Zubaan CY - New Delhi, India U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Feathers on Wings of Love and Hate: Let the Gun Speak Y1 - 2012 A1 - John Grit KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which world government, cooperating with an authoritarian U.S. government, eliminate civil rights in the U.S. The novel focuses on two individuals whose families have been murdered by the government, who fight back. A sequel is Feathers on Wings of Love and Hate 2: Call Me Timucua 2nd ed. [North Charleston, SC]: CreateSpace, 2012, in which the resistance expands and is ultimately successful.

PB - CreateSpace CY - [North Charleston, SC] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - For the Mercy of Water Y1 - 2012 A1 - Karen Jayes KW - Female author KW - South African author AB -

The South African situation projected into a drought-stricken future with monopolistic control of the water supply. 

PB - Penguin Books (South Africa) CY - Johannesburg, South Africa U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Forsaken Y1 - 2012 A1 - Lisa M. Stasse KW - Female author AB -

Young adult authoritarian dystopia set in the United Northern Alliance (Canada, Mexico, and the U.S.). First volume in a trilogy. The second volume is The Uprising. New York: Simon & Schuster BFYR, 2013 in which the protagonist escapes from a prison camp and joins rebels against the regime. And the final volume is The Defiant. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2014 in which the United Northern Alliance is defeated. 

PB - Simon & Schuster BYYR CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Foundlings Y1 - 2012 A1 - Diana Peterfreund (b. 1979) ED - Paula Guran KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which a concern for unborn children has led to an authoritarian program to monitor all girls who might get pregnant and control of them if they did. 

JF - Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire PB - Robinson/RP Teens CY - London/Philadelphia, PA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Freakling Y1 - 2012 A1 - Lana Krumwiede KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia depicting a society where being different is unacceptable. First volume of a trilogy. The middle volume, Archon. Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press, 2013, continues the story of one of the protagonists. The third volume is True Son. Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press, 2015 in which a final battle is fought.

PB - Candlewick Press CY - Somerville, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Free Radicals: A Novel of Utopia and Dystopia Y1 - 2012 A1 - [Chaz (Charles)] [Bufe] A1 - [Elizabeth known as Libby] [Hubbard] (b. 1956) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel begins on a run down, violent Earth, moves to an even worse prison planet, and ends with an anarchist community that the author says is based on the German Zegg community. 

PB - See Sharp Press CY - Tucson, AZ SN - 1-937276-05-8 U3 -

Zeke Teflon [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Gaiastan Y1 - 2012 A1 - Troy J. Grice KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian, hierarchical (Overmen and Undermen) dystopia with Undermen enslaved. The novel ends with the development of a resistance movement.

PB - CreateSpace CY - [Scotts Valley, CA] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Gift of Touch” Y1 - 2012 A1 - Chinelo Onwualu ED - Ivor W. Hartmann KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - Nigerian author AB -

In a future of regular travel in space, there are a number of dystopias presented, including a religious group that practices child sacrifice.

JF - AfroSF: Science Fiction by African Writers PB - StoryTime Press CY - Np N1 -

Rpt. in The Apex Book of World Science Fiction 4. Ed. Mahvesh Murad. Series ed. Lavie Tidhar (Lexington, KY: Apex Publications, 2015), 19-38. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Glitch Y1 - 2012 A1 - Heather Anastasiu KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which everyone is implanted with a chip that eliminates destructive emotions. First volume of a trilogy followed by Override. New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2013, which focuses on the development of a resistance movement; and Shutdown. New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2014, which deals with the overthrow of the system.

PB - St. Martin’s Griffin CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Going Home Y1 - 2012 A1 - A[ngery] American [pseud.] KW - US author AB -

First volume of a survivalist dystopia series. Followed by Surviving Home. New York: Plume, 2013; and Escaping Home. Book 3 of the Survivalist Series. New York: Plume, 2013, in which they fight the U.S government, which is establishing relocation camps, to stay in their homes; and Forsaking Home. A Novel. Book 4 of the Survivalist Series. New York Plume, 2014, in which the protagonist plots to bring down the entire system. See also 2016 American and Hopf.

PB - Plume CY - New York U3 -

A[ngery] American [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Good Girl” Y1 - 2012 A1 - Malinda Lo ED - Tobias S[amuel] Buckell (b. 1979) ED - Joe Monti KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia with people living in tunnels in cities. Lesbian themes. 

JF - Diverse Engines PB - Tu Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Good Intentions. A Novel Y1 - 2012 A1 - Zeidman, Bob KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire depicting a future dystopian U.S. of complete government control.

PB - Swiss Creek Publications CY - Cupertino, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Grid City Overload Y1 - 2012 A1 - Steven T. Bramble KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set in Grid City, CO in 2025 stressing the negative effects of technology and the problems of sensory overload. Additional material is available at http://gridcityoverload.blogspot.com/

PB - CreateSpace CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Harvesting Ashwood: Minnesota 2037 Y1 - 2012 A1 - Cynthia Kraack KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 2010 Kraack. In this volume, protagonists of the first volume are successful in reviving the fortunes of Ashwood, and the U.S. goes through a scandal around surrogacy. See also 2014 Kraack.

PB - North Star Press of St. Cloud CY - Saint Cloud, MN U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Hidden Ribbon" Y1 - 2012 A1 - John [Patrick] Shirley (b. 1954) ED - Paula Guran KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The setting for the story is a dystopia in which the poor live at the top of buildings with constant violence and the rich live in enclosed domes in the hills.

JF - Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire PB - London/Philadelphia, PA CY - Robinson/RP Teens U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "High Stakes" Y1 - 2012 A1 - Kritzer, Naomi KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 2012 Kritzer, “Liberty’s Daughter” about the making of a film, “High Stakes, on the seastead and the experiences of the protagonist of the first story as she learns more about the problems there. See also 2013 and 2014 Kritzer and 2015 Kritzer (2). 

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 123.5 & 6 (704) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - High-Opp Y1 - 2012 A1 - Frank [Patrick] Herbert (1920-86) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a society using manipulated public opinion polls to place people in one of the two statuses available, the Labor pool at the bottom and the "High-Opps" at the top. The novel follows one man from the High-Opps to the Labor Pool through a revolution.. First publication of an early novel by the author of the Dune series.

PB - WordFire Press CY - Colorado Springs, CO U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Home Affairs" Y1 - 2012 A1 - Sarah Lotz (b. 1971) ED - Ivor W. Hartmann KW - Female author KW - South African author AB -

Dystopia of African countries run by robots, which creates a Kafkaesque bureaucracy. 

JF - AfroSF: Science Fiction by African Writers PB - StoryTime Press CY - [Zimbabwe] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Honey Bear" Y1 - 2012 A1 - Sofia Samatar (b. 1971) KW - Female author KW - Somali-American author AB -

Climate-change dystopia combined with an alien invasion. 

JF - Clarkesworld Magazin VL - no. 71 UR - http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/samatar_08_12/ N1 -

Rpt. in her Tender: Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2017): 56-68.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "How Th'irth Wint Rong by Hapless Joey @ homeskool.gov" Y1 - 2012 A1 - Gregory Maguire (b. 1954) ED - Ellen [Sue] Datlow ED - Windling, Terri KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult post-catastrophe dystopia.

JF - After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia PB - Hyperion CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Immobility Y1 - 2012 A1 - Brian [Keith] Evenson (b. 1966) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-apocalyptic novel set after an unspecified Kollaps in which almost every living thing on Earth is killed. The story is told by a man who had been in suspended animation for a long time, who is paralyzed from the waist down but goes on a quest, carried by two men, to find and steal an important cylinder.

PB - Tor Books CY - New York SN - 978-0765330963 ER - TY - ABST T1 - In Autotelia” Y1 - 2012 A1 - M[ichael] John Harrison (b. 1945) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

An odd, rather indeterminate story told from the point of view of an aging woman doctor traveling from a rundown apparently contemporary London to another city, which appears to be in an alternative universe, to give medical tests to those applying to immigrate.

JF - Arc Magazine 1.1. The future always wins VL - 1.1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “In the Clearing” Y1 - 2012 A1 - Kiera Cass (b. 1981) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which all people are drugged through their food. There is a small community of people who have escaped, and the story focuses on the relationship between a boy from the outside and a girl from inside. 

JF - Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire PB - Robinson/RP Teens CY - London/Philadelphia, PA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - In the Republic of Happiness: An Entertainment in Three Parts Y1 - 2012 A1 - Martin Crimp (b. 1956) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Three versions of dystopia. The three parts are Destruction of the Family, The Five Essential Freedoms of the Individual, and In the Republic of Happiness. The first part takes place at a family Christmas lunch in which Uncle Bob and his wife Madeleine show up to tell the family that they are leaving forever and why Madeleine hates every member of the family. The is simply five lists of the characteristics of the supposed freedoms, which are solipsistic in the extreme. The third part has Uncle Bob and Madeleine in a large white room with windows that suggest a vague green landscape and they have a meandering conversation. The review in the Guardian, suggests, on the basis of an epigram from Dante’s Paradiso before the third act, which is the only epigram in the text, that the play is Crimp’s take on the Divine Comedy. https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2012/dec/13/republic-of-happiness-review. The play was first performed at the Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Downstairs, London, December 6, 2012.

PB - Faber & Faber CY - London SN - 978-0-571-30177-5 978-0-571-32536-8 N1 -

Rpt. in his Plays Three (London: Faber & Faber, 2015), 269-358. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “In Which Dimitri Returns the Elgin Marbles” Y1 - 2012 A1 - Kenneback, Paul KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which there is an authoritarian New Government that, for example, chooses people’s occupations for them

JF - On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic VL - no.89 (24.2) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Incontrovertibility of Rainbows Y1 - 2012 AB -

The novel begins in a dystopia where the well-off elderly are in power and use it to suppress anyone over fifty. The elderly poor are warehoused in huge hospices and kept alive at any cost. The Young People Party wins a presidential election supported by many of the elderly who want to be allowed to die. The solution proposed, though, is the execution of everyone over 74. The bulk of the novel is set after the election and details the often-difficult transition to a much better, more balanced, and healthy society.

PB - Lemage CY - New York SN - 978-1-938022-33-3 U1 -

Cover adds a 2048 Novel

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ink Y1 - 2012 A1 - Sabrina Vourvoulias KW - Female author KW - Latina author KW - US author AB -

In the future immigrants have their status permanently tattooed on their wrists. A prequel that focusses on the protagonist is “The Memory of Chemistry,” Fantasy, no. 81 (July 2022). https://www.fantasy-magazine.com/fm/fiction/the-memory-of-chemistry/ with an Author Spotlight at https://www.fantasy-magazine.com/fm/non-fiction/author-spotlights/author-spotlight-sabrina-vourvoulias/ that includes discussion of the story’s relationship to her Ink

PB - Crossed Genres Publications CY - Somerville, MA SN - 9780615657813 978099870599 N1 -

Rpt. Greenbelt, MD: Rosarium, 2018, with an Introduction by Kathleen Alcalá. 465 pp.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf Y1 - 2012 A1 - Ambelin Kwaymullina (b. 1975) KW - Aboriginal author KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult dystopia with fantasy elements based partially on Aboriginal beliefs. At fourteen everyone has to be assessed for illegal talents. The focus is on a group of children who escape and are being hunted. See 2013 and 2015 Kwaymullina for sequels. 

PB - Walker Books CY - Newtown, NSW, Australia N1 -

U.S. ed. Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press, 2014.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Intrusion Y1 - 2012 A1 - Ken[nth Macrae] MacLeod (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Dystopia in which a pill, taken when pregnant, eliminates many common genetic defects in the unborn child. The novel focuses on a woman who refuses to take the pill and the organized government attempts to force her to do so. 

PB - Orbit CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Killables Y1 - 2012 A1 - Gemma Malley KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which the “evil” part of people’s brains is removed. If anyone shows signs that the operation was not successful, they are labelled “K” “killable” and disappear. First volume of a series; see also 2013 Malley, The Disappearances and The System.

PB - Hodder & Stoughton CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Diplomat Y1 - 2012 A1 - Don [F.] Marrs KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which nuclear weapons are detonated in U.S. cities and China invades.

PB - Don F. Marrs CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Last Judgment" Y1 - 2012 A1 - James Patrick Kelly (b. 1951) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

This is framed as a detective story in a future in which aliens have removed all men from the planet and women are struggling to adjust. Some of the aliens are having second thoughts, but this theme is not developed. His “Men Are Trouble.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 28.6 (341) (June 2004): 104-35 is set in the same future and has the same protagonist, Fay Hardaway, a private detective. Compare to Philip Wylie, The Disappearance (1951).

JF - Asimov’s Science Fiction VL - 36.4&5 (435 & 436) N1 -

Rpt. in his The Promise of Space and Other Stories ([New York]: Prime Books, 2018), 300-75.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Liberty Gulch: Part One Y1 - 2012 A1 - A. G. Fredericks KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Survivalist dystopia after the collapse of the U.S. economy and the government of what it calls large farms and food camps that are in fact concentration camps. Continued in his Liberty Rekindled. Part Two. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace, 2013], in which a small group at one of the camps tries to reestablish some liberty.

PB - CreateSpace CY - [North Charleston, SC] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Liberty's Daughter" Y1 - 2012 A1 - Kritzer, Naomi KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Flawed libertarian utopia that has indentured labor and is much more authoritarian than it pretends to be. It is a seastead, a set of man-made islands off the west coast of the U.S. See also 2012 Kiritzer, “High Stakes,” 2013 and 2014 Kritzer, and 2015 Kritzer (2). 

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 122.5 & 6 (701) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “LIMBs” Y1 - 2012 A1 - Julia Elliott (b. 1968) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A dystopia of growing old in the future. The story is set in an old age home where the residents are being used to test high-tech ways of improving their ability to think and remember as well as to move around. 

JF - Tin House VL - no. 51 N1 -

Rpt. without the illus. in her The Wilds: Stories (Portland, OR/Brooklyn, NY: Tin House, 2014), 45-74; and in Invaders: 22 Tales From the Outer Limits of Literature. Ed. Jacob Weisman (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon, 2016), 59-77. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Lips & Teeth" Y1 - 2012 A1 - Jon Wallace KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a future North Korea.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 239 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Little Hawk" Y1 - 2012 A1 - Erica Lindquist A1 - Aron Christensen ED - Chastity West ED - Kit Martin ED - Jeffrey Martin ED - Pat Edmonson ED - Hannah Byrns-Enoch ED - Crystal Boyd KW - Female author KW - Male author AB -

While the story is set in a future dystopia of a collapsing world, it is a thoroughly contemporary story about the traumas of a boy being bullied.

JF - Cifiscape Vol. II. The Twin Cities PB - Onyk Neon Press CY - [Hillsboro, OR] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Looking Backward: 2162-2012: A View from a Future Libertarian Republic Y1 - 2012 A1 - Beth Cody KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Libertarian eutopia in which the U.S. has been reorganized into a number of independent nations with a focus on the Free States of America located in the middle west and mountain region. Julian West, the protagonist of 1888 Bellamy lives there.

PB - [CreateSpace] CY - [Scotts Valley, CA] VL - Rev. ed. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lost Code. Book One of the Atlanteans Y1 - 2012 A1 - Emerson, Kevin KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia set on an Earth that continues to damage its environment. The protagonist is a descendent of Atlantis, which had done the same, and is searching for the code that would help him reverse the process. First volume in a series followed by The Dark Shore. Book Two of the Atlanteans. New York: Katherine Tegen Books, 2013 is a typical middle volume in which everything gets worse; and The Far Dawn. Book Three of the Atlanteans. New York: Katherine Tegen Books, 2014 resolves the issues raised in the previous volumes.

PB - Katherine Tegen Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lost Everything Y1 - 2012 A1 - Brian Francis Slattery (b. 1975) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia in which war has ravaged the countryside along the Susquehanna River and individuals are struggling to survive and reconnect.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Maggot Moon Y1 - 2012 A1 - Sally Gardner KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult authoritarian dystopia. The protagonist, who everyone considers to be stupid, is dyslexic, which the author says she is and reflects how she was treated. 

PB - Hot Keys Press CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press, 2013. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Match Made in Heaven Y1 - 2012 A1 - Randy Attwood KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Mormons on the planet Moroni where they had moved 285 years earlier to avoid Earth laws, with the Equal Rights Amendment given as an example. Genetic manipulation allowed them to breed cattle the size of the extinct Earth elephants, and the meat was their main export. All men eighteen to twenty were required to work in the slaughterhouses. Practiced polygamy. Men are required to find a wife from off-planet to enlarge the gene pool. Most buy wives from a planet with slavery.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Mirage Y1 - 2012 A1 - Matt[hew Theron] Theron] Ruff (b. 1965) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian alternative history in which U.S. Christian fundamentalists attack the Tigris and Euphrates World Trade Towers in Baghdad.

PB - Harper CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Nature of Ash Y1 - 2012 A1 - Mandy [Amanda] Hager (b. 1960) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult dystopia set in a world where two power blocs, one led my China and one led by the United States have formed are in conflict. New Zealand is caught in the middle, and one university student is drawn into the conflict after his father’s murder. A sequel is Ash Arising. Auckland, New Zealand: Penguin Random House New Zealand, 2018 in which his exposure of the corruption at the heart of New Zealand political life only brings more danger. 

PB - Random House New Zealand CY - Auckland, New Zealand N1 -

Random House New Zealand

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - News From Gardenia Y1 - 2012 A1 - Robert Llewellyn (b. 1956) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A eutopia inspired by 1890 Morris, News From Nowhere but with an advanced technology not found in Morris. The future world is divided between countries like Gardenia, formerly the U.K., that are called “nonecons” and are Arcadias with technology and those countries like the Brazil, China, India, and the United States of Africa that are successful and wealthy technological economies. There is also an unvisited dystopia, the Midwest, in what used to be the U.S. that is racist and authoritarian. First volume of a trilogy; see also 2013 and 2015 Llewellyn. 

PB - Unbound CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Next Door" Y1 - 2012 A1 - Rahul Kanakia (b. 1985) ED - Tobias S[amuel] Buckell (b. 1979) ED - Joe Monti KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which most people are homeless and living in garages and other places not suitable for human life. Gay male themes. 

JF - Diverse Energies PB - Tu Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Not Yet Y1 - 2012 A1 - Moira Crone (b. 1952) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of the division between the long-lived and those trying to become the long-lived.

PB - University of New Orleans Press CY - New Orleans, LA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Now Purple with Love’s Wound" Y1 - 2012 A1 - Carrie Vaughn (b. 1973) ED - Paula Guran KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which girls are injected with a serum that makes them love the boy who claims them for marriage. 

JF - Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire PB - Robinson/R.P. Teens CY - London/Philadelphia, PA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Osiris. Book One of the Osiris Project Y1 - 2012 A1 - E[mma] J. Swift KW - Female author KW - UK author AB -

Dystopia. Osiris is a ocean city that had been cut off from land in a huge storm fifty years earlier, and most of the inhabitants believe it is the only city on Earth. Deep rich/poor powerful/powerless divisions. First volume of a trilogy. Cataveiro: Book Two of the Osiris Project. [London: Del Rey, 2014 is a typical middle volume where events become both more complicated and more dangerous. In Tamaruq: Book Three of the Osiris Project. London: Del Rey, 2015, after initial difficulties, the conflicts are mostly resolved. 

PB - Night Shade Books CY - San Francisco, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Otherwise" Y1 - 2012 A1 - Nisi [Denise Angela] Shawl (b. 1955) ED - Paula Guran KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Post-catastrophe, violent dystopia seen through the eyes of a lesbian teenager.

JF - Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire PB - Robinson/RP Teens CY - London/Philadelphia, PA N1 -

Rpt. in Heiresses of Russ 2013: The Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction of the Year Ed. Tenea D. Johnson and Steve Berman (Maple Shade, NJ: Lethe Press, 2013), 133-157; and in Wastelands: The New Apocalypse. Ed. John Josephs Adams (London: Titan Books, 2019), 356-378. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Panopticon. A Novel Y1 - 2012 A1 - Jenni Fagan (b. 1977) KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which a fifteen year old girl who has gone through the Scottish foster care system is sent to The Panopticon, a type of prison proposed by Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) in which prisoners can be efficiently observed. There she finds a helpful social worker and the prisoners ultimately destroy the prison. 

PB - William Heinemann CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Hogarth, 2013. Rpt. with a “Reader’s Guide,” “Recommended Reading,” and “A Playlist for The Panopticon” (287-300) New York: Hogarth, 2014. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Paths to Utopia” Y1 - 2012 A1 - Milstein, Cindy A1 - Erik Ruin (b. 1978) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Words by Milstein and illustrations by Ruin that suggest various activities that individuals and groups can undertake to bring about a better society. Some of the other stories focus on specific things that could or have done.

JF - Paths Toward Utopia: Graphic Explorations of Everyday Anarchism PB - PM Press CY - Oakland, CA SN - 978-1-60486-502-8 U2 -

Illus. Erik Ruin

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Patriot Dawn: The Resistance Rises Y1 - 2012 A1 - [Max] [Alexander] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Survivalist dystopia after the development of an authoritarian regime in the U.S. The novel was written to accompany his Contact! A Tactical Manual for Post Collapse Survival. 2nd ed. rev. and exp. [North Charleston, SC]: CreateSpace, 2012. A sequel under the author’s name is Patriot Rising: The Unbroken. 2nd ed. [No indication of a 1st ed.]. [North Charleston, SC]: CreateSpace, 2015, with a “Glossary” on pp. 407-09. In this volume there is a civil war in the U.S. 

PB - CreateSpace CY - [North Charleston, SC] VL - 2nd. ed. No indication of a 1st ed. U3 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Patriots of Treason. A Novel Y1 - 2012 A1 - David Thomas Roberts KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the State of Texas defends freedom, and the Tea Party in particular, against a corrupt and authoritarian government.

PB - [AKA yoLa] CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Pattern Recognition.” Y1 - 2012 A1 - Ken Liu (b. 1976) ED - Tobias S[amuel] Buckell (b. 1979) ED - Joe Monti KW - Chinese-American author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which small children from the slums of various countries are bought from their parents and raised in a completely closed and regulated environment where they are trained in pattern recognition skills with the results sold to large corporations. 

JF - Diverse Energies PB - Tu Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Perfect Match” Y1 - 2012 A1 - Ken Liu (b. 1976) KW - Chinese-American author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The dystopia created by a company selling everyone a personal attendant/adviser that collects an immense amount of information about each person. 

VL - no. 31 SN - 9781597804547 978-1481442541 UR - http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-perfect-match/ N1 -

Rpt. in Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories. 2nd ed. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 491-507; and in his The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories (New York: Saga Press, 2016), 26-50.  

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Phoenix Rising. Freebase Freedom Y1 - 2012 A1 - William W[allace] Johnstone (1938-2004) A1 - J. A. Johnstone KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 2011 Johnstone with Johnstone. In this novel the President reveals that he is and always has been a Muslim and insists that all Americans pledge allegiance to the regime. A small group of survivalist rebels fight back. See also 2013 Johnstone with Johnstone

PB - Pinnacle Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Picking Up the Park” Y1 - 2012 A1 - Milstein, Cindy A1 - Erik Ruin (b. 1978) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Words by Milstein and illustrations by Ruin. Public parks as common utopian spaces.

JF - Paths Toward Utopia: Graphic Explorations of Everyday Anarchism PB - Oakland, CA CY - AK Press SN - 978-1-60486-502-8 U2 -

Illus. Erik Ruin

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pines. A Novel Y1 - 2012 A1 - Blake Crouch (b. 1978) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a town cut off from the rest of the world and controlled by a few people with the leader claiming that he is God. There appears to be only desolation outside the town. First volume of a trilogy followed by Wayward: Book Two of the Wayward Pines Series. Las Vegas, NV: Thomas & Mercer, 2013 and The Last Town: Book Three of the Wayward Pines Series. Seattle, WA: Thomas & Mercer, 2014. Basis for the TV series Wayward Pines that ran May 14 – July 23, 2015, and May 25 – July 27, 2016.

PB - Thomas & Mercer CY - Las Vegas, NV U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pirate Cinema Y1 - 2012 A1 - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Young adult dystopia focusing on the control of the internet by media companies that get laws passed to criminalize and impose severe penalties on sampling and other common ways of using the internet. The focus of the novel is on artists and activists fighting a proposed new law that will criminalize other activities. 

PB - Tor CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Proposition 23” Y1 - 2012 A1 - Efe [Tokunbo] Okogu ED - Ivor W. Hartmann KW - Male author KW - Mexican author KW - Nigerian author KW - UK author AB -

An authoritarian dystopia planning to give citizenship rights to Artificial Intelligences.

JF - AfroSF: Science Fiction by African Writers PB - StoryTime Press CY - NP SN - 9780987008961 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pure Y1 - 2012 A1 - Julianna Baggott KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. First volume in the Pure trilogy in which what appears to have been a nuclear war leaves devastation and major physical changes. The “Pure” are those who avoided the fallout and live inside the Dome. The second volume, Fuse. New York: Grand Central, 2013, is mostly intrigue and adventure. In the third volume, Burn. New York: Grand Central, 2014, after much conflict, the Dome is destroyed.

PB - Grand Central CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Quarantine: The Loners. Book One Y1 - 2012 A1 - [Lex] [Hrabe] A1 - [Thomas] [Voorhees] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

First volume of a young adult dystopia series originally intended as a trilogy but extended. A disease that kills adults but not teenagers, infects a high school, and all the students are quarantined. The sequels follow the conflicts that take place and their struggle to survive. See Quarantine: The Saints. Book Two. New York: Egmont USA, 2013; Quarantine: The Burnouts. Book Three. New York: Egmont USA, 2014; and Quarantine: The Giant. Book Four. New York: Egmost USA, 2016.

PB - Egmont USA CY - New York U3 -

Lex Thomas [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Reality Girl" Y1 - 2012 A1 - Richard [Diranne] Bowes (1944-2023) ED - Ellen [Sue] Datlow ED - Windling, Terri KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-ecological catastrophe ecological dystopia.

JF - After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia PB - Hyperion CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Heiresses of Russ 2013: The Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction of the Year Ed. Tenea D. Johnson and Steve Berman (Maple Shade, NJ: Lethe Press, 2013), 99-120. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Red" Y1 - 2012 A1 - Amanda Downum (b. 1979) ED - Paula Guran KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia in which the few surviving groups of teenagers live in boarded-up houses.

JF - Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire PB - Robinson/RP Teens CY - London/Philadelphia, PA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Rekindling of Hope. “Take this as a warning” Y1 - 2012 A1 - Doug Lavers KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

The novel presents Earth in the near future as a dystopia that a far-advanced alien collective entity concludes needs to be saved from itself. First volume of a trilogy with this volume setting the stage.  Set mostly in Australia. The second volume, Consolidation of Hope. Singapore: Partridge Publishing Co., 2014, shows that there has been improvement on Earth, but it is threatened by a different alien species. The third volume, Fulfillment of Hope. Singapore: Partridge Publishing, 2014, begins with a trip to a new planet and the terraforming of the planet. This is followed by strife with other planets and an alien invasion of Earth, but, as the title states, everything comes out right.

PB - [Partridge Publishing Co.] CY - [Singapore] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Remembering Mandy” Y1 - 2012 A1 - Paul Clayton KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story takes place in a post-nuclear war future, and the protagonist is one of the very few people who survived and is now an old man. The overwhelming majority of people have been created from genetic material and are all young, vigorous and in their twenties. The story concerns the old man’s decision whether or not to sell his memories of his wife and child for enough money to live well, but in selling them he will lose them.

JF - Strange Worlds: Science Fiction and Fantasy PB - Author CY - Np SN - 978-1475233933 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Renegade Y1 - 2012 A1 - J[essica] A. Souders KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult flawed utopia. A supposedly perfect underground city called Elysium is a highly structured, inegalitarian dystopia that practices eugenics. The novel follows a young woman, whose mother is the dictator, and who has been chosen for the highest class as she learns the truth about her society and by the end of the novel escapes to the surface. Prequels are A Dark Grave: An Elysium Chronicles Short Story. New York: Tor.com, 2012. EBook in which a young man on the surface discovers the underground city and Rise: An Elysium Chronicles Short Story. New York: Tor.com, 2916. EBook in which a young man from the underground who is supposed to kill the protagonist of the first volumes but falls in love with her instead. A sequel is Revelations. New York: Tor Teen, 2013, in which the girl struggles to adjust to living on the surface. The third volume is Rebellion. New York: Tor Teen, 2016 in which the girl and her friends intend to kidnap her mother and exile her to the surface. The ending suggests that a further volume is possible.

PB - Tor Teen CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Reservation 2020" Y1 - 2012 A1 - Bayo Ojikutu (b. 1971) ED - Sam Weller ED - Mort Castle KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopian projection of the U.S. inner cities that are now walled compounds.

JF - Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury PB - William Morrow CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Return to Nowhere: Revisiting Morris's Utopian Romance" Y1 - 2012 A1 - George W. J. Duncan KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

A man visits 1890 Morris in a dream arriving twenty years after "Guest", the protagonist of Morris's novel, had been there. Much is the same as in Morris, but the society is more culturally diverse than it was in Morris; there is limited use of a substitute for money, primarily as a means of keeping track of how much needs to be produced, but also to avoid some people taking more than they need; and there are a few "refusers", who will not work.

JF - William Morris Society in the United States, Newsletter U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Reunion" Y1 - 2012 A1 - Susan Beth Pfeffer (b. 1948) ED - Ellen Datlow ED - Windling, Terri KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A dystopia in which soldiers systematically took selected children from their homes to be adopted, killed, or enslaved. The story focuses on the search for one of the children.

JF - After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Right to Bear Arms: After the Riots Begin Y1 - 2012 A1 - Michael E. Foster KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Survivalist dystopia with a small group fighting an authoritarian government.

PB - CreateSpace CY - [North Charleston, SC] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Sale" Y1 - 2012 A1 - Tendai Huchu (b. 1982) ED - Ivor W. Hartmann KW - Male author KW - Scottish author KW - Zimbabwean author AB -

Dystopia in which African countries have sold themselves to corporations or other countries. 

JF - AfroSF: Science Fiction by African Writers PB - StoryTime Press CY - [Zimbabwe] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Salt Sea and the Sky" Y1 - 2012 A1 - [Sarah Bear Elizabeth] [Wishnevsky] (b. 1971) ED - Paula Guran KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a future Ireland where the need to respond to climate change means that the majority of the people will never have a job and live on a low minimum provided by the state. 

JF - Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire PB - Robinson/RP Teens CY - London\Philadelphia, PA U3 -

Elizabeth Bear [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Scrap Collectors" Y1 - 2012 A1 - Arlynn Despi ED - Nikki Alfar ED - Kate Osias KW - Female author KW - Filipina author AB -

Climate-change dystopia showing a people trying to salvage the remnants of their lost civilization. 

JF - Philippine Speculative Fiction. Volume 7. Literature of the Fantastic PB - Kestrel DDM CY - Np VL - 7 N1 -

Repub. as an ebook. Quezon City, Philippines: Flipside Digital Content Co. and Kestrel IMC, 2017.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Second Mexican-American War Y1 - 2012 A1 - Les Harris (b. 1978) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which Mexico, in alliance with China, invades the U.S. Continued in his Resistance and Alliances: Book Two of The Guns, Ammo and Alcohol Trilogy. Rio Rico, AZ: Anderson & Petrova Publishers, 2012. Both volumes stress the war and the individuals and small groups that provide most of the resistance.

PB - Anderson & Petrova Publishers CY - Rio Rico, AZ U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Seekers in the City” Y1 - 2012 A1 - Jeanne DuPrau (b. 1944) ED - Paula Guran KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation, bureaucratic dystopia. 

JF - Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire PB - Robinson/RP Teens CY - London/Philadelphia, PA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Segment" Y1 - 2012 A1 - Genevieve Valentine (b. 1981) ED - Ellen [Sue] Datlow ED - Windling, Terri KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia of a future where the news is faked by agencies that completely control the lives of the young actors, who live in agency buildings. The story focuses on a news segment where it is intended that the actor be killed.

JF - After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia PB - Hyperion CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Selection Y1 - 2012 A1 - Kiera Cass (b. 1981) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult romance novel set in a dystopia with a caste system in which there is a formal competition among young women to be chosen by the prince. First volume in a series followed by The Elite. New York: HarperTeen, 2013; The One. New York: HarperTeen, 2014; The Selection Stories: The Prince & The Guard (The Selection Novella). New York: HarperTeen, 2014; The Heir. New York: HarperTeen, 2015; and The Crown. New York: HarperTeen, 2016. 

PB - Harper Teen CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Semplica Girl Diaries” Y1 - 2012 A1 - George Saunders (b. 1958) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story takes place in an undefined future with extreme differences of wealth, and the point-of-view character is a man who tries to emulate the rich to please his daughters. He buys a set of Semplica Girls, who are women trafficked from poor countries and used as lawn implements.

JF - The New Yorker VL - 88.32 UR - https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/10/15/the-semplica-girl-diaries-fiction-george-saunders N1 -

Rpt. in the author's Tenth of December. Stories (New York: Random House, 2013), 109-167

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Shadows Cast by Stars Y1 - 2012 A1 - Catherine Knutsson KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - First Nations author AB -

Young adult dystopia with eutopian elements in which a plague is ravaging the world and the only cure is found in antigens in the blood of Aborigines. An Aboriginal family escapes to an enclave on an island (Vancouver island according to an author's note) where she helps strengthen the old ways.

PB - Athenaeum Books for Young Readers CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Slated Y1 - 2012 A1 - Teri [Teresa] Terry KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

First volume of young adult dystopian trilogy in which rebellious teenagers have their memories wiped and given a new identity, or “slated.” The novel’s protagonist is a young woman who has been slated but some of whose memories come back, which puts her in danger from the leaders of the dystopia. The second volume, Fractured. London: Orchard Books, 2013. U.S. ed. New York: Nancy Paulsen Books\Penguin, 2013, is a typical middle volume in which things get worse. In the third volume, Shattered. London: Orchard Books, 2014 U.S. ed. New York: Nancy Paulsen Books\Penguin, 2014, the protagonist continues to face danger but finds her family. There is also a prequel, Fated. London: Orchard Books, 2019. 

PB - Orchard Books CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Nancy Paulsen Books\Penguin, 2013

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Squealer: Mouthpiece for a Generation” Y1 - 2012 A1 - Robert Nathan Correll KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Brief dystopia in which lost knowledge is being replaced by fiction. 

JF - Nature VL - 486.7402 U2 -

Illus. Jacey

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Starters Y1 - 2012 A1 - Lissa Price KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

First of two volumes of a young adult dystopia set after a biological weapon kills everyone between twenty and sixty, with the younger people called Starters and the older ones known as Enders. The young people struggle to survive, and the protagonist learns of a way of earning money by allowing an Ender to temporarily inhabit her body. A malfunction has her inhabiting an Enders body where she learns of the corruption in the system In the sequel, Enders New York: Delacorte Press/Random House Children’s Books, 2014, she retains memories from the Enders who had inhabited her body and are trying to use her for their own purposes. 

PB - Delacorte Press/Random House Children’s Books CY - New York SN - 978-0385-74237-5 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Surprises: Three Linked Romances Y1 - 2012 A1 - Alan Ayckbourn (b. 1939) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Three interrelated love stories set initially in what is described as the near future but one in which androids do much of the work and the class system remains. The third act is set fifty years later with must more elaborate technology. The play was first performed at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough July 17, 2012. 

PB - Faber and Faber CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Surrender Y1 - 2012 A1 - Elana Johnson KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult authoritarian dystopia in sequel to 2011 Johnson in which the dictator tries to keep the protagonist of the first volume from remembering the past. Two stories set in the same dystopia were published as ebooks as Resist. A Possession Story. [Los Gatos, CA]: Smashwords, 2011 and Regret: A Possession Story. New York: Simon Pulse ebook, 2012. Both are about Resistance missions and personal relationships within the Resistance. See also 2013 Johnson.

PB - Simon Pulse CY - New York: U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Survivalist by Circumstance Volumes One though Seven Y1 - 2012 A1 - Cheryl L. Cholley KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Survivalist dystopia. A sequel is Survivalist by Circumstance Volumes Eight though Twelve [The cover title is Survivalist by Circumstance--Novel Two]. [North Charleston, SC]: CreateSpace, 2013. Volumes eight through twelve were published as ebooks in 2013, and volume thirteen was published as an ebook in 2013.

PB - CreateSpace CY - [North Charleston, SC] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Swallowing a Donkey’s Eye Y1 - 2012 A1 - Paul [G.] Tremblay (b. 1971) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Humor/satire set in a dystopia where a large corporation controls the entire food supply.

PB - ChiZine Publications CY - Toronto, ON, Canada U2 -

Illus. Suzanne Apgar. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Taft 2012. A Novel Y1 - 2012 A1 - Jason Heller KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire. William Howard Taft (1857-1930. U.S. President 1909-13. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court 1921-30) returns from the past and gets involved with contemporary politics, running for president and being defeated in a campaign focusing on the poor quality of food in the U.S. At the end of the novel in 2021 his granddaughter, then President, appoints him to the Supreme Court.

PB - Quirk Books CY - Philadelphia, PA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Tangerine, Nectarine, Clementine, Apocalypse" Y1 - 2012 A1 - Suzanne Palmer (b. 1968) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia seen through the eyes of a boy who believed its myths until he discovered the flaws.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 239 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Three Y1 - 2012 A1 - Annemarie Monahan KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

One stream in the novel involves a lesbian intentional community, the eutopian goals that lead to its establishment, and the problems that lead to its collapse.

PB - PM Press/Flashpoint Press CY - Oakland, CA/Crescent City, PA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders Y1 - 2012 A1 - Samuel R[ay] Delany (b. 1942) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

The novel follows two men through their lives from about 2007 to 2077, and throughout it reflects on the nature of utopia from the perspective of black, gay men and refers to a black gay utopian community that one of the men had belonged to. The novel problematizes utopia, as do other works of Delany. See Timothy M. Griffiths, “Queer Black Communities: Touching the Utopian Frame in Delany’s Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders.” African American Review 48.3 (Fall 2015): 305-17. 

PB - Magnus Books CY - New York N1 -

Parts were previously published as “In the Valley of the Nest of Spiders.” Black Clock 7. Ed. Steve Erickson (Spring/Summer 2007): 116-34; and in Coilhouse A Love Letter to Alternative Culture #01 (2007): 12-17; and as “Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders.” The Unbearables’ Big Book of Sex. Ed. Ron Kolm, Carol Wierzbicki, Jim Feast, Steve Dalachinsky, Yuko Otomo, and Shalom Neuman (Williamsburg, NY: Autonomodia /Unbearable Books, 2011), 221-41. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Times of Trouble. The End Times Saga Book 2 Y1 - 2012 A1 - Cliff Ball (b. 1974) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Despite being called Book 2, this was the first published volume in a multi-volume dystopia dealing with the end of the world from a Christian perspective. This volume presents a good Christian who begins to experience the way in which the U.S. government is trying to control all aspects of life. Times of Turmoil. The End Times Saga Book 1. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace], 2013 is a prequel that deals with events before Times of Trouble. In Times of Trial. The End Times Saga Book 3. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace], 2012 the government is attacking all Christians. Timothy Phillips. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace], 2013 [The Kindle ed. has the title Times of Rebellion. The End Times Saga Book 4. 2013] focuses on one young Christian. Times of Destruction. The End Times Saga Book 5. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace], 2014 deals with the first half of the seven years of tribulation, and Times of Judgment. The End Times Saga Book 6. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace], 2014 deals with the second half. The last volume, Times of Tribulation. The End Times Saga Book 7. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace], 2014 ends with the beginning of Christ’s rule during the millennium. A minor character from this volume is developed in Jon Ryan: An End Times Short Story. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace], 2013. Another such character is developed in Xavier Doolittle. An End Times Short Story. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace], 2013. 

PB - CreateSpace CY - [North Charleston, SC] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “To Gaze at the Sun” Y1 - 2012 A1 - Clifton Gachagna ED - Ivor W. Hartmann KW - Kenyan author KW - Male author AB -

A dystopian in which a corporation produces replaceable sons to fight in an undescribed war. 

JF - AfroSF: Science Fiction by African Writers PB - StoryTime Press CY - [Zimbabwe] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Tomorrow’s Dictator” Y1 - 2012 A1 - Rahul Kanakia (b. 1985) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The protagonist is the “Dictator” of Walden Three, a community where she “adjusts” the members to be productive workers. 

JF - Apex Magazine, VL - no. 36 SN - 978-1937009205 978-1732638808 UR - https://apex-magazine.com/tomorrows-dictator/ N1 -

Rpt. The Book of Apex: Volume Four of Apex Magazine. Ed. Lynne M. Thomas (Lexington, KY: Publications, 2013), 161-71; and in Sunspot Jungle. Volume 2. [Subtitle on the cover The Ever Expanding Universe of Fantasy and Science Fiction]. Ed. Bill Campbell (Greenbelt, MD: Rosarium Publishing, 2020), 220-29. © 2018 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Toxicity. A Novel of the Anarchy Y1 - 2012 A1 - Andy [Andrew John] Remic (1971-2022) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a planet that a corporation uses solely to dispose of the toxic wastes of other planets.

PB - Solaris CY - Oxford, Eng U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Trial” Y1 - 2012 A1 - Joan De La Haye ED - Ivor W. Hartmann KW - Female author KW - South African author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia in which all deemed not useful are killed. 

JF - AfroSF: Science Fiction by African Writers PB - StoryTime Press CY - [Zimbabwe] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Tricentennial Y1 - 2012 A1 - IE Castellano KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe authoritarian dystopia where apparently ecologically sound enclosed cities were no longer necessary but used to sustain the power of those in control. At the end, the old U.S. is reestablished.

PB - CreateSpace CY - [Scotts Valley, CA] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Troy Standard and the Men Behind the Desks Y1 - 2012 A1 - A. G. Fredericks KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel focuses on the struggle to achieve a new currency based on precious metals, which will bring about a much better world, the dystopia in creation by not having one, and the forces who oppose the change for their own benefit.

PB - [CreateSpace] CY - [North Charleston, SC] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Two Sisters in Exile” Y1 - 2012 A1 - Aliette de Bodard (b. 1982) ED - Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959) KW - Female author KW - French author KW - US author AB -

A eutopia of peace threatened by the surrounding warrior peoples.

JF - Solaris Rising1.5: An Exclusive Ebook of New Science Fiction PB - Solaris CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Under the Never Sky Y1 - 2012 A1 - Veronica Rossi (b. 1973) KW - Brazilian American author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult post-catastrophe dystopia. First volume of a trilogy to be followed by Through the Ever Night (2013). In this volume, the protagonists, a woman from an enclosed city and a man from the Outside, meet and struggle to survive and learn from each other. The concluding volume, Into the Still Blue. New York: Harper, 2014 has the two leading a group of people to bring about peace. 

PB - Harper CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Up" Y1 - 2012 A1 - Nina Kiriki Hoffman (b. 1955) ED - Paula Guran KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a post-catastrophe underground society that is slowly failing. 

JF - Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire PB - Robinson/RP Teens CY - London/Philadelphia, PA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Uptime Jazz 2084: Futuristic Nightmare /Time Train Blues. A Science Fiction Novel in the Time Train Series Y1 - 2012 A1 - John T. Cullen KW - German author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia with time travelers from the future trying to change to past to protect their future. The protagonist travels to a future 2084 U.S. that is a walled religious dystopia under the Good Shepherd.

PB - Clocktower Books CY - Np U1 -

The subtitle on the copyright page is Futuristic Nightmare in a Key of Terror and on the page facing the copyright page in is Today Is the Future We Warned You About. A Science Fiction Novel.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Utopia Experiment Y1 - 2012 A1 - Lloyd Harrison Whitling KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel begins with the description of a eutopia of nudity and polygamous and polyandrous marriages in a very lively society. This is apparently the eutopia that it was hoped that the experimental intentional community in which most of the rest of the novel is set would produce. But most of the novel focuses on starting the community, located on an isolated island, and the personal, psychological, and social problems the community faced before it was destroyed by a tsunami.

PB - Whitling House. EBook. CY - Dickson, TN U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Visiting Nelson" Y1 - 2012 A1 - Katherine Langrish ED - Ellen [Sue] Datlow ED - Windling, Terri KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult ecological dystopia.

JF - After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The War Is Over and Everyone Wins" Y1 - 2012 A1 - Zachary Jernigan KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which all whites were killed by a manufactured virus and U.S. cities have divided into ethnic enclaves that cannot safely be entered by someone of another ethnicity.

JF - Asimov's Science Fiction 36.1 (432) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Wardrobe Malfunction” Y1 - 2012 A1 - Dale Newton ED - Chastity West ED - Kit Martin ED - Jeffrey Martin ED - Hannah Byrns-Enoch ED - Pat Edmonson ED - Crystal Boyd KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

High tech eutopia in which non-profits doing good have replaced corporations focused on making money.

JF - Cifiscape Vol. II. The Twin Cities PB - Onyx Neon Press CY - [Hillsboro, OR] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Water Catchment: Fast Forward to the Past” Y1 - 2012 A1 - Josepha Dietrich KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult dystopia plus exegesis. From the author’s abstract. “The genre in which the protagonist's journey is charted and represented is dystopian young adult fiction; hence my creative piece, The Water Catchment, is a novel manuscript for a dystopian young adult fantasy. It is a speculative novel set in a possible future and poses (and answers) the question: What might happen if water becomes the most powerful commodity on earth? There are two communities, called ‘worlds’ to create a barrier and difference where physical ones are not in evidence. A battle ensues over unfair conditions and access to water. In the end the protagonist, Caitlyn, takes over leadership heralding a new era of co-operation and water management between the two worlds.”

PB - Queensland University of Technology CY - Brisbane, QLD, Australia ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Water Thief Y1 - 2012 A1 - Nicholas Lamar Soutter KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

In the novel individuals are the private property of corporations, and one such person discovers and oppositional movement. The author states in the Afterword that he wrote the book as a rebuttal to Ayn Rand (1905-1982), author of Anthem (1938), and Atlas Shrugged (1957).

PB - Author CY - Np SN - 978-1467972277 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "We Can Do This" Y1 - 2012 A1 - Nancy [Anne Koningisor] Kress (b. 1948) ED - Sumit Paul-Choudhury KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The background to the story is a high-tech New York City that has solved the environmental problems, provides for the homeless, and can cure most diseases, but it focuses on the issues that develop when someone put in suspension because her brain tumor could not be cured is cured and brought out of suspension thirty-five years later.

JF - Arc 1.4: Forever Alone Drone VL - 1.4 ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Whisper Y1 - 2012 A1 - Emma Clayton (b. 1968) KW - Female author KW - UK author AB -

Sequel to 2008 Clayton. This volume has the same protagonists as the first novel with them successfully fighting a potential dictator and united their world.

PB - Chicken House CY - Frome, Eng. N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Scholastic/Chicken House, 2012. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Wool Omnibus Y1 - 2012 A1 - Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which to escape the ruined earth people have lived for generations in an authoritarian dystopia in a huge underground silo. Sequels include Shift Omnibus. Np: CreateSpace, 2013, which includes “First Shift” (April 14, 2012), “Second Shift” (November 20, 2012), and “Third Shift” (January 28, 2013), and Dust. Np: CreateSpace, 2013, which concludes the series. Additional material can be found at the author’s website http://www.hughhowey.com/ as well as the author’s “Story Behind Dust” at http://upcoming4.me/news/book-news/story-behind-dust-by-hugh-howey.

PB - CreateSpace CY - Np N1 -

Rpt. with some revisions as Wool. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2013.

Much of the material was originally published online in the author’s blog as “Wool” (July 30, 2011), “Wool: Proper Gauge” (November 20, 2011), “Wool: Casting Off” (December 4, 2011), “Wool: The Unraveling” (December 25, 2011), and “Wool: The Stranded” (January 14, 2012). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Write Rules: Character development” Y1 - 2012 A1 - Freya Morris KW - Female author KW - UK author AB -

A brief dystopia in which writing is a capital crime. 

JF - Nature VL - 488.7412 U2 -

Illus. Jacey

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Year 3000. New World, New Government Y1 - 2012 A1 - Rod Sydney Brant KW - Male author AB -

A short novel about the struggle to create a world-wide eutopia with a world government and courts to settle disputes.

PB - iUniverse CY - Bloomington, IN U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Yellow Rose of Texas. A Novel Y1 - 2012 A1 - Dennis Snyder KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Texas secedes from a dystopian anti-religious U.S. government which leads to a civil war.

PB - Concerning Life Publishing CY - Spring Lake, MI U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Yesterday Y1 - 2012 A1 - C. K. Kelly Martin KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

Young adult dystopia depicting a police state with a primarily robot work force. Climate change has forced the now United North America to abandon its coastal regions. 

PB - Random House CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Zero Bar" Y1 - 2012 A1 - Tom Greene KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a near-future that continues to be racist but where it is possible to adjust a fetus’s genes to ensure that the baby will be white. It focuses on a young woman whose genes had been adjusted deciding what to do when she is pregnant. A Zero Bar is a candy bar that is white on the outside and black inside. 

JF - Strange Horizons UR - http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/zero-bar/ N1 -

Rpt. in How to Live on Other Planets: A Handbook for Aspiring Aliens. Ed. Joanne Merriam (Nashville, TN: Upper Rubber Boot Books, 2015), 41-54.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Zona Y1 - 2012 A1 - Nathan L. Yocum KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Religious dystopia with preachers immediately killing people who are identified as sinners.

PB - Curiosity Quills Press CY - Dulles, VA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - 2019: Dystopia USA: A Novel of America’s Economic Twilight Y1 - 2011 A1 - David W. Latko KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The U.S. economy has collapsed, the novel follows one family as they struggle to survive with lectures on how it came about. 

PB - Tifda Press CY - Frankfort, IL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - 2020 Vision Y1 - 2011 A1 - Steve Rushton KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia that follows a number of protagonists with quite different perspectives as the U.S. faces major problems. The perspective is anti-extremist.

PB - CreateSpace CY - [North Charleston, SC] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - 2030: The Real Story of What Happens to America Y1 - 2011 A1 - Albert [Lawrence] Brooks (b. 1947) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel begins with the early stages of intergenerational conflict that could lead to a dystopia, followed by a massive earthquake that destroys Los Angeles and the failure of government to respond adequately. The novel ends with the beginnings of a eutopia of intergenerational cooperation, the building of a new, eutopian Los Angeles under the auspices of China, the establishment of neighborhood health care based on a Chinese model, and the election of a naturalized Chinese politician as President after an amendment to the U.S. Constitution is passed to make it possible. 

PB - St. Martin's Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - 2032 Was A Very Good Year Y1 - 2011 A1 - J, William Mauck KW - US author AB -

Dystopia brought about by Islamic radicals taking over the world and the successful fight back by troops from Alaska.

PB - iUniverse CY - Lincoln, NB U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - 2084 Y1 - 2011 A1 - Troy David Newham KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia where an authoritarian regime controls people through drugs.

PB - [Swamp Fox Press] CY - Np U1 -

Cover adds The Search for Love Hope and Faith.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - 2084: Don’t be scared, be prepared Y1 - 2011 A1 - Simon Q [pseud.] KW - Swiss author AB -

Post-economic and environmental collapse dystopia. The novel focuses on a town in Switzerland where an individual lives who begins the process of reuniting the fragmented world by establishing groups of travelers to visit different places, beginning in Europe, and then spreading.

PB - LeanTeam CY - Copenhagen, Denmark U3 -

Simon Q [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - 2984 Y1 - 2011 A1 - R. Vincent Riccio KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia that presents itself as perfect.

PB - Strategic Book Group CY - Durham, CT U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Across the Universe Y1 - 2011 A1 - Beth Revis KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia. The novel concerns a generation starship, with this novel focusing on the preparations for the trip and the dystopian Earth that they are leaving from the perspective of a young girl.  A related story is her “The Other Elder.” After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia. Ed. Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (New York: Hyperion, 2012), 109-27, and it focuses on the three rules of the starship society, 1. “No differences” 2. “The ship must have one strong, central leader to survive.” 3. “No individual thought.” Sequels include Million Suns. New York: Razorbill, 2012, where serious problems are discovered on the ship; and Shades of Earth: an Across the Universe Novel. New York: Razorbill, 2013, which is set on the planet that they arrive at and focuses on the problems of survival; and  As They Slip Away: An Across the Universe Novella. Np: Penguin Teen Ebook, 2013, which focuses on an additional character.

PB - Razorbill CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Afrika Reich Y1 - 2011 A1 - Guy Saville (b. 1973) KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

An alternative history dystopia. Britain is defeated at Dunkirk and negotiates a peace in which Nazi Germany and Britain divide Africa between them. The novel is set in the 1952 that such an arrangement produced. See also 2015 Saville.

PB - Hodder & Stoughton CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “After the Apocalypse” Y1 - 2011 A1 - Maureen F. McHugh (b. 1959) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of the immediate aftermath of the collapse of society. 

JF - After the Apocalypse. Stories PB - Small Beer Press CY - Easthampton, MA ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ai's Journal: Galaxy 22--Book 1 Y1 - 2011 A1 - The Kite [pseud.] AB -

The novel depicts a eutopia with direct contact with something like angels and the Creator and a dystopia with an evil leader. Said to be first of five volumes, but there is no evidence of further volumes.

PB - AuthorHouse CY - Milton Keynes, Eng. U3 -

The Kite [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - All Good Children Y1 - 2011 A1 - Catherine Austen KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult authoritarian dystopia with a boy who wants to maintain his own identity.

PB - Orca Book Publishers CY - Victoria, BC, Canada ER - TY - ABST T1 - America Pacifica. A Novel Y1 - 2011 A1 - Anna North KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe young adult dystopia that begins on an island dictatorship followed by the search, by a young woman, for her mother, who has disappeared from the island.

PB - Little, Brown CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - American Revolution. A Gay Novel (Keywords: Gay, American, President) Y1 - 2011 A1 - Byrne Fone KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel begins in the development of an anti-gay dystopia in the U.S. and is largely a political novel about the apparent defeat of that dystopia, with the novel ending before the defeat is completely clear.

PB - CreateSpace CY - [North Charleston, SC] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “And Out of the Strong Came Forth Sweetness” Y1 - 2011 A1 - Lisa Nohealani Morton ED - JoSelle Vanderhooft ED - Catherine Lundoff KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Lesbian love story with fantasy elements set in an authoritarian dystopia where most interactions are with machines. 

JF - Hellebore & Rue: Tales of Queer Women and Magic PB - Lethe Press CY - Maple Shade, NJ N1 -

Rpt. in GlitterShip Year 1. Ed. Keffy R. M. Kehrli (Np: GlitterShip, 2017), 5-17. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Apocalypse Law Y1 - 2011 A1 - John Grit KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Survivalist dystopia. First volume of five followed by Apocalypse Law 2. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace, 2011]. Rev. ed. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace], 2012; Apocalypse Law 3. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace, 2012]; Apocalypse Law 4: Raw Justice. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace], 2013; Apocalypse Law. and Apocalypse Law 5: Liberty or Tyranny. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace], 2014. Over the five volumes the story moves from a plague that decimates the world’s population through various stages of survival and rebuilding to when the rule of law is beginning to be reestablished.

PB - [CreateSpace] CY - [North Charleston, SC] N1 -

Rev. ed. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace], 2012.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Apple Jack" Y1 - 2011 A1 - K. C. Ball [pseud.] (1975-2018) ED - Cat[herine Tigerlily] Rambo (b. 1963) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A post-apocalyptic dystopia with fantasy elements. 

JF - Snapshots from a Black Hole & Other Oddities. Stories by K. C. Ball PB - Hydra House CY - Seattle, WA SN - 978-0-948301-0-7 U3 -

Ball, K. C. [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ashes, Ashes Y1 - 2011 A1 - Jo Treggiari KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult post-catastrophe dystopia in which a young woman joins a gang in order to survive and then, with the gang, fights against those trying to infect people with a plague.

PB - Scholastic Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Away Y1 - 2011 A1 - Teri Hall KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia in sequel to 2010 Hall. In this volume, some protagonists from the first volume have crossed the line and are living a fairly primitive life camping. See also 2013 Hall. 

PB - Dial Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Beauty Queens Y1 - 2011 A1 - Libba [Martha Elizabeth] Bray (b. 1964) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Take-off on 1954 Golding, The Lord of the Flies. Humorous novel about a planeload of teenage beauty queens that crash lands on an isolated island, and the society they create there.

PB - Scholastic Press CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Bioshock: Rapture Y1 - 2011 A1 - John [Patrick] Shirley (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The aftermath of World War 2 has produced a dystopian world where the creative person is neither honored nor rewarded. In response a man creates an underwater utopia where such people will be free and rewarded. Based on the Bioshock video games.

PB - Titan Books CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Tor, 2011.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Black Glass Y1 - 2011 A1 - Meg Mundell KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia set in a rundown city deeply divided between rich and poor. Stresses the culture of surveillance that is becoming normal in cities.

PB - Scribe CY - Carlton North, Vic, Australia N1 -

An earlier version was part of the author's M.A. thesis "Intimate Distance: Surveillance, Detection and Power in Contemporary Culture and Literature: Black Glass: A Novel." Melbourne, 2008.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Blood Red Road. Dustlands Book One Y1 - 2011 A1 - Moira Young KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which a young woman’s twin brother is taken, and she discovers the world outside her isolated homeland where she has to search for him. In the sequel Rebel Heart. Dustlands Book Two. New York: Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2012 the heroine rescues her brother. In the final volume, Raging Star. Dustlands Book Three. New York: Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2014 the heroine is tempted by a vision of a proposed improved Earth called New Eden, which she realizes is deeply flawed and successfully continues her opposition.

PB - Margaret K. McElderry Books CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Bonehead's Utopia Y1 - 2011 A1 - Andrew Jordan KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

A prison holding refugees and others who have been incarcerated without trial declares itself free. Based on the author's experience writer-in-residence at HMP [Her Majesty's Prison] Haslar, a Home Office Holding Centre, now a Removal Centre.

PB - Smokestack Books CY - Middlesborough, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Bridge Y1 - 2011 A1 - Jane Higgins KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult dystopia set in a violent future in which groups on each side of a river are constantly at war and the effort to bring about reconciliation. 

PB - Text Publishing CY - Melbourne, Vic, Australia N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Tundra Books, 2012. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Bumped Y1 - 2011 A1 - Megan [Fitzmorris] McCafferty (b. 1973) KW - Female author KW - US author PB - Balzer & Bray CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "By Any Other Name" Y1 - 2011 A1 - Kim Westwood ED - Keith Stevenson KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set on a world that is trying to erase the past, with everything destroyed when a person dies except for living spaces that the Housing Authority assigns to a new person. Dissident is a bad word and “those called it tend to disappear” (488).

JF - Anywhere But Earth: New Tales of Outer Space PB - Coeur de Lion CY - [Alexandria, NSW, Australia] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - By Light Alone Y1 - 2011 A1 - Adam [Charles] Roberts (b. 1965) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopian satire focusing on the greed of the extremely wealthy with an extreme rich/poor divide and with the poor fed so inadequately, women can’t have children.

PB - Gollancz CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The California Queen Comes Calling" Y1 - 2011 A1 - Pat MacEwen ED - Gordon Van Gelder (b. 1966) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia brought about by the isolation created by the flooding caused by climate change. The story focuses on the attempt to reestablish a legal system. One subtheme is a law that limits a woman to having two children and the requirement that those children be registered. Any child beyond two is a non-person.

JF - Welcome to the Greenhouse: New Science Fiction on Climate Change PB - O/R Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Ceiling is Sky" Y1 - 2011 A1 - Suzanne Palmer (b. 1968) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a future Earth with extreme poverty and very high unemployment, with most people working short term contracts.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 234 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Children of Paranoia Y1 - 2011 A1 - Trevor Shane (b. 1976) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of constant war. First volume in a series. In this volume the young protagonist is an assassin who, meeting a young woman, tries to stop fighting, which is not permitted

PB - Dutton CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Choice" Y1 - 2011 A1 - Paul J[ames] McAuley (b. 1955) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Global warming dystopia.

JF - Asimov's Science Fiction VL - 35.2 (421) N1 -

Rpt. in The Year's Best SF: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2012), 2-31 with an editor's note on 1; and in his A Very British History: The Best Science Fiction Stories of Paul McAuley, 1985-2011 (Hornsea, Eng.: PS Publishing, 2013), 385-423 with an author’s note on 433-35.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - City of Bohane Y1 - 2011 A1 - Kevin Barry (b. 1969) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia set in western Ireland in 2053. The city is deeply divided between rich and poor and under the control of a gangland boss. The inside back cover has a map of Bohane.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Courier's New Bicycle Y1 - 2011 A1 - Kim Westwood KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Religious dystopia following a flu pandemic that radically lowered fertility.

PB - HarperCollins CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Curfew Y1 - 2011 A1 - Jesse Ball (b. 1978) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. The novel focus on the close relationship between a father and daughter set in a violent authoritarian dystopia.

PB - Vintage Books CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dark Grid: When the Lights Go Out . . . Permanently Y1 - 2011 A1 - David C. Waldron KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which unusual activity on the sun knocks out Earth’s entire electrical grid. Similarities to survivalist dystopias in that people form an isolated community to protect themselves. Continued in Dark Road: Second Book of the DARK GRID Series. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace], 2012, which follows a different family from the one in the first volume; and Dark Coup. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace], 2013, which brings together the people of the first two to fight against a conspiracy to establish a dictatorship. 

PB - [CreateSpace] CY - [North Charleston, SC] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dark Parties Y1 - 2011 A1 - Sara Grant KW - English author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia in which people are enclosed inside the "Protectosphere" where everyone is becoming more alike and are told that nothing survives outside. The novel focuses on the ultimately successful attempt to escape.

PB - Indigo CY - London U4 -

First published in German by Pan as Neva: Roman. Berlin: Kerstin Winter, 2011.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Daybreak Zero Y1 - 2011 A1 - John [Allen] Barnes (b. 1957) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 2010 Barnes. This novel shows the dystopia created by the catastrophe of the previous one. See also 2013 Barnes.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dead Lands. A Deadlands Novel Y1 - 2011 A1 - [Sarah] [Lotz] (b. 1971) A1 - [Savannah] [Lotz] KW - English author KW - Female author KW - South African author AB -

First volume of a young adult trilogy in which South Africa has been invaded by zombies and some teenagers, known as the Mall Rats, organize to fight both the zombies and the corrupt government. The second volume is Death of a Saint. A Deadlands Novel. By Lily Herne [pseud.]. Cape Town, SA: Penguin Books (South Africa), 2012. Rpt. London: Corsair/Constable & Robinson, 2013. The third volume is The Army of the Lost. A Deadlands Novel. By Lily Herne [pseud.]. Cape Town, SA: Penguin Books (South Africa), 2013. Rpt. London: Much-in-Little/Constable & Robinson, 2014.

PB - Penguin Books (South Africa) CY - Cape Town, SA: N1 -

Rpt. London: Much-in-Little/Constable & Robinson, 2013.

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Lily Herne [pseud.].

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Delirium Y1 - 2011 A1 - [Laura Suzanne] [Schecter] (b. 1982) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which people are inoculated against love at eighteen. Followed by her Pandemonium. New York: HarperCollins, 2012, which follows the main protagonist and is clearly a middle volume; and her Requiem. New York: Harper, 2013 where more and more people come to be able to love. The first printing of Requiem contains a short story, “Alex,” about the protagonist separately paged at the end of the novel. Other related stories can be found in her Delirium Stories: Hana, Annabel, & Raven. New York: Harper, 2012. The stories were originally published online in 2011 and 2012.

PB - Harper CY - New York N1 -

UK ed. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2011.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Departure. The Owner Y1 - 2011 A1 - Neal [L.] Asher (b. 1961) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which a group controlling an orbiting space station keeps the station's inhabitants enslaved and is coming to control the Earth. Sequels include Zero Point: An Owner Novel. London: Tor, 2012 and Jupiter War: An Owner Novel. London: Tor, 2013, both of which are mostly adventure and war.

PB - Tor CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Dewey Decimal System. A Novel Y1 - 2011 A1 - Nathan Larson (b. 1970) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The first volume in a post-catastrophe dystopian trilogy set in New York City after a flu epidemic and terrorist attacks. Corruption, violence. In the second volume, The Nervous System. A Novel [The cover has the subtitle A Dewey Decimal Novel]. New York: Akashic Books, 2012, the same protagonist dealing with similar issues in the same future. In the third volume, The Immune System. A Novel [The cover has the subtitle A Dewey Decimal Novel]. New York: Akashic Books, 2015, the same protagonist struggling to deal with the completely corrupt future system.

PB - Akashic Books CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Differences” Y1 - 2011 A1 - Eric Brown (1960-2023) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Dystopia in which any human difference is unacceptable.

JF - Albedo (Dublin, Ireland) VL - no. 41 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Divergent Y1 - 2011 A1 - Veronica [Anne] Roth (b. 1988) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

First volume of young adult dystopian trilogy presented initially as a flawed utopia. At sixteen each person must choose among the five factions (Candor, Abnegation, Dauntless, Amity, and Erudite) to which they will devote their lives. The novel focuses on a young woman’s choice and her struggles to fit in.  A companion volume that tells the story of two characters and is set before the first volume of the trilogy is Four: A Divergent Collection. New York: Katherine Tegen Books, 2014. An additional story is We Can Be Mended. New York: Katherine Tegen Books, 2018 was published as an ebook. The second volume, Insurgent. New York: Katherine Tegen Books, 2012, explores the personal loyalties and conflicts that develop as a result of the choices made in the first volume. In the third volume, Allegiant. New York: Katherine Tegen Books, 2013, the dystopia is defeated, and, after many adventures, the people of the former dystopia and the people from outside it are brought together. A film of Divergent, directed by Neil Burger was released in 2014 with a screenplay with Evan Daugherty and Vanessa Taylor. A film of Insurgent, directed by Robert Schwentke (b. 1968) with a screenplay by Brian Duffield, Akiva Goldsman (b. 1962), and Mark Bomback (b. 1971) was released in 2015. A film of Allegiant, directed by Robert Schwentke (b. 1968) with a screenplay by Noah Oppenheim, Adam Cooper, and Bill Collage was released in 2017. 

PB - Katherine Tegen Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dreams Unleashed. The Prophecies Book One Y1 - 2011 A1 - Linda Hawley KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia based on the author’s interpretation of the recent past (see “The Author’s Views” in the third volume ([281-83]). The dystopia is primarily concerned with the authoritarian nature of government and its attempts to control the population. Over the course of the three volumes people successful fight back against the government and win back their freedom. The other volumes of the trilogy are Guardian of Time. The Prophecies Book Two. A Dystopian Trilogy. Np: Nouveau Publishing, 2012; and Wisdom Keepers. The Prophecies Book Three. A Dystopian Trilogy. Np: Nouveau Publishing, 2012.

PB - Nouveau Publishing CY - Np N1 -

2nd ed. as Dreams Unleashed. The Prophecies Book One. A Dystopian Trilogy. Np: Nouveau Publishing, 2012. The three volumes were released together on Kindle as The Prophecies Trilogy. Np: 21st Publishing, 2012.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Drought Y1 - 2011 A1 - Pam Bachorz (b. 1973) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia about a girl living in a religious enclave in which the people are essentially slaves living a lifestyle of the early nineteenth century. She is essential to the existence of the community, everyone will die if she leaves, and she has the opportunity to escape.

PB - Egmont USA CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dry Souls Y1 - 2011 A1 - Denise Getson KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia set in a future where there is an extreme water shortage, and rationing is the basis of political power. The focus of the novel is a girl who discovers that she can produce water from the ground. The Last Tree. Austin, TX: CBAY Books, 2016 is a sequel in which the protagonist uses her talent to provide water while being pursued by those who want to control her for their own benefit.

PB - CBAY Books CY - Austin, TX U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Eating with Integrity: A question of taste" Y1 - 2011 A1 - David Berreby (b. 1958) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on eating fads in a future where all food has to be absolutely sterile, and people eat in individual sterilized tents with some people reverting to real food.

JF - Nature VL - 480. 7376 U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Eden Paradox Y1 - 2011 A1 - Barry Kirwan KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A novel in which people from Earth, which has become a violent authoritarian dystopia hope to settle a new planet but encounter aliens. The first of four volumes followed by Eden’s Trial. Scottsdale, AZ: Summertime Publications, 2012; Eden’s Revenge. Scottsdale, AZ: Summertime Publications, 2013; and Eden’s Endgame. An Eden’s Paradox Novel. Scottsdale, AZ: Summertime Publications, 2014, which includes a “Glossary” (340-46). All of the sequels are mostly adventure and war. 

PB - Summertime Publications CY - Scottsdale, AX U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "On the Edge" Y1 - 2011 A1 - Gregory [Albert] Benford (b. 1941) ED - Mike [Michael Diamond] Resnick (1942-2020) ED - Janis Ian (b. 1951) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire in which major figures from the past, including Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Washington, Emma Goldman, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin are living in Los Angeles and interact, with Jefferson accompanied by Sally Hemings. They all believe that the revolution is about to begin. The story is based on a verse from Ian’s “Guess You Had to be There.”

JF - Stars: Original Stories Based on the Songs of Janis Ian PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Electric Kingdom Y1 - 2011 A1 - David Arnold (b. 1981) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult post-apocalyptic (pandemic caused by infected flies) dystopia. Much of the novel is similar to other young adult post-apocalyptic dystopias in which the protagonists search for a safe place to live and meet other survivors, some good, some evil. This novel has a third protagonist, called the Deliverer, who has lived multiple lives and hopes to be able to save the world.

PB - Penguin Random House/Viking CY - New York SN - 978-0-593-20222-7 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Elephant Mountains Y1 - 2011 A1 - Scott Ely KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult survivalist dystopia set after the flooding brought on by global warming. The U.S. author teaches English at Winthrop College.

PB - Orca Book Publishers CY - Victoria, BC, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Eleventh Plague Y1 - 2011 A1 - Jeff Hirsch KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult post catastrophe dystopia. The U.S. has been devastated by a flu pandemic, and the novel follows young survivors searching for others.

PB - Scholastic Press CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Eternal Winter" Y1 - 2011 A1 - Maria Pia Benosa ED - Nikki Alfar ED - Kate Osias KW - Female author KW - Filipina author AB -

Climate-change dystopia in which all but a few remnants of the Philippines have disappeared, and one of the remaining is evacuating all the rich and powerful and leaving all the rest behind. 

JF - Philippine Speculative Fiction. Volume 6: Literature of the Fantastic PB - Kestrel DDM CY - Np VL - 6 N1 -

Repub. as an ebook. Quezon City, Philippines: Flipside Digital Content Co. and Kestrel IMC, 2017

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Eutopia: A Novel of Terrible Optimism Y1 - 2011 A1 - David Nickle (b. 1964) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia, with elements of horror, about an attempt to create a "perfect" community. A sequel set about twenty years later is Volk: A Novel of Radiant Abomination. Peterborough, ON, Canada: ChiZine Publications, 2017. It follows the same characters dealing with about the same issues. 

PB - ChiZine Publications CY - Toronto, ON, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Expedition Beyond Y1 - 2011 A1 - Roger Bagg KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Hollow Earth lost race eutopia based on the peoples of the pueblos of the American Southwest. Much adventure with the men regularly enslaved by Neanderthals. Vegetarian.

PB - Fiction Studio Books CY - Stamford, CT U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Fear Index Y1 - 2011 A1 - Robert [Dennis] Harris (b. 1957) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Computer dystopia in which a computer program designed to predict movements in the market runs out of control.

PB - Alfred A. Knopf CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Flashback Y1 - 2011 A1 - Dan Simmons (b. 1948) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which much of the U.S. has collapsed, nuclear weapons have been used against Israel by a resurgent Caliphate, and there is an extreme rich/poor division. People use a drug to escape by taking them back to the past. The Japanese, who are the rich and the strongest world power, prohibit its use in Japan.

PB - Quercus CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. Reagan Arthur Books/Little Brown, 2011. An earlier story was "Flashback." Lovedeath (New York: Warner Books, 1993), 153-200. Rpt. The Year's Best Science Fiction. Eleventh Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994): 544-85.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Flight of the Silver Vixen Y1 - 2011 A1 - Annalinde Matichei KW - Female author AB -

Space opera reflecting the cover sub-title, Enter a world where both sexes are female. Glossary on pp. 210-214.

PB - The Sun Daughter Press CY - Np SN - 978-0615464794 U1 -

Cover subtitle Enter a world where both sexes are female

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Foxfinder Y1 - 2011 A1 - Dawn KIng KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The play is set in a future English countryside that is not producing, and an authoritarian government sets a quota for every farm. If not met, the farm will be taken from its owners and given to the neighboring farm that meets its quota. The play focuses on a failing farm being visited by a foxfinder who has the power to make that decision. It premiered at the Finsborough Theatre in 2011 and premiered in the West End in 2018. It won the 2011 Papatango New Writing Prize and the inaugural Royal National Theatre Foundation (RNTF) Playwright award. See also 2022 King, The Trials, her rave Dystopia387 (https://www.dawn-king.com/#dystopia987), her adaption of Brave New World (https://www.dawn-king.com/#brave-new-world).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Gospel of Anarchy. A Novel Y1 - 2011 A1 - Justin Taylor KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel is set in the late twentieth century and focuses on an urban intentional community trying to create utopia.

PB - Harper Perennial CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Grass is Always Browner Y1 - 2011 A1 - Martin Knox KW - Australian author KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia and eutopia. Australia has experienced a Great Famine, Coal Wars, and other disasters, and it is slowly recovering under Aborigine leadership. But its neighbors covet its resources, and it is forced into an Asian alliance, has to change its name to Austrasia, and loses some of its resources. After a time, Aboriginal leadership is re-established and the renamed Australia is again recovering.

PB - Zeus Publications CY - Burleigh, QLD, Australia UR - http://www.zeus-publications.com/the_grass_is_always_browner.htm. ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Green Future: But Is It Art?" Y1 - 2011 A1 - Deborah Walker KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A dystopian future London that has been overrun by vegetation and everything is covered by airborne algae. People live in favelas ruled by a matriarch.

JF - Nature VL - 471.7336 U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Heart of Danger Y1 - 2011 A1 - Fleur Beale (b. 1945) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult dystopia. Final volume of a trilogy; in this volume, the family briefly settles in the Outside, where Juno is very happy, but a threat to her sister, means that they have to move to another city, but there, where they expected to be safe, her sister is taken ,and Juno has to rescue her. 

PB - Random House New Zealand CY - Auckland, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Heartland" Y1 - 2011 A1 - Alexander Weinstein KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which almost nothing grows anymore, and everyone has sold whatever topsoil remains on any property they owned. Extreme rich/poor division. 

JF - Pleiades: Literature in Context N1 -

Rpt. in his Children of the New World: Stories (New York: Picador, 2016), 41-55. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Heil America" Incorporated: We Thought It Couldn't Happen Here. Volume One Y1 - 2011 A1 - N. A. Forbush KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The contemporary U.S. as a corporate dystopia with plans by corporations and the government to take complete control and destroy the U.S. economy for profit. In this novel those who discover the plot are forced underground. Continued in “Heil America” Incorporated: We Didn’t Think It Could Happen Here. Volume Two. Np: np. where those forced underground are able to overcome the plotters and re-establish a Christian America. 

PB - np CY - Lexington, KY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Highest Frontier Y1 - 2011 A1 - Joan [Lyn] Slonczewski (b. 1956) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Both eutopian and dystopian themes. The novel is set on an Earth and at a college established in orbit around Earth. Earth has undergone massive environmental changes, mostly negative, and equally massive technological changes, mostly presented positively, that people have adjusted to. The protagonist is a young woman from an important political family during her first year at the college. A story set in the same future and clearly from a forthcoming sequel is “Landfall. From The Blood Star Frontier.” The Other Half of the Sky. Ed. Athena Andreadis co-edited by Kay Holt (Bennington, VT: Candlemark & Gleam, 2013): 181-200. The female author is a Professor of Biology at Kenyon College specializing in Microbiology, and her biological knowledge is used to great effect  to create a consistent new environment and biologically based technology.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Holding Their Own: A Story of Survival Y1 - 2011 A1 - Joe Nobody [pseud.] A1 - D. Hall A1 - D. Allen ED - E. T. Ivester AB -

First volume in a long dystopian survivalist series. See also Nobody with contributions by D. Hall and D. Allen , Holding Their Own II: The Independents. [Augusta, ME]: Prepper Press, 2012; Nobody with contributions by D. Hall, D. Allen. and T. Baughman, Holding Their Own III: Pedestals of Ash. Ed. E. T. Ivester. [Augusta, ME]: Prepper Press, 2012; Nobody, with contributions by D.A.L.H. and D. Allen. Holding Their Own IV: The Ascent. Ed. E. T. Ivester. [Augusta, ME]: Prepper Press, 2013; Nobody, with contributions by D.A.L.H. and D. Allen. Holding Their Own V: The Alpha Chronicles. Ed. E. T. Ivester. [Augusta, ME]: Prepper Press, 2013; Nobody,  Holding Their Own VI: Bishop’s Song. Ed. E. T. Ivester and D. Allen. [Augusta, ME]: Prepper Press, 2013-2014; Nobody, with contributions by D.A.L.H. and D. Allen. Holding Their Own VII: Phoenix Star. Ed. E. T. Ivester. [Augusta, ME]: Prepper Press, 2014; Nobody, Holding Their Own VIII: The Directives. Ed. E. T. Ivester and D. Allen. [Augusta, ME]: Prepper Press, 2014; Nobody, Holding Their Own IX: The Salt War. Ed. E. T. Ivester and D. Allen. [Augusta, ME]: Prepper Press, 2014; Nobody, Holding Their Own X: The Toy Maker. Ed. E. T. Ivester and D. Allen. [Augusta, ME]: Prepper Press, 2015; Nobody, Holding Their Own XI: Hearts and Minds. Ed. E. T. Ivester and D. Allen. [Augusta, ME]: Prepper Press, 2015; Nobody, Holding Their Own XII: Copperheads. Ed. E. T. Ivester and D. Allen. [Augusta, ME]: Prepper Press, 2016; Nobody, Holding Their Own XIII: Renegade. [Augusta, ME]: Prepper Press, 2017; Nobody, Holding Their Own XIV: Forest Mist. Ed. E. T. Ivester. Researched by D. W. Hall. [Augusta, ME]: Prepper Press, 2018; Nobody, Holding Their Own XV: Bloodlust. Ed. E. T. Ivester. Researched by D. W. Hall. [Augusta, ME]: Prepper Press, 2018. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - House of Holes: A Book of Raunch Y1 - 2011 A1 - Nicholson Baker (b. 1957) KW - US author AB -

Eutopian or dystopian depending on your perspective. Humorous pornography at the center of which is an elaborate sexual spa where almost everything goes, and everyone accepted into the spa can be sexually fulfilled.

PB - Simon & Schuster CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - How I Spent the Apocalypse Y1 - 2011 A1 - Selina Rosen (b. 1960) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The novel focuses on a woman who has planned well ahead for a future disaster and tells everyone that they should prepare and how to prepare. She is ignored, but the disaster comes, and she and some others survive. At the end, those survivors are creating small villages based on cooperation. 

PB - Yard Dog Press CY - Alma, AR U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Indra's Web" Y1 - 2011 A1 - Vandana Singh (b. 1950) KW - Female author KW - Indian author KW - US author AB -

An SF story that focuses on a new power source set in a previous slum outside Delhi, India that had been completely rebuilt using traditional methods and providing a better life for its inhabitants.

JF - TRSF. A special issue of Technology Review (MIT) N1 -

Rpt. in her Ambiguity Machines & Other Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2018), 145-54.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - King Freedom Y1 - 2011 A1 - [Stephen] [Kaufman] (b. 1947) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel begins with a dystopia that combines church and state, where everyone must attend daily church services and anyone falling foul with either church or state is severely punished. The novel follows the trajectory of a man at the lowest rungs of society as he leaves prison and struggles to survive and very slowly begins to search for freedom.

PB - Fantastic Books CY - Brooklyn, NY U3 -

Uncle River [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Last Day of Work” Y1 - 2011 A1 - Douglas Rushkoff (b. 1961) ED - [Brian David] [Johnson] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is told by the last man who will ever have to work, with even robots no longer needed.

JF - The Tomorrow Project: Bestselling Authors Describe Daily Life in the Future PB - Intel CY - Np SN - 978-1934053423 U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Election Y1 - 2011 A1 - Kevin [C.] Carrigan KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia in the U.S. in which an incumbent president sets out to literally eliminate the opposition.

PB - CreateSpace CY - [North Charleston, SC] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Last of the Guerrilla Gardeners: Seeding a Revolution" Y1 - 2011 A1 - David L. Clements KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which commercial interests with the support of the police are destroying all plants and seeds not owned by companies. The story is continued in “Seed Dealer.” Disturbed Universes ([Weston], Eng.: NewCon Press, 2016), 25-36. 

JF - Nature VL - 469.7330 N1 -

 Rpt. without the subtitle or the illustration in his Disturbed Universes ([Weston, Eng.: NewCon Press, 2016), 21-23; and in the Edinburgh International Science Festival Special Edition of Shoreline of Infinity, no. 11½ (Spring 2018): 114-17.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Leftovers Y1 - 2011 A1 - Tom [Thomas R.] Perrotta (b. 1961) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Life after the Rapture (see 1 Corinthians 15:52 and 1 Thessalonians 4: 15-17) with some struggling to create a good society, various religious fanatics, and some of the expected dystopia.

PB - St. Martin's Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Legend Y1 - 2011 A1 - Marie Lu (b. 1984) KW - Chinese-American author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia with the U.S. split into warring nations. The second volume in the series, Prodigy. A Legend Novel. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2013 continues the same themes with the protagonists having to choose sides. The third volume, Champion. A Legend Novel. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2013 is mostly adventure and intrigue but ends with the dystopia improved. The fourth volume and final volume is Rebel: A Legend Novel. New York: Roaring Brook Press/Macmillan, 2019. It is set in Antarctica and focuses on the three main characters from the earlier volumes, but they are older and is told from the points-of-view of two of them. A prequel to the series, Life Before Legend. New York: New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2013 was published only as an ebook. There is a graphic novel series: Legend. The Graphic Novel. Adapted by Leigh Dragoon (b. 1976). Illus. Kaari. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2015; Prodigy. The Graphic Novel. Adapted by Leigh Dragoon (b. 1976). Illus. Kaari. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2016; and Champion. The Graphic Novel. Adapted by Leigh Dragoon (b. 1976). Illus. Kaari. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2017.

PB - G. P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Manna Y1 - 2011 A1 - Marshall Brain (b. 1961) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Half dystopia in a U.S. that is spreading around the world and half a eutopia set in Australia. The dystopia is brought about by the gradual takeover of the control of almost all work by computers, which results in a few extremely wealthy and the majority unemployed, on welfare and living in specially built buildings. The Australian eutopia is based on principles that “1. Everyone is equal 2. Everything is reused 3. Nothing is anonymous 4. Nothing is owned 5. Tell the truth 6. Do no harm. 7. Obey the rules. 7. Live your life. 9. Better and better” (Chapter 5, p. 8).

UR - http://www.marshallbrain.com/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - Memento Nora Y1 - 2011 A1 - Angie Smibert KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which bad memories can be erased by going to a Therapeutic Forgetting Center and taking a pill designed to eliminate a specific memory. A young woman chooses not to have a memory erased, and she and others who have made the same choice publish a book of memories. They are then threatened with having all their memories erased. The first volume in a series. The second volume, The Forgetting Curve. Tarrytown, NY: Marshall Cavendish, 2012, is a standard middle volume, with things getting worse. The final volume is The Meme Plague. Las Vegas, NV: Skyscape, 2013, and in it people fight back against the dystopia, but it is not clear at the end if they have won or not. 

PB - Marshall Cavendish CY - Tarrytown, NY N1 -

Originated with "Momento Nora." Odyssey (Peterborough, NH) 17.5 (May-June 2008): 19-21.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Monopol City Y1 - 2011 A1 - [John T.] [Cullen] KW - German author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

In a future authoritarian dystopia, political prisoners create a game called Monopol City and come to live within it. 

PB - Clocktower Books CY - San Diego, CA N1 -

Rpt. as Meta 4 City: A DarkSF Novel. DarkSF is the Dark Chocolate of Science Fiction. San Diego, CA: Clocktower Books, 2017

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Nation of Ruins Y1 - 2011 A1 - Robert John Burke KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of the American right in power.

PB - [CreateSpace] CY - [Scotts Valley, CA] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The New and Perfect Man" Y1 - 2011 A1 - [Agnes] Carol[lyn] [Fries] Emshwiller (1921-2019) ED - Peter Crowther (b. 1949) ED - Nick Gevers KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which a couple decides to create the perfect child by raising it in a technologically advanced but artificial environment and the girl's revolt against them.

JF - The New and Perfect Man PB - PS Publishing CY - Hornsea, Eng. VL - Postscripts Number 24/25 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - New Dystopia Y1 - 2011 A1 - Mark A. von Schlegell (b. 1957) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A novel related to an art exhibition depicting, as did the exhibition, the dystopia of the current world.

PB - CAPC Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux/Sternberg Press CY - Bordeaux, France/Berlin, Germany U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - New Patriot. A Novel Y1 - 2011 A1 - Theodore Doyle KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a false religious fundamentalism combined with corporate dominance set in the 22nd century in the Confederacy of Incorporated States.

PB - Np CY - Lexington, KY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Next Future” Y1 - 2011 A1 - John [Michael] Crowley (b. 1942) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Essay in which the author describes various possible utopias, which he rejects, and one, briefly, that he accepts that combines anarchism and a command economy.

JF - Lapham’s Quarterly VL - 4.11 N1 -

Rpt. as “Totalitopia.” In his Totalitopia plus “This Is Our Town” and “Everything That Rises” and “Paul Park’s Hidden World” and “I Did Crash a Few Parties” Outspoken Interview and much more (Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2017), 23-36. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Nine-Tenths Y1 - 2011 A1 - Meira Pentermann KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

An authoritarian dystopia contrasted with a better alternative, an enclave that is only briefly described and that remains under threat from the dystopia. The conceit of the novel is that a momentary decision can completely change history. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Nowhere Fast” Y1 - 2011 A1 - Christopher Rowe (b. 1969) ED - Kelly Link ED - Gavin J. Grant KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future recovering from climate change and focuses on the damage down by private cars when a young man has cobbled together one from spare parts that runs on hemp oil. The background is a fragmented United States.

JF - Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories PB - Candlewick Press CY - Somerville, MA SN - 978-0-7636-4843-5 9781616960865 N1 -

Rpt. Illus. John Coulthart. In Steampunk III: Steampunk Revolution. Ed. Ann VanderMeer (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon Publications, 2012), 241-53; and in his Telling the Map: Stories Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2017), 65-80.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Owners" Y1 - 2011 A1 - Gordon Wolfe (d. 2010) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Having achieved space flight humans meet aliens who require them to change human behavior before they can join the Unity of worlds. Having created the required eutopia, the aliens mention the need to get the approval of the Owners who control all the galaxies races. The Owners turn out to be cats.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Paegonaean Story Y1 - 2011 A1 - David Blair KW - Male author KW - Northern Ireland author AB -

One country has united the world through war and brought peace to all but a small enclave that they is isolated from the rest of the world. The novel is about the process of bringing that enclave into the fold with war erupting. In interviews the author presents the scenario positively. 

PB - Grosvenor House Publishing Ltd. CY - Guildford, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Patriot Girls" Y1 - 2011 A1 - Sisson, Amy ED - Bridget McKenna ED - Marti McKenna KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the U.S. is in constant future wars and does not produce enough lower-class boys to serve. The Patriot Girls are lower-class girls who sign up to mate with the boys to produce the future military.

JF - End of an Aeon PB - Fairwood Press CY - Bonney, Lake, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Phoenix Rising Y1 - 2011 A1 - William W[allace] Johnstone (1938-2004) A1 - J. A. Johnstone KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a liberal U.S. with a foreign-born President trying to establish a world government which leads to a takeover by Islamic extremists and a remnant of American patriots fighting to reclaim the country. First volume of a trilogy followed by their Phoenix Rising. Freebase Freedom. New York: Pinnacle Books, 2012, in which the President reveals that he is and always has been a Muslim and insists that all Americans pledge allegiance to the regime. A small group of survivalist rebels fight back. In the final volume, Phoenix Rising. Day of Judgment. New York: Pinnacle Books, 2013, the U.S has become the United Islamic Republic of Enlightenment and is supported by the World Caliphate of Holy Path Islam and the survivalists of the earlier volumes fight to reestablish the U.S.

PB - Pinnacle Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Point Y1 - 2011 A1 - [John] [Meaney] (b. 1957) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Sequel to 2010 [Meaney]. This volume focuses on suicide cults among teenagers.

PB - Angry Robot CY - Nottingham, Eng. U3 -

Thomas Blackthorne [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Possession Y1 - 2011 A1 - Elana Johnson KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

First volume of a young adult dystopia in which people are brainwashed and one teenage girl resists. See also 2012 and 2013 Johnson. Two stories set in the same dystopia were published as ebooks as Resist. A Possession Story. [Los Gatos, CA]: Smashwords, 2011 and Regret: A Possession Story. New York: Simon Pulse ebook, 2012. Both are about Resistance missions and personal relationships within the Resistance. 

PB - Simon Pulse CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Postmortal [A Novel] Y1 - 2011 A1 - Drew [Andrew Schuyler] Magary (b. 1976) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia brought about by the discovery of a cure for aging. This is followed by a pandemic that decimates the world’s population presented through the recovery, in 2093, of sixty years of text files from an unidentified man recounting his experiences.

PB - Penguin Books CY - New York SN - 9780143119821 9780007429080 N1 -

The ebook version includes bibliographical references and an index. U. K. ed. as The End Specialist. London: Harper Voyager, 2011. 419 pp.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - President Michelle or Ten Days That Shook the World: A Subversive Political Fantasy Y1 - 2011 A1 - Manu Herbstein (b. 1936) KW - Ghanaian author KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

During the 2012 election, Barak Obama has a heart attack, Michelle Obama is chosen to replace him as the candidate, and easily wins. The novel reports her first ten days in office during which she proposes and gets passed into law An Act to Restore Democracy to the United States of America that eliminates all contribution to politicians. In addition, she proposes to close all U.S. military bases abroad and bring all U.S. forces and material home while developing cooperation with other nations. And, among other things, she intends to radically improve the U.S. health care system. 

PB - Author CY - Np SN - 9789988233075 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Prisoner 2501" Y1 - 2011 A1 - John Philip Corpuz ED - Nikki Alfar ED - Kate Osias KW - Filipino author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia present through the torture inflicted on prisoners to elicit information from them. 

JF - Philippine Speculative Fiction PB - Kestrel DDM CY - Np VL - 6 Literature of the Fantastic N1 -

Repub. as an ebook. Quezon City, Philippines: Flipside Digital Content Co. and Kestrel IMC, 2017

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Project "New Jerusalem" Y1 - 2011 A1 - Geoff Thomas (b. 1970 or 71) KW - Male author AB -

The work begins in a dystopia in which the remains of humanity live behind a shield that protects them from “evil androids.” The humans manage to escape to a new planet, and the work ends. Described as the first chapter of a novel which will continue if sales justify, but there is also an ad at the end for a sequel Return to Eben as forthcoming, but it does not appear to have been published.

PB - AuthorHouse CY - Bloomington, IN U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Pure" Y1 - 2011 A1 - Rio Youers KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia created by a virulent disease and the restrictions used to contain it.

JF - Dark Dreams, Pale Horses PB - PS Publishing CY - Hornsea, Eng. N1 -

Rpt. in Imaginarium 2012: The Best Canadian Speculative Fiction. Ed. Sandra Kasturi and Halli Villegas (Toronto, ON: ChiZine Publications/Tightrope Books, 2012), 154-82. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pym. A Novel Y1 - 2011 A1 - Mat Johnson (b. 1970) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Something of a sequel to Edgar Allan Poe’s (1809-49) The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. London: Wiley and Putnam, 1838. The novel begins as a realistic novel, but then the protagonist leads an all-black crew in Pym’s footsteps to the Antarctic, where they find, in addition to Pym still alive, not the blacks with whom Poe’s novel ends but white giants like Sasquatch or Yeti, who enslave them. Escaping they also find a painter who has escaped the U.S. to avoid taxes and is trying to create a eutopia that matches his paintings. 

PB - Spiegel & Grau CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Rabbletown: Life in These United Christian States of Holy America Y1 - 2011 A1 - Randy Attwood KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Religious dystopia that develops after a world-wide religious war. Fundamentalist Christians have replaced the U.S. political system with people serving for life and control all aspects of life. Rabbletown is where the poor live.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ramseyer’s Ghost Y1 - 2011 A1 - Manu Herbstein (b. 1936) KW - Ghanaian author KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

The novel is set in after the Third World War, which ended in a stalemate with the world now split between two powers, and the U.S. sends secret missions to Africa to find needed resources. One mission to Ghana goes missing, and an African American marine is sent to find it and arrange for its rescue. Ghana no longer has a functioning central government, and tribes have developed their own systems, including, where the protagonist lands, a local democracy. 

PB - Author CY - Np SN - 978-9988-2-4316-6 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “R-Complex” Y1 - 2011 A1 - J. Alan Erwine (b. 1969) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A dystopia in which a theocratic dystopia is being opposed by a group of religious zealots with a different theocratic vision.

JF - J Alan Erwine’s Tales of Dystopia PB - J. Alan Erwine CY - Np SN - 9781534701649 N1 -

Originally published in Aoife’s Kiss, no. 37 (June 2011). Not found.

Also published as a fourteen-page online Chapbook. [Np: J. Alan Erwine, 2016]. No longer available.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ready Player One Y1 - 2011 A1 - Ernest Cline (b. 1972) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

First of two volumes, the novel is set in 2044 where the world is generally dystopian, and many people escape into the eutopian virtual world of an extremely complex eutopian game where a person can be anyone they want. A film directed by Steven Spielberg (b. 1946) with a screenplay by Zak Penn (b. 1968) and Cline was released in March 2018. The second volume, Ready Player Two. A Novel. Penguin Random House/Ballantine, 2020. 370 pp. repeats most of the themes of the first novel centered on a different fame with some new characteristics. A film is expected.

PB - Crown Publishers CY - New York SN - 9780307887436 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Reckoning: A Novel of the End of the United States Y1 - 2011 A1 - Seamus Branaugh KW - Male author AB -

Survivalist dystopia.

PB - Silver Lake Publishing CY - Aberdeen, WA ER - TY - ABST T1 - Resistance of a New America: The first 3 years of hell Y1 - 2011 A1 - [James] Percy Clay III ED - H. Rivera KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the U.S. joins "other communist countries" and begins to take children to government camps. An additional chapter was published separately as R.O.N.A. (11 Months of torture). [Scotts Valley, CA: CreateSpace], 2011. PSt

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Revolt of 2020 Y1 - 2011 A1 - Dr. [James] Patrick Johnston [D.O.] (b. 1970) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the U.S. government tries to disarm citizens and impose the liberal agenda.  First volume of a trilogy. The second volume, The American Tyranny of 2020. Np: Xulon Press, 2011, is a dystopia brought about by those favoring abortion and the successful struggle by pro-life forces. In the third volume, The Uncivil War of 2020. Zanesville, OH: Right Remedy Publishing, 2012, the U.S. government suppresses the anti-abortion movement, a Coalition of Free Christian States secedes, and the U.S. invades. See also The Revolt Trilogy Workbook. [Zanesville, OH]: Right Remedy Publishing, 2014.

PB - Eloquent Books CY - Durham, CT U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - R/evolution. A Mosaic Novel, Book One Y1 - 2011 A1 - Tenea D. Johnson KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Genetic engineering dystopia of racial and class conflict in which the privileged have access to genetic enhancements and the poor are starving. One of the enhanced offers the enhancements to the others, and the stories relate to the revolution brought about by changes in the way humans evolve. No evidence of further volumes. See also 2011 Johnson, Each Star a Sun to Invisible Planets.”

PB - counterpoise CY - St. Petersburg, FL SN - 978-06155553729 N1 -

One chapter, “The Taken,” was first published Whispers in the Night. Ed. Brandon Massey (New York: Dafina Books/Kensington Publishing Co., 2007), 215-226. Two of the stories, “How the Carters Got Their Name” and “Live Forevers” are rpt. in her Broken Fevers. Greenbelt, MD: Rosarium, 2021 on 67-71 and 98-111.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Revolution World. Ecodisasters. Torture prisons. Fire-breathing cows. A love story Y1 - 2011 A1 - Katy Stauber (b. 1976) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia in which the U.S. has fragmented into regions, although a U.S. government is involved in multiple wars and kidnaps and tortures anyone they think might have information useful in the wars. The focus of the novel is on Texas and genetic engineering.

PB - Night Shade Books CY - San Francisco, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Robopocalypse. A Novel Y1 - 2011 A1 - Daniel H[oward] Wilson (b. 1978) KW - Male author KW - Native American author AB -

Dystopia in which an Artificial Intelligence begins an attack on humanity, the remnants of which, located in Osage county, the center of the Osage Nation, fight back and appear to win. First of two novels followed by Robogenesis. A Novel. New York: Doubleday, 2014 in which the apparently defeated artificial intelligence infiltrates many machine intelligences and the war is renewed. 

PB - Doubleday CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sacred Economics: Money, Gift & Society in the Age of Transition Y1 - 2011 A1 - Charles Eisenstein (b. 1967) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Nonfiction that presents a new monetary system based on complete, public openness of all financial transactions and the gift economy that is expected to lead to the eutopia the author calls the Age of Reunion.

PB - Evolver Editions CY - Berkeley, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Scorch City Y1 - 2011 A1 - Toby Ball KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The second volume in alternative history dystopias about the U.S. from the 1930s to the 1960s. In this novel, the Uhuru Community is a Black separatist shantytown community with utopian aspirations facing attacks from the people of the city after the discovery of a white woman’s body near the community. See also 2010 and 2014 Ball. All three are presented as mystery novels. 

PB - St. Martin's Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Scored Y1 - 2011 A1 - Lauren McLaughlin KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which everyone is given a score by ScoreCorp as a teenager that determines all one’s future prospects. 

PB - Random House CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Scrivener’s Moon. The Third Book in the Fever Crumb Series Y1 - 2011 A1 - Philip Reeve (b. 1966) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Sequel to 2009 and 2010 Reeve. In this volume Fever Crumb becomes part of a Northern tribe planning to attack London, her home, and she must choose sides.

PB - Scholastic CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Scholastic Press, 2012. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Searchers Y1 - 2011 A1 - Naomi Gladish Smith KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The novel is similar to 2004 and 2007 Smith in that it is concerned with a group of people in the first stage of the afterlife described by Emanuel Swedenborg (1668-1772) and their preparations for moving to other stages.

PB - Swedenborg Foundation Press CY - West Chester, PA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Seed Y1 - 2011 A1 - Ziegler, Rob KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a collapsed environment.

PB - Night Shade Books CY - San Francisco, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Semiramis” Y1 - 2011 A1 - Genevieve Valentine (b. 1981) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia concerned with people trying to protect the last seeds and seed banks.

JF - Clarkesworld Magazine PB - Robinson CY - London VL - no., 57 UR - http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/valentine_06_11/ N1 -

Rpt. in The Mammoth Book of SF Stories By Women. Ed. Alex Dally Macfarlane (London: Robinson/Philadelphia, PA: Running Press. 2014), 352-62.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Sentence to Life: Pet project" Y1 - 2011 A1 - Igor Teper KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A flawed utopia in which the protagonist has been sentenced under the cybercrime laws to isolation from other people by not having a device the broadcasts information about him or one that receives information from others, including animals. A woman and a dog reintroduce him to the pleasure human interaction.

JF - Nature VL - 477.7362 U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Shadow of a Dead Star: Book One of The Wonderland Cycle Y1 - 2011 A1 - Michael Shean (b. 1978) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of moral collapse. Sequels include Redeye. Book 2 of the Wonderland Sequel. Dulles, VA: Curiosity Quills Press, 2013; and Gathering Ashes: Book Three of the Wonderland Cycle. Reston, VA: Curiosity Quills Press, 2016.. His Bone Wires. Dulles, VA: Curiosity Quills Press, 2012 is a murder mystery set in the same future. 

PB - Curiosity Quills Press CY - Dulles, VA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Silent Country” Y1 - 2011 A1 - Vicki Keire KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Essentially a horror story, but the background is a dystopia of extreme violence in a world fighting over the natural resources of South America. 

JF - Dark Tomorrows PB - CreateSpace CY - Lexington, KY VL - 2 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Silver Wind" Y1 - 2011 A1 - Nina Allan (b. 1966) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia of a future, poor, violent Britain that has lost much of its technology.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 233 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Smoketown Y1 - 2011 A1 - Tenea D. Johnson KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Complex dystopia with fantasy elements.

PB - Blind Eye Books CY - Bellingham, WA U2 -

Illus. Sam Dawson

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Soft Apocalypse Y1 - 2011 A1 - Will[iam D.] McIntosh (b. 1962) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a collapsing economy and social structure. Constant acts of biological terrorism, bombings, and so forth.

PB - Night Shade Books CY - San Francisco, CA N1 -

Based on the stories “Soft Apocalypse.” Interzone, no. 200 (October 2005): 18-25; and “Street Hero.” Interzone, no. 215 (April 2008): 40-47. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - State of Mind Y1 - 2011 A1 - Sven Michael Davison KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia based around an attempt to control people’s minds through an implanted chip. Mostly adventure. First volume of a trilogy, followed by State of Union: Book Two of the God Head Trilogy. Tarzana, CA: Bedouin Press, 2012 in which mind control has been achieved; and State of Being: Book Three of the God Head Trilogy. Tarzana, CA: Bedouin Press, 2013 in which people manage to re-achieve personal control.

PB - Bedouin Press CY - Tarzana, CA ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Steve Sepp, Tasty! Tasty! No Mean Feast" Y1 - 2011 A1 - Matthew Sanborn Smith KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the parts removed in surgery are served in the hospital canteen.

JF - Nature VL - 472.7342 U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Sweet Sixteen" Y1 - 2011 A1 - Kat Howard KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A young adult story set on a women-only planet where each girl has multiple parents and, at age sixteen, must choose their future. At that point their DNA is adjusted so that they are completely fitted for the way of life they choose, and their name is changed to reflect that career.

JF - Lightspeed VL - no. 14 UR - http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/sweet-sixteen/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - Tankborn Y1 - 2011 A1 - Karen Sandler KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

First volume of a young adult dystopian trilogy in which people are genetically modified, some of them to be slaves in a well-defined caste system. The second volume, Awakening. a tankborn novel. New York: Tu Books/Lee & Low Books, 2013 is a typical middle volume in that things just get worse. The third volume, Rebellion. a tankborn novel. New York: Tu Books/Lee & Low Books, 2014 achieves a degree of equality among the different humans.

PB - TU Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Technicolor Ultra Mall Y1 - 2011 A1 - Ryan Oakley KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of class and violence.

PB - EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy CY - Calgary, AB, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Testament of Jessie Lamb Y1 - 2011 A1 - Jane Rogers (b. 1952) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia in which millions of women have died due to a deliberately spread virus.

PB - Sandstone Press CY - Dingwall, Ross-Shire, Scotland ER - TY - ABST T1 - "That Creeping Sensation" Y1 - 2011 A1 - Alan Dean Foster (b. 1946) ED - Gordon Van Gelder (b. 1966) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Climate change has produced a radical increase in the size of insects and all human life has had to be reoriented around protection from them.

JF - Welcome to the Greenhouse: New Science Fiction on Climate Change PB - O/R Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Loosed Upon the World: The Saga Anthology of Climate Fiction. Ed. John Joseph Adams (New York: Saga Press, 2015), 229-39. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Theme Planet. A Novel of the Anarchy Y1 - 2011 A1 - Andy [Andrew John] Remic (1971-2022) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a pleasure planet that turns violent.

PB - Solaris CY - Oxford, Eng U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Thing of Beauty” Y1 - 2011 A1 - Dr. Charles E. Gannon (b. 1960) A1 - McPhail, Mike KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Corporate dystopia set on a newly opened planet controlled by a corporation that owns most of Earth and the other colonized planets and has no interest beyond its profits. 

JF - By Other Means PB - Dark Quest Books CY - Howell, NJ SN - 978-0-9830993-5-2 978-1-989398-06-7 UR - https://www.baen.com/free-short-stories-2014.html http://www.intergalacticmedicineshow.com/cgi-bin/mag.cgi?do=issue&vol=i54&article=_vintage N1 -

Rpt. in Baen Books: Free Stories 2014. New York: Baen Books, 2014. https://www.baen.com/free-short-stories-2014.html; in Orson Scott Card’s InterGalactic Medicine Show, no. 54 (December 2016) http://www.intergalacticmedicineshow.com/cgi-bin/mag.cgi?do=issue&vol=i54&article=_vintage; and in Shapers of Worlds: Science fiction & fantasy by authors featured on the Aurora Award-winning podcast The Worshippers. Ed. Edward Willett (Regina, SK, Canada: Shadowpaw Press, 2020), 252-85.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - This Shared Dream Y1 - 2011 A1 - Kathleen Ann Goonan (1952-2021) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Alternative history that presents a world where the Cold War did not happen, JFK was not assassinated, and the world became a generally better place. 

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Those That Wake Y1 - 2011 A1 - Karp, Jesse KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult technological dystopia and the search for a more humane life. A sequel is What We Become. New York: Harcourt, 2013.

PB - Harcourt CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - To Faithfully Execute: A Pug Conner Novel. Book Three Y1 - 2011 A1 - Gordon Ryan (1943-2012) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Third volume in a series. See 2010 Ryan, State of Rebellion and 2010 Ryan, Uncivil Liberties. In this volume, assassination is used to counter terrorism and the U.S. has fragmented. Separate countries, the Republic of Western America and the Republic of Eastern America have been formed with a proposed third country in the Deep South.

PB - CreateSpace CY - [Scotts Valley, CA] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Toxic Ambition Y1 - 2011 A1 - Erik A. Otto KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - Swiss author KW - US author AB -

Environmental dystopia brought about by industrial accidents and climate change where the rich live inside domes, and the only way an outsider can get in is through success in games. 

PB - Dog Ear Publishing CY - Indianapolis, IN U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Truth City Y1 - 2011 A1 - Nick Sapien KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Truth City is presented as if it is a eutopia, in which no wants for work, food, or medical care and everyone is supposedly free, except that it is in fact a genetic engineering dystopia of a future where everyone is constantly tested in a “Truth Machine.”

PB - AuthorHouse CY - Bloomington, IN SN - 978-1-4634-4088 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Turtle Love" Y1 - 2011 A1 - Joseph [Lee] Green (b. 1931) ED - Gordon Van Gelder (b. 1966) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of climate change and the need to abandon large parts of the coastal U.S., forcing people to leave their homes. The U.S. is undertaking massive construction projects and trying to save what it can of animals.

JF - Welcome to the Greenhouse: New Science Fiction on Climate Change PB - O/R Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "[Utopia]" Y1 - 2011 A1 - Alastair Campbell (b. 1957) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Very brief eutopia. Mostly very general and simple and a bit of a rant, but includes compulsory voting, lowering the voting age to sixteen, teaching politics and its importance and citizenship in primary schools together with how to live a healthy life. The first in an intended series of utopias written by prominent people.

UR - http://www.utopian.org/post/5930022365/utopias-vol-i-alastair-campbell. Accessed September 7, 2011. ER - TY - ABST T1 - Utopia. Inspired Thinking from the Ideas Team Y1 - 2011 A1 - Nicola White KW - Female author KW - Irish author KW - Scottish author AB -

Nine suggestions toward a better, more fun-filled life. “Wear the Future. Clothes that entertain.” “Signature Smells. Scents that are personalized to you, in products to enjoy.” “Sound Central. A simply-operated library of sounds and music tailored to individual tastes.” “Words Like Knives. A person for hire who articulates what you need to express.” “Squeeze Chair. A firm and calming embrace.” “Seeing With Your Ears. A machine that translates visuals into sound.” “Lux--A Compendium of Light. Light machines that interact with your gestures and mood.” “The Armchair Traveller. Sensational journeys in your home.” “Wrestling With Sound. A robust box of tricks that plays with you as you play with it.”

PB - Artlink Edinburgh & the Lothians CY - Edinburgh, Scot. U2 -

Illus. Jonathan Owen, designed by Tess Wood.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Utopia Rising Y1 - 2011 A1 - Matthew L. Sexton KW - Male author AB -

The novel outlines the evolution of the human race toward a potential eutopia and outlines some of the principles and elements of the eutopia. What he calls “The Core Theory” consists of three points, 1. “Human Tend to Progress over Time. 2. Short of extinction, this progression will eventually lead to the creation of an idyllic society. 3. Given these two points are facts, the appropriate action is to hasten this progression by discovering the ideals of life and to adopt principles that will benefit this cause.”

PB - CreateSpace CY - [North Charleston, SC] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Walden 3.0: A Dystopian Romance Y1 - 2011 A1 - Phil Fragasso KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel presents a very successful intentional community which the members see as eutopian, and on many dimensions it is presented as such, but the outside observer sees as dystopian, particularly on marriage and sexual relations.

PB - Erewhon Press CY - Wellesley, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Water Wars Y1 - 2011 A1 - Cameron Stracher KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia of a future where water has become extremely scarce and rationed.

PB - Sourcebooks Fire CY - Naperville, IL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - What So Proudly We Hailed Y1 - 2011 A1 - James Howard KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia following a nuclear attack and the loss of the entire electrical grid, and the experiences of one family trying to survive.

PB - CreateSpace CY - [North Charleston, SC] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - When She Woke. A Novel Y1 - 2011 A1 - Hillary Jordan (b. 1963) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A reimagining of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter. A Romance (1850) set in a future dystopia where the church dominates the state. A woman convicted of murdering her unborn child is genetically engineered so that she is red. Other crimes lead to other colors. 

PB - Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill CY - Chapel Hill, NC U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Wither Y1 - 2011 A1 - Lauren DeStefano (b. 1984) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia where genetic engineering has accidentally produced a situation where women die at twenty and men at twenty-five. The second volume, Fever. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2012 U.K. ed. London: Harper Voyager, 2013, is very much a middle volume in which the main characters go through a series of adventures. The third volume, Server. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2013 brings the various themes to a conclusion.

PB - Simon & Schuster CY - New York N1 -

UK ed. London: Harper Voyager, 2011.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - You’ll Like It Here (Everybody Does) Y1 - 2011 A1 - Ruth White (b. 1942) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult novel in which a family of aliens who had settled in North Carolina in search of a peaceful life are forced to flee their xenophobic neighbors. They end up in a dystopian city on another planet inhabited by both fictional people are some deceased people from Earth. Ultimately, they, and some friends from Earth, find a peaceful place to live and plan to free the people in the dystopia.

PB - Delacorte CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Zone One. A Novel Y1 - 2011 A1 - Colson Whitehead (b. 1969) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

Post-apocalyptic (pandemic) and Zombie dystopia in which New York City is divided into Zones in an attempt to control its spread.

PB - Doubleday CY - New York SN - 978-0-385-52807-8 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - 100 Months: The End of All Things Y1 - 2010 A1 - John Hicklenton (1967-2010) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Apocalyptic dystopian graphic novel in which Earth revolts against the damage done to her.

PB - Cutting Edge Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - 2031: The Singularity Pogrom Y1 - 2010 A1 - Dan Ronco KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Violent near future U.S. with integration of human/artificial intelligence. Loosely a sequel to Unholy Domain (2008). The two novels were preceded by his PeaceMaker. Waterville, OH: Winter Wolf, 2004.

PB - All Things That Matter Press CY - [Maine] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Acception" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Tessa Kum (b. 1981) ED - Gillian Polack KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia in which a government agency determining where people can live based on their ethnicity. All those with mixed ethnicity are relegated to what is, in effect, a concentration camp. Much of the story is about the uprising to overthrow the system.

JF - Baggage PB - Eneit Press CY - Culcairn, NSW, Australia N1 -

Rpt. in The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror. Ed. Liz Grzb and Talie Helene (Greenwood, WA, Australia: Ticonderoga Publications, 2011), 141-70; in Baggage: Tales of Speculative Fiction. Ed. Gillian Polack (Holicong, PA: Borgo Press/Wildside Press, 2014), 121-53, with an “Afterword” on 223-24; and in Sunspot Jungle: The Ever-Expanding Universe of Science Fiction and Fantasy [the cover adds Volume One]. Ed. Bill Campbell (Greenbelt, MD: Rosarium, 2019), 460-86.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - An Act of Self-Defense Y1 - 2010 A1 - Erne Lewis KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The U.S. has become an authoritarian dystopia which justifies the use of force to reestablish liberty.

PB - Plicata Press CY - Gig Harbor, WA N1 -

2nd ed. Gig Harbor, WA: Plicata Press, 2012.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Afterlight Y1 - 2010 A1 - Alex Scarrow (b. 1966) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Sequel to 2007 Scarrow. In this volume, small communities are rebuilding in a world without oil after the catastrophe in the previous volume. But the usual problems of human greed and hunger for power threaten to overwhelm even these small steps up.

PB - Orion CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Amaryliss" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Carrie Vaughn (b. 1973) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe story with radically reduced resources but in which the people are making good adjustments and live in a basically good society. Birth rate restricted to food production. Households composed of unrelated people working together. See also 2012 Vaughn. 

JF - Lightspeed VL - no. 1 UR - http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/amaryliss. Accessed June 26, 2010. N1 -

Rpt. in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 127-38; 2nd ed. as Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 127-38; and in her in her Amaryllis and Other Stories (Bonney Lake, WA: Fairwood Press, 2016), 290-305. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Are You Sannata3159?” Y1 - 2010 A1 - Vandana Singh (b. 1950) ED - Peter Crowther (b. 1949) ED - Nick Gevers KW - Female author KW - Indian author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set in a future India with an extreme division by the rich and the poor in which the rich live in beautiful cities built on top of the areas in which the poor live. The establishment of a slaughterhouse brings well-paying jobs and hope, but the workers are all given a drug that keeps them from realizing the humans are part of the meat being processed. 

JF - Postscripts #22/23: The Company He Keeps PB - PS Publishing CY - Hornsea, Eng N1 -

Rpt. in her Ambiguity Machines & Other Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2018), 123-44. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Arrowland Y1 - 2010 A1 - Paul Kane (b. 1973) KW - Male author AB -

A volume in The Afterblight Chronicles series in sequel to 2008 Kane. For other volumes, see 2006 Spurrier, 2007 Andrews, 2007 Levene, 2008 Bark, 2008 Kane, 2009 Andrews, 2009 Ewing, 2009 Kane, and 2010 Andrews.

PB - Abaddon Books CY - Oxford, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ashwood Y1 - 2010 A1 - Cynthia Kraack KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

First volume of a trilogy in which the U.S. no longer produces enough food, does little manufacturing, and specializes only selling intellectual capacity, thus produces an elite living in compounds and the rest barely surviving. Surrogacy provided for the elite women. This volume focuses on a compound called Ashwood established to produce food and the woman who is chosen to be its matron. Sequels include 2012 and 2014 Kraack. 

PB - North Star Press of St. Cloud CY - Saint Cloud, MN U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Beautiful Girl" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Angeline Hawkes ED - Jason Sizemore KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a post-atomic war future where very few men are born, and those few are tattooed with a barcode that identifies their owner.

JF - Dark Futures PB - Dark Quest Books CY - Howell, NJ U1 -

Subtitle on the cover Tales of SF Dystopia.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Bicyclopolis” Y1 - 2010 A1 - Ken Avidor (b. 1955) ED - Kit Martin ED - Jeffrey Martin ED - Zach West ED - Mika Thuening ED - Hannah Byrns-Enoch KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Story told in graphic form of the future dystopic North America. An exploration by bicycle discovers huge clouds of plastic bags and the remains of cars, which are the object of worship by some survivors. Ends with “To Be Continued” but not within the volume. There is a blog “Bicyclopolis” at http://bicyclopolis.blogspot.com/. 

JF - The Twin Cities. Cifiscape PB - Onyx Neon Press CY - [Hillsboro, OR] VL - 1 UR - http://bicyclopolis.blogspot.com/ U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Birth of Love Y1 - 2010 A1 - Joanna Kavenna (b. 1974) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

One part is set in a dystopia in 2153 where children are born and raised in breeding centers with no contact with any family. This section of the novel focuses on a woman who is tried for illegally conceiving.

PB - Faber and Faber CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Birthmarked Y1 - 2010 A1 - Caragh M. O'Brien KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A young adult dystopia depicting a world inside and outside a walled Enclave that demands children from those outside. In the middle volume, Prized: The Second Book in the Birthmarked Trilogy. New York: Roaring Brook Press, 2011, the heroine escapes from the Enclave only to be captured by a dystopian society called Sylum that is dominated by women and that has outlawed love. In the final volume, Promised: The Third Book in the Birthmarked Trilogy. New York: Roaring Brook Press, 2012, the heroine, having helped free the people of the Sylum, returns with them to the Enclave and brings about its reform.  A story set between the first two volumes is “Tortured.” http://www.tor.com/2011/12/08/tortured/. Rpt. in Fierce Reads Presents Kisses and Curses. Ed. Lauren Burniac (New York: Square Fish, 2012), 251-73. 

PB - Roaring Brook Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Blending Time Y1 - 2010 A1 - Michael [P.] Kinch KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult post-collapse dystopia in which everyone must undertake mandatory work at age seventeen. In the novel the three protagonists are sent to help repopulate Africa in a program called “The Blending” that is fiercely opposed by many in Africa. First volume of a trilogy. In the second volume, The Fires of New Sun. A Blending Time Novel. Woodbury, MN: Flux, 2012 there is war between those trying to impose the blending and those opposing it. SUN is the Society to Unify Nations. In the third volume, The Rebels of New Sun. A Blending Time Novel. Woodbury, MN: Flux, 2013, those imposing the blending infiltrate the city controlled by the corporation imposing the blending.

PB - Flux CY - Woodbury, MN U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Blind Pig. A Novel Y1 - 2010 A1 - Elizabeth Dougherty KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A dystopia similar to Upton Sinclair’s realistic novel, The Jungle (1906), which depicted the horrors of the meat processing industry. In the dystopia the NArc (Nutritional Architecture System) has been put in place to ensure that everyone eats only healthy food. But the system is run for profit by corporations and the food is not as healthy as it is supposed to be. 

PB - School Street Books CY - Northboro, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Bloodstained Man Y1 - 2010 A1 - Christopher Rowley (b. 1948) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 2010 Rowley, Pleasure Model. This volume focuses on a gang-controlled New Jersey. A third volume is primarily a thriller; see Money Shot. New York: Tor, 2011.

PB - Tor CY - New York U2 -

Illus. Gregory Manchess (cover) and Justin Norman (interior)

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Books of James C. Patch: Returning Y1 - 2010 A1 - Gary D. Henry KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to his The Books of James C. Patch: The Barrier (2010). In this volume, the protagonist struggles successful to free those kept from the eutopia of Paradise by the barrier described in the first volume. See also 2013 Patch.

PB - Xlibris CY - [Bloomington, IN] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Books of James C. Patch: The Barrier Y1 - 2010 A1 - Gary D. Henry KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Spiritualist work concerned with the barrier between this world and the next, which is a eutopia. This is followed by his The Books of James C. Patch: Returning (2010) and 2013 Patch.

PB - Xlibris CY - [Bloomington, IN] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Castoff World" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Kay Kenyon (b. 1956) ED - Jetse de Vries KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The castoff world is a pile of trash in the ocean which is inhabited by a young girl and her grandfather. The trash island is being created by advanced technology designed to gradually clean up the ocean. After the grandfather's death the island becomes sentient, transforms itself into a boat and takes the girl to what appears to be an environmental eutopia.

JF - Shine: An Anthology of Near-future, Optimistic Science Fiction PB - Solaris CY - Oxford, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Cathedral" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Tamara Wilhite (1976-2021) ED - Karina [L.] Fabian (b. 1961) ED - Robert Fabian KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which genetically engineered people with short lives are created to be able to solve problems very quickly and are used to develop addictive drugs. The book is a collection of Catholic science fiction, and the focus of the story is on one of the short-lived women’s attempt to create an antidote, called Cathedral, to the other drugs she had created and involves a brief interaction with a Catholic priest.

JF - Infinite Space, Infinite God II PB - Twilight Times Books CY - Kingsport, TN SN - 978-1-60619-231-3 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Cell: Twilight’s Last Gleaming Y1 - 2010 A1 - Chris Hambleton KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which religious liberty has been abridged by the U.S. government with the agreement of the courts. Alaska secedes. The basis for the attack on religion is secular humanism which is founded on the erroneous belief in evolution.

PB - Xulon Press CY - Maitland, FL N1 -

Rpt. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace, 2013].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Children's Crusade Y1 - 2010 A1 - Scott [Keegan] Andrews (b. 1971) KW - Male author AB -

A volume in The Afterblight Chronicles series. In this volume, children are being taken from their homes by organized teams. For other volumes, see 2006 Spurrier, 2007 Andrews, 2007 Levene, 2008 Bark, 2008 Kane, 2009 Andrews, 2009 Ewing, 2009 Kane, and 2010 Kane.

PB - Abaddon Books CY - Oxford, Eng. N1 -

Rpt. in Schools Out Forever. An Omnibus of Post-Apocalyptic Novels. Oxford, Eng.: Abaddon Books, 2012 which reprints Schools Out (7-221), Operation Motherland (223-443), “The Man Who Would Not Be King” (445-67), and Children’s Crusade (469-707) and adds miscellaneous “Bonus Material” (709-27). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Cinco de Mayo Y1 - 2010 A1 - Michael J. Martineck (b. 1965) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel begins with everyone in the world suddenly sharing the memories of another person and then follows a number of people and the way this changes their lives. It then ends suggesting that a situation where everyone understands another person, often of a different gender and/or from a different culture, will produce a level of world understanding that is at least potentially eutopian.

PB - EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy CY - Calgary, AB, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Constitution for The New Socialist Republic in North America (Draft Proposal) From the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA Y1 - 2010 A1 - Bob [Robert Bruce] Avakian (b. 1949) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A constitution for a future socialist republic giving the organizational structure and laying out the rights of citizens. Includes the possibility of autonomous regions within the country for African Americans and "Mexican-Americans". Stresses rights for women. 

PB - RCP Publications CY - Chicago, IL UR - https://www.revcom.us/socialistconstitution/SocialistConstitution-en.pdf ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Coward's Steel" Y1 - 2010 A1 - K. C. Ball [pseud.] (1975-2018) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Post-apocalyptic dystopia with fantasy elements about a woman’s experiences dealing with both community and violence. 

JF - L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future PB - Galaxy Press CY - 2010 VL - 26 SN - 978-0-948301-0-7 N1 -

Rpt. in her Snapshots from a Black Hole & Other Oddities. Stories by K. C. Ball. Ed. Cat[herine Tigerlily] Rambo (Seattle, WA: Hydra House, 2011), 124-37, with an author’s note on 215-16. 

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Ball, K. C. [pseud.] 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Cull" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Robert [David] Reed (b. 1956) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which anyone who doesn't fit in is killed.

JF - Clarkesworld VL - no. 48 UR - http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/reed_09_10/ N1 -

Rpt. in Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories. 2nd ed. ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 473-85.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Dial Tone" Y1 - 2010 A1 - K. C. Ball [pseud.] (1975-2018) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Post-pandemic “last man” story. 

JF - Kasma Magazine SN - 978-0-9848301-0-7 UR - https://www.kasmamagazine.com/dial-tone.html N1 -

Rpt. in her Snapshots from a Black Hole & Other Oddities. Stories by K. C. Ball. Ed. Cat[herine Tigerlily] Rambo (Seattle, WA: Hydra House, 2011), 23-25, with an author’s note on 210.

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Ball, K. C. [pseud.] 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Diaspora" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Paul Lamb KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set as a history lesson in which students learn about how a few people escape from the collapsing Earth and the racial conflicts that took place in the process.

JF - Crossed Genres VL - no. 24 UR - http://crossedgenres.com/archives/024-charactersofcolor/diaspora-by-paul-lamb/ U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Directive 51 Y1 - 2010 A1 - John [Allen] Barnes (b. 1957) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a catastrophe that pushes the U.S. back to a primitive time. See also 2011 and 2013 Barnes.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Drafting Zoë” Y1 - 2010 A1 - Kelly Jennings KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future, after an unexplained “Big Melt,” that extremely intelligent children are drafted at age four to be integrated into the computer system as part of national security. The story is told from the viewpoint of a widowed father whose child is drafted.

JF - The Future Fire: Social Political & Speculative Cyber-Fiction VL - no. 21 UR - The Future Fire: 2010.21 fiction zoe ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Drown or Die” Y1 - 2010 A1 - Arkenberg, Therese KW - Female author AB -

Having destroyed Earth, three billion humans are sent to various colonies on other planets, leaving another five billion behind on Earth to die. The other planets, some of which are inhabited, are being terraformed, thus destroying well-established ecosystems. 

JF - The Future Fire: Social Political & Speculative Cyber-Fiction VL - no., 19 U2 -

Illus. Cécile Matthey

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Duncan the Wonderdog Y1 - 2010 A1 - Adam Hines KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Graphic novel in which animals can talk, and, as a result of their treatment, start a revolution against humans. Won the Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize from the Pennsylvania Center for the Book. Originally said to be the first of nine volumes, with the second scheduled for 2014. 

PB - AdHouse Books CY - Richmond, VA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Earth of Yunhe" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Eric Gregory ED - Jetse de Vries KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A dystopia of extreme poverty that had developed when a Chinese village that was destroyed through lack of environmental controls can be re-created. Images of the old village suggest an Arcadia, but it is made clear that the re-creation will be hard work and probably never quite as good.

JF - Shine: An Anthology of Near-future, Optimistic Science Fiction PB - Solaris CY - Oxford, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Edge Y1 - 2010 A1 - [John] [Meaney] (b. 1957) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which dueling has been legalized and violence is common. Corporate control and extreme pollution.

PB - Angry Robot CY - London U3 -

Thomas Blackthorne [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Edge of Apocalypse Y1 - 2010 A1 - Tim[othy Framcis] LaHaye (1926-2016) A1 - Craig Parshall KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia The first volume of a series on the events leading up the apocalypse. Sequels include Thunder of Heaven. The End Series. Book 2. Grand Rapids, MI: Zonderavan, 2011; Brink of Chaos. The End Series.Book 3. Grand Rapids, MI: Zonderavan, 2012; and Mark of Evil. The End Series. Book 4. Grand Rapids, MI: Zonderavan, 2014.

PB - Zonderavan CY - Grand Rapids, MI U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Empty Y1 - 2010 A1 - Suzanne Weyn (b. 1955) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia after the world runs out of fossil fuels.

PB - Scholastic Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Endangered" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Robby Sparks ED - Jason Sizemore KW - Male author AB -

A dystopia in which the government limits births to clones and the resistance to it.

JF - Dark Futures PB - Dark Quest Books CY - Howell, NJ U1 -

Subtitle on the cover Tales of SF Dystopia.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Epitaph Road Y1 - 2010 A1 - David Patneaude (b. 1944) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia set near the end of the twenty-first century where most men died from an illness and the women have eliminated crime and poverty while severely restricting the remaining men. The novel focuses on a young boy trying to save his father.

PB - Egmont USA CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Eutopia: The Gnostic Land of Prester John. A Novella Y1 - 2010 A1 - Alan Jacobs KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

The Land of Prester John, which is also the Garden of Eden, is located in Ethiopia in the “Happy Valley” that Samuel Johnson describes in The Prince of Abissinia, better known as Rasselas (1759). It is a eutopia based on astrology and a generally New Age outlook as well as good education. There is no government or money.

PB - O Books CY - Westchester, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Event Factory Y1 - 2010 A1 - Renee Gladman (b. 1971) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Odd dystopia set in Ravicka, a place that appears to be disappearing, people are leaving, and maps are all wrong. Sequels include The Ravickians. Urbana, IL: Dorothy, A Publishing Project, 2011 where roads are stories and buildings reflect the psychological state of those living there; Ana Patova Crosses a Bridge. Urbana, IL: Dorothy, A Publishing Project, 2013 which is a book within the book about Ravicka; and Houses of Ravicka. Urbana, IL: Dorothy, A Publishing Project, 2017 focuses on a man/woman, a bureaucrat trying to deal with disappearing houses. 

PB - Dorothy, A Publishing Project CY - Urbana, IL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Everything is Clickable" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Jack Graham KW - Male author AB -

The story presents a future in which "augspace" or augmented reality is ever-present and presents that reality as mostly enhancing life because, except for some commercial applications, it is a public space under personal control. This is a fiction development of his "5 Ways Augmented Reality Is Making Your Life More Shareable." Shareable Futures. http://shareable.net/blog/5-ways-augmented-reality-is-making-your-life-more-shareable. Posted July 8, 2010. 

JF - Shareable Futures UR - http://shareable.net/blog/everything-is-clickable. Posted July 9, 2010. Accessed February 3, 2011. ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Expectancy theory: Wishful thinking" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Aanyo Bhattacharya AB -

Briefly suggests the eutopia that results from the scientific discovery that reality follows expectations.

JF - Nature VL - 463.7287 U2 -

Illus. Jacey

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Exterminator's Want-Ad" Y1 - 2010 A1 - [Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Socialist dystopia.

JF - Shareable Futures SN - 9781596064041 UR - http://shareable.net/blog/the-exterminators-want-ad. Posted June 22, 2010. Accessed February 3, 2011. N1 -

Rpt. in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 19.5&6 (692) (November/December 2010): 44-55; and in his Gothic High-Tech: Stories (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2011), 75-85.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Eyes As Wide As the Sky” Y1 - 2010 A1 - Gabriela Lee ED - Nikki Alfar ED - Vincent Michael Simbulan KW - Female author KW - Filipina author AB -

The first half of the story is about the creation of what appears a eutopia, albeit a fragile one, after a war that killed 98% of the world’s population, with the survivors, many of whom died, underground. The eutopia is a domed city built for the survivors, although some live a more restricted life outside the dome. The rest of the story is a ghost or zombie story. 

JF - Philippine Speculative Fiction PB - Kestrel DDM CY - Np VL - Volume 5. Literature of the Fantastic N1 -

Repub. as an ebook. Quezon City, Philippines: Flipside Digital Content Co. and Kestrel IMC, 2017

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Faithful: 23rd Century Morality. A Mystery Novel Y1 - 2010 A1 - Eileen Siedman KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The novel begins in a corporate dystopia, called the Faithful, that is overthrown and goes underground while the world is reorganized into a eutopia in which all nations disappear into seven regional federations, which brings peace and prosperity.

PB - Xlibris CY - [Bloomington, IN] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Faithful Soldier, Prompted.” Y1 - 2010 A1 - Saladin Ahmed (b. 1945) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future after wars in the Middle East had devastated the area and faulty technology was still giving instructions to the former soldiers.

JF - Apex Magazine VL - no. 18 UR - https://www.apex-magazine.com/the-faithful-soldier-prompted/ N1 -

Rpt. in Sunspot Jungle: The Ever-Expanding Universe of Science Fiction and Fantasy [the cover adds Volume One]. Ed. Bill Campbell (Greenbelt, MD: Rosarium, 2019), 72-83. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Farewell, My Republic Y1 - 2010 A1 - Binder, John F KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia brought about by apathetic Americans who choose to be uninvolved and politicians who call a new constitutional convention. A vote on the new constitution results in a majority for "Don't Know" or "Don't Care".

PB - BookLocker.com, Inc CY - [Bangor, ME] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Feisengrad: A Social Novel. Book 1 Y1 - 2010 A1 - Aaron Richard Golub KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An odd dystopia about the three days of the life of a boy born from an egg and living in a world with umpires. The boy appears to be the only one who questions the system, which he does in a constant inner dialogue. No evidence of further volumes. 

PB - CreateSpace CY - [North Charleston, SC] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Fierce September Y1 - 2010 A1 - Fleur Beale (b. 1945) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult dystopia. Second volume of a trilogy; see 2008 Beale. In this volume, the protagonists of the first volume are forced to leave Taris and learn to survive Outside. See also 2011 Beale.

PB - Random House New Zealand CY - Auckland, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Fixed Stars: Thirty-Seven Emblems for the Perilous Season Y1 - 2010 A1 - Brian Conn KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Odd dystopia focusing on a small, pastoral community afflicted with a plague and a brutal government.

PB - FC2 CY - Tuscaloosa, AL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Flood & Fire Y1 - 2010 A1 - Emily Diamand (b. 1971) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Sequel to 2008 Diamand. In this volume, England, which is already flooded due to global warming, is also threatened with fire.

PB - Chicken House CY - Frome, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “For the Killing of the Happiest Man” Y1 - 2010 A1 - Hrabel, Max ED - Kit Martin ED - Jeffrey Martin ED - Zach West ED - Mika Thuening ED - Hannah Byrns-Enoch KW - US author AB -

With over half the world population clinically depressed, a Happiness Movement institutes an International Day of Happiness and selects a regional Happiest Man, who commits suicide. The story is told through the eyes of a man who dreams of being a gardener with a family but is currently working underground in the sewers.

JF - The Twin Cities. Cifiscape Vol. 1 PB - Onyx Neon Press CY - Hillsboro, OR U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - For the Win Y1 - 2010 A1 - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel, written for young adults, has dystopian elements and uses online gaming to illustrate and the possible connections among gamers throughout the world to critique the way that powerful people can, for profit and with the cooperation of governments, control the lives of the gamers, and presents unions as the best way of fighting back. 

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Four Fingers of Death. A Novel Y1 - 2010 A1 - Rick [Hiram Frederick] Moody [ III] (b. 1961) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Complex comic novel about a failed Mars mission and the return from Mars of one arm and its experiences as it discovers the dystopia the U.S. has become.

PB - Little, Brown CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Freedom Island Y1 - 2010 A1 - J. R. Sinclair KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The U.S. has become a liberal authoritarian dystopia, and to escape it a group establish a eutopia based on the free market on an island in the Pacific. Some of the people choose to return to the U.S. to start a reform movement based around removing all politicians from office.

PB - Secret Staircase Books CY - Lukeville, AZ U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Freedom™. A Novel Y1 - 2010 A1 - Daniel Suarez (b. 1964) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 2009 Suarez in which the flawed computers are destroying and rebuilding civilization, but the rebuilding is threatened by both populist revolt and corporate desire to destroy the system.

PB - Dutton CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Goin' Down to Anglotown" Y1 - 2010 A1 - William F. Wu (b. 1951) ED - Derwin Mak ED - Eric Choi KW - Asian-American author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of future ethnic relations in the U.S. where Asian Americans now dominate on the coasts and the large cities. White ethnic enclaves exist primarily to service and prey on the dominant group. The story plays with the reversal of ethnic expectations.

JF - The Dragon and the Stars PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Grace Y1 - 2010 A1 - Elizabeth Scott (b. 1972) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult religious dystopia.

PB - Dutton Books CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow/Now Is the Best Time of Your Life” Y1 - 2010 A1 - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The story is about a transhuman teenager living in a post catastrophe (virus) dystopia.

JF - Godlike Machines PB - Science Fiction Book Club CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. without the subtitle in his A Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2011), 9-106. The book also includes his “Creativity vs. Copyright” (107-21), “‘Look for the Lake’ Cory Doctorow Interviewed by Terry Bisson” (123-34), a “Bibliography) (135-36). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Greenman Watches the Black Bar Go Up, Up Up" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Jacques Barcia ED - Jetse de Vries KW - Brazilian author KW - Male author AB -

A future of environmental restraint in Brazil that followed an environmental dystopia and a war to establish better practice. The focus of the story is a man tracing the trading of carbon by a corporation trying to avoid the laws.

JF - Shine: An Anthology of Near-future, Optimistic Science Fiction PB - Solaris CY - Oxford, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Grimsdon Y1 - 2010 A1 - Deborah Abela (b. 1966) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult post-catastrophe dystopia focusing on a group of teenagers surviving in the ruins.

PB - Random House Australia CY - North Sydney, NSW, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Guy Who Worked For Money" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Benjamin [Micah] Rosenbaum (b. 1969) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A completely connected society. Can be read as both a technological eutopia and a technological dystopia in that it clearly begins as the former but transitions to the latter. Everyone’s status is based on their contributions to society, but more importantly, how others evaluate those contributions. His “Falling.” Illus. Jacey. Nature 437.7058 (September 22, 2005): 594; rpt. Shareable Futures. http://shareable.net/blog/falling (July 7, 2010) is set in the same future.

JF - Shareable Futures UR - http://shareable.net/blog/the-guy-who-worked-for money. Posted July 12, 2010. Accessed February 3, 2011. N1 -

Rpt. as “The Man Who Worked for Money.” In How to Live on Other Planets: A Handbook for Aspiring Aliens. Ed. Joanne Merriam (Nashville, TN: Upper Rubber Boot Books, 2015), 79-94.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - H2O Y1 - 2010 A1 - Grant Calof KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Graphic novel climate-change dystopia. First volume in a series, followed by H2O. Issue 2. Runnemede, NJ: Liquid Comics/Dynamite Entertainment, 2014; and H2O. Issue 3. Runnemede, NJ: Liquid Comics/Dynamite Entertainment, 2014 (Both EBooks), with the continuations simply continuing the story. 

PB - Liquid Comics/Dynamite Entertainment CY - Runnemede, NJ N1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Habitation of the Blessed: A Dirge for Prester John Volume One Y1 - 2010 A1 - Catherynne M[organ] Valente (b. 1979) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A re-imagining of the Land of Prester John, one of the classic utopias of the middle ages. See also her The Folded World: A Dirge for Prester John Volume Two. San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011. The third volume, The Spindle of Necessity: A Dirge for Prester John was published in 2012 as an audio book read by Ralph Lister.

PB - Night Shade Books CY - San Francisco, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Half Past Midnight Y1 - 2010 A1 - Jeff Brackett KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-nuclear war survivalist dystopia with the emphasis on the immediate survival.Continued in The Road to Rejas: A Half Past Midnight Novella. Ebook, 2012. A more substantial sequel is Year 12: A Half Past Midnight Novel. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace], 2017. 406 pp. which is set as the survivalists discover that civilization is being rebuilt.

PB - [Red Adept Publishing] CY - Np U1 -

The cover adds the sub-title A Post-Apocalyptic Thriller.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - He Walked Among Us Y1 - 2010 A1 - Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Long, complex novel focusing on a man from a dystopian future created because the biosphere was destroyed, and people live in sealed shopping malls. In the past (our present) the man hopes to stop the actions that brought about the future. The novel focuses on his activities in the present and the people who make him a media star.

PB - Tor CY - New York N1 -

First published in French translation as Il est parmi nous: roman. Trans. Sylvie Denis and Roland C. Wagner. Paris: Fayard, 2009.

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First published in French translation as Il est parmi nous: roman. Trans. Sylvie Denis and Roland C. Wagner. Paris: Fayard, 2009.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Helix Y1 - 2010 A1 - J[effrey] L. Bryan KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Religious dystopia of genetic engineering set in Earth’s orbital colonies in the twenty-eighth century. The aim of the religion is to manage evolution through genetically engineering the reproduction of their followers, who can, within some parameters, choose the characteristics of their children. The novel, though, is more concerned with conflict among the religion, whose priests have created new human forms that are rebelling, the Earth government, and a large corporate, all of whom hope to control the colonies.

PB - JLBryanbooks.com CY - [Atlanta, GA] SN - 9781442148420 U1 -

Cover adds Humanity Is Reborn.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Human Blend Y1 - 2010 A1 - Alan Dean Foster (b. 1946) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which criminals are punished by surgically reshaping their bodies and genetic manipulation.

PB - del Rey CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Independence Day. Inspired by 'The Rising' and 'Independence Day'" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Sarah Langan (b. 1974) ED - Harrison Howe KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a U.S. that is still patriotic despite a fundamentally collapsed system.

JF - Darkness on the Edge: Tales Inspired by the Songs of Bruce Springsteen PB - PS Publishing CY - Hornsea, Eng. N1 -

Rpt. without the subtitle in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 275-92; 2nd ed. as Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 275-92. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Ishin" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Madeline Ashby (b. 1983) ED - Jetse de Vries KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia that focuses on two men using advanced technology to counter environmental damage and undermine corruption.

JF - Shine: An Anthology of Near-future, Optimistic Science Fiction PB - Solaris CY - Oxford, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Jackie's Boy" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Steve[n Earl] Popkes (b. 1955) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a collapsed and extremely violent U.S. where animals from zoos have escaped and are slowing making a place for themselves. The story focuses on a boy and talking elephants.

JF - Asimov's Science Fiction VL - 34.4 & 5 (411/412) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Johnny's New Job" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Chris Beckett (b. 1955) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which welfare officers are regularly killed by the people if any child is harmed.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 227 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Kinney and the Vaporworld. A Noah Novel Y1 - 2010 A1 - Noah Snider KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of present and near future conditions countered by one man starting a movement based on small groups of people from varied backgrounds. 

PB - Xlibris CY - [Bloomington, IN] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Christian. A Novel Y1 - 2010 A1 - David Gregory KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia set in 2088 when the U.S. is no longer Christian and the struggle to re-introduce it.

PB - WaterBrook Press CY - Colorado Springs, CO U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Last Flight to West Bay" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Roz Clarke ED - Colin Harvey KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia of a collapsed ecosystem in an overpopulated world.

JF - Dark Spires PB - Wizard's Tower Press CY - [England] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Trumpet Project. A Novel Y1 - 2010 A1 - Kevin MacArdry KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

In a future in which a significant part of the population has been uploaded into computers and live their lives in alternative realities, both religion and government are set upon keeping power and destroying the hidden computer banks.

PB - [lulu.com] CY - [Middletown, DE] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Legacy Y1 - 2010 A1 - Gemma Malley KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Fourth volume in a series; see 2007 and 2008 Malley. See also 2010 Malley, The Returners. In this volume very few children are being born and a plague is devastating the population. 

PB - Bloomsbury CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Liberal Utopianism Is Destroying the United States: Liberal Secularism Is Destroying Our Christian Values Y1 - 2010 A1 - Charles Keitz (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The U.S. in 2010 as a dystopia as a resulting from liberal policies and liberalisms perceived attack on Christianity. Obama is said to be the forerunner of the coming of the Anti-Christ. Presented as non-fiction.

PB - Xulon CY - Np ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Libertarian Russia" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Michael [Jürgen] Swanwick (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a future depopulated Russia that keeps rigid control of population centers seen through the eyes of someone who hopes to find a libertarian Russia but fails.

JF - Asimov's Science Fiction VL - 34.12 (419) N1 -

Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twentieth-Eighth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2011), 468-76 with an editor’s introduction on 468.; and in his Not So Much, Said the Cat (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon, 2016), 182-94. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Life in the Anthropocene" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Paul [Gerard] Di Filippo (b. 1954) ED - Mike [Michael Raymond Donald] Ashley KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe society in which all humans live above or below the 45th parallel. Appears to be a high tech eutopia, but it is absolutely dependent on a fragile power supply. Extreme limits on uses of fossil fuels, so very little travel.

JF - The Mammoth Book of Apocalyptic SF PB - Constable/Robinson CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Cyberpunk: Stories of Hardware, Software, Wetware, Revolution and Evolution. Ed. Victoria Blake (Portland, OR: Underhand Press, 2013), 407-422.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Limping Man Y1 - 2010 A1 - Maurice [Gough] Gee (b. 1931) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Third volume in a series of related young adult dystopias. This volume sees the rise of a dictator in the city who controls his followers with an exceptionally strong mental control. He is ultimately defeated and the peaceful society that had been growing in the countryside is saved. See also 2007 and 2008 Gee.

PB - Puffin Books CY - Rosedale, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Line Y1 - 2010 A1 - Teri Hall KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which there is a line at the border of the Unified States that is not to be crossed. See also 2011 and 2013 Hall. 

PB - Dial Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Little Brother's World Y1 - 2010 A1 - T[homas] Jackson King Jr. (b. 1948) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of extreme rich poor divisions.

PB - Fantastic Books CY - Brooklyn, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Long Night" Y1 - 2010 A1 - J[effrey] L. Bryan KW - Male author AB -

Essentially a horror story, but the background is a religious dystopia.

JF - Dark Tomorrows PB - JLBryanbooks.com CY - [Atlanta, GA] N1 -

Rpt. in Dark Tomorrows. 2nd ed. Ed. J[effrey] L. Bryan (Lexington, KY: CreateSpace, 2011), 202-17. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Mammoths of the Great Plains” Y1 - 2010 A1 - Eleanor [Atwood] Arnason (b. 1942) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future that has been badly damaged environmentally, but in which Indians saved the mammoths from slaughter, which is the focus of the story. The setting has the suburbs gone and slowly being replaced by nature. The world is getting hotter and hotter.

JF - Mammoths of the Great Plains plus Writing Science Fiction During World War Three and “At the Edge of the Future” Outspoken Interview PB - Aqueduct Press CY - Seattle, WAA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Marketing Proposal" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Sara M. Harvey ED - Jason Sizemore KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia similar to Jonathan Swift's (1667-1745) "A Modest Proposal" (1729) on the eating of children. In this story, children are used to produce a fine version of ambergris to be used in perfume and for meat. The "Marketing Proposal" emphasis how well cared-for the children are.

JF - Dark Futures PB - Dark Quest Books CY - Howell, NJ U1 -

Subtitle on the cover Tales of SF Dystopia.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Matched Y1 - 2010 A1 - Ally[son Braithwaite] Condie KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

First volume of a young adult dystopian trilogy set in a society that chooses life partners at seventeen and a girl who rejects her chosen partner.  In the second volume, Crossed. New York: Dutton, 2011 two of the protagonists get separated amid much adventure. In the third volume, Reached. New York: Dutton, 2012, the heroine returns to the dystopia to lead a successful rebellion.

PB - Dutton Books CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Razorbill, 2010.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Meat World" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Michele Lee ED - Jason Sizemore KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of complete isolation in a world that has collapsed. The "meat world" is the world outside the habitats in which the few remaining people live.

JF - Dark Futures PB - Dark Quest Books CY - Howell, NJ U1 -

Subtitle on the cover Tales of SF Dystopia.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Meeks. A Novel Y1 - 2010 A1 - Julia Holmes KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Rigidly conformist dystopia in which bachelors must wear a specific courting suit, and, if they don't find a wife, they are conscripted to work for the Brothers of Mercy.

PB - Small Beer Press CY - Easthampton, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Memories of Hope City" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Slater, Maggie ED - Jason Sizemore KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. A post-catastrophe city destroyed by an unidentified illness and the society its violent survivors have created.

JF - Dark Futures PB - Dark Quest Books CY - Howell, NJ U1 -

Subtitle on the cover Tales of SF Dystopia.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Nature of Bees” Y1 - 2010 A1 - Priya Sharma KW - Female author AB -

Flawed utopia that is a human beehive. 

JF - Albedo (Dublin, Ireland) VL - no. 38 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The New Millennium Y1 - 2010 A1 - Dennis Pimm KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia but with the emphasis on the opposition to it.

PB - Xlibris CY - [Bloomington, IN] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - New Model Army Y1 - 2010 A1 - Adam [Charles] Roberts (b. 1965) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

In a sense this is a future war novel, but it is set in a future where it has become clear that Britain is ruled by similar competing oligarchy who periodically hold an election to give themselves a spurious legitimacy. The people are fed up and an army is created that is an Artificial Intelligence that is a real democracy in which everyone helps choose what it is to do.

PB - Gollancz CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Next Hundred Million: America in 2050 Y1 - 2010 A1 - Joel Kotkin (b. 1952) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A projection of the next forty years that is so optimistic that it can be read as a eutopia. America will solve all its problems and absorb a hundred million more people from a high birth rate and immigration with no serious problems.

PB - Penguin Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Nina in Utopia Y1 - 2010 A1 - Miranda Miller (b. 1950) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Twenty-first century London as a eutopia from the perspective of a woman from the mid-nineteenth century. After she returns to her own time and is committed as insane, she also finds Bedlam a better place than the outside. First in a series followed by The Fairy Visions of Richard Dadd. A Novel. London: Peter Owen, 2013 in which the protagonist meets the painter Richard Dadd (1817-86) in Bedlam where he created his famous paintings. Dadd also travels to the twenty-first, which he finds very difficult. 

PB - Peter Owen CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Noise Y1 - 2010 A1 - Darin Bradley KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a future violent America with a eutopian enclave that holds hope for the future.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Nomansland Y1 - 2010 A1 - Lesley Hauge KW - Female author KW - UK author KW - US author KW - Zimbabwean author AB -

Young adult post-catastrophe dystopia of an all female island community where friendship is prohibited.

PB - Henry Holt CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Nostalgia" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Gene O'Neill (b. 1938) ED - Jason Sizemore KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a world where immortality is available and those who fail the screening test become illegal and are hunted.

JF - Dark Futures PB - Dark Quest Books CY - Howell, NJ U1 -

Subtitle on the cover Tales of SF Dystopia.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Of One Mind" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Shane [Michael] Tourtellotte (b. 1968) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a technique to surgically get terrorists to cooperate being used by the government on all those it considers threats. Related stories in Analog Science Fiction and Fact are "A New Man" 123.10 (October 2003): 49-61; "Acts of Conscience" 125.3 (March 2005): 8-29; and "Trial by Fire" 127.4 (April 2007): 8-43.

JF - Analog Science Fiction and Fact VL - 130.3 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Orgasmachine Y1 - 2010 A1 - Ian Watson (b. 1943) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which women are manufactured to the specifications of their owners. Two revolt and free all women.

PB - Newcon Press CY - Alconbury, Weston, Eng. N1 -

According to the author, the novel was written in the early seventies, published in French as Orgasmachine. Trans. Michel Pétris. Paris: Éditions Champ Libre, 1976 and in Japanese, revised, as Orugasumashin. Trans. Yutaka Ooshima. Tokyo: Koamagajin, 2001. Part was published as “Custom-Built Girl.” Cybersex [Subtitle on the cover Aliens, Neurosex and Cyborgasms]. Ed. Richard Glyn Jones (London: Raven Books, 1996). U.S. ed. (New York: Carroll & Graf, 1996), 307-32.

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Published in French as Orgasmachine. Trans. Michel Pétris. Paris: Éditions Champ Libre, 1976 and in Japanese, revised, as Orugasumashin. Trans. Yutaka Ooshima. Tokyo: Koamagajin, 2001. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Osama the Gun Y1 - 2010 A1 - Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which descendants of Osama bin Laden (1957-2011), the al-Qaeda leader, have established a Caliphate in Pakistan and have nuclear weapons. The novel follows one such man who becomes a secret agent to escape the Caliphate and see the world.

PB - Wildside Press CY - Holicong, PA N1 -

Originally published as Oussama: Roman. Trans. Niki Copper. Paris: Fayard, 2010. First published in English as an ebook.

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Originally published as Oussama: Roman. Trans. Niki Copper. Paris: Fayard, 2010.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Otherworld" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Karina [L.] Fabian (b. 1961) ED - Karina [L.] Fabian (b. 1961) ED - Robert Fabian KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Roman Catholic cyberpunk in which a Jesuit priest visits dystopian cyberspace in an attempt to find his deceased mother, who had been sent there during his birth but could not be recovered.

JF - Infinite Space, Infinite God PB - Twilight Times Books CY - Kingsport, TN VL - II U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Overhead" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Jason Stoddard ED - Jetse de Vries KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Earth had established a settlement on the moon but abandons it. The Earth is a corporate dystopia. The moon settlement is a very fragile eutopia with leaders chosen by lottery and everyone working for the community. It survives and manages to set off into space.

JF - Shine: An Anthology of Near-future, Optimistic Science Fiction PB - Solaris CY - Oxford, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Overton Window Y1 - 2010 A1 - Glenn [Edward Lee] Beck (b. 1964) A1 - Kevin Balfe A1 - Emily Bestler A1 - Jack Henderson KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which liberal attempts to take over the U.S. are thwarted. An “Afterword” (293-321) includes references to buttress the contentions of the novel. 

PB - Threshold Editions--Mercury Radio Arts CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Patriot League Civilian Border Patrol Y1 - 2010 A1 - Herman R. Willett KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the U.S. is declared an open country with free immigration. The Patriot League, which has been monitoring the U.S.-Mexico border, fights back and keeps those they consider illegal immigrants out. See also 2010 Willett The Patriot League Origins.

PB - LuLu Publishing CY - [Raleigh, NC] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Patriot League Origins Y1 - 2010 A1 - Herman R. Willett KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which patriotic Americans are forced to band together to protect the border between the U.S. and Mexico. See also 2010 Willett, The Patriot League Civilian Border Patrol.

PB - LuLu Publishing CY - [Raleigh, NC] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Paul Kishosha's Children" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Edgett, Ken ED - Jetse de Vries KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia brought about by an individual scientist dedicating himself to effectively teaching science to African children. The story traces the transformation of a single African village where the scientist lives as the influence of his teaching gradually spreads throughout African and the rest of the world.

JF - Shine: An Anthology of Near-future, Optimistic Science Fiction PB - Solaris CY - Oxford, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Peacemaker, Peacemaker, Little Bo Peep” Y1 - 2010 A1 - Jason Sanford KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An odd story in which, for unexplained reasons related to dreams, people from churches kill many people including both criminals and police.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 231 N1 -

Rpt. in Writers for Relief Volume 3. Ed. Davey Beauchamp and Stuart Jaffe (Np: Sapphire City Press, 2013), 75-106.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Personal Jesus" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Pelland, Jennifer ED - Jason Sizemore KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. The Ecclesiastical States of America includes all of the former U.S. except California and New England. It enforces its fundamentalist morality by requiring everyone to wear a mechanical "Personal Jesus" that responds to wrong actions with a shock and informs the authorities if the behavior continues.

JF - Dark Futures PB - Dark Quest Books CY - Howell, NJ U1 -

[Subtitle on the cover Tales of SF Dystopia]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pleasure Model Y1 - 2010 A1 - Christopher Rowley (b. 1948) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which some women are created solely for the pleasure of their owners. See also 2010 Rowley, The Bloodstained Man.

PB - Tor CY - New York U2 -

Illus. Gregory Manchess (cover) and Justin Norman (interior)

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Precedent" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Sean [Christopher] McMullen (b. 1948) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. All those born in the twentieth century are assumed to be guilty of contributing to the destruction of the environment, which carries the death penalty.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 119.1 & 2 (690) N1 -

 Rpt. in Loosed Upon the World: The Saga Anthology of Climate Fiction. Ed. John Joseph Adams (New York: Saga Press, 2015), 172-202. Merril

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Price of Tranquility Y1 - 2010 A1 - Arnold J. Inzko KW - Male author AB -

The novel begins in a technological eutopia in which the CNAS (Consolidated North American States) and the CSE (Consolidated States of Europe), both with female heads of state, cooperate but also have a very well-established secret service with cameras throughout the world. Issues arise around aliens in space, states outside these two, and a civilization underground. After various adventures, everything comes right.

PB - Great Authors CY - Elsinore, CA UR - Only available online. http://greatauthorsonline.com. ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Pump House Farm" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Hawkes-Reed, John ED - Colin Harvey KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which radical environmentalists are the bad guys who, gaining power in England, shut down most power sources, overstate potential dangers, and institute a repressive regime.

JF - Dark Spires PB - Wizard's Tower Press CY - [England] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - PushBack Y1 - 2010 A1 - Alfred Wellnitz KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. In 2033 the US experiences hyperinflation and disintegrates. One of the countries formed out of the former US is a white supremacist state and a black insurgency uses a nuclear bomb against it.

PB - iUniverse CY - Lincoln NB U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Queen B" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Pip Hall (b. 1971) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopian play about three women being tested for their suitability to be allowed to have children.

JF - Three Plays: Young & Hungry PB - Playmarket CY - Wellington, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Rediffusion” Y1 - 2010 A1 - Rhys [Henry] Hughes (b. 1966) ED - Allyson Bird ED - Joel Lane KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

A Kafkaesque dystopia about a man caught in the judicial system. 

JF - Never Again PB - Gray Friar Press CY - [Wyke, Eng.] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Returners Y1 - 2010 A1 - Gemma Malley KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia. Third volume in a series. Political intrigue and anti-immigration violence set in 2016 in a corrupt society. Not part of the trilogy of 2007, 2008, and 2010 Malley, The Legacy.

PB - Bloomsbury CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Rivers of Gold. A Novel Y1 - 2010 A1 - Adam Dunn KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Near future dystopia of crime and violence.

PB - Bloomsbury CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Rohan Nation: Reinventing America after the 2020 Collapse Y1 - 2010 A1 - Dr. Drew Miller (b. 1958) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe survivalist dystopia. A biological and electro-magnetic attack destroys the US. Libertarian perspective on the attempt to reinvent the country. Rohan means horse land and is an area in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings

PB - Responsibility Press CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Rules Are Different Here” Y1 - 2010 A1 - Nadia Bulkin (b. 1987) ED - Matt Bechtel KW - Female author KW - Indonesian-American author AB -

The story involves two young Asian women tourists in Miami where they find that foreigners have no rights. 

JF - The Dystopian States of America: A Charity Anthology Benefiting the ACLU Foundation PB - Haverill House CY - Haverill, MA SN - 978-1-949140-19-4 U2 -

Illus. Matt Bechtel

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Runners" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Christopher Snape KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia.

JF - Aurealis: Australian Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - no. 44 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Russian Roulette 2020" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Eva Marian Chapman b. 1947) ED - Jetse de Vries KW - Australian author KW - Czech author KW - Female author AB -

The story contrasts a world in which everyone is linked constantly by advanced devices that they wear at all times with a disconnected eutopia of people living naturally.

JF - Shine: An Anthology of Near-future, Optimistic Science Fiction PB - Solaris CY - Oxford, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Rut. A Novel Y1 - 2010 A1 - Scott Phillips (b. 1961) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia with extensive damage to the environment and continuing warfare.

PB - Concord Free Press CY - Concord, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Salvation City Y1 - 2010 A1 - Sigrid Nunez (b. 1961) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult novel set in a post-catastrophe dystopia in which a boy is taken from an orphanage to Salvation City, a small fundamentalist community waiting for the Rapture (see 1 Corinthians 15:52 and 1 Thessalonians 4: 15-17).

PB - Riverhead Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Sarging Rasmussen: A Report (by Organic)" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Sellar, Gord ED - Jetse de Vries KW - Canadian author KW - Malawian author KW - Male author KW - South Korean author AB -

The story is about techniques for influencing other people set among the people fighting against the environmental dystopia that has developed, but no one is presented positively.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Scheherazade Cast in Starlight" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Jason Andrew ED - Jetse de Vries KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Revolution in the dystopia of contemporary Iran brought about through communications technology with the suggestion of the better society to follow.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Second Childhood Y1 - 2010 A1 - Donna McMahon (b. 1959) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Sequel to 2001 McMahon; see the note there. This volume continues the same themes as the first and focuses on the psychological recovery, under threat from the Vancouver tongs, of a central character from the first volume.

PB - Drowned City Press CY - Gibsons Landing, BC, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Second Journey of the Magus” Y1 - 2010 A1 - Ian R[oderick] MacLeod (b. 1956) KW - Male author KW - Northern Ireland author AB -

The last surviving of the three Magi travels back to the Holy Land and discovers a land where Christ had given in to the temptation to rule the world. Israel is a eutopia, but he has to make his way through the remains of the slaughtered Roman army to reach it, and the rest of the world will be subdued in the same way.

JF - Subterranean UR - http://subterraneanpress.com/magazine/winter_2010/fiction_second_journey_of_the_magus_by_ian_r_macleod. N1 -

Rpt. in his Snodgrass and Other Illusions: The Best Short Stories of Ian R. MacLeod. [New York]: Open Road Integrated Media, 2013. Ebook.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Sense" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Tony Richards ED - Allyson Bird ED - Joel Lane KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of the future of Britain under local-grown fascists, who first produce that immigrants who commit crimes be deported and gradually increase the restrictions. At the end all Jews are being rounded up.

JF - Never Again PB - Gray Friar Press CY - [Wyke, Eng.] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ship Breaker Y1 - 2010 A1 - Paolo [Tadini] Bacigalupi (b. 1972) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult post-catastrophe dystopia set in a world with a collapsed economy and environment and with extreme differences between rich and poor. A companion volume is 2012 Bacigalupi.

PB - Little, Brown CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sic Semper Tyrannus: A novel of liberty and the future of America Y1 - 2010 A1 - Seamus Branaugh KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia following the collapse of the U.S. and the establishment of walled city-states, which are beginning to fail, and the struggle to reestablish a functioning civilization.

PB - Silver Lake Publishing CY - Aberdeen, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Sin's Last Stand" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Chris Niles ED - Todd James Pierce ED - Jarret Keene KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia in which fundamentalist Christians have taken other the US, established a theocracy, closed all schools, and burned all books except the Bible. Non-believers have been moved to Las Vegas and then massacred. The story focuses on a girl who survived the massacre.

JF - Dead Neon: Tales of Near-Future Las Vegas PB - University of Las Vegas Press CY - Reno, NV U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Solnet Ascendency" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Lavie Tidhar (b. 1976) ED - Jetse de Vries KW - English author KW - Israeli author KW - Male author AB -

Technological and sustainable eutopia in Vanuatu brought about through modern technology and the ability to get political support.

JF - Shine: An Anthology of Near-future, Optimistic Science Fiction PB - Solaris CY - Oxford, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “South of Autumn” Y1 - 2010 A1 - Joiner, Matt ED - Allyson Bird ED - Joel Lane KW - Male author AB -

The story focuses on an author who had been imprisoned and tortured and had all his books publicly burned by a fascist regime coming to terms with his fears even after its defeat.

JF - Never Again PB - Gray Friar Press CY - [Wyke, Eng.] VL - 75-83 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Spindizzy" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Colin Harvey ED - Colin Harvey KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a high tech, overpopulated future dominated by China and India. The story focuses on a very low-level businessman and his growing perception of the negative aspects of his society. The Spindizzies are a religious sect that are used as a scapegoat by the authorities.

JF - Dark Spires PB - Wizard's Tower Press CY - [England] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - State of Rebellion: A Pug Conner Novel. Book One Y1 - 2010 A1 - Gordon Ryan (1943-2012) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The first volume in a dystopian series about a future U.S. facing both domestic and foreign terrorism and corporate power with growing restrictions on individual freedom. In this volume, California is considering seceding. See also 2010 Ryan, Uncivil Liberties and 2011 Ryan. 

PB - CreateSpace CY - [Scotts Valley, CA] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Stone Cast into Stillness" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Maurice [Gerald] Broaddus (b. 1970) ED - Jason Sizemore KW - African American author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia where procreation is tightly controlled, and the bureaucrats are machines.

JF - Dark Futures PB - Dark Quest Books CY - Howell, NJ U1 -

Subtitle on the cover of the book Tales of SF Dystopia.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Strange Fire. The Anchor & Sophia: Book One Y1 - 2010 A1 - Tommy Wallach (b. 1982) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A post-catastrophe young adult novel in which after an asteroid hits Earth, a religion blames the catastrophe on the science of the past, which is suppressed. In the novel, three young people, adherents to the religion, discover a community bent on rediscovering that science. First volume in a trilogy followed by Slow Burn. The Anchor & Sophia: Book Two. New York Simon & Schuster BFYR, 2018, which is a typical middle volume, complicating everyone’s lives and challenging their beliefs. The third volume is Scorched Earth. The Anchor & Sophia: Book Three. New York Simon & Schuster BFYR, 2020. It continues the many conflicts while coming to a resolution at the end.

PB - Simon & Schuster BFYR CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Strange machine: A fair exchange?" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Taik Hobson KW - Japanese author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which girls can no longer have children but must hire a machine, for which some trade body parts.

JF - Nature VL - 463.7279 U2 -

Illus. Jacey

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Super Sad True Love Story. A Novel Y1 - 2010 A1 - Gary Shteyngart (b. 1972) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian background to an odd love story. The dystopia is mostly concerned with the way high tech companies control people's lives. A related story is "Lenny Hearts Eunice." The New Yorker 86.17 (June 14 & 21, 2010): 92-103.

PB - Random House CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Surrogates" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Cat[herine Tigerlily] Rambo (b. 1963) ED - Mike Allen KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a future society in which people can have chips that change their perceptions and "surrogates" create who are both servants and sexual partners.

JF - Clockwork Phoenix 3: New Tales of Beauty and Strangeness PB - Norilana Books CY - Winnetka, WI N1 -

Rpt. in her Near + Far: Stories of the Near Future and Far (Seattle, WA: Hydra House, 2012), 107-18. Near and Far are bound back-to-back.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sword of My Mouth: A post-Rapture graphic novel Y1 - 2010 A1 - Jim Munroe (b. 1972) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Related to 2007 Munroe. This novel moves the post-rapture action to Detroit, where people have turned the ruined city into farms and are beginning to be able to feed themselves, but problems arise.

PB - IDW Publishing/No Media KIngs CY - San Diego, CA/Toronto, ON, Canada U2 -

Illus. Shannon Gerard.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Tea Party Patriot: A Tale of American Tyranny. A Novel Y1 - 2010 A1 - J. T. Quintana KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of the near future U.S. from a conservative point-of-view with the government coming to control all aspects of life.

PB - Author CY - Np N1 -

Rpt. as The Last Tea Party. A Political Thriller. 2nd ed. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace, 2011. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Terra Tango 3" Y1 - 2010 A1 - James Reilly ED - Jason Sizemore KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a collapsed U.S. with most people living in cubicles in huge, orbiting spaceships. The story focuses on a popular extremely violent TV program.

JF - Dark Futures PB - Dark Quest Books CY - Howell, NJ U1 -

Subtitle on the cover Tales of SF Dystopia.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Thank God for the Road" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Nancy Jane Moore ED - Sylvia Kelso KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Brief environmental dystopia.

JF - The WisCon Chronicles PB - Aqueduct Press CY - Seattle, WA VL - Volume 4: Voices at WisCon ER - TY - ABST T1 - Their Faces Were Shining Y1 - 2010 A1 - Tim Wilson KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on the rapture and its effects (See 1 Corinthians 15:52 and 1 Thessalonians 4: 15-17) and its effects.

PB - Victoria University Press CY - Wellington, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Thinker’s Lure" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Gump, Toianna ED - Kit Martin ED - Jeffrey Martin ED - Zach West ED - Mika Thuening ED - Hannah Byrns-Enoch KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which Minnesota has instituted Regulations of Uniformity.

JF - The Twin Cities. Cifiscape Vol. 1 PB - Onyx Neon Press CY - [Hillsboro, OR] VL - 1 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Third Foundation Revealed Y1 - 2010 A1 - Dean Auger KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Despite the title, the novel is unrelated to Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series, but has affinities to his Second Foundation. Homo sapiens have conquered the galaxy, which will be destroyed within three hundred years without dramatic changes. Some experimental psychologists discover a way of raising very intelligent children who will have the ability to create a much better future. For Asimov’s Foundation series; see the note at 1982 Asimov Foundation’s Edge.

PB - James A. Rock & Co CY - Florence, SC U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Till the Eagle Screams Y1 - 2010 A1 - Paul Rawlings KW - Male author AB -

The contemporary U.S. as dystopia, and the beginnings of a violent revolutionary movement to combat it.

PB - Xlibris CY - [Bloomington, IN] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Torturer" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Steve Duffy (1963) ED - Allyson Bird ED - Joel Lane KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

The story is about the private life of an official torturer. 

JF - Never Again PB - Gray Friar Press CY - [Wyke, Eng.] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Travesty Y1 - 2010 A1 - Mike Johnson (b. 1947) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

The worst sort of slum living as dystopia. A number of individuals are presented who live in a building called the rathouse in the city of Travesty.

PB - Titus Books CY - Waimauku, Auckland, New Zealand U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Type of Favor"; "Playing Against Type"; and "Playing to Type" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Mary Robinette Kowal (b. 1969) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A trilogy of short stories set after the Oil Wars in which co-operatives work together on the basis of favors which can be traded, which is presented as eutopian.

JF - Shareable Futures UR - http://shareable.net/blog/a-type-of-favor. http://shareable.net/blog/playing-against-type, and http://shareable.net/blog/playing-to-type. Accessed February 3, 2011. ER - TY - ABST T1 - Uncivil Liberties: A Pug Conner Novel. Book Two Y1 - 2010 A1 - Gordon Ryan (1943-2012) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Second volume in a series. See 2010 Ryan, State of Rebellion and 2011 Ryan. In this volume, Congress gives significant additional powers to both traditional law enforcement agencies and private security firms.  

PB - CreateSpace CY - [Scotts Valley, CA] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Under the Harrow. A Novel Y1 - 2010 A1 - Mark Dunn (b. 1956) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel begins in an isolated community in a valley in Pennsylvania that is a Victorian eutopia based on the Bible, Charles Dickens (1812-70), and an old encyclopedia. It is destroyed by corporate greed.

PB - Macadam/Cage CY - San Francisco, CA ER - TY - ABST T1 - Underground Rising Y1 - 2010 ED - Frank Creed (b. 1966) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian stories set in the future of Creed’s three Underground novels. See 2007, 2010, and 2012 Creed. The stories are Greg Mitchell, “Ex-Communicator” (7-26), Lydia Daffenberg, “The Injection Site” (27-34), Terri Main, “Voices of the Underground” (35-39, 53-55, 72-75, 103-05, 112-15, 135-38), Frank Creed, “Natalia” (40-52), Stephen Leon Rice, “Bear Feat” (56-59), Gavin Patchett and Frank Creed, “Resolutions” (60-71), Karen McSpadden, “Daffodil Season” (76-93), Deborah Cullins Smith, “Solitaire” (94-102), Frank Creed, “The Last Newspaper” (106-11), Timothy Hicks and Frank Creed, “The Sandman Cometh” (116-27), Grace Bridges and Frank Creed, “Underground . . . Undersea” (128-34), and Frank Creed, “Whiskey in the Jar” (139-48).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Unidentified Y1 - 2010 A1 - Rae Mariz (b. 1981) KW - Female author KW - Swedish author KW - US author AB -

Young adult corporate dystopia with corporations controlling the educational system. The Unidentified are those fighting back against the dystopia.

PB - Balzer + Bray CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Urbis Morpheos Y1 - 2010 A1 - Stephen Palmer (b. 1962) KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

Dystopia in which two ecosystems appear to be in conflict, one natural and the other manufactured. Throughout the novel the latter is dominant and the natural exists only in enclaves.

PB - PS Publishing CY - Hornsea, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Usurper Y1 - 2010 A1 - Cliff Ball (b. 1974) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which Russians and Al Qaeda destroy the US and a resistance movement is defeated.

PB - Author CY - Wichita Falls, TX U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Utopia for the Devil Y1 - 2010 A1 - James Parkes KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

An apparent eutopia is actually an authoritarian dystopia that appears to have been defeated at the end of the novel. In the sequel Utopia for the Devil: New Dawn. Np: Author, 2011, the dystopia remains and must be again defeated, which appears to have occurred by the end of the novel. According to a March 25, 2013, post on the author’s website, a complete rewriting of the two volumes, to be called Phantom Eden, is nearing completion. 

PB - Author CY - Np N1 -

2nd ed. without the subtitle on the cover. Np: Author, 2011.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Utopia Revisited Y1 - 2010 A1 - John B. Mooney KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A rewriting of 1516 More with Raphael Hythloday a visitor from a planet in the area of Alpha Centauri that is a eutopia. World government with information on geography. Free enterprise. Competition. Elected representatives and appointed bureaucrats are limited to one six-year term. Includes a constitution (Online 41-49/Book 92-104). The book also includes a “Utopianized Constitution of the State of Wyoming” (104-210) that is intended to “demonstrated the practicality of the utopian concepts” (Back Cover). 

PB - PublishAmerica CY - Baltimore, MD N1 -

A note on the last page calls this the 2nd ed. Part originally published online at http://www.geocities.com/utopiarevisit [2001?].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Vaults Y1 - 2010 A1 - Toby Ball KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The first volume of a series alternative history dystopias about the U. S. from the 1930s to the 1960s. The Vaults are the huge depository that holds all the court records of the city for seventy years. The archivist discovers an anomaly which leads him and others to uncover the deep corruption that pervades the city. See also 2011 and 2014 Ball. All three are presented as mystery novels. 

PB - St. Martin's Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Veracity. A Novel Y1 - 2010 A1 - Laura Bynum (b. 1968) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia in which half of the U.S. population has been killed and a new government exerts control through sex and drugs.

PB - Pocket Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Voyage to Utopias: A Fictional Guide Through Philosophy Y1 - 2010 A1 - Tony Fitzpatrick KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Visits to the utopias that will be produced by eight different political theories/ideologies. The author, who teaches Sociology at the University of Nottingham, compares the book to 1995 Lukes and Jostein Gaardner's (b. 1952) Sophie's World (Sofies verden 1991/English 1995). For additional material see http://www.policy-press.co.uk/resources/fitzpatrick.

PB - Policy Press CY - Bristol, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Wall of Days Y1 - 2010 A1 - Alastair Bruce (b. 1972) KW - Male author KW - South African author KW - UK author AB -

Global warming dystopia. A man is living alone on an island where he voluntarily exiled himself and where it has been raining for ten years. The novel follows his choice to return to the mainland and confront his memories and then his return to the island.

PB - Umuzi CY - Cape Town, South Africa U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - War of Attrition: Part Two of the Underground Y1 - 2010 A1 - Frank Creed (b. 1966) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 2007 Creed with much the same themes. The underground Christian group known as The Body of Christ is attacked by the Federal Bureau of Terrorism. See also 2012 Creed and Creed’s 2010 edited collection of stories set in the Underground world, Underground Rising.

PB - Writers' Café Press CY - [Lafayette, IN] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Water to Wine" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Mary Robinette Kowal (b. 1969) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The dystopia of the conflict over environmental issues in the Northwest after climate change drove most of the wineries of the world out of business.

JF - Subterranean Press Magazine UR - http://subterraneanpress.com/magazine/spring_2011. N1 -

Expanded from its original publication as  part of a shared world podcast anthology, Metatroplis: Cascadia. Ed. Jay Lake (Audible.com 2010).

ER - TY - ABST T1 - WE Y1 - 2010 A1 - John Dickinson (b. 1962) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of an all-controlling state.

PB - David Fickling Books CY - Oxford, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Web of Air. The Second Book of the Fever Crumb Series Y1 - 2010 A1 - Philip Reeve (b. 1966) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Young adult post-catastrophe dystopia in sequel to 2009 Reeve. The series is a prequel to the Mortal Engines series; see 2001 Reeve. In this volume, Fever Crumb meets a young man who wants to re-introduce manned flight, which is opposed by those in power. See also 2011 Reeve.

PB - Scholastic CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York Scholastic Press, 2011.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Weeds In the Garden” Y1 - 2010 A1 - Meghan Dunn KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

A dystopian post-catastrophe story in which a government is trying to reestablish its authority and is classifying people such as into those who can have children and what sort of education they can have.

JF - On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic VL - no. 80 (22.1) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Who Fears Death Y1 - 2010 A1 - Nnedi[mma Nkemdili] Okorafor (b. 1974) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia set in a future Africa where some tribal conflicts are still leading to genocide. The novel develops through a girl who is rejected by her own tribe for both being female and being born of rape. But she has powers that allow her to change her shape and to visit the spirit world, and she uses those powers to try to bring about change. A prequel is her The Book of Phoenix. New York: DAW Books, 2015, part of which was previously published as “The Book of Phoenix [Excerpted from the Great Book].” Clarkesworld Magazine, no. 54 (March 2011). http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/okorafor_03_11/ 

PB - DAW CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Yarn Y1 - 2010 A1 - Jon Armstrong KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Companion to 2010 Armstrong. This novel is from the point og view of someone outside the corporate realm.

PB - Night Shade Books CY - San Francisco, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Yo, Tyrania Y1 - 2010 A1 - Ric Weiss KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Humorous dystopian satire.

PB - Outskirts Press CY - Denver, CO U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Zoo City Y1 - 2010 A1 - Lauren [Ann] Beukes (b. 1976) KW - Female author KW - South African author AB -

Dystopia of a collapsed South Africa. In an interview published in Locus 74.1 (648) (January 2015): 48, the author has called it an “apartheid allegory”.

PB - Jacana Media CY - Auckland Park, South Africa N1 -

Rpt. London: Angry Robot, 2010.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The 2012 Revolution Y1 - 2009 A1 - Herman R. Willett KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a liberal tyranny with Barack Obama (b. 1961) becoming president-for-life followed by a conservative counter-revolution.

PB - Lulu Publishing CY - [Raleigh NC] U1 -

The title given is the title on the title page. The title on the cover is The 2012 American Revolution.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - 2034 Y1 - 2009 A1 - Robert Renfield KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Mostly adventure but includes a primitive village society in a different world that is clearly better than contemporary society.

PB - Eloquent Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - 2034: The Corporation Post 2012 Y1 - 2009 A1 - Whistler, Mark KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the U.S. is failing due to the actions of politicians, and the media and the people vote to get rid of the Constitution and replace it with a Social Enterprise Stock Ownership Country (SEESOC), which builds walls along the borders with Canada and Mexico to keep Americans in and under the corporation and the Security Services. Americans are essentially enslaved and tagged with a barcode.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - 2045: A Story of Our Future Y1 - 2009 A1 - Peter Seidel (b. 1926) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Corporate dystopia.

PB - Prometheus Books CY - Amherst, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - 2084 Y1 - 2009 A1 - Combe, Kirk KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

High tech corporate dystopia with one corporation controlling the entire world.

PB - Mayhaven Publishing CY - Mahomet, IL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - 2084: Mars, A New World Y1 - 2009 A1 - Robert A. Kaiser KW - US author AB -

Dystopia brought about by current liberal policies, which produces a world very similar to that of Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four (1949). Successful revolt on Mars in favor of the free market and conservative social policies. Sequel to his Project Yellow Sky: A Korean Conspiracy. Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2006 in which North Korea uses nuclear weapons against the U.S. in 2009.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Accord Y1 - 2009 A1 - Keith [N.] Brooke (b. 1966) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The Accord is a virtual world that brings together all the desires of all people throughout the world and can be entered at death. It is presented as a eutopia for all. The current world is an authoritarian dystopia, and the novel is driven by the desire of the authoritarian leader to destroy a couple in The Accord.

PB - Solaris. BL Publishing CY - Nottingham, Eng. N1 -

Parts were published in a different form as “The Accord.” Solaris Book of New Science Fiction. Ed. George Mann (Nottingham, Eng.: Solaris Books, 2007), 301-37; rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twentieth-Fifth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2008), 461-79 with an editor’s introduction on 461; and “The Man Who Built Heaven.” Postscripts, no. 15 (Summer 2008): 24-31.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "After Everything Woke Up" Y1 - 2009 A1 - Rudy [Rudolf von Bitter] Rucker (b. 1946) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Ecological eutopia in which humans can read the minds of even inanimate material such as rocks. The eutopian elements are a small part of the story.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 220 N1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - After the Car Y1 - 2009 A1 - Kingsley [L.] Dennis A1 - John Urry (1946-2016) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Primarily a discussion of the effects of the car and the desirability of eliminating it, but it also includes three brief scenarios of a carless life, "local sustainability", "local warlordism", and "digital networks of control". Only the first is eutopian.

PB - Polity CY - Cambridge, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - American Apocalypse: The Beginning Y1 - 2009 A1 - [Steve (Stephen)] [Campbell] (1957-2012) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Mostly adventure, but the series traces the stages of an American version of the apocalypse brought on by the economic collapse of 2008. The second volume is American Apocalypse II: Refuge. By Nova [pseud.]. Np: Flying Turtles of Doom Press, 2010 [Previously published unedited at http://the americanapocalypse.blogspot.com]; the third volume is American Apocalypse III: Migration. By Nova [pseud]. Np: Flying Turtles of Doom Press, 2010 [Previously published unedited at http://the americanapocalypse.blogspot.com]. In both these volumes a small group of people struggle to survive, and others join them. In the fourth volume American Apocalypse IV: Rescue. By Nova [pseud.]. Np: Flying Turtles of Doom Press, 2011 [Previously published unedited at http://the americanapocalypse.blogspot.com], recovery is beginning. A further volume is American Apocalypse: Wastelands. By Nova [pseud.]. Berkeley CA: Ulysses Press, 2011. This volume, like the others, is mostly adventure with a focus on those trying to survive and salvage something of what was once good in America. Related volumes include his The Chosen. Np: Flying Turtles of Doom Press, 2011 [Previously published unedited at http://the americanapocalypse.blogspot.com], a survivalist novel, Gardener Summer [The cover adds Includes the Short Story, “The Lion.”]. Np: Flying Turtles of Doom Press, 2011 [Originally published as an ebook in 2010], which is concerned with violent conflict in a section of a city in a collapsing U.S. in a world where China is economically dominant; and Gardener Winter. Np: Flying Turtles of Doom Press, 2012, in which the protagonist is an old man and faces one more challenge.

PB - Flying Turtles of Doom Press CY - Np N1 -

Rev. as American Apocalypse: The Collapse Begins. By Nova [pseud.]. Berkeley, CA: Ulysses Press, 2011

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - America's Future. A Novel Y1 - 2009 A1 - Dan Mason KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia centered around an age-old conspiracy by the Illuminati to establish global rule, which they have succeeded in doing.

PB - Infinity Publishing CY - West Conshohocken, PA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Animals Y1 - 2009 A1 - Don LePan (b. 1954) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which almost all food animals have become extinct and the handicapped and others who are considered unfit become food.

PB - Véhicule Press CY - Montréal, QC, Canada N1 -

Rpt. with the subtitle A Novel. New York: Soft Skull Press, 2010.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Antidote" Y1 - 2009 A1 - Russ Colson KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian fantasy of two very similar peoples at war.

JF - Neo-Opsis Science Fiction Magazine VL - no. 17 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Assignment Yggdrasil. Democracy. . .By Any Means Y1 - 2009 A1 - Chris[topher James] Dubey KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set in 2006 in which a potential terrorist attack is used by the U. S. Department of Defense as an excuse for greater control. Those thought to be mentally ill are used in the plot, Mental illness is a theme throughout the novel. Includes a bibliography (213-217), a glossary (218-219), and a list of sources consulted (219-243). The revised edition focuses more on the development of genetically engineering a virus to create transhumans and the way the government infect many citizens with the same virus by introducing into food, drink, and medicine.

PB - Chipmunkapublishing The Mental Health Publisher CY - London SN - 9781783331055 N1 -

Rev. ed. Luton, Eng.: Andrews UK/Auk Authors, 2014. 205 pp.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Bad Tuesdays: Twisted Symmetry Y1 - 2009 A1 - Benjamin J. Myers (b. 1967) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

First of six volumes of a series of young adult dystopias. Thousands of children are being stolen by the Twisted Symmetry, somehow connected with its goal of immortality. It is opposed by the Committee. The three Tuesday children, who are street children and known as the Bad Tuesdays, may be a key to the situation. In the second volume, The Bad Tuesdays: Strange Energy. London: Orion, 2009, the Tuesday children help the Committee. The third volume, The Bad Tuesdays: Blood Alchemy. London: Orion Children’s Books, 2010 follows the adventures of one of the Tuesday children. The Bad Tuesdays: The Nonsuch King. London: Orion’s Children’s Books, 2011 follows the continuing adventures of all three of the Tuesday children. And in The Bad Tuesdays: A Crystal Horsemen. London: Orion’s Children’s Books, 2011 two of the Tuesday children have been captured by the Twisted Symmetry. In The Bad Tuesdays: The Spiral Horizon. London: Orion Children’s Books, 2012 all the conflicts are resolved, at least temporarily.

PB - Orion Children's Books CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ben Brown's Adventure Beyond the Universe: The Return of Nephilim Y1 - 2009 A1 - Michael C. Thorp KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Young adult adventure novel that includes a dystopia.

PB - Free House Publishing CY - Manukau City, New Zealand U2 -

Illus. Sintu Mazumdar. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Blond Curls" Y1 - 2009 A1 - Nicole R. Murphy ED - Gillian Polack ED - Scott Hopkins KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia. Police with flawed technology misidentify a suspect and have the power to completely undo her life.

JF - Masques PB - CSFG Publishing CY - Woden, ACT, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Bradbury Report. A Novel Y1 - 2009 A1 - Steven Polansky KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. A future U.S. where most people have a clone for use in medical care. The clones are kept in Clearances, areas of the U.S. that have been cleared of their previous residences, such as the Dakotas. The novel is about a man whose clone wanders off a Clearance and his attempts to save it from being captured and killed.

PB - Weinstein Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Brain Jack Y1 - 2009 A1 - Brian Falkner (b. 1962) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which the web can be fed directly to the brain.

PB - Random House CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Brief History of the Recent Future: A Dystopian Fantasy Y1 - 2009 A1 - David Manning KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Humor and satire on the 1970s, and written then, that projects that period into a dystopian future.

PB - dhm imPRESSions. LuLu.com CY - Np N1 -

Parts were originally published in The Sun (Chapel Hill, NC), The Guide (Durham, NC), and The Record (Hackensack, NJ)

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Broken Arrow Y1 - 2009 A1 - Paul Kane (b. 1973) KW - Male author AB -

A volume in the Afterblight Chronicles series. Dystopia of the violent world after a plague. Includes “The Man Who Would Not Be King” [295-318] by Scott Andrews. For other volumes, see 2006 Spurrier, 2007 Andrews, 2007 Levene, 2008 Bark, 2008 Kane, 2009 Andrews, 2009 Ewing, 2009 Kane, and 2010 Andrews.

PB - Abaddon Books CY - Oxford, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Bunsen versus the Republic" Y1 - 2009 A1 - [Owen Marshall] [Jones] (b. 1941) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Satire in which, after it is discovered that vegetables feel pain, it is illegal to eat vegetables.

JF - Living as a Moon PB - Vintage CY - Auckland, New Zealand U3 -

Owen Marshall [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Bute View Y1 - 2009 A1 - Janice Marriott (b. 1946) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult dystopia. Sequel to 2006 Marriott in which the young protagonist is taken to the headquarters of the rich and powerful who hope to exploit his inventiveness.

PB - Mallinson Rendal CY - Wellington, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Buyout Y1 - 2009 A1 - Alex[ander Christian] Irvine (b. 1969) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Capitalist dystopia in which a murderer can choose death in exchange for a payment to the heirs of a percentage of the estimated cost of life imprisonment.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Candor Y1 - 2009 A1 - Pam Bachorz (b. 1973) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which messages designed to control people are embedded in the music they listen to.

PB - Egmont USA CY - New York N1 -

UK ed. London: Egmont, 2010.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Carbon Diaries 2017 Y1 - 2009 A1 - Saci Lloyd (b. 1967) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Welsh author AB -

Young adult dystopia in sequel to 2008 Lloyd. This novel concerns the growing restrictions on CO2 and other pollutants but in a situation in which the rich and powerful benefit and the poor and weak continue to be exploited.

PB - Hodder Children's Books CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Holiday House, 2010.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Caryatids Y1 - 2009 A1 - [Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An SF novel with fantasy elements set in an environmental dystopia. China is the only remaining nation state and has a drastically reduced population. The Acquis is a green enclave creating a networked utopia.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Chalcot Crescent Y1 - 2009 A1 - Fay Weldon (1931-2023) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia set in 2013 with a U.K. with a collapsed economy and a National Unity Government (NUG). Rationing. Worthless currency. Gangs.

PB - Corvus CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Chosen One Y1 - 2009 A1 - Carol Lynch Williams KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young Adult communal fiction about a Mormon polygamous sect presented as a dystopia.

PB - St. Martin's Griffin CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Collision" Y1 - 2009 A1 - Gwyneth [Ann] Jones (b. 1952) ED - Geoff[rey Charles] Ryman (b. 1951) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Science fiction story which has as its background a future where there is an anti-science dystopia on Earth and advanced technology in space.

JF - When It Changed. Science Into Fiction: An Anthology PB - Comma Press CY - Manchester, Eng. N1 -

Rpt. in her The Universe of Things: Short Fiction (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2011), 106-20. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Contact With Chaos Y1 - 2009 A1 - Michael Z. Williamson (b. 1967) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A newly discovered wealthy planet becomes the focus of a conflict among the authoritarian United Nations forces of Earth, the libertarians of Freehold, and a group of do-gooders saying the people should be left alone.

PB - Baen CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Crossing. Blood of the Lamb Book One Y1 - 2009 A1 - Mandy [Amanda] Hager (b. 1960) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult religious dystopia. First volume of a trilogy. The second volume, Into the Wilderness. Blood of the Lamb Book Two. Auckland, New Zealand: Random House New Zealand, 2010, deals with the relationships and conflicts among four children who have fled to an apparently uninhabited island. In the third volume, Resurrection. Blood of the Lamb Book Three. Auckland, New Zealand: Random House, 2011. U.S. ed. Amherst, NY: Pyr, 2014, the protagonist returns to the religious dystopia and struggles to convince the people to overcome their brainwashing. 

PB - Random House New Zealand CY - Auckland, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Daemon. A Novel Y1 - 2009 A1 - Daniel Suarez (b. 1964) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the entire world is run by computers that develop a glitch. See also 2010 Suarez.

PB - Dutton CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Dark Coffee, Bright Light and the Paradoxes of Omnipotence" Y1 - 2009 A1 - Ben Burgis ED - Rachel Swirsky (b. 1962) ED - Sean Wallace KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a future where the Palestinians defeated Israel and now treat Jews the way Israel treat the Palestinians and the way this turns a secular Jew into a suicide bomber.

JF - People of the Book ([In Hebrew]): A Decade of Jewish Science Fiction and Fantasy PB - Prime Books CY - [Holicong, PA] N1 -

Originally published in AtomJack Magazine (October 2009), an online journal that is no longer available.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Death Got No Mercy Y1 - 2009 A1 - Al Ewing (b. 1977) KW - Male author AB -

A volume in The Afterblight Chronicles series. Dystopia of extreme violence. For other volumes, see 2006 Spurrier, 2007 Andrews, 2007 Levene, 2008 Bark, 2008 Kane, 2009 Andrews, 2009 Kane, 2010 Andrews, and 2010 Kane.

PB - Abaddon Books CY - Oxford, Eng. N1 -

Rpt. in Afterblight Chronicles: America (Oxford, Eng.: Abaddon UK & Rebellion/Abaddon US, 2011), 439-623.

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Afterblight Chronicles at the head of the title. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Dobchek, Lost in the Funhouse" Y1 - 2009 A1 - Mike [Michael Diamond] Resnick (1942-2020) A1 - Kay Kenyon (b. 1956) ED - Lou Anders KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which computers are DNA based and, in each person, because terrorist viruses had completely destroyed the possibility of silicon-based computers and the Web. The result is extreme isolation and terrorist attacks on any gathering of people.

JF - Live Without a Net PB - Roc CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dominion Y1 - 2009 A1 - J[effrey] L. Bryan KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a future world largely under the control of the U.S., which is led by a capitalist, fundamentalist religious group of men who have abolished all freedoms and placed everyone under constant surveillance. The protagonist is a news reader who knows that he is reading lies. Ends with a nuclear war with China.

PB - Author CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Eighth Wonder” Y1 - 2009 A1 - Chris Bachelder (b. 1971) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A climate change dystopia with people living inside a flooded domed stadium and beginning to build a better life there.

JF - McSweeney’s Thirty Two. 2024 A.D. PB - Saga Press CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Loosed Upon the World: The Saga Anthology of Climate Fiction. Ed. John Joseph Adams (New York: Saga Press, 2015), 341-61. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Executioner" Y1 - 2009 A1 - Jennifer Marie Brissett (b. 1969) ED - Robey James KW - English author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which when a person is to be executed, an individual is chosen by lot to be the executioner. The story is from the point-of-view of a woman who was chosen. 

JF - Warrior Wisewoman PB - Norilana Books Science Fiction CY - Winnetka, CA VL - 2 N1 -

Rpt. in People of Color Take Over Fantastic Stories of the Imagination Magazine. Ed. Nisi Shawl, no. 239 (June/July 2017): 50-57; and in in Sunspot Jungle: The Ever-Expanding Universe of Science Fiction and Fantasy [the cover adds Volume One]. Ed. Bill Campbell (Greenbelt, MD: Rosarium, 2019), 296-302. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Far North Y1 - 2009 A1 - Marcel [Raymond] Theroux (b. 1968) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A global warming dystopia in which most of the world's civilizations have collapsed and violence is the norm.

PB - Faber and Faber CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. "in slightly different form" New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Fever Crumb Y1 - 2009 A1 - Philip Reeve (b. 1966) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Young adult dystopia. First volume of a series that is a prequel to his Mortal Engines series; see 2001 Reeve. In this volume, a young woman named Fever Crumb lives in a society that does not consider women rational, but she is a member of the elite Engineers. See also 2010 and 2011 Reeve.

PB - Scholastic Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Finitude Y1 - 2009 A1 - [Alistair] Hamish MacDonald (b. 1969) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Climate-change dystopia. The novel begins in a future that pretends it has solved the catastrophe brought on by climate-change. Rationing and other limits have been removed; technology has supposedly solved problems like pollution and waste disposal. All food is synthetic. But the ice that remains continues to melt and some of it is releasing massive amounts of methane. It is possible to buy a subscription to a service that protects the person from “all targeted messaging” (2). 

PB - Published and hand-bound by the author CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The First Stone Y1 - 2009 A1 - Elliott Hall (b. 1978) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Dystopia of a U.S. under religious fundamentalism. The first volume of the Strange Trilogy. Continued in his The Rapture: The Innocent Disappear First. London: John Murray, 2010; and The Children’s Crusade: Only One Man Stands In Their Way. London: John Murray, 2011. 

PB - John Murray CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "For the love of mechanical minds: Survival of the fittest?" Y1 - 2009 A1 - Brenda Cooper (b. 1951) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Artificial Intelligences raise most children and continue to work with them throughout life. While this produces superbly intelligent people and much innovative work, no one chooses to reproduce.

JF - Nature VL - 457.7231 U2 -

Illus. Jacey

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Forest of Hands and Teeth Y1 - 2009 A1 - Carrie Ryan (b. 1978) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult religious dystopia with zombies. A small group of people dominated by a religious cult live in a compound surrounded by a forest inhabited by zombies. Sequels include The Dead-Tossed Waves. New York: Delacorte Press, 2010, focuses on the protagonist of the previous volume escaping from her town and the zombies; and The Dark and Hollow Places. New York: Delacorte Press, 2011.

PB - Delacorte Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Forever Pleasure: A Utopian Novel Y1 - 2009 A1 - Theodore [R.] Eastman KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. A man from the 1980s travels to 2076 where he finds a technological eutopia, which is described in some detail. But the novel begins with a being who had been downloaded into a machine many millennia ago who is chasing the last remaining intelligent beings in the nearby galaxies to force them to become part of the Hedonistic Expansion Crusade. The two ultimately come into conflict, a conflict that is resolved with the machine intelligences, posthuman, and transhumans all cooperating.

PB - iUniverse CY - Lincoln NB U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Forgive Them Their Trespasses” Y1 - 2009 A1 - J. Alan Erwine (b. 1969) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Theocratic dystopia.

JF - J Alan Erwine’s Tales of Dystopia PB - [J. Alan Erwine] CY - Np SN - 9781534701649 N1 -

Originally published online in Afterburn SF (March 2009). No longer available. 

Also published as a twelve-page online Chapbook. [Np: J. Alan Erwine, 2015]. No longer available.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Freedom" Y1 - 2009 A1 - Amy Waldman (b. 1969) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. The story is about an island designed for the terrorists who no country would take and the society that develops there as told by the first overseer.

JF - Boston Review UR - http://bostonreview.net/freedom-amy-waldman. Accessed August 18, 2013 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Galatea’s Stepchildren” Y1 - 2009 A1 - Sam S. Kepfield (b. 1963) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

In a post-plague U.S. where everything has disintegrated, android women are created, officially for work but mostly used sexually. It is illegal to educated them, but a man allows one to read.

JF - The Future Fire: Social Political & Speculative Cyber-Fiction VL - no. 16 UR - The Future Fire: 2009.16 fiction galatea U2 -

Illus. Rachel H. White

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Goldstein Y1 - 2009 A1 - Troy [J.] Grice KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a future fascist U.S. controlled by twelve corporate cartels. The free state of Goldstein, using advanced Chinese technology, overthrows the cartels by disabling their technology.

PB - Trafford Publishing CY - Victoria, BC, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Good Humor Man, Or, Calorie 3501 Y1 - 2009 A1 - Andrew Fox (b. 1964) KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia where it is illegal to eat fattening foods.

PB - Tachyon Publications CY - San Francisco, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Grasses of a Thousand Colors Y1 - 2009 A1 - William Shawn (b. 1943) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe (pandemic) dystopia background to a play the focuses on the sexual fantasies and memories of the main character, who caused the pandemic. Play that opened at the Royal Court Theatre, London, May 18, 2009. 

PB - Theatre Communications Group CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Dramatists Play Service, 2014. U.K. ed. London: Nick Hern Books, 2009. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Guerilla Infrastructure HOWTO" Y1 - 2009 A1 - Hawkes-Reed, John ED - Colin Harvey KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The story describes the beginnings of a ecological eutopia in a corporate controlled future with dystopian elements.

JF - Future Bristol PB - Swimming Kangaroo Press CY - Arlington, TX U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Heart for the Assassin. A Novel Y1 - 2009 A1 - Robert Ferrigno (b. 1948) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Sequel to 2006 and 2008 Ferrigno. This volume continues most of the themes of the earlier ones with only partial resolutions of the conflicts.

PB - Scribner CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hope Y1 - 2009 A1 - Aaron [S.] Zelman (1946-2010) A1 - L[ester] Neil Smith [III] (1946-2021) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Libertarian dystopian political thriller where a President of the U.S. tries to uphold the libertarian version of the Second Amendment to the Constitution on the right to carry weapons.

PB - Phoenix Pick/Arc Manor CY - Rockville, MD U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Human Disguise Y1 - 2009 A1 - [James O.] [Born] (b. 1960) KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia about aliens warring on an Earth where Germany threatens Europe, New York City has been obliterated in a nuclear attack, and Miami is a prison.

PB - Tor CY - New York U3 -

James O'Neal [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ice Song Y1 - 2009 A1 - Kirsten Imani Kasai KW - Female author AB -

Mostly adventure but the background is a dystopia of environmental degeneration and human mutation. The story is continued in her Tattoo. New York: Ballantine Books, 2011.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "In Paradisum" Y1 - 2009 A1 - Lee Sands AB -

Brief satirical poem on the character of paradise.

JF - Times Literary Supplement VL - no. 5544 ER - TY - ABST T1 - In Sparta Y1 - 2009 A1 - Mark Wagstaff KW - Male author AB -

The novel is set in a near future dystopian London in which a disaffected man becomes a bomb maker.

PB - Matador CY - Leicester, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “In the Event Of” Y1 - 2009 A1 - Arditti, Michael ED - Geoff[rey Charles] Ryman (b. 1951) KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Although the protagonist is a clone, the story is set in an underground, technological dystopia.

JF - When It Changed. Science into Fiction: An Anthology PB - Comma Press CY - Manchester, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "In the Forests of the Night" Y1 - 2009 A1 - Jay [Joseph Edward] Lake [Jr.] (1964-2014) ED - John [Michael] Scalzi [II] (b. 1969) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A story in a collaborative volume describing meta-cities of the future; see also 2009 Buckell, Scalzi, Schroeder, and Wishnevsky. This story is set in a city in Northern California based on sharing that is mostly underground to protect it from its predatory, capitalist neighbors.

JF - Metatropolis. Original Stories by Jay Lake; Tobias S. Buckell; Elizabeth Bear; John Scalzi, [II]; Karl Schroeder PB - Subterranean Press CY - Burton, MI N1 -

Rpt. (New York: Tor, 2010), 13-77. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Inside Out" Y1 - 2009 A1 - Viki Chua ED - Happy Smiley and Friends [Writers Group] KW - Female author KW - Singaporean author AB -

Two societies in conflict. One, inside a dome, which presents the outside as so damaged environmentally as to be unlivable. The other very different from what the Inside protagonist has been taught.

PB - Asian Science Fiction and Fantasy/Two Trees CY - Singapore SN - 978-981-08-3580-4 EBook published 2012. 978-981-07-1743-8 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Julia" Y1 - 2009 A1 - Erin Thomas KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia set in what seems to be the standard fantasy world of an ancient aristocracy, but is a world where people are produced to be donors of body parts for that nobility.

JF - On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic VL - 21.3 (78) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America Y1 - 2009 A1 - Robert Charles Wilson (b. 1953) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia. Sequel to and expansion of his Julian: A Christmas Story (2006). Julian Comstock is a secularist who believes in evolution in a society that rejects both.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Killswitch Review Y1 - 2009 A1 - Steven-Elliot Altman (b. 1968) A1 - Diane DeKelb-Rittenhouse KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set in 2156 when it is possible to live as long as one wants. Since overpopulation is a threat, contraception is compulsory, and the U.S. has closed its borders. The focus of the novel is technologically assisted suicide, and the Killswitch is a handheld suicide device that is officially called the Kevorkian Unit, named after Jack Kevorkian (1928-2011) who was found guilty of second-degree murder for his work in assisting people to kill themselves and spent 1999-2007 in prison. Given the lack of opportunity, young people are illegally killing themselves.

PB - Yard Dog Press CY - Alma, AR U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Wild Witch Y1 - 2009 A1 - [Miriam] [Simos] (b. 1951) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Children's book describing a "perfect" over-organized town improved by a bit of natural wildness.

PB - Mother Tongue Ink CY - Escatada, OR U2 -

Illus. Lindy Kehoe

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Starhawk [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Last Word. Writer's Block" Y1 - 2009 A1 - Will[iam Woodward] Self (b. 1961) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopian satire in which the Ministry of Fiction controls the production of fiction. Writers work in offices at desks set in long rows and produce fiction on topics they are set.

JF - RSA Journal VL - 155.5537 N1 -

An extract was published as “Ministry of Fiction.” The Guardian Review (March 4, 2009): 5.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Light of Day Y1 - 2009 A1 - James Byrd KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which the environmental movement has gained power throughout the world and forced everyone underground as a means of protecting nature. An enclave of survivalists continues to live above ground, fight back, and win.

PB - Booksurge CY - [Charleston, SC] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Long Stay" Y1 - 2009 A1 - Ian Watson (b. 1943) ED - George Mann KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. The Luton-Stansted car park stretches for twenty-six miles between the two airports with crops growing among the cars. The story focuses on people who got stuck in the car park and have ended up living there permanently.

JF - The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction Volume Three PB - Solaris CY - Nottingham, Eng. N1 -

 Rpt. in his The 1000 Year Reich and Other Stories ([Weston], Eng.: NewCon Press, 2016), 189-99 with an author’s note on 199. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Lost in sun and silence: The Golden Age of Communications" Y1 - 2009 A1 - Vincenzo Palermo KW - Italian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. In a world of constant connectivity, a man tries to escape to silence.

JF - Nature VL - 457.7233 U2 -

Illus. Jacey

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lunar Braceros 2125-2148 Y1 - 2009 A1 - Rosaura Sánchez A1 - Pita, Beatrice KW - Chicana author AB -

Dystopia in which the U.S. has fragmented, and the parts are under corporate control. The poor and minorities are held in enclosed reservations with some sent to the moon to help bury nuclear and toxic waste because there is no longer space on Earth. The novel follows one family on Earth and on the moon.

PB - Calaca Press CY - National City, CA U2 -

Illus. Mario A. Chacon

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Makers Y1 - 2009 A1 - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A high-tech eutopia begins to transform the U.S., but then the economy collapses producing a dystopia. Various eutopian and dystopian scenarios follow.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Making Memories: You must remember this . . ." Y1 - 2009 A1 - Frizell, John KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia is created by implanting memories. Aggressive people have peaceful memories implanted and so forth. Can also be read as a dystopia with memories implanted as a means of social control.

JF - Nature VL - 457.7227 U2 -

Illus. Jacey

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mariposa Y1 - 2009 A1 - Greg[ory Dale] Bear (1951-2022) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Primarily a thriller but with dystopian elements describing a near future U.S. in economic decline.

PB - Vanguard Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Material Proof of the Failure of Everything" Y1 - 2009 A1 - Heidi [Suzanne] Julavits (b. 1968) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian of a failing future Hungary that is also bringing down the European Union as the background to a story of intrigue.

JF - McSweeney's Thirty Two. 2024 A.D. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Memory Wall" Y1 - 2009 A1 - Anthony Doerr (b. 1973) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in a future South Africa in which people’s memories are harvested, taped, and sold to the wealthy. 

JF - McSweeney’s Thirty Two. 2024 A.D. VL - 32 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mercury Station Y1 - 2009 A1 - Mark A. von Schlegell (b. 1957) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Loosely a prequel to 2005 von Schlegell and called the second volume in his “System Series.” This volume begins in a juvenile detention center on Mercury run mostly by out-of-date robots and focuses on time travel. See also 2015 von Schlegell. In addition, see 2011 von Schlegell.

PB - Semiotext(e) CY - Los Angelas, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Mere Future Y1 - 2009 A1 - Sarah Schulman (b. 1958) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia in which an apparently eutopian New York City (no ads, no franchises, cheap and available housing, high minimum wage) is still controlled by the same rich people as before. There is one large corporation, THE MEDIA HUB. The court system takes lifestyle into account and the rich are presumed innocent and the poor presumed guilty. 

PB - Arsenal Pulp Press CY - Vancouver, BC, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Metamorphosis of Samuel Freeman: A Prophetic Look at the Prospects for the Human Race in the Year 2000 in a World of Ten Billion Y1 - 2009 A1 - Kent H. Wilcoxson KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia.

PB - Trafford CY - [Victoria, BC, Canada] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mind Over Ship Y1 - 2009 A1 - David Marusek (b. 1951) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 2005 Marusek. This volume includes struggles among clones, artificial intelligences, and wealthy immortals. See also 1999 Marusek.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Minnesota Cold. A Novel Y1 - 2009 A1 - Cynthia Kraack KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. After a nuclear war, Minnesota becomes independent under the rule of the old politicians and business leaders, who controlled both the political system and the economy and undermined education to make it serve their purposes. They set up a program using Minnesota’s biomedical expertise to provide the world with medicine, breeding people with genetic enhancements, and establishing a means of judging whether a person is worth keeping alive and killing those judged not. The novel’s protagonist is a healthy older woman judged not worth keeping alive and her successful resistance that uncovers the breeding program and overthrows the dystopia. The novel ends with the difficult transition from authoritarian rule, a normal economy, the re-establishment of the education system, the problems raised by integrating the “breeders” produced by the genetics program. Female author.

PB - North Star Press of St. Cloud CY - Saint Cloud, MN SN - 978-1482795660 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Mohammed's Angel" Y1 - 2009 A1 - Jack [Mayo] Dann (b. 1945) KW - Australian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of religious conflict.

JF - Overland VL - no. 196 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Mr Goop” Y1 - 2009 A1 - Ivor W. Hartmann KW - Male author KW - Zimbabwean author AB -

Post-global warming dystopia set in Africa with extreme differences between the rich and poor. The story focuses on a poor boy.

JF - African Writing online VL - no. 7 UR - http://www.african-writing.com/seven/ivorhartmann.htm N1 -

Rpt. in The Apex Book of World SF 2 (Lexington, KY: Apex Publications, 2012), 16-29.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Netherlands Lives With Water" Y1 - 2009 A1 - Jim Shepard (b. 1956) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of global warming with Holland struggling to stay above the sea.

JF - McSweeney's Thirty Two. 2024 A.D. N1 -

Rpt. in Loosed Upon the World: The Saga Anthology of Climate Fiction. Ed. John Joseph Adams (New York: Saga Press, 2015), 143-71. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - New Terra and Beyond: The Expanding Human Universe Y1 - 2009 A1 - Richard Michael KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Religious dystopia set on a colony planet which is provided with advanced technology but where the people are afraid to use it. A religious leader who opposes its use targets those who use it.

PB - Xlibris CY - [Bloomington, IN] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - One Second After Y1 - 2009 A1 - William R. Forstchen (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which one man struggles to save his family and his small North Carolina town after America loses a war in one second, a war based upon an Electro Magnetic Pulse (EMP) weapon that will send America back to the Dark Ages. First volume of a trilogy. His One Year After. New York: Forge Books, 2015, is set in one small community as it begins to recover from the events of the earlier novel, but it has to face the forces of a supposed national government that wants to take control of their lives. In The Final Day. New York: Tor/Forge. 2016, a push by a new, authoritarian government tries to bring the group into line, but they manage to stay relatively free. The author is a professor of History at Montreat College in North Carolina.

PB - Tor/Forge CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!" Y1 - 2009 A1 - Ralph Nader (b. 1934) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The author calls it a "practical utopia" in which the "super-rich", led by the billionaire Warren Buffett (b. 1930) and others he recruits organize a program to reform America.

PB - Seven Stories Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Operation Motherland Y1 - 2009 A1 - Scott [Keegan] Andrews (b. 1971) KW - Male author AB -

A volume in The Afterblight Chronicles series in sequel to 2007 Andrews. This volume follows events in various countries. For other volumes, see 2006 Spurrier, 2007 Andrews, 2007 Levene, 2008 Bark, 2008 Kane, 2009 Ewing, 2009 Kane, 2010 Andrews, and 2010 Kane.

PB - Abaddon Books CY - Oxford, Eng. N1 -

Rpt. in Schools Out Forever. An Omnibus of Post-Apocalyptic Novels. Oxford, Eng.: Abaddon Books, 2012 which reprints Schools Out (7-221), Operation Motherland (223-443), “The Man Who Would Not Be King” (445-67), and Children’s Crusade (469-707) and adds miscellaneous “Bonus Material” (709-27).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Perfect Union Y1 - 2009 A1 - Goodfellow, Cody KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of an intentional community as a human hive.

PB - Swallowdown Press CY - Portland, OR U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Pet: An exercise in control" Y1 - 2009 A1 - Bob James KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Satire on automation in which an android housekeeper replaces a woman.

JF - Nature VL - 461.7261 U2 -

Illus. Jacey

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Pirates of the Cumberland Basin" Y1 - 2009 A1 - Joanne Hall ED - Colin Harvey KW - Female author KW - UK author AB -

Dystopia of a flooded Bristol with extensive organized crime and pirates living outside the law. Much of Europe is flooded.

JF - Future Bristol PB - Swimming Kangaroo Press CY - Arlington, TX U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pop Apocalypse: A Possible Satire Y1 - 2009 A1 - Lee Konstantinou (b. 1978) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian satire. The "Freedom Coalition" is attacking all anti-capitalists, and the fundamentalist right is growing in strength.

PB - Harper Perennial CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The President's Book Tour" Y1 - 2009 A1 - M[ary Beth] Rickert (b. 1959) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia with extensive mutations.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 117.3 & 4 (685) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Promise of the Flame Y1 - 2009 A1 - Sylvia [Louise] Engdahl (b. 1933) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 2007 Engdahl. In this volume, the small group of people with "psi powers" settle a new planet and develop a new and better culture based on those powers. See also 2013 Engdahl.

PB - Ad Stellae CY - Eugene, OR U5 -

Merril, TxA&M

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Ragged Claws" Y1 - 2009 A1 - Lisa Tuttle (b. 1952) ED - Peter Crowther (b. 1949) ED - Nick Gevers KW - Female author KW - Scottish author KW - UK author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a disintegrating society in which people have the dream of going to the planet Eden and starting over on a pristine world. But it is a fake; all that exists is a virtual reality Eden and the myth serves to make money for its sellers.

JF - Edison's Frankenstein PB - PS Publishing CY - Hornsea, Eng. VL - Postscripts 20/21 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Raw Water" Y1 - 2009 A1 - Wells Tower (b. 1973) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a dystopian future U.S. southwest where an attempt to mitigate climate change has gone badly wrong.

JF - McSweeney’s Thirty Two. 2024 A.D. VL - 31 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Red in the Sky Is Our Blood." Y1 - 2009 A1 - [Sarah Bear Elizabeth] [Wishnevsky] (b. 1971) ED - John [Michael] Scalzi [II] (b. 1969) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A story in a collaborative volume describing meta-cities of the future; see also 2009 Buckell, Lake, Scalzi, and Schroeder. This story is about a Detroit dystopia with the beginnings of a eutopia based on dispersing people throughout a connected system hidden in the ruins, farming abandoned areas, and gradually developing connections to all the services people can provide.

JF - Metatropolis. Original Stories by Jay Lake; Tobias S. Buckell; Elizabeth Bear; John Scalzi, [II]; Karl Schroeder PB - Subterranean Press CY - Burton, MI N1 -

Rpt. (New York: Tor, 2010), 133-73.

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Elizabeth Bear [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - ReGenesis: An Alternative Future Y1 - 2009 A1 - Benjamin Lightfoot KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An authoritarian society in the thirty-fourth century that has solved most problems and appears to be utopian in that there is no war, little poverty, and a cleaned-up environment. The United States rules the entire planet, and all the improvements are at the expense of freedom. People designated as Unfit for Society--defined as evil and cannot be rehabilitated--are executed after 36 hours. A sequel with some of the same protagonists that is primarily space opera concerning a struggle between two alien races, one freedom-loving and the other statist, is Scions: Aliens from Earth. A ReGenesis Adventure. [Bloomington, IN]: Xlibris, 2014. 258 pp.

PB - Xlibris CY - [Bloomington, IN] SN - 978-1-4415-3755-3 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Remembering Green Y1 - 2009 A1 - Lesley Beake (b. 1949) KW - Female author KW - South African author AB -

Young adult post- environmental catastrophe dystopia.

PB - Frances Lincoln Children's Books CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - Requiem of the Human Soul Y1 - 2009 A1 - Jeremy R. Lent (b. 1960) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a future in which all unaltered humans are being considered for elimination. 

PB - Libros Libertad Publishing CY - Surrey, BC, Canada U5 -

Can, NPV

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Riot on the State Library Lawn, or Utopia Is the Mother of Dystopia" Y1 - 2009 A1 - Lucy [Jane] Sussex (b. 1957) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Humor in which three authors of 1889 utopias--Joseph Fraser, Catherine Helen Spence (1825-1910), and Sir Julius Vogel (1835-99)--visit an exhibit on the future of Melbourne.

JF - Overland VL - no. 196 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Rogue Progeny. TO WILL Dreams do come true Y1 - 2009 A1 - L. Rolland Williams KW - Male author AB -

Dystopian science fiction focusing on androids gaining independent emotion and intelligence and the attempts of corporation to regain control of them. The androids ultimately succeed in being accepted.

PB - Xlibris CY - [Bloomington, IN] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Sacrament" Y1 - 2009 A1 - Matt Williamson KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of extreme torture and of the ways torturers justify their actions to themselves.

JF - Barrelhouse VL - 7 N1 -

Rpt. in  Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 314-26; 2nd ed. as Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 314-26. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Seed" Y1 - 2009 A1 - Joan L. Savage KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia of a future conflict between Mars and Earth brought about by immortality and the need for more space. Birth is illegal and emotions have withered.

JF - Neo-Opsis Science Fiction Magazine VL - no. 17 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Seventeen" Y1 - 2009 A1 - Cat[riona] Sparks (b. 1965) ED - Gillian Polack ED - Scott Hopkins KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia in which there are deep division between rich and poor with a focus on care for the elderly. The protagonist is a girl whose job is to pretend to be the daughter of an old woman, in which role she leads a good life, and gives some meaning to the old woman’s life. Outside the retirement community the girl is homeless in a violent world.

JF - Masques PB - CSFG Publishing CY - Woden, ACT, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Shades of Grey: The Road to High Saffron Y1 - 2009 A1 - Jasper Fforde (b. 1961) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Humorous dystopia set in Chromatica where status is determined by the range of colors that a person can see, and lower status people are subservient to the higher status. Life is determined by “The Rules”, which the protagonist discovers to be more controlling than he had thought. For a sequel that continues where that novel ended, see Red Side Story. London: Hodder & Stoughton. 376 pp. U.S. ed. New York: Soho Press, 2024. Originally described as the first volume of a trilogy to be followed by Shades of Grey 2: Painting by Numbers and Shades of Grey 3: The Gordini Protocols, but they disappeared from his website.

PB - Viking CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2010. Both carry the 2010 copyright, but the U.S. ed. was published in December 2009 and the U.K. ed. in January 2010.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Sheriff of Yrnameer Y1 - 2009 A1 - Michael Rubens KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on capitalism in which all worlds are branded except Yrnameer or Your Name Here, which is a pastoral eutopia that is under threat for its independence.

PB - Pantheon Books CY - New York SN - 978-0-307-37847-7 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Shop Talk" Y1 - 2009 A1 - Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959) ED - Robey James KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The story, which has elements of humor and fantasy, is set on a future Earth that had colonized space but had become extremely insular and tried to keep everyone in the town in which they were born.

JF - Warrior Wisewoman PB - Norilana Books Science Fiction CY - Winnetka, CA VL - No. 2 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Sin of Addison Hall Y1 - 2009 A1 - Jeffrey A. Onorato KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the unattractive are lower class citizens slated for elimination.

PB - Bryant Park CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Six" Y1 - 2009 A1 - Leah Bobet ED - Mike Allen KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia with much fantasy. Large office buildings are being reclaimed from the top down with different floors used for housing, manufacturing, crops, etc.

JF - Clockwork Phoenix 2: More Tales of Beauty and Strangeness PB - Norilana Books CY - Winnetka, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Sky City" Y1 - 2009 A1 - Sesshu Foster (b. 1957) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future dystopian Los Angeles with much violence.

JF - McSweeney’s Thirty Two. 2024 A.D. VL - 32 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Snakeskin Road Y1 - 2009 A1 - James Braziel (b. 1967) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 2008 Braziel. This novel elaborates on the dystopia brought about by climate change and focuses on a woman's attempt to escape the slavery that is the fate of most of the inhabitants of the Southwest of the US.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Stochasti-city" Y1 - 2009 A1 - Tobias S[amuel] Buckell (b. 1979) ED - John [Michael] Scalzi [II] (b. 1969) KW - British Virgin Islands author KW - Grenadian author KW - Male author KW - US author KW - US Virgin Islands author AB -

A story in a collaborative volume describing meta-cities of the future; see also 2009 Lake, Scalzi, Schroeder, and Wishnevsky. This story is set in a dystopian Detroit and deals with the beginnings of an attempt to reclaim it.

JF - Metatropolis. Original Stories by Jay Lake; Tobias S. Buckell; Elizabeth Bear; John Scalzi, [II]; Karl Schroeder PB - Subterranean Press CY - Burton, MI N1 -

Rpt. (New York: Tor, 2010), 78-152. PSt, PTU

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Surveillance" Y1 - 2009 A1 - Jonathan Cresswell-Jones KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Brief dystopia of a future where surveillance is so pervasive that a teenage girl living in Toronto chooses to wear a burka.

JF - On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic VL - 21.2 (77) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Things We Didn't See Coming Y1 - 2009 A1 - Steven Amsterdam (b. 1966) KW - Australian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia that follows a man as a copes with floods, plague, and other disasters beginning when he and his parents flee in fear of the collapse of civilization expected to be brought about the Y2K problem in 2000. 

PB - Sleepers Publishing CY - Collingwood, VIC, Australia N1 -

Parts originally published  as and “The Theft That Got Me Here.” The Sleepers Almanac 2007: The Family Affair. Ed. Zoe Dattner and Louise Swinn [(Collingwood, Vic, Australia: Sleepers Publishing, 2007]), 73-84 and “Best Medicine.” The Sleepers Almanac No. 4 (Collingwood, Vic, Australia: Sleepers Publishing, 2008): 224-32.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Thirteen" Y1 - 2009 A1 - Peter Andrew Smith KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a world in which human physical contact has disappeared from fear of disease.

JF - Neo-Opsis Science Fiction Magazine VL - no. 17 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Is This Your Day To Join the Revolution?" Y1 - 2009 A1 - Genevieve Valentine (b. 1981) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which people are controlled through a fake scare about a disease.

JF - Futurismic UR - http://futurismic.com/2009/09/01/new-fiction-is-this-your-day-to-join-the-revolution-by-genevieve-valentine/. Accessed April 21, 2011. N1 -

Rpt. in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 267-74; 2nd ed. as Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 267-74. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Timed release: Clean Thoughts" Y1 - 2009 A1 - David Marusek (b. 1951) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on a society in which it is possible to purchase time release housecleaning capsules that require one to clean until they are finished.

JF - Nature VL - 459.7248 U2 -

Illus. Jacey

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "To Hie from Far Cilenia" Y1 - 2009 A1 - Karl Schroeder (b. 1962) ED - John [Michael] Scalzi [II] (b. 1969) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

A story in a collaborative volume describing meta-cities of the future; see also 2009 Buckell, Lake, Scalzi, and Wishnevsky. This story is about a supposedly eutopian city hidden in virtual reality, but there is little detail.

JF - Metatropolis. Original Stories by Jay Lake; Tobias S. Buckell; Elizabeth Bear; John Scalzi, [II]; Karl Schroeder PB - Subterranean Press CY - Burton, MI N1 -

(New York: Tor, 2009), 231-86. Story rpt. in Twenty-First Century Science Fiction. Ed. David G. Hartwell and Patrick Nielsen Hayden (New York: Tor, 2013), 317-52.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Tomas Y1 - 2009 A1 - James [Rudolph] Palumbo (b. 1963) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopian satire. Tomas = There's Only Money and Sex. Much fantasy. The dominant media network is SHIT-TV, and life is a meaningless round of false pleasure. On the French Riviera, women have such large breasts that they have to support them on mobile trolleys. Extreme corruption. Violence. A time machine hidden in a fairground allows visits to the near and far future. The protagonist, Tomas, is something of a Messiah bent on changing this world.

PB - Quartet CY - London U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Transition Y1 - 2009 A1 - Iain [Menzies] Banks (1954-2013) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Dystopia of global terrorism and a secretive authoritarian world power. 

PB - Little Brown CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Turban Tan Y1 - 2009 A1 - Jeff Philips KW - Male author AB -

Corporate dystopia.

PB - CreateSpace CY - [Scotts Valley, CA] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Twenty16Vision. A Novel Y1 - 2009 A1 - [William John] [McCormack] KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which a coup in 2016, the centenary of the Irish Easter Uprising, combines with a German invasion circa 1941. Some humor.

PB - Duras Press in association with Linden Publishing CY - [Dublin, Ireland] U1 -

The dust jacket has the title as 20/16 Vision and that has been used in some references to the book.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Unincorporated Man Y1 - 2009 A1 - Dani Kollin (b. 1964) A1 - Eytan Kollin (b. 1964) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. In the far future every person is a legal corporation and spends most of their life trying to get ownership of all of their shares. A man from the 21st century is revived as the only unincorporated man. The Unicorporated War. New York: Tor, 2010 and The Unincorporated Woman. New York: Tor, 2011 are sequels that are mostly space opera. The fourth and final volume is The Unincorporated Future. New York: Tor, 2012, in which the war ends, and a treaty is signed that is designed to bring peace and freedom.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

Merril.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Unplugging Philco Y1 - 2009 A1 - Jim Knipfel (b. 1965) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian satire set in the near future after an unexplained catastrophe where everyone is expected to spy on their neighbors.

PB - Simon & Schuster CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Until the Solid Earth Dissolves" Y1 - 2009 A1 - Margo Lanagan (b. 1960) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Environmental dystopia.

JF - Overland VL - no. 196 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Utere Nihil Non Extra Quiritationem Suis" Y1 - 2009 A1 - John [Michael] Scalzi [II] (b. 1969) ED - John [Michael] Scalzi [II] (b. 1969) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A story in a collaborative volume describing meta-cities of the future; see also 2009 Buckell, Lake, Schroeder, and Wishnevsky. This story is set in New St. Louis, a walled eutopian community with occupations assigned by aptitude. There is a group outside the walls that has refused to conform.

JF - Metatropolis. Original Stories by Jay Lake; Tobias S. Buckell; Elizabeth Bear; John Scalzi, [II]; Karl Schroeder PB - Subterranean Press CY - Burton, MI N1 -

Rpt. (New York: Tor, 2010), 174-230. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Vulture's Gate Y1 - 2009 A1 - Kirsty Murray (b. 1960) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult dystopia set in a future Australia where children are captured, a girl rescues a boy, and they travel across Australia searching for freedom only to discover a colony that has captured many girls. The novel ends positively but says there is more to come. Intended to be first in a series, but no further volumes have been published. 

PB - Allen & Unwin CY - Crows Nest, NSW, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Walls Have Eyes Y1 - 2009 A1 - Clare B[unkalew] Dunkle (b. 1964) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in sequel to 2008 Dunkle in which the young protagonist, having rescued his parents, discovers that his sister and the other genetically engineered children are in trouble.

PB - Atheneum Books for Young Readers CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The War after Armageddon Y1 - 2009 A1 - Ralph Peters KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. After jihadist nuclear attacks on Europe all Muslims are murdered or expelled. The State of Israel is destroyed. A Holy War between Christianity and Islam follows with all Muslims in the world killed. The U.S. becomes a right-wing Christian dictatorship. Most of the novel is on the war.

PB - Forge Books CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - "White Fungus" Y1 - 2009 A1 - [Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story takes place in a future in which the economy and all political systems have collapsed, and people are left to their own devices. White fungus refers to the suburbs around European cities, and the protagonist is a male architect raising his son and repurposing areas and buildings to provide food, housing, education, and all their and the community’s needs.

JF - Beyond: Scenarios and Speculations VL - no. 1 SN - 9781596064041 UR - https://bruces.medium.com/white-fungus-by-bruce-sterling-2009-b737317c965a N1 -

Rpt. at https://bruces.medium.com/white-fungus-by-bruce-sterling-2009-b737317c965a; in Steampunk III: Steampunk Revolution. Ed. Ann VanderMeer (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon, 2012), 377-87; and in his Gothic High-Tech: Stories (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2011), 63-74.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “White Skies” Y1 - 2009 A1 - Chaz Brenchley (b. 1959) ED - Geoff[rey Charles] Ryman (b. 1951) KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Climate change dystopia.

JF - When It Changed. Science into Fiction: An Anthology PB - Comma Press CY - Manchester, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Winding Down of the World" Y1 - 2009 A1 - Rjurik Davidson ED - Peter Crowther (b. 1949) ED - Nick Gevers KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia reflecting the title.

JF - Edison's Frankenstein PB - PS Publishing CY - Hornsea, Eng. VL - Postscripts 20/21 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Windup Girl Y1 - 2009 A1 - Paolo [Tadini] Bacigalupi (b. 1972) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of genetic engineering. Set in the same future as 2005 and 2006 "Yellow Card Man" Bacigalupi.

PB - Night Shade Books CY - San Francisco, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Witch and the Wizard Y1 - 2009 A1 - James [Brendan] Patterson (b. 1947) A1 - Gabrielle Charbonnet (b. 1961) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia of a modern-day witch hunt. Sequels include Patterson and Ned Rust. Witch & Wizard: The Gift. New York: Little, Brown, 2010 which focuses on the resistance to the dystopia; Patterson and Jill Dembowski. Witch & Wizard: The Fire. Little, Brown, 2011, which focuses on the dystopia; Patterson and Jill Dembowski. Witch & Wizard: The Kiss. New York: Little, Brown, 2013; and Patterson and Emily Raymond. Witch & Wizard: The Lost. New York: Little, Brown, 2014. 

PB - Little Brown CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Without a Shell” Y1 - 2009 A1 - Adam Marek ED - Geoff[rey Charles] Ryman (b. 1951) KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

The story is set in a dystopia in which suicide bombers are attacking schools in a society with deep rich-poor divisions.

JF - When It Changed. Science into Fiction: An Anthology PB - Comma Press CY - Manchester, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Wives" Y1 - 2009 A1 - Paul Haines (1970-2012) ED - Keith Stevenson KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a near future environmentally damaged Australia sharply divided between rich and poor, urban and rural, and, in particular, men and women told from the point of view of a violent, poor, rural man.

JF - X6 A Novellanthology PB - Coeur de Lion CY - [Bentley, VIC, Australia] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - X Isle Y1 - 2009 A1 - Steve [Andre] Augarde (b. 1950) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which children are essentially prisoners on an island where they had expected to find a better life. At the end of the novel, they revolt and kill their captors.

PB - David Fickling Books CY - Oxford, Eng. N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Random House/Fickling, 2010.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Year of the Flood Y1 - 2009 A1 - Margaret [Eleanor] Atwood (b. 1939) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Ecological dystopia with a eutopian enclave set roughly at the same time as 2003 Atwood with some of the same characters. See also 2013 Atwood.

PB - McClelland & Stewart CY - Toronto, ON, Canada N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2009. U.K. ed. London: Bloomsbury, 2009.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “1968: A ShortSpan Snackfood. Valid for Year 7 Student Use. Calories: 231” Y1 - 2008 A1 - Justina [Louise Alice] Robson (b. 1968) ED - Nicholas Royle KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A “eutopia” where one can take pills to learn or have the information slowly entered into a persons brain. All the information is validated as accurate.

JF - ’68: New Stories from Children of the Revolution PB - Salt CY - Cambridge, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - 2020 Vision. A Novel Y1 - 2008 A1 - Roy S[alant] Neuberger (b. 1942) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia brought about by a series of attacks on the US by Islamist terrorists. The novel focuses on the struggle of a couple to travel first from New York to New England and then to Israel, which is presented in eutopian terms.

PB - Feldheim Publishers CY - Jerusalem, Israel U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - 2084: A Tale of Post America Y1 - 2008 A1 - W. Milton Timmons (b. 1933) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a U.S. fragmented as a result of the collapse of the environment and with different churches governing different sections and a few free, secular areas.

PB - AuthorHouse CY - Bloomington, IN U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The 4400: The Vesuvius Prophecy. THE 4400 created by Scott Peters and René Echevarria Y1 - 2008 A1 - Greg Cox (b. 1959) A1 - Dayton Ward (b. 1967) A1 - Dilmore, Kevin A1 - David [Alan] Mack KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Four novels based on a CBS TV series that was aired from 2004 to 2007 that focus on the 4400 who disappear and that reappear with unusual powers. The first two volumes are dystopias about the conflicts that occur as a result. The third volume suggests the possibility of a eutopia when a virus kills thousands in Seattle but gives others new powers. They take over the city, rename it Promise City, and intend to build a new civilization. Those in power attempt to destroy Promise City in this and the fourth volume.

PB - Pocket Star Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Above Empyrean: A Novel of the Final Days of the War Against Islamist Terrorism Y1 - 2008 A1 - Bruce Herschensohn (b. 1932) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

2008 Herschensohn, Bruce (b. 1932). Above Empyrean: A Novel of the Final Days of the War Against Islamist Terrorism. New York: Beaufort Books. DLC

Dystopia of the takeover of the U.S. by Islamists. 

PB - Beaufort Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Accepting the Dream Or Is it the Reality?” Y1 - 2008 A1 - Shaba Barnes KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A short but detailed lesbian eutopia with New Age elements. Homeopathic medicine. No money. No poverty. Consensual decision making by a “Steering Committee” as needed. Males are cared for in families until puberty, when they are all sent to a boarding school; it appears that their main function is providing sperm. No industry or major commercial activity. Creating art is an important part of life. Mostly vegetarian. Houses made of fabric. Oddly, there is also high tech with flying cars.

JF - Sinister Wisdom VL - no. 72 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Adjudicator--for Peter Straub" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Brian [Keith] Evenson (b. 1966) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia after a catastrophe (disease/pandemic) with few survivors, who turn against each other.

JF - Fugue State: Stories PB - Coffee House Press CY - Minneapolis, MN N1 -

Rpt. without the subtitle in Apocalypse Now: Poems and Prose from the End of Days. Ed. Andrew McFadyen and Alexander Lumans (Nashville, TN: Upper Rubber Boot, 2012), 12-24. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Adventures of the Cool Seven: A Utopian Novel Y1 - 2008 A1 - Roslynn Webb Cady KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

New Age eutopia. See also 1998 Cady. A related work is her The Final Quantum: A New Thought Novel. North Charleston, SC: Create Space Independent Publishing Platform in conjunction with RosTer Publications Cañon City, CO., 2016. 

PB - AuthorHouse CY - Bloomington IN N1 -

Rev. as Somewhere: A Fantastical Spiritual Adventure. North Charleston, SC: Create Space Independent Publishing Platform, 2014.

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Rev. as Somewhere: A Fantastical Spiritual Adventure.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Age of the Conglomerates: A Novel of the Future Y1 - 2008 A1 - Thomas Nevins KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which a political party created by the very top financial elite takes over the U.S. economic and political system. The old, known as Coots, are shipped off to “retirement” communities, people were allowed to discard a child, known as Dyscards who live in subway tunnels, and genetic engineering aims at producing the “perfect” child. The novel focuses on one family where the parents who are Coots, an adult daughter who is a Dyscard, and an adult daughter who is a leading genetic engineer and depicts both the complex dystopia and the struggle against it. It ends with the Coots, who have been expelled from the communities they were sent to organizing themselves into a functioning community, and the Dyscards effectively defeating the Conglomerate in the New York City area.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York SN - 978-0-375-50391-7 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Alone With an Inconvenient Companion" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Jack [Anthony] Skillingstead (b. 1955) ED - Lou Anders KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. The story is about the way in which humans are replacing their biological parts with mechanical ones, and it is set in a society that is constantly monitoring and correcting everyone.

JF - Fast Forward PB - Pyr CY - Amherst, NY VL - 2 ER - TY - ABST T1 - American Rules Y1 - 2008 A1 - Stephen Gray (b. 1957) KW - Male author AB -

The novel is set in a future where England, Scotland, and Wales are affiliated with the United States and what was Northern Ireland is now known as The Counties and is locally ruled “in voluntary association with the United States and Ireland.” There is “Mandatory Information” on the use of certain words on vii that includes the words quoted and a “Limited Dictionary” on 278-79.

PB - Book Guild CY - Brighton, Eng. SN - 9781846242083 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Anathem Y1 - 2008 A1 - Neal [Town] Stephenson (b. 1959) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel is set in a world where there is an enclosed eutopian organization for mathematicians who rarely have contact with the outer world and is concerned with a situation in which such contact is essential.

PB - William Morrow CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Army of the Republic Y1 - 2008 A1 - Stuart Archer Cohen (b. 1958) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of powerful corporations and a corrupt government in which one man tries to control all water in the Pacific Northwest and is opposed by the Army of the Republic, a group trying to fight the system.

PB - St. Martin's Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Arrowhead Y1 - 2008 A1 - Paul Kane (b. 1973) KW - Male author AB -

 A volume in The Afterblight Chronicles series. In this volume, England is seeing struggles amongst warlords for domination of particular areas. A direct sequel is his Arrowland. Oxford, Eng.: Abaddon Books, 2010. For other volumes, see 2006 Spurrier, 2007 Andrews, 2007 Levene, 2008 Bark, 2009 Andrews, 2009 Ewing, 2009 Kane, 2010 Andrews, and 2010 Kane.

PB - Abaddon Books CY - Oxford, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Arties Aren't Stupid" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Tolbert, Jeremiah ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of artists in a society where independent art is punished.

JF - Seeds of Change PB - Prime Books CY - Holicong, PA] SN - 9780809573103 N1 -

Rpt. in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 401-10; 2nd ed. as Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 401-10. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Attached to the Land" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Donald J. Bingle (b. 1954) ED - John Helfers ED - Martin H[arry] Greenberg (1941-2011) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Libertarian eutopia. The mountain states of the U.S. plus Alaska and western Canada secede and form a new country, the Western Range and Mountains--known as the Range. The central institution, designed in part to keep population growth under control, is that every person must have a certain minimum amount of land, initially provided by parceling out public lands. Those who fall below the minimum are forced to leave. Since the rest of North America is a poverty-stricken, violent dystopia, this rule is effective.

JF - Future Americas PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Baby Store" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Gorman, Ed ED - John Helfers ED - Martin H[arry] Greenberg (1941-2011) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia brought about by the ability to create designer babies, who must be perfect.

JF - Future Americas PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Bad Faith Y1 - 2008 A1 - Philip, Gillian KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Religious dystopia from the point of view of a teenage girl.

PB - Strident Publishing CY - East Kilbridge, Scot. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Bass Fishing With the Enemy" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Daniel Hatch ED - Noreen Doyle KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in the U.S. brought about by Homeland Security, which has set up detention camps and completely controls information, even prohibiting watching television from Canada.

JF - Otherworldly Maine PB - Down East CY - Camden, ME U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Birmingham, 35 Miles Y1 - 2008 A1 - James Braziel (b. 1967) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The dystopia produced by global warming. See also 2009 Braziel.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Black Glass Y1 - 2008 A1 - John [Patrick] Shirley (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Cyberpunk dystopia constructed as a mystery novel.

PB - Elder Signs Press CY - Lake Orion, MI U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Blind Savior, False Prophet Y1 - 2008 A1 - Joseph DeMarco KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia written partially in honor of Philip K. Dick (1928-82) and depicting his paranoia through a future prophet who thought he was Dick reincarnated.

PB - AuthorHouse CY - Bloomington, IN U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Blonde Roots Y1 - 2008 A1 - Bernardine [Anne Mobolaji] Evaristo (b. 1959) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The novel is set in an alternative history in which “whyte Europanes” are captured and enslaved by “blak Aphrikans,” with two of the three sections in the voice of Doris Scagglethorpe (given the slave name Omorenomwara) with the middle section in the voice of Chief Kaga Konata Katamba I, who brands his slaves with his initials, KKK. 

PB - Hamish Hamilton CY - London SN - 9780241143858 978-1-59448-863-4 N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Riverhead Books, 2009. 269 pp. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Book, Theatre, and Wheel" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Karl Schroeder (b. 1962) ED - George Mann KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Religious dystopia..

JF - The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction PB - Solaris CY - Nottingham, Eng. VL - Two ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Brown Revolution: No longer number two" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire. The global warming and oil crises are solved by using the manure produced by all life to replace oil.

JF - Nature VL - 455.7212 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Butt: An Exit Strategy Y1 - 2008 A1 - Will[iam Woodward] Self (b. 1961) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopian satire using an imaginary country to skewer the modern world.

PB - Bloomsbury CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - Caliphate Y1 - 2008 A1 - Tom [Thomas P.] Kratman (b. 1956) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A future Islamic dystopia in Europe contrasted with the eutopia of a free-enterprise America. Includes an anti-Europe and anti-Islam “Afterword” (371-82), called an “Authorial editorial,” that has the subtitle “A World Without Europe (except as a geographic expression” and is something of a rant against liberals and Muslims, who will become the majority in Europe and suppress non-Muslims. The author retired from the U.S. Army in 2006.

PB - Baen CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Carbon Diaries. 2015 Y1 - 2008 A1 - Saci Lloyd (b. 1967) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Welsh author AB -

Dystopia of global warming and the attempt in Britain, and only Britain, to reduce the burning of carbon. See also 2009 Lloyd.

PB - Hodder Children's Books CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Holiday House, 2009.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Champagne award: Planning for the Future" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Gregory [Albert] Benford (b. 1941) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of government control of permits to have children.

JF - Nature VL - 451.7180 N1 -

Rpt. in The Best of Gregory Benford. Ed. David G. Hartwell (Burton, MI: Subterranean, 2015), 505-07.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Chinese Opera Y1 - 2008 A1 - Ian Wedde (b. 1946) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia showing the effects of global warming on Wellington, New Zealand, including the flooding of much of the central city, the massive displacement of people from other countries, extreme poverty, and the rise of gangs and violence to control the new situation. The story is told from the point of view of an elderly man who had once controlled the area.

PB - Victoria University Press CY - Wellington, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Circles of Women” Y1 - 2008 A1 - Jeane Orjas KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A poem describing a lesbian eutopia in fairly general terms but stressing the support the women give each other. 

JF - Sinister Wisdom VL - no. 72 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The City of Blind Delight" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Catherynne M[organ] Valente (b. 1979) ED - Mike Allen KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Fantasy, but the city in which the story is set is a cockaigne with streets made of food and so forth.

JF - Clockwork Phoenix: Tales of Beauty and Strangeness PB - Norilana Books CY - Winnetka, CA N1 -

Rpt. in Other Worlds Than These: Stories of Parallel Worlds. Ed John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 487-76.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Clementa Y1 - 2008 A1 - Jim Martin (b. 1937) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A future Italy has broken up into small city states. The focus of the novel is on one of these states that is a dystopia in which there is an underclass that revolts. Another of these states, Cosmopolis, is briefly presented positively.

PB - Lupine Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Collateral Damage” Y1 - 2008 A1 - Jaine Fenn ED - Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia of a society with deep divisions between rich and poor with the poor hired and given perks to kill anyone the leader considers to pose a problem.

JF - Subterfuge PB - NewCon Press CY - [Weston], Eng. N1 -

Rpt. in Digital Dreams: A Decade of Science Fiction by Women. Ed. Ian Whates ([Weston, Eng.]: NewCon Press, 2016). EBook 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Commentary: America's Chilling Future" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Glenn [Edward Lee] Beck (b. 1964) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Brief description of the dystopia that exists in 2076 because people became too partisan and trusted politicians too much. From a conservative, anti-socialist perspective.

JF - CNNPolitics.com UR - http://www.nn.com/208/POLITICS/10/01/beck/future/index/html ER - TY - ABST T1 - Cry Wolf: A Political Fable Y1 - 2008 A1 - Paul Lake KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia on the model of Orwell's 1945 Animal Farm, where an attempt to create a eutopia that extends to animals beyond the farm fails.

PB - BenBella Books CY - Dallas, TX U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dance Dance Revolution Y1 - 2008 A1 - Les Freres Corbusier Dance Company AB -

Dystopia where dance is outlawed. Musical based on Japanese music of the title. See the film and play “Footloose” for a treatment of the same subject but limited to a school. See the note in The New York Times (December 24, 2017): Arts & Leisure, 4.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dawn Over Doomsday Y1 - 2008 A1 - Jaspre Bark (b. 1969) KW - Male author AB -

A volume in The Afterblight Chronicles series. Dystopia of cults in conflict with Native Americans trying to reclaim the U.S. For other volumes, see 2006 Spurrier, 2007 Andrews, 2007 Levene, 2008 Kane, 2009 Ewing, 2009 Andrews, 2009 Kane, 2010 Andrews, and 2010 Kane.

PB - Abaddon Books CY - Oxford, Eng. U1 -

Afterblight Chronicles at the head of the title.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Day Out" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Christopher [David Tully] Hope (b. 1944) KW - Male author KW - South African author KW - Ukrainian author AB -

Dystopia. The story is particularly concerned with genetic engineering. While the people are healthy and have long lives, they live in a world where food animals have been engineered for less fat and more flavor, the trees are dying, being out in the sun is dangerous, and whole areas have been depopulated by viral infections. Those remaining in such areas could not leave and depended on food drops from China. No medical care for any condition that could conceivably be the fault of the person. All the poets had been shot.

JF - The Garden of Bad Dreams PB - Atlantic Books CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Deadly Verdict Y1 - 2008 A1 - Andrew Neiderman (b. 1940) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Mystery novel set in a future where the jury system has been replaced by professional jurors trained to make decisions objectively. The jurors and their families are being murdered.

PB - Severn House CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dee Dee Does Utopia Y1 - 2008 A1 - Deborah Faye Lawrence (b. 1952) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Art book with each page given to a different satirical depiction of a utopia plus two separate pages of comments by others. 

PB - Marquand Books CY - Seattle, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Diamond of Darkhold Y1 - 2008 A1 - Jeanne DuPrau (b. 1944) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Fourth book in the Ember series. See also 2003 and 2004 DuPrau. The Prophet of Yonwood. New York: Random House, 2006 is a prequel to the series. In this volume, the protagonists revisit Ember.

PB - Random House CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Digital Destiny. A Novel Y1 - 2008 A1 - Jeromie Carr (b. 1980) A1 - James Dunn KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of violent conflict between those favoring and opposing technology in a high-tech future.

PB - iUniverse CY - Lincoln, NB U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Digital Plague Y1 - 2008 A1 - Jeff Somers (b. 1971) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a nanotech plague. Sequel to 2007 Somers.

PB - Orbit CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Orbit, 2008.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dreamer Y1 - 2008 A1 - Paul L. Bates KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia and the resistance movement. Companion to 2005 Bates and is set in roughly the same timeframe. Considerable fantasy.

PB - Five Star CY - Detroit, MI U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dreams of a Lesbian Feminist Utopia” Y1 - 2008 A1 - Tanager [pseud.] KW - Female author AB -

A brief lesbian eutopia that stresses what the eutopia no longer has with the end of phallocracy. 

JF - Sinister Wisdom VL - no. 72 U3 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ecumensus: The Next Vision. A Novel Y1 - 2008 A1 - Clifford Lane Mark KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Spiritual novel developing visions for the period 2010-2019, a period which is expected to include the end of the current Age. Ecumensus means “Hold to and act on a vision of unity for the world.”

PB - iUniverse CY - Lincoln, NB U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Egg Man Y1 - 2008 A1 - Carlton Mellick III (b. 1977) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Urban, industrial dystopia in the sub-genre known as Bizarro. People reproduce like insects and the corporations own all children.

PB - Avant Punk CY - Portland, OR U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Enduring Childhood" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Marion Bernard KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia in which children are kept young.

JF - Neo-Opsis Science Fiction Magazine VL - no. 14 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Escape Y1 - 2008 A1 - Manjula Padmanabhan (b. 1953) KW - Female author KW - Indian author AB -

Feminist dystopia of a world with no females and the difficulties of the one girl born. See 2015 Padmanabhan for a sequel. 

PB - Picador CY - New Delhi, India U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Escape from Hell! Y1 - 2008 A1 - Hal Duncan (b. 1971) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Dystopia. Four damned souls decide to escape from Hell, which is a version of New York City. They defeat both devils and angels and escape, leading all of the rest of the damned out.

PB - MonkeyBrain Books CY - Austin, TX U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Evidence of Love In a Case of Abandonment: One Daughter's Account" Y1 - 2008 A1 - M[ary Beth] Rickert (b. 1959) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which all women who ever had an abortion are being systematically publicly executed.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 115.4& 5 (677) N1 -

Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 3. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2009), 409-16; in her Holiday (Urbana, IL: Golden Gryphon Press, 2010), 65-74; and in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 39-46; 2nd ed. as Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 39-46.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Eyes of God" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Peter [Francis] Watts (b. 1958) ED - George Mann KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Technology that reads the brain can detect possible deviance and at least temporarily correct it. The story focuses of a potential pedophile who sees the technology negatively, but it could also be read positively.

JF - The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction Volume Two PB - Solaris CY - Nottingham, Eng. N1 -

Rpt. in his Beyond the Rift (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon, 2013), 107-16.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Fifth Star in the Southern Cross" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Margo Lanagan (b. 1960) ED - Jack [Mayo] Dann (b. 1945) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia created by genetic damage and global warming. Strict control on those few who can have genetically clean children, with females who can produce such children kept as breeders. Different women are mothers. Men have almost no sexual outlets.

JF - Dreaming Again PB - HarperCollins Australia CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Fifty-First State Y1 - 2008 A1 - Hilary [Denham] Bailey (1936-2017) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia. Near future poor Britain controlled by the U.S.

PB - Severn House CY - Sutton, Surrey, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Filling the Isles" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Tim Jones (b. 1959) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Very brief dystopia of extreme overpopulation with standing room only.

JF - Transported: Short Stories PB - Random House New Zealand CY - Auckland, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Forever Mommy" Y1 - 2008 A1 - David Grace AB -

Flawed utopia in which everyone wears an "Advisor" from about seven on that instructs them in correct behavior but which most people find very irritating.

JF - Analog Science Fiction and Fact VL - 128.9 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Full Moon in the Park” Y1 - 2008 A1 - Sonia [Ann] Johnson (b. 1936) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Brief eutopia in which femaleness unites all creatures. 

JF - Sinister Wisdom VL - no. 72 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Gambler" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Paolo [Tadini] Bacigalupi (b. 1972) ED - Lou Anders KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of instant communication with over-reliance on the internet. A sub-theme is environmental collapse.

JF - Fast Forward PB - Pyr CY - Amherst, NY VL - 2 N1 -

Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twentieth-Sixth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2009), 32-49 with an editor’s introduction on 32; and in Twenty-First Century Science Fiction. Ed. David G. Hartwell and Patrick Nielsen Hayden (New York: Tor, 2013), 51-72. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Gasoline Y1 - 2008 A1 - [Darcy Megan] [Stanger] (b. 1971) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Post-apocalyptic graphic novel in which one family searches for gasoline and must confront violent nihilists. The family develops a new, better life that is more in touch with nature. 

PB - Merrell CY - London U2 -

Illus. by the author

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Gather" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Christopher Rowe (b. 1969) ED - Ellen Datlow KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Religious dystopia in which God lives on one side of a river and the people live on the other. Only clergy are allowed to go to God’s side of the river where the only fertile soil is found. It is unclear just who or what God is, but when the protagonist, Gather, and a friend find an image of God, the decide to return it to God’s side.

JF - The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy: Sixteen Original Works by Speculative Fiction's Finest Voices PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in his Telling the Map: Stories Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2017), 83-95.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Geriatric Ward" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Orson Scott Card (b. 1951) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a short intense life.

JF - Keeper of Dreams PB - Tor CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 385-99; 2nd ed. as Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 385-99. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Ghost Jail" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Kaaron Warren (b. 1965) ED - Alisa Krasnostein ED - Ben Payne KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Largely a horror story, but it is set in an authoritarian dystopia aiming to control all speech.

JF - 2012 PB - Twelfth Planet Press CY - Yokine, WA, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Glister Y1 - 2008 A1 - John Burnside (b. 1955) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Ecological and authoritarian dystopia.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse Y1 - 2008 A1 - Victor Gischler (b. 1969) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia in which the only "civilization" left in the U.S. appears to be a chain of strip clubs.

PB - Simon & Schuster/Touchstone CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Gone Y1 - 2008 A1 - Michael Grant KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The first volume in a long. young adult dystopian series in which everyone over fifteen disappears. Sequels are Hunger. A Gone Novel. New York: Harper Teen, 2009; Lies: A Gone Novel. New York: HarperCollins/Katherine Tegan Books, 2010; Plague. A Gone Novel. New York: HarperCollins/Katherine Tegen Books, 2011; Fear. A Gone Novel. New York: HarperCollins/Katherine Tegen Books, 2012; Light: A Gone Novel. New York: HarperCollins/Katherine Tegen Books, 2013. An additional trilogy set a few years later includes Monster. New York: HarperCollins/Katherine Tegen Books, 2017; Villain. HarperCollins/Katherine Tegen Books, 2018; and Hero. HarperCollins/Katherine Tegen Books, 2019.

PB - Harper Teen CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Gone-Away World Y1 - 2008 A1 - [Nicholas] [Cornwall] (b. 1972) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a postwar world divided between a livable zone and the rest.

PB - William Heinemann CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Alfred K. Knopf, 2008.

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Nick Harkaway [pseud.].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Gool Y1 - 2008 A1 - Maurice [Gough] Gee (b. 1931) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Sequel to 2007 Gee. Young adult fantasy adventure set in a post-catastrophe dystopia where young people must defeat a being from outside nature that is destroying what is left of New Zealand. See also 2010 Gee.

PB - Puffin Books CY - Rosedale, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Greenland" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Chris Beckett (b. 1955) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Global warming dystopia.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 218 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Grid Y1 - 2008 A1 - Jeremy Reed (b. 1951) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which London has merged with Tokyo under a Commissar. Background to a novel about the Elizabethans and the murder of Christopher Marlowe (1564-93).

PB - Peter Owen CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Half a Crown Y1 - 2008 A1 - Jo Walton (b. 1964) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - Welsh author AB -

Sequel to 2006 and 2007 Walton. In this volume, the conspiracy to free England begins to succeed. A story set in the same future is her “Escape to Other Worlds With Science Fiction.” Tor.com Posted February 6, 2009. https://www.tor.com/2009/02/06/escape-to-other-worlds-with-science-fiction/ Rpt. in Twenty-First Century Science Fiction. Ed. David G. Hartwell and Patrick Nielsen Hayden (New York: Tor, 2013), 523-30; and in her Starlings (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon, 2018), 102-13, which depicts alternative future dystopia in which, among other things, the depression continues, the New Deal had failed, Jews are being hunted in the U.S., and an atomic bomb has been dropped on Miami. 

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Half Healed Y1 - 2008 A1 - Michael Symmons Roberts (b. 1969) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A sequence of poems, many previously published or broadcast, depicting the dystopia of contemporary violence. “Last Words” which appears twelve different poems throughout the text, are abbreviated telephone calls on 9/11 and were commission by BBC Radio 4 to mark the anniversary of the attacks.

PB - Cape Poetry CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Horse Racing" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Mary Rosenblum (1952-2018) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story describes a future in which people purchase the opportunity to direct the lives of potentially talented or talented people without their knowledge. While it appears clearly dystopian most of the people get better lives than they would have otherwise.

JF - Asimov's Science Fiction VL - 32.9 (392) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The House Left Empty" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Robert [David] Reed (b. 1956) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe eutopia of decentralized areas, called Self-Governing Districts.

JF - Asimov's Science Fiction VL - 32.4 & 5 (387 & 388) N1 -

Rpt. in Year's Best SF 14. Ed. David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer (New York: Eos, 2009), 274-93 with an editors' note on 273.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "How Community Values Conquered Climate Change. A Future History" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Malcolm Hollick KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Written as if from 2050 when, after some major problems caused by climate change, there was a shift in values that allowed the world to deal with the issue and begin the process of building a good society.

JF - COMMUNITIES: Life in Cooperative Culture VL - No. 138 U2 -

Illus. Anne-Marie Stillion. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Hunger Games Y1 - 2008 A1 - Suzanne Collins (b. 1962) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

First volume in a young adult dystopian series set in a future North American dictatorship where people are kept on the edge of starvation. The Hunger Games are an annual contest in which each community must send a boy and a girl to fight in an arena until only one survives. In the second volume, Catching Fire. New York: Scholastic Press, 2009, having won the games by breaking the rules, the protagonists become the focus of resentment. In the third volume, Mockingjay. New York: Scholastic Press, 2010, a rebellion unfolds. A prequel is The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. New York: Scholastic Press, 2020. The first in a film series was released in 2012, directed by Gary Ross (b. 1956) from a screenplay by Collins, Ross, and Billy Ray. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire was released in 2013, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 in 2014, and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 in 2015. All three were directed by Francis Lawrence (b. 1971). The screenplay for Catching Fire was written by Simon Beaufoy (b. 1967) and Michael Arndt and screenplays for the two Mockingjay films by [Daniel W.] Danny Strong (b. 1974) and Peter Craig (1969). A film, also directed by Lawrence, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes with a screenplay by Michael Lesslie and Michael Arndt was released November 5, 2923 in Berlin and November 17, 2023 in the United States. For a parody, see [Aaron Geary and John Bailey Owen], The Hunger but Mainly Death Games. A Parody. By Bratniss Everclean [pseud.] London: Gollancz, 2012.

PB - Scholastic Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Hydraulic" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Ekaterina Sedia (b. 1970) ED - Nick Mamatas (b. 1972) ED - Jay [Joseph Edward] Lake [Jr.] (1964-2014) KW - Female author KW - Russian author KW - US author AB -

Environmental dystopia. Power is produced from rain, and it rains constantly. Almost everything has been privatized, and even recharging batteries is illegal.

JF - Spicy Slipstream Stories PB - Lethe Press CY - Maple Shade, NJ N1 -

Rpt. in Dark Futures [Subtitle on the cover Tales of SF Dystopia]. Ed. Jason Sizemore (Howell, NJ: Dark Quest Books, 2010), 226-37. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Imagining America in 2033: How the Country Put Itself Together after Bush Y1 - 2008 A1 - Herbert J. Gans (b. 1927) KW - German author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Designed to be a "realistic utopia" written from the perspective of a liberal. Imagines four presidential administrations and their policies. Depicts a fairer more egalitarian America.

PB - University of Michigan Press CY - Ann Arbor U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "In From the Snow" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Len Battersby (b. 1970 ED - Jack [Mayo] Dann (b. 1945) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia based on the stories of Sawney Bean, the legendary fifteenth-sixteenth century Scottish cannibal.

JF - Dreaming Again PB - HarperCollins Australia CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “In Unison” Y1 - 2008 A1 - Nicole M. KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Lesbian eutopia with an emphasis on community. Acceptance of difference. A lesbian language has developed, but it is not described. Satisfying work in good conditions. Many work cooperatives. Lots of festivals. Men are castrated. 

JF - Sinister Wisdom VL - no. 72 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Irreconcilable Differences Y1 - 2008 A1 - James R. Strickland KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Corporate dystopia in a disintegrated U.S. The corporations are active both on the ground and in cyberspace to keep their power.

PB - Flying Pen CY - Denver, CO U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Jemma 7729 Y1 - 2008 A1 - Pheobe Wray KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia in which most of the population live in domed cities and believe that the outside is uninhabitable. Each person must publicly choose their future life. Lone rebel. A sequel is J2. Howell, NJ: DTF Publications, 2012. 

PB - Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy CY - Calgary, AB, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Jesus Runs" Y1 - 2008 A1 - George Zebrowski (b. 1945) ED - John Helfers ED - Martin H[arry] Greenberg (1941-2011) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Religious dystopia in which a clone of Jesus plans to run for President of the United States, which had fragmented as power had shifted to the states. The Supreme Court had become irrelevant as a result of partisan decisions, but since there were a dozen clones, it got involved.

JF - Future Americas PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Jigsaw Chronicles Y1 - 2008 A1 - Kevin Ireland KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. A man finds himself in an alternative world where the idea of a "permanent revolution" of Leon Trotsky (1879-1940) has succeeded and produced a repressive society.

PB - Cape Catley Ltd CY - Auckland, New Zealand U1 -

Cover adds Haunting Science Fiction.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Juno of Taris Y1 - 2008 A1 - Fleur Beale (b. 1945) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult dystopia. Taris is an experiment in survival in which an island has been domed and provided with flora and fauna and 500 people when much of the world is destroyed in conflicts. Over time it has developed an authoritarian and conformist ethos. The novel is about a girl who does not fit and who is interested in what has happened Outside. Much of the novel is concerned with growing internal struggles and ends with contact with the Outside being reestablished. See also 2010 and 2011 Beale.

PB - Random House New Zealand CY - Auckland, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Kemistry" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Terry Grimwood KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

In the story a woman and her husband return to the UK and discover that while they were gone, divorce was made illegal and applied retroactively. The woman, thus, is still married to her abusive husband, and her children by her second husband are considered illegitimate and will be put into care.

JF - The Future Fire: Social Political & Speculative Cyber-Fiction VL - no. 12 UR - The Future Fire: 2008.12 fiction kemistry U2 -

Illus. Cécile Matthey

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Kilimanjaro: A Fable of Utopia Y1 - 2008 A1 - Mike [Michael Diamond] Resnick (1942-2020) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

In 2122 the Eutopian worlds were terraformed in orbit around the Earth and seventy-three groups were allowed to create their utopia. The Prologue (7-9) refers to the failures of a few and mentions that some flourished and others failed for a variety of reasons. Here the focus is on the evolution of a Maasai utopia  that they call Kilimanjaro showing a series of decisions that had to be made to reconcile Maasai traditions to current conditions. A companion to 1998 Resnick, Kirinyaga: A Fable of Utopia, and the Maasai had studied the mistakes made by the Kikuyu as described in that volume. At the time of this work, Kirinyaga still functions but no longer with a utopian vision.

PB - Subterranean Press CY - Burton, MI SN - 978-1-59606-199-6 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Killing Fields" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Lakin-Smith, Kim ED - Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959) KW - Female author KW - UK author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia of violence.

JF - Celebration: An anthology of original short stories commemorating the 50th anniversary of the British Science Fiction Association PB - NewCon Press CY - [Weston], Eng. N1 -

Rpt. in Digital Dreams: A Decade of Science Fiction by Women. Ed. Ian Whates ([Weston], Eng.: NewCon Press, 2016). EBook

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Knife of Never Letting Go. Chaos Walking: Book One Y1 - 2008 A1 - Patrick Ness (b. 1971) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

First volume of a dystopian series. People had settled on a new planet and lost a war with the indigenous inhabitants, who had released a germ that made the thoughts of all humans and animals constantly audible. Quiet is discovered, but at the end of this volume, the world is taken over by the authoritarian leaders of the remaining humans. The Ask and the Answer. Chaos Walking: Book Two. London: Walker Books, 2009, the second volume, stresses the struggle against the authoritarian leaders who gained power at the end of the previous volume. In the third volume, Monsters of Men. Chaos Walking: Book Three. London: Walker Books, 2010. U.S. ed. Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press, [2011], the two protagonists are forced to choose sides.  

PB - Walker Books CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Candlewick Press, 2009.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Last Actor" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Mike [Michael Diamond] Resnick (1942-2020) A1 - Linda L. Donahue ED - John Helfers ED - Martin H[arry] Greenberg (1941-2011) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia brought about by poor quality education and the growth of mass culture.

JF - Future Americas PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Leaving Fortusa: A Novel in Ten Episodes Y1 - 2008 A1 - [Paul le Page] [Barnett] (1949-2020) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Dystopia in ten loosely related chapters. The epigrams to each chapter suggest a connection to the presidency of George W. Bush (2001-09), but much of the action is set in a variety of futures of growing violence and authoritarian governance. There is some suggestion that in the future of the future a better society will be reestablished.

PB - Norilana Books CY - Winnetka, CA N1 -

Parts originally published as "The Hard Stuff." Nova Scotia: New Scottish Speculative Fiction. Ed. Neil Williamson and Andrew J. Wilson (Edinburgh, Scot.: Crescent Press, 2005), 229-70; "Q." Sci-Fiction (2004) [No longer available online]; "The Unforbidden Playground." Postscripts, no. 9 (Winter 2006): 54-87; and "The Most Marvelous Story in the Whole Wide World." Whispers of Wickedness [No longer available online].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Let Their People Go: The Left Left Behind" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Terry [Ballantine] Bisson (1942-2024) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on the Left Behind series (see 1995 LaHaye and Jenkins) in which the capitalists, conservatives, and religious bigots  are removed, which allows the remaining people to begin to create a cooperative, world-wide eutopia.

JF - Postscripts VL - no. 15 N1 -

Rpt. as “The Left Left Behind: ‘Let Their People Go!’” In his The Left Left Behind: ‘Let Their People Go!’ plus Special Relativity and ‘Fried Green Tomatoes’ Outspoken Interview (Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2009), 11-48. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Letter From Utopia” Y1 - 2008 A1 - Nick Bostrom (b. 1973) KW - Male author KW - Swedish author KW - UK author AB -

A letter from a posthuman future. Very general and mostly on the problems of the present.

JF - Studies in Ethics, Law and Technology [An online journal] VL - 2.1 UR - http://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/letters-from-utopia.pdf. Accessed December 4, 2015. ER - TY - ABST T1 - Liberation: Being the Adventures of the Slick Six After the Collapse of the United States of America Y1 - 2008 A1 - Brian Francis Slattery (b. 1975) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Humorous dystopia of the economic collapse of the U.S.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Life Without Crows” Y1 - 2008 A1 - Gerri Leen KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe (disease/pandemic) dystopia as seen through the eyes of one of a group of survivors who have lived an isolated life in the mountains for hundreds of years and perceive it as a good life. 

JF - Life Without Crows and Other Stories PB - Hadley Rille Books CY - Overland Park, KS N1 -

Originally published in Fusion Fragment. Ed. Cavan Terrill (2008), an on line journal that is no longer available.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Little Brother Y1 - 2008 A1 - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Young adult dystopia of U.S. Home Security targeting San Francisco because the administration sees it as too liberal. Home Security is fought by a group of teenage hackers with some success and ends with the administration freeing those responsible and the hackers continuing their opposition. The title refers to “Big Brother” in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. First volume in a loosely connected series; see also his Homeland (2013) and Attack Surface (2020). A related novella is his “Lawful Interception.” Illus. Yuko Shimizu. Tor.com. http://www.tor.com/stories/2013/08/lawful-interception. 

PB - Tor Teen CY - New York SN - 9780765319852 978-1-250-77458-3 N1 -

Rpt. in Little Brother & Homeland (New York: Tor/Tom Doherty Associates, 2020), 11-317, with an “Introduction” by Edward Snowden (7-9).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Looking for Mr Piggy-Wig Y1 - 2008 A1 - Andy [Andrew] Secombe (b. 1953) KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

Dystopia as background to a detective story. After the Second Battle of Britain, Britain is poor and has rationing, and the world is experiencing the effects of severe global warming.

PB - Macmillan CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Lost Arts" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Stephen Dedman (b. 1959) ED - Jack [Mayo] Dann (b. 1945) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Technological eutopia on a planet colony of Earth that is benevolently controlled by Artificial Intelligences. The focus of the story is how to deal with aberrant behavior in a eutopia.

JF - Dreaming Again PB - HarperCollins Australia CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lost Colours of the Chameleon Y1 - 2008 A1 - Mandla Langa (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

The novel is set in the fictitious country, Bangula, which was supposed to become a eutopia but is faced with all the usual problems of an ex-colony. Satire on the politics of developing nations set on an island after the founder, who had a vision of transforming the lives of the inhabitants, dies.

PB - Picador Africa CY - Johannesburg, South Africa SN - 978-1-77010-0848 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Lost Continent" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Greg[ory Mark] Egan (b. 1961) ED - Jonathan Strahan (b. 1964) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of the then current situation in Iraq and the refugee crisis it caused projected into the future.

JF - The Starry Rift: Tales of New Tomorrows. An Original Science Fiction Anthology PB - Viking CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in his Crystal Nights and Other Stories Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2009), 11-37.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Love in the Time of Fridges Y1 - 2008 A1 - Tim Scott (b. 1962) KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Dystopia of a future Seattle, Washington, a walled city, that has become obsessed with health and safety. Considerable humor. There are refrigerators hoping to escape to Mexico where electric goods have rights, and they help the protagonist to bring freedom to Seattle. See also 2007 Scott.

PB - Bantam Spectra CY - New York U1 -

The cover adds A Sci-Fi Thriller (of Sorts)

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Man in the Dark Y1 - 2008 A1 - Paul Auster (b. 1947) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. A story told by the central character is set in a parallel America in which the 2000 Presidential election led to secession and civil war.

PB - Holt CY - New York N1 -

UK ed. London: Faber and Faber, 2008.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Man of the Strong Arm" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Adam [Charles] Roberts (b. 1965) ED - Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia with elements of satire on SF. The dystopia is a male chauvinist society that honors the strongest man and keeps most men in ignorance. Women are essentially slaves, but there is a strong women's underground.

JF - Celebration: An anthology of original short stories commemorating the 50th anniversary of the British Science Fiction Association PB - NewCon Press CY - [Weston], Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Manumission" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Tobias S[amuel] Buckell (b. 1979) KW - British Virgin Islands author KW - Grenadian author KW - Male author KW - US author KW - US Virgin Islands author AB -

Dystopia of a future where individuals are enslaved by corporations.

JF - Lightspeed VL - no. 2 UR - http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/manumission N1 -

Originally published online in Jim Baen's Universe 2.6 (12) (April 2008) but no longer available online. Rpt. in Lightspeed: Year One. Ed. John Joseph Adams ([New York]: Prime Books, 2011), 70-85. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Marseguro Y1 - 2008 A1 - Edward Willett (b. 1959) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

First volume of a duology of a eutopia and dystopia in conflict. The dystopia is a theocratic Earth. The eutopia is the planet Marseguro, where unmodified humans and the water dwelling Selkies live in peaceful harmony. The second volume is Terra Insegura. New York: DAW Books, 2009 Marseguro becomes essential to Earth’s survival. Marseguro won the 2015 Aurora Award for Best Novel. They were published together in The Helix War New York: DAW Books, 2012.

PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Martin Martin's on the Other Side Y1 - 2008 A1 - Mark Wernham KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Most people are employed by the state and spend their lives paying off their student loans. Pornography and recreational drugs are freely available.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Matter Y1 - 2008 A1 - Iain M[enzies] Banks (1954-2013) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Large novel set in Banks's Culture that includes a small amount of explicitly eutopian description of the Culture. See 1987 and 1988 Banks.

PB - Orbit CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Mauvety” Y1 - 2008 A1 - Ida VSA Red (b. 1933) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Lesbian eutopia where the elderly meet the young, who will take on their burdens. 

JF - Sinister Wisdom VL - no. 72 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Mitigation" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Karl Schroeder (b. 1962) A1 - Tobias S[amuel] Buckell (b. 1979) ED - Lou Anders KW - Canadian author KW - Grenadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Environmental dystopia designed to keep people ignorant.

JF - Fast Forward 2 PB - Pyr CY - Amherst, NY N1 -

Rpt. in Loosed Upon the World: The Saga Anthology of Climate Fiction. Ed. John Joseph Adams (New York: Saga Press, 2015), 527-55. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mother Puncher Y1 - 2008 A1 - Gina Ranalli KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of an authoritarian government in an overpopulated world. The focus of the novel is a man working in a hospital fulfilling the role of the title.

PB - Afterbirth Books CY - Seattle, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Moxyland Y1 - 2008 A1 - Lauren [Ann] Beukes (b. 1976) KW - Female author KW - South African author AB -

Dystopia of corporate control set in Cape Town, South Africa in 2018. In an interview published in Locus 74.1 (648) (January 2015): 48, the author has called it an “apartheid allegory”. 

PB - Jacana Media CY - Auckland Park, South Africa N1 -

Rpt. London: Angry Robot, 2009.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Murder in Geektopia" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Paul [Gerard] Di Filippo (b. 1954) ED - Lou Anders KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A eutopia for Geeks with a stress on technology and popular culture in an alternative future of world peace.

JF - Sideways in Crime: An Alternative Mystery Anthology PB - Solaris CY - Nottingham, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "My Utopia" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Ruth Mountaingrove (1923-2016) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The author describes her Arcadian utopia as having no men with, as in 1915 Gilman, parthenogenesis; no money, which is replaced by barter; and no private property. Women would be able to have work they loved. All children would be welcomed and cared for. There would be peace and harmony with a council deciding any “small disputes.” No lawyers. Healing wise women instead of doctors. No religion.

JF - Sinister Wisdom VL - no. 72 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Nelson Gregory's 2084 Y1 - 2008 A1 - Nelson Gregory [pseud.] KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which all power has been concentrated in the presidency and, in an anti-terrorist move, the president orders U.S. forces to attack and kill Muslims living in the U.S., including U.S. citizens.

PB - Frequent Flyer Books & Music CY - Kingwood, TX U3 -

Gregory, Nelson [pseud.].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Neptune's Children Y1 - 2008 A1 - Bonnie Dobkin KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia with only children surviving on an island theme park.

PB - Walker CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Night Children Y1 - 2008 A1 - Kit [Lilian Craig] Reed (1932-2017) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia of children living in a huge mall and coming out only at night.

PB - Starscape/Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Night Sessions Y1 - 2008 A1 - Ken[nth Macrae] MacLeod (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Conflict over religion in which Christians had used nuclear weapons on the U.S. Partially set in New Zealand, which is presented generally positively.

PB - Orbit CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Nightship" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Kim Westwood ED - Jack [Mayo] Dann (b. 1945) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia set in an environmentally devastated Australia where the different groups are at constant war and slavery and violence are standard. Very few women are born, and they are used for breeding.

JF - Dreaming Again PB - HarperCollins Australia CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia ER - TY - ABST T1 - "No Other Country" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Shaun [Chi Yeong] Tan (b. 1974) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia in words and illustrations describing an "inner courtyard" hidden in all the homes of an otherwise dreary country. The "inner courtyard" is an enclosed garden with seasons opposite to those of the country.

JF - Tales From Outer Suburbia PB - Allen & Unwin CY - Crows Nest, NSW, Australia ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Novel Excerpt: And the Women Take Over Jerusalem” Y1 - 2008 A1 - [Betty Susan] Weinbaum (b. 1952) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Pretty much what the title says. 

JF - Sinister Wisdom VL - no. 72 ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Other Side of the Island Y1 - 2008 A1 - Allegra Goodman (b. 1967) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia where having more than one child merits punishment.

PB - Razorbill CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Our Flag Was Still There" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Steven Mohan Jr. ED - John Helfers ED - Martin H[arry] Greenberg (1941-2011) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which each antagonistic ethnic, ideological, political, or religious group was isolated in separate virtual "Habitats".

JF - Future Americas PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Pacification of Earth Y1 - 2008 A1 - Dean Warren KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Mostly a future war story, but it begins in a future overpopulation dystopia and proceeds through the war to the suggestion of a better future.

PB - Xlibris CY - [Bloomington, IN] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The pair-bond imperative: What's Love Got to do with it?" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Jennifer Rohn (b. 1967) KW - Female author KW - UK author KW - US author AB -

A space colony establishes a rigid procreation system, and the story is about love interfering with it. 

JF - Nature VL - 454.7204 U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pandemonium in 2012 Y1 - 2008 A1 - Lee [Leland W.] Cross KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a future U.S. under the usual politicians is challenged by patriots.

PB - Virginia City Publishing CY - Sparks, NV U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Payback” Y1 - 2008 A1 - Margaret [Eleanor] Atwood (b. 1939) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

In the book Atwood reflects on the nature of debt and the debtor creditor relationship from a number of different perspectives, primarily in literature and myth. In the last chapter, “Payback” (163-203), she presents a twenty-first century Ebenezer Scrooge from Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol (). This “Scrooge Nouveau,” as she calls him, owns multiple corporations, and is only concerned with more and more money and has no interest in the damage his actions inflict on other people or the planet. The first spirit is the Spirit of Earth Day Past who shows him how Earth was nurtured in various cultures but also shows him the Black Death and other ways humans negatively impacted the Earth. The Spirit of Earth Day Present shows him various contemporary disasters-in-the making. Finally, the Spirit of Earth Day Future multiple possible futures. In one, the human race is extinct. Finally, alternative futures are present, one in which the Earth is recovering and the other in which there is a food shortage, inflation has destroyed Scrooge’s wealth, and he is in danger of starvation.

JF - Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth PB - Anansi CY - Toronto, ON, Canada SN - 978-088784-810-0 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Peculiar Bone, Unimaginable Key" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) ED - Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which Europe and the Islamic countries have agreed to end conflict with Europe agreeing to ban alcohol and the Islamic countries agree to end honor killing.

JF - Celebration: An anthology of original short stories commemorating the 50th anniversary of the British Science Fiction Association PB - NewCon Press CY - [Weston], Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Perfect Choice Y1 - 2008 A1 - John W. Herbert KW - Male author AB -

A couple is taken into space by a UFO and spends time on a eutopian planet where people are still improving mentally by accepting the love of God. It is hoped that the couple can bring that message back to Earth.

PB - Vantage Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Philosopher's Apprentice Y1 - 2008 A1 - James [Kenneth] Morrow (b. 1947) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Near future dystopias created by both sides in struggles over genetic engineering. One dystopia is an extrapolation of the growing political power of fundamentalist Christians in the U.S. The other dystopia is brought about by a genetic experiment by women trying to create a eutopia.

PB - William Morrow CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. with an added, separately paged section "P.S. Insights, Interviews & More. . ." at the end. New York: Harper Perennial, 2009.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Pisstown Chaos. A Novel Y1 - 2008 A1 - David Ohle (b. 1941) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Religious dystopia. Sequel to 2004 Ohle.

PB - Soft Skull Press CY - Brooklyn, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Plague of Doves Y1 - 2008 A1 - [Karen] Louise Erdrich (b. 1954) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Includes a section on a dystopian religious intentional community.

PB - HarperCollins CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Plan C" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Tricia Sullivan (b. 1968) ED - Nicholas Royle KW - Female author KW - UK author KW - US author AB -

A story of a girl escaping an authoritarian dystopia. 

JF - ’68: New Stories from Children of the Revolution PB - Salt CY - Cambridge, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Protocol: Your children deserve the best" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Ralph Greco [Jr.] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Children are genetically manipulated after birth to produce what their parents want.

JF - Nature VL - 452.7184 U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Publicani Y1 - 2008 A1 - Zak Maymin KW - Male author KW - Russian author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia focusing on one family's response to an authoritarian government that wants to take even one's intellect.

PB - CreateSpace Publishing CY - Scotts Valley, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Pump Six" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Paolo [Tadini] Bacigalupi (b. 1972) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. General environmental collapse which has led to a biological and intellectual collapse among humans.

JF - Pump Six and Other Stories PB - Night Shade Books CY - San Francisco, CA N1 -

Rpt. in Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 115.3 (676) (September 2008): 9-43; and in Year's Best SF 14. Ed. David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer (New York: Eos, 2009), 106-43 with an editors' note on 105 .

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Reality Crash Y1 - 2008 A1 - Lou Grantt A1 - Cyd Ropp KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which most people subscribe to a virtual reality network that hides the horrors of the real world.

PB - Authors CY - Lucerne Valley, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Reaver's Ransom Y1 - 2008 A1 - Emily Diamand (b. 1971) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Post-apocalyptic young adult dystopia set in twenty-third century England experiencing the effects of global warming. See also 2010 Diamand.

PB - Chicken House UK CY - Frome, Eng. N1 -

Rpt. as Flood Child. Frome, Eng.: Chicken House, 2009. U.S. ed. as Raider's Ransom. New York: Chicken House Scholastic, 2009. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Remembering" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Jody Jewdyke KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

The eutopia that developed after all the males and their destructiveness disappeared. Direct communication with animals. Telepathy and telekinesis. Simple life in tune with the Earth. Acceptance of difference. 

JF - Sinister Wison VL - no. 72 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Resistance" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Tobias S[amuel] Buckell (b. 1979) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - British Virgin Islands author KW - Grenadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The problems faced by those resisting a technological solution to decision making where neither approach is particularly good.

JF - Seeds of Change PB - Prime Books CY - [Holicong, PA] SN - 9780809573103 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Resistance Y1 - 2008 A1 - Gemma Malley KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Sequel to 2007 Malley in which the young protagonists of that novel continue to fight the authoritarian dystopia. See also 2010 Malley, The Legacy and The Returners.

PB - Bloomsbury CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Revolt of the Ultraists!" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Richard A. Becker ED - Nick Mamatas (b. 1972) ED - Jay [Joseph Edward] Lake [Jr.] (1964-2014) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a collapsed city. Violence, new drugs, intrusive advertising.

JF - Spicy Slipstream Stories PB - Lethe Press CY - Maple Shade, NJ U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Roar Y1 - 2008 A1 - Emma Clayton (b. 1968) KW - Female author KW - UK author AB -

Young adult overpopulation dystopia. See also 2012 Clayton.

PB - Chicken House CY - Frome, Eng. N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Chicken House/Scholastic, 2009.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Rooftops of Manila" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Crystal Gail Shangkuan Koo ED - Dean Francis Alfar ED - Nikki Alfar KW - Female author KW - Filipina author AB -

Dystopia of extreme rich/poor divisions. 

JF - Philippine Speculative Fiction. Volume 4: Literature of the Fantastic PB - Kestrel DDM CY - Np VL - 4 N1 -

Repub. as an ebook. Quezon City, Philippines: Flipside Digital Content Co. and Kestrel IMC, 2017.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Rx for Chaos Y1 - 2008 A1 - [Harry C.] [Crosby] [Jr.] (1925-2009) ED - Eric Flint KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on the problems that arise from a drug that makes everyone happy all the time.

PB - Baen Books CY - New York N1 -

A collection of related stories published previously as "Rx for Chaos." Analog Science Fact--Science Fiction 72.6 (February 1964): 72-80; "Cinderella, Inc." Imagination 3.7 (December 1952): 72-75 as Crosby; "Roll Out the Rolov!" Imagination 4.10 (November 1953): 96-103 as Crosby; "The New Boccaccio." Analog Science Fact--Science Fiction 64.5 (January 1965): 74-77; "Is Everybody Happy?" Analog Science Fact--Science Fiction Science Fact--Science Fiction 81.2 (April 1968): 67-85; "A Handheld Primer." Amazing Science Fiction Stories 51.2 (January 1978): 32-39; "The Great Intellect Boom." Analog Science Fact--Science Fiction Science Fact--Science Fiction 83.5 (July 1969): 38-55; "Interesting Times." Analog Science Fact--Science Fiction 107.12 (December 1987): 104-16; "Superbiometalemon." The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 63.1 (374) (July 1982): 37-43; "Speed-Up!" Amazing Stories 38.1 (January 1964): 6-32; "Rags from Riches." Amazing Stories 62.4 (537) (November 1987): 122-27; "Bugs." Analog Science Fact--Science Fiction 106.6 (June 1986): 90-113; "Positive Feedback." 75.6 Analog Science Fact--Science Fiction (August 1965): 47-63; "Two-Way Communication." Analog Science Fact--Science Fiction 77.3 (May 1966): 72-83; "High G." Worlds of If Science Fiction 15.6 (91) (June 1965): 76-100; "Doc's Legacy." Analog Science Fact--Science Fiction 108.2 (February 1988): 158-83; "Negative Feedback." Analog Science Fact--Science Fiction 114.4 (March 1994): 58-73; "The New Way." Beyond Infinity 1.1 (November/December 1967): 150-60; "Identification." Analog Science Fact--Science Fiction 57.3 (May 1961): 8-32; "The Golden Years." Analog Science Fact--Science Fiction 107.3 (March 1977): 110-20; "No Small Enemy." Analog Science Fact--Science Fiction 68.3 (November 1961): 7-51; and "Not in the Literature." Analog Science Fact--Science Fiction 71.1 (March 1963): 60-66.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Santa Fe in 2028” Y1 - 2008 A1 - Pelican Lee KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A eutopian Santa Fe with no patriarchy, no racism, no gender discrimination in a world at peace. No poverty. Corporations broken up and replaced by small businesses. 

JF - Sinister Wisdom VL - no. 72 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sapphique Y1 - 2008 A1 - Catherine Fisher (b. 1957) KW - Female author KW - Welsh author AB -

Sequel to 2007 Fisher in which one boy escapes from the prison but his brother is still imprisoned.

PB - Hodder Children's Books CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Seniorsource" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Kristine Kathryn Rusch (b. 1960) ED - Lou Anders KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

SF story with a dystopian background. Generational conflict has placed many old people in orbiting satellites or on the moon with settlement of Mars in process. This has impoverished Earth. “The old were warehoused with the  terminally ill, and depending on how much money they had, they either got personal care or they didn’t” (275).

JF - Fast Forward PB - Pyr CY - Amherst, NY VL - 2 SN - 9781591026921 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Shadow Web Y1 - 2008 A1 - N[icola] M[athews] Browne (b. 1960) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Alternative history set in London in which the Cold War produced an authoritarian dystopia.

PB - Bloomsbury CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Shark Hunting in Paradise Garden Y1 - 2008 A1 - Cameron Pierce (b. 1988) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire in the Bizarro mode on the Garden of Eden, which is visited by religious fanatics from the future who find that it is nothing like they expected.

PB - Eraserhead Press CY - Portland, OR U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Shift Y1 - 2008 A1 - Charlotte Agell (b. 1959) KW - Female author KW - Swedish author KW - US author AB -

Young adult religious dystopia.

PB - Henry Holt CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat: An Epic Cycle of Short Plays Y1 - 2008 A1 - Mark Ravenhill (b. 1966) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Sixteen very short plays plus an Appendix that publishes the revised radio version of one of the plays. Many of the plays are explicitly dystopian focusing on violence and war; others depict authoritarian dystopias. 

PB - Methuen Drama CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Sideways (Excerpt from forthcoming novel, Compostable)" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Sharon Wachsler (b. 1969) ED - Lynne Jamneck KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia extrapolated from current political and social conditions, particularly a projection of extreme discrimination against the disabled.

JF - Periphery: Erotic Lesbian Futures PB - Lethe Press CY - Maple Shade, NJ U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sins of the Assassin. A Novel Y1 - 2008 A1 - Robert Ferrigno (b. 1948) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Sequel to 2006 Ferrigno. See also 2009 Ferrigno. In this volume, the U.S. disintegrates further, and factions fight each other in all of its segments.

PB - Scribner CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Sky Inside Y1 - 2008 A1 - Clare B[unkalew] Dunkle (b. 1964) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia of genetically engineered children living in a suburban dome, which is supposed to be eutopian, and the need for one of the children to venture outside. See also 2009 Dunkle.

PB - Atheneum Books for Young Readers CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Soft Viscosity" Y1 - 2008 A1 - David Conyers (b. 1971) ED - Alisa Krasnostein ED - Ben Payne KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia that oil companies and the U.S. create to be able to build pipelines in the indigenous areas of Ecuador.

JF - 2012 PB - Twelfth Planet Press CY - Yokine, WA, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Spider the Artist” Y1 - 2008 A1 - Nnedi[mma Nkemdili]] Okorafor-Mbachu (b. 1974) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a near future Nigeria where the oil copies have developed AIs to protect their pipelines from people breaching them by killing the people. Only the government and the wealthy get any benefit from the oil, and the land is badly polluted. 

JF - Seeds of Change PB - Prime Books CY - [Holicong, PA] SN - 9780809573103 UR - https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/spider-the-artist/ N1 -

Rpt. as by Nnedi[mma Nkemdili] Okorafor in The Mammoth Book of SF Stories By Women. Ed. Alex Dally Macfarlane (London: Robinson/Philadelphia, PA: Running Press. 2014), 57-70; and in Lightspeed Magazine, no. 122 (July 2020). https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/spider-the-artist/

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sputnik Caledonia Y1 - 2008 A1 - Andrew Crumey (b. 1961) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Alternative history dystopia in which, after World War II, Scotland is Communist and has its own space program. Part of the novel focuses on the Installation, a dystopia within the dystopia which is a military controlled space center.

PB - Picador CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Stretto: Book Five of the Marq'ssan Cycle Y1 - 2008 A1 - L[inda] Timmel Duchamp (b. 1950) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Final volume. See also 2005, 2006, and 2007 (2) Duchamp. This volume stresses the utopian elements, basically feminist and liberal, but the various political struggles continue, and there is no clear resolution at the end.

PB - Aqueduct Press CY - Seattle, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Suffer the Children" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Barbara Nickless ED - John Helfers ED - Martin H[arry] Greenberg (1941-2011) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which children are kept as slaves in mines.

JF - Future Americas PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Switching to Goddess: Humanity’s Ticket into the Future Y1 - 2008 A1 - Jeri Lyn Studebaker (b. 1948) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Mostly a non-fiction exposition of the author’s views on the good society of Neolithic times that she argues was based on goddesses and the problems related to losing the goddess, but the section “The Fix” (238-70) lays out the eutopia she sees arising from “switching to goddess.” It is “peaceful and fiercely environmentally conscious” with communities organized around particular local goddesses who encourage societies that are “playful, risk-taking, sensual, peaceful, and exhilarating.” 

PB - O Books CY - Ropley, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "They Came From Next Door" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Kristyn Dunnion (b. 1969) ED - Lynne Jamneck KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia of gay and lesbian capitalism and the revolt against it.

JF - Periphery: Erotic Lesbian Futures PB - Lethe Press CY - Maple Shade, NJ U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - They Is Us: A Cautionary Horror Story. Including special supplementary material 'Lonely Bob' by Willow Hunt Y1 - 2008 A1 - Tama Janowitz (b. 1957) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Odd dystopia of extreme pollution, violence, and general decay set in U.S.

PB - The Friday Project CY - London U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Things That Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia seen through the eyes of someone who has been a secular monk living inside a walled compound for sixteen years who has to go out into the world of an authoritarian dystopia where everyone must conform to unstated rules.

UR - http://www.tor.com/2008/08/06/weak-and-strange/ N1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Tinderbox Y1 - 2008 A1 - Lucy Kirkwood (b. 1984) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia set in Bradford in a future England that has become separated from Scotland by rising tides. The focus is on a butcher shop in which the butcher grinds up anyone he can get his hands on to keep the supply of meat coming. Play first performed April 23, 2008, at the Bush Theatre directed by Josie Rourke.

PB - Nick Hern Books in association with the Bush Theatre, London CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Tomorrow Code Y1 - 2008 A1 - Brian Falkner (b. 1962) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which the future selves of two contemporary teens ask for help in averting the environmental catastrophe that has devastated their world.

PB - Random House CY - New York N1 -

Australian ed. Newtown, NSW, Australia: Walker Books Australia, 2008.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Truancy Y1 - 2008 A1 - Isamu Fukui (b. 1990) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

School as dystopia. The authoritarian mayor of a city rules the school system and its teachers and students. Revolt by the students. His Truancy Origins. New York: Tor, 2009, is a prequel in which two children are raised by the authoritarian mayor of a city dedicated to a harsh educational system. Truancy City. New York: Tor Teen, 2012, focuses on the struggle between the truants and those controlling the city with the city ultimately abandoned and destroyed. The author was fifteen when he wrote the first novel, and it was published in Italian and Spanish translations before being published in English.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Under the Amoral Bridge. A Cyberpunk Novel Originally told in Serial Blog Form Y1 - 2008 A1 - Gary A. Ballard KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Corporate dystopia. The Know Circuit. The Bridge Chronicles, Book 2. [Scotts Valley, CA: CreateSpace], 2010 is a sequel. More material can be found at http://www.bridgechronicles.info.

PB - [CreateSpace] CY - [Scotts Valley, CA] UR - http://amoralbridge.blogspot.com. N1 -

Originally published serially between January and August 2008 on line at http://amoralbridge.blogspot.com. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Unholy Domain Y1 - 2008 A1 - Dan Ronco KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Cyberterrorism produces a world-wide economic collapse and results in conflict between supporters and opponents of technology, with the latter developing into a religion. Preceded by his PeaceMaker. Waterville, OH: Winter Wolf, 2004, which sets the stage for this novel, and followed by 2010 Ronco.

PB - Kunati CY - Largo, FL ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Unnameables Y1 - 2008 A1 - Ellen Booraem KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia with fantasy elements about a strict community that only gives names to acceptable things.

PB - Harcourt CY - Orlando, FL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Valley of Day-Glo Y1 - 2008 A1 - Nick DiChario KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Humorous dystopia set on a future desolate Earth where the protagonist searches for a legendary valley that still has plants and animals.

PB - Robert J. Sawyer Books CY - Calgary, AB, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Valley-Westside War Y1 - 2008 A1 - Harry [Norman] Turtledove (b. 1949) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia in a series in which travel between parallel timelines, for the purpose of harvesting resources, has become possible in the late 21st century. This volume is set in a post-nuclear war future, Los Angeles is divided into small enclaves that at are at war with.  Other volumes in the series include 2004, 2006, and 2007 Turtledove and two non-utopian volumes, Gunpowder Empire: Crosstime Traffic--Book One. New York: Tor, 2003; and In High Places: Crosstime Traffic--Book Three. New York: Tor, 2006.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Wimmin of Our Dreams” Y1 - 2008 A1 - Jae Haggard KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Lesbian eutopia. Extract/summary of her book The Wimmin of Our Dreams. Outland, NM: Author, [1995]. 

JF - Sinister Wisdom VL - no. 72 U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Womelia of Estesusa” Y1 - 2008 A1 - Ellen Williams KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A lesbian eutopia with New Age elements that contrasts the over-busy, over-populated, polluted Earth with an alternative peaceful eutopia in which the world is cared for and produces plenty for all. 

JF - Sinister Wisdom VL - no. 72 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Wonjjang and the Madman of Pyongyang" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Sellar, Gord ED - Claude Lalumière (b. 1966) KW - Canadian author KW - Malawian author KW - Male author KW - South Korean author AB -

Korea, North and South, as dystopias but with North Korea especially dystopian, with genetic engineering to meet the leader's whims.

JF - Tesseracts Twelve PB - Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing CY - Calgary, AL, Canada U5 -

Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - World Made by Hand Y1 - 2008 A1 - James Howard Kunstler (b. 1948) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia of a post-oil America set in Union Grove, NY, with no electricity, few resources, terrorism, bandits, and cults. First of four volumes. The second volume is The Witch of Hebron. A World Made by Hand Novel. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2010, which is set a few months in the future. The third volume is A History of the Future: A World Made By Hand Novel. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2014, in which the situation in the United States, which has broken up into three independent countries, is described together with the re-emergence of the traditional American small-town, which is present very positively, albeit with problems. The final volume is The Harrows of Spring: A World Made by Hand Novel. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2016 in which the town is cut off further by a landowner with feudal aspirations and a radical group wants to establish the Berkshire Peoples Republic. 

PB - Atlantic Monthly Press CY - New York U5 -

Merril, NNU, PU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Wylde's Kingdom" Y1 - 2008 A1 - David Nickle (b. 1964) ED - Claude Lalumière (b. 1966) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia brought about by climate change.

JF - Tesseracts Twelve PB - Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing CY - Calgary, AL, Canada ER - TY - ABST T1 - 2050. A Novel Y1 - 2007 A1 - Dave Borland KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

In 2050, the United States has broken up into seven new countries, all facing drought. The Pittsburgh aquifer, controlled by Atlantica, is a source of contention and of possible reunification.

PB - Red Anvil Press CY - Oakland, OR SN - 978-1-932762-72-3 U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - 2050 Volume One: Gods of Little Earth. A Novel Y1 - 2007 A1 - J[oseph] Zornado KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

First volume in a trilogy set in a post-apocalyptic 2050 that is primarily concerned with a struggle between good and evil. Continued in his 2050: A Future History Volume II: The Power at the Bottom of the World. A Novel. Np: Iron Diesel Press, 2012; and 2050 When Immortals Reign. A Future History Volume 3. West Warwick, RI: Merry Blacksmith Press, 2015.

PB - SpeculativeFictionReview CY - [Santa Monica, CA] N1 -

[Rev. ed.] as 2050: A Future History, Volume I: Gods of Little Earth. Np: Iron Diesel Press, 2011. There is no reference to the earlier publication in the 2011 version. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - 2060: A Love Story in a Utopian Future Y1 - 2007 A1 - Janette Rainwater KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A virus has killed most men, but women have used sperm banks to create a multi-racial society and produce a group of boys. As the boys grow up, they question the system, but by 2072 and the end of the novel the issues have been resolved and a good, well-integrated society exists.

PB - iUniverse CY - Lincoln, NB U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - 2236 A Novel Y1 - 2007 A1 - Milton McGriff KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

A dystopia in which race relations have degenerated and African Americans fight back against their systematic mistreatment. The work originated as a one-act play entitled The Nigger Killer that the author wrote in the 1970s.

PB - AMM Publishing CY - Philadelphia, PA U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - 29 Inches Y1 - 2007 A1 - Mark Amerika KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian cyberpunk poem.

PB - Chiasmus Press CY - Portland, OR U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Accidental Time Machine Y1 - 2007 A1 - Joe [Joseph William] Haldeman (b. 1943) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A doctoral student at MIT accidentally invents a time machine and travels into the future. At his first stop, people are aware of his invention, although they cannot replicate it, and he is honored. His second stop is a dystopian theocracy that has rejected all knowledge of the past. The third stop is highly developed technologically with an economy based on barter in which everyone is rich. It is said to be boring. Various other stops are treated briefly.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York U5 -

Merril, PU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Adjudication" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Simon Brown (b. 1956) ED - Russell B. Farr ED - Nick Evans KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Extrapolation of working conditions in private prisons as the prison companies go into business with criminals to keep prisons full.

JF - The Workers' Paradise PB - Ticonderoga Publishers CY - Greenwood, WA, Australia U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Adolf in Wonderland Y1 - 2007 A1 - Carlton Mellick III (b. 1977) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Alternative future dystopia in which Germany won World War II and established the National Socialist version of a utopia. A search for imperfect humans reveals a weird isolated society. Part of a literary movement called Bizarro, which refers to fiction with a stress on weirdness and absurdism.

PB - Avant Punk Books CY - Portland, OR U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "After the Choice" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Robin Hillard (b. 1939) ED - Russell B. Farr ED - Nick Evans KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia of the erosion of labor laws in Australia, but when people become aware of the horrible conditions, there is the beginning of a change back.

JF - The Workers' Paradise PB - Ticonderoga Publishers CY - Greenwood, WA, Australia U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "After the Patriarchy" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Jay [John Barrett] McInerney (b. 1955) ED - The Editors of Nerve.com Instigated by Svedka [a vodka] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Sex role reversal satire with the emphasis on sex.

JF - 2033: The Future of Misbehavior. Interplanetary Dating, Madame President, Socialized Plastic Surgery, and Other Good News from the Future PB - Chronicle Books CY - San Francisco, CA U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - AmericA, Inc. In Corporation We Trust. A Novel in Stream of Voice Y1 - 2007 A1 - David [B.] Lentz KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Corporate dystopia.

PB - Wordsworth Greenwich Press CY - [Greenwich, CT] U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - and what remains Y1 - 2007 A1 - Miria George KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author KW - Māori author AB -

Dystopian play in which all Māori leave New Zealand. Official policies included that after a certain date Māori could no longer be known as Māori and compulsory birth control for young Māori women. All references to Māori were removed from New Zealand law.

PB - Tawata CY - Wellington, New Zealand U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Anti-Christ: A Satirical End of Days Y1 - 2007 A1 - Matthew Moses KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a war between Heaven and Hell with Earth a neutral zone. Armageddon (See Revelation 16).

PB - Booklocker.com CY - Bangor ME U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Arapeta: A Futuristic Ethnic Adventure Y1 - 2007 A1 - Peter Tashkoff KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

The conflict between Māori and Pākehā replayed in science fictional form in the future with the Māori ultimately winning after initial defeat.

PB - Artemis Associates Ltd CY - Auckland, Aotearoa/New Zealand U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Atlanteans: A Contemporary Novel. An adventure romance, in an unusual setting, leading to a story of mystery and suspense Y1 - 2007 A1 - Dorothy Cora Moore KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

New Age eutopia. Although much of the novel is concerned with Atlanteans in the contemporary U.S., it includes a description of a eutopian Atlantis at the time of its collapse.

PB - iUniverse CY - Lincoln, NB U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Best of Your Life" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Benjamin Stoddard KW - Male author AB -

Satire and dystopia in which it is possible to purchase a better life, but everything goes wrong.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 213 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Black and Bitter, Thanks" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Nathan Burrage ED - Russell B. Farr ED - Nick Evans KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Australia has too few working young to support the pensions of the old and introduces a system in which people vote on those who should lose their pensions and be placed in what are essentially prisons.

JF - The Workers' Paradise PB - Ticonderoga Publishers CY - Greenwood, WA, Australia U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Black Man Y1 - 2007 A1 - Richard [Kingsley] Morgan (b. 1965) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Adventure story set against an Earth that has finally achieved a decent balance.

PB - Gollancz CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. as Thirteen. New York: Del Rey, 2007.

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U.S. ed. as Thirteen.

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Black Sheep. 'A Dystopian Novel' Y1 - 2007 A1 - Ben [Michael] Peek (b. 1976) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of ethnic separation set in Sydney, Australia, where the African, Asian, and Caucasian communities are physically separated, and multiculturalism is a crime.

PB - Prime Books CY - [Rockville, MD] U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Blind Faith Y1 - 2007 A1 - Ben[jamin Charles] Elton (b. 1959) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which climate-change has produced immense flooding, a backlash against science, and a religious revival in which everyone is expected to share everything about themselves online all the time. The protagonist values his privacy.

PB - Bantam Press CY - London U5 -

MH

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Blood in the Fruit: Book Four of the Marq’ssan Cycle Y1 - 2007 A1 - L[inda] Timmel Duchamp (b. 1950) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 2005, 2006, and 2007 Duchamp, Tsunami. See also 2008 Duchamp. In this volume the aliens return to see whether or not Earth should be quarantined.  

PB - Aqueduct Press CY - Seattle, WA U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Blood Kin Y1 - 2007 A1 - Ceridwen Dovey (b. 1980) KW - Australian author KW - Female author KW - South Korean author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which two authoritarian leaders struggle for power as seen through the eyes of aids to one of them, who has been captured by the other. 

PB - Penguin Books (South Africa) CY - Johannesburg, South Africa N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Atlantic, 2007. U.S. ed. New York: Viking, 2008.

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NNU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Blue Messiah" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Steve Almond (b. 1966) ED - The Editors of Nerve.com Instigated by Svedka [a vodka] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of the United States divided between a fundamentalist religious South and a libertine North.

JF - 2033: The Future of Misbehavior. Interplanetary Dating, Madame President, Socialized Plastic Surgery, and Other Good News from the Future PB - Chronicle Books CY - San Francisco, CA U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Boomsday. A Novel Y1 - 2007 A1 - Christopher Buckley KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The epigram is “Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt,” quoting Herbert Hoover in an address to the National Republican Conference in 1936. The novel is a political satire set in a near future of generational conflict where the children of the Baby Boomers revolt against paying for the good life in retirement of their parents and urge “Transitioning” or voluntary euthanasia at seventy-five while Congress keeps raising the Social Security tax to pay greater benefits to the retired.

PB - Twelve/Hachette CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Boys" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Dave [David] Freer (b. ca. 1958) ED - Martin H[arry] Greenberg (1941-2011) ED - Rebecca Lickiss KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

Dystopia. Robotic merchandising and robotic homes control people.

JF - The Future We Wish We Had PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Brasyl Y1 - 2007 A1 - Ian [Neil] McDonald (b. 1960) KW - Male author KW - Northern Ireland author AB -

Brazil in three times, past (mid-18th century), present, and near future (2032-33). All three are dystopian. The past dystopia is concerned with a rogue Jesuit establishing an empire in the interior. The present dystopia is simply contemporary Brazil. The future dystopia is one where everything is completely controlled and documented. 

PB - Pyr CY - Amherst, NY U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "By Fools Like Me" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Nancy [Anne Koningisor] Kress (b. 1948) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Environmental dystopia. Post-catastrophe dystopia that worships the nature that has been destroyed. 

JF - Asimov's Science Fiction VL - 31.9 (380) N1 -

Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of The Year, Volume Two. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2008), 199-209; in Wastelands 2: More Stories of the Apocalypse. Ed. John Joseph Adams (London: Titan Books, 2015),186-99; and in The Best of Nancy Kress (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2015), 255-67, with an “Afterword to ‘By Fools Like Me” (268).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - By the People Y1 - 2007 A1 - H[al] G. Robb KW - Male author AB -

Apparent eutopia is a dystopia of slavery, which is, by the end of the novel, overthrown.

PB - Xlibris CY - [Bloomington, IN] U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "BYOB FAQ: It's all you've ever wanted" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Terry [Ballantine] Bisson (1942-2024) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Brief description of a future where women are able to purchase a mate especially designed for them. Some are also available for purchase by gay men. Whether a eutopia or a dystopia is left up to the reader.

JF - Nature VL - 449.7163 U2 -

Illus. Jacey

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LLL

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Café Culture" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Jack [Mayo] Dann (b. 1945) KW - Australian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A future New York City with constant religious suicide bombers of all faiths.

JF - Asimov's Science Fiction VL - 31.1 (372) U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Carhullan Army Y1 - 2007 A1 - Sarah Hall (b. 1974) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia. A woman escapes from an authoritarian dystopia and joins an opposing army, which is ultimately defeated. Related stories include 2013 Hall and “Case Study 2: Recognition of the Self.” Illus. Klone Yourself. Vice The Fiction Issue (2013). https://www.vice.com/en/article/4wqjzd/case-study-2-recognition-of-the-self. Rpt. in her Madame Zero. 9 Stories (London: Faber and Faber, 2017). US ed (New York: Custom House/Harper Collins, 2017), 29-46.

PB - Faber and Faber CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. as Daughters of the Earth. A Novel. New York: HarperPerennial, 2008. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Cherry Heaven Y1 - 2007 A1 - L[ucy] J. Adlington (b. 1971) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Sequel to 2005 Adlington in which the girl whose diary was discovered in that novel escapes from a factory prison and, with other girls, leads a movement to free others of the lowest caste and establish a better society.

PB - Hodder Children's Books CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - Circle of Life: Sequel to John of Two Worlds Y1 - 2007 A1 - Robert Stott KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

More of the eutopia described in 2006 Stott. In addition, Earth is saved from its collapse due to overpopulation and environmental damage and a sustainable ecosystem is created.

PB - First Edition CY - Wellington, New Zealand U5 -

ATL, NZ, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The City Beyond Play Y1 - 2007 A1 - Philip José Farmer (1918-2009) A1 - Danny Adams KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

In a eutopian future where everyone can have whatever they want, an area has been set aside where people have recreated a cleaned-up middle ages. Rather than go through the therapy required in the larger society, a murderer chooses exile in the medieval area, which has fallen away from the eutopian vision of its founder. The novel is largely adventure.

PB - PS Publishing CY - Hornsea, Eng. U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Cleft Y1 - 2007 A1 - Doris [May] Lessing (1919-2013) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Novel of prehistory with eutopian elements. An isolated, simple, eutopian, all female society where women who give birth solely to female children suddenly begin to produce Monsters (men). The story is told from the point of view of a man in classical Rome many centuries later and traces the relations of the women and the men as they adjust to each other. 

PB - Fourth Estate CY - London U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "(Coping With) Norm Deviation" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Hugh A[lan] D[ouglas] Spencer ED - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) ED - Holly Phillips (b. 1969) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia that is the story of a film being made. The dystopia focuses on the elimination of people who deviate from the norm.

JF - Tesseracts Eleven PB - Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy CY - Calgary, AL, Canada U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Cowboy Angels Y1 - 2007 A1 - Paul J[ames] McAuley (b. 1955) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Complex novel of various eutopian and dystopian Americas.

PB - Orion/Gollancz CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - "C-Rock City" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Jay [Joseph Edward] Lake [Jr.] (1964-2014) A1 - Greg[ory John] van Eekhout (b. 1967) ED - George Mann KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia of a society that had been based on slavery.

JF - The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction PB - Solaris CY - Nottingham, Eng. U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dance Dance Revolution. Poems Y1 - 2007 A1 - Cathy Park Hong (b. 1976) KW - Female author KW - Korean American author AB -

Poem sequence set in 2016 in a new town that recreates great cities of the past, where the main character has been exiled as a political dissident.

PB - W.W. Norton CY - New York N1 -

An excerpt was published online as “6 Poems.” ActionYes 1.2 (Spring 2006). actionyes.org/issue 1/hong/hong1/htm#. Rpt. in Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction. Ed. Leigh Ronald Grossman (Rockville, MD: Wildside Press, 2011), 945-47 with an editor’s note on 945. Other parts were previously published, sometimes in earlier versions, in several publications.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Dark Net Y1 - 2007 A1 - James R. Riordon KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Cyberpunk dystopia and catastrophe in the near future with a focus on the underground both in and outside the net. Based on the blognovel The Dark Net www.the-dark-net.blogspot.com.

PB - [LuLu.com] CY - Greenbelt, MD U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Darkest Days Y1 - 2007 A1 - Stanley Gallon KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Collapse of civilization driven by competition among countries for the few remaining natural resources.

PB - Pan Books CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Declaration Y1 - 2007 A1 - Gemma Malley KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult authoritarian dystopia. First volume in a series. Overpopulation due to longevity drugs leads to a no child requirement except for those willing to die. "Surplus" children or those born who shouldn't have been are raised as servants with no rights. See also 2008 Malley, 2010 Malley, The Legacy and 2010 Malley, The Returners.

PB - Bloomsbury CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Depths of Heaven" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Mark Anthony Brennan KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Religious dystopia.

JF - Neo-Opsis Science Fiction Magazine VL - no. 11 U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Desert Called Peace Y1 - 2007 A1 - Tom [Thomas P.] Kratman (b. 1956) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel, generally classified as military SF, begins with a man’s family being killed by Safafi from the Caliphate (See 2008 Kratman) and continues throughout the novel and all its sequels to detail his revenge. Sequels include Carnifex. New York: Baen, 2007; The Lotus Eaters. New York: Baen, 2010; The Amazon Legion. New York: Baen, 2011; Come and Take Them. New York: Baen, 2013; and The Rods and the Axe. New York: Baen, 2014. 

PB - Baen CY - New York U5 -

DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Designing the Future Y1 - 2007 A1 - Jacque Fresco (1916-2017) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Technological eutopia with designs for many different projects. Law will be necessary, and people will be changed. See also 1995 and 2002 Fresco, 1969 Keyes and Fresco, and https://www.thevenusproject.com/the-venus-project/jacque-fresco/. PSt holds a folder that contains: Venus Project brochure (4 pp); 2 copies of highlights of an interview with Jacque Fresco (6 pp); photocopy of an article by the author entitled “Designing the Future: A Cybernetic City for the Next Century” published in The Futurist 28.3 (May-June 1994): 29-33; promotional materials including a color sheet with images of the model home and a color sheet with various conceptual renderings. At the University of Pennsylvania, the Daniels Millennium Collection, Box 329, includes a copy of the book, “Introduction to the Venus Project” (http://www.nas.com/venus/intro.shtml), “The Venus Project Mission Statement: (http://www.nas.com/venus/ms01.shtml), and other material.

PB - The Venus Project CY - Venus, FL U2 -

Illus. Jacque Fresco and Roxanne Matthews

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Dirt People Y1 - 2007 A1 - Ray Bawarchi KW - Male author AB -

Corporate and environmental dystopia.

PB - Blue Throat Press CY - Asheville, NC ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Distillation of Grace" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Adam [Charles] Roberts (b. 1965) ED - George Mann KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Story about a religion that develops around producing a perfect genetic specimen by only allowing one child per family and controlling the gender so that equal numbers are born. Ultimately, this will reduce the generations to one person.

JF - The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction PB - Solaris CY - Nottingham, Eng. U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Divergence Y1 - 2007 A1 - Tony [Anthony] Ballantyne (b. 1972) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Sequel to 2005 Ballantyne. This novel is concerned with the division between humans and altered humans.

PB - Bantam Spectra CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Tor U.K., 2007.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Domine" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Rjurik Davidson ED - Bill Congreve ED - Michelle Marquardt KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

The background to the story is a dystopia of extreme rich-poor divisions.

JF - Aurealis VL - no. 37 N1 -

Rpt. in Year’s Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy (Fourth Annual Volume). Ed. Bill Congreve and Michelle Marquardt (Chatswood, NSW, Australia: MirrorDanse Books, 2008), 218-40.

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Illus. Dion Hamill. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Double Helix, Downward Gyre" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Carl[ton] Frederick KW - Male author AB -

The U.S. Genetic Patriotism Act requires forced sterilization of the carriers of a Genetic Component Disease and their children, although there are exceptions for political leaders, televangelists, and large donors to the White House. There is Real Time Conversation Analysis of phone calls looking for the use of words such as embryo, abortion, revolution, and so forth. There is a Genetic Terrorism Act that defines conspiracies to propagate defective groups. There is an American Government in Exile in Canada, and New Zealand provides a refuge.

JF - Analog Science Fiction and Fact VL - 127 1 & 2 U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dr. Id-entity, OR, Farewell to Plaquedemia. A Pulp Science Fiction Novel. Book One of the Scikungfi Trilogy. The First Edition Y1 - 2007 A1 - D. Harlan Wilson (b. 1971) ED - Dr. Master Master Stanley Ashenbach, Esquire, ed. KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian humor and satire with a stress on violence. His Codename Prague. An Unfinished Pulp Science Fiction Novel. Book Two of the Scikungfi Trilogy. The First Edition. Ed. Dr. Master Master Stanley Ashenbach Esquire. Bowie, MD: Printed by Raw Dog Screaming Press in Maryland, and for Stick Figure Incorporated in Pseudofollicultis City, 2011 continues the same themes. The third volume of the trilogy is The Kyoto Man. A Pulp Science Fiction Novel “Extravagant Fiction Today--Cold Fact Tomorrow” Book Three of the Scikungfi Trilogy. The First Edition. Ed. Dr. Master Master Stanley Ashenbach Esquire. Bowie, MD: Printed by Raw Dog Screaming Press in Maryland, and for Stick Figure Incorporated in Bliptown, 2012.

PB - Printed by Raw Dog Screaming Press in Maryland, and for Stick Figure Incorporated in Pseudofollicultis City CY - Hyattsville, MD U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Drosophila Y1 - 2007 A1 - Nick Sapien KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which initially a machine is developed that gives I.Q. within three points. This produces a rigid caste society. Things get worse when someone develops a means of enhancing intelligence. 

PB - PublishAmerica CY - Baltimore, MD U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Electric Church Y1 - 2007 A1 - Jeff Somers (b. 1971) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Violent, authoritarian dystopia controlled by the cyborg monks of a new religion. See also 2008 Somers.

PB - Orbit CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Orbit, 2007.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - ["E-Mails from the Future"] Y1 - 2007 ED - Sarah Bunker ED - Chris Coates ED - Jonathan How KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Male author AB -

Eight e-mails of one page or less in which various contributors to the volume report from the future. None are long enough to be called a utopia, but most are concerned with environmental issues, and a few include considerable detail. They are "Report from Outpost SK572/698" by Chris Coates (also in Esperanto) (16); "When I'm 64. . ." by Bunk (30); "Song of the Saltmarsh" by William Morris (48); "Aotearoa calling" by Lucy Sargisson (66); "We told you so!" by Jonathan How (80); "Ant Farm" by Pam Dowling (88), which comes very close to presenting a fully realized utopia in one page; "We Cannot Eat Fuel!" by Vivian Griffiths (112); and "Season's Greetings" by Bill Metcalf (126). Sargisson and Metcalf present quite positive pictures; Dowling presents a utopian community in a dystopian setting; the rest are environmental dystopias.

JF - Diggers & Dreamers: The Guide to Communal Living 2008/2009 PB - Diggers and Dreamers Publications+ CY - London U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Empyre Y1 - 2007 A1 - Josh [Joshua M.] Conviser (b. 1974) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 2006 Conviser. In this volume, the network's rule has ended but others step in to continue control, and the novel is about the fight against this group, known as the Empyre.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Escape from Genopolis Y1 - 2007 A1 - T[amasin (known as Tess)] E[lizabeth] Berry-Hart KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult dystopia of a society deeply divided between those “Naturals” who were poor and unmodified and the “Citizens”, who led a protected life. First volume of a series. The second volume, which is a standard middle volume with the protagonists in even more trouble, is Fearless. London: Scholastic Children’s Books, 2009. Female author.

PB - Scholastic Children's Books CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Execution Channel Y1 - 2007 A1 - Ken[nth Macrae] MacLeod (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Dystopia of the future produced by the "war on terrorism".

PB - Orbit CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Far Side of the Moon” Y1 - 2007 A1 - Ruth Nestvold (b. 1958) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of women enslaved for sex tourists on a space platform.

JF - Ideomancer [An online journal] VL - 6.2 UR - http://www.ideomancer.com/?p=2021. Accessed November 21, 2015. ER - TY - ABST T1 - Fearless Y1 - 2007 A1 - Tim Lott (b. 1956) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Young adult dystopia describing a school for girls, the City Community Faith School for Retraining, Opportunity and Hope, which is actually a sweat shop forcing a thousand girls to do the city's laundry.

PB - Walker Books CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - First Light Y1 - 2007 A1 - Rebecca Stead (b. 1968) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult flawed utopia. Gracehope is a community next to a lake in the ice under Greenland that had been established by people suspected of witchcraft and driven nearly to extinction. A eutopian society based on peace and cooperation was created, but it has grown to where it must limit births, and conservatives resist expansion, which would require a trip to the surface proposed by a young woman.

PB - Wendy Lamb Books CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Flashpoint: Book One of the Underground Y1 - 2007 A1 - Frank Creed (b. 1966) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set in 2036 in which Christian patriots struggle against a left tyranny. There is a role-playing game available. See 2010 Creed, War of Attrition, 2012 Creed, and Creed’s 2010 edited collection of stories set in the Underground world, Underground Rising.

PB - The Writers' Café Press CY - Lafayette, IN U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Flet: A Novel Y1 - 2007 A1 - Joyelle McSweeney (b. 1976) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which U.S. cities have been abandoned in face of a faked bioterrorist “Emergency” that allows the government to extend its control and further manipulate the population. A related volume is her Nylund, the Sarcographer. Grafton, VT: Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2007. 

PB - Fence Books CY - Albany, NY N1 -

Excerpts were originally published as “The Missing Cities (Excerpt from Flet a Sci-Fi Novel).” Caffeine Destiny http://www.caffeinedestiny.com/poetry/mcsweeney.html; “Novella Excerpts from Flet and Nyland.” Fairy Tale Review (No. 2? The Green Issue); and “Airlines (Excerpt from Flet a Sci-Fi Novel”) Apocryphal Text 1.4. (nd) http://www.apocryphaltextpoetry.com/volume1_issue4/vol1_issue_4.html; “The Seed Vision (from Flet).” Cutbank Poetry 1.65 (2006): Article 55; ; and “from Flet. A Novel.” Fence 10. 1 & 2 (Fall 2007 - Winter 2008): 6-8.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Four Hundred Thousand” Y1 - 2007 A1 - Livia Llewellyn (b. 1963) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future where Earth is supposedly at war with aliens and girl’s eggs are drafted into the military after her first period. 

JF - Subterranean Press SN - 978-1-59021-324-7 UR - https://subterraneanpress.com/magazine/fall_2007/fiction_the_four_hundred_thousand_by_livia_llewellyn. N1 -

Rpt. in her Engines of Desire: Tales of Love & Other Horrors. Maple Shade, NJ: Lethe Press, 2011. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Freedom Station Occoquan. A Novel Y1 - 2007 A1 - Cris[tobal] Alvarez KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in the U.S. after a second civil war and the development of a national security state. The ending suggests a sequel will be forthcoming.

PB - Author CY - Arlington, VA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - From the Notebooks of Doctor Brain Y1 - 2007 A1 - [Malcolm] [Azania] (b. 1969) KW - Canadian author KW - Kenyan author KW - Male author AB -

Humorous dystopia in which the members of the Fantastic Order of Justice have defeated their enemies and go into therapy.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York N1 -

An excerpt was published in On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic 18.4 (67) (Winter 2006): 84-89.

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By Minister Faust [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - ["Future Vision"] Y1 - 2007 A1 - Nick Spencer A1 - Robert White KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A brief positive "vision" of what the changes in daily life might be like as sustainable living becomes the norm. Reformist rather than radical.

JF - Christianity, Climate Change and Sustainable Living PB - SPCK CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Genesis Y1 - 2007 A1 - Paul Chafe (b. 1965) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

First volume of an intended trilogy about a multi-generation spaceship. This volume focuses on the struggle to get it launched and the initial conflicts after its launch.  In the second volume, Exodus: The Ark. New York: Baen, 2009, the people have forgotten their purpose or even that they are on a starship and a religious dystopia develops. A third volume, Revelations: The Ark, was announced but not published.

PB - Baen CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Gladiator. Crosstime Traffic--Book Four Y1 - 2007 A1 - Harry [Norman] Turtledove (b. 1949) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia in a series in which travel between parallel timelines, for harvesting resources, has become possible in the late 21st century. This volume is set in a future Italy under Communist rule and Russian domination. The novel focuses on a young women who stands for greater freedom. Other volumes in the series include 2004, 2006, and 2008 Turtledove and two non-utopian volumes, Gunpowder Empire: Crosstime Traffic--Book One. New York: Tor, 2003; and In High Places: Crosstime Traffic--Book Three. New York: Tor, 2006.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Good Old Days" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Kevin J[ames] Anderson (b. 1962) ED - Martin H[arry] Greenberg (1941-2011) ED - Rebecca Lickiss KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire. A man in a highly technological eutopia discovers the pleasures of doing something for himself.

JF - The Future We Wish We Had PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Greentopia: Towards a Sustainable Toronto Y1 - 2007 ED - Alana Wilcox ED - Christina Palassio ED - Jonny Dovercourt KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - Male author AB -

A collection of forty-three mostly short essays; the third volume presenting a future Toronto plus a “DirecTOry” of sources for environmentally friendly sources and activities (261-316). The “TOmorrow” section (203-59) is less explicitly utopian than that in the first volume but includes one graphic-novel eutopia, “Memoirs from the Distant Future” by Marc Ngui (204-12) depicting a sustainable future Toronto. See 2005 McBride and Wilcox, eds.; Alana Wilcox, Christina Palassio, and Jonny Dovercourt, eds. The State of the Arts: Living with Culture in Toronto. uTOpia Two. Toronto, ON: Coach House Books, 2006; Wayne Reeves and Christina Palassio, eds. HTO: Toronto’s Water from Lake Iroquois to Lost Rivers to Low-flow Toilets. Toronto, ON, Canada: Coach House Books, 2008; and Christina Palassio and Alana Wilcox, eds. The Edible City: Toronto’s food from farm to work. Toronto, ON, Canada: Coach House Books, 2009. 

PB - Coach House Books CY - Toronto, ON, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Grey Y1 - 2007 A1 - Jon Armstrong KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Corporate dystopia see from some raised in the corporate enclave. See also 2010 Armstrong.

PB - Night Shade Books CY - San Francisco, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Guardener's Tale Y1 - 2007 A1 - Bruce Boston KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia with a totally conditioned population that has an almost completely controlled but apparently full life under the watchful eye of the Guardeners. The novel follows one man with whom the conditioning did not take.

PB - Sam's Dot Publishing CY - Cedar Rapids, IA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ha'penny Y1 - 2007 A1 - Jo Walton (b. 1964) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - Welsh author AB -

Sequel to 2006 Walton. See also 2008 Walton. In this volume, there is a conspiracy to overthrow Nazi government of England.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Happy Families" Y1 - 2007 A1 - John Holmes KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

A polyandrous family (two men and two women) presented as eutopian fight a bill before the New Zealand Parliament to restore the recognition of only traditional marriages. The bill fails.

JF - Phoenixine: Magazine of the Phoenix Science Fiction Society (Auckland, New Zealand) VL - no. 213 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - HARM Y1 - 2007 A1 - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Two related dystopias, one created by the war on terrorism and the other created on a distant planet by people with a similar mindset. HARM refers to the Hostile Activities Research Ministry.

PB - Del Rey CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Hollywood Roadkill" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Cat[riona] Sparks (b. 1965) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia of a radical rich poor division with the poor living beside or in the medians of highways,

JF - On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic VL - 19.2 (69) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - I Am Nero Y1 - 2007 A1 - Samuel Collins KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a collapsing San Francisco brought on by global warming. The rich have fled, and the rest are at war with each other.

PB - Lulu.com CY - [Raleigh, NC] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "If We Can Save Just One Child..." Y1 - 2007 A1 - Robert [David] Reed (b. 1956) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia that focuses on the fear that develops as genetic engineering is misused.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 113.3 (665) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "In the Bushes" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Jami Attenberg (b. 1971) ED - The Editors of Nerve.com Instigated by Svedka [a vodka] KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of an environmentally damaged disintegrating U.S.

JF - 2033: The Future of Misbehavior. Interplanetary Dating, Madame President, Socialized Plastic Surgery, and Other Good News from the Future PB - Chronicle Books CY - San Francisco, CA N1 -

Rpt. in Invaders: 22 Tales From the Outer Limits of Literature. Ed. Jacob Weisman (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon, 2016), 140-44. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Incarceron Y1 - 2007 A1 - Catherine Fisher (b. 1957) KW - Female author KW - Welsh author AB -

Young adult dystopia with fantasy elements set in a vast prison. First volume of a series. See also 2008 Fisher.

PB - Hodder Children's Books CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Dial Books, 2010.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Islander: A Romance of the Future Y1 - 2007 A1 - Charles Whittlesey (b. 1955) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in the US in 2155 when there two Americas, one rich and one poor.

PB - np CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Jamestown Y1 - 2007 A1 - Matthew Sharpe (b. 1962) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a future Jamestown, Virginia being settled from a destroyed New York City based loosely the seventeenth century settlement.

PB - Soft Skull Press CY - Brooklyn, NY ER - TY - ABST T1 - Jimi Hendrix Turns Eighty Y1 - 2007 A1 - Tim Sandlin (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel is set in an old age home where a man has been sent by his daughter, who uses a single lapse, to take control of his assets. The other residents are aging hippies, while he is a sportswriter from Oklahoma, so he has trouble fitting it. But the focus of the novel is the rebellion of the members against the authoritarian system they are forced to live under. Much satire.

PB - Riverhead Books CY - New York SN - 978-1-59448-933-4 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Keeping Time" Y1 - 2007 A1 - [Maria] F[elisa] H. Batacan ED - Dean Francis Alfar ED - Nikki Alfar KW - Female author KW - Filipina author AB -

Dystopia brought about by an enzyme put into water to control obesity that inexorable takes weight off everyone until they die. 

JF - Philippine Speculative Fiction PB - Kestrel DDM CY - Np VL - Volume 3: Literature of the Fantastic N1 -

Repub. as an ebook. Quezon City, Philippines: Flipside Digital Content Co. and Kestrel IMC, 2017

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Kill or Cure Y1 - 2007 A1 - Rebecca Levene KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A volume in The Afterblight Chronicles series. Dystopia of various plagues that cause insanity and the search for a cure. For other volumes, see 2006 Spurrier, 2007 Andrews, 2008 Bark, 2008 Kane, 2009 Andrews, 2009 Ewing, 2009 Kane, 2010 Andrews, and 2010 Kane.

PB - Abaddon Books CY - Oxford, Eng. N1 -

Rpt. in Afterblight Chronicles: America (Np: Abaddon UK & Rebellion/Abaddon US, 2011), 263-437.

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Afterblight Chronicles at the head of the title.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Kiosk" Y1 - 2007 A1 - [Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Set in a not distant future in an Eastern European country that has experienced the dystopias of communism and capitalism and is going through a new transition based on what the story calls fabrication (three-dimensional printing). The protagonist is a man who has experienced the worst of the previous dystopias and runs a simple street kiosk catering to local people until he installs a fabricator.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 112.1 SN - 9781596064041 N1 -

Rpt. in his Gothic High-Tech: Stories (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2011), 13-57.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Land of the Headless: A Simple Story Y1 - 2007 A1 - Adam [Charles] Roberts (b. 1965) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of religious fundamentalism.

PB - Gollancz CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Last American" Y1 - 2007 A1 - John [Joseph Vincent] Kessel (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia that follows the history of one man who is instrumental in creating the political and religious system that led to the collapse of the world economy and ecosystem and the end of the human race. Written from the perspective of posthumans.

JF - Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction VL - 36.100 N1 -

Rpt. in his The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Other Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2008), 241-57.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Last Light Y1 - 2007 A1 - Alex Scarrow (b. 1966) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The dystopia brought about by halting global oil production followed by economic and social collapse. See also 2010 Scarrow.

PB - Orion CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Let Not the Left (Fifth Episode of Enemies of Society) Y1 - 2007 A1 - John David (b. 1955) KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Dystopia. Fifth of a six volume series. All volumes are concerned with violent conflict between factions, and this volume continues the buildup to war and the war. See also 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, and 2007 Morituri.

PB - AuthorHouse CY - Bloomington, IN U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Looking Glass Y1 - 2007 A1 - James R. Strickland KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Cyberpunk dystopia in which a paraplegic can live and work effectively in a virtual world but is still vulnerable there to the usual corporate and governmental plots.

PB - Flying Pen Press CY - Denver, CO U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lost Art Y1 - 2007 A1 - Simon Morden KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Young adult post-catastrophe religious dystopia. The central focus of the novel is on a young man who is a member of a religious order that guards the scientific knowledge of the past to keep it from being misused again.

PB - David Fickling Books CY - Oxford, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Lost Boy: A Reporter at Large” Y1 - 2007 A1 - Maureen F. McHugh (b. 1959) ED - Jonathan Stahan KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia following a nuclear attack on Baltimore. The story is about a boy who lost his memory. 

JF - Eclipse One PB - Night Shade Books CY - San Francisco, CA N1 -

Rpt. in her After the Apocalypse. Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2011), 87-99. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Love, American Style, 2033" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Darcy Cosper ED - The Editors of Nerve.com Instigated by Svedka [a vodka] KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Satire. Competitive swinging becomes the national pastime but excludes same-sex couples and thus the U.S., which is the only country that excludes them, does not participate in international competitions.

JF - 2033: The Future of Misbehavior. Interplanetary Dating, Madame President, Socialized Plastic Surgery, and Other Good News from the Future PB - Chronicle Books CY - San Francisco, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Magdas Career Choice" Y1 - 2007 A1 - [Rowena Cory] [Lindquist] (b. 1958) ED - Russell B. Farr ED - Nick Evans KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia in which the Society of Social Engineers have supposedly solved all Australia’s problems. Only those testing as having exceptional abilities have careers. One handicapped person’s career is to be the “scape-grace” (See 2001 Lindquist). A related non-utopian story is "Purgatory." Dreaming Again. Ed. Jack [Mayo] Dann (Sydney, NSW, Australia: HarperCollins Australia, 2008), 412-24, with an "Afterword" (424).

JF - The Worker's Paradise PB - Ticonderoga Publishers CY - Greenwood, WA, Australia U3 -

Cory Daniels [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Margarets Y1 - 2007 A1 - Sheri [Shirley] S[tewart] Tepper (1929-2016) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A science fiction novel set on many different planets, with all the humans with connections to an original Margaret. Some of the planets are presented as dystopian.

PB - HarperCollins CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Marrying In" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Carrie Vaughn (b. 1973) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A future United States where each state competes for population or to keep the state for the local population. The setting is Colorado, which has extremely restrictive immigration policies.

JF - Asimov's Science Fiction VL - 31.6 (377) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Morituri: Sixth and Final Episode of Enemies of Society Y1 - 2007 A1 - John David (b. 1955) KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Dystopia. Last of a six volumes. All volumes are concerned with violent conflict between factions, and this brings the various threads together and ends with Earth saved. See also 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, and 2007 Let Not the Left.

PB - AuthorHouse UK CY - Milton Keynes, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "MTP" Y1 - 2007 A1 - George Ivanoff (b. 1968) ED - Russell B. Farr ED - Nick Evans KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Addictive drugs are used to attract and keep best employees.

JF - The Workers' Paradise PB - Ticonderoga Publishers CY - Greenwood, WA, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Muddletopia Y1 - 2007 A1 - Kyle Mewburn KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Humorous children's story about a planet where everyone and everything looks alike.

PB - Puffin Books CY - Rosedale, North Shore, New Zealand U2 -

Illus. Dave Gunson

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The New You Y1 - 2007 A1 - Hilary Bromberg KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The novel is presented as if it is from the Second Dark Age having been founded after a future Great Devastation. The Second Dark Age is compared to Huxley's Brave New World (1932) with control by government and corporations.

PB - Oscura Press CY - Tijeras, NM U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "No Man's Land" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Rosaleen [Lucille] Love (b. 1940) ED - L[inda] Timmel Duchamp (b. 1950) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Eutopia. A planet where women and men have separated and the arrival of new men from space in the women's area. Both positive and negative impacts are described.

JF - The WisCon Chronicles PB - Aqueduct Press CY - Seattle, WA VL - Volume 1 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Noble Phasic. A Novel Y1 - 2007 A1 - David L. McClard (b. 1981) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a city divided against itself by class is transformed into a eutopia by tearing down the walls surrounding it and within it. The rigid divisions disappear, and a better, healthier society will be created.

PB - Xlibris CY - [Bloomington, IN] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Notes on Redevelopment" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Rick [Hiram Frederick] Moody [ III] (b. 1961) ED - The Editors of Nerve.com Instigated by Svedka [a vodka] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire describing a future where the U.S. has disintegrated with areas seceding from the Christian fundamentalist dystopia that the country had become. Proposal for the redevelopment of Times Square as a sex zone.

JF - 2033: The Future of Misbehavior. Interplanetary Dating, Madame President, Socialized Plastic Surgery, and Other Good News from the Future PB - Chronicle Books CY - San Francisco, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Oblivion Society Y1 - 2007 A1 - Marcus Alexander Hart KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-nuclear war dystopian satire with a group of misfits traveling across the U.S. in search of a safe haven. 

PB - Permuted Press CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Off Armageddon Reef Y1 - 2007 A1 - David [Mark] Weber (b. 1952) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The first of what is currently the ten-volume alternative history dystopian Safehold series. So far sequels are By Schism Rent Asunder. New York: Tor, 2008; By Heresies Distressed. New York: Tor, 2009, A Mighty Fortress. New York: Tor, 2010; How Firm a Foundation. New York: Tor, 2011; Midst Toil and Tribulation. New York: Tor, 2012; Like a Mighty Army. New York: Tor, 2014; Hell’s Foundations Quiver. New York: Tor, 2015; At the Sign of Triumph. New York: Tor, 2016; and Through Fiery Trials. New York: Tor, 2019. The series is set after most of humanity is wiped-out by aliens who had discovered Earth and its colonies by tracing its technology. As a result, the survivors ban technology and one of many threads in the series is the conflict between anti-technology forces, some based on religion, and those advocating technology.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Okraalom: A Fantasy on Historical Themes Y1 - 2007 A1 - Brian [Paul] Lilburn (b. 1935) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Primarily fantasy but includes the presentation of the eutopian Syai civilization which tries to help Earth correct its errors with much of the novel concerned with those errors, with corruption identified as the most important. The author is planning a sequel.

PB - [Rat Dog] CY - [Christchurch, New Zealand] UR - See also the author's blog at http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/sambas/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Old World" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Susan Palwick (b. 1961) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. The human race suddenly becomes altruistic and compassionate. The story is primarily concerned with a man who thought it all a conspiracy.

JF - The Fate of Mice PB - Tachyon Publications CY - San Francisco, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Omniscience Y1 - 2007 A1 - Tim Carlson (b. 1963) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia extrapolated into the near future of what results from the current anti-terrorist activities in Canada and the U.S.

PB - Talonbooks CY - Vancouver, BC, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Our American King Y1 - 2007 A1 - David Lozell Martin KW - Male author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia in which the rich control all resources and live securely. A charismatic leader is installed as king and establishes a good society, but conflict continues with the re-establishment of a federal government in opposition to the monarchy.

PB - Simon & Schuster CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Outrageous Fortune Y1 - 2007 A1 - Tim Scott (b. 1962) KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Humorous, somewhat surrealistic dystopia. Cities had fragmented into zones based on music; examples are Chillout, Classical, Compilation, Dance, Easy Listening where land was cheap because the area was unpopular, Heavy Metal, Jazz, Rap, and Skiffle, which was in decline. See also 2008 Scott which begins on the same note this novel ends, with sentient refrigerators.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 2008.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Perception Experiment Y1 - 2007 A1 - Jason Glover KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Religious dystopia where everyone is conditioned to believe the lessons of contemporary Christian fundamentalism. This produces a supposedly idyllic life except for those who slip through the controls.

PB - Thirdeye Publications CY - [Traverse City, MI] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Perfection" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Margot Berwin ED - The Editors of Nerve.com Instigated by Svedka [a vodka] KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of perfection brought about by socialized plastic surgery.

JF - 2033: The Future of Misbehavior. Interplanetary Dating, Madame President, Socialized Plastic Surgery, and Other Good News from the Future PB - Chronicle Books CY - San Francisco, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Persephone's Library" Y1 - 2007 A1 - [Susan Lynne] [Deefholts] (1942-2015) ED - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) ED - Holly Phillips (b. 1969) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - Indian author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia. A small community living at what appears to be the edge of the world is dominated by one man, who prohibits learning predating the event that created the community and takes multiple wives for himself.

JF - Tesseracts Eleven PB - Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy CY - Calgary, AL, Canada U3 -

Khria Deefholts [pseud]. The author also used the name Anduril Elessar

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pink Carbide Y1 - 2007 A1 - E[arl] S. Wynn KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia that begins in Los Angeles in 2162 with a corrupt corporate controlled government in US. There are two sequels: Pink Carbide: Aluminum Opus. Sonora, CA: Thunderune Publishing, 2008; and Pink Carbide: Carbon Aria. Sonora, CA: Thunderune, 2009. In the first sequel the protagonist flees the US, and in the second she returns to the US to discover her real identity.

PB - Thunderune Publishing CY - Sonora, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Pirate Daddy's Lonely Hearts Club Call-In Show" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Jardine Libaire ED - The Editors of Nerve.com Instigated by Svedka [a vodka] KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of corporate control (FBI-Google) specifically the requirement to wear a device the indicates whether or not another person is the right partner.

JF - 2033: The Future of Misbehavior. Interplanetary Dating, Madame President, Socialized Plastic Surgery, and Other Good News from the Future PB - Chronicle Books CY - San Francisco, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Political Science" Y1 - 2007 A1 - C. W. Johnson AB -

Anti-science dystopia.

JF - Analog Science Fiction and Fact VL - 127. 7 & 8 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Prairie Fire. A Novel Y1 - 2007 A1 - Dan Armstrong KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Near future anti-capitalist dystopia from a populist perspective. Three large corporations control the world grain market, and the U.S. farmers they are impoverishing decide to fight back with mixed results.

PB - Lincoln, NB CY - iUniverse N1 -

2nd printing Eugene, OR: Mud City Press, 2007. 540 pp.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Predictions of the End Times: An Accurate Portrayal of the Antichrist and his Actions Y1 - 2007 A1 - Rex Lombardo KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An unusual version of the Antichrist in that he will bring a eutopia to the world, by eliminating false religions, removing greed from capitalism, eliminating hunger, establishing a pure democracy, and creating a just system of taxation.

PB - Xlibris CY - [Bloomington, IN] UR - See http://www.PredictionsOfTheEndTimes.com U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Prefect Y1 - 2007 A1 - Alastair [Preston] Reynolds (b. 1966) KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

The novel is a police procedural set in the Glitter Band, which is composed of ten thousand orbiting habitats with varied social systems but with all the inhabitants having the right to vote. Each habitat chooses its own rules and regulations, with the only common rule being the right to vote. A computer constantly runs polls. A sequel is Elysium Fire. London: Gollancz, 2018. 

PB - Gollancz CY - London N1 -

Rpt. as Aurora Rising: A Prefect Dreyfus Emergency. London: Gollancz, 2017. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Principle" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Will[iam Woodward] Self (b. 1961) ED - The Editors of Nerve.com Instigated by Svedka [a vodka] KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Religious satire. The original golden plates of the Book of Mormon are rediscovered, and it turns out that they require polygamous, gay marriage.

JF - 2033: The Future of Misbehavior. Interplanetary Dating, Madame President, Socialized Plastic Surgery, and Other Good News from the Future PB - Chronicle Books CY - San Francisco, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Prison Y1 - 2007 A1 - Paul Western (b. 1963) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a huge prison that describes each of its divisions and follows one individual through them.

PB - [Ptd. by Lightning Source UK Ltd.] CY - [Milton Keynes, Eng.] UR - http://www.prison-novel.co.uk. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Profit Margin" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Latter, Kristopher KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. The government establishes a policy that allows companies to employ prisoners at cut rates. As a result, companies in collusion with a corrupt system arrange to have their most expensive employees arrested on false charges and then employ them at their old jobs.

JF - Neo-Opsis Science Fiction Magazine VL - no. 12 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Prophet of Flores" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Kosmatka, Ted KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Religious dystopia where people think evolution has been proven wrong.

JF - Asimov's Science Fiction VL - 31.9 (380) N1 -

Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twentieth-Fifth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2008), 548-69 with an editor’s introduction on 548.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Proxy Server" Y1 - 2007 A1 - L. Archeneaux AB -

Near future dystopia in which companies and governments cooperate to suppress dissent.

JF - Neo-Opsis Science Fiction Magazine VL - no. 13 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Quentel: A Post-Apocalyptic Novel Y1 - 2007 A1 - Deric R[obert] Budendorf KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-apocalyptic dystopia in which all adults die. The surviving children struggle for survival and fight with each other for dominance, but one small group on a farm has a vision of Quentel, an egalitarian eutopia.

PB - iUniverse CY - Lincoln NB U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Radio Freefall Y1 - 2007 A1 - Jarpe, Matthew KW - Male author AB -

Humorous cyberpunk dystopia in which a motley assortment of people fight an attempt to take over the world.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey Y1 - 2007 A1 - Chuck [Charles Michael] Palahniuk (b. 1962) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Much of the novel presents an urban dystopia of violence, and a second authoritarian dystopia develops in response to the first.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Rapturama" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Roland Boer A1 - Matthew Chrulew ED - Russell B. Farr ED - Nick Evans KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopian and dystopian satire. The first Artificial Intelligence is developed and programmed to be God by fundamentalist Christians in the U.S. It is used to rapture the right people into the heaven of virtual existence (see 1 Corinthians 15:52 and 1 Thessalonians 4: 15-17). Hackers help God to  escape the fundamentalist limits, and God welcomes people of all beliefs. God also chooses some to remain to service the systems, and these create a low population, environmentally sound eutopia. 

JF - The Workers' Paradise PB - Ticonderoga Publishers CY - Greenwood, WA, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Recoper: Breathing life into the revolution" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Neal [L.] Asher (b. 1961) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The setting of the story is one in which all unhealthy foods have been outlawed; everyone works for the state and can be hired out to private businesses; and the government spies on everyone.

JF - Nature VL - 450.7172 U2 -

Illus. Jacey

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Red Card" Y1 - 2007 A1 - S. L Gilbow KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which a few randomly selected people are given a red card and a gun and are permitted to kill one person.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 112.2 (658) N1 -

Rpt. in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 11-22; 2nd ed. as Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 11-22. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Red Men Y1 - 2007 A1 - Matthew De Abaitua (b. 1971) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Drugs for every situation. The Red Men are personalities uploaded into simulacra that take on a life of their own. Redtown is a simulation of a British town to replace democracy, Parliament, and politics. It all goes badly. Connected with 2015 and 2016 De Abaitua.

PB - Snowbooks CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Republic. A Novel Y1 - 2007 A1 - Charles Sheehan-Miles (b. 1971) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the U.S. responds to internal strife by becoming authoritarian. The novel focuses on the individuals and communities that resist. A sequel is Insurgent: Book 2 of America’s Future. Bethesda, MD: Cincinnatus Press, 2012. A third volume is planned.

PB - Cincinnatus Press CY - Cary, NC U1 -

Cover adds of America's Future.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Revisionist Y1 - 2007 A1 - Miranda Mellis KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Brief surrealistic dystopia with some suggestion of there having been a nuclear war. The protagonist observes and reports on the activities of a number of people in a number of settings. 

PB - Calamari Press CY - New York U2 -

Many illustrations

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Right to Work" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Cat[riona] Sparks (b. 1965) ED - Russell B. Farr ED - Nick Evans KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia. The elimination of pensions means that the old must work while the young play. Workers are considered lower class.

JF - The Workers' Paradise PB - Ticonderoga Publishers CY - Greenwood, WA, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Rocket Boy” Y1 - 2007 A1 - Paul J[ames] McAuley (b. 1955) ED - Joe [Joseph William] Haldeman (b. 1943) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The story starts in the dystopia of an Earth destroyed in war and under a dictatorship, but, given the conceit of the volume in which it first appeared, a boy is given an intelligent weapon and uses it to overthrow the dictatorship and become a new dictator.

JF - Future Weapons of War PB - Baen CY - Riverdale, New York N1 -

Rpt. in his A Very British History: The Best Science Fiction Stories of Paul McAuley, 1985-2011 (Hornsea, Eng.: PS Publishing, 2013), 313-29 with an author’s note on 432. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Rynemonn: Leopard Dreaming Y1 - 2007 A1 - Terry [Terence William] Dowling (b. 1947) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

The final volume in his Rynosseros series. See also 1990,1992, 1993 and 2009 Dowling. In this collection, the main protagonist of the series finally discovers the secrets of his past. An addition to series is “The Library.” X6 A Novellanthology. Ed. Keith Stevenson ([Bentley, VIC, Australia]: Coeur de Lion, 2009), 505-636. Rpt. in his Amberjack: Tales of Fear and Wonder (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2010), 263-358 with an “Afterword” (359-60). See also “Songs from the Inland Sea: Writing the Tom Rynosseros Series.” The Complete Rynosseros: The Adventures of Tom Rynosseros. Volume III (Hornsea, Eng.: PS Publishing/Drugstore Indian Press, 2020), 1-124. The volume also contains Dowling’s “Dancing with Scheherazade: Some Reflections in a Djinni’s Glass” (125-40); originally published in Parabolas of Science Fiction. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2013. Ed. Brian Attebery and Veronica Hollinger (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2013), 24-35; Richard Scott, “The Adventures of Tom Ryosseros: One Reader’s View” (141-153); originally published online in October 2007; and an “Author’s Note” (155-56).

PB - Coeur de Lion CY - [Alexandria, NSW, Australia] N1 -

Rpt. in The Complete Rynosseros: The Adventures of Tom Rynosseros. Volume II (Hornsea, Eng.: PS Publishing/Drugstore Indian Press, 2020), 291-639. Contains the previously published stories: “A Woman Sent Through Time.” Eidolon: The Journal of Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy, no. 14 (Autumn 1994): 53-71 (Illus. Shaun Tan); “The Maiden Death.” Destination Unknown. Ed. Peter Crowther (Clarkson, GA: White Wolf, 1997), 128-47; “No Hearts To Be Broken.” Interzone (Brighton, Eng.), no. 117 (March 1997): 37-41 (The story was written to accompany the cover painting by Shaun Tan); “Fear-Me-Now” Crosstown Traffic. Ed. Stuart Coupe, Julie Ogden, and Robert Hood (Wollongong, NSW, Australia: Fives Islands Press in association with Mean Streets magazine, 1993), 131-56, with an author’s Note 130; “Ships for the Sundance Sea” Eidolon, no. 17/18 (5.1) (Winter 1995): 115-46 (Illus. Shaun Tan); and “Rynemonn” [containing “Doing the Line” (225-31); “Coyote Struck by Lightning” (231-83); rpt. in his Make Believe: A Terry Dowling Reader (Greenwood, WA, Australia: Ticonderoga Publications, 2009), 339-62; and “Sewing Whole Cloth” (283-310)]. Forever Shores. Ed. Peter McNamara and Margaret Winch (Kent Town, South Australia, Australia: Wakefield Press, 2003), 225-310.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Sacred Institution" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Esther [Mona] Friesner (b. 1951) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Satire on Christian fundamentalism.

JF - Helix: A Speculative Fiction Quarterly VL - no. 5 UR - http://www.helixsf.com. ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Safety Critical: Caught on camera" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Gilbey, John KW - Male author AB -

Dystopian background to a humorous story. Cameras are illegal; only connected images are legal so that the security services can review all photographs.

JF - Nature VL - 449.7159 U2 -

Illus. Jacey

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Salt Y1 - 2007 A1 - Maurice [Gough] Gee (b. 1931) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Young adult dystopia. The extremely rich and powerful versus the extremely poor and effectively enslaved. A girl from the top and a boy from the bottom are forced by circumstances to flee the dystopia, with most of the action of the novel concerned with the flight, the rescue of the boy's father, and a brief return to the dystopia. The ending suggests the possibility of them creating a better society. See also 2008 and 2010 Gee.

PB - Puffin Books CY - Rosedale, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - School's Out Y1 - 2007 A1 - Scott [Keegan] Andrews (b. 1971) KW - Male author AB -

A volume in the series The Afterblight Chronicles. Young adult dystopia set after a plague, called "The Cull", had eliminated a large part of the world's population. Extreme violence, gangs, and cults. For other volumes, see 2006 Spurrier, 2007 Levene, 2008 Bark, 2008 Kane, 2009 Andrews, 2009 Ewing, 2009 Kane, 2010 Andrews, and 2010 Kane.

PB - Abaddon Books CY - Oxford, Eng. N1 -

Rpt. in Schools Out Forever. An Omnibus of Post-Apocalyptic Novels. Oxford, Eng.: Abaddon Books, 2012 which reprints Schools Out (7-221), Operation Motherland (223-443), “The Man Who Would Not Be King” (445-67), and Children’s Crusade (469-707) and adds miscellaneous “Bonus Material” (709-27). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Sea Change" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Una McCormack (b. 1972) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia. Radical division between rich and poor. Gays and lesbians have lost rights previously gained. Machine-teaching.

JF - Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction VL - 36.100 ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Sea-wreck Stranger Y1 - 2007 A1 - Anna Mackenzie (b. 1963) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult dystopia focusing on a young woman on an isolated island who saves a man after a wreck. The islanders, who have closed themselves off from all outsiders including anything from the sea, would have killed both of them. First volume of a trilogy. In the second volume, Ebony Hill. Dunedin, New Zealand: Longacre Press, 2010, the protagonist tries to settle into a new community, which is threatened from outside. In the third volume, Finder’s Shore. Dunedin, New Zealand: Longacre Press, 2011, the young woman returns to the island which is going through a power struggle.

PB - Longacre Press CY - Dunedin, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Shadow Speaker Y1 - 2007 A1 - Nnedi[mma Nkemdili]] Okorafor-Mbachu (b. 1974) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

A young adult novel that begins with a simple eutopia followed by an authoritarian dystopia before becoming a fantasy adventure based on African myth. Loose connection to 2005 Okorafor-Mbachu. With the publication of new edition the book became the first volume of The Desert Magician’s Duology followed by Like Thunder. The Desert Magician’s Duology: Book 2. New York: DAW Books/Astra Publishing House, 2023, which is mostly fantasy based on African myth.

PB - Jump at the Sun/Hyperion CY - New York N1 -

A revised and updated edition with a new introduction by the author was published New York: DAW Books/Astra Publishing House, 2023.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Shall We Save the Earth? Y1 - 2007 A1 - Royston Fernandes KW - Indian author KW - Male author AB -

A eutopia called “Society Without Selfishness” (SWS). “The entire scheme of SWS is based on the simple motive of providing free food, clothing and shelter to every earthizen while curbing all luxuries now enjoyed by selected few” (ix). All weapons destroyed. One religion. World government. No pollution. No night work except in hospitals. 

PB - AuthorHouse CY - Milton Keynes, Eng. SN - 978-1-4343-1049-1 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Shelter Y1 - 2007 A1 - Susan Palwick (b. 1961) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. In the twenty-first century compassion is a crime.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Silenced. A Novel Y1 - 2007 A1 - James DeVita KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia based on the true story of Sophia (known as Sophie) Magdalena Scholl (1921-43), who was a Christian anti-Nazi activist involved in the White Rose movement and was executed for her actions. Two films The White Rose (1982) and Sophie Scholl--The Final Days (2005), both originally in German, have been made about her and the movement. In the novel, the Zero Toleration Party has installed a surveillance system in every home and is working to eliminate any independent thought. In the novel, the young woman fighting the regime survives.

PB - Eos CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. Minneapolis, MN: Milkweed Editions, 2015.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Silverstream Y1 - 2007 A1 - Jillian Sullivan (b. 1967) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult dystopia about a society that enforces its rules by sending dissidents to work camps. A young woman successfully fights the regime.

PB - Pearson Education New Zealand CY - Rosedale, North Shore, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Single Girl's Guide to Compromising Homeland Security" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Jen Kirkman (b. 1974) ED - The Editors of Nerve.com Instigated by Svedka [a vodka] KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of required marriage.

JF - 2033: The Future of Misbehavior. Interplanetary Dating, Madame President, Socialized Plastic Surgery, and Other Good News from the Future PB - Chronicle Books CY - San Francisco, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sixty Days and Counting Y1 - 2007 A1 - Kim Stanley Robinson (b. 1952) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. The third volume of a trilogy concerned with the disaster being brought about by global warming. The first two volumes are Forty Signs of Rain. New York: Bantam Books, 2004; U.K. ed. London: HarperCollins, 2004. Rev. in his Green Earth: The Science in the Capital Series (London: Harper Voyager, 2015), 1-282; and Fifty Degrees Below. New York: Bantam, Books, 2005; U.K. ed. London: HarperCollins, 2005 [An excerpt was published as “Primate in Forest (From Chapter One: Fifty Degrees Below).” Future Washington. Ed. Ernest Lilley (Beltsville, MD: WSFA Press/Washington Science Fiction Association (WSFA), 2005), 41-58, with an “Introduction to Primate in Forest by Ernest Lilley (39-40)]. Rev. in his Green Earth: The Science in the Capital Series (London: Harper Voyager, 2015), 283-686. Both of these are political novels concerned with the growing crisis and the lack of political will to deal with it. Sixty Days and Counting describes both the dystopia that results, and the recovering world produced by the efforts of a small group of dedicated people.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York N1 -

Rev. in his Green Earth: The Science in the Capital Series (London: Harper Voyager, 2015), 687-1069, with an “Introduction” to the volume by the author (xi-xvi) in which he explains the reasons for the changes in the trilogy. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Social Security" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Pamela Rentz KW - Female author KW - Native American author AB -

The story is set in a future in which climate change and economic problems have resulted in the government abandoning an Indian settlement. 

JF - The Wordstock Ten: Finalists from the 2007 Wordstock Short Fiction Competition PB - Distrib. Franklin, Beedle & Associates CY - Wilsonville, OR SN - 9781590282045, 978-1540396129 N1 -

Rpt. in her Red Tape: Stories from Indian Country (Np: CreateSpace, 2017), 43-59.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Solartopia! Our Green-Powered Earth. A.D. 2030 Y1 - 2007 A1 - Harvey [Franklin] Wasserman (b. 1945) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia reflecting the title with details on the technology and considerable criticism of the damage done by older technology. The book takes the reader on something of a tour of the world on a hydrogen powered airplane. See http://solartopia.org

PB - Harvey Wasserman CY - Bexley, OH N1 -

A rev. ed. but called the first ed. was published in 2007 with an “Introduction” by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. [7-9] and “Song for Solartopia” by Pete Seeger and the author (101). It has the same bibliographical information and there is no reference to the 2006 edition. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Space Program Y1 - 2007 A1 - Joanna Metzger KW - Female author AB -

Humorous children’s adventure story set on a planet where children from many planets come to be trained for the space program and learn to live together.

PB - Mondo CY - New York U2 -

Illus. Marcello Elizalde

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Stewards of the Flame Y1 - 2007 A1 - Sylvia [Louise] Engdahl (b. 1933) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The novel begins in an authoritarian medical dystopia in which health is extremely strictly controlled, to the extent that even the slightest deviation from the ideal leads to forced hospitalization. A small group of people with "psi powers" begin a lengthy conspiracy that culminates in 2009 Engdahl. See also 2013 Engdahl

PB - BookSurge CY - Eugene, OR U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Stigma and The Cave. Two Novels Y1 - 2007 A1 - [Diana Melhem] [Vogel] (1926-2013) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopias. Stigma (1-101) describes a government responding to a crisis by killing some of its population and imprisoning much of the rest. The Cave (103-82) describes such a government encouraging its population to escape to caves; it includes religious conflict. Called volumes two and three of the Patrimonies trilogy. The first volume was Blight. New York: Riverrun Press, 1995.

PB - Syracuse University Press CY - Syracuse, NY U3 -

D. H. Melhem [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Stone Gods Y1 - 2007 A1 - Jeanette Winterson (b. 1959) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia. A future where the world is divided among three authoritarian regimes, the Central Power, which is corporate controlled; the Easter Caliphate, which is Islamist; and the SinoMosco Pact. World has been environmentally damaged. Another war breaks out, and there is another dystopia following it.

PB - Hamish Hamilton CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Succession: A Radical Solution" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Steve Longworth KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Doctors retrain to kill people to solve the population problem created by better sanitation and health care.

JF - Nature VL - 448.7155 U2 -

Illus. Jacey

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Suicide: Or the Future of Medicine. (A ‘Satire by Entelechy’ of Biotechnology)” Y1 - 2007 A1 - Eric Shouse KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Primarily a commentary on Kenneth Burke’s satire “Waste or the Future of Prosperity” (1930) but a short section, “A satire by Entelechy of Biotechnology,” projects a future in which nanotechnology will be used to rid the world of the “active seniors” who are collecting their pensions without contributing to society.

JF - KB Journal: The Journal of the Kenneth Burke Society VL - 4.1 UR - http://www.kbjournal.org/shouse ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Surveillance" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Joe R[ichard Harold] Lansdale (b. 1951) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Brief dystopia describing a society where, in the name of safety, everyone is followed by CCTV cameras all the time.

JF - Subterranean Magazine UR - http://subterraneanpress.com/index.php/magazine/winter2007/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Symposia" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Tyler Keevil KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia with a deep rich-poor division.

JF - Neo-Opsis Science Fiction Magazine VL - no. 11 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Tabloids Bring Back Family Values!" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Ana Marie Cox (b. 1972) ED - The Editors of Nerve.com Instigated by Svedka [a vodka] KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of average people competing to attract paparazzi by creating more and more extreme false versions of their lives.

JF - 2033: The Future of Misbehavior. Interplanetary Dating, Madame President, Socialized Plastic Surgery, and Other Good News from the Future PB - Chronicle Books CY - San Francisco, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Taken+ Y1 - 2007 A1 - Tenea D. Johnson ED - Brandon Massey KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

The story is told by a U.S. Senator’s adult daughter who, along with the adult children of other prominent politicians, has been captured by a radical Black movement, the New Dawn, and incarcerates in the hold of a ship designed to replicate the Middle Passage slave ships from Africa to the United States.

JF - Whispers in the Night: Dark Dreams III PB - Dafina/Kensington Books CY - New York SN - 978-0758217417 978-1732638853 N1 -

 Rpt. in her Broken Fevers (Greenbelt, MD: Rosarium, 2021), 33-46.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Taken Y1 - 2007 A1 - Edward [William] Bloor (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia set in a future in which kidnapping has become an industry.

PB - Alfred A. Knopf CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Tales from the Town of Widows & Chronicles from the Land of Men Y1 - 2007 A1 - James Cañón (b. 1968) KW - Columbian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Women only utopia.

PB - HarperCollins CY - New York N1 -

"The Day the Men Disappeared” originally published as “Mariquita.” Chautauquan Literary Journal, no. 2 (2005): 85-95. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Texas Secedes Y1 - 2007 A1 - Daniel Jason KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The title tells the story. Texas secedes from a dystopian U.S.

PB - Five Star Stories CY - Houston, TX U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Therefore Repent! A post-Rapture graphic novel Y1 - 2007 A1 - Jim Munroe (b. 1972) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

As the subtitle indicates, the Rapture has occurred, and the novel is concerned with the odd world this creates for those not Raptured, a world where magic works. See also 2010 Munroe.

PB - No Media KIngs CY - Toronto, ON, Canada U2 -

Illus. Sam Salgood [pseud.] [Maxim Douglas]. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - To Live Without Warning Y1 - 2007 A1 - Timothy [S.] LaBadie KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian technological dystopia set in a future San Francisco where machines require conformity to the rules.

PB - Xlibris CY - [Bloomington, IN] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Tsunami: Book Three of the Marq'ssan Cycle Y1 - 2007 A1 - L[inda] Timmel Duchamp (b. 1950) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 2005, 2006, and 2007 Duchamp, Blood in the Fruit. See also 2008 Duchamp. This volume shows three women with very different perspectives as they try to bring about the particular changes they want.

PB - Aqueduct Press CY - Seattle, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Un Lun Dun Y1 - 2007 A1 - China [Tom] Miéville (b. 1972) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Young adult novel set in London and Un Lun Dun (Un-London). The latter is being attacked by the Smog and its supporters in both cities but is defeated.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Under My Roof Y1 - 2007 A1 - Nick Mamatas (b. 1972) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A man builds a nuclear weapon, disguised as a gnome, in his front yard and secedes from the U.S.

PB - Soft Skull Press CY - Brooklyn, NY SN - 9781933368436 9781616963002 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Unwind Y1 - 2007 A1 - Neal Shusterman (b. 1962) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which until eighteen teenagers are used for body parts, the harvesting of which is called "unwinding". Sequels include UnWholly: Book 2 of the Unwind Trilogy. New York: Simon & Schuster BYFR, 2012; UnSouled: Book 3 of the Unwind Dystology. New York: Simon & Schuster BYFR, 2013; UnBound: Stories from the Unwind World. New York: Simon & Schuster BYFR, 2015; and UnDivided: Book 4 of the Unwind Dystology. New York: Simon & Schuster BYFR, 2014 in which the dystopia is finally defeated. A number of stories are co-authored, including Unfinished Symphony” (21-61), “UnStrung” (113-55), and “UnTithed” (217-40) by Michelle Knowlden; “UnDevoured” (63-81) by Jarrod Shusterman; “UnClean” (83-111) by Terry Black; and “Unnatural Selection” (157-203) by Brendan Shusterman.

PB - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Valor Tale Y1 - 2007 A1 - David Earl Williams III (b. 1984) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which a democratically elected government fails to respond to developing chaos and a war develops that lasts fifteen years. A new government is established that becomes corrupt, and this brings about a civil war that lasts eight years. Martial law follows and is opposed by a small group of freedom fighters, the Aurora Blade. The novel then follows eight main characters who are depicted and described at the beginning plus other characters and a Narrator as they struggle to restore freedom.

PB - Xlibris CY - [Bloomington, IN] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Visitors Y1 - 2007 A1 - John [Alexander] Stewart KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Labeled an allegory, the story is about advanced aliens who arrive on Earth with the intent of helping the human race. While they leave without bringing about dramatic change, their positive influence will produce a better world. Something of a New Age perspective.

PB - Shepheard-Walwyn CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Walmartopia" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Catherine Capellaro KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia set in 2037. Walmart runs the U.S., and the capital is in Bensonhurst, Arkansas, the company's headquarters.

CY - Play first performed in New York. ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Wanderers Y1 - 2007 A1 - Naomi Gladish Smith KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The novel is similar to 2004 Smith in that it is concerned with a group of people in the first stage of the afterlife described by Emanuel Swedenborg (1668-1772) and their preparations for moving to other stages. See also 2011 Smith. 

PB - Chrysalis Books CY - West Chester, PA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - We, Robots A Novella Y1 - 2007 A1 - Sue Lange KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia told from the point of view of a robot. Initially the robot is a simple one caring for and protecting a child, and the dystopia is first presented in the description of the need for protection on the walk to school and in the school, which is a fortress and is as concerned with protecting the child as teaching her. Then the robots are given the ability to feel pain and humans are given enhanced powers previously limited to the robots. Little actually changes and the same dystopia remains.

PB - Aqueduct Press CY - Seattle, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Where the Water Meets the Sky" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Jay [Joseph Edward] Lake [Jr.] (1964-2014) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The ecological eutopia possible after our environmental dystopia. Much of the U.S. has been abandoned, but the Northwest has managed to create a good society without the power grid or the automobile.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 208 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Wikiworld" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Paul [Gerard] Di Filippo (b. 1954) ED - Lou Anders KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia based around peer-operated systems, including government.

JF - Fast Forward: Future Fiction from the Cutting Edge PB - Pyr CY - Amherst, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Working Dead of Heehaw's Australia" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Jenny Schwartz ED - Russell B. Farr ED - Nick Evans KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia. As a result of deliberate cuts in health care and the elimination of workplace rights, a large supply of zombies is available to replace workers. A direct commentary on the policies of John Howard (b. 1939), Australian Prime Minister 1996-2007.

JF - The Workers' Paradise PB - Ticonderoga Publishers CY - Greenwood, WA, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Y3K Y1 - 2007 A1 - Stan Kahn KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Ecological, communal eutopia set in 2999. The eutopia arose after the complete collapse of the world’s ecology, and there is a movement to reinstitute the policies that led to the collapse. There is a flourishing communal movement, and the novel follows one elderly communard as he fights the changes and visits some of the communal sites affiliated with his home community in the forest in Oregon. All but one of the urban sites of this community is paired with a rural one. The community is mostly vegetarian and much of the more-or-less flat land open to the sun are organic gardens. Everyone is expected to work about fifteen hours a week, and if they do so at any of the communities’ home sites “they can be assured of all of life’s basic material needs” (13). Everyone has a private space. All adults assume responsibility for all the children, who, due to the isolation of the community, are home-schooled, although many children choose to transfer to an urban community to attend school. The community is expected to care for the land and the watershed, maintain trails, respond to forest fires, and so forth, and if it does so and reside on the land continuously for twenty years, it is granted permanent use. The first part of the novel includes an extremely detailed description of the Oregon community and daily life there, and then follows the protagonist to Portland, Oregon, which is described as “A Natural City”. Much of the rest part of the novel is driven by an attempt to return to the policies that led to the collapse and the resistance to it. Although most people live to about 150, the world population is stabilized at 1.7 billion and the size of cities is shrinking. Energy is solar, biofuels, windmills, small hydro generators, and other means depending on the location and weather patterns. Buildings are built to last hundreds of years. The average life span is 153 years. All public transportation in North America is free. Universal freedom to travel anywhere in the world. The author lived in an intentional community in Oregon for five years.

PB - WingSpan Press CY - Livermore, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "YFL-500" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Robert Charles Wilson (b. 1953) ED - Lou Anders KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia set in the same world as 2006 Wilson "The Cartesian Theater".

JF - Fast Forward: Future Fiction from the Cutting Edge PB - Pyr CY - Amherst, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Yiddish Policemen’s Union Y1 - 2007 A1 - Michael Chabon (b. 1963) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Alternative history in which two million Jews are settled in Sitka, Alaska. The novel takes the form of a murder mystery that unravels various plots that reveal the state of the future, much of it not developed.

PB - HarperCollins CY - New York SN - 9780007149827 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - 2084: A Novel Y1 - 2006 A1 - Durer, Chris[topher] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-World War III dystopia in which the U.S. and Japan have joined to establish Amernipp. The U.S., now Western Amernipp, becomes a theocracy controlling all aspects of personal life. Ultimately resistance is successful, and the U.S. Constitution is reestablished, but the book ends with it unclear if this will be maintained, which suggests a sequel.

PB - Ivy House CY - Raleigh NC U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Absalom's Mother" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Louise Marley (b. 1952) ED - Lou Anders KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia with centralized control of all aspects of life. The story is about the revolt of a group of women against the drafting of their children into the workforce and the militia at a very young age. Schooling involves teaching children how to do the jobs they are already required to do.

JF - Futureshocks PB - Roc CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A.C. 2084: A Utopian Novel (The New Atlantis Republic). Salute to More’s Utopia (1516) Bacon’s New Atlantis (1626) Orwell’s 1984 (1949) Y1 - 2006 A1 - Ismail Ersevim Prof. Dr., LPIBA, IOM KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

High tech eutopia on the re-emerged Atlantis (now New Atlantis) after a number of major environmental catastrophes rearranged the world order. Everyone must work eight hours a day six days a week and, in exchange, all needs are provided for without money. Can work more at choice. No private property. No taxes. No banks. Electric public transport, with electricity from wind, water, or bioenergy. All shops open twenty-four hours a day seven days a week and are mostly self-service. No personal weapons. No military. All medical care is free. Children under twelve cannot watch TV or use media without parental consent. Twelve years education required; taught through the internet. Sports required. Most disease has been eliminated; genetic surgery before birth eliminates birth defects. Mothers return to work when the child is one and a half. Work fifty years, but this can be shortened by working longer earlier. Cremation. Between eighteen and twenty-one supervised dating. After twenty-one if not in education, sexual relations are permitted, if approved, with required birth control and required regular reports. Gender equality. Only monogamy permitted. Religious freedom, and religion is discussed throughout the novel. Includes commentary on past utopias.

PB - Melrose Books CY - Ely, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "An Accounting" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Brian [Keith] Evenson (b. 1966) ED - Rusty Morrison ED - Ken Keegan KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia of religious conflict.

JF - Paraspheres: Extending Beyond the Spheres of Literary and Genre Fiction: Fabulist and New Wave Fabulist Stories PB - Omnidawn Publishing CY - Richmond, CA N1 -

Rpt. in Evenson, Fugue State. Stories. With Art by Zak Sally (Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House Press, 2009), 35-45; in Best American Fantasy. Ed. Ann and Jeff VanderMeer ([Holicong, PA]: Prime Books, 2007), 366-78; and in The Apocalypse Reader. Ed. Justin Taylor (New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 106-16.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The African Origins of UFOs Y1 - 2006 A1 - Anthony Joseph KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Trinidadian author AB -

In the novel slaves travel to a future eutopian pre-colonial Africa. The novel, organized around twenty-four chapters, reflects Timothy Leary's (1920-96) twenty-four stages of the evolution of human consciousness modified by Ornette Coleman's (b. 1930) sense of musical progression. Much use of dialect.

PB - Salt Publishing CY - Cambridge, Eng. N1 -

Parts were originally published as “The African Origins of UFOs (excerpt from the novel).” Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora. Ed. Sheree R. Thomas (New York: Warner Books, 2000), 312-18; and as “Hummingbird”, “The ‛doption”, “On Kunu Morn”, and “She Swan in Heaven.” Hambone, no. 18 (2006): 149-55. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "After the Protocols" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Adam-Troy Castro (b. 1960) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Multiple dystopias all blaming the Jews for their failures. Search for the Jews, who, it turns out, have left for an alternative universe. The story ends with one protagonist concluding that it must have been a different group causing all the problem, and the suggestion that the whole process of scapegoating will start over.

JF - Helix: A Speculative Fiction Quarterly UR - www.helixsf.com. ER - TY - ABST T1 - Among The Free. A Shadow Children Book Y1 - 2006 A1 - Margaret Peterson Haddix (b. 1964) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult overpopulation dystopia in which each family is limited to two children. Sequel to 1998, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005 Haddix. In this volume, a rebellion ousts the Population Police, but the new regime is little better.

PB - Simon & Schuster Books for Young People CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Another Word for Map Is Faith" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Christopher Rowe (b. 1969) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Religious dystopia in which a completely controlling Christian denomination works to restore the landscape to the version that they see as ordained by Christ based on old maps. In the story, they demolish a dam and destroy a town to get rid of a lake that is not on their map.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 111.2 (653) N1 -

Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume 1. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2006), 93-103; and in his Telling the Map: Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2017), 23-37.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Assassin's Dream Y1 - 2006 A1 - J[ames] D[enny] Townsend KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. A future where most men were killed in a plague and the women have established an authoritarian society with trained assassins to kill those who are unwanted.

PB - Five Star CY - Waterville, ME U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Baby Merchant Y1 - 2006 A1 - Kit [Lilian Craig] Reed (1932-2017) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. The background to the novel is a future where babies are a high-priced commodity for those who cannot conceive or adopt.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Bar Code Rebellion Y1 - 2006 A1 - Suzanne Weyn (b. 1955) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 2004 Weyn following the girl as she joins the resistance. See also 2012 Weyn.

PB - Scholastic CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Big Bishop Roko and the Altar Gangsters. A Novel Y1 - 2006 A1 - [Bernard] Kojo Laing (b. 1946) KW - Ghanaian author KW - Male author AB -

Complex satire directed mostly at religion set in a dystopian world in which the rich and poor are becoming more deeply divided through genetic engineering.

PB - Woeli Publishing Services CY - Accra, Gandhi U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Billion Eves" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Robert [David] Reed (b. 1956) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Religious dystopia in which technology allows the church to expand to alternate worlds, usually with one man taking a number of women with him.

JF - Asimov's Science Fiction VL - 30.10 & 11 (369 & 370) N1 -

Rpt. in Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2007 Edition. Ed. Rich Horton ([Canton, OH]: Prime Books, 2007), 306-72.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Blue Stars for All Saviors' Day" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Cat[riona] Sparks (b. 1965) ED - Nicole R. Murphy KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia of violence.

JF - The Outcast: An Anthology of Exiles and Strangers PB - Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild CY - Canberra, ACT, Australia U2 -

Illus. on p. 106

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Book of Dave: A Revelation of the Recent Past and the Distant Future Y1 - 2006 A1 - Will[iam Woodward] Self (b. 1961) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

An odd future with both eutopian and dystopian elements based on the notebooks of a twentieth century London taxi driver.

PB - Viking CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Carnival Y1 - 2006 A1 - [Sarah Bear Elizabeth] [Wishnevsky] (b. 1971) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Mostly adventure and intrigue on New Amazonia, a world dominated by women who always carry weapons.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York U3 -

By Elizabeth Bear [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Cartesian Theater" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Robert Charles Wilson (b. 1953) ED - Lou Anders KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The background of the story is the failure of complete automation to produce a eutopia. See also 2007 Wilson. 

JF - Futureshocks PB - Roc CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume 1. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2006), 275-98; and in Distant Early Warnings: Canada's Best Science Fiction. Ed. Robert J. Sawyer (Markham, ON, Canada: Published by Red Deer Press for Robert J. Sawyer Books, 2009), 241-77 with a note on the author on 241-42.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Caught By Skin" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Steve Berman (b. 1949) ED - Cecilia Tan (b. 1967) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia centering on the popularity of facial transplants so that everyone can choose the way they look and change their looks as fads change.

JF - Sex in the System: Stories of Erotic Futures, Technological Stimulation, and the Sensual Life of Machines PB - Thunder's Mouth Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Check Elastic Before Jumping: Paralysis to senses, temporarily" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Neal [L.] Asher (b. 1961) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A future of corporate dominance mostly presented positively.

JF - Nature VL - 441.7096 N1 -

Rpt. without the subtitle or the illus. in Futures from Nature. Ed. Henry Gee (New York: Tor, 2007), 30-32.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Children's Hospital Y1 - 2006 A1 - Adrian, Chris KW - Male author AB -

Flawed utopia/dystopia with strong elements of fantasy. After a catastrophe that inundates the earth under miles of water, a children's hospital survives by floating. All the children are miraculously cured of whatever mental or physical disease brought them to the hospital, and attempts are made to create a better society.

PB - McSweeney's Books CY - San Francisco, CA ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Chilling Warmth: A Tale of Global Warming Y1 - 2006 A1 - Jay Kaplan KW - Male author AB -

The dystopia brought about by global warming.

PB - iUniverse CY - Lincoln, NB U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Choosing Our Destiny: Creating the Utopian World in the 21st Century Y1 - 2006 A1 - Cyril [Shirley] Belshaw (1921-2018) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Canadian author AB -

An extremely detailed non-fiction eutopia with a stress on the acceptance of diversity. Includes analyses of the current situation with explanations of the proposals, and most of the text is about current conditions. The author was editor of Current Anthropology and the book reflects his background in anthropology, with many of his suggestions for improvement based on his experiences in a variety of cultures.

PB - Xlibris CY - [Bloomington, IN] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Chute Thru Y1 - 2006 A1 - Janice Marriott (b. 1946) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult humorous dystopia. Global warming means that everyone lives on large rafts. The focus of the novel is on a young boy living on one of the poorer rafts in the northern ocean where work is enforced by cyborgs, and everything is breaking down. There are also rafts for the rich and powerful, mostly in the southern ocean. See also 2009 Marriott.

PB - Mallinson Rendal CY - Wellington, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Civilization" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Kaftan, Vylar ED - Farah Mendlesohn KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. The story presents alternative histories depending on the choices made but all end with the need to begin again.

JF - Glorifying Terrorism: An Anthology of Original Science Fiction PB - Rackstraw Press CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 463-70; 2nd ed. as Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 463-70. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Collapse Y1 - 2006 A1 - Jeff Stanfield KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which the Chinese and the North Koreans invade the U.S.

PB - AuthorHouse CY - Bloomington, IN U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Conflagration Y1 - 2006 A1 - Mick [Michael Anthony] Farren (1943-2013) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Sequel to 2004 Farren with the fantasy elements and the conflict emphasized.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Created of Fire: The War Comes Home Y1 - 2006 A1 - Mark Cato KW - Male author AB -

Mostly a political novel set in the very near future which describes a campaign to stop immigration to the U.S. from Islamic countries. A dystopia of violence follows.

PB - FairHope Press CY - Bayport, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Cruncher's, Inc." Y1 - 2006 A1 - Kristine Kathryn Rusch (b. 1960) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. A future where all the actions of each individual are evaluated and tabulated to determine their worth for medical treatment and other social services.

JF - Asimov's Science Fiction VL - 30.8 (367) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Culled Y1 - 2006 A1 - Simon Spurrier (b. 1981) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. The first volume in The Afterblight Chronicles series. This volume describes the immediate effects of a plague that kills most of the world's population. This is a complex series with multiple authors who take the series in different directions from this origin. For other volumes, see 2007 Andrews, 2007 Levene, 2008 Bark, 2008 Kane, 2009 Andrews, 2009 Ewing, 2009 Kane, 2010 Andrews, and 2010 Kane.

PB - Abaddon Books CY - Oxford, Eng. N1 -

Rpt. in Afterblight Chronicles: America (Oxford, Eng.: Abaddon UK & Rebellion/Abaddon US, 2011), 5-261.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Cut" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Mark Ravenhill (b. 1966) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The play concerns a surgery, known as “the cut,” that is never defined that is used on dissidents, sick people, and those who choose to have it. It begins in the office of a practitioner who is conflicted about the practice trying to talk a healthy man out of having the surgery. In the second part, the practitioner, who has never told his wife what he does, having a confrontation with her. In the third part, a new government has outlawed “the cut” and the practitioner is in jail. It premiered at the Donmar Warehouse, London, February 23, 2006.

JF - The Cut and Product PB - Methuen CY - London SN - 978-0-413-77574-0 978-1-4081-0679-2 N1 -

Rpt. in his Plays: 2. (London: Methuen Drama, 2008), 179-231.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Cybernetica Y1 - 2006 A1 - Michael J. Cavallaro (b. 1975) KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of subliminal control and corporate and government corruption. See http://www.cybernetica-book.com for more information.

PB - Arcanum Books CY - [Nesconset, NY] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dark Matter Y1 - 2006 A1 - Greg Reeves KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of Christian religious fundamentalism in which a fundamentalist preacher becomes President of the U.S. and sets about to eliminate all opposition. The few survivors mount a fight back and ultimately win.

PB - Great Authors Online CY - Elsinore, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dark Rain Y1 - 2006 A1 - Conor Corderoy (b. 1957) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Future ecological dystopia . The rich (Domers), the middle (Dry), and the poor (Wets) are divided by their ability to live out of constant rain. The Domers are using the possibility of an alien invasion as a means of maintaining the current hierarchy.

PB - Macmillan New Writing CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - ". . . the darkest evening of the year. . ." Y1 - 2006 A1 - Candas Jane Dorsey (b. 1952) ED - Richard Labonté ED - Lawrence Schimel (b. 1971) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia with threatened eutopian enclaves. The eutopian elements are composed of those who practice an old religion based in nature; the dystopia is the official oppression of the eutopia.

JF - The Future Is Queer PB - Arsenal Pulp Press CY - Vancouver, BC, Canada N1 -

Rpt. in her in her Ice and Other Stories (Hornsea, Eng: PS Publishing, 2018), 189-209, with a note on the story (304-05). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Debt of the Innocent" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Rachel Swirsky (b. 1962) ED - Farah Mendlesohn KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Ecological dystopia that requires reduced electricity supplies even to hospitals. This results in babies being allowed to die or even being killed to save others.

JF - Glorifying Terrorism: An Anthology of Original Science Fiction PB - Rackstraw Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Demoskratos: New Democracy Y1 - 2006 A1 - K. Yil. Karademir AB -

An idiosyncratic eutopia focusing on eliminating most of the U.S. political structure and replacing it with a system of referenda. The states will be eliminated and replaced with five districts. The President, Congress, and political parties will be eliminated along with the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. All overseas U.S. military bases will be closed. There will be a publicly owned independent National News Bureau and all major newspapers will use news from the Bureau for their first three pages and all major broadcasters will give the 6:30-7:00 p.m. slot to the Bureau.

PB - Washington Educational Organization CY - King of Prussia, PA ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Derelict" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Geoffrey A[lan] Landis (b. 1955) ED - Gardner R[aymond] Dozois (1947-2018) ED - Jack [Mayo] Dann (b. 1945) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia of the habitats built in space which cannot have conflict because they are so fragile. The story is about children pushing the limits of what is possible for them in the strictly regulated lives necessary for the habitats to function safely.

JF - Escape from Earth: New Adventures in Space PB - Science Fiction Book Club CY - Garden City, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Die Umkehr" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Susan R. Matthews (b. 1952) ED - Don Sakers KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian religious dystopia.

JF - Gaylaxicon Sampler 2006 PB - Speed-of-C Productions CY - Linthicum, MD U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Disunited States of America Y1 - 2006 A1 - Harry [Norman] Turtledove (b. 1949) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia in a series in which travel between parallel timelines, for harvesting resources, has become possible in the late 21st century. This novel is set in a future in which the United States has disintegrated into a number of regions and states, some of which are at war with each other. Other volumes in the series include 2004, 2007, and 2008 Turtledove and two non-utopian volumes, Gunpowder Empire: Crosstime Traffic--Book One. New York: Tor, 2003; and In High Places: Crosstime Traffic--Book Three. New York: Tor, 2006.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Down in The Corridor" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Robert Lopresti ED - Edward J. McFadden III ED - E[katerina] Sedia (b. 1970) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the Pacific states have seceded from the U.S. as a result of U.S. policies under George W. Bush. The P.S.A. is presented more positively, but the story concerns the continuing struggle between the two countries.

JF - Jigsaw Nation: Science Fiction Stories of Secession PB - Spyre CY - Radford, VA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Echelon Y1 - 2006 A1 - Josh [Joshua M.] Conviser (b. 1974) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia. Echelon, the global eavesdropping network run by the National Security Agency, has, in the near future, become independent, effectively controls the world and has abolished conflict. The novel concerns the potential collapse of the system and attempts to control it. See also 2007 Conviser.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Engines of Arcadia" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Sean [Christopher] McMullen (b. 1948) ED - Lou Anders KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Flawed eutopia. A future which has adopted the medieval Arcadia as its model and the flaws in the system.

JF - Futureshocks PB - Roc CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Escape From New Austin" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Paul [Gerard] Di Filippo (b. 1954) ED - Edward J. McFadden III ED - E[katerina] Sedia (b. 1970) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

New Austin is in Agnostica, which is completely surrounded by Faithland. Agnostica is presented as a liberal eutopia; Faithland is conservative and mildly dystopian.

JF - Jigsaw Nation: Science Fiction Stories of Secession PB - Spyre CY - Radford, VA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Executioner 2084 Y1 - 2006 A1 - David Tinling KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set in the late twenty-first century when the culture wars have turned violent, the Bill of Rights has been rejected by the government, capital punishment has been privatized.

PB - Xlibris CY - [Bloomington, IN] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Farthing Y1 - 2006 A1 - Jo Walton (b. 1964) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - Welsh author AB -

Alternative history dystopia which is ruled by those who overthrew Winston Churchill and made peace with Adolf Hitler. See also 2007 and 2008 Walton.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Fat Y1 - 2006 A1 - Rob Grant KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which being fat is made illegal.

PB - Gollancz CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Field Work" Y1 - 2006 A1 - J. Stern ED - Edward J. McFadden III ED - E[katerina] Sedia (b. 1970) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a divided U.S. with the liberal states having defeated the conservative states.

JF - Jigsaw Nation: Science Fiction Stories of Secession PB - Spyre CY - Radford, VA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Flavors of My Genius Y1 - 2006 A1 - Robert [David] Reed (b. 1956) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia. Novella with extremely unreliable narrators to the extent that it is impossible to determine which, if any, of the depictions of the future is accurate. The main story is told of a future in which most peoples’ intelligence is greatly enhanced and most of them choose to live primarily in thought. 

PB - PS Publishing CY - Hornsea, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Fledging of Az Gabrielson. The Clouded World: Book I Y1 - 2006 A1 - [James Matthew Herbert] [Lovegrove] [(b. 1965)] KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Describes two groups on a planet, the sky dwellers, who live in immensely tall cities and have developed wings, and those who live on the ground. The first group is described in eutopian terms and the second in dystopian terms. The book ends with the beginnings of a reconciliation, but Pirates of the Relentless Desert has the Groundlings attacked by the Airborn. The last two volumes continue the various stage of conflict and reconciliation.

PB - Gollancz CY - London U3 -

Jay Amory [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Founding Five Y1 - 2006 A1 - Maud Muller KW - Female author AB -

A conservative Christian dystopia in the US in 2035 led by five men who established underground groups and front organizations after the defeat of Barry Goldwater (1909-98) in the 1964 presidential race.

PB - iUniverse CY - Lincoln NB U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Friends in Need” Y1 - 2006 A1 - Eliza Blair KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story, which is about a girl choosing a pet, is set in a technological eutopia where the animals can talk. The girl, who is in kindergarten speaks kidspiek, which is the language of much of the story.

JF - Bug-Eyed Magazine N1 -

Rpt. in A Science Fiction Omnibus. Ed. Brian Aldiss (London: Penguin, 2007), 275-89.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Genesis Y1 - 2006 A1 - Bernard Beckett (b. 1968) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Two dystopias. In the first, after an environmental collapse, an authoritarian dystopia is established to protect the remnant from outsiders. In the second, sentient machines have replaced humans and destroy any machines that show initiative.

PB - Longacre Press CY - Dunedin, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Genetopia Y1 - 2006 A1 - Keith [N.] Brooke (b. 1966) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel is set in a future where all plants and animals have been engineered to fulfill some purpose, and some characteristics people can be infected with new genes. Those who consider themselves True humans determine which of their offspring are Lost; i.e. not human, and must be exposed in the Wildlands or sold. The novel concerns a girl who is sold by her father, and her brother searches for her and what they discover. The novel ends with the brother, who has wandered for years in the Wildlands, learning about the many communities that have grown up, finding his sister, living in a community that has become her home.

PB - Pyr/Prometheus Books CY - Amherst, NY SN - 1-59102-333-5 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Glasshouse Y1 - 2006 A1 - Charles [David George] Stross (b. 1964) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Dystopia. A future experimental polity ruled by the experimenters as one aspect of a novel about conflict in a high-tech future.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Go Tell the Phoenicians" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Matthew Hughes (b. 1949) ED - Robert Charles Wilson (b. 1953) ED - Edo van Belkom KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia briefly described as part of a story about the difficulties of understanding an alien society. People in the alien society mature quickly without any adolescence, which only occurs at the end of life, which is a period of complete physical indulgence. The children have a scientifically advanced, equitable, and egalitarian society. The alien society is contrasted with the bureaucratic organizations of Earth.

JF - Tesseracts Ten: A Celebration of New Canadian Speculative Fiction PB - Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing CY - Calgary, AB, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Going to See the Beast" Y1 - 2006 A1 - William Sanders (1942-2017) KW - Male author KW - Native American author AB -

Dystopian humor regarding life after the Rapture (see 1 Corinthians 15:52 and 1 Thessalonians 4: 15-17).

JF - Helix: A Speculative Fiction Quarterly UR - www.helixsf.com. ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Good Society. Compass Programme for Renewal Y1 - 2006 ED - Jonathan Rutherford ED - Hetan Shah AB -

Very broad and general statement of the current conditions in the U.K. and some things to be done to end poverty and produce both a sustainable and a caring society. This is accompanied by two other volumes, Hetan Shah and Martin McIvor, eds. A New Political Economy. Compass Programme for Renewal. London: Compass in association with Lawrence & Wishart, 2006 proposing a wide range of economic reforms; and Hetan Shah and Sue Goss, eds. Democracy and the Public Realm. London: Compass in association with Lawrence & Wishart, 2006 proposing more direct democracy.

PB - Compass in association with Lawrence & Wishart CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hav comprising Last Letters from Hav and Hav of the Myrmidons Y1 - 2006 A1 - Jan Morris (1926-2020) KW - English author KW - Transgender author KW - Welsh author AB -

Reprints 1985 Morris (1-187) and adds "Hav of the Myrmidons: Six Days in 2005" (189-297) plus a "Preface" (vii-viii) and an "Epilogue" (299-301). In the added material, the country of 1985 Morris has experienced an overthrow of its institutions, which have generally been replaced by more dystopian ones. The author says that this is designed to reflect September 11, 2001.

PB - Faber and Faber CY - London N1 -

Rpt. New York: New York Review Books, [2011] with an "Introduction by Ursula K. Le Guin (vii-xi).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Here Comes the Flood" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Adam [Charles] Roberts (b. 1965) ED - Farah Mendlesohn KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of official state terrorism.

JF - Glorifying Terrorism: An Anthology of Original Science Fiction PB - Rackstraw Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - High John the Conqueror Y1 - 2006 A1 - Jim Younger KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A complex dystopia in which the British monarchy is now Roman Catholic, the U.S. has petitioned the monarch to become its leader, a coup d'état in Britain has overthrown the "Christian Coalition Socialists", and there is an underground group of "paramilitary sadomasochist flagellants".

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "High Windows" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Lavie Tidhar (b. 1976) KW - English author KW - Israeli author KW - Male author AB -

Multiple dystopias. A form of slavery is permitted, and sexual slavery is described.

JF - Strange Horizons UR - http://www.strangehorizons.com ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Homecoming At the Borderlands Cafe" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Carole McDonnell ED - Edward J. McFadden III ED - E[katerina] Sedia (b. 1970) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia in which the U.S. has divided into two countries, the liberal East and the conservative Christian West. Both are presented as intolerant of difference.

JF - Jigsaw Nation: Science Fiction Stories of Secession PB - Spyre CY - Radford, VA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Homeland Y1 - 2006 A1 - Michael Amos KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

An authoritarian dystopia describing a shopping mall homeland controlled by security forces.

PB - Samhain Publishing CY - Dothan, AL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Homosexuals Damned, Film at Eleven" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Alex[ander Christian] Irvine (b. 1969) ED - Lou Anders KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian, right-wing, fundamentalist dystopia.

JF - Futureshocks PB - Roc CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Hopkin's Well" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Adrienne Ray ED - Karina [L.] Fabian (b. 1961) ED - Robert Fabian KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia in which all humans have been genetically modified to create equality. It was made a crime to protect genetically inferior people, but the Roman Catholic Church did so and moved to Mars. The story is about a failed attempt by the Earth government to destroy the Catholic settlement on Mars.

JF - Infinite Space, Infinite God PB - Twilight Times Books CY - Kingsport, TN ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Hot Day’s Night” Y1 - 2006 A1 - Paolo [Tadini] Bacigalupi (b. 1972) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian future of a drought-stricken U.S.

JF - High Country News VL - 38.12 N1 -

Rpt. in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 129.3 & 4 (721) (September-October 2015): 48-56. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - I Have Waited, and You Have Come Y1 - 2006 A1 - McDonagh, Martine KW - Female author KW - UK author AB -

A psychological novel set in a global warming dystopia. 

PB - Myriad Editions CY - Brighton, Eng. N1 -

Rpt. Brighton, Eng.: Myriad Editions, 2012. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “I Saw the Best Minds of My Generation Destroyed by Google” Y1 - 2006 A1 - [Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A brief story set in 2026 in a United States that has put strict restrictions on the activities and purchases of teenagers.

JF - New Scientist VL - 19.2569 SN - 9781596064041 UR - https://doi.org/10.1016/S0262-4079(06)60503-4 N1 -

Rpt. in his Gothic High-Tech: Stories (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2011), 9-12.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Icarus Y1 - 2006 A1 - Roger Levy KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Complex novel describing various dystopias created as Earth's ecological system collapsed and people escaped to space, under the earth's surface, into cyro-suspension, etc.

PB - Gollancz CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Idolon Y1 - 2006 A1 - [Robert] Mark Budz (b. 1960) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Deep rich poor division in a world of far advanced technology.

PB - Bantam Spectra CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Imitation of Life" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Albert E[dward] Cowdrey (b. 1933) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire. A future small town eutopia based on Jane Austen (1775-1817) but connected electronically throughout the world.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 110.5 (650) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Infoquake Y1 - 2006 A1 - David Louis Edelman (b. 1971) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Corporate dystopia based around conflicts over new technologies. Sequels that continue the same theme are MultiReal Volume 2 of the Jump 225 Trilogy. Amherst, NY: Pyr, 2008; and Geosynchron Volume 3 of the Jump 225 Trilogy. Amherst, NY: Pyr, 2010.

PB - Pyr CY - Amherst, NY ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Instinct" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Joy Parks ED - Richard Labonté ED - Lawrence Schimel (b. 1971) KW - Female author AB -

Flawed eutopia. Problems with the eutopia of complete gender freedom and the ability to change gender at will. Domed communities in which freedom becomes restricting. Lesbian viewpoint. Isolated communities outside the domes established representing different periods of the past to allow people to choose their own eutopia. Lesbian viewpoint.

JF - The Future Is Queer PB - Arsenal Pulp Press CY - Vancouver, BC, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Invisible Armies Y1 - 2006 A1 - Jon Evans (b. 1973) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Corporate dystopia.

PB - Hodder & Stoughton CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - Invisible Islands Y1 - 2006 A1 - Angus Peter Campbell KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

A Scottish version of Italo Calvino's Le città invisibili (1972) describing twenty-one imaginary islands. Much fantasy. Each island and its people, if any, are briefly characterized, usually with one significant trait.

PB - Otago Publishing CY - Glasgow, Scot. ER - TY - ABST T1 - John of Two Worlds Y1 - 2006 A1 - Robert Stott KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. A man from earth is revived on another planet far in the future. This world is a technological eutopia with environmentally sound and socially healthy policies. The Earth meanwhile is in serious trouble and a plan is put in place to save it. See also 2007 Stott.

PB - First Edition Ltd CY - Wellington, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Julian: A Christmas Story Y1 - 2006 A1 - Robert Charles Wilson (b. 1953) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Religious dystopia. See also 2009 Wilson. 

PB - PS Publishing CY - Hornsea, Eng. N1 -

Rpt. in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2007), 28-65.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Juneteenth" Y1 - 2006 A1 - K. M. Praschak ED - Edward J. McFadden III ED - E[katerina] Sedia (b. 1970) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia about a U.S. divided between liberals, the Democratic States, and conservatives, the United States, with strong racial themes. Juneteenth is an unofficial holiday to commemorate the end of slavery, a holiday generally ignored by whites in the conservative United States, which is becoming a security state.

JF - Jigsaw Nation: Science Fiction Stories of Secession PB - Spyre CY - Radford, VA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Just Do It!" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Heather Lindsley KW - English author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which companies hire snipers to shoot a chemical into people that produces an insatiable desire for their product.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 111.1 (652) N1 -

Rpt. in Year’s Best SF 12. Ed. David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer (New York: Eos, 2007), 74-88; and in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 357-67; 2nd ed. as Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 357-67.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Kansas, She Says, Is the Name of a Star" Y1 - 2006 A1 - R[odrigo] Garcia y Robertson (b. 1949) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Earth is the place where interstellar slavers retire and take child brides.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 111.1 (652) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Killers" Y1 - 2006 A1 - [Agnes] Carol[lyn] [Fries] Emshwiller (1921-2019) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Vicious depleted future dystopia.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 111.4 & 5 (655) N1 -

Rpt. in Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2008), 257-66. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Kingdom Come Y1 - 2006 A1 - J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Contemporary dystopia of consumerism focused on a large mall in the suburbs and the violence and racism that surrounds it.

PB - Fourth Estate CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Kyrie Eleison" Y1 - 2006 A1 - John G. Hemry KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of male dominance.

JF - Analog Science Fiction and Fact VL - 126.9 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Mortal Man. Book One of the Deathless Y1 - 2006 A1 - Syne Mitchell (b. 1970) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. The Deathless are those who have been turned into nanobiology and are presumably immortal but the technology is being attacked.

PB - Roc CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Last Straw" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Hal Duncan (b. 1971) ED - Farah Mendlesohn KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Dystopia. Very near future authoritarian Britain and the terrorist response.

JF - Glorifying Terrorism: An Anthology of Original Science Fiction PB - Rackstraw Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Lettuce" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Rikki Ducornet (b. 1943) ED - Rusty Morrison ED - Ken Keegan KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Brief surrealistic dystopia.

JF - Paraspheres: Extending Beyond the Spheres of Literary and Genre Fiction: Fabulist and New Wave Fabulist Stories PB - Omnidawn Publishing CY - Richmond, CA N1 -

Rpt. in Ducornet, The One Marvelous Thing. Decorated by T[om] Motley (Champaign, IL: Dalkey Archive Press, 2008), 123-25.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Library" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Ray[mond Douglas] Bradbury (1920-2012) ED - Donn Albright ED - Jon[athan R.] Eller KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia closely related to 1953 Bradbury in which a dictator tries to burn all the books in a library, but people have been memorizing them.

JF - Match to Flame: The Fictional Paths to Fahrenheit 451 PB - Gauntlet Press CY - Colorado Springs, CO N1 -

Rpt. in his A Pleasure to Burn: Fahrenheit 451 Stories (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2010), 63-65.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Library of Pi" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Ray Vukcevich (b. 1946) ED - Deborah Layne ED - Jay [Joseph Edward] Lake [Jr.] (1964-2014) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a police state.

JF - Polyphony 6 PB - Wheatland Press CY - Wilsonville, OR U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Life As We Knew It Y1 - 2006 A1 - Susan Beth Pfeffer (b. 1948) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

First volume of the Young Adult Last Survivor series. In this volume, a meteor hits the moon pushing it closer to the Earth and causing widespread destruction on the Earth. The novel follows a young woman's struggle to survive. The second volume, The Dead and the Gone. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008, moves the action to New York City but continues the same themes. The third volume, This World We Live In. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010 continues the same setting and themes as the first volume. In the fourth volume, The Shade of the Moon. Boston, MA: Harcourt/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013, the protagonist is living in a safe community in Pennsylvania, but his ability to do so depends on his continued success at soccer and obeying the strict rules of the community. He violates the rules by falling in love. 

PB - Harcourt CY - Orlando, FL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Long After Midnight" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Ray[mond Douglas] Bradbury (1920-2012) ED - Donn Albright ED - Jon[athan R.] Eller KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia closely related to 1953 Bradbury in which a man is constantly worried about his books being burned.

JF - Match to Flame: The Fictional Paths to Fahrenheit 451 PB - Gauntlet Press CY - Colorado Springs, CO N1 -

Rpt. in his A Pleasure to Burn: Fahrenheit 451 Stories (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2010), 139-202.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Man From Missouri" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Patrick Thomas (b. 1952) ED - Edward J. McFadden III ED - E[katerina] Sedia (b. 1970) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of the U.S. with slavery.

JF - Jigsaw Nation: Science Fiction Stories of Secession PB - Spyre CY - Radford, VA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Master Han's Daughter Y1 - 2006 A1 - Midori [pseud.] KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia. A linked set of erotic stories set in a future dystopian Japan with a background of violence and poverty. 

PB - Circlet Press CY - Cambridge, MA N1 -

An earlier version of “Master Han’s Daughter” appeared in Asian Fever (2000) and “Aya’s Blade” as by Fetish Diva Midori appeared in Tough Girls: Down and Dirty Dyke Erotica. Ed. Lori Selke (San Francisco, CA: Black Books, 2001), 185-91. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Meadowlark Sings Y1 - 2006 A1 - Helen Ruth Schwartz KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia and dystopia. In the near future, an earthquake separates part of California from the United States. This provides the location for a new independent gay and lesbian country, which is needed because an anti-gay movement has come to dominate the U.S. Some reconciliation takes place throughout the novel. 

PB - Alice Street Editions, Harrington Park Press CY - Binghamton, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mergers Y1 - 2006 A1 - Steven L. Layne KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia describing a future where all trace of racial identity has been eliminated. Four teenagers born with racial identities and unusual powers struggle against the dystopia and win by traveling into the past and helping to create a future with racial differences exist but are not considered important. 

PB - Pelican Publishing CY - Gretna, LA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Messiah of Morris Avenue Y1 - 2006 A1 - Tony Hendra (b. 1941) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Near future U.S. as a religious dystopia.

PB - Henry Holt CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Middle America Y1 - 2006 A1 - Anthony F. Lewis KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 2004 Lewis set five years later with the same main character. The revolution that began in the earlier volume was won, and the Rocky Mountain area is no longer part of the U.S. or Canada. The sequel emphasizes political intrigue, but since the protagonist has to fight government to protect freedom, it follows the themes of the previous novel and presents the U.S. in dystopian terms.

PB - Ten Mile Press CY - [Fort Bragg, CA] U1 -

Subtitle on the cover The Third Revolution Continues.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - MindField. A Novel Y1 - 2006 A1 - Egbert, John F KW - Deaf author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Many Americans suddenly become deaf, and the government responds poorly. The deaf, on the other hand, respond positively by teaching American Sign Language (ASL) to the newly deaf, making them bilingual in ASL and English.

PB - iUniverse CY - Lincoln, NB SN - 978-0-595-42138-9 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Minutes of the Labour Party Conference, 2016" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Charles [David George] Stross (b. 1964) ED - Farah Mendlesohn KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Dystopia of complete surveillance.

JF - Glorifying Terrorism: An Anthology of Original Science Fiction PB - Rackstraw Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Missy Victoria" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Bruce Holland Rogers (b. 1958) ED - Deborah Layne ED - Jay [Joseph Edward] Lake [Jr.] (1964-2014) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Apparent dystopia with eutopian results. Names are seen to condition behavior and judges can require that names, including nicknames, be changed. In the case described, the required change improves the lives of family members.

JF - Polyphony PB - Wheatland Press CY - Wilsonville, OR VL - 6 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A New Nation Y1 - 2006 A1 - Dean A. Buchanan KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The dystopia brought about by liberals, including world government with world taxes and making homeschooling illegal, leads to the successful secession of Alaska from the U.S. and the creation of a conservative eutopia there.

PB - Tate Publishing, LLC CY - Mustang, OK U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Not Worth a Cent" Y1 - 2006 A1 - R. Neube KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Future U.S. in which diseases are rampant and social security is broke and ends at 100.

JF - Asimov's Science Fiction VL - 30.4& 5 (363& 364) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Nowhere: A Dystopian Satire of Contemporary Society" Y1 - 2006 KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author AB -

Dystopia of technology and human isolation.

CY - Play first performed at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, May 31, 2006. ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Patriot" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Fitzgerald, Erin ED - Edward J. McFadden III ED - E[katerina] Sedia (b. 1970) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian background of a U.S. divided between liberals and conservatives.

JF - Jigsaw Nation: Science Fiction Stories of Secession PB - Spyre CY - Radford, VA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Peace Criminal" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Vaughan Stanger (b. 1959) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Alternative history dystopia in which a Nazi regime had been established in Britain.

JF - Postscripts VL - no. 9 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Pearl Diver" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Caitlín [Rebekah] Kiernan (b. 1964) ED - Lou Anders KW - Female author KW - Irish author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in an overpopulated, environmentally degraded dystopia in which both government and corporations have everyone under surveillance at all times.

JF - Futureshocks PB - Roc CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 229-42; 2nd ed. as Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 229-42. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Places of Color" Y1 - 2006 A1 - David Bartell ED - Edward J. McFadden III ED - E[katerina] Sedia (b. 1970) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian background about a U.S. divided between liberals and conservatives with states seceding and visas needed to enter another state.

JF - Jigsaw Nation: Science Fiction Stories of Secession PB - Spyre CY - Radford, VA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Pop Squad" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Paolo [Tadini] Bacigalupi (b. 1972) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Deep division between the rich and poor. The rich get annual rejuvenation shots but cannot have children. The poor are those who choose to have children, which is illegal. The "Pop Squad" is the police who kill the children.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 111. 4 & 5 (655) N1 -

Rpt. in his Pump Six and Other Stories (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2008), 137-61; and in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 139-59; 2nd ed. as Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 139-59. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Poundbury 2030" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Dennis Hardy (b. 1941) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A brief, eutopian description of the town of Poundbury, England twenty-five years in the future.

JF - Poundbury: The Town that Charles Built PB - Town and Country Planning Association CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Prayers for the Assassin. A Novel Y1 - 2006 A1 - Robert Ferrigno (b. 1948) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia after a nuclear attack. Thirty-fives years in the future most of the U.S. is an Islamic Republic with a Bible Belt country in parts of the South. See also 2008 and 2009 Ferrigno.

PB - Scribner CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Hutchinson, 2006.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Printcrime" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which the use of a 3-D printer is a crime.

JF - Nature VL - 439.7073 N1 -

Rpt. in his Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present (New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2007), 1-4 with an author’s note on 1-2, which is rpt. in a 900-copy edition (Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 2007), 1-4 with an author’s note on 1-2. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Prodigy Y1 - 2006 A1 - Kalstein, Dave KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian murder mystery set in 2036 in an exclusive school in which the students are part of an experiment.

PB - St. Martin's Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Punishment Fits the Crime: Everything's Going to Be all right" Y1 - 2006 A1 - David Berreby (b. 1958) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. A very brief description of a future in which people convicted of crimes are punished by being mentally impaired for a time.

JF - Nature VL - 440.7081 N1 -

Rpt. without the subtitle or the illus. in Futures from Nature. Ed. Henry Gee (New York: Tor, 2007), 51-53.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Queen Camilla Y1 - 2006 A1 - Sue [Susan Lillian] Townsend (1946-2014) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Satire set in a dystopian England that is an extremely poor part of the United States and crime is so bad that the elderly feared to leave their homes after dark and children were not allowed to play outside at any time. To save money on pensions, the old were encouraged to commit suicide. Some council estates had been converted to Exclusion Zones were various misfits from criminals to the morbidly obese were sent, could not leave, and had to wear ankle braces. The Royal Family were among those sent to an Exclusion Zone, and much of the novel is about the relations among the various members. At the end of the novel, the Queen has abdicated, the monarchy has been restored, although must earn its keep, and Charles and Camilla’s son born when they were sixteen and eighteen has been relegated to a mental hospital in France.

PB - Michael Joseph CY - London U4 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Racists Y1 - 2006 A1 - Kunal Basu (b. 1956) KW - English author KW - Indian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopian experiment in which a black and a white child are raised on a barren island cared for only by a mute nurse.

PB - Weidenfeld & Nicolson CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - Rainbow Bridge Y1 - 2006 A1 - Gwyneth [Ann] Jones (b. 1952) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Sequel to 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2005 Jones. Fantasy, dystopia, and a struggle to create a eutopia. 

PB - Gollancz CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Rainbows End Y1 - 2006 A1 - Vernor [Steffen] Vinge (b. 1944) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia set in 2025 in San Diego, California where everyone is wired, and all the computer chips include Homeland Security.

PB - Tor CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Rash Y1 - 2006 A1 - Pete [Peter Murray] Hautman (b. 1952) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult authoritarian dystopia in which the state tries to eliminate all disease.

PB - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Regime Change in Utopia" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Christopher Reid KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Brief satirical poem mentioning conflict between Utopia and Dystopia.

JF - Times Literary Supplement VL - no. 5388 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Renegade: Book Two of the Marq'ssan Cycle Y1 - 2006 A1 - L[inda] Timmel Duchamp (b. 1950) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 2005 Duchamp; see the note there. This volume describes a power struggle between two women, one representing the dystopia and one representing the eutopia. See also 2007 (2) and 2008 Duchamp. Female author. The five volumes were written in the 1980s. Female author.

PB - Aqueduct Press CY - Seattle, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Republic of George's Island: One Man Against the Elements" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Donna McMahon (b. 1959) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

The background to the story is an ecological dystopia.

JF - Nature VL - 442.7099 N1 -

Rpt. without the subtitle or the illus. in Futures from Nature. Ed. Henry Gee (New York: Tor, 2007), 197-99.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Return to Nowhere" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Ruth Nestvold (b. 1958) A1 - Jay [Joseph Edward] Lake [Jr.] (1964-2014) ED - Edward J. McFadden III ED - E[katerina] Sedia (b. 1970) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a future U.S. with slavery and with an underground railway running to the free areas of the Northwest.

JF - Jigsaw Nation: Science Fiction Stories of Secession PB - Spyre CY - Radford, VA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Rhymes With Jew" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Paul G. Tremblay (b. 1971) ED - Edward J. McFadden III ED - E[katerina] Sedia (b. 1970) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a future U.S. that is conservative, anti-Semitic, racist, and very poor.

JF - Jigsaw Nation: Science Fiction Stories of Secession PB - Spyre CY - Radford, VA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Road Y1 - 2006 A1 - Cormac McCarthy (1933-2023) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia of a destroyed America.

PB - Alfred A. Knopf CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Picador, 2006.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Sailing to Utopia" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Ruth Nestvold (b. 1958) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopias. A woman travels to New Boston (Bellamy’s future), Gilman’s Herland, and More’s Utopia and finds them less than utopian.

JF - Flytrap VL - no. 5 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Scenes from a Dystopia” Y1 - 2006 A1 - Rachel Swirsky (b. 1962) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Satire on dystopian fiction.

JF - Subterranean VL - no. 4 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Scouring" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Rikki Ducornet (b. 1943) ED - Forrest Aguirre KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which humans have lost most natural functions.

JF - Text:Ur: The New Book of Masks PB - Raw Dog Screaming Press CY - Hyattsville, MD N1 -

Rpt. in her The One Marvelous Thing. Decorated by T[om] Motley (Champaign, IL: Dalkey Archive Press, 2008), 112-16.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Send in the Swords: Fourth Episode of Enemies of Society. A Series of Future Thrillers Y1 - 2006 A1 - John David (b. 1955) KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Dystopia. Fourth of a six volume series. All volumes are concerned with violent conflict between factions, and this volume sets the stage for future war. See also 2002, 2003, 2005, and 2007 (2).

PB - AuthorHouse CY - Bloomington, IN U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - September Snow Y1 - 2006 A1 - Robert Balmanno (b. 1951) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia created by a religion designed to respond to global warming and preserve the Earth, but its positive goals are perverted, and advanced technology is used to manipulate the climate and force people to live in domes. The novel ends with the beginnings of a rebellion. First volume of a series. The second volume is Runes of Iona: Book Two of the Four-Book Series THE BLESSING OF GAIA QUARTET. Oakland CA: Regent Press, 2010. It follows the adventures of the daughter of the protagonists of the first volume, opponents of the dystopia, and others as they fight to restore Earth. The third volume is Embers of Earth: Book Three of the Four-Book Series The Blessings of Gaia Quartet. Berkeley, CA: Regent Press, 2016. It follows a young man who is sent to learn what is available of the knowledge of the past and returns to try to teach it to his people. The fourth  volume is Auger’s Touchstone or the Wrong Side of Contemporary History: Book Four of The Blessings of Gaia Quartet. Berkeley, CA: Regent Press, 2021. It traces the history that led to the world described in the other three volumes. In this volume the civilization of the past, including advanced technology, exists, but barbarians remain outside the “civilized” area, which is dominated by the rich.

PB - Regent Press CY - Oakland, CA U1 -

The cover adds the subtitle Book one of The Blessings of Gaia series

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Shadow Waters Y1 - 2006 A1 - Chris[topher Ian] Baker KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Sequel to 2000 Baker in which the survivors of the catastrophe struggle to establish new lives while defending themselves against and being supported by the old gods and demons. This novel follows some characters from the previous one from where they were left there until they find the central protagonist of that novel. Then the focus becomes the struggle to rid their new community of the demons attacking them.

PB - Huia CY - Wellington, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - She's Alone Y1 - 2006 A1 - Richard Bruce Clay KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. All women but one have been exterminated.

PB - Poetry Monthly Press CY - Nottingham, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Shuteye for the Timebroker" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Paul [Gerard] Di Filippo (b. 1954) ED - Lou Anders KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The background to the story is an invention that means that no one has to sleep, and the developed world, where people can afford it, develops even faster, while the poor slip further behind.

JF - Futureshocks PB - Roc CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Silicon Singularity" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Ernie Reimer KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia describing a future world in which a brain implant allows contact with others with the implant and the web. The U.S. is dominated by such people and is extremely security conscious. In this story a biological version begins to infect the world. His non-utopian "Cerenkov Blue" On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic 17.1 (60) (Spring 2005): 59-70 is set in the same future.

JF - On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic VL - 18.3 (66) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Song for Lisa" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Murray Bruce KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. A poor future New Zealand where some people prey on others as food.

JF - Phoenixine: Magazine of the Phoenix Science Fiction Society (Auckland, New Zealand) VL - no. 201 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Song of the Brakeman Y1 - 2006 A1 - Bill [William John] Direen (b. 1957) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Post-apocalyptic dystopia. Earth's natural resources are nearly exhausted. Body parts are harvested for use by the powerful.

PB - Titus Books CY - Waimauku, West Auckland, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "State of Blues" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Gene Stewart (b. 1958) ED - Edward J. McFadden III ED - E[katerina] Sedia (b. 1970) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a divided U.S. with both sections intolerant but with the liberal states presented more positively.

JF - Jigsaw Nation: Science Fiction Stories of Secession PB - Spyre CY - Radford, VA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Steel Sky Y1 - 2006 A1 - Andrew C. Murphy (b. 1964) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe authoritarian, highly stratified dystopia. Much intrigue and violence. Much of the novel is concerned with the struggle against the dystopia.

PB - Per Aspera Press CY - Seattle, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Sunlight or Rock" Y1 - 2006 A1 - John [Joseph Vincent] Kessel (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Set in the same milieu as 2000, 2002, and 2003 Kessel. This is the story of a man expelled from the Society of Cousins for taking part in the men’s revolt. See also 2017 Kessel.

JF - Asimov's Science Fiction VL - 30.9 N1 -

Rpt. in his The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Other Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2008), 177-96.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Surveillance Y1 - 2006 A1 - Jonathan Raban (b. 1942) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia focusing on the war on terrorism and the potential for a surveillance society.

PB - Picador CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Switch" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Darby Harn ED - Edward J. McFadden III ED - E[katerina] Sedia (b. 1970) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a disintegrated United States with the parts in conflict.

JF - Jigsaw Nation: Science Fiction Stories of Secession PB - Spyre CY - Radford, VA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Tamarisk Hunter" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Paolo [Tadini] Bacigalupi (b. 1972) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Environmental dystopia. Much of the central U.S. is a dust bowl, and what water there is sent to California.

JF - High Country News VL - 38.12 UR - http://www.hcn.org/issues/325/tamarisk-hunter-Bacigalupi N1 -

Rpt. in The Magazine Fantasy and Science Fiction 112.5 (661) (May 2007): 64-77; in his Pump Six and Other Stories (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2008), 123-35; in Wastelands 2: More Stories of the Apocalypse. Ed. John Joseph Adams (London: Titan Books, 2015), 13-27; and in Loosed Upon the World: The Saga Anthology of Climate Fiction. Ed. John Joseph Adams (New York: Saga Press, 2015), 511-26.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Teeth and Tongue Landscape Y1 - 2006 A1 - Carlton Mellick III (b. 1977) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in the Bizarro genre of a world made of meat.

PB - Avant Punk CY - Portland, OR U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Ten With a Flag" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Joseph Paul Haines KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which people are raised or lowered in economic and social status depending on their loyalty to the state.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 203 N1 -

Rpt. in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 23-32; 2nd ed. as Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 23-32. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "This Divided Land" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Michael Jasper ED - Edward J. McFadden III ED - E[katerina] Sedia (b. 1970) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a divided U.S. as background to the story.

JF - Jigsaw Nation: Science Fiction Stories of Secession PB - Spyre CY - Radford, VA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Three Y1 - 2006 A1 - Meghan O'Brien KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe lesbian dystopia. Disease and war have killed off most of the population. Religious fanatics try to force women into being nothing but breeders.

PB - Quest Books CY - Nederland, TX U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "To the Universal Station" Y1 - 2006 A1 - George Zebrowski (b. 1945) ED - Martin H[arry] Greenberg (1941-2011) ED - Russell Davis KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Future history detailing the collapse of earth’s economy and environment as a result of current policies.

JF - Millennium 3001 PB - DAW Books CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Twentytwelve Y1 - 2006 A1 - Keogh, Andrew KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which terrorism and violence has escalated ever since 9/11. Britain has collapsed economically and come under fascist rule. The novel focuses on an attempt by a man to get his mixed-race daughter out of the country.

PB - Adonis & Abbey CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Underground Y1 - 2006 A1 - Andrew McGahan (b. 1966) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Near future Australian authoritarian dystopia brought about by the war on terrorism.

PB - Allen & Unwin CY - Crows Nest, NSW, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Undoing" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Totton, Sarah ED - Robert Charles Wilson (b. 1953) ED - Edo van Belkom KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia describing a future completely devoted to security and the vicious system of punishment used.

JF - Tesseracts Ten: A Celebration of New Canadian Speculative Fiction PB - Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing CY - Calgary, AB U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Unplugged" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Gupta, Vinay KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia presented as an interview with someone who has "unplugged" or chosen to adopt a lifestyle that combines the outlook of Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948) and some of the designs of Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983).

JF - Worldchanging UR - http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/004123.html. N1 -

Reposted at Shareable Futures. http://shareable.net/blog/the-unplugged. Posted June 8, 2010. Accessed February 3, 2011.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Unsolvable Deathtrap" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Jack Mangan KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of poverty and violence.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 202 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Upgrade" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Karl [D.] Iagnemma (b. 1972) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Something of a flawed utopia. The story is about a man who has what he thinks of as the perfect female robot who cooks, cleans, and provides sex whenever and however he wants it. He has an upgrade installed that gives her the ability to reason, and she walks out on him.

JF - Nerve.com UR - http://www.nerve.com/fiction/iagnemma/leaveyourrobotlover? Posted June 2006. Accessed October 10, 2011. N1 -

Rpt. in 2033: The Future of Misbehavior. Interplanetary Dating, Madame President, Socialized Plastic Surgery, and Other Good News from the Future. Ed. The Editors of Nerve.Com Instigated by Svedka [a vodka] (San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books, 2007), 36-45. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - U.S.! A Novel Y1 - 2006 A1 - Chris Bachelder (b. 1971) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire in which Upton Sinclair (1878-1968), U.S. socialist, founder of an intentional community, and author of many utopias, is brought back to life in the contemporary, conservative U.S.

PB - Bloomsbury CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Bloomsbury, 2007.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Waking Waco" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Goodfellow, Cody ED - Edward J. McFadden III ED - E[katerina] Sedia (b. 1970) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The background to the story is a disintegrated U.S. focusing on Waco, Texas, and the theme park Freedomland, which honors fighters for freedom, like Timothy McVeigh (1968-2001), the Oklahoma City bomber.

JF - Jigsaw Nation: Science Fiction Stories of Secession PB - Spyre CY - Radford, VA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - War Slut Y1 - 2006 A1 - Carlton Mellick III (b. 1977) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a world where everyone is drafted into the military.

PB - Avant Punk Books CY - Portland, OR N1 -

Rpt. Portland, OR: Eraserhead Press, 2011.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Whitby Jets" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Jacey Bedford ED - Sue Thomason ED - Liz Williams KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia. The setting for the story is a theocracy trying to eliminate British folk culture.

JF - Fabulous Whitby PB - Fabulous Albion CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Winds Between the Worlds Y1 - 2006 A1 - Lark L. Burnham KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia of a corporate dominated future Earth which enslaves many other worlds. The complex plot involves people from the past and future interacting and both human and animal empaths.

PB - BookSurge CY - [Charleston, SC] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Yellow Card Man" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Paolo [Tadini] Bacigalupi (b. 1972) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia brought about by global warming, with a stress on the situation of refugees. 2005 and 2009 Bacigalupi are set in the same future.

JF - Asimov's Science Fiction VL - 30.12 (371) N1 -

Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume 1. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2006), 211-38; in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2007), 431-56; and in his Pump Six and Other Stories (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2008), 163-95.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "100% Pure Conjecture: Accounts of our Future State(s)" Y1 - 2005 A1 - Bob Frame A1 - Pala Molisa A1 - Rhys Taylor A1 - Hemi Toia A1 - Wong Liu Shueng ED - James H. Liu ED - Tim McCreanor ED - Tracey McIntosh ED - Teresia Teaiwa KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author KW - Male author AB -

Set in 2055 in a much-diminished future. Describes four scenarios for a future New Zealand, two based on plenty and two based on depleted resources, in two of which the emphasis is on community cohesion and in two of which the emphasis is on the individual. The revised version of 2007 dispenses with the discussion format and changes the order of the scenarios and the names of two of them.

JF - New Zealand Identities: Departures and Destinations PB - Victoria University Press CY - Wellington N1 -

Published separately as a screenplay Wellington, New Zealand: Landcare Research New Zealand Ltd., 2005 [Available at http:www.landcareresearch.co.nz/services/sustainablesoc/futures/publications.asp]. A larger version published as Work in Progress. Four Scenarios for New Zealand. Developed by The Landcare Research Scenarios Working Group. 2nd ed. Lincoln, New Zealand: Manaaki Whenua Press, 2007. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - 2084: Tomorrow is Today Y1 - 2005 A1 - John William McMullen KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. After various catastrophes, the world is united under a system called The Program that uses the immediate gratification of pleasure as a means of control. See also 2004 McMullen.

PB - AuthorHouse CY - Bloomington IN U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Africa PLC Y1 - 2005 A1 - Mathias M. AB -

Dystopia. The first part of the book (vii-xl) is a non-fictional account of the world after September 11, 2001. The second part (41-303) is a fictional account of the revolt of black slaves on a plantation, their establishment of a democratic society, and its takeover by business interests. The novel ends with Africans poised to go to war to take Africa back from its exploiters.

PB - Athena Press CY - Twickenham, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Against Gravity Y1 - 2005 A1 - Gary Gibson (b. 1965) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Dystopia of a late twenty-first century disintegrated U.S.

PB - Tor CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Air (or Have Not Have) Y1 - 2005 A1 - Geoff[rey Charles] Ryman (b. 1951) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - UK author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia with the possibility of eutopia held out at the end. The novel focuses on the conflict over a technology that will connect everyone in the world set in a poor, primitive village in Central Asia.

PB - Gollancz CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Alanya to Alanya: Book One of the Marq'ssan Cycle Y1 - 2005 A1 - L[inda] Timmel Duchamp (b. 1950) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

First volume of a five-volume series. In this volume, an alien feminist eutopia that hopes to save Earth from itself is set against a near future authoritarian dystopia. A non-violent anarchist eutopia, known as the Free Zone, develops in the U.S. Pacific Northwest and is threatened by internal divisions and external forces. Renegade: Book Two of the Marq’ssan Cycle. Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2006, describes a power struggle between two women, one representing the dystopia and one representing the eutopia. Tsunami: Book Three of the Marq’ssan Cycle. Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2007, shows three women with very different perspectives as they try to bring about the changes they want. In Blood in the Fruit: Book Four of the Marq’ssan Cycle. Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2007, the aliens return to see whether or not Earth should be quarantined. Stretto: Book Five of the Marq’ssan Cycle. Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2008, stresses the utopian elements, basically feminist and liberal, but the various political struggles continue, and there is no clear resolution at the end. All five volumes were written in the 1980s.

PB - Aqueduct Press CY - Seattle, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "All the Tea in China" Y1 - 2005 A1 - Yvonne Provonost KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Background of a dystopia of corporate control.

JF - Neo-Opsis Science Fiction Magazine VL - no. 6 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Alternate Beauty Y1 - 2005 A1 - Andrea Rains Waggener KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A fat woman wakes up in a society in which "big is beautiful". She initially sees this world as eutopian but then finds it as superficial as her previous world's focus on thinness.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Among the Enemy. A Shadow Children Book Y1 - 2005 A1 - Margaret Peterson Haddix (b. 1964) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult overpopulation dystopia in which each family is limited to two children. Sequel to 1998, 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2004 Haddix. See also 2006 Haddix. In this volume, a third child joins the Population police to subvert them.

PB - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Angel of Light" Y1 - 2005 A1 - Joe [Joseph William] Haldeman (b. 1943) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The background to a humorous Christmas story is a mildly dystopian future dominated by Islam.

JF - Cosmos A Magazine of Ideas, Science, Society and the Future (Strawberry Hills, NSW, Australia) VL - no. 6 N1 -

Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2006), 571-77; and The Year’s Best SF 11. Ed. David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer (New York: Eos, 2006), 425-34. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Anywhere But Here Y1 - 2005 A1 - Jerry [Brian] Oltion (b. 1957) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Humorous dystopia where the U.S. government, already dominating the Earth, tries to dominate those settling outer space. It ultimately fails.

PB - Tor CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Atomik Aztex Y1 - 2005 A1 - Sesshu Foster (b. 1957) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which Aztecs rule the Americas and are colonizing Europe. One of the protagonists has nightmares about American consumerism, and lives through a real nightmare working in a meatpacking plant reminiscent of Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle.

PB - City Lights CY - San Francisco, CA N1 -

Parts were published in different form as “Atomik Aztex.” Amerasia Journal 27.2 (2001): 145-66, in the L.A. Weekly, and on Salon.com

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Band of Gypsys Y1 - 2005 A1 - Gwyneth [Ann] Jones (b. 1952) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Sequel to 2001, 2002, and 2003 Jones. This volume is concerned with the establishment of a dystopia in England with slave labor camps. 

PB - Gollancz CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Believer. A Novel Y1 - 2005 A1 - Stephanie Black KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia requiring absolute conformity to the current belief system and the travails of a man who becomes convinced of the truth of the Book of Mormon.

PB - Covenant Communications CY - American Fork, UT U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Berlusconi Bonus Y1 - 2005 A1 - Allan Cameron (b. 1952) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Dystopia in which the richest people are awarded freedom from the law, the Berlusconi Bonus, clearly named after the Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi (b. 1936; PM 1994-1995, 2001-2006, and 2008-11). Satire on Thatcherite Britain. Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013. U.K. Prime Minister 1979-90).

PB - Luath Press CY - Edinburgh, Scot. U1 -

Subtitle on the cover The First Draft of Aldophus Hibbert's Confession

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Black Arrow: A Tale of Resistance Y1 - 2005 A1 - Vin Suprynowicz (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia from a libertarian perspective and the struggle against it.

PB - Mountain Media CY - Las Vegas, NV U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Bloodsong# Y1 - 2005 A1 - Melvin Burgess (b. 1954) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Related to 1999 Burgess. This novel, based very loosely on the Norse Volsunga Saga, is set in a future politically corrupt Britain that is in decline.

PB - Andersen Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Blown Away Y1 - 2005 A1 - Patrick Cave (b. 1965) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia brought about in northern and western Europe by global warming. Some hope held out of the human spirit overcoming conditions. Related to 2004 Cave.

PB - Simon & Schuster CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Bodies and Soul Y1 - 2005 A1 - David Hill (b. 1941) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author AB -

Young adult dystopia focusing on medical experimentation and the use of the poor to provide skin and body parts for the rich. Beginnings of improvement at the end.

PB - Scholastic New Zealand CY - Auckland, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Book of Summer Y1 - 2005 A1 - James F. David KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in sequel to his 2005 Judgment Day. In this volume, an Earth colony called Planet America has reestablished slavery.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Box Y1 - 2005 A1 - Penelope Todd (b. 1958) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult authoritarian dystopia in which the New Zealand government is experimenting with an implant that regulates body chemistry and controls emotion. Successful teenage revolt.

PB - Longacre Press CY - Dunedin, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil Y1 - 2005 A1 - George Saunders (b. 1958) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire and humor. Inner Horner can only hold one citizen at a time. Outer Horner, under its leader Phil, tries to collect taxes from those waiting to enter Inner Horner and starts a conflict.

PB - Riverhead Books CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. "The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil." In his The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil and In Persuasion Nation (London Bloomsbury, 2006), 1-92.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - British Front Y1 - 2005 A1 - Eric Brown (1960-2023) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Young Adult dystopia. No blacks or Asians left in 2055 Britain. Military rule.

PB - Barrington Stoke CY - Edinburgh, Scot. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Brother's Price Y1 - 2005 A1 - [Wendy] [Kosak] (b. 1963) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia with a happy ending. Future where few males are born and the difficulty of true love when each male must marry many women.

PB - Roc CY - New York U3 -

Wen Spencer [pseud.].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Building Harlequin's Moon Y1 - 2005 A1 - Larry [Lawrence van Cott] Niven (b. 1938) A1 - Brenda Cooper (b. 1951) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia and the successful struggle against it.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Burn Y1 - 2005 A1 - James Patrick Kelly (b. 1951) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia. A planet is renamed Walden and intends to follow Henry David Thoreau's (1817-62) practice of voluntary simplicity. The founder of the experiment is somewhat authoritarian, and the previous inhabitants fight against the new settlers using fire.

PB - Tachyon Publications CY - San Francisco, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Calorie Man" Y1 - 2005 A1 - Paolo [Tadini] Bacigalupi (b. 1972) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Corporate control of most agricultural products, and the corporations rule the world through their control over the food supply. The story focuses on an attempt to help a geneticist spread free seeds. 2006 "Yellow Card Man" and 2009 Bacigalupi are set in the same future.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 109.4 & 5 (644) N1 -

Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2006), 32-54; in Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology. Ed. James P. Kelley and John Kessel (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon Publications, 2007), 337-66; and  Bacigalupi’s Pump Six and Other Stories (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2008), 93-121.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Capacity Y1 - 2005 A1 - Tony [Anthony] Ballantyne (b. 1972) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Flawed utopia. Digital age where artificial intelligences are supposed to have solved the world's problems. See his Recursion. London: Tor, 2004 for background. See also 2007 Ballantyne.

PB - Tor CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "City of Reason" Y1 - 2005 A1 - Jarpe, Matthew KW - Male author AB -

Three different communities established to create eutopias on different principles come into conflict.

JF - Asimov's Science Fiction VL - 29.1 (348) U5 -

CU-Riv, Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - City of the Sun Y1 - 2005 A1 - Sarah Bryant (b. 1973) KW - Female author AB -

Post nuclear war dystopia set in Russia where a new dictator has plans for a utopia.

PB - Snowbooks CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Cloud Dragon Skies” Y1 - 2005 A1 - N[ora] K. Jemisin (b. 1972) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a future in which Earth’s environment is badly damaged and then destroyed through an experiment by those who had left Earth for life in space. 

JF - Strange Horizons UR - http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/cloud-dragon-skies/ N1 -

Rpt. in her How Long ‘Til Black Future Month (New York: Orbit, 2018), 113-26

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Company Secrets" Y1 - 2005 A1 - Kyle Kirkland KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which individuals incorporate themselves. High technology used in corporate conflict.

JF - Analog Science Fiction and Fact VL - 125.4 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Counting Heads Y1 - 2005 A1 - David Marusek (b. 1951) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia. Overpopulated future earth which easily produces more than enough for everyone, but the ease of production has eliminated all but a few jobs. There is a planned reduction in population. See also 1999 and 2009 Marusek.

PB - Tor CY - New York N1 -

The first section, "We Were Out of Our Minds With Joy" (9-46) is revised from a novella of the same title originally published in Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine 19.12& 13 (237& 38) (November 1995): 48-54, 56-58, 60-97. Rpt. in his Getting to Know You (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2007), 111-80.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Coyote Frontier: A Novel of Interstellar Exploration Y1 - 2005 A1 - Allen M[ulherin] Steele [Jr.] (b. 1958) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Final volume of a trilogy. See 2002 and 2004 Steele. In this volume, while Coyote won its freedom from Earth, its infrastructure has deteriorated and requires costly replacement. Earth, meanwhile, is in ruins, and Coyote is the best available planet for its population. Conflicts develop among the people of Coyote and with the people from Earth. His Spindrift. New York: Ace Books, 2007. U.K. ed. London: Orbit, 2007 is a first contact novel that uses the setting of the Coyote novels, and his Galaxy Blues. New York: Ace Books, 2008 is set in the same universe. Three novels that relate to and continue aspects of Coyote history are Coyote Horizon: A Novel of Interstellar Discovery. New York: Ace Books, 2009; part originally published as “Walking Star.” Forbidden Planets. Ed. Marvin Kaye (New York: Science Fiction Book Club, 2006), 49-98; Coyote Destiny: A Novel of Interstellar Discovery. New York: Ace Books, 2010.; and Hex. New York: Ace Books, 2011.  A related story that is set after the events of this novel is “Barren Isle.” Asimov’s Science Fiction (January-February 2018): 132-48.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The crime of the century: A little family planning" Y1 - 2005 A1 - Geoff Brumfiel KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. To have a child someone in the family must die.

JF - Nature VL - 438.7065 U2 -

Illus. Jacey

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Daughters of an Emerald Dusk Y1 - 2005 A1 - Katherine [V.] Forrest (b. 1939) KW - Canadian author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 1984 and 2002 Forrest. In this novel the women from Earth and the new planet get back together on the new planet. But those born on the new planet become more and more adapted to it and separated from their mothers. At the end of this novel, most of the women born on Earth, return to it. 

PB - Alyson Books CY - Los Angeles, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Death by Chocolate Y1 - 2005 A1 - Toby Moore KW - Male author AB -

Dystopian satire. A religious and political crusade against obesity using the image of Our Lord, Christ the Fit. Those who are f*t get the attention of the Health Police. Set in New York City.

PB - Viking CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Deep Blue Sea" Y1 - 2005 A1 - Peter Hobbs ED - Toby Litt ED - Ali Smith KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Environmental dystopia.

JF - Picador New Writing PB - Picador in association with the British Council and Arts Council England CY - London VL - 13 N1 -

Rpt. in his I Could Ride All Day in My Cool Blue Train (London: Faber & Faber, 2006), 7-23.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Destroying Worlds: Second Episode of Enemies of Society. A Series of Future Thrillers Y1 - 2005 A1 - John David (b. 1955) KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Dystopia. Second of a six volume series. All volumes are concerned with violent conflict between factions, but in this volume one of the themes is a hierarchical planet with slavery. See also 2002, 2003, 2006, and 2007 (2).

PB - 1st Books CY - Bloomington, IN U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Devil's Utopia. A Novel Y1 - 2005 A1 - J[ason] Schimschal KW - Male author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia in which young people, as a rite of passage, must search the wasteland for relics and lost technologies. None have ever returned among those who went east, and the novel focuses on a new group who choose to go east. Sequels that are concerned with what they find there include Ruins of America. A Novel. Northglenn, CO: Fossil Ridge Books, 2006, which sets the scene of war and mass destruction; Iron Messiah. A Novel. Northglenn, CO: Fossil Ridge Books, 2007 about the search for an ultimate weapon; Prophet of Sorrow. A Novel. Northglenn, CO: Fossil Ridge Books, 2010 about the problems faced in protecting the homeland; and Heroes of the Rising Moon. A Novel. Northglenn, CO: Fossil Ridge Books, 2012 where success is achieved. See also http://www.darkenrealm.com/

PB - Trident Publishing CY - Sandy, OR U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dexta Y1 - 2005 A1 - C. J. Ryan [pseud.]. AB -

Volume one of a series in each volume of which the heroine must defeat another dystopia on one of the planets she oversees for the Bureau of Extraterrestrial Affairs and combat the bureaucrats she works for. The other volumes are Glorious Treason. New York: Bantam Books, 2005; The Fifth Quadrant. New York: Bantam Books, 2006; Burdens of Empire. New York: Bantam Books, 2007; and Kiss of the Gods (2008).

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York U3 -

C.J. Ryan [pseud.].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Diary of Pelly D Y1 - 2005 A1 - L[ucy] J. Adlington (b. 1971) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult authoritarian dystopia in the form of a girl’s diary found by a young man on a work gang salvaging material from ruins. One’s position in society is supposed to be based on genetic differences. See also 2007 Adlington. Female author.

PB - Hodder Children's Books CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Greenwillow, 2005.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Digital Day" Y1 - 2005 A1 - Jan [Johannes] Amkreutz ED - Arthur B. Shostak KW - Dutch author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Technological eutopia.

JF - Moving Along: Far Ahead. Volume Four of Tackling Tomorrow Today PB - Chelsea House Publishers CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Disposable Children" Y1 - 2005 A1 - M[arcia] Lynx Qualey KW - Egyptian author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Just what it says. Purchase a kit at your genetics superstore, give birth in six days, and have the child grow from birth to teen in nineteen weeks, at which point they die.

JF - Lenox Avenue VL - no. 5 UR - http://www.lenoxavemag.com/issue5/issue5disposable.htm ER - TY - ABST T1 - Divided Kingdom Y1 - 2005 A1 - Rupert [William Farquhar] Thomson (b. 1955) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. The U.K. is divided into four districts reflecting personality types based on the idea of dominant humours.

PB - Bloomsbury CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Do No Harm" Y1 - 2005 A1 - Brian E. Moore KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Nonconformists are required to use a complex of drugs that make them "normal".

JF - On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic VL - 17.1 (60) ER - TY - ABST T1 - Doctor Salt Y1 - 2005 A1 - Gerard Donovan (b. 1959) KW - Irish author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of corporate medicine.

PB - Scribner CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dr. Warpenstein: The Invisible Foe Y1 - 2005 A1 - Beaver, Bennie M KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Projected dystopia that fails to achieve its ends, which includes control of all humanity.

PB - Xlibris CY - [Bloomington, IN] U1 -

Added subtitle on the cover An Original (LONG) Screenplay.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dreamhunter Y1 - 2005 A1 - Elizabeth [Fiona] Knox (b. 1959) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult fantasy novel with dystopian elements. In a re-imagined New Zealand, Southland was settled in the eighteenth century by people from an island in the Aegean Sea, and some of their descendants can read dreams and then project them to an audience. This talent is used by some in the government to torture prisoners.

PB - Fourth Estate CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia N1 -

U.K. ed. as The Rainbow Opera. London: Faber & Faber, 2005. U.S. ed. as Dreamhunter. Book One of the Dreamhunter Duet. New York: Frances Foster Books Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Echo" Y1 - 2005 A1 - Elizabeth [Francis] Hand (b. 1957) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a collapsing civilization. The dystopia is mostly in the background with the suggestion of successful terrorist attacks.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction VL - 109.4& 5 (644) N1 -

Rpt. in her Saffron and Brimstone: Strange Stories. A Collection (Milwaukee, WI: M Books, 2006), 208-18; and in Otherworldly Maine. Ed. Noreen Doyle (Camden, ME: Down East, 2008), 90-98.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Emperor" Y1 - 2005 A1 - Lucius [Taylor] Shepard (1943-2014) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Corporate destruction of the environment.

JF - Scifiction SN - 978-848630-35-2 UR - www.scifi.com/scifiction/ Posted December 14, 2005. No longer available on line. N1 -

Rpt. in his Viator Plus (Hornsea, Eng.: PS Publishing, 2009), 3-63.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Empire of Texas and The Star of India Y1 - 2005 A1 - Rodger Olsen KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia. Various environmental and political problems are not dealt with adequately and the U.S. collapses. Texas is poor, violent, and without education but develops into a workable empire. It is attacked by Brazil but wins and is on the road back to technological rebirth. Generally conservative viewpoint.

PB - Great Authors Online and Rodger Olsen CY - Lake Elsinore, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Extinction Y1 - 2005 A1 - Ray Hammond (b. 1936) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Climate change dystopia.

PB - Macmillan CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Extraordinary Voyage of Jules Verne Y1 - 2005 A1 - Eric Brown (1960-2023) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Eutopia and dystopia. Jules Verne (1828-1905) travels into both the past and the future. In the future, he first visits an authoritarian dystopia that has so weakened the sun as to bring about a new ice age. Much further into the future, he visits a eutopia of peace and plenty with the sun restored with the assistance of visiting aliens.

PB - PS Publishing CY - Hornsea, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Facing the New Atlantic. A Short Story" Y1 - 2005 A1 - Ken[nth Macrae] MacLeod (b. 1954) ED - Gerry Hassan ED - Eddie Gibb ED - Lydia Howland KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Scotland after the Gulf Stream failed. Part climate change dystopia; part high tech eutopia with extensive use of virtual reality. The future is unsettled, and everything is presented as in process. 

JF - Scotland 2020: Hopeful Stories for a Northern Nation PB - Demos CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Fevreblau. A Novel Y1 - 2005 A1 - Kenneth Mark Hoover (b. 1959) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set in Russia and its satellites in space but with a somewhat positive ending. The fevreblau was a disease the killed most of the women. A revolution against the Russian state leads initially to a continuing dystopia with various struggles among competing groups, but at the end hope is held out that positive change is beginning to take place.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Food for Thought" Y1 - 2005 A1 - Thomas Canfield KW - Male author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia.

JF - Neo-Opsis Science Fiction Magazine VL - no. 6 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Free the Sky" Y1 - 2005 A1 - Wendy S. Delmater ED - Katrina Archer KW - Female author AB -

The story is about those opposed to global weather control, which requires the world to be enveloped in a force field that will change the appearance of the sky.

JF - Little Blue Marble: Stories of Our Changing Climate PB - Ganache Media epub CY - Np N1 -

Originally published in Spirit House (2005), an online anthology published to honor the victims of the 2004 tsunami. No longer available online.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Future Heroes 2035: My Friends and I" Y1 - 2005 A1 - John Smart ED - Arthur B. Shostak KW - Male author AB -

Technological eutopia as seen through the eyes of a teenager. The story is continued in his “Future Heroes 2035: The Big Picture.” Volume Four of Tackling Tomorrow Today. Ed. Arthur B. Shostak (Np: Chelsea House Publishers, 2005), 30-43, with the story on 30-41. 

JF - Futuristics: Looking Ahead. Volume One of Tackling Tomorrow Today PB - Chelsea House Publishers CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Girls and Boys, Come Out to Play" Y1 - 2005 A1 - Michael [Jürgen] Swanwick (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Humorous eutopia. A future recreated Arcadia with nymphs and satyrs.

JF - Asimov's Science Fiction VL - 29.7 (354) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Goodness Gene Y1 - 2005 A1 - Sonia Levitin (b. 1934) KW - Female author KW - German author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia concerned with genetic engineering and cloning.

PB - Dutton Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Gypsy Tail Wind" Y1 - 2005 A1 - Mary Rosenblum (1952-2018) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopias as background. One is a future extremely strict Singapore. A gypsy community has suggestions of eutopia about it. Said to be set in the same future as her Eternity Shift (Not published under that title). See also her “Green Shift.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 29.3 (350) (March 2005): 108-30, which is set in the same future. 

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 109.2 (642) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hammered Y1 - 2005 A1 - [Sarah Bear Elizabeth] [Wishnevsky] (b. 1971) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian, violent dystopia set in 2062 with the world's ecosystem collapsing. Non-utopian sequels are Scardown. New York: Bantam Books, 2005; and Worldwired. New York: Bantam Books, 2005.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York U3 -

Elizabeth Bear [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - High in the Clouds Y1 - 2005 A1 - [James] Paul McCartney (b. 1942) A1 - Geoff Dunbar A1 - Philip Ardagh KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Children's eutopia depicting Animalia, a tropical island where all animals live happily together. Contrasted with the dangers of Megatropolis.

PB - Faber and Faber CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Homestay" Y1 - 2005 A1 - Tim Jones (b. 1959) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

The story contrasts two eutopias or dystopias with the reader left to decide which. The point of view character normally lives in electronic form in a satellite above an earth that has lost all artificial power sources. He has taken on a physical body to visit earth. Both places are presented positively.

JF - Strange Horizons UR - http://www.strangehorizons.com N1 -

Rpt. in his Transported: Short Stories (Auckland, New Zealand: Random House New Zealand, 2008), 125-37.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Hunted Y1 - 2005 A1 - Alex Shearer (b. 1949) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Dystopia in which most people look youthful and live long lives and few children are born. The few children are consider prize possessions and are bought and sold or stolen.

PB - Macmillan's Children Books CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "i, robot" Y1 - 2005 A1 - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Two societies are described, both technologically advanced. The first is a flawed utopia in that the technology is in the service of Social Harmony and is used as much for control as for improving life. The second, less fully described, is a eutopia based on nanotechnology.

JF - Infinite Matrix UR - http://www.infinitematrix.net. N1 -

Rpt. in his Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present (New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2007, 101-57 which is rpt. in a 900-copy edition (Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 2007), 101-57.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Ice Cream Doors" Y1 - 2005 A1 - Alan R. Barclay KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Alternative history authoritarian dystopia with deep rich/poor division.

JF - On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic VL - 14.4 (63) U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Imagineers. A Short Story” Y1 - 2005 A1 - Julie Bertagna (b. 1962) ED - Gerry Hassan ED - Eddie Gibb ED - Lydia Howland KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

A climate change dystopian in which harsh winters have driven people in on themselves, but while the story says, “There is no happy ever after” (65), people are creating positive countermeasures. 

JF - Scotland 2020: Hopeful Stories for a Northern Nation PB - Demos CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Imprint Y1 - 2005 A1 - Paul L. Bates KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia. Nobody has any memory. No mass media. Violence. See also 2008 Bates.

PB - Five Star CY - Waterville, ME U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Intervention" Y1 - 2005 A1 - Ruaridh Nicoll (b. 1969) ED - Gerry Hassan ED - Eddie Gibb ED - Lydia Howland KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

The story is concerned with changing the mindset of people on disability who have been encouraged to consider themselves sick to reduce the number counted as unemployed. Scotland has developed a program to identify those who can work, the majority, and reintegrate them into the productive economy, even if not in their old jobs. 

JF - Scotland 2020: Hopeful Stories for a Northern Nation PB - Demos CY - London U5 -

O, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Invisible Power. A Philosophical Adventure Story Y1 - 2005 A1 - Philip Allott KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel is designed to show how it might be possible to bring about a eutopia. A sequel is Invisible Power 2. A Metaphysical Adventure Story. [Bloomington, IN]: Xlibris, 2008. A third volume, Invisible Power 3. A Political Adventure Story, was announced but not published. Nonfiction explanations of the same ideas can be found in his Eunomia: New Order for a New World. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1990; and Eutopia: New Philosophy and New Law for a Troubled World. Cheltenham, Eng./Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2016. 

PB - Xlibris CY - [Bloomington, IN] U5 -

C, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Ivory Tower: A Place to call your own" Y1 - 2005 A1 - [Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Technological eutopia.

JF - Nature 434.7034 N1 -

Rpt. without the subtitle or the illus. in Futures from Nature. Ed. Henry Gee (New York: Tor, 2007), 274-77.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Jack" Y1 - 2005 A1 - China [Tom] Miéville (b. 1972) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia set in the same city as 2000, 2002, and 2004 Miéville. This is the story of a "Robin Hood" figure in the city.

JF - Looking for Jake: Stories PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - "January 2051: A Letter To My Best Bud in Bangladesh" Y1 - 2005 A1 - Linda Brown ED - Arthur B. Shostak KW - Female author AB -

Eutopia predicated on the world coming together after 9/11 and in the process of becoming unified.

JF - America: Moving Ahead. Volume Two of Tackling Tomorrow Today PB - Chelsea House Publishers CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Janus Effect Y1 - 2005 A1 - Alan Cash KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian eugenic dystopia set in 2040.

PB - Y Lolfa Cyf CY - Talybont, Ceredigion, Wales U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Judgment Day Y1 - 2005 A1 - James F. David KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Armageddon (See Revelation 16) and the coming of the Antichrist with the remnant of the faithful escaping to another planet. See also 2005 David, The Book of Summer.

PB - Forge CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Tor, 2007.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Kingdom of America Y1 - 2005 A1 - E. B Alston AB -

Largely romance and adventure set in a future U.S. divided into two countries, with the larger part a Roman Catholic kingdom.

PB - Righter Publishing CY - Timberlake, NC U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Labor Day" Y1 - 2005 A1 - Patrick Tucker ED - Bret Funk KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set in an ever-growing shopping mall in which people live permanently purchasing and immediately discarding goods. 

JF - Beacons of Tomorrow: First Collection PB - Tyrannosaurus Press CY - New Orleans, LA U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Last Light. aRESTORATIONovel. Book One Y1 - 2005 A1 - Terri Blackstock (b. 1957) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

First volume of a Christian dystopian series in which God takes way all electricity. Followed by Night Light. aRESTORATIONovel. Book Two. Grand Rapids, MI: Zonderavan, 2006; True Light aRESTORATIONovel. Book Three. Grand Rapids, MI: Zonderavan, 2007; and Dawn’s Light aRESTORATIONovel. Book Four. Grand Rapids, MI: Zonderavan, 2008. The series follows the experiences of various people, some of whom trust in God, who restores power at the end.

PB - Zonderavan CY - Grand Rapids, MI U5 -

Public

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Last Public Event” Y1 - 2005 A1 - Peter Murphy KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia set in an unnamed “banana republic” in which people are made brain dead so that they can their organs will remain functioning until their organs can be harvested. 

JF - Social Alternatives VL - 24.1 U5 -

MH

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Lone and Level Sands" Y1 - 2005 A1 - L[ester] Neil Smith [III] (1946-2021) ED - Ernest Lilley KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Libertarian eutopia.

JF - Future Washington PB - Washington Science Fiction Association (WSFA) CY - Washington, DC ER - TY - ABST T1 - Maddigan's Fantasia Y1 - 2005 A1 - Margaret Mahy (1936-2011) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult post-catastrophe quest novel with both eutopian and dystopian elements and much fantasy. The Fantasia is a travelling circus. New Zealand is connected to Australia. Most technology has been lost but Solis, the major city, retains some knowledge and technology and has a solar converter, which is wearing out. The central quest is to find parts for the converter. A second quest is that of children from the future trying to change elements of the past to eliminate a future evil. 

PB - HarperCollins CY - Auckland, New Zealand N1 -

Rpt. as Maddigan's Quest. Auckland, New Zealand: HarperCollins, 2006.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mercury Fur Y1 - 2005 A1 - Philip Ridley (b. 1964) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopian play set in future largely destroyed London, where many people are addicted to a drug that causes memory loss. The play focuses on a group of boys in the East End who earn money selling the drug and putting on parties in which wealthy people pay to live out their fantasies. In the part that is the focus of the play, that is the murder of a child.

PB - Methuen Drama CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mishka: Book One of The Quadrate Mind Y1 - 2005 A1 - Carrol Fix KW - Female author AB -

Eutopia and dystopia. The eutopian society is a peaceful alien culture; the dystopia is an authoritarian human regime trying to exploit the aliens. At the end of the novel, the dystopia has been defeated.

PB - iUniverse, Inc CY - Lincoln, NE U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Modest Proposal ... for the Perfection of Nature" Y1 - 2005 A1 - Vonda N[eel] McIntyre (1948-2019) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia. Eutopia that is based on the virtually complete destruction of the natural world, which is being used entirely to support the human race and anything not directly useful has disappeared.

JF - Nature VL - 434.7029 N1 -

Rpt. with the ellipsis but without the illus. in Futures from Nature. Ed. Henry Gee (New York: Tor, 2007), 194-96; and in More Alternative Truths: Stories From the Resistance. Ed. Phyllis Irene Radford, Rebecca McFarland Kyle, Lou J Berger, and Bob Brown (Benton City, WA: B Cubed Press, 2017), 176-79.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Moped Army Y1 - 2005 A1 - Paul Sizer (b. 1963) ED - Daniel Robert Kastner ED - Simon King ED - Jane Irwin KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Graphic novel dystopia set in a world where gasoline was illegal with a focus on conflict between the very wealth young people who live high in the cities and the poor young people who live in the crumbling underground.

PB - Café Digital Comics CY - Kalamazoo, MI U5 -

WMU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Mountain Man's Toothpick" Y1 - 2005 A1 - Susan Urbanek Linville ED - Chris DiMarco KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Religious dystopia in a world where few children are born, and, if a couple do not have a child in three years, the woman is made the concubine of a fertile man.

JF - Northwest Passages: A Cascadian Anthology PB - Fandom Press CY - Port Orchard, OR U1 -

Hosted by Cascadia.com

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Necessary Beggar Y1 - 2005 A1 - Susan Palwick (b. 1961) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The dystopia of present reality contrasted with Lémabantunk, the Glorious city, which is a eutopia of peace and plenty. Fantasy elements.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Never Let Me Go Y1 - 2005 A1 - Kazuo Ishiguro (b. 1954) KW - Japanese author KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Dystopia describing a future society where children are cloned and raised to become organ donors. The story is told from the point of view of one of the clones.

PB - Faber and Faber CY - London N1 -

Rpt. with minor revisions and illus. Kate Miller. London: The Folio Society, 2012, with an Introduction by Claire Mussud (vii-xiv). U.S. ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The New Society for Universal Harmony Y1 - 2005 A1 - Lenore Malen KW - Female author AB -

Art book describing the reinvention of a utopian experiment founded in Paris in 1783 by Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1851), of mesmerism/hypnotism fame. The reinvention places the community in the contemporary United States and traces its rise and fall. The book represents a mid-point on an ongoing project that, under the title given to the book, originated in 1999 as “La Société de l'harmonie universelle,” a performance/exhibition that was presented from then until 2008. “Harmony as a Hive” is a performance piece presented between 2007 and 2009. “I Am an Animal, Part 1” (2009) is a documentary film about beekeepers. “Part 2” (2012) is a video installation that imagines human civilization as a hive. “Scenes of Paradise” (2015-2017) is a multimedia presentation of various scenarios, all of which are informed by climate change. The group of artists who work with her also uses the name The New Society for Universal Harmony.

PB - Granary Books CY - New York U5 -

PSt, RPB

ER - TY - ABST T1 - No Sister of Mine Y1 - 2005 A1 - Jeanne G'Fellers KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

First volume of a trilogy set in the far future on a planet that is divided between a patriarchal, heterosexual society known as the Autlach and an all-female telepathic society known as the Taelach. The two societies are in conflict and the all-female society is divided between those who want to enslave the Autlach and those who simply want to coexist. The Taelach society has elements of a lesbian feminist eutopia. The second volume, Sister Lost Sister Found. Tallahassee, FL: Bella Books, 2006, continues the story of the conflict between the two main societies with considerably more development of the lesbian eutopia, including a clan structure. The third volume, Sisters’ Flight. Tallahassee, FL: Bella Books, 2007, continues the story of the protagonist in 2006 G’Fellers who has become a warrior in one of the clans. All three volumes contain Glossaries, none of which include all the same words.

PB - Bella Books CY - Tallahassee, FL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Nocturne Y1 - 2005 A1 - Jus Neuce [pseud.] KW - Female author AB -

The novel is set on a planet settled from Earth that has developed a class-based society. The dominant class stems from the early scientific settlers and is centered on their schools. The other class is based on the second group of settlers who were mostly from the working class. Class conflict ensues, and the book indicates that a sequel is planned, but none appears to have been published. An unpaged “Glossary” at the end of the book gives a summary overview of the planet, its history, and its institutions. 

PB - Aio Publishing CY - Charleston, SC U3 -

Jus Neuce [pseud.].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Notes From a Coma Y1 - 2005 A1 - Mike McCormack (b. 1965) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which deep comas are tried to replace prison.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Novice Y1 - 2005 A1 - Glenda Millard KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Second volume of what is described as the the Carradon trilogy in sequel to 2004 Millard. The third volume does not appear to have been published. In this volume, the protagonists discover that a government plan to assist refugees in fact disguises a system of slavery. 

PB - ABC Books for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Olive Readers Y1 - 2005 A1 - Christine Aziz KW - Female author AB -

Corporate dystopia set in the twenty-third century. Reading is prohibited and an underground network of readers struggles to keep memory and the past alive.

PB - Macmillan CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Only Begotten Sons. The Only Forgotten Sons Y1 - 2005 A1 - [Linda] [Pearson] KW - Female author AB -

Long (682 pp.) novel that is mostly fantasy but includes a world called Utopia together with material on Earth and Hell.

PB - Xlibris CY - [Bloomington, IN] U3 -

Hope Lingers [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Overdrive Y1 - 2005 A1 - Phillip W. Simpson (b. 1971) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopian science fiction novel set in 3149. Primarily adventure and intrigue, but the setting includes a struggle for power in an authoritarian society.

PB - Arete Publishing Ltd CY - Remuera [Auckland], New Zealand U5 -

ATL

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Patralmador Paradox: Seduction and Salvation of Planet Earth Y1 - 2005 A1 - Paul [S.] Sandhaus KW - Male author AB -

Flawed utopia on the planet Patralmador, which is trying to recruit people from Earth who are likely to shake up Patralmador’s complacency. Equality. Live in compatible groups; no families. Children live by age group. No competitive sport; no organized religion; abundance. 

PB - iUniverse, Inc CY - Lincoln, NE U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Perfect Dark Initial Vector Y1 - 2005 A1 - Greg[ory] Rucka (b. 1969) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Corporate dystopia in sequel to the XBox 360 game Perfect Dark Zero and © by the Microsoft Corporation. See also his Perfect Dark Second Front. New York: Tor, 2007, which is a sequel.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Piccadilly Circus" Y1 - 2005 A1 - Chris Beckett (b. 1955) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a future ruined, depopulated London.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 198 N1 -

Rpt. in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2006), 244-57.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Pigs on the Wing: Aurorae in the sky with diamonds, just $10.99 (exc. tax)" Y1 - 2005 A1 - K. Erik Ziemelis KW - Male author AB -

Pollution dystopia.

JF - Nature VL - 436.7051 N1 -

Rpt. without the subtitle or the illus. in Futures from Nature. Ed. Henry Gee (New York: Tor, 2007), 318-20.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Prometheus Unbound, At Last: And not a moment too soon" Y1 - 2005 A1 - Kim Stanley Robinson (b. 1952) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on the themes of science fiction and utopian literature.

JF - Nature VL - 434.7052 N1 -

Rpt. without the subtitle or the illus. in Futures from Nature. Ed. Henry Gee (New York: Tor, 2007), 239-41; and in The Best of Kim Stanley Robinson. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2010), 361-63.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Promised Land" Y1 - 2005 A1 - Antonio Ruffini KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

Dystopia. Immortality or at least extremely long life is available to some, which produces a deeply divided society.

JF - On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic VL - 17.2 (61) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Protector's War Y1 - 2005 A1 - S[tephen] M[ichael] Stirling (b. 1954) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Post-catastrophe societies, some dystopian and others struggling to be good societies.

PB - Roc CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Punk Land Y1 - 2005 A1 - Carlton Mellick III (b. 1977) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a Punk Heaven.

PB - Eraserhead Press CY - Portland, OR U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Quilt Cirq" Y1 - 2005 A1 - Susan Urbanek Linville KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia with cyberpunk elements, but with the AIDS quilt movement taken to a new level with circuits built into the quilts that contain the personality of the deceased. This is done for most who die, not just AIDS victims.

JF - On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic VL - 17.1 (60) U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - RebelFire 1.0: Out of the Gray Zone Y1 - 2005 A1 - Claire Wolfe A1 - Aaron [S.] Zelman (1946-2010) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A future as a dystopia in which everyone is surveilled and drugged, and there are armed patrols to ensure compliance. One young boy resists, and he finds others who are rebels. The authors include an Afterword (225-27) giving details of existing or proposed institutions and weapons that are the basis for their picture of the future. 

PB - RebelFire Press CY - Hartford, WI U5 -

PSt, Public

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Red Rose Rages (Bleeding): A Short Novel Y1 - 2005 A1 - L[inda] Timmel Duchamp (b. 1950) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of privatized "rehabilitation" facilities.

PB - Aqueduct Press CY - Seattle, WA U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Republic of Trees Y1 - 2005 A1 - Sam Taylor KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Four children "on the edge of adolescence" run away to a forest where they attempt to establish a eutopia based on Jean-Jacque Rousseau's (1712-78) Social Contract (1762). Another joins them and the eutopia takes a dystopian turn with the imposition of authority and conformity.

PB - Faber and Faber CY - London U5 -

Public

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Running on at Adventures" Y1 - 2005 A1 - Angus McAllister (b. 1943) ED - Neil Williamson (b. 1968) ED - Andrew J. Wilson KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Enclosed dystopia of over-regulation with no contact with the outside. The protagonist experiences the outside and decides that the regulated life is preferable.

JF - Nova Scotia: New Scottish Speculative Fiction PB - Crescent Press CY - Edinburgh, Scot. ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Scotland the Grave. A Short Story." Y1 - 2005 A1 - Taylor, Pennie ED - Gerry Hassan ED - Eddie Gibb ED - Lydia Howland KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

Scotland after the oil ran out, which has produced very negative impacts, but Scotland attracts university students because the universities are tuition free, and Scotland is proving an ideal setting for the development of alternative energy resources. 

JF - Scotland 2020: Hopeful Stories for a Northern Nation PB - Demos CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Short History of Paradise Y1 - 2005 A1 - Norman Bilbrough (b. 1941) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

A communal experiment designed to be eutopian is undermined by "human nature".

PB - Penguin Books CY - Auckland, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Signal Red Y1 - 2005 A1 - Rimi B. Chatterjee (b. 1969) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Indian author KW - Northern Ireland author AB -

Dystopia set in a future India that is one of the most advanced countries scientifically. The government controls all science and scientists, who live in compounds which neither they or their families can leave. 

PB - Penguin Books CY - New Delhi, India U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Six Days Till Sunday Y1 - 2005 A1 - Fred Gaertner KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a future where blacks enslave whites and argue that their slaves are all content. To fight this future slavery, blacks are sent back to experience the dystopia of slavery in the American South before the Civil War. At the end of the novel, former slave owners are freeing their slaves and working to end slavery. A non-utopian sequel is Preacher Sean, Antiterrorist. Bloomington, IN: Xlibris, 2009.

PB - Xlibris CY - Bloomington, IN U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Smoke Y1 - 2005 A1 - Alex De Campi KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Graphic novel dystopia of violence.

PB - IDW CY - San Diego, CA U2 -

Art by Alex Kordey (Kordej who uses Kordy on publications in France and the U.S.).

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Soul City. A Novel Y1 - 2005 A1 - Touré [Nesblett] (b. 1971) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

Humorous, satirical eutopia of a vibrant city that lives all the fables of the swinging African American life. Additional Soul City stories that can be found in his The Portable Promised Land. Stories. New York: Little, Brown, 2002 include “The Steviewondermobile” (3-8), “A Hot Time at the Church of Kentucky Fried Souls and the Spectacular Final Sunday Sermon of the Right Revren Daddy Love” (9-24); originally published illus. in Zoetrope All-Story 3.4 (Winter 1999): 40-46. http://www.all-story.com/issues.cgi?action=show_story&story_id=57&part=all; “The Breakup Ceremony” 25-31); “Soul City Gazette Profile: Crash Jinkins, Last of the Chronic Crashees” (142-45), and “Falcon Malone Can Fly No More” (201-17). In addition, there is an ad for the forthcoming The Black Utopia, A History of Soul City, by Cadillac Johnson, a protagonist in Soul City, to be published by Negritude University Press. 1369 pp. (257). 

PB - Little, Brown CY - Boston, MA U3 -

Touré [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Stelzer's Travels: A Voyage to a Sensible Planet Y1 - 2005 A1 - Dan Hurwitz KW - Male author AB -

Detailed eutopia of a planet with a history closely paralleling Earth's covering international relations, ecology, economics, politics, and religion. Jewish themes throughout.

PB - Booklocker CY - Bangor, ME U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Stolen Voices Y1 - 2005 A1 - Ellen Dee Davidson (b. 1954) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult authoritarian dystopia with fantasy elements where sound is muted and combined, and everyone’s voice is melded so that they are controlled. A young girl leads the people to freedom by giving them back their voices and music. 

PB - Lobster Press CY - Montréal, QC, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Stone Ship Y1 - 2005 A1 - Peter Raftos KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia with fantasy elements focusing on a university and its complex physical structure and bureaucracy and the struggles for power and status within it.

PB - Pandanus Books CY - Canberra, ACT, Australia U5 -

A, VMU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Summer Ice" Y1 - 2005 A1 - Holly Phillips (b. 1969) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Beginnings of a eutopia describing a city that is "greening", transforming itself by tearing up roads, redesigning buildings, and generally recreating itself ecologically. Work shared by everyone.

JF - In the Palace of Repose PB - Prime Books CY - [Holicong, PA] N1 -

Rpt. in Fantasy Magazine 1.1 (2005): 103-09; and in Best New Fantasy. Ed. Sean Wallace ([Holicong, PA: Prime Books, 2006), 219-37. Rev. ed. ([Holicong, PA]: Prime Books, 2006), 175-95. Rpt. in Shine: An Anthology of Near-future, Optimistic Science Fiction. Ed. Jetse de Vries (Oxford, Eng.: Solaris, 2010), 116-40 with an editor’s note on 115-16. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Summer Isles Y1 - 2005 A1 - Ian R[oderick] MacLeod (b. 1956) KW - Male author KW - Northern Ireland author AB -

Alternative history dystopia describing a Britain in which fascists came to power. Particular focus on its anti-gay agenda.

PB - Aio Publishing CY - [Charleston, SC] N1 -

A shorter version was originally published in Asimov’s Science Fiction 22.10 (274) (October/November 1998): 172-226; rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction. Sixteenth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999), 544-602 with an editor’s note on 544.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Tartan Initiative” Y1 - 2005 A1 - Anne Donovan ED - Gerry Hassan ED - Eddie Gibb ED - Lydia Howland KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

The story recounts the rise of immigration to Scotland and the loss of the native languages of the immigrant children as well as the loss of Gaelic by the Scots. The Tartan Initiative is a plan, initially by one teacher, to revive both. 

JF - Scotland 2020: Hopeful Stories for a Northern Nation PB - London CY - Demos U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Towards a Liberal Utopia Y1 - 2005 A1 - Philip Booth KW - Female author KW - Male author AB -

Liberal in this case means "free market". The first part of the book, "Times Future?", is a series of essays describing how specific policy areas could be improved using market mechanisms. The result, although it is clear that many of the authors are uncomfortable with the word, would be a free market utopia. The essays are "Health 2055" by Tim Evans and Helen Evans (41-55/2nd ed. 11-21), "Education Reclaimed" by James Tooley (56-66/2nd ed. 22-30), "Policing a Liberal Society" (67-85/2nd ed. 31-44), "Pension Provision in 2055" by Philip Booth (86-98/2nd ed. 45-55), "Social Security in a Free Society" by David G. Green (99-107/2nd ed. 56-63), "Limits on the Tax Burden" by Tim Congdon (108-18/2nd ed. 64-71), "Britain's Relationship with the European Union" by Patrick Minford (119-27/2nd ed. 72-79), "Regulating the Labour Market" by J.R. Shackleton (128-43/2nd ed. 80-91), "Free Trade: The Next Fifty Years" by Razeen Sally (144-54/2nd ed. 92-100), "Competition in Land Use Planning: An Agenda for the Twenty-first Century" (155-65/2nd ed. 101-09), "Beyond Kyoto: Real Solutions to Greenhouse Emissions From Developing Countries" by Roger Bate and David Montgomery (166-86/2nd ed. 110-25), "The Environment in 2055" by Julian Morris (187-99/2nd ed. 126-36), "Capitalism" by David Henderson and Geoffrey Owen (200-11/2nd ed. 137-45), "A Constitution for Liberty" by John Meadowcraft (212-21/2nd ed. 146-53), and "The Hayekian Future of Economic Methodology" by Paul Ormerod (222-32/2nd ed. 154-61). The second part includes five essays on past activities of the IEA.

PB - IEA The Institute of Economic Affairs CY - London N1 -

2nd ed. London: Continuum/IEA The Institute for Economic Affairs, 2006. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Traveler Y1 - 2005 A1 - John Twelve Hawks [pseud.] KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Book One of The Fourth Realm Trilogy. The world, known as the Vast Machine, is populated by citizens who think they know what is going on and drones who are too tired to care. Unknown to them, there is a continuing conflict between the Tabula (the bad guys) and the Harlequins (the good guys). The second volume, The Dark River. Book Two of The Fourth Realm Trilogy. London: Bantam Press, 2007. U.S. ed. New York: Doubleday, 2007, describes those who attempt to live free lives outside the grip of the authoritarian dystopia. The third volume, The Golden City: Book Three of the Fourth Realm Trilogy. New York: Doubleday, 2009 resolves the conflicts developed in the first two volumes and suggests a positive outcome. 

PB - Bantam Press CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Doubleday. Rpt. New York: Random House/Vintage, 2006.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Traveller's from Afar; Aatas' story Y1 - 2005 A1 - H[eather] J[eanne] Bicknell (b. 1962) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

Eutopia. Children's story of peaceful aliens who are looking for a planet on which to live when theirs is destroyed. The West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand is already a well-established meeting point for many space traveling peoples, and they settle there.

PB - [H.J. Bicknell] CY - [Wellington, New Zealand] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Troubadour. An epic, utopian, otherworldly quest-adventure Y1 - 2005 A1 - Don Fenn KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia on the planet Troubadour where people are free to make their own choices and any cooperation has to rise spontaneously and through agreement. The Earthman who is taken to the planet is a psychologist who has serious problems adjusting to the lack of structure.

PB - Synergy Books. CY - Austin, TX U1 -

The Publisher’s Cataloging-in-Publication has an additional subtitle, The Second Coming, prior to the one given on the title page, and this is the sub-title in the running head

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Uglies Y1 - 2005 A1 - Scott [David] Westerfeld (b. 1963) KW - Australian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

First volume of a series originally called the Uglies trilogy, but a fourth volume was added. The first volume describes a technological eutopia in which everyone can become beautiful at age sixteen is an authoritarian dystopia. In the second volume, Pretties. New York: Simon Pulse, 2005, a girl who becomes beautiful discovers that what she thought would be eutopia is not. In the third volume, Specials. New York: Simon Pulse. U.K. ed. London: Simon & Schuster, 2006, the main character becomes part of the group controlling the Uglies and keeping the Pretties stupid. The fourth volume, Extras. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007, includes the arrival of aliens, but the focus is on the role of celebrity in the future society. See also the graphic novels by Scott Westerfeld and Devin Grayson. Uglies: Cutters. Illus. Steven Cunningham. New York: Ballantine Books, 2012; and Uglies: Shay’s Story. Illus. Steven Cunningham. New York: Ballantine Books, 2012. A series of four volumes set in the same world as the Uglies series began with Impostors. New York: Scholastic Press, 2018, which describes one of the dystopian cities that emerges after the revolution in the Uglies series. The second volume, Shatter City. New York: Scholastic Press, 2019, is set in a city in which people use implants to control their emotions. The third volume, Mirror’s Edge. New York: Scholastic Press, 2021, follows one of the characters, a rebel, of the previous novels when she returns to her home city and the problems that ensue. The ending sets up a connection to the preceding Uglies series for the next volume.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - uTOpia: TOwards a New TOronto Y1 - 2005 ED - Jason McBride ED - Alana Wilcox KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - Male author AB -

A collection of thirty-three essays that together create a realistically eutopian Toronto. Includes maps of the future Toronto. Includes a brief “Foreword” by Mayor David Miller. Most of the essays, many of which are reprints, propose changes or reforms referring to specific Toronto individuals, groups, and institutions. The essays in the section “TOmorrow” are somewhat more broadly eutopian in that they move beyond specific reforms to more general depictions of the good society, mostly along environmental lines. These include “Making a Toronto of the imagination” by Bert Archer (220-28); “Making a green scene” by Jonny Dovercourt (230-37); “A funny thing happened on the way to the future” by Barbara Rahder and Patricia Wood (238-42); “2019” by David Meslin (244-48) presenting a decentralized eutopia; “An age-old idea” by Adam Vaughan (250-54) on accessibility; “Situationist Toronto, ON: three mappings” by Mark Fram (256-67) on architecture; and “Between utopias” by Deanne Taylor (268-75). See also 2007 Wilcox, Palassio, and Dovercourt, eds.; Alana Wilcox, Christina Palassio, and Jonny Dovercourt, eds. The State of the Arts: Living with Culture in Toronto. uTOpia Two. Toronto, ON, Canada: Coach House Books, 2006; Wayne Reeves and Christina Palassio, eds. HTO: Toronto’s Water from Lake Iroquois to Lost Rivers to Low-flow Toilets. Toronto, ON, Canada: Coach House Books, 2008; Christina Palassio and Alana Wilcox, eds. The Edible City: Toronto’s food from farm to work. Toronto, ON, Canada: Coach House Books, 2009; and Dave Meslin, Christina Palassio, and Alana Wilcox, eds. Local Motion: The Art of Civic Engagement in Toronto. Toronto, ON, Canada: Coach House Books, 2010. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Venusia: a true story Y1 - 2005 A1 - Mark [A.] von Schlegell (b. 1957) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which people are controlled by drugs, nanotechnology, and a form of psychotherapy. The first volume in his “System Series.” See also 2009 and 2015 von Schlegell. 

PB - Semiotext(e) CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - War Surf Y1 - 2005 A1 - M[ary] M. Buckner KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of corporate control in which the rich play at war. 

PB - Ace Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Weapon Y1 - 2005 A1 - Michael Z. Williamson (b. 1967) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Primarily a war and adventure story, but the setting is a future dystopia of a Fascist earth.

PB - Baen CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - X out of Wonderland: A Saga Y1 - 2005 A1 - David Allan Cates (b. 1956) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on the best of all possible worlds created by the beneficent "Global Free Market".

PB - Steerforth Press CY - Hanover, NH U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Yuhana Am" Y1 - 2005 A1 - David Redd (b. 1946) KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

Dystopian background. All of life is organized by the authorities and each person is placed where the authorities conclude they belong.

JF - On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic VL - 17.1 (60) ER - TY - ABST T1 - Zahrah the Windseeker Y1 - 2005 A1 - Nnedi[mma Nkemdili]] Okorafor-Mbachu (b. 1974) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Eutopia. Young adult coming-of-age fantasy in which a young girl has to leave home to undertake a dangerous trip to bring back the cure for her best friend's snake bite. The eutopian setting is the community in which she lives, which, although far from perfect, is generally presented very positively. A related story is "From the Lost Diary of TreeFrog7.” Clarkesworld Magazine, no. 32 (May 2009). http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/okorafor_05_09/

PB - Houghton Mifflin CY - Boston, MA N1 -

An illustrated version has been published in Lagos, Nigeria: Farafina, 2007.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Zanesville Y1 - 2005 A1 - Kris Saknussemm (b. 1961) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Corporate dystopia with fantasy elements.

PB - Villard Books CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - "According to Their Need" Y1 - 2004 A1 - Michael A[ustin] Stackpole (b. 1957) ED - Mark Tier ED - Martin H[arry] Greenberg (1941-2011) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia of no government or laws but with a paternalistic computer system that fills needs as it perceives them.

JF - Visions of Liberty PB - Baen CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Freedom! Ed. Martin H[arry] Greenberg and Mark Tier (New York: Baen, 2006), 377-401.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Affinity Trap Y1 - 2004 A1 - Martin Sketchley (b. 1967) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia, but the emphasis is on adventure. Collapsed social order and environmental degradation has forced people to live inside large towers. Military dictatorship.

PB - Simon & Schuster CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - After the Deluge Y1 - 2004 A1 - Chris Carlsson (b. 1957) KW - Male author AB -

San Francisco in 2157 has been partially submerged as a result of global warming but has recreated itself as a eutopian city with no private property. The novel focuses on how this eutopia deals with an outbreak of crime.

PB - Full Enjoyment Books CY - San Francisco, CA U1 -

Cover adds A Novel of Post-Economic San Francisco.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Age of Sinatra. A Novel Y1 - 2004 A1 - David Ohle (b. 1941) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Surrealistic dystopia set in an alternative history. Elective surgery to change body parts. Sailing on the Titanic, which has not sunk. Drugs. Weird animals, reanimated dead; regular periods of forgetting. Described as a sequel to his Motorman. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972; rpt. Brooklyn, NY: 3rd Bed Press, 2004, which is not utopian. See also 2008 Ohle.

PB - Soft Skull Press CY - [Brooklyn, NY] N1 -

Parts published in different form as “Chili Hearts.” Harper’s 249.1492 (September 1974): 64-67; “Hogshead.” Transatlantic Review, no. 49 (Summer, 1974): 130-38; “The Boy Scout.” TriQuarterly 35.1 (Winter 1976): 39-40; rpt. in The Pushcart Prize, II: Best of the Small Presses (Yonkers, NY: Pushcart Press, 1977), 464-67; “Onebe and the Neutrodynes.” New Mexico Humanities Review 2.2 (Summer 1979): 51-57; “The Flocculus.” Paris Review 22.77 (Winter-Spring 1980): 16-25; rpt. in Pushcart Prize, VI: Best of the Small Presses (Yonkers, NY: Pushcart Press, 1981), 79-87; “Easy Neutronics.” A Reader of New American Fiction. Ed. Robert Fromberg and Rebecca West (Peoria, IL: I-74 Press, 1981), 37-49; “Fastest Brains Preserved.” Review of Contemporary Fiction 41 (Spring 1984): 121-24; “The Log of the Pipistred.” Missouri Review 9.2 (1986): 32-41; “The Work of Art.” Caliban, no. 8 (1990): 85-89; “The Flum.” Conjunctions 26 (Spring 1996): 236-46; “Der Kroetenkusser” Elimae http://www.elimae.com/fiction/ohle/kroetenkusser.html. Accessed March 13, 2010; “Mother and Son” Failbetter, no. 5 http://failbetter.com/05/Mother%20and%20Son.htm. Accessed March 13, 2020; and “Ratt from The Flocculus.” 3rd bed, no. 6 (2002): 131-52 http://calamaripress.com/3rdBed/3rd_Bed_Issues.htm. Accessed March 13, 2010. Other portions, some in different form, have appeared in City Moon (which was a journal co-edited by Ohle with much of the unsigned material written by the editors, and Dominion Review

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - America 2012. A Novel Y1 - 2004 A1 - Erik Gregory A1 - Todd Gregory KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which a Muslim terrorist network threatens the U.S. and world opinion and American intellectuals undermine the possibility of an effective U.S. response leading to the collapse of the U.S. “A Factual Epilogue” (245-300) and “Suggested Readings” (301-02) provide what the authors say is the factual basis for the novel. See also http://www.america2012.info.

PB - iUIniverse CY - Lincoln, NB U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - America 2014: An Orwellian Tale Y1 - 2004 A1 - [Jonathan] [Greenberg] KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia based on contemporary U.S. politics. George W. Bush is in his fourth term as President, the U.S. has been renamed “God’s United States,” and the Bill of Rights has been replaced. “The Revised Constitution of God’s United States. A Patriot Citizen’s Bill of Rights and Responsibilities” is on pages 219-222. It includes the current Bill of Rights with each amended with a phrase like “except in during Time of War, or serious threat of war or terrorism” as determined by the President. It also specifies that “actual abortionists, illicit drug users, subversives, terrorists, enemy sympathizers or propagandists” have no rights.

PB - Progressive Source Publishing CY - New York U3 -

Dawn Blair [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - American Odyssey Y1 - 2004 A1 - Alvin Levie (b. 1927) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a future U.S. under a dictatorship. The novel follows an individual searching for those resisting the regime and the overthrow of the dictatorship and the beginnings of the reestablishment of democracy.

PB - Trafford CY - Victoria, BC, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Among the Brave. A Shadow Children Book Y1 - 2004 A1 - Margaret Peterson Haddix (b. 1964) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult overpopulation dystopia in which each family is limited to two children. Sequel to 1998, 2001, 2002, and 2003 Haddix. See also 2005, and 2006 Haddix. In this volume, a group of the Shadow Children organize to defeat the system.

PB - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Arrivals Y1 - 2004 A1 - Naomi Gladish Smith KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The novel follows a group of travelers into the first stage of the afterlife described by Emanuel Swedenborg (1668-1772) and their preparations for moving to other stages. See also 2007 and 2001 Smith. 

PB - Chrysalis Books CY - West Chester, PA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Asphalt Y1 - 2004 A1 - Rux, Carl Hancock KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

A complex novel set in a war-torn New York City. The protagonist, who has recently returned from France, ends up in a poor, deteriorating neighborhood in Brooklyn and the novel follows his interactions with his neighbors and flashbacks to his childhood. Although much of the novel was written before 9/11, the novel is obviously influenced by that day. 

PB - Atria Books CY - New York N1 -

The novel was made into a play by the author with live music and video and performed at the CalArts Theater February 2 - 4, 2006. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Bar Code Tattoo Y1 - 2004 A1 - Suzanne Weyn (b. 1955) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which everyone is required to get a bar code tattoo on their sixteenth birthday and one girl refuses. See also 2006 and 2012 Weyn.

PB - Scholastic CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Basilisk Y1 - 2004 A1 - N[icola] M[athews] Browne (b. 1960) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The novel presents two dystopian societies and the successful result of a combined revolt. Marketed in the U.S. as a Young Adult title.

PB - Bloomsbury CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Belonging Y1 - 2004 A1 - Jeannie Baker (b. 1950) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Children's wordless picture book depicting community as eutopia.

PB - Walker Books CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed as Home. [New York]: Greenwillow Books, 2004. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Beyond Infinity Y1 - 2004 A1 - Gregory [Albert] Benford (b. 1941) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel is an expansion of Benford’s novella in 1990 Clarke and Benford and begins in an apparent eutopia, but the bulk of the novel is concerned, as was the novella, with an attack on the eutopia and its response. See the “Afterword” (337-38/Orbit 450-51) for an explanation of the relationship of this book to 1953 Clarke and 1990 Clarke and Benford.

PB - Aspect/Warner Books CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Orbit, 2004.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Big Empty. Paradise City Y1 - 2004 A1 - [Elizabeth J.] [Braswell] KW - Female author AB -

Young adult post-catastrophe eutopia under threat. Sequel to the non-utopian J.B. Stephens, The Big Empty. New York: Razorbill, 2004 where a virus kills half the population. Further sequels include Stephens, The Big Empty. Desolation Angels. New York: Razorbill, 2005 and [Braswell], The Big Empty. No Exit. New York: Razorbill, 2005, both of which concern responses to the threat to the eutopia. It is likely that the various volumes were written by different authors with Stephens as a blanket pseudonym, but the volumes by Braswell are the only ones that can be identified.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Bringing Reuben Home Y1 - 2004 A1 - Glenda Millard KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult authoritarian dystopia in which all who live in the domed city must die at age 80. Young people save an old man by leaving the city. First volume of the Carradon trilogy. In the second volume, The Novice. Sydney, NSW, Australia: ABC Books for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 2005, the protagonists discover that a government plan to assist refugees in fact disguises a system of slavery. The third volume does not appear to have been published.

PB - ABC Books for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia ER - TY - ABST T1 - Califia's Daughters Y1 - 2004 A1 - [Laurie R.] [King] KW - Female author AB -

Feminist eutopia in which a post-catastrophe, mostly female, enclave living a simple, peaceful life which is confronted with modern technology. Much adventure. 

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York U3 -

Leigh Richards [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Church Invisible: A Journey into the Future of the UK Church Y1 - 2004 A1 - Nick Page (b. 1961) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. In fifty years, the church has disappeared in the U.K.

PB - Zondervan CY - Grand Rapids, MI N1 -

Part originally published as "Invisible Church." Christianity and Renewal (July - May 2002): 40-43; 30-32; 28-30; 28-30; 36-38; 46-48; 46-48; 48-49, 50; 42-43; 36-38; 22-23, 25.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Civilization" Y1 - 2004 A1 - Ryan Boudinot (b. 1972) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. A society where teenagers may be required to kill their parents as a duty; parents are expected to cooperate. No justification given. Refers to Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) as important early literature, but it is a Nineteen Eighty-Four rewritten to reflect current expectations.

JF - McSweeney's VL - [no. 14] N1 -

Rpt. in The Best of McSweeney's Volume 2. Ed. Dave Eggers (London: Hamish Hamilton, 2005), 20-32.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Cloud Atlas Y1 - 2004 A1 - David [Steven] Mitchell (b. 1969) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

A large novel with multiple story lines ranging from the past to the future, including a future authoritarian dystopia, "An Orison of Sonmi~451" (185-245). Sonmi~451 is the name of a "fabricant" or clone created to work in a fast food restaurant. The clones are drugged to sleep and wake on schedule and to keep their intelligence low and are indoctrinated into complete obedience. Sonmi~451 becomes part of a botched experiment on raising the intelligence of fabricants and experiences the world outside the restaurant. The names and the language used suggests that this part of the novel is set in a future North Korea. Part of the novel is set in the Chatham Islands of New Zealand. 

PB - Sceptre CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Collateral Damage" Y1 - 2004 A1 - Kristine Kathryn Rusch (b. 1960) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story presents time travel to war zones to teach children the horrors of war so that war can be eliminated and the problems involved in doing so.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Colonizing of Tharle" Y1 - 2004 A1 - James P[atrick] Hogan (1941-2010) ED - Mark Tier ED - Martin H[arry] Greenberg (1941-2011) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Libertarian eutopia in which an invading force tries and fails to find a government with which to negotiate. The invasion is foiled through simple non-cooperation.

JF - Visions of Liberty PB - Baen CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Freedom! Ed. Martin H[arry] Greenberg and Mark Tier (New York: Baen, 2006), 485-509.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Coyote Rising: A Novel of Interstellar Revolution Y1 - 2004 A1 - Allen M[ulherin] Steele [Jr.] (b. 1958) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 2002 Steele. After settling a new planet and establishing a free system, the planet Coyote receives more ships from Earth and a repressive government. Struggle for freedom. See also 2005 Steele. An additional story that fits between this volume and the next one is “The River Horses.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 31.4 & 5 (375 & 376) (April-May 2007): 26-71; rpt. as The River Horses.  Burton ,  MI : Subterranean Press, 2007. His Spindrift. New York: Ace Books, 2007. U.K. ed. London: Orbit, 2007 is a first contact novel that uses the setting of the Coyote novels, and his Galaxy Blues. New York: Ace Books, 2008 is set in the same universe. Three novels that relate to and continue aspects of Coyote history are Coyote Horizon: A Novel of Interstellar Discovery. New York: Ace Books, 2009; part originally published as “Walking Star.” Forbidden Planets. Ed. Marvin Kaye (New York: Science Fiction Book Club, 2006), 49-98; Coyote Destiny: A Novel of Interstellar Discovery. New York: Ace Books, 2010; and Hex. New York: Ace Books, 2011. An additional story that fits between this volume and the next one is “The River Horses.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 31.4 & 5 (375 & 376) (April-May 2007): 26-71; rpt. as The River Horses. Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2007.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -

Rev. from "The Mad Woman of Shuttlefield." Asimov's Science Fiction 27.5 (328) (May 2003): 64-85; rpt. in The Year's Best SF 9. David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer (New York: Eos, 2004), 354-87; "Benjamin the Unbeliever." Asimov's Science Fiction 27.8 (August 2003): 86-130; "The Garcia Narrows Bridge." Asimov's Science Fiction 28.1 (336) (January 2004): 66-85; "Thompson's Ferry." Asimov's Science Fiction 28.3 (338) (March 2004): 84-96; "Incident at Goat Kill Creek." Asimov's Science Fiction 28.4 & 5 (339 & 340) (April/May 2004): 82-124; "Shady Grove." Asimov's Science Fiction 28.7 (342) (July 2004): 16-47; "Liberation Day." Asimov's Science Fiction 28.10 & 11 (October-November 2004): 188-229; and "Home of the Brave." Asimov's Science Fiction 28.12 (347) (December 2004): 46-60.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Crux Y1 - 2004 A1 - Albert E[dward] Cowdrey (b. 1933) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe authoritarian dystopia.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Cuma's Voice: An Environmental Utopia Y1 - 2004 A1 - William Young KW - Male author AB -

The novel is composed entirely of a discussion between a woman on Earth and an alien on another planet that is presented as a naturally occurring eutopia without any technology with the Earth not quite a dystopia but considerably less appealing than the Forest of the other planet, which provides all that the inhabitants need. The inhabitants of the eutopia are similar to the birds of Earth in that they are feathered and fly, but they do not lay eggs, but they are neither female nor male with everyone capable of bearing offspring. They give live birth with the offspring carried in pouches until they mature. While they have personal names and differing interests and skills, they do not think of themselves as individuals and live in close-knit communities.

PB - Xlibris CY - [Bloomington, IN] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Curious Notions. Crosstime Traffic--Book Two Y1 - 2004 A1 - Harry [Norman] Turtledove (b. 1949) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia in a series in which travel between parallel timelines, for harvesting resources, has become possible in the late 21st century. In this volume, Germany won World War I and now dominates the world. Other volumes in the series include 2006, 2007, and 2008 Turtledove and two non-utopian volumes, Gunpowder Empire: Crosstime Traffic--Book One. New York: Tor, 2003; and In High Places: Crosstime Traffic--Book Three. New York: Tor, 2006.

PB - Tor CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Deletion" Y1 - 2004 A1 - Steven Bratman KW - Male author AB -

Genetic engineering in a world in which genes for emotional connection had been removed and which shows the flawed utopia produced.

JF - Analog Science Fiction and Fact VL - 124.1 & 2 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Delhi" Y1 - 2004 A1 - Vandana Singh (b. 1950) ED - [Noelle] Nalo Hopkinson (b. 1960) ED - Uppinder Mehan KW - Female author KW - Indian author KW - US author AB -

The story contrasts the dystopian present of India with brief flashes of eutopian and dystopian futures.

JF - So Long Been Dreaming PB - Arsenal Pulp Press CY - Vancouver, BC, Canada N1 -

Rpt. in People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction! Ed. Nalo Hopkinson and Kristine Ong Muslin Special Issue of Lightspeed, no. 73 (June 2016): 229-42; and in The Best of World SF: Volume 1. Ed. Lavie Tidhar (London: Ad Astra/Head of Zeus, 2021), 125-47

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Devil's Star" Y1 - 2004 A1 - Jack [John Stewart] Williamson (1908-2006) ED - Mark Tier ED - Martin H[arry] Greenberg (1941-2011) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Libertarian eutopia with a barter economy, custom, and altruism contrasted with an authoritarian dystopia fearful of all free societies.

JF - Visions of Liberty PB - Baen CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Freedom! Ed. Martin H[arry] Greenberg and Mark Tier (New York: Baen, 2006), 431-51; and in The Human Limit: The Collected Stories of Jack Williamson. Volume 8 (Royal Oak, MI: Haffner Press, 2011), 369-88.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dogs and Water Y1 - 2004 A1 - Anders Nilsen (b. 1973) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Graphic novel dystopia with no words in which a boy wanders through a largely destroyed landscape.

PB - Drawn & Quarterly CY - Montréal, QC, Canada N1 -

Rpt. with a few additional pages Montréal, QC, Canada: Drawn & Quarterly, 2007.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Epic Y1 - 2004 A1 - Conor Kostick (b. 1964) KW - Irish author KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Dystopia in which ending violence depends on everyone playing the Epic game, which is controlled by the anonymous Committee. First volume of a trilogy, The Avatar Chronicles, followed by Saga. Dublin: O’Brien Press, 2006; U.S. ed. New York: Viking Children’s Edition, 2006; and Edda. Dublin: O’Brien Press, 2011; U.S. ed. New York: Viking Press, 2011, both of which are set in dystopias within other computer games with characters from the first part of the second and characters from the first two parts part of the third. 

PB - O'Brien Press CY - Dublin, Ireland N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Viking Press, 2007

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Falling Star" Y1 - 2004 A1 - Brendan DuBois ED - Martin H[arry] Greenberg (1941-2011) ED - John Helfers KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a future anti-technological, religious U.S. small town.

JF - Space Stations PB - DAW Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-second Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2005), 471-83.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Feral World Y1 - 2004 A1 - J. R. Dittbrenner AB -

New World Enterprise System has ended nation states with a generally positive result, but the novel is mostly science fiction.

PB - PublishAmerica CY - Baltimore, MD ER - TY - ABST T1 - Field of Honor Y1 - 2004 A1 - D. L. Birchfield (1948-2012) KW - Male author KW - Native American author AB -

Satire set in a future in which the Choctaw nation has been living under the Ouachita Mountains in Oklahoma and have evolved a high-tech society based in part on white slaves captured on the surface, where a cultural genocide is been implemented. Disruption occurs when a half-Choctaw marine deserter discovers the underground civilization.

PB - University of Oklahoma Press CY - Norman, OK SN - 0-8061-3608-1 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The First Space Pioneers: Perilous Space Voyages Y1 - 2004 A1 - Clyde B. Harvey KW - Male author AB -

Simplistic presentation of space voyages in the near future. Includes the presentation of many colonies, mostly vaguely eutopian.

PB - iUniverse CY - Lincoln, NB U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Fitzpatrick's War Y1 - 2004 A1 - Theodore Judson (b. 1951) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel is structured as a critical edition of a memoir of a future conflict published in a postwar dystopia with rigid class and gender distinctions.

PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Flood Y1 - 2004 A1 - Maggie [Margaret Mary] Gee (b. 1948) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Apocalyptic novel with dystopian elements and a brief heaven at the end.

PB - Saqi CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - Folkhaven Y1 - 2004 A1 - Robert L. Courtney KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel focuses on a successful family with deep roots in a small farming community. The community experiences ethnic and racial issues, and the novel has clear racist and anti-immigrant themes, and the family goes on to create the first of what is to become white-only, Nordic-based Folkhaven communities. The book ends with “The Folkhaven Community Concept” (348-62).

PB - Trafford CY - Victoria, BC, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Footvote" Y1 - 2004 A1 - Peter F. Hamilton (b. 1960) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia of a planet named New Suffolk that can be reached through a wormhole. New Suffolk is a purified, and white only, U.K., and some of its rules are spelled out throughout the story.

JF - Postscripts VL - no. 1 N1 -

Rpt. in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-second Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2005), 552-66.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - For Us, The Living: A Comedy of Customs Y1 - 2004 A1 - Robert A[nson] Heinlein (1907-88) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Written in 1939. This is Heinlein's first novel, which was rejected by publishers at the time and thought lost. Libertarian eutopia with clear divisions between what is in the public and private spheres and a system of social credit or "heritage checks" that provides everyone a basic guaranteed income. Many technological advances, some of which Heinlein used later.

PB - Scribner CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. as vol. 4 of The Virginia Edition of his works. Decatur, GA: Meisha Merlin, 2006 and separately Houston, TX: The Virginia Edition, 2008.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Forced Conversion Y1 - 2004 A1 - Donald J. Bingle (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which most people have retreated to virtual reality, and there is an organized effort to force the rest to join them. Struggle between the two groups.

PB - Five Star CY - Waterville, ME ER - TY - ABST T1 - Freehold Y1 - 2004 A1 - Michael Z. Williamson (b. 1967) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia and eutopia describing an authoritarian government and a libertarian enclave primarily concerned with conflict. First volume in a long series with a sub-series. Other volumes include The Weapon. New York: Baen, 2005; Contact with Chaos. New York: Baen, 2009; Rogue. New York: Baen, 2011; and Angeleyes. New York: Baen, 2016. The Ripple Creek subseries includes Better to Forgiveness. New York: Baen, 2007; Do Unto Others. New York: Baen, 2010; and When Diplomacy Fails. New York: Baen, 2012. There are also three anthologies edited by Williamson with contributions by him and others Forged in Blood. New York: Baen, 2017  Freehold Resistance. New York: Baen, 2019; and Freehold Defiance. New York: Baen, 2019.

PB - Baen CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Frek and the Elixir Y1 - 2004 A1 - Rudy [Rudolf von Bitter] Rucker (b. 1946) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A humorous flawed utopia set in 3003. An apparent eutopia based on biotechnology is an authoritarian dystopia using memory control. All Earth's plant and animal species have disappeared or been modified out of recognition and replaced with species that could be sold at a profit, and part of the novel is concerned with the attempt to restore them.

PB - Tor CY - New York N1 -

Part originally published as "Frek in the Grulloo Woods." Living without a Net. Ed. Lou Anders (New York: Roc, 2003), 213-28.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Futureways Y1 - 2004 ED - Rita McBride ED - Glen Rubsamen KW - Canadian author KW - Dutch author KW - Female author KW - German author KW - Portuguese author KW - UK author KW - US author AB -

Fourteen stories from thirteen authors with only the first story with an identified author. All the stories are set in or refer to futures, mostly dystopian, and connect to art exhibits. The authors listed are Laura Cottingham, as Ying Zong 4217 [pseud.]; Nick Crowe; Aline Duriaud; Nalo Hopkinson; Nico Israel; Matthew Licht; Peter Maass; Rita McBride; Alexandre Melo, whose story was translated from the Portuguese by Brad Cherry; Glen Rubsamen; Brad Schafer; Mark von Schlegell; and Roger Wolfson.

PB - Arsenal Pulp Press/Whitney Museum of American Art/Printed Matter, Inc. CY - Vancouver, BC, Canada/New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Galileo Syndrome Y1 - 2004 A1 - Daniel H. Gottlieb KW - Male author AB -

Environmental dystopia in which global warming has forced extreme restrictions on power use.

PB - Canopy Publishing CY - Eastsound, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Gift Moves Y1 - 2004 A1 - Steve Lyon KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult eutopia describing a future that has little technology and operates on the basis of gifting.

PB - Houghton Mifflin CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Gifts Y1 - 2004 A1 - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

First volume of a young adult trilogy. The setting is a country in which individual families have gifts that were mostly destructive and the need to learn to control them. In the second volume, Voices. Orlando, FL: Harcourt, 2006, the people are enslaved by a people who outlaw reading. In the third volume, Powers. Orlando, FL: Harcourt, 2007, a young boy escapes slavery and explores his world and his gift of foreseeing the future.

PB - Harcourt CY - Orlando, FL N1 -

The three volumes are rpt. in her Annals of the Western Shore: Gifts Voices Powers. Ed. Brian Attebery (New York: Library of America, 2020), with Gifts (1-148), Voices (149-336), and Powers (337-614), a Note on the Texts (666), and a list of corrected typographical errors (667). The volume also includes a Chronology (651-65) Le Guin’s “The Young Adult in YA: Talk delivered to the American Library Association (2004)” (617-26, with notes on 668-70) [Originally published in her Cheek by Jowl (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2009), 110-23]; and “Some Assumptions about Fantasy: Talk delivered at Book Expo America June 4, 2004” (627-29, with notes on 670) [Originally published in her Cheek by Jowl (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2009), 4-7], and interviews of Le Guin with Paola Castagno 2006 (630-33, with notes on 670-71) [Originally publish in Spanish on Castagno’s website Doce Moradas and in English on Le Guin’s website, http:/www.ursulakleguin.com/doce-moradas], Brian Attebery February 17, 2007 (634-38, with notes on 671-72) [Originally published in Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 17.4 (2007): 371-75], and Alexander Chee February 5, 2008 (639-47), with notes on 672) [Originally published in Guernica, heets://www.guernicamag.com.breaking_into_the_spell_I/. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - God in the Image of Woman Y1 - 2004 A1 - D[avid] V. Bernard KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia where no women are born.

PB - Strebor Books International CY - Bowie, MD ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Gods and Their Machines Y1 - 2004 A1 - Oisín McGann (b. 1973) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Young adult novel depicting conflict between a technological society and a supposedly primitive society. The book cover compares the conflict to that between Israel and the Palestinians. The beginning of reconciliation is brought about by young protagonists from each side.

PB - O'Brien Press CY - Dublin, Ireland N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Tor, 2004.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "High Rise High" Y1 - 2004 A1 - Kit [Lilian Craig] Reed (1932-2017) ED - Deborah Layne ED - Jay [Joseph Edward] Lake [Jr.] (1964-2014) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. A high rise high school built to house the town's most difficult students is taken over by the students.

JF - Polyphony PB - Wheatland Press CY - Wilsonville, OR VL - 4 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Home by the Sea" Y1 - 2004 A1 - Cat[riona] Sparks (b. 1965) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia. Future that has resulted from global warming where the majority of the remaining world's population live in extreme poverty crowded onto small islands and large rafts. A few wealthy people live in luxury on heavily guarded islands.

JF - Orb: Speculative Fiction VL - no. 6 N1 -

Rpt. in Year's Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy (Volume 1). Ed. Bill Congreve and Michelle Marquardt (Parramatta, NSW: MirrorDanse Books, 2005), 157-81.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Humanism: A Philosophic-Ethical-Political-Economic Study of the Development of Society Y1 - 2004 A1 - Aleksandar Šarović KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Detailed non-fiction eutopia based on direct democracy. His “Heaven.” http:/www/sarovic.com/screenplay.html [2010]. Accessed June 17, 2010 is a fictional version.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Incredible Adventures of the Black People or We will make less mistakes if only we realize we are not so different" Y1 - 2004 A1 - Neli [Valentinova] Demireva (b. 1981) KW - Bulgarian author KW - Female author KW - UK author AB -

Entry in the Utopian World Championship. Most entries are essays on a narrow theme; this one depicts a future world in which all peoples are roughly the same color and much conflict disappears.

UR - http://www.soc.nu/utopian/competitors/prop_final.asp?ID=26. ER - TY - ABST T1 - Iron Council Y1 - 2004 A1 - China [Tom] Miéville (b. 1972) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Set in New Crobuzon, the city that plays a role in both 2000 and 2002 Miéville but set earlier than in those novels. Iron Council is a train that is a socialist society constantly moving, picking up the track behind it and laying it in front to go wherever the inhabitants choose. The leaders of New Crobuzon are set on destroying it, and various threads of the novel following characters involved on both sides. See also 2005 Miéville.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Jigsaw Men Y1 - 2004 A1 - Gary Greenwood KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

Alternative history dystopia in which Dr. Frankenstein succeeded in creating “monsters”, known as “Jigsaw Men” or “Jiggers”, out of spare parts, the Martians had invaded Earth but failed to conquer it and had left some advanced technology behind, and the British Empire continues. France is divided by the British and the Prussians into North and South with a wall between the two. The U.S. still has slavery.

PB - PS Publishing CY - Harrogate, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Jumpers" Y1 - 2004 A1 - Mary Rosenblum (1952-2018) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian corporate dystopia.

JF - SciFiction UR - www.scifi.com/scifiction/ Posted July 21, 2004. No longer available online. ER - TY - ABST T1 - KD Rebel Y1 - 2004 A1 - David [Eden] Lane (1938-2007) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Rebels against miscegenation move to the Rocky Mountain states and establish “Kinsland” and call themselves the Kinsland Defenders (KD). The novel is about the beginnings of an ideal white society. For his “88 Precepts,” the principles on which the society is based, and which is referred to throughout the novel, see https://archive.org/stream/88Precepts_937/88Precepts_djvu.txt. 

PB - jrbooksonline.com CY - Np UR - http://www.jrbooksonline.com/pdf_books_top_list.htm U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Kindling Y1 - 2004 A1 - Mick [Michael Anthony] Farren (1943-2013) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel is set in a fragmented world with an authoritarian religious dystopia in conflict with the remaining areas of freedom. Much fantasy. English author best-known as a musician.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "King Tide" Y1 - 2004 A1 - Alison Wilson ED - Katrina Archer KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a New York City mostly under water. 

JF - Little Blue Marble: Stories of Our Changing Climate PB - Ganache Media epub. CY - Np N1 -

Originally published in Terraform (2004) 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lady and the Tiger Y1 - 2004 A1 - Jody Lynn Nye (b. 1957) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia. A planet believed to be perfect is not. A previous novel with the same characters is her Taylor's Ark. New York: Ace Books, 1993.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Love Story: A fairytale of the day after tomorrow Y1 - 2004 A1 - Rodney Hall (b. 1935) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

City divided between a brutal, religious dystopia and a wealthy, free eutopia. The emphasis of the novel is on the desire and attempt to escape from one to the other. A note by the author (256) refers to the divisions of Germany and Korea and the beginnings of the wall between Israel and Palestine.

PB - Picador CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Leviathan Wept" Y1 - 2004 A1 - Daniel [James] Abraham (b. 1969) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia produced by the policies against terrorism in which both sides kill with impunity.

JF - SciFiction UR - www.scifi.com/scifiction/ Posted July 7, 2004. No longer available online. N1 -

Rpt. in The Year's Best SF: Twenty-Second Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2005), 283-99.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Life in Globus Cassus" Y1 - 2004 A1 - Michael Stauffer A1 - Christian Waldvogel KW - Male author KW - Swiss author AB -

Essay briefly describing the eutopian life, which emphasizes equality and freedom, in their newly created space, which is described as “a successful social sculpture” (93). Globus Cassus has been created from Earth but is larger than Earth so as to be able to hold Earth’s large and growing population.

JF - Globus Cassus PB - Bundesamt für Kultur CY - Bern, Switzerland U4 -

In German and English on facing pages with summaries in French (152-54) and Italian (168-70).

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Life Lottery Y1 - 2004 A1 - Ian Irvine (b. 1950) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Ecological dystopia. The final volume of the three the author wrote on ecological subjects. See also 2000 and 2003 Irvine. This volume focuses on the disruptions caused by climate change, particularly the radical increase in the number of refugees and the growth of an anti-refugee movement.

PB - Pocket Books CY - Pymbale, NSW, Australia ER - TY - ABST T1 - Madame President: The Unauthorized Biography of the First Green Party President. Imagine if we had a Green Party President on September 11, 2001 Y1 - 2004 A1 - Mark A. Dunlea KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia produced by a Green Party US president, who improves the environment and health care and puts the Green Party vision of gender and racial relations, energy policy, and foreign policy into practice.

PB - Big Toad Books CY - Poestenkill, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Malachi Y1 - 2004 A1 - Bestwick, Simon KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of near future racist Britain with National Socialists killing Jews and anyone racially mixing. 

JF - A Hazy Shade of Winter PB - Ash-Tree Press CY - Ashcroft, BC, Canada N1 -

Rpt. in Never Again. Ed. Allyson Bird and Joel Lane ([Wyke, Eng.]: Gray Friar Press, 2010), 272-81.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Market Forces Y1 - 2004 A1 - Richard [Kingsley] Morgan (b. 1965) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Future dystopia where companies hire out to kill.

PB - Gollancz CY - London SN - 0-575-07512-0 0345457749 N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Ballantine Books, 2005. 441 pp.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Martingale Inequalities" Y1 - 2004 A1 - Karen Sandler KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Religious dystopia and struggle against it.

JF - Neo-Opsis: Science Fiction Magazine VL - no. 2 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Master of None Y1 - 2004 A1 - N[ancy] Lee Wood (b. 1955) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Set in a matriarchal society where men have no rights whatsoever but which, over the course of the novel, becomes more egalitarian and eutopian.

PB - Warner Aspect CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Men Are Trouble" Y1 - 2004 A1 - James Patrick Kelly (b. 1951) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A future world without men in which most work is done by robots, and the women struggle to find meaning in their lives. His “The Last Judgment.” Asimov's Science Fiction 36.4&5 (435 & 436) (April/May 2012): 10-49 is set in the same future and has the same protagonist, Fay Hardaway, a private detective.

JF - Asimov's Science Fiction VL - 28.6 (341) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Molôn Labé! Y1 - 2004 A1 - [Kenneth W.] [Royce] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The United States has become an authoritarian dystopia, but the state of Wyoming stands up for independence and freedom. The author says that the novel is based on the assumption that the federal government will try to confiscate guns, that there will be a depression deliberately brought about by the government, that parts of the U.S. will try to secede, and that the government will try to crush the rebellion.

PB - Javelin Press CY - [Ignacio, CO] U1 -

Cover adds Come and Take Them. A Novel.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Moments of Inertia" Y1 - 2004 A1 - William [Renald] Barton [III] (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A complex story with various flashbacks and flash forwards. The end of the world but with a small group moved to a heaven in which they are nude and younger.

JF - Asimov's Science Fiction VL - 28.4 & 5 (339 & 340) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Nectar" Y1 - 2004 A1 - Brian [Michael] Stableford (b. 1948) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia through advanced biotechnology.

JF - Asimov's Science Fiction VL - 28.1 (336) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Neurolink Y1 - 2004 A1 - M[ary] M. Buckner KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Sequel of sorts to 2003 Buckner set in the twenty-third century. Corporations have replaced nations and most of the world’s population are slaves owned by the corporations. A clone and an AI loaded with the same characteristics must work together,

PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. as The Coin Giver. Np: ereads.com, 2009. Rpt. under that title New York: Open Road Integrated Media, 2014 ebook. UK. ed. under that title London: Gateway/Orion, 2012 ebook. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Newton's Wake: A Space Opera Y1 - 2004 A1 - Ken[nth Macrae] MacLeod (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

While the novel is largely as described in its subtitle, it includes a flawed utopia in which all goods are available to all.

PB - Tor CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - One Nation Under God Y1 - 2004 A1 - Vincent M. Wales KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Religious dystopia set in 2021 to 2030 in which fundamentalist Christians have come to power in the U.S., eliminated civil liberties, and instituted rigid control. By the end of the novel, the regime has been defeated.

PB - DGC Press CY - Sacramento, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Oracles Y1 - 2004 A1 - Melissa Tantaquidgeon Zobel (b. 1960) KW - Female author KW - Native American author AB -

The novel is set in a future climate-change dystopia and focuses on the conflicts within a fictional Native American Indian tribe between those upholding the old ways and those rejecting them. It follows the life of a young Native American woman is being trained in the traditional practices of a shaman in the future with space travel.

PB - University of New Mexico Press CY - Albuquerque, NM SN - 9780826331915 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Ordinary Y1 - 2004 A1 - Jim Grimsley (b. 1955) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulated, technological, authoritarian dystopia in contact with what they think of as a primitive culture. The primitive society is a complex ancient flawed eutopia based on magic. Some of the background is given in his fantasy Kirith Kirin. Decatur, GA: Meisha Merlin, 2000. His The Last Green Tree. New York: Tor, 2006 is set in the same universe but is fantasy.

PB - Tom Doherty Associates CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ourtopia Y1 - 2004 A1 - [John] Garrett Jones KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

Detailed eutopia with brief analyses of the current situation and brief statements about solutions and lists of desired outcomes. The author uses "ourtopia" to differentiate his eutopia as a possible future better society from the "nowhere" of the word utopia.

PB - Authors OnLine CY - Hertford, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Oval Menace Y1 - 2004 A1 - James E. Couch KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in the U.S. after a Democratic woman is elected President in 2004. She quickly emerges as a dictator who will stop at nothing to get her own way. She pulls all troops back to the U.S. to create an isolationist Fortress America, which leads to major geopolitical shifts in the world and damages the economy. The author was a foreign service office and then a professor at Florida International University, retiring in 1993.

PB - iUniverse CY - Lincoln NB U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Pakeha" Y1 - 2004 A1 - Jane [M.] Lindskold (b. 1962) ED - Mark Tier ED - Martin H[arry] Greenberg (1941-2011) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Libertarian eutopia. A virus that destroys all petroleum products devastates the world economy. New Zealand chooses to eliminate government. Pākehā, which now refers to white New Zealanders, comes to mean someone who has earned the right to live there.

JF - Visions of Liberty PB - Baen CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Freedom! Ed. Martin H[arry] Greenberg and Mark Tier (New York: Baen, 2006), 403-30.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Panopte's Eye" Y1 - 2004 A1 - Kobayashi, Tamai ED - [Noelle] Nalo Hopkinson (b. 1960) ED - Uppinder Mehan KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - Japanese author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia. Excerpt from a novel-in-process, which does not appear to have been published. 

JF - So Long Been Dreaming PB - Arsenal Pulp Press CY - Vancouver, BC, Canada ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Party's Over: Blueprint for a Very English Revolution Y1 - 2004 A1 - Keith Sutherland KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Nonfiction proposal for government without political parties, which will produce a eutopia. Somewhat revised as A People's Parliament: A (Revised) Blueprint for a Very English Revolution. Exeter, Eng.: Imprint Academic. Bound back to back with Ernest Callenbach and Michael Phillips. A Citizen Legislature. O

PB - Imprint Academic CY - Exeter, England N1 -

Somewhat revised as A People’s Parliament: A (Revised) Blueprint for a Very English Revolution. Exeter, Eng.: Imprint Academic, 1985. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The People of Sand and Slag" Y1 - 2004 A1 - Paolo [Tadini] Bacigalupi (b. 1972) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Far future environmental dystopia.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 106.2 (625) N1 -

Rpt. in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-second Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2005), 122-36; in Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2008), 39-54; in his Pump Six and Other Stories (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2008), 49-67; and in Apocalypse Now: Poems and Prose from the End of Days. Ed. Andrew McFadyen and Alexander Lumans (Nashville, TN: Upper Rubber Boot, 2012), 148-65.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The People of Sparks Y1 - 2004 A1 - Jeanne DuPrau (b. 1944) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 2003 DuPrau in which the people of the city of Ember deal with conflicts with the people living on the surface. See also 2008 DuPrau.

PB - Random House CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Peregrines" Y1 - 2004 A1 - Suzy McKee Charnas (1939-2023) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Fantasy with a dystopian background extrapolated from the threats to democracy brought about by the response to terrorism in the United States.

JF - SciFiction UR - www.scifi.com/scifiction/ Posted January 7, 2004. No longer available online. N1 -

Rpt. in her Stagestruck Vampires & Other Phantasms (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon Publications, 2004), 211-51.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Pervert" Y1 - 2004 A1 - Charles Coleman Finlay (b. 1964) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of complete separation of men and women with both having to be covered from head to toe when they might be in the same areas. The pervert is a heterosexual.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 106. 3 (626) N1 -

Rpt. in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 97-106; 2nd ed. as Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 97-106.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Peter Skilling" Y1 - 2004 A1 - Alex[ander Christian] Irvine (b. 1969) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future authoritarian dystopia based on the U.S. response to terrorism.

JF - Salon.com UR - http://www.salon.com/technology/feature/2004/02/19/death_penalty. Accessed April 5, 2011. N1 -

Rpt. in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science 107.3 (632) (September 2004): 116-29; and in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 179-89; 2nd ed. as Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories. ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 179-89. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Planet for the President Y1 - 2004 A1 - Alistair Beaton (b. 1947) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Near future dystopia brought about by current U.S. environmental policies. The novel ends with only one person alive, the U.S. President whose policies led to the destruction of the eco-system.

PB - Weidenfeld & Nicolson CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Plot Against America Y1 - 2004 A1 - Philip [Milton] Roth (1933-2018) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Alternative history in which Charles A. Lindbergh (1902-74) won the 1940 presidential election and Lindbergh was a Nazi sympathizer who cooperated with Adolf Hitler. Roth called it “an American dystopia;” qtd. in the TLS (December 23 & 30, 2005): 20. A six-episode television mini-series created and directed by David Simon (b. 1960) and Ed Burns (b. 1946) was shown on HBO March 16 - April 20, 2020, with the first three episodes directed by Minkie Spiro and the last three by Thomas Schlamme (b. 1950).

PB - Houghton, Mifflin CY - Boston, MA N1 -

Rpt. in Philip Roth, Novels 2001-2007 (New York: The Library of America, 2013), 93-458 with “Notes on the Text” by Ross Miller (683-89). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Prince of Christler-Coke Y1 - 2004 A1 - Neal [Patrick] Barrett Jr. (1929-2014) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of struggle among the nobility in a future degenerated America.

PB - Golden Gryphon Press CY - Urbana, IL N1 -

Parts were originally published in different form in his Slightly Off Center: Eleven Extraordinarily Exhilarating Tales. Austin, TX: Swan Press, 1992, 5-19, which says that “Buckstop” (5-19) will be chapter 10 of Prince of Christler-Coke, but it isn’t, and the chapters have no titles. Parts were also originally published in Ten Tales. Huntington Beach, CA: James Cahill Publishing, 1994.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Rapture of the Nerds: Jury Service and Appeals Court Y1 - 2004 A1 - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) A1 - Charles [David George] Stross (b. 1964) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Satire. Complex depiction of a future world and the thousands of inhabited areas in space around it. Many different cultures on Earth. Focus on technology.

PB - The Coppervale Company CY - Silvertown, AZ U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "[Rated]" Y1 - 2004 A1 - Ben [Michael] Peek (b. 1976) ED - Cat[riona] Sparks (b. 1965) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. The Ministry of Sanitation proclaims and enforces different lifestyles for different people. White Anglo-Saxons get a eutopia with sexual restrictions.

JF - Agog! Smashing Stories PB - Agog! Press CY - Wollongong, NSW, Australia U1 -

The title is an R inside a diamond and the running head is "R".

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Reception at the Anarchist Embassy" Y1 - 2004 A1 - Brad[ford Swain] Linaweaver (1952-2019) ED - Mark Tier ED - Martin H[arry] Greenberg (1941-2011) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Discussion of various anarchist attempts at eutopia and their differences contrasted with an Earth that has become rule-bound.

JF - Visions of Liberty PB - Baen CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Freedom! Ed. Martin H[arry] Greenberg and Mark Tier (New York: Baen, 2006), 363-76.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Renegade" Y1 - 2004 A1 - Mark Tier ED - Mark Tier ED - Martin H[arry] Greenberg (1941-2011) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Libertarian society in which insurance companies have replaced most government. The system of justice and law enforcement is through profit-making companies. Presented positively.

JF - Visions of Liberty PB - Baen CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Right's Tough" Y1 - 2004 A1 - Robert J[ames] Sawyer (b. 1960) ED - Mark Tier ED - Martin H[arry] Greenberg (1941-2011) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Libertarian eutopia, which needs no government because every detail of everyone's life is instantly accessible by web to everyone else, who then shun those who do not conform to the society's standards of good behavior.

JF - Visions of Liberty PB - Baen CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Freedom! Ed. Martin H[arry] Greenberg and Mark Tier (New York: Baen, 2006), 337-45; n his Identity Theft and Other Stories (Calgary, AL, Canada: Red Deer Press, 2008), 195-204; and in Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World. Ed. [Glen] David Brin and Stephen W. Potts. Sponsored by The Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination (UCSD) (New York: Tor, 2017), 51-59.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Rings of Allah Y1 - 2004 A1 - Lee Boyland KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. The lead up to a successful Islamist terrorist attack on five cities in the U.S. using nuclear weapons. First volume of a trilogy In the middle volume by Boyland with Vista Boyland, Behold, an Ashen Horse. A Novel. Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2007, Islamist terrorists strike throughout the world and the U.S. defends itself using nuclear weapons against many countries throughout the world and, at the end, on Mecca. In the final volume, by Boyland and Boyland, America Reborn. [Bangor, ME]: BookLocker.com, 2009, where for the first time the trilogy is called The Clash-of-Civilizations Trilogy, the U.S. successfully struggles against both internal and external enemies and ends with the re-election of the heroic president with plans for a new U.S. Constitution. 

PB - AuthorHouse CY - Bloomington, IN U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - River of Gods Y1 - 2004 A1 - Ian [Neil] McDonald (b. 1960) KW - Male author KW - Northern Ireland author AB -

Massive future history of India seen through the eyes of a number of different protagonists. Both eutopian and dystopian elements. India is both high tech and very traditional. Related stories include “The Little Goddess.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 29.6 (353) (June 2005): 102-34; “The Djinn’s Wife.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 30.7 (366) (July 2006): 102-32; rpt. in The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume 1. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2006), 445-78; and in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2007), 81-111; “Sanjeev and Robotwallah.” Fast Forward: Future Fiction from the Cutting Edge. Ed. Lou Anders (Amherst, NY: Pyr, 2007), 226-43; Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twentieth-Fifth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2008), 297-308 with an editor’s introduction on 297; and in Mithila, no. 2 (April 2016) http://mithilareview.com/mcdonald_04_16/; “The Dust Assassin.” The Starry Rift: Tales of New Tomorrows. An Original Science Fiction Anthology. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (New York: Viking, 2008), 236-71 with a note on the author and the author’s note on the story (272-73); rpt. in The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 3. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2009), 97-117; and “An Eligible Boy.” Fast Forward 2. Ed. Lou Anders (Amherst, NY: Pyr, 2008), 241-72; rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twentieth-Sixth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2009), 120-39 with an editor’s introduction on 120; and in Rpt. in Stories of Hope and Wonder in Support of the UK’S Healthcare Workers. Ed. Ed. Ian [George] Whates (Weston, Eng.: NewCon Press, 2020). EBook. These stories plus “Vishnu at the Cat Circus” are rpt. in his Cyberabad Days. Amherst, NY: Pyr, 2009. U.K. ed. London: Gollancz, 2009. A film was said to be in process but has not appeared.

PB - Simon & Schuster CY - London U1 -

Cover adds August 15, 2047--Happy Birthday, India.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sancho's Golden Age Y1 - 2004 A1 - Robin [John] Chapman (b. 1933) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire in which the plan of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza to re-establish the Age of Gold is attempted by Sancho. The middle volume of a trilogy between the Duchess’s Diary. London : Boudicca Books of Battersea, 1980; rpt. London: Faber and Faber, 1985; and Oxford, Eng.: Aris & Phillips, and Pasamonte’s Life. Oxford, Eng.: Aris & Phillips, 2008.  Neither of the other volumes are utopian.

PB - Aris & Phillips CY - Oxford, Eng. U1 -

The half title page adds A sequel to Don Quixote's history.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Savannah 2116 AD Y1 - 2004 A1 - Jenny [Jennifer Marion] Robson KW - Female author KW - South African author AB -

Dystopia. Savannah is a teenage girl living in one of the fenced compound, both rural and urban, where all Africans are forced to live so that the wildlife can be free. People are pejoratively known as Homosaps. Hierarchical structure with the different groups identified by colored armbands, with the favored few, known as Cons, living on ranches within the Wilderness. Prison for crimes like burning fossil fuels. The rules are called the LEA or Last Elephant Accords. At the end of the novel, the Rurals revolt and retake the Wilderness to live in.

PB - Tafelberg CY - Cape Town, South Africa U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Second Coming Y1 - 2004 A1 - [John Robert] [Jones] (b. 1926) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Second Coming of Christ as a Black Canadian. Emphasis is on the struggle between his message and the expectations of Christians.

PB - Baen CY - Riverdale, NY U3 -

John Dalmas [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Shackles of Freedom" Y1 - 2004 A1 - Mike [Michael Diamond] Resnick (1942-2020) A1 - Tobias S[amuel] Buckell (b. 1979) ED - Mark Tier ED - Martin H[arry] Greenberg (1941-2011) KW - British Virgin Islands author KW - Grenadian author KW - Male author KW - US author KW - US Virgin Islands author AB -

The Amish, presented in their most extreme form, move to a new planet, New Pennsylvania, to be free to follow their beliefs. The stress is on the lack of medical care that results from their unwillingness to use modern technology.

JF - Visions of Liberty PB - Baen Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Freedom! Ed. Martin H[arry] Greenberg and Mark Tier (New York: Baen, 2006), 347-62.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sharp North Y1 - 2004 A1 - Patrick Cave (b. 1965) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia brought about by global warming, genetic manipulation, and cloning. Some hope held out for the human spirit overcoming conditions. See also 2005 Cave.

PB - Simon and Schuster CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Siberia Y1 - 2004 A1 - [Gwyneth Ann] [Jones] (b. 1952) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult authoritarian and environmental dystopia.

PB - Orion Children's Books CY - London U3 -

Ann Halam [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Silence Y1 - 2004 A1 - Jim Kraus KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia and eutopia. A series of natural catastrophes leads to violent conflict , but the novel also focuses on a small town Christian eutopia.

PB - Barbour CY - Uhrichsville, OH U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sleep Y1 - 2004 A1 - Kat Meads KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Corporate dystopia and revolt.

PB - Livingston Press of the University of West Alabama CY - Livingston, AL ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Society of Others Y1 - 2004 A1 - William [Benedict] Nicholson (b. 1948) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The background to part of the novel is a dystopia set in an exaggerated contemporary East European country.

PB - Doubleday CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2005.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Souvenir Y1 - 2004 A1 - Jane Rosenthal KW - Female author KW - South African author AB -

Dystopian future history of South Africa where global warming produces unpredictable weather patterns, the coastline has changed significantly, and large areas of technology appear to have been lost. At the same time, cloning is common and the protagonist, Souvenir or Souvie Petersen is a Barbieclone (a clone based on the Barbie doll). During the period covered by the novel, icebergs from Antarctica are causing major damage. There is a glossary of Afrikaans words used in the text (179-81). 

PB - Bromponie Press CY - The Crags, South Africa U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Start the Clock" Y1 - 2004 A1 - Benjamin [Micah] Rosenbaum (b. 1969) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which people can control the process of aging and many choose to stop before puberty and these people dominate society.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 107.2 (631) N1 -

Rpt. in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-second Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2005), 22-33.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sun and Wind Y1 - 2004 A1 - Standish James O'Grady (1846-1928) ED - Edward A. Hagan KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

First publication of a eutopia stressing nature and the simple life that was written between 1911 and 1928. 

PB - University College Dublin Press CY - Dublin ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sunshine Patriots Y1 - 2004 A1 - Bill Campbell (b. 1970) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

Satirical corporate dystopia.

PB - Hats Off Books CY - Tucson, AX N1 -

Rpt. College Park, MD: Rosarium Publishing, 2014. U.K. ed. Frome, Eng.: Chicken House UK, 2012.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Supernaturalist Y1 - 2004 A1 - Eoin Colfer (b. 1965) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Young adult dystopia set in a future satellite city where orphans are used to test dangerous products. Conflict with an authoritarian corporation.

PB - Miramax Books/Hyperion Books for Children CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Penguin Books, 2004. Graphic novel version by Colfer and Andrew Donkin with art by Giovanni Rigano and color by Paolo Lamanna as The Supernaturalist: The Graphic Novel. New York: Disney/Hyperion Books, 2012. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Sweet Dreams" Y1 - 2004 A1 - Charles Johnson ED - Sheree R[enée] Thomas (b. 1972) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

Political satire. After voters dropped most taxes, government developed "dream meters" so that dreams, including daydreams could be taxed.

JF - Dark Matter: Reading the Bones PB - Warner Books CY - New York N1 -

An earlier, shorter version was originally published in StoryQuarterly, no. 36 (2000): 111-16.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Temenos" Y1 - 2004 A1 - Kim Westwood ED - Cat[riona] Sparks (b. 1965) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia. People are used as power sources feeding into the electricity grid.

JF - Agog! Smashing Stories PB - Agog! Press CY - Wollongong, NSW, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Terminal Avenue" Y1 - 2004 A1 - Eden [Victoria Lena] Robinson (b. 1968) ED - [Noelle] Nalo Hopkinson (b. 1960) ED - Uppinder Mehan KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - First Nations author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia in which the First Nations peoples of Canada are facing apartheid.

JF - So Long Been Dreaming PB - Arsenal Pulp Press CY - Vancouver, BC, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Thinner Than Thou Y1 - 2004 A1 - Kit [Lilian Craig] Reed (1932-2017) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia with a new religion of thinness.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Third Party" Y1 - 2004 A1 - David Moles KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of conflict between capitalists and socialists trying to dominate an apparently primitive world.

JF - Asimov's Science Fiction VL - 28.9 (344) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Third Revolution Y1 - 2004 A1 - Anthony F. Lewis KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the governor of Montana fights back against attempts by the federal government to take over state functions. He is joined by leaders from North and South Dakota, Saskatchewan, and Alberta. See also 2006 Lewis.

PB - Ten Mile Press CY - [Fort, Bragg, CO] N1 -

2nd ed. [Fort, Bragg, CO]: Ten Mile Press, 2005

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Time to Die Y1 - 2004 A1 - Mickey Zucker Reichert (b. 1962) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set in 2030 when the Moralist Party has promised to end death and everyone is kept alive as long as possible.

PB - Five Star CY - Waterville, ME SN - 1-4104-0197-9 N1 -

2004 Reichert, Mickey Zucker (b. 1962). A Time to Die. Waterville, ME: Five Star. PSt

Dystopia set in 2030 when the Moralist Party has promised to end death and everyone is kept alive as long as possible. The female author is a pediatrician.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "'Tis the Season" Y1 - 2004 A1 - China [Tom] Miéville (b. 1972) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which Christmas has been sold to companies.

JF - Socialist Review VL - no. 291 N1 -

Rpt. in his Looking for Jake: Stories (New York: Ballantine Books, 2005), 183-97.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Truesight Y1 - 2004 A1 - David Stahler Jr. KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia. Authoritarian community where everyone is supposed to be blind; stress on the struggles of dissidents and a boy who gains his sight. First volume of a trilogy. In the second volume, The Seer. New York: Eos, 2007, the boy escapes to a sighted city which turns out to be another dystopia. At the end of the novel he returns to his first community but with a sense of a better possibility. In the third volume, Otherspace. New York: Eos, 2008, the protagonist searches for, and finds, a planet where those who were blind but can now see will be safe.

PB - Eos CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Turing Test" Y1 - 2004 A1 - Robert R[eynolds] Chase (b. 1948) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopian and dystopia potential of computer programs and computer viruses.

JF - Asimov's Science Fiction VL - 28.6 (341) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Ultraviolet Night" Y1 - 2004 A1 - Jim [James M.] Young KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Corporate dystopia.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 106.3 (626) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Unnullified World" Y1 - 2004 A1 - Lloyd Biggle Jr. (1923-2002) ED - Mark Tier ED - Martin H[arry] Greenberg (1941-2011) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Libertarian eutopia with no laws and everyone collectively enforces the society's standards of good behavior. Property ownership can be enforced by the owner.

JF - Visions of Liberty PB - Baen CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Freedom! Ed. Martin H[arry] Greenberg and Mark Tier (New York: Baen, 2006), 315-36.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Useful Idiots Y1 - 2004 A1 - Jan Mark (1943-2006) KW - Female author KW - UK author AB -

Dystopia set in 2255 in which the original inhabitants of England, now called Aborigines or Oysters, generally live in rural areas with limited technology and others live in high tech cities. The story is about an archaeological dig that reveals the history of the mistreatment of the English.

PB - David Fickling Books CY - Oxford, Eng. ER - TY - ABST T1 - Utopia Revisited: A 21st Century Account of a Diplomatic Visit to the Island Nation of Utopia. The Best State of a Commonwealth. A Novella Y1 - 2004 A1 - John William McMullen KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The country of Utopia is now a dystopia seen through the eyes of a member of the Vatican Diplomatic Corps visiting Utopia to try to secure the release of a cousin of Houghton Hythloday, a descendent of Raphael Hythloday. The Vatican representative ends up being jailed. Written from a Roman Catholic viewpoint. See also 2005 McMullen.

PB - iUniverse CY - Lincoln, NB U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Utopia X Y1 - 2004 A1 - [William] Scott Wilson KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The dystopia brought about by multiculturalism in the U.S. by 2048 where “political correctness” is enforced by law.

PB - iUniverse CY - Lincoln, NB U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Voluntary State" Y1 - 2004 A1 - Christopher Rowe (b. 1969) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future dystopia in Tennessee in which everyone is controlled by a central computer contrasted with a free Kentucky. The story focuses on a successful attempt by men from Kentucky to destroy the computer. A related novella is “The Border State.” In his Telling the Map: Stories Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2017), 149-269 which is set further in the future when Tennessee has infected the rivers around the state with various machines that kill anyone that crosses them or get wet. Kentucky has means of temporarily neutralizing the machines. A related novel set later in time is his These Prisoning Hills. New York: Tordotcom, 2022.

JF - SciFiction UR - www.scifi.com/scifiction/ N1 -

Rpt. in The Year's Best SF: Twenty-Second Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2005), 58-83; Science Fiction: The Best of 2004. Ed. Karen Haber and Jonathan Strahan (New York: iBooks, 2005); Beyond Singularity. Ed. Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois (New York: Ace Books, 2005); Nebula Awards Showcase 2006. Ed. Gardner Dozois. New York: Roc, 2006); Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology. Ed. James P. Kelley and John Kessel (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon Publications, 2007), 293-327; and in his Telling the Map: Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2017), 107-48. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "When Scarabs Multiply" Y1 - 2004 A1 - Nnedi[mma Nkemdili]] Okorafor-Mbachu (b. 1974) ED - [Noelle] Nalo Hopkinson (b. 1960) ED - Uppinder Mehan KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia set in Africa and based on African myths in a village in which women and girls, who had been being trained equally, are made subservient to men. A woman leader returns, kills the man who had made the changes, and re-establishes equality. But the ending leaves doubts.

JF - So Long Been Dreaming PB - Arsenal Pulp Press CY - Vancouver, BC, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Wired Y1 - 2004 A1 - Robert L. Wise (b. 1939) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post rapture dystopia (see 1 Corinthians 15:52 and 1 Thessalonians 4: 15-17). His Tagged. New York: Warner Faith, 2004 is a sequel.

PB - Warner Faith CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Word for Heathens” Y1 - 2004 A1 - Peter [Francis] Watts (b. 1958) ED - Julie E. Czerneda ED - Isaac Szpindel KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Religious dystopia.

JF - ReVision PB - DAW Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in his Beyond the Rift (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon, 2013), 83-98.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Worry Doctor" Y1 - 2004 A1 - DeMeulemeester, Linda KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia where everyone is brainwashed to be happy.

JF - Neo-Opsis: Science Fiction Magazine VL - no. 2 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Xen: Ancient English Edition Complete & Unexpurgated Y1 - 2004 A1 - D. J. Solomon Trans. [Written by] KW - US author AB -

Detailed flawed utopia. Much satire. Homo sapiens (man the wise) evolves into Femina persapiens (woman the wiser). There is a Lexicon defining abbreviations and some of the language used.

PB - Avar Press CY - [Whiteville, NC] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Zoo Force: Bean and Nothingness Y1 - 2004 A1 - John Ira Thomas A1 - Jeremy Smith KW - Male author AB -

The middle volume of a trilogy about an odd group of animal and human superheroes. This volume is a satire on Christian fundamentalism. The other volumes, which are not utopian, are Zoo Force: [Dear Eniko]. [Iowa City, IA]: Candle Light Press, 2003 and Zoo Force: BBQ. [Iowa City, IA]: Candle Light Press, 2007. All volumes also include "Not Zoo Force".

PB - Candle Light Press CY - [Iowa City, IA] U2 -

Illus. Jeremy Smith

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A 2020 Vision" Y1 - 2003 A1 - Ann Florini KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Non-fiction eutopian projection of what the author sees as current trends and mostly concerned with international relations and economic development.

JF - The Coming Democracy: New Rules for Running a New World PB - Island Press CY - Washington, DC U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - 2084: The Mental Evolution of America Y1 - 2003 A1 - R[obert] M. Harrison (b. 1946) KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia dominated by the Citizens Protective Services. No families; children taken at three.

PB - iUniverse CY - Lincoln NB U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - America II: The Second Republic 2004 - 2204. An Historic and Historical Novel about the Future of America Y1 - 2003 A1 - [Thomas Renfro] [Henley] (b. 1931) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Right wing eutopia based on a radically downsized federal government with all constitutional amendments after the Bill of Rights rescinded, power in state governments, and few national administrative bodies. English the official language. All non-citizens expelled. Eliminate all state departments of education, schools of education, tenure, and teachers; unions, and return to the curriculum of the past. Children have no rights before age twenty-one.

PB - Trafford CY - Victoria, BC, Canada U3 -

Thomm [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Among the Barons Y1 - 2003 A1 - Margaret Peterson Haddix (b. 1964) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult overpopulation dystopia in which each family is limited to two children. Sequel to 1998, 2001, and 2002 Haddix. See also 2004, 2005, and 2006 Haddix. This volume is a continuation of the story of the boy in 2001 Haddix.

PB - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Annuity Clinic" Y1 - 2003 A1 - Nigel Brown KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia about the selling of body parts to purchase an annuity.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 188 N1 -

Rpt. in The Year's Best SF 9. Ed. David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer (New York: Eos, 2004), 335-53.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Baby Squad Y1 - 2003 A1 - Andrew Neiderman (b. 1940) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which natural birth is outlawed.

PB - Pocket Star Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Better World's in Birth! Y1 - 2003 A1 - Howard Waldrop (1946-2024) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Ghost story set in a dystopian people's republic in an alternative history.

PB - Golden Gryphon Press CY - Urbana, IL N1 -

Rpt. in Other Worlds, Better Lives: Selected Long Fiction 1989-2005. A Howard Waldrop Reader (Baltimore, MD: Old Earth Books, 2008), 231-58 with an "Afterword" (259-60).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Bird Is Gone: A Monograph Manifesto Y1 - 2003 A1 - Stephen Graham Jones (b. 1972) KW - Male author KW - Native American author AB -

A future where parts of the United States are Indian territory again, with the more progressive Indians reestablishing traditional ways.

PB - Fiction Collective Two CY - Tallahassee, FL N1 -

An excerpt from the novel was published in Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction. Ed. Grace Dillon (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2012), 232-37 with an editor’s note on 232-33.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Birth Days" Y1 - 2003 A1 - Geoff[rey Charles] Ryman (b. 1951) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - UK author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia and eutopia. Future in which the identification of homosexual genes allows such fetuses to be aborted. This is followed by the development of technology that allows homosexuals to give birth and the growth of large families of gay men and their children.

JF - Interzone VL - no.188 N1 -

Rpt. in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-First Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2004), 388-98; and in his Paradise Tales (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2011), 47-61.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Book of Martha” Y1 - 2003 A1 - Octavia [Estelle] Butler (1947-2006) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

God gives a black woman, raised poor in the U.S., the task of improving the lives of humanity. She discusses several possibilities with God before choosing to have people dream their utopia. In the “Afterword” she calls this her “utopia story.”

JF - Bloodchild and Other Stories PB - Seven Stories Press CY - New York VL - 2nd ed N1 -

Rpt. without the “Afterword” in Afro-Future Females: Black Writers Chart Science Fiction’s Newest New-Wave Trajectory. Ed. Marleen S. Barr (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2008), 135-50; and in Kindred, Fledgling, Collected Stories. Ed. Gerry Canavan & Nisi Shawl (New York: Library of America, 2021), 696-715, with a Chronology (743-755), a Note on the Text (758), and Notes (773).

Originally published May 21, 2003, on SciFi.com, which is no longer available online.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Boys" Y1 - 2003 A1 - [Agnes] Carol[lyn] [Fries] Emshwiller (1921-2019) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Primitive dystopia of gender separation where two warring tribes of males prey on each other and the village of women. The women revolt.

JF - SciFiction UR - www.scifi.com/scifiction/ Posted January 28, 2003. N1 -

Rpt. in The James Tiptree Award Anthology 1. Ed. Karen Joy Fowler, Pat Murphy, Debbie Notkin, and Jeffrey D. Smith (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon Publications, 2003), 45-60; and in her I Live With You (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon, 2005), 47-63; and in Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology. Ed. Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer (Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2015), 235-47. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Bread and Bombs" Y1 - 2003 A1 - M[ary Beth] Rickert (b. 1959) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of ethnic conflict told from the point of view of an adult remembering childhood.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 104.4 (616) N1 -

Rpt. in Year's Best SF 9. Ed. David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer (New York: Eos, 2004), 388-403; and in Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2008), 55-65.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Brennan Y1 - 2003 A1 - Bernard Knight (b. 1931) KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia. Stress on conflict among factions with one group rebuilding a decent society.

PB - Robert Hale CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The City of Ember Y1 - 2003 A1 - Jeanne DuPrau (b. 1944) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Mildly dystopian young adult novel of a dying underground city and the struggle of two young people to find the way out. Her The Prophet of Yonwood. New York: Random House, 2006 is a prequel See also 2004 and 2008 DuPrau. 

PB - Random House CY - New York N1 -

The City of Ember. Deluxe Edition. the first Book of Ember. New York: Random, 2013, includes “Introduction to the Deluxe Edition” (ix-xii) and “On the Day of the Bombs” (277-92) , which gives the background to the establishment of the city of Sparks, the focus of the second volume in the series, and, inside the back cover, a poster. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Clade Y1 - 2003 A1 - [Robert] Mark Budz (b. 1960) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future dystopia set mostly in San Jose, California. Genetic engineering, drugs, violence, and struggles for power. Crache. New York: Bantam Books, 2004 is a sequel.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Cleansing Fire of God" Y1 - 2003 A1 - Jay [Joseph Edward] Lake [Jr.] (1964-2014) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The Earth is divided among religious dystopias and at least one secular society, and they are in competition to reach the moon, where an alien spacecraft has crashed.

JF - Strange Horizons UR - http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/the-cleansing-fire-of-god/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - Clone Rangers Y1 - 2003 A1 - Laybourn, Emma KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia with cloned animals. Children's book.

PB - Anderson Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Coalescent: Destiny's Children Book One Y1 - 2003 A1 - Stephen [Michael] Baxter (b. 1957) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The first volume in a series that includes an isolated religious sect that has survived from Roman times and created a eutopian community. See also Exultant. Destiny’s Children 2. New York: Ballantine Books, 2004; Transcendent: Destiny’s Children 3. New York: Ballantine Books, 2005 which has two parallel stories, one of an earth deeply affected by global warming and another set in the far future with a young woman being prepared to join the “Transcendence”, the next step beyond the limits of humanity (during which she visits a Coalescent planet, which is reminiscent of Wells’s 1901 First Men in the Moon), but the Transcendence is rejected and dies; and Resplendent: Destiny's Children: Book 4. London: Gollancz, 2006, which is a linked set of stories illustrating aspects of the series. The stories, all revised, are: “Cadre Siblings.” Interzone, no. 153 (March 2000): 6-18. Resplendent (5-19; Paper ed. 5-20), which gives a bit of the dystopia created on Earth by an alien invasion; “Conurbation 2473.” Living without a Net. Ed. Lou Anders (New York: Roc, 2003), 58-69. Resplendent (20-31; Paper ed. 21-33) which begins with more detail of the dystopia but shifts immediately to the dystopias created by humans in the overthrow of that dystopia and the imposition of their own, which is overthrown and another human dystopia created, and so on; Reality Dust. Leeds, Eng.: PS Publishing, 2000. Rpt. London: Gollancz, 2002 bound with Paul McAuley, Making History. The items are bound back-to-back and separately paged. Resplendent (32-80; Paper ed. 34-86), which continues the conflict among humans and the dystopia they have created; “All in a Blaze.” Stars: Stories Based on the Songs of Janis Ian. Ed. Janis Ian and Mike [Michael Diamond] Resnick (New York: DAW Books, 2003), 292-301. Resplendent (81-90; Paper ed. 87-97), in which humans prepare to travel outside the solar system; “Silver Ghost.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 24.9 (296) (September 2000): 84-95. Resplendent (93-106; Paper ed. 101-15) on alien contact; “The Cold Sink.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 25.8 (307) (August 2001): 36-45. Resplendent (107-17; Paper ed. 116-27) on war; “On the Orion Line.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 24. 10 & 11 (297 & 298) (October/November 2000): 62-86. Resplendent (118-51; Paper ed. 128-63) on war; “Ghost Wars.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 30.1 (360) (January 2006): 98-126. Resplendent (152-89; Paper ed. 164-204) on war; “The Ghost Pit.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 25.7 (306) (July 2001): 62-73. Resplendent (190-204; Paper ed. 205-20) on war; “Lakes of Light.” Constellations: The Best of New British SF. Ed. Peter Crowther (New York: DAW Books, 2005), 57-77. Resplendent (207-23; Paper ed. 223-41) on the discovery of a sun inhabited by posthumans who have a simple agricultural society, which is implied to be eutopian but with no real detail; “Breeding Ground.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 27.2 (325) (February 2003): 10-27. Resplendent (224-47; Paper ed. 242-67) on war; “The Dreaming Mould.” Interzone, no. 179 (May 2002): 16-20. Resplendent (248-60; Paper ed. 268-81) on war; “The Great Game.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 27.3 (326) (March 2003): 58-71. Resplendent (261-79; Paper ed. 282-301) on war; “The Chop Line.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 27.12 (335) (December 2003): 70-91. Resplendent (283-312; Paper ed. 305-36) on war; “In the Un-Black.” Redshift: Extreme Visions of Speculative Fiction. Ed. Al Sarrantonio (New York: ROC, 2001), 201-17. Resplendent (313-30; Paper ed. 337-56), which is a dystopia of the Coalescent style; Riding the Rock. Harrogate, England: PS Publishing, 2002. Resplendent (331-74; Paper ed. 357-404) on war; Mayflower II. Harrogate, Eng.: PS Publishing, 2004. Resplendent (377-438); Paper ed. 407-73); rpt. in The Year’s Best SF: Twenty-Second Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2005), 405-49 with an editor’s introduction on 404, which describes a multi-generation starship evolving a number of societies over thousands of years, from the initially eutopian gradually in a more and more dystopian direction; “Between Worlds.” Between Worlds. Ed. Robert Silverberg (Garden City, NY: Science Fiction Book Club, 2004), 1-59. Resplendent (439-94; Paper ed. 474-533) about post-humans; and “The Siege of Earth.” Previously unpublished. Resplendent (497-546; Paper ed. 537-90) about post-humans.

PB - Gollancz CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Coolton Ascent Y1 - 2003 A1 - Rebecca J. Cunningham KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia. Environmental destruction. Story told in flashbacks and flashforwards from the 1960s to the mid-21st century. Stress on corrupt journalism and political spin.

PB - Blujah Books CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Darwin’s Children Y1 - 2003 A1 - Greg[ory Dale] Bear (1951-2022) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to Darwin’s Radio. New York: Del Rey/Ballantine, 1999, which concerned the discovery of the DNA that brought about the disease that resulted in the children. The volume includes an “Afterword” (419), “A Short Biological Primer” (422-23) and a “Short Glossary of Scientific Terms” (423-27). The advanced children described in that novel have matured and ae threatened by those who resent their powers. As a result, they are interned in special schools and targeted by bounty hunters as part of a plan to eliminate them. The volume includes “Caveats” (375-76), a “Short Glossary of Scientific Terms” (377-83), and “A Brief Reading List” (385-87).

PB - Del Rey/Ballantine CY - New York SN - 978-0345448361 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dear Abbey Y1 - 2003 A1 - Terry [Ballantine] Bisson (1942-2024) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Time travel tale which takes two people through many future stops to the end of the human race millions of years in the future. The first stops include environmental catastrophes, while later stops briefly depict eutopias built on the ruins.

PB - PS Publishing CY - Harrogate, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom Y1 - 2003 A1 - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Humorous eutopia and dystopia where people live in Disney World, which has been maintained as it was but is now part of a world without death or scarcity. But other people take it over and use its displays, enhanced and changed, to control people.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Drop City Y1 - 2003 A1 - T[homas] Coraghessan Boyle (b. 1948) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel uses the name of an actual intentional community but has little to do with that community. The community the novel presents is dystopian in all the ways that the Sixties communities were assumed to be but rarely were, a depiction disputed by those who lived there.

PB - Viking CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Electraglade Y1 - 2003 A1 - Chris[topher] Firth (b. 1962) KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia. Linked stories selected by Andrew Motion and Anne Fine for the Arts Council Writers Award 2000. Future of poverty and violence. Electraglade is a computer game that is addictive.

PB - SINAP CY - Cardigan, Wales N1 -

All stories previously published in the following outlets: Quality Women’s Fiction; Metropolitan; Aquarius Short Story Collection; Tubthumping; Dreamcatcher; Hocus Pocus Hullabaloo; Gamad www. gamad.htm; and Texts’ Bones: Proto-Volume, The Ready Made Issue www.skrev-press.com

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - End of State. Based on the Best Selling Left Behind® Series Y1 - 2003 A1 - Neesa Hart KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

First volume of a spinoff from 1995 LaHaye and Jenkins following the political results of the Rapture (See 1 Corinthians 15:52 and 1 Thessalonians 4: 15-17). The other volumes are Impeachable Offense: Based on the Best Selling Left Behind® Series. Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, 2004; and Necessary Evils: Based on the Best Selling Left Behind® Series. Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, 2005.

PB - Tyndale House Publishers CY - Wheaton, IL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Enemies Foreign and Domestic Y1 - 2003 A1 - Matthew Bracken (b. 1957) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The U.S. government uses a rigged attack on people in a football stadium as an excuse for confiscating all assault weapons and more generally restricting freedom. First volume of a trilogy. In the second volume, Domestic Enemies. The Reconquista. Orange Park, FL: Steelcutter Publishing, 2006, the U.S. begins to fall apart and loses the Southwest, which becomes a separate nation called Aztlan. The third volume, Foreign Enemies and Traitors [Cover adds The Greater Depression and Civil War 2]. Orange Park, FL: Steelcutter Publishing, 2009, focuses on the struggle to defend the U.S. Constitution during Civil War and economic depression.

PB - Steelcutter Publishing CY - Orange Park, FL N1 -

7th ed. Orange Park, FL: Steelcutter Publishing, 2009. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Etched City Y1 - 2003 A1 - K[irsten] J. Bishop (b. 1972) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

A fantasy novel that includes an authoritarian dystopia.

PB - Prime Books CY - Canton, OH N1 -

Rpt. New York: Tor, 2003. [New ed.] New York: Bantam Spectra, 2004. Although there is no indication in the book, in conversation the author said that there are changes in the latest edition and that this is her preferred version.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "General Density" Y1 - 2003 A1 - [Stephen] [Kaufman] (b. 1947) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian background to a science story. The dystopia developed after both the world economic and environmental systems collapse. Most people left for space colonies around the Earth.

JF - Challenging Destiny VL - no. 16 N1 -

Rpt in Northwest Passages: A Cascadian Anthology. Ed. Chris DiMarco (Port Orchard, OR: Fandom Press, 2005), 303-22; and in his Counting Tadpoles (Hornsea, Eng.: PS Publishing, 2009), 173-91.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Goorg-Chee: A Sci-Fi Quest for Freedom Y1 - 2003 A1 - C. G. Sherrow KW - Male author AB -

Most of the novel is taken up with the gradual meeting of aliens from various civilizations, but it ends with suggestions for bringing about cooperation among the various civilizations.

PB - iUniverse CY - Lincoln, NB ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Green Leopard Plague" Y1 - 2003 A1 - Walter Jon Williams (b. 1953) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia brought about through cloning and biotechnology. Set in the same universe as 1997 Williams.

JF - Asimov's Science Fiction VL - 27. 10 & 11 (333 & 334) N1 -

Rpt. in his The Green Leopard Plague and Other Stories (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2010), 107-63 with an "Afterword" on 164-65.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Greetings" Y1 - 2003 A1 - Terry [Ballantine] Bisson (1942-2024) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A story with a theme similar to Trollope’s (1881-2) “The Fixed Period” and others in which there is an agreement to die at a certain age and the effects on people as they approach that age to die, including, in this case, a resistance movement. In the story, people are chosen by lot for the Sunset Brigade and are informed ten days before they must appear. Many people who are terminally ill volunteer, but improved medical care for the young, means that the age at which people are chosen must be lowered, with the man chosen in the story being 70. A “hemlock kit” is provided for those who choose to die at home.

JF - SciFiction UR - www.scifi.com/scifiction/ Posted September 3 - October 15, 2003). No longer available on line. N1 -

Rpt. in his Greetings and Other Stories (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon Publications, 2005), 191-276.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Happiness Code Y1 - 2003 A1 - Amy Herrick KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The effects of finding a gene for happiness focusing on one family that finds a "perfectly happy baby" in its back garden.

PB - Viking CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hard Choices Y1 - 2003 A1 - Carole Hayman (b. 1945) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopian near future which functions as an attack on New Labour. 

PB - Aurora Metro Press CY - London N1 -

In 2002 it was posted on the web at http://www.hardchoices.co.uk claiming that it could not find a publisher due to political pressure.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Hard Times" Y1 - 2003 A1 - Neal [Patrick] Barrett Jr. (1929-2014) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. An extreme version of owing the company store in that it control your genitals.

JF - Asimov's Science Fiction VL - 24.4 (327) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Heligoland Y1 - 2003 A1 - Shena Mackay (b. 1944) KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

Communal fiction and the search for utopia about a building designed on “modernist and utopian principles” and its inhabitants in South London in the 1930s. 

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Hill of the Ravens Y1 - 2003 A1 - H[arold] A[rmstead] Covington (b. 1953) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia at the end of the twenty-first century in a North America that has broken up into separate enclaves based on ethnicity or ideology. The Southwest is Aztlan, a Spanish-speaking state. The Northwest to Alaska is a white, fascist dictatorship.

PB - 1st Books CY - Bloomington IN U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Holy Land Y1 - 2003 A1 - Robert Zubrin (b. 1952) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Satire on current world politics.

PB - Polaris Books CY - Lakewood, CO ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Holy Machine Y1 - 2003 A1 - Chris Beckett (b. 1955) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Technological dystopia set in a future of religious conflict, both between religions and between the religious, some of whom established a fundamentalist Christian theocracy in the U.S., and the non-religious. There is also a robot messiah which is worshipped.

PB - Cosmos Press CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. Holicong, PA: Wildside Press, 2004.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Hummingbird Saint Y1 - 2003 A1 - Hector Macdonald KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

A philanthropist has created his own utopian community governed by a strict moral code. He has promised financial aid to anyone who can satisfy him of their good character.

PB - Michael Joseph CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hyperthought Y1 - 2003 A1 - M[ary] M. Buckner KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Ecological and corporate dystopia set in 2125 with the only people in the world in the Arctic, the dystopia, and in the Antarctic, where there is a small community of free people. Has a subtheme of the problems brought about by a process for supposedly improving brain function. Includes a small community of free people. See also 2004 Buckner. 

PB - Ace Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "I Feed the Machine" Y1 - 2003 A1 - Del Stone Jr. ED - Lou Anders KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which love is forbidden and homosexual love is "an abomination".

JF - Living without a Net PB - Roc CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Identity of Diaconis Eprom Y1 - 2003 A1 - Laurence Howard KW - Male author AB -

The novel focuses on a project to fight terrorism by developing a method for accurately predicting the future but evolves into a process by which humanity makes the next, positive step in evolution. The main character is based on J[ulius] Robert Oppenheimer (1904-67), the scientific director of the Manhattan Project that developed the atomic bomb.

PB - Creative Arts Book Co CY - Berkeley, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - In & Oz Y1 - 2003 A1 - Steve Tomasula KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A somewhat surrealistic dystopia describing two flawed cities, representing current reality and dreams of a better place, and the way five people, all artists in one way or another, move between them.

PB - Ministry of Whimsy Press CY - Madison, WI/Tallahassee, FL ER - TY - ABST T1 - In the Presence of Mine Enemies Y1 - 2003 A1 - Harry [Norman] Turtledove (b. 1949) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Alternative history in which National Socialists dominate.

PB - New American Library CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Incompetence: A Novel of the Far Too Near Future Y1 - 2003 A1 - Rob Grant KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a future where incompetence is a protected category along with gender, race, etc.

PB - Gollancz CY - London U1 -

Title page has Incompentence set backwards. Cover has the subtitle Bad is the new Good.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Jennifer Government Y1 - 2003 A1 - Max Barry (b. 1973) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Humorous corporate dystopia where people take their surnames from the name of the corporation they work for, taxes are illegal, and the police have been privatized and are expected to make a profit by billing for crime detection. 

PB - Doubleday CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Jesus Freaks" Y1 - 2003 A1 - Jennifer [Mitchell] Roberson (b. 1953) ED - Mike [Michael Diamond] Resnick (1942-2020) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Jesus returns regularly to various times and places for brief periods to try to correct faults being made in his name. In this case, it is to a religious dystopia dominated by Christian fundamentalists.

JF - Women Writing Science Fiction as Men PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Jon" Y1 - 2003 A1 - George Saunders (b. 1958) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which most children are raised in a controlled environment where they help develop products contrasted with an outside world in which people are free to live in families but have more difficult lives.

JF - The New Yorker VL - 78.44 N1 -

Rpt. in Science Fiction: The Best of 2003. Ed. Karen Haber and Jonathan Strahan (New York: iBooks, 2004), 149-83; and in his In Persuasion Nation. Stories (New York: Riverhead Books, 2006), 23-61.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Kapuzine and the Wolf: A Hortatory Tale" Y1 - 2003 A1 - [Yves] [Meynard] (b. 1964) A1 - [Jean-Louis] [Trudel] (b. 1967) ED - Claude Lalumière (b. 1966) ED - Marty Halpern KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Take off on "Little Red Riding Hood" set in a violent dystopian future split between a decayed suburb and a re-greened city controlled by animals.

JF - Witpunk PB - Four Walls Eight Windows CY - New York U3 -

Laurent McAllister [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Liberal Masters. A Satire Y1 - 2003 A1 - David L. Hale KW - Male author AB -

Sequel to 2000 Hale in which authoritarian “liberals” from another planet invade Earth and the resistance that develops. Considerable humor.

PB - Elderberry Press CY - Oakland, OR U1 -

A Fantasy on the cover.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Line of Defence" Y1 - 2003 A1 - Stephen Dedman (b. 1959) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of Homeland Security.

JF - Aurealis (Australia) VL - no. 32 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Looking Through Lace" Y1 - 2003 A1 - Ruth Nestvold (b. 1958) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A feminist eutopia with female and male languages.

JF - Asimov's Science Fiction VL - 27.9 (332) N1 -

Rpt. in The James Tiptree Award Anthology 1. Ed. Karen Joy Fowler, Pat Murphy, Debbie Notkin, and Jeffrey D. Smith (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon Publications, 2003), 131-86.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Magister Y1 - 2003 A1 - Sally Miller Gearhart (1931-2021) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Book Two of Earthkeep. See 2002 Gearhart. In the first volume all the animals in the world had disappeared; in this volume the children begin to die. The novel focuses on the developing understanding of the need to abolish all authority structures. At the end, both the children and the animals reappear. New Age anarchism. A third volume, The Steward, was announced but disappeared from the author’s website. The author’s best-known book is The Wanderground: Stories of the Hill Women, 1978.

PB - Spinsters Ink Books CY - Denver, CO U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Mask and the Maze" Y1 - 2003 A1 - Bannerman, K[im] KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

A eutopia created by one wealthy capitalist proves boring to him, and he plays the Minotaur in the maze. The eutopia is largely in the background.

JF - Aphelion UR - http://www.aphelion-webzine.com/ N1 -

Rpt. in Neo-opsis Science Fiction Magazine, no. 7 (2005): 8-37.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Maul Y1 - 2003 A1 - Tricia Sullivan (b. 1968) KW - Female author KW - UK author KW - US author AB -

Violent dystopia.

PB - Orbit CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - Memini Y1 - 2003 A1 - Daniel [David] Pearlman (1935-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire. A dystopian future with the mentally damaged in power.

PB - Prime Books CY - Canton, OH U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Messages from the Hollow Earth Y1 - 2003 A1 - Dianne Robbins (b. 1939) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

New Age eutopia. See also 1996 and 2000 Robbins. 

PB - Trafford CY - Victoria, BC, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Midnight Lamp Y1 - 2003 A1 - Gwyneth [Ann] Jones (b. 1952) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Sequel to 2001 and 2002 Jones. In this volume, the Green Nazi's have been defeated and the action moves to Mexico and North America. Mostly fantasy. 

PB - Gollancz CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Milan Y1 - 2003 A1 - Nick Sturley (b. 1967) KW - Deaf author KW - English author KW - US author AB -

In 2030, with signing a recognized language, a deaf teacher of history in the London Model Deaf School, is teaching his last class before retirement. In it he tells a story about the struggle against oralism, an attempt to impose oralism, the requirement that the deaf speak and cannot sign. In the novel, the story is fantasy and science fiction, but it was inspired by the Second International Congress on the Education of the Deaf held in Milan in 1880 that concluded that speech rather than signing was the best approach to deaf education. The delegates from Great Britain and the United States voted against the resolutions. There was only one deaf delegate to the conference. Signing was banned in many schools for the deaf and deaf teachers lost their jobs. Some schools chose to keep signing, and, of course, many deaf students continued to sign among themselves. The novel ends with the suggest that attempts to impose oralism will continue. There is a “Visual Glossary” illus. Adam Hoy on 212-33 of “Key Characters” (214-21) and Architectural Features (223-33).

PB - Trafford CY - Victoria, BC, Canada SN - 9781412013505 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Nimby and the Dimension Hoppers" Y1 - 2003 A1 - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire but includes a future in which houses are grown from seed. The story is set in Canada and the author is Canadian.

JF - Asimov's Science Fiction VL - 27.6 (329) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "No Solace for the Soul in Digitopia" Y1 - 2003 A1 - [Paul le Page] [Barnett] (1949-2020) ED - Lou Anders KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Presents what can be considered a sexual eutopia in a world of multiple realities.

JF - Living without a Net PB - Roc CY - New York U3 -

John Grant [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Of a Sweet Slow Dance in the Wake of Temporary Dogs" Y1 - 2003 A1 - Adam-Troy Castro (b. 1960) ED - Keith R. A. DeCandido KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed eutopia in which one can have everything one could want for nine days in exchange for one day of hell.

JF - Imaginings: An Anthology of Long Short Fiction PB - Pocket Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Nebula Awards Showcase 2005: The Year’s Best SF and Fantasy Selected by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America®. Ed. Jack [Mayo] Dann (New York: Roc, 2005), 227-47; and in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 431-49; 2nd ed. as Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 431-49.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The One and the Golden Circle Y1 - 2003 A1 - Don Allen Beene (1936-2012) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

New Age novel presenting the dystopia of contemporary and near future Haiti with the suggestion of a eutopian future.

PB - iUniverse CY - Lincoln, NB U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “One Rainy Day in a Circus Far Away” Y1 - 2003 A1 - Craig Cormick ED - Michael Berry KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia where all the women have disappeared.

JF - Elsewhere: An Anthology of Incredible Places PB - Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild CY - Canberra, ACT, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Oryx and Crake Y1 - 2003 A1 - Margaret [Eleanor] Atwood (b. 1939) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia. Most of the novel is set in a post-catastrophe future, but some is set in the dystopia of our day and a near future dystopia of corporate competition over genetic manipulation, which leads to the catastrophe. See also 2009 and 2013 Atwood.

PB - McClelland & Stewart CY - Toronto, ON, Canada N1 -

U.S. ed. as Oryx and Crake. A Novel. New York: Doubleday, 2003. Rpt. New York: Anchor Books, 2004.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Other Cities Y1 - 2003 A1 - Benjamin [Micah] Rosenbaum (b. 1969) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Collection of very short descriptions of imaginary cities. Given how short each description is, it is impossible to treat any single one as utopian, but collectively there are a number of utopian and dystopian motifs present. 

PB - Small Beer Press CY - Northampton, MA N1 -

All but one, "The City of Peace", were previously published; "The White City" was published in Vestal Review, no 9 (April 2002) [www.vestalreview.net] and the rest in Strange Horizons (September 17, 2001; October 15, 2001; November 19, 2001; December 17, 2001; January 21, 2002; February 18, 2002; March 18, 2002; April 15, 2002; May 20, 2002; June 17, 2002; July 15, 2002; August 19, 2002) [www.strangehorizons.com].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Out from the Darkness Y1 - 2003 A1 - Richard Thomas KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia as a setting for an adventure novel. The dystopia is one of a growing tyranny in Britain that treats its opponents as mentally ill.

PB - Goodread Books CY - Saltburn by the Sea, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Out of Plato’s Cave” Y1 - 2003 A1 - J. Alan Erwine (b. 1969) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future where many people are living underground to escape radiation and is told from the perspective of a young boy with cancer who is attracted to the surface.

JF - Aphelion VL - no. 7 SN - 9781534701649 UR - https://www.aphelion-webzine.com/shorts/2003/03/OutOfPlatosCave.htm N1 -

Rpt. in the author's J Alan Erwine’s Tales of Dystopia (Np: [J. Alan Erwine, 2016]), 64-69.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Parecon: Life After Capitalism Y1 - 2003 A1 - Michael Albert (b. 1947) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Non-fiction that includes a section on "Daily Life in a Participatory Democracy" (171-230) that is eutopian. See also 2017 Albert.

PB - Verso CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Passion for Dead Leaves: Third Episode of Enemies of Society. A Series of Future Thrillers Y1 - 2003 A1 - John David (b. 1955) KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Dystopia. Third of a six volume series. All volumes are concerned with violent conflict between factions, and this volume is particularly concerned with the struggle against an Empire and a colonial system. See also 2002, 2005, 2006, and 2007 (2).

PB - 1st Books CY - Bloomington, IN U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Pier Pressure" Y1 - 2003 A1 - Christina Lake KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia in which England has retreated to ten seaside piers. Cloning.

JF - Interzone VL - no.188 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Pillowman Y1 - 2003 A1 - Martin [Faranan] McDonagh (b. 1970) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia focusing on a writer in a totalitarian state.

PB - Faber and Faber CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Project Utopia 2030 Y1 - 2003 A1 - R. Norman Johnson KW - Male author AB -

A novel that sets the Christian conflict between good and evil in a high-tech future ending with Armageddon (See Revelation 16) and the Second Coming of Christ.

PB - 1st Books CY - Bloomington IN U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Rule of Terror" Y1 - 2003 A1 - Dominic Green (b. 1967) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Future dystopia of violence, mass suicide, environmental degradation, and state terror.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 189 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Runaways" Y1 - 2003 A1 - Lucy [Jane] Sussex (b. 1957) ED - Cat[riona] Sparks (b. 1965) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Anthropological science fiction describing a multi-generational extended family (both related and not related) that originated as runaways and now exists in the interstices of a collapsed, dystopian world. The runaway society has eutopian elements to it.

JF - Agog! Terrific Tales: New Australian Speculative Fiction PB - Agog! Press CY - Wollongong, NSW, Australia N1 -

Rpt. in her A Tour Guide in Utopia (Parramatta, NSW, Australia: MirrorDanse Editions, 2005), 213-33; and in her Matilda Told Such Dreadful Lies: The Essential Lucy Sussex (Greenwood, WA, Australia: Ticonderoga publications, 2011), 415-33.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Saturn Y1 - 2003 A1 - Ben[jamin William] Bova (1932-2020) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A trip to Saturn from an Earth that is a religious dystopia. The religious leaders infiltrate the crew in an attempt, which fails, to establish the same regime on Saturn.

PB - Hodder & Stoughton CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Tor, 2003.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Say Hello to Jupiter: The Memoirs of BB Boris Y1 - 2003 A1 - Bouqueret, Boris KW - Male author AB -

A visitor for a future eutopian Jupiter stuck on the contemporary Earth comments on its negative features, particularly the environmental crisis, and compares it to the better Jupiterian system.

PB - Xlibris CY - [Bloomington, IN] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Seventh Seal: A Novel of the Last Days Y1 - 2003 A1 - Jessica Draper A1 - Richard Draper KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of the end of the world in Revelations from a Mormon perspective. First volume of a trilogy. This volume introduces the subject. In the second volume, Rising Storm: The Seventh Seal Epic Continues. American Fork, UT: Covenant Communications, 2004, natural and human disasters escalate. The final volume, Final Hour: The Dramatic Conclusion to the Seventh Seal Epic. American Fork, UT: Covenant Communications, 2004, volume takes the story to Armageddon (See Revelation 16) and the Second Coming of Christ.

PB - Covenant Communications CY - American Fork, UT U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sex Life. A Novel Y1 - 2003 A1 - [Gary] [Hardwick] (b. 1960) KW - Male author AB -

Flawed utopia. A high tech eutopia with a disease that kills if people don't have sex five times a day. Said to be the first volume of a trilogy.

PB - HardBooks CY - San Marino, CA U3 -

A. A. Clifford [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Singularity Sky Y1 - 2003 A1 - Charles [David George] Stross (b. 1964) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Eutopia and dystopia. A colony in space that had rejected modern technology is forcibly reintroduced to technology. A non-utopian sequel is Iron Sunrise. New York: Ace Books, 2004.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Small Planet of Our Own" Y1 - 2003 A1 - T[erri] E[llen] Merritt-Pinckard ED - Forrest J. Ackerman ED - Pam Keesey KW - Female author AB -

Lesbian eutopia on a planet settled only by lesbians.

JF - Sci-Fi Womanthology PB - Sense of Wonder Press CY - Rockville, MD U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Snare: A Novel of the Far Future Y1 - 2003 A1 - Katharine [Nancy Brahtin] Kerr (b. 1944) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Islamic fundamentalists control a planet. Includes an attempt at reform

PB - Tor CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: HarperCollins, 2003.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Soon: The Beginning of the End Y1 - 2003 A1 - Jerry B[ruce] Jenkins (b. 1949) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

First volume of the Left Behind Soon Series, a spinoff from 1995 LaHaye and Jenkins. This series has been renamed the Underground Zealot Series. In this volume religion is outlawed. Sequels include Silenced: The Wrath of God Descends. Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House, 2004, in which the persecuted church has gone underground; and Shadowed: The Final Judgement. Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House, 2005, in which God intervenes.

PB - Tyndale House Publishers CY - Wheaton, IL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Spondulix: A Romance of Hoboken Y1 - 2003 A1 - Paul [Gerard] Di Filippo (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia and dystopia. Begins in the Amana colonies on the day of their becoming a joint stock company but has nothing else to say about the colonies. Family history from then into the near future. Future Hoboken is initially mildly dystopian and then is briefly partially transformed into a eutopia by the introduction of labor based money.

PB - Cambrian Publications CY - San Jose, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Stanley Cup Caper" Y1 - 2003 A1 - Robert J[ames] Sawyer (b. 1960) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. A future Toronto that exists in a divided Canada. High technology with heavy pollution. All North American cities are surrounded by huge security fences.

JF - The Toronto Star N1 -

Rpt. in his Identity Theft and Other Stories (Calgary, AL, Canada: Red Deer Press, 2008), 127-30.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A State of Disobedience Y1 - 2003 A1 - Tom [Thomas P.] Kratman (b. 1956) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. Thinly disguised right-wing political tract. Includes a set of amendments to the U.S. Constitution including most of the goals of the U.S. far right.

PB - Baen CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Sunburnt Country Y1 - 2003 A1 - Andrew Sullivan (b. 1968) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a future Australia following an ecological catastrophe in which there is no rain for over thirty years. Australia disintegrates into city states, and Melbourne becomes an authoritarian dystopia.

PB - Ginninderra Press CY - Charnwood, ACT, Australia ER - TY - ABST T1 - Super Flat Time. Stories Y1 - 2003 A1 - Matthew Derby KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Linked stories about a period of violence and attempts to remember the past at stages of the future.

PB - Little Brown CY - Boston, MA N1 -

Parts previous published as “Home Recordings.” 3rd Bed, no. 2 (Spring-Summer 2000) http://calamaripress.com/3rdBed/3rd_Bed_Issues.htm. Accessed March 13, 2010; “Behavior Pilot.” Failbetter (Brooklyn, NY), no. 5 Posted February 18, 2002; http://failbetter.com/05/Behavior%20Pilot.htm. Accessed March 13, 2010; “Instructions.” 5 Trope, no. 13 (May 2002) http://webdelsol.com/5_trope/13/derby.htm. Accessed March 13, 2010; and “Sky Harvest.” Pindeldyboz 3 (Fall 2002): 1-6. “Joy of Eating.” Conjunctions; “The Father Helmet.” Fence; “The Boyish Mulatto.” American Journal of Print; and “Meat Tower.” Elimae (nd). http://www.elimae.com/fiction/derby/tower.html. Accessed March 13, 2010. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Surge” Y1 - 2003 A1 - [Rowena Cory] [Lindquist] (b. 1958) ED - Michael Berry KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Far future dystopia reflecting the effects of climate change and rising ocean levels.

JF - Elsewhere: An anthology of incredible Places PB - Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild CY - Canberra, ACT, Australia U3 -

Cory Daniells [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Surrender or Die Y1 - 2003 A1 - Brian Harding KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia and the beginnings of a better life. China attacks England with small nuclear bombs. After an initial surrender, England and other countries fight back and defeat the Chinese. The peaceful new world has few fossil fuels left, but begins to rebuild a simpler, better society.

PB - [Author] CY - [Leicester, Eng.] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Terminator Gene Y1 - 2003 A1 - Ian Irvine (b. 1950) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Ecological dystopia. Middle volume of three that the author wrote concerning ecological and related issues. See also 2000 and 2004 Irvine. This volume focuses on the dangers of a virus that could end all life on Earth.

PB - Earthlight CY - East Roseville, NSW, Australia ER - TY - ABST T1 - There Will Be Dragons Y1 - 2003 A1 - John Ringo (b. 1963) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Technological eutopia in which all needs are met until the council controlling the technology starts warring against itself. Those who lived off the net provide the basis for rebuilding. Sequels include Emerald Sea. New York: Baen, 2004; Against the Tide. New York: Baen, 2005; and East of the Sun, West of the Moon. New York: Baen, 2006.

PB - Baen CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Tomorrow Station" Y1 - 2003 A1 - Daniel Ksenych KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

A world of multiple realities.

JF - On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic VL - 15.1 (52) ER - TY - ABST T1 - Tritcheon Hash Y1 - 2003 A1 - Sue Lange KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

All the women of Earth left and establish a new all-female society on another planet, with female and male babies exchanged annually with the men of Earth. The new society has been very successful, while the men have continued to fight and damage Earth. With the unacknowledged help of the women, the men of Earth begin to recover.

PB - Metropolis Ink CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Twenty-First Century. A Novel Y1 - 2003 A1 - Bruce Schwartz KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A terrorist attack leads to a new civil war in the US based on class and race. A central theme is the establishment of HOPE (With Housing and Opportunity comes Peace and Prosperity) Cities that were transforming the US ghettos into areas of opportunity; it was these twelve cities that were destroyed in the terrorist attack.

PB - Park Avenue Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Under the Lunchbox Tree" Y1 - 2003 A1 - John [Joseph Vincent] Kessel (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Set in the same milieu as 2000 and 2002 Kessel. A brief story of a girl growing up in the Society of Cousins. See also 2006 and 2017 Kessel for other works about the Society of Cousins The lunchbox tree is an image in L. Frank Baum’s (1856-1919) Ozma of Oz. Chicago, Reilly & Britton, 1907.

JF - Asimov’s Science Fiction VL - 27.7 (330) N1 -

Rpt. in his The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Other Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2008), 164-76.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Untied Kingdom Y1 - 2003 A1 - James [Matthew Henry] Lovegrove (b. 1965) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A disintegrating future U.K. with small communities using ancient traditions to try to maintain cohesion and stability with, at the end after many problems, the central community begins to revive.

PB - Gollancz CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Urinetown. The Musical" Y1 - 2003 A1 - Greg Kotis KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which all facilities for peeing are controlled by a large corporation in order to limit the use of water. The corporation kills those peeing outside their facilities. A revolt is successful but water begins to quickly run out. 

PB - Faber and Faber CY - New York N1 -

Selections from the score were published as Urinetown. The Musical. Milwaukee, WI: Hal Leonard, 2001. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Uterus Garden" Y1 - 2003 A1 - Alex[ander Christian] Irvine (b. 1969) ED - Deborah Layne ED - Jay [Joseph Edward] Lake [Jr.] (1964-2014) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Problems in a largely dystopian future in which most people are infertile.

JF - Polyphony PB - Wheatland Press CY - Wilsonville, OR VL - 2 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Walking Contradiction" Y1 - 2003 A1 - Nancy Jane Moore ED - Keith R. A. DeCandido KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Future in which there are a wide range of genders available at choice. The story is written from the point of view of an "Ambi" or hermaphrodite in conflict with a cult that neuters people.

JF - Imaginings: An Anthology of Long Short Fiction PB - Pocket Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - WAR or The World of Light (a fable of science fantasy) Y1 - 2003 A1 - Alex Babula (b. 1950) KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia with much fantasy. A man with extraordinary powers sets about to unite the universe and bring peace and prosperity. He succeeds but is opposed and must fight a war that destroys the universe.

PB - Xlibris CY - [Bloomington, IN] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Welcome to Coolsville Y1 - 2003 A1 - Jason Mordaunt KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Corporate dystopia set in Dublin with a number of subplots, one of which is a project to turn the inmates of a local prison into meek workers to work for the corporation.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London SN - 0-224-06379-0 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Wellstone Y1 - 2003 A1 - Wil[lliam Terence] McCarthy (b. 1966) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Immortality and the problems it poses for the younger generation. Sequel to 2000 McCarthy. The third and fourth volumes in the series, Lost in Transmission (New York: Random House, 2004) and To Crush the Moon: Being the Final Volume in the History of the Queendom of Sol (New York: Random House, 2005) record the disintegration of any hope of a good life as the problems of immortality grow.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The X President Y1 - 2003 A1 - Philip E[dward] E[dward] Baruth (b. 1962) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Set in 2055 and various dates in the past. An ex-President, known as B[ill] C[linton], is 109. History is revised to avoid the dystopia and the war between the right and the U.S. government that has developed.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Zero Calvin Y1 - 2003 A1 - Brian [J.] Cramer KW - Male author AB -

Future flawed utopia run by an artificial intelligence that has killed those who do not fit in. Arrival of a man from the past.

PB - iUniverse CY - Lincoln, NB U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Adventures of Lucky Pierre. Director; Cut Y1 - 2002 A1 - Robert [Lowell] Coover (b. 1932) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A dystopia depicting the life of a male porn star from the points of view of his nine female directors. His, and everyone else's, reality is infinitely malleable.

PB - Grove Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Afrofuture--Dystopic Unity" Y1 - 2002 A1 - Tracie Morris KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Poem--dystopia of keeping blacks in inferior roles.

JF - Social Text VL - no. 71 (20.2) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Albertine Notes” Y1 - 2002 A1 - Rick [Hiram Frederick] Moody [ III] (b. 1961) ED - Michael Chabon KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The dystopia brought about by a drug that brings back memories, good and bad, that was introduced after a major disaster meant that many people wanted to retrieve good memories.

JF - McSweeney’s Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales PB - McSweeney’s CY - San Francisco, CA VL - McSweeney’s no. 10 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Alienations" Y1 - 2002 A1 - David Murphy KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Series of stories set in the near future. "Overload" (99-103) is set in a near-future dystopian Dublin; violence, poverty; anti-gay; corrupt police and politicians.

JF - Writers of the Future. First Edition. devised by Pipers’ Ash Limited PB - Pipers' Ash CY - Chippenham, Wiltshire, Eng. UR - www.supamasu.com U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "All the Room in the World" Y1 - 2002 A1 - Holly Phillips (b. 1969) ED - Candas Jane Dorsey (b. 1952) ED - Judy Berlyne McCrosky KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia in which millions of refugees are being moved to the supposedly empty areas of the world, like northern Canada. There are plans to ship future refugees into space as slave labor. Climate-change is part of the reason for needing to move people. Canada has fragmented, and it is no longer possible to move freely among the provinces. 

JF - Land/Space: An Anthology of Prairie Speculative Fiction PB - Tesseract Books CY - Edmonton, AB, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - All This Is So Y1 - 2002 A1 - John F. Roe (b. 1935) KW - African author KW - Australian author KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

A complex novel set in a post-catastrophe non-technological society, some aspects of which can be read as dystopian and some aspects of which can be read as a flawed utopia.

PB - Wakefield Press CY - Kent Town, SA, Australia U1 -

Cover adds A future history.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The American Praetorians. A Novel Y1 - 2002 A1 - Dennis C[arroll] Purdy (b. 1952) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A dystopia imposed on the U.S. by liberal policies, which include very high taxes, elimination of freedoms enumerated in the Constitution, and a weakened military, results in a new American revolution. The Praetorians motto is “A man who saves a nation, commits no crime.”

PB - Trafford CY - Victoria, BC, Canada U1 -

Additional subtitle on the cover A shocking journey into the 2nd American Revolution.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Among the Betrayed Y1 - 2002 A1 - Margaret Peterson Haddix (b. 1964) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult overpopulation dystopia in which each family is limited to two children. Sequel to 1998 and 2001 Haddix. See also 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006 Haddix. In this volume, a third child is arrested by the Population Police and forced to spy on the other Shadow Children.

PB - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Red Fox, 2002. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Aristotle's Lantern" Y1 - 2002 A1 - Kim Edwards (b. 1958) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eutopian community established in the South China Sea and the conflicts that arise in trying to make it work.

JF - Zoetrope: All-Story VL - 6.1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Becoming Death: Pilot Episode of Enemies of Society (The Future of Special Forces?). Episode of Enemies of Society. A Series of Future Thrillers Y1 - 2002 A1 - John David (b. 1955) KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Dystopia. First of a six volume series. All volumes are concerned with violent conflict between factions, but in this volume one of the subjects is the dystopia brought about by a corrupt, dominant church. See also 2003, 2005, 2006, and 2007 (2).

PB - 1st Books CY - Bloomington, IN U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Best That Money Can't Buy: Beyond Politics, Poverty & War Y1 - 2002 A1 - Jacque Fresco (1916-2017) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Detailed eutopia in essay form based around the Venus Project. See also 1969 Keyes and Fresco, 1995, 2002, and 2007 Fresco, and https://www.thevenusproject.com/the-venus-project/jacque-fresco/. PSt holds a folder that contains: Venus Project brochure (4 pp); 2 copies of highlights of an interview with Jacque Fresco (6 pp); photocopy of an article by the author entitled “Designing the Future: A Cybernetic City for the Next Century” published in The Futurist 28.3 (May-June 1994): 29-33; promotional materials including a color sheet with images of the model home and a color sheet with various conceptual renderings. At the University of Pennsylvania, the Daniels Millennium Collection, Box 329, includes a copy of the book, “Introduction to the Venus Project” (http://www.nas.com/venus/intro.shtml), “The Venus Project Mission Statement: (http://www.nas.com/venus/ms01.shtml), and other material. There is considerable repetition in the Fresco material.

PB - Global Cyber-Visions CY - Venus, FL N1 -

6th ed. Venus, FL: Global Cyber-Visions, 2013. 8th ed. Venus, FL: Global Cyber-Visions, 2018. 

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Models, Illustrations & Photos Jacque Fresco & Roxanne Meadows. Model Designs Jacque Fresco.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Big Brother Iron" Y1 - 2002 A1 - Charles [David George] Stross (b. 1964) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Sequel to Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four in which modern technology is used to successfully revolt.

JF - Toast and other rusted futures PB - Cosmos Books CY - Holicong, PA ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Big Rock Candy Mountain" Y1 - 2002 A1 - Andy [Andrew Robert] Duncan (b. 1964) ED - Peter Straub KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Story based on the song "The Big Rock Candy Mountains" apparently written by Harry K. McClintock (Haywire Mac) around 1905 based on earlier oral sources. The song is generally identified with the depression of the 1930s when it became popular. The story uses the basic motif of the song of a hobos paradise contrasted to the world outside.

JF - The New Wave Fabulists PB - Bard College CY - Annandale-on-Hudson, NY VL - Volume 39 of Conjunctions N1 -

Rpt. in his The Pottawatomie Ghost and Other Stories (Hornsea, Eng.: PS Publishing, 2012), 41-62, with an author's story note on 309-10; and in his An Agent of Utopia: New & Selected Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2018), 141-65.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Bigger Fool” Y1 - 2002 A1 - John M[atthew] Faucette Jr. (1943-2003) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

The story depicts a high-tech society based on slavery and a slave revolt. 

JF - Black Science Fiction Stories PB - Infinity Publishing.com CY - Haverford, PA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Bike Tour" Y1 - 2002 A1 - Richard Register (b. 1943) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A tour of a eutopian ecocity set a hundred years in the future. No cars, hence the tour by bicycle. Neighborhoods surrounding a central city. To get from the neighborhood to the city center, there is a bike and foot trail and a separate two lane, mostly underground, route for the few vehicles that are used. Buildings have plantings. Bridges between buildings, with some for both bikes and pedestrians and some just for pedestrians. Varied architecture with buildings linked by bridges, windmills, and solar collectors. Mentions ramps for handicapped. Neighborhood police stations throughout the city. Small businesses flourish. Ambulances are gurneys pushed by paramedics on roller skates.

JF - Ecocities: Building Cities in Balance With Nature PB - Berkeley Hills Press CY - Berkeley, CA N1 -

2nd ed. with additional illus. and minor textual differences as Ecocities: Rebuilding Cities in Balance with Nature. Illus. by the Author (Gabriola Island, BC, Canada: New Society Publishers, 2006), 184-92. 

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Illus. by the Author. 2nd ed. has additional illus.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Bitter Nigger Inc." Y1 - 2002 A1 - Tana Hargest KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Brief introduction to a company with illustrations (mostly illegible) of its products. The company's divisions are Bitter Nigger Broadcast Network, Bitter Nigger Product Division, and Bitter Nigger Pharmaceuticals. One product, Tominex, is the “go-along-to-get-along medication” and said to be “the only over the counter medication to remove your yearning for fairness or human decency.”

JF - Social Text VL - no. 71 (20.2) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Bone House Y1 - 2002 A1 - Luanne Armstrong (b. 1949) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia of global warming and corporate control.

PB - New Star Books CY - Vancouver, BC, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Burning Bombing of America" Y1 - 2002 A1 - Kathy [Karen Lehmann] Acker (1948-97) ED - Amy Scholder KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia with America destroyed.

JF - Rip-off Red, Girl Detective and The Burning Bombing of America: The Destruction of the U.S. PB - Grove Press CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “By the Way, Mom, I’ve Turned Gay” Y1 - 2002 A1 - John M[atthew] Faucette Jr. (1943-2003) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

Satire in which a virus is released that temporarily turns men gay. 

JF - Black Science Fiction Stories PB - Infinity Publishing.com CY - Haverford, PA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Castles Made of Sand Y1 - 2002 A1 - Gwyneth [Ann] Jones (b. 1952) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Sequel to 2001 Jones. Much fantasy, but this volume follows the disintegration of the U.K. Environmental activists, labeled Green Nazis, are fighting to correct major damage. See also 2003, 2005, 2006 and 2014 Jones.

PB - Gollancz CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Coyote: A Novel of Interstellar Exploration Y1 - 2002 A1 - Allen M[ulherin] Steele [Jr.] (b. 1958) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel begins on an authoritarian dystopia on Earth and ends with a group of libertarian rebels settling a new planet. See also 2004 and 2005 Steele. His Spindrift. New York: Ace Books, 2007. U.K. ed. London: Orbit, 2007 is a first contact novel that uses the setting of the Coyote novels, and his Galaxy Blues. New York: Ace Books, 2008 is set in the same universe. Three novels that relate to and continue aspects of Coyote history are Coyote Horizon: A Novel of Interstellar Discovery. New York: Ace Books, 2009; part originally published as “Walking Star.” Forbidden Planets. Ed. Marvin Kaye (New York: Science Fiction Book Club, 2006), 49-98; Coyote Destiny: A Novel of Interstellar Discovery. New York: Ace Books, 2010; and Hex. New York: Ace Books, 2011. A related story is “Tagging Bruno.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 41 1 & 2 (492 & 493) (January-February 2017): 28-47. 

PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -

Originally published in different versions as "Stealing Alabama." Asimov's Science Fiction 25.1 (300) (January 2001): 86-130; "The Days Between." Asimov's Science Fiction 25.3 (302) (March 2001): 14-34; "Coming to Coyote." Asimov's Science Fiction 25.7 (306) (July 2001): 92-135; Liberty Journals." Asimov's Science Fiction 25,10 & 11 (309 & 310) (October/November 2001): 128-42; "The Boid Hunt." Star Colonies. Ed. Martin Greenberg and John Helfers (New York: DAW Books, 2000), 70-94; "Across the Eastern Divide." Asimov's Science Fiction (February 2002); "Lonesome and a Long Way Home." Asimov's Science Fiction 26.6 (317) (June 2002): 76-96; and "Glorious Destiny." Asimov's Science Fiction 26.12 (323) (December 2002): 92-131. Copyright page notes that this story is completely unaltered.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Cricket on the Hearth" Y1 - 2002 A1 - Ray[mond Douglas] Bradbury (1920-2012) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of government spying.

JF - One More for the Road PB - HarperCollins/Morrow CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in his Match to Flame: The Fictional Paths to Fahrenheit 451. Ed. Donn Albright, Donn and Jon[athan R.] Eller, Textual Ed. (Colorado Springs, CO: Gauntlet Press, 2006), 219-48; and in his A Pleasure to Burn: Fahrenheit 451 Stories (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2010) 111-20. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dark Ararat Y1 - 2002 A1 - Brian [Michael] Stableford (b. 1948) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A continuation of his future history series; see 1998 Stableford, the note there, and 1999, 2000, and 2002 Stableford, The Omega Expedition. This volume is about the settlement of a colony planet.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Daughters of an Amber Moon Y1 - 2002 A1 - Katherine [V.] Forrest (b. 1939) KW - Canadian author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 1984 Forrest. This volume concerns the women who chose to stay on Earth and their struggle to survive in the face of the dystopia that is the Earth. At the end of the novel, some of the women from the new planet return to Earth, which is converted from a dystopia to a eutopia. See also 2005 Forrest.

PB - Alyson Books CY - Los Angeles, CA U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Daughters of the Distant Dream" Y1 - 2002 A1 - Yvonne Eve Walus KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

Series of stories about women in the future. "The Learning Experience" (31-34) is about a visit to a eutopian (?) world. All subservient positions are filled by robots. All flora and fauna protected (said to be a fad that would last a century or two). High noise level (speech and broadcast) to avoid seeming clandestine. All virtual reality. "Glance at Eden" (36-40) includes gender-role reversal in which men do the physical tasks that are considered less important. Another world advanced in bio-technology, genetic engineering. A character from that planet says, "'We created everything around here. We also engineered ourselves, rooting out the undesirable characteristics until we achieved total perfection'" (38). "The Vanishing Race" (42-44) depicts a world where people never go outside; "no more inter-human contacts" (43).

JF - Writers of the Future. First Edition. devised by Pipers' Ash Limited PB - Pipers' Ash CY - Chippenham, Wiltshire, Eng. UR - www.supamasu.com U1 -

Cover says All Our . . . 'Writers of the Future' 1st Lincoln Edition--comprising all our science fiction short stories by: Val Kyrie, Yvonne Eve Walus, Lyn McConchie, Neal Asher, David Murphy, Malcolm Twigg, Tansy Lovage, Teresa Holmes & Science Fiction Writers of New Zealand.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dawn of the New Man: A Futuristic Novel of Social Change Y1 - 2002 A1 - Eduard Prugovecki (1937-2003) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Sequel to 2001 Prugovecki. This volume continues the story of two countries described in the first volume, the libertarian Terra and the authoritarian FWF (Free World Federation). The citizens of the FWF are enslaved and the protagonist initiates a successful struggle to free them.

PB - Xlibris CY - [Bloomington, IN] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Design Your Own Utopia Y1 - 2002 A1 - Chaz [Charles] Bufe A1 - [Elizabeth known as Libby] [Hubbard] (b. 1956) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Mostly a lengthy questionnaire intended to assist people thinking about utopia but includes short descriptions of a local eutopia or intentional community and a global eutopia. See also 1988 and 1994 Hubbard; and 2012 Bufe and Hubbard.

PB - See Sharp Press CY - Tucson, AZ UR - http://www.seesharppress.com/utopia.html N1 -

The text can also be found at http://www.seesharppress.com/utopia.html.

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Chaz Bufe and Doctress Neutopia [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Destiny Restored Y1 - 2002 A1 - Arthur M. Becker KW - Male author AB -

A near future dystopia in which the United States is collapsing and terrorism is common with hope for a eutopia held out at the end.

PB - Elderberry Press CY - Oakland, OR U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Discarded Faces Y1 - 2002 A1 - Steve Cross KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian religious dystopia on another planet and the revolt against it. Hierarchical social structure with whites at the top. Gays and lesbians eliminated. 

PB - King Roy Publishing CY - Las Vegas, NV U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Dystopianist, Thinking of His Rival, Is Interrupted by a Knock on the Door" Y1 - 2002 A1 - Jonathan [Allen] Lethem (b. 1964) ED - Peter Straub KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on utopias and dystopias.

JF - The New Wave Fabulists PB - Bard College CY - Annandale-on-Hudson, NY VL - Volume 39 of Conjunctions U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Eight-Moon Dollar" Y1 - 2002 A1 - Daniel Kaysen KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Dystopia of corporate control. Corporate domination of everyday activities, with a stress on limited sexual activities.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 178 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ersatz Nation Y1 - 2002 A1 - Tim Kenyon KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia set in a parallel world. Successful revolt.

PB - Big Engine CY - Abingdon, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Escarpment Y1 - 2002 A1 - Bill Queen KW - Male author AB -

Alternative history that includes a flawed post-Civil War utopian community in the West.

PB - SterlingHouse CY - Pittsburgh, PA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Evan's Land Y1 - 2002 A1 - Emlyn-Jones, Ben KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Dystopia of a future Wales fighting a civil war. Global dictator.

PB - Aldyth Press CY - Oxford, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Everyone in Silico Y1 - 2002 A1 - Jim Munroe (b. 1972) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia set in Vancouver in 2036 and in Frisco, a virtual reality San Francisco that was created by a company after the real San Francisco was hit by an earthquake. The novel follows a number of characters struggling to make their way in a world dominated by corporations. 

PB - No Media Kings CY - Toronto, ON, Canada N1 -

Rpt. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 2002.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Exodus Y1 - 2002 A1 - Julie Bertagna (b. 1962) KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

First volume of a dystopian trilogy. The dystopia was brought about by global warming in which the island home of the protagonist, based on Kiribati, is disappearing under water. There are hints of a better world elsewhere, and the entire community goes in search of it. Sequels include Zenith. London: Young Picador, 2007, about the search for a better place that was begun at the end of Exodus; and Aurora. London: Macmillan, 2011 which is about a struggle of a powerful force that wants to control the world. Elements of fantasy in all three novels. 

PB - Young Picador CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Feed Y1 - 2002 A1 - M[atthew] T[obin] Anderson (b. 1964) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which everyone is controlled by a transmitter implanted in their brain.

PB - Candlewick Press CY - Cambridge, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Flowercrash Y1 - 2002 A1 - Stephen Palmer (b. 1962) KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

Fantasy flawed utopia set in the far future. Struggle to ensure the continuance of the good society.

PB - Cosmos Books CY - Holicong, PA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Free Spirit" Y1 - 2002 A1 - Val Kyrie [pseud.] AB -

Series of brief dystopian vignettes. "3 City Sports" (12-14) describes a 21st century in which nations have collapsed and city-states emerged. Street children shot for sport." "4  Second Chance" (14-18) describes a 21st century described as without crime because it has a system of extremely harsh punishment, but it in fact still has crime, just less.

JF - Writers of the Future. First Edition. devised by Pipers' Ash Limited PB - Pipers' Ash CY - Chippenham, Wiltshire, Eng. UR - www.supamasu.com U3 -

Val Kyrie [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - God Bless Fortress America Y1 - 2002 A1 - Henry P. Mitchell [pseud.] AB -

Dystopia set ten years after the 9/11 attacks. 9/11 was followed by a the purge of “undesirable” elements of the U.S. population, such as Arabs; cutting off aid to the rest of the world; shifting spending to defense and security, including building a high tech shield around the country; developing energy independence, largely through oil and gas development throughout the Western Hemisphere, which was unified under an America Fortress plan; and destroying all the enemies of the U.S. with no concern for the civilian populations. At the end the author suggests that this was not the right approach.

PB - Writers Advantage CY - San Jose, CA U3 -

Henry P. Mitchell [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Golden Age Y1 - 2002 A1 - John C[harles] Wright (b. 1961) KW - US author AB -

Future interplanetary flawed utopia; the utopia is not what it appears to be in that it suppresses dissent. First volume of The Golden Age trilogy. The trilogy concerns the original utopia, a rebel against it, and the temporary merging of all sentient life into a supermind. See also 2003 Wright (2). Elements of space opera.

PB - Tor CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Green Boy Y1 - 2002 A1 - Susan [Mary] Cooper (b. 1935) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult novel with children shifting between two worlds, the present and a polluted, overpopulated dystopia. Environmental concerns.

PB - Margaret K. McElderry Books CY - New York N1 -

UK ed. London: Bodley Head, 2002.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Growing Young: An Old Man Who Suddenly Becomes Young Must Help the World Accept an Age Cure Y1 - 2002 A1 - Dean Warren KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The title is a good summary. When a cure is found for aging, and a newly young man works to avoid the overpopulation dystopia that could result. The ending of the novel implies a sequel, but none has been published.

PB - Xlibris CY - [Bloomington, IN] SN - 9781401051626 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hammer Town Y1 - 2002 A1 - Selina Rosen (b. 1960) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Corporate authoritarian dystopia. 

PB - Yard Dog Press CY - Alma, AR U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Hardest Part" In "Nanonights. A Collection of Science Fiction and Fantasy Short Stories by Authors from New Zealand" Y1 - 2002 A1 - Tim Elphick KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia.

JF - Writers of the Future. First Edition. devised by Pipers' Ash Limited PB - Pipers' Ash CY - Chippenham, Wiltshire, Eng. UR - www.supamasu.com ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Hitman for a Day” Y1 - 2002 A1 - John M[atthew] Faucette Jr. (1943-2003) KW - African author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a lottery in which the winner gets to kill one person told from the perspective of the one killed. 

JF - Black Science Fiction Stories PB - Haverford, PA CY - Infinity Publishing.com U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Holy Terror" Y1 - 2002 A1 - Simon Sheppard ED - Cecilia Tan (b. 1967) KW - Male author AB -

Dystopian erotica. After a cure for AIDS is found, the Christian right decide that gays must be controlled. Women are used for breeding and men as slave labor and for sex.

JF - Wired Hard 3: Erotica for a Gay Universe PB - Circlet Press CY - Cambridge, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hominids Y1 - 2002 A1 - Robert J[ames] Sawyer (b. 1960) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Depicts a Neanderthal eutopia in a world where they became the dominant species. First volume of a trilogy; followed by Humans. New York: Tor, 2003 and Hybrids. New York: Tor, 2003.

PB - Tor CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Hopeful Traveller Y1 - 2002 A1 - Fiona Farrell (b. 1947) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

Two novels published back to back that focus on a single island off the coast of New Zealand. One includes a Robinsonade and comments satirically on eighteenth century utopianism in showing a utopian experiment on the island failing. The other is a modern novel about a group of friends who had once lived together in an intentional community.

PB - Vintage CY - Auckland, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The House of the Scorpion Y1 - 2002 A1 - Nancy [Forsythe Coe] Farmer (b. 1941) KW - Female author AB -

Young adult dystopia. Two countries, Opium and Aztlán, near the southern border of United States are dystopias. Opium, which supplies drugs to the U.S., is completely ruled by one man, who has cloned himself, so that he can live forever. Aztlán, where people escape to from Opium, is, on its border, controlled by the Keepers, who use the escapees as slave labor. The novel is about one of the clones of El Patrón who escapes from both Opium and the Keepers and manages to destroy both.

PB - Atheneum Books for Young Readers CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Simon Pulse, 2004.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “I am Four Years Old I Don’t Want To Be a Soldier” Y1 - 2002 A1 - John M[atthew] Faucette Jr. (1943-2003) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

In the story, children as young as four are exposed to the horrors of war in the hopes that the memory will keep the world peaceful. 

JF - Black Science Fiction Stories PB - Infinity Publishing.com CY - Haverford, PA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Impossible Bird Y1 - 2002 A1 - Patrick O'Leary (b. 1952) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia. Perfection provided by aliens is found to lack the emotional connection humans need.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - In Arcadia Y1 - 2002 A1 - Ben Okri (b. 1959) KW - Male author KW - Nigerian author KW - UK author AB -

The search for real and imagined arcadias with much discussion of the nature of arcadia and utopia from the perspective of contemporary dystopian times.

PB - Weidenfeld & Nicolson CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Phoenix, 2003.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Inside the Rainbow: A Search for Solutions to Reality's Riddles Y1 - 2002 A1 - Eugene Goheen KW - Male author AB -

Science fiction concerned with a new form of energy that will transform the world for the better and the earliest stages of its use.

PB - Author CY - Spring Valley, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Invisible Empire" Y1 - 2002 A1 - John [Joseph Vincent] Kessel (b. 1950) ED - Peter Straub KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which an organization of women kill men who abuse women.

JF - The New Wave Fabulists PB - Bard College CY - Annandale-on-Hudson, NY VL - Volume 39 of Conjunctions U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Its Hour Cometh" Y1 - 2002 A1 - James Van Pelt (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia describing future prisoner "rehabilitation".

JF - Talebones VL - no. 24 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Just Like Beauty Y1 - 2002 A1 - Lisa Lerner (b. 1960) KW - Female author AB -

Dystopian satire with lesbian themes. A future America focusing on its beauty contests, which include erotic skills. Violence is common.

PB - Farrar, Straus and Giroux CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Kanshou Y1 - 2002 A1 - Sally Miller Gearhart (1931-2021) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Future history including a chronology, a glossary, and the details of a Global Government. All animals died and women take power. The Kanshou are the women warriors who keep the peace. The first volume of the Earthkeep books that includes 2003 Gearhart. A third volume, The Steward, was announced but disappeared from the author’s website. The author’s best-known book is The Wanderground: Stories of the Hill Women, 1978. The female author was a gay rights activist and a Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at San Francisco State University. Her papers are held at the University of Oregon.

PB - Spinsters Ink Books CY - Denver, CO U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Kindling Y1 - 2002 A1 - Jennifer [Mary] Armstrong (b. 1961) A1 - Nancy Butcher KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe children’s dystopia. First volume of the Fire-Us trilogy. In this volume, the seven children who survive a catastrophe create a functional society based on the family. When another child survivor arrives, they set off to find help. The second volume is The Keepers of the Flame. New York: HarperCollins Children’s Books. 2002, in which the surviving children discover a group of adults living in a mall, but they prove to be dangerous. The final volume is The Kiln. New York: HarperCollins Children’s Books, 2003, in which the children are travelling again searching for the answer to their situation.

PB - HarperCollins Children's Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Kismet" Y1 - 2002 A1 - Malcolm Twigg KW - Male author AB -

Series of stories. "Floater" (123-28) is a dystopia that describes a penal colony. "Pacificalia" (133-41) presents a flawed utopia on Earth in which all needs are catered to, but the people spend all their time tied into the Vid-ex. Under the oceans are cities of mutated humans, also utopian but with only legends of "Topside".

JF - Writers of the Future. First Edition. devised by Pipers' Ash Limited PB - Pipers' Ash CY - Chippenham, Wiltshire, Eng. UR - www.supamasu.com U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lapsit Chronicles Y1 - 2002 A1 - Edith Shaw KW - Female author AB -

Environmental dystopia.

PB - Dealan-dé Publishing CY - Toronto, ON, Canada U5 -

Merril.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Light Music Y1 - 2002 A1 - Kathleen Ann Goonan (1952-2021) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 2000 Goonan In this volume, the Crescent City has become vulnerable to attack and the technology that built it and could rescue it has been lost. Ultimately, alien technology brings about a positive ending. humanity appears to be on the edge of a major evolutionary step forward. Loosely related to 1994 and 1997 Goonan. 

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Liking What You See: A Documentary" Y1 - 2002 A1 - Ted Chiang (b. 1967) KW - Chinese-American author KW - Male author AB -

Whether this suggests a eutopia or a dystopia is up to the reader. "Lookism", or prejudice against unattractive people, has been added to racism and sexism as a social problem and a solution has been found in a neurological treatment that ensures that "good" looks do not register with the viewer. A campaign to require the treatment at a college campus fails, but it does so as a result of the enhancement of a speaker against it, a speaker paid by the cosmetics industry.

JF - Stories of Your Life and Others PB - Tor CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in The James Tiptree Award Anthology 3. Ed. Karen Joy Fowler, Pat Murphy, Debbie Notkin, and Jeffrey D. Smith (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon Publications, 2007), 113-49.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lion’s Blood: A Novel of Slavery and Freedom in an Alternate America Y1 - 2002 A1 - Steven [Emory] Barnes (b. 1952) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

An alternative history novel in which Africans are the slave owners and whites the slave in a North America, known as Bilalstan, which is divided among Zulus, Arabs, Aztecs, Vikings and Native Indians. The novel focus on the relationship between the Irish Christian Aidan O’Dere and his owner the African Muslim African Muslim, Kai ibn Jallaleddin ibn Rashid. A sequel, Zulu Heart. New York: Aspect/Warner Books, 2003. 463 pp. continues the story with O'Dere, now free, must accept being re-enslaved for the chance of gaining permanent freedom for himself and his sister while his former owner, now friend, struggles with the immorality of the slavery that underpins his status and wealth. A third volume was mentioned in a blog post in 2007 but has not been published.

PB - Aspect/Warner Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Little Sister" Y1 - 2002 A1 - Donna Bowman ED - Candas Jane Dorsey (b. 1952) ED - Judy Berlyne McCrosky KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia. Canada disintegrated after Québec withdrew from the confederation, and most power now is held by corporations. The prairie provinces are extremely poor and the story focuses on the use of prison labor to search in old garbage for antiques to be sold to people in the wealthy provinces.

JF - Land/Space: An Anthology of Prairie Speculative Fiction PB - Tesseract Books CY - Edmonton, AB, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Little Utopias" Y1 - 2002 A1 - Jo Thorpe KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

A poem that presents an evening at a Māori marae in utopian terms.

JF - Takahe (Christchurch, New Zealand) VL - 46 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Maquisarde Y1 - 2002 A1 - Louise Marley (b. 1952) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of divisions between the rich and poor. Revolt.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Millennial Dream Y1 - 2002 A1 - [Paul] [Premsagar] KW - Male author AB -

Series of eutopias and dystopias after death and on planets both more and less advanced than Earth.

PB - 1st Books CY - Bloomington, IN U3 -

Arthur Spintale [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mindful of Utopia Y1 - 2002 A1 - Merritt [Gold] Abrash (b. 1930) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Detailed anarchist eutopia by one of the founders of the Society for Utopian Studies.

PB - 1st Books CY - Bloomington, IN U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "MODYSSEY: An allegorical fantasy colour strip cartoon. The SS Modernismus Embarks on a Voyage to Discover the Mythical Land of URBANUTOPIA" Y1 - 2002 A1 - Louis Hellman (b. 1936) ED - Hubert-Jan Henket ED - Hilde Heynen (b. 1959) KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Cartoon satire on modernist utopianism.

JF - Back from Utopia: The Challenge of the Modern Movement PB - 010 Publishers CY - Rotterdam, The Netherlands U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Muezzinland Y1 - 2002 A1 - Stephen Palmer (b. 1962) KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

Dystopia set in Africa in the mid-22nd century. Struggle to escape from the dystopia and find/establish a better society connected with the African past.

PB - Cosmos Books CY - Holicong, PA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "My Flamboyant Grandson" Y1 - 2002 A1 - George Saunders (b. 1958) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Corporate controlled, required consumption dystopia.

JF - The New Yorker VL - 77.45 N1 -

Rpt. in his In Persuasion Nation. Stories (New York: Riverhead Books, 2006), 13-22.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "My Huckleberry Friend" Y1 - 2002 A1 - Ken Honeywell KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia.

JF - Future Orbits VL - 2.3 (5) UR - http://www.futureorbits.com. ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The New World Disorder: a global network of direct democracy and community currency" Y1 - 2002 A1 - T. R. O. Y. AB -

Winner of The Utopian World Championship 2001. See the title for the position.

UR - http://www.soc.nu/utopian ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Noble Society: Adult Fairy Tales From Another Dimension Y1 - 2002 A1 - [Veronique] [Collignon] KW - Female author AB -

A collection of related stories describing a fantastic eutopia called Bullford, where no money is used and there is no competition. There is added material on the website http://www.novatownsite.org/nova-building-unknown.html. A second volume of stories that includes a section of illustrations in color is Vera Nova [pseud.], The Noble Society of Bullford: The Wonder-World beyond time, space or . . .Np: Outskirts Press, 2018.

PB - Thoughtmill Press CY - Las Vegas, NV N1 -

There is added material on the website http://www.novatownsite.org/nova-building-unknown.html. 

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Melissa Henry [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Notable American Women Y1 - 2002 A1 - Ben Marcus (b. 1967) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Experimental novel which presents a dystopia in which silence is imposed on a family.

PB - Vintage Contemporaries CY - New York N1 -

Parts originally published as “Woman’s Pantomime.” Bomb, no. 69 (Fall 1999): 91-93; “The Faiting Project.” Tin House 1.4 (Spring/Summer 2000), 189-92; “The Launch.” Conjunctions 36 (2001): 167-99; “A Message from the Father of Fathers.” Fence 3.2 (Fall/Winter 2000-2001): 170-81; “The New Female Head.” Harper’s 304.1820 (January 2002): 84-87; “Women’s Pantomime.” The Pushcart Prize 25 (Wainscott, NY: Pushcart Press, 2001), 248-54; “Literary Enhancement Through Food Intake: A Dietary Guideline for Reading.McSweeney’s, no. 5 (2000): 165-74; and “The Name Machine.” McSweeney’s, no. 8 (2002): 77-88. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Omega Expedition Y1 - 2002 A1 - Brian [Michael] Stableford (b. 1948) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Continuation of the setting and issues of 1998 Stableford. See 1998 Stableford, the note there, and 1999, 2000, and 2002 Stableford, Dark Ararat. This volume is a sequel to 2000 Stableford and is about the life of the man who developed the technology that made immensely long life possible.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Onævia Y1 - 2002 A1 - William [John] Direen (b. 1957) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

The history of a simple joyous eutopia destroyed by "civilization". The 2004 edition is substantially revised but tells much the same story. The cover of the 2002 edition describes this as the third volume of his "utopian trilogy" after "Wormwood." Sport (Wellington), no. 18 (Autumn [April] 1997): 53-119; and Nusquama. Auckland, New Zealand: Alpha Books, 2002, neither of which are utopias.

PB - Alpha Books CY - Auckland, New Zealand N1 -

Rev. ed. Waimauku, New Zealand: Titus Books, 2004.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Opium of the People Y1 - 2002 A1 - J. Alan Erwine (b. 1969) KW - Male author AB -

Theocratic fundamentalist dystopia that eliminates personal freedom.

PB - Writers Club Press CY - Lincoln, NB N1 -

Rev. ed. Denver, CO: Nomadic Delirium Press, 2007. This is an expansion of a story first published in Aphelion, no. 37 (July 2000) https://www.aphelion-webzine.com/shorts/2000/07/OpiumOfPeople.htm; and rpt. in his J Alan Erwine’s Tales of Dystopia (Np: [J. Alan Erwine, 2016]), 21-30.

In the 2007 ed. the author says that there were two previous editions with the first edition published by ProMart Publishing “almost a decade ago.” Not found.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Paradise Y1 - 2002 A1 - Tina Shaw (b. 1961) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

Flawed utopia of corporate control. The novel is set in a resort for the rich called Paradise in which everything controlled to ensure their pleasure. The resort has both metaphorical and real snakes.

PB - Penguin Books (NZ) CY - Auckland, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Paradises Lost" Y1 - 2002 A1 - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Includes two societies, both with eutopian elements, on a multi-generation starship. The primary society is the one designed for the people on the starship, as modified by the people themselves. It is explicitly eutopian with an emphasis on "Peace and plenty. Light and warmth. Safety and freedom" (300). But it nearly succumbs to the religious belief of those who conclude there is nothing outside the ship. At the end, the first group begin to build a new society on a planet, while the second choose to travel forever.

JF - The Birthday of the World and Other Stories PB - HarperCollins CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin (New York: Saga Press, 2016), 689-801.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Past Imperfect/Future Perfect?” Y1 - 2002 A1 - Teresa Holmes KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

Series of stories set in futures regarding the past. Generally too brief to do more than suggest some dystopian future. “Seen from the future, the past is viewed as happier, more secure, more pleasant, more friendly than the time in which the characters now live” (223).

JF - Writers of the Future. First Edition. devised by Pipers’ Ash Limited PB - Pipers Ash CY - Chippenham, Wiltshire, Eng.: UR - www.supamasu.com U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Peshawar Lancers Y1 - 2002 A1 - S[tephen] M[ichael] Stirling (b. 1954) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Alternative history novel in which Europe has been destroyed by a meteor shower in 1878 and in 2025 Delhi is the center of the Angrezi Raj (formerly the British Empire). His “Shikiri in Galveston.” Worlds That Weren’t. New York: ROC/New American Library, 2005 is set a bit earlier in the same future.

PB - ROC/New American Library/Penguin Putnam CY - Mew York SN - 0-451-45848-6 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Political Officer" Y1 - 2002 A1 - Charles Coleman Finlay (b. 1964) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set on a spaceship sent out by a patriarchal religious dystopia and emphasizes the divisions among the crew. The sequel “The Political Prisoner.” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 115.2 (675) (August 2008): 44-113. Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twentieth-Sixth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2009), 280-326 with an editor’s introduction on 280 is located on Mars and is primarily concerned with conflicts among the powerful within the dystopia.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 102.4 (605) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Practical Utopia Y1 - 2002 A1 - John C[harles] Marple (b. 1926) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Detailed eutopia stressing equality and democracy from the bottom up.

PB - [Author] CY - [Malahat, BC, Canada] U1 -

Cover adds the subtitle Come Let Us Dream of an Ideal World

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Promised Land” Y1 - 2002 A1 - John M[atthew] Faucette Jr. (1943-2003) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

After the Confederacy wins the Civil war and secedes from the Union, it becomes a successful industrial country and finds slaves an incumbrance. They solve the problem by forcibly marching all the slaves into the western territories, purportedly to settle them on reservation, Instead, they slaughter them all. 

JF - Black Science Fiction Stories PB - Infinity Publishing.com CY - Haverford, PA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Protection" Y1 - 2002 A1 - Tananarive [Priscilla] Due (b. 1966) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Brief dystopia in which the right to have children is strictly limited, which puts those children born at risk from those wanting children.

JF - Femspec VL - 3.2 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Rebel Hearts Y1 - 2002 A1 - Daryl McCann KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Young adult authoritarian dystopia.

PB - University of Queensland Press CY - St. Lucia, QLD, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Redemption of Robert E. Lee” Y1 - 2002 A1 - John M[atthew] Faucette Jr. (1943-2003) KW - African author KW - Male author AB -

After the South wins the Civil War, Robert in Lee plans to end slavery and is willing to start a second Civil War within the Confederate States of America to do so. 

JF - Black Science Fiction Stories PB - Infinity Publishing.com CY - Haverford, PA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Right to Life" Y1 - 2002 A1 - William [Renald] Barton [III] (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the few people who have jobs are generally free to do as they choose but jobless people who commit any crime whatsoever are executed.

JF - Talebones VL - no. 24 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Salt Fish Girl Y1 - 2002 A1 - Larissa Lai (b. 1967) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The novel is set in 19th century China and in a future Pacific Northwest, which is a corporate dystopia.

PB - Thomas Allen CY - Toronto, ON, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Scales of Justice" Y1 - 2002 A1 - John M[atthew] Faucette Jr. (1943-2003) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

The story depicts a new system of justice in which mass murderers are executed, brought back to life, and executed again until executed as many times as the number of people they killed. 

JF - Black Science Fiction Stories PB - Infinity Publishing.com CY - Haverford, PA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Scar Y1 - 2002 A1 - China [Tom] Miéville (b. 1972) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Set in the same world as 2000 Miéville. In this novel, people fleeing New Crobuzon are captured by the piates of the floating dystopian city of Armada, which is made up of thousands of ships, and is planning to invade New Crobuzon. The Scar is a place where reality breaks down. See also 2004 and 2005 Miéville.

PB - Macmillan CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Scheme for Full Employment Y1 - 2002 A1 - Magnus Mills (b. 1954) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on a full employment scheme which collapsed due to internal conflict and because too many, from workers through supervisors, tried to manipulate it for their own benefit.

PB - Flamingo CY - London SN - 0-312-42163-X 0007151322 N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Flamingo, 2003. Rpt. London: Harper Perennial, 2004. 256 pp.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Scrunched Up" Y1 - 2002 A1 - Barton Paul Levenson (b. 1960) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia.

JF - Future Orbits VL - 2.1 UR - http://www.futureorbits.com. ER - TY - ABST T1 - Short Stories and Other Excuses Y1 - 2002 A1 - Ben Coulson KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of death and destruction in related stories.

PB - Vanguard Press CY - Cambridge, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Sink: The Last Days of Driving Y1 - 2002 A1 - W[endell] Messer (b. 1939) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia set in a future Canada where there is a revolt against bad behavior on the roads, which turns Canada into a much better place.

PB - Breller Books CY - Gravenhurst, ON, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Snowball's Chance Y1 - 2002 A1 - John Reed (b. 1969) KW - Male author AB -

Sequel to Orwell's Animal Farm (1945) in which Snowball returns and brings capitalism to Animal Farm, with similar results as in the original.

PB - Roof Books CY - San Francisco, CA ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Social Dreaming of the Frin" Y1 - 2002 A1 - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A short story with both eutopian and dystopian elements describing a world in which everyone experiences the dreams of other people and of animals (animals are not used for food). This creates a “communion of all sentient creatures” (U.S. ed. 88) but also involves a radical questioning of the self. 

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 103.4 & 5 (611) N1 -

Rpt. in her Changing Planes (Orlando, FL: Harcourt, 2003), 76-88. U.K. ed. (London: Gollancz, 2004), 65-75.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Solitaire Y1 - 2002 A1 - Kelley Eskridge (b. 1960) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Corporate dystopia in which a corporation controls a country. Lesbian themes.

PB - Eos CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Son of France Y1 - 2002 A1 - Geoffrey Cush (b. 1956) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Dystopia. An alternative history in which France settled New Zealand. The novel focuses on a French officer who loves the scenery and comes to love a Māori woman. 

PB - Vintage CY - Auckland, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Songs of the Cockroach Y1 - 2002 A1 - Robert Kirby (1936-2007) KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

Satire on a future South Africa with multiple themes and sub-plots but generally concerned with the corruption left over from the apartheid years.

PB - Spearhead/New Africa Books; Johannesburg: [Distributed by] Thorold's Africana Books CY - Claremont, South Africa SN - 9780864865250 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Stories for Men" Y1 - 2002 A1 - John [Joseph Vincent] Kessel (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Set in the same milieu as 2000 Kessel. This story gives more detail regarding the society described in the first story with the emphasis on an abortive male movement for more rights. See 2003, 2006, and 2017 Kessel for other works about the Society of Cousins.

JF - Asimov's Science Fiction VL - 26.10& 11 (321& 322) N1 -

Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2003), 243-301 with an editor’s introduction on 243; in his The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Other Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2008), 85-163; and in his The Dark Ride: The Best Short Fiction of John Kessel (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2022), 199-280, with a note on the story on 570-571.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Super-State: A Novel of a Future Europe Y1 - 2002 A1 - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on the rich and powerful in a future European Union.

PB - Orbit CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Swiftly" Y1 - 2002 A1 - Adam [Charles] Roberts (b. 1965) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which the Lilliputians from Swift's Gulliver's Travels are slaves in a late nineteenth-century Britain, the Brobdingnagians have been hunted, and the Houyhnhnms are for sale. A French invasion led by the Brobdingnagians and with inventions from Laputa ends the system. A related story with the Lilliputians as slaves is his "Eleanor", which was first published in Swiftly (167-247).

JF - SciFiction UR - www.scifi.com/scifiction/ Posted April 3, 2002. No longer available online. N1 -

Rpt. in his Swiftly: Stories That Never Were and Might Not Be (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2004), 1-34.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Tearaway Y1 - 2002 A1 - Phil[lip Neal] Cummings (b. 1957) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Sequel to 2000 Cummings set in the penal colony in which the people struggle successfully to free themselves.

PB - Random House Australia CY - Milson's Point, NSW, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Technogenesis Y1 - 2002 A1 - Syne Mitchell (b. 1970) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which most people are connected to the net at all times, and the protagonist, who becomes disconnected, discovers the poverty and homeless of the "real" world and that those connected to the net are being controlled.

PB - Roc CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Ten Percent Solution: Simple Steps to Improve Our Lives & Our World Y1 - 2002 A1 - Mark Allen KW - Male author AB -

A self-help book that includes a chapter entitled “A Utopian Novel” (29-40) that introduces the theme of the book, which is community involvement. See his The Millionaire Course: A Visionary Plan for Living the Life of Your Dreams. Novato, CA: New World Library, 2003 for a scheme without the social content.

PB - New World Library CY - Novato, CA U5 -

Public

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Time to Run Y1 - 2002 A1 - Colin Hudson KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of the Rapture (see 1 Corinthians 15:52 and 1 Thessalonians 4: 15-17). Compare to 1995 LaHaye and Jenkins.

PB - Rapture Books CY - St. Austell, Cornwall, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Towers of Eden Y1 - 2002 A1 - Ward Kendall KW - Male author AB -

In the future almost all people have been thrown out of work by automation with no plans or programs to deal with the situation. The novel focuses on a "humanitarian" former British army officer who works to provide an alternative to a proposed "final solution". See the note at 2001 Kendall.

PB - iUniverse CY - Lincoln, NB N1 -

Rpt. Np: Alternative Future Publishing, 2012. The 2012 ed. has no indication of an earlier publication.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Transcension Y1 - 2002 A1 - Damien [Francis] Broderick (b. 1944) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Flawed utopia. A supposed utopia based on nanotechnology and ruled by an Artificial Intelligence. Outside the utopia but not necessarily better or worse is a religious community, "the Valley of the God of One's Choice," that has rejected technology. People from both join together and the conclusion suggests that they succeed in creating a eutopia.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Utopia" Y1 - 2002 A1 - Laura Turner KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia brought about by genetic engineering, which destroyed much of the planet and much of the population. The winner of the 2002 Dan Davin Literary Award. The article prints the story.

JF - The Southland Times (New Zealand) (September 20, 2002) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - V.A.O. Y1 - 2002 A1 - Geoff[rey Charles] Ryman (b. 1951) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - UK author KW - US author AB -

V.A.O. stands for Victim Activated Ordinance and includes a variety of mechanisms designed to protect people. The focus of this novella is its use to protect the elderly and its misuse both to control them and by some old people to fight back.

PB - PS Publishing CY - Harrogate, Eng. N1 -

Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2003), 339-366 with an editor’s introduction on 339; in Cities. Ed. Peter Crowther (London: Gollancz, 2003), 247-92; and as "VAO." In his Paradise Tales (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2011), 62-100.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Viaduct Child Y1 - 2002 A1 - Patrick Wood KW - Male author AB -

Young adult authoritarian dystopia. Poverty and violence.

PB - Scholastic Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Waiting for the Zephyr” Y1 - 2002 A1 - Tobias S[amuel] Buckell (b. 1979) ED - Candas Jane Dorsey (b. 1952) ED - Judy Berlyne McCrosky KW - British Virgin Islands author KW - Grenadian author KW - Male author KW - US author KW - US Virgin Islands author AB -

Climate change dystopia. 

JF - Land/Space: An Anthology of Prairie Speculative Fiction PB - Tesseract Books CY - Edmonton, AB, Canada N1 -

Rpt. in Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2008), 101-05. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Watch: Being the unauthorized sequel to Peter A. Kropotkin's MEMOIRS OF A REVOLUTIONIST--as imparted to Dennis Danvers by Ancee Mahur, traveler from a distant planet, or A SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL Y1 - 2002 A1 - Dennis [Howard] Danvers (b. 1947) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The present as dystopia seen through the eyes of one of the greatest anarchist theorists, the novel presents Kropotkin (1842-1921) mostly in Richmond, Virginia in 1999 struggling against the legacy of the Confederacy, particularly regarding class and race. Most chapters have one or more epigrams by Kropotkin, which, collectively, give an overview of his thought. Some have quotations about Kropotkin or relate to the chapter.

PB - Eos CY - New York SN - 0-380-97762-1 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Welcome to the Old South" Y1 - 2002 A1 - John M[atthew] Faucette Jr. (1943-2003) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

A black couple moves from the Northeast to a small town in the South that has decidedly dystopian features. 

JF - Black Science Fiction Stories PB - Infinity Publishing.com CY - Haverford, PA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Wild Girls" Y1 - 2002 A1 - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of wealth and gender dominance in which the men of the city kill those outside the city and steal the children to become their wives. There is a complex set of relations among Crown People, Root People, and Dirt People (who are nomads) that is reflected in political power, economic relations, and the way the groups must marry with, for example, Crown men having to marry Dirt women and Crown women having to marry Root men.

JF - Asimov's Science Fiction VL - 26.3 (314) N1 -

Rev. ed. in her The Wild Girls plus “Staying Awake While We Read” and “A Lovely Art” Outspoken Interview (Oakland, CAL PM Press, 2011), 9-54; and in her The Real and the Unreal. Selected Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin. Volume Two Outer Space, Inner Lands (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2012), 205-38; and in the one volume edition The Real and the Unreal: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin (New York: Saga Press, 2016), 551-87. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Working the Game" Y1 - 2002 A1 - Michael Jasper KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Physical separation of rich and poor. Poor being pushed further down by being replaced with androids.

JF - Future Orbits PB - Prime Books CY - Canton, OH VL - 4 UR - http://www.futureorbits.com N1 -

Rpt. in his Gunning for the Buddha (Canton, OH: Prime Books, 2005), 74-87. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Y: The Last Man Y1 - 2002 A1 - Brian K. Vaughan (b. 1976) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A gendercide kills all men but one, and the graphic novel follows him in search of his lost girlfriend and the cause of the disease.

PB - DC Comics CY - New York VL - 10 vols. N1 -

Originally published as issues 1 - 60 (2002 - 2008.

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Pia [Jasmin] Guerra (Penciller), José Marzán, Jr. (Inker), Zylonol (Colorist), and Clem Robins (Letterer). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Zoner" Y1 - 2002 A1 - Michael Barnette ED - Cecilia Tan (b. 1967) AB -

Dystopian erotica. Corporate control.

JF - Wired Hard 3: Erotica for a Gay Universe PB - Circlet Press CY - Cambridge, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - 2007: A True Story, Waiting to Happen Y1 - 2001 A1 - Robyn Williams KW - Australian author KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Animals revolt against human environmental destruction.

PB - Hodder CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - 2024: A Graphic Novel Y1 - 2001 A1 - Ted [Frederick Theodore] Rall [III] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A modernized, graphic novel redoing of Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.

PB - NBM/Comics Lit CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Abaza: A Modern Encyclopedia. A Novel Y1 - 2001 A1 - Louis Nowra (b. 1950) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

An authoritarian dystopia described in an encyclopedia, which had been put together from the notes and scraps of paper collected in Abaza prison by prisoners hoping to save knowledge of the country in face of the dictatorship's desire to destroy all knowledge of the past.

PB - Picador CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Aftermath: A Novel of Survival Y1 - 2001 A1 - Samuel C. Florman (b. 1925) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe novel exploring the possibility of building a technological eutopia in its aftermath.

PB - Thomas Dunne Books St. Martin's Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - American Empire: Blood and Iron Y1 - 2001 A1 - Harry [Norman] Turtledove (b. 1949) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Alternative history in which North America is divided among the Confederate States of America, the United States of America, the Republic of Quebec, and Occupied Canada in a very fragile peace. Sequels include American Empire: The Center Cannot Hold. New York: Del Rey/Ballantine Books, 2002 [the title is also given as The Center Cannot Hold but the full title is on the title page] in which the North is becoming Socialist after the defeat of the South; and American Empire: The Victorious Opposition. New York: Ballantine Books, 2003 in which the South has become a dictatorship.

PB - Del Rey/Ballantine Books CY - New York U1 -

The title is also given simply as Blood and Iron, but the full title is on the title page.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The American Zone Y1 - 2001 A1 - L[ester] Neil Smith [III] (1946-2021) ED - James Frenkel KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A sequel to 1980 Smith, The Probability Broach, in which refugees from various authoritarian versions of the United States arrive in the Confederacy. Last in the North American Confederacy series, preceded, in publication order, by The Probability Broach (1980); The Venus Belt (1981); Their Majesties' Bucketeers. Illus. New York: Ballantine Books, 1981. 182 pp.; The Nagasaki Vector. New York: Ballantine Books, 1983. 242 pp., neither of which have much to do with the main themes in the series; Tom Paine Maru. New York: Ballantine. 273 pp. Rpt. rev. Rockville, MD: Phoenix Pick, 2009. 222 pp. [An author’s note says that the first edition was badly cut by the publisher and that this version reflects his original intent]; The Gallatin Divergence. New York: Ballantine, 1985. 223 pp.; Brightsuit MacBear. New York: Avon, 1988. 212 pp.; and Taflak Lysandra. New York: Avon, 1988. 230 pp. (1989), in all three of which there are clashes between the Confederacy and the authoritarian Federalists. In the chronology of the series, the volumes are The Probability Broach, The Nagasaki Vector, The American Zone, The Venus Belt, The Gallatin Divergence, Tom Paine Maru, Brightsuit MacBear, Taflak Lysandra, and Their Majesties' Bucketeers.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Among the Imposters Y1 - 2001 A1 - Margaret Peterson Haddix (b. 1964) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult overpopulation dystopia in which each family is limited to two children. Sequel to 1998 Haddix. See also 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006 Haddix. This volume concerns a third child with a false identity hiding among the elite and 2003 Haddix continues his story.

PB - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Red Fox, 2001. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Archangel Protocol Y1 - 2001 A1 - Lyda Morehouse (b. 1967) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The first volume of a series of set in a theocratic dystopia in which everyone has the LINK, an interactive computer implanted. In this volume, cybernetic angels appear who claim to be sent by God, and throughout the series, figures from the Bible appear. Sequels include Fallen Host. New York: Roc/New American Library, 2002, which explores, among other questions, whether AIs have souls. In Messiah Node. New York: Roc/New American Library, 2003, the prophet Elijah appears together with numerous false messiahs. In Apocalypse Array. New York: Roc/New American Library, 2004 Armageddon begins with a female Antichrist. Resurrection Code. New Orleans, LA: Mad Norwegian Press, 2011 is a prequel that gives some background to the rise of the theocracy. Gender stereotypes are challenged throughout but particularly in the last volume. 

PB - New American Library/Roc CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Artie's Angels" Y1 - 2001 A1 - [Catherine Jean Wells] [Dimenstein] (b. 1952) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Post-nuclear war dystopia with a focus on class divisions among the survivors.

JF - Realms of Fantasy VL - 8.2 N1 -

Rpt. in Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2008), 165-75.

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Catherine Wells [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Atlas Y1 - 2001 A1 - Dylan Horrocks (b. 1966) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Graphic novel in which an artist tries to tell the life of another artist who lives and draws in an authoritarian dystopia. Numbers 2 (Montréal, QC, Canada: Drawn & Quarterly, 2005), 1-23; and 3 (Montréal, QC, Canada: Drawn & Quarterly, 2006), unpaged have the subtitle A Life of Emil Kópen. No. 3 ends with “To Be Continued,” but no more was published.

PB - Drawn & Quarterly CY - Montréal, QC, Canada VL - 3 vols. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Blackrose Avenue Y1 - 2001 A1 - Mark [Robert Marky] Shepherd (1961-2011) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of the religious right in power and the fight against it.

PB - Yard Dog Press CY - Alma, AR N1 -

2nd ed. Alma, AR: Yard Dog Press, 2002.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Blue Neon Iris" Y1 - 2001 A1 - Miles Parently KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. A society fixated on replaceable human body parts.

JF - Aurealis (Melbourne, VIC, Australia) VL - no. 27/28 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Bold As Love. A Near Future Fantasy Y1 - 2001 A1 - Gwyneth [Ann] Jones (b. 1952) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The novel takes place against the backdrop of the United Kingdom dissolving back into its constituent units. Northern Ireland is already part of a Federated Ireland. Elements of fantasy. Sequels are Castles Made of Sand (2002), Midnight Lamp (2003), Band of Gypsys (2005), Rainbow Bridge (2006), and The Grasshoppers's Child (2014). A story with the same characters is her “Big Cat.” Interzone, no. 209 (April 2007): 32-40. Rpt. in her Big Cat & Other Stories 2007 - 2019 (Alconbury, Weston, Eng.: Newcon Press, 2019), 7-32. 

PB - Gollancz CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Chains of Freedom (The first book of the Chains Trilogy) Y1 - 2001 A1 - Selina Rosen (b. 1960) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

First volume of a dystopian trilogy that traces a conflict between two interplanetary empires, both of which want to enslave everyone, and the ultimately successful struggle for freedom. Followed by Chains of Destruction (The second book of the Chains Trilogy). Atlanta, GA: Meisha Merlin Publishing, 2002 and Chains of Redemption (The third book of the Chains Trilogy). Alma, AR: Yard Dog Press. 2008. 

PB - Meisha Merlin Publishing CY - Atlanta, GA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Child of Venus Y1 - 2001 A1 - Pamela Sargent (b. 1948) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The third volume of the series that includes her 1986 and 1988 Sargent. This volume focuses on a genetically engineered woman who has to deal with the conflicts of Venus while she and others begin to explore the galaxy. See also 2000 Sargent.

PB - Eos CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Crimson Dawn Y1 - 2001 A1 - Briarley, Derel KW - Male author AB -

Young adult dystopia depicting evil and the return of good.

PB - Paracosmia CY - Newcastle Upon Tyne, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dance of Knives Y1 - 2001 A1 - Donna McMahon (b. 1959) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Post-ecological disaster dystopia set in Vancouver. Tongs, violence. First volume in a series; see also 2010 McMahon. 

PB - Tor CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. Gibsons Landing, BC, Canada: Drowned City Press, 2010.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dark Millennium Y1 - 2001 A1 - Gerald James McManus KW - Male author AB -

The novel follows the life of an ambitious white boy who becomes president of the U.S. with plans to conquer the world and eliminate all non-whites. A world government is created with the protagonist as President of Earth for life with a World Senate composed of other white leaders. Later they will be elected with voting limited to Caucasian college graduates. White women college graduates will be able to vote, but their primary role is defined as producing children. All non-whites and all Caucasians with “defective genes or had IQs below 90” were sterilized. An exception is made for Asians with an IQ over 140, who are not sterilized but are only allowed to reproduce with whites. These policies produce a eutopia by reducing the world’s population, cutting crime dramatically, and improving health and intelligence. See the author’s poem, “Crusade” at http://www.newnation.org/Archives/NNN-Guest-Column-26.html.

PB - CeShore CY - Pittsburgh, PA U1 -

The cover adds the subtitle A Visionary tale.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Delectation Debates" Y1 - 2001 A1 - Renée M. Charles ED - Cecilia Tan (b. 1967) KW - Female author AB -

A future in which heterosexuals are in a minority and the multi-gendered get additional votes.

JF - Sextopia PB - Circlet Press CY - Cambridge, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Ecovillage 2015: Algae, Giant 'Seashells', and Sustainable Culture" Y1 - 2001 A1 - Clearwater, Jeff KW - Male author AB -

Eutopian short story about an ecovillage in the future in which the ecovillage has developed quite a few biologically-based, sustainable technologies, most of which the author says are currently available. Little on daily life.

JF - Communities: Journal of Cooperative Living VL - no. 111 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Emergence Y1 - 2001 A1 - Ray Hammond (b. 1936) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Corporate thriller set in the near future, which has dystopian elements.

PB - Macmillan CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Energized Gold: An Entrepreneurial Adventure in Business Finance Technology Mystery Money People Power & Pleasure. A Novel Y1 - 2001 A1 - David Fischer KW - Male author AB -

Fictional presentation of the author's views on the monetary system and entrepreneurship, which, if followed, will produce a much improved world.

PB - Xlibris CY - [Bloomington, IN] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Event 16. An Original Screenplay. [A Science Fiction Thriller] Based on the original Screenplay 'History' Y1 - 2001 A1 - Derek Pearson (b. 1966) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

No obvious relationship to his 1998 History and is more of a thriller than the other. Includes elements of a contemporary dystopia and the suggestion of a future eutopia.

PB - Author CY - Lower Hutt, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Eyre Affair. A Novel Y1 - 2001 A1 - Jasper Fforde (b. 1961) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The first volume of the alternative history Thursday Next series that has both utopian and dystopia elements throughout the series, which currently includes six additional books. In the world in which Thursday Next, the female protagonist, lives England is a republic, Wales is the independent “Socialist Republic of Wales,” and genetic engineering has brought back extinct species, such as the dodo a Neanderthals. Subsequent volumes are Lost in a Good Book. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2002; US. ed. New York Viking, 2003; The Well of Lost Plots. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2003; US. ed. New York Viking, 2004; and Something Rotten. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2004; US. ed. New York Viking, 2004. Second series: First Among Sequels. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2007; US. ed. New York Viking, 2007; One of Our Thursdays Is Missing. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2011; US. ed. New York Viking, 2011; and The Woman Who Died a Lot. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2012; US. ed. New York Viking, 2012.

PB - Hodder & Stoughton CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Fast Eddie, King of the Bees Y1 - 2001 A1 - Robert Arellano (b. 1969) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future dystopia set in Boston, Massachusetts. Rich-poor division. A street hustler is the hero.

PB - Akashic Books CY - New York U2 -

Illus. Marek Bennett

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Final Fantasy: The Spirits WithinTM Y1 - 2001 A1 - John [Blair] Vornholt [Jr.] (b. 1951) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Mostly adventure and war, but the background is a post-catastrophe earth.

PB - Pocket Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Fire & Ice Y1 - 2001 A1 - Selina Rosen (b. 1960) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A mystery novel with a dystopian background in which all sexual preferences are recorded and regulated in the name of equality, but this produces radical inequality and segregation. The story is told mostly from the lesbian perspective.

PB - Yard Dog Press CY - Alma, AR ER - TY - ABST T1 - Flight from Eden Y1 - 2001 A1 - Kathryn A. Graham KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia. Authoritarian dictatorship and the struggle against it.

PB - Writer's Showcase CY - Lincoln, NE U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Frankenberg Process" Y1 - 2001 A1 - Eric Brown (1960-2023) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia. Complete control of history with all record of those who get on the wrong side of the authorities deleted. The story stresses the betrayal of friends by those committed to the system.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Fray Y1 - 2001 A1 - Joss Whedon (b. 1964) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The author created and wrote Buffy the Vampire series, and in some senses this is a grittier version of that set in a future Manhattan dystopia inhabited by vampires and various monsters and mutants. Rich versus poor with no one caring about the people of the slums. Young girl from the slums saves the day.

PB - Dark Horse Comics CY - Milwaukie, OR U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Free Lunch Y1 - 2001 A1 - Spider Robinson (b. 1948) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia with a eutopian amusement park and the effort to save it. 

PB - Tor CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Futureland Y1 - 2001 A1 - Walter [Ellis] Mosley (b. 1952) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

Nine related stories set in a future dystopia. Of the stories, Whispers in the Dark,” “Doctor Kismet,” “Angel’s Island,” “Little Brother,” “En Masse,” and “The Nig in Me” are the most explicitly dystopian, and in all of them African Americans and the poor are the oppressed. 

PB - Aspect/Warner Books CY - New York U1 -

The dust jacket adds the subtitle Nine Stories of an Imminent World.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Galton Principle” Y1 - 2001 A1 - J. Alan Erwine (b. 1969) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A dystopia in which the ideas of Francis Galton (1822-1911), who coined the word eugenics, have led to a totalitarian system in which anyone who does not meet the regimes genetic standards is sterilized or killed.

JF - J Alan Erwine’s Tales of Dystopia PB - [J. Alan Erwine] CY - Np SN - 9781534701649 N1 -

Originally published in The Stars* Anthology (March 2001). Not found.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Gamekeeper's Night Dog Y1 - 2001 A1 - Dave Putnam KW - Male author AB -

First volume in an alternative history series in which Britain wins the Boer War, which sets the stage for the development of the dystopia in the later volumes. The first three volumes constitute his Gamekeeper Trilogy. In the second volume, The World War. Woodside, CA: Bulldog Press, 2004, Britain invades Germany, Russia and other countries. In the third volume, 10 Downing Street. Woodside, CA: Bulldog Press, 2004, Britain dominates the world, but there is a conflict between monopoly capitalism and communism. Britain Uber Alles. Woodside, CA: Bulldog Press, 2006, the fourth volume, is a sequel to the trilogy set in the twenty-eighth century. Britain has dominated the world for centuries but war looms again. It ends with “To Be Continued,” but there is no evidence that it was.

PB - Bulldog Press CY - Woodside, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Gardener of Stars Y1 - 2001 A1 - Carla Harryman (b. 1952) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

An experimental novel exploring "the paradise and wastelands of utopian desire."

PB - Atelos CY - Berkeley, CA N1 -

Chapters were originally published as “from Gardener of Stars.” Hambone, no. 15 (Fall 2000): 73-82; as “from Gardener of Stars (A Novel.” Shiny Magazine, no. 9/10 (1999): 193-200; and in The World, Jacket, Salt, LVNG, and The Detroit Metro Times.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Generica Y1 - 2001 A1 - Will [William Stener] Ferguson (b. 1964) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Satire. A self-help book that actually works is published and brings too much happiness.

PB - Penguin Books Canada CY - Toronto, ON, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Good Place to Raise a Boy" Y1 - 2001 A1 - Aidan Doyle KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. A complex story of colonization by humans who have forgotten their own past of gender and racial discrimination.

JF - Orb Speculative Fiction (South Preston, VIC, Australia) VL - no. 2 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Gray's Anatomy Y1 - 2001 A1 - Rachel Armstrong KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The novel satirically explores various issues (sex and gender, the media, power, etc.) through contact among alien societies and with humans. Although one alien society (the telepathic Grays) is eutopian initially, it is negatively affected by the alien contact.

PB - Serpent's Tail CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Green England" Y1 - 2001 A1 - David Redd (b. 1946) KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

Sequel to 1989 Redd concerning contact between Green England and the U.S. 

JF - Spectrum VL - 7 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Green Music Y1 - 2001 A1 - Ursula Pflug (b. 1958) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - Tunisian author AB -

An odd magic realist novel set in Toronto and an alternative Toronto called Marina, which is also the name of the main protagonist, accessed through a painting by Susan, Marina’s partner. It is a paradise with people who had drowned in the other world.

PB - Tesseract Books an Imprint of The Book Collective CY - [Edmonton, Alberta, Canada] SN - 978-1-895836-77-8 N1 -

Three chapters were previously published “in slightly different form”: Chapter One “Turtleness.” Quarry 35.3 (Summer 1986): 18-20. Chapter Two “Jack and Luna” as “The Turtle and the Moon.” Illus. by the author. Now 4, no. 29 (March 28, 1985): 21. https://nowtoronto.pressreader.com/now-magazine/19850328. Chapter Fourteen “Telepathic Fish.” Leviathan I: Into the Grey. Ed. Luke O'Grady & Jeff VanderMeer (Tallahassee, FL: Ministry of Whimsy Press, 1996), 67-80.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Halcyon Revolution Y1 - 2001 A1 - Will Edwinson KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of secession and civil war in the U.S.

PB - Femcor Press CY - Pocatello, ID U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Heaven Study and Lounge Book of Utopia Y1 - 2001 A1 - David Seedhouse KW - Male author AB -

A letter from the author accompanying the disk describes it as a eutopia, but the British Library does not have a program that will open the disk.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hold Back This Day Y1 - 2001 A1 - Ward Kendall KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of required miscegenation. The author is described as a "pro-white activist", and the book has been called "The White man's 1984".

PB - iUniverse CY - Lincoln, NB U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Hope of Cinnamon" Y1 - 2001 A1 - M. Christian ED - Cecilia Tan (b. 1967) AB -

Gay male flawed utopia.

JF - Sextopia PB - Circlet Press CY - Cambridge, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Human Stock Y1 - 2001 A1 - Vaughan Whitlock (b. 1950) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. A post-catastrophe novel in which women dominate men and create a slave society of clones. Revolt.

PB - Sid Harta Publishers CY - Hartwell, VIC, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ice Y1 - 2001 A1 - Stephen Bowkett (b. 1953) KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

The young adult novel, which takes place in a future ice age, is set in a flawed utopia called Perth controlled by an artificial intelligence known as the All Mother. The protagonist finds the place oppressive and in the sequels, Storm [The Wintering at the head of the title]. London: Dolphin Paperbacks, 2002, and Thaw [The Wintering at the head of the title]. London: Dolphin Paperbacks, 2003, he escapes and finds freedom in an extremely harsh world. In the third volume he returns to Perth to defeat the All Mother. 

PB - Dolphin Paperbacks CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Kalik Y1 - 2001 A1 - Jack [Millen] Lasenby (1931-2019) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Fourth volume of a series. In this volume, the young man and a small group, mostly children, find a valley where they hope they will be able to establish a small farming community. See also 1997, 1999 and 2001 Lasenby.

PB - Longacre Press CY - Dunedin, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Kingdom Y1 - 2001 A1 - Christopher A. Zackey (b. 1949) KW - Male author AB -

Part fantasy, part religious allegory. After a future catastrophe all humans and elves disappear and animals are able to speak. The animals create a eutopia for themselves that is described as that after the end of the New Testament.

PB - The Rose & Lily Press CY - Clinton, NY ER - TY - ABST T1 - Kingdom of Cages Y1 - 2001 A1 - Sarah [Anne] Zettel (b. 1966) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia. Environmental collapse and disease on most planets. One, Pandora, had a functioning ecosystem and a small genetically controlled population. Fanaticism, conflict between Pandora and other planets.

PB - Warner Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Kingdom of Darkness: An Investigation into the Systematic Erosion of the Human Spirit Y1 - 2001 A1 - Michael Salt KW - Male author AB -

Near future dystopia brought about by Thatcherite [Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013) UK Prime Minister 1979-90)] policies.

PB - Book Guild CY - Lewes, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Human Spring. Silent Spring II, Origin of Species II, Walden III, Nurturome I Vs. Genome: Breakthroughs! Y1 - 2001 A1 - Heatherly, L.S KW - US author AB -

New Age environmental eutopia.

PB - Nature-Human Society CY - Phoenix, AZ N1 -

Rev. as The Last Human Spring. Silent Spring II, Origin of Species II, Walden III, Nurturome I Vs. Genome: Breakthroughs! Phoenix, AZ: Nature-Human Society and [Bloomington, IN]: Xlibris, 2002. Except for the title and some minor changes throughout, the texts are the same. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Jet-Engine Laugh Y1 - 2001 A1 - Ruchir Joshi (b. 1960) KW - Indian author KW - Male author AB -

The novel is set in a future India that is developing as a military superpower, but the focus is on the relations among the characters rather than on the society.

PB - Harper Collins India CY - Noida, UP, India N1 -

Rpt. London: Flamingo, 2001. [Book jacket adds India 1930-2030: A Novel]. Part was originally published in Civil Lines (Delhi, India).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Underclass Y1 - 2001 A1 - Dean Warren KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia set in 2152 where AI have taken over many jobs. Genetic engineering controlled by the wealthy, known as Achievers, who plan to transplant the personalities of the wealthy aged into the improved bodies of the poor, known as “Welfies”.

PB - Xlibris CY - [Bloomington, IN] SN - 1-4010-2416-5 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Law, In Its Majestic Equality . . ." Y1 - 2001 A1 - Mary Catelli KW - Female author AB -

Satire on legal systems and economic status on the Earth and the Moon.

JF - Absolute Magnitude Science Fiction VL - no. 17 ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Legend of New Earth Y1 - 2001 A1 - Lee [John] Harding (1937-2023) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia with problems. Children's book. After earth was destroyed, humans settled Venus. Primitive but good life, but the cities dominate the countryside for the benefit of the rulers.

PB - Australian Broadcasting Commission CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Man Over Mind: Control of the galaxy rests with the Minds--until one man rises against them Y1 - 2001 A1 - Dean Warren KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Mostly space opera but the focus is a fight against the dystopia created by those who control the galaxy.

PB - Xlibris CY - [Bloomington, IN] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mappa Mundi Y1 - 2001 A1 - Justina [Louise Alice] Robson (b. 1968) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Mostly a science fiction adventure novel/thriller, but the invention central to the action leads to a eutopia/dystopia in which people can program their own perceptions and modify themselves and their relations with "reality", which can be dystopian. A related story is "The Girl Hero's Mirror Says He's Not the One." Fast Forward: Future Fiction from the Cutting Edge. Ed. Lou Anders (Amherst, NY: Pyr, 2007), 41-54. PSt

PB - Macmillan CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Marcher" Y1 - 2001 A1 - Chris Beckett (b. 1955) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A story in which there are various time lines that people can switch through. The one in which the story is set has interned all its welfare cases in large, isolated camps. A non-utopian sequel is "Watching the Sea." Interzone, no. 173 (November 2001): 40-45.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 172 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Megiddo Y1 - 2001 A1 - Paul Crouch (1934-2013) A1 - Cyhthia Cirile KW - Female author KW - Male author AB -

The story of the Antichrist and Armageddon.

PB - Charisma® House CY - Lake Mary, FL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Memoirs of the Future Y1 - 2001 A1 - Eduard Prugovecki (1937-2003) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Contrasting eutopia and dystopia set 350 years in the future. The eutopia is Terra, which has no government, operates on the basis of local decision-making, and uses an advanced internet for coordination. The dystopia, the Free World Federation (FWF), is an all-encompassing government that uses an advanced internet to monitor and control people. See also 2002 Prugovecki.

PB - Cross Cultural Publications CY - Notre Dame, IN U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mortal Engines Y1 - 2001 A1 - Philip Reeve (b. 1966) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. First volume of four young adult novels set in a future of “urban Darwinism” in which roving cities compete for survival and dominance. Sequels are Predator’s Gold. London: Scholastic Children’s Books, 2003. U.S. ed. New York: Eos, 2003; Infernal Devices. London: Scholastic Children’s Books, 2005. U.S. ed. New York: Eos, 2005; and A Darkling Plain. London: Scholastic Children’s Books, 2006. U.S. ed. New York: Eos, 2006. A collection of three related stories is Reeve, Night Flights. Illus. Ian McCue. Nw York: Scholastic, 2018. For an illustrated guide to the four novels, see Reeve and Jeremy Levett, The Illustrated World of Mortal Engines. Illus. London: Scholastic UK, 2018. See 2009 Reeve, Fever Crumb for the first volume of a series that is a prequel to this series. A film directed by Christian Rivers with a screenplay by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, and Peter Jackson released in December 2018.

PB - Scholastic Press CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Eos, 2003.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "New York's Transportation Future Is Coming Tomorrow. 1925 travels to 1950, and boggles" Y1 - 2001 A1 - Bruce McCall (b. 1935) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on future transportation taking some ideas from 1925 and placing them in a eutopian 1950 New York. Illustrations with captions.

JF - The New Yorker VL - 77.1 U2 -

Illustrations with captions.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Noughts and Crosses Y1 - 2001 A1 - [Oneta] Malorie Blackman (b. 1962) KW - English author AB -

Noughts, who are considered inferior and suppressed. The novel concerns a young couple who fall in love across this divide. Sequels include An Eye for an Eye. London: Corgi Books, 2003, which is a short piece originally published for World Book Day 2003 set in a time between her 2001 Noughts & Crosses and 2004 Knife Edge.  Rpt. in her Noughts & Crosses Special New Edition including An Eye for an Eye (London: Corgi Books, 2007), 447-78; Knife Edge. London: Doubleday,2004. U.S. ed. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2007; and Checkmate. London: Doubleday, 2005.

PB - Doubleday CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in her Noughts & Crosses Special New Edition including An Eye for an Eye (London: Corgi Books, 2007), 7-443.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Old Soldiers" Y1 - 2001 A1 - Kit [Lilian Craig] Reed (1932-2017) ED - Keith Brooks ED - Nick Gevers KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian senior citizens home where the quality of care depends on the wealth of the resident, which reflects the reality of such homes today. The story, though, is primarily concerned with an old soldier remembering the war and wanting answers.

JF - Infinity Plus One PB - PS Publishing CY - Leeds, Eng. N1 -

Rpt. in her The Dogs of Truth: New and Uncollected Stories (New York: Tor, 2005), 158-77; and in her The Story Until Now: A Great Big Book of Stories (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2013), 311-25. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Paradigm of Earth Y1 - 2001 A1 - Candas Jane Dorsey (b. 1952) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

The background to a first contact story is an extrapolation into the near future of a right-wing Canada that is mildly dystopian but growing worse. Described as “The revolution of the haves against the have nots” (121). Also presents an egalitarian eutopia in a communal setting with humans and aliens.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Park Polar Y1 - 2001 A1 - Adam [Charles] Roberts (b. 1965) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Ecological and corporate dystopia.

PB - PS Publishing CY - Leeds, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pax Femina (Peace Under Feminine Rule) Y1 - 2001 A1 - R. J Cantwell (b. 1936) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

First volume of the Pax Femina series. See also 1993 Cantwell and 2000 Cantwell Pax Femina Series: Book III. The Kinslow EffectPax Femina Series: Book IV. Pax Humana, and Pax Femina Series: Book V. The Titan Colony. This volume begins after a global war when the International Organization of Women declares female superiority and a women’s revolution.

PB - Xlibris CY - [Bloomington, IN] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Perdita Y1 - 2001 A1 - Arwen Spicer (b. 1975) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Strongly pro- and anti-technology forces on a eutopian planet. Includes a list of the principal characters by group [(iv)], rules for the pronunciation of the languages of the planet ([v]), and a map of the planet ([vi]). 

PB - Wooded Hill Press CY - Glen Ellen, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Perfect Persecution. A Novel Y1 - 2001 A1 - J[ames] R[aymond] Lucas KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia from a Christian, anti-abortion viewpoint. Abortion is common and an underground Christian movement rescues babies and fights abortion.

PB - Broadman & Holman CY - Nashville, TN U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Pickup Artist Y1 - 2001 A1 - Terry [Ballantine] Bisson (1942-2024) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which artists, novelists, and other creative people are eliminated from the historical record, and all their works are picked up and destroyed. This is ostensibly to make room for new works.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Queen of Hearts" Y1 - 2001 A1 - Dominic Green (b. 1967) KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Satire. The dystopia created by the worship of Princess Diana (1961-97).

JF - Interzone VL - no. 173 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Realtime Y1 - 2001 A1 - Mark W. Tiedemann (b. 1954) KW - Male author AB -

Dystopian mystery novel set in 2050 when the U.S. has disintegrated.

PB - ibooks CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Red Heart Y1 - 2001 A1 - Victor [Michael Kitchener] Kelleher (b. 1939) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

Children’s dystopia set in the aftermath of global warming.

PB - Viking CY - Ringwood, VIC, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Requiem Y1 - 2001 A1 - Curtis White (b. 1951) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A dystopia showing the course of humanity from the Bible to the digital age, with some future projection.

PB - Dalkey Archive Press CY - Normal, IL N1 -

Parts first published in Alt-X, Cyber CorpseNY Press, and McSweeney's.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ritual of Proof Y1 - 2001 A1 - Dara Joy KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Romance novel set in a society in which women dominate.

PB - William Morrow CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Scape-grace" Y1 - 2001 A1 - [Rowena Cory] [Lindquist] (b. 1958) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

A flawed utopia in which a society damages a person as a symbol of human troubles.

JF - Aurealis (Melbourne, VIC, Australia) VL - no. 27/28 U3 -

Cory Daniells [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Scorch Y1 - 2001 A1 - A. D. Nauman KW - Female author AB -

Free market dystopia in which the U.S. government has been replaced by huge corporations.

PB - Soft Skull Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Second Contact Y1 - 2001 A1 - [Joshua A.] [Dann] (b. 1956) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Earth contacts a planet inhabited by people very like themselves who have created a eutopia based on unlimited power.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York U3 -

J. D. Austin [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Sex With an Alien" Y1 - 2001 A1 - Lori Ann White KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia or flawed utopia from different points of view within the story. The collapse of the world economy and ecosystem led to the recreation of past small town life as a supposed eutopia. The reality is that political leaders have had greater sexual access to create particularly beautiful women. The "aliens" are real women with less than perfect bodies.

JF - Neverworlds UR - (www.neverworlds.com) (July 2001) N1 -

Rpt. in Best of the Rest 3: The Best Unknown Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2001. Ed. Brian Youmans (Boston, MA: Suddenly Press, 2002), 137-50 with an author's note on 136.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Skullier Than the Average Bod" Y1 - 2001 A1 - Christopher East KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. People given enhanced bodies in exchange for reduced intelligence.

JF - Challenging Destiny VL - no. 13 N1 -

Rpt. in Best of the Rest 3: The Best Unknown Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2001. Ed. Brian Youmans (Boston, MA: Suddenly Press, 2002), 31-41 with an author's note on 30.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Song of Earth Y1 - 2001 A1 - Hugh Nissenson (1933-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A novel set in the future that follows the life of a boy who is genetically enhanced to be an artist, a few others so enhanced, his family and friends, and those who wish to exploit his talents. The setting is generally dystopian with a struggle between men and women; most of the main characters are gay.

PB - Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill CY - Chapel Hill, NC U2 -

Illus. by the author.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Soul Twin Y1 - 2001 A1 - BoB B. Howson KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia set in East Africa in 2100. Conflicts that are continuations of those of the late twentieth century. The possibility of a eutopian future is held out at the end.

PB - Bastard Books CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Starpeople: Mankind Gets a Second Chance: The Sirian Redemption Y1 - 2001 A1 - Linda Tuck-Jenkins KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia of the present situation but holds out hope for the eutopia to come. The ancestors of the human race came from the stars and such people are returning again to allow humans to correct their past mistakes.

PB - Inspirational Fiction CY - New Smyrna Beach, FL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Subs" Y1 - 2001 A1 - Lauren Halkon (b. 1973) KW - Female author KW - UK author AB -

Dystopia in which everyone is programmed from birth. “Subs” is the abbreviation for subversives or those that the programing fails to control. 

JF - Albedo (Dublin, Ireland) VL - no. 24 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Technolife 2020: A Day in the World of Tomorrow Y1 - 2001 A1 - Lois Gresh (b. 1956) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Humor and satire on the technologically "enhanced" life of the future.

PB - ECW Press CY - Toronto, ON, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Terra Farma Y1 - 2001 A1 - Gillian [Margaret] Rubinstein (b. 1942) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Sequel to the 2001 rev. ed. of her 1992 Galax-Arena in which some children have escaped from Galax-Arena. In trying to help other children, they get captured and taken to Terra-Farma, a cloning facility, which the ultimately managed to destroy. A third volume, Universercus, was planned but does not appear to have been published. 

PB - Viking Australia CY - Ringwood, VIC, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - This Side of Paradise Y1 - 2001 A1 - Steven L. Layne KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia. The Village of Paradise, operated by the Eden Corporation, is actually an authoritarian dystopia where the rage for perfection brings a high price.  See Paradise Lost. Gretna, IL: Pelican Publishing Co., 2011 for a sequel. 

PB - North Star Books CY - St. Charles, IL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Timebroker Y1 - 2001 A1 - Nan Weizenbaum KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia in which the life force can be drained from one person to give immortality to another. Political novel about the Chronogen's (the drained) fight for rights and better compensation.

PB - Xlibris CY - [Bloomington, IN] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "To Love and Riot" Y1 - 2001 A1 - Eric Del Carlo ED - Cecilia Tan (b. 1967) KW - Male author AB -

Story with the somewhat implausible assumption that the perfect bodies created in the future will not have regular sexual outlets and will periodically riot. This requires a squad of sexual experts to quell the rioters by having intercourse with them.

JF - Sextopia PB - Circlet Press CY - Cambridge, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Trench and Beyond Y1 - 2001 A1 - Ken Rowe KW - Male author AB -

Young adult dystopia. Environmental catastrophe in 2013. People live in cities under water and in isolated spots around the earth, often in caves. Visits to other mentally advanced planets.

PB - Minerva CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Turning on the Girls Y1 - 2001 A1 - Cheryl Benard (b. 1953) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Satire in which women create a feminist eutopia, but there is an underground men's movement trying to overthrow it.

PB - Farrar, Straus and Giroux CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ultraviolet Y1 - 2001 A1 - Lesley Howarth (b. 1952) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult dystopia of a society living underground as a result of becoming too hot and most people spending most of their time in virtual reality. One girl undertakes a quest to go outside.

PB - Puffin Books CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Under the Saffron Tree" Y1 - 2001 A1 - Cherith Baldry KW - Female author KW - UK author AB -

Eutopia brought about by a virus that eliminates aggression as well as maintaining good health. Simple life.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 166 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Undone" Y1 - 2001 A1 - James Patrick Kelly (b. 1951) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Two conflicting utopias are presented, one stressing individuality and the other, called the Utopians, stressing social solidarity.

JF - Asimov's Science Fiction VL - 25.6 N1 -

Rpt. in Science Fiction: The Best of 2001. Ed. Robert Silverberg and Karen Haber (New York: ibooks, 2002), 1-50.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Utopia Closes. A Novel" Y1 - 2001 A1 - Fin Keegan KW - Irish author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia. Ireland renamed Hibernia and is a police state.

PB - MFA thesis. Columbia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Velderet Y1 - 2001 A1 - Cecilia Tan (b. 1967) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A sado-masochistic novel that begins in a eutopia and moves to a conflict in which s/m saves the day.

PB - Circlet Press CY - Cambridge, MA N1 -

The first six of the twelve chapters were published serially in Taste of Latex, nos. 10 - 15 (1995-97).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Vile Village Y1 - 2001 A1 - [Daniel] [Handler] (b. 1970) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian children's book. Volume 7 of A Series of Unfortunate Events. The vile village is the rule-ridden V.F.D. (The Village of Fowl Devotees), which abducts some children (on the principle that "it takes a village to raise a child") and then requires the children to do all of the work of the village.

PB - HarperCollins CY - New York U3 -

Lemony Snicket [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “What Weena Knew” Y1 - 2001 A1 - James Van Pelt (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A story about Weena from H. G. Wells’s The Time Machine. In the story Weena is a rare intelligent, inquisitive Eloi.

JF - Analog Science Fiction and Fact VL - 124.4 SN - 1059-2113 N1 -

Rpt. without the illus. in his Strangers and Beggars (Auburn, WA: Fairwood Press, 2002), 166-80; and without the illus. in The Best of James Van Pelt (Bonney Lake, WA: Fairwood Press, 2020), 200-14.

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Illus. Todd Cameron Hamilton

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “When the World is All on Fire” Y1 - 2001 A1 - William Sanders (1942-2017) KW - Male author KW - Native American author AB -

Dystopia of conflict between whites and Indians during a period of a rapidly growing white population and an environmental collapse. 

JF - Asimov's Science Fiction VL - 25.10 & 11 (309 & 310) N1 -

Rpt. in Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction. Ed. Grace Dillon (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2012), 149-70, with an editor’s note on 149-51, 247.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Whole Wide World Y1 - 2001 A1 - Paul J[ames] McAuley (b. 1955) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A mystery novel with a dystopian future of constant surveillance on both the streets and the internet as the background.

PB - HarperCollins CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Tor, 2002.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Yes--Utopia!--we have the technology Y1 - 2001 A1 - Ron Cook KW - Male author AB -

Detailed The eutopia that can be achieved if capitalism is abolished. All goods free to everyone means that peoples’ wants will change and people will choose to have fewer possessions. Less need to work and more leisure with extensive travel.

PB - Author CY - West Bromwich, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - 2037 NZ: One Hell of a Paradise Y1 - 2000 A1 - Carl Hoffmann (b. 1922) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Austrian author KW - Male author AB -

New Zealand as a eutopia in 2037 in which everyone has a basic income and works at what they enjoy. Open immigration to age 45 with good health and skills designed to raise population to make the country more viable economically. Some problems, such as bored teenagers, are noted.

PB - R S V P Publishing CY - Ponsonby, Auckland, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - 2084 Y1 - 2000 A1 - Howard [E.] Carmichael KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of the U.S. in 2084 where feminism and an intrusive government conditions all aspects of life.

PB - 1st Books Library CY - Bloomington IN ER - TY - ABST T1 - 2084: The Year of the Liberal Y1 - 2000 A1 - David L. Hale KW - Male author AB -

Fairland is a supposedly liberal eutopia that is actually a dystopia with a woman as dictator. See 2003 Hale for a sequel.

PB - Elderberry Press CY - Oakland, OR U1 -

The cover adds A Satire.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Angry Young Spaceman Y1 - 2000 A1 - Jim Munroe (b. 1972) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Set in 2959. An authoritarian earth is contrasted with a eutopia inhabited by eight-armed beings.

PB - No Media Kings CY - Toronto, ON, Canada U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Appendix. Edilia, or 'Make of it what you will'" Y1 - 2000 A1 - David [W.] Harvey (b. 1933) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Appendix to his book on the power of the utopian imagination in which he sketches out his own utopian vision. The collapse of the world economy is followed by a period of harsh repression by the military and a revolution. After the revolution a eutopian society is created centered on a federal system that begins at the "hearth" or a small collective living arrangement. Environmentally conscious but using new technologies where possible. For a design research project inspired by Edilia, see Ifea Troiani, “Eco-topia: ‘Living with Nature’ in Edilia, Iceland.” Illus. Journal of Architectural Education 67.1 (2013): 96-105. https://doi.org/10.1080/10464883.2013.767129.

JF - Spaces of Hope PB - Edinburgh University Press CY - Edinburgh, Scot. N1 -

U.S. ed. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000), 257-81.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Aquarius Rising Y1 - 2000 A1 - John Bown (b. 1924) KW - Male author AB -

Satire on a future corporate controlled U.K. set in 2030. The focus of the novel is on the opposition.

PB - Hamilton CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "As the Angels in Heaven" Y1 - 2000 A1 - Maya Kaathryn Bonhhoff (b. 1954) ED - Cecilia Tan (b. 1967) KW - Female author AB -

A future in which sex between husbands and wives is unacceptable; each has a sexual partner who may or may not be shared with others.

JF - Sexcrime: Tales of Underground Love and Subversive Erotica PB - Circlet Press CY - Cambridge, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "At Bud Light Old Faithful" Y1 - 2000 A1 - M[ichael] Shayne Bell (b. 1957) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on the commercialization of national parks.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 152 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - ATM Y1 - 2000 A1 - Matthew Fuller KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a collapsed future Britain.

PB - ShaKe Editions CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Auspicious Eggs" Y1 - 2000 A1 - James [Kenneth] Morrow (b. 1947) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on the Roman Catholic Church, which practices the Sacrament of Terminal Baptism (killing those incapable of reproducing) and requires everyone to copulate when most fertile. The church has a copulatorium that is used for the Sacrament of Extramarital Intercourse with anyone who is fertile if one's partner is not.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 99.4 & 5 (589) N1 -

Rpt. in Witpunk. Ed. Claude Lalumière and Marty Halpern (New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 2003), 26-49; in his The Cat’s Pajama’s & Other Stories (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon Publications, 2004), 111-32; in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 161-78; 2nd ed. as Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 161-78; in his Reality by Other Means: The Best Short Fiction of James Morrow (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 202-21. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Automatic Living Y1 - 2000 A1 - Outhwaite, Paul KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of the New Right in which people are controlled by the media and law.

PB - DM Publications CY - Middlesborough, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Bad Dream" Y1 - 2000 A1 - [Sam] [Youd] (1922-2012) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of the European Union in twenty years still dealing with British nationalism, with Britain fighting for and winning independence.

JF - Spectrum SF VL - 4 - 6 U3 -

John Christopher [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Bergonia" Y1 - 2000 AB -

Detailed democratic socialist eutopia.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Better Job" Y1 - 2000 A1 - Edward [Falaise] Upward (1903-2009) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. A new Garden City, much more radical and egalitarian than the previous ones, is established in defiance of the government of Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013. U.K. Prime Minister 1979-90).

JF - The Coming Day and Other Stories PB - Enitharmon Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Bikini Planet Y1 - 2000 A1 - David [S.] Garnett (b. 1947) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire. Mostly dystopian with the standard naive visitor from our day to the future, but there are some eutopian possibilities suggested. A sequel is Space Wasters. London: Orbit, 2001. 339 pp., and it begins in what appears to be a paradise in which the protagonist makes the mistake of finding it boring and hopes something happens. The rest is mostly intrigue and adventure.

PB - Orbit CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Blind Assassin Y1 - 2000 A1 - Margaret [Eleanor] Atwood (b. 1939) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

In a novel focusing on a family history two stories are told, one intermittently throughout the novel and one in a few brief sections. The first is a dystopia describing an authoritarian country on another planet and its institutions, particularly those around the sacrifice of virgins. The second is a male fantasy flawed eutopia which the men find fades over time.

PB - Bloomsbury CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Breakaway Y1 - 2000 A1 - Phil[lip Neal] Cummings (b. 1957) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Young adult dystopia divided between those who live in the Towers and street people. The novel focuses on a boy who has to leave the Towers and join a street gang when his father is arrested. This results in both he and his father being sent to a penal colony in space. See also 2002 Cummings. 

PB - Random House Australia CY - Milson's Point, NSW, Australia U5 -

VMU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - But n Ben A-Go-Go Y1 - 2000 A1 - Matthew Fitt (b. 1968) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Future dystopian Scotland. An excerpt from a forthcoming sequel to be called Kaledonika, was published as "Criggie." Nova Scotia: New Scottish Speculative Fiction. Ed. Neil Williamson and Andrew J. Wilson (Edinburgh, Scot.: Crescent Press, 2005), 191-99. Written in Scottish dialect.

PB - Luath Press CY - Edinburgh, Scot. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Candle Y1 - 2000 A1 - John [Allen] Barnes (b. 1957) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future dystopia in which almost every person is controlled by a central computer, with control relaxing at the end and the end of the novel. Develops from his Orbital Resonance. New York: Tor, 1991; and Kaleidoscope Century. New York: Tor, 1995.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Cold Dish" Y1 - 2000 A1 - Lisa Tuttle (b. 1952) KW - Female author KW - UK author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which sex outside of marriage is outlawed and women are punished by being forced to have babies.

JF - SciFiction UR - www.scifi.com/scifiction/ N1 -

Rpt. in Interzone, no. 172 (October 2001): 17-21.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Collapsium Y1 - 2000 A1 - Wil[lliam Terence] McCarthy (b. 1966) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia. First volume of four set in the far future "Queendom of Sol" where technology has provided immortality and riches. The second volume (see 2003 McCarthy) is the most explicitly utopian of the volumes. The third and fourth volumes, Lost in Transmission (New York: Random House, 2004) and To Crush the Moon: Being the Final Volume in the History of the Queendom of Sol (New York: Random House, 2005) record the disintegration of any hope of a good life as the problems of immortality grow.

PB - Random House CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Victor Gollancz, 2000.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Colony Fleet Y1 - 2000 A1 - Susan R. Matthews (b. 1952) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Multiple generation space ship has a complex class structure which begins to break down, as does the ship.

PB - Avon Eos CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Coming Day" Y1 - 2000 A1 - Edward [Falaise] Upward (1903-2009) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A dystopia presented through a number of episodes that illustrate corporate and political corruption.

JF - The Coming Day and Other Stories PB - Enitharmon Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Crescent City Rhapsody Y1 - 2000 A1 - Kathleen Ann Goonan (1952-2021) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe authoritarian, right-wing dystopia in the U.S. set in a world where nanotechnology and genetic engineering are out of control and provide the possibility for both better and worse futures. Aliens destroy Earth electronics and build the nanotechnology-based Crescent City to take humans off the dystopian Earth. Related to 1994, 1997, and 2002 Goonan. 

PB - Avon Eos CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Cyberskin Y1 - 2000 A1 - Paul [A.] Collins (b. 1954) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Cyberpunk dystopia. 

PB - Hybrid Publishers CY - Melbourne, VIC, Australia ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Dear Nestor: A Letter from 2050” Y1 - 2000 A1 - William Douglass KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia in a letter from a twelve year old boy living in Bangladesh, which is part of the South Asian Block of nations, in a high tech future. The U.S. is a member of the North American Trading Block, and power now resides in these blocks rather than in the individual countries; e.g. the U.S. President is largely a ceremonial position. The U.S. is somewhat backward in that it still requires human pilots on airplanes. There is a tunnel from Miami to Habana, Cuba. Genes are implanted to keep a child from developing cancer or HIV and to slow the aging process and increase intelligence. Trial marriages are common. People travel to Mars for holidays.

JF - Whole Earth VL - no. 103 N1 -

Originally published in Dudley Fishburn, ed. The World in 2001. London: Economist, 2000 [Not found].

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dervish is Digital Y1 - 2000 A1 - Pat[ricia Oren Kearney] Cadigan (b. 1953) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Cyberpunk dystopia that is something of a sequel to her Tea From an Empty Cup (1998) in that the central character and some of the setting are the same. The female author was born in the U.S. and lives in England. Other cyberpunk dystopias by the author are 1991 and 1992 Cadigan.

PB - Macmillan CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dove's Song Y1 - 2000 A1 - Eloise Rodkey Rees KW - Female author AB -

A Christian, spiritualist eutopia. Other planets are more advanced than Earth, but an alien visits Earth and prods it in the right direction. There is a sequel to the alien’s visit in her Dove’s Duet. Novel. Bloomington, IN: 1st Books, 2001, which is a love story helped along by the return visit of the alien. 

PB - 1st Books CY - Bloomington, IN U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dream of Venus Y1 - 2000 A1 - Pamela Sargent (b. 1948) ED - Martin H[arry] Greenberg (1941-2011) ED - John Helfers KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in the same universe as 1986, 1988, and 2001 Sargent, but earlier than those novels, and focuses the development of a representation of Venus and the personalities and politics involved. 

JF - Star Colonies PB - DAW Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in her The Mountain Cage and Other Stories (Atlanta, GA: Meisha Merlin, 2002), 325-57 with "Afterword to 'Dream of Venus'" on 358-59.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dynamo Y1 - 2000 A1 - Hank Deadwood (b. 1959) AB -

The novel begins in a San Francisco dominated by sex and drugs seen through the eyes of a musician/poet struggling to survive playing on the streets and in clubs. The eutopia comes at the end of the novel with the development of a way for everyone to get high without side effects, a complete collective economy, a network of communities, and a new energy system.

PB - Regent Press CY - Oakland, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Exterminance Cometh Y1 - 2000 A1 - Robert Segarra KW - Male author AB -

After a meteor strikes the Earth, an authoritarian world government is formed but resistance develops in the name of a eutopia of freedom.

PB - Writers Club Press CY - San Jose, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Eye of the Heart" Y1 - 2000 A1 - Tanith Lee (1947-2015) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia. All married women are blinded after the honeymoon so that they will only remember their husbands as loving men.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy of Science Fiction VL - 98.3 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Far Away Y1 - 2000 A1 - Caryl Churchill (b. 1938) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Brief ecological dystopia in which everything in the entire world, including animals and plants, is at war with each other.

PB - Nick Hern Books in association with the Royal Court Theatre CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ferren and the Angel Y1 - 2000 A1 - Harland, Richard KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Children's post-catastrophe dystopia set in 3000 CE. First volume of the Heaven and Earth trilogy; see also 2002 and 2003 Harland.

PB - Penguin Books Australia CY - Ringwood, VIC, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Floodland Y1 - 2000 A1 - Marcus Sedgwick (b. 1968) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Children's book about the degradation of the environment that leads to widespread flooding. A girl trying to find her parents comes across a 1954 Golding Lord of the Flies type dystopia.

PB - Dolphin CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Dell Yearling, 2001.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Forbidden Experiment” Y1 - 2000 A1 - Pamela [Lifton] Zoline (b. 1941) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Depicts a dystopia where “corporate interests” are running an experiment on raising children who have never heard the spoken word, the children having been stolen from their poor parents. Described as a libretto.

JF - Fence VL - 3.2 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Foreigners Y1 - 2000 A1 - James [Matthew Henry] Lovegrove (b. 1965) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A murder mystery that takes place in a deeply flawed utopia in which aliens have provided Earth with technology that replaces its polluting power sources, but the aliens act like Earth’s sex tourists (the author’s comparison) exploiting human singers for their own pleasure.

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Forge of the Elders Y1 - 2000 A1 - L[ester] Neil Smith [III] (1946-2021) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Standard libertarian analysis of dystopian collectivism and eutopian capitalism.

PB - Baen CY - Riverdale, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Fountains of Youth Y1 - 2000 A1 - Brian [Michael] Stableford (b. 1948) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A continuation of his future history series; see 1998, 1999 and 2002 Stableford (2). This volume describes the life of a man who is five hundred years old, could live much longer, and is an historian of that generally obsolete phenomenon called death.

PB - Tor CY - New York N1 -

Part originally published as "Mortimer Gray's History of Death." Asimov's Science Fiction 19.4 & 5 (229-30) (April 1995): 254-305.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Four Short Novels" Y1 - 2000 A1 - Joe [Joseph William] Haldeman (b. 1943) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Four brief dystopias of immortality, each showings its disadvantages.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 105.4 & 5 (622) N1 -

Originally pub. as "Quartre courts romans." Destination 3001. Paris: Flammarion, 2000. The original is held only in French libraries.

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Originally pub. as "Quartre courts romans." Destination 3001. Paris: Flammarion, 2000. The original is held only in French libraries.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Fourth World Y1 - 2000 A1 - Dennis [Howard] Danvers (b. 1947) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in a future controlled by those controlling the web and furnishing the materials for it for the millions of web addicts. Censorship. The novel is concerned with indigenous peoples, poverty, and the few rebels fighting back.

PB - Avon Eos CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - freaknest Y1 - 2000 A1 - Lance Olsen (b. 1956) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia with similarities to 1994 Olsen. Future with widespread disease brought about by overuse of antibiotics. Heavy pollution, widespread drug use, violence. The novel focuses on a small group of feral children and their experiences.

PB - Wordcraft of Oregon CY - La Grande, OR U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Fresco Y1 - 2000 A1 - Sheri [Shirley] S[tewart] Tepper (1929-2016) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A first contact novel that uses the form to explore problems both in the alien society and on Earth. The alien society has based its social structure on a false reading of an ancient fresco covered in centuries of accumulated dirt. Cleaning the fresco threatens to destroy the society, which is based on the idea that each person has one and only one appropriate social role. On the basis of tradition outweighing truth, the fresco is repainted to reflect the traditional version. The Earth gains a eutopia of civility.

PB - Eos CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Friend of the Earth Y1 - 2000 A1 - T[homas] Coraghessan Boyle (b. 1948) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Environmental dystopia.

PB - Viking CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Gateway to the Past Y1 - 2000 A1 - Ronald Bast Nelson (d. 2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Trips to the past from an environmentally damaged future in 2500 where everyone has been live underground since 2050, but, due to scientific advances, people will be able to return to the surface. Very little on the future. 

PB - Vantage Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Gathering Blue Y1 - 2000 A1 - Lois [Ann Hammersberg] Lowry (b. 1937) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A companion to but not a sequel to 1993 Lowry in which the author presents an alternative future that is primitive and simple with aspects of savagery. Her Messenger. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 2004 and Son. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 2012, which includes characters from both 1993 Lowry and this volume but take place in an intentional community. 

PB - Houghton Mifflin CY - Boston, MA N1 -

UK ed. London: Bloomsbury, 2002.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Generals of October Y1 - 2000 A1 - John T. Cullen KW - German author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. An attempt to re-write the U.S. Constitution through a Second Constitutional Convention leads to chaos and an attempted military coup.

PB - Clocktower Books CY - San Diego, CA N1 -

Second release San Diego, CA: Clocktower Books, 2002. Rpt. New York: ibooks, 2004. The ibooks ed. does not mention the existence of the previous eds.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Going, Going, Gone Y1 - 2000 A1 - Jack [Wylie] Womack [Jr.] (b. 1956) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The final volume of the DryCo series. The novel depicts multiple dystopias with the hope of a better world at the end. For other volumes in the series see his 1987 Ambient, 1988 Terraplane, 1990 Heathern, 1993 Elivissey, and 1993 Random Acts of Senseless Violence. Although there are multiple alternative histories in the series, in timeline order, the volumes are 1993 Random Acts of Senseless Violence, 1990 Heathern, 1987 Ambient, 1988 Terraplane, 1993 Elivissey, and 2000 Going, Going, Gone.

PB - HarperCollins CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Voyager Books, 2000

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Greenhouse Chill” Y1 - 2000 A1 - Ben[jamin William] Bova (1932-2020) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Climate changing dystopia in which most of the world has disappeared under water with a new ice age to follow. Reminiscences of the world before the flood suggest a technological eutopia.

JF - Analog Science Fiction and Fact VL - 120.1 N1 -

Rpt. in Writers for Relief Volume 3. Ed. Davey Beauchamp and Stuart Jaffe (Np: Sapphire City Press, 2013), 33-55. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Gulag Arizona Y1 - 2000 A1 - J. Hada AB -

Dystopia. Arizona and some adjacent territory is expelled from the U.S. to become a vast prison when the U.S. prisons are emptied. The freed prisoners are left on their own to create whatever life they can.

PB - Pentland Press CY - Raleigh, NC U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Gulliver in Cloneland. The Fifth Travel of Gulliver. The Complete Text, including the passages deemed inappropriate for publication by the author Y1 - 2000 A1 - [Varoujan] [Kazanjian] KW - Egyptian author AB -

Satire on contemporary Egypt set in a land of clones.

PB - The Book Guild CY - Lewes, Sussex, Eng. U3 -

By Ariazad [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Harrad/Premar Becomes The Love-Ed Solution: K-16 Sex and Education for the 21st Century Y1 - 2000 A1 - Robert H[enry] Rimmer (1917-2001) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 1966 and 1975 Rimmer that follows their model in presenting excerpts from the diaries kept by students. This novel simply extends and combines the themes of the first two with a greater emphasis on multi-racial and multi-ethnic roommates and groups of roommates. See the note at 1966 Rimmer and 1968, 1978, 1980, and 1982 Rimmer.

PB - Writers Club Press CY - San Jose, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Harvest of Debts” Y1 - 2000 A1 - J. Alan Erwine (b. 1969) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future dystopia in which the old suppress the young and the beginnings of a youth rebellion.

JF - J Alan Erwine’s Tales of Dystopia PB - [J. Alan Erwine] CY - Np SN - 9781534701649 N1 -

Originally published in the online journal The Fifth Di... (June 2000), which is no longer available.

Published separately by the author as an online ten-page chapbook in 2014.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Heart of Gold Y1 - 2000 A1 - Sharon Shinn (b. 1957) KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia focusing on gender and racial relations.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Heart Political Party Y1 - 2000 AB -

Detailed critique of contemporary society and a eutopia, although the chapter "Heaven on Earth" says it is not a utopia. The future society cannot, it is said, be spelled out in detail but will include individual human rights; a revised national constitution; no money, or money system or subsystem of any kind; direct democracy; representative democracy; one government in form and substance; a cooperative and efficient socioeconomic system; a true demand and supply socioeconomic system; employment for all; a four-hour workday; absolute equality of consumption power; choice of basic needs and wants and desires available at any time; personally chosen careers; international trade to be conducted at the national level only; more free time; neuropsychological health care available to all; a vastly supreme national defense; public service for all; population management; science to serve humanity; strong ecological standards; standardization of laws; healthy natural families; elimination of crime; freedom of interpersonal and social relationships; individual achievement rewards; and participation in the United Nations.

UR - http://www.heartparty.org. ER - TY - ABST T1 - He's Back Y1 - 2000 A1 - Theodore Roosevelt Gardner KW - Male author AB -

Jesus returns.

PB - Allen A. Knoll, Publishers CY - Santa Barbara, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hex: Ghosts Y1 - 2000 A1 - Rhiannon Lassiter (b. 1977) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Sequel to 1998 and 1999 Lassiter. In this volume, those carrying the gene giving direct access to computers share it with others and the ending suggests that a eutopia will develop.

PB - Macmillan Children's Books, 2000 CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in her Void (New York: Simon Pulse, 2011), 449-669. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “How Science Saved the World: Has science driven history for the past 50,000 years?” Y1 - 2000 A1 - Kim Stanley Robinson (b. 1952) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A review of a book that argues that the eutopia of the future depended on a subset of scientists devoted to human betterment after a massive plunge in population that resulted from the sorts of issues we face at present.

JF - Nature VL - 403.6765 N1 -

Rpt. as “Review: Science in the Third Millennium.” Envisioning the Future: Science Fiction and the Next Millennium. Ed. Marleen S. Barr (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2003), 199-201. 

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Rpt. as “Review: Science in the Third Millennium.”

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Hungry Woman: A Mexican Medea” Y1 - 2000 A1 - Cherrie L[awrence] Moraga (b. 1952) ED - María Teresa Marrero ED - Caridad Svich KW - Chicana author AB -

Alternative history projected into the twenty-first century. In this future, the U.S. has broken up into a number of small nations, many of which were based on ethnicity, including the Mechicano Nation of Aztlán, which includes some of the northern states of the former México. The new states are initially eutopia but after a second revolution become dystopian with all the traditional hierarchies. 

JF - Out of the Fringe: Latino/a Theater and Performance PB - Theater Communications CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in her The Hungry Woman (Albuquerque, NM: West End Press, 2001), 1-99, with a “Foreword Hungry for God” by the author (vii-x).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hypothesis Y1 - 2000 A1 - William A. Inglehart KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Near future dystopia from a conservative perspective. Most of the novel is concerned with the history leading up to 2001, when Saddam Hussein plans to use biological weapons against his enemies. But he is killed by an Iraqi doctor who could not bring himself to be involved in the slaughter. 

PB - Vantage Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Icarus Ascending Y1 - 2000 A1 - Michael Zografakis KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Conformity required and creativity punished. Rebellion.

PB - Minerva Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "In Silver A" Y1 - 2000 A1 - Cecilia Tan (b. 1967) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Silver A is Silver America, an enclave within what used to be the U.S., which is supposed to be a eutopia but is a dystopia. Non-citizens are forced into the military or used as experimental subjects by scientists.

JF - Absolute Magnitude VL - no. 13 N1 -

Rpt. in The Mammoth Book of Future Cops. Ed. Maxim Jakubowski and M. Christian (London: Robinson, 2003), 456-73.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "In Utopia, Citizens free to turn minds to more creative pursuits" Y1 - 2000 A1 - Richard Dowden KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Short essay saying that "his utopia" will allow for greater education and creativity. Proposes that welfare ("the dole") be replaced with Citizen Right (CR) credits that will allow everyone a basic standard of living and, therefore, the freedom to pursue their own interests.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Incognito Y1 - 2000 A1 - Claire Carmichael (b. 1940) KW - Australian author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult authoritarian dystopia. Every individual is stamped with a barcode, and the story is about a boy who is made a non-person by having his identity removed from the system.

PB - Random House Australia CY - Milsons Point, NSW, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Juniper Tree" Y1 - 2000 A1 - John [Joseph Vincent] Kessel (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A society, called the Society of Cousins, formed to free women from the dominance of men and located in tunnels on the far side of the moon. The story shows both the eutopia created and its problems, which include discrimination against those perceived as not fitting in, issues of power, and issues of possessiveness and jealousy combined with a very free sexuality presented positively. See 2002, 2003, 2006, and 2017 Kessel for other works about the Society of Cousins.

JF - Science Fiction Age VL - 8.2 N1 -

Rpt. in his The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Other Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2008), 49-84.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Junk DNA Y1 - 2000 A1 - Tania Glyde KW - English author KW - Transgender author AB -

Dystopia produced by genetic engineering.

PB - Codex CY - Hove, Eng. SN - 978-1899598199 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Killing Time: A Novel of the Future Y1 - 2000 A1 - Caleb Carr KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set in 2023 following massive deaths brought about by poor access to both hygiene and health care when the world is deeply divided between rich and poor nations based on access to information technology with the IT companies the real rulers of the world. Due to strict drug and quality-of-life punishments, two percent of the U.S. population is in prison. Extreme pollution; no fish left.

PB - Random House CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Kokopu Dreams Y1 - 2000 A1 - Chris[topher Ian] Baker KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

A post-catastrophe novel in which much of the human race has been destroyed in retaliation for its destruction of nature. The novel follows one survivor as he traverses New Zealand from the North to the South meeting other survivors (both those who are trying to build renewed lives and those preying on others) until he settles into a community that is creating a healthy new eutopia. The Māori gods are active participants in the action, in initially bringing about the destruction and in both assisting and attacking the surviving remnant. The most successful of the surviving groups are those who are able to access traditional Māori ways of life. See also 2006 Baker. A story by Keri [Ann Ruhi] Hulme, “Getting It,” in her Stonefish (Wellington, New Zealand: Huia Publishers, 2004), 87-104 also shows the catastrophe brought about by the revenge of the Māori gods on human destruction of the environment.

PB - Huia Publishers CY - Wellington, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Albatross Y1 - 2000 A1 - Ian Irvine (b. 1950) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia brought about by a collapsing ecology. Ecoterrorism in conflict with a growing authoritarianism. See also 2003 and 2004 Irvine.

PB - Simon & Schuster Australia CY - East Roseville, NSW, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Book in the Universe Y1 - 2000 A1 - Rodman Philbrick (b. 1951) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia set many years after a worldwide earthquake destroyed civilization. The novel is in the form of a quest by a young man, an old man in a society controlled by gangs from one area to another under a different gang. Along the way, a child and a genetically enhanced young woman from Eden, a high-tech enclave completely cut off from the surrounding area, joins them.

PB - The Blue Sky Press/Scholastic CY - New York N1 -

. Part originally published as “The Last Book in the Universe.” Tomorrowland: 10 Stories About the Future. Comp. Michael Cart (New York: Scholastic Press, 1999), 9-23 with an “Author’s Note 22-23. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Learning to Mind" Y1 - 2000 A1 - Terry Hayman KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

A future authoritarian dystopia where the state controls child-rearing. Escape to an undescribed anarchist eutopia.

JF - On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic VL - 12.4 (43) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lima Beans Would be Illegal: Children's Ideas of a Perfect World Y1 - 2000 ED - Bender, Robert AB -

One sentence descriptions of children's views of a better world.

PB - Dial Books for Young Readers CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lost Thing Y1 - 2000 A1 - Shaun [Chi Yeong] Tan (b. 1974) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Picture book in which the post-industrial dystopia is conveyed through the illustrations rather than the words. Ends with an illustration of a paradise of sorts for things that don't belong.

PB - Thomas C. Lothian CY - Port Melbourne, VIC, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mammaries of the Welfare State Y1 - 2000 A1 - Upamanyu Chatterjee (b. 1959) KW - Indian author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on the dystopian Indian bureaucracy. Sequel to his English, August: An Indian Story. London: Faber & Faber, 1988.

PB - Penguin Books India CY - New Delhi, India U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Memory of Fire Y1 - 2000 A1 - George Foy (b. 1952) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia with eutopian anarchist enclaves called nodes or cruces. After one dedicated to the creative life and inhabited by artists, musicians, and writers is destroyed on the coast of South America, the protagonist flees to a similar one in Oakland, California. There she attracts the attention of the authorities.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York SN - 9780553578867 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Midnight Robber Y1 - 2000 A1 - [Noelle] Nalo Hopkinson (b. 1960) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - Guyanese author KW - Jamaican author KW - Trinidadian author KW - US author AB -

The planet Toussaint has been colonized from the Caribbean and replicated the positive and negative aspects of Caribbean culture. It expels its criminals to the dystopian New Half-Way Tree. 

PB - Warner Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Mind's Eye" Y1 - 2000 A1 - Keith [N.] Brooke (b. 1966) A1 - Eric Brown (1960-2023) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Dystopia set in a city built so that the poor live at the bottom and the rich and powerful live at the top. The story is about a young girl leaving the bottom and her experiences at the top.

JF - Spectrum SF VL - 1 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Multum in Parvo" Y1 - 2000 A1 - Michael Kandel (b. 1941) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia.

JF - Amazing Stories VL - 72.2 (602) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The New City. A Novel Y1 - 2000 A1 - Stephen Amidon (b. 1959) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An ideal suburban community is created that is specifically designed for racial harmony, but over time the usual personality conflicts and differing needs and desires reveals it to be a better society albeit a flawed utopia. Set in 1973 and based on Columbia, MD, where the author once lived. 

PB - Doubleday CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Anchor Books, 2001.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Our First Leader: A Welsh Fable Y1 - 2000 A1 - Jan Morris (1926-2020) KW - English author KW - Transgender author AB -

Satire. The creation of a truly independent Wales in an alternative history of World War II, which Germany won. The supposed puppet leader chosen by the Germans works to get the Americans and others, who had not fought in the war, to attack and defeat Germany.

PB - Gomer Press CY - Llandysul, Ceredigion, Wales U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Outlaw School Y1 - 2000 A1 - [Rebecca Bard] [Brown] (b. 1948) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Authoritarian future controlling all aspects of life. There is a rebel who tries to open up possibilities for improvement.

PB - Eos CY - New York U3 -

Rebecca Ore [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Paradox Y1 - 2000 A1 - John Meaney (b. 1957) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Violent dystopia. Sequels are Context: Book Two of the Nulapeiron Sequence. London: Bantam, 2002; U.S. ed. Amherst, NY: Pyr, 2005; and Resolution: Book Three in the Nulapeiron Sequence. London: Bantam, 2005; U.S. ed. Amherst, NY: Pyr, 2006.

PB - Bantam Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Parallel Highways" Y1 - 2000 A1 - James Van Pelt (b. 1954) ED - Jeremy Lassens KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

As the anthology sub-title suggests, this is a dystopian horror story of a couple trapped on a Los Angeles freeway travelling constantly at 80 miles an hour hemmed in by trucks and other cars.

JF - After Shocks: An Anthology of So-Cal Horror PB - fREAk pREASs CY - San Diego, CA SN - 9780970009708 978-1-933846-95-8 N1 -

Rpt. in The Best of James Van Pelt. (Bonney Lake, WA: Fairwood Press, 2020), 17-28.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Pastoralia" Y1 - 2000 A1 - George Saunders (b. 1958) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which people live in a cave in a zoo pretending to be early humans, which is considered a good job in what is obviously a poverty-stricken future.

JF - The New Yorker VL - 76.6 N1 -

Rpt. in his Pastoralia (New York: Riverhead Books, 2000), 1-66.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Patient Zero” Y1 - 2000 A1 - Tananarive [Priscilla] Due (b. 1966) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Post-apocalypse dystopia (pandemic) as seen by a small boy who has survived but is a carrier and is being kept in a medical facility that is slowly losing its ability to function and its staff.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 99.2 (587) N1 -

Rpt. in Wastelands 2: More Stories of the Apocalypse. Ed. John Joseph Adams (London: Titan Books, 2015), 362-379.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pax Femina Series: Book III. The Kinslow Effect Y1 - 2000 A1 - R. J Cantwell (b. 1936) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The third volume in the Pax Femina series. See also 1993 Cantwell and 2000 Cantwell, Pax Femina Series: Book IV. Pax Humana, and Pax Femina Series: Book V. The Titan Colony, and 2001 Cantwell. In this volume, the recovering ecology is collapsing due to global warming and the Pax Femina has become ruthless, particularly in its control of its space colonies.

PB - Xlibris CY - [Bloomington, IN] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pax Femina Series: Book IV. Pax Humana Y1 - 2000 A1 - R. J Cantwell (b. 1936) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The fourth volume in the Pax Femina series. See also 1993 Cantwell and 2000 Cantwell, Pax Femina Series: Book III. The Kinslow Effect, and Pax Femina Series: Book V. The Titan Colony, and 2001 Cantwell. In this volume, Earth’s ecology continues to deteriorate, and what is now the Pax Humana, dominated by corporations, is determined to destroy the one space colony, on Callisto, that remains free of its control.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pax Femina Series: Book V. The Titan Colony Y1 - 2000 A1 - R. J Cantwell (b. 1936) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The fifth volume in the Pax Femina series. See also 1993 Cantwell and 2000 Cantwell, Pax Femina Series: Book III. The Kinslow Effect, and Pax Femina Series: Book IV. Pax Humana, and 2001 Cantwell. This volume continues the themes of the earlier ones. Callisto was defeated and its people dispersed, and corporations rule, but the struggle between the Pax Humana and the dissidents continues until the Pax Humana fleet meets a stronger power from outer space. 

PB - Xlibris CY - [Bloomington, IN] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - PDU-1 Y1 - 2000 A1 - F[red] E. Potts KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

PDU-1 is an orbiting computer into which the personalities of those convicted of crimes on earth are transported. Primitive eutopia on PDU-1 contrasted with a dystopian earth.

PB - ACS Publishing CY - Tucson, AZ U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Perdido Street Station Y1 - 2000 A1 - China [Tom] Miéville (b. 1972) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopian set in the polluted, rundown city of New Crobuzon where humans and other beings live under a vicious regime. Fantasy with surrealistic elements. See also 2002, 2004, and 2005 Miéville.

PB - Macmillan CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Ballantine Books, 2001.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Plains of Heaven Y1 - 2000 A1 - Thomas S. Bloom KW - Male author AB -

Post nuclear war dystopia. The first part of the book is about the war but most of the novel is on the struggle for survival afterwards, following individuals and communities at various places throughout the world.

PB - RavenHaus CY - Stewartsville, NJ U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Quest for Genesis: A Journey of Discovery Y1 - 2000 A1 - David Gau-Ghan (b. 1955) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

New Age eutopia in sequel to 1995 Gau-Ghan. The main alien protagonist of the previous novel discovers a eutopia inside the earth. Conflict between good and evil. Stresses the need to discover the power within yourself to change your world.

PB - Writers Club Press CY - San Jose, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Rat Squad Y1 - 2000 A1 - Nick Warburton (b. 1947) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Children's flawed utopia. In Grace City everyone appears to be happy, safe, and free, but there is a deliberate policy to allow rats to kill people as a means of population control and creating a common enemy.

PB - Oxford University Press CY - Oxford, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Recluse Y1 - 2000 A1 - Timothy Hodor (b. 1955) KW - Austrian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Kafkaesque dystopia of an alienated individual in an uncaring society.

PB - Monte Verita Verlag CY - Vienna, Austria U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Resisting Adonis Y1 - 2000 A1 - Timothy J[ohn] Anderson KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Complex, violent dystopia.

PB - Tesseract Books CY - Edmonton, AB, Canada U1 -

Cover adds an erotic science fiction thriller.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Salt Y1 - 2000 A1 - Adam [Charles] Roberts (b. 1965) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

2000 Roberts, Adam [Charles] (b. 1965). Salt. London: Gollancz. PU 

The novel beings on a spaceship on its way to establishing a colony. A difference in cultures or ideologies emerges and continues after the settle with one faction a military dictatorship and the other an anarchist society.

PB - Golancz CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Saturn's Race Y1 - 2000 A1 - Larry [Lawrence van Cott] Niven (b. 1938) A1 - Steven [Emory] Barnes (b. 1952) KW - African American author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Mostly adventure and conflict but begins with a flawed eutopia. An apparently ideal island for the world's rich is a base for illegal genetic manipulation and world conquest.

PB - Tor CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - SB: 1 or God. Everyone has the Hidden Question Y1 - 2000 A1 - Karl Mark Maddox KW - Male author AB -

Most of the novel leads up to Armageddon (See Revelation 16), but there is a brief eutopia set in the far future with advanced humans.

PB - Vantage Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Secret Under My Skin Y1 - 2000 A1 - Janet [Elizabeth] McNaughton (b. 1953) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Set in 2368 after a series of environmental catastrophes and orchestrated attacks on science and technology designed to justify government policy. The result is an authoritarian dystopia with an underground network of scientists. The novel focuses on the struggle against the dystopia and the reestablishment of democratic institutions. Classified as Young Adult.

PB - HarperCollins CY - Toronto, ON, Canada N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Eos, 2005.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Separation Anxiety" Y1 - 2000 A1 - Evie Shockley (b. 1965) ED - Sheree R[enée] Thomas (b. 1972) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Racial and ethnic communities in the U.S. are separated with the intent to allow each to develop. The story presents both positive and negative effects.

JF - Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora PB - Warner Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in The Utopia Reader. 2nd ed. Ed. Gregory Claeys and Lyman Tower Sargent (New York: New York University Press, 2017),  509-524.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Sin Eaters" Y1 - 2000 A1 - Sherman [Joseph] Alexie [Jr.] (b. 1966) KW - Male author KW - Native American author AB -

Dystopia in which all Native Americans are violently rounded up and taken to prison camps. The pure blooded then have their bone marrow taken and forced to have sex to produce children who will also be used to harvest bone marrow to suppress cancers in the white majority. 

JF - The Toughest Indian in the World PB - Atlantic Monthly Press CY - New York: U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Soulsaver Y1 - 2000 A1 - James Stevens-Arce (b. 1945) KW - Male author KW - Puerto Rican author KW - US author AB -

Religious dystopia.

PB - Harcourt CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - SRM Y1 - 2000 A1 - Chris McQuillan KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia based on nanotechnology.

PB - Hamilton & Co CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Super-Cannes Y1 - 2000 A1 - J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Corporate dystopia.

PB - Flamingo CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Picador, 2000.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Talossa Y1 - 2000 AB -

Detailed micro-state democratic eutopia represented as having seceded from the Kingdom of Talossa.

UR - http://www.Talossa.com. ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Telling Y1 - 2000 A1 - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Anthropological science fiction in her Hainish cycle. There are two dystopias, one religious and one scientific and anti-religious. The latter is trying to suppress the traditional culture on its planet, which is centered around the Telling, an extremely complex set of stories that provide a guide to most aspects of life on the planet. This culture is a flawed or ambiguous utopia because the attempts to suppress it meant that it could not incorporate new knowledge and because in the past one part of the planet had used it for power rather than enlightenment.

PB - Harcourt CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Gollancz, 2000. Rpt. in Hainish Novels & Stories Volume Two. The World for Word Is Forest Stories Five Ways to Forgiveness The Telling. Ed. Brian Attebery (New York: Library of America, 2017), 589-750 with a “Note on the Text” (781) and “Notes (787-89).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Time Capsule" Y1 - 2000 A1 - Raybon Kan (b. 1966) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Brief satire. Social welfare has corporate sponsors. Education funds itself as a reality TV show. Jesus returns on January 2, 2000 but thinks it is 1971.

JF - 2000 AD Millennium. The Anthology. Sunday Star Times (New Zealand) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - 'Tomorrow Town" Y1 - 2000 A1 - Kim [James] Newman (b. 1959) ED - Keith Brooks ED - Nick Gevers KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire. Humor. A town designed to be the eutopian city of the future fails to work as intended as a result of relying too heavily on an advanced computer.

JF - Infinity Plus One PB - PS Publishing CY - Leeds, Eng. N1 -

Rpt. in his The Man from the Diogenes Club (Austin, TX: MonkeyBrain Books, 2006), 59-82. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - USSA 2020 Y1 - 2000 A1 - James E. Couch KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of the United Socialist States of America.

PB - Ridge Pub. Co CY - Np N1 -

Rpt. Lincoln, NB: Authors Choice Press, 2002 with cover adding A Novel.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Utopia Y1 - 2000 A1 - Bovard, Barbara Zimmer KW - Female author AB -

New Age eutopia.

PB - 1st Books CY - Bloomington, IN U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Utopian Y1 - 2000 A1 - D[ennis] Samarand KW - Male author AB -

New Age eutopia.

PB - Xlibris CY - [Bloomington, IN] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Utopian Crescendo of Hope! Y1 - 2000 A1 - Ronald Alan Duskis KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Christian eutopia based on the Book of Revelation of John/Apocalypse of John, which is gone through book by book and verse by verse within books quoting the verse and then briefly commenting on it. The same thing is done with 2 Peter 1, Ezekiel 1, Daniel 10, 1 Corinthians 13, 1 John 3, and Matthew 24 and 25.

PB - toExcel CY - San Jose, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - UtopianWorld Y1 - 2000 AB -

Ecological eutopia. Includes a brief description of the world in 2100.

UR - http://www.UtopianWorld.org. No longer available online. ER - TY - ABST T1 - We Are Not Alone: Messages from the Hollow Earth and the Subterranean City of Telos Y1 - 2000 A1 - Dianne Robbins (b. 1939) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

New age, hollow earth eutopia. The hollow earth is inhabited by the very long-lived, telepathic, vegetarian, descendants of Lemuria, who settled under Mt. Shasta, California, and, nearer the center, descendants of peoples from other worlds. The hollow earth is threaded with tunnels, and all planets and stars are hollow. The people take pride in their physical form. See also Robbins 1996 and 2003.

PB - Mt. Shasta Light Pub. CY - Mt. Shasta, CA: ER - TY - ABST T1 - "White Empire" Y1 - 2000 A1 - Rev. Kenneth Molyneaux KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Racist novel set in 2250 depicting the White Empire and its Racial Holy War (The acronym RAHOWA is used regularly). The capital city is Klassengrad, after [Bernhardt] Ben Klassen (see 1973 Klassen). Eugenic policy in place. Much is on the war to eliminate non-whites. The cover states, “I dedicate this novel to the White Race.”

PB - World Church of the Creator CY - [Akron, OH?] UR - https://archive.org/details/WhiteEmpireByRev.KennethMolyneaux U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Wilson: A Consideration of the Sources: Containing the original Notes, Errata, Commentary, and the Preface to the Second Edition Y1 - 2000 A1 - David [Alan] Mamet (b. 1947) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Humor and satire set in a future in which the internet crashes, taking with it the collective memory of the human race. The novel presents a wildly inaccurate picture of the past, complete with many footnotes.

PB - Faber and Faber CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, 2001.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Wind Singer Y1 - 2000 A1 - William [Benedict] Nicholson (b. 1948) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

First volume of a dystopian fantasy trilogy for young adults set in a city where advancement is based on success in examinations. A girl revolts against the system and, with her twin brother, sets out to find the Singers. In the second volume, Slaves of the Mastery. An Adventure. Book Two of The Wind Singer Trilogy. Illus. Peter Sis. London: Mammoth. U.S. ed. New York: Hyperion Books for Children, 2001, the twins, separated for the first time, separately fight against a new enemy. In the final volume, FiresongAn Adventure. Book Three of The Wind Singer Trilogy. Illus. Peter Sis. London: Egmont. U.S. ed. New York: Hyperion Books for Children, 2002, after further problems, the secret of the Singers is found, the people are freed, and the twins find the eutopia, but the girl has to die.

PB - Mammoth CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Egmont, 2002. U.S. ed. New York: Hyperion Books for Children, 2000.

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Illus. Peter Sis. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Year of the Lemming Y1 - 2000 A1 - Robert Smart KW - Male author AB -

Violent, male-dominated dystopia.

PB - Xlibris CY - [Bloomington, IN] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Zollocco--A Novel of Another Universe Y1 - 2000 A1 - Cynthia Joyce Clay (b. 1954) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A tour through a number of societies, some eutopian and some dystopian. Strong environmental content. Humor.

PB - Bookbooters Press CY - Weatogue, CT U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - 2099: A Eutopia Y1 - 1999 A1 - [Frank] Yorick Blumenfeld (1932) KW - Dutch author KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Detailed eutopia which is partially a technological eutopia that both provides all and his quite controlling. The other aspect of the eutopia is on improved human relations in communities. Some history of the development to the eutopia is given.

PB - Thames & Hudson CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - 3 Passports to Paradise Y1 - 1999 A1 - R. A. Leigh AB -

The story of three groups that are trying to create their utopias on a planet--New Age people, genetically-enhanced humans (aquatic, avian, and feline), and patriots from the U.S. The novel ends in the middle of a crisis among the three groups and outsiders who want to control them.

PB - Spectrutek CY - [Dover, NH] VL - Book 1 of the Spectrutek Series. No evidence of further volumes. U2 -

Illus.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Aberrant: Project Utopia. Creating a Brighter Future with the Power of Today! Y1 - 1999 A1 - Carl Bowen (b. 1975) A1 - Steven [S.] Long A1 - Angel [Leigh] McCoy (b. 1962) A1 - Kraig Blackwelder A1 - John Chambers ED - Chris Tang KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Supplement to the Aberrant game and book series describing superheroes creating a eutopia of peace, plenty, and health and the super-villains opposed to them. While the text states that a much better world has been created, there is little description of the eutopia.

PB - White Wolf CY - Clarkson, GA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Action News: 2099. Brought To You By the MS-ABCNNBCBS-Fox News Network" Y1 - 1999 A1 - [Dan] [Perkins] (b. 1961) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Six panel dystopian cartoon of a broadcast by the one remaining news organization. One large corporation controlling all business. Required consumption. Theocracy of Kansas put heretics teaching evolution to death. Most people live in bunkers due to radiation and because the climate is intolerable.

JF - The New Yorker VL - 75.28 U3 -

Tom Tomorrow [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Altergeist. A Novel Y1 - 1999 A1 - Tim Booth KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia set in a future Ireland that has been largely destroyed by internal conflict with the Church now the most powerful force. The novel focuses on a number of mostly young people and the lives their lives amid the chaos with one of them having had a program implanted in her brain.

PB - Fish Publishing CY - Darrus, Bantry, Co. Cork, Ireland U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Amerikan Sunset. A Novel Y1 - 1999 A1 - Jennifer Ladewig (b. 1966) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a collapsing U.S. and the struggle for survival.

PB - Trafford CY - Victoria, BC, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Another Chance Y1 - 1999 A1 - Martha T[herrin] Brescia (1917-2015) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A religious novel in which the current system ends, and civilization is re-emerging in an area named Paradise that appears to be a eutopia, but is also a staging ground, a place of preparation for an even better life, with the novel focused on the period of preparation. A sub-theme concerns aliens who are defeated by prayer. .

PB - American Literary Press CY - Baltimore, MD U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Apollinare: Life in the New Millennium Y1 - 1999 A1 - Colin Retnap KW - Male author AB -

Flawed utopia set in the 24th century. Environmental damage -- global warming has obliterated much land, and outdoors people must wear protection suits. Indoors they are generally nude. Machines do much of the work. All essentials like food and accommodation are free. Soulless bureaucracy. Lots of sex.

PB - Nimcol CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Architects of Emortality Y1 - 1999 A1 - Brian [Michael] Stableford (b. 1948) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Continuation of the setting and issues of 1998 Stableford. In this volume people generally live three hundred years and some live much longer. Includes characters named Holmes and Watson, who are policemen, and an amateur detective called Oscar Wilde.

PB - Tor CY - New York N1 -

Part originally published as "Les Fleurs du Mal." Asimov's Science Fiction 18.11 (221) (October 1994): 104-61. Rpt. in The Year's Best Science Fiction Twelfth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995), 627-89.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Auckland Herald (16 August 2020) Y1 - 1999 A1 - Vision Reference Group, Strategic Development Group, Auckland City Council KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author AB -

Four page newspaper of the future with Auckland known as "the First City of the Pacific". Stress on environmentalism.

PB - Strategic Development Group, Auckland City Council CY - Auckland, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Better Angels Y1 - 1999 A1 - Howard V[incent] Hendrix (b. 1959) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The background to the novel includes a Christian fundamentalist government as a dystopia.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Bios Y1 - 1999 A1 - Robert Charles Wilson (b. 1953) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The background to the novel is a dystopian authoritarian where people are controlled by implants that monitor and control them emotionally, mentally, and physically. The focus of the novel is a woman engineered to be able to survive on a planet rich in plants and animals that are lethal to humans. While of her protections fail, she discovers that most planets, Earth being an exception, are living organisms that communicate with unique voices. 

PB - Tor CY - New York U1 -

The dust jacket adds A Novel of Planetary Exploration

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Bloodtide Y1 - 1999 A1 - Melvin Burgess (b. 1954) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Near future dystopia set in a gang ruled London. See also 2005 Burgess.

PB - Andersen Press CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Tor, 2001.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Bloodwood Clan Y1 - 1999 A1 - Beryl Fletcher (b. 1938) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

The novel is about fictional contemporary Australian religious intentional community with a focus on gender relations.

PB - Spinifex CY - North Melbourne, Vic, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Border Guards" Y1 - 1999 A1 - Greg[ory Mark] Egan (b. 1961) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

The story begins with the protagonist joining a game of Quantum Soccer, in which is team is beaten because a woman on the other team has extraordinary skills. The game takes place in a eutopia of immortality and deals with the way people have dealt over thousands of years with the issues that immortality raises. For information on Quantum Soccer, see https://www.gregegan.net/BORDER/Soccer/Soccer.html

JF - Interzone VL - no. 148 SN - 0264-3596 UR - https://www.gregegan.net/BORDER/Complete/Border.htm N1 -

Rpt. in his Crystal Nights and Other Stories Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2009), 235-258; and online at https://www.gregegan.net/BORDER/Complete/Border.html

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Bouncing Babies" Y1 - 1999 A1 - Kara Dalkey (b. 1953) ED - Constance Ash KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Satire on what society will look like if a major market in women's eggs develops.

JF - Not of Woman Born PB - Roc CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Cabbages and Kales, or, How We Downsized North America" Y1 - 1999 A1 - David Marusek (b. 1951) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Written as a prequel to the story that became the first part of 2005 Marusek giving the background to that story.

JF - Asimov's Science Fiction VL - 23.2 (277) N1 -

Rpt as "Cabbages and Kale or: How We Downsized North America." In his Getting to Know You (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2007), 221-54.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Cave of Stars Y1 - 1999 A1 - George Zebrowski (b. 1945) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Clash of mostly dystopian cultures in the far future after Earth has been destroyed. One is a world theocracy that has made advocating change a crime. Others are artificial worlds where many have chosen to live entirely in virtual reality. Described as a companion to his 1979 Macrolife in that the same “macrolife habitats” are central to the novel.

PB - HarperPrism CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Christendom Y1 - 1999 A1 - Neil Cross (b. 1969) KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which the  United States  is dominated by fundamentalist Christians, who suppress all opposition. Much of the novel is about how the situation arose.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Climb the Wind: A Novel of Another America Y1 - 1999 A1 - Pamela Sargent (b. 1948) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Alternative history in which the American Indians fought back at the end of the Civil War and won.

PB - HarperPrism CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Conqueror's Child Y1 - 1999 A1 - Suzy McKee Charnas (1939-2023) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Fourth volume of series that includes 1974, 1978, and 1994 Charnas. In this volume, the men of the Holdfast have been enslaved by the freed women, but Alldera's daughter arrives bringing with her a boy child who she has effectively adopted, and the society begins to struggle toward a more balanced relationship between men and women.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Copper Elephant Y1 - 1999 A1 - Adam Rapp (b. 1968) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which children under twelve are used as slave labor.

PB - Front Street Books CY - Asheville, NC N1 -

Rpt. HarperTempest, 2002.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Crime of the Twenty-First Century Y1 - 1999 A1 - Edward Bond (1934-2024) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia set in a desolate landscape and ruins that appear to be the result of some sort of catastrophe.

PB - Methuen Drama CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in his Plays: 7 (London: Methuen Drama, 2003), 217-74.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Crime Zero Y1 - 1999 A1 - Michael Cordy (b. 1961) KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Genetic engineering dystopia.

PB - Bantam Books CY - London U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Crowlings Y1 - 1999 A1 - [Elizabeth Rhoda Wintle] [Holden] (1943-2013) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

Young adult novel in which a traditional society has to deal with people from space coming to their planet. The novel is concerned with the conflicts, both personal and societal, regarding the temptations of modern civilization.

PB - Collins CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Collins, 2000.

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Louise Lawrence [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Cure Y1 - 1999 A1 - Sonia Levitin (b. 1934) KW - Female author AB -

Young adult novel set in a 2047 flawed utopia stressing conformity, harmony, and tranquility. An individual whose strong emotions seem to threaten the society is sent to the dystopian past of anti-Semitic Strasbourg of 1348. Returning to the future, he decides to try to change it.

PB - Silver Whistle Harcourt Brace & Co CY - San Diego, CA ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Curtains", "The Writing on the Wall", "Safe Sex", "Charmed Life", and "Gamblers" Y1 - 1999 A1 - Andrew [Henry] Vachss (b. 1942) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Series of linked stories with no overall title. Underground authoritarian dystopia with an active opposition. One focus is the opposition; another is the system of prostitution. Violence.

JF - Everybody Pays: Stories PB - Vintage Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Dark Entity Y1 - 1999 A1 - J. T. Best (d. 2009) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Much of the novel is concerned with one man's struggle with evil, but it is set within an authoritarian dystopia called Flatland, which has quite traditional gender roles, with status for men achieved through competitive games. The people are generally uneducated.

PB - Certes Press CY - Christchurch, New Zealand N1 -

Rev. without any reference to the earlier version as When Darkness Fell. Cook Islands: Jaala, 2005.

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Rev. without any reference to the earlier version as When Darkness Fell.

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ATL, PSt, VUW

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Dawnings" Y1 - 1999 A1 - Zelda Curtis (1923-2012) ED - Charlotte Cole ED - Helen Windrath KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Egalitarian eutopia set in the U.K. in 2010 seen from the perspective of an old woman who had gone through the transition. The protagonist describes her flat in a collectively owned and managed building with a large communal space and a computer room. Adjacent buildings have different amenities such as a swimming pool, gym, art studio, music room, or meeting room. Clinic on site as is a nursery and crèche. Employment is arranged so that “no one has to work more than a three-day shift for a wage sufficient for their needs” (102). Equal pay for all. Cheap public transport. 

JF - The Female Odyssey: Visions for the 21st Century PB - The Women's Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Deep Field Y1 - 1999 A1 - James Bradley (b. 1967) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. The Prologue is set far in the future, written by an author who is over 280 years old and describes an old book published in 2031. A nuclear war between India and Pakistan had occurred, and the U.S. had gone through another civil war. The rest of the book starts about 2010 and describes an authoritarian Australia.

PB - Hodder Headline CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Review, 1999.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Deepness in the Sky Y1 - 1999 A1 - Vernor [Steffen] Vinge (b. 1944) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Libertarian science fiction.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dementia Island Y1 - 1999 A1 - Ernest [Michael] Hekkanen (b. 1947) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

A dystopia describing an island where those considered undesirable are sent.

PB - New Orphic Publishers CY - Vancouver, BC, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Down There In Darkness Y1 - 1999 A1 - George [Reginald] Turner (1916-97) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

The novel begins in a future dystopia of class-stratification and then shifts a hundred years further into the future where an attempt to create a eutopia is being worked out. There is considerable reflection on the nature of utopianism. Sequel to 1993 Turner and related to 1989 Turner.

PB - Tor CY - New York N1 -

Chapter 2 was originally published as "Worlds." Eidolon: The Journal of Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy, no. 4 (1.4) (March 1991): 36-58.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Downsiders. A Novel Y1 - 1999 A1 - Neal Shusterman (b. 1962) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult novel in which there is an entirely separate society beneath the streets with the focus on a relationship between a girl from above and a boy from below.

PB - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Dream Archipelago Y1 - 1999 A1 - Christopher [McKenzie] Priest (1943-2024) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The Dream Archipelago is made of thousands of islands in an ocean belt around the middle of a planet with a large continent to the north, with many countries regularly at war, wars that are fought on the continent to the south, which is sparsely populated. Various islanders tell stories, some eutopian, some dystopian, and some with elements of fantasy about their islands. Two further volumes are set in the Dream Archipelago. The first is The Islanders. London: Victor Gollancz, 2011, which as short descriptions of many islands. An excerpt from “The Drone” (150-87) was published as “Fireflies.” Celebration: An anthology of short stories commemorating the 50th anniversary of the British Science Fiction Association. Ed. Ian Whates ([England]: New Con Press, 2008), 207-14. “The Trace of Him” is rpt. from his 2009 The Dream Archipelago retitled “The Trace” (235-43). The second is The Gradual. London: Gollancz, 2016; rpt. London: Titan Books, 2016, in which a composer, who is from a fascist dystopia, twice tours the Dream Archipelago.

PB - Earthlight CY - London N1 -

Includes the first publication of “The Equatorial Moment” (1-6); “The Negation” (7-48) originally published in Anticipations. Ed. Christopher Priest (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1978), 55-86; “Whores” (49-) originally published in New Dimensions 8. Ed. Robert Silverberg (New York: Harper & Row, 1978), 27-40; “The Cremation” (71-114) originally in Andromeda 3. Ed. Paul Weston (London: Futura, 1978); “The Miraculous Cairn” (115-85) originally published in New Terrors #2. Ed. Ramsey Campbell (London: Pan, 1980), 11-55; and “The Watched” (186-264) originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction 54.4 (323) (April 1978): 124-60. Book rpt. London: Gollancz, 2009 with “The Equatorial Moment” (1-5); “The Negation” (6-44); “Whores” (45-65); “The Miraculous Cairn” (74-140); “The Cremation” (141-81); and “The Watched” (182-255-) and two additional stories, “The Trace of Him” (66-73) originally published in Interzone, no. 214 (February 2008): 36-38; and “The Discharge” (256-301) which was originally published in SciFiction www.scifi.com/scifiction/ Posted February 13, 2002. No longer available online, but it was rpt. in Science Fiction: The Best of 2002. Ed. Robert Silverberg and Karen Haber (Np: ibooks, 2003), 156-210. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Earthfuture: Stories from a Sustainable World Y1 - 1999 A1 - Guy Dauncey KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Stories and poems, only one of which is noted as having been previously published, that depict an environmental eutopia and the means of achieving it. A couple of failures are also included. Each of the stories is followed by a note on the current situation regarding the issues raised in the story. “Cobble Hills” (79-83) is on ecovillages. “The Economists’ Celebration” (121-25) is the most explicitly eutopian of the stories in that it briefly shows the results of a new form of governmental budgeting in which it is recognized that all expenses are connected. The main example given is that spending money on youth a community development is much cheaper than spending money on crime and prisons, but the principle is extended to many different areas and produces a much better world. 

PB - New Society Publishers CY - Gabriola Island, BC, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Endland Stories or Bad Lives Y1 - 1999 A1 - Tim Etchells (b. 1962) KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Stories connected by being set in a disintegrating, future England--"Endland (sic)"--of violence and environmental degradation.

PB - Pulp Faction CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Everywhere" Y1 - 1999 A1 - Geoff[rey Charles] Ryman (b. 1951) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - UK author KW - US author AB -

Near future eutopia based on technology that keeps everyone busy. Written as part of the Visions of Utopia project.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 10 N1 -

Rpt. in The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction. Ed. Arthur B. Evans, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., Joan Gordon, Veronica Hollinger, Rob Latham, and Carol McGuirk (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2010), 717-26 with an editors’ note on 717-18.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Fence Y1 - 1999 A1 - Anne [N.] Steinberg KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia with fantasy elements that reflects an attempt to reestablish National Socialism.

PB - Citron Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Foreign Bodies Y1 - 1999 A1 - Stephen Dedman (b. 1959) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia set in 2014 in which racists are in power in the U.S.

PB - Tor CY - New York N1 -

Part originally published as "Foreign Bodies." Aurealis (Melbourne, VIC, Australia), no. 8 (1992): 10-18.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Frequencies Y1 - 1999 A1 - Joshua Ortega KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia. Many technologically enhanced people.

PB - Omega Point Productions CY - Seattle, WA N1 -

Rev. ed. Seattle, WA: Omega Point Productions, 2001.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Fuh-kar-wee Indians and the Christian Year 2000 Y1 - 1999 A1 - Kurt Vonnegut [Jr.] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on Y2K and the human race in general.

PB - Ragged Edge Press CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Gardens in the Dunes Y1 - 1999 A1 - Leslie Marmon Silko (b. 1948) KW - Female author KW - Native American author AB -

Eutopia. In the beginning and at the end of the novel, the "gardens in the dunes" are presented as reflecting a Native American Indian eutopia. The rest of the novel is concerned, among other things, with the dystopia created for Native Americans by U.S. policies toward them.

PB - Simon & Schuster CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Grammarian's Five Daughters" Y1 - 1999 A1 - Eleanor [Atwood] Arnason (b. 1942) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eutopian fantasy in which a poor grammarian gives each daughter a sack of words (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and prepositions respectively), and they go off and find a country without those words. Releasing the words transforms each country for the better. Ultimately all five countries are united.

JF - Realms of Fantasy VL - 5.5 N1 -

Rpt. in her Ordinary People: A Collection (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2005), 6-20.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Great Debate: The Need for Constitutional Reform Y1 - 1999 A1 - Rodney D. Scott KW - Male author AB -

Non-fiction critique of the U.S. constitutional system but includes a proposed new constitution (277-305) and a defense of it. The proposed constitution is similar to the parliamentary system in that the executive is a prime minister within the legislature.

PB - Rampant Lion Press CY - Chicago, IL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Greenhouse Summer Y1 - 1999 A1 - Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Ecological dystopia.

PB - Tor CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Heavenly Village Y1 - 1999 A1 - Cynthia Rylant KW - Female author AB -

The Heavenly Village is a domestic heaven existing between this life and the true afterlife where people wait until they are prepared to let go of life. Young adult novel.

PB - The Blue Sky Press CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hex: Shadows Y1 - 1999 A1 - Rhiannon Lassiter (b. 1977) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Sequel to 1998 Lassiter. In this volume, the gene giving direct access to computers has supposedly been eliminated and the people killed, but some of them survive. See also 2000 Lassiter. 

PB - Macmillan Children's Books CY - London N1 -

 Rpt. in her Void (New York: Simon Pulse, 2011), 241-448. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hisland: Adventures in Ac-Ac-ademe Y1 - 1999 A1 - Fedwa Malti-Douglas (b. 1946) KW - Female author KW - Lebanese-American author AB -

Satire on contemporary academia, particularly the treatment of women.

PB - State University of New York Press CY - Albany U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Holographic Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin Eve: 2999!” Y1 - 1999 A1 - [Dan] [Perkins] (b. 1961) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Comic strip depicting a New Year’s Eve celebration on an Earth that has been turned into a prison camp by aliens.

JF - The New Yorker VL - 75.35 U3 -

Tom Tomorrow [pseud.]

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Horse Latitudes Y1 - 1999 A1 - Jay Merrick KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Set in an area of a future England that is severely polluted and inhabited by the poor who have been pushed out of safe areas.

PB - Fourth Estate CY - London U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Hothouse Flowers" Y1 - 1999 A1 - Mike [Michael Diamond] Resnick (1942-2020) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A dystopia of future care for the elderly, who are kept alive far past any time they were still even aware of their surroundings told from the viewpoint of one of the caregivers. The focus is on the extension of life with no concern for the quality of life. The story shifts to a man who is being kept alive who is still aware of his surroundings, resents being surrounded by those who no longer are, and who wants to die, which challenges the entire worldview of the protagonist.

JF - Asimov’s Science Fiction VL - 23.10[-11] (285) N1 -

Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction. Seventeenth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000), 527-38 with an editor’s note on 526.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Idol Love Y1 - 1999 A1 - Anuradha Marwah-Roy KW - Female author KW - Indian author AB -

Dystopia with the first part set in the present depicting a woman whose live choices are restricted by social norms. The other two parts are set in a future where religious rules restrict women even more. 

PB - Ravi Dayal Publisher CY - New Delhi, India U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - In the Name of God Y1 - 1999 A1 - Scott Smith KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Fundamentalist minister becomes President of the United States. Science is made illegal. All clones killed. Gays killed or deported. Government control of all aspects of life through the Christian Police Force. Successful revolution.

PB - Buy Books on the web.com CY - Bryn Mawr, PA U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "India 2099" Y1 - 1999 A1 - Manjula Padmanabhan (b. 1953) KW - Female author KW - Indian author AB -

Future of India that has been changed first by two atomic bombs, then by Indians establishing space colonies which transform the remaining parts of India into an apparent eutopia.

JF - In a special issue entitled India 999-1999 Millennium Special of Outlook (New Delhi) VL - no. 44 UR - http://www.outlookindia.com/article/india-2099/208405 N1 -

Rpt. as “2099.” In her Kleptomania. Ten Stories (New Delhi, India: Penguin Books India, 2004), 149-60.

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DLC, PU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Jordan's Waterhammer" Y1 - 1999 A1 - Joe Mastroianni KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of miners who are in effect slaves.

JF - Realms of Fantasy VL - 5.4 N1 -

Rpt. in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 411-29.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Just for Beautiful" Y1 - 1999 A1 - Marlene Wurfel (b. 1974) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

A flawed environmental utopia with population balanced by restricting births to the replacement level. The people can change genders at will and see all activities as either female or male. They try unsuccessfully to integrate a group arriving on a space ship who cannot change. 

JF - On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic VL - 11.4 (39) ER - TY - ABST T1 - Justus--A Utopia: Formation of a Tax Free Constitutional Democracy Y1 - 1999 A1 - Michael Marx KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Laissez faire eutopia with no taxation and no public property. Sexual relations that are not heterosexual are illegal as are any sex by or with anyone under the age of eighteen. No one under eighteen can smoke or drink alcohol. “The Constitution of Justus” is on pp. 177-259.

PB - Author CY - Terre Haute, IN U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Lady Macbeth Blues" Y1 - 1999 A1 - Stephen Dedman (b. 1959) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of immorality.

JF - Interzone (Brighton, Eng.) VL - no. 148 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Last Dog" Y1 - 1999 A1 - Katherine Paterson ED - Michael Cart KW - Female author AB -

Flawed utopia. A young adult story about a domed community that is rigidly controlled to exclude any possibility of illness and a young man's venture outside.

JF - Tomorrowland: 10 Stories About the Future PB - Scholastic Press CY - New York U5 -

Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Testament Y1 - 1999 A1 - Marcel M. Monfort KW - Male author AB -

A very odd post-catastrophe novel. The town of Paraíso in western North America is one of few communities left after the catastrophe. Initially it is completely isolated, but refugees come and the population grows until it becomes a problem. There is a revolution and the town is divided into the states of Para (democratic) and Bator (a Communist dictatorship).

PB - Minerva CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Letter Girl Y1 - 1999 A1 - Andrew Masterson (b. 1961) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Future dystopia in which books are banned.

PB - Picador CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Life in a Day" Y1 - 1999 A1 - Shelley Bovey ED - Charlotte Cole ED - Helen Windrath KW - Female author KW - Welsh author AB -

A eutopia where being fat is the norm and honored. The protagonist is a fat woman living comfortably in a society designed for her remembering what it was like to live when being fat was treated as a fault open to criticism.

JF - The Female Odyssey: Visions for the 21st Century PB - The Women's Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Lifework" Y1 - 1999 A1 - Mary Soon Lee KW - Female author KW - UK author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia in which the government believes it knows better than the individual how to achieve an individual's happiness. Marriage considered to have been superseded; partners chosen by the state.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 144 U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lugano Report: On Preserving Capitalism in the Twenty-first Century Y1 - 1999 A1 - Susan George (b. 1934) KW - Female author KW - French author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. A report on what is required to keep free market capitalism in control in the future that identifies a number of major issue, the most important being the growth of population in the developing world. The report says that policies should be implemented to ensure that starvation, disease, war, and so forth ensures that this problem is controlled. Compare to 1967 Lewin, Report from Iron Mountain.

PB - Pluto CY - London N1 -

New ed. London: Pluto, 2003.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Macs" Y1 - 1999 A1 - Terry [Ballantine] Bisson (1942-2024) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Cloning. Exceptional criminals (The Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh [1968-2000] provides the title) are cloned so that their victim’s families can execute them.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 97.4& 5 (578) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mara and Dann: An Adventure Y1 - 1999 A1 - Doris [May] Lessing (1919-2013) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The setting is a post-apocalyptic climate change dystopia in which war, a new ice age, and drought have left only the remains of cities and people are migrating north across Ifrik (Africa). Mara and Dann are brother and sister who have been abducted and the novel follows their experiences as the age into adulthood. A sequel is General Dann and Mara’s Daughter, the Griot and the Snow Dog. London: Fourth Estate, 2005. 282 pp. U.S. ed. New York: HarperCollins, 2006. 282 pp. In this novel, Mara dies in childbirth and Dann, is now a respected General who is expected to bring order to an ice covered Yerrup (Europe) inhabited by warring tribes of refugees. Both novels place considerable emphasis on personal relationships.

PB - HarperCollins CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: HarperCollins, 1999. 407 pp.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Mister Molasses and the Alabama Ant” Y1 - 1999 A1 - Andi Douglas KW - Male author AB -

Satire depicting a world in which everyone is required to act, move, and speak quickly. 

JF - Albedo (Dublin, Ireland) VL - no. 19 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Mistress of Lilliput Y1 - 1999 A1 - Alison Fell (b. 1944) KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

Lemuel Gulliver’s wife follows him after he leaves her hoping to return to Houyhnhnmland. Other stories from the point-of-view of Mrs. Gulliver are John [Joseph Vincent] Kessel, “Gulliver at Home.” In his The Pure Product: Stories (New York: Tor, 1997), 329-43; rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction Fifteenth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998), 565-75; and in Kessel’s Rpt. in his The Dark Ride: The Best Short Fiction of John Kessel (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2022), 303-316, with a note on the story on 572-573; Karen Joy Fowler’s “The Travails.” In her Black Glass: Short Fiction (New York: Henry Holt, 1998), 84-95 provides letters written by Mrs. Gulliver after Gulliver leaves the second time; and Lauren Chater, Gulliver’s Wife. Cammeray, NSW, Australia: Simon & Schuster (Australia), 2020, about the life that Mrs. Gulliver builds for herself after he leaves, and the disruption caused by his return

PB - Doubleday CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Monster Mission Y1 - 1999 A1 - Eva [Maria Charlotte Michelle] Ibbotson (1925-2010) KW - Austrian author KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult novel in which children are kidnapped to an isolated island to help care for unusual sea creatures.

PB - Macmillan Children's Books CY - London U1 -

U.S. ed. as The Island of the Aunts

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "My Recent Visit to Xanadu" Y1 - 1999 A1 - John Hope Franklin (1915-2009) ED - Maya Ajmera ED - Olateju Omolodun KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

A brief description of a eutopia written for children in which there is racial harmony, no tobacco or weapons, no crime and no police, and “love, justice, and tolerance.” The eutopia is accompanied by stories and poems about and illustrations of Xanadu by children that range from the traditional Cockaige with a volcano the expels candy to the poignant desire that every child has a mother and father to racial diversity and world peace. All the children are in elementary school.

JF - Xanadu, the Imaginary Place PB - Shakti for Children CY - Durham, NC U2 -

Illus.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - My Utopia, One Person's Dream Y1 - 1999 AB -

Eutopia. A few pages set in 2099 stressing individuality, end of war, and world government.

UR - http://greenfield.fortunecity.com/eagles/305/my_utopia.html. ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Nadiria" Y1 - 1999 A1 - Stephen Barnwell KW - Male author AB -

Fictional religious utopian community founded in Antarctica.

UR - http://www.dream-dollars.com. ER - TY - ABST T1 - "News from the 21st Century" Y1 - 1999 A1 - Vanessa Baird (b. 1955) ED - Charlotte Cole ED - Helen Windrath KW - Belgian author KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Short news reports from a future of much greater equality, particularly gender equality.

JF - The Female Odyssey: Visions for the 21st Century PB - The Women's Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Nor a Lender Be” Y1 - 1999 A1 - James Van Pelt (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

All U.S. public schools have been closed and the educational system is now run for a profit by the Disney Company. The story’s focus is a charismatic teacher in one of the few in-person schools left who is convinced to allow Disney to use map all his classroom behaviors so that they can create AI teachers.

JF - Analog Science Fiction and Fact VL - 120.2 SN - 978-0-9668184-5-1 978-1-933846-95-8 N1 -

Rpt. without the illus. in his Strangers and Beggars (Auburn, WA: Fairwood Press, 2002), 50-67; and without the illus. The Best of James Van Pelt (Bonney Lake, WA: Fairwood Press, 2020), 64-80.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Old Music and the Slave Women" Y1 - 1999 A1 - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) ED - Robert Silverberg (b. 1935) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A fifth novella to add to her 1995 Four Ways to Forgiveness. This story is mostly about the continuing struggle for control of the planet Werel.

JF - Far Horizons: All New Tales from the Greatest Worlds of Science Fiction PB - Avon Eos CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in her The Birthday of the World and Other Stories (New York: HarperCollins, 2002), 153-211. U.K. ed. (London: Gollancz, 2002), 153-211; in The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin (New York: Saga Press, 2016), 429-87; and in Hainish Novels & Stories Volume Two. The World for Word Is Forest Stories Five Ways to Forgiveness The Telling. Ed. Brian Attebery (New York: Library of America, 2017), 518-69 with a “Note on the Text” (781) and “Notes (787). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Other Place Y1 - 1999 A1 - Monica [Mary] Hughes (1925-2003) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which the World Government exiles those considered subversive to penal colonies and then erases their previous lives. This is contrasted with "the Other Place", a planet where children are sent when rescued from the penal colonies and where they are in the process of creating a eutopia.

PB - HarperCollins CY - Toronto, ON, Canada U5 -

DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pay It Forward Y1 - 1999 A1 - Catherine Ryan Hyde KW - Female author AB -

Eutopia. A twelve year old boy takes seriously a teacher's assignment to come up with a way of improving the world and making it happen. His proposal is to pay gratitude forward by helping someone else. The idea sweeps the world, which makes significant differences at the personal level. Made into a film in 2000 directed by Mimi Leder with a screenplay by Leslie Dixon.

PB - Simon & Schuster CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Pocket, 2001.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Phallicide Y1 - 1999 A1 - Charles [A.] Sheffield (1935-2002) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a polygamous religious sect that does not practice birth control and mates girls at thirteen. 

JF - Science Fiction Age VL - 7.6 N1 -

Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction. Seventeenth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000), 383-410 with an editor’s note on 383. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Plato Papers Y1 - 1999 A1 - Peter [Warwick] Ackroyd (b. 1949) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire. Description of our time, known as Mouldwarp, from the point of view of a far future society (after A.D. 3700), that has a very imperfect understanding of the past. In that society, Plato, described as “the great orator of London,” presents wildly inaccurate public orations describing Mouldwarp but when he gains a more accurate picture of the past, he is persecuted.

PB - Chatto & Windus CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. as The Plato Papers. A Prophesy [Prophecy on the dust jacket]. New York: Nan A. Talese, 2000. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Principality of New Utopia Y1 - 1999 AB -

Web site describing a libertarian eutopia based on Ayn Rand and Robert A. Heinlein.

UR - http://www.flora.org/rosaleen/january.html. ER - TY - ABST T1 - Prokaryote Rising Y1 - 1999 A1 - Islwyn Welch (b. 1961) KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia. Suburbs are a no-go area; rich have security. Rebellion.

PB - Minerva Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Queen of Erewhon" Y1 - 1999 A1 - Lucy [Jane] Sussex (b. 1957) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Anthropological science fiction with both eutopian and dystopian elements describing a society where a woman takes multiple husbands. Lesbian themes.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 97.3 (577) N1 -

Rpt. in her A Tour Guide in Utopia (Parramatta, NSW, Australia: MirrorDanse Editions, 2005), 18-42; in her Matilda Told Such Dreadful Lies: The Essential Lucy Sussex (Greenwood, WA, Australia: Ticonderoga publications, 2011), 391-413; and in The Mammoth Book of SF Stories By Women. Ed. Alex Dally Macfarlane (London: Robinson/Philadelphia, PA: Running Press. 2014), 22-43.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Raiders of the Low Forehead Y1 - 1999 A1 - Stanley Manly KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia mostly sex and violence.

PB - Attack! Books CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Revelations 2 Y1 - 1999 A1 - Eddie E. Malone (b. 1922) KW - Male author AB -

A eutopia brought about by science and technology is challenged by catastrophe.

PB - Minerva CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Rumours of Dreams Y1 - 1999 A1 - Sandi Hall (b. 1942) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

Set mostly in the early Christian era, but from the perspective of a violent dystopia in New Zealand in 2002. A woman is leading a rebellion against the dystopia. A eutopian enclave, Istadevata, is shown that indicates that New Zealand still has eutopian potential.

PB - Spinifex Press CY - North Melbourne, VIC., Australia U5 -

ATL

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Secret of Shambhala: In Search of the Eleventh Insight Y1 - 1999 A1 - James Redfield (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

New Age eutopia.

PB - Warner Books CY - New York U5 -

MoU-C

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Shaman and the Droll Y1 - 1999 A1 - Jack [Millen] Lasenby (1931-2019) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Third volume of a series. In this volume, the young man lives in an underground world on the South Island, learns from a Shaman, and meets a young woman. See also 1997, 1998 and 2001 Lasenby.

PB - Longacre Press CY - Dunedin, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Sky Road Y1 - 1999 A1 - Ken[nth Macrae] MacLeod (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia followed by a further attempt at space exploration. The final volume of his Fall Revolution series. See also 1995, 1996, and 1998 MacLeod.

PB - Orbit CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Tor, 1999. Rpt. in The Fall Revolution. The Star Fraction The Stone Canal The Sky Road [(New York]: SFBC, 2001), 495-710.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Smart Alec" Y1 - 1999 A1 - Kage [Kate Genevieve] Baker (1952-2010) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A dystopia in which all the health and social worries of the late 20th century have been enforced and become social practice. Children do not play together for fear of disease. Only licensed adults are allowed to hug a child. Only healthy foods are allowed.

JF - Asimov's Science Fiction VL - 23.9 (284) N1 -

Rpt. in Isaac Asimov’s Utopias. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois and Sheila Williams (New York: Ace Books, 2000), 169-201 with a note on 169. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Souls in the Great Machine Y1 - 1999 A1 - Sean [Christopher] McMullen (b. 1948) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

The first volume of a trilogy, known as the Greatwinter trilogy, set two thousand years in the future in a world threatened with a new ice age. There is no electricity and very limited technology. The “Great Machine” is a calculator based on enslaving thousands of “components” who do the calculations. Sequels are The Miocene Arrow. New York: Tor, 2000, which is set in an America of rigid class distinctions being undermined by some Australians; and Eyes of the Calculor. New York: Tor, 2001 in which the elaborate social structure is falling apart and group of librarians plot to build a new calculating machine.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Spew" Y1 - 1999 A1 - Neal [Town] Stephenson (b. 1959) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of total surveillance in which the information is used in advertising.

JF - WIRED VL - 10.2 N1 -

Rpt. in his Some Remarks: Essays and Other Writings (New York: William Morrow, 2012), 84-102; and in Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World. Ed. [Glen] David Brin and Stephen W. Potts. Sponsored by The Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination (UCSD) (New York: Tor, 2017), 170-83.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Spring of Souls Y1 - 1999 A1 - William Cobb (b. 1937) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian satire about a small racist Southern town.

PB - Crane Hill Publishers CY - Birmingham, AL U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Star Split Y1 - 1999 A1 - [Kathryn Lasky] [Knight] (b. 1944) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Genetic engineering dystopia. Marketed for 10-14 age group.

PB - Hyperion Books for Children CY - New York U3 -

Kathryn Lasky [pseud.]. On some editions the pseudonym is Katherine Lasky

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Terrorists of Irustan Y1 - 1999 A1 - Louise Marley (b. 1952) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Essentially a political novel of revolt by women in a society similar to that of the Taliban in Afghanistan.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Tod in Biker City Y1 - 1999 A1 - Anthony [Richard] Masters (1940-2003) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Children's dystopia. An extended drought brings conflict over water supplies and a young boy has to deal with an outlaw gang of bikers.

PB - Barrington Stoke CY - Edinburgh, Scot. U2 -

Illus. Harriet Buckley

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Tribes Y1 - 1999 A1 - Anne Lewington KW - Female author AB -

Ecological dystopia.

PB - Wight Diamond Press CY - [Isle of Wight, UK?] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Trip to the Mall" Y1 - 1999 A1 - Jan Spencer KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Ecological eutopia set in a future Eugene, Oregon. In 2013 the U.S. Federal government announced that it had failed to respond to environmental changes, that it no longer had the resources to do so, and indicated that all it could deal with was defense and communications with everything else devolved to the states. The eutopia is set ten years later. US now stands for Untied States. See the author’s “Green and Resilient Neighborhoods: Portland, Oregon and Beyond.” COMMUNITIES: Life in Cooperative Culture, No. 177 (Winter 2017): 49-54; “From Five Earths to One.” COMMUNITIES: Life in Cooperative Culture. No. 187 (Summer 2020): 25-28; “From Five Earths to One: Implementing the Change.” COMMUNITIES: Life in Cooperative Culture, No. 188 (Fall 2020): 20-29; “From Five Earths to One, Part Three: Transforming Our Economy.” COMMUNITIES: Life in Cooperative Culture, No. 189 (Winter 2020): 59-62; and his website https://www.suburbanpermaculture.org/

JF - Talking Leaves VL - 8.3 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Vienna Blood Y1 - 1999 A1 - Adrian Mathews (b. 1957) KW - English author KW - French author KW - Male author AB -

Murder mystery set in a technologically advanced, mildly dystopian 2026 Vienna.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Vintage, 2000.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Virtual Soul Y1 - 1999 A1 - Kevin Teixeira KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of genetic engineering.

PB - del Rey CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "¡Viva Loisaida Libre!" Y1 - 1999 A1 - Bill Weinberg ED - Peter Lamborn Wilson ED - Bill Weinberg KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Proposal for a free lower East Side of New York City.

JF - Avant Gardening: Ecological Struggle in The City & The World PB - Autonomedia CY - Brooklyn, NY U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Waking Day" Y1 - 1999 A1 - Robert H. Beer KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia.

JF - On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic VL - 11.4 (39) U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - We Rule the World Y1 - 1999 A1 - Doug Turner KW - Male author AB -

Conspiracy theory dystopia in which a very small number of people actually rule the world.

PB - Turpentine Publications CY - Quesnel, BC, Canada U5 -

DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Weatherman Y1 - 1999 A1 - Emmel Pound KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia. A warped man gains power and uses it to support his fantasies.

PB - Uncle Publishing CY - London U2 -

Artwork by George Scully

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Weslandia Y1 - 1999 A1 - Paul Fleischman (b. 1952) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. A children's book describing a child's creation of an entire new world in his back yard.

PB - Candlewick Press CY - Cambridge, MA N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Walker Books, 1999.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - White Mars Or, The Mind Set Free: A 21st-Century Utopia Y1 - 1999 A1 - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) A1 - Roger Penrose (b. 1931) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Detailed eutopia in creation on Mars including the presentation of alternative points-of-view. A sub-theme is the initial identification of an alien life form..

PB - Little, Brown CY - London U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The World Celaeno Chose Y1 - 1999 A1 - Jane Fletcher KW - Female author AB -

Religious dystopia with lesbian interest. There are no men, and one of the few women who can manipulate DNA to create life is owned by the Church. 

PB - The Dimsdale Press CY - London U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - World Military Control: Futureistic Concepts Ideas Poetry Y1 - 1999 A1 - Raymond B[arry] Mehlhopt (b. 1954) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Rather disconnected ideas regarding his role as World Military Dictator. Suggests a New World Military Headquarters near Christchurch in a nuclear-proof bunker, a sanctuary for aliens, the development of the Australian outback, a new World City in south westland New Zealand, the development of the New Zealand section of Antarctica, and other ideas. See also 1987, 1988, and 1997 Mehlhopt.

PB - Seagull Press CY - Christchurch, New Zealand U5 -

ATL

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Yanked! Y1 - 1999 A1 - Nancy [Anne Koningisor] Kress (b. 1948) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia as background to an adventure story. In the twenty-first century the Earth begins a long period of decline, but humanity recovers and eliminates all the traditional problems like poverty and disease. Little detail. 

PB - Avon CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - "17" Y1 - 1998 A1 - Paul J[ames] McAuley (b. 1955) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia set in a destroyed future worlds with people struggling to survive salvaging toxic wastes and a young woman’s struggle to get out.

JF - Asimov’s Science Fiction VL - 22.6 (270) N1 -

Rpt. in his A Very British History: The Best Science Fiction Stories of Paul McAuley, 1985-2011 (Hornsea, Eng.: PS Publishing, 2013), 211-24 with an author’s note on 429-30.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - 51st State Y1 - 1998 A1 - Peter Preston (1938-2018) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A rather unlikely political novel by the long-time Editor of The Guardian in which England joins the United States as the 51st state.

PB - Viking CY - London U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Access Fantasy" Y1 - 1998 A1 - Jonathan [Allen] Lethem (b. 1964) ED - Patrick Nielsen Hayden KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia. Vast numbers of people live in their cars stuck in an endless traffic jam and cut off from the wealthy who live on the other side of barriers that keep the two groups mostly separate.

JF - Starlight 2 PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Accidental Creatures Y1 - 1998 A1 - Anne [L.] Harris (b. 1964) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian background to biological science fiction. Society divided into the very rich and the very poor. Powerful corporation.

PB - Tor CY - New Tork U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Advent of the Incredulous Stigmata Man Y1 - 1998 A1 - Kelvin Mason KW - Male author KW - Welsh author KW - Zimbabwean author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia governed by the Extended European Community. The Antipodes are under a hole in the ozone layer and the people are very likely to die of skin cancer. Beer limited to 2% alcohol. Tobacco is outlawed and very hard to get on the black market. Unauthorized pregnancy is illegal; the mother is sent to prison and the child is taken by the state. Abortion is illegal an impossible to obtain. The novel focuses on a man who develops the stigmata and his relations with others living on the margins of the dystopia. The novel is set in Scotland.

PB - Citron Press CY - London U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Afrolantica Legacies Y1 - 1998 A1 - Derrick [Albert] Bell [Jr.] (1930-2011) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

The author introduced the idea of Afrolantica in his “The Afrolantica Awakening.” In his Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism (New York: Basic Books, 1992), 32-46, 203-04. In it, Afrolantica emerges 900 miles east of South Carolina as an area about the size of New England complete with flourishing flora and fauna and valuable mineral deposits but no humans. In fact, it appeared that humans could not survive there, but it becomes obvious that African Americans and only African Americans can survive there. What the first African American explorers felt “was an invigorating experience of heightened self-esteem, of liberation, of waking up. All four agreed that, while exploring what the media were now referring to as ‘Afrolantica,’ they felt free.” The essay/story then reprises some of the history of Black Nationalism and details the conflict among blacks over whether or not to settle Afrolantica. The piece then ends where the Afrolantica Legacies begins, and the rest of the volume has his fictional African American legal scholar Geneva Crenshaw time travel to points key points in U.S. history when decisions were made regarding racial justice where she argues for a different approach and then discusses the resulting situation with Bell. See also, 1987, 1991, and 1992 Bell. 

PB - Third World Press CY - Chicago, IL U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Against the Day Y1 - 1998 A1 - Michael Cronin (b. 1942) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Young Adult dystopia of a Nazi occupied Britain and the struggle against it. Sequels include Through the Night. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 2002; and In the Morning. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 2005.

PB - Oxford University Press CY - Oxford, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “All the Birds of Hell” Y1 - 1998 A1 - Tanith Lee (1947-2015) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a climate-change dystopia brought on by a new ice age.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 95.4&5 (567) N1 -

 Rpt. in The Best from Fantasy & Science Fiction: The Fiftieth Anniversary Anthology. Ed. Edward L. Ferman and George Van Gelder (New York: Tor, 1999), 209-32.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Among the Hidden Y1 - 1998 A1 - Margaret Peterson Haddix (b. 1964) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult overpopulation dystopia in which each family is limited to two children. The focus of the novel is on the "shadow children" or those who are the third or more children. See also 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006 Haddix.

PB - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers CY - New York U1 -

On some copies the title is Amongst the Hidden.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Aptious Thinking Y1 - 1998 A1 - David Roseman KW - Male author AB -

Essay but self-labeled as a utopia. Aptious is a word coined by the author “to be synonymous with, but more penetrating than, ‘apt’,” and the book is a consideration of “which bases of day-to-day philosophy are apt for the future” (1). Proposes “a free, mutually respecting society” that will allow individuals to “take responsibility for their own actions” and leave government to “take responsibility for the adverse actions of others” (33). There is a constitution with only seven laws. These are general principles except for the law on taxation, which suggests a new system of taxation with the tax imposed whenever money exchanges hands. Crime is an illness and the patient should not be released until cured. Family allowance as a tax credit paid for the first child and, if the government chooses, the second but not for a third or more. Workers should be shareholders in the business for which they work.

PB - Bear Publications CY - Worcester, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - THE ARK of Ao Tea Roa: A Quavel Y1 - 1998 A1 - Miguel Orio KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Middle volume of his The Hermit Islands trilogy set in New Zealand. This volume includes a Maori eutopia. The first volume, The Feather Chest (Te Wakahuia [Te Waka Huia on the dust jacket]. London: Janus Publishing Co., 1996, provides background. The third volume, The Torn Tiki: A Quavel. Durham, Eng.: The Pentland Press, 1999, provides an overall history. Quavel = quasi-novel.

PB - Janus Publishing Co CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Asonu" Y1 - 1998 A1 - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

An odd society where people speak very little and live good lives. Satire on those who want them to be mystics.

JF - Orion: People and Nature VL - 17.4 N1 -

Rpt. as "The Silence of the Asonu." In her Changing Planes. Illus. by Eric Beddows (Orlando, FL: Harcourt, 2003), 19-29; online in Lightspeed in December 2010; in Lightspeed: Year One. Ed. John Joseph Adams ([New York]: Prime Books, 2011), 328-33; and in her The Real and the Unreal. Selected Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin. Volume Two Outer Space, Inner Lands (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2012), 253-63; and in the one volume edition The Real and the Unreal: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin (New York: Saga Press, 2016), 605-12.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Atrocity Shop Y1 - 1998 A1 - Kurt [Oscar Eugene] von Trojan (b. 1937) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Much sex and violence. Fascists versus Communists versus corrupt politicians, judges, and religious leaders of all types.

PB - Altair CY - Blackwood, SA, Australia U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “‘Battle Neverending’” Y1 - 1998 A1 - Saab Lofton KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

A fictional interview of the African American superhero Tommorrowman by the U.S. journalist Bill Moyers (b. 1934). Tommorowman has been given his powers by an alien from a “pacifist, democratic, multicultural, and egalitarian” Interstellar Community (47). Mostly commentary on contemporary events.

JF - Battle Neverending PB - Share the Wealth Publications CY - Np U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Beautiful City Y1 - 1998 A1 - [Chris] [Humphrey] KW - US author AB -

Detailed eutopia that includes the author’s opinions on a range of issues. The website is no longer live.

UR - http://members.aol.com/DrHumph/top.htm. No longer live. U3 -

DrHumph [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Blue Light. A Novel Y1 - 1998 A1 - Walter [Ellis] Mosley (b. 1952) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

A light from space transforms those it touches by giving them a special talent and raises them to their highest potential, except for one who is turned into a demon intent on killing all the others. The protagonist is a bi-racial man. 

PB - Little, Brown CY - Boston, MA U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Body Politic" Y1 - 1998 A1 - Tess Williams (b. 1954) ED - Jack [Mayo] Dann (b. 1945) ED - Janeen Webb KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia of extreme poverty contrasted with great wealth.

JF - Dreaming Down Under PB - HarperCollins CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Brainjoy Y1 - 1998 A1 - Chris Else (b. 1942) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author AB -

Dystopia of a near future New Zealand where everything, including police services, has been privatized.

PB - Tandem Press CY - North Shore City, New Zealand U5 -

VUW

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Brown Girl in the Ring Y1 - 1998 A1 - [Noelle] Nalo Hopkinson (b. 1960) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - Guyanese author KW - Jamaican author KW - Trinidadian author KW - US author AB -

Magic realism set in a future Toronto dystopia.

PB - Warner Books CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Brute Orbits Y1 - 1998 A1 - George Zebrowski (b. 1945) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Earth decides to cleanse itself of criminals by sending them off into orbit in hollowed-out asteroids. Extended to political dissidents and, ultimately, anyone who upsets the powerful. The novel explores the process of adaptation on a number of the asteroids.

PB - HarperPrism CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Bunny Modern. A Novel Y1 - 1998 A1 - David [Anthony] Bowman (1957-2012) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Future United States in which all electricity has failed and the birthrate has dropped precipitously.

PB - Little, Brown CY - Boston, MA U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Cassini Division Y1 - 1998 A1 - Ken[nth Macrae] MacLeod (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

The third volume of his Fall Revolution series, which also includes 1995, 1996, and 1999 MacLeod. This volume, in which every chapter is the title of a utopia, develops the description of two contrasting eutopias, anarcho-socialist and anarcho-capitalist in conflict with post-humans.

PB - Orbit CY - London SN - 1 85723 603 3 N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Tor, 1998.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Chance of Safety Y1 - 1998 A1 - Henrietta [Diana Primrose Longstaff] Branford (1946-99) KW - English author AB -

Young adult authoritarian dystopia. Radical division between the rich and the poor. Children escape to a more primitive society which is set to replace the dystopia.

PB - Hodder Children's Books CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Circuit of Heaven Y1 - 1998 A1 - Dennis [Howard] Danvers (b. 1947) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Immortality gained by uploading personality into a large computer. Inside is a eutopia; outside is a gradually decaying dystopia. A sequel is End of Days. New York: Avon Eos, 1999.

PB - Avon Eos CY - New York U5 -

CU-Riv, Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Commitment Hour Y1 - 1998 A1 - James Alan Gardner (b. 1955) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Future primitive dystopia in which each person must choose their gender or become a "Neut" or hermaphrodite. Conflict with a more advanced society.

PB - Avon Eos CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Computopia Y1 - 1998 A1 - James [Matthew Henry] Lovegrove (b. 1965) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The setting for the novel is a high tech eutopia that has solved the Earth’s environmental problems, but the action of the novel focuses on a man who tries to use the web to gain power. See also 1997 Baxter, Gulliverzone and 1997 Brown, Untouchable. Other, non-utopian volumes in the series include Stephen Bowkett, Dreamcastle (1997), Graham Joyce, Spiderbite (1997), Peter F. Hamilton, Lightstorm (1997), Ken Macleod, Cydonia (1998), Maggie Furey, Sorceress (1998), Stephen Baxter, Webcrash (1998), Maggie Furey, Spindrift (1998), Eric Brown, Walkabout (1999), and Pat Cadigan, Avatar (1999).

PB - Orion Children’s Books and Dolphin Paperbacks CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Web 2028 (London: Millennium, 1999), 219-324. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - C.S.A.: Confederate States of America Y1 - 1998 A1 - Howard Means KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Alternative history. The South had won the Civil War and established a segregated society, which works fine as long as the color lines are strictly kept. The North is a wasteland. The system in the South is corrupt and collapses.

PB - William Morrow & Co. CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Cythera Y1 - 1998 A1 - Richard Calder (b. 1955) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Cyberpunk dystopia.

PB - Orbit CY - London U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Dark Water" Y1 - 1998 A1 - Danel Spragg ED - P[eter] G. R. Hamilton KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Science fiction story that begins on the Utopia Habitat, a huge Dyson Sphere that is a technological eutopia. Most of the story is an adventure tale that takes place on a space ship.

JF - Millennium Nights PB - Campus Press CY - Palmerston North, New Zealand U5 -

ATL, NZ

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Days of Solomon Gursky" Y1 - 1998 A1 - Ian [Neil] McDonald (b. 1960) KW - Male author KW - Northern Ireland author AB -

Sequel to his Necroville (1994) but with eutopian possibilities.

JF - Asimov's Science Fiction VL - 22.6 (270) U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Distraction Y1 - 1998 A1 - [Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Political novel set in a future United States that is disintegrating as a result of various environmental and other problems.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Dream" Y1 - 1998 A1 - John Seymour KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Set on the Aran Islands, which have become dependent on tourists and government handouts. Proposal, originating in a dream showing the life being sucked out of the islands, that they return to the eutopian self-sufficiency (described at the beginning of the story). Specifically, re-establish dairying, fishing, gardening, and other farming and wool-production, work toward energy self-sufficiency through wind power, and get rid of cars.

JF - The Aisling Quarterly (Aran Islands, Ireland) VL - 23 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Earth Made of Glass Y1 - 1998 A1 - John [Allen] Barnes (b. 1957) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

 Sequel to 1992 Barnes. This novel focuses on a planet with a culture based on an African American millennialist group that believes it is the spiritual descendant of Chaka or Shaka Zulu [Shaka kaSenzangakhona] (1787-1828). Non-utopian sequels include The Merchants of Souls. New York: Tor, 2001 and The Armies of Memory. New York: Tor, 2006

PB - Tor CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Millennium, 1998.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Eclipse of the Sun Y1 - 1998 A1 - Michael [David] O'Brien KW - Male author AB -

Roman Catholic dystopia of the end times.

PB - Ignatius Press CY - San Francisco, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - England, England Y1 - 1998 A1 - Julian [Patrick] Barnes (b. 1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire. An England theme park is built on the Isle of Wight with all of the attractions of England available. It becomes an independent state, and England collapses into a medieval society called Anglia that can be read as eutopian or dystopian.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Extensions Y1 - 1998 A1 - Mark W. Tiedemann (b. 1954) KW - Male author AB -

Corporate dystopia in the future.

PB - Yard Dog Press CY - Alma, AR U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Fairest Isle" Y1 - 1998 A1 - Elizabeth Counihan KW - Female author AB -

Future dystopia of a poverty-stricken Britain.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 128 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Fantasy Machine Y1 - 1998 A1 - Andrew Sewell-Crooke KW - Male author AB -

Overpopulation, authoritarian dystopia. Virtual reality and drugs can create any world for a person. All services on a fee for service basis. Global warming, so England is sub-tropical.

PB - Falcon CY - London U5 -

L, NLS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Feral Y1 - 1998 A1 - Kerry Greenwood (b. 1959) KW - Australian author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia in sequel to 1996 and 1997 Greenwood. This novel focuses on a university that has been taken over by a group known as the Management and the struggle to restore order there.

PB - Hodder Children’s Books Australia CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia N1 -

Rpt. with 1996 and 1997 Greenwood separately paged and with no separate title Sydney, NSW, Australia: Hodder Headline, 2002.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The First Immortal Y1 - 1998 A1 - James L. Halperin (b. 1952) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Partially a sequel to his 1996 The Truth Machine and partially the story of various attempts to achieve immortality.

PB - del Rey CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Flee the Darkness Y1 - 1998 A1 - Grant R[eid] Jeffrey (1948-2012) A1 - Angela [Elwell] Hunt (b. 1957) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - Male author AB -

Using the fear of possible computer crashes at the beginning of 2000, the novel is concerned with the struggle between good and evil, the antichrist, Armageddon (See Revelation 16), and the millennium. Their By Dawn’s Early Light. Nashville, TN: Word Publishing, 1999 and The Spear of Tyranny. Nashville, TN: Word Publishing, 2000 are sequels. See also 1990 Jeffrey, his Final Warning. Eugene, OR: Harvest House Publishers, 1996; and his Surveillance Society: The Rise of Antichrist. Toronto, ON, Canada: Frontier Research Publications, 2000.

PB - Word Publishing CY - Nashville, TN U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Founding Fathers" Y1 - 1998 A1 - Stephen Dedman (b. 1959) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia on a planet trying to establish a patriarchal, white-only culture. With only a few exceptions, the rest of the known universe has gender equality and is multicultural and peaceful. A sequel is “Unequal Laws.” Science Fiction Age 7.3 (March 1999): 39-53. 

JF - Science Fiction Age VL - 6.3 N1 -

Rpt. in his The Lady of Situations (Nedlands, WA, Australia: Ticonderoga Publications, 1999), 99-126.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Gertrude and the Printed Page Y1 - 1998 A1 - Stanley L. Alpert KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A future dystopia where publishing new books is outlawed and the experiences of the owner of the last bookstore.

PB - Alpert's Bookery CY - Nanuet, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Girl in Landscape Y1 - 1998 A1 - Jonathan [Allen] Lethem (b. 1964) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel begins in a dystopia on Earth brought about by environmental collapse. Everyone must live underground and avoid the sun completely. A family moves to a new planet, and the novel shifts to the relations among the new inhabitants and their relations with the indigenous inhabitants seen through the eyes of a girl as she becomes an adult.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Faber and Faber, 2002.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Golden Globe Y1 - 1998 A1 - John [Herbert] Varley (b. 1947) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Libertarian science fiction.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Halfway Human Y1 - 1998 A1 - Carolyn Ives Gilman (b. 1954) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Describes a planet that appears eutopian but is dependent on the labor of an underclass of ungendered people. Describes another planet whose economy is based on the sale of information.

PB - Avon Eos CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hand of Prophecy Y1 - 1998 A1 - [Suzanne] [Feldman] (b. 1958) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia with slavery.

PB - Avon Eos CY - New York U3 -

Severna Park [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Hardware Scenario G-49” Y1 - 1998 A1 - James Alan Gardner (b. 1955) ED - KIm Mohan KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which almost the entire population of Earth is boxed up and tended by robots. 

JF - More Amazing Stories PB - Tor CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Harvest Y1 - 1998 A1 - Manjula Padmanabhan (b. 1953) KW - Female author KW - Indian author AB -

Dystopian play focusing on the sale of body parts by the poor to the rich.

PB - Kali for Women CY - Delhi, India N1 -

Rpt. in Black and Asian Plays (London: Aurora Metro Books/The Peggy Ramsay Foundation, 2000), 10-89. A standalone version of the play with unauthorized cuts was published by the same publisher in 2003. Rev. in Postcolonial Plays: An Anthology. Ed. Helen Gilbert (London: Routledge, 2011), 217-249, with an editor’s “Introduction” (214-216). Rev & exp. ed. Gurgram, India: Hachette India, 2017 with a new introduction by the author (unpaged); and Wadsworth Anthology of Drama. Ed. W[illiam] B. Worthen. 6th ed. (Boston, MA: Wadsworth Cengage Learning, 2011), 1727-1755.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hex Y1 - 1998 A1 - Rhiannon Lassiter (b. 1977) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult dystopia where some people are genetically modified to have direct access to all computers, which gives them immense power. See also 1998 and 2000 Lassiter. The three volumes have been published together as Void (2011).

PB - Macmillan Children's Books CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in her Void (New York: Simon Pulse, 2011), 1-240. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - History. A Two Hour Sci-Fi Drama Y1 - 1998 A1 - Derek Pearson (b. 1966) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia but includes a brief depiction of a future eutopian Wellington. See also 2001 Pearson.

PB - Author/Halcyon Pictures CY - Lower Hutt, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The History of Our World Beyond the Wave Y1 - 1998 A1 - R[obert] E. Klein KW - Male author AB -

Allegory. Civilization is destroyed by a great wave. The few survivors gradually congregate on a large island, battle and defeat evil, and establish the equivalent of a small-town, democratic eutopia.

PB - Harcourt, Brace & Co CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - I Am Not Esther Y1 - 1998 A1 - Fleur Beale (b. 1945) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult dystopia set in a communal fundamentalist sect. The title refers to the practice of changing the names of members who join to Biblical names.

PB - Longacre Press CY - Dunedin, New Zealand ER - TY - ABST T1 - I Hated Heaven: A Novel of Love After Death. To Keep a Promise he made on Earth, he had to break every rule in Heaven Y1 - 1998 A1 - Kenny Kemp KW - Male author AB -

Dystopian heaven which is overly bureaucratic.

PB - Alta Films Press CY - Salt Lake City, UT U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Ice People Y1 - 1998 A1 - Maggie [Margaret Mary] Gee (b. 1948) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia. Depicts the collapse of civilization as a new ice age takes hold. Various dystopian scenarios develop in the process.

PB - Richard Cohen Books CY - London N1 -

Rev. London: Telegram Books, 2008.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Infinite Race" Y1 - 1998 A1 - Terry [Terence William] Dowling (b. 1947) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia in Australia, but an attempt to destroy the Republic is thwarted.

JF - Aurealis (Melbourne, VIC, Australia) VL - no. 20/21 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Inherit the Earth Y1 - 1998 A1 - Brian [Michael] Stableford (b. 1948) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Background to a complex adventure is a society the people call the New Utopia. A post-catastrophe society which has extended life spans significantly and in which most people are fairly well off, but in which there is still poverty and life-extension is expensive. See also 1999, 2000, and 2002 Stableford (2). 

PB - Tor CY - New York N1 -

A different, shorter version originally published as "Inherit the Earth" Analog Science Fiction and Fact 115.8 & 9 (July 1995): 122-75.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Iron Bridge Y1 - 1998 A1 - David Morse (b. 1940) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Mostly set in the past. A woman from an ecological eutopian enclave in a post-catastrophe dystopian future U.S. has been sent to the past to attempt to stop the development of the Industrial Revolution.

PB - Harcourt Brace & Co CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - June, 2004 Y1 - 1998 A1 - Laurence W. Britt KW - Male author AB -

Near future political novel in which current trends produce a dystopia.

PB - BookWorld Press CY - Sarasota, FL N1 -

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Keeping the Meter Running" Y1 - 1998 A1 - Geoffrey [Peter] Maloney (b. 1956) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

A flawed utopia become dystopia on the 40th anniversary of the revolution. This story together with 1992 Maloney "The Taxi Driver" and 1998 Maloney "Keep the Meter Running" are part of a single story regarding corruption in a future dystopia. See also 1990 Maloney "The Age of Democracy and 1992 Maloney "Requiem for the General".

JF - Aurealis (Melbourne, VIC, Australia) VL - no. 20/21 N1 -

Rpt. in his Tales from the Crypto-System (Canton, OH: Prime Books, 2003), 109-31.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Kirinyaga: A Fable of Utopia Y1 - 1998 A1 - Mike [Michael Diamond] Resnick (1942-2020) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A collection of connected stories about an attempt to create a Kikuyu eutopia on a terraformed world known as Kirinyaga. The novel begins in a future Kenya where the animal herds are no more, only crops bound for Europe are grown, and polluted cities encroached on the sacred mountain Kirinyaga. An attempt is made to impose a single, unchangeable vision. A companion volume is 2008 Resnick, Kilimanjaro: A Fable of Utopia.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York SN - 0-345-41701-1 N1 -

Stories originally published as "Kirinyaga." The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 75.5 (November 1988): 6-8, 10-12, 14-26; rpt. in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989), 148-63 with an editor's note on 147; "For I Have Touched the Sky." The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 77.6 (December 1989): 135-59. Rpt. in The Year's Best Science Fiction. Seventh Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990), 57-77 with an editor's note on 56; and in Future Earths: Under African Skies. Ed. Mike [Michael Diamond] Resnick and Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: DAW Books, 1993), 15-44; "Bwana." Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine 14.1 (152) (January 1990): 134-76; "The Manamouki." Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine 14.7 (158) (July 1990): 16-20, 22-25, 28-30, 32-34, 36-38, 40-42, 44-46, 48-53. Rpt. in Stalking the Wild Resnick (Cambridge, MA: The NESFA Press, 1991), 3-42; "One Perfect Morning, With Jackels." Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine 15.3 (168) (March 1991): 130-37. Rpt. The Year's Best Science Fiction: Ninth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992), 520-26; and in Isaac Asimov's Utopias. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois and Sheila Williams (New York: Ace Books, 2000), 97-107 with a note on 97-98; "Song of a Dry River." Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine 16.3 (183) (March 1992): 56-62, 65-76. Rpt. in Stalking the Wild Resnick (Cambridge, MA: The NESFA Press, 1991), 81-106; "The Lotus and the Spear." Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine 16.9 (18) (August 1992): 16-25, 28-30, 32-35; "A Little Knowledge." Asimov's Science Fiction 18.4 & 5 (214 & 215) (April 1994): 92-117; "When the Old Gods Die." Asimov's Science Fiction 19.4 & 5 (229-30) (April 1995): 68-89; and "The Land of Nod." Asimov's Science Fiction 20.6 (246) (June 1996): 10-16, 18-24, 26-35.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Land of the Golden Clouds Y1 - 1998 A1 - Archie Weller (b. 1957) KW - Aboriginal author KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Set in a post-catastrophe Australia 3000 years in the future. Conflict among the surviving groups, all of whom have taken on at least part of the Aboriginal world view. The groups that are closest to the Aboriginal way of life are presented most positively.

PB - Allen & Unwin CY - St. Leonards, NSW, Australia N1 -

An excerpt was published in Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction. Ed. Grace Dillon (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2012), 131-40 with an editor’s note on 131-32, 247. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Liam Hannigan's Hyperbreed Robowar Y1 - 1998 A1 - Liam Hannigan (b. 1978) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Comic. First, and apparently last, of a series about a future eutopia based on limited population and the labor of robots. The Hyperbreed are genetically created superior humans. The robots and disaffected Hyperbreed revolt and civil war begins.

PB - Author CY - Wellington, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Long Sandy Hair of Neftoon Zamora. A Novel Y1 - 1998 A1 - [Robert] Michael Nesmith (b. 1942) KW - Male author AB -

The novel includes both eutopian and dystopian elements and fantasy.

PB - St. Martin’s Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “‘Make Love, Not War’” Y1 - 1998 A1 - Saab Lofton KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

The dystopia of the present from the point-of-view of an African American activist plus elements of alternative dystopian and eutopian futures.

JF - Battle Neverending PB - Share the Wealth Publications CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Malthusian Code" Y1 - 1998 A1 - Leslie Lupien ED - Michael Magnini AB -

Population control through a culture that approves only homosexual and lesbian relations. Named after Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834).

JF - North of Infinity: Futurity Visions PB - Mosaic Press CY - Oakville, ON, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Masque Y1 - 1998 A1 - F[rancis] Paul Wilson (b. 1946) A1 - Matthew J[ohn] Costello (b. 1948) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Far future warring corporations.

PB - Warner Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Matrix. Shooting Script August 12, 1998" Y1 - 1998 A1 - Larry [Laurence] Wachowski (b. 1965) A1 - Andy [Andrew] Wachowski (b. 1967) ED - Spencer Lamm KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian film released in 1999, followed by “The Matrix Revolution” (2003), “Matrix Reloaded (2003), and “The Matrix Resurrections” (2021), written by Lana Wachowski, David Mitchell, and Aleksandar Hemon. “The Animatrix,” an animated series of nine short films, four written by the Wachowskis, set in the Matrix universe was released in 2003 (see http://www.intothematrix.com/). A satire is [Adam Roberts], McAtrix Derided. By The Robertski Brothers [pseud.]. London: Gollancz, 2004.

JF - The Art of The Matrix PB - Titan Books CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Maximum Light Y1 - 1998 A1 - Nancy [Anne Koningisor] Kress (b. 1948) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A near future dystopia in which the birth rate drops precipitously, which the economy cannot handle, and the resulting poverty and violence.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Mayor of Aln Y1 - 1998 A1 - James Rourke (b. 1960) KW - Male author AB -

Failed religious eutopia that is reminiscent of Münster, Germany and Thomas Müntzer. A leader proclaims himself King and Messiah and abolishes property and marriage. The city is then besieged and defeated.

PB - Parthian Press CY - Cardiff, Wales U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Mean Green Machine Y1 - 1998 A1 - Alan M. Brooker (b. 1934) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia--political novel depicting a violent, bisexual environmental movement in New Zealand with neo-Nazi connections.

PB - Orca Publishing CY - Christchurch, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Moonwar Y1 - 1998 A1 - Ben[jamin William] Bova (1932-2020) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The moon has become a high tech eutopia, while the Earth has become an anti-technology dystopia. Sequel to his Moonrise. New York: Avon, 1992.

PB - Avon Eos CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Mulatto Millennium” Y1 - 1998 A1 - Danzy Senna ED - Claudine Chiawei O'Hearn KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Satire on racial identity and politics in the United States where suddenly being mixed race is the only acceptable identity.

JF - Half and Half: Writers on Growing up Biracial and Bicultural PB - Pantheon Books CY - New York SN - 0375400311 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Noir Y1 - 1998 A1 - K[evin] W[ayne] Jeter (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Background of an authoritarian dystopia.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1999.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Off the Road Y1 - 1998 A1 - Nina Bawden (1925-2012) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult novel set in 2040 contrasting a highly organized, sterile, supposed eutopia with largely traditional country life. Country life is marred by wandering gangs; the eutopia is based on regulating consumption by removing all to Nostalgia homes at age 65.

PB - Hamish Hamilton CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Clarion Books, 1998.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Originator Y1 - 1998 A1 - Claire Carmichael (b. 1940) KW - Australian author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult authoritarian dystopia focusing on genetic engineering. A rigidly hierarchical society, divided into Leets, Mids, and Subs, faces a scientist creating super-humans. Her Fabricant. Milsons Point, NSW, Australia: Random House Australia, 1999 is a sequel. 

PB - Random House Australia CY - Milsons Point, NSW, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Parable of the Talents Y1 - 1998 A1 - Octavia E[stelle] Butler (1947-2006) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Sequel to 1993 Butler in which the community started in the previous volume is taken over by religious fundamentalists. 

PB - Seven Stories Press CY - New York N1 -

An excerpt was published as “Parable of the Talents Chapter Four.” Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 6.2 (1999): 135-48 followed by Susan Palwick, “Imagining a Sustainable Way of Life: An Interview with Octavia Butler” (149-58). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Paradise Y1 - 1998 A1 - Toni Morrison (1931-2019) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

The novel is based around a community of African Americans that was founded to be a utopian enclave.

PB - Alfred A. Knopf CY - New York N1 -

UK ed. London: Chatto & Windus, 1998.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "On the Penal Colony" Y1 - 1998 A1 - Kit [Lilian Craig] Reed (1932-2017) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which an historic site is actually a prison with all the people playing the roles of historic inhabitants as prisoners.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 95.2 (565) N1 -

Rpt. in her The Story Until Now: A Great Big Book of Stories (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2013), 229-39.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Perverse Acts Y1 - 1998 A1 - Camilla Nelson (b. 1967) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

A political novel set in near-future Australia depicted as a dystopia of conflict between an activist right and a fairly conservative middle.

PB - Text Publishing Co CY - Melbourne, VIC, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Pesthouse Y1 - 1998 A1 - Jim [James] Crace (b. 1946). KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia that includes a religious intentional community called The Blessed Ark.

PB - Picador CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Nan A. Talese, 2007.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Planet Dreams Y1 - 1998 A1 - Michaela Carlock KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The novel presents two near future Earths. One is an ecologically oriented, non-violent, egalitarian eutopia, and the others is an extremely polluted, violent, poor, authoritarian dystopia. They begin to interact, changing both, but the eutopia survives without serious damage. New Age themes. 

PB - Keswick House CY - Redding, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Prelude to a Nocturne" Y1 - 1998 A1 - Rowena Cory Lindquist (b. 1958) ED - Jack [Mayo] Dann (b. 1945) ED - Janeen Webb KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia. A future in which many people permanently put off puberty.

JF - Dreaming Down-Under PB - HarperCollins CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia ER - TY - ABST T1 - Psylicon Beach Y1 - 1998 A1 - Philip Gross (b. 1952) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia stressing pollution, poverty versus wealth, and corrupt authority. Described as for Young Adults.

PB - Scholastic Press CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - “‘Rapture’” Y1 - 1998 A1 - Saab Lofton KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

Humorous story of an angel who tries to continue to be politically involved to avoid the coming dystopia in the U.S. See also 1995 Lofton.

JF - Battle Neverending PB - Share the Wealth Publications CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Really Know Love for all-that-is Y1 - 1998 A1 - Roslynn Webb Cady KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

New Age eutopia, See also 2008 Cady. A related work is her The Final Quantum: A New Thought Novel. North Charleston, SC: Create Space Independent Publishing Platform in conjunction with RosTer Publications Cañon City, CO., 2016.

PB - RosTer Publications CY - Sedona, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Republic of Dreams: A Reverie Y1 - 1998 A1 - G. Garfield Crimmins KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Something of a modern cockaigne under attack by rationalists. The Republic of Dreams where good food, good sex, and good wine are the norm. The book is heavily illustrated and includes foldouts and various inserts.

PB - W.W. Norton CY - New York U2 -

The book is heavily illustrated and includes foldouts and various inserts.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Scavenger's Tale Y1 - 1998 A1 - Rachel Anderson KW - Female author AB -

Young adult post-catastrophe dystopia set in 2015. The world is radically divided between the rich and the poor. Authoritarian government and authoritarian church.

PB - Oxford University Press CY - Oxford, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Scepticism Inc Y1 - 1998 A1 - Bo Fowler KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Satire on religion.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Seal of Gaia: A Novel of the Antichrist Y1 - 1998 A1 - [Robert] Marlin Maddoux KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia centering on the Antichrist.

PB - Word Publishing Co CY - Nashville, TN U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Second Angel Y1 - 1998 A1 - Philip [Ballantyne] Kerr (1956-2018) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia based on the control of blood supplies. World divided into the well and the potentially ill. Successful revolt.

PB - Orion CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - Snowdome Y1 - 1998 A1 - Bernard Cohen (b. 1963) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia set in the early twenty-first century. Sydney is now a museum.

PB - Allen & Unwin CY - St. Leonards, NSW, Australia N1 -

Parts were originally published in different form as “from Inflation.” Screens and Tasted Parallels. No. 2 (1990): 93-95; as “No One Lives Here Anymore.”  Picador New Writing. Ed. Helen Daniel and Robert Dessaix (Sydney, NSW, Australia: Picador Australia): 2: 265-72, Meanjin, Southerly, Otis Rush, Hermes, the Canberra Times, Between U&S, Analects, and presented in Volume 8 (First Draft West Gallery, Annandale), the Performance Space, and on Sideshow (radio 2SER). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Square Apples Start Wars Y1 - 1998 A1 - James Howell KW - Male author AB -

Dystopian thriller. Africa is under a dictatorship and threatens the European Alliance with a nuclear attack.

PB - Minerva Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Taur Y1 - 1998 A1 - Jack [Millen] Lasenby (1931-2019) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Second volume of a series. In this volume, the young man continues his trip down through the North Island. See also 1997, 1999 and 2001 Lasenby.

PB - Longacre Press CY - Dunedin, New Zealand U5 -

ATL, L, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Tea From An Empty Cup Y1 - 1998 A1 - Pat[ricia Oren Kearney] Cadigan (b. 1953) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Cyberpunk dystopia. See also 2000 Cadigan.

PB - HarperCollins CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Tor, 1998.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Testimony: A Poetic Future World Adventure Y1 - 1998 A1 - John Foster (b. 1942) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia, with the emphasis on the successful struggle against it. Advanced technology, including perpetual motion.

PB - Silverhill Press CY - North Auckland, New Zealand U5 -

ATL

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Texas 2077: A Futuristic Novel Y1 - 1998 A1 - Carlos Miralejos KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A Hispanic political party develops and becomes a major force nationally, but Texas is planning to secede, and that would seriously weaken the Hispanic part. The novel has a number of other plot lines.

PB - Outer Space Press CY - Daytona, FL SN - 0-9625266-4-9 U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Thanksgiving Day at the Temple" Y1 - 1998 A1 - Donna Farley ED - Susan MacGregor KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

A future dystopia in which religion is suppressed.

JF - Divine Realms: Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy PB - Ravenstone CY - (Winnipeg, MB, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - ThigMOO Y1 - 1998 A1 - Eugene Byrne (b. 1959) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

A satirical take on university life and technology in which faculty and students at a third-rate British university establish a Museum of the Mind online by creating fictional electronic characters with the histories and personalities of characters from the past. The escape from the Museum and go through many battles among themselves but ultimately produce a socialist eutopia.

PB - Simon & Schuster CY - New York N1 -

U,K. ed. London: Earthlight, 1999. Part originally published as "ThigMOO." Interzone, no. 120 (June 1997): 40-51.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Tough Girls Don't Dream" Y1 - 1998 A1 - Jeanette Winterson (b. 1959) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia of a world where sleep is illegal.

JF - The New Yorker VL - 74.16 N1 -

Rpt. as "Disappearance I." In The World and Other Places (London: Jonathan Cape, 1998), 101-15. U.S. ed. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999), 101-15.

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Rpt. as "Disappearance I."

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Trajectories Y1 - 1998 A1 - Julian Rathbone (1935-2008) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Britain has collapsed into various small city-states of various sizes. The largest, centered on Birmingham, is essentially governed by a secret service. The rich live in enclaves which they rarely if ever leave. The poor, many suffering from radiation sickness, are kept under control by a powerful police force.

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London U5 -

Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Transit" Y1 - 1998 A1 - Stephen Dedman (b. 1959) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

A young girl from a dystopian traditional Islamic planet meets and falls in love with a boy/girl of a hermaphrodite planet. The hermaphrodite planet is presented in a generally positive light. Clash and mixing of cultures in the future.

JF - Asimov's Science Fiction VL - 22.3 (267) N1 -

Rpt. in his The Lady of Situations (Nedlands, WA, Australia: Ticonderoga Publications, 1999), 71-93; and in Isaac Asimov’s Utopias. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois and Sheila Williams (New York: Ace Books, 2000), 135-68 with a note on 135. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Truman Show: The Shooting Script Y1 - 1998 A1 - Andrew Niccol (b. 1964) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

A TV program, the Truman Show, is a 24 hour a day program broadcasting the life a man in an apparent paradise, but he does not know that everyone else is an actor. 

PB - Nick Heron Books CY - London N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Nick Heron Books, 1998.

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O, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Truth About Weena" Y1 - 1998 A1 - David J[ohn] Lake (1929-2016) ED - Jack [Mayo] Dann (b. 1945) ED - Janeen Webb KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Indian author KW - Male author AB -

On a different time line from that described in 1895 Wells, the Eloi woman Weena is brought back from the future and becomes a political activist, leading to a better society. See 1977 Lake and the note there.

JF - Dreaming Down-Under PB - HarperCollins CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Utopia Now: The Ultimate Success Story Y1 - 1998 A1 - Dan[ny L.] Cahill [III] KW - Male author AB -

Detailed New Age eutopia and argument that it is possible.

PB - Chiyoko Publishing CY - Richmond, CA U2 -

Illus. JaTaraA

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Vision: An Imaginary View of a Better Future for Mankind and a Possible Way Forward Y1 - 1998 A1 - Colin Millen KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia based on anarchy, ecology, and socialism. Everything is small-scale and community based. Brought about by “The Possibilists” who formed independent groups of five to ten members to bring about change locally. Self-managed communities. No money. Local and a common language. Advanced technology.

PB - Published by Health Books for the Author CY - Sheringham, Norfolk, Eng. U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Visitors" Y1 - 1998 A1 - L. A. Taylor ED - KIm Mohan AB -

Post-catastrophe (unexplained) dystopia in which all cities have disappeared. The story focuses on an automated house protecting its dead owners.

JF - More Amazing Stories PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

NLS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Which World? Scenarios for the 21st Century: Global Destinies, Regional Choices Y1 - 1998 A1 - Allen Hammond KW - Male author AB -

Presents three scenarios: “Market World: A New Golden Age of Prosperity? (26-36); “Fortress World: Instability and Violence?” (37-46); and “Transformed World: Changing the Human Endeavor?” (47-61). The first two, “the single-minded pursuit of prosperity” and “the descent into chaos and cruelty” (47) are clearly dystopian. The third depicts “a society that seeks not just wealth but also human welfare, not just security but also fairness. A society that is a steward, not an exploiter, of Earth” (47).

PB - Island Press/Shearwater Books CY - Washington, DC U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Whistler Y1 - 1998 A1 - Stephanie Johnson (b. 1961) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

Complex novel set in a future, overpopulated, violent Australia. Stories are told by a genetically re-engineered dog (no legs and no bark among other changes) who both remembers past lives and describes and comments on the current situation. In the future Australia, prostitution has become the official Relief Corps, half the population barely ever leaves their homes while others risk the constant violence for thrills, and tower blocks are ruled by local kings. Chapter 10 describes one of the dog's earlier lives in a lesbian eutopia.

PB - Allen & Unwin CY - St. Leonards, NSW, Australia N1 -

New Zealand ed. Auckland, New Zealand: Vintage, 1998.

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ATL, VUW

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Who Plays with Sin" Y1 - 1998 A1 - Don Bassingthwaite ED - Nicola [Jane] Griffith (b. 1960) ED - Stephen Pagel KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Future anti-gay dystopia. Same sex activity is outlawed and very harshly punished. It is not clear whether the laws apply to women as well as men. There are other stories in the volume that suggest this theme, but this is the only one that develops it.

JF - Bending the Landscape:Science Fiction. [Subtitle only on the cover Original Gay and Lesbian Writing] PB - Overlook Press CY - Woodstock, NY U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The 0's Y1 - 1997 A1 - Jekyll R. Salmon KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian future set in 2007 (thus the 0’s). Liberalism has produced a diminished U. S. The first woman President is elected by conservatives and plans reform through persuasion. After a massacre of school children, the equivalent of the National Rifle Association comes out in support of stringent regulations of guns. Stress on the election campaign and sex. 

PB - Vantage Press CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “After Henderson” Y1 - 1997 A1 - David Gullen KW - English author KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

Dystopia of war among the parts of the previous United Kingdom. 

JF - Albedo One (Dublin, Ireland) VL - no. 14 U5 -

CU-Riv

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Aftermath Y1 - 1997 A1 - LeVar Burton KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia depicting the development of racial conflict in the U.S. leading to a civil war on racial lines between 2015-2018, the collapse of the U.S., and the situation in the year after the war ends. 

PB - Warner Books/Aspect CY - New York N1 -

An excerpt from the novel was published in Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements. Ed. Walidah Imarisha and adrienne maree brown (Oakland, CA: AK Press and the Institute for Anarchist Studies, 2015), 215-23.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Antarctica Y1 - 1997 A1 - Kim Stanley Robinson (b. 1952) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Most of the novel is concerned with conflicts over the protection or development of Antarctica. But the novel ends with the agreement to establish a system that would be environmentally sound and put the future of Antarctica in the hands of those who care for it rather that companies concerned with making a profit. While there are few details and nothing on how it works out, the novel is regularly classified as a utopia.

PB - HarperCollins CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Bantam Books, 1998.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Back in the USSA Y1 - 1997 A1 - Eugene Byrne (b. 1959) A1 - Kim [James] Newman (b. 1959) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Alternative history. United States had a Communist revolution and formed the United Socialist States of America; Russia had no such revolution.

PB - Mark V. Ziesing Books CY - Shingleton, CA N1 -

Parts published as "In the Air" [Cover adds "In Al Capone's Communist America"]. Interzone, no. 43 (January 1991): 6-30; "Ten Days That Shook the World." Interzone, no. 48 (June 1991): 48-63; "Tom Joad." Interzone, no. 65 (November 1992): 6-21; and "Teddy Bears' Picnic." Interzone, nos. 122 - 123 (August - September 1997): 6-21; 36-51.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Because We Were the Travellers Y1 - 1997 A1 - Jack [Millen] Lasenby (1931-2019) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

A young adult post-catastrophe quest and environmental dystopia. The first of four volumes in which a young man travels down the North Island of New Zealand and onto the South Island. In the process, he comes in contact with a number of primitive dystopian societies from which he must escape. In this volume, he and an old woman are expelled from their tribe and begin the trek with the old woman teaching her skills like weaving and passing on her knowledge of the land. See also 1998, 1999, and 2001 Lasenby.

PB - Longacre Press CY - Dunedin, New Zealand N1 -

Also published South Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Hyland House, 1997.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Body Politic Y1 - 1997 A1 - Paul Johnston (b. 1957) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

First volume of a murder mystery series set in a future dystopian Edinburgh, which is an authoritarian enclave in a collapsed Britain. People are kept near starvation, and Edinburgh caters to wealthy tourists on sex and drugs holidays. Its social system is supposed to be based on Plato’s Republic. Sequels include The Bone Yard. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1998; Water of Death. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1999; The Blood Tree. London Hodder & Stoughton, 2000; and The House of Dust. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2001. See also 2015 Johnston, Heads and Hearts, which, while with the same protagonist and setting, involves significant changes in the system.  

PB - Hodder & Stoughton CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: New English Library, 1998.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Canary Land" Y1 - 1997 A1 - Tom [Thomas Edward] Purdom (1936-2024) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. The moon is supposed to provide a better life than the overpopulated Earth, but most of the population is only marginally better-off and are exploited by the few powerful. Told from the point of view of an immigrant from Earth.

JF - Asimov's Science Fiction VL - 21.1 (253) N1 -

Rpt. in Isaac Asimov's Utopias. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois and Sheila Williams (New York: Ace Books, 2000), 108-34 with a note on 108.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Cave Rats Y1 - 1997 A1 - Kerry Greenwood (b. 1959) KW - Australian author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia in sequel to 1996 Greenwood. This volume focuses on feral children, the “cave rats,” living in tunnels and a telepathic boy rescued from them.

PB - Hodder SF/Fantasy CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia N1 -

Rpt. with 1996 and 1998 Greenwood separately paged and with no separate title Sydney, NSW, Australia: Hodder Headline, 2002.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The City of Ecstasy" Y1 - 1997 A1 - Monica Papendick ED - Mary A. Beavis AB -

Feminist eutopia.

JF - Women and Urban Environments PB - Institute of Urban Studies, University of Winnipeg) CY - (Winnipeg, MB, Canada VL - Volume 2: Feminist Utopian Visions of the City. Student Paper 10 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Contraband Y1 - 1997 A1 - George Foy (b. 1952) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A future dystopia characterized by poverty, disease, and control.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue Y1 - 1997 A1 - Neale Donald Walsch KW - Male author AB -

The second volume (1997) includes God's guidelines for a worldwide eutopia. Volume 1 discusses personal issues; volume 3 discusses "universal truths". See also his The New Revelations: A Conversation with God. New York: Atria Books, 2002.

PB - Hampton Roads Publishing Co. CY - Charlottesville, VA VL - 3 vols. U5 -

DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Day in 2020" Y1 - 1997 A1 - Judith Mandel AB -

A half page eutopia presenting a summary of a day in the life of a woman in 2020 stressing technology, cohousing, and a fifteen-hour work week. 

JF - The Futurist VL - 31.3 U5 -

MoU-St. PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Dazzle of Day Y1 - 1997 A1 - Molly Gloss (b. 1944) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Critical eutopia. Troubled Quaker society near the end of a multi-generation space flight trying to decide on settling a rather undesirable planet. Ends with a picture of the society established there after a few generations.

PB - Tor CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Saga Press, 2019 with the story “Lambing Season” appended unpaged at the end. It was originally published illus. Lourie Harden. Asimov’s Science Fiction 26.7 (318) (July 2002): 83-91; rpt. in Invaders: 22 Tales From the Outer Limits of Literature. Ed. Jacob Weisman (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon, 2016), 200-13; and in her Unforeseen: Stories (New York: Saga Press/Simon & Schuster, 2019), 203-19. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Demokratus." Y1 - 1997 A1 - Victor [Paul] Koman (b. 1954) ED - Brad[ford Swain] Linaweaver (1952-2019) ED - Edward E Kramer KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The protagonist is a man who has lived in space, which is a libertarian utopian with “customs” rather than laws where the words “taxer” and “government” are profane (198-199), who, looking for “freedom from choice,” decides to “self-banish” to a planet where he assumes a government will make choices for him. The first places he lands is Demokratus where everyone is a “voter” and everything and voting is mandatory and constant. But, as it turns out, most people simply ignore the results they don’t agree with.

JF - Free Space PB - Tor CY - New York SN - 0-312-85957-0 U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dra-- Y1 - 1997 A1 - Stacey Levine AB -

Dystopia. Kafkaesque future society. The novel describes a woman caught up in a torturous employment bureaucracy.

PB - Sun & Moon Press CY - Los Angeles, CA VL - New American Fiction Series: 39 U5 -

PU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Easter Egg Hunt: A Christmas Story" Y1 - 1997 A1 - Jeffery D. Kooistra (b. 1959) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The Republic of Currier and Ives (Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and parts of Massachusetts). Trying to create the old U.S. of the 18th century.

JF - Analog Science Fiction and Fact VL - 117.12 U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Echoes from the Future" Y1 - 1997 A1 - Colin Wisely ED - Jon Purkis ED - James Bowen KW - Male author AB -

A combination of essay and fiction that includes future scenarios after the collapse of states throughout the world, mostly dystopia but with some suggestions of a possible anarchist eutopia.

JF - Twenty-first Century Anarchism: Unorthodox Ideas For a New Millennium PB - Cassell CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "On the Edge" Y1 - 1997 A1 - Keith Scott ED - Mark Shainblum ED - John Dupuis KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Deep divisions and violence in an alternate Canada as a result of the independence of Québec.

JF - Arrowdreams: An Anthology of Alternate Canadas PB - Nuage Editions CY - Winnipeg, MB, Canada ER - TY - ABST T1 - Edward Bellamy Writes Again Y1 - 1997 A1 - Joseph R. Myers KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. Author believes that he is the reincarnation of Bellamy and rewrites Looking Backward to fit the 20th century, largely from a right wing perspective.

PB - J.R. Myers CY - Lexington, NC ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Essence of Gandhi” Y1 - 1997 A1 - Manjula Padmanabhan (b. 1953) KW - Female author KW - Indian author AB -

Satire on genetic manipulation that begins in a dystopia that controls all genes and then moves toward a eutopia based on the genes of Gandhi.

JF - New Internationalist Magazine VL - no. 293 UR - http://newint.org/features/1997/08/05/gandhi/ N1 -

Rpt. as “Gandhi-Toxin.” In her Kleptomania. Ten Stories (New Delhi, India: Penguin Books India, 2004), 91-98.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Exit to Reality Y1 - 1997 A1 - Edith Forbes (b. 1954) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

After a world-wide environmental collapse, a plan is put in place to replace human bodies and, by doing so, create a eutopia. In the eutopia, where the novel begins, people regenerate themselves and live very long lives, and the protagonist is over 600 years old. Most of the world’s land is under agriculture with all housing on land that is too steep to be used for mechanized farming. Income and housing depend on one’s level of employment. People are kept in balance psychologically chemically. Everyone has a virtual mother and father, even someone as old as the protagonist. But the eutopia is ruled by corporations and is deeply flawed.

PB - Seal Press CY - Seattle, WA U5 -

PSt, PU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Exodus" Y1 - 1997 A1 - Dale Bailey (b. 1968) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia for the many who have to support the eutopia for old age pensioners. The protagonist is a 145-year-old woman in one of the many walled compounds set aside for seniors who are living on their pensions, which are paid by the young. The Exodus is a jumpship about to leave with thousands of the young happy to take a chance on finding a livable planet where they will be able to work for themselves rather than just to support the Seniors.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 93.1 U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Fourth Reich Y1 - 1997 A1 - Robert [D.} Van Kampen (1938-99) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of the coming of the Antichrist followed by the events as described in the Bible. The author says that it is prophecy.

PB - Fleming H. Revell CY - Grand Rapids, MI U5 -

DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Getting to Know You" Y1 - 1997 A1 - David Marusek (b. 1951) ED - Stephen McClelland KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of division between the rich and poor with immortality and cloning eliminating both jobs and pre-clone humans. Set in the same world as his 2005 Counting Heads.

JF - Future Histories: Award-Winning Science Fiction Writers Predict Twenty Tomorrows for Communications PB - Horizon House Publications CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998), 267-87 with an Editor’s note on 267; and in Cyberpunk: Stories of Hardware, Software, Wetware, Revolution and Evolution. Ed. Victoria Blake (Portland, OR: Underhand Press, 2013), 109-134. Substantially revised in Asimov’s Science Fiction 22.3 (267) (March 1998): 120-141. Rpt. in Isaac Asimov’s Utopias. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois and Sheila Williams (New York: Ace Books, 2000), 62-96 with a note on 62; and in his Getting to Know You (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2007), 255-287.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Glass Earth, Inc." Y1 - 1997 A1 - Stephen [Michael] Baxter (b. 1957) ED - Stephen McClelland KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Flawed utopia in which a murder is committed in a London in which it is possible for the police to view the incident as it was happening and from all angles.

JF - Future Histories: Award-Winning Science Fiction Writers Predict Twenty Tomorrows for Communications PB - Horizon House Publications CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in his Phase Space (London: HarperCollins/Voyager, 2002), 48-69.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Glimmering: A Novel Y1 - 1997 A1 - Elizabeth [Francis] Hand (b. 1957) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Near future (1999) ecological dystopia. The new edition is revised throughout but does not change the fundamentals.

PB - HarperPrism CY - New York N1 -

Rev. ed. Portland, OR: Underland Press, 2012 with "Author's Notes to This Revised Edition" (xiii-xiv) and Kim Stanley Robinson, "Introduction" (xvii-xviii).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Great Wheel Y1 - 1997 A1 - Ian R[oderick] MacLeod (b. 1956) KW - Male author KW - Northern Ireland author AB -

Dystopia in what used to be Africa and a flawed utopia in Europe.

PB - Harcourt Brace CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Gulliverzone Y1 - 1997 A1 - Stephen [Michael] Baxter (b. 1957) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

GulliverZone is a virtual reality theme park based on Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels (1726), and, on World Peace Day, it is freely open to everyone, even children. But GulliverZone is a dystopia with real Lilliputians being dominated by an evil woman. 

PB - Orion Children’s Books and Dolphin Paperbacks CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Web 2027 (London: Millennium, 1999), 1-102. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Halls of Burning" Y1 - 1997 A1 - Jake West KW - Male author AB -

Educational dystopia after a gang takeover.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 93.2 U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Hand You're Dealt" Y1 - 1997 A1 - Robert J[ames] Sawyer (b. 1960) ED - Brad[ford Swain] Linaweaver (1952-2019) ED - Edward E Kramer KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Libertarian eutopia with problems.

JF - Free Space PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Hanging Man Y1 - 1997 A1 - S[tanton] Darnbrook Colson KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of violence.

PB - Cyber-Psychos AOD CY - Denver, CO U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Harry from the Agency Y1 - 1997 A1 - Philip Gluckman KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

A dystopia set in 2205 after global warming has destroyed most of the world. Auckland is islands; most of the world's population lives in Antarctica. Corruption. Multi-planetary corporate power. Disease from deep space is decimating the population. At the end, Earth collapses completely and Earth's population moves off-planet to start a new life.

PB - Reed CY - Auckland, New Zealand U5 -

ATL, VUW

ER - TY - ABST T1 - How Few Remain [Cover adds A Novel of The Second War Between the States] Y1 - 1997 A1 - Harry [Norman] Turtledove (b. 1949) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The first volume of a long alternative history series set after the Confederacy wins the American Civil War in 1862 with the help of the United Kingdom and France and is still an independent nation in the 20th century. There are two sub-series, The Great War and Settling Accounts. This volume is set in 1881 when the North attacks the South after it annexes parts of Mexico and gets a Pacific port. A Socialist Party emerges in the North led by Lincoln. The Great War sub-series includes The Great War: American Front. New York: Del Rey/Ballantine, 1998, which is set during World War I when the North again invades South; The Great War: Walk in Hell. New York: Del Rey/Ballantine, 1999, which is on the war; The Great War: Breakthroughs. New York: Del Rey/Ballantine, 2000, which is set in 1917 with the North fighting two wars, one on its Northern border against Canada and Great Britain and in the South with the Confederate States of America. The South is dealing with an Insurgency of African Americans trying to establish an independent socialist republic. The Settling Accounts sub-series includes Settling Accounts: Return Engagement. New York: Del Rey/Ballantine, 2004, in which South, under a dictatorship, invades North but is defeated; Settling Accounts: Drive to the East. New York: Del Rey/Ballantine, 2005, which is on war; Settling Accounts: The Grapple. New York: Del Rey/Ballantine, 2006, in which both sides are trying to create a nuclear weapon, the South is murdering African Americans, and the North has a socialist Vice-President; Settling Accounts: In at the Death. New York: Del Rey/Ballantine, 2007 in which the South is defeated.

PB - Del Rey/Ballantine CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - An Idol Killing Y1 - 1997 A1 - Mark J. White KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of class warfare, drugs, and extreme violence.

PB - AK Press CY - Edinburgh, Scot. U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Imperfect Utopia" Y1 - 1997 A1 - Irshad Manji (b. 1968) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Diversity, radical democracy that the author calls the “Utopia of Complexity,” a utopia that “revels” in its own complexity but with no “drive to perfection.” Canadian female author born in Uganda presenting a eutopia she thinks Canada is best suited to develop.

JF - Risking Utopia: On the Edge of a New Democracy PB - Douglas & McIntyre CY - Vancouver, BC, Canada U5 -

Can, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Indiana Jones and the Hollow Earth Y1 - 1997 A1 - Max McCoy (b. 1958) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Primarily adventure, but the hollow earth is a Nazi dystopia.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York U5 -

CU-Riv

ER - TY - ABST T1 - K Y1 - 1997 A1 - [Denis M.] [MacEoin] (b. 1949) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Northern Ireland author AB -

Dystopia of the Ku Klux Klan, called the Aryan Alliance, in power in the U.S. Extremely violent against African Americans, Jews, and all dissidents. The novel focuses on the successful resistance to the regime. 

PB - HarperCollins CY - London U3 -

Daniel Easterman [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Lethe" Y1 - 1997 A1 - Walter Jon Williams (b. 1953) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia of cloning. See also 2003 Williams.

JF - Asimov's Science Fiction VL - 21.9 (261) N1 -

Rpt. in his The Green Leopard Plague and Other Stories (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2010), 29-59 with an "Afterword" on 59-61.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Life House Y1 - 1997 A1 - Spider Robinson (b. 1948) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which it is possible for others to edit a person’s memories. The third volume of what comes to be called the Lifehouse Trilogy, which includes his 1982 Mindkiller and 1992 Time Pressure

PB - Baen CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in The Lifehouse Trilogy (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2007), 439-632.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Life on Planet Heaven Y1 - 1997 A1 - Tony Zuly KW - Male author AB -

UFO novel in which the abductee visits a planet very similar to Earth that is deeply concerned with the possibility of nuclear warfare on Earth. Heaven is a eutopia with no money. It purports to have gender equality, but women choose to stay out of politics because it requires masculine characteristics. Girls and boys are separated at fifteen for education but encouraged to develop relations with the opposite sex, including sexual relations, outside the educational environment. Generally marry after 25. Numbers rather than names. Very religious but no denominational differences. Constant computer surveillance everywhere as a means of social control.

PB - Antonio Zuliani Publisher CY - Brisbane, QLD, Australia U3 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lightpaths Y1 - 1997 A1 - Howard V[incent] Hendrix (b. 1959) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Orbital habitat that is supposed to be a eutopia undermined by the usual human foibles. His Standing Wave. New York: Ace Books, 1998 uses the same setting.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Like the Gentle Rain" Y1 - 1997 A1 - Lewis [Gordon] Shiner (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which science appears to dominate everything with human considerations considered irrelevant. In fact, extremely wealthy humans control the robotic scientists in order to make even more money. An author’s note on 167 says that the story “was presented at an academic conference on J.D. Bernal’s essay ‘The World, the Flesh and the Devil: An Inquiry into the future of the Three Enemies of the Rational Soul’.”

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 93.4 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Man With the Third Vision Y1 - 1997 A1 - Manuel C. Laudiano (b. 1938) KW - Filipino-American author KW - Male author AB -

One hundred sixteen visions of a series of five higher lives after death, the fifth being Heaven. Presented as the visions of the author, who is described as a clairvoyant. 

PB - Vantage Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Misconceiver Y1 - 1997 A1 - Lucy Ferriss (b. 1954) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The dystopia of a future  United States  with abortion outlawed. 

PB - Simon & Schuster CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mississippi Blues Y1 - 1997 A1 - Kathleen Ann Goonan (1952-2021) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 1994 Goonan. In this novel the protagonist continues her trip down the Ohio and into the Mississippi River toward New Orleans. Loosely related to 2000 and 2002 Goonan with the four volumes together called her “Nanotech Quartet.”

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Moons of Palmares Y1 - 1997 A1 - Zainab Amadahy (b.1956) KW - African American author KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - Native American author AB -

Dystopia of commercial exploitation of a colony for its mineral resources and the successful fight for independence.

PB - Sister Vision Black Women and Women of Color Press CY - Toronto, ON, Canada N1 -

An excerpt was published in Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction. Ed. Grace Dillon (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2012), 171-81 with an editor’s note on 171-73. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mother Grimm Y1 - 1997 A1 - [Catherine Jean Wells] [Dimenstein] (b. 1952) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia contrasting the sterile world of the Biodome with the vicious world outside.

PB - Roc CY - New York U3 -

Catherine Wells [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Nevermore" Y1 - 1997 A1 - Ian R[oderick] MacLeod (b. 1956) ED - Gardner R[aymond] Dozois (1947-2018) KW - Male author KW - Northern Ireland author AB -

Dystopia. Virtual reality becomes standard, and most people seem to live in it rather in the "foreal", which has become run down. During life people keep records of all their actions so that they can live on in virtual reality after death. The story focuses on an artist who prefers to live in the "foreal".

JF - Dying For It: More Erotic Tales of Unearthly Love PB - HarperPrism CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Asimov’s Science Fiction 22.7 (271) (July 1998): 14-22, 24-32; in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998), 488-504 with an Editor’s note on 488; and in Isaac Asimov’s Utopias. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois and Sheila Williams (New York: Ace Books, 2000), 202-34 with a note on 202; and in his Snodgrass and Other Illusions: The Best Short Stories of Ian R. MacLeod. [New York]: Open Road Integrated Media, 2013, an ebook with an “Afterword” by the author.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - No Man's Land Y1 - 1997 A1 - Barry England (1932-2009) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Violent struggle to survive by a small group of people after the collapse of civilization.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Novel of Queen the Eye Y1 - 1997 A1 - Paul Darrow (b. 1941) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Post-catastrophe authoritarian dystopia. Based on the computer game "Queen the Eye."

PB - Boxtree CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Nymphomation Y1 - 1997 A1 - Jeff Noon (b. 1957) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopian future society focused on a lottery that is controlled and manipulated by a corporation.

PB - Doubleday CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - One World Leader Y1 - 1997 A1 - Raymond B[arry] Mehlhopt (b. 1954) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. 46 page pamphlet with drawings and some words on each page. A single world leader is chosen by the world's military leaders, and a Christian world government is instituted with many reforms. See also 1987, 1988, and 1999 Mehlhopt.

PB - Seagull Press CY - [Christchurch, New Zealand] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Patriots: A Novel of Survival in the Coming Collapse Y1 - 1997 A1 - James Wesley Rawles (b. 1960) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of economic and social collapse in the U.S. The novel focuses on a group struggling to get to a safe enclave in northern Idaho and then try to recreate constitutional government. His Survivors: A Novel of the Coming Collapse. New York: Atria Books, 2011 is described as a companion volume. Sequels include Founders: A Novel of the Coming Collapse. New York: Emily Bestler Books/Atria, 2012, a dystopia set in a collapsing U.S. being rescued by survivalists; Expatriates: A Novel of the Coming Global Collapse. New York: Dutton, 2013; and Liberators: A Novel of the Coming Global Collapse. New York: Dutton, 2014.

PB - Ulysses Press CY - Berkeley, CA VL - [4th ed.] N1 -

3rd exp. ed. as Patriots: Surviving the Coming Collapse. A Novel of the Turbulent Near Future. [Bloomington, IN]: Xlibris, 2006. [4th ed.] as Patriots: Surviving the Coming Collapse. Berkeley, CA: Ulysses Press, 2009. 1st ed. The novel was originally self-published as TEOTWAWKI: The End of the World as We Know It (1997). Before that parts of the novel were distributed as shareware with the title The Gray Nineties and Triple Ought

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Physiognomy Y1 - 1997 A1 - Jeffrey Ford (b. 1955) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The first volume in a series. This volume depicts a corrupt, authoritarian dystopia based on the detailed study of the shapes of the parts the human body with people being disfigured or condemned based on those shapes. After the dystopia collapses, a primitive eutopia is briefly presented in the last chapter. His Memoranda. New York: Avon Eos, 1999 is a sequel in which the primitive eutopia is attacked by the leader of the failed dystopia. In the third volume, The Beyond. New York: Tor, 2001 the protagonist of the first two searches “the Beyond,” which appears to be a version of Hell, hoping for forgiveness for his actions in the first volume.

PB - Avon Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: AvonEos, 1998.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Plague Saint Y1 - 1997 A1 - Rita [Mary] Donovan (b. 1955) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia. Canada post-plague is dominated by the authoritarian Church of the Survivors.

PB - Tesseract Books CY - Edmonton, AL, Canada U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Point Y1 - 1997 A1 - Peter Vaughan Williams (b. 1944) KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Children throughout the world conclude that "There is no point" to anything and become totally passive. Struggle to bring meaning back to all people.

PB - Boltonia Print CY - Bolton, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Polymorph Y1 - 1997 A1 - Scott [David] Westerfeld (b. 1963) KW - Australian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Biological science fiction set against a dystopian background of social collapse.

PB - Roc CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Principality of Freedonia Y1 - 1997 AB -

Detailed libertarian eutopia.

UR - http://www.Freedonia.org ER - TY - ABST T1 - Private Nation Y1 - 1997 A1 - N[ikolas] A[nthony] Diaman (b. 1936) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Begins with a future dystopia of extreme privatization from a gay perspective. Ends with at least the outlines of a gay eutopia. Mostly from the male point of view. 

PB - Persona Press CY - San Francisco, CA N1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Prologue: A Glimpse of Things to Come” and “Epilogue: Human Destiny?” Y1 - 1997 A1 - Lee M. Silver (b. 1952) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An imaginative projection into the future of genetic engineering, with, in the “Prologue,” stops in 2010, 2050, and 2350, and, in the “Epilogue,” in 2350, 2997, and the far future designated as ???? Projects a deep division between the “Naturals” and the “GenRich” or genetically enriched with, ultimately, divisions within the human species and the development of what later came to be called the Posthuman. Due to the division into Natural and Gen-Rich, by 2350 ethnic and racial differences are no longer important. Within the Gen-Rich, significant subtypes have emerged, with fundamental differences among, for example, athletes, scientists, businessmen, musicians, artists. “and even GenRich intellectual generalists” (5). Natural children are only taught basic skills to fit them for low-paid service jobs. Natural and GenRich come to live segregated lives and are biologically separate species. Later GenRich reshape themselves to fit the environments on different planets and finally evolve into what is now called Posthumans.

JF - In his Remaking Eden: Cloning and Beyond in a Brave New World PB - Avon Books CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 2001.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Pukeko Tuawhaa" Y1 - 1997 A1 - Hinemoana Baker (b. 1968) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author KW - Māori author AB -

Set in 2999 when Te Reo Māori is the one recognized language. Appears to be mostly science fiction adventure, but clearly there are utopian elements.

CY - Unpublished play performed at Taki Rua Theatre, Wellington, New Zealand (August 1997). N1 -

Unpublished play performed at Taki Rua Theatre, Wellington, New Zealand (August 1997).

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pyrexia (A sapiens-fiction novel) Y1 - 1997 A1 - Michel Méry KW - French author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

In a future where people can travel to alternative realities through a machine interface, a man, Abelard, tries to re-find Pyrexia, a sex goddess, but keeps ending up in the past (our present). Both his future and our present are depicted in dystopian terms.

PB - III Publishing CY - Gualala, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Quin's Shanghai Circus" Y1 - 1997 A1 - Jeff[rey Scott] VanderMeer (b. 1968) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia brought about by free enterprise.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 124 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Rent-A-Crowd” Y1 - 1997 A1 - Christine Harris KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Flawed utopia in which people are not supposed to think for themselves but let government do it because thinking for themselves disrupts the supposedly ideal society.

JF - Deadly Friends. Stories by Claire Carmichael Margaret Clark and Christine Harris PB - Red Fox A Mark Macleod Book. Random House Australia CY - Milsons Point, NSW, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Rest Is Silence Y1 - 1997 A1 - Jonathan C. Dalby KW - Male author AB -

Dystopian thriller. Authoritarian dystopia with dictator and militarized police. Violence.

PB - Minerva Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman Y1 - 1997 A1 - Walter M[ichael] Miller Jr. (1923-96) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Sequel of sorts to 1960 Miller set after events of most of the first novel but before the conclusion. Most of the novel is concerned with relations among the various peoples of what remains of the U.S. and conflicts within the Church.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Orbit, 1997. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Scientific Romance Y1 - 1997 A1 - Ronald Wright (b. 1948) KW - Canadian author KW - English author AB -

A man uses the time machine from 1895 Wells to visit the future and arrives in a future that the author entitles "After London" following 1885 Jefferies. This future appears to be completely without humans until the protagonist reaches Scotland where there are a few survivors.

PB - Transworld CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sewer, Gas & Electric: The Public Works Trilogy Y1 - 1997 A1 - Matt[hew Theron] Theron] Ruff (b. 1965) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Humorous dystopia with much fantasy set in 2023. One sub-theme is that a new Tower of Babel is being built in Manhattan. While the book is dedicated to Ayn Rand (see 1938 and 1957 Rand), the presentation of Rand in the novel is almost entirely negative.

PB - Atlantic Monthly Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Shade's Children Y1 - 1997 A1 - Garth Nix (b. 1963) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Young adult dystopia of a world violently controlled through the creation and use of manufactured creatures, some based on humans. Children are kept, half-starved, in dormitories; those who resist are sent to the meat factories. A story set in the same world but ten years earlier with more of the dystopia is his “You Won’t Feel a Thing.” After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia. Ed. Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (New York: Hyperion, 2012), 319-33.

PB - HarperCollins CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Silicon Karma Y1 - 1997 A1 - Thomas A[twood] Easton (b. 1944) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in a virtual world where those who had been criminals and so forth when in bodies continue their activities.

PB - White Wolf Publishing CY - Clarkson, GA U1 -

Cover adds In Virtual Reality Fate Is What You Make It.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - / [Slant] Y1 - 1997 A1 - Greg[ory Dale] Bear (1951-2022) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel is something of a sequel to 1990 Bear in that it includes some of the same characters and issues. 

PB - Tor CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Studmuffin Y1 - 1997 A1 - Marilyn Duckworth (b. 1935) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

Includes an authoritarian intentional community led by an old man who wants to control people by taking away their ability to speak.

PB - Vintage CY - Auckland, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Thermometers Melting" Y1 - 1997 A1 - Glenn Grant ED - Mark Shainblum ED - John Dupuis KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Extracts from an alternative history novel and the report on it by the Canadian “Literary Hygiene Committee,” which censors books and, in this case, says that the author should be in a Work Centre for Political Correction.”

JF - Arrowdreams: An Anthology of Alternate Canadas PB - Nuage Editions CY - Winnipeg, MB, Canada N1 -

Rpt. in his Burning Days (Montréal, QC, Canada: Nanopress, 2011), 60-76. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Toward the End of Time Y1 - 1997 A1 - John [Hoyer] Updike (1932-2009) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The background of the novel is a dystopia following a Sino-American war, but the dystopian institutions play only a minor role in the novel.

PB - Alfred A. Knopf CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Transmetropolitan Y1 - 1997 A1 - Warren G[irard] Ellis (b. 1968) A1 - Darick W. Robertson (b. 1967) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Graphic novel set in a violent, corrupt dystopia and the fight against it.

PB - DC Comics CY - Burbank, CA ER - TY - ABST T1 - Tropic of Orange. A Novel Y1 - 1997 A1 - Karen Tei Yamashita (b. 1951) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Magical realist dystopia set in Los Angeles.

PB - Coffee House CY - Minneapolis, MN U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Tyranny." Y1 - 1997 A1 - Poul [William] Anderson (1926-2001) ED - Brad[ford Swain] Linaweaver (1952-2019) ED - Edward E Kramer KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Revolt against a libertarian eutopia that has become bureaucratized.

JF - Free Space PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Undesirables Y1 - 1997 A1 - Mary C. Smith (b. 1936) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

An apparent eutopia (no war, no gender or racial discrimination) is in fact an authoritarian dystopia. The bureaucracy manipulates the apparent direct democracy, mates people to produce the “right” offspring, and uses drugs as a means of social control. Those who don’t fit in are brainwashed or sterilized. The novel focuses on the struggle to reform it. 

PB - Black Heron Press CY - Seattle, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Untouchable Y1 - 1997 A1 - Eric Brown (1960-2023) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

This short novel includes two dystopias. The first is a version of contemporary India from the perspective of a Dalit (Untouchable) girl. The second is a version of virtual reality where children kidnapped from the streets of Delhi. But within virtual reality there are also eutopian spaces where the girl is treated as an equal. See also 1997 Baxter, Gulliverzone and 1998 Lovegrove. Other, non-utopian volumes in the series include Stephen Bowkett, Dreamcastle (1997), Graham Joyce, Spiderbite (1997)Peter F. Hamilton, Lightstorm (1997), Ken Macleod, Cydonia (1998), Maggie Furey, Sorceress (1998), Stephen Baxter, Webcrash (1998), Maggie Furey, Spindrift (1998), Eric Brown, Walkabout (1999), and Pat Cadigan, Avatar (1999). 

PB - Orion Children’s Books and Dolphin Paperbacks CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Web 2027 (London: Millennium, 1999), 195-285. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Valedictory Y1 - 1997 A1 - Neil Kemp KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Pollution, corruption.

PB - Minerva Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Warriors from the Lord Wulah. A Play Y1 - 1997 A1 - [David] Bernard Gadd (1935-2007) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Young adult play about a group of young people escaping an authoritarian dystopia and beginning the creation of a better society.

PB - Hallard Press CY - Papatoetoe, Auckland, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - We Can Save the World: The Uniworld Plan Y1 - 1997 A1 - Robert Greenberg [S.] KW - Male author AB -

Detailed eutopia with a world government, the reduction of the world’s population to two billion, a protected environment, a new cashless economic system that will stress basic goods and services, and other reforms, including a common language, and universal social security and health insurance. Cities of about 100,000 so that most people can walk or bike to work. There will be a limit of longevity to about 80 with three methods of achieving this goal suggested. Includes a Bibliography (216-20) and and Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich, “Ehrlich’s Fables.” Illus. Bruce Maddocks. Technology Review (MIT) 39.1 (January 1997): 221-36, but for the book adapted from the much longer version in their Betrayal of Science and Reason: How Anti-Environmental Rhetoric Threatens Our Future (Washington, DC: Island Press/Covelo, CA: Shearwater Books, 1996), 125-87, 282-309.

PB - Metro-West Publishing CY - Van Nuys, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Wellbeing: A Fiction" Y1 - 1997 A1 - Alasdair [James] Gray (1934-2019) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author JF - Why Scots Should Rule Scotland 1997: A Carnaptious History of Britain from Roman Times until Now PB - Canongate CY - Edinburgh, Scot. N1 -

Rpt. as “Well Being.” In his Every Short Story, 1952-2012 (Edinburgh, Scot.: Canongate, 2012), 759-65.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Winter Y1 - 1997 A1 - Simon Brown (b. 1956) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia set in a nuclear winter in which a corrupt and vicious Australia is the most successful country.

PB - HarperCollins CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia ER - TY - ABST T1 - The 15% Solution: A Political History of American Fascism, 2001-2022 Y1 - 1996 A1 - Jonathan Westminster Ph.D. [pseud.] KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of the rise of fascism in the U.S. followed by a restorationist movement that ultimately brings back the U.S. Constitution.

PB - The Thomas Jefferson Press CY - East Setauket, NY N1 -

Rpt. as The 15% Solution: A Political History of American Fascism, 2001-2022. with a New Introduction. [Bloomington, IN]: Xlibris, 2004.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - 2006: 20 Stories of Life, Love and Death on the Roads early in the 21st Century as seen by young writers ten years earlier Y1 - 1996 ED - Martin Doyle KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author KW - Male author AB -

Chosen from stories submitted by forty-seven schools plus one by [Anthony] Phillip Mann, who selected the ones published. Although individually none of these mostly very short pieces have enough detail to warrant inclusion, collectively they provide glimpses of both eutopias and dystopias concerned with road safety. Two approaches dominate, technological solutions that take control away from drivers and harsh punishment, including death, particularly for drunk driving.

PB - New Zealand Police CY - Wellington, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - '48 Y1 - 1996 A1 - James [John] Herbert (1943-2013) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel is set in an alternative history dystopia in which, just as he was being defeated, Hitler fired rockets into London containing deadly diseases that wipes out much of the world’s population. The focus is on one of the few healthy survivors who is being sought so his blood can be used to cure the leader of the local Blackshirts.

PB - HarperCollins CY - London N1 -

 Rpt. London: Pan Macmillan, 2016. U.S. ed. New York: HarperCollins, 1997. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Adiamante Y1 - 1996 A1 - L[eland] E[xton] Modesitt Jr. (b. 1943) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Background of a decentralized eutopia threatened by a militaristic, authoritarian regime.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - American Solutions Without Sacrifice: An End to Special Interests A Return to American Middle-Class Interests Y1 - 1996 A1 - Ronald A. Drum KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Mostly a diatribe against the then-current U. S. economic and political system with a special focus on health care. At the end of the book the author proposes a series of changes to the system that are designed to produce a much better life. The most important of these are a National Health Insurance Program, a radical downsizing of government at all levels, national and state referenda, recall, elimination of seniority in legislatures, eliminating the electoral college, a single progressive tax, greater regulation of the economy, changes in the way judges are chosen, eliminating donations to candidates for office from “special interest groups, legalizing drugs, eliminating coeducation, changes in social security. 

PB - Pitbull Press CY - Palm Beach, FL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Amnesiascope Y1 - 1996 A1 - Steve [Stephen Michael] Erickson (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A satirical, magical-realist, post-catastrophe dystopia set in Los Angeles.

PB - Henry Holt CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Anarchist Farm Y1 - 1996 A1 - Jane Doe [pseud.] KW - Female author AB -

1945 Blair, Animal Farm (1945) from an anarchist perspective, with a pig driven out of Animal Farm one of the characters. Animals from both a farm where they had been treated well and from the forest near it cooperate to combat polluting corporations and extensive logging of the forest. 

PB - III Publishing CY - Gualala, CA SN - 1-886625-01-8 U3 -

Jane Doe [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Babel Tower Y1 - 1996 A1 - A[ntonia] S[usan] Byatt ( 1936-2023) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The third volume of a family history begun in The Virgin in the Garden. London: Chatto & Windus, 1978 and continued in Still Life. London: Chatto & Windus, 1985. The series is concluded in A Whistling Woman. London: Chatto and Windus, 2002. This volume contains a novel within the novel by one of the characters about the establishment and history of an attempt to establish a utopia. 

PB - Chatto & Windus CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Vintage, 1997.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Beach Y1 - 1996 A1 - Alex[ander Medawar] Garland (b. 1970) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Idyllic life on an isolated beach in Thailand contrasted with the dystopian realities of contemporary life in the area.

PB - Viking CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Riverhead Books, 1997.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Bethlehem" Y1 - 1996 A1 - Peter [Francis] Watts (b. 1958) ED - Robert Runté ED - Yves Meynard (b. 1964) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of violence.

JF - Tesseracts: The Anthology of New Canadian Speculative Fiction PB - Tesseract Books CY - Edmonton, AB, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Bicycle Repairman" Y1 - 1996 A1 - [Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954) ED - John [Joseph Vincent] Kessel (b. 1950) ED - Mark L. Van Name ED - Richard Butner KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set in Chattanooga, Tennessee in 2037. The background to the story is the NAFTA Government, a new country that has abolished the U.S. Constitution. The story focuses on an independent bicycle repairman working in a shop in part of a building that was burned out in a riot in an area where people are leading independent lives free from the authoritarian system that surrounds them. The ending suggests that the area will regenerate, and the rich will move back.

JF - Intersections: The Sycamore Hill Anthology PB - Tor CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Asimov’s Science Fiction 20.10&11 (250-51) (October/November 1996): 156-85; in The Year’s Best Science Fiction Fourteenth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997), 254-78; in Isaac Asimov’s Utopias. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois and Sheila Williams (New York: Ace Books, 2000), 234-78 without the added material and with a note on 234-35; in his A Good Old-Fashioned Future. Stories New York: Bantam Books, 1999, 188-228; U.K. ed. as A Good Old-Fashioned Future (London: Gollancz, 2001), 188-228; and in Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology. Ed. James P. Kelley and John Kessel (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon Publications, 2007), 3-35; and in Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction. Ed. Leigh Ronald Grossman (Rockville, MD: Wildside Press, 2011), 790-807 with an editor’s note on 790. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Biograph Y1 - 1996 A1 - John White KW - Male author AB -

Detailed eutopia set in 2155 centered around a form of electronic democracy in which everyone votes on every imaginable issue. The novel is presented as the autobiography required of a man convicted, by a world-wide vote, of the crime of being exposed to an alien and hence, possibly bringing contagion to Earth. He tells the story of his education, entirely through the internet, his gaining the right to vote and access to the entire web and age ten, and his life and loves until his encounter in space with an alien and his return to Earth, showing the strengths and weaknesses of the system. There is a satellite of the moon created from an asteroid that is attracting people who want to leave Earth and head for the stars, which becomes an issue for the protagonist.

PB - Fractal Press CY - Grassington, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Bloody Mary Y1 - 1996 A1 - Garth Ennis A1 - Carlos Ezquerra KW - Male author AB -

Comic book. Primarily future war but includes a dystopia of a fascist Europe. Set in 2012.

PB - DC Comics CY - New York U2 -

Carlos Ezquerra

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Blue Mars Y1 - 1996 A1 - Kim Stanley Robinson (b. 1952) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Third volume in a trilogy describing the terraforming of Mars and the growth of societies there. Sequel to 1992 Robinson, Red Mars.  and 1994 Robinson, Green Mars. This volume describes the terraformed Mars, the continuing conflicts over what should be done to change Mars, and the eutopian society that develops there contrasted with the dystopia that Earth has become. The eutopian is one in which a variety of societies coexist peacefully with an emphasis on community. A story set further into the future of Mars is his “A Martian Romance.” Asimov’s Science Fiction. 23.10 (285) (October/November 1999): 14-28; rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction. Seventeenth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000), 434-47 with an editor’s note on 433. Materials related to the trilogy were published as The Martians. New York: Bantam Books, 1999. U.K. edition. London: HarperCollins, 1999, which reprints his “Exploring Fossil Canyon.” Universe 12. Ed. Terry Carr (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1982), 26-47; “Sexual Dimorphism.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 23.6 (281) (June 1999): 28-39; and “A Martian Romance.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 23.10[/11] (285) (October-November 1999): 14-28. In addition, The Martians includes poems “Six Poems from If Wang Wei Lived on Mars rpt. in his Stan’s Kitchen: A Robinson Reader. Ed. David C. Grubbs (Framingham, MA: NESFA Press, 2020), 125-143 [“Crossing Mather Pass” (311-11/127-28), “Invisible Owls” (315-16/129-30), “Tenzing” (317-19/131-33), “The Red’s Lament” (322/23/135-136), “A Report on the First Recorded Case of Areophagy” (320-21/137-39)], and “Two Years” (324/27/141-43), and the story “Arthur Sternbach Brings the Curveball to Mars” (179-88/171-79).

PB - HarperCollins CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Bantam Books, 1997. Rpt. illus. Ron Miller with an “Introduction” by James Gunn (v-viii). Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1996. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - ‘Bods’ Y1 - 1996 A1 - Sylvia Nickels KW - Female author AB -

Brief dystopia about organ and tissue farms with the people fighting back.

JF - Communities: Journal of Cooperative Living VL - mo. 91 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Bones of Time Y1 - 1996 A1 - Kathleen Ann Goonan (1952-2021) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eutopian and dystopian aspects of genetic engineering set mostly in Hawaii at different times from the late nineteenth century to into the future.

PB - Tor/Tom Doherty Associates CY - New York SN - 0-312-85916-3 N1 -

Originated in her novella “Kamehameha’s Bones.” Illus. Laurie Harden. Asimov’s Science Fiction 17.10 (205) (September 1993): 132-74.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Building Babel Y1 - 1996 A1 - Suniti [Manohar] Namjoshi (b. 1941) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Indian author AB -

Feminist fairy tale in which a number of women from fables and fairy tales build various versions of Babel. Throughout, but particularly at the end, a variety of utopian motifs are employed.

PB - Spinifex Press CY - North Melbourne, VIC, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Burn" Y1 - 1996 A1 - Dan Rubin KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Environmental dystopia.

JF - On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic VL - 8.3 U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Canon" Y1 - 1996 A1 - Elizabeth Young KW - Female author AB -

Future education in which university faculty are functionally illiterate.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 114 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Community" Y1 - 1996 A1 - Gardner R[aymond] Dozois (1947-2018) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Religious dystopia in which whatever, in the church's view, stands in the way of a person's "redemption" by destroying it. The two examples are a woman with too many cats, which are killed, and a woman whose husband and son are the problem, and both of them are killed.

JF - Asimov's Science Fiction VL - 20.9 (249) N1 -

Rpt. in his When the Great Days Come ([Canton, OH]: Prime Books, 2011), 315-22.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Community Service" Y1 - 1996 A1 - Molly [Doris Mary] Brown KW - Female author KW - UK author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia focusing on conflict between police and an underclass.

JF - Interzone (Brighton, Eng.) VL - no. 107 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Cost to Be Wise” Y1 - 1996 A1 - Maureen F. McHugh (b. 1959) ED - Patrick Nielsen Hayden KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia on a planet that was a colony of Earth, forgotten by Earth and having forgotten Earth, which is rediscovered but remains a generally primitive, ignorant, and violent society. The novella describes the conflict that takes place during a visit by people from Earth. Female author.

JF - Starlight 1 PB - Tor CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Lightspeed: Women Destroy Science Fiction. Ed. Christie Yant. No 49 of Lightspeed (June 2014): 206-48.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Darkest England Y1 - 1996 A1 - Christopher [David Tully] Hope (b. 1944) KW - Male author KW - South African author KW - UK author AB -

Satire in which a black South African is sent by his tribe to ask the English Queen for the help that had been offered at the time of the Boer War.

PB - Macmillan CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Designated Mourner Y1 - 1996 A1 - William Shawn (b. 1943) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set in the near future with a regime supressing all dissent. Play directed by David Hare (b. 1947) first performed at the Royal National Theatre in London April 18, 1996.

PB - Faber and Faber CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1996.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Downtime With the Virtual Dead” Y1 - 1996 A1 - Mike O’Driscoll KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Cyberpunk set in a future dystopian Europe under the rule of a degenerate Islam.

JF - Albedo One (Dublin, Ireland) VL - no. 11 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dream-Weaver Y1 - 1996 A1 - [Elizabeth Rhoda Wintle] [Holden] (1943-2013) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

Young adult novel set as colonists from Earth prepare to land on a planet inhabited by people with what appears to be little technology. But the people of the planet have mental powers that allow contact to be made with a member of the Earth crew who comes to see the low-tech planet in eutopian terms. 

PB - Clarion Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Faraday's Orphans Y1 - 1996 A1 - N[ancy] Lee Wood (b. 1955) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia after an environmental catastrophe in which the lucky live in domed cities. Largely adventure novel in the horrible conditions outside the domes.

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Farm" Y1 - 1996 A1 - Sherman [Joseph] Alexie [Jr.] (b. 1966) KW - Male author KW - Native American author AB -

Dystopia. Concentration camps for American Indians in which they are required to breed to provide bone marrow to cure the cancers of whites.

JF - The Raven Chronicles N1 -

Rpt. in Skins: Contemporary Indigenous Writing. Comp. and ed. Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm and Josie Douglas (Alice Springs, NT, Australia: Jukurrpa Books, 2000), 42-56.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Fight Club Y1 - 1996 A1 - Chuck [Charles Michael] Palahniuk (b. 1962) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia best known in the 1999 film version directed by David Fincher and with a screenplay by Jim Uhis.

PB - W.W. Norton CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Vintage, 1997. A comic book series Fight Club 2, nos. 1-10 and Fight Club 2 Free Comic Book Day 2015 are collected in Fight Club 2: The Tranquility Gambit. Art by Cameron Stewart, Colors by Dave Stewart, Letters and logo by Nate Piekos of Blambot®, and Cover and chapter break by David Mack. Milwaukie, OR: Dark Horse Books, 2016.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Flying Dreams” Y1 - 1996 A1 - Raven Kaldera (b. 1966) ED - Cecilia Tan (b. 1967) KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -

One character in this erotic lesbian story is from a religious planet that clothes its people in underwear that constantly monitors them from a young age and sends its results back to the leadership.

JF - The New Worlds of Women PB - Circlet Press CY - Boston, MA VL - Exp. ed. N1 -

Rpt. in The Circlet Treasury of Lesbian Erotic Science Fiction and Fantasy. Ed. Cecilia Tan (New York: Riverdale Avenue Books, 2013), 168-81. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Fortunate Fall Y1 - 1996 A1 - Raphael Carter KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Set in a future authoritarian dystopia with a vague image of a eutopia in Africa. Dystopia ultimately overthrown, apparently peacefully.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Fourth Millennium: The Sequel Y1 - 1996 A1 - Paul [D.] Meier (b. 1947) A1 - Robert [L.] Wise (b. 1939) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 1993 Meier with this novel set in 997 N.E. (New Era) near the end of Christ’s millennial rule. Earth is an environmentally renewed eutopia with greatly improved technology that has been at peace since the Tribulation and people live hundreds of years. But those who did not experience the Tribulation have grown cynical, and preparations are being made for the final battle between good and evil with the outcome as described in the Book of Revelation. 

PB - A Janet Thoma Book/Thomas Nelson Publisher CY - Nashville, TN U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Fraternity Reigns" Y1 - 1996 A1 - Richard [McKay] Rorty (1931-2007) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Written as the article on "Fraternity" in the 7th ed. of A Companion to American Thought, published in 2095 and edited by Cynthia J. Rodriguez, S.J. and Youzheng Patel. It looks at the collapse of the U.S. under capitalism and its slow rebirth based on fraternity. In his Contingency, Irony and Solidarity (xvi), Rorty discusses his utopia, and in Philosophy and Social Hope (xiii-xiv), he argues for the importance of utopias.

JF - The New York Times Magazine N1 -

Rpt. as "Looking Backwards from the Year 2096." In his Philosophy and Social Hope (London: Penguin Books, 1999), 243-51.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Fremder Y1 - 1996 A1 - Russell [Conwell] Hoban (1925-2011) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Complex novel of personal identity with a dystopian background.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Gibbon's Decline and Fall Y1 - 1996 A1 - Sheri [Shirley] S[tewart] Tepper (1929-2016) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a future that is becoming increasingly anti-woman. There is cooperation between the Vatican, Islamic leaders, and right-wing Christians to force women to be subservient to men. 

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Higher Education. A Jupiter™ Novel Y1 - 1996 A1 - Jerry [Eugene] Pournelle (1933-2017) A1 - Charles [A.] Sheffield (1935-2002) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

World divided into the very rich and the very poor. Right wing take on problems of U.S. 

PB - Tor CY - New York N1 -

Includes material first published in Future Quartet. Earth in the Year 2042: A Four-Part Invention (New York: William Morrow, 1994), 227-94. Rpt. rev. in How To Save the World. Ed. Charles Sheffield (New York: Tor, 1995), 275-346; and as “Higher Education.” Illus. George H. Krauter. Analog Science Fiction and Fact 116.3 - 6 (February - May 1996): 12-16, 18-20, 22-24, 26-28, 30-32, 34-36, 38-40, 42-44, 46-48, 50-60; 108-144, 104-144, 102-122.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Holy Fire Y1 - 1996 A1 - [Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Complex future world based on ability to extend life. Gerontocrats rule.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Millennium, 1999.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - How To Mutate and Take Over the World Y1 - 1996 A1 - [Ken] [Goffman] A1 - [Judith] [Milhon] KW - Female author KW - Male author AB -

Beginning in 2000 with an authoritarian government and a growing revolt against it.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York U1 -

Cover adds An Exploded Post-Novel.

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R.U. Sirius and St. Jude [cover adds and the Internet 21] [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "How We Got in Town and out Again" Y1 - 1996 A1 - Jonathan [Allen] Lethem (b. 1964) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia where towns try to keep all strangers out.

JF - Asimov’s Science Fiction VL - 20.9 (249) N1 -

Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction Fourteenth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997), 457-74; and in Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2008), 67-85. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Immortals Y1 - 1996 A1 - Tracy [Raye] Hickman (b. 1955) KW - Female author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia develops in response to a major epidemic.

PB - Roc CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - In Heaven As On Earth: A Vision of the Afterlife Y1 - 1996 A1 - M[organ] Scott Peck M.D. (1936-2005) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Self-help book presented as a story of heaven. Some eutopian elements.

PB - Hyperion CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Infinite Jest. A Novel Y1 - 1996 A1 - David Foster Wallace (1962-2008) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Near future stress on gratification in which a film called "Infinite Jest" is so appealing that all anyone wants to do is to see it repeatedly.

PB - Little, Brown CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Javier, Dying in the Land of Flowers” Y1 - 1996 A1 - [Deborah Jean] [Ross] (b. 1947) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A dystopia set in the same future as 1992 Ross focusing on some of the secondary characters from that story. This story emphasizes the deep division between the rich and the poor and the extreme pollution that makes the poor sick but for there are treatments for the rich, if ever contaminated. 

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction VL - 90.1 (536) U3 -

Deborah Wheeler [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Keepers Y1 - 1996 A1 - Pauline Kirk KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia set in a future England.

PB - Virago CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Land Fit for Heroes. Book 4: The Burning Forest Y1 - 1996 A1 - [Anthony] Phillip Mann (1942-2022) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The fourth volume of a four-volume alternative history of a Roman Britain in the late Twentieth Century and the conflicts between the Romans who deforested much of Britain as a source of food and the traditions of the native British. The third of four volumes. See 1993, 1994 and 1995 Mann. In this volume, Rome decides to burn the British forests to use the land for agriculture and a struggle between rational, scientific, technological Rome and the myth-based British ensues.

PB - Gollancz CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Capitalist: A Dream of a New Utopia Y1 - 1996 A1 - Steve Cullen KW - Male author KW - Scottish author PB - Freedom Press CY - London SN - 9780900384820 U2 -

Illus. by the author.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Glypt on Demeter Y1 - 1996 A1 - Henry M. Greenwald KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The history of a planet from its peak to its destruction by aliens as told by the last man. Demeter was a flawed utopia with a world government, a single language, no disease, and with all weapons and weapon delivery systems outlawed. The people lived over 350 years, which required population control. The family had been abolished, couples or singles got an apartment with a garden and aquarium where they produced their own food. But few people ever had jobs, and most people spent their time as spectators at a wide range of games (cards, computer games, and sports).

PB - Vantage Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Last Homosexual" Y1 - 1996 A1 - Paul [Claiborne] Park (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the U.S. has broken up into individual states, and the story focuses on Louisiana under the New Baptists.

JF - Asimov's Science Fiction VL - 20.6 (246) N1 -

Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction Fourteenth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997), 167-77. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Integrationist Y1 - 1996 A1 - Jake Lamar (b. 1961) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia set in a near future U.S. with extremely harsh laws against drugs and public executions enforced by a conservative black Attorney-General.

PB - Crown Publishers CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Life in Our Solar System Y1 - 1996 A1 - J. H. Vernon (b. 1916) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author AB -

New Age eutopia.

PB - Silver Fern Press CY - Auckland, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Making History Y1 - 1996 A1 - Stephen [John] Fry (b. 1957) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Alternative history with various dystopias.

PB - Hutchinson CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Arrow Books, 2004. U.S. ed. New York: Random House, 1998.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Map of Power Y1 - 1996 A1 - Tess Williams (b. 1954) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia focusing on three survivors, one in a dying orbital biosphere, one in a primitive Antarctic community where she is a visionary, and a third exiled from Western Australia for wanting to revive the old technology. The first two are women and the third a man. They struggle to cooperate to bring about change.

PB - Arrow CY - Milsons Point, NSW, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Mapmaker's Dream: The Meditations of Fra Mauro, Cartographer to the Court of Venice Y1 - 1996 A1 - James Cowan (b. 1942) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Written from the viewpoint of a monk in the 16th century who is trying to create a perfect map of the world based on travelers' reports. He includes descriptions of the land of Prester John and other traditional eutopias.

PB - Shambala CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Message From Yon Y1 - 1996 A1 - Dr. P[eter] Schenkel KW - Male author AB -

A higher civilization contacts Earth (known to them as Barbaria) to assist it to overcome its problems. The focus of the book is on Earth's problems, but the planet Yon, with its global democracy, egalitarian economy, and developed culture provides the eutopian contrast.

PB - Minerva Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Metal Fatigue Y1 - 1996 A1 - Sean [Llewellyn] Williams (b. 1967) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia set in the U.S. after a nuclear war. A city designed to be a eutopia walled off from the devastation is slowly failing technologically. A Re-United States wants to incorporate the city and conflict develops.

PB - HarperCollins CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia N1 -

U.K. ed. Sheffield, Eng.: Swift, 1999.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Missing Time" Y1 - 1996 A1 - Allen M[ulherin] Steele [Jr.] (b. 1958) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Alternative eutopian and dystopian futures for Worcester, Massachusetts based on current policies. The first is based on reduced investment and produces a violent dystopia. The second is based on innovative, environmentally friendly investment and produces a vibrant eutopian future. The third continues current policies and produces a mildly dystopian run-down future.

JF - Worcester Magazine N1 -

Rpt. in his American Beauty (Waterville, ME: Five Star, 2003), 106-20.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Moonhare Y1 - 1996 A1 - Kirk Hampton (b. 1948) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The planet Wemm has been deprived of its technology and must live in a pastoral setting.

PB - York Press CY - Fredericton, NB, Canada ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mother Tongue Y1 - 1996 A1 - Joan Rosier-Jones KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia in which a future dictator institutes Māori as the only official language in New Zealand. The author says it reflects what had been done previously to the Māori. Much of the focus of the novel is on those resisting the new regime. 

PB - David Ling CY - Auckland, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Old Bruises" Y1 - 1996 A1 - Heather Fraser ED - Robert Runté ED - Yves Meynard (b. 1964) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia of corporate control, male dominance.

JF - Tesseracts5: The Anthology of New Canadian Speculative Fiction PB - Tesseract Books CY - Edmonton, AB, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Passion, Digitally” Y1 - 1996 A1 - David Foster Wallace (1962-2008) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A future dictionary entry on the word date and the way had been used earlier provides a comparative perspective on and some social history of sexual relations and gender norms from the early twentieth century to 2096. Both can be read as dystopian.

JF - The New York Times Magazine N1 -

Rpt. as “Datum Centurio.” In his Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (New York: Little, Brown/Hachette, 1999), 106-10. 978-0-316-92541-9

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Patches" Y1 - 1996 A1 - Lesley [Willis] Choyce (b. 1951) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Computer controlled dystopia in which children are given knowledge through implants, which also removes their memories. As a result, everyone is rational and equal. The story is about a group of students who remove their patches and their conversation with an android who, linked to the computer, cannot understand their choice.

JF - Trapdoor to Heaven: New Fiction PB - Quarry Press CY - Kingston, ON, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Paths to Otherwhere Y1 - 1996 A1 - James P[atrick] Hogan (1941-2010) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of totalitarian states with a wide variety of alternative futures available.

PB - Baen CY - Riverdale, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pirates of the Universe Y1 - 1996 A1 - Terry [Ballantine] Bisson (1942-2024) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The future Earth is a violent and depleted dystopia. One Refuge is a utopian theme park called “Pirates of the Universe”. Much adventure.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Plan for Wellington until the Destruction: Utopic Excavations at the Palisade" Y1 - 1996 A1 - Donald James Dunham (b. 1962) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Plans for a future Wellington, New Zealand. The thesis is divided into two parts, the first surveying the history of utopian planning, the second (101-23) describing fictionally a future Wellington that has arisen after an earthquake. In this section, there are two main flawed utopias. The City is a technological eutopia with an extremely harsh criminal code. The Island is completely non-technological, with no electricity. On the Island nine leaders are chosen by lot to serve for 27 days only. There are communal meals every day. Most of the inhabitants of the Island are people who broke one of the many City laws and chose to live permanently on the Island rather than undergoing The Penalty (being blinded and crippled), which is the only other punishment in the City. Another island which serves as a refuge for women and animals is briefly mentioned.

PB - Victoria University of Wellington CY - Welling, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Principles of Animal Eugenetics" Y1 - 1996 A1 - Yves Meynard (b. 1964) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. The story is concerned with genetic manipulation, but the society in which it is taking place is an authoritarian dystopia, which appears to be failing.

JF - Tomorrow VL - no. 20 N1 -

Rpt. in Tesseracts Nine: New Canadian Speculative Fiction. Ed. Nalo Hopkinson and Geoff[rey Charles] Ryman ( Calgary , AB,  Canada : Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing, 2005), 27-49.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Prisoner's Son: Homage to Anthony Burgess Y1 - 1996 A1 - Jerome Gold (b. 1943) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia that takes place some years after 1991 Gold, The Inquisitor which is a sequel showing the further impoverishment, disintegration, and degradation of the US. The Southwest and Pacific states have been sold to México. The novel focuses on Seattle, which has no effective government or even social rules.

PB - Black Heron Press CY - Seattle, WA U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Protektor Y1 - 1996 A1 - Charles Platt (b. 1945) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future computer controlled eutopia that develops flaws.

PB - Avon Books CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pussy, King of the Pirates Y1 - 1996 A1 - Kathy [Karen Lehmann] Acker (1948-97) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Complex dystopia. As with many of Acker's novels, this has connections with works of others, in this case Robert Louis Stevenson's (1850-94) Treasure Island (1883) and Pauline Réage's [pseud.] [Anne Declos (1907-98)] Histoire d'O (1954).

PB - Grove Atlantic Press CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. Sydney, NSW, Australia: Picador, 1996.  

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Rebel Moon Y1 - 1996 A1 - Bruce [Raymond] Bethke (b. 1955) A1 - [Theodore] [Beale] {b. 1968) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

By 2069 the United Nations had brought about peace and order on Earth, but the inhabitants of the Moon rebelled. While the Moon was defeated, its leaders hoped to continue the war, suggesting a sequel.

PB - Pocket Books CY - New York U3 -

Vox Day [pseud.] for Beale

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CU-Riv

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sacrifice of Fools Y1 - 1996 A1 - Ian [Neil] McDonald (b. 1960) KW - Male author KW - Northern Ireland author AB -

The novel is primarily concerned with alien contact, but as a background it has a future Northern Ireland with new political and judicial institutions.

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Vista, 1997

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I

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Second Infinity Y1 - 1996 A1 - Michael D[avid] Weaver (1961-98) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel is about efforts to save a fragile future eutopia.

PB - Avon Books CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Shangri-La: The Return to the World of Lost Horizon Y1 - 1996 A1 - Eleanor Cooney A1 - Daniel [Peter] Altieri (b. 1046) KW - Female author KW - Male author AB -

Sequel to 1933 Hilton in which a Chinese general plans to find and plunder Shangri-La but is thwarted by the guardian of Shangri-La and the general’s daughter.

PB - William Morrow CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Silicon Embrace Y1 - 1996 A1 - John [Patrick] Shirley (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Various dystopias in a post-catastrophe future in which the United States has broken up into warring factions.

PB - Mark V. Ziesing Books CY - Shingletown, CA ER - TY - ABST T1 - Snugglarea Y1 - 1996 A1 - Dan Weiss KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. People put in storage until needed. Opinionmeter constantly judges the popularity of people and places.

PB - Black Plankton Press CY - Cobb, CA U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Space on Earth: The Story of Urban Mountain Y1 - 1996 A1 - Joel H. Rosenblatt P.E. KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Non-fictional description of a future eutopia which stresses huge buildings that contain all the activities of a city. The internal arrangements are said to be on a human scale. 

PB - Vantage Press CY - New York U2 -

Illus.

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DLC, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Spares Y1 - 1996 A1 - Michael [Philip] Marshall Smith (b. 1965) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopian thriller about people bred as "spares."

PB - HarperCollins CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Bantam Books, 1997.

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Public

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Stolen Hours" Y1 - 1996 A1 - Manjula Padmanabhan (b. 1953) KW - Female author KW - Indian author AB -

The setting of a science fiction story is a dystopia of rigid class distinction based on ethnicity and immigration .

JF - Hot Death, Cold Soup: Twelve Short Stories PB - Kali for Women CY - New Delhi, India N1 -

Rpt. (Reading, Eng.: Garnet Publishing, 1997), 169-83. 

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PU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Stone Canal Y1 - 1996 A1 - Ken[nth Macrae] MacLeod (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Complex novel set on New Mars, a Mars-like planet being terraformed, where there is a struggle for power among various groups and sentient machines. Includes a functioning libertarian, but called anarchist, society but without much detail. Quite a bit on post-humans. The second volume of his Fall Revolution series, which also includes 1995, 1998, and 1999 MacLeod.

PB - Legend CY - London SN - 0 09 955901 3 N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Tor, 2000. Rpt. in The Fall Revolution. The Star Fraction The Stone Canal The Sky Road [(New York]: SFBC, 2001), 251-493; and in his Fractions: The First Half of the Fall Revolution (New York: Orb, 2008), 331-640.

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CU-Riv, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Stone, Still" Y1 - 1996 A1 - A. R. Morlan ED - Cecilia Tan (b. 1967) KW - Female author AB -

The story describes a woman with a disease, scleroderma, that makes her body rigid in a society that requires everyone to have a compatible sexual partner and finds and assigns such a partner and the successful match found for her.

JF - Sextopia: Stories of Sex and Society PB - Circlet Press CY - Cambridge, MA U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Sum of their Parts" Y1 - 1996 A1 - Stephanie Bedwell-Grime KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia of a future without women where men fight for power and prestige.

JF - NorthWords (Napean, ON, Canada) PB - Mosaic Press CY - Oakville, ON, Canada VL - 3.2 N1 -

Rpt. in North of Infinity II. Ed. Mark Leslie (Oakville, ON, Canada: Mosaic Press, 2006), 100-11. 

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Can, CU-Riv

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Telos: The Call Goes Out from the Hollow Earth and the Underground Cities Y1 - 1996 A1 - Dianne Robbins (b. 1939) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Detailed, although vague on some points, eutopia presented through communications received telepathically from the hollow center of the sun and the planets of the solar system. The focus is on the cities in the hollow Earth, particularly Telos which is under Mount Shasta, California. All those living in these hollows are connected into one cooperating eutopia under the rule of Ascended Masters, as is each hollow, and the people living in them are spiritually advanced. See also 2000 and 2003 Robbins. 

PB - Author CY - Rochester, NY N1 -

Rev. & exp. ed. Mt. Shasta, CA: Mt. Shasta Light Pub, 2000.

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MiU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Time Famine: A Novel Y1 - 1996 A1 - Lance Olsen (b. 1956) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Complex dystopia set in a corporate dominated future with massive environmental damage. For example, the novel begins in a post-"shimmer" (earthquake) Los Angeles that had experience the rupture of nuclear power plants (and immediately has another) and with a concentration camp theme park. The latest nuclear power plant rupture sends some people into different time periods.

PB - Permeable Press CY - San Francisco, CA U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Truth Machine: A Speculative Novel Y1 - 1996 A1 - James L. Halperin (b. 1952) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An infallible machine that detects the truth and its effects. See also 1998 Halperin.

PB - Ivy Press CY - Dallas, TX N1 -

Rpt. New York: Ballantine Books, 1996.

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Ultimate Philosophy: A Man To Utopia Y1 - 1996 A1 - Jon Will KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Very general depiction of the principles on which a eutopia depends.

PB - Utopian Pathway Fund CY - Baltimore, MD UR - Also at http://www.erols.com/jonwill/utopiabook/htm. U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - U.S.A. 2012: After the Middle-Class Revolution Y1 - 1996 A1 - Kenneth M. Dolbeare (b. 1930) A1 - Janette Kay Hubbell KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Mostly non-fiction on the problems of the present with two brief fictional sections written as if from 2012 that frame the book. “A New Declaration of Independence” (21-24) and four amendments to the U.S. Constitution. The first amendment (118-19) establishes the procedures national initiatives and referenda; the second amendment (120) puts severe restrictions on political campaigning and campaign finance; the third amendment (127-28) mandates proportional representation in the electoral college and state legislatures, easing the voting process, and adding “None of the Above” to all ballots; the fourth amendment (134) mandates that federal and state courts must take economic and social considerations into account in their decisions, permits the review of “excessive” awards by juries and fees charged by lawyers, and other devices designed to discourage litigation. 

PB - Chatham House Publishers CY - Chatham, NJ ER - TY - ABST T1 - Utopia Revisited Y1 - 1996 A1 - James Blunt KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Detailed eutopia. Describes a planet with various countries parallel with those on Earth including the eutopia called Naturalia that bases its policies on the objective observations of nature.

PB - Merlin Books CY - Braunton, Devon, Eng. U5 -

L, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Virtual Time Machine: Part I" Y1 - 1996 A1 - Alan Mayne KW - Male author AB -

A sequel to 1895 Wells The Time Machine in which the Time Traveller sets out to return to the future and rescue Weena but ends up in a different future which has a “World Brain” even more sophisticated than Wells proposed. It tells him to go to 1995 where he might find the branch of time that led to the future he had previously visited. “Part II.” The Wellsian, no. 20 (Winter 1997): 20-31 explains the fictional material in the first part.

JF - The Wellsian VL - no. 19 U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Virtual Zen Y1 - 1996 A1 - Ray [Radell Faraday] Nelson (1931-2022) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Quite general dystopia of apathy and disillusionment with a musician providing a more positive image.

PB - Avon Books CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Voices of Hope Y1 - 1996 A1 - David Feintuch (1944-2006) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of extreme rich versus poor divisions.

PB - Warner Books CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Washington Transformed: The Radical Future of the Northwest" Y1 - 1996 A1 - Greg[ory Dale] Bear (1951-2022) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

High tech eutopian projection but with clear indications of problems.

JF - Paradoxa VL - 2.1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Welcome, Kid, to the Real World" Y1 - 1996 A1 - L[inda] Timmel Duchamp (b. 1950) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which children are required to choose their future physical and mental shape.

JF - Tales of the Unanticipated VL - no. 16 U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Whakaari Y1 - 1996 A1 - David McGill (b. 1942) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Thriller set in a near future New Zealand with an authoritarian Green government, fascist youth gangs, and a Māori liberationist movement. 

PB - Silver Owl Press CY - Wellington, New Zealand U5 -

ATL, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Whaleroad Y1 - 1996 A1 - Kerry Greenwood (b. 1959) KW - Australian author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia. The U.S. Star Wars defense system is hit by a meteorite, knocked out of its orbit, and destroys much of life on Earth with the resultant loss of knowledge.

PB - Hodder SF/Fantasy CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia N1 -

Rpt. with 1997 and 1998 Greenwood separately paged and with no separate title Sydney, NSW, Australia: Hodder Headline, 2002.

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NSW

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Whiteout Y1 - 1996 A1 - Sage Walker KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Very near future U.S. dystopia as background. In this overpopulated future government is controlled by multinational corporations and people are poverty-stricken and going hungry.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Zeitgeist Y1 - 1996 A1 - Todd Wiggins KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A road novel set in 1999 U.S. Elements of an authoritarian dystopia with various rebels.

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London U5 -

L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Aachen Memorandum Y1 - 1995 A1 - Andrew Roberts KW - Male author AB -

European superstate of 2045 as a dystopia.

PB - Weidenfeld & Nicolson CY - London U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A.D Y1 - 1995 A1 - Saab Lofton KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

A dystopia set in 2030 in which the U.S. is divided between the Nation of Islam and the White Aryan Resistance followed by a eutopia set in 2410 which is governed by the Libertarian Socialist Democracy, which is a flawed utopia. The African American protagonist is rejected by and rejects the Nation of Islam and declares himself an orthodox Muslim. Waking in the future, he finds it extremely strange and has extreme difficulty fitting in and does not really try to adjust. See “Introduction ‘Writings From Exile’.” In his Battle Neverending (Np: Share the Wealth Publications, 1998), 1-3 for his comments on the reception of the book.

PB - III Publishing CY - Gualala, CA U5 -

DLC, NcD, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Age of Innocence" Y1 - 1995 A1 - Brian [Michael] Stableford (b. 1948) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. With longevity greatly increased, the old become infantile and must be cared for by the young.

JF - Asimov's Science Fiction VL - 19.7 (232) U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "And Baby Makes Five" Y1 - 1995 A1 - Daniel [David] Pearlman (1935-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia in which one has to pay penalties for each child.

JF - The Final Dream and Other Fictions PB - Permeable Press CY - San Francisco, CA U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Angel Thing" Y1 - 1995 A1 - Petrina Smith ED - Lucy [Jane] Sussex (b. 1957) ED - Judith Raphael Buckrich KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Religious dystopia. The story depicts a fundamentalist church controlled by a charismatic leader. Women considered inferior. When there is an attempt to kill an angel, one woman and her daughter revolt to save it.

JF - She's Fantastical PB - Sybylla CY - Melbourne, VIC, Australia N1 -

Rpt. in The Best Australian Science Fiction Writing: A Fifty Year Collection. Ed. Rob Gerrand (Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Black Inc., 2004), 420-33.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Animal Planet Y1 - 1995 A1 - Scott [Michael] Bradfield (b. 1955) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire. Animals revolt but are turned into workers. Some animals cooperate and do well.

PB - Picador CY - New York N1 -

Parts previously published as “Animals Behind Bars.” Conjunctions 21 (Fall 1993): 144-65; and “Penguins for Lunch.” Triquarterly 93 (Spring/Summer 1995): 21-43. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Astonishing the Gods Y1 - 1995 A1 - Ben Okri (b. 1959) KW - Male author KW - Nigerian author KW - UK author AB -

Eutopia with a search for perfection. 

PB - Phoenix House CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Phoenix, 1996.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Awake / asleep” Y1 - 1995 A1 - Liz Diamond KW - Female author AB -

Brief, but detailed egalitarian eutopia. Free education. Much free time. The author calls it a Scandinavian social democracy with a Mediterranean feel.

JF - Theater VL - 26.1 & 2 U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Balancing" Y1 - 1995 A1 - Ann K. Schwader ED - Gary Bowen KW - Female author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia. Every birth requires a death; if no balancing death is provided, a member of the family or the baby must die. Voluntary suicide is common.

JF - Green Echo: Ecological SF& F PB - Obelesk Books CY - Elkton, MD U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Birthday" Y1 - 1995 A1 - Esther M[ona] Friesner (b. 1951) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which anyone having an abortion is required to see images of a growing child for six years.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 89.2 (531) N1 -

Rpt. in The Best from Fantasy & Science Fiction: The Fiftieth Anniversary Anthology. Ed. Edward L. Ferman and George Van Gelder (New York: Tor, 1999), 183-99. 

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Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Black Fury Y1 - 1995 A1 - Abaidoo, Kodwo KW - Ghanaian author KW - Male author AB -

Imaginary dystopian colony and the successful revolt to establish freedom.

PB - Woeli Publishing Services CY - Accra, Ghana U5 -

MA, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Blade Runner 2: The Edge of Human Y1 - 1995 A1 - K[evin] W[ayne] Jeter (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Novel stemming from Ridley Scott's movie Blade Runner (1982), which was based on Phillip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (1969). Sequels include Blade Runner: Replicant Night. New York Bantam Books, 1996 (PSt); and Blade Runner 4: Eye & Talon. London: Victor Gollancz, 2000 (L). 

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Blue Star: A Science Fiction, With Hope Y1 - 1995 A1 - David Gau-Ghan (b. 1955) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

New Age eutopia. The novel depicts two advanced alien civilizations, representing good and evil, in conflict over Earth. The good civilization tries unsuccessfully to save humankind from itself by leading a crusade against environmental destruction. Earth goes through a cataclysmic change as it had when Atlantis and Lemuria sank, and they rise to the surface again. Both civilizations repopulate Earth, and the cycle can be either repeated or broken. See also 2000 Gau-Ghan.

PB - The Bradbury House of Words CY - Tauranga, New Zealand N1 -

Rpt. with a new title on the cover as The Blue Star Millennium: A Science Fiction, With Hope. Auckland, New Zealand: The Bradbury House of Words, 1998. Some copies have Millennium pasted over the subtitle on the title page; others do not.

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[some copies have a different cover subtitle, An ascension prophecy from space, which appears to be tipped over the original subtitle]

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ATL

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Bohr Maker Y1 - 1995 A1 - Linda Nagata (b. 1960) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Conflict over access to nanotechnology in a fairly standard authoritarian dystopia. First volume in her The Nanotech Succession series. While all of the volumes share the influence of nanotechnology and are what is called hard science fiction, they all have different foci. The other volumes are volumes are Tech-Heaven. New York: Bantam Books, 1995; Deception Well. New York: Bantam Books, 1997; Vast. New York: Bantam Books, 1998; and Edges. Kula, HI: Mythic Island Press, 2019, which is the first volume of her Inverted Frontier sub-series.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Bounty: A Novella In Which a Genetically Flawed Hero Flees Through an American Dystopia, Evading Slave Traders and Regaining His Liberty" Y1 - 1995 A1 - George Saunders (b. 1958) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia as reflected in the title.

JF - Harper's Magazine VL - 290.1739 N1 -

Rpt. without the subtitle in his Civilwarland in Bad Decline: Stories and a Novella (London: Jonathan Cape, 1996), 88-179.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Brazen Rule Y1 - 1995 A1 - Steven Burgauer KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which the U.S. is ruled by an imperial Senate. Mostly adventure. A non-utopian sequel is Fornax. Salt Lake City, UT: Northwest Publishing, 1994.

PB - Northwest Publishing CY - Salt Lake City, UT U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Buchanan Campaign Y1 - 1995 A1 - Rick Shelley (1947-2001) KW - Male author AB -

Invasion of a colony planet that is presented positively becomes a focus of the conflict between the two major empires. The novel focuses on the conflict.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York U5 -

CU-Riv, Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The City of God" Y1 - 1995 A1 - Gardner R[aymond] Dozois (1947-2018) A1 - Michael [Jürgen] Swanwick (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An exploration of the nature of utopianism and the way that the desire for power can corrupt it. Includes both an authoritarian dystopia of grinding poverty and violence and a now deserted eutopia.

JF - Omni Online UR - No longer available on the web N1 -

Rpt. in Asimov's Science Fiction 20.10& 11 (250-51) (October/November 1996): 208-74; and in Michael [Jürgen] Swanwick with Jack [Mayo] Dann, Avram Davidson, and Gardner [Raymond] Dozois. Moon Dogs. Ed. Ann A. Broomhead & Timothy P. Szczesuil (Framingham, MA: NESFA Press, 2000), 155-231.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - City of God Y1 - 1995 A1 - Tom Grimes KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Near future dystopia of violence and rich/poor division.

PB - W. W. Norton CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Picador, 1995.

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Coming of Age in Karhide By Sov Thade Tage em Ereb, of Rer, in Karhide, on Gethen" Y1 - 1995 A1 - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) ED - Greg[ory Dale] Bear (1951-2022) ED - Martin H[arry] Greenberg (1941-2011) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Short sequel to 1969 Le Guin. The rites of passage of and emotional responses to going into kemmer (taking on sexual characteristics) for the first time.

JF - New Legends PB - Legend Books CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. without subtitle after the first Karhide (New York: Tor, 1995), 90-105; and with the subtitle in her The Birthday of the World and Other Stories (New York: HarperCollins, 2002), 1-22. U.K. ed. (London: Gollancz, 2002), 1-22; and in Hainish Novels & Stories Volume One. Rocannon’s World Planet of Exile City of Illusions The Left Hand of Darkness The Dispossessed Stories. Ed. Brian Attebery (New York: Library of America, 2017), 990-1008 with a “Note on the Text” (1084).

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Merril, O, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Completion Y1 - 1995 A1 - Chris Marsh (b. 1942) KW - Female author AB -

Evolution of the human race through various better and worse social orders all the way to the end of humanity. Among the better futures is what the author calls her own “extreme form of permaculture”. 

PB - BackWater Publishing CY - Woking, Surrey, Eng. U2 -

Illus. Felicity Marsh

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Curious Enlightenment of Professor Caritat. A Comedy of Ideas Y1 - 1995 A1 - Steven Lukes (b. 1941) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A modern version of Voltaire's (1694-1778) Candide ou, L'Optimisme (1759) by a U.K. political theorist.

PB - Verso CY - London N1 -

2nd ed. [Cover says exp. new ed. but the only additions appear to be an "Introduction" (vii-ix) and "Further Readings" (261-62)] as The Curious Enlightenment of Professor Caritat. A Novel of Ideas. London: Verso, 2009. Includes an Errata slip.

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Curtain Falls" Y1 - 1995 A1 - David W. Hill ED - Gary Bowen KW - Male author AB -

Ecological dystopia with growing pollution, rising skin cancer rates. Most people live underground. Sale of body parts, including the entire body is common.

JF - Green Echo: Ecological SF& F PB - Obelesk Books CY - Elkton, MD U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Delenda” Y1 - 1995 A1 - Andrea Thomas KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

Last woman story in which sickness was followed by madness and violence with a few immune left. The story focuses on a woman and the man who rescues her from final violence, the problems they have, and the freedom she feels after he is killed by dogs. 

JF - Albedo One (Dublin, Ireland VL - no. 9 U5 -

CU-Riv

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Deucalion Y1 - 1995 A1 - Brian [Paul] Caswell (b. 1954) KW - Australian author KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

Young adult flawed utopia describing the development of an effective world government on Earth, the colonization of the planet Deucalion, the positive and negative interactions with the indigenous population, and the establishment of a new, separately located society by the indigenous people.

PB - University of Queensland Press CY - St. Lucia, QLD, Australia N1 -

U.K. ed. Edinburgh, Scot.: Flyways, 2002.

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L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Diamond Age, or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer Y1 - 1995 A1 - Neal [Town] Stephenson (b. 1959) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Technological Victorian age of the future and some alternatives.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Distress. A Novel Y1 - 1995 A1 - Greg[ory Mark] Egan (b. 1961) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

A science fiction novel that includes two eutopias. One is a small South Pacific island, called Stateless that welcomes immigrants from anywhere and is essentially anarchist. The second is a world-wide one that develops after the discovery of TOE or the Theory of Everything which creates a completely diverse but united world population. Australian author.

PB - HarperPrism CY - New York N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: HarperPrism, 1997. 341 pp. 0-06-105264-7

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Doomsday Scenario: A story set in an imaginary Britain of the present in the very near future, whenever that may happen to be Y1 - 1995 A1 - Jack Ramsay KW - Male author AB -

Near future dystopia where crime, both violent and nonviolent, is the norm. The middle class is hiring armed security forces and building fences around their suburbs. Police all armed with silenced automatic pistols. One focus of the novel is the controversy surrounding the proposal to re-introduce capital punishment.

PB - Publishing Associates CY - London U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Dream that needs abuildin' Y1 - 1995 A1 - Russell Voorhees ED - John Pritchard KW - Male author AB -

Architectural eutopia.

PB - Chayah Press CY - Phoenix, AZ U5 -

CaOUP

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dryland's End Y1 - 1995 A1 - Felice Picano KW - Female author AB -

A matriarchy with problems set in the far future. 

PB - Richard Kasak CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The End of the Age. A Novel Y1 - 1995 A1 - Pat [Marion Gordon] Robertson (1930-2023) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Christian novel focusing on the dystopia on the period before the Second Coming of Christ.

PB - Word Publishing CY - Dallas, TX U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Excerpt from Enter: The Night” Y1 - 1995 A1 - Maria Irene Fornes (b. 1930) KW - Cuban-American author KW - Female author AB -

The play had its world premiere in 1993 at Theater Zero, Seattle, WA, and was revised for presentation in Dallas, TX in 1994. This excerpt is about the creation of a play. The Cuban-American female author is a prolific playwright.

JF - Theater VL - 26.1 & 2 U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Exodus, or the Voluntary Prisoners of Architecture" Y1 - 1995 A1 - Rem[ment Lucas] Koolhaas (b. 1944) ED - Jennifer Sigler KW - Dutch author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Design for London with both dystopian and eutopian elements.

JF - Small, Medium, Large, Extra-Large: Office for Metropolitan Architecture. Rem Koolhaas and Bruce Mau PB - The Monacelli Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Fairyland Y1 - 1995 A1 - Paul J[ames] McAuley (b. 1955) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Future society divided into rich (based on advanced technology) and extremely poor. 

PB - VGSF CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Victor Gollancz, 2007; and London: Victor Gollancz, 2015 with an “Introduction” by Stephen Baxter (v-vii). U.S. ed. New York: Avon, 1995. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Farewell Reverberated Vault of Detentions.” Y1 - 1995 A1 - Lionel G. Fogarty (b. 1958) ED - Peter Porter KW - Aboriginal author KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Poem depicting the aboriginal eutopia possible without the effects of the white colonizers. 

JF - New and Selected Poems: Mualdjali, Mutuerjaraera PB - Hyland House CY - South Melbourne, Vic, Australia N1 -

Rpt. in The Oxford Book of Modern Australian Verse. Ed. Peter Porter (Melbourne, Vic, Australia: Oxford University Press, 1996), 266. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Femini Island Y1 - 1995 A1 - Godfrey Otiri (b. 1942) KW - Danish author KW - Male author KW - Nigerian author KW - US author AB -

Anti-feminist novel in which a man is shipwrecked on an isolated island populated only by beautiful women. Other sailors followed, boys were born, and conflicts developed among the women on a wide range of issues.

PB - Vantage Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The First Interview" Y1 - 1995 A1 - Kaaron Warren (b. 1965) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia of a society that executes women who have abortions.

JF - Social Alternatives VL - 14.3 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Fortress Manhattan Y1 - 1995 A1 - David Callinan KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a fortress for the rich surrounded by the poor.

PB - VGSF CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - Four Ways to Forgiveness Y1 - 1995 A1 - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Four linked stories set on the planets of Werel and Yeowe as they struggle toward freedom from their oppressive pasts, including slavery and purdah for women. Some obvious satire but includes descriptions of the dystopias of the early histories of the two planets as well as material on the Hainish eutopias that she describes in many of her other stories and novels.

PB - HarperPrisim CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. as part of Five Ways to Forgiveness and in Hainish Novels & Stories Volume Two. The World for Word Is Forest Stories Five Ways to Forgiveness The Telling. Ed. Brian Attebery (New York: Library of America, 2017), 319-517, 570-88 with a “Note on the Text” (781) and “Notes (786-87). First published as four novellas--“Betrayals.” Blue Motel. Narrow Houses Volume 3. Ed. Peter Crowther (London: Little, Brown, 1994), 195-229; rpt. in her The Real and the Unreal. Selected Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin. Volume Two Outer Space, Inner Lands (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2012), 99-131; “Forgiveness Day.” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 18.12 & 13 (November 1994): 262-304; rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction Twelfth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1995), 1-47;  in Flying Cups and Saucers: Gender Exploration in Science Fiction & Fantasy. Ed. Debbie Notkin & The Secret Feminist Cabal (Cambridge, MA: Edgewood Press, 1998), 68-118; and in The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin (New York: Saga Press, 2016), 241-302; “A Man of the People.” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 19.4 & 5 (229-30) (April 1995): 22-40, 42-46, 48-65; and in The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin (New York: Saga Press, 2016), 303-58; and “A Woman’s Liberation.” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 19.8 (July 1995): 116-63; rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction Thirteenth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1996), 1-42; in A Woman’s Liberation: A Choice of Futures By and About Women. Ed. Connie Willis and Sheila Williams (New York: Warner Books, 2001), 227-94; and in The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin (New York: Saga Press, 2016), 359-428. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Fragments From: LINDA SUSAN" Y1 - 1995 A1 - Mac Wellman (b. 1945) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Brief eutopian play in fragments.

JF - Theater VL - 26.1 & 2 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Freefalling Toward a Borderless Future” Y1 - 1995 A1 - Guillermo Gómez-Peña (b. 1955) KW - Chicano author KW - Male author AB -

The brief play reflects the focus of much of the author’s work, borders between countries.

JF - Theater VL - 26.1 & 2 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Gaia's Toys Y1 - 1995 A1 - [Rebecca Bard] [Brown] (b. 1948) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Genetic engineering dystopia where genetic manipulation is standard practice. Deep rich-poor division, those without a job have no option but to become a drone for the military, and saving endangered species is a fad for the rich. Eco-terrorists are trying to stop the government’s plan for a new genetic mutation that will take away the last vestiges of personal freedom.

PB - Tor/Tom Doherty Associates CY - New York SN - 0-312-85781-0 U3 -

Rebecca Ore [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Genesis" Y1 - 1995 A1 - [Owen Marshall] [Jones] (b. 1941) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Brief satire on Heaven which is a corporation known as G.O.D. Lucifer is in charge of Creations and Gabriel goes around him directly to G.O.D. to propose a new creation, Earth, which Lucifer concludes is very poorly design both as a planet and in its proposed inhabitants, 

JF - Coming Home in the Dark PB - Vintage CY - Auckland, New Zealand SN - 9781869413361 N1 -

Rpt. in The Best of Owen Marshall’s Short Stories (Auckland, New Zealand: Vintage/Random House, 1997), 354-56.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Great State." Y1 - 1995 A1 - Clay Caldwell KW - Male author AB -

Gay male eutopia with the emphasis on the sex.

JF - QSFx2: Queer Science Fiction PB - Badboy CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Headcrash Y1 - 1995 A1 - Bruce [Raymond] Bethke (b. 1955) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Cyberpunk dystopia.

PB - Warner Aspect CY - New York N1 -

U.K. edition London: Orbit, 1995.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Hidden Mask Y1 - 1995 A1 - John Elder (b. 1933) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Complex future tale in which a wealthy woman leads the successful effort to reverse population growth and produce a livable world. A World-literacy council creating a single world-language, world-speak based on English, was instrumental in bringing people together, but local languages remain, so everyone is bilingual. This council ultimately gives way to a World-council elected by everyone on Earth, with all political organizations prohibited. Ends with extracts from the world encyclopedia of 5164 covering the years 2000-2100.

PB - Octant Press CY - Temuka, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Home" Y1 - 1995 A1 - Geoff[rey Charles] Ryman (b. 1951) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - UK author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which people prey on the elderly.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 93 N1 -

Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction Thirteenth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1996), 495-99; and in his Paradise Tales (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2011), 123-29.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Horn of Plenty" Y1 - 1995 A1 - Joan Sowter ED - Warwick Bennett ED - Patrick Hudson KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

A man leaves Earth, which is a dystopia of extreme poverty, as a mail-order husband of a woman on a newly opened planet. Both misrepresented themselves, but the story implies that with hard work and adaptability they will be able to create a better life together.

JF - Rutherford's Dreams: A New Zealand Science Fiction Collection PB - IPL Books CY - Wellington U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hotwire Y1 - 1995 A1 - Simon [David] Ings (b. 1965) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Cyberpunk dystopia.

PB - HarperCollins CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - If I Die on the Jersey Front Y1 - 1995 A1 - Matthew Collins KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which the United States is divided by race war. New Africa is a country within what had been the U.S. Most of the novel is on the conflict, but it includes a cross-racial relationship between a man and a woman. The ending suggests a sequel, but none appears to have been published.

PB - Orchard Press CY - Cornwall, CT U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "In the Green Shade of a Bee-Loud Glade" Y1 - 1995 A1 - L[eslie] A[nn] Hall (b. 1949) ED - A. Susan Williams ED - Richard Glyn Jones KW - Female author KW - UK author AB -

Raises the issue of "who will guard the guardians" about a eutopian protected environment. The sanctuary is being destroyed by those who are supposed to protect it.

JF - The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women PB - Viking CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Jigoku No Mokushiroku (The Symbolic Revelation of the Apocalypse)" Y1 - 1995 A1 - John G. McDaid KW - Male author AB -

Religious dystopia. A future U.S. dominated by the followers of David Koresh (1959-93), the leader of the Branch Davidians of Waco, Texas fame.

JF - Asimov's Science Fiction VL - 19.15 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Johnny Mnemonic Y1 - 1995 A1 - Terry [Ballantine] Bisson (1942-2024) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Based on the story and screenplay by Gibson. See 1981 Gibson for the story and 1995 Gibson for the screenplay.

PB - Pocket Books CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - K-PAX Y1 - 1995 A1 - Gene Brewer (b. 1937) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Anarchist eutopia. Sequels are On a Beam of Light. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2001 and K-PAX III: The Worlds of Prot. London: Bloomsbury, 2002. 

PB - St. Martin's Press CY - New York U5 -

DLC, MoS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Land Fit for Heroes Book 3: The Dragon Wakes Y1 - 1995 A1 - [Anthony] Phillip Mann (1942-2022) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The third volume of a four-volume alternative history of a Roman Britain in the late Twentieth Century and the conflicts between the Romans who deforested much of Britain as a source of food and the traditions of the native British. The third of four volumes. See 1993, 1994 and 1996 Mann. In this volume,  Rome  is preparing to conquer those parts of  Britain  it does not control.

PB - Gollancz CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Real Cirkus: A Futuristic Fairytale Y1 - 1995 A1 - Bottari, Bridie KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Background is a fairly near future of excessive regulation.

PB - Angus & Robertson CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Left Behind: A Novel of Earth's Last Days Y1 - 1995 A1 - Tim[othy Framcis] LaHaye (1926-2016) A1 - Jerry B[ruce] Jenkins (b. 1949) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The first volume of the Left Behind series, which describes those left on earth after the Rapture, a premillennialist belief based on 1 Corinthians 15:52 and 1 Thessalonians 4: 15-17 developed initially in England in the 1830s and included in the Scofield Reference Bible (New York: Oxford University Press, American Branch/London: H. Frowde, 1909. Mostly dystopian, but the last volume, Kingdom Come: The Final Victory (2007), includes the Second Coming of Christ, and there is a eutopia of the community of believers struggling to survive. Other volumes are Tribulation Force: The Continuing Drama of Those Left Behind (1996); Nicolae: The Rise of Antichrist (1997); Soul Harvest: The World Takes Sides (1998); Apollyon: The Destroyer is Unleashed (1999); Assassins: Assignment: Jerusalem, Target: Antichrist (1999); The Indwelling: The Beast Takes Possession (2000); The Mark: The Beast Rules the World (2000); Desecration: Antichrist Takes the Throne (2001); The Remnant: On the Brink of Armageddon (2002); Armageddon: The Cosmic Battle of the Ages (2003); and Glorious Appearing: The End of Days (2004), and Kingdom Come: The Final Victory (2007). Three volumes of prequel include The Rising: Antichrist is Born. Before They Were Left Behind (2005); Regime: Evil Advances. Before They Were Left Behind (2005); and The Rapture: In a Twinkling of an Eye. Before They Were Left Behind (2005). See also Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins. Are We Living in the End Times. Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, 1999. There are also graphic novels, films, videos, video games, forty books for children, and related products. See http:www.leftbehind.com for all the books and related materials. LaHaye gives what he calls the Biblical basis of the series in Revelation illustrated and Made Plain. rev. ed. Grand Rapids, MI: Zonderaven Publishing House, 1975. Rev. as Revelation Unveiled: A revised and updated edition of Revelation Illustrated and Made Plain. Grand Rapids, MI: Zonderaven Publishing House, 1999. See also LaHaye, Jenkins, and Norman B. Rohrer, These Will Not Be Left Behind: Incredible Stories of Lives Transformed After Reading the Left Behind Novels. Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House, 2003. Utopian spinoffs include 2003 Hart and 2003, 2004, 2005 Jenkins, and 2010 LaHaye and Parshall.

PB - Tyndale House Publishers CY - Wheaton, IL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Living in Paradox: A Utopian Soap Opera" Y1 - 1995 A1 - John Frederick Heider (1936-2010) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story depicts a new eutopian college located in Paradox, Kansas based on “human potential theory”. Excerpt from a work in progress, and this excerpt focuses on an initial encounter group among the faculty and their partners and an explanation of the purpose of the education, which is to raise awareness. 

JF - Communities: Journal of Cooperative Living VL - no. 86 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Living Theatre's Utopia" Y1 - 1995 A1 - Judith Malina (1926-2015) A1 - Hanon Reznikov (1950-2008) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Notes for a play called Utopia by Malina with sketches by Reznikov.

JF - Theater VL - 26.1 & 2 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lure of Satyria Y1 - 1995 A1 - Cheryl Mildenhall AB -

In a series of erotica for women. Includes a number of dystopian communities and one, Satyria, that the heroine finds eutopian.

PB - Black Lace CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Many Coated Man Y1 - 1995 A1 - [Owen Marshall] [Jones] (b. 1941) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

A political novel set in a near future, mildly dystopian New Zealand. A charismatic leader emerges in opposition to those in power. He leads a campaign to restore individual and national purpose and return power to the people of the country. He stresses community solidarity against political elitism. He is incarcerated in a mental hospital and later assassinated.

PB - Longacre Press CY - Dunedin, New Zealand U3 -

Owen Marshall [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Metropolitan Y1 - 1995 A1 - Walter Jon Williams (b. 1953) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Complex future dystopian society of a world under a globe encompassing shield. The novel concerns various struggles for power focusing on a substance called "plasm" that called used to create almost any substance. A sequel that does continues the various power struggles is City of Fire. New York: HarperPrism, 1997. A third volume is planned but has not been written.

PB - HarperPrism CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. as "Signed First Edition" illus. Pat Morrissey and with an "Introduction" by James Gunn (v-ix). Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1995.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mink! Y1 - 1995 A1 - Peter Chippindale (1945-2014) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Mink organize to escape from a mink farm while the “Concerned Woodland Guardians,” which is led by rabbits is trying to protect their habitat. When the mink escape, they prey on the other woodland animals until the two groups have to combine to fend off the more dangerous humans.

PB - Simon & Schuster CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Montezuma Strip Y1 - 1995 A1 - Alan Dean Foster (b. 1946) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of poverty and corription.

PB - Warner Books CY - New York N1 -

Parts originally published as by James Lawson [pseud.] as “Sanctuary.” Amazing Stories 63.4 (November 1988): 118-60; “Heartwired.” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 82.2 (February 1992): 81-104; “Gagrito.” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 84.4 (April 1993): 80-114; “Hellado.” Amazing 68.6 (September 1993): 22-32; and by Foster as “Our Lady of the Machine.” Amazing Stories 69.1 (Spring 1994): 119-59. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Mystery of the Third Seal Y1 - 1995 A1 - Margaret Pearce KW - Female author AB -

Young adult flawed utopia. Post-catastrophe society of seeming perfection under the control of the Shepherds, who are like the Morlocks of 1895 Wells.

PB - Longman Australia CY - Melbourne, VIC, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Newtopia Y1 - 1995 A1 - D. K. Paul (b. 1914) AB -

A detailed proposal for founding a series of ecological communities based on some similarity, such as race or ethnicity, in the population forming it. The author argues that it is completely practical, and compares the idea to the Twin Oaks Community in Louis, VA.

PB - PakDonald Publishing Co CY - Tigard, OR U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Non-Money: that “other money” you didn’t know you had Y1 - 1995 A1 - Olaf Egeberg (b. 1937) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

“Non-money is everything you have (besides money) that you can use to get what you want, and to do what you want to do” (12). Begins with trading skills, work for services, paying bills, and so forth and expands into community-based systems including LETS. . See also 1992 Egeberg and his Coming Home: A Crossover Bible for Christians, Muslims, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus and members of other religious faiths, as well as thoroughly non-religious persons. Np.: Lulu Press, 2006. http://changesahead.net/files/TheBook.pdf

PB - McGee Street Foundation CY - Washington, DC: U2 -

Illus. Joan Hancock

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "One Day in the Life of the Landfords" Y1 - 1995 A1 - Tammy Jo Eckhart ED - Cecilia Tan (b. 1967) KW - Female author AB -

A somewhat isolated community that is a sado-masochistic eutopia. 

JF - S/M Futures: Erotica On the Edge PB - Circlet Press CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Osiris Rising: A Novel of Africa, Past, Present and Future Y1 - 1995 A1 - Ayi Kwei Armah (b. 1939) KW - Ghanaian author KW - Male author AB -

Uses the Osiris myth to explore the current authoritarian dystopia that is many African states and suggests a way forward based on the African past.

PB - Per Ankh CY - Popenguine, Senegal U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Other Nature Y1 - 1995 A1 - Stephanie A[nn] Smith (b. 1959) KW - Female author KW - US author PB - Tor CY - New York SN - 978-0312856380 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Out of Touch" Y1 - 1995 A1 - Brian [Michael] Stableford (b. 1948) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Immortality and the problems of those not qualifying. The focus of the story of a man who was born to early, but mention is made of people from the Third World and others who were not eligible for the treatment. The immortals live in a high tech eutopia that for most is an enclosed virtual world.

JF - Asimov's Science Fiction VL - 19.11 (236) N1 -

Rpt. in Isaac Asimov's Utopias. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois and Sheila Williams (New York: Ace Books, 2000), 33-61 with a note on 33-34.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pfitz Y1 - 1995 A1 - Andrew Crumey (b. 1961) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

A prince creates imaginary cities and devotes the resources of his country to the development of plans for them. The novel focuses on characters created to inhabit one of them. The middle volume of a trilogy, which begins with the unrelated 1994 Crumey and ends with the non-utopian D'Alembert's Principle: Memory, Reason and Imagination. Sawtry, Cambridgeshire, Eng.: Dedalus, 1996. 

PB - Dedalus CY - Sawtry, Cambridgeshire, Eng. ER - TY - ABST T1 - Playing the Game Y1 - 1995 A1 - Doris [May] Lessing (1919-2013) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Graphic novel depicting an urban dystopia and attempts to escape it. 

PB - HarperCollins CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Profiteer. Hostile Takeover # 1 Y1 - 1995 A1 - [Steven A.] [Swiniarski] (b. 1966) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Planet Bakunin (an anarchist society that would be unrecognizable by Mikhail Bakunin 1814-76) fights off control by others. Sequels include his Partisan. Hostile Takeover # 2. By S. Andrew Swann [pseud.].  New York : DAW Books, 1995; and Hostile Takeover #3: Revolutionary. By S. Andrew Swann [pseud.].  New York : DAW Books, 1996.

PB - DAW Books CY - New York U3 -

By S. Andrew Swann [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Psalms of Herod Y1 - 1995 A1 - Esther M[ona] Friesner (b. 1951) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe primitive dystopia focusing on gender relations. A sequel is The Sword of Mary.  Clarkston ,  GA : White Wolf Publishing, 1996. 

PB - White Wolf Publishing CY - Clarkson, GA ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Puzzle, Gentlemanly" Y1 - 1995 A1 - Elizabeth [Edwina] Smither ED - Warwick Bennett ED - Patrick Hudson KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

Technological future world that has lost most of its past knowledge and culture. Satire.

JF - Rutherford's Dreams: A New Zealand Science Fiction Collection PB - IPL Books CY - Wellington, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Quasar Y1 - 1995 A1 - Jamil Nasir (b. 1955) KW - Israeli author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of extreme wealth and poverty set against a deteriorating earth.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Ravengers Y1 - 1995 A1 - Stephen Billias (b. 1949) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Cyberpunk dystopia. See also his HoloMen.  New York : Warner Books, 1996 (Cover title Cyberpunk® 2.0.2.0.: HoloMen), which uses the same future.

PB - Warner Books CY - New York N1 -

New York Warner Books_

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Resurrection 2037 Y1 - 1995 A1 - J. G. Eccarius AB -

Religious dystopia that develops after what is called the Apocalypse with a matriarchal religion. Much lower population and children are said to being Resurrected to grow the population. The matriarchy is violent, killing all outsiders, and brooking no internal dissent.

PB - III Publishing CY - Gualala, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Revolt of the Naked Y1 - 1995 A1 - D. V. Sadero AB -

Eutopia and dystopia with stress on the erotic content. A country that is entirely male has a sub-class, the Naked, who are used both as guards and for sex. They ultimately revolt.

PB - Badboy CY - New York N1 -

Excerpt as "Revolt of the Naked." A Century of Gay Erotica. Ed. Phil Andros (New York: Masquerade Books, 1998), 377-88.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ru$$ia: A Novel Y1 - 1995 A1 - David Evan Kaun KW - Male author AB -

Satirical dystopia in which Russia becomes the freest market economy in the world. The transition is overseen by Paula T. Barnum, granddaughter P[hileas] T[ayor] Barnum's (1810-91), the American showman and the founder of the circus that became Ringling Brothers and Barnum Bailey.

PB - Fithian Press CY - Santa Barbara, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Running Out of Time Y1 - 1995 A1 - Margaret Peterson Haddix (b. 1964) KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia in which a girl growing up in a 1840s village where children are dying due to the lack of medicine discovers that the village is a tourist site in the 1990s.

PB - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sex, Age, and the Last Caste Y1 - 1995 A1 - Lawrence [H.] Taub KW - Male author AB -

The book presents Earth's history from earliest times to 2100 plus with the focus on the spiritual, which will, in the future, bring about eutopia.

PB - Clear Glass Press CY - Basking Ridge, NJ U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Shadow Man Y1 - 1995 A1 - Melissa [Elaine] Scott (b. 1960) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The novel is set in a future where most of the human worlds recognize five sexual identities and nine sexual preferences, but on one world individuals must choose to be either a man or a woman. The novel focuses on a person on that planet who chose to be male but is a hermaphrodite.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Silent City Y1 - 1995 A1 - Erez Yakin KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of violent, robotic men entirely in illustrations.

PB - Kitchen Sink Press CY - Northampton, MA N1 -

Rpt. Northampton, MA: Kitchen Sink Press, 1997. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Slow River Y1 - 1995 A1 - Nicola [Jane] Griffith (b. 1960) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The novel is set in a future with a deep rich-poor divide and focuses on a woman from the top who is stripped of her identity and her adjustment to living at the bottom. 

PB - Del Rey/Ballantine Books CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: HarperCollins, 1995

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Star Fraction Y1 - 1995 A1 - Ken[nth Macrae] MacLeod (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Dystopia of a fragmented Earth with constant surveillance conflict between pro- and anti-technology forces. Some eutopian elements. The first volume of his Fall Revolution series. See also 1996, 1998, and 1999 MacLeod.

PB - Legend CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Tor, 2001 with an “Introduction to the American Edition” (11-12). U.S. ed. rpt. in his Fractions: The First Half of the Fall Revolution (New York: Orb, 2008), 7-330. Also rpt. without the “Introduction to the American Edition” in The Fall Revolution. The Star Fraction The Stone Canal The Sky Road [(New York]: SFBC, 2001), 1-250. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A System of Lights" Y1 - 1995 A1 - Anna Deavere Smith (b. 1950) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The piece describes what plays should be like in Utopia. 

JF - Theater VL - 26.1 & 2 U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "TeleAbsence" Y1 - 1995 A1 - Michael A. Burstein (b. 1970) KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Virtual schools are created to reduce violence with everyone at home attending through virtual reality machines, but the funding for the poor to attend is not provided and the separation between rich and poor becomes even more extreme. A non-utopian sequel is "TelePresence." Analog Science Fiction and Fact 125.7& 8 (July/August 2005): 160-87. 

JF - Analog Science Fiction and Fact VL - 115.8&9 N1 -

Rpt. in his I Remember the Future: The Award-Nominated Stories of Michael A. Burstein (Lexington, KY: Apex Publications, 2008), 20-36 with an "Afterword" (37-39).

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Theater of Utopia” Y1 - 1995 A1 - Tony Kushner (b. 1956) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The piece describes what plays will be like in Utopia.

JF - Theater VL - 26.1 & 2 U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Thief! Y1 - 1995 A1 - [Oneta] Malorie Blackman (b. 1962) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which a young girl is falsely accused of being a thief and, running away, is caught in a storm that projects her into her town’s dystopian future where she meets her classmates now middle aged.

PB - Doubleday CY - London U5 -

NZ

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Thor Conspiracy: The Seventy-Hour Countdown to Disaster Y1 - 1995 A1 - Larry Burkett KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Sequel to 1991 Burkett in which the US government is controlled by an autocratic Environmental Protection Agency.

PB - Thomas Nelson CY - Nashville TN U5 -

DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Time Ships Y1 - 1995 A1 - Stephen [Michael] Baxter (b. 1957) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authorized sequel to Wells’s The Time Machine (1895) with the one branch of the Morlocks an advanced eutopian race and the Eloi depend on them for their food and clothing. The Time Traveler saves Weena from being killed, as she was in the original novel, and encourages the Eloi to become independent of the Morlocks. A variety of alternative futures are described. There are many references to works of Wells throughout the text.

PB - HarperCollins CY - London U2 -

Illus. Lee Edwards

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Tour Guide in Utopia" Y1 - 1995 A1 - Lucy [Jane] Sussex (b. 1957) ED - Lucy [Jane] Sussex (b. 1957) ED - Judith Raphael Buckrich KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Humor. A woman writing her thesis on Australian women writers of utopias meets one of them traveling into the future and acts as her guide. The utopia published in the past improved substantially on the future the writer visited.

JF - She's Fantastical PB - Sybylla CY - Melbourne, VIC, Australia N1 -

Rpt. in her A Tour Guide in Utopia (Parramatta, NSW, Australia: MirrorDanse Editions, 2005), 108-15; and in her Matilda Told Such Dreadful Lies: The Essential Lucy Sussex (Greenwood, WA, Australia: Ticonderoga publications, 2011), 121-28.

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M, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Traffic" Y1 - 1995 A1 - Robert Onopa (b. 1943) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia with a background of rigid rich-poor division and many people living permanently in moving vehicles.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 88.3 U5 -

MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Translations and Fragments from the New Panic Compound in Damascus, Kansas. 15 Plays for the New Utopian Theater Symposium (N.U.T.S.)" Y1 - 1995 A1 - Ehn, Erik KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Play fragments, some of which are eutopian and some of which are dystopian. 

JF - Theater VL - 26.1 & 2 U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Utopia" Y1 - 1995 A1 - Anne [Rosalind] Hamburger KW - Female author AB -

Lists of elements of the author’s eutopia regarding the theater and the world. The female author is a theater producer.

JF - Theater VL - 26.1 & 2 U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Utopia Parable" Y1 - 1995 A1 - Mark Lord KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Poem about a theater in a eutopian society. 

JF - Theater VL - 26.1 & 2 U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Venus Project: The Redesign of a Culture Y1 - 1995 A1 - Jacque Fresco (1916-2017) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Detailed technological urban eutopia with proposals, drawings, and illustrations of buildings, vehicles, ships, planes, and transportation systems. Some of the buildings have been constructed in Florida. PSt holds a folder that contains: Venus Project brochure (4 pp); 2 copies of highlights of an interview with Jacque Fresco (6 pp); photocopy of an article by the author entitled “Designing the Future: A Cybernetic City for the Next Century” published in The Futurist 28.3 (May-June 1994): 29-33; promotional materials including a color sheet with images of the model home and a color sheet with various conceptual renderings. At the University of Pennsylvania, the Daniels Millennium Collection, Box 329, includes a copy of the book, “Introduction to the Venus Project” (http://www.nas.com/venus/intro.shtml), “The Venus Project Mission Statement: (http://www.nas.com/venus/ms01.shtml), and other material. See also 1969 Keyes and Fresco, 2002 and 2007 Fresco, and https://www.thevenusproject.com/the-venus-project/jacque-fresco/. There is considerable repetition in the Fresco material.

PB - Global Cyber-Visions CY - Venus, FL U5 -

DLC, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Virtual Death Y1 - 1995 A1 - [Robert] [Boswell] (b. 1953) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia with a focus on death as entertainment.

PB - HarperPrism CY - New York U3 -

Shale Aaron [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “What the SysOp Saw” Y1 - 1995 A1 - Paul McKinley KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Online discussion of theater and utopia with the participants including Gertrude Stein, Richard Wagner, Plato, Yeats, Tolstoy, Artaud, and de Sade. 

JF - Theater VL - 26.1 & 2 U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The World's Last Dictator Y1 - 1995 A1 - Dwight L. Kinman (1922-2010) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of the conspiracy to bring thye U.S. into "The New World Order". Presented as factual.

PB - Whitaker Press CY - Springdale, PA N1 -

2nd ed. Woodburn, OR: Solid Rock Books, 1995. 3rd ed. New Kensington, PA: Whitaker House, 1999.

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DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - 4000: The Fifth Milenium. Six Revolooshunairy Iedeeas Y1 - 1994 A1 - Timothy F. Travis KW - Male author AB -

Proposals for spelling reform with most of the book a list of words with the new spelling, a new calendar, a duodecimal system, education reform designed to encourage the regularly improvement of knowledge and skills (163-65), revised citizenship with individuals being given ribbons annually based on their activities (166-67), and a revised epistemology based on the idea that truth can be scientific or spiritual that will create a eutopia.

PB - Aster Esprit Press CY - El Toro, CA U5 -

DLC, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Age of Light Y1 - 1994 A1 - Simon Wilson (b. 1955) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. The background to the novel is a near-future run-down, violent society. The world is divided into the rich and poor, and the poor are ignored and isolated.

PB - Penguin Books CY - Auckland, New Zealand U5 -

ATL, PSt, VUW

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Another Story" Y1 - 1994 A1 - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. The planet “O” is a conservative sustainable farming society based on long established small communities and a complex marriage called a “sedoretu” in which a minimum of four people (two men and two women) marry with both heterosexual and homosexual relations. Two (one man and one woman) come from each of the two groups or moieties, the Morning People and the Evening People, into which the planets population is divided. Sexual relations take place between moities but not within them. 

JF - Tomorrow VL - 2.4 N1 -

Rpt. as “Another Story or A Fisherman of the Inland Sea.” In her A Fisherman of the Inland Sea: Science Fiction Stories (New York: HarperPrism, 1994), 147-91; rpt. illus. Pat Morrissey and with a “Preface” (ix-xv) by James Gunn (Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1995), 147-91; in The James Tiptree Award Anthology 2. Ed. Karen Jay Fowler, Pat Murphy, Debbie Notkin, and Jeffrey D. Smith (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon Publications, 2006), 185-225; in The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin (New York: Saga Press, 2016), 197-240; in Hainish Novels & Stories Volume Two. The World for Word Is Forest Stories Five Ways to Forgiveness The Telling. Ed. Brian Attebery (New York: Library of America, 2017), 168-206 with a “Note on the Text” (780) and “Notes (785). 

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PSt, PU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Arts & Lies: A Piece for Three Voices and a Bawd Y1 - 1994 A1 - Jeanette Winterson (b. 1959) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The novel is set in a vaguely dystopian future. 

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Asylum" Y1 - 1994 A1 - Katharine [Nancy Brahtin] Kerr (b. 1944) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Military coup in the US back by fundamentalist religious groups.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 90 N1 -

Rpt. in The Year's Best Science Fiction Twelfth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995), 549-80.

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MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Atlantis Papers including The Constitution and The Law of Oceania Y1 - 1994 A1 - Jim Davidson A1 - Eric Klein A1 - Norm Doering A1 - Lee Crocker KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Detailed mostly libertarian eutopia that was begun on the Internet and intended to be put into practice by establishing a new country. Governments and the taxes they impose are considered the major problem facing the United States. Among a number of provisions that are not accepted by many libertarians is a prohibition of abortion after three months with the provision that voters can impose further restrictions. Includes “The Constitution of Oceania” (118-50) and “The Laws of Oceania” (151-88), both © Erick Klein. There is an Index, which is not entirely accurate, to the Constitution and Laws (189-96).

PB - Jim Davidson CY - Friendswood, TX U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Awakening” Y1 - 1994 A1 - Roxana Pierson ED - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) KW - Female author AB -

Free Amazon story.

JF - Snows Over Darkover PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Bachelor Butterflies Y1 - 1994 A1 - Jeff Probst KW - Male author AB -

Vaguely dystopian. A country decides to solve its crime problem by deporting all unemployed, single men. Includes a description of the area to which they are deported, but the novel focuses on the personal reactions of an individual man.

PB - Roslyn Press CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Black Ship Y1 - 1994 A1 - Gerry William (b. 1952) KW - Canadian author KW - First Nations author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopian novel in which two star-faring nations are in conflict. Uses some of the history of the treatment of the First Nations in Canada and Canadian First Nations imagery. 

PB - Theytus Books CY - [Pinticion, BC, Canada] N1 -

Exp. as The Black Ship. [Pinticion, BC, Canada]: Theytus Books, 2015. A second volume has been announced as forthcoming

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Blue Stream" Y1 - 1994 A1 - Kaaron Warren (b. 1965) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia. All teenagers are put to sleep until they are into their twenties.

JF - Aurealis (Melbourne, VIC, Australia) VL - no. 14 U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Bodyguard Y1 - 1994 A1 - William C[orey] Dietz (b. 1945) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

"Military SF" with a dystopian background.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Brave New World" Y1 - 1994 A1 - Leah Bloch KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Flawed utopia. Set in what appears to be a utopian community, where, although poor, everyone has enough, but overheard snatches of a radio broadcast show that the world is highly controlled and ensures that people fit the norm.

JF - Tomorrow: 20 Visions of the Future PB - Pan Macmillan Australia CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia U5 -

A

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Butterfly Tastes the Darkness" Y1 - 1994 A1 - Robin Wayne Bailey ED - Caro Soles KW - Male author AB -

Erotic story using a future dystopian setting in which AIDS has been used as an excuse to prohibit most sexual activity.

JF - Meltdown! An Anthology of Erotic Science Fiction and Dark Fantasy for Gay Men PB - Masquerade Books CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Carrying Capacity" Y1 - 1994 A1 - Sean Carruthers ED - Loren Rhoads ED - Mason Jones KW - Male author AB -

Pollution dystopia.

JF - Lend the Eye a Terrible Aspect PB - Automatism Press CY - San Franisco, CA ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Changing the System of Government in the United States From Two Party to Bipartite: Resolve the Question of Capitalism Versus Socialism" Y1 - 1994 A1 - Carl F. Schulder AB -

Short description of a new government.

PB - Typescript ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Chocco" Y1 - 1994 A1 - Ernest [William] Callenbach [Jr.] (1929-2012) ED - Kim Stanley Robinson (b. 1952) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An ecotopia that presents a future Native American Indian based culture as a simple eutopia.

JF - Future Primitive: The New Ecotopias PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Cold Sleep, Cold Dreams" Y1 - 1994 A1 - [Sean Llewellyn] [Williams] (b. 1967) ED - Peter McNamara ED - Margaret Winch KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of gang violence.

JF - Alien Shores: An Anthology of Australian Science Fiction PB - Aphelion Publications CY - North Adelaide, SA U3 -

E. W. Story [pseud.]

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A, L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Crime Studio Y1 - 1994 A1 - Steve Aylett (b. 1967) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The first of several volumes and stories set in the dystopian city Beerlight. See also his Slaughtermatic. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows/London: Phoenix House, 1998; and Atom. London: Phoenix House, 2000. U.S. ed. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 2000. Additional stories are “The Siri Gun.” Crime Time England (1999); rpt. in his Toxicology. Stories (New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1999), 85-89; U.K. ed. (London: Gollancz, 2001), 45-52; “Shifa.” BritPulp. Ed. Tony White (London: Sceptre, 1999), 105-10. Rpt. in his Toxicology. Stories (New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1999), 85-89; U.K. ed. (London: Gollancz, 2001), 42-45; and “Fiasco.” Why2K: Anthology for a New Era. Ed. Stephen Howard (London: Booth Clibborn Editions, 2000); rpt in his Toxicology (London: Gollancz, 2001), 102-05. L, O

PB - Serif CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Fall Walls Eight Windows, 2001. 

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L, PU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Crimes Against Nature" Y1 - 1994 A1 - Mary A. Turzillo KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of genetic engineering and manufactured viruses that can both create new people and provide manufactured beliefs and languages. The central character is a pregnant man, who is killed by those opposing the unnatural.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 80 U5 -

MoU-St, O

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Crowd Control" Y1 - 1994 A1 - Ian McAuley Hails (1957-2002) ED - Peter McNamara ED - Margaret Winch KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Corrupt authoritarian dystopia and the underground opposition.

JF - Alien Shores: An Anthology of Australian Science Fiction PB - Aphelion Publications CY - North Adelaide, SA, Australia ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Dead Space for the Unexpected" Y1 - 1994 A1 - Geoff[rey Charles] Ryman (b. 1951) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - UK author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of corporate life in the future. The author was born in Canada and left at age 11, but he identifies himself as Canadian.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 88 N1 -

Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction Twelfth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1995), 406-19; and in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 243-56; 2nd ed. as Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 243-56.

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Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Deadly Care Y1 - 1994 A1 - Richard W. Fulmer KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The dystopia created by government involvement in health care in which patients have absolutely no choices. 

PB - Vantage Press CY - New York U5 -

Howard

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Deersnake Y1 - 1994 A1 - Lucy [Jane] Sussex (b. 1957) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult dystopia with fantasy elements which may be LSD-induced visions.

PB - Hodder Headline CY - Rydalmere, NSW, Australia ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Disinherited Y1 - 1994 A1 - [Elizabeth Rhoda Wintle] [Holden] (1943-2013) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

Begins with a dystopia of poverty and violence with rigid class divisions in Wales. Ends with the beginnings of a rural utopian community. Classified as Young Adult.

PB - The Bodley Head Children's Books CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. as The Patchwork People. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1994.

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Louise Lawrence [pseud.]

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MoS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dr Orwell and Mr. Blair Y1 - 1994 A1 - David Caute KW - Male author AB -

A retelling of Orwell's Animal Farm.

PB - Weidenfeld & Nicolson CY - London U5 -

O

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm Y1 - 1994 A1 - Nancy [Forsythe Coe] Farmer (b. 1941) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

An authoritarian dystopia for young adults set in Zimbabwe in 2194.

PB - Orchard Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Firebird, 2002. U.K. ed. London: Orion's Children's Books, 1995.

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L, Merril, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Eat Reecebread" Y1 - 1994 A1 - Graham Joyce (1954-2014) A1 - Peter F. Hamilton (b. 1960) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia depicting the prejudiced response against a growing number of hermaphrodites.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 86 N1 -

Rpt. in Flying Cups and Saucers: Gender Explorations in Science Fiction & Fantasy. Ed. Debbie Notkin & The Secret Feminist Cabal (Cambridge, MA: Edgewood Press, 1998), 177-97.

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MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - End Time: Notes On the Apocalypse Y1 - 1994 A1 - G. A. Matiasz (b. 1952) AB -

Dystopia in 2007 leading to the apocalypse.

PB - AK Press CY - Edinburgh, Scot. U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Fabulous Yesterdays" Y1 - 1994 A1 - Arthur Goldstuck KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

Dystopia. Future South Africa in which the Boers suppress all opposition.

JF - Playboy (South Africa) UR - http://www.legends.org.za/arthur/yester.htm N1 -

Rpt. http://www.legends.org.za/arthur/yester.htm. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Fair New World Y1 - 1994 A1 - Lou Tafler AB -

The novel presents three societies, two dystopias Feminania and Bruteland, representing extreme feminism and extreme machismo, and a eutopia, Melior that recognizes that men and women differ but that both should be able to lead a fulfilling life. Includes a vocabulary of Fairspeak.

PB - Backlash Books CY - Vancouver, BC, Canada U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Fall From Grace" Y1 - 1994 A1 - J. P. Kansas AB -

Dystopia of a future society of women where heterosexual activity is considered fetishistic.

JF - Future Sex VL - no. 7 U5 -

NN

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Fools Errant: A Fantasy Picaresque Y1 - 1994 A1 - Matt[hew] Hughes (b. 1949) KW - Canadian author AB -

Part Voltaire’s (1694-1778) Candide (1759) and part satire in which a number of countries are presented with each one is focused on one principle taken to an extreme. A sequel is Fool Me Twice. New York: Warner Books. Rpt. in his Gullibles Travels. ([New York]: SFBC, 2001), 194-401. These novels take place in his Archonate universe, which he writes about in various subseries. 

PB - Maxwell Macmillan CY - Don Mills, ON, Canada N1 -

Rpt. with full first name and without the subtitle. New York: Warner Books, 2001; and in his Gullibles Travels ([New York]: SFBC, 2001), 1-193.

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CU-Riv, Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Freeze Frames Y1 - 1994 A1 - Katharine [Nancy Brahtin] Kerr (b. 1944) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Science fiction novel taking place on a number of different timelines, one of which includes a Calvinist dystopia in the United States. This changes when aliens arrive and convert to a reformed Roman Catholicism.

PB - HarperCollins CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Severn House, 1995. U.S. ed. New York: Tor, 1995.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Furies Y1 - 1994 A1 - Suzy McKee Charnas (1939-2023) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 1974 and 1978 Charnas. In this volume, Alldera leads a troop of Free Fems and Horsewomen back to the Holdfast, where they defeat the men and free the women. See also 1999 Charnas.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Future Boston: The History of a City 1990-2100 Y1 - 1994 A1 - David Alexander Smith (b. 1953) A1 - Sarah [Winthrop] Smith (b. 1937) A1 - Alexander Jablokov (b. 1956) A1 - Geoffrey A[lan] Landis (b. 1955) A1 - Jon Burrowes A1 - Steven [Earl] Popkes (b. 1952) A1 - Resa Nelson (b. 1956) ED - David Alexander Smith ed. (b. 1953) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A shared future history anthology related to Smith's 1993 In the Cube, which was written during the collaboration on this volume. The basic premise is that Boston is sinking and that as it sinks some of it will simply disappear under water and that the remaining sections will struggle for survival and come into conflict with each other. To complicate matters a wide variety of different aliens arrive in Boston and become part of everyday life. One of those aliens is testing humans for admission into the interstellar world. Humanity apparently passes the test and at the end Boston reunites and establishes itself as a separate country. The volume is composed of numerous stories and vignettes, a few previously published, maps of Boston in 1772, 1990, 2014, 2030, 2050, and 2061, and an "Afterword: How It Came to Be" (376-82) by David Smith. The contents are Smith, "'Boston Will Sink, Claims MIT Prof'" (9-10); Sarah [Winthrop] Smith (b. 1947), "Seeing the Edge" (12-29); Alexander Jablokov (b. 1956), "Nomads" (30-52); Geoffrey A[lan] Landis (b. 1955), "Projects" (53-70) rpt. from Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine [the copyright page incorrectly says Analog] 14.6 (157) (June 1990): 104-17; David Smith, "Dying in Hull" (71-87) rpt. from Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine 12.11 (136) (November 1988): 62-66, 68-75; and in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989), 497-508 with an Editor's note on 496; and in Isaac Asimov's Earth. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois and Sheila Williams (New York: Ace Books, 1992), 19-34. Jon Burrowes, "The Elephant-Ass Thing" (89-108); Steven [Earl] Popkes (b. 1952), "The Parade" (109-21); Jablokov, "Seating Arrangement" (122-32); Burrowes, "The Uprising" (133-36); Resa Nelson (b. 1956) and Sarah Smith, "Fennario" (137-52); Landis, "Topology of the Loophole" (153-56); Popkes, "Not for Broadcast" (157-62); David Smith, "When the Phneri Fell" (163-66) rpt. from Figment, no. 1 (October 1989): 23-24; which was rpt. Figment, no. 15 (Fall 1993): 27-28; Popkes and David Smith, "Playing Chess with the Bishop" (168-73); Jablokov, "Letter to the Editor" (174-75); David Smith, "Who Is Venture Capital?" (176-77); Jablokov, "IPOB Dining Hall Procedures," (178-80); Popkes, "So You Want to Meet the Bishop" (181-85); Landis, "Camomile and Crimson; or, The Tale of the Brahmin's Wife" (186-98) originally published as "The Tale of the Brahmin's Wife." Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact 110.5 (April 1990): 135-43; Popkes, "The Test" (198-222); Jablokov, "The Place of No Shadows" (223-46) rpt. from Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine 14.11& 12 (162& 163) (November 1990): 170-86; Jablokov, "The Lady of Port Moresby Incident" (248-49); Sarah Smith, "Three Boston Artists" (250-66) rpt. from Aboriginal Science Fiction 4.4 (22) (July-August 1990): 2, 59-63 with illus on 3 and 58; Jablokov, "Focal Plane" (267-86); Sarah Smith, "Ye Citizens of Boston" (287-328); Jablokov, "The Adoption" (330-51) rpt. from Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine 15.12& 13 (177& 178) (November 1991): 200-15; Jablokov, "WereWhereWear" (352-53); and David Smith, "Sail Away" (354-75).

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Future Quartet. Earth in the Year 2042: A Four-Part Invention Y1 - 1994 A1 - Ben[jamin William] Bova (1932-2020) A1 - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) A1 - Jerry [Eugene] Pournelle (1933-2017) A1 - Charles [A.] Sheffield (1935-2002) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia but with some hope of improvement. A future world deeply divided between the rich and the poor but with positive change taking place.

PB - William Morrow CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Future Schlock” Y1 - 1994 A1 - Arthur Goldstuck KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

Dystopia. A future society without rain in which water becomes a medium of exchange. Books have been outlawed, and there is an illicit trade in them.

JF - Playboy (South Africa) UR - http://www.legends.org.za/arthur/rain.htm. N1 -

Rpt. as “December Rain.” http://www.legends.org.za/arthur/rain.htm.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Gaia, The Planetary Religion: The Sacred Marriage of Art and Science" Y1 - 1994 A1 - [Elizabeth known as Libby] [Hubbard] (b. 1956) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

New Age eutopia. See also 1988 Hubbard and 2002 Bufe and Hubbard.

PB - Dissertation CY - Massachusetts, Amherst U3 -

Doctress Neutopia [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Galac 19" Y1 - 1994 A1 - Clay Caldwell KW - Male author AB -

Mostly an excuse for homosexual erotica. Presents sexual slavery as desirable.

JF - Honcho Overload N1 -

Rpt. in QSFx2: Queer Science Fiction. By Lars Eighner and Clay Caldwell (New York: Badboy, 1995), 77-87. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Genetic Soldier Y1 - 1994 A1 - George [Reginald] Turner (1916-97) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

The novel begins in a simple, fairly primitive future earth that practices eugenics. Conflict arises when a starship returns from its search for a new earth.

PB - William Morrow CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: AvoNova, 1995.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Go Down, Moses" Y1 - 1994 A1 - Gillian [Margaret] Rubinstein (b. 1942) ED - Lucy [Jane] Sussex (b. 1957) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia of a future world divided between vegetarians and meat eaters with the meat eaters killing any vegetarians who wander into their territory.

JF - The Patternmaker: Nine Science Fiction Stories PB - Omnibus Books CY - Norwood, SA, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Golden Swan" Y1 - 1994 A1 - Leigh Kennedy (b. 1951) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

World with few children and its effects.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 79 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Gun, With Occasional Music Y1 - 1994 A1 - Jonathan [Allen] Lethem (b. 1964) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future authoritarian dystopia presented as a mystery novel set in the future. Drugs, including "Forgettol", "Acceptol", and "Regrettol" which do what their names suggest, and can be blended to produce a combination. Detectives are known as Inquisitors. Personal questions considered impolite. Sex change operations are common. There are evolved animals.

PB - Harcourt Brace CY - San Diego, CA N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1995. Rpt. London: Faber & Faber, 2001.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Hard Drive" Y1 - 1994 A1 - Steven A. Bonvissulo ED - Caro Soles KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia about the suppression of homosexuals and the homosexual rebels.

JF - Meltdown! An Anthology of Erotic Science Fiction and Dark Fantasy for Gay Men PB - Masquerade Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Heavy Weather Y1 - 1994 A1 - [Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

World depicted after ecological disaster. Various social systems develop to cope with the situation.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Hidden War Y1 - 1994 A1 - Michael [Allan] Armstrong (b. 1956) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed technological utopia that suppresses knowledge of the fact that the utopia is at war.

PB - TSR CY - Lake Geneva, WI U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A History Maker Y1 - 1994 A1 - Alasdair [James] Gray (1934-2019) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Complex novel of a future world in which women have used a free source of power to create a decentralized eutopia and men fight wars. Temporary destruction of some of the power sources may lead to men being more involved.

PB - Canongate CY - Edinburgh, Scot. N1 -

[Rev. ed.]. London: Penguin Books, 1995. Part originally published as "The History Maker." Chapman, no. 50-51 (10.1& 2) (Summer 1987): 128-31.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Horseman Y1 - 1994 A1 - Mike Nicol (b. 1951) KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

Early South Africa as dystopia.

PB - Bloomsbury CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hot Sky At Midnight Y1 - 1994 A1 - Robert Silverberg (b. 1935) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia concerned with technology and its effects.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Jazamine in the Green Wood" Y1 - 1994 A1 - Chris Beckett (b. 1955) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Women dominant portrayed as a dystopia.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 86 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Jericho Iteration Y1 - 1994 A1 - Allen [Mulherin] Steele [Jr.] (b. 1958) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia. Hard SF set in St. Louis after the next great earthquake.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Justice City Y1 - 1994 A1 - D[avid] G[uy] Compton (1930-2023) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Thriller set in a dystopian penal system of the future.

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Kay and Phil" Y1 - 1994 A1 - Lucy [Jane] Sussex (b. 1957) ED - Peter McNamara ED - Margaret Winch KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Katharine [Penelope Cade] Burdekin (1896-1963) visits her dystopia, Swastika Night (1937) with Philip K[indred] Dick (1928-82) when he was working on The Man in a High Castle (1962).

JF - Alien Shores: An Anthology of Australian Science Fiction PB - Aphelion Publications CY - North Adelaide, SA N1 -

Rpt. in The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women. Ed. A. Susan Williams and Richard Glyn Jones (London: Viking, 1995), 533-53; in her A Tour Guide in Utopia (Parramatta, NSW, Australia: MirrorDanse Editions, 2005), 116-39; in her Absolute Uncertainty: Short Fiction (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2006), 21-47; and in her Matilda Told Such Dreadful Lies: The Essential Lucy Sussex (Greenwood, WA, Australia: Ticonderoga publications, 2011), 49-69.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Kolbrin Y1 - 1994 AB -

A conservative eutopia in the form of a collection of holy books. In particular, the eutopia is presented in “The Book of Morals and Precepts” (246-315). A sequel is The Gospel of the Kailedy. Previously called The Book of The Illuminators Having The Authority of The Nasorines. This being the second volume of The Kolbrin. Coromandel, New Zealand: The Culdian Trust, 1998, which ties the material explicitly to Christianity. See also 1981 The Book of Gwineva.

PB - The Hope Trust CY - Thames, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Land Fit for Heroes. Book 2: Stand Alone Stan Y1 - 1994 A1 - [Anthony] Phillip Mann (1942-2022) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The second volume of a four-volume alternative history of a Roman Britain in the late Twentieth Century and the conflicts between the Romans who deforested much of Britain as a source of food and the traditions of the native British. See also 1993, 1995 and 1996 Mann. In this volume, the three young Romans are forced to flee the security of the village in the forests where they found refuge in the first volume. 

PB - Gollancz CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Land O'Goshen Y1 - 1994 A1 - Charles McNair KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future war between government and Christian right. Religious dictatorship.

PB - A Wyatt Book for St. Martin's Press CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Last Resort" Y1 - 1994 A1 - Jain Scott KW - Australian author AB -

Eutopia and dystopia. Rich people can choose a eutopian life inside a computer system.

JF - Aurealis (Melbourne, VIC, Australia) VL - no. 13 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Little Sisters of the Apocalypse Y1 - 1994 A1 - Kit [Lilian Craig] Reed (1932-2017) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Unusual dystopia. The "Little Sisters of the Apocalypse" are biker nuns who are expert hackers. Focus is on a society of women waiting for men to return from the war.

PB - Black Ice Books CY - Boulder, CO N1 -

Rpt. in her Seven for the Apocalypse. Hanover, NH: Wesleyan University Press/University Press of New England, 1999), 73-203.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Marisol Y1 - 1994 A1 - José Rivera (b. 1955) KW - Male author KW - Puerto Rican author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia with hope for transformation held out at the end. The dystopia is a version of contemporary urban reality.

PB - Dramatists Play Service CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Marisol and Other Plays (New York: Theatre Communications Group, 1997), 1-68. Rev. ed. Marisol. New York: Dramatists Play Service, 1999.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Mask of Freedom Y1 - 1994 A1 - Peter Wilhelm (1943-2021) KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

Near future, post-revolutionary dystopia in South Africa with both white and black dystopias.

PB - Ad Donker Press CY - Parklands, South Africa U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Matter of Seggri" Y1 - 1994 A1 - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

History of a society based on gender separation with women, who far outnumber the men, dominant. The men live in castles, play games, and have contests in order to be chosen by the women as sexual partners and, in particular, to father children. The women do everything else. Over the very long history small changes are made including the beginnings of education for some of the men.

JF - Crank! Science Fiction--Fantasy VL - no. 3 N1 -

Rpt. in The Year's Best Science Fiction Twelfth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995), 493-526; and in Nebula Awards 30. Ed. Pamela Sargent (San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace, 1996), 253-92; in Flying Cups and Saucers: Gender Exploration in Science Fiction & Fantasy. Ed. Debbie Notkin & The Secret Feminist Cabal (Cambridge, MA: Edgewood Press, 1998), 347-84; in Le Guin, The Birthday of the World and Other Stories (New York: HarperCollins, 2002), 23-68. U.K. ed. (London: Gollancz, 2002), 23-68; in her The Real and the Unreal. Selected Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin. Volume Two Outer Space, Inner Lands (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2012), 133-73; in the one volume edition The Real and the Unreal: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin (New York: Saga Press, 2016), 473-518; and in The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin (New York: Saga Press, 2016), 149-95.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mission in Space Y1 - 1994 A1 - John B. Selby Sr., M.D. (b. 1916) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The brief novel presents two worlds, both of which can be considered flawed utopias with an abrupt shift between the two and an equally abrupt ending. The first, Antiochus, is a high-tech society with no nations, no racial issues due to interbreeding, a carefully maintained ecology. Women deal with public matters, men mostly with the domestic. But everyone is entirely focused on themselves with no interest in others and production declining and lots of accidents and no one cares. The other, Earth in 2379, has all intellectuals on the moon and everyone on the surface of the Earth is focused on their bodies. Gender equality. Solar power. Not really developed.

PB - Vantage Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Music, in a Foreign Language Y1 - 1994 A1 - Andrew Crumey (b. 1961) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

The background to the novel is an authoritarian dystopia in England. First volume of a trilogy, although this volume has little to do with the other two. See also 1995 Crumey and the non-utopian D’Alembert’s Principle: Memory, Reason and Imagination. Sawtry, Cambridgeshire, Eng.: Dedalus, 1996.

PB - Dedalus CY - Sawtry, Cambridgeshire, Eng. ER - TY - ABST T1 - My Journey With Aristotle to the Anarchist Utopia Y1 - 1994 A1 - Graham Purchase KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

An Australian laborer is beaten by the police and wakes up in and anarchist eutopia in which nation states no longer exist and people live in communities based on the way they want to live. The city that is the main focus is a high-tech society with the technology entirely biologically based, including an about to be launched spaceship. The people are predominantly vegetarian supplemented by fish from the rivers that run through it, chickens raised locally, and game from the surrounding wilderness. Most local transport by bicycle, and there are tunnels for bicycles throughout the city. It turns out to be a dream. 

PB - III Press CY - Gualala, CA ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mysterium Y1 - 1994 A1 - Robert Charles Wilson (b. 1953) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A small town in Michigan is suddenly thrust into an alternative timeline and finds itself in an authoritarian, religious dystopia. Martial law and rationing are instituted, and people are regularly executed for any resistance. Much of the novel is about the resistance. 

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Native Tongue III: Earthsong Y1 - 1994 A1 - Suzette Haden Elgin (1936-2015) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The third volume of a trilogy following 1984 and 1987 Elgin. In this volume the women’s revolution begins with a minority of the men supporting them, but most men are still violently resisting at the end of the novel. 

PB - DAW Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. as Native Tongue 3: Earthsong. New York: The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2002 with an “Afterword The Meandering Feminist Revolution of Earthsong” by Susan M. Squiers and Julie Vedder on 257-68. 2nd ed. New York: The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2002 with a “Foreword: Evolutionary Song” on v-ix and an “Afterword: The Meandering Feminist Revolution of Earthsong” by Susan M. Squiers and Julie Vedder on 221-34. PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Necroville Y1 - 1994 A1 - Ian [Neil] McDonald (b. 1960) KW - Male author KW - Northern Ireland author AB -

Dystopia with the dead revived. 

PB - Gollancz CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. as Terminal Cafe. New York: Bantam Books, 1994.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Nekropolis" Y1 - 1994 A1 - Maureen F. McHugh (b. 1959) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of slavery as background to a love story about a slave and an android.

JF - Asimov's Science Fiction VL - 18.4& 5 (214 & 215) N1 -

Rpt. in The Year's Best Science Fiction Twelfth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995), 77-110.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Ngati Kangaru" Y1 - 1994 A1 - Patricia Grace KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author KW - Māori author AB -

Humorous Māori eutopia in which the Māori reclaim Aotearoa New Zealand from the pākehā (Europeans) who tricked their ancestors into signing over land. Since the pākehā used deeds signed by people who didn't own the land, they did the same and occupied resorts, summer homes, and golf courses when not being used and central Auckland where no one lived anymore. Families moved in and business catering to them opened. Her best-known novel, Potiki, Auckland, New Zealand: Penguin Books (N.Z.), 1986, resonates with this story in that it is concerned with Māori defending their ancestral land from developers.

JF - The Sky People and Other Stories PB - Penguin (NZ) CY - Auckland, New Zealand N1 -

Rpt. (London: Women's Press, 1994), 25-43. Story rpt. in Skins: Contemporary Indigenous Writing. Comp. and ed. Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm and Josie Douglas (Alice Springs, NT, Australia: Jukurrpa Books, 2000), 131-44.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - No Retreat Y1 - 1994 A1 - John [Griffin] Bowen (1924-2019) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Alternative history dystopia in which Nazis rule Britain.

PB - Sinclair-Stevenson CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "No Uncertain Terms" Y1 - 1994 A1 - Kristy Schubert KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia of a society based on eugenic selection that kills anyone deemed not to meet their criteria, which includes any opposition to the criteria.

JF - Tomorrow: 20 Visions of the Future PB - Pan Macmillan Australia CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Occupation: A Guide for Tourists" Y1 - 1994 A1 - Mike McCormack (b. 1965) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia around the occupation of a country. Allegory on the crucifixion of Christ.

JF - Ambit VL - no. 135 N1 -

Rpt. in Best Short Stories 1995. Ed. Giles Gordon and David Hughes (London: Heinemann, 1996), 149-55; and in his Getting It In the Head (London: Jonathan Cape, 1996), 169-76.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "One Night" Y1 - 1994 A1 - Stefanie Robinson KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia. A poor future with a child bringing a rat to a group of boys for dinner.

JF - Tomorrow: 20 Visions of the Future PB - Pan Macmillan Australia CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Only Forward Y1 - 1994 A1 - Michael [Philip] Marshall Smith (b. 1965) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Surreal dystopia set in a U.K. that is a sprawl of neighborhoods composing the City, which covers the entire country. Each neighborhood is inhabited by a different group of people. Considerable conflict among the groups. Some are eutopian, some dystopian, and some just very odd. Mostly adventure.

PB - HarperCollins CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: HarperCollins, 2002. U.S. ed. New York: Bantam Books, 2000; and Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2002.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Orwell's Revenge: The 1984 Palimpsest Y1 - 1994 A1 - Peter Huber (b. 1952) KW - Male author AB -

Rewriting of 1949 Blair stressing communications technology.

PB - Free Press CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Place Between” Y1 - 1994 A1 - Diana L. Paxson (b. 1943) ED - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) KW - Female author AB -

Free Amazon story.

JF - Snows of Darkover PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Plot to Win the White House and How It Succeeded Y1 - 1994 A1 - Jack Catran (1918-2001) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satirical novel directed at the misuse of language in politics, particularly in campaigning. Ends with what appears to be the emergence of a eutopia in which all large cities in the U.S. are replaced with Garden Cities.

PB - Jade Publications CY - Sherman Oaks, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Poetic License” Y1 - 1994 A1 - Mercedes Lackey (b. 1950) ED - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) KW - Female author AB -

Free Amazon story.

JF - Snows of Darkover PB - DAW Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Music of Darkover. Darkover® Anthology 13. Ed. Elisabeth Waters (San Francisco, CA: The Marion Zimmer Bradley Literary Trust Works, 2013) 211-24 with an editor’s note on 211.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Professionals" Y1 - 1994 A1 - Keith [N.] Brooke (b. 1966) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of corporate dominance.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 86 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Queen City Jazz Y1 - 1994 A1 - Kathleen Ann Goonan (1952-2021) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The novel begins in a rural eutopia in a post-catastrophe future brought about by nanotechnology which initially produced eutopian cities but then turned them into dystopian cities. The protagonist grows up in the rural enclave where everyone is forbidden to have contact with the cities but after the infection of the enclave she starts a trek down the Ohio River to Cincinnati, one of the dystopian cities. 

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Rama Revealed Y1 - 1994 A1 - Arthur C[harles] Clarke (1917-2008) A1 - [Bert] Gentry Lee (b. 1942) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Inside an alien artifact traveling through space, humans intending to create a good society actually create a dictatorship. Ultimately this is overcome. This is the last volume of the co-authored trilogy, although written mostly by Lee, and follows Clarke’s Rendezvous with Rama. London Gollacnz, 1973; Collector’s Edition illus. Bob Eggleton with an “Introduction” by George Zebrowski (vii-xii). Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1993. The other volumes are Rama II. London Gollancz, 1989 and The Garden of Rama. London: Gollancz, 1991, which includes, in the second half, anti-utopianism typical of Clarke’s work. In addition, Lee wrote Bright Messengers. New York: Bantam Books, 1995, which is set before Rama II.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Report 323: A Quebecois Infiltration Attempt" Y1 - 1994 A1 - Jean-Louis Trudel (b. 1967) ED - Candas Jane Dorsey (b. 1952) ED - G. N. Louise Jonasson KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a Canadian future of ethnic cleansing.

JF - New Canadian Speculative Fiction. Prairie Fire: A Canadian Magazine of New Writing VL - 15.2 ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Republic of Nothing Y1 - 1994 A1 - Lesley [Willis] Choyce (b. 1951) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An island off the coast of Nova Scotia declares its independence and a society of free expression develops. Elements of magic realism.

PB - Goose Lane CY - Fredericton, NB, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Rim: A Novel of Virtual Reality Y1 - 1994 A1 - Alexander Besher (b. 1951) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Corporate dystopia. Sequels include Mir.  New York : Simon & Schuster, 1998; and Chi. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999.

PB - HarperCollins West CY - [San Francisco, CA] N1 -

U.K. edition London: Orbit, 1995.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Scissors Cut Paper Wrap Stone Y1 - 1994 A1 - Ian [Neil] McDonald (b. 1960) KW - Male author KW - Northern Ireland author AB -

Future dystopia set mostly in a Japan with corporate protective services.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Second Chance" Y1 - 1994 A1 - Holley Cantine ED - Max Blechman KW - Female author AB -

Indians successfully revolt and reestablish their traditional way of life. Most of the story is about the build-up to the revolt.

JF - Drunken Boat: Art, Rebellion, Anarchy PB - Automedia/Left Bank Books CY - Brooklyn, NY/Seattle, WA ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Sex Offender Y1 - 1994 A1 - Matthew Stadler (b. 1959) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which a man who has had sex with a twelve-year old is put through an extreme form of aversion therapy by the “Criminal and Health Ministry.” He then joins a rebellion against the government.

PB - HarperCollins CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: HarperPerennial, 1995

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Skriker Y1 - 1994 A1 - Caryl Churchill (b. 1938) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopian fantasy which includes a polluted underground.

PB - Nick Hern CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Slow News Day" Y1 - 1994 A1 - Kim [James] Newman (b. 1959) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which  Germany  won World War II, and there is a Fascist  Britain.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 90 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Solitude" Y1 - 1994 A1 - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Complex society in which men and women live separately. The men mostly live near the women's villages, where the women live in individual huts with extremely limited interaction, the children providing the chief means of contact. Gangs of boys and individual rogue males are dangerous to both the other men and the women, but most of the men live peacefully. Whether eutopian or not is likely to produce considerable debate. Some consider it a feminist eutopia and the point-of-view character presents the women's society as a good one.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 87.6 N1 -

Rpt. in The Best from Fantasy & Science Fiction: The Fiftieth Anniversary Anthology. Ed. Edward L. Ferman and George Van Gelder (New York: Tor, 1999), 353-81; in her The Birthday of the World and Other Stories (New York: HarperCollins, 2002), 119-51; U.K. ed. (London: Gollancz, 2002), 119-51; in Diverse Energies. Ed. Tobias S. Buckell and Joe Monti (New York: Tu Books, 2012), 267-305; in her The Real and the Unreal. Selected Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin. Volume Two Outer Space, Inner Lands (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2012), 175-203; in the one volume edition The Real and the Unreal: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin (New York: Saga Press, 2016), 519-50; and in Hainish Novels & Stories Volume Two. The World for Word Is Forest Stories Five Ways to Forgiveness The Telling. Ed. Brian Attebery (New York: Library of America, 2017), 290-318 with a “Note on the Text” (781) and “Notes (786).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Stardust Bound Y1 - 1994 A1 - Karen [M.] Cadora (b. 1970) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The novel in set in a future that has experienced a series of major catastrophe and is now controlled by UniTech that considered anything not related to Reconstruction a crime, which included science crimes, which included astronomy. The lesbian protagonist is an astronomer who makes her way to La Vista in the Andes, the last operating observatory and finds a community of other female astronomers, and one man. See the author’s “Feminist Cyberpunk.” Science-Fiction Studies 22.3 (67) (November 1995): 357-172. Rpt. in Beyond Cyberpunk: New Critical Perspectives. Ed. Graham J. Murphy and Sherryl Vint (New York: Routledge, 2010), 157-172.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Strings" Y1 - 1994 A1 - Kelley Eskridge (b. 1960) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which all music must be played exactly as the notes are written on the page, no new music is allowed, and any performer who violates the rules is severely punished.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 86.2 (513) N1 -

Rpt. in her Dangerous Space: Short Fiction (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2007), 9-35.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Supremacist" Y1 - 1994 A1 - Damien Jones A1 - Paul [A.] Collins (b. 1954) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Future dystopia of violence. The rich live high in buildings above the extreme pollution found at street level. The poor live violent lives but are also preyed upon by the rich for sadistic entertainment.

JF - Revelation Magazine (Perth, WA, Australia) VL - no. 9 N1 -

Rpt. in Paul [A.] Collins. The Government in Exile and other stories (Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Sumeria, 1994), 149-62. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Tonguing the Zeitgeist Y1 - 1994 A1 - Lance Olsen (b. 1956) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Complex dystopia set after various catastrophes, including earthquakes, a wide range of epidemics, and reactor explosions. Widespread extreme poverty, very high levels of pollution, and violence. Pornography a normal part of entertainment; drugs taken regularly by most people; much body sculpting, both by choice and forced. Africa has united with Nairobi the capitol. A 51st state has been formed in the U.S. out of Eastern Washington, Western Idaho, and Northern Montana.

PB - Permeable Press CY - San Francisco, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Trouble and Her Friends Y1 - 1994 A1 - Melissa [Elaine] Scott (b. 1960) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia with cyberpunk elements.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Utopia 2000 Y1 - 1994 A1 - Elizabeth Greenwood KW - Female author AB -

Near future dystopia based on the conflict between Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658) and the Levellers, who are best-known for their advocacy of an extended suffrage. 

PB - The Book Guild CY - Lewes, Sussex, Eng. ER - TY - ABST T1 - Vital Star Y1 - 1994 A1 - Ray McLeod KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Detailed technological eutopia on the planet Za Sa Sa. The people are smaller than those of Earth; they have mental enhancers implanted, which enhancers brain power to different degrees depending on the status of the person. It is, though, overpopulated, and short of water. Birthing permits required and generally not given to the working class.

PB - Vantage CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Wallace Report Y1 - 1994 A1 - Roy V[ictor] Wallace (1927-2017) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Pamphlet outlining a eutopia based around small communities. See also 1980 Wallace. 

PB - Down to Earth CY - Spring Hill, QLD, Australia SN - 9780646173177 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Welcome to the World" Y1 - 1994 A1 - Edith Speers (b. 1949) ED - Peter McNamara ED - Margaret Winch KW - Australian author KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia of required good health.

JF - Alien Shores: An Anthology of Australian Science Fiction PB - Aphelion Publications CY - North Adelaide, SA ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The West is Red" Y1 - 1994 A1 - Greg[ory John] Costikyan (b. 1959) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Alternative history in which the U.S. lost the Cold War and is poor and backward technologically. Ends with a Communist takeover of the U.S.

JF - Asimov's Science Fiction VL - 18.6 (216) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Where It's Safe" Y1 - 1994 A1 - John [Patrick] Shirley (b. 1954) ED - Richard T. Chizmar KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of environmental collapse brought about by personal and corporate greed.

JF - The Earth Strikes Back: New Tales of Ecological Horror PB - Mark V. Ziesing Books CY - Shingleton, CA N1 -

Rpt. with the subtitle only on the cover (Clarkson, GA: White Wolf Publishing, [1994]), 188-215; and in Shirley’s The Exploded Heart (Asheville, NC: Eyeball Books, 1996), 239-59, with an author’s note on 239. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Wildlife Y1 - 1994 A1 - James Patrick Kelly (b. 1951) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Cyberpunk dystopia in which the elite can change their bodies at will.

PB - Tor CY - New York N1 -

 Portions appeared in different form as “Solstice.” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 9.6 (92) (June 1985): 148-81; “The Prisoner of Chillon.” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 1.6 (105) (June 1986): 148-83; and “Mr. Boy.” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 14.6 (157) (June 1990): 118-74. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Word of Mouth and an Imaginary Flánerie: On Reading Word of Mouth. A Novel and a Critical Commentary on the Creative Process” Y1 - 1994 A1 - Rolf Hughes KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia set in a York, England, based on the conditions of the 1980s but much worse.

PB - Dissertation. University of East Angla CY - Norwich, England ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ammonite Y1 - 1993 A1 - Nicola [Jane] Griffith (b. 1960) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Complex novel set on a fairly primitive planet inhabited only by women that includes a lesbian, feminist eutopia.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Arc d'X Y1 - 1993 A1 - Steve [Stephen Michael] Erickson (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Complex novel that is set in both the past and the future with the future as a religious dystopia.

PB - Poseidon Press CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Baby and Fly Pie Y1 - 1993 A1 - Melvin Burgess (b. 1954) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Young adult future dystopia of extreme poverty.

PB - Anderson Press CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1996.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Beautiful Soup: A Novel for the 21st Century Y1 - 1993 A1 - Harvey [Jay] Jacobs ( 1930-2017) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Near future dystopian satire in which everyone is barcoded at birth. The novel focuses on a man who, due to an accident in a supermarket, has his barcode replaced by one for a brand of soup.

PB - Celadon Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Beggars in Spain Y1 - 1993 A1 - Nancy [Anne Koningisor] Kress (b. 1948) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Future dystopia of conflict created by development of gene altered humans with special powers. Sequels include Beggars and Choosers. New York: Tor, 1994; and Beggars Ride. New York: Tor, 1996.

PB - Morrow CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Avon, 1994. Part originally published as “Beggars in Spain.” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 14.4 & 5 (April 1991): 246-310. This part was simultaneously published as Beggars in Spain. Mountain View, CA: Axolotl Press, 1991. Rpt. The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Ninth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1992), 1-62; and in Nebula Awards 27: SWFA’s Choices for the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year. Ed. James Morrow (New York: Harcourt Brace & Co., 1993), 243-321.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Beyond Y1 - 1993 A1 - José Sigaud M.D. KW - Male author KW - Paraguayan author KW - US author AB -

Detailed eutopia presented through abduction by aliens. The eutopia is a fairly standard world of peace and prosperity that parallels the Earth. Education, health along with getting rid of social classes made achieving the utopia possible. “In our society, we do not strive for accumulation of goods, which is granted to each one of us from birth to the end of our lives. . . . Rather, we strive for excellence” (11).

PB - Dorrance Publishing Co. CY - Philadelphia, PA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Blindsided Y1 - 1993 A1 - Dick Richmond-Donahue A1 - Leigh [Tucker] Richmond-Donahue (1911-95) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An ecological catastrophe on an already overpopulated, urban, poverty-stricken, and violent Earth. The last convulsions of Earth destroys the current "civilization" and allows some survivors to begin to develop a better rural and peaceful life.

PB - Interdimensional Sciences. CY - Lakemont, GA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "By Permit Only" Y1 - 1993 A1 - Terry [Ballantine] Bisson (1942-2024) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on a system of permits sold by government to allow people to get around laws and regulations. Pollution permits, sexual harassment permits, and so forth are available.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 73 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Case of the Socialist Witchdoctor" Y1 - 1993 A1 - Hama Tuma (b. 1949) KW - Ethiopian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia set in Ethiopia after the revolution showing the reality of frustrated hopes.

JF - "The Case of the Socialist Witchdoctor" and Other Stories PB - Heinemann CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Chaff" Y1 - 1993 A1 - Greg[ory Mark] Egan (b. 1961) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Drug dystopia.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 78 N1 -

Rpt. in The Year's Best Science Fiction. Eleventh Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994): 333-51; and in The Best of Greg Egan (Burton, MI: Subterranean, 2019), 115-39. No. 486 of 1000 numbered copies.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - City-Death Y1 - 1993 A1 - Stephen Booth KW - Male author AB -

The first half of the book is set in a London effectively ruled by a supposedly secret security service. People are being pushed out of their already dilapidated housing to construct more office buildings and housing for the security service and the wealthy. The state has created a mythical rebel group that it uses to justify whatever actions it takes. The story follows one poorly educated low-level member of the security service who, in the second half of the novel, survives a helicopter crash near an anarchist community that developed from what was originally a single farm, and decides to stay. The community uses a form of participatory democracy with everyone, including children, taking part. People work cooperatively at what needs to be done but have their own homes and farms together with a community building and a cottage hospital where they teach the children the basics of health care. Under the circumstances, everyone is armed and willing and able to use them, with one chapter devoted to fighting off armed scavengers (187-198).The book ends with a chapter “The City Has to Die (199-207), that gives reasons for what is wrong with city life and better in the countryside.

PB - Green Anarchist Books CY - Oxford, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Coelestis Y1 - 1993 A1 - Paul [Claiborne] Park (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set in a future U.S. with substantial radiation causing genetic damage. Division between humans and aborigines.

PB - HarperCollins CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. as Celestis. New York: Tor, 1995. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - CrashCourse Y1 - 1993 A1 - [Joyce Carstairs] [Hutchinson] (b. 1935) KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

Cyberpunk dystopia. Sequels include ClipJoint. By Wilhelmina Baird [pseud.].  New York : Ace Books, 1995 (PSt); and PsyKosis. By Wilhelmina Baird [pseud.]. New York: Ace Books, 1995 (PSt). 

PB - Ace Books CY - New York U3 -

Wilhelmina Baird [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dancing on the Volcano Y1 - 1993 A1 - Anne Gay KW - Female author KW - UK author AB -

Mostly romance and adventure set in an authoritarian matriarchal dystopia from which the protagonists escape. Much fantasy. Continued in her To Bathe in Lightning. London: Orbit, 1995. 

PB - Orbit CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Darwin's Children" Y1 - 1993 A1 - Grey Rollins KW - Male author AB -

Libertarian eutopia. Sequels include “Survival of the Fittest.” Analog Science Fiction and Fact 114.6 (May 1994): 110-58; “The Missing Link.” Analog Science Fiction and Fact 114.12 (October 1994): 90-121; and “Evolution.” Analog Science Fiction and Fact 114.14 (December 1994): 12-16, 18-20, 22-24, 26-28, 30-31, 34-36, 38-40, 42-44, 46-67.​

JF - Analog Science Fiction and Fact VL - 113.12 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Daughter of Elysium Y1 - 1993 A1 - Joan [Lyn] Slonczewski (b. 1956) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Set in same world as her 1986 Door Into Ocean. In this volume the people of Elysium have achieved immortality which brings with it complacency and arrogance and the desire of other peoples to steal their secret.

PB - William Morrow CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Defense of the Social Contracts" Y1 - 1993 A1 - Martha [Clare] Soukup (b. 1959) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia in which a system of contracts regulates human interaction. The story illustrates that the system has flaws.

JF - Science Fiction Age VL - 1.6 N1 -

Rpt. in Nebula Awards 30. Ed. Pamela Sargent (San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace & Co., 1996), 222-38.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Democracy (b. 1984) Y1 - 1993 A1 - Robert Leon KW - Male author AB -

Proposal for the direct election of the U.S. President after candidates have been pre-approved by computers. No direct presentation of the expected eutopia, but discussion throughout the book suggests its outlines. 

PB - Vantage Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Demolition Man: A Novel by Richard Osborne based on a story by Peter M. Lenkov and Robert Reneau and a Screenplay by Daniel Waters, Robert Reneau, and Peter M. Lemkov Y1 - 1993 A1 - Richard Osborne KW - Male author AB -

A behavioral engineering dystopia set in San Angeles in 2032.

PB - Signet CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Destiny Makers Y1 - 1993 A1 - George [Reginald] Turner (1916-97) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of extreme overpopulation, corruption, and a radical gap between the rich and the poor. A plan had been developed to kill much of the world’s population so that the earth can recover and much of the novel centers on personal and political intrigue. See also 1999 Turner.

PB - William Morrow CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Deus X Y1 - 1993 A1 - Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The setting of the novel is a future Earth so devastated by the results of current environmental policies that human life on Earth is in danger. The novel focuses on the creation of people within an electronic net and the problems this poses for the Catholic Church and its female pope.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in his Deus X and Other Stories (Waterville, ME: Five Star, 2003), 90-140. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Distances" Y1 - 1993 A1 - Sherman [Joseph] Alexie [Jr.] (b. 1966) KW - Male author KW - Native American author AB -

Apocalyptic story based on the recovery of Native American Indian lands through the intercession of the Indian ancestors. In the book, the story is told by Thomas Builds-the-Fire, an Indian visionary. 

JF - The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven PB - Atlantic Monthly Press CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. (New York: Grove Press, 2005), 104-09. Rpt. in Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction. Ed. Grace Dillon (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2012), 143-48 with an editor’s note on 143-45.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Doc Forest and the Blue Mountain Ecostery: A Narrative of Creating Ecological Harmony in Daily Life Y1 - 1993 A1 - Alan R[odney] Drengson (b. 1934) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Ecological eutopia based on an intentional community called an Ecostery or “a place where ecological wisdom and harmony (ecosophy) is learned, practiced and taught” (xii) that reflects deep ecology, which is based on the ideas of Arne Naess (1912-2009). Ecosophy, coined by Naess, comes from the Greek “oikos” or household place and “sophia” or wisdom and “refers to the wisdom to dwell harmoniously” (23). There are appendices that include the “Ecostery Foundation of North America (TEFNA): Statement of Philosophy” (175-86), an “Ecostery Brief Constitutional Model” (187-87), and an “Ecostery Long Constitution & Bylaws Model” (188-99) plus a “Select Ecostery Booklist” (201-05). 

PB - Ecostery House CY - Victoria, BC, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dream of Glass Y1 - 1993 A1 - Jean Mark Gawron (b. 1953) KW - US author AB -

Resistance to a fascist dystopia.

PB - Harcourt, Brace & Co CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Drylands Y1 - 1993 A1 - Mary Rosenblum (1952-2018) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia as a result of a long drought. Three related stories are “Water Bringer.” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 15.3 (168) (March 1991): 16-21, 24-26, 28-30, 32-34, 36-38, 40-42, 44-47; rpt. in her Water Rites (Auburn, WA: Fairwood Press, 2007), 12-35; “Celilo.” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 15.7 (172) (June 1991): 88-109; rpt. in her Water Rites (Auburn, WA: Fairwood Press, 2007), 36-55; and “The Bee Man.” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 15.10 (175) (September 1991): 44-48, 50-52, 54-63; rpt. in her Water Rites (Auburn, WA: Fairwood Press, 2007), 56-72. 

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. with a brief "Foreword" (10-11) by the author in her Water Rites (Auburn, WA: Fairwood Press, 2007), 73-305.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ecstasia Y1 - 1993 A1 - Francesca Lia Block (b. 1962) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult eutopia of youth (Elysia) framed by the Desert (roughly normal life) and Under (the old).

PB - ROC CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Elvissey Y1 - 1993 A1 - Jack [Wylie] Womack [Jr.] (b. 1956) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A volume in the DryCo series. Dystopian satire of a corrupt urban future that involves an attempt to kidnap a young Elvis to turn him into a demigod in that future. For other volumes in the series see his 1987 Ambient, 1988 Terraplane, 1990 Heathern, 1993 Random Acts of Senseless Violence, and 2000 Going, Going, Gone. Although there are multiple alternative histories in the series, in timeline order, the volumes are 1993 Random Acts of Senseless Violence, 1990 Heathern, 1987 Ambient, 1988 Terraplane, 1993 Elivissey, and 2000 Going, Going, Gone.

PB - Tor CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: HarperCollins, 1993. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Entrada" Y1 - 1993 A1 - Mary Rosenblum (1952-2018) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Deeply class-divided dystopia in a future U.S.

JF - Asimov's Science Fiction VL - 17.2 N1 -

Rpt. in her Synthesis & Other Virtual Realities (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1996), 32-61.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Escape to the Wind Y1 - 1993 A1 - Jennifer DiMarco (b. 1973) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a patriarchal dictatorship with lesbian themes. The author was nineteen at the time of publication. A sequel, Fall Through the Sky. Radnor, OH: Pride Publications, 1997 expands the action to the surrounding area. 

PB - Castillo International CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - An Eye For Dark Places Y1 - 1993 A1 - Norma Marder KW - Female author AB -

Future tale describing a dystopian society in Britain and a woman fighting to free herself and help others. More complex than the usual. Some fantasy.

PB - Little, Brown CY - Boston, MA ER - TY - ABST T1 - Femala Y1 - 1993 A1 - C. R. Spohrer KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Anti-feminist novel depicting the triumph of male dominance. Earth, and the U.S. in particular, is depicted as a dystopia due to feminism. Femala is a planet where women dominate but treat men well although they are drugged.

PB - Dorrance CY - Pittsburgh, PA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Fifth Sacred Thing Y1 - 1993 A1 - [Miriam] [Simos] (b. 1951) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia and dystopia. See her Walking to Mercury. New York: Bantam Books, 1997 for background.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York U3 -

Starhawk [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Firedance Y1 - 1993 A1 - Steven [Emory] Barnes (b. 1952) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

Sequel to 1983 and 1989 Barnes. In this volume, the hero of the previous volumes has to fight clones of himself and the dictator of United Africa.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Folks" Y1 - 1993 A1 - Michael [Joseph] Cassutt (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

In the story, a man decides to visit his parents, who are in their 90s and live in the Sun Villa South retirement home. He finds that his parents, due to an advanced and a “brain booster and stimulant,” are living the good life and are in good shape both mentally and physically. Sun Villa South is depicted as the ideal place for retirees to live, fully support by takes, paid, of course, by current workers. The outside world is only suggested, but it appears that everyone is struggling to just get by.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 85.1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Folly Y1 - 1993 A1 - Ivan Vladislavić (b. 1957) KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

Allegory. The novel describes the relationship between two men as a fantasy house is built.

PB - David Philip Publishers, CY - Cape Town, South Africa N1 -

Rpt. London: Serif, 1994.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Four Letter Word" Y1 - 1993 A1 - Ivan Dorin KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

A society where food is considered sinful, but sex is not.

JF - On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic VL - 5.4 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Freedom Convoy Y1 - 1993 A1 - Chola Mahes KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Post-catastrophe (nuclear war initiated by the U.S. against Iran) survivors searching for a better life while crossing the country. Mostly dystopian with a stress on violence. There is a Glossary of the terms used in the book (266-74). 

PB - Dorrance Publishing Co. CY - Philadelphia, PA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Garden" Y1 - 1993 A1 - Alayne Gelfand ED - Cecilia Tan (b. 1967) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

While the emphasis in the story is on the sex, it is set in a future in which men and women do not know of the existence of the other. The female protagonist resents the authoritarianism of the women leaders and breaks the rule by regularly visiting a prohibited area. 

JF - Worlds of Women: Sapphic Science Fiction Erotica PB - Circlet Press CY - Boston, MA N1 -

Rpt. in The New Worlds of Women. Exp. ed. Ed. Cecilia Tan (Boston, MA: Circlet Press, 1996), 63-77; and in The Circlet Treasury of Lesbian Erotic Science Fiction and Fantasy. Ed. Cecilia Tan (New York: Riverdale Avenue Books, 2013), 156-67. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Giver Y1 - 1993 A1 - Lois [Ann Hammersberg] Lowry (b. 1937) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult flawed utopia that is technologically sophisticated but overly controlled. See also 2000 Lowry. Her Messenger. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 2004 and Son. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 2012, which includes characters from both this volume and 2000 Lowry but take place in an intentional community. 

PB - Houghton Mifflin CY - Boston, MA N1 -

Rpt. New York: Dell. U.K. ed. London: Lions, 1994. A graphic novel version is The Giver. Based on the novel by Lois Lowry. Adapted by P. Craig Russell. Illus. P. Craig Russell, Galen Showman, and Scott Hampton. Colorist Lovern Kindzierski. Letterer Rich Parker. Scanning, cleanup, and digital coordination by Wayne Arnold Harold. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 2019. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Glory Y1 - 1993 A1 - Alfred[o] [José Araña-Marini y] Coppel [Jr.] (1921-2004) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Primarily an adventure novel but includes a future society on the planet Voerster based on South African apartheid. Sequels include Glory’s War. Book Two of The Goldenwing Cycle. New York: Tor, 1995; and Glory’s People. Book Three of The Goldenwing Cycle. New York: Tor, 1996.

PB - Tor CY - New York VL - Book One of The Goldenwing Cycle U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Glory Season Y1 - 1993 A1 - [Glen] David Brin (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Male--female conflict in a future matriarchal society.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Goodfood" Y1 - 1993 A1 - W[alter] Warren Wagar (1932-2004) ED - Carol Serling KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future (eutopian or dystopian is left to the reader) in which food that is deemed not good for you is illegal, culinary porn (old cookbooks) are kept in locked sections of libraries, and to be married a couple must be tested for serum cholesterol. An underground system of dealers and grillers provide bacon and eggs, hamburgers, and so forth. The F.F.F. or Food Freedom Fighters torch saladerias, bomb Goodfood rallies and fight back in other ways. The Goodfood Bureau of Investigation enforces the laws. 

JF - Journeys to the Twilight Zone PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Granddads Last Swim" Y1 - 1993 A1 - Cath[erine] Clark KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

Pollution dystopia in which few people live past twenty.

JF - Phoenixine: The Phoenix Science Fiction Society Newsletter VL - no. 44 N1 -

Rpt. as by Catherine Clark in Rutherford's Dreams: A New Zealand Science Fiction Collection. Ed. Warwick Bennett and Patrick Hudson (Wellington, New Zealand: IPL Books, 1995), 165-71.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Green Mars Y1 - 1993 A1 - Kim Stanley Robinson (b. 1952) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Complex social science and science fiction about the terraforming of Mars and the growth of societies there. Mars is threatened by a dystopian Earth of corporate power and environmental degradation that hopes to exploit Mars’s resources rather than create healthy societies. Sequel to 1992 Robinson, Red Mars. See also 1996 Robinson, Blue Mars. Materials related to the trilogy were published as The Martians. New York: Bantam Books, 1999. U.K. edition. London: HarperCollins, 1999, which reprints his “Exploring Fossil Canyon.” Universe 12. Ed. Terry Carr (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1982), 26-47; “Sexual Dimorphism.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 23.6 (281) (June 1999): 28-39; and “A Martian Romance.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 23.10[/11] (285) (October-November 1999): 14-28. In addition, The Martians includes poems “Six Poems from If Wang Wei Lived on Mars rpt. in his Stan’s Kitchen: A Robinson Reader. Ed. David C. Grubbs (Framingham, MA: NESFA Press, 2020), 125-143 [“Crossing Mather Pass” (311-11/127-28), “Invisible Owls” (315-16/129-30), “Tenzing” (317-19/131-33), “The Red’s Lament” (322/23/135-136), “A Report on the First Recorded Case of Areophagy” (320-21/137-39)], and “Two Years” (324/27/141-43), and the story “Arthur Sternbach Brings the Curveball to Mars” (179-88/171-79).

PB - HarperCollins CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Bantam Books, 1994. Based on a shorter piece of the same title in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 9.9 (September 1985): 112-82; rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Third Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: Bluejay Books, 1986), 552-619 with an editor’s note on 551. Chapter one was also published as “A Martian Childhood.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 18.2 (212) (February 1994): 128-74. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Gulliver Y1 - 1993 A1 - Michael Ryan KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels re-done with a distinctively anarchist message. All the countries of the former are visited under different names and with more explicitly political and economic characteristics. They are: Grossartiga--Lilliputians. Pretense is the rule. The poor are kept in their place. Plintablandina--Giants. No property. No money. Worship nature. Craftsmanship. Free sexuality among young. Poetry very important. The wisest are chosen as administrators. Academica (Conflict within education), Lexonomia (Language satire), Freedonia (Free Market), and Several Other Remote Regions, including Carnivalia, Imperia. Land of the Retrievers (Dogs), which is also called Ecologia --No exploitation.

PB - Autonomedia CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Halcyon City Y1 - 1993 A1 - Merle Glasson KW - Male author AB -

Flawed utopia. A city that prides itself on being progressive is in fact beholden to the elderly, who do not work but do vote. The employed need to have two jobs to pay their taxes. The young are indulged.

PB - Fast Books CY - Glebe, NSW, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Harvest of Stars Y1 - 1993 A1 - Poul [William] Anderson (1926-2001) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia with individuals and a free enterprise society as opponents. Sequels include his The Stars Are Also Fire. New York: Tor, 1994, in which machine intelligences are dominant; and The Fleet of Stars. New York: Tor, 1997 where the machine intelligences have become more and more controlling, and a few humans struggle to stop them.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Headhunter Y1 - 1993 A1 - Timothy Findley (1930-2002) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

The focus of the novel is on a modern conflict between Kurtz and Marlow from Heart of Darkness (1902) by Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), but the setting is dystopian and has elements of both science fiction and fantasy.

PB - Crown CY - New York U5 -

Can

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hear the Cradle Song Y1 - 1993 A1 - O. T Gunnarsson KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Right-wing, racist depiction of the collapse of the United States. It ends with the beginnings of a right-wing eutopia.

PB - [Noontide Press] CY - [Los Angeles, CA] ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Heart of the Overchild" Y1 - 1993 A1 - Daniel [David] Pearlman (1935-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia. An Overchild is one who is in excess of the permitted number. Their body parts are used to keep endangered species alive.

JF - REAL: RE Arts & Letters VL - 19.2 N1 -

Rpt. in his The Final Dream and Other Fictions (San Francisco, CA: Permeable Press, 1995), 33-44.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - How To Save Our Country: A Nonpartisan Vision for Change Y1 - 1993 A1 - Mike [Miklos N.] Szilagyi (b. 1936) KW - Hungarian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Presents a detailed critique of the U.S. in the early 1990s and suggests specific reforms for how to stop the decay. The book is based on the premise that the problems the U.S. faces are based on “the defective value system of our society” (12). 

PB - Pallas Press CY - Tucson, AZ U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “I’m a Big Cat Now” Y1 - 1993 A1 - David Heydt ED - [Marion Zimmer] [Bradley] (1930-99) KW - Male author AB -

Free Amazon story.

JF - Towers of Darkover PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - If I Pay Thee Not In Gold Y1 - 1993 A1 - [Piers Anthony Dillingham] [Jacob] (b. 1934) A1 - Mercedes Lackey (b. 1950) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Fantasy about a matriarchy.

PB - Baen CY - New York U3 -

Piers Anthony [pseud. of Jacob]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - . . . In a World Not of His Own Making Y1 - 1993 A1 - Stephen Papson KW - Male author AB -

Ecological dystopia.

PB - Blue Canary Publishing CY - Canton, NY ER - TY - ABST T1 - In the Cube Y1 - 1993 A1 - David Alexander Smith (b. 1953) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future Boston, Massachusetts dystopia. See also 1994 Smith, ed. Future Boston: The History of a City 1990-2100.

PB - Tor CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - In the Garden of Dead Cars Y1 - 1993 A1 - Sybil Claiborne (d. 1992) KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia. Future in which, as a result of the AIDS epidemic, chastity is legally enforced. Revolt.

PB - Cleis Press CY - Pittsburgh, PA ER - TY - ABST T1 - Informational Society: An Economic Theory of Discovery, Invention and Innovation Y1 - 1993 A1 - Alfred Lorn Norman KW - Male author AB -

Detailed eutopia stressing-automation and the flow of information. Decentralization.

PB - Kluwer Academic Publishers CY - Boston, MA N1 -

Published in much briefer form as Informational Society. Paper Number Five. Office for Applied Social Science and the Future, Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, June 1972. Summary in "Informational Society." Futures 7.4 (August 1975): 321-28.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Initiation of PB 500 Y1 - 1993 A1 - Kyle Stone KW - Male author AB -

Gay male erotic fiction that includes an authoritarian dystopia. The authoritarianism is used primarily for erotic purposes.

PB - Badboy CY - New York N1 -

Parts originally published as "The Ceremony" in Huge (September 1992) and "The Ultimate Test" in Torso.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Iron Woman Y1 - 1993 A1 - Ted [Edward James] Hughes (1930-98) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Anti-pollution story with a eutopian ending. Sequel to 1968 Hughes.

PB - Faber and Faber CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Faber and Faber, 1994.

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Illus. Andrew Davidson

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Jacob with a 'C' Y1 - 1993 A1 - Edward Lurie KW - Male author AB -

Satire and dystopia. A novel about a couple trying to create a life together in a vaguely described post-apartheid South Africa which has failed to live up to its promises.

PB - The Carrefour Press CY - Cape Town, South Africa U5 -

MaB

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Kalifornia Y1 - 1993 A1 - Marc Laidlaw (b. 1960) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Cyberpunk dystopia.

PB - St. Martin's Press CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Land Fit for Heroes. Book 1: Escape to the Wild Wood Y1 - 1993 A1 - [Anthony] Phillip Mann (1942-2022) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The first volume of a four-volume alternative history of a Roman Britain in the late Twentieth Century and the conflicts between the Romans who deforested much of Britain as a source of food and the traditions of the native British. See also 1994, 1995 and 1996 Mann. In this volume, three young Romans flee to the forests and discover the older Britain. The novel stresses the cold rationality of the Romans in contrast to the more feeling British. See the note at 1982 Mann.

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London U5 -

ATL, VUW

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Dancer Y1 - 1993 A1 - Daniel Keys Moran (b. 1962) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Third volume in a trilogy. This volume is set in 2076 with the authoritarian United Nations ruling Earth but with various forces, including the two remaining telepaths, opposed to its rule. See also 1988 and 1989 Moran.

PB - Bantam Spectra CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Local Code: The Constitution of a City at 42° N Latitude Y1 - 1993 A1 - Michael [David] Sorkin (1948-2020) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The presentation of an ideal city through its building code.

PB - Princeton Architectural Press CY - New York U5 -

C, CtY

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Love Under Siege" Y1 - 1993 A1 - Carrington McDuffie AB -

Dystopian setting for pornography.

JF - Future Sex VL - no. 3 U5 -

NN

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Machynlleth Triad/Triawd Machynlleth Y1 - 1993 A1 - Jan Morris (1926-2020) KW - English author KW - Transgender author KW - Welsh author AB -

The book is divided into three parts, The Past: Y Gorfennol, The Present: Y Presennol, and The Future: Y Dyfodol, with the English and Welsh reversed in the part titles in the Welsh half of the book, with all three in the town of Machynlleth. The past is the early fifteenth century, the present is 1993, and the future is sometime in the first half of the twenty-first century in which Machynlleth is the capital of an independent Welsh republic within the European Confederation and a founding member of the League of Neutrals. The future Wales is a utopia, albeit not without problems, based on the “Principle of Simplicity” or “Egwyddor Symlrwydd,” “a commitment to restraint in all things” (64), which is enshrined in the constitution. The section on the future is present as a tour and description of Machynlleth Triad of the Saint David’s Day or Republic Day when Wales is celebrating twenty-five years of independence.

PB - Gwasg Gregynog CY - Newtown, Powys, Wales VL - 400 copy edition SN - 9780948714542 9780670854790 9780140236125 N1 -

Rpt. with the Welsh text. New York/London: Viking, 1994; and London: Penguin, 1995.

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Illus. Brenda Berman

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PPiU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mad Boys Y1 - 1993 A1 - Ernest Hebert KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of violence.

PB - University Press of New England CY - Hanover, NH U5 -

CaOTU, MnU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mindstar Rising Y1 - 1993 A1 - Peter F. Hamilton (b. 1960) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of global warming and corporate domination.

PB - Pan CY - London U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Moving Mars Y1 - 1993 A1 - Greg[ory Dale] Bear (1951-2022) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Mars had been colonized from Earth, but the two planets were growing apart and war was coming. Mars was then moved to another sun and over time Mars became more inhabitable and evolved a decent, limited government.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Mural" Y1 - 1993 A1 - Meryl Thompson (b. 1942) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia. Separate between employed and unemployed.

JF - Aurealis (Melbourne, VIC, Australia) VL - no. 12 U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Nation's Party Concept: A Political Alternative Y1 - 1993 A1 - Jack W. Boone KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A detailed proposal regarding what should constitute an American eutopia and how to bring it about. Generally conservative.

PB - Grafco Productions CY - Marietta, GA N1 -

The author, in a letter of January 17, 2002, says that he included here most of the book Rage in Utopia that he published under the name Jack Warren [pseud.]. Marietta, GA: Grafco Productions, 1992.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Near the Driver” Y1 - 1993 A1 - Alasdair [James] Gray (1934-2019) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

The dystopia of a future highly automated Britain with the focus on British Rail.

JF - Ten Tales Tall and True PB - Canongate CY - Edinburgh, Scot N1 -

U.S. ed. (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1993), 129-53. Rpt. in his Every Short Story, 1952-2012 (Edinburgh, Scot.: Canongate, 2012), 653-70. 

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Illus. by the author

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Nomansland Y1 - 1993 A1 - D[avid] G[uy] Compton (1930-2023) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia--a society which is getting rid of men by ensuring that there are no boy babies.

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - Open Season Y1 - 1993 A1 - Scott Moon KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Sport, which is a multibillion-dollar business, in a future dystopia.

PB - Dorrance Publishing Co CY - Philadelphia, PA ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pallas Y1 - 1993 A1 - L[ester] Neil Smith [III] (1946-2021) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Having escaped from a prison planet, a man creates a libertarian eutopia on a terraformed asteroid which is contrasted with an authoritarian dystopia. First in a planned four volume series, known as the Ngu Family Saga, with the second volume being Ceres (Published online on his website one chapter each week beginning March 23,2009. There are 45 chapter and an Epilogue). It was then published as a paperback. Rockville, MD: Phoenix Pick, 2009. The third volumes, Ares, has not been published. This volume follows the further adventures of main protagonists of Pallas.

PB - Tor CY - New York SN - 9780312097059 0-812-50904-8 9781604504750 N1 -

Rpt. New York: Tor, 1995. 447 pp.; and Rockville, MD: Phoenix Pick, 2011. 324 pp. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Parable of the Sower Y1 - 1993 A1 - Octavia E[stelle] Butler (1947-2006) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Complex dystopia set in a future after a complete governmental collapse has resulted in a lack of security, scarcity, and poverty. The protagonist, who has what Butler calls “hyperempathy” or a high sensitivity to the sensations of others, leaves her community with some other survivors after her family is murdered. They try to start a new community where her religion, called “Earthseed” can take root. Bothered by writer’s block and health issues, she was unable to write the third volume. The fragments that exist are held in her papers at the Huntington Library. See Gerry Canavan, “‘There's Nothing New Under The Sun, But There Are New Suns’: Recovering Octavia E. Butler's Lost Parables.” Los Angeles Review of Books (June 9, 2014). https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/theres-nothing-new-sun-new-suns-recovering-octavia-e-butlers-lost-parables/ An opera by Toshi Reagon and Bernice Johnson Reagon premiered at New York University Abu Dhabi November 9, 2017, and had its U.S. premiere at the Carolina Performing Arts Center, Chapel Hill, NC, November 16, 2017. It had its New York premiere July 13, 2023, at Lincoln Center. A religion emerged based on the novel; see https://godischange.org/the-book-of-the-living/ See also 1998 Butler.

PB - Four Walls Eight Windows CY - New York N1 -

See also Damian Duffy (Text) and John Jennings (Illus.) Parable of the Sower: A Graphic Adaptation. New York: Abrams Comicarts, 2020, with a brief introduction by Nalo Hopkinson (iv-v), a Q & A with Duffy and Jennings (265-268), Notes on Process (269-270), Visual Development (271), and a Teachers Guide to Parable of the Sower: A Graphic Adaptation by Kimberly N. Parker (272-277), About Octavia E. Butler (278), Further Reading (279), and About the Adaptor and About the Artist (280).

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pax Femina Series: Book II. The Kinslow Project Y1 - 1993 A1 - R. J Cantwell (b. 1936) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 2001 Cantwell, Pax Femina (Peace Under Feminine Rule). See also 2000 Cantwell Pax Femina Series: Book III. The Kinslow EffectPax Femina Series: Book IV. Pax Humana, and Pax Femina Series: Book V. The Titan Colony.  In this volume, the Pax Femina appears to have created a eutopia with no crime or war and a recovering ecology but has done so by suppressing all men. 

PB - Xlibris CY - [Bloomington, IN] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Plastic Paradise Y1 - 1993 A1 - D[avid] W[illiam] Walker (b. 1943) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia set in a future Canberra, Australia. Plastic has replaced money and anyone without the right card is a non-person. The focus of the novel is on rampant development destroying the character of the city and a fight against the developers and the politicians.

PB - Boris Books CY - Canberra, Act, Australia ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Price of Peace" Y1 - 1993 A1 - Joan Sowter ED - Jean Weber KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

Officially sanctioned vigilantes who enforce laws by killing the lawbreaker. The case described is of someone making too much noise.

JF - Starsongs Tau Whetu: The 1993 New Zealand Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy PB - Pegapus Press CY - Norsewood, New Zealand U5 -

ATL

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Punishment of Luxury.” Y1 - 1993 A1 - Michael Carson (b. 1946) KW - Male author AB -

Satire on environmentalism in which a man is executed for owning a car.

JF - Serving Suggestions: Stories PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London U5 -

PU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Pure Cold Light Y1 - 1993 A1 - Gregory [Dee] Frost (b. 1951) KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of drugs and corporate control.

PB - Avon CY - New York U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Rain" Y1 - 1993 A1 - Kenneth Doyle ED - Bal Phondke KW - Male author AB -

A climate change story in which everyone lives in domes, with only desert and acid rain outside the domes.

JF - It Happened Tomorrow: An Anthology of Select Science Fiction Stories PB - National Book Trust CY - New Delhi, India SN - 9788123706191 U2 -

Illus. Subir Roy

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All but a few stories in the book are translations from South Asian languages.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Rainbow Man Y1 - 1993 A1 - M[ary] J[ane] Engh (b. 1933) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia of a complex society that purports to have no laws but is actually highly regulated. 

PB - Tor CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Random Acts of Senseless Violence Y1 - 1993 A1 - Jack [Wylie] Womack [Jr.] (b. 1956) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A volume in the DryCo series. The dystopia of the contemporary inner cities set in the near future. For other volumes in the series see his 1987 Ambient, 1988 Terraplane, 1990 Heathern, 1993 Elvissey, and 2000 Going, Going, Gone. Although there are multiple alternative histories in the series, n timeline order, the volumes are 1993 Random Acts of Senseless Violence, 1990 Heathern, 1987 Ambient, 1988 Terraplane, 1993 Elivissey, and 2000 Going, Going, Gone.

PB - HarperCollins CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. Boston, MA: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1994. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Reunion" Y1 - 1993 A1 - Lawrence Schimel (b. 1971) ED - [Marion Zimmer] [Bradley] (1930-99) AB -

Free Amazon story.

JF - Towers of Darkover PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Reverse Angle Y1 - 1993 A1 - G. Sacerdote KW - Peruvian author KW - UK author KW - US author AB -

The legalization of drugs produces an immediate positive result, but then the drug cartels fight back killing everyone that gets in their way. Ultimately, they are defeated. 

PB - Dorrance Publishing Co CY - Philadelphia, PA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ring of Swords Y1 - 1993 A1 - Eleanor [Atwood] Arnason (b. 1942) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A difficult book to characterize in that it presents two societies, an extremely well-done alien society, the Hwarhath, where same-sex relations are the norm, and people from a future Earth. Both societies are presented with their good and not-so-good elements. See Brian Attebery, "Ring of Swords: A Reappreciation." New York Review of Science Fiction 16.8 (April 2004): 1, 8-10. Stories about the aliens include The Actors: A Hwarhath Historical Romance.” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 97.6 (579) (December 1999): 105-60. Rpt. without the subtitle in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 66-129. ; “Dapple: A Hwarhath Historical Romance.” Illus. Steve Cavallo. Asimov’s Science Fiction 23.9 (284) (September 1999): 104-35. Rpt. without the subtitle in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 130-80; “The Garden: A Hwarhath Science Fictional Romance.” Synergy SF: New Science Fiction. Ed. George Zebrowski (Waterville, ME: Five Star, 2004), 122-81. Rpt. without the subtitle in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 309-56; “The Gauze Banner.” More Amazing Stories. Ed. Kim Mohan (New York: Tor, 1998), 126-46. Rpt. in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 192-212; “Holmes Sherlock: A Hwarhath Mystery.” Eclipse online (November 12, 2012). http://www.nightshadebooks.com/2012/11/12/holmes-sherlock-a-hwarhath-mystery-by-eleanor-arnason/ Rpt. without the subtitle in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 358-81; “The Hound of Merin.” Xanadu. Ed. Jane Yolen (New York: Tor, 1993), 188-211. Rpt. in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 10-33; “The Lovers.” Illus. Steve Cavallo. Asimov’s Science Fiction 18.8 (218) (July 1994): 136-60. Rpt. in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 34-65; “Origin Story.” Tales of the Unanticipated, no. 21 (April 2000): 64-66. Rpt. in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 187-91. “The Potter of Bones.” Illus. Steve Cavallo in Asimov’s Science Fiction 26.9 (320) (September 2002): 12-47. Rpt. in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 251-308. “The Semen Thief.” Illus. Carol Heyer. Amazing Stories 68.9 (589) (Winter 1994): 87-94. Rpt. in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 213-36. “The Small Black Box of Morality.” Tales of the Unanticipated, no. 16 (Spring/Summer/Fall 1996): 24. Rpt. in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 183-86. and “The Woman Who Fooled Death Five Times: A Hwarhath Folk Tale.” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 123.1 & 2 (702) (July-August-2012): 134-44. Rpt. in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 237-49.

PB - Tor CY - New York N1 -

Stories about the aliens include The Actors: A Hwarhath Historical Romance.” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 97.6 (579) (December 1999): 105-60. Rpt. without the subtitle in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 66-129. ; “Dapple: A Hwarhath Historical Romance.” Illus. Steve Cavallo. Asimov’s Science Fiction 23.9 (284) (September 1999): 104-35. Rpt. without the subtitle in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 130-80; “The Garden: A Hwarhath Science Fictional Romance.” Synergy SF: New Science Fiction. Ed. George Zebrowski (Waterville, ME: Five Star, 2004), 122-81. Rpt. without the subtitle in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 309-56; “The Gauze Banner.” More Amazing Stories. Ed. Kim Mohan (New York: Tor, 1998), 126-46. Rpt. in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 192-212; “Holmes Sherlock: A Hwarhath Mystery.” Eclipse online (November 12, 2012). http://www.nightshadebooks.com/2012/11/12/holmes-sherlock-a-hwarhath-mystery-by-eleanor-arnason/ Rpt. without the subtitle in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 358-81; “The Hound of Merin.” Xanadu. Ed. Jane Yolen (New York: Tor, 1993), 188-211. Rpt. in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 10-33; “The Lovers.” Illus. Steve Cavallo. Asimov’s Science Fiction 18.8 (218) (July 1994): 136-60. Rpt. in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 34-65; “Origin Story.” Tales of the Unanticipated, no. 21 (April 2000): 64-66. Rpt. in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 187-91. “The Potter of Bones.” Illus. Steve Cavallo in Asimov’s Science Fiction 26.9 (320) (September 2002): 12-47. Rpt. in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 251-308. “The Semen Thief.” Illus. Carol Heyer. Amazing Stories 68.9 (589) (Winter 1994): 87-94. Rpt. in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 213-36. “The Small Black Box of Morality.” Tales of the Unanticipated, no. 16 (Spring/Summer/Fall 1996): 24. Rpt. in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 183-86. and “The Woman Who Fooled Death Five Times: A Hwarhath Folk Tale.” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 123.1 & 2 (702) (July-August-2012): 134-44. Rpt. in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 237-49.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Rising of the Moon Y1 - 1993 A1 - Flynn Connolly KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Future Ireland totally dominated by the Roman Catholic Church and emphasizes the suppression of women.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Rose on the Ash-Heap" Y1 - 1993 A1 - [Arthur] Owen Barfield (1898-1997) ED - Jeanne Clayton Hunter ED - Thomas Kranidas KW - English author AB -

Dystopia of control through providing people with bread and circuses.

JF - A Barfield Sampler: Poetry and Fiction by Owen Barfield PB - State University of New York Press CY - Albany U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Sabbath Chapter: A Novel of the Apocalypse Y1 - 1993 A1 - Grant Garber AB -

Just what it says.

PB - Fithian Press CY - Santa Barbara, CA ER - TY - ABST T1 - Serpentine Wisdom Y1 - 1993 A1 - Frank W. Hatfield (b. 1917) AB -

The author writes that “This is a book about the best form of government” (5) and that “The thesis of this book is that the best form of government is philosophical anarchy” (6), although no anarchist would recognize the result. He says that “The best form of government is no government, because no one likes to be pushed around” (6), and that “All that is needed is that everyone do the right thing voluntarily at all times” (6). He explains the book’s title by quoting Matthew 10:16, “Be as wise as serpents and harmless as doves” (KJV) and basis his utopia on Christ’s teachings. Includes an “Appendix: The Constitution of the World” (255-275) that is structurally modeled on the U.S. Constitution. The author says he was a lawyer and that the book was written in 1986 and 1987 and revised in 1988 and again for publication.

PB - Vantage Press CY - New York SN - 978-0-553-10224-8 U5 -

NjR, PU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Shadow Hunter Y1 - 1993 A1 - Will[iam Edwin] Baker (1935-2005) KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a world where almost everything natural has been eliminated.

PB - Viking Press CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Pocket Books, 1994.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sing the Body Electric: A Novel in Five Movements Y1 - 1993 A1 - Adam Lively (b. 1961) KW - English author AB -

Novel set in a future that has tried to create enclaves that incorporate past ways of life. Part of the novel reads as if it were set in one of those pasts.

PB - Chatto & Windus CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Somewhere Down the Diamondback Road" Y1 - 1993 A1 - Kelley Eskridge (b. 1960) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of sex, violence, and driving with an unidentified Authority in control.

JF - Pulphouse: A Fiction Magazine VL - no. 15 N1 -

Rpt. in her Dangerous Space: Short Fiction (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2007), 131-41.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Songs of Chaos Y1 - 1993 A1 - S[hariann] N. Lewitt (b. 1954) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The novel is partially set in a conformist dystopia.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Songs of Solomon" Y1 - 1993 A1 - Virginia Ellen Baker ED - M. Shayne Bell KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Future dystopia stressing punishment and the revolt against it. 

JF - Washed by a Wave of Wind: Science Fiction from the Corridor PB - Signature Books CY - Salt Lake City, UT U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Taking Stock" Y1 - 1993 A1 - George Rosie KW - Female author AB -

Satire. Describes a future Cabinet sub-committee getting rid of all the institutions that make Scotland unique.

JF - Unpublished play ER - TY - ABST T1 - Testing Y1 - 1993 A1 - Charles [G.] Oberndorf (b. 1959) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. A novel presenting a future in which the U.S. has experienced an economic collapse. The poor economic situation has led to a dramatic social change in which marriage has virtually disappeared. Brothers are expected to work to support their sisters and their sisters' children. The focus of the novel is on morality testing, which is essential for entrance to university and the possibility of a good income. One of the characters notes that it was later abolished.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Thine is the Kingdom Y1 - 1993 A1 - Leicester Chilton (b. 1929) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author AB -

A eutopian planet decides to deport its anti-social misfits to Earth, while monitoring them and feeding them suggestions. The eutopia is only vaguely described with the emphasis being on those Thirsans sent to Earth. They include Akhenaten, Moses, Jesus, Attila, and Muhammad.

PB - University Editions CY - Huntington, WVA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Third Millennium. A Novel Y1 - 1993 A1 - Paul [D.] Meier (b. 1947) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel describes the period of Tribulation in the End Times (See The Book of Revelation) based to some extent on Jewish sources but from a Christian perspective. The novel does this by focusing on a non-practicing Jewish family from 1995 to 2000 as narrated by Michael, their Guardian Angel See also 1996 Meier and Wise. 

PB - A Janet Thoma Book/Thomas Nelson Publisher CY - Nashville, TN U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - This Other Eden Y1 - 1993 A1 - Ben[jamin Charles] Elton (b. 1959) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Humorous take on the end of the world.

PB - Simon & Schuster CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Trendelenburg Position” Y1 - 1993 A1 - Alasdair [James] Gray (1934-2019) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Odd story in which a dentist talks to a patient and, in doing so, describes aspects of a future dystopian Britain.

JF - Ten Tales Tall and True PB - Canongate CY - Edinburgh, Scot N1 -

U.S. ed. (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1993), 102-10. Rpt. in his Every Short Story, 1952-2012 (Edinburgh, Scot.: Canongate, 2012), 633-39. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Twilight Beach Y1 - 1993 A1 - Terry [Terence William] Dowling (b. 1947) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Continuation of his Rynosseros series. See also 1990, 1992, 2007 and 2009 Dowling. In this collection of stories, the main protagonist of the series is searching for information about his past. A related story is “Down Flowers.” Orb Speculative Fiction (South Preston, VIC, Australia), no. 0 (1999): 29-43. See also “Songs from the Inland Sea: Writing the Tom Rynosseros Series.” The Complete Rynosseros: The Adventures of Tom Rynosseros. Volume III (Hornsea, Eng.: PS Publishing/Drugstore Indian Press, 2020), 1-124. The volume also contains Dowling’s “Dancing with Scheherazade: Some Reflections in a Djinni’s Glass” (125-40); originally published in Parabolas of Science Fiction. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2013. Ed. Brian Attebery and Veronica Hollinger (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2013), 24-35; Richard Scott, “The Adventures of Tom Ryosseros: One Reader’s View” (141-153); originally published online in October 2007; and an “Author’s Note” (155-56).

PB - Aphelion Publications CY - North Adelaide, SA, Australia N1 -

Rpt. in The Complete Rynosseros: The Adventures of Tom Rynosseros. Volume II (Hornsea, Eng.: PS Publishing/Drugstore Indian Press, 2020), 1-290. Part originally published as "Larrikin Wind." Eidolon: The Journal of Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy, no. 1 (1.1) (Autumn 1990): 42-54; "Roadsong. From the Further Adventures of Tom Rynosseros." Eidolon: The Journal of Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy, no. 6 (2.2) (Spring 1991): 64-97; "Ship's Eye." Eidolon: The Journal of Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy, no. 8 (2.4) (Autumn 1992): 55-75; "The Final Voyage of Captain Gelise." Aurealis (Melbourne, VIC, Australia), no. 9 (1992): 41-48; "Shatterwrack at Breaklight." Omega Science Digest (Sydney, NSW, Australia), [no. 21] (July/August 1985): 110-16; rpt. in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 78.3 (466) (March 1990): 118-31; in Mortal Fire: Best Australian SF. Ed. by Terry Dowling and Van Ikin (Rydalmere, NSW, Australia: Hodder & Stoughton (Australia), 1993), 79-95; in Antique Futures: The Best of Terry Dowling (Nedlands, WA, Australia: mp Books, 1999), 63-77; and in his Make Believe: A Terry Dowling Reader (Greenwood, WA, Australia: Ticonderoga Publications, 2009), 77-90.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Vermin" Y1 - 1993 A1 - Harry [Norman] Turtledove (b. 1949) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Fundamentalist religious dystopia as background.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 54.3 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Virtual Light Y1 - 1993 A1 - William [Ford] Gibson (b. 1948) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Complex dystopia set in the states of Northern and Southern California. Deep divisions between the rich and poor with the rich living in protected enclaves. Includes the development of a post-earthquake Tokyo, an anarchist community in the San Francisco area, and various other dystopian and potentially eutopian societies.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Viking, 1993. 296 pp. 0-670-84081-5

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Vurt Y1 - 1993 A1 - Jeff Noon (b. 1957) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia set in Manchester, England. Vurt is a drug that creates almost a virtual reality.

PB - Ringpull Press CY - Littleborough, Eng. N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Crown, 1995.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Wall At the Edge of the World Y1 - 1993 A1 - Jim [James Douglas] Aikin (b. 1948) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia--efficient, peaceful walled city. Telepathy ensures that those who think wrongly are removed. Discovery of the world beyond the walls brings change.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "We Shall Sing for the Fatherland" Y1 - 1993 A1 - Zakes [Zanemvula Kizito Gatyeni] Mda (b. 1948) KW - Lesotho author KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

Dystopia of South Africa after the beginning of Africanisation in which power remains with the rich and the ex-freedom fighters freeze to death.

JF - We Shall Sing for the Fatherland and Other Plays PB - Ravan Press CY - Johannesburg, South Africa U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Welfare Man" Y1 - 1993 A1 - Chris Beckett (b. 1955) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Class-based dystopia with welfare recipients walled off from the others.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 74 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Year Seven Y1 - 1993 A1 - Zanger, Molleen KW - Female author AB -

Post-disaster future depicting a lesbian community. Children are deformed physically but advanced spiritually.

PB - Naiad Press CY - [Tallahassee, FL] ER - TY - ABST T1 - "2011: A Vision" Y1 - 1992 A1 - Richard Giles KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

New Age eutopia.

JF - Rainbow Network (New Zealand) VL - no. 22 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The 21st Century Constitution: A New America for a New Millennium Y1 - 1992 A1 - Barry Krusch (b. 1958) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An argument that the U.S. needs a new constitution and a proposal that a constitutional convention be called plus a detailed new constitution showing the current U.S. Constitution with the proposed changes and explanations for the changes. The underlying motif is to place power in the people of the country nationally rather than in the states. Includes a right to education.

PB - Stanhope Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Acts of Terror and Delight. Book One. Winners May Weep Y1 - 1992 A1 - G[arvin] R[obert] Gilbert (b. 1917) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Part of his unpublished dystopia "Energy Island"; see 1988 Gilbert. See also 1985 Gilbert and 1986 Gilbert. See the note at 1952 Gilbert.

PB - dean farran printproductions CY - Christchurch, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Alien Sex Slave" Y1 - 1992 A1 - Clay Caldwell KW - Male author AB -

Mostly an excuse for homosexual erotica. Presents sexual slavery as desirable.

JF - Guys N1 -

Rpt. as “A Dort Called Tiger.” In QSFx2: Queer Science Fiction. By Lars Eighner and Clay Caldwell (New York: Badboy, 1995), 45-53. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Amazon Y1 - 1992 A1 - Barbara G. Walker KW - Female author AB -

Amazon eutopia in the past and the effect on the present of a woman from that eutopia.

PB - HarperSanFrancisco CY - San Francisco, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Another World Y1 - 1992 A1 - Elaine O'Reilly (b. 1942) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Children’s flawed utopia. A reader designed for beginners set in the underground Eden City, where everyone has a number, is under twenty-five, and the law requires that everyone be very happy. As a test of his suitability for leadership, one man is introduced to the contrasting real world of dirt, aging, and poverty. While it is not explained, at twenty-five everyone enters the Long Dream, although the last line of the text suggests it may be yet another world. 

PB - Addison Wesley Longman CY - Harlow, England SN - 9780582064188 978-1-4058-5055-1 9781405852067 N1 -

New ed. Harlow, Eng.: Pearson Educational, 2000. 44 pp. Rpt. Harlow, Eng.: Penguin Education, 2007. 44 pp. The new ed. has a CD.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Anthropolis: A Tale of Two Cities Y1 - 1992 A1 - Daniel P. Fischer KW - Male author AB -

In a future where oil shortages have led to significant changes, with, for example, the interstate highway network replace by MagLev trains. The novel focuses on the city of Anthropolis in Colorado, an ecological eutopia with a stress on neighborhoods and the economy based around cooperatives. Native American Indian spirituality provides part of the ethos. Anthropolis works to share its experience with the rest of the world. There is a comparison of the city of Anthropolis and Atlanta on 111-30.

PB - Mercer University Press CY - Macon, GA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Apocalyptic Narrative" Y1 - 1992 A1 - Rodney Jones (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Poem about the dystopia created by nuclear war. 

JF - New England Review VL - 14.3 N1 -

Rpt. in his Apocalyptic Narrative and Other Poems (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1993), 24-29; and in Apocalypse Now: Poems and Prose from the End of Days. Ed. Andrew McFadyen and Alexander Lumans (Nashville, TN: Upper Rubber Boot, 2012), 25-29. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Arcadia Y1 - 1992 A1 - Jim [James] Crace (b. 1946). KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A wealthy man decides to replace a local marketplace with Arcadia, described as a modern utopia of glass and greenery. He succeeds. Set in the future.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Penguin, 1998.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Arena Y1 - 1992 A1 - John Cranna (b. 1954) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Degenerate, authoritarian post-catastrophe dystopia with extensive environmental damage. Roman-style gladiatorial games are the focus of the novel.

PB - Minerva CY - Auckland, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Aristoi Y1 - 1992 A1 - Walter Jon Williams (b. 1953) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

High tech eutopia that needs people, the Aristoi, who can live in both virtual reality and “the realized world” at the same time. These people control the technology and terraform and settle new planets. But problems arise when an Aristoi creates a new world outside the system.

PB - Tor CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Back Door Man Y1 - 1992 A1 - Ian McAuley Hails (1957-2002) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of nationalism and religious fundamentalism in Australia in 1996.

PB - Aphelion Publications CY - North Adelaide, SA, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Best of Both Worlds" Y1 - 1992 A1 - Lesley [Willis] Choyce (b. 1951) ED - Lorna Toolis ED - Michael Skeet (b. 1955) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia focusing on the development of instantaneous human transport and the power that gives to remodel humanity mentally and physically.

JF - Tesseracts PB - Beach Holme CY - Victoria, BC, Canada VL - 4 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Black Rainbow Y1 - 1992 A1 - Albert Wendt (b. 1939) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author KW - Samoan author AB -

Dystopia set in New Zealand in which the government is erasing the history of each individual and the country, a process known as dehistorising. Kafkaesque elements with the narrator appearing before an ever-changing Tribunal. He then becomes part of the "Game of Life" in which he is hunted as he searches for his wife and family, who have been taken by the authorities, with the Game providing entertainment for the people. See also his 1992 "The Don'ts of Whistling."

PB - Penguin CY - Auckland, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Blue Tyson Y1 - 1992 A1 - Terry [Terence William] Dowling (b. 1947) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Linked collection of stories continuing his Rynosseros series. In one of the stories, "Going to the Angels" (39-73) the Tribes have orbiting satellites where Nationals can serve as menials, but they can never return to Earth or communicate freely with Earth and are generally badly treated. An addition that fits between 1992 and 1993 Dowling is “The Library.” X6 A Novellanthology. Ed. Keith Stevenson ([Bentley, VIC, Australia]: Coeur de Lion, 2009), 505-636. Rpt. in his Amberjack: Tales of Fear and Wonder (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2010), 263-358 with an “Afterword” (359-60); and in The Complete Rynosseros: The Adventures of Tom Rynosseros. Volume I (Hornsea, Eng.: PS Publishing/Drugstore Indian Press, 2020), 489-591. See also 1990, 1993, 2007, and 2009 Dowling; and “Songs from the Inland Sea: Writing the Tom Rynosseros Series.” The Complete Rynosseros: The Adventures of Tom Rynosseros. Volume III (Hornsea, Eng.: PS Publishing/Drugstore Indian Press, 2020), 1-124. The volume also contains Dowling’s “Dancing with Scheherazade: Some Reflections in a Djinni’s Glass” (125-40); originally published in Parabolas of Science Fiction. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2013. Ed. Brian Attebery and Veronica Hollinger (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2013), 24-35; Richard Scott, “The Adventures of Tom Ryosseros: One Reader’s View” (141-153); originally published online in October 2007; and an “Author’s Note” (155-56).

PB - Aphelion Publications CY - North Adelaide, SA, Australia N1 -

Rpt. in The Complete Rynosseros: The Adventures of Tom Rynosseros. Volume I (Hornsea, Eng.: PS Publishing/Drugstore Indian Press, 2020), 252-488. Parts were published separately as "A Dragon Between His Fingers." Omega Science Digest (Sydney, NSW, Australia), [no. 31] (May/June 1986): 110-17; rpt. in Matilda at the Speed of Light. Ed. Damien [Francis] Broderick (North Ryde, NSW, Australia: Angus & Robertson, 1988), 1-20; and "Vanities." Glass Reptile Breakout and Other Australian Speculative Fiction. Ed. Van Ikin ([Perth, WA, Australia]: The Centre for the Study of Australian Literature, University of Western Australia, 1990), 49-60. "Privateers' Moon" was rpt. in Centaurus: The Best of Australian Science Fiction. Ed. David G. Hartwell and Damien [Francis] Broderick (New York: Tor, 1999), 273-98; and in his Make Believe: A Terry Dowling Reader (Greenwood, WA, Australia: Ticonderoga Publications, 2009), 277-304

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Brazil-Maru Y1 - 1992 A1 - Karen Tei Yamashita (b. 1951) KW - Female author KW - Japanese American author AB -

The novel is about the experience of some Japanese who immigrated to Brazil with one focus a Japanese intentional cooperative community called Esperança. 

PB - Coffee House Press CY - Minneapolis, MN ER - TY - ABST T1 - Brother to Dragons Y1 - 1992 A1 - Charles [A.] Sheffield (1935-2002) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future dystopia. Extreme class differences with a powerful elite. Serious environmental problems.

PB - Baen CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Built on Blood" Y1 - 1992 A1 - Storm Constantine (1956-2021) KW - Female author KW - UK author AB -

Dystopia of class differences.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Bushido Incident Y1 - 1992 A1 - Betty Anne Crawford (b. 1952) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Earth dominated by a Japanese economic empire.

PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "California Dreaming" Y1 - 1992 A1 - Elizabeth A[nne] Lynn (b. 1946) ED - Ellen [Sue] Datlow KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Cars are outlawed in California, and this produces the beginnings of a better society.

JF - Omni Best Science Fiction One PB - Omni Books CY - Greensboro, NC U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Caprolen Captivity Y1 - 1992 A1 - Zeal I. Fisher (1930-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel begins on an Earth that is an ecological dystopia with no clean water, the air oxygen depleted, and much of the Earth deserts. The novel, though, focuses on the abduction of ten young women and one man by aliens, who take them to their planet. After many adventures, the novel ends by the humans being accepted as citizens of the planet. 

PB - Vantage Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Careperson" Y1 - 1992 A1 - Graham Joyce (1954-2014) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Social work, now called “care work” “because nobody cares” (39), in a dystopian future. 

JF - Interzone VL - no. 58 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Cathy IV Y1 - 1992 A1 - Frances Lucas (b. 1956) KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia and struggle against it. A novel with lesbian interest set on a planet that has enslaved a large segment of its population, called Servos, who were a mix of android and human. Earth has been largely destroyed but had been saved by aliens, and everyone on Earth lives in identical domed cities. The dystopian society is depicted together with the struggle to free the Servos. In addition to the Servos, the planet’s inhabitants are divided between the Nots (from the planet’s name Saegrenot), who live off the work of the Servos and live in cities and the Assimi or those who refuse to be assimilated and live in the country and support freeing the Servos. 

PB - New Victoria Publishers CY - Norwich, VT U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Children of Men Y1 - 1992 A1 - P[hyllis] D[orothy] James (1920-2014) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia. No children are born and the population ages. A Warden and Council establish an authoritarian government, kill off the incompetent, establish the Isle of Man as a prison camp, and treat refugees from other countries as slaves. At the end of the novel the Warden is killed, and a baby is born. 

PB - Faber & Faber CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - China Mountain Zhang Y1 - 1992 A1 - Maureen F. McHugh (b. 1959) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A dystopian future dominated by a still Communist China. There is a Socialist Union of America States that is considered a second rate country.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Codgerspace Y1 - 1992 A1 - Alan Dean Foster (b. 1946) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satiric novel set in a future where Earth is mostly a vacation spot and retirement home for the galaxy. An accident leads an AI that creates most of the other AIs to reprogram to search for life that is more intelligent than humans. Such life is accidentally found in a cavern in a retirement village by five retirees. This leads to considerable turmoil throughout the galaxy, but all the potential conflicts are at least temporarily settled.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Come Lucky April Y1 - 1992 A1 - Jean [Neville] Ure (b. 1943) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

One hundred years after the plague described in her Plague 99. London: Methuen Teens, 1989. Rpt. London: Octopus, 1989; London: Teens Mandarin, 1991; and Oxford: Heinemann New Windmills, 1993. U.S. ed as Plague. San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1991. Contrasts two societies, one dominated by men and identified with the problems of the past and one in which women hold power and male aggression has been eliminated. While the latter is generally better than the former, it is still trying to find the right balance. The struggle to reunite the communities is described in her Watchers at the Shrine. London: Methuen Children’s Books, 1994. 

PB - Methuen Children's Books CY - London N1 -

Rpt. as After the Plague. London: Teens Mandarin, 1993; and London: Mammoth, 1995.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Conjuror Y1 - 1992 A1 - Jack [Millen] Lasenby (1931-2019) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

A young adult post-catastrophe dystopia with fantasy elements. Future racial division between Browns and Greys with the Greys the slaves of the Browns with a third group, the Blues, outcasts. The two groups are not even allowed to talk to each other. Reading and writing are prohibited. Women rule through their control of knowledge and the use of violence. A Brown girl slated for leadership, which will require her to murder her father, befriends a Grey boy, and they escape together.

PB - Oxford University Press CY - Auckland, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Corner One: The People and the 'Perfect Political Structure'." Part of his The Four Corners of the Coffin Lid" Y1 - 1992 A1 - S. T. Cambridge [pseud.] KW - South African author AB -

Short defense of democracy.

JF - The Tenth Leper and Other Stories PB - Vantage Press CY - New York U3 -

S.T. Cambridge [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Couples" Y1 - 1992 A1 - Eileen [Shirley Monk] Kernaghan (b. 1939) ED - Lorna Toolis ED - Michael Skeet (b. 1955) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia which has past a Fetal Rights Bill.

JF - Tesseracts PB - Beach Holme CY - Victoria, BC, Canada VL - 4 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Crystal Drop Y1 - 1992 A1 - Monica [Mary] Hughes (1925-2003) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult climate-change dystopia where a drought has destroyed a family farm, and a young woman and her brother search for an uncle in a world a dangerous world. 

PB - HarperCollins CY - Toronto, ON, Canada SN - 0-671-79195-8 N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1993. 212 pp. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dark Streets Y1 - 1992 A1 - Huw [Thomas] Merlin (b. 1956) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia in Australia and the resistance to it. New South Wales is an independent country with a "Gratification District" served by "Pleasure Technicians" controlled by the State Army.

PB - S.T.W. Publishing CY - Windsor, NSW, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dead Girls Y1 - 1992 A1 - Richard Calder (b. 1955) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Cyberpunk dystopia. Continued in his Dead Boys.  London : HarperCollins, 1994; and Dead Things.  London : HarperCollins, 1996. 

PB - HarperCollins CY - London N1 -

Rpt. New York: St. Martin's, 1995. Graphic novel ed. by Calder with Pencils, Colours & letters by Leonardo M. Girton as The Dead Girls: The Graphic Novel. [UK]: The House of Murky Depths, 2014. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Deus Ex Machina Y1 - 1992 A1 - Ivan Millett (b. 1944) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Machine run future. Variety of worlds presented. Some good and some not. See also his related but non-utopian Tu. Auckland, New Zealand: TTTM, 1994; and Nummus. Auckland, New Zealand: TTTM, 1993.

PB - TTTM CY - Auckland, New Zealand N1 -

Rpt. on disk 1993. 2nd ed. 1994 on disk only.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time Y1 - 1992 A1 - James Gurney (b. 1958) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A fantasy in which dinosaurs and humans live together in harmony. Sequels include Gurney, Dinotopia: The World Beneath. Atlanta, GA: Turner Publishing, 1995; Midori Snyder (b. 1954), Dinotopia: Hatchling. New York: Bullseye Books, 1995; Scott Ciencin (b. 1962), Dinotopia. Windchaser. New York: Bullseye Books/Random House, 1995; John Vornholt (b. 1951), Dinotopia. River Quest. New York: Bullseye Books/Random House, 1995; Ciencin, Dinotopia: Lost City. New York: Bullseye Books, 1996; Ciencin, Dinotopia. Thunder Falls New York: Bullseye Books/Random House, 1996; Alan Dean Foster (b. 1946), Dinotopia Lost. Atlanta, GA: Turner Publishing Co., 1996; U.K. ed. London: Severn House, 1998; John Vornholt (b. 1951), Dinotopia. Sabertooth Mountain. New York: Bullseye Books/Random House, 1996; Gene DeWeese, Dinotopia. Firestorm. New York: Random House, 1997; Ciencin, Dinotopia. Sky Dance. Illus. Michael Welpy. New York: Random House, 1999; Peter [Allen] David, Dinotopia. The Maze. New York: Random House, 1999; Foster, Hand of Dinotopia. New York: Harper Collins, 1999; Mark A. Garland, Dinotopia. Rescue Party. New York: Random House, 1999; Gurney, Dinotopia: First Flight. [New York]: HarperCollins, 1999; Ciencin, Dinotopia: Return to Lost City. New York: Random House, 2000; Donald F. Glut, Dinotopia. Chomper. New York: Random House, 2000; Ciencin, Dinotopia. The Explorers. New York: Random House, 2001; Brad Strickland, Dinotopia. Survive! New York: Random House, 2001; Cathy [Catherine] Hapka, Dinotopia: Oasis. New York: Random House, 2002; Vornholt, Dinotopia: Dolphin Watch. New York: Random House, 2002; and Gurney, Dinotopia: Journey to Chandara. Kansas City, MO: Andrews McMeel, 2007. There was a three-part TV miniseries as Code of Dinotopia written by Gurney and Simon Moore on the Disney Channel in 2002. This was followed by a thirteen-part miniseries.

PB - Turner Publishing Co CY - Atlanta, GA N1 -

20th Anniversary ed. New York: Calla Editions, 2011.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Don'ts of Whistling" Y1 - 1992 A1 - Albert Wendt (b. 1939) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author KW - Samoan author AB -

The story is about the relationship of a boy to his mostly absent father and other family members, but the background to the story is the dystopia developed in his 1992 Black Rainbow.

JF - Landfall 184 (New Zealand) VL - 46.4 N1 -

The Table of Contents adds the subtitle "(Chapter 1 of The Guide to Whistling, a sequel to Black Rainbow). No more appears to have been published.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Ecotopia Revisited" Y1 - 1992 A1 - Peter H. Marshall (b. 1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Nonfiction description of an ecological society.

JF - Nature's Web: An Exploration of Ecological Thinking PB - Simon & Schuster CY - London N1 -

Rpt. as Nature's Web: Rethinking Our Place on Earth (New York: Paragon House, 1994), 448-63.

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C, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Even the Queen" Y1 - 1992 A1 - Connie [Constance Elaine Trimmer] Willis (b. 1945) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A drug allows women to stop menstruating, and this allows the creation of an eutopian society in which women take the lead.

JF - Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine VL - 16.4-5 (184-85) N1 -

Rpt. in The Year's Best Science Fiction. Tenth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993), 62-75; in her Impossible Things (New York: Bantam Books, 1994), 66-87; and in A Woman's Liberation: A Choice of Futures By and About Women. Ed. Connie Willis and Sheila Williams (New York: Warner Books, 2001), 35-54.

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Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Evolution of Social Values on Planets and Their Biological Bases: From Waste Dumps to Pristine Biotas Y1 - 1992 A1 - Arlan J. Brownmiller KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Ecological eutopia on a planet that the explorers from Earth named Pan. Even though none of the species of humans or animals has become extinct, there is a limited population. Telepathy. Each child has four biological parents so that it carries all their genes, thus producing greater variation. Despite the title, the work is fiction.

PB - Vantage Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Fatherland Y1 - 1992 A1 - Robert [Dennis] Harris (b. 1957) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Hitler won.

PB - Hutchinson CY - London N1 -

Rpt. as the 20th Anniversary Edition. London: Arrow Books, 2012 with “Introduction to the 20th Anniversary Edition of Fatherland” by the author (xi-xvi).

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Feral City Y1 - 1992 A1 - Rosie [Judy Rosemary] Scott (b. 1948) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Future dystopia of violence and poverty set in Auckland, New Zealand, brought about by government policies that undid the welfare system and turned New Zealand over to government by big business. Thousands of homeless are living in the inner city. Libraries were privatized and then closed. Although one of them is killed, two sisters become the center of a small amount of hope by opening a bookstore in the center of the ruins.

PB - William Heinemann Australia CY - Port Melbourne, VIC, Australia N1 -

Rpt. Auckland, New Zealand: Reed Books, 1992; and Port Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Minerva, [1993].

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ATL, VUW

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Fools Y1 - 1992 A1 - Pat[ricia Oren Kearney] Cadigan (b. 1953) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Cyberpunk dystopia with people able to create new personalities for both themselves and others and others stealing memories.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Fragment from the Future" Y1 - 1992 A1 - Barbara Goodwin (b. 1946) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Introductory chapter to a treatise in political theory that presents a eutopian society in which all major decisions are made by lot. The author is a well-known scholar of utopian social theory and uses many examples from utopian literature throughout the book.

JF - Justice by Lottery PB - Harvester/Wheatsheaf CY - London N1 -

2nd ed. (Exeter, Eng.: Imprint Academic, 2005), 3-28.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - From the District File Y1 - 1992 A1 - Kenneth Bernard KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Future tale of an anonymous but controlling government and its Burial Clubs.

PB - Fiction Collective Two CY - Boulder, CO N1 -

Connected short stories. Three were previously published as “From the District File.” The Quarterly; “Waiting for Mrs. Slotnik.” 2PLUS2 (Switzerland), [no. 6] (1987): 44-46; and “Supermarket.” Iowa Review 20.3 (Fall 1990): 45-53. 

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IU-C, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Future Is Free Y1 - 1992 A1 - Ronald [A.] Beck (1940) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia set in 2084 with all social and environmental problems apparently solved but with meaning lost. Presented as evolution to a future in which sentient machines will replace humans.

PB - Vantage Press CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Galax-Arena Y1 - 1992 A1 - Gillian [Margaret] Rubinstein (b. 1942) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia in which children are kidnapped by aliens to entertain them by doing dangerous acts. Some hope held out as the children begin to cooperate with each other. See also her 2001 Terra Farma.   

PB - Hyland House CY - South Yarra, VIC, Australia N1 -

Rpt. Ringwood, VIC, Australia: Puffin Books, 1994. U.K. ed. London: William Heinemann, 1993. U.S. ed. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1995. Rev. ed. Ringwood, VIC, Australia: Puffin Books, 2001.

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M, PSt, TxU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Gehenna Y1 - 1992 A1 - [Thomas] Paul Thigpen (b. 1954) KW - Male author AB -

A trip through Hell.

PB - Creation House CY - Lake Mary, FL U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Glass Houses Y1 - 1992 A1 - Laura J. Mixon (b. 1954) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Environmental dystopia inside and outside a domed New York City.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Guns of the South: A Novel of the Civil War Y1 - 1992 A1 - Harry [Norman] Turtledove (b. 1949) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

With the help from future South African supporters of apartheid, who provide Robert E. Lee with AK-47s, the South wins the Civil War. After the war, Lee wants to gradually abolish slavery, and the Confederacy has to defeat the technologically advanced South Africans before that becomes possible. Other, non-utopian, alternative futures by Turtledove set after the South won the Civil war are How Few Remain. New York: del Rey/Ballantine Books, 1997; and The Great War: American Front. New York: Del Rey, 1998.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Ballantine Books, 1993. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Hall of New Faces" Y1 - 1992 A1 - Kit [Lilian Craig] Reed (1932-2017) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia concerned with the pressure on women to look good, and particularly to look young. Women go to the "Hall of New Faces" for plastic surgery, and all look worse.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 83.4-5 N1 -

Rpt. in her of Weird Women, Wired Women (Hanover, NH: Wesleyan University Press, 1998), 133-43.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hearts, Hands and Voices Y1 - 1992 A1 - Ian [Neil] McDonald (b. 1960) KW - Male author KW - Northern Ireland author AB -

Eutopia and dystopia. The eutopia is a village in which people get along with each other and with nature and even religious differences do not cause conflict. The dystopia comes about when the divided nation within which the village exists brings its conflicts to the village.

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. as The Broken Land. New York: Bantam Books, 1992.

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U.S. ed. as The Broken Land.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - High Aztech Y1 - 1992 A1 - Ernest Hogan (b. 1955) KW - Chicano author KW - Male author AB -

Religious dystopia set in a future Central America that has seen the collapse of the United States and Europe and the ascendancy of Africa and, to a lesser extent, Central and South America.

PB - Tor CY - New York N1 -

An excerpt was published in Mithila Review: The Journal of International Science Fiction & Fantasy, no. 7 (January-March 1997). http://mithilareview.com/hogan_01_16

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Horse Meat" Y1 - 1992 A1 - Brian [Wilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Violent dystopia.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 65 U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Idea of Home Y1 - 1992 A1 - Curtis White (b. 1951) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A collection of stories, many with elements of fantasy, that is called a utopia by the author. The first three stories, collectively called "An Available World" (7-34) describes a 1940-50s small-town, middle class eutopia in California.

PB - Sun & Moon Press CY - Los Angeles, CA U5 -

L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Illicit Passage Y1 - 1992 A1 - Alice Nunn KW - Australian author KW - Female author KW - UK author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia set in 2101 dealing with women's coping strategies. A space station designed to be a eutopia becomes a dystopia due to poor planning and a built-in class structure. Revolution.

PB - Women's Redress Press CY - Broadway, NSW, Australia U5 -

A, L, TxU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Immortality" Y1 - 1992 A1 - [Owen Marshall] [Jones] (b. 1941) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

A brief story set in a dystopia brought about the development of a method of ensure immortality that only works on some people and only if done before age eighteen. 

JF - Tomorrow We Save the Orphans. Fiction PB - John McIndoe CY - Dunedin, New Zealand SN - 9780868681399 9781776563104 N1 -

Rpt. in Monsters in the Garden: An Anthology of Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy. Ed. Elizabeth Knox and David Larsen (Wellington, New Zealand: Victoria University of Wellington Press, 2020), 140-44. 

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Owen Marshall [pseud.].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - In the Heart of the Valley of Love Y1 - 1992 A1 - Cynthia Kadohata (b. 1956) KW - Female author KW - Japanese American author AB -

Dystopia of violence and a deteriorating U.S. with a future Los Angeles divided between the white “Richtown” and the non-white slums. 

PB - Viking CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Indiana Jones and the Interior World Y1 - 1992 A1 - MacGregor, Rob KW - Male author AB -

An adventure novel set partially in a dystopian interior of the Earth.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Jack the Bodiless. Book One of The Galactic Milieu Trilogy Y1 - 1992 A1 - Julian [Clare] May (1931-2017) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Earth has achieved peace, is developing significant psychic powers, and is ready to join the Galactic Milieu, a confederation of planets. But there is opposition that wants to maintain human individuality and believes in the superiority of humans over all others, and it is trying to kill the most psychically powerful humans. See also 1987 May. In the second volume in the trilogy, Diamond Mask. A Novel. Book Two of the Galactic Milieu Trilogy. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994, Earth has joined the Galactic Milieu and humans are preparing to join the Unity, a group mind that includes all the races of the Galactic Milieu, but the opposition described in the previous volume is trying to stop the process. In the third volume, Magnificat. A Novel. Book Three of the Galactic Milieu Trilogy. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996, the opposition continues but is ultimately defeated. 

PB - Alfred A. Knopf CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Jizz: The Story of a New Renaissance Man and the Riddle of Existence Y1 - 1992 A1 - John Hart KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Satire set in 21st century Europe which has broken up into city-states.

PB - Black Swan CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Journal of the Flood Year Y1 - 1992 A1 - [David Eli] [Lilienthal] (b. 1927) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed eutopia. Follows the development of a catastrophe in a technologically advanced but authoritarian society. Socially this future has a "Second Bill of Rights" guaranteeing the right of each citizen "a healthy and pain-free longevity, and the full development of his or her capacity for physical pleasure." Almost no physical contact, drugs and machines for pleasure. No live births. The US that has built a wall far out into the Atlantic. The novel follows the protagonist through the US prison system where he has been sent for arguing that the wall is leaking.

PB - David I. Fine CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Phoenix, 1992.

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David Ely [pseud.]

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MoS, O

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Kingdom of Kanawha: An Allegory for America Y1 - 1992 A1 - L. A. Wheeler AB -

Future West Virginia overrun by fleeing mobs and the response by West Virginians.

PB - McClain Printing Co CY - Parsons, WV ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Last Cardinal Bird in Tennessee" Y1 - 1992 A1 - Neal [Patrick] Barrett Jr. (1929-2014) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Near future dystopia of a collapsing high-tech society.

JF - Slightly Off Center: Eleven Extraordinarily Exhilarating Tales PB - Swan Press CY - Austin, TX N1 -

Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Tenth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1993), 346-56; and in his Other Seasons: The Best of Neal Barrett, Jr. (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2012), 365-79. 

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Illus. Brad W. Foster

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Days of the Pleasurehouse Y1 - 1992 A1 - Agnetha Anders KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia and revolt. Erotica set in 2031. Sequel to 1991 Anders.

PB - Nexus CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Last Heterosexual" Y1 - 1992 A1 - [Garvin Robert] [Gilbert] (b. 1917) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia from the perspective of the point-of-view character, who lives in a eutopia from the point-of-view of the rest. See the note at 1952 Gilbert.

JF - By the Light of the Moon PB - dean farran printproductions CY - Christchurch, New Zealand U3 -

Eidel Rasmuss [pseud.]

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ATL

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Human Y1 - 1992 A1 - Tom De Haven (b. 1949) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Fantasy that includes an attempt to build a eutopia. Mostly action. The first two books--Walker of Worlds (New York: Bantam Books, 1990) and The End-of-Everything Man (Garden City: Doubleday, 1991) are not utopian.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York U1 -

Book 3 of Chronicles of the King's Tramp.

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Merril, NN

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Last Refuge Y1 - 1992 A1 - Elizabeth Ann Scarborough (b. 1947) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The eutopian Shambala (Shangri-la) and the devastated outer world as a dystopia. Loose sequel to the 1991 Scarborough. For the classic eutopian Shangri-la, see 1933 Hilton.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Let Us Prey Y1 - 1992 A1 - Bill Branon KW - Male author AB -

A dystopia of a U.S. with government waste and corruption and the I.R.S. (Internal Revenue Service) as an authoritarian institution trying to collect taxes by any means possible. A taxpayers' revolt overthrows the system, but the ending suggests further problems to come and possible sequels, but none were published.

PB - Black Seal Press CY - Carlsbad, CA N1 -

Rpt. New York: HarperCollins, 1994. U.K. ed. London: HarperCollins, 1995.

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NLS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Looking Back From 2992. A World History, Chapter 13: The Disastrous 21st Century" Y1 - 1992 AB -

A history of the dystopian twenty-first century written from the perspective of a eutopian thirtieth century.

JF - The Economist ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Madrelita" Y1 - 1992 A1 - [Deborah Jean] [Ross] (b. 1947) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Feminist dystopia focusing on class divisions and the exploitation of poor women by the rich. See also 1996 Ross.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction VL - 82.2 U3 -

Deborah Wheeler [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Major Gentl and the Achimota War Y1 - 1992 A1 - [Bernard] Kojo Laing (b. 1946) KW - Ghanaian author KW - Male author AB -

Achimota City in 2020 A.D. is the scene of a war between good and evil. Some dystopia and some eutopia. Surreal. Includes a Glossary.

PB - Heinemann CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Million Open Doors Y1 - 1992 A1 - John [Allen] Barnes (b. 1957) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The first of four volumes set in the future of humanity’s spread across the galaxy, creating the Thousand Cultures. In this novel two different cultures are brought into contact, and both begin to change, with both eutopian and dystopian elements. Sequels set in the same Thousand Culture future include 1998 Barnes: The Merchants of Souls. New York: Tor, 2001 and The Armies of Memory. New York: Tor, 2006 which are not utopias.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Miracle River (or Shit River)" Y1 - 1992 A1 - Jerome Gold (b. 1943) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A future dystopian Los Angeles of extreme poverty overseen by the United Nations. In 2019 water appears in the Los Angeles River for the first time in years, followed by vegetation, which had not existed in Los Angeles since 2010, and animals followed, and people built shelters near the river even though it stank and was known colloquially as Shit River. 

JF - The Fiction Review VL - 2.4 N1 -

Rpt. in his Life at the End of Time: Stories and Essays (Seattle, WA: Black Heron Press, 1992), 39-42. 

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PSt, PU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Mountain Made of Light Y1 - 1992 A1 - Edward Myers (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Lost race eutopia of an advanced Incan civilization. First volume of a trilogy. In the second volume, Fire and Ice: Volume Two of The Mountain Trilogy. New York: Roc, 1992, the descendants of the Incans are divided into factions. In the final volume, The Summit. Book Three of The Mountain Made of Light. New York: Roc, 1994, the mountain is successfully climbed, and peace brought to the people.

PB - Roc CY - New York U5 -

Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Mountain to Mohammed" Y1 - 1992 A1 - Nancy [Anne Koningisor] Kress (b. 1948) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of extreme poverty. The story concerns a doctor who treats the poor.

JF - Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine VL - 16.4 & 5 (184 & 185) N1 -

Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction Tenth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1993), 123-36. 

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Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Multiplex Man Y1 - 1992 A1 - James P[atrick] Hogan (1941-2010) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Anti-technology dystopia.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York U5 -

SFF

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mutagenesis Y1 - 1992 A1 - Helen [Francis] Collins (b. 1937) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Religious patriarchy as a dystopia with a feminist theme developed as the alternative.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Negrophobia: An Urban Parable Y1 - 1992 A1 - Darius James (b. 1954) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

An experimental novel that explores the dystopia of American racism. 

PB - Citadel Press CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993; and New York: New York Review Books, 2019, with an “Introduction” by Amy Abugo Ongiri (vii-xvi); and a “Preface” by the author (xvii-xxvi). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The New City Y1 - 1992 A1 - Lebbeus Woods (1940-2012) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Architectural eutopia. Architectural drawings, cityscapes, and buildings combined with short essays that make the utopianism explicit. Designed for people who are autonomous individuals living experimentally.

PB - Simon & Schuster CY - New York U5 -

L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Next" Y1 - 1992 A1 - Terry [Ballantine] Bisson (1942-2024) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of racism in the future when dark skins are preferred as protection against the hole in the ozone layer.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction VL - 82.5 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Our Small Part" Y1 - 1992 A1 - Michael S. Cummings (b. 1943) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Unpublished novel that the author calls a practical utopia. The novel describes the town of Link, CO, includes a one-page constitution, and is organized around the way people live within the terms of the different articles of the constitution

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Parsnips and Prune Juice: Comic Mayhem in the Year 2049 Y1 - 1992 A1 - Burnett R. Toskey (b. 1929) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Humor in a futuristic setting. Some eutopia; some dystopia.

PB - University Editions CY - Huntington, WV ER - TY - ABST T1 - Passion Play Y1 - 1992 A1 - [Michael Sean] [Irwin] (b. 1965) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Religious dystopia in which the pro-life Redemption Presidency rules and encourages vigilantes to kill and the police subcontracts to freelances to arrest criminals, who are executed on television. 

PB - Beach Holme Publishers CY - Victoria, BC, Canada N1 -

Rpt. New York: Ace Books, 1993.

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Sean Stewart [pseud.]

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Can, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Perfect Match" Y1 - 1992 A1 - Steve Stanton KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia set in a future in which the poor sell body-parts to survive. 

JF - On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic VL - 4.1 N1 -

Rpt. illus. Jose Beatas. Kasma Magazine (August 2010). https://www.kasmamagazine.com/perfect-match.html.

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Can, Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Philosophical Investigation Y1 - 1992 A1 - Philip [Ballantyne] Kerr (1956-2018) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

A murder mystery set in a high-tech dystopian future. A computer named Lombroso is supposed to be able to detect people with tendencies to violence, but a man using the name Wittgenstein thwarts the system. 

PB - Chatto & Windus CY - London U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Place to Scream Y1 - 1992 A1 - Jean [Neville] Ure (b. 1943) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult dystopia set in 2015 in which the stress of making a living means that the elderly are dumped on the highway because they are too expensive to keep, teenage beggars crowd the streets, and unemployment is standard. The protagonist is a sixteen year old girl who has a job and a home but dreams of a better life for herself and her sick grandfather.

PB - Doubleday CY - London SN - 9780552526166 U5 -

CU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Pro vs. Con" Y1 - 1992 A1 - Clay Caldwell KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Mostly an excuse for homosexual erotica; presents sexual slavery as desirable.

JF - Drummer PB - Badboy CY - New York VL - no. 154 N1 -

Rpt. in QSFx2: Queer Science Fiction. By Lars Eighner and Clay Caldwell (New York: Badboy, 1995), 55-65. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Project Stone" Y1 - 1992 A1 - Elizabeth Engstrom KW - Female author AB -

An isolated community creates a suburban, middle class eutopia based on adjusting the body's rhythms to a constantly sounded tone, but no one can survive if beyond the sound or if the tone is turned off.

JF - Nightmare Flower PB - Tor CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Protection" Y1 - 1992 A1 - Maureen [F.] McHugh (b. 1959) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set in a labor camp in a future America.

JF - Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine VL - 16.4 & 5 N1 -

Rpt. in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Tenth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993), 312-45.

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Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Queen and I Y1 - 1992 A1 - Sue [Susan Lillian] Townsend (1946-2014) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Satire. The U.K. becomes a republic, and the Queen is given a pensioner's flat where she lives with her family. See also 2006 Townsend.

PB - Methuen CY - London N1 -

Part republished as The Queen in Hell Close. London: Penguin, 2005. Theatre version as The Queen and I: The Play With Songs. London: Methuen Drama in association with the Royal Court Theatre, 1994 [Songs by Ian Dury and Mickey Gallagher]. Rev. and re-written as The Queen and I: A Play. London: Samuel French, 1996. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Question of Loyalty" Y1 - 1992 A1 - Sue Emms (b. 1954) ED - Tim Jones (b. 1959) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

Brief authoritarian dystopia in which those found disloyal have their brains wiped.

JF - What on Earth: A Collection of Science Fiction and Related Short Stories by eight southern authors PB - Steep Birancas Operation CY - Dunedin, New Zealand U5 -

ATL, VUW

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Quicksilver Screen Y1 - 1992 A1 - Don H. DeBrandt (b. 1963) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which Infinite Range TV allows people to view, and ultimately establish contact with alternative realities.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York U5 -

MoU-St, Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Rag Doll Plagues Y1 - 1992 A1 - Alejandro Morales (b. 1944) KW - Chicano author KW - Male author AB -

The novel is set in northwest Mexico/Southwest U.S. with the first book set in the past, the second in the present and the third in the future when the area is Lamex, a technocratic federation, where there is a sharp division between those living Higher Life Existence cities and those living in Lower Life Existence cities. Genetic engineering is a significant theme. 

PB - Arete Público CY - Houston, TX U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Red Mars Y1 - 1992 A1 - Kim Stanley Robinson (b. 1952) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The first volume of a trilogy focusing on the colonization of Mars with conflicts over what the future of Mars should be playing out both on Mars and on Earth. See also 1993 Robinson, Green Mars and 1996 Robinson, Blue Mars. Materials related to the trilogy were published as The Martians. New York: Bantam Books, 1999. U.K. edition. London: HarperCollins, 1999, which reprints his “Exploring Fossil Canyon.” Universe 12. Ed. Terry Carr (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1982), 26-47; “Sexual Dimorphism.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 23.6 (281) (June 1999): 28-39; and “A Martian Romance.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 23.10[/11] (285) (October-November 1999): 14-28. In addition, The Martians includes poems “Six Poems from If Wang Wei Lived on Mars rpt. in his Stan’s Kitchen: A Robinson Reader. Ed. David C. Grubbs (Framingham, MA: NESFA Press, 2020), 125-143 [“Crossing Mather Pass” (311-11/127-28), “Invisible Owls” (315-16/129-30), “Tenzing” (317-19/131-33), “The Red’s Lament” (322/23/135-136), “A Report on the First Recorded Case of Areophagy” (320-21/137-39)], and “Two Years” (324/27/141-43), and the story “Arthur Sternbach Brings the Curveball to Mars” (179-88/171-79).

PB - HarperCollins CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Bantam Books, 1993. An excerpt was published as “Red Mars.” Interzone, no. 63 (September 1992): 6-15 followed by personal comment “I Go to Mars” by Robinson (15). Another excerpt was published as “Festival Night From Red Mars.” Nebula Awards 29. Ed. Pamela Sargent (San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace, 1995), 47-67.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Remember, the Dead Say" Y1 - 1992 A1 - Jean-Louis Trudel (b. 1967) ED - Lorna Toolis ED - Michael Skeet (b. 1955) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. The U.S. has fragmented, with the capital of the Free State Alliance in Omaha, Nebraska. The FSA has been successfully invaded by the Franco-Maghrebi Coalition, which controls Eastern Canada and has imposed Sharia (Islamic) law. The opposition comes from net experts from both countries.

JF - Tesseracts PB - Beach Holme CY - Victoria, BC, Canada VL - 4 N1 -

Rpt. in Northern Stars. The Anthology of Canadian Science Fiction. Ed. David G. Hartwell and Glenn Grant (New York: Tor, 1994), 102-13. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Requiem for a Tarbaby" Y1 - 1992 A1 - Alice Peattie ED - Tim Jones (b. 1959) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

Authoritarian, religious, and pollution dystopia.

JF - What on Earth: A Collection of Science Fiction and Related Short Stories by eight southern authors PB - Steep Birancas Operation CY - Dunedin, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Requiem for the General" Y1 - 1992 A1 - Geoffrey [Peter] Maloney (b. 1956) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

See also 1990 Maloney (2); 1992 Maloney "The Taxi Driver"; and 1998 Maloney. Set in the same future as these other stories, but this story focuses on the manipulation of history to buttress support for the regime.

JF - Eidolon: The Journal of Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy (Perth, WA, Australia) VL - no. 7 [2.3] N1 -

Rpt. in his Tales from the Crypto-System (Canton, OH: Prime Books, 2003), 178-98.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Resurrections From the Dustbin of History. A Political Fantasy Y1 - 1992 A1 - Simon Louvish (b. 1947) KW - English author KW - Israeli author KW - Male author AB -

Alternative history dystopia beginning in 1968 when Leon Trotsky, who has led the U.S.S.R. for forty-four years, dies. Benito Mussolini still rules Italy, and Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels are U.S. politicians. Racial conflict in the U.S.

PB - Bloomsbury CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. as The Resurrections: A Novel. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1994.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Return to Isis Y1 - 1992 A1 - Jean Stewart (b. 1953) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Feminist eutopia with lesbian interest. See also 1993, 1995, 2001, and 2004 Stewart.

PB - Rising Tide Press CY - Huntington Station, NY ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Revengers Y1 - 1992 A1 - Laurence [William] James (1942-2000) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Young adult post-nuclear catastrophe dystopian series focusing on the experiences five boys. Sequels include, in order, Beyond the Grave. London: Bantam, 1992; The Horned God. London: Bantam, 1992; and The Plague. London: Bantam, 1992. 

PB - Bantam Books CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Right Now Y1 - 1992 A1 - Olaf Egeberg (b. 1937) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia based on cooperation with the focus on small communities. Refers to a number of intentional communities as models. Suggests the need for a universal language such as Esperanto. The book ends with specific suggestions on how to start at the local level. See also his Coming Home: A Crossover Bible for Christians, Muslims, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus and members of other religious faiths, as well as thoroughly non-religious persons. Np.: Lulu Press, 2006.  http://changesahead.net/files/TheBook.pdf

PB - McGee Street Press CY - Washington, DC U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - River Rats Y1 - 1992 A1 - Caroline Stevermer (b. 1955) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult, post-apocalyptic dystopia after a nuclear war, in which children who operate a paddle wheeler on the Mississippi River have to deal with another group of children known as the Wild Boys who control a riverside city.

PB - Jane Yolen Books/Harcourt Brace Jovanovich CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Running Fiercely Toward a High Thin Sound Y1 - 1992 A1 - Judith Katz KW - Female author AB -

A lesbian novel which includes a community of women (living and dead). The community is not clearly eutopian or dystopian. Some commentators have seen another utopia in the lesbians surrounding a university in central Massachusetts, but this is not presented in utopian terms.

PB - Firebrand Books CY - Ithaca, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Scenes From Successive Futures" Y1 - 1992 A1 - Tom Marshall (1938-93) ED - Lesley [Willis] Choyce (b. 1951) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Flawed utopia. A city, probably an enlarged Toronto and enlarged Montréal combined, is under a great dome with a germ and virus-free environment and people no longer leaving the city. Little crime or violence. Behind the façade there had been nuclear war and the dome is actually a spaceship; the news of the world outside is manufactured; even though people vote, there is no national government; the Prime Minister is an actor; and Canada is a fiction.

JF - Ark of Ice: Canadian Futurefiction PB - Pottersfield Press CY - Lawrencetown Beach, NS, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sheltered Lives Y1 - 1992 A1 - Charles [G.] Oberndorf (b. 1959) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Government control of AIDS-like disease brings dystopia.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Skinny Louie Book Y1 - 1992 A1 - Fiona Farrell (b. 1947) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

The novel begins with New Zealand history of the post-World War II era with some fantastic elements as seen through the eyes of a girl growing up, going to university, getting pregnant, and beginning her career. It extends to an authoritarian dystopian future of age and class divisions brought about by current government policies and deliberately fostered by the government. It ends with a destroyed New Zealand with few survivors.

PB - Penguin CY - Auckland, New Zealand N1 -

The first section is her “A Story About Skinny Louie.” New Zealand Listener 127.2620 (May 28, 1990): 96, 101-02 as by Fiona Farrell Poole. Story rpt. in Closing the File: American Express Short Story Award Winners, 1984-89 (Auckland, New Zealand: Godwit Press, 1990), 137-52; in Some Other Country: New Zealand’s Best Short Stories. Ed. Marion McLeod and Bill Manhire. New ed. (Wellington, New Zealand: Bridget Williams Books, 1992), 278-90; and in The New Zealand Short Story Collection. Ed. Marion McLeod and Bill Manhire. 3rd ed. (St. Lucia, QLD, Australia: University of Queensland Press, 1997), 365-81. There is an abridged Talking Books version read by Liddy Holloway. Auckland, New Zealand: Word Pictures, Ltd., [1993]. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Snow Crash Y1 - 1992 A1 - Neal [Town] Stephenson (b. 1959) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Cyberpunk dystopia.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York SN - 978-0-593-59973-0 N1 -

Slightly revised 30th Anniversary ed. New York: Del Rey/Penguin Random House, 2022.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sojourn in Tomorrow: a possible voyage into man's future Y1 - 1992 A1 - Julius K. Vogel KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Detailed eutopia continuing 1966 Vogel and examines two parts of a city, the suburbs, and the entertainment district, which is an older part of the city. The former has new houses with substantial space around them and the latter is much more concentrated with old buildings. The latter also has beggars, poverty, violence, and prostitution. The visitor from the past is convinced that having spent time in the suburbs, he needs to move to the entertainment district to get complete picture.

PB - [Author] CY - [Hollywood, CA] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Space Traders" Y1 - 1992 A1 - Derrick [Albert] Bell [Jr.] (1930-2011) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopian satire. Aliens visiting the US offer to provide the country with everything needed to solve many of its problems in exchange for the entire African American population. Offered enough gold to bail out the country, chemicals that can un-pollute the environment, and a safe nuclear energy and fuel to overcome the energy crisis, the US government agrees, and all African Americans are loaded onto what are obviously slave ships. See also 1987, 1991, and 1998 Bell. For a story about refugees that resonates with this story, see 2020 Yu. 

JF - Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism PB - Basic Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora. Ed. Sheree R. Thomas (New York: Warner Books, 2000), 326-55. An earlier, shorter version was published as “The Chronicles of the Space Traders” as part of his “After We're Gone: Prudent Speculations on America in a Post-Racial Epoch A Forum on Derrick Bell's Civil Rights Chronicles--1989 Sanford E Sarasohn Memorial Lecture.” Saint Louis University Law Journal 34.3 (Spring 1990): 397-400. The issue of the journal includes articles discussing the story. A slightly different version was published under the same title as part of his “Racism: A Prophecy for the Year 2000.” Rutgers Law Review 42.1 (Fall 1989): 96-100. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Steel Beach Y1 - 1992 A1 - John [Herbert] Varley (b. 1947) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A flawed utopia on the moon (Luna) after Earth was destroyed by aliens. No illness, climate control, people can change gender at will, racial characteristics are rare, extremely long lives. But people, and even the Central Computer, which runs pretty-much everything, are feeling depressed. The protagonist is a newspaperman/woman who is given the assignment to develop a series on Earth’s past. The book includes an “Author’s Note” (480) explaining that while the novel is set in the same future as his Eight Worlds future history, which includes four novels and eighteen stories, he has not bothered to try to keep the chronology straight. For an overview of the Eight Worlds, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight_Worlds. For publication details, see http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?567.

PB - Ace Books/Putnam's CY - New York SN - 9780399137594 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Taxi-Driver" Y1 - 1992 A1 - Geoffrey [Peter] Maloney (b. 1956) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

This story together with 1990 Maloney "5 Cigarettes and 2 Snakes" and 1998 Maloney "Keep the Meter Running" are part of a single story regarding corruption in a future flawed utopia become dystopia. See also 1990 Maloney "The Age of Democracy and 1992 Maloney "Requiem for the General".

JF - Aurealis: The Australian Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (Melbourne, VIC, Australia) VL - no. 8 N1 -

 Rpt. as “The Taxi Driver.” In his Tales from the Crypto-System ( Canton, OH : Prime Books, 2003), 87-103

ER - TY - ABST T1 - This Day and Age Y1 - 1992 A1 - Mike Nicol (b. 1951) KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

Dystopia. Reworking of South African history.

PB - Bloomsbury CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Throwaways Y1 - 1992 A1 - Ian Strachan (b. 1938) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

The novel is set in the near future and concerns a group of homeless children, who re known as the throwaways.

PB - Methuen CY - London SN - 9780416188820 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Truth Is In The Word" Y1 - 1992 A1 - Werner Goers KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia presenting the Second Coming and the Antichrist and the New World Order. Labeled an advertisement.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Underworld Y1 - 1992 A1 - Peter Conrad (b. 1948) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Division between haves and have-nots.

PB - Chatto & Windus CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Virtuous Reality" Y1 - 1992 A1 - Brian [Michael] Stableford (b. 1948) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Overpopulated world requiring licenses to have a child. Families tend to be eight to ten parents and one child. Man wants monogamy in a world of multiple partners both serially and living together at the same time. No passion.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 55 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Winter of Fire Y1 - 1992 A1 - Sherryl Jordan (b. 1949) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult authoritarian dystopia with fantasy elements. Future earth so polluted that the sky is not seen, and little grows. Division between the Chosen, who have power, and the Quelled, who are essentially slaves. A young woman from the Quelled who has unusual abilities is able to bring about changes, and the novel ends with the earth beginning to recover.

PB - Scholastic CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. Auckland, New Zealand: Ashton Scholastic, 1993. Rpt. as the 25th anniversary ed. New York: Scholastic, 2019, and Auckland, New Zealand: Scholastic, 2019. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Women Who Won the World: A Playful Segment" Y1 - 1992 A1 - [Betty Susan] Weinbaum (b. 1952) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Feminist satire directed at feminist aspirations.

JF - Anything That Moves VL - no. 4 N1 -

Rpt. in her The Island of Floating Women (San Diego, CA: Clothespin Fever Press, 1993), 169-175.

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Batya Weinbaum [pseud.].

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Worlds Enough and Time: The Conclusion of the "Worlds" Trilogy Y1 - 1992 A1 - Joe [Joseph William] Haldeman (b. 1943) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 1981 and 1983 Haldeman. In this volume, thousands of people leave Earth for a new planet on the spaceship Newhome, which, during the trip, experiences conflict among the passengers and sabotage of the ship. They finally reach a planet inhabited by a space faring race that had directed them there and settle.

PB - William Morrow CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. without the subtitle New York: AvoNova, 1993. The poem "Benny's Song" (p. 11 without a title) first appeared in Pulpsmith 6.2 (Summer 1986): 147 as by Joe and Gay Haldeman.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - 2084: A Novel Y1 - 1991 A1 - Larry W. Poland Ph.D. (b. 1939) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia and dystopia contrasting the millennial reign of Christ with the “World of Imprisoned Souls” with Biblical references (259-63). Three people from the past are transported to the millennial kingdom, which is nearing the end of the thousand years and approaching Armageddon. Not belonging there, they become a focus for competition between the two realms. Earth, which is composed of 144 kingdoms, each led by a governor appointed by God, has been renovated by God so as to be Eden-like, albeit with cities. Strict deference to authority. All minds open to everyone, but, of course, all thoughts are virtuous. Each person has a “perfect body” (70). Animals, such as tigers, are vegetarians. 

PB - Here's Life Publishers CY - San Bernardino, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "About Time" Y1 - 1991 A1 - Patricia B. Cirone ED - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) KW - Female author AB -

Free Amazon story.

JF - Renunciates Of Darkover PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Achilles' Choice Y1 - 1991 A1 - Larry [Lawrence van Cott] Niven (b. 1938) A1 - Steven [Emory] Barnes (b. 1952) KW - African American author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia based on a dystopian authoritarian system in which selection for the top the elite is made by an Olympics that combines mental and physical skills with the losers not surviving.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Aleph Y1 - 1991 A1 - Storm Constantine (1956-2021) KW - Female author KW - UK author AB -

Sequel to 1989 Constantine in which some of the protagonist of the first volume settle an area they call Freespace.

PB - Orbit CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Amazon Fragment" Y1 - 1991 A1 - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) ED - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Free Amazon story. 

JF - Renunciates Of Darkover PB - DAW Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover (New York: DAW Books, 1993), 43-80.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Any Major Dude" Y1 - 1991 A1 - Paul [Gerard] Di Filippo (b. 1954) ED - David [S.] Garnett (b. 1947) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia in Africa being brought about by nanotechnology.

JF - New Worlds PB - VGSF CY - London VL - 1 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Avalon Y1 - 1991 A1 - Mary J. Jones KW - Female author AB -

Adaptation of an Arthurian legend that includes a matriarchal eutopia.

PB - Naiad Press CY - [Tallahassee, FL] ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Awakening" Y1 - 1991 A1 - Fenoglio, Mary ED - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) KW - Female author AB -

Free Amazon story.

JF - Renunciates Of Darkover PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Barn Raising" Y1 - 1991 A1 - Robert [Molise Boyer] Nichols (1919-2010) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Contrast between the elaborate plans for a utopia to be adopted by government and the actual eutopia of small town cooperation.

JF - In the Air PB - The Johns Hopkins University Press CY - Baltimore, MD N1 -

Originally published in Mesechabe

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Beauty Y1 - 1991 A1 - Sheri [Shirley] S[tewart] Tepper (1929-2016) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Mostly fantasy deriving from the tale of Sleeping Beauty presented as “The Journal of Beauty daughter of the Duke of Westfaire” with interpolations by “Carabosse, the fairy of clocks, keeper of the secrets of time”. Beauty travels into various futures, including an authoritarian 21st century dystopia. On the dust jacket “A Note from the Author” connects the novel to the loss of natural habitat, the loss of beauty, which she hopes is only sleeping, not dying. 

PB - Doubleday CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: HarperCollins, 1992. Rpt. London: Grafton, 1993. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Beginning" Y1 - 1991 A1 - Judith Kobylecky ED - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) KW - Female author AB -

Free Amazon story.

JF - Renunciates Of Darkover PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Below the Line Y1 - 1991 A1 - Eric [Paul] Willmot (b. 1938) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

An Indonesian invasion of Australia divides it into two countries, both authoritarian dystopias and creates an Asian Australia. At the end of the novel, the dystopias are becoming less authoritarian.

PB - Hutchinson Australia CY - Milsons Point, NSW, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Birth of Sons" Y1 - 1991 A1 - Sharon Hall KW - Female author AB -

Male homosexual society presented generally positively but based on the destruction of women.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 54 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Book of Love. Part One of a trilogy, begun in 1984 from a remark made by a friend, Jagdish Parikh, who said, in Kausani, foothills of the Himalaya, "What is Love?" Y1 - 1991 A1 - Aaron John Beth'el (b. 1954) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

New Age eutopia. No more of the trilogy published, but the author published a collected of love poems entitled Sacred Promise fleches d'amour. Auckland, New Zealand: Puriri Press, 1993. 2nd ed. Auckland, New Zealand: Puriri Press, 1994.

PB - Puriri Press CY - Auckland, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Broken Vows" Y1 - 1991 A1 - Annette Rodriguez ED - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) KW - Female author AB -

Free Amazon story.

JF - Renunciates Of Darkover PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Butterfly Season" Y1 - 1991 A1 - Diana L. Paxson (b. 1943) ED - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) KW - Female author AB -

Free Amazon story.

JF - Renunciates Of Darkover PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Candle or the Sun Y1 - 1991 A1 - Gopal Baratham (1935-2002) KW - Male author KW - Singaporean author AB -

The novel is set in an authoritarian dystopia that is in conflict with a cult called the Children of the Book.

PB - Serpent’s Tail. CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Carlina's Calling" Y1 - 1991 A1 - Patricia D. Novak ED - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) KW - Female author AB -

Free Amazon story.

JF - Renunciates Of Darkover PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Centigrade 233" Y1 - 1991 A1 - Gregory [Albert] Benford (b. 1941) ED - William F[rancis] Nolan (1928-2021) ED - Martin H[arry] Greenberg (1941-2011) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Another version of the burning of books inspired by 1953 Bradbury.

JF - The Bradbury Chronicles: Stories in Honor of Ray Bradbury PB - ROC CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in The Best of Gregory Benford. Ed. David G. Hartwell (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2015), 239-49. U.K. ed. (London: Severn House, 1992), 190-202.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The City of a Seagull" Y1 - 1991 A1 - Lois [Ann] Tilton (b. 1946) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia-- a near future story of refugees forced to live on ships constantly wandering the seas.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 47 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Cosmic Dusting" Y1 - 1991 A1 - Rosaleen [Lucille] Love (b. 1940) ED - Helen Daniel KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Feminist version of the millennium. In this version the Messiah is an elected position held by 1,000 people (500 men and 500 women) for one year each, the earth returns to its condition prior to environmental damage, all plastics, bottles, and aluminum return to their original constituents, and extinct animals return. The coming of the millennium can be recognized when things work as they are supposed to, and committees function perfectly.

JF - Millennium: Time-Pieces by Australian Writers PB - Penguin Books Australia CY - Ringwood, VIC, Australia N1 -

Rpt. in her Evolution Annie and Other Stories (London: The Women's Press, 1993), 31-36.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Creating an Ecologically Sustainable Australia for 2001" Y1 - 1991 A1 - Phillip Toyne KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Ecological eutopia described in a section entitled "A Vision of Future Australia" (8-9).

JF - Social Alternatives (Brisbane, QLD, Australia) VL - 10.2 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Crows" Y1 - 1991 A1 - Bart Meehan KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia with all aspects of life regulated and punishment for breaking any of the many rules. A small group of young friends, the existence of which breaks rules, undermines the system.

JF - Aurealis (Melbourne, Vic, Australia) VL - no. 5 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Dalereuth Guild House" Y1 - 1991 A1 - Priscilla W. Armstrong A1 - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) KW - Female author AB -

Free Amazon story.

JF - Renunciates Of Darkover PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Danila's Song" Y1 - 1991 A1 - Vera Nazarian (b. 1966) ED - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) KW - Female author KW - Russian author KW - US author AB -

Free Amazon story.

JF - Renunciates Of Darkover PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dark Paradise Y1 - 1991 A1 - Catherine Brophy KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

Dystopia. One group has evolved on mental lines, losing their legs, and becoming extremely weak and dependent on technology while being extremely powerful mentally. Another group, expelled by the first, are called bipeds in that they still have legs and live outside the controlled environment. The novel includes descriptions of the evolution of and stages in the lives of the first group. Food is developed to the point that elimination is no longer necessary. Artificial womb allowed early removal of the defective.

PB - Wolfhound Press CY - Dublin, Ireland U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Day of the Sun" Y1 - 1991 A1 - Maria McKernan KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopian fantasy in which extremely poor people working under very harsh conditions to produce paper clothing experience the sun irregularly. On those days they have sex, but they forget everything about those days between them.

JF - Aurealis (Melbourne, VIC, Australia) VL - no. 3 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Dealer" Y1 - 1991 A1 - Michaelene Pendleton (1946-2019) KW - Female author AB -

Future dystopia in which America has rejected everything foreign.

JF - Amazing Stories (Lake Geneva, WI) VL - 66.5 (562) N1 -

Rpt. in Washed by a Wave of Wind: Science fiction from the Corridor. Ed. M. Shayne Bell (Salt Lake City, UT: Signature Books, 1993), 277-92.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Death of a Sparrow Y1 - 1991 A1 - Barbara Ker-Mann (b. 1933) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia set in 2000 in a New Zealand with a corrupt government and society divided between the power brokers and the displaced with Australian and U.S. corporations dominating New Zealand. The novel centers on the construction of an American-built nuclear power plant and a nuclear accident that releases significant radioactivity, which, at the end, is killing people and wildlife. The author writes that she began the novel at the time of the Three Mile Island nuclear accident in 1979.

PB - Leafgreen CY - Christchurch, New Zealand U5 -

ATL, Public, VUW

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Dog's Chance Y1 - 1991 A1 - Michael Haughney (b. 1963) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Surreal dystopia set in 2002 with lots of sex and violence.

PB - The Book Guild CY - Lewes, Sussex, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Dominant Style" Y1 - 1991 A1 - Sean [Christopher] McMullen (b. 1948) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Flawed utopia. Far future genetically engineered eutopia which has produced an unchanging, inflexible society because everyone’s position in life, including occupation, is genetically determined. Following the story is a footnote on 245 that concludes “Imagine a world where industry and population are balanced and sustainable, where war is a hazy memory, and where crime seldom amounts to more than petty theft. If the people were happy, healthy and free, would it matter that they lived under some constraints?

JF - Aurealis (Melbourne, VIC, Australia) VL - no. 4 SN - 1-875356-06-6 N1 -

Rpt. in his Call to the Edge (North Adelaide, SA, Australia: Aphelion, 1992), 225-45.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Downriver (Or, The Vessels of Wrath) A Narrative in Twelve Tales Y1 - 1991 A1 - Iain [MacGregor] Sinclair (b. 1943) KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

Dystopia of the East End of London being destroyed under the policies of Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013. Prime Minister 1979-90).

PB - Paladin CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Random House, 1992.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Empire of Green Y1 - 1991 A1 - Paul Cheo (b. 1919) KW - Chinese-American author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Detailed ecological eutopia that begins in the Garden of Eden and briefly follows Biblical history. A group of Christians called Saners decide to leave Europe in the 14th century to find a place where they will be able to live a life in tune with their beliefs. They create the Empire of Green, and over time, they choose to shrink their size and become green. High tech. All menial work shared among all. No money.

PB - Vantage Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Eye Witness Y1 - 1991 A1 - Caroline Macdonald (1948-97) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult dystopia set in 2046 in which boys from the time and the past confront an authoritarian government and people who have become “feral.” 

PB - Hodder & Stoughton CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Fallen Angels Y1 - 1991 A1 - Larry [Lawrence van Cott] Niven (b. 1938) A1 - Jerry [Eugene] Pournelle (1933-2017) A1 - Michael [Francis] Flynn (1947-2023) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Greens produce an anti-technological dystopia.

PB - Baen CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Victor Gollancz, 1993. An excerpt was published in Niven’s Playgrounds of the Mind (New York: Tor, 1991), 684-86. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Family Visit" Y1 - 1991 A1 - Margaret L. Carter ED - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) KW - Female author AB -

Free Amazon story.

JF - Renunciates Of Darkover PB - DAW Books CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Foreword: The Final Civil Rights Act” Y1 - 1991 A1 - Derrick [Albert] Bell [Jr.] (1930-2011) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

Congress passes an act under which “all employers, proprietors of public facilities, and owners and managers of dwelling places, homes and apartments could, on application to the federal government, obtain a license authorizing the holders, their managers, agents, and employees to exclude or separate persons on the basis of race and color” (47-48). See also, 1987, 1992, and 1998 Bell. 

JF - California Law Review VL - 79.3 N1 -

Rpt. as “The Racial Preference Licensing Act.” In his Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism (New York: Basic Books, 1992), 47-64, 204-06. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Generation of the Dark Heart Y1 - 1991 A1 - Sorel-Cameron, James KW - Male author AB -

Surreal dystopia created through the fantasies of one man. Extremely violent.

PB - Sinclair-Stevenson CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ghost of Chance Y1 - 1991 A1 - William S[eward] Burroughs (1914-97) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Complex short work that includes a suggestion of a eutopia based on Libertalia settlement possibly established by the pirate Captain Misson (ca 1660-ca 1690s) on Madagascar together with an authoritarian dystopia that fails to contain plagues unleashed by its own actions. 1981 Burroughs is also partially based on the pirate settlement.

PB - Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum of American Art CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. London: Serpent's Tail, 1995.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Gilda Stories. A Novel Y1 - 1991 A1 - Jewelle [Lydia] Gomez (b. 1948) KW - African American author KW - Female author KW - Native American author AB -

The novel is composed of separate stories set in different time periods beginning in Louisiana in 1850. The protagonist is a slave who becomes a vampire who is a lesbian, and most of the novel is set in places and periods (“Yerba Buena: 1890,” “Rosebud, Missouri: 1921,” “South End: 1955, “Off-Broadway: 1971,” and “Down by the Riverside: 1981”) that allow the author to explore the situation of African Americans, gay people, and other outsiders in that time and place. The last two stories (“Hampton Falls, New Hampshire: 2020” (219-31) and “Land on Enchantment: 2050” (233-52) are set in a future devastated by climate change and in which outsiders remain at risk. Her “Houston.” In her Don’t Explain. Short Fiction (Ithaca, NY: Firebrand Books, 1998), 148-60 is set between these two stories. The title is pronounced like the New York city street, not like the Texas city.  “Caramelle 1864.” Black From the Future: A Collection of Black Speculative Fiction. Ed. Stefanie Andrea Allen and Lauren Cherelle (Clayton, NC: BLF Press, 2019), 9-29 is set near the end of the Civil War. The most recent Gilda story, “Merida, Yucatan: 2060.” Baffling Magazine, no. 1 (October 2020) https://www.bafflingmag.com/issue-one/merida-yucatan-2060 begins at what had been the U.S. Mexico border before Trump’s policies had exacerbated climate change and destroyed and depopulated the area with Gilda moving toward the south where she plans to join others leaving the planet. Often compared to Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred (1979). 

PB - Firebrand Books CY - Ithaca, NY N1 -

[25th Anniversary ed.] San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 2016, with a “Foreword” by the author (xi-xii) and an “Afterword. Blood Relations: Gilda and the Stakes of Our Future” by Alexis Pauline Gumbs  (253-59). U. K. ed. London: Sheba Feminist Press, 1992. Parts previously published as “. . . Night.” The American Voice, no. 4 (Fall 1986): 42-46; “No Day Too Long.” Lesbian Fiction: An Anthology. Ed. Elly Bulkin (Watertown, MA: Persephone Press, 1981), 219-24; rpt. in Worlds Apart: An Anthology of Lesbian and Gay Science Fiction and Fantasy. Ed. Camilla DeCarin, Eric Garber, and Lyn Paleo (Boston, MA: Alyson Publications, 1986), 215-23. “Woman Who Loved the Moon.” The Village Voice Literary Supplement

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Halo Y1 - 1991 A1 - Tom [Daniel Thomas] Maddox (1945-2022) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopian cyberpunk set on a space station using Artificial Intelligence that puts a positive spin on the idea of people being uploaded into a machine intelligence.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Harmony Y1 - 1991 A1 - Marjorie Bradley Kellogg (b. 1945) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Two differing future societies on a polluted earth, one under domes and one exposed to the elements.

PB - Roc CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hatching Stones Y1 - 1991 A1 - Anna Wilson (b. 1954) KW - Female author KW - UK author KW - US author AB -

The availability of cloning produces a split between men and women.

PB - Onlywomen Press CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - He, She and It Y1 - 1991 A1 - Marge Piercy (b. 1936) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Complex future dystopia run by corporations with an embattled Jewish eutopia as the central focus. 

PB - Alfred A. Knopf CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. as Body of Glass. London: Michael Joseph, 1992. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Heirs of Columbus Y1 - 1991 A1 - Gerald [Robert] Vizenor (b. 1934) KW - Male author KW - Native American author AB -

Future Caribbean Island Indian eutopia using elements of past Indian cultures. See also 1978 and 2016 Vizenor.

PB - Wesleyan University Press Published by University Press of New England CY - Hanover, NH U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hellbound Train Y1 - 1991 A1 - [William] [Sanders] (1942-2017) KW - Male author KW - Native American author AB -

Sequel to 1990 [Sanders]. In this novel, some individuals collaborate to defeat a man set on killing all those opposing him. 

PB - Popular Library CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hermetech Y1 - 1991 A1 - Storm Constantine (1956-2021) KW - Female author KW - UK author AB -

Post-ecological catastrophe novel with fantasy elements. The world is presented as dystopian, but there are a number of communities presented which are creating various versions of better lives.

PB - Headline CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Honor of the Guild" Y1 - 1991 A1 - Joan Marie Verba (b. 1953) ED - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Free Amazon story. 

JF - Renunciates Of Darkover PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "How Utopia Works" Y1 - 1991 A1 - Barbara Gibbs (1912-93) A1 - Francis Golffing (1910-2012) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Part non-fiction eutopia, part analysis in two sections, "The Social Fabric" and "The Economic Function." Not in the earlier edition--Possibility; An Essay in Utopian Vision. Foreword. Introductory. The Oedipal Personality. Amherst, MA: The Green Knight Press, 1963 (HRC). Summarized in the statement ". . . our utopia is a non-regulated society in which people choose as freely as possible among the options which life affords them" (72). 

JF - Possibility: An Essay in Utopian Vision PB - Peter Lang CY - New York VL - Expanded ed. ER - TY - ABST T1 - "If Only Banshees Could See" Y1 - 1991 A1 - Janet R. Rhodes ED - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) KW - Female author AB -

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JF - Renunciates Of Darkover PB - DAW Books CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Illuminati Y1 - 1991 A1 - Larry Burkett KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which a secret society manages to gain control of the U.S. and, as a result, the world's finances. It establishes the Data-Net, through which it is able to target any group of people and interfere with their finances.

PB - Thomas Nelson CY - Nashville TN U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "I.M. Australia" Y1 - 1991 A1 - Jack Hibberd ED - Helen Daniel KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

In 2000 James Joyce and his wife visit a future dystopia in which a seriously polluted Australia has become dominated by Americans and Japanese.

JF - Millennium: Time-Pieces by Australian Writers PB - Penguin Books Australia CY - Ringwood, VIC, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Inquisitor Y1 - 1991 A1 - Jerome Gold (b. 1943) KW - Male author KW - US author PB - Black Heron Press CY - Seattle, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Invisible Country" Y1 - 1991 A1 - Paul J[ames] McAuley (b. 1955) ED - Lewis [Gordon] Shiner (b. 1950) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of an extreme division between the rich and the poor where gangs run the poor areas and violence is common. A biological agent that makes people caring is spread around the world and the dystopia is being replaced with a better society.

JF - When the Music's Over: A Benefit Anthology PB - Bantam Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in his The Invisible Country (London: Victor Gollancz, 1996), 13-34, with an "Afterword" on 35.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Island Civilization: A Vision For Planet Earth in the Year 2992" Y1 - 1991 A1 - Roderick Frazier Nash KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Environmental eutopia. The 1.5 billion humans will live in 500 "concentrated habitats which would incorporate "food and material production and energy generation." These habitats would hold about three million people each and could rise a mile above the earth or ocean and go a mile deep. The rest of the planet would be wilderness.

JF - Wild Earth VL - 1.4 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Jago Y1 - 1991 A1 - Kim [James] Newman (b. 1959) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Surrealistic dystopia with elements of a horror novel centered on a small religious community that is based on an actual English community, Agapemone (meaning the Abode of Love), established in England in the mid-nineteenth century whose last member died in the mid-twentieth century.

PB - Simon & Schuster CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Journey South" Y1 - 1991 A1 - [Sam] [Youd] (1922-2012) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Depopulated future and its problems and prophets. Appears to be eutopian but not from the viewpoint of the protagonist.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 44 U3 -

John Christopher [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Judson's Eden Y1 - 1991 A1 - [John] Keith Laumer (1925-93) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The creation of a eutopia and the attempts to destroy it.

PB - Baen CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Real New Yorker in the World” Y1 - 1991 A1 - James D. Macdonald (b. 1954) A1 - Debra Doyle (1952-2020) ED - Lawrence Watt-Evans (b. 1954) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The dystopia of New York City as a theme park. 

JF - Newer York: Stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy About the World’s Greatest City PB - Roc Books CY - New York SN - 9780451450456 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Lesson in the Foothills" Y1 - 1991 A1 - Lynne Armstrong-Jones KW - Female author AB -

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JF - Renunciates Of Darkover PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Let Me Call You Sweetheart” Y1 - 1991 A1 - Michael A[ustin] Stackpole (b. 1957) ED - Lawrence Watt-Evans (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on a future New York that has outlawed candy.

JF - Newer York: Stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy About the World’s Greatest City PB - Roc CY - New York SN - 9780451450456 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lunar Justice Y1 - 1991 A1 - Charles L[eonard] Harness (1915-2005) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia focusing on a corrupt legal system.

PB - Avon CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Madlands Y1 - 1991 A1 - K[evin] W[ayne] Jeter (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. A reality-challenged Los Angeles.

PB - St. Martin's Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mating Y1 - 1991 A1 - Norman Rush KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Search for a purported feminist utopia in Africa founded by a male scholar.

PB - Alfred A. Knopf CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Vintage International, [1992].

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Maze of Stars Y1 - 1991 A1 - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Tour of worlds seeded by humans showing their development. Most are dystopian; a few have eutopian elements.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mega Y1 - 1991 A1 - D. L. Holmes KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia with lesbian themes.

PB - Mother Courage Press CY - Racine, WI ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Mega Medicine" Y1 - 1991 A1 - B. Harrison KW - Australian author AB -

Humor on future technological medical care.

JF - Social Alternatives (Brisbane, QLD, Australia) VL - 10.3 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Midsummer Night's Gift" Y1 - 1991 A1 - [Deborah Jean] [Ross] (b. 1947) ED - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) KW - Female author AB -

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JF - Renunciates Of Darkover PB - DAW Books CY - New York U3 -

Deborah Wheeler [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mirage Y1 - 1991 A1 - Perry Brass KW - Male author AB -

Erotic novel that includes a gay male eutopia. His Circles.  Bronx , NY: Belhue Press, 1993 is a sequel.

PB - Belhue Press CY - Bronx, New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Misjudged Situations" Y1 - 1991 A1 - Kelly B. Jaggers KW - Female author AB -

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JF - Renunciates Of Darkover PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Moat" Y1 - 1991 A1 - Greg[ory Mark] Egan (b. 1961) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

The story concerns the possible emergence of a new, superior species of humans set in a future Australia with a worsening climate crisis that becomes an excuse for the country’s mistreatment of refugees. It ends with a worry about all current humans becoming the “other” to the new ones.

JF - Aurealis VL - no. 3 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Newton's Sleep." Y1 - 1991 A1 - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) ED - Lou Aronica ED - Amy Stout ED - Betsy Mitchell KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story begins in a very brief dystopia of a future North America with a destroyed environment and constant regional wars. The story then moves to a satellite that is supposed to be a eutopia based on reason, but anti-Semitism and the struggle for power undermine the eutopia while, at the end, imagination seems to be beginning to reshape even the physical layout.

JF - Full Spectrum PB - Doubleday CY - New York VL - 3 N1 -

Rpt. in her A Fisherman of the Inland Sea: Science Fiction Stories (New York: HarperPrism, 1994), 23-55. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Next Three Futures: Paradigms of Things to Come Y1 - 1991 A1 - W[alter] Warren Wagar (1932-2004) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Most of the book is about the study of the future and alternative scenarios that such a study can produce. The last chapter suggests that the actual future can be a world-wide eutopia.

PB - Greenwood Press CY - Westport, CT N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Adamantine Press, 1992.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Nice Place to Visit” Y1 - 1991 A1 - Warren Murphy (b. 1933) A1 - Molly Cochran ED - Lawrence Watt-Evans (b. 1954) KW - Female author KW - Male author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia. 

JF - Newer York: Stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy About the World’s Greatest City PB - Roc CY - New York SN - 9780451450456 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - No Such Country: A Book of Antipodean Hours Y1 - 1991 A1 - Gary [David] Crew (b. 1947) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Young adult authoritarian religious dystopia called New Canaan that is ruled by one man and the successful struggle against him.

PB - William Heinemann Australia CY - Port Melbourne, VIC, Australia N1 -

Rpt. Port Melbourne, VIC, VIC, Australia: Mammoth Australia, 1992.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Nothing Sacred Y1 - 1991 A1 - Elizabeth Ann Scarborough (b. 1947) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia with fantasy elements.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1992.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Omnicron Y1 - 1991 A1 - R. K. Hughes AB -

Dystopia--focus on attempts to control AIDS.

PB - Ashley Books CY - Fort Lauderdale, FL ER - TY - ABST T1 - "One World, Many Tribes" Y1 - 1991 A1 - Leslie Marmon Silko (b. 1948) KW - Female author KW - Native American author AB -

Describes the gathering of the tribes to reclaim the land and includes brief notes on how the world will be healed in the future. More suggestive than detailed.

JF - Almanac of the Dead PB - Simon & Schuster CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Planet Way Over Yonder Y1 - 1991 A1 - Stephen Ryan KW - Deaf author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An American Sign Language story set on a planet where the majority of inhabitants are deaf while a small minority is hearing. 

PB - Department of Communication, Gallaudet University. CY - Washington, DC VL - Volume 5 of ASL Storytime UR - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Qn-6AO48ec&list=PLa0CgD4r5VYhSr9XdWqT3DnAJbAZScZ8N&index=5 N1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pleasurehouse 13 Y1 - 1991 A1 - Agnetha Anders KW - Female author AB -

Erotica set in 2030 in a class-based dystopia. Revolt. See also 1992 Anders.

PB - Nexus CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Pogrom" Y1 - 1991 A1 - James Patrick Kelly (b. 1951) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of youth versus age told from the point-of-view of a well-off older woman who does not understand the antagonism of the young who live in dormitories. Said to be “a companion pieces to 1988 Kelly, “Home Front”.

JF - Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine VL - 15.1 (166) N1 -

Rpt. in Fires of the Past: Thirteen Contemporary Fantasies About Hometowns. Ed. Anne Devereaux Jordan (New York: St. Martins, Press, 1991), 81-99; and in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Ninth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1992), 422-35.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Prince" Y1 - 1991 A1 - John [Patrick] Shirley (b. 1954) ED - Lewis [Gordon] Shiner (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of corporate greed, environmental collapse and violence.

JF - When the Music's Over: A Benefit Anthology PB - Bantam Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in his The Exploded Heart (Asheville, NC: Eyeball Books, 1996), 197-223, with an author's note on 197.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Proper Escort" Y1 - 1991 A1 - Elisabeth Waters ED - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) KW - Female author AB -

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JF - Renunciates Of Darkover PB - DAW Book CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Reasonable World Y1 - 1991 A1 - Damon [Francis] Knight (1922-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Development of a peaceful world against the background of authoritarian governments. The third volume of a trilogy with the first two non-utopian; see CV. New York: Tor, 1985. Originally published in a shorter version in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (1984); and The Observers New York: Tor, 1988.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Remembering the Future" Y1 - 1991 A1 - John Hepworth ED - Helen Daniel KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Humor tracing changes between 1990 and 2015 with some presentation of a future eutopia in which racism and sexism have disappeared, environmental damage has ended, and religion has declined in power because the human race had become more ethical by following the beliefs of the Australian Aborigines, who are revealed as the earliest humans.

JF - Millennium: Time-Pieces by Australian Writers PB - Penguin Books Australia CY - Ringwood, VIC, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Russian Spring Y1 - 1991 A1 - Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A future with a revitalized Russia and Europe and a stagnating United States.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Sacred Fire." Y1 - 1991 A1 - George Zebrowski (b. 1945) ED - Harry [Max] Harrison (1925-2012) ED - Bruce [Hugh] McAllister (b. 1946) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

World built around nuclear terror as a method of peacekeeping.

JF - There Won't Be War PB - Tor CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Savior of Fire Y1 - 1991 A1 - Robert B. Boardman KW - Male author AB -

Eutopian planet in balance and harmony is discovered by Earth, whose representatives try to dominate it and extract its resources. Ultimately the planet remains free.

PB - Blue Note Books CY - Melbourne Beach, FL ER - TY - ABST T1 - "SEAQ and Destroy." Y1 - 1991 A1 - Charles [David George] Stross (b. 1964) ED - Harry [Max] Harrison (1925-2012) ED - Bruce [Hugh] McAllister (b. 1946) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Humorous satire of a capitalist Cold War with Russian corporations attacking stock markets in London with the U.S. under President Michael Jackson (1958-2009) cooperating with the Russia capitalists to take over Europe.

JF - There Won't Be War PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Serpent's Walk Y1 - 1991 A1 - Randolph D. Calverhall KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A successful revolution in 2049 by followers of Hitler. A fascist eutopia is created. The stress is on the war.

PB - National Vanguard Books CY - Hillsboro, WV ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Shut In" Y1 - 1991 A1 - Jean Lamb KW - Female author AB -

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JF - Renunciates Of Darkover PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Slow Burn in Alphabettown" Y1 - 1991 A1 - S[hariann] N. Lewitt (b. 1954) ED - Lawrence Watt-Evans (b. 1954) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a future New York deeply divided between the rich and poor and cut off from electricity supplies. New Jersey is burning. There is no trash collection in New York, but at the end the poor people organize to clean up their areas. 

JF - Newer York: Stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy About the World’s Greatest City PB - Roc CY - New York SN - 9780451450456 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - South Africa 1994-2004: A Popular History Y1 - 1991 A1 - [Deon] [Geldenhuys] KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

Future history of South Africa under Black rule. South Africa ends divided between an Afrikaans-dominated state and a Black-dominated state. The novel moves oddly between very sophisticated political analysis and rather simplistic depiction of racial divisions and infighting.

PB - Southern Book Publishers CY - Halfway House, South Africa U3 -

Tom Barnard [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Steps of Destiny Y1 - 1991 A1 - Mark Bement KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Technically advanced society and its search for an even better society while it faces a possible holocaust.

PB - Vantage Press CY - New York U1 -

Cover adds 1999

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Stranded Y1 - 1991 A1 - [Marian] [Grace] (b. 1941) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Novel with lesbian themes that briefly describes a eutopian hermaphroditic society on another planet and Earth as a dystopia. Struggle to free Earth from evil powers.

PB - Naiad Press CY - Tallahassee, FL U3 -

Camarin Grae [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Strife" Y1 - 1991 A1 - Chel Avery KW - Female author AB -

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JF - Renunciates Of Darkover PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Summer Fair" Y1 - 1991 A1 - Emily Alward KW - Female author AB -

Free Amazon story.

JF - Renunciates Of Darkover PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Sympathetic Undertaker and Other Dreams Y1 - 1991 A1 - Biyi Bandele-Thomas (b. 1967) KW - Male author KW - Nigerian author AB -

The novel can be characterized as an African dictator dystopia, similar to others of the time period, but it is more complex than most. Set in Nigeria, the novel follows two young brothers and a young woman (lover of both) as they try to make their way in the corrupt world of a near-future Nigeria. One of the brothers writes notes (bold face in the text) of his experiences and dreams. In one of these dreams (Chapter 23 [134-69]), he writes about Zowabia, a country that is a caricature of such dictatorships. There is a Glossary on 202. 

PB - Bellew CY - London SN - 9780947792916 9780435905927 9782461717 N1 -

Rpt. London: Heinemann, 1993. Nigerian ed. Ibadan, Nigeria: Spectrum Books, 1993. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Synners Y1 - 1991 A1 - Pat[ricia Oren Kearney] Cadigan (b. 1953) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Cyberpunk dystopia with computer viruses and designer drugs. Synners are human synthesizers who take images from people’s brains and package them for consumption by others. 

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: HarperCollins, 1991. Rpt. London: Grafton, 1991. Chap. 14 was also published in The South Atlantic Quarterly 92.4 (Fall 1993): 669-80.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "To Touch a Comyn" Y1 - 1991 A1 - Andrew Rey ED - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) KW - Male author AB -

Free Amazon story.

JF - Renunciates Of Darkover PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Tomb w/ View” Y1 - 1991 A1 - P[atricia] D[iana Joy Anne] Cacek (b. 1951) ED - Lawrence Watt-Evans (b. 1954) KW - Female author AB -

Environmental dystopia. 

JF - Newer York: Stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy About the World’s Greatest City PB - Roc CY - New York SN - 9780451450456 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Tunnel Vision” Y1 - 1991 A1 - Esther M[ona] Friesner (b. 1951) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A future violent New York City dystopia with live theater continuing in the disused tunnels.

JF - Newer York: Stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy About the World’s Greatest City PB - Roc CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Tunnel Vision” Y1 - 1991 A1 - Esther [Mona] Friesner (b. 1951) ED - Lawrence Watt-Evans (b. 1954) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A future violent New York City dystopia with live theater continuing in the disused tunnels. 

JF - Newer York: Stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy About the World’s Greatest City PB - Roc Books CY - New York SN - 9780451450456 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Under Old New York" Y1 - 1991 A1 - Neal [Patrick] Barrett Jr. (1929-2014) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a future U.S. of a collapsed economy, and extreme poverty with New York City an African American enclave cut off from the rest of the U.S. except for one bridge the only place with jobs available.

JF - Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine VL - 15.2 (167) N1 -

Rpt. in his Other Seasons: The Best of Neal Barrett, Jr. (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2012), 429-50.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Vampire State" Y1 - 1991 A1 - W. E Gutman AB -

Dystopia. Extrapolation of contemporary U.S. to a future in which homeless children are hunted and killed by the police.

JF - Omni VL - 14.2 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Varzil's Avengers" Y1 - 1991 A1 - Diann S. Partridge ED - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) KW - Female author AB -

Free Amazon story.

JF - Renunciates Of Darkover PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Vortex Y1 - 1991 A1 - Larry Bond A1 - [Patrick] [Larkin] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel is about political and military conflict in South Africa that result from negotiations to bring about the end of apartheid, with the focus on the military conflict, which involves nuclear weapons. 

PB - Warner Books CY - New York SN - 9780446515665 N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Macdonald, 1991. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Walden 1.9: Successive Approximations" Y1 - 1991 A1 - Mark A. Mattaini KW - Male author AB -

Stages to 1948 Skinner, Walden Two.

JF - Behavior and Social Issues VL - 1.2 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Walk Through Beirut" Y1 - 1991 A1 - John [Patrick] Shirley (b. 1954) ED - Lawrence Watt-Evans (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author JF - Newer York: Stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy About the World’s Greatest City PB - Roc Books CY - New York SN - 9780451450456 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Wetherweed” Y1 - 1991 A1 - Michael Bridge KW - Male author AB -

New Age eutopia. Villages. Unity with nature. Some of the rituals of daily life.

JF - Pillow Mountain: Notes On Inhabiting a Living Planet PB - Times Change Press CY - Ojai, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "When the Rose Is Dead." Y1 - 1991 A1 - David [Neil] Zindell (b. 1952) ED - Lou Aronica ED - Amy Stout ED - Betsy Mitchell KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia in a war setting. A character is said to be "suffering from an illness the doctors call 'Desire for Utopia'."

JF - Full Spectrum PB - Bantam Books CY - New York VL - 3 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Wicked Y1 - 1991 A1 - Andrea Arven AB -

Erotica for women set in A.D. 2075. Dystopian world divided by skilled and unskilled. Decaying cities with urban outlaws preying on the rich. Sequels include her Wild. London: Nexus Books, 1992. Repub. as Saskia Hope. Outlaw Fantasy. London: Black Lace, 1994; and The Reality Game. London: Nexus, 1992; and Wanton. London: Nexus, 1994. 

PB - Nexus CY - London N1 -

Repub. as Saskia Hope. Outlaw Lover. London: Black Lace, 1994.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Woman of the Iron People Y1 - 1991 A1 - Eleanor [Atwood] Arnason (b. 1942) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A complex, multi-layered regarding the interactions of people from a technological, socialist Earth and aliens from a simple society, with the action taking place on the alien’s planet. Good and bad elements of both peoples are described, and there is a particular emphasis on gender. The book won the first James Tiptree, Jr. Literary Award for science fiction or fantasy that expands or explores our understanding of gender. 

PB - Morrow CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. as A Woman of the Iron People. Part One. In the Light of Sigma Draconis. New York: Avonova/Avon Books, 1992; and A Woman of the Iron People. Part Two. Changing Women. New York: Avonova/Avon Books, 1992.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "1953": A version of Racine's "Andromaque" Y1 - 1990 A1 - Craig Raine (b. 1944) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Alternative history play set in a fascist Italy in 1953 in which Mussolini's son is king. The setting is certainly dystopian, but the play is a modern version of Racine.

PB - Faber & Faber CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - "5 Cigarettes and 2 Snakes" Y1 - 1990 A1 - Geoffrey [Peter] Maloney (b. 1956) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

A successful revolution against corporate control produces another authoritarian dystopia in the name of the revolution. This story together with 1992 Maloney "The Taxi Driver" and 1998 Maloney "Keep the Meter Running" are part of a single story regarding corruption in a future flawed utopia become dystopia. See also 1990 Maloney "The Age of Democracy and 1992 Maloney "Requiem for the General".

JF - Aurealis (Melbourne, VIC, Australia) VL - no. 1 N1 -

Rpt. in The Best of the Rest 1990: The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy from the Small Press. Ed. Stephen Pasechnick and Brian Youmans (Cambridge, MA: Edgewood Press, 1991), 67-77; and in his Tales from the Crypto-System (Canton, OH: Prime Books, 2003), 74.86. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Age of Democracy" Y1 - 1990 A1 - Geoffrey [Peter] Maloney (b. 1956) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia set in very near future in which everyone is spied on and manipulated to perform the tasks the bureaucracy wants. See also 1990 Maloney "5 Cigarettes and 2 Snakes"; 1992 Maloney (2); and 1998 Maloney.

JF - Eidolon: The Journal of Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy (Perth, WA, Australia) VL - no. 3 N1 -

Rpt. in his Tales from the Crypto-System (Canton, OH: Prime Books, 2003), 58-73.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Amendment Y1 - 1990 A1 - Sue Robinson KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia of anti-abortion forces in power.

PB - Birch Lane Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Axiomatic" Y1 - 1990 A1 - Greg[ory Mark] Egan (b. 1961) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a future where it is possible to buy a temporary implant that will change your personality. 

JF - Interzone VL - no. 41 SN - 978-1-59606-942-8 N1 -

Rpt. in The Best of Greg Egan (Burton, MI: Subterranean, 2019), 25-40. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Back From the Future: Reflections on trends of change in the late 20th and early 21st centuries” Y1 - 1990 A1 - [Susan] Furchgott KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A brief eutopia of the global village that is seen to have developed out of rock and the communal movement. 

JF - RockHEAD VL - 17.4 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Beyond the Fall of Night Y1 - 1990 A1 - Arthur C[harles] Clarke (1917-2008) A1 - Gregory [Albert] Benford (b. 1941) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 1953 Clarke, which is rpt. as the “Part I” (14-145). Part II (146-298), by Benford, is set far in the future where there are highly evolved beings, enhanced humans, and others at various stages of enhancement. Much of the story is about the reemergence of some who seek power over others and are willing to go to war to further their ambitions See the “Afterword” to 2004 Benford for the relationship among the three books.

PB - G. P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Bray House Y1 - 1990 A1 - Eilís Ní Dhuíbhne (b. 1954) KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

Post-catastrophe novel in which  Ireland  is described as having been an economic and ecological dystopia even before the catastrophe.

PB - Attic Press CY - Dublin, Ireland U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Buddha Nostril Bird” Y1 - 1990 A1 - John [Joseph Vincent] Kessel (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A satire on Allen Bloom (1930-1992) and his The Closing of the American Mind. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987 using characters from Plato’s Republic, except for the main charter Blume.

JF - Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine VL - 14.3 (154) SN - 978-1-64524-058-7 N1 -

Rpt. in his Pure Product. Stories (New York: TOR/Tom Doherty Associates, 1997), 31-54; and in his The Dark Ride: The Best Short Fiction of John Kessel (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2022), 317-338, with a note on the story on 573-574.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Chicago Red Y1 - 1990 A1 - R[ebecca] M. Meluch (b. 1956) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Future America as a dystopian monarchy. Stress on the revolution.

PB - Roc CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - City of Truth Y1 - 1990 A1 - James [Kenneth] Morrow (b. 1947) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire. Dystopia in which all people are electroshocked into having to tell the truth.

PB - Century/Legend CY - London SN - 0-7126-3693-5 031207672X N1 -

Rpt. in Nebula Awards 28: SFWA's Choices for the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year. Ed. James Morrow (New York: Harcourt Brace & Co., 1994), 228-317; and in Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction. Ed. Leigh Ronald Grossman (Rockville, MD: Wildside Press, 2011), 790-807 with an editor’s note on 790.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Contact and Commune Y1 - 1990 A1 - L[ester] Neil Smith [III] (1946-2021) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Alien contact with libertarian themes. 

PB - Popular Library CY - New York U5 -

Merril, NN

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Darcy's Utopia Y1 - 1990 A1 - Fay Weldon (1931-2023) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The novel includes the description of a utopian vision of a “the multiracial, unicultural, secular society” (17).

PB - Collins CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Flamingo, 1991.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Daz 4 Zoe Y1 - 1990 A1 - Robert [Edward] Swindells (b. 1939) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A young adult dystopia in the near future in which society is divided into the affluent and the poor. Two teenagers bridge the gap and leave to find a better life.

PB - Hamish Hamilton CY - London N1 -

Rpt. Edinburgh, Scot.: Pearson Education, 2000, with analysis and notes.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dead Morn Y1 - 1990 A1 - [Piers Anthony Dillingham] [Jacob] (b. 1934) A1 - Roberto Fuentes (b. 1934) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future repressive dystopia and time travel into the past.

PB - Tafford Publishing Co CY - Houston, TX U3 -

Piers Anthony [pseud. of Jacob]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Death of a Native Alien Y1 - 1990 A1 - Stephen W. DeBrew (b. 1956) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

Race relations in the United States in the twentieth century, depicted through the experiences of a Zirconian on the planet Terra where the Gringoa are Dominant.

PB - [Steladon Press] CY - [Upper Marlboro, MD] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Death of Hieronymus Bosch" Y1 - 1990 A1 - Lance Olsen (b. 1956) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set in a future U.S. of extreme poverty, violence, and corporate power that uses some of the imagery of Bosch's (1450-1516) paintings.

JF - Another Chicago Magazine VL - no. 22 N1 -

Rpt. in his Scherzi, I Believe: Short Fiction with collages by Andi Olsen. Wordcraft Speculative Writers Series (La Grande, OR: Wordcraft of Oregon, 1994), 91-97.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Difference Engine Y1 - 1990 A1 - William [Ford] Gibson (b. 1948) A1 - [Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Alternative history in which the computer age emerges in Britain in the nineteenth century, and, as a result, the British Empire is even stronger than it was in our history. There was no famine in Ireland and, therefore, no Irish Diaspora and no independent Ireland. The United States has fragmented. The 1993 video game Chaos Engine (United States as Soldiers of Fortune.

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London SN - 9780575047624 N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Bantam Books, 1991. 20th Anniversary ed. New York: Ballantine Books, 2011.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Doc and Fluff: The Distopian Tale of a Girl and Her Biker Y1 - 1990 A1 - Pat[rick] Califia[-Rice] (b. 1954) KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -

Lesbian dystopia that includes a description of a lesbian intentional community that could be considered a eutopia.

PB - Alyson Publications CY - Boston, MA N1 -

Rpt. Los Angeles, CA: Alyson Publications, 1996.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Double Helix Fall Y1 - 1990 A1 - Neil Ferguson (b. 1947) KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia after a large earthquake in San Francisco and the takeover of the U.S. by an organization that controls everything through computers. Rebels manipulate their own DNA in the struggle against the rulers.

PB - Abacus CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Dr. Pak's Preschool" Y1 - 1990 A1 - [Glen] David Brin (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set in Japan and South Korea in which the gender of a child is ensured and then education is provided for the fetus. The story is told by a mother who is unhappy with the process. Surprise ending.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 79.1 N1 -

Rpt. Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1992. Short Story Paperback #45; and in his Otherness (New York: Bantam Books, 1994), 30-65.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Earth Y1 - 1990 A1 - [Glen] David Brin (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a collapsed environment. One thread of the novel is set in New Zealand and uses Māori myth. In this thread a black hole is created to provide power, but the power plant is destroyed, and the black hole begins to absorb material the center of the Earth and cause earthquakes and other disasters. Another thread is a future where very little of the natural world remains, resulting in mass migration, and conflicts among the remaining nations.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Elephant Memories" Y1 - 1990 A1 - Ping Chong (b. 1946) KW - Asian-American author KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of environmental degradation and computer control of the population.

UR - https://www.pingchong.org/work/elephant-memories N1 -

Multi-media first presented at La Mama Experimental Theatre Club, La Mama Annex, New York in November 1990. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Elly" Y1 - 1990 A1 - Mary O'Brien (1926-1998) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Post-nuclear war genetic engineering dystopia in which few women are born, and heterosexuality has been declared obsolete and is discouraged (138). Intent is a completely rational society. The protagonist, Elly, is a LT (Last Error), so called because she was born with brown skin, and her reproductive organs had been removed. Her one friend, Bessie, was engineered for a low I.G., but no more like her were created because too many were cunning and “cunning was the antithesis of intelligence” (137). The goal is “Total-tech repro” (140).

JF - Issues in Reproductive and Genetic Engineering: Journal of International Feminist Analysis VL - 3.2 N1 -

Rpt. in Angels of Power and other reproductive creations. Ed. Susan Hawthorne and Renate Klein (West Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Spinifex Press, 1991), 150-58.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Embarrassment Box” Y1 - 1990 A1 - L[ester] Neil Smith [III] (1946-2021) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story takes place in a future where White House II, a replica, in Cody, Wyoming is presided over an incompetent, doddering man who inherited the presidency from his father and grandfather. In this future tobacco illegal but cannabis legal, and there are no wheeled vehicles. The development of “placers,” or instant transportation booths means the people are free to move from place to place and time to time as they choose, thus undermining any government authority. Part of the author’s long series of libertarian eutopias and dystopias.

JF - New Libertarian VL - 4.20 & 5.9&10 (no. 187) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Emperor of America Y1 - 1990 A1 - Richard [Thomas] Condon (1915-96) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia. Mostly satire.

PB - Simon and Schuster CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Extraordinary Reign of King Ludd: An Historical Tease Y1 - 1990 A1 - [Ernest Michael] Roy Lewis (1913-96) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satirical alternative history in which socialism won in the revolutions of 1848 followed, at the end of the novel, by a counter-revolution in the 1940s that establishes the rule of the market.

PB - The Patten Press CY - Penzance, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Fitting Suits” Y1 - 1990 A1 - Ben[jamin William] Bova (1932-2020) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Although problems exist due to lawyers, something of a eutopia created by replacing all civil servants with computers.

JF - Analog Science Fiction and Fact VL - 110.6 N1 -

Rpt. in The Best of Bova Volume 1 (New York: Baen Books, 2016), 77-81, with a note on the text on 77.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Forbidden Words of Margaret A” Y1 - 1990 A1 - L[inda] Timmel Duchamp (b. 1950) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia as seen through the eyes of a journalist reporting on a meeting with an imprisoned woman, whose words, under a law called as “The Limited Censorship for the Preservation of National Security Act,” it is illegal to report or to be heard or read by anyone.

JF - Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine VL - no. 8 N1 -

Rpt. in The Women Who Walk Through Fire. Ed. Susanna J. Sturgis (Freedom, CA: Crossing Press, 1990), 53-75; Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology. Ed. Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer (Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2015), 3-19; and Broad Knowledge: 35 Women Up to No Good. Ed. Joanne Merriam (Nashville , TN: Upper Rubber Boot Books, 2018), 333-50. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - From Evolution to Utopia Y1 - 1990 A1 - T[om] N[ewey] Ratcliffe KW - Male author AB -

Autobiography but includes a eutopia for 2100 to 2150 at the end. World government, circular cities, ecology.

PB - The Book Guild CY - Lewes, Sussex Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Furniture of Life’s Ambition” Y1 - 1990 A1 - Brian [Michael] Stableford (b. 1948) ED - David [S.] Garnett (b. 1947) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on a William Morris of the future who is bound to a company producing fact versions of food but then he establishes a firm to produce high-tech furniture.

JF - Zenith 2: The Best New British Science Fiction PB - Orbit CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Future Sex Y1 - 1990 A1 - Stephen A. Davis (b. 1946) A1 - Lyssa Royal KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The book is in the style of a self-help manual and explores sexual relations. It is accepting of multiple relationships. A section of the book includes channeled interviews with various aliens with a wide variety of different sexual practices, including virtual celibacy, but mostly with high levels of sexual activity.

PB - Royal Priest Research CY - [Phoenix, AZ] N1 -

Rev. ed. Phoenix, AZ: Personal Enhancement Press, 1991.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Future X. A Novel Y1 - 1990 A1 - Kent Smith KW - Male author AB -

The focus of the novel is time travel, with a man from the future trying to keep Malcolm X from being assassinated and taking him to the future, which is a violent dystopia similar to the worst of the present, where his leadership is needed.

PB - Holloway House Pub. Co CY - Los Angeles, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Game Y1 - 1990 A1 - Enid Richemont KW - Female author AB -

The Furies of Greek mythology give humans all their corrupted natures wish for, which produces an authoritarian dystopia. A group of children manage to defeat the system.

PB - Walker Books CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Gift Upon the Shore Y1 - 1990 A1 - [Martha Kay] [Renfroe] (1938-2016) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe novel that includes a dystopian religious intentional community as a focus.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York U3 -

M.K. Wren [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - God Is Love (Get It In Writing) Y1 - 1990 A1 - Jeremy Clarke KW - Male author AB -

Satire on religion as big business.

PB - Fourth Estate CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Heathern Y1 - 1990 A1 - Jack [Wylie] Womack [Jr.] (b. 1956) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A volume in his DryCo series. In this volume, the DryCo Corporation is trying to find a messiah that it can promote under its brand. For other volumes in the series, see his 1987 Ambient, 1988 Terraplane, 1993 Elvissey, 1993 Random Acts of Senseless Violence, and 2000 Going, Going, Gone. Although there are multiple alternative histories in the series, in timeline order, the volumes are 1993 Random Acts of Senseless Violence, 1990 Heathern, 1987 Ambient, 1988 Terraplane, 1993 Elivissey, and 2000 Going, Going, Gone.

PB - Tom Doherty Associates CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Unwin Hyman, 1990. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Heaven . . . The Last Frontier Y1 - 1990 A1 - Grant R[eid] Jeffrey (1948-2012) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

 Heaven as eutopia. Detailed description of both heaven and life after the Second Coming. The scientific truth of the Bible. See also 1998, 1999, and 2000 Jeffrey and Hunt.

PB - Frontier Research Publications CY - Toronto, ON, Canada N1 -

Rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1991. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hocus Pocus, Or What's the Hurry Son? Y1 - 1990 A1 - Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (1922-2007) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Early twenty-first century dystopia. The United States is essentially owned by Japanese corporations. This acts as the background to the novel.

PB - G. P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York N1 -

U. K. ed. London; Jonathan Cape, 1990. Rpt. without the subtitle New York: Berkley, 1991. Rpt. in Novels 1987-1997 Bluebeard Hocus Pocus Timequake. Ed. Sidney Offit (New York: The Library of America, 2016), 217-479, with a Note on the Text (727-28) and Notes (757-40). An excerpt was published as “Hocus Pocus.” Illus. Norman Catherine. Penthouse (September 1990): 92-94, 172-73, 192.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Hope Y1 - 1990 A1 - James [Matthew Henry] Lovegrove (b. 1965) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A dystopia develops on a ship that was intended to take people to a new life, but which is still traveling after five years.

PB - Macmillan CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Sceptre, 1991.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "I Still Call Australia Home" Y1 - 1990 A1 - George [Reginald] Turner (1916-97) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Returning spaceship discovers an Earth destroyed by their generation and regenerating into a religious matriarchy which rejects them. Presented as a troubled utopia that is clearly better than the past, which, from our perspective, would be the near-term future.

JF - Aurealis (Melbourne, VIC, Australia) VL - no. 1 N1 -

Rpt.in Metaworlds: Best Australian Science Fiction. Ed. Paul [A.] Collins (Ringwood, VIC, Australia: Penguin Books Australia, 1994), 197-218.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - I Was Robot (Utopia Now Possible) Y1 - 1990 A1 - Ernest Mann (1927-96) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Detailed libertarian eutopia reflecting on the author’s life and the current situation in the U.S. and proposing a “Priceless Economic System,” in which everything is free and freely exchanged. See also his Free I Got. Little Falls, MN: Little Free Press, 1993; and the single-sheet depiction of his eutopia, Portals to Paradise. Little Falls, MN: Little Free Press, nd with art by Carol Gatts. 

PB - Little Free Press CY - Cushing, MN U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Inertia" Y1 - 1990 A1 - Nancy [Anne Koningisor] Kress (b. 1948) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. People who have contracted a contagious disease are permanently interned in camps, where they develop a sustainable non-violent society while the world outside disintegrates into chaos, violence, and authoritarianism. The camps are presented as better because they are characterized by the willingness to get along, but they are not eutopian.

JF - Analog Science Fact and Fiction VL - 110.1& 2 N1 -

Rpt. in A Woman’s Liberation: A Choice of Futures By and About Women. Ed. Connie Willis and Sheila Williams (New York: Warner Books, 2001), 1-34; and Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2008), 207-28. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Inheritors” Y1 - 1990 A1 - [Elizabeth Rhoda Wintle] [Holden] (1943-2013) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

The story is set in a future Wales experiencing the effects of climate change and with a failed economy and a non-functioning government. The story focuses on a small community that has become successfully self-supporting with the help of an astral being from another planet. 

JF - Extinction is Forever PB - The Bodley Head CY - London U3 -

Louise Lawrence [pseud.]

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Inkblot Test" Y1 - 1990 A1 - Rosalind A. Warren ED - Susanna J. Sturgis KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia that uses rigged psychological testing to place people in occupations.

JF - The Women Who Walk Through Fire: Women's Fantasy and Science Fiction PB - The Crossing Press CY - Freedom, CA VL - 2 U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Instinct" Y1 - 1990 A1 - John Schneider KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Milwaukee has been sanitized and domed to be a refuge for the privileged.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Invitation to the Game Y1 - 1990 A1 - Monica [Mary] Hughes (1925-2003) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult dystopia of joblessness enlivened by a game in which a new life on a primitive planet is given as a prize. 

PB - Simon & Schuster Books for Children CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. as The Game. Previously published as Invitation to the Game. New York: Simon Pulse, 2010. U.K. ed. London: Methuen Children’s Books, 1991. Rpt. London: Mammoth, 1992. 

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Keepers of the Peace Y1 - 1990 A1 - Keith [N.] Brooke (b. 1966) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Much adventure but includes a dystopia of warring nations on a future Earth.

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Land Beyond Y1 - 1990 A1 - Gill[ian] Alderman (b. 1941) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Anthropological science fiction presenting a remnant of the people of the far north who are kept in city in the ice working for their captives. The arrival of the Democratic Travelling Circus brings ferment.

PB - HarperCollins CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Grafton, 1992.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Mackenna’s Patch” Y1 - 1990 A1 - [Elizabeth Rhoda Wintle] [Holden] (1943-2013) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

Dystopia with extreme rich versus poor divisions.

JF - Extinction is Forever PB - The Bodley Head CY - London U3 -

Louise Lawrence [pseud.]

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Many Lives Y1 - 1990 A1 - [Claud] Geoffrey [Rowden] Chavasse (1920-1995) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Mostly romance and political novel but set in a future New Zealand of racial harmony and good Asian relations that is dealing successfully with its environmental problems.

PB - Vantage Press CY - New York U5 -

ATL

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Matter of Survival" Y1 - 1990 A1 - Chris Beckett (b. 1955) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Separation of the sexes as dystopia.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 40 U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Memetic Drift” Y1 - 1990 A1 - Glenn Grant ED - David G. Hartwell ED - Glenn Grant KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a climate-change, authoritarian dystopia.

JF - Interzone PB - Tor CY - New York VL - no. 34 N1 -

Rpt. in Northern Stars. The Anthology of Canadian Science Fiction. Ed. David G. Hartwell and Glenn Grant (New York: Tor, 1994), 203-18; and in his Burning Days (Montréal, QC, Canada: Nanopress, 2011), 5-23. 

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Illus. Ian Miller.

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Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Modern Daughters and the Outlaw West Y1 - 1990 A1 - Melissa Kwasny (b. 1954) KW - Female author AB -

Lesbian eutopia.

PB - Spinsters Book Co CY - San Francisco, CA U5 -

DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Net Songs" Y1 - 1990 A1 - Elaine Bergstrom ED - Susanna J. Sturgis KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Right wing dystopia controlling human relationships through fear of disease.

JF - The Women Who Walk Through Fire: Women's Fantasy and Science Fiction PB - The Crossing Press CY - Freedom, CA VL - 2 U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "An Object Lesson" Y1 - 1990 A1 - Mercedes Lackey (b. 1950) ED - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) KW - Female author AB -

Free Amazon story. 

JF - Domains of Darkover PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "One-Way to Wap Wap Y1 - 1990 A1 - Neil Ferguson (b. 1947) KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Complex story with a background of the dystopian corporate control of politics.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 35 U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Orbitsville Judgement Y1 - 1990 A1 - Bob [Robert] Shaw (1931-96) KW - Male author KW - Northern Ireland author AB -

A continuation of his 1983 Orbitsville Departure which was a sequel to his 1974 "Orbitsville". In this volume, the artificial world is somehow moved in space, and the world becomes more eutopian. The author was born in Northern Ireland. 

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London U5 -

L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Others Y1 - 1990 A1 - Margaret Wander Bonanno (b. 1950) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

First volume of a trilogy describing relations between a technologically advanced, peaceful eutopian people, called the Others, and what appears to be normal, vicious humans, known as the People. The Others and the People cooperate by the end of the third volume but not before the Others are almost destroyed. The second volume, Otherwhere. New York: St. Martin’s, 1991 focuses on the conflicts between the Others and the People that resulted in the near elimination of the Others and internecine war among the People. In the third volume, Otherwise. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1993, the various conflicts are resolved. 

PB - St. Martin's CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Outnumbering the Dead Y1 - 1990 A1 - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia with near immortality and the problems for those who are mortal.

PB - Century CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. Illus. Steve Crisp. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1992. Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Tenth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1993), 519-82. Based on the U.S. publication, Dozois gives date of first publication as 1991.

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 Illus. Steve Crisp.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pacific Edge Y1 - 1990 A1 - Kim Stanley Robinson (b. 1952) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia with conflict between those trying to create an environmental eutopia and those hoping to increase development. While the former win in the specific situation, the overall issue is set to continue. Sequel to 1984, The Wild Shore and 1988 Robinson, The Gold Coast, which are reprinted in Three Californias. New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 2020, with an introduction “Triptych, with Softball” by Francis Spufford (7-12), The Wild Shore (13-292), The Gold Coast (293-653), and Pacific Edge (655-895). The three volumes have the same physical location, but the futures presented are different.

PB - Tor CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Tor/Tom Doherty Associates, 1991. U.K. ed. London: Unwin Hyman, 1991; and in Three Californias (New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 2020), 655-895, with an introduction “Triptych, with Softball” by Francis Spufford (7-12).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Past Magic” Y1 - 1990 A1 - Ian R[oderick] MacLeod (b. 1956) KW - Male author KW - Northern Ireland author AB -

Future dystopia set on the Isle of Man. The mainland of the U.K. has been devastated by climate change with severe floods and extreme violence. The Isle of Man is a haven for the extremely rich and has become a center for medical care with the dead brought back from samples of their DNA.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 39 N1 -

Rpt. in Snodgrass and Other Illusions: The Best Short Stories of Ian R. MacLeod. [New York]: Open Road Integrated Media. Includes an “Afterword” by the author.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Permacity Theory: Agapé-papatuanuku In Action" Y1 - 1990 A1 - Jonathan S. Port KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Depicts Sustainable Living Settlements in great detail. Based on transferring the concept of permaculture to the urban area. 

PB - Auckland, New Zealand CY - MPlanning Thesis. University of Auckand U5 -

AU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Personal Silence" Y1 - 1990 A1 - Molly Gloss (b. 1944) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future devastated by environmental damage and war and takes place in a mostly abandoned small town at the tip of the state of Washington. The protagonist’s campaign for peace involves walking across every country in the world and not speaking until he has finished.

JF - Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine VL - 14.1(152) SN - 978-1481498517 N1 -

Rpt. in her Unforeseen: Stories (New York: Saga Press/Simon & Schuster, 2019), 23-59. 

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Illus. A. C. Farley

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Picnic Days" Y1 - 1990 A1 - Cleo [Fellers] Kocol (1927-2016) ED - Susanna J. Sturgis KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia in which the right to drive is considered more important than the safety of pedestrians, and traffic accidents are considered a means of reducing the population. The point of view character is the mother of sixteen living in a two-room apartment.

JF - The Women Who Walk Through Fire: Women's Fantasy and Science Fiction PB - The Crossing Press CY - Freedom, CA VL - 2 U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Piecework" Y1 - 1990 A1 - [Glen] David Brin (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of genetic manipulation in which women are used to give birth to industrial products.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 33 N1 -

Rpt. Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991. Pulphouse Short Story Paperback #23; in The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories. Ed. Tom Shippey (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1992), 550-76; and in his Otherness (New York: Bantam Books, 1994), 225-258.

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MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Pill" Y1 - 1990 A1 - Jojo Bling ED - David [S.] Garnett (b. 1947) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

The story revolves round a drug that appears to be intended to produce a better life but doesn’t. 

JF - Zenith 2: The Best New British Science Fiction PB - Orbit CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pockets of Resistance Y1 - 1990 A1 - [William] [Sanders] (1942-2017) KW - Male author KW - Native American author AB -

Survivalist dystopia set in a future totalitarian U.S. See also 1991 [Sanders]. Native American Indian (Cherokee) author.

PB - Popular Library CY - New York U3 -

Will Sundown [pseud.]

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CU-Riv

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Public Eye: An Investigation Into the Disappearance of the World Y1 - 1990 A1 - Brian Fawcett (b. 1944) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

An experimental novel that on the top two-thirds of the page has a presentation of the dystopia of contemporary life projected slightly into the future with periodic boxes specifying ways of countering the dystopia. The bottom third of the page is a running commentary on the top two-thirds.

PB - Grove Weidenfeld CY - New York U5 -

PSt.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Queen of Angels Y1 - 1990 A1 - Greg[ory Dale] Bear (1951-2022) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel is a complex exploration of human self-awareness, the growing knowledge of how the mind works, artificial intelligence, the future of psychotherapy, and nanotechnology with both positive and negative elements. See also 1997 Bear.

PB - Warner Books CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Victor Gollancz, 1990. Rpt. London: VGSF, 1991 and London: Legend, 1991.

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L, MoS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Raising the Stones Y1 - 1990 A1 - Sheri [Shirley] S[tewart] Tepper (1929-2016) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Novel about two planets, one, Voorstad, is a religious dystopia with slaves and women veiled and hidden. Violent. The other, Hobbs Land, is a simple agricultural society. It, and the rest of the settled planets, are matrilineal. Much fantasy in that one focus of the novel is the death and rebirth of the old gods of Hobbs Land.

PB - Doubleday CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1991.

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Re: Generations" Y1 - 1990 A1 - Mike [Michael Dennis] McQuay (1949-95) ED - Lou Aronica ED - Shawna McCarthy ED - Amy Stout ED - Patrick LoBrutto KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which all television is designed to sell products, with both the television stations and the stores owned by the Company. But the system is beginning to fall apart, creating a different dystopia, with shortages of the goods being sold, people developing psychological problems, and mass suicides.

JF - Full Spectrum PB - Bantam Books CY - New York VL - 2 U5 -

MoU-St, Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Red Spider White Web Y1 - 1990 A1 - Misha [Nógha] (b. 1955) KW - Female author KW - Native American author AB -

Dystopia of extreme poverty.

PB - Morrigan Publications CY - Lancaster, Eng. N1 -

Rpt. La Grande, OR: Wordcraft of Oregon, 1999. An excerpt was published in Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction. Ed. Grace Dillon (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2012), 184-201 with an editor’s note on 184-86. Another excerpt was published in The Big Book of Science Fiction: The Ultimate Collection. Ed. Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (New York: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Vintage Books, 2016), 979-90 with an editors’ note on 977-78.

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Misha [pseud.]

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SFF

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Requiem Aeternam" Y1 - 1990 A1 - Richard [John] Bowker (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. When your money runs out after retirement, you are put to death.

JF - Aboriginal Science Fiction VL - 4.3 (21) U5 -

CU-Riv

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Rynosseros Y1 - 1990 A1 - Terry [Terence William] Dowling (b. 1947) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

A complex future Australia with both eutopian and dystopian elements. There is a deep division between the powerful descendants of the Aborigines who are able to tap into the Dreamtime and the Nationals, the descendants of the current non-Aboriginal population. Many of the stories take place in the desolate center of Australia. Much concern with artificial intelligence. The main protagonist of the series has an uncertain past but has won the right from the tribes to captain one of the sandships that travel the interior of Australia. See also 1992, 1993, 2007, and 2009 Dowling. An additional Rynosseros story that fits between Rynosseros and 1992 Dowling is “Marmordesse.” Omega Science Digest (January/February 1987): 47-61. Rpt. in The Complete Rynosseros: The Adventures of Tom Rynosseros. Volume I (Hornsea, Eng.: PS Publishing/Drugstore Indian Press, 2020), 219-52. See also “Songs from the Inland Sea: Writing the Tom Rynosseros Series.” The Complete Rynosseros: The Adventures of Tom Rynosseros. Volume III (Hornsea, Eng.: PS Publishing/Drugstore Indian Press, 2020), 1-124. The volume also contains Dowling’s “Dancing with Scheherazade: Some Reflections in a Djinni’s Glass” (125-40); originally published in Parabolas of Science Fiction. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2013. Ed. Brian Attebery and Veronica Hollinger (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2013), 24-35; Richard Scott, “The Adventures of Tom Ryosseros: One Reader’s View” (141-153); originally published online in October 2007; and an “Author’s Note” (155-56).

PB - Aphelion Publications CY - North Adelaide, SA, Australia N1 -

Rpt. [New York]: Guild America Books, 1993; Parramatta, NSW, Australia: MirrorDanse, 2003; Alexandria, NSW, Australia: Coeur de Lion Publishing, 2007; and in The Complete Rynosseros: The Adventures of Tom Rynosseros. Volume II (Hornsea, Eng.: PS Publishing/Drugstore Indian Press, 2020), 1-218. Parts were published separately as "What We Did to the Tyger." Omega Science Digest (Sydney, NSW, Australia), [no. 29] (January/February 1986): 76-80; "The Only Bird in Her Name." Aphelion (Adelaide, SA, Australia), no. 1 (Summer 1985/86): 22-33; "Time of the Star." Aphelion (Adelaide, SA, Australia), no. 3 (Winter 1986): 3-22; rpt. in Antique Futures: The Best of Terry Dowling (Nedlands, WA, Australia: mp Books, 1999), 369-404. "Mirage Diver" (163-89) was rpt. in The Best of the Rest 1990: The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy from the Small Press. Ed. Stephen Pasechnick and Brian Youmans (Cambridge, MA: Edgewood Press, 1991), 3-31; "The Robot Was Running Away from the Trees" and "Spinners" were rpt. in Antique Futures: The Best of Terry Dowling (Nedlands, WA, Australia: mp Books, 1999), 131-59 and 281-303; and they were rpt. in his Make Believe: A Terry Dowling Reader (Greenwood, WA, Australia: Ticonderoga Publications, 2009), 109-36 and 217-38.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sacred Fire Y1 - 1990 A1 - Isi Beller KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia focusing on an AIDS like disease and government controls imposed to deal with it. Described as a medical thriller.

PB - Robert Laffont CY - Paris N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Arcade, 1994.

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Trans. of Feu sacre. Paris: Robert Laffont, 1990.

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MoU-St, NN

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Salt Y1 - 1990 A1 - Gabrielle [Craig] Lord (b. 1946) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia set in Australia in 2075 after a Civil War. The environment collapses, and there is widespread social conflict. Sydney is a walled city with extreme poverty and warfare inside and almost complete destruction outside.

PB - McPhee, Gribble/Penguin Books Australia CY - Ringwood, VIC, Australia N1 -

Rpt. South Yarra, VIC, Australia: McPhee, Gribble, 1991.

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A, M, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Secret Matter Y1 - 1990 A1 - [Edwin Clark] Toby Johnson KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Aliens arrive at the beginning of a gay coming out story. The aliens are humans who did not experience the Fall and follow their God's commandment to mate man-to-man and woman-to-woman. This produces eutopia.

PB - Lavender Press CY - South Norwalk, CT N1 -

New ed. as Secret Matter: With an Afterword by Mark Jordan for this revised, expanded, and updated edition. Maple Shade, NJ: Lethe Press, 2005. An "Excerpt from Secret Matter" was published with a copyright of 2006 in Gaylaxicon Sampler 2006. Ed. Don Sakers (Linthicum, MD: Speed-of-C Productions, 2006), 51-62.

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DLC, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Smart Rats. A Novel Y1 - 1990 A1 - Thomas [Patton] Baird (b. 1923-90) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which the world can no longer carry its current population, and the government institutes what is intended to be, in effect, a program to kill one child from every two-child family. 

PB - Harper & Row CY - New York U5 -

MoK, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - State of Play Y1 - 1990 A1 - Doug[las John] Buckley (b. 1934) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Corporate dystopia. Sydney becomes an independent country called HarborCity. Conflict with the corporation that dominates both Australia and HarborCity.

PB - Albatross Books CY - Sutherland, NSW, Australia U5 -

A, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Stealing Time Y1 - 1990 A1 - Nicky Edwards KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia--great wealth versus great poverty. Lesbian themes.

PB - Onlywomen CY - London U5 -

L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Story of the Planet Candy Y1 - 1990 A1 - Robert Skaf KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Purported eutopia where no one needs to work, feel sad, or wear clothes, and disease, hunger, and poverty have been eliminated. The focus is on the flaws as seen from a conservative perspective. Canadian author born in Lebanon.

PB - Vantage Press CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Threads" Y1 - 1990 A1 - Barry Hines (1939-2016) ED - Michael Mangan KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia depicting in detail the effects of nuclear war on Sheffield, England. The television film with a running time of 112 minutes was first broadcast on BBC 2 on September 23, 1984, produced and directed by Mick Jackson. It was nominated for five BAFTA awards and won five of them.

JF - Threads and Other Sheffield Plays PB - Sheffield Academic Press CY - Sheffield, Eng. SN - 9781850751403 U5 -

UCB, CtY, MH, BL, NLS, LU, Bod

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Transform Node: Science Fiction Mystical Adventures Y1 - 1990 A1 - Ronn Parker KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

A collection of related stories with a stress on Extrasensory Perception (ESP) that allows better connections among people. A number of the stories, including the title story, are primarily concerned with mysticism, which will help the people create a future eutopia.  

PB - Vantage Press CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Two Tomorrow" Y1 - 1990 A1 - Steven Paulsen (b. 1955) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

A dystopia in 650 words that presents a world with very strict population controls. Only people of a certain status can have any children, only the highest status people can have two, and after a child reaches two years, only two generations are permissible, and the oldest must be terminated. 

JF - Eidolon: The Journal of Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy VL - no. 3 N1 -

Rpt. in his Shadows on the Wall: Weird Tales of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and the Supernatural (Melbourne, Vic, Australia: IWWG International, 2018), 21-22 with an “Afterword--Two Tomorrow” on 23. 

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Vignette" Y1 - 1990 A1 - Stephen Higgins KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia. Completely controlled life in a factory. 

JF - Aurealis (Melbourne, VIC, Australia) VL - no. 2 N1 -

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts Y1 - 1990 A1 - Louis De Bernières (b. 1954) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Consistently listed as a utopia (e.g., DLC lists it as a utopia under subject), but no actual fictional utopia is described. A potentially eutopian community begins to emerge at the end of the novel, but it is not developed in any detail. His Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord. London: Martin Secker and Warburg, 1991. Rpt. London: Vintage, 1998 and his The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman. London: Martin Secker and Warburg, 1992. Rpt. London: Vintage, 1998 include some more mention of the potentially eutopian community. The dystopian reality of recent South American history is depicted.

PB - Martin Secker & Warburg CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Vintage, 1998. U.S. ed. New York: William Morrow, 1990.

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DLC, Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - We Should Have Killed the King Y1 - 1990 A1 - J. G. Eccarius AB -

Replay of the fourteenth-century Jack Straw (one of the leaders of the 1381 peasant’s revolt) story in a dystopian modern America. It follows “one person’s personal development from a severely damaged product of capitalism, the nuclear family, patriarchy and religion, to being a relatively whole human being” (7).The novel concludes with the establishment of an anarchist eutopia community that is trying to get established (172-178).The last chapter is a projection into the future in which the anarchist communities survive as the world environment collapses (179-185).

PB - III Publishing CY - San Diego, CA U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - We, the Arcturians (A True Experience) Y1 - 1990 A1 - Norma J. Milanovich A1 - Betty Rice A1 - Cynthia Ploski KW - Female author AB -

New age eutopia.

PB - Athena CY - Albuquerque, NM U5 -

DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Winterlong Y1 - 1990 A1 - Elizabeth [Francis] Hand (b. 1957) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Fantasy with some dystopian elements. Loose sequels include her Aestival Tide. New York: Bantam Books, 1992; and Icarus Descending. New York: Bantam Books, 1993.

PB - Bantam CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Y Chromosome Y1 - 1990 A1 - Leona [Marie] Gom KW - Female author AB -

Feminist critical utopia. The few men left are hidden and treated as inferiors and taught that they are inferior.

PB - Second Story Press CY - Toronto, ON, Canada U5 -

Can, L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Zulus Y1 - 1990 A1 - Everett, Percival KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

Apocalyptic science fiction set after a nuclear war in which all but one 300-pound woman are no longer fertile.

PB - The Permanent Press CY - Sag Harbor, NY U5 -

MoU-KC, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "And the Truth Shall Set You Free" Y1 - 1989 A1 - Sharon Green (b. 1942) ED - Robert Adams ED - Pamela Crippen Adams KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A eutopia set seventy-five years in the future where the justice system has shifted from concern with treating the accused fairly to insisting on getting the truth. The mantra of the society is that everyone has free choice, and many social and technological means are in place to achieve this, but anyone who chooses to violate the society's standards is sterilized and the worst cases are sent to wilderness settlements with no outside support.

JF - Alternatives PB - Baen CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Angel Station Y1 - 1989 A1 - Walter Jon Williams (b. 1953) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Cyberpunk dystopia.

PB - Tor CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Armageddon Crazy Y1 - 1989 A1 - Mick [Michael Anthony] Farren (1943-2013) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Near future United States religious dystopia.

PB - del Rey CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Black Milk Y1 - 1989 A1 - Robert [David] Reed (b. 1956) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future high-tech eutopia.

PB - Donald I. Fine CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Body Mortgage Y1 - 1989 A1 - Richard [David George Patrick] Engling (b. 1952) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which people can mortgage their bodies.

PB - New American Library CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Bound for Glory" Y1 - 1989 A1 - Lucius [Taylor] Shepard (1943-2014) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia in a badlands in the middle of the U.S. Some fantasy.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 77.4 (461) ER - TY - ABST T1 - Buying Time Y1 - 1989 A1 - Joe [Joseph William] Haldeman (b. 1943) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian adventure novel in which  life can be extended for ten years multiple times at the cost of at least a million dollars each time. This produces a deeply divided social system with power held by those controlling the process. Some limited comparison to a better, libertarian society.

PB - William Morrow CY - New York SN - 978-0-688-07244-5 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Carpe Diem" Y1 - 1989 A1 - Eileen [Shirley Monk] Kernaghan (b. 1939) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Concern with health develops into a dystopia of involuntary euthanasia.

JF - On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic VL - 1.2 N1 -

Rpt. in Tesseracts3. Ed. Candas Jane Dorsey and Gerry Truscott (Victoria, BC, Canada: Porcépic Books, 1990), 197-206; in Northern Stars: The Anthology of Canadian Science Fiction. Ed. David G. Hartwell and Glenn Grant (New York: Tor, 1994), 275-81;  and in Aurora Awards: An Anthology of Prize-Winning Science Fiction & Fantasy [At the head of the title Award-Winning Canadian Fiction]. Ed. Edo van Belkom (Kingston, ON, Canada: Quarry Press, 1999), 18-25.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Cascade Empire Y1 - 1989 A1 - E[sther] M[arian] G[reenwell] Smith KW - Female author AB -

Attempt to create an eutopia by rebuilding after a catastrophe.

PB - Ashley Books CY - Port Washington, NY ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Catalyst Y1 - 1989 A1 - Penny [Jane] Hall (b. 1941) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Sequel to 1987 Hall in which the same group of children continue their struggle to survive and plan for a better future.

PB - Collins Publishers Australia CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Child Garden or A Low Comedy Y1 - 1989 A1 - Geoff[rey Charles] Ryman (b. 1951) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - UK author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia with fantasy elements. In a future sub-tropical London, people photosynthesize, and children are infected with viruses that produce social conformity. The novel focuses on a girl who is immune and follows her throughout her life.

PB - Unwin Hyman CY - London N1 -

An expansion of his “Love Sickness.” Interzone, nos. 20 - 21 (Summer – Autumn) 1987): 4-23, 36-55.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Children of the Thunder Y1 - 1989 A1 - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia with a low birthrate because most men are infertile, and the development of children with unusual talents who could lead to a solution.

PB - Ballantine CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Children of Time Y1 - 1989 A1 - Deborah [Stoddard] Moulton (b. 1952) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult novel of a computer controlled dystopia. Nuclear war is imminent.

PB - Dial CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Chimera" Y1 - 1989 A1 - [Margery (known as Marj) A.] [Krueger] (1941-2006) ED - George Zebrowski (b. 1945) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Future dystopia in which thirty percent have been sterilized in exchange for a higher income. Privacy very important and invasion of privacy laws strictly enforced. Eighty percent of the population lives in welfare ghettos. Various other themes.

JF - Synergy: New Science Fiction PB - Harcourt Brace Jovanovich CY - San Diego, CA VL - Number 4 U3 -

Jayge Carr [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The City, Not Long After Y1 - 1989 A1 - Pat[rice Anne] Murphy (b. 1955) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Magical realism set in a post-catastrophe San Francisco in which the survivors are creating a better world but are threatened by totalitarians who are planning to invade. 

PB - Doubleday & Co. CY - Garden City, New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Pan Fantasy, 1990. Part was originally published as “Art in the War Zone”. Universe 14. Ed. Terry Carr (New York: Doubleday & Co., 1984), 64-92.  

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Clicking Stones Y1 - 1989 A1 - Nancy Tyler Glenn KW - Female author AB -

Lesbian future tale. Fantasy with eutopian elements.

PB - Naiad Press CY - [Tallahassee, FL] ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Cronus" Y1 - 1989 A1 - Marianne Puxley KW - Female author KW - South African author KW - UK author AB -

Future dystopia where people are encouraged to live in communities that where everything about their lives is controlled.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 29 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dollarville Y1 - 1989 A1 - Pete Davies (b. 1959) KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

Satire. One theme is a near future right wing Christian dystopia.

PB - Random House CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Jonathan Cape, 1990. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Dream" Y1 - 1989 A1 - Julian [Patrick] Barnes (b. 1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

In the story a man wakes up in a new version of Heaven where everyone gets the Heaven they want. The Old Heaven was found to be out of date, and Hell had never existed but been invented as a useful rhetorical device. Now Hell exists only for those who want it to exist and is an obvious fake. Bored after a few centuries of getting just what he wants, the man decides to want to dream that he wakes up alive again and does.

JF - A History of the World in 10½ Chapters PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989), 279-307. Rpt. (New York: Vintage Books, 1990), 298-307.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dydeetown World Y1 - 1989 A1 - F[rancis] Paul Wilson (b. 1946) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Violent dystopia with very strict population control. People are generally illiterate. A volume in a series set in the so-called LaNague Federation; see his Healer (1976). Three non-utopian sequels are “Wheels Within Wheels.” Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact 88.1 (September 1971): 8-49; rev. as Wheels Within Wheels: A Novel of the LaNague Federation. New York: Doubleday, 1978; U.K. ed. London: Sidgewick and Jackson, 1980; rev. ed. Akron, OH: infrapress, 2005, with the addition of “Preface to Wheels Within Wheels (v-vii) and two stories: “Higher Centers” (187-99) [rev. from its original publication illus. Vincent Di Fate in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact 87.2 (April 1971): 149-60]; and “The Man With the Anteater” (201-11) [rev. from its original publication illus. Kelly Freas in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact 87.5 (July 1971): 57-66]; An Enemy of the State [cover adds the subtitle A Novel of the La Nague Federation]. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1980. Rpt. New York: Berkley, 1984; rev. ed. Akron, OH: infrapress, 2001, with a “Preface” (i-iii) and the addition of two stories: “Ratman” (281-98) [originally published illus. Vincent Di Fate in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact 87.6 (August 1971): 149-64]; and “Lipidleggin’” (299-307)[originally published in Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 2.4 (7) (May-June 1978): 137-45]; and The Tery. New York: Baen Books, 1990. The Complete LaNague (Kindle, 2013) contains all the material.

PB - Baen Books CY - New York N1 -

Parts were previously published as "Kids." New Destinies 7 (Spring 1989). Ed. Jim Baen (New York: Baen Books, 1989), 229-87; and "Dydeetown Girl." Far Frontiers 4 (Winter 1985). Ed. Jerry Pournelle [Eugene] and Jim Baen (New York: Baen Books, 1985), 9-69. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Edgewise Y1 - 1989 A1 - [Marian] [Grace] (b. 1941) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The novel is about the development of a lesbian religious community, Circle Edge, known locally as the Ladies’ Farm, and its success. The novel details the interactions of the main protagonist with the community and her struggle to decide what to do with a large fortune she has inherited, ends with a future report on the community, from Womenworld Magazine (November 1999), which, with the protagonist’s money, has gradually bought up a town in Colorado and transformed it into a eutopia. 

PB - Naiad Press CY - Tallahassee, FL U3 -

Camarin Grae [pseud.].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The End of This Day's Business Y1 - 1989 A1 - Katharine Penelope [Cade] Burdekin (1896-1963) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Feminist eutopia. Sex role reversal, but more complex than most. Women in power and intelligent; men are strong, immature, and kept uneducated because male violence in the twentieth century brought about the situation that required the women to take power. One woman decides to tell her son why this situation came about. 

PB - Feminist Press of the City University of New York CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The End-of-the-World Ball" Y1 - 1989 A1 - James E[dwin] Gunn (1923-2020) ED - George Zebrowski (b. 1945) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Various catastrophes bring about dystopia and the end of the world.

JF - Synergy: New Science Fiction PB - Harcourt Brace Jovanovich CY - San Diego, CA VL - Number 4 N1 -

Rpt. in his Millennium Blues ([New York]: e-reads, 1999), 165-83; rpt. Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 2001; and in Envisioning the Future: Science Fiction and the Next Millennium. Ed. Marleen S. Barr (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2003), 29-48 with an "Afterword" by the author (48).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Enigma Variations Y1 - 1989 A1 - John Maddox Roberts (b. 1947) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future dystopia after various environmental catastrophes. Corporate struggle for power.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "An Eye in Paradise" Y1 - 1989 A1 - John [Raymond] Brosnan (1947-2005) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

World divided between the extremely rich who can create their own eutopias and the poor who live in a polluted, overpopulated world with rampant inflation.

JF - Interzone (Brighton, Eng.) VL - no. 27 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Farewell Horizontal Y1 - 1989 A1 - K[evin] W[ayne] Jeter (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of conflict among tribes in a large construct rising from earth.

PB - St. Martin's Press CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Final Dream" Y1 - 1989 A1 - Daniel [David] Pearlman (1935-2013) ED - George Zebrowski (b. 1945) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Amoral dystopia in which dreams are broadcast to subscribers. The one whose dreams are broadcast and becomes other people's dreams becomes insane.

JF - Synergy: New Science Fiction PB - Harcourt Brace Jovanovich CY - San Diego, CA VL - Number 4 N1 -

Rpt. in his The Final Dream and Other Fictions (San Francisco, CA: Permeable Press, 1995), 221-68.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Folk of the Fringe Y1 - 1989 A1 - Orson Scott Card (b. 1951) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-nuclear war science fiction set in and around Deseret, the Mormon homeland in Utah, which provides a safe, almost eutopian, refuge from the devastation of the rest of the U.S. Others in the area, "the folk of the fringe", develop a more restrictive society, verging on the dystopian. 

PB - Phantasia CY - West Bloomfield, MI N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Century, 1990. Parts originally published as “The Fringe.” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 69.4 (413) (October 1985): 140-60; rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Third Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: Bluejay Books, 1986), 145-65 with an editor’s note on 144; “Salvage.” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 10.2 (101) (February 1986): 56-60, 62-75; rpt. in Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2008), 23-38; “America.” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction 11.1 (113) (January 1987): 22-26, 28-30, 32-34, 36-38, 40-42, 44-46, 48-50, 52-53; and “West.” Free Lancers. Ed. Elizabeth Mitchell (New York: Baen, 1987), 1-82. “Author’s Note: From Sycamore Hill” (218-38) was originally published as “On Sycamore Hill: A Personal View.” Science Fiction Review, no. 55 (Summer 1985): 6-11. Includes an “Afterword: The Folk of the Fringe” (230-43) by Michael R[obert] Collings (b. 1947). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Fourth Horseman Y1 - 1989 A1 - John A. Moller (b. 1943) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Mostly on a nuclear war in the South Pacific, but New Zealand is depicted as an authoritarian dystopia and a small group of teenage survivors temporarily create something like a utopian community.

PB - Moana Press CY - Tauranga, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Free Zone: Volume One of the Epic Unilogy Y1 - 1989 A1 - Charles Platt (b. 1945) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Complex, humorous eutopia and dystopia.

PB - Avon Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Gentle Warriors Y1 - 1989 A1 - Geoff Mains KW - Male author AB -

Very near future dystopia from a homosexual perspective. AIDS a deliberate creation of the CIA (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency).

PB - Knights Press CY - Stamford, CT ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Glimpses Y1 - 1989 A1 - Laurence [Frederick] Staig (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

A young adult dystopia in which a fascist political party gains power through violence. A second theme is genetic manipulation, which produces a group of super children.

PB - Macmillan Children's Books CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Good News From Outer Space Y1 - 1989 A1 - John [Joseph Vincent] Kessel (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Set in 1999 and centers on the belief in the approaching millennium. Dystopian background. Strong Christian fundamentalism.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Gorgon Child Y1 - 1989 A1 - Steven [Emory] Barnes (b. 1952) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

Sequel to 1983 Barnes. In this volume, the hero of the first volume has to fight against a religious dystopia. See also 1993 Barnes.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Green and Pleasant Land" Y1 - 1989 A1 - David Redd (b. 1946) KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

Authoritarian, ecological dystopia. See also 2001 Redd

JF - Interzone VL - no. 32 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Green-eyed Monstera" Y1 - 1989 A1 - Andrew Ferguson (b. 1963) KW - Male author AB -

Future story with advanced technology producing a society with dystopian elements.

JF - Interzone VL - no 29 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Hand-me-Down Town” Y1 - 1989 A1 - Maya Kaathryn Bonhhoff (b. 1954) KW - Female author AB -

Eutopia created by the homeless who were being ejected by a city. They resurrect a failed, half-built, and abandoned development using their own skills and donations from those opposed to their treatment. The eutopia created is a 1950s style small down, and at the end of the story other such towns are being created around the country. The story does not ignore the psychological problems and the alcoholism and drug abuse that frequently go with homelessness.

JF - Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact VL - 109.13 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Harmonogmia 'of an integrated nature'" Y1 - 1989 A1 - William Glover A1 - Hedde Gräfje A1 - Steven Rising A1 - Shingo Suekane A1 - Mark Wettstone ED - Catherine Briggs ED - Thomas Veith KW - Female author KW - Male author AB -

Descriptions and sketches for a eutopia produced for an urban design class.

JF - Cloverleaf in the Grid PB - College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Washington CY - Seattle ER - TY - ABST T1 - Heartland Y1 - 1989 A1 - Nancy [J.] Corbett (b. 1944) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

A post-catastrophe future in which men and women live separately and both have developed eutopian societies. Both are fairly simple societies; the women are strongly in touch with nature; the men are concerned with avoiding the mistakes of the past by passing on knowledge of the mistakes that brought about the catastrophe. The novel concerns the problems that develop when the system of artificial insemination begins to fail. Reconciliation.

PB - Black Swan CY - Moorebank, NSW, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hence Y1 - 1989 A1 - Brad [E.] Leithauser (b. 1953) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Near future tale with dystopian elements. Introduced from the perspective of further in the future.

PB - Alfred A. Knopf CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin, 1990.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - History of the Future: A Chronology Y1 - 1989 A1 - Peter Lorie A1 - Sidd Murray-Clark KW - Male author AB -

Presented as a projection but describes a clearly eutopian future over many centuries. Includes essays by Rupert Sheldrake.

PB - Doubleday & Co CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Human Shore" Y1 - 1989 A1 - Pamela Sargent (b. 1948) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A future society in which gender differentiation is unknown.

JF - Futures VL - 21.1 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - I Feel Like the Morning Star Y1 - 1989 A1 - Gregory Maguire (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult authoritarian dystopia located underground and designed to survive the wars above. Three teenagers lead people out to the surface, where there is no war.

PB - Harper & Row CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Idiot Played Rachmaninov Y1 - 1989 A1 - Michael Brown (b. 1948) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Political novel with fantasy elements set in the near future about a dispute between a local community and a repressive right-wing government over . Emphasis on the use of the military to put down resistance to government policy and on the resilience of people of the West Coast of New Zealand.

PB - Hodder & Stoughton CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "If You Go Down to the Park Today" Y1 - 1989 A1 - Rosaleen [Lucille] Love (b. 1940) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Satire on heaven.

JF - The Total Devotion Machine and Other Stories PB - The Women's Press CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - "In Blue" Y1 - 1989 A1 - John [Michael] Crowley (b. 1942) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Misfit in a conforming eutopia.

JF - Novelty PB - Doubleday CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in his Novelties & Souvenirs: Collected Short Fiction (New York: Perennial, 2004), 216-75. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - In the Blood Y1 - 1989 A1 - Lauren Wright Douglas (b. 1947) KW - Female author AB -

Near future post-catastrophe tale that is mostly an adventure story from a lesbian perspective. There is a eutopian lesbian community.

PB - Naiad Press CY - [Tallahassee, FL] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Infinity Hold Y1 - 1989 A1 - Barry B[rookes] Longyear (b. 1942) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel begins in a prison on Earth where all the most incorrigible prisoners, and since there it is not enough room, they are shipped off planet to, in essence, survive or die. It ends with the beginning of the imposition of law, end the abolition or murder. The first volume of a trilogy followed by Kill All the Lawyers (2010) and Keep the Law (2010), both of which are ebooks. The ebook Infinity Hold3.collects all three volumes.

PB - Popular Library/Warner Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Island Paradise Y1 - 1989 A1 - Kathy Page (b. 1958) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A future in which war has been averted, rigid controls on population growth have been put in place, and people are required to die on schedule.

PB - Methuen CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Minerva, 1990. The chapter entitled "The Lens" was originally published as "From Two Women in a Boat (Work in Progress)." Writing Women 4.3 ([1988?]): 8-22.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Itu's Sixth Winter Festival (Excerpts from Daughters of Gelasia)" Y1 - 1989 A1 - Shirley Hartwell ED - Susanna J. Sturgis KW - Female author AB -

Feminist eutopia describing a women-only community.

JF - Memories and Visions: Women's Fantasy & Science Fiction PB - The Crossing Press CY - Freedom, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Jane Saint and the Backlash: The Further Travails of Jane Saint" Y1 - 1989 A1 - Josephine [Mary Howard] Saxton (b. 1935) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Sequel to 1980 Saxton in which men are again dominant.

JF - The Consciousness Machine. Jane Saint and the Backlash: The Further Adventures of Jane Saint PB - The Women's Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - John Dollar. A Novel Y1 - 1989 A1 - Marianne Wiggins (b. 1947) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The novel has some resonances with 1954 Golding except with girls rather than boys, with the girls on an isolated after an earthquake destroys the boats they arrived on and kills the adults, except for one man who is badly injured and paralyzed. 

PB - Harper & Row CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Perennial Library, 1990. U.K. ed. London: Secker & Warburg, 1989. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Junta Y1 - 1989 A1 - June Drummond (1923-2011) KW - Female author KW - South African author AB -

Dystopian thriller. South Africa in the near future. Racial violence fomented by outside interests for their own purposes. 

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Justice Plan: The only way to ensure widespread, well-founded justice in any society. Justice Liberty Prosperity Y1 - 1989 A1 - Albert Archer Van Petten (1925-2005) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Complex proposal mostly in question and answer form for how to align the people’s wishes with government policy. See also 1959 and 1972 Van Petten. 

PB - Van Petten Co. CY - Escondido, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Key West, 2720 A.D Y1 - 1989 A1 - William K. Eakins (b. 1944) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which one main thread of the novel is a future world that has broken up into corporate-ruled city states, mostly brought about by climate change, and gay men are excluded and live in the wild. Key West, Florida, is an exception where gay men are welcomed and protected. Another thread is the struggles for power among the city-states in the U.S. And a third thread involves visitors from space who support Key West.

PB - Knights Press CY - Stamford, CT U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Largest Theme Park in the World Y1 - 1989 A1 - J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on European union. When the single currency is created all Europeans move to the Mediterranean resorts and refuse to return until non-Europeans start to move in to their abandoned properties.

JF - The Guardian N1 -

Rpt. in his War Fever (London: William Collins Sons, 1990), 73-80; and in his The Complete Short Stories (London: Flamingo, 2001), 1139-44. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last of the Green-Toed Fruit-Bats: A Fairy-Tale for Adults Y1 - 1989 A1 - Toni Jeffreys KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Part dystopia, part fantasy, part feminist eutopia. The story, written as if from 2019-20, is of an island in the eastern Pacific called New Balkland, which has an ecology and history similar to New Zealand. The novel is written from the point-of-view of one woman from her earliest years to her full development as a powerful witch. Her history parallels a series of environmental and political disasters that leads to the destruction of the world, except for New Balkland, which is saved by its women, with the help of the world's whales.

PB - Waiake Wordsmiths CY - Auckland, New Zealand U2 -

Illus. Oliver Calvert.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Long Habit of Living Y1 - 1989 A1 - Joe [Joseph William] Haldeman (b. 1943) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Problems of immortality.

PB - William Morrow CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: New English Library, 1989.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Long Run: A Tale of the Continuing Time Y1 - 1989 A1 - Daniel Keys Moran (b. 1962) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia. The middle volume in a trilogy. This volume is primarily adventure as the United Nations Peaceforce tries to eliminate the few remaining telepaths. See also 1988 and 1993 Moran.

PB - Bantam Spectra CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Love in a Colder Climate" Y1 - 1989 A1 - J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

As a result of the AIDS epidemic, sex is made compulsory as part of national service for virgins.

JF - Interview Magazine N1 -

Rpt. as “Love in a Cold Climate.” Observer Magazine (July 16, 1989): 36-37, 39, 40; as “Love in a Colder Climate.” In his War Fever (London: Collins, 1990): 65-72; and in The Complete Short Stories (London: Flamingo, 2001), 1124-38.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Men's Room" Y1 - 1989 A1 - Garry [Douglas] Kilworth (b. 1941) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Gender-role reversal story.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 29 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Mirror Maze Y1 - 1989 A1 - James P[atrick] Hogan (1941-2010) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia and struggle to create a eutopia of freedom. Irish author.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Monstrous Regiment Y1 - 1989 A1 - Storm Constantine (1956-2021) KW - Female author KW - UK author AB -

Complex future. Feminist eutopia established by women fleeing the patriarchal Earth  becomes a dystopia in which any relationship between a man and a woman is unacceptable under the descendants of those women. Continued in 1991 Constantine. 

PB - Orbit CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London Orbit, 1990 and London: Orbit, 1991.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Mothers of Maya Dip Y1 - 1989 A1 - Suniti [Manohar] Namjoshi (b. 1941) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Indian author AB -

Matriarchy with problems. Feminist humor.

PB - Women's Press CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Mr Smith's privatised penis" Y1 - 1989 A1 - Sue [Susan Lillian] Townsend (1946-2014) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The concluding chapter of an attack on the failure to fully implement the welfare state and the bureaucratic inefficiencies of what was put into place. A dystopia showing how privatization would be worse.

JF - Mr. Bevan's Dream PB - Chatto & Windus CY - London VL - Chatto Counterblast No. 9 U1 -

On cover Why Britain Needs Its Welfare State.

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NLS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - My Chocolate Redeemer Y1 - 1989 A1 - Christopher [David Tully] Hope (b. 1944) KW - Male author KW - South African author KW - UK author AB -

Dystopia set in France and an imaginary African country as seen through the eyes of a teenage girl. The African country is a fairly typical authoritarian dystopia.

PB - Heinemann CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Minerva, 1990; and London: Atlantic, 2010.

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CaTU, NLS, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Nightshade Y1 - 1989 A1 - Jack [Armand] Butler (b. 1944) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Cyberpunk dystopia.

PB - Atlantic Monthly Press CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Grafton, 1991.

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DLC, L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Nuclear War Diary Y1 - 1989 A1 - James E. Stanford Jr. ED - Frank Alexander KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The diary of a teenager for the first year after a nuclear war.

PB - Front Row Experience CY - Byron, CA SN - 0-915236-28-2 U2 -

Illus. by the author

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Our Town" Y1 - 1989 A1 - Peter Baltay A1 - Catherine Briggs A1 - Jeff Johansen A1 - Staffan Nordlund ED - Catherine Briggs ED - Thomas Veith KW - Female author KW - Male author AB -

Descriptions and sketches for a eutopia produced for an urban design class.

JF - Cloverleaf in the Grid PB - College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Washington CY - Seattle ER - TY - ABST T1 - Out On Blue Six Y1 - 1989 A1 - Ian [Neil] McDonald (b. 1960) KW - Male author KW - Northern Ireland author AB -

The attempt to achieve a perfect society creates a dystopia.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Outlander: Captivity Y1 - 1989 A1 - B. J. Salterberg KW - Female author AB -

Post-catastrophe novel with Amazonian warriors and domesticated males versus a society of male chauvinists. Both groups must change to survive. Female author.

PB - Harbinger House CY - Tucson, AZ U5 -

MoS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Outside Door" Y1 - 1989 A1 - Hopwood, Lyle KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a future collapse of civilization.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 28 U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Philosophers Y1 - 1989 A1 - Alex[ander] Comfort (1920-2000) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The dystopia that is contemporary Britain.

PB - Duckworth CY - London U5 -

NLS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Piñons" Y1 - 1989 A1 - [Stephen] [Kaufman] (b. 1947) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in the sense that, while there is advanced technology, the world's economy and environment have collapsed, cities are violent and full of the unemployed, and many have left for other planets. The dystopia is contrasted with the essentially good life of the protagonist, who lives in rural New Mexico, where the author lives, poor but embedded within a spread-out community of friends and neighbors.

JF - Tales of the Unanticipated VL - no. 6 UR - http://www.challengingdestiny.com/index.htm N1 -

Rpt. Challenging Destiny: New Fantasy and Science Fiction, no. 22 (April 2006): 75-94. Also at http://www.challengingdestiny.com/index.htm; and in his Counting Tadpoles (Hornsea, Eng.: PS Publishing, 2009), 193-205.

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Uncle River [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Prison Planet Y1 - 1989 A1 - William C[orey] Dietz (b. 1945) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian prison system.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Rain. Some Fish. No Elephants Y1 - 1989 A1 - Y York [pseud.] AB -

Dystopian satire set in a future where it has been raining for decades and the icecaps have melted inundating all coastal cities. Authoritarian government, and everyone has been genetically encoded to perform specific tasks. The play focus on one odd family and their trials and tribulations in trying to survive with much knowledge gone and then trying to escape.

PB - Broadway Play Publishing Inc CY - New York U3 -

Y York [pseud.]

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CtY

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Renegade" Y1 - 1989 A1 - Clay Caldwell KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Mostly an excuse for homosexual erotica.

JF - Inches N1 -

Rpt. in QSFx2: Queer Science Fiction. By Lars Eighner and Clay Caldwell (New York: Badboy, 1995), 67-75. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Salmpala" Y1 - 1989 A1 - John Barnes A1 - Richard Iredale A1 - William Martin A1 - Thomas Veith ED - Catherine Briggs ED - Thomas Veith KW - Male author AB -

Manifesto and sketches for a eutopia produced for an urban design class.

JF - Cloverleaf in the Grid PB - College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Washington CY - Seattle ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Scapeweed Goat Y1 - 1989 A1 - Frank Schaefer KW - Male author AB -

Dystopian religious cult set in the past.

PB - Poseidon Press CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1989. Rpt. Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin, 1991.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Short History of the Future Y1 - 1989 A1 - W[alter] Warren Wagar (1932-2004) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A future history divided into three parts. In the first, current major trends are followed to one logical conclusion. In the second, a eutopian socialist, world state is developed. In the third, a small, decentralized utopia is envisioned. See also the author’s 1971 Building the City of Man Future and 1991 The Next Three Futures.

PB - University of Chicago Press CY - Chicago, IL SN - 0226869016 0226869024 0226869032 N1 -

2nd ed. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1992, with a “Foreword to the Second Edition” (ix-x) indicating that substantial parts of three chapters had been rewritten, an “Afterword” by Immanuel Wallerstein (295-96), a genealogy of two families (298), and a chronology (299-305). xvi + 324 pp. 3rd ed. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1999, with the “Afterword” by Immanuel Wallerstein (295-96), the genealogy of two families (298), and the chronology (299-305). xviii + 324 pp.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Sisters" Y1 - 1989 A1 - Greg[ory Dale] Bear (1951-2022) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of genetic engineering. The point-of-view character is a teenager who was not engineered by her parents and is upset to be different, but those of her age group who had been engineered start dying from an engineering error.

JF - Tangents PB - Warner Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Popular Library, 1990), 199-238; Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1992. Short Story Paperback #43; and in Just Over the Horizon: The Complete Short Fiction of Greg Bear Volume One (New York: Open Media, 2016), 1-36.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Six Kinds of Darkness." Y1 - 1989 A1 - John [Patrick] Shirley (b. 1954) ED - Rudy [Rudolf von Bitter] Rucker (b. 1946) ED - Peter Lamborn Wilson ED - Robert Anton Wilson (1932-2007) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Violent dystopia.

JF - Semiotext[e] SF PB - Autonomedia CY - Brooklyn, NY U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Skreemer Y1 - 1989 A1 - Peter Milligan (b. 1961) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Graphic novel dystopia of gangsters and terrorists set thirty-eight years after the fall of New York City.

PB - DC Comics CY - New York N1 -

Originally published in six issues in 1989.

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Illus. Brett Ewins (1955-2015) and Steve Dillon (1962-2016). 

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DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Skyrider" Y1 - 1989 A1 - William [John] King (b. 1959) ED - David [S.] Garnett (b. 1947) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

The story is set in a future in which those called the “Workfree” life in enclaves on state pensions, where many succumb to a drug that can cause Parkinson’s. The story focuses on a man who has been rebuilt to meld with aircraft and whose only joy is flying joins the Workfree but is enticed into delivering the drugs. 

JF - Zenith: The Best in New British Science Fiction PB - Sphere CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Thirty Years of Rain. Ed. Elaine Gallagher, Cameron Johnston, and Neil Williamson (Glasgow, Scot.: Taverna Press, 2016), 21-34. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Spirit of Exmas Sideways" Y1 - 1989 A1 - L[ester] Neil Smith [III] (1946-2021) ED - Robert Adams ED - Pamela Crippen Adams KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Alternative history libertarian eutopia connected to his 1980 The Probability Broach. The U.S. Constitution was overturned and replaced with a reformed Articles of Confederation, which became the basis of the North American Confederacy in which everyone carries a weapon. Related novels include, in publication order, in addition to The Probability Broach, not all of which are utopian, the series includes The Venus Belt (1980); Their Majesties' Bucketeers. Illus. New York: Ballantine Books, 1981. 182 pp.; The Nagasaki Vector. New York: Ballantine Books, 1983. 242 pp., neither of which have much to do with the main themes in the series; Tom Paine Maru. New York: Ballantine. 273 pp. Rpt. rev. Rockville, MD: Phoenix Pick, 2009. 222 pp. [An author’s note says that the first edition was badly cut by the publisher and that this version reflects his original intent]; The Gallatin Divergence. New York: Ballantine, 1985. 223 pp.; Brightsuit MacBear. New York: Avon, 1988. 212 pp.; Taflak Lysandra. New York: Avon, 1988. 230 pp., in all three of which there are clashes between the Confederacy and the authoritarian Federalists; and The American Zone (2001) which is a sequel to The Probability Broach. In the chronology of the series, the volumes are The Probability Broach, The Nagasaki Vector, The American Zone, The Venus Belt, The Gallatin Divergence, Tom Paine Maru, Brightsuit MacBear, Taflak Lysandra, and Their Majesties' Bucketeers.

JF - Alternatives PB - Baen CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Star Wares: The Next Generation" Y1 - 1989 A1 - James A. Levin (Book) A1 - Linda Eisenstein (Music) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire. Struggle against the "Military Industrial Entertainment Complex" and the "Sludge Monsters" from Wango-Wango.

UR - http://my.en.com/~herone/SWTNG.html ER - TY - ABST T1 - Stark Y1 - 1989 A1 - Ben[jamin Charles] Elton (b. 1959) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Environmental dystopia set mostly in Australia. In a future of environmental collapse, the rich are shipping goods into space so that they can leave the Earth and the poor who cannot leave.

PB - Michael Joseph CY - London U5 -

L, O

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Strip-Runner" Y1 - 1989 A1 - Pamela Sargent (b. 1948) ED - Martin H[arry] Greenberg (1941-2011) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of an enclosed world and its limitations on a teenage girl.

JF - Foundation's Friends: Stories in Honor of Isaac Asimov PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Subterranean Gallery Y1 - 1989 A1 - Richard Paul Russo (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Near future dystopia set in a collapsing San Francisco.

PB - Tor CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Grafton, 1991.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Svaha Y1 - 1989 A1 - Charles [Henri Diederick Hoefsmit] de Lint (b. 1951) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

A high tech North American Indian eutopia that exists in enclaves completely cut off from a destroyed United States. The novel follows one Indian as he explores the white world and discovers that not all whites are evil. He decides to create a decent place to build a society in which Indians and whites can work together. Uses myths from a number of indigenous peoples. Svaha is said to be “Amerindian; the time between seeing the lightning and hearing the thunder; a waiting for promises to be fulfilled.”

PB - Ace Books CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Tales of the Lost Formicans" Y1 - 1989 A1 - Constance [S.] Congdon (b. 1944) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Satire on Middle America as seen by aliens.

JF - American Theatre N1 -

Rpt. in Plays from Actors Theatre of Louisville (New York: Broadway Publishing, 1989), 279-342; as Tales of the Lost Formicans. New York: Broadway Play Publishing, 1990; and as “Tales of the Lost Formicans.” In her Tales of the Lost Formicans and Other Plays (New York: Theatre Communications Group, 1994), 1-76. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Tangled Webs Y1 - 1989 A1 - Steve Mudd KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia. The protagonist thinks he lives in a law-based universe but discovers that he lives in a universe at war with itself.

PB - Popular Library CY - New York U5 -

Merril, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Terrible Threes Y1 - 1989 A1 - Ishmael [Scott] Reed (b. 1938) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

Sequel to 1982 Reed. Dystopian satire on U.S. politics emphasizing religion. See also his 2021 The Terrible Twos.

PB - Atheneum CY - New York U5 -

DLC, Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Third Force" Y1 - 1989 KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The future of the Kerista commune as a eutopia where it covers an complete San Francisco block with the area in the center brought together. Highly developed technology. Different intentional communities throughout California.

JF - RockHEAD VL - 17.2; 18.4 N1 -

Second part also published in The Node 6.1 (Spring 1991): 8-9, 20-21.

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MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Transfer Station Y1 - 1989 A1 - Russell Haley (1934-2016) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A connected series of short stories presenting an ecological dystopia. A part of the coast has been destroyed for the convenience of a refuse station, which pumps waste into the sea, which has killed all marine life, and the fumes from the station have killed most of the plant life in the area. France controls New Zealand, and New Zealanders are expected to speak French. Youth despair and the suicide rate is high.

PB - Nagare Press CY - Palmerston North N1 -

Rpt. with minor corrections in A Spider-Web Season & The Transfer Station: Two Story Sequences (Christchurch: Hazard Press, 2000), 126-86. Three of the stories were previously published--“Ash.” Landfall 167 42.3 (September 1988): 232-33; “Out on the Coast.” Metro 9.91 (January 1989): 106-07, 109; and “The Preacher.” Landfall 167 42.3 (September 1988): 228-32. 

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ATL, VUW

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Undermining the Central Line Y1 - 1989 A1 - Ruth Rendell (1930-2015) A1 - Colin Ward (1924-2010) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Male author AB -

The first chapter (1-8) is a decentralized eutopia set in 2051 emphasizing the revival of village life. The other chapters reinforce the eutopia by looking at various examples of successful decentralization with considerable discussion of the bad examples of centralism that currently exist.

PB - Chatto and Windus CY - London VL - Chatto CounterBlasts no. 7 SN - 0-7011-3598-0 U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Utopian Y1 - 1989 A1 - Michael Westlake (b. 1942) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Future tale of a new age, sexually free eutopia. The novel presents the eutopia through the point-of-view of someone living in the eutopia and the point-of-view of his psychotherapist, who sees the eutopia as a reflection of mental illness.

PB - Carcanet Press CY - Manchester, Eng. U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Wall Around Eden Y1 - 1989 A1 - Joan [Lyn] Slonczewski (b. 1956) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia. A small town is isolated by aliens from a nuclear holocaust and re-learns the skills of a simple life. The next generation begins to see this life as too limiting.

PB - Morrow CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Women's Press, 1989.

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L, Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "We See Things Differently." Y1 - 1989 A1 - [Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954) ED - Rudy [Rudolf von Bitter] Rucker (b. 1946) ED - Peter Lamborn Wilson ED - Robert Anton Wilson (1932-2007) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a collapsed U.S. and dominant Islamic Middle East, which, in the name of jihad, is killing individuals who might assist U.S. recovery.

JF - Semiotext[e] SF PB - Autonomedia CY - Brooklyn, NY N1 -

Rpt. in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991), 130-46 with an editor's note on 129; and in The Norton Book of Science Fiction: North American Science Fiction. Ed. Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin and Brian Attebery. Karen Joy Fowler, Consultant (New York: W.W. Norton, 1993), 762-79.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Weetzie Bat Y1 - 1989 A1 - Francesca Lia Block (b. 1962) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Weetzie Bat is the name of the main character, who creates a eutopian family around her comprised of two gay men, who father her child, a husband, his child by a witch, and various pets. Fantasy elements. Marketed as young adult. There are a number of other books in which Weetzie Bat plays a role or focus on characters from the original story, generally without the eutopian elements but with some fantasy. These include Witch Baby (New York: HarperCollins, 1991), Cherokee Bat and The Goat Guys (New York: HarperCollins, 1992), Missing Angel Juan (New York: HarperCollins, 1993), Baby Be-bop (New York: HarperCollins, 1995), and Necklace of Kisses. A Novel (New York: HarperCollins, 2005). 

PB - HarperCollins Children's Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Dangerous Angels: The Weetzie Bat Books (New York: HarperCollins, 1998), 1-70, which also includes Witch Baby (71-154), Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys (155-252), Missing Angel Juan (253-373), and Baby Be-Bop (375-478).

ER - TY - ABST T1 - WHOM Y1 - 1989 A1 - Matthew Francis (b. 1956) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

WHOM is the gigantic computer system that dominates and completely controls the activities of the White House. Surreal dystopia.

PB - Bloomsbury CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Why Weeps the Brogan? Y1 - 1989 A1 - Hugh Scott KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Dystopia of children surviving in the British Museum after a nuclear war. Published as a children's book.

PB - Walker Books CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - Winter Vision Y1 - 1989 A1 - Geoff Page (b. 1940) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia set in the late 1990s. The novel is primarily concerned with the difficulties of a middle-aged schoolteacher, who gets caught up in the machinations of various people who use government policy for their own ends. He becomes involved with protests against nuclear brinksmanship and the novel ends with nuclear war.

PB - University of Queensland Press CY - St. Lucia, Australia U5 -

A, VUW

ER - TY - ABST T1 - 1998 Y1 - 1988 A1 - Richard Turner A1 - William Osborne (b. 1960) KW - Male author AB -

Humor. Future focusing on instant stardom for cash. Based on a radio series.

PB - Sphere CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - 1999: Customised for the Digital - Audio Age Y1 - 1988 A1 - Michael J[ohn] Weller KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. History is traced from 1988, which is presented in dystopian terms, to 1999. The youth culture begins to create a new consciousness which leads to political changes with the Labour Party ultimately becoming the Democratic Socialist Party with policies that encourage local democracy and environmental improment.

PB - ITMA CY - London U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Abandonati Y1 - 1988 A1 - Garry [Douglas] Kilworth (b. 1941) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Near future tale of cities given over to the homeless.

PB - Unwin Hyman CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Ado" Y1 - 1988 A1 - Connie [Constance Elaine Trimmer] Willis (b. 1945) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of political correctness and religious oversight gone seriously wrong in a university.

JF - Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine VL - 12.1 (126) N1 -

Rpt. in her Impossible Things. New York: Bantam Books, 1993; rpt. (New York: Bantam Books, 1994), 115-24.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Adventures of Mr. Snozzlefozzle and the Golden Planet Y1 - 1988 A1 - W[illiam] E. Drake KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A planet, the Golden Planet with a parallel history to that of Earth, destroys its entire population in a war, but a far-sighted scientist has saved sperm and eggs and is able to repopulate the planet. In its new life, the population creates a eutopia based on education and a sense of community.

PB - Author CY - Austin, TX U5 -

MoU-C, TxU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Alternities Y1 - 1988 A1 - [Michael Paul] [McDowell] (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Alternate universes that can be reached from Earth are used by the powerful of Earth to play out their fantasies of even greater power, although one man sees them as a chance to start over.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York U3 -

Michael P. Kube-McDowell [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Anti Body Positive Y1 - 1988 A1 - Mike Johnson (b. 1947) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

A complex, humorous novel satirizing science fiction while presenting an authoritarian dystopia that includes elements of science fiction and refers to specific science fiction texts. 

PB - Hard Echo Press CY - Onehunga, Auckland, New Zealand N1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Atlantis: Centre international culturel, scientifique, politique et économique a Tenerife Islas Canarias/International Centre for Culture, the Sciences, Politics and Economics at Tenerife Islas Canarias Y1 - 1988 A1 - Léon Krier (b. 1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Architectural eutopia which includes designs and commentary plus essays by Maurice Culot, "Une ile/An Island" (5-14); Demetri Porphyrios, "The Meaning of Atlantis et sa signification" (15-16, 20-22); and Frank Werner, "Atlantis une nouvelle culture en gestation/Atlantis a new Urban Culture in Gestation" (87-90, 91).

PB - Archives d'Architecture Moderne CY - Bruxelles, Belgium U5 -

VUW

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Ayemu's Children" Y1 - 1988 A1 - Vivienne Louise KW - Female author AB -

Fantasy story with elements of a lesbian eutopia.

JF - Sinister Wisdom VL - no. 34 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Backward, Turn Backward." Y1 - 1988 A1 - [Alice Bradley] [Sheldon] (1915-87) ED - George Zebrowski (b. 1945) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Love story with a background of a future dystopia--a deeply divided society with the middle class and above living in enclaves.

JF - Synergy: New Science Fiction PB - Harcourt Brace Jovanovich CY - San Diego, CA VL - Number 2 N1 -

Rpt. in her Crown of Stars (New York: Tor, 1988), 208-70. 

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James Tiptree Jr. [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Barking Dogs Y1 - 1988 A1 - Terence M[ichael] Green (b. 1947) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of violence in near future Toronto. His Blue Limbo. New York: Tor, 1997 is a sequel. 

PB - St. Martin's Press CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Being Y1 - 1988 A1 - Michael Redfinn KW - Male author AB -

Apocalyptic novel set in the days before Armageddon (See Revelation 16). Presents world utopia as inspired by the Devil.

PB - Leisure Books CY - New York U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Between the Stars Y1 - 1988 A1 - [Yoji] [Kondo] (1933-2017) A1 - John Maddox Roberts (b. 1947) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 1987 [Kondo] and Roberts. In this volume, the discovery of alien artifacts that provide a major source of power are used to free the solar system from the repressive regimes that have developed there,

PB - Baen CY - New York U3 -

Eric Kotani [pseud. of Kondo]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Bulldozer Rising Y1 - 1988 A1 - [Anna Livia Julian] [Brawn] (b. 1955) KW - Female author KW - Irish author KW - UK author AB -

Future authoritarian dystopia where it is difficult and rare to live past forty-one (“the optimum death date” [15]); for example, curbs are two feet high to make wheelchair use impossible. The one positive element in the novel is found in the connections among lesbians, including some with older women.

PB - Onlywomen Press CY - London U3 -

Anna Livia [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Busman's Holiday" Y1 - 1988 A1 - Louise Turner ED - Duncan Lunan KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

Future feudal, depopulated Glasgow in which owners of the bus systems have become the ruling lords.

JF - The Glasgow Herald Weekender N1 -

Rpt. in Starfield: The Anthology of Science Fiction by Scottish Writers. Ed. Duncan Lunan (Kirkwall, Orkney: The Orkney Press, 1989), 89-96. Collection rpt. Edinburgh, Scot.: New Curiosity Shop, 2018. 

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InU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Carmen Dog Y1 - 1988 A1 - [Agnes] Carol[lyn] [Fries] Emshwiller (1921-2019) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Surrealistic. Women turning into animals and animals into women.

PB - Women's Press CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. San Francisco, CA: Mercury House, 1990.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Catspaw Y1 - 1988 A1 - Joan [Carol] D[ennison] Vinge (b. 1948) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Cyberpunk dystopia.

PB - Warner Books CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Cityscape Y1 - 1988 A1 - Frances Thomas (b. 1943) KW - Female author KW - Welsh author AB -

A young adult authoritarian dystopia where reading is prohibited.

PB - Heinemann CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Company Man Y1 - 1988 A1 - Joe Clifford Faust (b. 1957) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future world run by huge corporations.

PB - del Rey CY - New York U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dance of the Warriors Y1 - 1988 A1 - Kevin Esser (b. 1953) KW - Male author AB -

Story of man-boy love and sexual relations set in a future dystopia.

PB - Acolyte Press CY - Amsterdam, The Netherlands U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Death and Morning" Y1 - 1988 A1 - Candas Jane Dorsey (b. 1952) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Fantastic dystopia in which a person is re-shaped for the purpose of political assassination.

JF - Machine Sex. . . and Other Stories PB - Porcépic Books CY - Victoria, BC, Canada N1 -

Book rpt. as Machine Sex and Other Stories (London: Women's Press, 1990), 17-26.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dreams of Flesh & Sand Y1 - 1988 A1 - W[illiam] T[homas] Quick (b. 1946) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Mostly a technological adventure story, but as background the world is totally dominated by private corporations. 1989 Quick Dreams of Gods and Men. New York: New American Library, 1989, in which an artificial intelligence is taking over all the corporations and 1990 Quick, Singularities. New York: ROC, 1990, are sequels.

PB - New American Library CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Emerald Eyes Y1 - 1988 A1 - Daniel Keys Moran (b. 1962) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An attempt to genetically engineer super soldiers goes wrong and creates a telepath instead. More were created designed to be completely obedient soldiers, but they thought otherwise. See also 1989 and 1993 Moran

PB - Bantam Spectra CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Empire of the Senseless Y1 - 1988 A1 - Kathy [Karen Lehmann] Acker (1948-97) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set in vaguely described future with a number of loosely connected themes such as Algerian terrorists taking over Paris. Much sex and violence.

PB - Grove Press CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Picador, 1988.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Energy Island" Y1 - 1988 A1 - G[arvin] R[obert] Gilbert (b. 1917) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. In order to create the fuels necessary for the country, the government decides that much of the South Island of New Zealand should be used for the production of ethanol and methanol from beets and trees. It authorizes the South Island Office (SIO) of the Department of Internal Affairs to undertake the project, and it quickly effectively establishes itself as the ruler of the South Island, which becomes an authoritarian dystopia with all aspects of life controlled. A resistance movement develops, first bombing electricity pylons and ultimately setting off a small nuclear bomb in central Christchurch. The SIO is disbanded and initially leaderless self-help groups spring up, order is quickly restored throughout the South Island, and the self-help groups become small cooperative communities. A new religious community in the mountains begins to raid the plains and a war breaks out. The religious community wins the war and establishes control over much of the South Island. See the note at 1952 Gilbert.

PB - G. R. Gilbert Papers, Macmillan Brown Library, University of Canterbury. MB 957, Boxes 8-9, items 33-59. N1 -

Parts were published; see 1985, 1986, and 1992 Gilbert, Acts of Terror and Delight; and there is a privately published version of the first 628 pages, ending in mid-sentence. Energy Island. Lincoln, New Zealand: Clear Light & Self Revelation Institute, 1988, which says "This edition is not for sale. Privately printed and produced it is limited to five copies autographed by the author." G.R. Gilbert Papers, Macmillan Brown Library, University of Canterbury. MB 957, Box 5, item 16, and there are other manuscripts of parts of the text--Box 3, item 7; Box 4, item 10; and Box 6, item 17.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Entangled World Y1 - 1988 A1 - H[erb] Deesen KW - Male author AB -

Poem on the founding and foundering of a commune.

PB - Book Services Partnership CY - Brighton, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Face Lift Y1 - 1988 A1 - Susan Beetlestone KW - Female author KW - UK author AB -

Future dystopia. People wear masks.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Fire on the Mountain Y1 - 1988 A1 - Terry [Ballantine] Bisson (1942-2024) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

According to Bisson, the basis of the novel is thinking about what would happen if the abolitionist John Brown (1800-59) had been successful, with most of the novel on the history of the successful revolt and its effects. There is a prosperous, independent black state, Nova Africa, in the U.S. South and the North, now the United Socialist States of America or U.S.S.A., is also becoming prosperous. For John Brown’s own eutopia, see 1858 Brown.

PB - Arbor House CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2009 with an "Introduction" by Mumia Abu-Jamal (b. Wesley Cook in 1954) from Death Row, where he has been since 1995. An excerpt from the 2009 ed. was published in Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements. Ed. Walidah Imarisha and adrienne maree brown (Oakland, CA: AK Press and the Institute for Anarchist Studies, 2015), 225-38. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The First Battle of Morn Y1 - 1988 A1 - Deborah [Stoddard] Moulton (b. 1952) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult novel depicting an authoritarian dystopia and the successful struggle against it led by a boy.

PB - Dial Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Flies of a Summer Y1 - 1988 A1 - Peter [Raymond] Kocan (b. 1947) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

A cruel dystopia that has developed after some unnamed catastrophe. The two groups, who are presented as if they were two species, are violent warriors and their slaves. The slaves, who are the focus of the novel, are kept in small villages under the control of local groups of warriors. The village presented is a "breeding" village of teenagers who are raised until they are old enough to have children, and, once the girls give birth, sent off to work elsewhere. The novel ends with a revolt and escape.

PB - Angus & Robertson CY - North Ryde, NSW, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "From Homogenous to Honey." Y1 - 1988 A1 - Neil [Richard] Gaiman (b. 1960) ED - Alan Moore KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Graphic story depicting the destruction of difference, particularly differences in sexual preference, and the creation of sameness, with all people alike.

JF - AARGH (Artists Against Rampant Government Homophobia) PB - Mad Love CY - Northhampton, Eng. N1 -

Rpt. in The Future Is Queer. Ed. Richard Labonté and Lawrence Schimel (Vancouver, BC, Canada: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2006), 112-15; and in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 107-11.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Gate to Women's Country Y1 - 1988 A1 - Sheri [Shirley] S[tewart] Tepper (1929-2016) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe world divided into a women’s and men’s communities in which the women try to keep alive the best of the post-catastrophe world and the men are warriors. There is a mixed carnival once a year, and boys stay with their mothers until five, when they join their fathers, visiting their mothers twice a year. At fifteen the boys choose to be warriors or live with their mothers with some having been rejected by their fathers. The novel begins with two ceremonies, the first on a boy’s fifteen birthday and the second at a boy’s fifth birthday, both reflecting the pain experienced by the mothers. In fact, the women have been using birth control and selecting the men who father children to try to breed out male violence. There are a number of subplots that make it a quite complicated novel.

PB - Foundation Books/Doubleday/Bantam Doubleday Dell CY - New York SN - 0-385-24709-5 N1 -

Rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1989

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The General's President Y1 - 1988 A1 - [John Robert] [Jones] (b. 1926) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Political novel set in a future dystopia in which, after a depression and rioting, the President and Vice President resign, and the Join Chiefs of Staff chooses the next President. He establishes a dictatorship but is also independent minded.

PB - Baen CY - New York U3 -

John Dalmas [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Genesis: An Epic Poem Y1 - 1988 A1 - Frederick Turner (b. 1943) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Poem about the terraforming of Mars and the conflicts it engenders with a mild dystopia as background.

PB - Saybrook Publishing Co CY - Dallas, TX ER - TY - ABST T1 - Genocide The Anthology Y1 - 1988 A1 - Tim[othy Patrick] Barrus (b. 1950) KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which all gays are suppressed. The author presents this as actually expected in the future.

PB - Knights Press CY - Stamford, CT U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Gold Coast Y1 - 1988 A1 - Kim Stanley Robinson (b. 1952) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An affluent future that could be read as a eutopia or as a dystopia depicting the effects of the military-industrial complex, but the discontent of the main characters suggests the latter. See also 1984 Robinson, The Wild Shore, and 1990 Robinson, Pacific Edge, which are reprinted in Three Californias. New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 2020, with an introduction “Triptych, with Softball” by Francis Spufford (7-12), The Wild Shore (13-292), The Gold Coast (293-653), and Pacific Edge (655-895). The three volumes have the same physical location, but the futures presented are different.

PB - St. Martin's Press CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Tor/Tom Doherty Associates, 1988; and in Three Californias (New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 2020), 293-653, with an introduction “Triptych, with Softball” by Francis Spufford (7-12). U.K. ed. London: Futura, 1989. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Greenland Y1 - 1988 A1 - Howard [John] Brenton (b. 1942) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Two act play. The first act presents contemporary Britain almost as a dystopia. The second act is set seven hundred years in the future in an apparently anarchist eutopia. The author describes it as the culmination of his attempts to create a utopia on the stage, preceded by Sore Throats (first performed in 1978 at the Royal Shakespear Company's Warehouse Theatre in London), available in his Sore Throats & Sonnets of Love and Opposition (London: Eyre Methuen, 1979), 5-31; and with the subtitle "An Intimate Play in Two Acts" in his Plays: One (London: Methuen, 1986), 337-90; and Bloody Poetry. London: Methuen, 1985 (first performed in 1984 at the Foco Novo Theatre in Hampstead, England).

PB - Methuen in association with the Royal Court Theatre CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - Handbook of Scientific Utopianism Y1 - 1988 ED - Even Eve [pseud.], ed. KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Contains many statements describing the utopia the community thinks it already is together with some that suggest the wider utopia that will be brought about through its example. Includes an “Introduction. Ruled by Rock: the Party Culture” by Even Eve (1-2); “Origins. Neotribal Roots” (No author) (3-6); Sex & Family Life. Polyfidelity Explained” by Even Eve (7-8), “Nuns and Monks in Love: Polyfidelity as a Religious Practice” by Tip Tye and Paz Now (9); “Sex and Family Life. Coming on the Sleeping Schedule: A Personal Story” by Paz Now (10-12); “Utopian Psychology. Fundamental Principles for Mental Health” by Geo Logical (13-14); “Gestalt-O-Rama™ for Beginners” By Ram Star (15-16); “Children. Multiple Parenting” By Esperanta Rio (17-18); Religion & Mythology. Birth of the Goddess” By Geo Logical (19-21); Religion & Mythology. Eleven Basic Metaphysical Premises & Beliefs” By Bluejay Way (22-24); “Economics. TASK: the Tribal Accounting System by Kerista” By Even Eve (25, 28); “Abacus, Inc.: A Vision with a Business” By Eden Zia (29-30); “Future Vision. The Kerista Planetary Prosperity Plan. As explained by Bro Jud and discussed at a Monday Night service. Tape Transcribed by Esperanto Rio” (31-36); “Future Fantasy” By Even Eve (37-38); “Messiah 2.0” By Tip Tye (39); Decision-Making. Shared Leadership and Direct Democracy” By Even Eve (40); Social Contracts. The Oral and Written Law” By Even Eve (41); Social Contracts. The 88 Basic Standards of the Gestalt-O-Rama™ Growth Process& the Club Utopia Growth Co-Op” (No author) (42-46); “Do-It-With-Friends. Mental Health Techniques 82 Fun Ways to Work on Yourself” By Sym Com (47-50); and “Getting Closer. A Step that will Change Your Life” By Paz Now (51-52). Most articles include sidebars either directly related to the article or concerning material discussed in other articles.

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Even Eve [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Happiness Y1 - 1988 A1 - Theodore Zeldin (b. 1933) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A satirical tour of a modern Heaven by a young woman, her dog, and her pet cockroach, who immediately escapes. Heaven is overcrowded and full of people who had hoped for more from Heaven. The young woman, Sumdy (Somebody) interviews many of the occupants in search of her guardian angel. Includes extended satires of universities and other institutions and social practices. 

PB - Collins Harvill CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Henceforward. . . Y1 - 1988 A1 - Alan Ayckbourn (b. 1939) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Offstage in the background is a near-future dystopia of violence. Most of London is dangerous and people live with armed security guards and some of London are "no-go" areas controlled by local gangs.

PB - Faber & Faber CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Home Front" Y1 - 1988 A1 - James Patrick Kelly (b. 1951) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia presented through the eyes of a teenager in a society that arbitrarily drafts young people into the military. See also 1988 Kelly, “Pogrom”.

JF - Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine VL - 12.6 (131) N1 -

Rpt. in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989), 52-61 with an editor's note on 51.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "House Rules" Y1 - 1988 A1 - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) ED - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) ED - The Friends of Darkover [pseud.] KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Free Amazon story.

JF - Four Moons of Darkover PB - DAW Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover (New York: DAW Books, 1993), 61-69.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Hustler" Y1 - 1988 A1 - Pat[rick] Califia[-Rice] (b. 1954) KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set after a very long war followed by a struggle for power between men and women. While the women win and establish a women-oriented society, it requires women to spend a period of time caring for babies and has a very narrow range of acceptable sexual behavior.

JF - Macho Sluts: Erotic Fiction PB - Alyson Publications CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Inheritors Y1 - 1988 A1 - Jill Dobson (b. 1969) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Post-catastrophe (nuclear war) young adult dystopia in which a young woman begins to resist the though control and the rejection of the past of the leaders. 

PB - University of Queensland Press CY - St. Lucia, QLD, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Isaac Asimov Presents Antibodies Y1 - 1988 A1 - David J[ohn] Skal (1952-2024) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of people replacing their bodies with machines a bit at a time.

PB - Congdon & Weed CY - New York U1 -

The title is also given simply as Antibodies, but the full title is on the title page. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Islands in the Net Y1 - 1988 A1 - [Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A future high tech, networked eutopia that has access to data tightly controlled is being undermined by those trying to control people through the net. One woman manages to defeat them.

PB - Arbor House CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1994 with an unpaged “Introduction” by James E. Gunn, which was rpt. in his Paratexts: Introductions to Science Fiction and Fantasy (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2013), 73-76. . U.K. ed. London: Century, 1988.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Jaiyavara Y1 - 1988 A1 - Eleanor Glaze (b. 1930) KW - Female author AB -

The novel focuses on the dystopia brought about by ecological collapse and the spread of disease and ends with the beginnings of rebuilding from a communal base.

PB - St. Luke's Press CY - Atlanta, GA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Johnny Zed Y1 - 1988 A1 - John Gregory Betancourt (b. 1963) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a corrupt, authoritarian future U.S.

PB - Popular Library CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Journals of the Plague Years." Y1 - 1988 A1 - Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940) ED - Lou Aronica ED - Shawna McCarthy KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. An AIDS-like pandemic/plague spreads throughout the world and anyone with it is put into a quarantine zone. Written from the point of view of both those with the plague and those fighting it. At the end a virus defeats the plague, and an introductory statement written fron Luna City in 2143 suggests a eutopian outcome.

JF - Full Spectrum PB - Bantam Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. as Journals of the Plague Years. New York: Bantam Books, 1995.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Kairos Y1 - 1988 A1 - Gwyneth [Ann] Jones (b. 1952) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Corporate dystopia--U.K. Ltd. Pollution.

PB - Unwin Hyman CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Krono Y1 - 1988 A1 - Charles [Leonard] Harness (1915-2005) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Includes an overpopulation dystopia. Corruption.

PB - Franklin Watts CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "La Vie Continue" Y1 - 1988 A1 - Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a future America that tries to co-opt or, if that fails, kill authors who oppose the current regime.

JF - Other Americas PB - Bantam Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lake At the End of the World Y1 - 1988 A1 - Caroline Macdonald (1948-97) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author AB -

Set in 2025. Story of a post-catastrophe world with few survivors, some of whom are in an underground dystopia with a dictator. Two teenagers bring the people together and move them above ground where a new beginning is possible.

PB - Viking Kestral CY - Ringwood, VIC N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1988.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Bank on Earth Y1 - 1988 A1 - Michael S. Cummings (b. 1943) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian satire of a bank after a nucear war.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Last of the Winnebagoes" Y1 - 1988 A1 - Connie [Constance Elaine Trimmer] Willis (b. 1945) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Ecological dystopia in which there are severe restrictions on vehicles and travel and most animals have died.

JF - Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine VL - 12.7 (132) N1 -

Rpt. in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989), 182-222 with an editor's note on 181.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Laws of the Micro Giants. An Odyssean Classic Y1 - 1988 A1 - J[ohn] B[ernard] Ball (b. 1911) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Detailed eutopia following on his 1961 Cosmocracy, which he here spells “CosMocRacy.” This volume also includes a theory of creation first described in his The Cosmic Laws of the Spectrum: Evolution and Government as well as some more personal material. In 1957 the author ran in the Canadian federal election as a candidate in Regina, Saskatchewan for the National Credit Control Party, a party of his own creation. His purpose was to publicize the monetary system he developed. See “J.B. Ball National Credit Control” within “Six Candidates Offer Final Election Message.” The Leader-Post (Regina, SK, Canada) 48.132 (June 8, 1957): 3. See also 1956 Ball Ahoy for Eternity and National Credit, The Handbook of the Universal Monetary System, and Universal Monetary System of National Credit Control, and The Universal Monetary System of National Credit Control: A Financial Revolution With Nationalized Accounting Merchandising at Cost; 1961 Ball, Cosmocracy: The Universal Monetary System. Regina, SK, Canada: J.B. Ball; 1978 Ball, Permacredit. Universal Finance for Government & Industry. World Government without Trade Deficits. A Cash System of Accounting without Debt in Industry or Government or Taxes Against Industry or Credit Cards. Foremost, AB: Author; 1980 Ball, The Cosmic Laws of the Spectrum: Evolution and Government. By Barney Ballmark [pseud.]. [Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications];1982 Ball, Technomics. A Better Economy. International. By Barney Ballmark [pseud.]. [Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications]; and 1986 Ball, Beyond Capitalism. Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications. Other versions include Technomics in one corporate world. By Barney Ballmark [pseud.]. [Foremost, AB: Author], [1983]; The Technomic Alliance [subtitle on the cover No Taxes on property or income, the obvious solution, total employment]. 3rd ed. By Barney Ballmark [pseud.]. Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications, 1984; Pathway to the Stars: Industrial Democracy Beyond Democracy and Christianity Plus the Photon Theory of Creation. Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications, 1986. [New ed.] as The Pathway to the Stars. The Photon theory of Creation. Poetry. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1987. Rpt. as Pathway to the Stars. Industrial Democracy Beyond Capitalism and Christianity Plus the Photon Theory of Creation. Includes Poetry Selections. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1989. Another ed. as The Pathway to the Stars. By The Hobo Poet [pseud.]. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1990 in four sections, [“Memoirs, Poetry, and Stories] (1-164),” “Industrial Capitalism--Beyond Capitalism” (165-213), “Gleaning from Prairie Art Shows” (214-29), and “Radiation Properties of Creation” (230-51); Technomics International. Perpetual Payroll Financing for Government and Industry. Rev. October 1986. [Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1986; Industrial Democracy. Beyond Capitalism and Christianity. Includes the Photon Laws of Creation. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1989; and Industrial Democracy. Beyond Capitalism. This concept of world marketing explains how nations can finance total employment, without international debt, or taxation on property and income. New Economic System. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1990. 53 pp.

PB - Ballmark Publications CY - Foremost, AB, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Long Orbit Y1 - 1988 A1 - Mick [Michael Anthony] Farren (1943-2013) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Complex future dystopia where many people lived fantasy lives and robots did their work for them. The novel focuses on a man who lived the fantasy of being a detective in the 1940s but is hired to be a detective in the real world of corporate conflict.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. as Exit Funtopia. London: Sphere, 1989.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Lunatics" Y1 - 1988 A1 - Kim Stanley Robinson (b. 1952) ED - Beth Meacham KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of mining on the moon which is the equivalent of slavery.

JF - Terry's Universe PB - Tor CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in his Remaking History (New York: Tor, 1991), 236-63; and in Infinity Plus one. Ed. Keith Brooke and Nick Gevers (Leeds, Eng.: PS Publishing, 2001), 255-81; in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 293-313; 2nd ed. as Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 293-313; and in Alaya Dawn Johnson and Kim Stanley Robinson. Metamorphosis (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2015), 59-91. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Maiden Flight Y1 - 1988 A1 - Eric Vinicoff (b. 1951) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe novel about building a new, better society where non-violent societies must fight the remains of previous military.

PB - Baen Books CY - New York SN - 0-671-69795-1 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Man Plague” Y1 - 1988 A1 - Zama [pseud.] KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A plague that eliminates all men creates a rural eutopia for lesbians. 

JF - Sinister Wisdom VL - no. 34 U3 -

Zama [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Marching Through Georgia Y1 - 1988 A1 - S[tephen] M[ichael] Stirling (b. 1954) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Alternative history in which the losers in the American Revolution establish The Domination based on slavery, initially, in this volume, in Africa but, in Under the Yoke. New York: Tor, 1989, spreading to Asia and continental Europe. In the final volume, The Stone Dogs. New York: Tor, 1990, The Alliance and The Dominion have a final confrontation. 

PB - Baen CY - New York N1 -

His Domination. New York: Tor, 1999 is an abridged and revised single volume edition of his Draka series, Marching through Georgia (1988), Under the Yoke (1989), and The Stone Dogs (1990).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Metaphysica" Y1 - 1988 A1 - Daniel John Zutter KW - Male author AB -

Architectural utopia.

PB - M.Arch. thesis. Minnesota. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Metrophage (A Romance of the Future) Y1 - 1988 A1 - Richard [Albert] Kadrey (b. 1957) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a future Los Angeles ravaged by poverty and disease.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mona Lisa Overdrive Y1 - 1988 A1 - William [Ford] Gibson (b. 1948) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future cyberpunk dystopia.

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Bantam Books, 1988.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Moon of Ice Y1 - 1988 A1 - Brad[ford Swain] Linaweaver (1952-2019) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Alternative history. Nazi's win World War II and control Europe. America is libertarian.

PB - Arbor House CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Tor, 1993. U.K. ed. London: Grafton, 1989. A novella with the same title was published in Amazing Science Fiction Stories 28.5 (March 1982): 42-73. Rpt. in Hitler Victorious: Eleven Stories of the German Victory in World War II. Ed. Gregory [Albert] Benford and Martin H[arry] Greenberg (New York: Garland, 1986), 147-201; and in The Best Alternate History Stories of the 20th Century. Ed. Harry [Norman] Turtledove with Martin H[arry] Greenberg (New York: Ballantine Books, 2001), 357-415.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Moses in the Promised Land Y1 - 1988 A1 - R. Howard Bloch KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Complex satire. Sixties people grown older but with the same fads and reforms with the satire suggesting that there were dystopian elements. There is conflict corrupt politicians and large developers, which, when the developers and politicians win, produces a dystopia. 

PB - Gibbs Smith, Publisher CY - Salt Lake City, UT U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mundane's World Y1 - 1988 A1 - Judy [Rae] Grahn (b. 1940) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Feminist eutopia set in a preliterate society in which the people are organized into clans that fill different functions in the society. The people are intimately connected to and communicate with the natural environment. Men and women used to after separate languages, but these have mostly disappeared. 

PB - The Crossing Press CY - Freedom, CA N1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "My Lady Tongue" Y1 - 1988 A1 - Lucy [Jane] Sussex (b. 1957) ED - Damien [Francis] Broderick (b. 1944) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

A lesbian community as a eutopia in conflict with men. The community is presented as a set of complex interactions among the women within the community, with issues around the degrees of lesbianism. Much of the story is also concerned with a relationship the protagonist had with a man. 

JF - Matilda at the Speed of Light PB - Angus & Robertson CY - North Ryde, NSW, Australia N1 -

Rpt. in The Women Who Walk Through Fire: Women's Fantasy and Science Fiction Vol. 2. Ed. Susanna J. Sturgis (Freedom, CA: The Crossing Press, 1990), 208-55; in her My Lady Tongue and Other Stories (London: Heinemann, 1990/Port Melbourne, VIC, Australia: William Heinemann Australia, 1990), 75-133 [London edition has Stories rather than Tales]; in Mortal Fire: Best Australian SF. Ed. Terry [Terence William] Dowling and Van Ikin (Rydalmere, NSW, Australia: Hodder & Stoughton (Australia), 1993), 274-320; in Centaurus: The Best Australian Science Fiction. Ed. David G. Hartwell and Damien [Francis] Broderick (New York: Tor, 1999), 150-87; and in her Matilda Told Such Dreadful Lies: The Essential Lucy Sussex (Greenwood, WA, Australia: Ticonderoga publications, 2011), 71-112.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "My Year With the Aliens." Y1 - 1988 A1 - Lisa Goldstein (b. 1953) ED - Lou Aronica ED - Shawna McCarthy KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Satirical take on a world formed by middle-class intellectual radicals after a Communist revolution on Earth. No private property; criticism/self-criticism sessions; children raised communally. The story is told from the point-of-view of a mildly disaffected teenager.

JF - Full Spectrum PB - Bantam Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - NEO Party Politics Y1 - 1988 A1 - Raymond B[arry] Mehlhopt (b. 1954) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Detailed eutopia non-fiction for New Zealand with a stress on political organization, in particular the restructuring of New Zealand into two state governments representing the North and South Islands. NEO = Newness with Equality and Organisation. See 1987 Mehlhopt for a set of detailed economic proposals. See also 1997 and 1999 Mehlhopt.

PB - Seagull Press CY - Christchurch, New Zealand U1 -

[Cover adds with New Zealand States]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Nick and the Glimmung Y1 - 1988 A1 - Philip K[indred] Dick (1928-82) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Humorous children's story that begins on an overpopulated Earth with an anti-pet policy and moves to a planet with various sentient beings under threat of one powerful one. A young boy defeats the threat, and all will be able to live happily.

PB - Gollancz CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2009. 

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Illus. Paul Demeyer

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Overshoot Y1 - 1988 A1 - Mona [Ann] Clee (b. 1952) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of global warming.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Peaches for Mad Molly" Y1 - 1988 A1 - Steven [Charles] Gould (b. 1955) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the homeless live hanging on the outsides of buildings.

JF - Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact VL - 108.2 N1 -

Rpt. in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989), 82-100 with an editor's note on 81.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Player of Games Y1 - 1988 A1 - Iain M[enzies] Banks (1954-2013) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

One of his Culture novels presenting a complex future society where everyone appears to live in complete luxury with both eutopian and dystopian elements. See 1987 and 2008 Banks.

PB - Macmillan CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: St. Martin's, 1989.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Prelude to Foundation Y1 - 1988 A1 - Isaac Asimov (1920-92) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Prequel to the Foundation series. See note at 1982 Asimov. See also 1986 Asimov. Includes a description of a society presented as dystopian that is similar to a traditional religious commune.

PB - Doubleday CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Rabelaisian Reprise Y1 - 1988 A1 - [Margery (known as Marj) A.] [Krueger] (1941-2006) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set on the same planet and with many of the same characters as 1983 Krueger.

PB - Doubleday & Co CY - Garden City, NY U3 -

Jayge Carr [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Reading Group Y1 - 1988 A1 - Amanda Lohrey KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Near future dystopia seen from the perspective of eight people who had been members of a reading group. The core of the novel focuses on an environmental and political crisis and the reactions of the eight people.

PB - Picador CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Resurrection, Inc Y1 - 1988 A1 - Kevin J[ames] Anderson (b. 1962) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia--dead revived to be used as slaves. They revolt.

PB - New American Library CY - New York U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Revolution of Saint Jone Y1 - 1988 A1 - Lorna Mitchell KW - Female author AB -

Religious dystopia. After a catastrophe, a new religion of reason and order is bringing its truth to the far-flung planets. A newly ordained priest sent to one of the furthest and most primitive planets begins to question what she was taught and was to teach.

PB - Women's Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Rise of the Luddites" Y1 - 1988 A1 - Laurie Hogan AB -

Satire--a man named Ludd (after Ned Lud or Ludd) leads a temporary revolt against the insolent machines of the future.

JF - Computing Australia (Sydney, NSW, Australia) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Rivers of China Y1 - 1988 A1 - Alma De Groen (b. 1941) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author AB -

A play with two threads, both concerned with the New Zealand writer Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923. Born Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp). One thread is about the actual experience of Mansfield in the Gurdjieff Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man in Fontainebleau, France, where she died of TB. The other thread is set in a future gender-role reversal Australia. In this thread Mansfield is recreated in a man's mind, and the play looks at her/his experiences.

PB - Currency Press CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia N1 -

Rpt. in Australia Plays: New Australian Drama (London: Nick Hern Books, 1989), 339-97.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Saga of Filster Stein Y1 - 1988 A1 - Gary Lovesi KW - Male author AB -

A bit of a sendup of SF but in the process depicts some dystopias.

PB - Gryphon Publications CY - Brooklyn, New York N1 -

Parts originally published as “The Saga of Filster Stein” [In the book the title is given as “Why Do These Things Always Happen To Me”]. Heart of Dixie Comics 1.3 (August/September 1983): 14-18; “Set Adrift Like An Old Piece of Baggage.” Heart of Dixie Comics, no. 4 (January 1984); and “When the Warlord Comes To Town” as “The Warlord Wonder.” Galaxy Times, no. 5 (July 1977). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Scudder's Game Y1 - 1988 A1 - D[avid] G[uy] Compton (1930-2023) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Radical reduction in population based on a device that weakened sperm while giving control over one’s orgasm. Behind the eutopia created is a dystopia that controls the social system.

PB - Kerosina Books CY - Worcester Park, Surrey, Eng. U2 -

Illus. Keith Roberts

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sideshow Y1 - 1988 A1 - W[illiam] R[och] Thompson (b. 1955) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future United States during a new Great Depression. Three extremist groups fight for power: The Iron Guard, who are Neo-Nazis; the New Redeemers, who are religious fanatics; Sere, who believe that civilization must be destroyed to save the planet. In addition, there are telepaths who are treated as witches and being hunted.

PB - Baen CY - New York SN - 0-671-65375-X U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Sleeping in a Box" Y1 - 1988 A1 - Candas Jane Dorsey (b. 1952) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia of life on the moon with myriad restrictions due to the cost of shipment from earth.

JF - Machine Sex. . . and Other Stories PB - Porcépic Books CY - Victoria, BC, Canada N1 -

Book rpt. as Machine Sex and Other Stories (London: Women's Press, 1990), 1-8. Story rpt. in Aurora Awards: An Anthology of Prize-Winning Science Fiction & Fantasy [At the head of the title Award-Winning Canadian Fiction]. Ed. Edo van Belkom (Kingston, ON, Canada: Quarry Press, 1999), 11-17; and in her Ice and Other Stories (Hornsea, Eng: PS Publishing, 2018), 25-32, with a note on the story (299).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Stairs" Y1 - 1988 A1 - Neal [Patrick] Barrett Jr. (1929-2014) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia.

JF - Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine VL - 12.9 (134) N1 -

Rpt. in his Slightly Off Center: Eleven Extraordinarily Exhilarating Tales (Austin, TX: Swan Press, 1992), 114-27; and in his Other Seasons: The Best of Neal Barrett, Jr. (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2012), 229-80.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Stone Hands” Y1 - 1988 A1 - Cheryl Elaine Davis KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A religious dystopia that institutionalizes patriarchy, and a woman’s discovery of desire for another woman.

JF - Sinister Wisdom VL - no. 34 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Sykaos Papers: Being An Account of the Voyages of the Poet Oi Paz to the System of Strim in the Seventeenth Galaxy; of his Mission to the Planet Sykaos; of his First Cruel Captivity; of his Travels about its Surface; of the Manners and Customs of its Beastly People; of his Second Captivity; and of his Return to Oitar. To which are added many passages from the Poet's Journal, documents in Sykotic script, and other curious matters. Selected and Edited by Q, Vice-Provost of the College of Adjusters Y1 - 1988 A1 - E[dward] P[almer] Thompson (1924-93) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Rational dystopia contrasted to dystopian earth. While the latter is generally preferable, it destroys itself.

PB - Bloomsbury CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Pantheon, 1988.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Synthetics Y1 - 1988 A1 - Karen Clark (b. 1960) KW - Female author KW - UK author AB -

Set in 2015. Truants from school are given the equivalent of a lobotomy.

PB - Merlin Books CY - Braunton, Devon, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Taking From the Top" Y1 - 1988 A1 - Daniel [David] Pearlman (1935-2013) ED - George Zebrowski (b. 1945) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future tale in which death is required after eighty except for those who have made or are making a major contribution to society.

JF - Synergy: New Science Fiction PB - Harcourt Brace Jovanovich CY - San Diego, CA VL - Number 2 N1 -

Rpt. in his The Final Dream and Other Fictions (San Francisco, CA: Permeable Press, 1995), 45-80.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Terraplane Y1 - 1988 A1 - Jack [Wylie] Womack [Jr.] (b. 1956) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A volume in the DryCo series. This volume is an alternative history dystopia in which some characters in the first volume are sent to the period of the Great Depression. For other volumes in the series see his 1987 Ambient, 1990 Heathern, 1993 Elvissey, 1993 Random Acts of Senseless Violence, and 2000 Going, Going, Gone. Although there are multiple alternative histories in the series, in timeline order, the volumes are 1993 Random Acts of Senseless Violence, 1990 Heathern, 1987 Ambient, 1988 Terraplane, 1993 Elivissey, and 2000 Going, Going, Gone.

PB - Weidenfeld & Nicolson CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Unwin Hyman, 1988.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "This Is the Year Zero" Y1 - 1988 A1 - Andrew [Simon] Weiner (1949-2019) ED - Lou Aronica ED - Shawna McCarthy KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Alien invasion followed by authoritarian dystopia in which humans become slaves working in fields with no machines. Most familiar things are abolished--no money, no meat or green vegetables, no TV, no cars, no cities, no schools, no telephones, no sex. Old and ill disappear. Children run things for the aliens and appear content but say that there is now no past and no future, just the present.

JF - Full Spectrum PB - Bantam Books CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Time of No Troubles” Y1 - 1988 A1 - W[alter] Warren Wagar (1932-2004) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Third in a dystopian series following 1986 and 1987 Wagar. In this story, initially the world appears to be divided between altros, or slaves, and egos, or bosses, a division includes animals. The system breaks down with altros killing themselves for no known reason. 

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 45.6 (451) U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Toast of Babatine" Y1 - 1988 A1 - Donna Allegra (b. 1953) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Lesbian eutopia that has been in existence for six generations. Operates with no rules but selects what they call servants, who appear to be something like overseers, each season.

JF - Sinister Wisdom VL - no. 34 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Tower to the Sky Y1 - 1988 A1 - Phillip C[harles] Jennings (b. 1946) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Background of a largely destroyed future earth. Complex political novel with some dystopian elements.

PB - Baen CY - New York U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Turbo Cowboys 1. Jump Start Y1 - 1988 A1 - [Cunningham, Chet] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The first volume of the ten volume young adult post-catastrophe Turbo Cowboys series in which five of young men fight for freedom on their motorcycles. Other volumes include three more written by Cunningham, Turbo Cowboys 2 Spin Out (New York: Ballantine Books, 1989), Turbo Cowboys 3 Full Throttle (New York: Ballantine Books, 1989), and Turbo Cowboys 4 Spark Fire (New York: Ballantine Books, 1989). The other six volumes were written by Paul Bagdon, Turbo Cowboys 5 Super Charge (New York: Ballantine Books, 1989), Turbo Cowboys 6 Rat Trap (New York: Ballantine Books, 1989), Turbo Cowboys 7 Night Riders (New York: Ballantine Books, 1989), Turbo Cowboys 8 Speed Shift (New York: Ballantine Books, 1990), Turbo Cowboys 9 Duster Trouble (New York: Ballantine Books, 1990), and Turbo Cowboys 10 City of Glass (New York: Ballantine Books, 1990). The Science Fiction Encyclopedia attributes Rat Trap to John Read.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York U3 -

Tony Phillips [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Unquenchable Fire Y1 - 1988 A1 - Rachel [Grace] Pollack (b. 1945) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A dystopian future United States where magic and ritual are common. See her Temporary Agency. London: Orbit, 1994 for a sequel.

PB - Century Hutchinson CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Usurper Y1 - 1988 A1 - [Simon] [Michael] (b. 1955) A1 - [Peter] [Rosenberg] KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Future dystopia with deep division between the employed and the unemployed. Usurping is killing someone for their job.

PB - Grafton Books CY - London U3 -

Peter Michael [pseud]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Utopia" Y1 - 1988 AB -

Brief statements regarding their utopias by well-known people. The contributors are, in order, Rita Mae Brown, Mister Rogers [Fred Rogers], Christina Crawford, David Rockefeller, Harvey Feinstein, Roy Rogers, Grace Slick, Steve Wosniak, Lina Wertmuller, Thomas Szasz, Hans Küng, Tammy Faye Bakker, José Miguez-Bonino, Linda Ellerbee, Michael Harrington, Jesse Jackson, Oprah Winfrey, Jonas Salk, Philip Glass, Joseph Kennedy II, Kurt Vonnegut, and Donald Trump. As might be expected the utopias range from the purely self-indulgent to the self-serving to serious statements regarding a possible better future.

JF - Omni VL - 10.7 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Venus of Shadows Y1 - 1988 A1 - Pamela Sargent (b. 1948) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 1986 Sargent. This volume follows the next four generations of the Venus project, the society that is emerging, and the conflicts within it.

PB - Doubleday CY - New York U5 -

Merril, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Vic and Blood: The Chronicles of a Boy and His Dog Y1 - 1988 A1 - Harlan [Jay] Ellison (1934-2018) A1 - Richard [Vance] Corben (1940-2020) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Graphic novel. Post-nuclear war dystopia. Underground there is an authoritarian dystopia trying to maintain a conservative way of life. On the surface is a violent dystopia of male loners and small groups.

PB - Donning CY - Norfolk, VA N1 -

Rpt. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1989; and with the subtitle The Continuing Adventures of a Boy and His Dog. New York: iBooks, 2003. The novel is composed of three stories: “Eggsucker.” Illus. Richard Corben. Ariel: The Book of Fantasy Vol. 2. Ed. Richard Durwood (Leawood, KS: Morning Star Press, 1977), 6-13; “A Boy and His Dog.” In his The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World (New York: Avon, 1969), 208-45. Rpt. in New Worlds Science Fiction, no. 189 (April 1979): 4-16; rpt. in Beyond Armageddon: Twenty-One Sermons to the Dead. Walter M. Miller, Jr. and Martin H[arry] Greenberg (New York: Donald I. Fine, 1985), 332-73; and in The Best of the Nebulas (New York: Tor/Tom Doherty Associates, 1989), 359-89, with an “Author’s Foreword” on 358; “Run, Spot, Run.” Mediascene Prevue (September/October 1980) [not found]; rpt. Illus. Richard [Vance] Corben. Amazing Science Fiction Stories Combined With Fantastic 27.10 (January 1981): 15-25. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Walden Three Y1 - 1988 A1 - Jack Catran (1918-2001) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future technological eutopia designed and controlled by scientists with all the “work not fit for humans” done by robots. The author presents the society as the solution to ethnic, gender, and racial discrimination and as a means of eliminating poverty without creating a welfare state. One character is based on Jacque Fresco (1916-2017); see 1969, 1995, 2002, and 2007 Fresco and https://www.thevenusproject.com/the-venus-project/jacque-fresco/. 

PB - Pygmalion Books CY - Sherman Oaks, CA U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The War Against Chaos Y1 - 1988 A1 - Anita [Frances] Mason (b. 1942) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Complex dystopia. An authoritarian company in growing conflict with an authoritarian government. There are also Marginals who live outside the system.

PB - Hamish Hamilton CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Way to Neutopia. Poems and Woodcuts Y1 - 1988 A1 - [Elizabeth known as Libby] [Hubbard] (b. 1956) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Poems that describe a eutopia. Each poem begins with "WE HAVE A PROBLEM . . ." and then continues with a statement of what we need. Covers many topics, including leadership, religion, inequality, the nuclear family, poverty, unemployment, prostitution, medical care, among others. 

PB - Ken John CY - Amherst, MA U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Where We’ll Never Grow Old” Y1 - 1988 A1 - Tom De Haven (b. 1949) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a post-catastrophe (pandemic) in 2028.

JF - Sunburn Lake PB - Viking CY - New York SN - 978-0670809301 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Woman of the Aeroplanes Y1 - 1988 A1 - [Bernard] Kojo Laing (b. 1946) KW - Ghanaian author KW - Male author AB -

Something of a comic novel where time and causality completely askew. Tukwan is the utopia where everybody in the town was a reincarnation of someone from the town, and this would continue until all problems solved.

PB - Heinemann CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Woman Who Was God Y1 - 1988 A1 - Francis [Henry] King (1923-2011) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Fiction about a religious intentional community depicting the conflicts taking place within it. 

PB - Weidenfeld & Nicolson CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "womanmansion to my sister mourning her mother Y1 - 1988 A1 - Gossett, Hattie KW - Female author AB -

Poem describing a feminist heaven.

JF - Presenting . . . Sister No Blues PB - Firebrand Books CY - Ithaca, NY N1 -

Rpt. in Memories and Visions. Ed. Susana Sturgis (Freedom, CAL The Crossing Press, 1989), 197-201.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - World of One Y1 - 1988 A1 - Charles [Bardley] Templeton (1915-2001) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Novel about a future corrupt cult.

PB - Doubleday Canada CY - Toronto, ON, Canada U5 -

Can

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Zodiac: The Eco-Thriller Y1 - 1988 A1 - Neal [Town] Stephenson (b. 1959) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Environmental dystopia seen through the eyes of an environmental activist.

PB - Bloomsbury CY - London U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - 1984 Here and Now Y1 - 1987 A1 - Thuan Chye Kee (b. 1954) KW - Malaysian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four adapted to contemporary Malaysia.

PB - K. Das Ink CY - Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia ER - TY - ABST T1 - After the Bomb: Week One Y1 - 1987 A1 - Gloria [Dubov] Miklowitz (b. 1927) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a military state after an accidental nuclear explosion. See also 1985 Miklowitz.

PB - Scholastic CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ambient Y1 - 1987 A1 - Jack [Wylie] Womack [Jr.] (b. 1956) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The first volume in the DryCo series. DryCo refers to the Dryden Corporation, and the connections among the volumes in the series are tenuous, but all refer to DryCo. This volume is set in a future New York City, a future violent corporate, cyberpunk dystopia. Considerable use of invented language. The Ambients are people who have been badly disfigured survivors of a nuclear accident. For other volumes in the series see his 1988 Terraplane, 1990 Heathern, 1993 Elvissey, 1993 Random Acts of Senseless Violence, and 2000 Going, Going, Gone. Although there are multiple alternative histories in the series, in timeline order, the volumes are 1993 Random Acts of Senseless Violence, 1990 Heathern, 1987 Ambient, 1988 Terraplane, 1993 Elivissey, and 2000 Going, Going, Gone.

PB - Weidenfeld & Nicolson CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Unwin Hyman, 1988

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Amerika Y1 - 1987 A1 - Brauna E. Pouns [pseud.] A1 - Donald Wrye (1934-2015) KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of the United States dominated by the U.S.S.R. 

PB - Pocket Books CY - New York U3 -

Brauna E. Pouns [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - And We Are Not Saved: The Elusive Quest for Racial Justice Y1 - 1987 A1 - Derrick [Albert] Bell [Jr.] (1930-2011) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

The “Prologue to Part I” introduces the fictional African American legal scholar Geneva Crenshaw (13-25) who then time travels to ten key points in U.S. history when decisions were made regarding racial justice where she argues for a different approach and then discusses the resulting situation with Bell. Other stories using Geneva Crenshaw can be found throughout his Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism. New York: Basic Books, 1992 and in Afrolantica Legacies. Chicago, IL: Third World Press, 1998. See also 1991 Bell.

PB - Basic Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Anthills of the Savannah Y1 - 1987 A1 - Chinua [Chinụalụmọgụ] Achebe (1930-2013) KW - Male author KW - Nigerian author AB -

Dystopia. An imaginary country based on Nigeria describing a military dictatorship.

PB - William Heinemann CY - London N1 -

Rpt. with an "Introduction" by Maya Jaggi (vii-xiv). London: Penguin Books, 2001. U.S. ed. New York: Anchor/Doubleday, 1988.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Apocalypse 2000: Economic Breakdown and the Suicide of Democracy 1989-2000 Y1 - 1987 A1 - Peter Jay (b. 1937) A1 - Michael [James] Stewart (b. 1933) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopian future history showing the effects of poor policy choices made in all the major countries into the collapsing world that they produce. There is an index..

PB - Sidgwick & Jackson CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Sphere, 1988.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Archer in the Marrow: The Applewood Cycles of 1967-1987 Y1 - 1987 A1 - Peter [Robert Edwin] Viereck (1916-2006) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Epic poem. Alternative history from Adan and Eve to the present with both eutopian and dystopian periods.

PB - W. W. Norton CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Armageddon Outtahere” Y1 - 1987 A1 - Paul Mavrides (b. 1952) A1 - Jay Kinney (b. 1950) ED - Paul Mavrides (b. 1952) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on Armageddon in which the gods of many different religions arrive all at once to punish the human race.

JF - Anarchy Comics PB - Last Gasp CY - Berkeley, CA VL - no. 4 N1 -

Rpt. in Anarchy Comics. The Complete Collection. Ed. Jay Kinney (Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2013), 149-58. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Balmoral Y1 - 1987 A1 - Michael Frayn (b. 1933) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. The 1917 revolution had taken place in Britain rather than Russia and now, in 1937, Britain is a Soviet Republic. The play is set in Balmoral Castle, which is now a State Home for Writers.

PB - Methuen CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Bats" Y1 - 1987 A1 - Leon Rooke (b. 1934) ED - Phyllis [Fay Bloom] Gotlieb (1926-2009) ED - Douglas Barbour (b. 1940) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which all the old people are moved to a huge domed area where they wait to die. Gin keeps people content. Everyone lives in large domes in a controlled environment and appear to be hurried along to death. Some touches of fantasy.

JF - Tesseracts2 PB - Porcépic Press CY - Victoria, BC, Canada U5 -

Can, Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Bedmates Y1 - 1987 A1 - Kurt [Oscar Eugene] von Trojan (b. 1937) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Future, poor, authoritarian Australian dystopia. Artificial sexual partners provided by the state.

PB - Petala CY - Mylor, SA, Australia ER - TY - ABST T1 - Beloved. A Novel Y1 - 1987 A1 - Toni Morrison (1931-2019) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

A complex novel based reflecting on the dystopia of American slavery and the way memory reconstructs the past. 

PB - Alfred A. Knopf CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Boiled Frog Syndrome: A Novel of Love, Sex and Politics Y1 - 1987 A1 - Marty Rubin (d. 1994) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Anti-gay dystopia in the United States, including concentration camps for gays, and the revolt against it. The “boiled frog syndrome” refers to the fact that if a frog is put it hot water, it will leap out, but if put in cold water that is slowly heated, it will be not but will be boiled to death. In the novel this refers to the slow, insidious destruction of the rights of gays. 

PB - Alyson Publications CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Book of Mrs. Noah Y1 - 1987 A1 - Michèle [Brigitte] Roberts (b. 1949) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Feminist eutopian fantasy that also includes a future dystopian chapter. A modern woman brings the Ark into existence and undertakes a voyage in which five sybils each create different worlds for themselves and tell stories about women of the past, and the woman who brought the Ark into existence visits islands that reflect on the human condition. The Ark is also visit by a man who says he is the voice of God and expects the women to listen to him.

PB - Methuen CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Minerva, 1988.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Brazil" Y1 - 1987 A1 - Terry Gilliam (b. 1940) A1 - Tom Stoppard (b. 1937) A1 - Charles McKeown (b. 1946) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Screenplay of the famous 1985 dystopian film directed by Terry Gilliam.

JF - The Battle of Brazil PB - Crown CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Budspy Y1 - 1987 A1 - David Dvorkin (b. 1943) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Alternate future in which the Nazis won World War 2.

PB - Franklin Watts CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Child In Time Y1 - 1987 A1 - Ian [Russell] McEwan (b. 1948) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Near future dystopia as a background.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Co, 1987.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Consider Philebas Y1 - 1987 A1 - Iain M[enzies] Banks (1954-2013) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Conflict between two dystopian cultures, one Islamic, the other communist. First of his novels of the Culture, few of which have explicitly utopian content but can collectively be seen as utopian. . See also 1988 and 2008 Banks. Other Culture novels include The State of the Art. Willimantec, CT: Mark V. Ziesing, 1989; rpt. in his The State of the Art (London: Orbit, 1991), 83-172; rpt. (London: Orbit, 1993), 99-205 [First contact of The Culture with Earth]; Use of Weapons. London: Macmillan, 1990; Excession. London: Macmillan, 1996; Inversions. London: Orbit, 1998; Look to Windward. London: Orbit, 2000; Surface Detail. London: Orbit, 2010; and The Hydrogen Sonata. New York: Orbit, 2012. Other Culture material includes “A Gift from the Culture.” Interzone, no. 20 (Summer 1987): 44-51. Rpt. in his The State of the Art (London: Orbit, 1991), 7-22. Rpt. (London: Orbit, 1993): 8-28; and in The Big Book of Science Fiction: The Ultimate Collection. Ed. Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (New York: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Vintage Books, 2016), 865-74 with an editors’ note on 964.  

PB - Macmillan CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Orbit, 1991

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Copernick's Rebellion Y1 - 1987 A1 - Leo A. Frankowski (1943-2008) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satirical novel about the advantages and disadvantages of genetic engineering. On the positive side, it can be used to create housing, food, and many other things and the inventors plan to give it all away free, which obvious creates conflict. On the negative side, it can be used to create whatever oddities people want to make of themselves.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York SN - 9780345340337 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Cruise of the Skuld Y1 - 1987 A1 - Marguerite Pedersen KW - Female author AB -

Individualist anarchist eutopia presented mostly in a discussion on a ship. 

PB - Sovereign Press CY - Rochester, WA U1 -

Subtitle on the cover Individuals Against the World of Mass Madness

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Cry In the Desert Y1 - 1987 A1 - Jed A. Bryan KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia from the gay male perspective focusing on the initial response to the AIDS epidemic.

PB - Banned Books CY - Austin, TX U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Crying in the Rain” Y1 - 1987 A1 - Tanith Lee (1947-2015) ED - Christopher [D.] Evans (b. 1951) ED - Robert Holdstock (1948-2009) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia in which, as a result of pollution, few people life beyond twenty-five and girls are bred at an early age.

JF - Other Edens PB - Unwin Paperbacks CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in The Big Book of Science Fiction: The Ultimate Collection. Ed. Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (New York: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Vintage Books, 2016), 887-96 with an editors’ note on 886.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Daughters of Khaton Y1 - 1987 A1 - [Merril] [Harris] (b. 1942) KW - Female author AB -

Lesbian feminist eutopia on another planet visited by a spaceship with a mostly male crew and the problems that ensue. 

PB - Lace Publications CY - Denver, CO N1 -

Part originally published as by Merril Harris. "From Sisterworld." Sinister Wisdom (Charlotte, NC), no. 3 (July 1976): 57-59.

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Merril Mushroom [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dawn: Xenogenesis Y1 - 1987 A1 - Octavia [Estelle] Butler (1947-2006) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Post-catastrophe novel in which the few remaining humans are rescued by aliens. The alien society is presented as eutopian. The aliens restore earth and slightly redesign humans, who deeply resent it. Humans seem apt to recreate the dystopia that had been our civilization. First volume of a trilogy. Dawn is being adapted for a TV series by Ava DuVerney (b. 1972). The other volumes trace the experiences of the humans who have been altered and their relations with both the Oankali and unaltered humans. See her Adulthood Rites. New York: Warner Books, 1988. Rpt. in her Lilith’s Brood (New York: Warner Aspect, 2000), 249-517; and Imago. New York: Warner Books, 1989. Rpt. in her Lilith’s Brood (New York: Warner Aspect, 2000), 519-746.

PB - Warner Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in her Lilith’s Brood (New York: Warner Aspect, 2000), 1-248

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dawn: Xenogenesis Y1 - 1987 A1 - Octavia [Estelle] Butler (1947-2006) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Post-catastrophe novel in which the few remaining humans are rescued by aliens. The alien society is presented as eutopian. The aliens restore earth and slightly redesign humans, who deeply resent it. Humans seem apt to recreate the dystopia that had been our civilization. First volume of a trilogy. Dawn is being adapted for a TV series by Ava DuVerney (b. 1972). The other volumes trace the experiences of the humans who have been altered and their relations with both the Oankali and unaltered humans. see her Adulthood Rites. New York: Warner Books. 1988. Rpt. in her Lilith’s Brood (New York: Warner Aspect, 2000), 249-517; and Imago. New York: Warner Books. 1989. Rpt. in her Lilith’s Brood (New York: Warner Aspect, 2000), 519-746. 

PB - Warner Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in her Lilith's Brood (New York: Warner Aspect, 2000), 1-248.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Death Arms Y1 - 1987 A1 - K[evin] W[ayne] Jeter (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future dystopia of a Los Angeles abandoned to criminals.

PB - Morrigan Publications CY - Bath, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Death of Honor Y1 - 1987 A1 - Joe Clifford Faust (b. 1957) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A mystery set in an overpopulation dystopia that encourages people to have more children, which are then taken and raised by the state with payment to the parents.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Different Paths" Y1 - 1987 A1 - Penny Buchanan ED - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) ED - The Friends of Darkover [pseud.] KW - Female author AB -

Free Amazon story.

JF - Red Sun of Darkover PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

Merril, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Dream Wall Y1 - 1987 A1 - Graham Dunston Martin (b. 1932) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Soviet controlled Britain as a dystopia.

PB - Unwin Paperbacks CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dreams of Leaving Y1 - 1987 A1 - Rupert [William Farquhar] Thomson (b. 1955) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian, isolated small town as a dystopia.

PB - Macmillan CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Atheneum, 1988.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Endgame Enigma Y1 - 1987 A1 - James P[atrick] Hogan (1941-2010) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Soviet space colony seemingly a utopian experiment.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Evening and the Morning and the Night” Y1 - 1987 A1 - Octavia E[stelle] Butler (1947-2006) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia. The story concerns a disease that causes people to violently kill themselves and the discovery of a way to mitigate the effects through made possible by a genetic abnormality in some women. The dystopia is the way that society treats those with the disease, which is to isolate and exclude them, which can be read as a metaphor for the way society treats various classes of “others”.

JF - Omni Magazine VL - 9.8 N1 -

Rpt. Pulphouse Short Story Paperback # 38. Eugene, Oregon: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991; in her Bloodchild and Other Stories (New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1995), 33-84 with an “Afterword” on 85; in Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora. Ed. Sheree R. Thomas (New York: Warner Books, 2000), 171-95 with the “Afterword” on 195-96; in People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction! Ed. Nalo Hopkinson and Kristine Ong Muslin Special Issue of Lightspeed, no. 73 (June 2016): 200-18; and in Kindred, Fledgling, Collected Stories. Ed. Gerry Canavan & Nisi Shawl (New York: Library of America, 2021), 642-667, with a Chronology (743-755), a Note on the Text (758), and Notes (772-773).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Expecting Someone Taller Y1 - 1987 A1 - Tom [Thomas Charles Louis] Holt (b. 1961) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

An innocent Englishman gets the ring and the Tarnhelm of the Niebelung (the magic helmet in Wagner’s Ring) and controls the world. He produces a eutopia.

PB - St. Martin's Press CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. London: Macmillan, 1988.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Falling Free" Y1 - 1987 A1 - Lois McMaster [Joy] Bujold (b. 1949) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of an all-controlling galactic corporation which has bread “Quaddies,” humans, although not classified as such, who have an extra pair of arms rather than legs and are ideal for working in zero gravity. The corporation treats them as slaves, and the novel is about an attempt to free them. Included in multi-volume Vorkosigan Saga, but it is set two hundred years before Miles Vokosigan’s birth. Intended to be the first half of the story, but the second half was never written. The author revisited the subject is her Diplomatic Immunity. New York: Baen Books, 2002, but it has little to do with the subject of Falling Free. A “Prologue” that was not published in the volume can be found at http://www.dendarii.com/excerpts/prologue.html.

JF - Analog Science Fiction and Fact VL - 107.12 - 108.2 N1 -

Rpt. New York: Baen Books, 1988 and Framingham, MA: NESFA Press, 2004 and rpt. 2017. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - First Citizen Y1 - 1987 A1 - Thomas T[hurston] Thomas (b. 1948) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

After the U.S. repudiated its national debt and a nuclear attack on the capitol, the country collapses into regions, each with a private army. One man takes advantage of the situation to build a huge fortune and ultimately reunited the country under his leadership.

PB - Baen Books CY - New York SN - 0-671-65368-7 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Flight" Y1 - 1987 A1 - Nina Boal ED - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) ED - The Friends of Darkover [pseud.] KW - Female author AB -

Free Amazon story. 

JF - The Red Sun of Darkover PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

Merril, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - God Help the Queen Y1 - 1987 A1 - Geoffrey Cush (b. 1956) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Britain as an authoritarian dystopia. All people are shareholders but are poor.

PB - Abacus CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Goodstuff Any Moment Y1 - 1987 A1 - Mike Paterson (b. 1946) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

A dystopia based on the usual corruption and cruelties with the emergence of a eutopia based on people helping each other. People create a cooperative system of both education and exchange that allows those living on the margins to improve their lives. Religious overtones with the emergence near the end of an Antichrist figure and the possibility of the Second Coming.

PB - Hard Echo Press CY - Onehunga, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Green Man of Knowledge" Y1 - 1987 A1 - Wendy G[ay] Pearson ED - Phyllis [Fay Bloom] Gotlieb (1926-2009) ED - Douglas Barbour (b. 1940) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

In the future capital punishment is replaced by dying the skin of murderers green. Those dyed green live in the world and work in munitions factories but are generally treated as non-persons. The story is about a terrorist and his punishment.

JF - Tesseracts2 PB - Porcépic Press CY - Victoria, BC, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Harry Protagonist, Inseminator General” Y1 - 1987 A1 - Richard Wilson (1920-1987) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on gender relations in which men and women choose to separate and men lose the ability to impregnate. 

JF - The Kid from Ozone Park and Other Stories PB - Chris Drumm, Books CY - Polk City, IA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Her Story Y1 - 1987 A1 - Dan Jacobson (1929-2014) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - South African author KW - US author AB -

The bulk of the novel is set in Biblical times, but the frame is set in a future Britain that is a conservative Islamic country presented as not particularly good or bad. There is also a section on a future dystopian religious intentional community.

PB - André Deutsch CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Hormone Jungle Y1 - 1987 A1 - Robert [David] Reed (b. 1956) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set two thousand years in the future where female cyborgs are created solely to give pleasure and powerful criminal figures are still powerful. Much of the novel is adventure and romance with the dystopia as its setting.

PB - Donald I. Fine CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Warner Books, 1987. UK ed. London: Futura, 1989.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Hub Y1 - 1987 A1 - Chris Beebee KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Future black humor. Some eutopia, some dystopia. See also the sequel The Main Event. Book 2 of the Cipola Sequence. London: Futura, 1989.

PB - Macdonald CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hunter and Victim or The Invisible Her Is the Whore Y1 - 1987 A1 - Steven Fuson KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Anti-feminist. Reflects the position of the Padanaram Community located in Indiana..

PB - [Author] CY - [Williams, IN] ER - TY - ABST T1 - In the Country of Last Things Y1 - 1987 A1 - Paul Auster (b. 1947) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a collapsing city and a degenerating civilization. A film directed by Alejandro Chomski with a screenplay by the director was released in Spanish in 2020 and in English in 2022.

PB - Viking CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Faber & Faber, 1988

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Intervention. A Root Tale to the Galactic Milieu and a Vinculum between it and The Saga of Pliocene Exile Y1 - 1987 A1 - Julian [Clare] May (1931-2017) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Complex future history in which an evolutionary change has produced telepathic people and their relationship with the non-telepathic, which has both eutopia and dystopian dimensions. Presented through a family history. See also 1992 May and its sequels. 

PB - Houghton Mifflin Co CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Isaac Asimov Presents Pennterra Y1 - 1987 A1 - Judith Moffett (b. 1942) KW - Female author AB -

Troubled eutopia. Society of Friends (Quaker) society settlement on a planet named after William Penn (1644-1718), the Quaker founder of Pennsylvania. The novel is primarily concerned with relations between the settlers and the indigenous inhabitants, who prohibit settlement outside a small valley and the use of much technology. The society of the indigenes, who are constantly aware of each other and plants and animals, is presented in eutopian terms. A second group of settlers who are not Quakers and refuse to accept the restrictions. The indigenes are called Hrossa, which is the same name use by C.S. Lewis in Out of the Silent Planet (1938).

PB - Congdon & Weed CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. Toronto, ON, Canada: Worldwide, 1988. Often listed as Pennterra, but this is the title on the title page. Rpt. with no reference to an earlier publication as Pennterra. Blacksburg, VA: Fantastic Books, 2009. Advertised as with rev. text, but I can find no differences. The copyright page, which lists the pages on which previously published poems appear, is identical to that in the earlier publication, but since the type sizes are different, these page numbers are wrong. Extracts from her own previously published poem are from “Unicorn” in her Whinny Moor Crossing (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1984), 74-76. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Island Worlds Y1 - 1987 A1 - [Yoji] [Kondo] (1933-2017) A1 - John Maddox Roberts (b. 1947) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel is set in the twenty-first century when there is a right-left conflict on Earth and a war for independence by the asteroid belt. See also their 1988 Between the Stars and their non-utopian Act of God. New York: Baen, 1985 that sets the stage for the other novels by introducing the technologies that make space exploration possible.

PB - Baen CY - New York U3 -

Eric Kotani [pseud. of Kondo]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Jacob's Ladder. A Novel Y1 - 1987 A1 - John A[lfred] Williams (1925-2015) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

The novel is about a fictitious African country that has won its freedom and has a leader who is struggling, with some success,  to bring a better life to the people while avoiding the dystopia that corruption and neocolonialism that had undermined such efforts in most actual African countries at the time. 

PB - Thunder's Mouth Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Journey to Zelindar: The Personal Account of Sair of Semasi. Book 986 of the Hadra Archives Y1 - 1987 A1 - Diana Rivers (b. 1931) KW - Female author AB -

Lesbian feminist eutopia continued in her Daughters of the Great Star: Book 57 of the Hadra Archives, as recorded by Tazmirrel of Nemanthi under the guidance of Alyeeta the Witch. Boston, MA: Lace Publications, 1992, which provides the background; The Hadra: Book 57, Part 2, of the Hadra Archives, as recorded by Tazzil of Zelindar for Alyeeta the Witch. Boston, MA: Lace Publications, 1995; Clouds of War. Ferndale, MI: Bella Books, 2002; The Red Line of Yarmald. Ferndale, MI: Bella Books, 2003; and Her Sister’s Keeper. Tallahassee, FL: Bella Books, 2008.

PB - Lace Publications CY - Boston, MA ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Just Suppose: An Imagining Exercise” Y1 - 1987 A1 - Shevy Healey (1922-2001) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

An egalitarian eutopia focusing on the elimination of ageism. The female author was born in Poland and was brought to the U.S. at age two. She was the founder of Old Lesbians Organizing for Change.

JF - Sinister Wisdom VL - no. 72 N1 -

Originally published on page 85 of The Facilitator’s Handbook of the First West Coast Conference and Celebration, Southern California, 1987.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Kayo: The Authentic and Annotated Autobiographical Novel from Outer Space Y1 - 1987 A1 - James [Rodney] McConkey (b. 1921) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on human foibles as seen on a parallel, similar world.

PB - E. P. Dutton CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Kindly Ones Y1 - 1987 A1 - Melissa [Elaine] Scott (b. 1960) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia based on strict rules of behavior based on kinship facing changed conditions where it becomes essential to peacefully settle differences.

PB - Baen Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The King Awakes Y1 - 1987 A1 - Janice Elliott (1931-95) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Arthurian sword and sorcery set within a post-nuclear war dystopia. A sequel is The Empty Throne. Illus. Grahame Baker. London: Walker Books, 1988 in which the protagonist of the first volume travels, with his family and Arthur, to the Isles of the Blest.

PB - Walker Books CY - London U2 -

Illus. Grahame Baker

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Kisses of the Enemy Y1 - 1987 A1 - Rodney Hall (b. 1935) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Near future dystopia. Much of the novel follows the political career of the first President of the Republic of Australia, who seems to be primarily interested in power for its own sake. Wealth dominates Australia. Corruption. Drugs. Other strands follow individuals, including the President's wife and child, those political dependent on him, a growing opposition movement, and figures from Australia's past.

PB - Penguin Australia CY - Ringwood, VIC, Australia N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1988. U.K. ed. London: Faber and Faber, 1989.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Knights of God Y1 - 1987 A1 - Richard [Fairhurst] Cooper (1930-98) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia in a failed Britain where the economy has ground to a halt. There is a dictator whose rule is enforced by the Knights of God. There is a growing movement against the dictatorship and much of the novel is concerned with that. 

PB - Lions CY - London U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Legend Y1 - 1987 A1 - Barry Maher KW - Male author AB -

Complex dystopia on a future Earth after some unidentified catastrophe had destroyed much of the Earth and left the people deeply divided into those few with jobs (the bureaurers), majority of people (the folkers), and the disciples of new, authoritarian religions. At the end no one is left on Earth.

PB - Freedeeds Library CY - Blauvelt, NY N1 -

Rpt. Great Barrington, MA: Lindisfarne Books, 2002.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Life in a Peaceful World Y1 - 1987 AB -

Six page tract depicting the world after the millennium.

PB - Watchtower Bible and Tract Society CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Little Heroes Y1 - 1987 A1 - Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Complex novel depicting a future U.S. dystopia. Commercial control; drugs; financial depression. Reality Liberation Front and rock and roll will provide a touch of hope, but they will probably lose out to commercialization.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Makers Y1 - 1987 A1 - Victor [Michael Kitchener] Kelleher (b. 1939) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which children are taken to a castle, called the Keep, and trained as warriors.

PB - Viking Kestrel assisted by the Literature Board of the Australia Council CY - Ringwood, Vic, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Mask for the General Y1 - 1987 A1 - Lisa Goldstein (b. 1953) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Future authoritarian dystopia in the United States.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Memory Wire Y1 - 1987 A1 - Robert Charles Wilson (b. 1953) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia in which individuals are wired to be cameras and operate solely as machines recording what happens.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Futura, 1990.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mercedes Nights Y1 - 1987 A1 - Michael D[avid] Weaver (1961-98) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia with a black market in clones.

PB - St. Martin's Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Miamigrad Y1 - 1987 A1 - Jerry [Jerome Morrell] Ahern (1946-2012) A1 - Sharon Ahern (b. 1948) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Soviet controlled Miami and the revolt against it.

PB - Pocket Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mind Players Y1 - 1987 A1 - Pat[ricia Oren Kearney] Cadigan (b. 1953) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which one can enliven one's life by acquiring neuroses or even a whole new personality but being actually insane requires a license. 

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York N1 -

Includes her “Variations on a Man.” Omni 6.4 (January 1984): 68-70, 110-12, 114-16. Rpt. in The Big Book of Science Fiction: The Ultimate Collection. Ed. Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (New York: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Vintage Books, 2016), 769-81 with an editors’ note on 768. U.K. edition as Mindplayers. London: Victor Gollancz, 1988. Rpt. London: VGSF, 1989.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Movement of Mountains Y1 - 1987 A1 - Michael [John] Blumlein (1948-2019) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia as a background. Rich-poor division. Genetically manufactured humans designed for a specific job and a short life.

PB - St. Martin's Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Native Tongue II: The Judas Rose Y1 - 1987 A1 - Suzette Haden Elgin (1936-2015) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 1984 Elgin in which the women’s plan to teach more women the women’s language is complicated by the presence of aliens on Earth and the infiltration of their movement by a woman at the instigation of the men. The aliens note that Earth women are ready to move onto a higher stage of civilization but that the me are not. 

PB - DAW Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. as Native Tongue 2: The Judas Rose. New York: The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2002 with an “Afterword: Gender, Technology, and Violence” by Susan M. Squier and Julie Vedder on 365-80. 2nd ed. New York: The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2019 with a “Foreword: The Veil of Language” by Rebecca Romney on vii-ix and an “Afterword: Gender, Technology, and Violence” by Susan M. Squier and Julie Vedder on 407-25.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A New World" Y1 - 1987 A1 - Alasdair [James] Gray (1934-2019) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

A dystopia in which everyone is under corporate control and limited to one room. People are promised a new world where they are promised they will have more room, which is achieved by shrinking them. 

JF - Fiction Magazine VL - 6.2 N1 -

Rpt. illus. by the author in his Ten Tales Tall and True (Edinburgh, Scot.: Canongate, 1993), 97-101. U.S. ed. (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1993), 97-101; and in his Every Short Story, 1952-2012 (Edinburgh, Scot.: Canongate, 2012), 621-24. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Night of No Joy" Y1 - 1987 A1 - W[alter] Warren Wagar (1932-2004) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The second of three dystopian stories set in a world in which reality is unravelling and nothing rational appears to remain and violence erupts everywhere. See also 1986 and 1988 Wagar.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 42.6 (433) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Night Walk" Y1 - 1987 A1 - Edward [Falaise] Upward (1903-2009) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Capitalist dystopia in an England occupied by an unidentified foreign power with reactionary policies. Some discussion of resistance/revolutionary tactics.

JF - The Night Walk and Other Stories PB - Heinemann CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Obernewtyn Y1 - 1987 A1 - Isobelle Jane Carmody (b. 1958) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

The first of a seven-volume series known as the Obernewtyn Chronicles that begins as a post-catastrophe young adult eugenic dystopia in which eugenic regulations are used to control those with advanced mental powers. Obernewtyn is an enclave on this world, and in this novel the Misfits win and bring peace to Obernewtyn. In the second volume, The Farseekers. Book 2 of The Obernewtyn Chronicles. Ringwood, VIC, Australia: Viking, 1990, the authoritarian regime of the Council threatens the peace of Obernewtyn and some of the Misfits and the Farseeker go on a quest that they hope will give them the information necessary to keep the peace. In the third volume, Ashling. Book 3 of The Obernewtyn Chronicles. Ringwood, VIC, Australia: Viking, 1995, the Farseeker travels to the city of the Council to forge an alliance, and she begins a search for the weapons that had almost destroyed the world earlier and might do so again. In the fourth volume, The Keeping Place. Camberwell, VIC, Australia: Penguin Books, 1999. 754 pp., volume the various themes of the previous volumes appear to be brought to a successful resolution, but the series continues. In the fifth volume, The Stone Key. Camberwell, VIC, Australia: Penguin/Viking, 2008. 1000 pp. Published in the U.S. as two volumes, The Stone Key. New York: Random House, 2008; and Wavesong. New York: Random House, 2008, the Farseeker discovers that there is opposition to the reforms brought about in the previous volume, and she must stop a plot against them. In the sixth volume, The Sending. Camberwell, VIC, Australia: Penguin/Viking, 2011. 756 pp., the quest continues with new obstacles to be overcome. And in the seventh volume, The Red Queen. Camberwell, VIC, Australia: Penguin/Viking, 2015. 1108 pp., after many further adventures, the issues are resolved. Related stories are “The Dark Road: An Obernewtyn Story.” Legends of Australian Fantasy. Ed. Jack Dann and Jonathan Strahan (Sydney, NSW, Australia: Harper Voyager Australia, 2010), 131-56, with an author’s “Afterword” on 156-57; and “The Journey.” Trust Me Too. Ed. Paul Collins. Ormond, Vic, Australia: Hybrid Publishers/Ford Street Publishing, 2012. Ebook. 

PB - Puffin Books assisted by the Literature Board of the Australia Council CY - Ringwood, VIC, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Paperchaser Y1 - 1987 A1 - Penny [Jane] Hall (b. 1941) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult dystopia of an authoritarian twenty-first century Sydney. There is danger on the one side from the security services and on the other from violent gangs. An underground of homeless youth live outside the system in various places around the city. See also 1989 Hall.

PB - Walter McVitty Books CY - Glebe, NSW, Australia U5 -

NZ

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Penal Colony Y1 - 1987 A1 - Richard Herley KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Britain has island prison colonies for the worst offenders, and they are run by the prisoners.

PB - Grafton CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Project Millennium Y1 - 1987 A1 - Curtis H[oward] Hoffmann (b. 1956) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

War as entertainment on a peaceful planet.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Promise" Y1 - 1987 A1 - Fenoglio, Mary ED - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) ED - The Friends of Darkover [pseud.] KW - Female author AB -

Free Amazon story.

JF - Red Sun of Darkover PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

Merril, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Rain" Y1 - 1987 A1 - Michael Skeet (b. 1955) ED - Phyllis [Fay Bloom] Gotlieb (1926-2009) ED - Douglas Barbour (b. 1940) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Class-based dystopia. The poor living deepest underground.

JF - Tesseracts2 PB - Porcépic Press CY - Victoria, BC, Canada U5 -

Can, Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Recent Martyr Y1 - 1987 A1 - Valerie Martin (b. 1948) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Near future tale set in a dystopia in New Orleans including the bubonic plague and collapsing social services.

PB - Houghton, Mifflin Co CY - Boston, MA U5 -

MoSp

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Reparations Y1 - 1987 A1 - Gordon Wardman (b. 1947) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a future Britain generally in collapse.

PB - Secker & Warburg CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Return to Shangri-La Y1 - 1987 A1 - [Robert James] Leslie Halliwell (1929-89) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A sequel to 1933 Hilton that is mostly adventure but with a search for and discovery of Shangri-la, which is presented as a eutopia in much the same terms as in the original. 

PB - Grafton CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - Revolutionary Politics Y1 - 1987 A1 - Raymond B[arry] Mehlhopt (b. 1954) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Detailed non-fiction eutopia for New Zealand with a stress on economic issues. See 1988 Mehlhopt for a detailed set of political proposals. See also 1997 and 1999 Mehlhopt.

PB - Seagull Press CY - Christchurch, New Zealand U5 -

VUW

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Revolutionizing Reform Y1 - 1987 A1 - Jerome Shuchter KW - Male author AB -

Non-fiction socialist eutopia with suggestions for the period of transition.

PB - Dorrance & Co CY - Bryn Mawr, PA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Rules of Life Y1 - 1987 A1 - Fay Weldon (1931-2023) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Near future satire. New religion can communicate with the dead.

PB - Harper & Row CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Running Away From Home Y1 - 1987 A1 - Rachel McAlpine (b. 1940) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

A dystopia with some eutopian elements in which big government and big business have no concern for the people. Related to 1985 McAlpine in that the dominant world power is the RUSA. Also related in that one of the centers of concern is the environmental destruction caused by government and business and in its antinuclear theme. The eutopian elements are found in the ability of people to work together cooperatively and in a strong feminist current showing women freeing themselves from the dominance of men and then being able to create equal partnerships with men who are also capable of doing so.

PB - Penguin Books (N.Z.) CY - Auckland, New Zealand U5 -

ATL, NZ, PSt, VUW

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Running on Empty Y1 - 1987 A1 - Heifner, Jack KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Environmental dystopia set in a U.S. that has depleted its resources.

PB - Dramatists Play Service CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Sanctity" Y1 - 1987 A1 - R. M. Lamming ED - Christopher [D.] Evans (b. 1951) ED - Robert Holdstock (1948-2009) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia controlling all aspects of life that the protagonists believed had stopped enforcing its laws. 

JF - Other Edens PB - Unwin Paperbacks CY - London U5 -

DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Sea and Summer Y1 - 1987 A1 - George [Reginald] Turner (1916-97) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Class divided future dystopia.

PB - Faber and Faber CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Grafton, 1989. U.S. ed. as Drowning Towers. New York: Arbor House/William Morrow, 1988. Part originally published as "The Fittest." Urban Fantasies. Ed. David King and Russell Blackford (Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Ebony Books, 1985), 105-31. Story rpt. in his A Pursuit of Miracles (North Adelaide, SA, Australia: Aphelion Publications, 1990), 175-207; and in Mortal Fire: Best Australian SF. Ed. Terry Dowling and Van Ikin (Rydalmere, NSW, Australia: Hodder & Stoughton (Australia), 1993), 229-62.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sea of Glass Y1 - 1987 A1 - Barry B[rookes] Longyear (b. 1942) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia.

PB - St. Martin's Press CY - New York U5 -

MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Second Third of C" Y1 - 1987 A1 - Neil Ferguson (b. 1947) KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia. A society with extreme rich-poor divisions, books largely gone, government in the poor areas collapsed but remaining strong and ruthless in the rich areas.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 19 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Secret Ascension: Philip K. Dick Is Dead, Alas Y1 - 1987 A1 - Michael [Lawson] Bishop (1945-2023) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Alternative history. The United States won the war in Vietnam and President Nixon is in his fourth term.

PB - Tor CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. as Philip K. Dick is Dead, Alas. London: Grafton, 1988.

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U.K. ed. as Philip K. Dick is Dead, Alas

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Sexual Chemistry" Y1 - 1987 A1 - Brian [Michael] Stableford (b. 1948) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Developments in biochemistry aimed at sexual prowess result in a vaguely described eutopia.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 20 N1 -

Rpt. as “A Career in Sexual Chemistry.” In his Sexual Chemistry: Sardonic Tales of the Genetic Revolution (London: Simon & Schuster, 1990), 21-41. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Shelter Y1 - 1987 A1 - Mary Kittredge (b. 1949) A1 - Kevin O'Donnell Jr. (1950-2012) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopian city that becomes insane.

PB - Tor CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Smiles and the Millennium Y1 - 1987 A1 - Miranda Miller (b. 1950) KW - Female author KW - UK author AB -

Future dystopia featuring the extremely wealthy contrasted with the extremely poor.

PB - Virago CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - Spiral of Fire Y1 - 1987 A1 - Michael Cope (b. 1941) KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

Set in 1986 and thus contemporary but depicts Cape Town, South Africa as a dystopia of violence.

PB - David Philip CY - Cape Town, South Africa U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Sport of Nature Y1 - 1987 A1 - Nadine Gordimer (1923-2014) KW - Female author KW - South African author AB -

Includes a brief description of a racially inclusive, democratic eutopia in a future Africa called Azania. Azania was the preferred name for South Africa of the Black Consciousness movement.

PB - Alfred A. Knopf CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Jonathan Cape, 1987. Rpt. Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin, 1988.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Squirrels in Frankfurter Highlight" Y1 - 1987 A1 - Rhea Rose ED - Phyllis [Fay Bloom] Gotlieb (1926-2009) ED - Douglas Barbour (b. 1940) KW - Canadian author AB -

Dystopia of people living by playing computer games to try to earn enough to protect themselves from being forcibly enrolled in the military and sent into space. The poor sell body parts so that the rich can live better.

JF - Tesseracts2 PB - Porcépic Press CY - Victoria, BC, Canada U5 -

Can, Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Stainless Steel Rat Gets Drafted Y1 - 1987 A1 - Harry [Max] Harrison (1925-2012) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

 Primarily an adventure novel, but part of the adventure is set in an egalitarian eutopia with no crime. 

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York U5 -

CU-Riv, Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Star Griffin Y1 - 1987 A1 - Michael [Joseph] Kurland (b. 1938) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of overpopulation and violence.

PB - Doubleday & Co. CY - Garden City, NY U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Stepfather Bank Y1 - 1987 A1 - D[avid] C[harles] Poyer (b. 1949) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia set in 2110 under the control of a single monopolistic, fully automated bank that owns the entire world and employs everyone except one man who defies and undermines the system.

PB - St. Martin's Press CY - New York SN - 0-312-00687-X U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sylviron Y1 - 1987 A1 - Joel David Welty (1927-2012) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of bigness contrasted with a small cooperative village. The dystopia is a hierarchical, authoritarian system that uses social welfare as a means of control. All citizens are required to visit their case worker every week, and in return they get a wide range of benefits tailored to their status. The eutopia is an ecologically designed cooperative village called Sylviron where everyone lives outside the control of the dystopia, and the plot of the novel focuses on the attempts of the dystopia to control Sylviron and the successful resistance. 

PB - Sylviron Foundation CY - Freeland, MI U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Temporary King” Y1 - 1987 A1 - Paul J[ames] McAuley (b. 1955) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

In the story a mother is telling her child about growing up in an enclave established by the Marginal Cultures Council (MCC) which was a traditional agricultural community with traditional gender roles and no technology. None of the inhabitants (three generations are depicted) know that there is an advanced technological society nearby. After it is revealed, many leave for the city.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 72.1 (428) N1 -

Rev. in his A Very British History: The Best Science Fiction Stories of Paul McAuley, 1985-2011 (Hornsea, Eng.: PS Publishing, 2013), 23-49 with an author’s note on 425. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Texas Triumphant Y1 - 1987 A1 - Daniel da Cruz [Jr.] (1921-1991) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Third in a series. See 1982 and 1986 da Cruz. In this volume a libertarian eutopia is established with local independence. Anti-Communist novel.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York U5 -

Merril, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Thanatos Syndrome Y1 - 1987 A1 - Walker Percy (1916-90) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of the very near future United States in which scientists chemically suppress human individuality. The protagonist's name, Dr. Tom More, continues the connection with the author of Utopia mentioned in 1971 Percy.

PB - Farrar Straus Giroux CY - New York N1 -

A limited first edition signed by the author and with a frontispiece by Jim Spanfeller and “A Special message for the first edition from Walker Percy” for the members of The Signed First Edition Society. Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1987.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Three Fingers in Utopia" Y1 - 1987 A1 - Philip Sidney Jennings ED - Trevor Jones ED - George P. Townsend KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Flawed utopia. Eutopia of love and ease is maintained by individuals experiencing a dream of past ugliness.

JF - Dream Magazine VL - no. 11 N1 -

Rpt. in A Book of Dreams: An Anthology of the best SF from ‘DREAM’ and ‘NEW MOON’ 1985-1987. Ed. Trevor Jones and George P. Townsend (Godmanchester, Huntingdon, Cambs., Eng.: Weller Publications, 1990), 38-44. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Time Pressure Y1 - 1987 A1 - Spider Robinson (b. 1948) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Prequel to his 1982 Mindkiller in which a woman has travelled to the past to bring about changes that will make it possible to avoid the conditions described in Mindkiller. It includes a description of communal life in Nova Scotia that could be construed as eutopian. The second volume of what comes to be called the Lifehouse Trilogy, which includes his 1982 Mindkiller and 1997 Life House

PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in The Lifehouse Trilogy (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2007), 231-437 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Torch Y1 - 1987 A1 - Jill Paton Walsh (b. 1939) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult post-catastrophe dystopia in which most civilizations have disappeared, and people live in small settlements scratching a living. The novel focuses on two young people forced to marry who are passed on the last Olympic torch and try to return to its home. 

PB - Viking Kestrel CY - London U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - USSA. A Novel Y1 - 1987 A1 - James N[orbert] Frey (b. 1943) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia about an American capitalist about to become head of the Federal Reserve who is in fact an agent of the Soviet KGB planning to create a Soviet U.S.

PB - Zebra Books/Kensington Publishing CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - U.S.S.A. Book 1 Y1 - 1987 A1 - Tom De Haven (b. 1949) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia about a military coup in the U.S. that produced the United Secure States of America.

PB - Avon Books CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - U.S.S.A. Book 2 Y1 - 1987 A1 - S[hariann] N. Lewitt (b. 1954) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 1987 De Haven. In this volume the main protagonist and his girlfriend are trying to escape and help form a teenage underground resistance movement. See also 1987 Sykes and Lewitt, Book 4.

PB - Avon Books CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - U.S.S.A. Book 3 Y1 - 1987 A1 - S[ondra] C[atharine] Sykes (1943-2005) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 1987 De Haven and 1987 Lewitt. See also Lewitt, Book 4. In this volume the protagonist’s father is put in a “reorientation camp”.

PB - Avon Books CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - U.S.S.A. Book 4 Y1 - 1987 A1 - S[hariann] N. Lewitt (b. 1954) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 1987 De Haven and her Book 2. See also 1987 Sykes. In this volume the teenage underground successfully overthrows the military coup and the U.S.A. is re-established.

PB - Avon Books CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Utopia 3200: A Political, Social, and Economic Fantasy Y1 - 1987 A1 - Levin Wilson Foster (b. 1907) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

After a nuclear war, the U.S. emerges and the sole power, and it establishes one-world government that eliminates all opposition throughout the world. While the government the successfully improves the lot of the remaining people, anyone who dissents is imprisoned.

PB - Vantage Press CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Vacuum Flowers Y1 - 1987 A1 - Michael [Jürgen] Swanwick (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Complex novel of various worlds--mostly dystopian--based on the ability to program people with different personae. Earth has been taken over by the Comprise--linked minds in many human bodies.

PB - Arbor House CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Veritas" Y1 - 1987 A1 - James [Kenneth] Morrow (b. 1947) ED - George Zebrowski (b. 1945) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia that uses technological means to kill fantasy.

JF - Synergy: New Science Fiction PB - Harcourt Brace Jovanovich CY - San Diego, CA VL - Number 1 N1 -

Rpt. in The Savage Humanists. Ed. Fiona Kelleghan (Calgary, AL, Canada: Robert J. Sawyer Books, 2008), 235-56 with an editor's note on 233-34.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Voyage to Inishneefa: A First-hand Account of the Fifth Voyage of Lemuel Gulliver (First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships) Y1 - 1987 A1 - John Paul Brady KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on contemporary Ireland.

PB - John Daniel, Publisher CY - Santa Barbara, CA ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Western Lands Y1 - 1987 A1 - William S[eward] Burroughs (1914-97) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The final volume of a trilogy that also includes 1981 Cities of the Red Night and his 1983 The Place of Dead Roads. The title refers to the ancient Egyptian land of the dead west of the Nile. The novel, taking place in the past and the present includes the typical Burroughs’s dystopian themes. 

PB - Viking CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - When Gravity Fails Y1 - 1987 A1 - George Alec Effinger (1947-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future dystopia of adventure and violence written as a mystery novel set in a future Middle East, which is the dominant area in a world where both the Western countries and the Soviet Union have broken up into smaller units. The novel has been called cyberpunk because people plug modules, known as "moddies", into their brains to become whoever they want. The sequels A Fire in the Sun. New York: Doubleday, 1989, The Exile Kiss. New York: Doubleday, 1991 have the same setting, as do some of the stories in a posthumous collection Budayeen Nights. Urbana, IL: Golden Gryphon, 2003.

PB - Arbor House CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1988. Collector's Edition illus. Mark Maxwell and with an "Introduction" by James Gunn (v-ix). Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1993.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Wild Card Run Y1 - 1987 A1 - Sara [Lucinda] Stamey (b. 1953) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which computers are forcing evolutionary changes in humans. Sequels include Win, Lose, Draw. New York: Ace Books, 1988; and Double Blind. New York: Ace Books, 1990. 

PB - Berkley Books CY - New York U5 -

Merril, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Wingwomen of Hera Y1 - 1987 A1 - Sandi Hall (b. 1942) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

Feminist eutopia. Two planets are described. The feminist eutopia is Hera, which appears to be inhabited only by telepathic, winged women. The other planet, Maladar, exists in caves in the Ice and is dominated by men. The novel deals with a deadly disease found on both planets, with the struggles of one woman on Maladar, and with the spacefaring of the women on Hera.

PB - Spinsters/Aunt Lute CY - San Francisco, CA U5 -

ATL, NZ

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Winston Three Three Three Y1 - 1987 A1 - Dennis [Malcolm] Barker (1929-2015) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia set in 2089. The Imperial Russian Empire rules Britain.

PB - Grafton CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A World for the Meek: A Fantasy Novel Y1 - 1987 A1 - Harry Willson KW - Male author AB -

Post-catastrophe novel that is something of a Robinsonade and something of a last man novel. The eutopia develops as a community among a lone human survivor and advanced dolphins and octopi.

PB - Amador Publishers CY - Albuquerque, NM U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Year Before Yesterday Y1 - 1987 A1 - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Alternative history including a fascist Britain.

PB - Franklin Watts CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1988. Contains his “The Impossible Smile” first published in a different form under the pseudonym Jael Craken in Science Fantasy 23 - 24.72 - 73 (May – June 1965): 5-43, 5-44. Rpt. in SF Reprise 6 (1966): 5-43, 5-44; and “Equator” first published in New Worlds Science Fiction 25.75 - 76 (September - October 1958): 4-41; 80-121; and as Vanguard from Alpha. New York: Ace Books, 1959. Ace Double bound with Kenneth Bulmer’s The Changeling Worlds

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - After the Fact Y1 - 1986 A1 - Hélène [Papachristides] Holden KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia. Unexplained breakdown of civilization.

PB - Oberon Press CY - [Ottawa, ON, Canada] U5 -

Can, Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Aiki Y1 - 1986 A1 - John Gilbert (b. 1926) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future dystopia. Rigid division between rich and poor. Drugs and television used to control the masses. Rebellion.

PB - Donald I. Fine CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Pocket Books, 1986.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Anarchy Comics No. 4 Y1 - 1986 AB -

The anarchist, feminist eutopia described in illustrations taken from many different comic strips with the captions providing the descriptions.

PB - Molly Steiner Collective CY - Ann Arbor, MI U5 -

MiU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "And He Not Busy Being Born. . . ." Y1 - 1986 A1 - Brian [Michael] Stableford (b. 1948) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopian/dystopian society of the future. Virtually immortal people remain children physically, know no difficulties. Story is about a man from the past who is revived.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 16 U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Arthur C. Clarke's July 20, 2019. A Day In the Life of the 21st Century Y1 - 1986 A1 - Arthur C[harles] Clarke ed. [written by] (1917-2008) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Although Clarke gives credit to a number of people for their contributions, this is not an edited collection. Presented as a series of predictions, but the general effect is so positive that it can be called a eutopia.

PB - Grafton Books CY - London U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "As Big As the Ritz" Y1 - 1986 A1 - Gregory [Albert] Benford (b. 1941) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Social science fiction depicting three societies, one of them at some length. This one is presented as a eutopia based on cloning and conditioning. Low tech world based, in part, on high tech.

JF - Interzone VL - no 18 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Ballad of Halo Jones Y1 - 1986 A1 - Alan [Oswald] Moore (b. 1953) A1 - Ian Gibson KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Cartoon series. Includes a dystopia near New York where all the unemployed are sent.

PB - Titan Books CY - London VL - 3 vols. U2 -

Ian Gibson

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MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Band of Angels Y1 - 1986 A1 - Julian F. Thompson KW - Male author AB -

Young adult quest novel with a dystopian background. A group of anti-nuclear teenagers set off across the U.S. followed by government agents intending to kill them.

PB - Scholastic CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Beyond Capitalism Y1 - 1986 A1 - J[ohn] B[ernard] Ball (b. 1911) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Detailed eutopia similar to his early works but more fictionalized in that it is presented as an explanation to emissaries from a nation that has chosen not to join the Technomic Alliance. Automation used only where it does not take jobs away from people or in hazardous situations (49). The indigenous population has been fully integrated into the new system (86). All religious officials are now elected by church members on a national basis and are completely self-funded (49). In 1957 the author ran in the Canadian federal election as a candidate in Regina, Saskatchewan for the National Credit Control Party, a party of his own creation. His purpose was to publicize the monetary system he developed. See “J.B. Ball National Credit Control” within “Six Candidates Offer Final Election Message.” The Leader-Post (Regina, SK, Canada) 48.132 (June 8, 1957): 3. Another fictionalized version is Technomics in one corporate world. By Barney Ballmark [pseud.]. [Foremost, AB: Author], [1983]. See also 1956 Ball Ahoy for Eternity and National Credit, The Handbook of the Universal Monetary System, and Universal Monetary System of National Credit Control, and The Universal Monetary System of National Credit Control: A Financial Revolution With Nationalized Accounting Merchandising at Cost; 1961 Ball, Cosmocracy: The Universal Monetary System. Regina, SK, Canada: J.B. Ball; 1978 Ball, Permacredit. Universal Finance for Government & Industry. World Government without Trade Deficits. A Cash System of Accounting without Debt in Industry or Government or Taxes Against Industry or Credit Cards. Foremost, AB: Author; 1980 Ball, The Cosmic Laws of the Spectrum: Evolution and Government. By Barney Ballmark [pseud.]. [Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications];1982 Ball, Technomics. A Better Economy. International. By Barney Ballmark [pseud.]. [Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications]; and 1988 Ball, The Laws of the Micro Giants. An Odyssean Classic. Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications. Other versions include The Technomic Alliance [subtitle on the cover No Taxes on property or income, the obvious solution, total employment]. 3rd ed. By Barney Ballmark [pseud.]. Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications, 1984; Pathway to the Stars: Industrial Democracy Beyond Democracy and Christianity Plus the Photon Theory of Creation. Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications, 1986. [New ed.] as The Pathway to the Stars. The Photon theory of Creation. Poetry. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1987. Rpt. as Pathway to the Stars. Industrial Democracy Beyond Capitalism and Christianity Plus the Photon Theory of Creation. Includes Poetry Selections. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1989. Another ed. as The Pathway to the Stars. By The Hobo Poet [pseud.]. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1990 in four sections, [“Memoirs, Poetry, and Stories] (1-164),” “Industrial Capitalism--Beyond Capitalism” (165-213), “Gleaning from Prairie Art Shows” (214-29), and “Radiation Properties of Creation” (230-51); Technomics International. Perpetual Payroll Financing for Government and Industry. Rev. October 1986. [Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1986; Industrial Democracy. Beyond Capitalism and Christianity. Includes the Photon Laws of Creation. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1989; and Industrial Democracy. Beyond Capitalism. This concept of world marketing explains how nations can finance total employment, without international debt, or taxation on property and income. New Economic System. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1990. 53 pp.

PB - Ballmark Publications CY - Foremost, AB, Canada U5 -

Can

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Beyond Tomorrow, A Rational Utopia Y1 - 1986 A1 - Burnham P[utnam] Beckwith Ph.D. (b. 1904) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Detailed eutopia set in Los Angeles 500 years in the future. World federal government of thirteen countries. New language. Government by experts, no government worker can earn more than twice as much as the average worker. Monetary incentives to perform better or take on certain jobs common. 

PB - B. P. Beckwith CY - Palo Alto, CA U5 -

TxU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Bones of God Y1 - 1986 A1 - Stephen [Walter] Leigh (b. 1951) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A theocracy faces a new Messiah.

PB - Avon CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Headline, 1988.

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Captive Planet Y1 - 1986 A1 - Gregory J[on] Smith KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Christian science fiction. Authoritarian dystopia and the battle of good and evil. Good wins.

PB - Bethany House Publishers CY - Minneapolis, MN U5 -

InFwA

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Children of Arable Y1 - 1986 A1 - David [Corderoy] Belden (b. 1949) KW - Male author KW - UK author KW - US author AB -

The novel is about a future genderless society when a woman is born, and the woman becomes an advocate for revolutionary change. The second volume and final volume in the series is To Warm the Earth. New York: New American Library, 1988. Rev. with the subtitle Book II of the Gendering Series. Poughkeepsie, NY: Vivisphere Publishing, 2002 is set in a future frozen Earth and a woman from that Earth finds a man from another world who can help Earth. In this volume, the author says that he was at work on the third volume, which does not appear to have been published, and had revised both previous volumes in light of that work.

PB - New American Library CY - New York N1 -

Rev. ed. as Children of Arable. Book 1 of the Gendering Series. Revised version of the formerly published novel. Poughkeepsie, NY: Vivisphere Publishing, 2001. 

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CU-Riv, Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Circuit Y1 - 1986 A1 - Melinda M[arilyn] Snodgrass (b. 1951) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Space law and courts in conflict with political power. The protagonist is a judge of space law who believes that justice rather than political power should determine decisions, which leads to an attempt to impeach him. See also her Circuit Breaker. New York: Berkley Books, 1987, which continues the same theme and the same protagonist with the focus on a conflict between the residents of Mars and a wealthy conglomerate; and Final Circuit. New York: Ace Books, 1988, in which the circuit court on which the protagonist sat has been disbanded, and his impeachment is ordered as war breaks out. 

PB - Berkley Books CY - New York U5 -

DLC, Merril, MoU-St, PPT

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Cod Streuth Y1 - 1986 A1 - Bamber Gascoigne (b. 1935) KW - Male author AB -

Humor. A Puritan minister equipped with sections of Rabelais leads a tribe who take to Rabelais with great enthusiasm.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Paladin, 1987.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Coming of the Prophet Bird Y1 - 1986 A1 - Ted Sheasby (b. 1920) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Catastrophe story with survivors in which those most in touch with nature do best.

PB - Author CY - Cambridge, New Zealand U5 -

ATL, DU-Ho

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Coming of the Quantum Cats Y1 - 1986 A1 - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Presents a number of alternative societies, mostly dystopian. A central one has the United States dominated by Islam with the F.B.I. [Federal Bureau of Investigation] a major political force.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Confessions of Madame Psyche: Memoirs and Letters of Mei-li Murrow Y1 - 1986 A1 - Dorothy [Calvetti] Bryant (b. 1930) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Primarily an historical novel but includes a description of an intentional community that was designed to be a “Garden of Eden”, and one section of the novel traces its rise and fall. Female author.

PB - Ata Books CY - Berkeley, CA N1 -

Rpt. New York: The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 1998 with an “Afterword” by J.J. Wilson (377-92). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Corpse Y1 - 1986 A1 - Mick [Michael Anthony] Farren (1943-2013) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Future dystopia. Corporate control with corporations fiercely competitive, to the extent of putting arranging to have competitors killed. Large scale permanent unemployment. Lots of violence, conflict among groups struggling for power.

PB - New English Library CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. as Vickers. New York: Ace Books, 1988.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Count Zero" Y1 - 1986 A1 - William [Ford] Gibson (b. 1948) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future surreal dystopia of huge corporations. See also his 1984 Neuromancer.

JF - Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine VL - 10.1 - 3 N1 -

Repub. London Victor Gollancz, 1986.

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Crisis! Y1 - 1986 A1 - James E[dwin] Gunn (1923-2020) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel is about a man from a dysfunctional future sent to the past to try to change enough to create a better future, but every change changes both past and future, with little positive change.

PB - Tor CY - New York N1 -

Sections originally in Analog as “Child of the Sun” 97.3 (March 1977): 74-90, 92-98; “End of the World” 101.1 (January 1984): 70-88; “Man of the Hour” 104.10 (October 1984): 106-28; “Touch of the Hour” 105.2 (February 1985): 106-29; “Mother of the Year” 105.4 (April 1985): 138-58; and “Will of the Wisp” 105.5 (May 1985): 54-76.

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DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Cry Wolf Y1 - 1986 A1 - Aileen La Tourette (b. 1946) KW - Female author KW - UK author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe novel about a controlled dystopia gradually becoming freer.

PB - Virago CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Day of No-Judgement” Y1 - 1986 A1 - W[alter] Warren Wagar (1932-2004) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The first of three dystopian stories in which an unexplained “effect” unravels reality. Seen through the eyes of a professor who appears to be immune to whatever is causing the problem who is trying to understand the changes in things and people, including one of his female students who seems to both hate and love him, and with whom he falls in love. See 1987 and 1988 Wagar for the other stories. 

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 70.4 (419) U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Deathwish World Y1 - 1986 A1 - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) A1 - Dean Ing (1931-2020) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia. Story of the ultimate gamble where one becomes the target for hired killers in exchange for great wealth for life, albeit usually a short one. One who survives and, as a result, is targeted by the government, plots, successfully to overthrow it.

PB - Baen Books CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Door Into Ocean Y1 - 1986 A1 - Joan [Lyn] Slonczewski (b. 1956) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Complex feminist and ecological eutopia on an ocean planet with no men that practices cooperation and nonviolence in conflict with a male dominated, authoritarian society that wants to take the knowledge that the women have by force and control the planet. Her eutopian Daughter of Elysium (1993) is also part of her Elysium Cycle as are her non-utopia “The Children Star.” Illus. Darryl Elliott in Analog 118. 4 – 7/8 (April – July/August 1998): 10-16, 18-59; 10-54; 58-97; 180-218, 220-222; rpt. without the illus. New York: Tor, 1998; and Brain Plague. New York: Tor, 2000.

PB - Arbor House CY - New York N1 -

Collector's Edition illus. Michael Mariano and with an "Introduction" by Pamela Sargent (v-ix). Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1992.

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Double Nocturne Y1 - 1986 A1 - Cynthia [Lindgren] Felice (b. 1942) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Background of an authoritarian dystopia in which women suppress men.

PB - Bluejay CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: DAW, 1986

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IQ

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Down and Out in the Year 2000" Y1 - 1986 A1 - Kim Stanley Robinson (b. 1952) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of being poor in a future failing United States.

JF - Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine VL - 10.4 N1 -

Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Fourth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1987), 530-43 with an editor’s note on 529; in Robinson’s Remaking History (New York: Tor, 1991), 198-215; and in Cyberpunk: Stories of Hardware, Software, Wetware, Revolution and Evolution. Ed. Victoria Blake (Portland, OR: Underhand Press, 2013), 089-106.

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Dream Catcher Y1 - 1986 A1 - Monica [Mary] Hughes (1925-2003) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Sequel to 1984 Hughes. Continuing struggle for freedom from a girl's perspective. Young adult.

PB - Methuen CY - Toronto, ON, Canada U5 -

Can

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dreams of an Unseen Planet Y1 - 1986 A1 - Teresa [Irene] Plowright (b. 1952) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

The novel is about the interactions between humans and planet Gaea, which is alive. The novel deals in particular with the responses of women. Canadian female author.

PB - Arbor House CY - New York U5 -

Can

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Escape Plans Y1 - 1986 A1 - Gwyneth [Ann] Jones (b. 1952) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Eutopia for elites; effectively slavery for the rest. See also 1985 Jones.

PB - Orion CY - London U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ethan of Athos Y1 - 1986 A1 - Lois McMaster [Joy] Bujold (b. 1949) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

While the focus of the novel is adventure, it is unusual in presenting a male homosexual society as a eutopia.

PB - Baen CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Headline, 1989.

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Eye of the Earth (Poems) Y1 - 1986 A1 - Niyi Osundare (b. 1947) KW - Male author KW - Nigerian author AB -

Poems that present the African past and environment in eutopan terms. While the poetry can be read in non-eutopian terms, the author makes this reading clear in the "Preface" (xi-xiv).

PB - Heinemann Educational Books CY - Ibadan, Nigeria U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Faithful Rebecca Y1 - 1986 A1 - Janice Eidus (b. 1951) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Feminist eutopia including an Amazon community in South America. Much of the novel is about a complicated relationship between two women and a man. 

PB - Fiction Collective CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Foundation and Earth Y1 - 1986 A1 - Isaac Asimov (1920-92) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Continuation of the Foundation series that continues the eutopia of the sentient planet Gaia in 1982 Asimov. See also 1988 Asimov.

PB - Doubleday & Co CY - Garden City, NY U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Free Y1 - 1986 A1 - M. Gilliland AB -

Mostly an anarchist revolution and the reaction to it, but there is a description of an anarchist eutopia.

PB - Hooligan Press CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Attack International, 1990.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Freeforall" Y1 - 1986 A1 - Margaret [Eleanor] Atwood (b. 1939) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

After the world is ravaged by sexually transmitted diseases, breeding is controlled to guarantee disease free children. The Freeforalls are where anyone who is outside the breeding program is sent. In these walled compounds, food is dropped in daily by helicopter, and there is no limit on sex, but it is expected that most will die fairly soon.

JF - The Toronto Star N1 -

Rpt. in Tesseracts2. Ed. Phyllis [Fay Bloom] Gotlieb and Douglas Barbour (Victoria, BC: Porcépic Press, 1987), 130-38; and Northern Suns. Ed. David G. Hartwell and Glenn Grant (New York: Tor, 1999), 17-24. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Freeman Y1 - 1986 A1 - Jerry [Jerome Morrell] Ahern (1946-2012) A1 - Sharon Ahern (b. 1948) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the United States has become a totalitarian state through the cancellation of the Second Amendment on the right to bear arms and appeasement of the Soviet Union. Survivalists resist. 

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ghost Y1 - 1986 A1 - [Piers Anthony Dillingham] [Jacob] (b. 1934) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of an energy-depleted earth as a background.

PB - Tor CY - New York U3 -

Piers Anthony [pseud.]

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MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Gilpin's Space Y1 - 1986 A1 - Reginald Bretnor (1911-92) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Earth is a dystopia with three factions, corporations, the Soviets, and a group forcing conformity that calls itself the Individualist People’s Party. A group of people manage to leave Earth and find another Earth-like planet to settle where they begin to create a better world.

PB - Ace Science Fiction Books CY - New York N1 -

Book I “Owl’s Flight Geoffrey Cormac” (1-77) was originally published as “Gilpin’s Space.” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 64.2 (February 1983): 4-60. 

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Goodman 2020 Y1 - 1986 A1 - [John] Fred[erick] Pfeil (1949-2005) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future dystopia of corporate power, drugs, and friendship as a commodity for sale. Some hope is held out at the end.

PB - Indiana University Press CY - Bloomington ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hard Wired Y1 - 1986 A1 - Walter Jon Williams (b. 1953) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Cyberpunk dystopia. See also his Voice of the Whirlwind. New York: Tor, 1987; and Solip:System. Eugene, OR: Axolotl Press, 1989.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

DLC, Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Hard Work or, The Secrets of Success" Y1 - 1986 A1 - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Corporate dystopia.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 17 N1 -

Rpt. in Mississippi Review, no. 47/48 (16.2 & 3) (1988): 170-93.

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MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Heir Y1 - 1986 A1 - John Preston KW - Male author AB -

Sadomasochistic eutopia.

PB - Caliente Press CY - Austin, TX N1 -

An earlier version appeared as an issue of Drummer, no. 82 (1985).

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Hush My Mouth" Y1 - 1986 A1 - Suzette Haden Elgin (1936-2015) ED - Charles G. Waugh ED - Martin H[arry] Greenberg (1941-2011) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Alternate history in which during the U.S. Civil War both North and South refuse to allow Blacks to serve and the war ends in a stalemate with neither side winning. The depleted southern forces return home riddled with disease and all whites die or, in a few cases, are killed. New Africa, the old South, was populated by people divided by their place of origin, without a common language, and unwilling to work together. A sect of Silents, who vow never to speak, arise to remind people of the sin of Pride.

JF - Alternate Histories: Eleven Stories Stories of the World As it Might Have Been PB - Garland CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Women of Other Worlds: Excursions Through Fiction and Feminism. Ed. Helen Merrick and Tess Williams (Perth, WA, Australia: University of Western Australia Press, 1999), 311-18.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Isaac Asimov Presents The Man Who Pulled Down the Sky Y1 - 1986 A1 - John [Allen] Barnes (b. 1957) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Conflict between the Orbital Republics, created by Earth but now dominating it, free colonies from around Jupiter and Saturn, and Earth, which has to be provoked to rebel. At the end the possibility of cooperation among all three groups exists.

PB - Congdon & Weed CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. as The Man Who Pulled Down the Sky. An Isaac Asimov Recommendation. London: New English Library 1988. 

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The title page reads as given, and The Library of Congress has cataloged it that way with The Man Who Pulled Down the Sky as an alternate title. U.K. ed. as The Man Who Pulled Down the Sky. An Isaac Asimov Recommendation.

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C, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Isaac Asimov Presents Through Darkest America Y1 - 1986 A1 - Neal [Patrick] Barrett Jr. (1929-2014) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a post-catastrophe America. The sequel Dawn’s Uncertain Light. New York: New American Library, 1989 is about a young man trying to find his sister in the devastation.

PB - Congdon & Weed CY - New York U1 -

The title page reads as given, and The Library of Congress has cataloged it that way with Through Darkest America as an alternate title.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Islay. A Novel Y1 - 1986 A1 - Douglas Bullard (1937-2005) KW - Deaf author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Humorous utopia written by a Deaf American about the establishment of a homeland for the deaf in which the protagonists are mostly deaf

PB - T. J. Publishers CY - Silver Springs, MD N1 -

Rpt. Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press, 2013, with a “Foreword” by Cynthia Pettie (ix-xvii). The reprint is a volume in Gallaudet Classics in Deaf Studies. 

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NLS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Keeper Y1 - 1986 A1 - Barry Faville (b. 1939) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Young adult post-catastrophe novel. Authoritarian dystopia focused on the continuing dangers of radiation sickness. The people are sliding into ignorance even though they assign one person, known as "the Keeper," to be a teacher and oversea the copying of past writing, in the hope that they will be understood again in the future.

PB - Oxford University Press CY - Auckland, New Zealand U4 -

It was translated into Catalan as Suggeriments didáctics sobre el libre El supervivent. Trans. Victor A. Oroval. Alzira, Spain: Edicions Bromera, 1989.

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VUW

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lacey and His Friends Y1 - 1986 A1 - David [Allen] Drake (1945-2023) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of constant surveillance and ruthless police.

PB - Baen Books CY - New York N1 -

Originally published as “Nation Without Walls.” Analog Science Fact--Science Fiction 97.7 (July 1977): 10-14, 16, 18-38; rpt. in his Grimmer Than Hell (New York: Baen, 2003), 268-98; “The Predators.” Destinies 1.5 (October-December 1979): 254-94; rpt. in his Grimmer Than Hell (New York: Baen, 2003), 299-328; “Underground.” Destinies 2.1 (February-March 1980): 218-72; “Travellers.” Destinies 3.1 (Winter 1981): 234-86; rpt. in his Grimmer Than Hell (New York: Baen, 2003), 329-73; and “Time Safari.” Destinies 3.2 (1981): 182-270. 

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Merril, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Election Y1 - 1986 A1 - Pete Davies (b. 1959) KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

Dystopia of a future Britain under the policies of Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013; Prime Minister 1979-90).

PB - André Deutsch CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Vintage, 1987.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Ranger Y1 - 1986 A1 - [Jan] [Stacy] (1948-89) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-nuclear war survivalist dystopia. A single heavily armed man fights against a different evil force in each volume as he single-handedly saves America. At the end of the last volume the Earth is completely destroyed.

PB - Popular Library CY - New York U3 -

Craig Sargent [pseud.]

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CU-Riv

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last War Y1 - 1986 A1 - Martyn Godfrey (1949-2000) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Young adult dystopia set after a nuclear war. 

PB - Collier Macmillan CY - Don Mills, ON, Canada N1 -

US ed. Illus. Greg Ruhl. New York: Collier Books/Macmillan, 1989. 91. pp. 

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Illus. Greg Ruhl

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MiDW

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lear Y1 - 1986 A1 - Mike Johnson (b. 1947) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia in which a group of individuals travel around a devastated New Zealand performing Lear and taking on the roles they play. The author also wrote an environmental political novel aimed at Monsanto's herbicide Roundup--Lethal Dose. Onehunga, Auckland, New Zealand: Hard Echo Press, 1991. 

PB - Hard Echo Press CY - Onehunga, Auckland, New Zealand U1 -

Cover adds The Shakespeare Company Plays Lear at Babylon.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Less Than Human Y1 - 1986 A1 - [Charles] [Platt] (b. 1945) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Humor set in a future New York City dystopia. The main character is a flawed robot.

PB - Avon Books CY - New York U3 -

Robert Clarke [pseud.]

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MoU-St, Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Man for the Job Y1 - 1986 A1 - Laurie Graham (b. 1947) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

Humor. Future dystopia of violence and human degeneration as the setting.

PB - Chatto & Windus CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Penguin, 1988.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Megastructures of Earth Y1 - 1986 A1 - J. Richard Williams KW - Male author AB -

Technological eutopia focusing on the engineering of immense structures that allowed a massive increase of the human population and the technology that makes a good life in these structures possible. The author says that the technology described is currently available or in development.

PB - Millennium Publishers CY - Huntington Beach, CA U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Milwaukee The Beautiful Y1 - 1986 A1 - [Bernard] [John] James (b. 1922) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Small is beautiful eutopia plus various dystopias.

PB - Donald I. Fine CY - New York U3 -

Dakota James [pseud.]

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Nature's End: The Consequences of the Twentieth Century Y1 - 1986 A1 - James [William] Kunetka (b. 1944) A1 - [Louis] Whitley Strieber (b. 1945) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Ecological dystopia of an overpopulated, polluted world set in 2025.

PB - Grafton Books CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - New Jerusalem Y1 - 1986 A1 - Len Jenkin KW - Male author AB -

Two dystopias. One is the future United States in which the story focuses on journalism that is all fiction of sex and violence. The second is an ex-penal colony called New Jerusalem that is to be evacuated. Violence, drugs, consumerism.

PB - Sun & Moon Press CY - Los Angeles, CA ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The News From D Street" Y1 - 1986 A1 - Andrew [Simon] Weiner (1949-2019) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia in which people are unable to remember.

JF - Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine VL - 10.10 N1 -

Rpt. in his Distant Signals and Other Stories (Victoria, BC, Canada: Porcépic Books, 1989), 9-38.

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Can, L, Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Nineteen Ninety-Four Y1 - 1986 A1 - William Osborne (b. 1960) A1 - Richard Turner KW - Male author AB -

Satire on Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four complete with an appendix on Adspeak.

PB - Arrow Books CY - London U5 -

L, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Not in Front of the Children" Y1 - 1986 A1 - George [Reginald] Turner (1916-97) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Generational conflict in a society with eight generations alive at the same time. Presents the radical separation between the generations of the extremely wealthy who could afford longevity treatments and between them and the majority who could not.

JF - Aphelion (Adelaide, SA, Australia) VL - no. 5 N1 -

Rpt. in Matilda at the Speed of Light. Ed. Damien [Francis] Broderick (North Ryde, NSW, Australia: Angus & Robertson, 1988), 152-74; and in his A Pursuit of Miracles (North Adelaide, SA, Australia: Aphelion Publications, 1990), 37-60.

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A, M, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Orgy" Y1 - 1986 A1 - Gary Kern KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of the Sovietization of the United States.

JF - Orgy & Other Things PB - Xenos Books CY - San Bernardino, CA U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Others Y1 - 1986 A1 - Alison Prince KW - Female author AB -

Young adult authoritarian dystopia. Designer bred children. Induced mutations to fit people for jobs. Electrodes implanted at birth to condition people to fit their function and education is really continued conditioning. Marriage partners often chosen by the state; free choice possible. Some people without implants mount a struggle against the state, which will ultimately be successful

PB - Methuen Children's Books CY - London U5 -

L, O

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Our Town" Y1 - 1986 A1 - Kim Stanley Robinson (b. 1952) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of class divisions.

JF - Omni 9.2 N1 -

Rpt. in his Remaking History (New York: Tor, 1991), 216-23; and in Lightspeed Magazine, no. 23 (April 2012).

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DLC, Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Outside the Gates Y1 - 1986 A1 - Molly Gloss (b. 1944) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult fantasy novel in which a young boy is expelled from a walled area into the surrounding area, where, he has been told, there are giants and monsters.

PB - Atheneum/Argo CY - New York U5 -

PPT

ER - TY - ABST T1 - O-Zone Y1 - 1986 A1 - Paul [Edward] Theroux (b. 1941) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Complex dystopia set in the early 21st century. The O-Zone or Outer Zone is what used to be called the Ozarks and is an area that was contaminated with nuclear waste. The novel focuses on New York City and the idle rich, known as Owners, who inhabit it in contrast with the poor, who are the overwhelming majority and are kept in check by the Owners.

PB - G. P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York N1 -

A limited first edition signed by the author, with a frontispiece by Douglas Smith, and a lengthy “A Special message for the first edition from Paul Theroux” for the members of The Signed First Edition Society. Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1987.

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PSt, PU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Partnership Y1 - 1986 A1 - Graeme Doel (b. 1940) KW - Male author AB -

Detailed Christian eutopia following a nuclear war with specific plans on how to achieve it. The eutopia is based on a Christian commercial enterprise, specifically manufacturing. Pacifist.

PB - Hexagon Press CY - Parramatta, NSW, Australia U1 -

Subtitle on the cover--Towards Tomorrows World

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A, M

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Perfect People Y1 - 1986 A1 - Robert [Howard] Lieberman (b. 1941) KW - Male author AB -

Flawed utopia presenting supposedly perfect people who aren't.

PB - Dell CY - New York U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Politicana Y1 - 1986 A1 - Julian Lloyd KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia set in an unnamed city which has fallen into poverty and violence. A dictator emerges, but as people work against him, apathy disappears, and political life re-emerges.

PB - Grosz & Lloyd Newsprint Novels CY - South Yarra, VIC, Australia U5 -

A, M

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Prologue to Freedom" Y1 - 1986 A1 - A[lfred] E[lton] van Vogt (1912-2000) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire. California divided between a capitalist South and a communist North.

JF - Worlds of If VL - 23.1 (176) N1 -

Rpt. in Lamps on the Brow. Ed. James Cahill (Aliso Viejo, CA: James Cahill Publishing, 1998), 169-200.

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Promise of the Rose Stone Y1 - 1986 A1 - Claudia McKay KW - Female author AB -

Feminist eutopia emerges after experience with a dystopia.

PB - New Victoria Publishers CY - Norwich, VT ER - TY - ABST T1 - Rankin: Enemy of the State Y1 - 1986 A1 - John Osier (b. 1938) KW - Male author AB -

Post-World War 3 U.S. authoritarian dystopia ruled by the Secret Police. The novel is about one man's struggle against the state.

PB - St. Luke's Press CY - Memphis, TN N1 -

Rpt. New York: Penguin, 1988.

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UC-R, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Reichs-Peace" Y1 - 1986 A1 - Sheila [Rosemary] Finch (b. 1935) ED - Gregory [Albert] Benford (b. 1941) ED - Martin H[arry] Greenberg (1941-2011) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Germany wins World War II, but Eva Hitler survives and moderates its aggressiveness.

JF - Hitler Victorious: Eleven Stories of the German Victory in World War II PB - Garland CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Women of Wonder, The Contemporary Years: Science Fiction by Women from the 1970s to the 1990s. Ed. Pamela Sargent (San Diego, CA: Harcourt, Brace, 1995), 172-90. 

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Renaissance Man" Y1 - 1986 A1 - Lesley [Willis] Choyce (b. 1951) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia. A world in which people are regularly re-made physically and mentally to fill social needs and to correct perceived psychological or physical problems.

JF - Dream Auditor PB - Indivisible Books CY - Charlottetown, PE, Canada U5 -

Can

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Settlement Y1 - 1986 A1 - Russell Haley (1934-2016) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. New Zealand being taken over by its military. The novel focuses on an old man living in a hospital complex and observing the activities around him; thus, the developing dystopia is largely in the background except for times when it directly affects his life.

PB - Hodder and Stoughton CY - Auckland, New Zealand N1 -

Part originally published as "The Middle of the Mere." Landfall, no. 155 (39.3) (September 1985): 269-88.

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ATL, IU, VUW

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Shining Steel Y1 - 1986 A1 - Lawrence Watt-Evans (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Religious planet known as Godsworld in conflict with traders from Earth.

PB - Avon CY - New York U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Shore of Women Y1 - 1986 A1 - Pamela Sargent (b. 1948) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Separate society for each sex. Women control science and technology.

PB - Crown CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. Dallas, TX: BenBella Books, 2004.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Shut the Door When You Go Out" Y1 - 1986 A1 - George [Reginald] Turner (1916-97) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Development of the hypothesis that the earth is a living entity. All of humanity has become a part of the Nexus, which, together with the earth, acts as one being.

JF - Aphelion (Adelaide, SA, Australia) VL - no. 4 N1 -

Rpt. in his A Pursuit of Miracles (North Adelaide, SA, Australia: Aphelion Publications, 1990), 85-91; in Glass Reptile Breakout and Other Australian Speculative Fiction. Ed. Van Ikin ([Perth, WA, Australia]: The Centre for the Study of Australian Literature, University of Western Australia, 1990), 139-43; and in Eidolon: The Journal of Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy (Perth, WA, Australia), no. 25/26 (October 1997): 53-57. 

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A

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Songs of Distant Earth Y1 - 1986 A1 - Arthur C[harles] Clarke (1917-2008) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Includes a description of a eutopia of abundance.

PB - Ballantine CY - New York N1 -

The first version of what became the novel was published as “The Songs of Distant Earth.” If. Worlds of Science Fiction 8.4 (June 1958): 6-29. This was rpt. in Science Fantasy 12.35 (June 1959): 99-128; in his The Other Side of the Sky (New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1958), 207-45; and in his From the Ocean, From the Stars (New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1962), 295-320. A second version was published as a short movie outline in Omni 12.3 (September 1981): 77-79, 132; and rpt. exp. with an introduction (291-93) in his The Sentinel: Masterworks of Science Fiction and Fantasy Illus. Lebbeus Woods (New York: Berkley Books, 1984), 295-99 and illus. on 294. 

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CU-Riv

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Star Country Y1 - 1986 A1 - Michael [Joseph] Cassutt (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a post-catastrophe America that has disintegrated into warring regions. Visiting aliens have supposedly brought a plan to rejuvenate Earth but one of the aliens flees with the plans. The rest of the novel is mostly set in the areas occupied by outlaws, well-protected communes, and other warring factions.

PB - Doubleday & Co CY - Garden City, NY SN - 0-385-19846-9 U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Staring at the Sun Y1 - 1986 A1 - Julian [Patrick] Barnes (b. 1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel traces the life of a woman from her childhood to old age (99), much of it in her own voice. The last section (139-97) is set in a future that has seen a revolt of old people demanding respect after a spate of Old People’s Suicides taking place outside the official voluntary euthanasia system. This is a very small part of the novel, with most of the third section reflections on death and religion through the eyes of her son, who is in conversation with the General Purpose Computer, then the supposedly more advanced, The Absolute Truth computer.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London SN - 0224024140 0-394-55821-9 N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. 197 pp. 

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PSt, PU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Strangers on Paradise" Y1 - 1986 A1 - Damon [Francis] Knight (1922-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia built upon the suffering of the previous inhabitants of a planet.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 70.4 (419) N1 -

Rpt. in his One Side Laughing: Stories Unlike Other Stories (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991), 1-19.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sweet Dreams, Sweet Princes Y1 - 1986 A1 - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) A1 - [Alan] [Gould] (b. 1951) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A Universal Disarmament Treaty has supposedly eliminated war by banning all weapons developed after 1900, but gladiatorial contests using pre-1900 weapons have become the means of settling disputes between both corporations and governments. But nuclear weapons still exist, and a situation arises in which they might be used, but in the end the three main power-blocs, the Western bloc, the Soviet bloc, and Common Europe agree to cooperate.

PB - Baen Books CY - New York U3 -

Michael Banks [pseud.]

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AzPh, CU-Riv, Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Symmes Hole Y1 - 1986 A1 - Ian Wedde (b. 1946) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

A complex novel that weaves together the history of whaling and contemporary New Zealand among other threads. One of the threads is a near future dystopia of the Americanization of New Zealand.

PB - Penguin Books CY - Auckland, New Zealand N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Faber and Faber, 1986.

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ATL, NZ, VUW

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Taronga Y1 - 1986 A1 - Victor [Michael Kitchener] Kelleher (b. 1939) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

Young adult post-catastrophe dystopia set in Australia. The catastrophe, which is not described, has left people fighting to survive and turning to cannibalism. Taronga, which is the Sydney zoo, looks like a food source to some but others protect the animals. At the end, after an epic battle, the animals are freed and move out into the countryside as do the central characters, a girl and a boy.

PB - Viking Kestral CY - Ringwood, VIC, Australia N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1988.

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L, NZ, VUW

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Texas On the Rocks Y1 - 1986 A1 - Daniel da Cruz [Jr.] (1921-1991) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Soviet dominated world of 2008 as background. See also 1982 and 1987 da Cruz.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Time-Slip Y1 - 1986 A1 - Graham Dunston Martin (b. 1932) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Post-catastrophe religious dystopia.

PB - Unwin Paperbacks CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - To Stand Beneath the Sun Y1 - 1986 A1 - [William] Brad[ley] Strickland (b. 1947) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Gender-role reversal dystopia on a planet with no technology. The women rule and are warriors, the men kept married to multiple women. A lone man from Earth rejects being part of such a system and brings about change.

PB - Signet CY - New York U5 -

Merril, MoU-St, PTU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Transect" Y1 - 1986 A1 - Kim Stanley Robinson (b. 1952) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The dystopia of apartheid.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 70.5 (420) N1 -

Rpt. in his Remaking History (New York: Tor, 1991), 224-35; and in Future Earths: Under African Skies. Ed. Mike [Michael Diamond] Resnick and Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: DAW Books, 1993), 160-73. 

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Merril, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Triad Y1 - 1986 A1 - Sheila [Rosemary] Finch (b. 1935) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Some elements of a gender-role reversal as background to the novel.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Utopia II: An Investigation into the Kingdom of God Y1 - 1986 A1 - John Schmidt KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Detailed Christian eutopia centered on the Second Coming of Christ in 3000, who will rule until 4000. Ideal, efficient city and architecture. Gender equality. Technologically advanced. Reincarnation. Said to be “for practical idealists” (2).

PB - Sun Books CY - Sante Fe, NM U5 -

NMU, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Utopia of Fido T. Farnsworth" Y1 - 1986 A1 - Randy Maxson KW - Male author AB -

Cartoon strip that begins in an authoritarian dystopia but moves to a cockaigne-like eutopia.

JF - The Geek Book: Cartoons and Stories PB - Zeke Publishing CY - Bowdoin, ME U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Venus of Dreams Y1 - 1986 A1 - Pamela Sargent (b. 1948) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The first volume of a trilogy about the Venus Project, a proposal to terraform Venus, which will take generations. The first volume lays out the beginnings of the project and some of the key people involved and suggests some of the problems to come. See also 1988, 2000, and 2001 Sargent.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York N1 -

Collectors' Edition. Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1990 illus. Ron Miller and with an "Introduction" (v-vii) by Gregory Benford.

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Watchmen Y1 - 1986 A1 - Alan [Oswald] Moore (b. 1953) A1 - Dave [David Chester] Gibbons (b. 1949) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia based around the actual events of the period but with superheroes being suppressed by the government but also used by the it. A film, Watchmen: The End Is Nigh, directed by Zach Snyder, was released in 2009. An HBO series  created by Damon Lindelof (b. 1973) was broadcast in nine episodes beginning October 20, 2019.

PB - DC Comics CY - New York VL - nos. 1-12 N1 -

Rpt. in one vol. New York: DC Comics, 1987; and as Watchman. The Deluxe Edition. New York: DC Comics, 2013.

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Dave [David Chester] Gibbons (b. 1949), illustrator.

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Whore of Babylon” Y1 - 1986 A1 - Leon [Léon] Zeldis ED - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) ED - Sam J. Lundwall KW - Chilean author KW - Israeli author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in an extremely authoritarian dystopia in Israel, with one of the first things learned in school is “I am free to obey, and I am happy to be free.” In the story his father takes him to the slums for his first visit to a prostitute, which has almost nothing to do with sex. 

JF - The Penguin World Omnibus of Science Fiction. An Anthology PB - Penguin Books CY - Harmondsworth, Eng. SN - 9780140080674 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Wickwyn: A Vision of the Future Y1 - 1986 A1 - Robert Van de Weyer KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A religious eutopia based on revived village life. The book presents the history of England up to the 1980s and then projects a future in which, while technology made it possible to eliminate economic insecurity, automation put people out of work. This led to a movement to the countryside and the revitalization of village life. 

PB - SPCK CY - London U5 -

O, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Womonseed: A Vision Y1 - 1986 A1 - Sunlight [pseud.] KW - Female author AB -

A women-only feminist eutopian community. The novel is told through a “Prologue” (1-7) the stories of sixteen women told at the summer solstice in 1999. After the failure of the U.S. government, local communities gradually became independent. In the pollution-free future, the women tell of their lives before finding the Womonseed community, except for one was born in the community and one who took a journey to the world outside the community, finding both positive experiences with other women and the remains of patriarchy. 

PB - Tough Dove Books CY - Little River, CA N1 -

Parts were originally published as "Prologue to Womonseed." Common Lives/Lesbian Lives, no. 6 (Winter 1982): 10-13 [A somewhat different version and the cover illustration were rpt. in Sinister Wisdom, no. 72 (Winter 2007-2008): 41-46]; "Manzanita's Story." Woman Spirit, no. 35 (Spring 1983): 4-6; "This Language Without Words." Woman Spirit, no. 40 (Summer 1984): 10; and "Firefly." Common Lives/Lesbian Lives, no 17 (Fall 1985): 71-76.

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Sunlight [pseud.]

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Wrack & Roll Y1 - 1986 A1 - Bradley [Clayton] Denton (b. 1958) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Alternate history dystopia in which Franklin Delano Roosevelt died in 1933 and the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. cooperate against China and the U.K. Fans of rock save the world.

PB - Popular Library CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Headline, 1987.

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Yonder Comes the Other End of Time Y1 - 1986 A1 - Suzette Haden Elgin (1936-2015) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Libertarian eutopia in conflict with a bureaucratic eutopia. 

PB - DAW Books CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - After the Bomb Y1 - 1985 A1 - Gloria [Dubov] Miklowitz (b. 1927) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult post-catastrophe dystopia with a young survivor struggling to help his family and friends. See also 1987 Miklowitz.

PB - Scholastic CY - New York U5 -

NZ

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "All This and Heaven Too" Y1 - 1985 A1 - [Alice Bradley] [Sheldon] (1915-87) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A humorous story set in an ecological eutopia, Ecologia-Bella, that is contrasted with an environmental dystopia, Pluvia-Acida. The eutopia uses clean electric power, has full employment, and the people care for the land, the flora and fauna, and each other. The dystopia is capitalist with a high rate of industrial accidents, extreme pollution, no trees, little vegetation, and a good supply, of rats and cockroaches but few other animals.

JF - Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine VL - 9.13 N1 -

Rpt. in her Crown of Stars (New York: Tor, 1988), 96-129. U.K. ed. (London: Sphere, 1990), 96-129.

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Illus. Daniel R. Horne

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James Tiptree, Jr. [pseud.].

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Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Altogether Elsewhere Y1 - 1985 A1 - Anna Wilson (b. 1954) KW - Female author KW - UK author KW - US author AB -

The novel is set in a dystopian world in which a variety of women act as vigilantes to protect other women. 

PB - Onlywomen Press CY - London U5 -

NNU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Always Coming Home Y1 - 1985 A1 - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Complex utopia described from inside the utopia but with, in The Back of the Book” (409-525), the sort of detail about the society that might be part of an anthropological report. One focus of the novel is the life story of a woman known as “Stone Telling” that illustrates both the positive and negative aspects of life produced by the many-faceted interactions among the people.

PB - Harper & Row CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Victor Gollancz, 1986. Rpt. without the cassette. London: Gollancz, 2016, with an “Introduction” by John Scalzi (ix-xi). The Author’s Expanded Edition without the cassette. Ed. Brian Attebery. New York: The Library of America, 2019 includes “Pandora Revisits the Kesh and Comes Back with New Texts” (619-87) [Dangerous People (621-68), which was first published as Dangerous People. Ed. Brian Attebury. New York: Library of America eBook Classic, 2019, was completed by Le Guin in December 2019 from material she had drafted in 1983 or 1984. Rpt. in her The Space Crone. Ed. So Mayer and Sarah Shin (Np: Silver Press, 2023), 195-224. The book includes extensive notes by the editor and a very detailed chronology of Le Guin’s life and works; “Some Kesh Meditations: Sitting in the Ninth House” (669-71); “Blood Lodge Songs” (672-81), and “Kesh Syntax” (682-85)], “Other Writings Related to Always Coming Home” (689-702) [May’s Lion” (691-98); Navna: The River-running by Intrumo of Sinshan” (699)], “Essays” (703-89) [“World-Making” (700-02); “A Non-Euclidian View of California as a Cold Place to Be” (703-24); “The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction” (725-30); “Text, Silence, Performance” (731-40); “Legends for a New Land” (741-57); “The Making of Always Coming Home” (758-80); and “Indian Uncles” (781-89), a Chronology (793-807), a Note on the Texts (808-11), and Notes (812-26). Parts published previously as “Time in the Valley.” Hudson Review 37.4 (Winter 1984-5): 536-48; “The Trouble with the Cotton People.” The Missouri Review 7.2 (1984): 86-95; rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: Bluejay Books, 1985), 410-19 with an editor’s note on 409 “The Visionary.” Omni 7.1 (1984): 100-02, 104, 106-07, 154, 157-60, 162-63 [Rpt. in The Visionary: The Life Story of Flicker of the Serpentine. Santa Barbara, CA: Capra Press, 1984. Vol. 1 of Capra Back-to-Back; and in The Sixth Omni Book of Science Fiction. Ed. Ellen [Sue] Datlow (New York: Zebra Books, 1989), 19-53]; “Dira.” Parabola 9 (Winter 1984): 53-55; and four poems--”It Was Never Really Different. Given to the Red Adobe heyimas of Wakwaha by Ninepoint of Chumo”; “A Song Used in Chumo When Daming a Creek or Diverting Water to a Holding Tank for Irrigation”; “A Bay Laurel Song”; and “An Exhortation From the Second and Third Houses of Earth. A calligraphed poster-scroll from the Serpentine heyimas of Wakwaha-na.” Whole Earth Review (July 1985): 20-23.

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Annimar: Recent Unearthed Artifacts from An Imaginary North American Pre-Columbian Culture Department of Art Gallery, West Georgia College March 31-April 17, 1985 Y1 - 1985 A1 - Bruce Bobick KW - Male author AB -

Exhibit catalog describing an early “white-skinned”, peaceful, vegetarian culture.

PB - West Georgia College CY - [Carrollton, GA] U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Awakening" Y1 - 1985 A1 - [Julia] [McNeill] (b. 1939) ED - Jen Green ED - Sarah Lefanu KW - Australian author KW - Female author KW - UK author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia. Breeding program instituted with children cared for by multiple "parents." Restricted movement. Pollution.

JF - Despatches From the Frontiers of the Female Mind; An Anthology of Original Stories PB - The Women's Press CY - London U3 -

Pearlie McNeill [pseud.]

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NZ, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Baaa Y1 - 1985 A1 - David Macaulay (b. 1946) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A picture book that describes the world after all humans have disappeared and sheep wander into town and gradually take on all the characteristics of humans with dystopian results. 

PB - Houghton Mifflin CY - Boston, MA U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Beast: A Novel of the Future World Dictator Y1 - 1985 A1 - Dan Betzer KW - Male author AB -

Apocalyptic novel with the Devil as dictator.

PB - Prescott Press CY - Lafayette, LA ER - TY - ABST T1 - Between the Strokes of Night Y1 - 1985 A1 - Charles [A.] Sheffield (1935-2002) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

In 2010 the human race on Earth has been killed off in nuclear war and survives only in small colonies in space, but these humans expand further into space. The second part of the novel is set in 27,698 and deals with the colonized planets, particularly Pentecost, which comes into contact with a race of space-faring immortals with a faster than light drive, and much of the novel is hard SF concerned with the technology.

PB - Baen CY - New York U5 -

MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Black Star Rising Y1 - 1985 A1 - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Begins with a dystopia in which China rules the United States.

PB - Del Rey CY - New York U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Broad Sunlit Uplands" Y1 - 1985 A1 - Craig Harrison (b. 1942) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Technological advances make it easier for the government to control people, but there is also a culture of violence that attracts people and requires a large police and private security presence.

JF - New Outlook (New Zealand) VL - no. 16 U5 -

ATL

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Brother Jonathan Y1 - 1985 A1 - Crawford Kilian (b. 1941) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future divided between disenfranchised poor and powerful corporations.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York U5 -

MoK

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Camel's Nose" Y1 - 1985 A1 - Susan Holtzer ED - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) ED - The Friends of Darkover [pseud.] KW - Female author AB -

A story about technology in the anti-technology Darkover culture. 

JF - Free Amazons of Darkover: An Anthology PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

HRC, Merril, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Cat Who Walks Through Walls; A Comedy of Manners Y1 - 1985 A1 - Robert A[nson] Heinlein (1907-88) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A number of societies on the moon, some of which were planned to be more free than Earth, that are succumbing to struggles for power presented from a libertarian perspective.

PB - G. P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. as vol. 27 of The Virginia Edition of his works. Houston, TX: The Virginia Edition, 2010.

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Centrifugal Rickshaw Dancer Y1 - 1985 A1 - William Jon Watkins (b. 1942) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia that provides pleasure for the elite.

PB - Popular Library CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Child of Fortune Y1 - 1985 A1 - Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Describes a number of different eutopias as seen through the eyes of a young woman on her wanderjahr, her period of wandering the galaxy, at the end of which each person chooses their "freenom". The novel is set in the same time frame as his non-utopian The Void Captain's Tale. New York: Timescape, 1983.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Child of the Heart" Y1 - 1985 A1 - Elisabeth Waters ED - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) ED - The Friends of Darkover [pseud.] KW - Female author AB -

A Free Amazon story about the difficulties of giving up a child.

JF - Free Amazons of Darkover: An Anthology PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

HRC, Merril, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Children of the Dust Y1 - 1985 A1 - [Elizabeth Rhoda Wintle] [Holden] (1943-2013) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

Young adult post-nuclear war novel and the revival of human communities.

PB - John Lane The Bodley Head Children's Books CY - London U3 -

Louise Lawrence [pseud.]

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O

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Children of the Light Y1 - 1985 A1 - Susan B[rown] Weston (b. 1943) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult post-nuclear war dystopia in which a boy from the past brings hope.

PB - St. Martin's Press CY - New York U5 -

NZ

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Chrono's Christmas" Y1 - 1985 A1 - Rhea Rose ED - Judith (Josephine Juliet Grossman) Merril (1923-1997) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia. Most people are immortal, and aliens want the secret. The few female children are not immortal and are sold to the aliens. A dystopian daycare center tries to develop survival characteristics in children. At the end of the story the center is closed by the computer system that runs it, and the children will have to survive in the outside world.

JF - Tesseracts PB - Press Porcépic CY - Victoria, BC, Canada U5 -

Can, Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Creed for the Third Millennium Y1 - 1985 A1 - Colleen McCullough [Robinson] (1937-2015) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Satire. Set in a future trying to adjust to a radically changed weather pattern that has disrupted the economic system. The U.S. is in the process of relocating its entire northern population, and it decides to create a new messiah who will give people a positive message.

PB - Harper & Row CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Macdonald, 1985. Australian ed. Artarmon, NSW, Australia: Harper & Row, 1985.

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NZ

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Cybernetic Samurai Y1 - 1985 A1 - Victor [Woodward] Milán (1954-2018) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. The focus of the novel is the development of a sentient artificial intelligence in Japan. It is set against a background in which most countries have fallen apart and are at war. See also the non-utopian sequel, The Cybernetc Shōgun. New York: William Morrow, 1990.

PB - Arbor House CY - New York U5 -

MoU-St, PTU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dad's Nuke Y1 - 1985 A1 - Marc Laidlaw (b. 1960) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future armed U.S. suburbia.

PB - Donald I. Fine CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Victor Gollancz. Rpt. London: Grafton, 1988.

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L, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Darkling Wind Y1 - 1985 A1 - Somtow [Papinian] Sucharitkul (b. 1952) KW - Male author KW - Thai author KW - US author AB -

Last volume of a series. This volume sees the defeat of the dystopia. See also 1982, 1983, and 1984 Sucharitkul.

PB - Tiger Eyes Press CY - Lemoyne, PA N1 -

Rpt. as The Darkling Wind: Chronicles of the High Inquest. New York: Bantam Books, 1985.

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MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dayworld Y1 - 1985 A1 - Philip José Farmer (1918-2009) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

First volume of series set in the conditions of 1971 Farmer, “Sliced Crosswise Only-on-Tuesday World” in which individuals only live one day a week. This novel focuses on those who are capable of defeating the system and living seven different lives in a week. In Dayworld Rebel.  New York : Ace/Putnam, 1987 the protagonist of the first volume flees across the country with others who can live seven days a week. And in Dayworld Breakup. New York: Tor, 1990 it is revealed that the population has fallen and that the only reason for keeping people in suspended animation is so that those in power can stay in power. See also 2016 Farmer and Adams.

PB - G. P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Diasporah Y1 - 1985 A1 - W[illiam] R[olla] Yates (b. 1950) KW - Male author AB -

Future dystopia of an Arab-Israeli conflict in space.

PB - Baen CY - New York U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Different Kind of Courage" Y1 - 1985 A1 - Mercedes Lackey (b. 1950) ED - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) ED - The Friends of Darkover [pseud.] KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A Free Amazon story about a healer.

JF - Free Amazons of Darkover: An Anthology PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

HRC, Merril, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dinner at Deviant's Palace Y1 - 1985 A1 - Tim[othy Thomas] Powers (b. 1952) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia a generation after a nuclear war focusing on a religious cult.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Chatto & Windus, 1986.

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Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Dogfight" Y1 - 1985 A1 - Michael [Jürgen] Swanwick (b. 1950) A1 - William [Ford] Gibson (b. 1948) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Society divided into the employed and unemployed. Drugs. Cyber-based control of individuals.

JF - Omni VL - 7.10 N1 -

Rpt. in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Third Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: Bluejay Books, 1986), 51-68 with an editor's note on 50; and in William [Ford] Gibson, Burning Chrome (London: Victor Gollancz, 1986), 150-75. Rpt. (London: Grafton, 1988), 167-94. U.S. ed. (New York: Arbor House, 1987), 150-75; in The Sixth Omni Book of Science Fiction. Ed. Ellen [Sue] Datlow (New York: Zebra Books, 1989), 85-115; and in The Ultimate Cyberpunk. Ed. Pat Cadigan (New York: ibooks, 2002), 249-75.

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Can, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dream Games Y1 - 1985 A1 - Karl Hansen (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future pleasure oriented dystopia controlled by computers and a rebellion that overthrows the system.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -

The section entitled "Dreams Unwind" (119-87) was originally published in Omni 7.8 (May 1985): 62-64, 66, 98, 100, 102, 105-06, 108, 112.

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Duende Meadow Y1 - 1985 A1 - Paul [Harlin] Cook (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

After centuries underground following a war, some humans emerge to find that the Soviet Union had conquered the United States but that a spiritual awakening was occurring that might lead to a better society.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York U5 -

NZ

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Each Prisoner Pent" Y1 - 1985 A1 - Damon [Francis] Knight (1922-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on the costs of incarceration in which criminals are given minor punishments together with degrees of support depending on their crime because it is cheaper to provide a lavish life outside jail than to imprison people. Jails are turned over to artists, authors, and poets.

JF - Stardate VL - no. 8 (1.8) N1 -

Rpt. in his One Side Laughing: Stories Unlike Other Stories (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991), 76-80.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Eclipse Y1 - 1985 A1 - John [Patrick] Shirley (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Neo-fascist dystopia and the revolt against it. Sequels are Eclipse Penumbra. A Song Called Youth—Book Two. New York: Popular Library. Rev. ed. Northridge, CA: Babbage Press, 2000; and Eclipse Corona. A Song Called Youth--Book Three. New York: Popular Library, 1990. Rev. and updated ed. Northridge, CA: Babbage Press, 2000.

PB - Bluejay CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Methuen, 1986. Rev. & updated ed. Northridge, CA: Babbage Press, 1999. Part published as "Freezone." in Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology. Ed. [Michael] Bruce Sterling (New York: Arbor House, 1986), 138-77; and in The Ultimate Cyberpunk. Ed. Pat Cadigan (New York: ibooks, 2002), 200-48. 

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MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Effect of Terminal Cancer on Potential Astronauts" Y1 - 1985 A1 - Kirkpatrick, David ED - Judith (Josephine Juliet Grossman) Merril (1923-1997) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Flawed utopia. A future eutopia maintained by dystopian conditioning. Cities have become radically decentralized and groups of houses connected to make small communities. James Joyce (1882-1941) is worshiped by some and is an honored icon for others. Terminal refers to a computer terminal and terminal cancer refers to those who spend all their time in front of their terminals.

JF - Tesseracts PB - Press Porcépic CY - Victoria, BC, Canada U5 -

Can, Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Emprise: Book One of the Trigon Disunity Y1 - 1985 A1 - [Michael Paul] [McDowell] (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. First volume of trilogy. In this volume wars over food and fuel have left the world as isolated farming communities with a hatred of the scientists who are blamed for the situation. But one scientist makes contact with aliens. In the sequels, humanity searches for other civilizations and has to deal with aliens who have destroyed other civilizations. See his Enigma: Book Two of the Trigon Disunity. New York: Berkley Books, 1986; and Empery: Book Three of the Trigon Disunity. New York: Berkley Books, 1987.

PB - Berkley Books CY - New York U3 -

Michael P. Kube-McDowell [pseud.]

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Merril, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Eye of the Child Y1 - 1985 A1 - Ruth Mueller KW - Female author AB -

Described as ecological speculative fiction. Contains a vaguely described eutopia and an even more vaguely described dystopia that could be contemporary reality.

PB - New Society Publishers CY - Philadelphia, PA ER - TY - ABST T1 - Faillandia Y1 - 1985 A1 - [Henry] Francis [Montgomery] Stuart (1902-2000) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia called Failland, which is Ireland. Faillandia is a magazine founded by the protagonist and his friends to fight the government and church. The novel follows the attempts of the government and the military to use the magazine for their own benefit.

PB - Raven Arts Press CY - Dublin, Ireland N1 -

Part originally published as “The Water Garden.” The Cork Review 1.3 (March-April 1980): 22-23; rpt. in Firebird 2: New Writing. Ed. T. J. Binding (Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin Books, 1983), 211-16. Rpt. in his States of Mind: Selected Short Prose 1936-1983 (Dublin: The Raven Arts Press/London: Martin Brien & O'Keeffe, 1984), 95-101.

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MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Fairy Tale for the Year 2004. A Story” Y1 - 1985 A1 - Helen Lucas KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Brief story of the eutopia created when everyone becomes a flower.

JF - Canadian Woman Studies/Les cahiers de la femme VL - 6.2 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Fiskadoro Y1 - 1985 A1 - Denis Johnson (b. 1949) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia set in Florida with surrealistic elements.

PB - Alfred A. Knopf/Chatto & Windus CY - New York/London U5 -

L, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Fort Privilege Y1 - 1985 A1 - Kit [Lilian Craig] Reed (1932-2017) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Future New York as a dystopia in which most of the middle-class has fled the city. A conflict erupts between the remaining well-off, who occupy a large building (the Fort Privilege of the title) and the have-nots. 

PB - Doubleday & Co CY - Garden City, NY U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "From Energy Island" Y1 - 1985 A1 - G[arvin] R[obert] Gilbert (b. 1917) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Extract from his unpublished 839 page novel, which describes a New Zealand degenerated into military rule surrounded by savagery; see 1988 Gilbert. See also 1986 and 1992 Gilbert, Acts of Terror and Delight

JF - Untold (Christchurch, New Zealand) VL - no. 4 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Future Talk: Or the Visions of Chicken Little. A Story” Y1 - 1985 A1 - Donna L. Smyth KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Satire on capitalism in which products have lives.

JF - Canadian Woman Studies/Les cahiers de la femme VL - 6.2 ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Garbage Chronicles; Being an account of the adventures of Tom Javik and Wizzy Malloy in the faraway land of catapulted garbage Y1 - 1985 A1 - Brian [Patrick] Herbert (b. 1947) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Humor on the consumer society of the future. Sequel to his non-utopian Sydney’s Comet: Being an Account of the Remarkable Events Which Occurred During the Approach of the Great Garbage Comet. New York: Berkley Books, 1983.

PB - Berkley Books CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Girls Will Be Girls" Y1 - 1985 A1 - Patricia Shaw-Mathews ED - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) ED - The Friends of Darkover [pseud.] KW - Female author AB -

A story about adjusting to life among the Free Amazons. 

JF - Free Amazons of Darkover: An Anthology PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

HRC, Merril, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Glass Hammer Y1 - 1985 A1 - K[evin] W[ayne] Jeter (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A dystopia set in a violent future.

PB - Bluejay Books CY - New York U2 -

Illus. Matt Howarth.

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Golden Age Y1 - 1985 A1 - Louis Nowra (b. 1950) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

A play, based on an apparently true story, about the discovery in 1939 of a lost community founded by convicts in Tasmania. The community had been established to create a good life for its original inhabitants. It has degenerated over time due, among other things, to interbreeding, but there is still a system of mutual support. The speech of the descendants of the convicts is based on 1840s lower class language and slang and a glossary is provided. 

PB - Currency Press in association with Playbox Theatre Company, Melbourne, VIC, Australia CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia N1 -

Rpt. in Australia Plays: New Australian Drama (London: Nick Hern Books, 1989), 89-178. 2nd ed. of the play Sydney, NSW, Australia: Currency Press, 1989. U.S. [Rev. ed.] Woodstock, IL: Dramatic Publishing Co., 1988.

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A, MoU-St, VUW

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Government in Exile" Y1 - 1985 A1 - Paul [A.] Collins (b. 1954) ED - David King ED - Russell [Kenneth] Blackford KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of violence and class division. A completely collapsed system in which everyone has quit trying, and the unemployed are killed for sport and food. 

JF - Urban Fantasies PB - Ebony Books CY - Melbourne, VIC, Australia N1 -

Rpt. in his The Government in Exile and other stories (Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Sumeria, 1994), 25-36; and in The Best Australian Science Fiction Writing: A Fifty Year Collection. Ed. Rob Gerrand (Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Black Inc., 2004), 326-34.

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A, ATL, M, Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Green Days in Brunei" Y1 - 1985 A1 - [Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A dystopian future where Brunei has run out of oil.

JF - Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine VL - 9.10 (96) N1 -

Rpt. Rpt. in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Third Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: Bluejay Books, 1986), 85-128 with an editor's note on 84; in his in Crystal Express (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1989), 107-54; rpt. (New York: Ace Books, 1990), 113-64; and in The Ultimate Cyberpunk. Ed. Pat Cadigan (New York: ibooks, 2002), 276-340.

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Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Growing Pains" Y1 - 1985 A1 - Susan Schwartz ED - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) ED - The Friends of Darkover [pseud.] KW - Female author AB -

A story about a young woman having difficulties adjusting to the ways of the Free Amazons. 

JF - Free Amazons of Darkover: An Anthology PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

HRC, Merril, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Handmaid's Tale Y1 - 1985 A1 - Margaret [Eleanor] Atwood (b. 1939) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia of the  right in power set in the Republic of Gilead, formerly the United States, a theocracy that sees all women as inferior, whose primary purpose is to produce children, and fertile women are a valuable commodity. The novel ends with Historical Notes from “The Twelfth Symposium on Gilead Studies.” 2019 Atwood, The Testaments is a sequel that begins early in the history of Gilead. Canadian female author.

PB - McClelland and Stewart CY - Toronto, ON, Canada N1 -

U.S. ed. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1986.  Rpt. New York: Anchor Books/Penguin, 2017, with a new “Introduction” by the author (xiii-xix). There is a graphic novel, The Handmaid’s Tale. The Graphic Novel. Art & Adaptation by Renée Nault. New York: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2019. An audible book is available as The Handmaid’s Tale: Special Edition. Np: Audible Studios, 2017 narrated by Claire Danes and others and with addition material by Atwood. 

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Can, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Heavenly Deception Y1 - 1985 A1 - Maggie Brooks (b. 1954) KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia about an intentional community affiliated with the Unification Church, popularly known as the Moonies. The novel follows a young woman who visits the community to find a friend and is converted.

PB - Chatto & Windus CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1987.

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MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Her Own Blood" Y1 - 1985 A1 - Margaret Carter ED - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) ED - The Friends of Darkover [pseud.] KW - Female author AB -

A story inspired by the Free Amazons about women in a male dominated society. 

JF - Free Amazons of Darkover: An Anthology PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

HRC, Merril, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Incorporated" Y1 - 1985 A1 - John [Patrick] Shirley (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Corporate dystopia.

JF - Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine VL - 9.7 N1 -

Rpt. in Future Crime: An Anthology of the Shape of Crime to Come. Ed. Cynthia Manson and Charles Ardai (New York: Donald I. Fine, 1992), 11-26; and in his The Exploded Heart (Asheville, NC: Eyeball Books, 1996), 155-76, with an author's note on 155.

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Infinity's Web Y1 - 1985 A1 - Sheila [Rosemary] Finch (b. 1935) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

One woman at different times and places including the present world, a world of apparent sexual freedom, a dystopian world of great scarcity, and a dystopia in which the Third Reich rules where the woman is a sorceress.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Inside Babel Y1 - 1985 A1 - [Andrew James] Wilson (1948-2013) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Sequel to 1984 Wilson with the emphasis on the humor and various failed projects to control people and technology.

PB - Chatto & Windus. The Hogarth Press CY - London U3 -

Snoo Wilson [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Instructions for Exiting This Building in Case of Fire" Y1 - 1985 A1 - Pamela [Lifton] Zoline (b. 1941) KW - Female author KW - UK author KW - US author AB -

Non-voluntary exchange of children to ensure peace. Children are selected by computer.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 12 N1 -

Rpt. in Despatches From the Frontiers of the Female Mind. Ed. Jen Green and Sarah Lefanu (London: Women's Press, 1985), 93-110. Rpt. in her Busy About the Tree of Life and Other Stories (London: The Women's Press, 1988), 107-23; U.S. ed. as The Heat Death of the Universe and other stories (Kingston, NY: McPherson & Co., 1988), 71-88.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Intelligence and Artifice" Y1 - 1985 A1 - M. T. Blatchford ED - Tony Davis KW - South African author AB -

Future dystopian South Africa.

JF - The Best of South African Science Fiction PB - SFSA Science Fiction South Africa CY - Johannesburg, South Africa VL - 2 vols. U5 -

VaU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Intersection" Y1 - 1985 A1 - Gwyneth [Ann] Jones (b. 1952) ED - Jen Green ED - Sarah Lefanu KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia which the protagonist sees as an ideal world. The author calls this story a preview of her 1986 Jones.

JF - Despatches From the Frontiers of the Female Mind; An Anthology of Original Stories PB - The Women's Press CY - London U5 -

NZ, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - It's Time: A Nuclear Novel Y1 - 1985 A1 - [Terry] [Woodrow] KW - Female author AB -

Agrarian feminist eutopia. Some dystopian background.

PB - Tough Dove Books CY - Little River, CA U3 -

Jana Bluejay [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Jerusalem Fire Y1 - 1985 A1 - R[ebecca] M. Meluch (b. 1956) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Includes an intentional community that can be considered eutopian.

PB - Signet CY - New York U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Just Passing Through Y1 - 1985 A1 - Sandi Hall (b. 1942) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

Video. Includes a Maori eutopia after death presented visually.

PB - Tejana Films & E.E. McAllister Productions CY - Wellington, New Zealand U5 -

ATL

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Knight Moves Y1 - 1985 A1 - Walter Jon Williams (b. 1953) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia becomes boring.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Knives" Y1 - 1985 A1 - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) ED - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) ED - The Friends of Darkover [pseud.] KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A story about an abused woman finding refuge with the Free Amazons.

JF - Free Amazons of Darkover: An Anthology PB - DAW Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover (New York: DAW Books, 1993), 70-85.

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HRC, Merril, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Kool Running" Y1 - 1985 A1 - Paul [A.] Collins (b. 1954) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Revolt against a world dominated by computers. See the note at 1980 Collins.

JF - Omega Science Digest (Sydney, NSW, Australia) VL - [no. 26] N1 -

Rpt. in SF International (also called International Science Fiction) (Los Angeles, CA), no. 1 (January 1987): 47-54; and in his The Government in Exile and other stories (Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Sumeria, 1994), 39-48.

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ATL

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Last Letters from Hav Y1 - 1985 A1 - Jan Morris (1926-2020) KW - English author KW - Transgender author AB -

Description of a visit to an imaginary country, which the author says was intended to reflect her lack of understanding of the countries she had visited and the changes they were undergoing. The country has both eutopian and dystopian elements.

PB - Viking CY - Harmondsworth, Eng. N1 -

Rpt. in her Hav comprising Last Letters from Hav and Hav of the Myrmidons (London: Faber and Faber, 2006), 1-187.

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LLL

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Limits of Green Y1 - 1985 A1 - Rachel McAlpine (b. 1940) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

An environmental dystopia with elements of a feminist eutopia in which New Zealand, called the "Sleeping Islands," is the site of nuclear and chemical plants that are destroying the environment. In addition, a missile base and warheads for the missiles have been placed in New Zealand. All are under the control of a world power, the RUSA, which has a policy of "voluntary colonization" in which small countries agree to be effectively but clandestinely controlled in exchange for investment. A group of people, but one woman and man in particular, learn to communicate with nature, which destroys both the chemical and nuclear power plants and the weapons. Presented as a memoir "The Harmony of Snails" with additional material from the RUSA embassy. See also 1987 McAlpine.

PB - Viking Penguin Books (N.Z.) CY - Auckland, New Zealand U5 -

ATL, NZ, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Lipton Village Society" Y1 - 1985 A1 - Lucy [Jane] Sussex (b. 1957) ED - Damien [Francis] Broderick (b. 1944) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

This story is tangential to Sussex's utopianism in that it posits a group of young people on the margins of society in the process of willing a utopia into existence, one that they have created collectively in their imaginations. Only brief indications of what the utopia will be like.

JF - Strange Attractors: Original Australian Speculative Fiction PB - Hale & Iremonger CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia N1 -

Rpt. in her My Lady Tongue and Other Stories (London: Heinemann, 1990/Port Melbourne, VIC, Australia: William Heinemann Australia, 1990), 213-36; and in her Matilda Told Such Dreadful Lies: The Essential Lucy Sussex (Greenwood, WA, Australia: Ticonderoga publications, 2011), 135-50.

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A, M, NZ

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Lover from Beyond the Dawn of Time" Y1 - 1985 A1 - Josephine [Mary Howard] Saxton (b. 1935) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Begins with a highly organized eutopia,but shifts to a horror story.

JF - The Power of Time PB - Chatto & Windus/Hogarth Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Maggot Y1 - 1985 A1 - John [Robert] Fowles (1926-2005) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Mostly a fictional background of the parentage of Ann Lee (1736-84) of the Shakers but includes a short description of heaven as a eutopia.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. Boston, MA: Little, Brown. Rpt. New York: New American Library, 1986.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Married Alive Y1 - 1985 A1 - Marilyn Duckworth (b. 1935) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopian setting. A future New Zealand with 20% of the population violently insane due to a faulty flu vaccine. Growing isolation through fear.

PB - Hodder and Stoughton CY - Auckland, New Zealand U5 -

ATL, VUW, WiU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Masters of the Board. A Novel Y1 - 1985 A1 - Christopher Abani (b. 1966) KW - Male author KW - Nigerian author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Neo-Nazis take over Nigeria to use as a base to re-establish the Third Reich.

PB - Delta of Nigeria CY - Enugu, Nigeria U5 -

DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Metacapitalism ... and the Rocket's Red Glare. A Revolutionary Primer for the Social, Economic, and Political Rebirth of America Y1 - 1985 A1 - R. Lee Zimmerman AB -

Non-fiction eutopia aimed at saving the U.S. from decline. Specific reforms are presented including voting directly on important national issues; a flat ten percent tax with no deductions; a minimum guaranteed income; various changes to the national government, including abolishing the House of Representatives; guaranteed higher education; free medical care; federal economic planning; financing for small businesses and farms; limitations on the size of corporations; regulation of banking; financial assistance to local communities; and judicial reform. These reforms are given in detail (136-261).

PB - Uxor Press CY - New York U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Midwife" Y1 - 1985 A1 - [Deborah Jean] [Ross] (b. 1947) ED - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) ED - The Friends of Darkover [pseud.] KW - Female author AB -

A Free Amazon story about a Free Amazon in danger.

JF - Free Amazons of Darkover: An Anthology PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

HRC, Merril, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Mother Quest" Y1 - 1985 A1 - Diana L. Paxson (b. 1943) ED - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) ED - The Friends of Darkover [pseud.] KW - Female author AB -

A Free Amazon story about a mother searching for her lost child.

JF - Free Amazons of Darkover: An Anthology PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

HRC, Merril, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Motherstone Y1 - 1985 A1 - Maurice [Gough] Gee (b. 1931) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Third volume of a trilogy. In this volume the girl from Earth is kidnapped as she tries to leave O. On O evil has defeated good in the humans, and they can only be freed from it by starting over with no knowledge. This is achieved, and the girl is finally able to leave. The other inhabitants of O will help the humans. Sequel to 1982 and 1984 Gee.

PB - Oxford University Press CY - Auckland, New Zealand N1 -

Rpt. Auckland, New Zealand: Puffin Books, 1988.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The New World: An Epic Poem Y1 - 1985 A1 - Frederick Turner (b. 1943) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe eutopia/dystopia set 400 years in the future in which both fossil and nuclear fuels have been exhausted, many people have been killed in pogroms aimed at the middle class and others have left Earth altogether. The U.S. has divided into old cities that dominate the remaining suburbs, whose inhabitants are slaves, fundamentalist religious areas, and the Free Counties, which are under attack. 

PB - Princeton University Press CY - Princeton, NJ SN - 0-691-06641-8 N1 -

An excerpt was published in Future Primitive: The New Ecotopias. Ed. Kim Stanley Robinson (New York: Tor, 1994), 215-28.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "News from Nowhere, 1984" Y1 - 1985 A1 - B[urrhus] F[rederick] Skinner (1904-90) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Addition to his 1948 Walden Two in which George Orwell joins the community, and most of the story is in the form of conversations between Frazier, the main character in Walden Two, and Orwell.

JF - The Behavior Analyst VL - 8.1 N1 -

Rpt. in his Upon Further Reflection (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1987), 33-50.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Night of Power Y1 - 1985 A1 - Spider Robinson (b. 1948) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a race war in New York City.

PB - Baen CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Berkley Books, 1986.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "'No One Seems To Go To Work Anymore': Women Redesignating and Redesigning the City" Y1 - 1985 A1 - Suzanne Mackenzie KW - Female author AB -

Feminist eutopia presenting the way women responded to a long, very deep economic collapse by creating new communities based on sharing and redesigning the physical layout of those communities.

JF - Canadian Woman Studies/Les cahiers de la femme VL - 6.2 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Nowhere Y1 - 1985 A1 - Thomas [Louis] Berger (1924-2014) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire using the trope of a spy novel set in Sebastian, a dysfunctional country between Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Germany that has spawned the terrorist group the Sebastiani Liberation Front. 

PB - Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - "O Happy Day!" Y1 - 1985 A1 - Geoff[rey Charles] Ryman (b. 1951) ED - John Clute ED - Colin Greenland ED - David Pringle KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - UK author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia very similar to the concentration camps in Germany under National Socialism. Heterosexual men are in the camp and systematically killed. Gay men run the camp under the direction of women who give electronically.

JF - Interzone. The First Anthology: New Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing PB - J. M. Dent & Sons CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1985), 1-35. Rpt. in his Unconquered Countries: Four Novellas (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1994), 153-90. U.K. ed. (London: HarperCollins, 1999), 153-90; and in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 69-95; 2nd ed. ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 69-95; and in Queers Destroy Science Fiction. Ed. Seanan McGuire. Lightspeed, no. 61 (June 2015): 228-57. Not in his The Unconquered Country: A Life History. London: Allen & Unwin, 1986. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Oath of the Free Amazons: Terra, Techno Period" Y1 - 1985 A1 - Jaida nha Sandra ED - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) ED - The Friends of Darkover [pseud.] KW - Female author AB -

Modification of Free Amazon oath found in 1979 Breen.

JF - Free Amazons of Darkover: An Anthology PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

HRC, Merril, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Our World After a Nuclear War Y1 - 1985 A1 - [V. C.] [Haines] KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author AB -

Detailed eutopia on a planet with remarkable similarities to Earth, but it has experienced a nuclear war and recreated itself. Decentralized, single language, single monetary system, world parliament.

PB - [Sutherland Print] CY - [Te Kuiti, New Zealand] U3 -

William Henshaw [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Outlines for Urban Fantasies" Y1 - 1985 A1 - Michael Wilding (b. 1942) ED - David King ED - Russell [Kenneth] Blackford KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Surrealistic dystopia presented in a series of vignettes about a future of fear and violence.

JF - Urban Fantasies PB - Ebony Books CY - Melbourne, VIC, Australia U5 -

A, M, Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Place of Circular Enigmas" Y1 - 1985 A1 - Clive Poole ED - Tony Davis KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

A dystopia that pits a rural Nazi group awaiting the Second Coming of Hitler against native traditions.

JF - The Best of South African Science Fiction PB - [SFSA Science Fiction South Africa] CY - [Johannesburg, South Africa] VL - 2 vols. U5 -

VaU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "On the Planet Grafool" Y1 - 1985 A1 - Benjamin Freedman ED - Judith (Josephine Juliet Grossman) Merril (1923-1997) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Satire. The people of Grafool lead happy lives based on a naïve certainty regarding their odd social customs, which are spelled out in short paragraphs.

JF - Tesseracts PB - Press Porcépic CY - Victoria, BC, Canada U5 -

Can, Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Postman Y1 - 1985 A1 - [Glen] David Brin (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia in which a man assumes the role of a postman and, in that role, helps to knit together the communities that are struggling to survive.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. illus. Kent Bash and with an “Introduction” by James Gunn [Rpt. in Gunn, Paratexts: Introductions to Science Fiction and Fantasy (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2013), 76-78]. Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1993. Parts originally published in different form in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine as “The Postman” 6.11 (58) (November 1982): 120-69; rpt. in Wastelands 2: More Stories of the Apocalypse. Ed. John Joseph Adams (London: Titan Books, 2015), 236-305 and “Cyclops” 8.3 (76) (March 1984): 112-67.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Preserver Y1 - 1985 A1 - M[ichael] A[nthony] Foster (b. 1939) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Third volume of the Morphodite trilogy that includes 1981 The Morphodite and 1983 Transformer. In this volume the Morphodite, again a man, wins.

PB - DAW Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in his The Transformer Trilogy (New York: DAW Books, 2006), 461-618.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Privateers Y1 - 1985 A1 - Ben[jamin William] Bova (1932-2020) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Begins with a mild dystopia of Soviet domination of the world through domination of space. The emphasis is on the struggle for freedom which, of course, succeeds. Empire Builders. New York: Tor, 1993 is a sequel.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Queendom of Moths. A Story” Y1 - 1985 A1 - Giovanna Peel KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

A feminist utopia destroyed by atomic war.

JF - Canadian Woman Studies/Les cahiers de la femme VL - 6.2 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Radio Free Albemuth Y1 - 1985 A1 - Philip K[indred] Dick (1928-82) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which anti-Communists rule the U.S.

PB - Arbor House CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Avon, 1987. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Recruits" Y1 - 1985 A1 - Maureen Shannon ED - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) ED - The Friends of Darkover [pseud.] KW - Female author AB -

A story about joining the Free Amazons. 

JF - Free Amazons of Darkover: An Anthology PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

HRC, Merril, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Red Hills of Home Y1 - 1985 A1 - Chenjerai Hove (1956-2015) KW - Male author KW - Zimbabwean author AB -

Poems that collectively present contemporary Zimbabwe as a dystopia. 

PB - Mambo Press CY - Gweru, Zimbabwe U5 -

NjR

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Road Lines Y1 - 1985 A1 - Chris Ould (b. 1959?) KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Future dystopia of violence. The urban poor are locked up in "containment zones."

PB - André Deutsch CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Grafton, 1987.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Robot Romance Y1 - 1985 A1 - Ellen W. Leroe (b. 1949) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Mostly humor but includes a satire on future mechanized education.

PB - Harper & Row CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Sanctuary Tree" Y1 - 1985 A1 - John Playford ED - Damien [Francis] Broderick (b. 1944) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of National Socialism continued into the future.

JF - Strange Attractors: Original Australian Speculative Fiction PB - Hale & Iremonger CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia U5 -

A, M, NZ

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Schismatrix Y1 - 1985 A1 - [Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Cyberpunk that presents two groups of future posthumans, one of which, the Shapers, develop themselves with genetic engineering and the other, the Mechanists, who use cybernetic enhancements. These groups are regularly in conflict and the presentation is essentially dystopian.

PB - Arbor House CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Ace 1986; and in Schismatrix Plus: Includes Schismatrix and Selected Stories from Crystal Express (New York: Ace, 1996), 1-236. Developed from a series of stories, including "Swarm." The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 62.4 (April 1982): 4-24; rpt. in his Crystal Express (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1989), 3-26; rpt. (New York: Ace Books, 1990), 3-28; in The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories. Ed. Tom Shippey (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1992), 472-95; and in Schismatrix Plus (239-57); "Spider Rose." The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 63.2 (375) (August 1982): 4-19; rpt. in his Crystal Express (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1989), 27-44; rpt. (New York: Ace Books, 1990), 29-46; and in Schismatrix Plus (258-71); "Cicada Queen." Universe 13. Ed. Terry Carr. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1985), 145-81; rpt. in his Crystal Express (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1989), 45-79; rpt. (New York: Ace Books, 1990), 47-84; and in Schismatrix Plus (272-300); "Sunken Gardens." Omni 6.9 (June 1984): 58-, 62, 64, 67, 136, 138; rpt. in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: Bluejay Books, 1985), 351-64 with an editor's note on 350; in his Crystal Express (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1989), 80-96; rpt. in (New York: Ace Books, 1990), 85-101;and in Schismatrix Plus (301-12); and "Life in the Mechanist/Shaper Era: 20 Evocations." Interzone, no. 7 (Spring 1984): 24-26; rpt. as "Twenty Evocations." In his Crystal Express (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1989), 97-104; rpt. (New York: Ace Books, 1990), 102-09; as "20 Evocations." Mississippi Review, no. 47/48 (16.2/3) (1988): 122-29; and in Schismatrix Plus (313-19).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Silence in Having Words: Purple" Y1 - 1985 A1 - Josephine [Mary Howard] Saxton (b. 1935) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia that tries to control all aspects of life.

JF - The Power of Time PB - Chatto & Windus/The Hogarth Press CY - London U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Streets on Fire--An Urban Fantasy" Y1 - 1985 A1 - Arthur Goldstuck KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

Dystopia in which books and water are major elements of trade.

JF - The Best of South African Science Fiction PB - [SFSA Science Fiction South Africa] CY - [Johannesburg VL - 2 vols. U5 -

VaU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sudanna, Sudanna Y1 - 1985 A1 - Brian [Patrick] Herbert (b. 1947) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Humorous dystopia in which music, which is outlawed, is the weapon to defeat the dystopia.

PB - Arbor House CY - New York U5 -

Merril, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Tactics" Y1 - 1985 A1 - Jane M. H. Bigelow ED - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) ED - The Friends of Darkover [pseud.] KW - Female author AB -

A story of independent women in the spirit of the Free Amazons.

JF - Free Amazons of Darkover: An Anthology PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

HRC, Merril, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Terrarium Y1 - 1985 A1 - Scott Russell Sanders (b. 1945) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Two future societies with both good and bad elements.

PB - Tor CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Third Millennium: A History of the World: AD 2000-3000 Y1 - 1985 A1 - Brian [Michael] Stableford (b. 1948) A1 - David [Rowland] Langford (b. 1953) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

History of the future that reads as a technological eutopia after the period of crisis between 2000 and 2180.

PB - Sidgwick & Jackson CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Time-Keeper Y1 - 1985 A1 - Barbara Bartholomew (b. 1941) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The first volume of a young adult trilogy in which two teenagers are transported to various dystopian futures. The second volume Child of Tomorrow. New York: New American Library, 1985. U.K. ed. London: Grafton Books, 1986 is mostly adventure. The third volume When Dreamers Cease to Dream. New York: New American Library, 1985. U.K. ed. London: Grafton Books, 1986 with the subtitle Book 3 of The Time Keeper Trilogy continues the adventures in the dystopian futures and brings the various themes to a resolution.

PB - New American Library CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Grafton Books, 1986.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "To Open a Door" Y1 - 1985 A1 - P. Alexandra Riggs ED - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) ED - The Friends of Darkover [pseud.] KW - Female author AB -

A Free Amazon story about the awakening of a young woman's telepathic abilities, called laran. 

JF - Free Amazons of Darkover: An Anthology PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

HRC, Merril, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "On the Trail" Y1 - 1985 A1 - Barbara Armistead ED - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) ED - The Friends of Darkover [pseud.] KW - Female author AB -

Free Amazon story. 

JF - Free Amazons of Darkover: An Anthology PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

HRC, Merril, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Transing Syndrome Y1 - 1985 A1 - Kurt [Oscar Eugene] von Trojan (b. 1937) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia in which matter transference or "transing" has been established and private transport has been outlawed. A lone rebel against the power of the corporation controlling "transing" brings about its overthrow.

PB - Rigby Publishers CY - Adelaide, SA, Australia U5 -

A, M

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Trojan Orbit Y1 - 1985 A1 - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) A1 - Dean Ing (1931-2020) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Continues the Lagrange series.

PB - Baen Books CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Ungoverned" Y1 - 1985 A1 - Vernor [Steffen] Vinge (b. 1944) ED - Jerry [Eugene] Pournelle (1933-2017) ED - Jim Baen KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Libertarian eutopia. Mostly about war. Discusses protective associations like those found in 1974 Nozick. Vinge says that his The Peace War (1984) can be thought of as a prequel and his Marooned in Realtime. New York: Bluejay, 1986 as a sequel.

JF - Far Frontiers PB - Baen CY - New York VL - 3 N1 -

Rpt. in his True Names . . . and Other Dangers (New York: Baen Books, 1987), 200-54; in his Across Realtime (New York: Baen, 1991), 257-300; in The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge (New York: Tor, 2001), 91-127 [This ed. has notes by the author]; in Give Me Liberty. Ed. Martin Harry Greenberg and Mark Tier (New York: Baen, 2003), 85-139; and in Freedom! Ed. Martin Harry Greenberg and Mark Tier (New York: Baen, 2006), 71-113.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Visit Port Watson!" Y1 - 1985 ED - Rudy [Rudolf von Bitter] Rucker (b. 1946) ED - Peter Lamborn Wilson ED - Robert Anton Wilson (1932-2007) AB -

Libertarian eutopia.

JF - Semiotext[e] SF PB - Autonomedia CY - Brooklyn, NY ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Visitors" Y1 - 1985 A1 - John Cranna (b. 1954) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Story set in a world where an old man is being given regular electroshock treatments to take away his memories. The torturers, described as "Pale Suits," are part of a movement suppressing the poor throughout the world. A revolt takes place but appears to fail. The point-of-view character, the grandson of the man being tortured, leaves to join the opposition.

JF - Stand Magazine (U.K.) VL - 27 N1 -

Rpt. in Best Short Stories 1987. Ed. Giles Gordon and David Hughes (London: William Heinemann, 1987), 27-41; and in his Visitors (Auckland, New Zealand: Heinemann Reed, 1989), 1-15.

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ATL, LLL, VUW

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The War of the Roses" Y1 - 1985 A1 - Karen Joy Fowler (b. 1950) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Two societies are described, an anarchist eutopia and an authoritarian dystopia. The latter destroys the former.

JF - Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine VL - 9.12 N1 -

Rpt. in her Artificial Things (New York: Bantam Books, 1986), 71-96.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The War Plays. A Trilogy Y1 - 1985 A1 - Edward Bond (1934-2024) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia following a nuclear war in which, in the first two plays, life becomes violent and dangerous with people generally isolated. In the third play a small beginning is made toward rebuilding human contact.

PB - Methuen CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - Wild Country Y1 - 1985 A1 - Dean Ing (1931-2020) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe religious dictatorship.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

Merril MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The World Ends in Hickory Hollow Y1 - 1985 A1 - Ardath [Frances Hurst] Mayhar (1930-2012) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia in which an East Texas family must choose between killing others or being killed.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "1997" Y1 - 1984 A1 - David Edgar (b. 1948) KW - Male author AB -

Future dystopia brought about by the policies of Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013 PM 1979-1990) designed to memorialize Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four.

JF - Marxism Today VL - 28.1 U5 -

L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "2016" Y1 - 1984 A1 - [Henry] Francis [Montgomery] Stuart (1902-2000) KW - Australian author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Consumerist dystopia. Over 100 indistinguishable TV channels. Constant package holidays. Literary production for the masses. Tranquillizers in the water.

JF - States of Mind: Selected Short Prose 1936-1983 PB - The Raven Arts Press/Martin Brien & O’Keeffe CY - Dublin, Ireland/London U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "2020 and Beyond" Y1 - 1984 A1 - Sterling E. Alam ED - Lester A. Kirkendall ED - Arthur E. Gravatt KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Discusses the effects of radically increased longevity (700 years) and life in space habitats. These changes will produce a general slower pace in life, and a lower population growth. Education and re-education will be life-long, and the pattern of life will change a number of times. Children are likely to be raised in child-care communities by adults who, at that stage of their life, are particularly attuned to children.

JF - Marriage and the Family in the Year 2020 PB - Prometheus Books CY - Buffalo, NY U5 -

MoU-St, TxU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The 2024 Report; A Concise History of the Future 1974-2024 Y1 - 1984 A1 - Norman [Alastair Duncan] Macrae (1923-2010) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Detailed Christian, libertarian, technological eutopia that traces the process of change from the present to the eutopia. The changes and the impact of the eutopia is shown through biographies. 

PB - Sidgwick & Jackson CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. as The 2025 Report: A Concise History of the Future 1974-2025. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1985. x + 258 pp.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - After the Bomb: Flight to Utopia Y1 - 1984 A1 - Vernon [Francis] Wilkinson (b. 1916) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Detailed flawed eutopia. Two hundred years after the bomb a spaceship returns to earth and finds a transformed world. Stress on eliminating human aggression, and the flaw is in the extent to which they are willing to go to do so.

PB - Interface Press CY - Auckland, New Zealand U5 -

ATL

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Alien Trace Y1 - 1984 A1 - [Sharon] [Jarvis] (b. 1943) A1 - [Kathleen] [Buckley] KW - Female author AB -

Eutopia based on empathy as the setting for the problems when humans arrive.

PB - New American Library CY - New York U3 -

H. M. Major [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Branch Y1 - 1984 A1 - Mike [Michael Diamond] Resnick (1942-2020) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian, corporate dystopia.

PB - New American Library CY - New York U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Brother in the Land Y1 - 1984 A1 - Robert [Edward] Swindells (b. 1939) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A young adult post-nuclear war dystopia designed to demonstrate to the readers that such circumstances will be truly horrifying.

PB - Oxford University Press CY - Oxford, Eng. N1 -

Rpt. with an "Afterword" by the author. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1986. U.S. ed. New York: Holiday, 1985.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Camp 38 Y1 - 1984 A1 - Jill von Konen KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia in which the basic position is that of individualist anarchism.

PB - Sovereign Press CY - Rochester, WA U1 -

[cover adds Current Model of Northern European Lifestyle Before Christianity

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Chaos in Lagrangia Y1 - 1984 A1 - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) ED - Dean Ing (1931-2020) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Continuation of his Lagrangia series. See also 1979, 1983, and 1985 Reynolds.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - City of Sorcery Y1 - 1984 A1 - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 1983 Bradley concerned with relations between Terrans and the Free Amazons. 

PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Cliftonia Y1 - 1984 A1 - Carroll Clifton AB -

Detailed eutopia with brief chapters on Government (6-7); Legal System-Crime and Punishment (8-12); Economic System (13-15); Education and the Family (16-18); Health & Science--Mental Health--Religion (19-21); In-Out Immigration Policy (22-23); Roles: Male, Female, Child (24-27); Housing--Concentric Zone (28-29); Transportation--Auto--Trains--Truck--Mass Transit (30-32); Agriculture and Rural Land Use (33-34); Manufacturing Production (35-36); The Military (37-40); Air Force (41); Navy (42-43); Military Bases (44); Military Intelligence (45-46); Family Living Styles (47); The Arts (48); Parks and Outdoor Recreation (49). Generally traditional gender roles.

PB - Ye Galleon Press CY - Fairfield, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Common Y1 - 1984 A1 - Gill Edmonds KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Dystopian background. A near future that is run down, violent, and authoritarian.

PB - Blond & Briggs CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - Conscience Place. A Novel Y1 - 1984 A1 - Joyce [Marie] Thompson (b. 1948) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A hidden community where the mutant children of those damaged by a nuclear accident live with no awareness of the outside world. For the children the community is eutopian, but the so-called Fathers who fund and control the community decide to use the children in experiments and turn the community into a dystopia.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Continent of Lies Y1 - 1984 A1 - James [Kenneth] Morrow (b. 1947) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a drug obsessed future.

PB - Holt Rinehart and Winston CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Courage of Sisters" Y1 - 1984 A1 - Cris Newport ED - Rita Arditti ED - Renate Duelli Klein ED - Shelley Minden KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set after a limited nuclear war. No explanation is given but many more girls are being born than boys and the state requires that girls be aborted. The story focuses on a woman pregnant with a girl who chooses to leave to find women who live in the Barrens so that they can have their children.

JF - Test-Tube Women: What future for Motherhood? PB - Pandora Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Course of Instruction Y1 - 1984 A1 - David Wheldon (b. 1950) KW - Male author AB -

Kafkaesque dystopia in which a man becomes embroiled with a complex organization.

PB - The Bodley Head CY - London U5 -

MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Daughters of a Coral Dawn Y1 - 1984 A1 - Katherine [V.] Forrest (b. 1939) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Lesbian eutopia on another planet, called Maternas, with a women-only society. See also 2002 and 2005 Forrest.

PB - Naiad Press CY - [Tallahassee, FL] N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Women's Press, 1993. 10th anniversary ed. [Tallahassee, FL]: Naiad Press, 1994. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Dawnwatchers Y1 - 1984 A1 - Hiram Anthony Bingham (1935-2008) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A behaviorist, secular humanist dystopia rules in 2004, but the Dawnwatchers, a group of spiritually aware individuals, is beginning to provide an alternative. The author was influenced by Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925), the Austrian founder of Anthroposophy.

PB - Triune Books CY - New York SN - 9780961360207 9780961360207 N1 -

2nd ed. Greenwich, CT: Triune Books, 1999. 342 pp. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Deep Breathing Y1 - 1984 A1 - Lora Mountjoy (b. 1942) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

A novel set after a nuclear catastrophe that includes a number of eutopias. Survivors in Antarctica have created a society centered on survival, including eugenic controls. A woman from that society visits New Zealand and finds a number of surviving groups. Rainy Springs tribe, a community based loosely on the commune combined with traditional Maori practices, includes sexual freedom and the recognition that some of the mutations are positive. The Roadwomen travel around the country dealing in herbs and healing and include no males over puberty. Redemption is a Christian community dominated by one preacher. The Healing Centre at Rotorua is a community built around healing. Taramatatuhi is a Maori settlement practicing the old ways. She also encounters other individuals, groups, and settlements with both negative and positive experiences.

PB - New Women's Press CY - Auckland, New Zealand U5 -

ATL, NZ, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Descent Into Silence" Y1 - 1984 A1 - G[arvin] R[obert] Gilbert (b. 1917) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopian novel set after a nuclear war. Set in the 1940s with New Zealand collapsing, reverting to savagery. Initially the government establishes an Office of Public Co-ordination (OPC) with powers equivalent to the government to ensure the continued functioning of New Zealand, but it fails and moves to a military base where military dictatorship is established in the surrounding area. The protagonist leaves the military area and ends up joining a group of religious tribes which is also presented in dystopian terms. The manuscript is accompanied by correspondence with Wren Green, the project leader and principal author of the New Zealand Planning Council report "New Zealand After Nuclear War". Green agreed to read the novel and reported back to Gilbert in 1987 that it was an accurate reflection of the issues New Zealanders would face. See the note at 1952 Gilbert.

PB - G. R. Gilbert Papers CY - Macmillan Brown Library, University of Canterbury ER - TY - ABST T1 - Devil on my Back Y1 - 1984 A1 - Monica [Mary] Hughes (1925-2003) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

A young adult post-catastrophe computer dystopia. The story focuses on the rigid class divisions that developed, based on the ability to interface with the computer and the struggle of some people to free themselves from the computer. See also 1986 Hughes.

PB - Julia MacRae Books CY - London U5 -

Can

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Doomsday Plus Twelve Y1 - 1984 A1 - James D[ouglas] Forman (b. 1932) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult post-catastrophe novel in which teenagers living where a simple, peaceful life has been created cooperate to defeat a new group of militarists.

PB - Charles Scribner's Sons CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dr. Adder Y1 - 1984 A1 - K[evin] W[ayne] Jeter (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of violence.

PB - Bluejay Books CY - [New York] ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Electric Harvest Y1 - 1984 A1 - Tom [Thomas] Davies (b. 1941) KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Dystopia of London in the near future with poverty, violence, and racial conflict.

PB - New English Library CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Elleander Morning Y1 - 1984 A1 - Jerry (Jerome] Yulsman (1924-99) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia and dystopia. Alternative history in which World War 2 did not happen because Hitler was killed by a time traveler. But National Socialism develops anyway, and the future that develops has both good and not so good elements. Technologically advanced. Eleanor Roosevelt is Vice President of the U.S.

PB - St. Martin's Press CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Macdonald, 1985

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Evolution of Sex Roles: The Transformation of Masculine and Feminine Values" Y1 - 1984 A1 - Warren Farrell (b. 1943) ED - Lester A. Kirkendall ED - Arthur E. Gravatt KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Discusses the effects of changing sex roles that brings about greater gender equality.

JF - Marriage and the Family in the Year 2020 PB - Prometheus Books CY - Buffalo, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Exile on Vlahil Y1 - 1984 A1 - Ardath [Frances Hurst] Mayhar (1930-2012) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of mental conditioning on earth contrasted with a disintegrating golden age of an alien culture.

PB - Doubleday & Co CY - Garden City, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Extra(ordinary) People Y1 - 1984 A1 - Joanna [Ruth] Russ (1937-2011) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Primarily dystopian with the five stories moving from medieval Scandinavia to the future with some set versions of the nineteenth century. Two themes suggest the possibility of a better world, telepathic people, and the end of sexual differentiation. But the connecting material both supports and undercuts the eutopian interpretation.

PB - St. Martin's Press CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1985. U.K. ed. London: The Women’s Press, 1985. The reprinted stories are: “Souls” (1-59). Rpt. from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 62.1 (368) (January 1982): 7-46; and as part of a Tor Double with [Alice Bradley Sheldon], Houston, Houston, Do You Read? By James Tiptree, Jr. [pseud.]. New York: Tor, 1989; 14002204330021210423140032403333 [pseud.]; “The Mystery of the Young Gentlemen” (63-92). Rpt. from Speculations. Ed. Isaac Asimov and Alice Laurence (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1982), 245-75; and “What Did You Do During the Revolution, Grandma?” (117-44). Rpt. from The Seattle Review 6.1 (Spring 1983): 5-24. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Family Life in the Twenty-First Century” Y1 - 1984 A1 - Clanton, Gordon ED - Lester A. Kirkendall ED - Arthur E. Gravatt KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Plural forms of marriage and the family, all of which are considered acceptable. Having children is considered a choice that some will not make, and children born later in life. Emphasizes the pluralistic nature of the future with many options open to all.

JF - Marriage and the Family in the Year 2020 PB - Prometheus Books CY - Buffalo, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Family Options, Governments, and the Social Milieu: Viewed from the Twenty-First Century" Y1 - 1984 A1 - Lester A. Kirkendall ED - Lester A. Kirkendall ED - Arthur E. Gravatt KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Discusses the effects of government involvement in improving health, education, and living standards designed to enhance personal and family life, together with improved environment, population control, the end of war, and greater cross-cultural contact.

JF - Marriage and the Family in the Year 2020 PB - Prometheus Books CY - Buffalo, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Fears" Y1 - 1984 A1 - Pamela Sargent (b. 1948) ED - Michael [Lawson] Bishop (1945-2023) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of extreme male chauvinism in which very few girls are born, and all women are treated as inferior.

JF - Light Years and Dark; Science Fiction and Fantasy Of and For Our Time PB - Berkley Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in The Best of Pamela Sargent. Ed. Martin H[arry] Greenberg (Chicago, IL: Academy Chicago, 1987), 306-22; in New Eves: Science Fiction About Extraordinary Women of Today and Tomorrow. Ed. Janrae Frank, Jean Stine, and Forrest J. Ackerman (Stamford, CT: Longmeadow Press, 1994), 281-90 with an editors’ note on 280; in Women of Wonder, The Contemporary Years: Science Fiction by Women from the 1970s to the 1990s. Ed. Pamela Sargent (San Diego, CA: Harcourt, Brace, 1995), 141-51; in her The Mountain Cage and Other Stories (Atlanta, GA: Meisha Merlin, 2002), 189-201 with an “Afterword to ‘Fears’” (202); in Feminist Philosophy and Science Fiction: Utopias and Dystopias. Ed. Judith A. Little (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2007), 277-88, which gives the wrong date of the original publication; and in Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology. Ed. Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer (Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2015), 299-309. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Frozen City Y1 - 1984 A1 - David Arscott A1 - David J. Marl KW - Male author AB -

Includes both an authoritarian dystopia of violence and a vaguely described eutopia. The eutopia is completely non-violent and appears to be anarchist.

PB - George Allen & Unwin CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Further Adventures of Mrs. 'Megamon' Tomko and Steve Y1 - 1984 A1 - Molly Ceigh KW - Female author AB -

Future dystopia that is over organized and everything, including food, is synthetic.

JF - Orion's Child VL - 1.1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Golden People Y1 - 1984 A1 - Fred [Thomas] Saberhagen (1930-2007) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Genetically superior people in conflict with humanity.

PB - Baen CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Government of India undertaking . . .” Y1 - 1984 A1 - Manjula Padmanabhan (b. 1953) KW - Female author KW - Indian author AB -

Dystopian Kafkaesque satire focusing on the “Bureau of Reincarnation and Transmigration of Souls--A Government of India Undertaking.” 

JF - Imprint (Bombay, India) VL - 24.1 N1 -

Rpt. in In Other Words: New Writing by Indian Women. Ed. Urvashi Butalia and Ritu Menon (Delhi, India: Kali for Women, 1992), 1-24.  U.K. ed. (London: The Women’s Press, 1993), 1-24; U.S. ed. (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994), 1-24. Rpt. in Critical Quarterly 35.4 (December 1993): 66-79; in her Hot Death, Cold Soup: Twelve Short Stories (Delhi, India: Kali for Women, 1996), 111-32. Rpt. (Reading, Eng.: Garnet Publishing, 1997), 99-117; and in her Three Virgins and Other Stories (New Delhi, India: Zubaan, 2013), 17-38. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Greenhouse: It Will Happen in 1997 Y1 - 1984 A1 - [Bernard] [John] James (b. 1922) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire/dystopia about the greenhouse effect in a high-tech world of the future and on postmodernism and higher education.

PB - Donald I. Fine CY - New York U3 -

Dakota James [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Greening of Mars Y1 - 1984 A1 - Michael Allaby (b. 1933) A1 - James [Ephraim] Lovelock (1919-2022) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel is mostly about the terraforming of Mars, the trip to Mars by immigrants, and their initial adjustment to the new planet, but the main protagonist,  briefly presents Mars in eutopian terms. All manual work performed by robots. Everyone is vegetarian. Every book and article ever published on Earth is available electronically. Growing social diversity. No guns. Very limited crime. Lovelock was the founder of the Gaia theory that Earth is a living entity.

PB - André Deutsch CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: St. Martin’s/Marek, 1984.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Growing Up Slowly: Another Century of Childhood" Y1 - 1984 A1 - Larry L. Constantine ED - Lester A. Kirkendall ED - Arthur E. Gravatt KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Discusses childhood in the future with an emphasis on the variety that will be available and the technology that will help make that variety possible. 

JF - Marriage and the Family in the Year 2020 PB - Prometheus Books CY - Buffalo, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Higher Education 2004: A Fable" Y1 - 1984 A1 - David L. Travis KW - Male author AB -

Short educational dystopia in which students skip classes, don't read, and still graduate with high grades.

JF - Phi Delta Kappan VL - 65.5 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Home Sweet Home: 2010 A.D Y1 - 1984 A1 - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) A1 - Dean Ing (1931-2020) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel is set in a version of Reynold’s future U.S. where corrupt politicians are trying to revise the Constitution to their own benefit, a future version of the F.B.I (the Inter-American Bureau of Investigations), has a Division of Clandestine Services that supports the dominant parties and sends out a hitman to kill the theoretician of a group challenging that dominance, and American Indians are mounting a revolt. Many people in the now almost entirely automated country live on what is here called GAS or the Guaranteed Annual Stipend and some life in unrelated extended families. This is called the Ultra-Welfare State or Peoples’ Capitalism. While much of the novel is satirical or dystopian, the extended family that is one focus of the novel is eutopian, but with much satire also.

PB - Dell/Emerald CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Homecoming Y1 - 1984 A1 - [John Robert] [Jones] (b. 1926) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A eutopian agrarian, cooperative colony faces a future barbaric earth.

PB - Tor CY - New York U3 -

John Dalmas [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Houses on the Site Y1 - 1984 A1 - [Edwin] Stuart [Gomer] Evans (1934-94) KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

Novel about a contemporary intentional community. In a series which includes his Centres of Ritual. London: Hutchinson, 1978; Occupational Debris. London: Hutchinson, 1979; and Temporary Hearths.  London: Hutchinson, 1984. 

PB - Hutchinson CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "In the Olden Days" Y1 - 1984 A1 - Spider Robinson (b. 1948) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future energy depleted America. Some see it as a eutopia, and some see it as a dystopia.

JF - Melancholy Elephants PB - Penguin Books CY - Markham, ON, Canada N1 -

U.S. ed. (New York: Tor, 1985), 101-08.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Jitterbug Y1 - 1984 A1 - Mike [Michael Dennis] McQuay (1949-95) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia presenting an Arab dictatorship.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Kindly Isle" Y1 - 1984 A1 - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A man visits a Caribbean island where all the people seem to be particularly nice and discovers that a scientist has developed a virus which he is intent on spreading around the world, creating a eutopia.

JF - Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine VL - 8.11 (84) N1 -

Rpt. in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: Bluejay Books, 1985), 320-40 with an editor's note on 318.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Kruger's Alp Y1 - 1984 A1 - Christopher [David Tully] Hope (b. 1944) KW - Male author KW - South African author KW - UK author AB -

The novel depicts a future South Africa as a dystopia that is little different from the South Africa of the time. Included is a myth of a refuge in Switzerland.

PB - Heinemann CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Sphere, 1985.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Ladies Y1 - 1984 A1 - Doris Grumbach (1918-2022) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Three women live an isolated life on an estate in Wales with that life presented as idyllic. Based on a real group called the Ladies of Llangollan, on which see May Gordon, Chase the Wild Goose. London: Hogarth Press, 1937. 

PB - E. P. Dutton CY - New York U5 -

DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Land of Ordinary People. For John Lennon" Y1 - 1984 A1 - Eleanor [Atwood] Arnason (b. 1942) ED - Ruby Rohrlich ED - Elaine Hoffman Baruch KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Poem that gives the sense of an anarchist eutopia.

JF - Women in Search of Utopia; Mavericks and Mythmakers PB - Schocken Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in her Ordinary People: A Collection (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2005), 3-5.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Amazon Y1 - 1984 A1 - A[rthur] Bertram Chandler (1912-84) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Sequel to 1968 Chandler in which women are born and Amazons emerge on the planet New Sparta that was originally all men. John Grimes is instrumental in defeating the Amazons. Graham Stone in his Australian Science Fiction Bibliography (Sydney, NSW, Australia: Graham Stone, 2004), 11 says that its working title was Find the Lady.

PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Patriot Y1 - 1984 A1 - James N[orbert] Frey (b. 1943) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia with one man trying to save the U.S.

PB - Zebra Books/Kensington Publications CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Man Who Melted Y1 - 1984 A1 - Jack [Mayo] Dann (b. 1945) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of psychic collapse.

PB - Bluejay Books CY - [New York] N1 -

Rpt. Sydney, NSW, Australia: HarperCollins, 1998.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Marianna and the Graduation" Y1 - 1984 A1 - Caroline Forbes (b. 1952) ED - Lilian Mohin ED - Sheila Shulman KW - Female author KW - UK author AB -

Dystopia. Past wars led to the complete loss of memory. In the story a few women, but no men, have begun to remember. Those women, known as the Guardians, educate girls and are always on the lookout for others with memories. The story is about one girl who begins to remember.

JF - The Reach and other stories; lesbian feminist fiction PB - Onlywomen Press CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in her The Needle on Full [Cover adds the subtitle Lesbian Feminist Science Fiction] (London: Onlywomen Press, 1985), 45-63.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Marriage and Family: Styles and Forms” Y1 - 1984 A1 - Lester A. Kirkendall A1 - Arthur E. Gravatt ED - Lester A. Kirkendall ED - Arthur E. Gravatt KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

One section, “Bonding Styles in 2020” (53-56) discusses the effects of changed attitudes to the institutional character of marriage. People will live together before or as an alternative to marriage. Technologically sophisticated people. The rest of the essays discusses the history and future of the family and the forces that affect it. Treats parenting as a phase in family life and says that late in life people will cohabit with one or more partners. Few will be buried with most being cremated after usable body parts are removed.

JF - Marriage and the Family in the Year 2020 PB - Prometheus Books CY - Buffalo, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "'Mate' Selection in the Year 2020" Y1 - 1984 A1 - Bernard I. Murstein II ED - Lester A. Kirkendall ED - Arthur E. Gravatt KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Discusses the effects of changed attitudes toward love including the effect of cloning.

JF - Marriage and the Family in the Year 2020 PB - Prometheus Books CY - Buffalo, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Merchants' War Y1 - 1984 A1 - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on an Earth that is run by ad agencies. See 1952 Pohl and Kornbluth.

PB - St. Martin's Press CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Venus, Inc. (New York: Nelson Doubleday, 1985), 159-346.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Mists of Time Y1 - 1984 A1 - Margaret J[ean] Anderson (b. 1931) KW - Scottish author KW - US author AB -

Third volume of a young adult trilogy following 1977 and 1979 Anderson. In this volume the children help an enslaved people to meet violence with nonviolence. . The female author was born in Scotland and lives in the U.S.

PB - Alfred A. Knopf CY - New York U5 -

DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Modest Proposal For Peace Prosperity and Happiness Y1 - 1984 A1 - Franky Schaeffer A1 - Harold Fickett KW - Male author AB -

Satire against secular humanism which is presented as supporting totalitarianism and human bioengineering.

PB - Thomas Nelson CY - Nashville, TN ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Moral Concepts in the Year 2020: The Individual, the Family, and Society" Y1 - 1984 A1 - Robert T[homas] Francoeur (1931-2012) ED - Lester A. Kirkendall ED - Arthur E. Gravatt KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Discusses the effects of longevity, including euthanasia or "rational suicide," radically improved sex education, which eliminates abortion, and improved moral education. The changed moral climate includes decriminalizing certain behaviors, sex outside marriage, reduced gender role separation, the separation of sex and reproduction, and greater physical and emotional contact with others.

JF - Marriage and the Family in the Year 2020 PB - Prometheus Books CY - Buffalo, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Mutants are Coming Y1 - 1984 A1 - Isidore Haiblum (1935-2012) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Technological eutopia that turns out to be a dystopia.

PB - del Rey CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Natfact 7 Y1 - 1984 A1 - John [Kimberley] Tully (b. 1923) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Although originally published as for young adults, this is a fairly standard dystopia and revolt. In this case the dystopia turns out to be better than the goal of the revolt.

PB - Methuen Children's Books CY - London N1 -

Rpt. [London]: Magnet, 1987.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Native Speech Y1 - 1984 A1 - Eric [Ellis] Overmyer (b. 1951) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia set in the ruins of a city.

PB - Broadway Play Publishing CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Broadway Play Publishing, 1984; and in Word Plays 3: An Anthology of New American Drama. New York: Performing Arts Journal Publications, 1984. Rev. version in his Collected Plays ([Newbury, VT]: Smith and Kraus, 1993), 1-53. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Native Tongue Y1 - 1984 A1 - Suzette Haden Elgin (1936-2015) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The first volume of a trilogy that traces the development of a women’s language that will allow them to function in a dystopia of male domination. This volume depicts the dystopia in which women are barely considered to be human. Women no longer have the vote, and the 25th amendment to the U.S. Constitution takes all civil rights away from women. See also her “An Update on Láaden.” Aurora Speculative Feminism, no. 23 (8.3) (Winter 1983-84): 10-13. 23-Vol-8-No-3.pdf (sf3.org), 1987 and 1994 Elgin and her A First Dictionary and Grammar of Láadan. Madison, WI: Society for the Furtherance and Study of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1985. Rev. as A First Dictionary and Grammar of Láadan. 2nd ed. Ed. Diane Martin. Madison, WI: Society for the Furtherance and Study of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1988.

PB - DAW Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: The Feminist Press at The City University of New York, 2000 with an “Afterword: Encoding a Woman’s Language” by Susan M. Squier and Julie Vedder on 305-37. 2nd. ed. New York: The Feminist Press at The City University of New York, 2019 with a “Foreword: Giving Name to the Nameless” by Leni Zumas on v-ix, an Appendix From A First Dictionary and Grammar of Láadan” on 332-35, and an “Afterword: Encoding a Woman’s Language” by Susan M. Squier and Julie Vedder on 337-62.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Neuromancer Y1 - 1984 A1 - William [Ford] Gibson (b. 1948) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An early cyberpunk dystopia in which corporations, governments, individuals, and artificial intelligences struggle to control and use each other and what comes to be called virtual reality.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Victor Gollancz, 1984. Illus. ed. Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1990. The 10th anniversary ed. London: HarperCollins, 1994 has a short afterword by the author. The 20th anniversary ed. New York: Ace Books, 2004 has a new introduction (vii-xi) by the author and an afterword (355-71) by Jack Womack.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ora:Cle Y1 - 1984 A1 - Kevin O'Donnell Jr. (1950-2012) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A computer dystopia is one theme in a novel about a future world being attacked by aliens. Much satire.

PB - Berkley Books CY - New York U5 -

Merril, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Paper Wraps Stone" Y1 - 1984 A1 - Charlotte Ellis KW - Female author AB -

Selection of illustrations, with accompanying text, from a series of books entitled L'Ivre de Pierres (chronicles of a major French architectural competition). The visions are largely fantasy, architecture of pure invention.

JF - Architectural Review VL - 175.1045 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Passing as a Flower in the City of the Dead” Y1 - 1984 A1 - Sharon N. Farber ED - Terry [Gene] Carr (1937-87) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which those with incurable or infectious diseases are exiled to a space habitat. 

JF - Universe PB - Doubleday & Co. CY - Garden City, NY VL - 14 N1 -

Rpt. as by S.N. Dyer [pseud.] in The Big Book of Science Fiction: The Ultimate Collection. Ed. Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (New York: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Vintage Books, 2016), 783-93 with an editors’ note on 782. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Paz Y1 - 1984 A1 - [Marian] [Grace] (b. 1941) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A lesbian adventure story with dystopian and eutopian elements. In the story, a woman, living an ordinary life in the contemporary world that is dystopian for women, can suddenly implant ideas into people minds, which ultimately produces something like a lesbian eutopia. 

PB - Blazon Books CY - Chicago, IL N1 -

Rpt. Tallahassee, FL: Naiad Press, 1986

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Peace War" Y1 - 1984 A1 - Vernor [Steffen] Vinge (b. 1944) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which advanced technology is used to take over the world and control it. The Peace Authority was supposed to create a better world, but it simply maintained its own power by suppressing all opposition. Individuals successfully resist, and an area of northern Mexico called Aztlán has maintained a degree of independence. Vinge writes that The Peace War can be thought of as a prequel to his 1985 “The Ungoverned,” which describes a libertarian eutopia. 

JF - Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact VL - 104.5 - 7 N1 -

Rpt. [New York]: Bluejay. Rpt. with his non-utopian “Marooned in Realtime.” Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact 106.5 -8 (May - August 1986): 10-14, 16-18, 20-22, 24-26, 28-30, 32-34, 36-38, 40-42, 44-46, 48-54, 56-62; 128-80; 130-76; 108-59 with a “Correction” to pages 52-53 in the May issue. Rpt. New York: Bluejay, 1986 in his Across Realtime: The Peace War Marooned in Realtime. [Book Club ed.] (Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, [1986]), 1-277. This material plus “The Ungoverned” rpt. in Across Realtime (New York: Baen Books, 1991), with The Peace War 1-255; “The Ungoverned” 257-300; and Marooned in Realtime 301-545. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Permit Y1 - 1984 A1 - Bob [Robert Edward] Jones KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

A dystopia created by the New Zealand government through over-regulation. One man tries to resist by refusing to sign the permit to change residences. In an "Epilogue", the government introduces legislation requiring everyone to carry identity cards. The author, who is a self-made millionaire, says that the book "is a reiteration of the ultimate truth that people do know best how to run their lives. . . (12). 

PB - Collins CY - Auckland, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Personal and Social Attitudes Toward Parenting" Y1 - 1984 A1 - Marcia [E.] Lasswell ED - Lester A. Kirkendall ED - Arthur E. Gravatt KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

 Discusses the effects of changed attitudes toward parenting and child-care. Gender equality in parenting. Children will stay home longer. 

JF - Marriage and the Family in the Year 2020 PB - Prometheus Books CY - Buffalo, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Physical Settings for Families in 2020 In Space, On Earth" Y1 - 1984 A1 - Ann Sloan Devlin ED - Lester A. Kirkendall ED - Arthur E. Gravatt KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Discusses the effects of space colonies, underground housing, and underwater living and gives details about the flexible interiors of the new housing as well as discussing some alternative family arrangements. Stress on technology and the variety of living arrangements that will be available, including communal living.

JF - Marriage and the Family in the Year 2020 PB - Prometheus Books CY - Buffalo, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Priests of Ferris Y1 - 1984 A1 - Maurice [Gough] Gee (b. 1931) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Second volume in a trilogy. In this volume the girl returns to the planet O. On Earth a year had passed, while on O a hundred years had passed and an authoritarian religion using her name controlled all the humans. With the help of the others, she defeats the religious leaders. Sequel to 1982 Gee. See also 1985 Gee.

PB - Oxford University Press CY - Auckland, New Zealand N1 -

Rpt. Auckland, New Zealand: Puffin Books, 1987.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Protectorate Y1 - 1984 A1 - Mick [Michael Anthony] Farren (1943-2013) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia with a deep division between the rich and the poor but with all under aliens.

PB - New English Library CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Pursuit of Excellence" Y1 - 1984 A1 - Rena Yount ED - Damon [Francis] Knight (1922-2002) KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia of a future in which, if the parents can afford it, children can be engineered for appearance, higher intelligence, and specific skills. The story focuses on a mother wants her ideal daughter and is willing to give up her normal husband and son to be able to pay for her engineering.

JF - The Clarion Awards PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Rpt. in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: Bluejay Books, 1985), 302-18 with an editor's note on 301.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Race" Y1 - 1984 A1 - Ping Chong (b. 1946) KW - Canadian author KW - Chinese American author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia depicting a graduation ceremony in which the students are indoctrinated for their programmed future.

CY - Multi-media presentation first performed at the La Mama Experimental Theatre Club, New York in February 1984. ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Rem the Rememberer" Y1 - 1984 A1 - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story begins in a eutopian future of low technology and ecological balance, but this is the recurring dream of a boy living in the badly polluted present.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Resurrection" Y1 - 1984 A1 - Damien [Francis] Broderick (b. 1944) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Machine eutopia/dystopia. Conflict between a man from the present day and a machine intelligence of the far future.

JF - Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine VL - 8.8 N1 -

Rpt. in his The Dark Between the Stars (Port Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Mandarin Australia, 1991), 46-69.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Scapescope Y1 - 1984 A1 - John E[dward] Stith (b. 1947) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future authoritarian dystopia set in 2150 in which most people are employed by the government. The "Scapescope" is a device through which it is possible to see the future and much of the novel is a quest story finding a way to change a future.

PB - Ace Science Fiction Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "School Days" Y1 - 1984 A1 - Suzette Haden Elgin (1936-2015) ED - Michael [Lawson] Bishop (1945-2023) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eutopian computer-based education of the future compared to the failed education of our day.

JF - Light Years and Dark; Science Fiction and Fantasy Of and For Our Time PB - Berkley Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Sharing Air” Y1 - 1984 A1 - Manjula Padmanabhan (b. 1953) KW - Female author KW - Indian author AB -

Dystopia in the future in which everyone has to breathe air from tanks, and all the trees are gone. 

JF - Kleptomania. Ten Stories PB - Penguin Books India CY - New Delhi, India N1 -

Originally published in the Sunday Express (New Delhi). Rpt. in The Pioneer (New Delhi) (February 28, 1997); and in The Big Book of Science Fiction: The Ultimate Collection. Ed. Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (New York: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Vintage Books, 2016), 925-27 with an editors’ note on 924 giving the date of publication as 1984 but without any indication of where. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Sonic Boom of 1994" Y1 - 1984 A1 - Melvin D. Garretsen ED - Ivey B. Pittle ED - Roslyn Rosen KW - Deaf author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A brief story in which the United States develops a supersonic passenger plane that can fly between the US and Europe in an hour that produces a sonic boom that deafens the entire country and advantaging those who known sign language.

JF - Another Handful of Stories: Thirty-Seven Stories by Deaf Storytellers Transliterated from the Deaf Storytellers Video Tape Series PB - Division of Public Services, Gallaudet College CY - Washington, DC SN - 9780913580868 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Sophie, 1990" Y1 - 1984 A1 - Marian [Passmore] Engel (1933-85) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia. People live one room to a family; women seldom leave the room. No books but books presented on TV. Children tend to be weak and die very young.

JF - Room of One's Own VL - 9.2 N1 -

Rpt. Tesseracts. Ed. Judith Merril. Victoria, BC: Press Porcépic, 1985. 173-76. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Spaceache Y1 - 1984 A1 - [Andrew James] Wilson (1948-2013) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Humor describing the dystopia of a collapsing economy and corruption brought about by the technology for freezing people. See also 1985 Wilson.

PB - Chatto & Windus. The Hogarth Press CY - London U3 -

Snoo Wilson [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand Y1 - 1984 A1 - Samuel R[ay] Delany (b. 1942) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

Complex far future novel depicting various societies including eutopias and dystopias. The novel begins with a description of a dystopia from the point-of-view of a slave who remains a character throughout the novel. This was expected to be the first of two volumes, to be followed by The Splendor and Misery of Bodies, of Cities, which remains unpublished. An excerpt was published as “From The Splendor and Misery of Bodies, of Cities.” Review of Contemporary Fiction 16.3 (Fall 1996): 103-15; rpt. without the From in Out of the Ruins. Ed. Preston Grassman (London: Titan Books, 2021), 117-36. One of the characters, Vondramach Okk, appears in his “Omegahelm.” Distant Stars (New York: Bantam Books, 1981). Rpt. illus. John Coffey (New York: ibooks, 2004), 263-78; rpt. in his Driftglass/Starshards (London: Grafton, 1993), 312-26; and in his Aye and Gomorrah. Stories (New York: Vintage Books, 2003), 260-72

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1990 with an “Afterword” by the author (376-85); Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2004 with the “Afterword” (349-56) and a “Foreword” by Carl Freedman (xi-xiv). An extract was originally published under the same title in Beyond This Horizon: An Anthology of Science Fact and Science Fiction. Ed. Christopher Carrell (Sunderland, Eng.: Ceolfrith Arts, 1973), 71-75; and a more substantial part was published as “from Stars in my pockets like grains of sand.” TriQuarterly, no. 49 (Fall 1980): 131-61. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Theatre of Timesmiths Y1 - 1984 A1 - Garry [Douglas] Kilworth (b. 1941) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia. City frozen in ice controlled by a small group of authoritarian leaders. The novel is about the ultimately successful struggle to escape.

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Therrillium" Y1 - 1984 A1 - Mischa [Benson] Adams ED - Ruby Rohrlich ED - Elaine Hoffman Baruch KW - Female author AB -

Excerpt from a novel-in-progress entitled A Season of Song. A utopia is to be described, but there is very little in this excerpt, and the novel does not appear to have been published.

JF - Women in Search of Utopia; Mavericks and Mythmakers PB - Schocken Books CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Till Human Voices Wake Us" Y1 - 1984 A1 - Lewis [Gordon] Shiner (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A corporation is modifying humans and animals to produce eutopia with the eutopian ends justifying the dystopian means.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 66.5 N1 -

Rpt. in Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology. Ed. [Michael] Bruce Sterling (New York: Arbor House, 1986), 125-38.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Tooth and Claw Y1 - 1984 A1 - Greg McGee (b. 1950) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

The play, set in the near future, focuses on questions of the relationship between law and morality, but offstage a dystopia of violence and social disintegration is emerging with a military dictatorship the response.

PB - Victoria University Press CY - Wellington, New Zealand U5 -

ATL, VUW

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Toynbee Convector” Y1 - 1984 A1 - Ray[mond Douglas] Bradbury (1920-2012) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

In a U.S. with all the problems of inequality, international political conflicts, a damaged environment, and so forth, a man fakes a trip to the future and on his return he announces that the human race has solved all its problems, which gives people the will to actually do so.

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Rpt. in his The Toynbee Convector. Stories (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988), 3-15. Rpt. (New York: Bantam Books, 1989), 1-11

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Transformations in Human Reproduction" Y1 - 1984 A1 - Robert T[homas] Francoeur (1931-2012) ED - Lester A. Kirkendall ED - Arthur E. Gravatt KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

 Discusses the effects of new reproductive technologies, which includes a new eroticism.

JF - Marriage and the Family in the Year 2020 PB - Prometheus Books CY - Buffalo, NY U5 -

MoU-St, TxU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Transition (1996-2020)" Y1 - 1984 A1 - Gordon Clanton ED - Lester A. Kirkendall ED - Arthur E. Gravatt KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Discusses the effects of lower population growth and the development of neighborhood associations. Emphasizes the pluralistic nature of the future with many options open to all. Four-day work week. Government the employer of last resort but pays only 75% of the minimum wage. National Health Insurance in exchange for two years of national service.

JF - Marriage and the Family in the Year 2020 PB - Prometheus Books CY - Buffalo, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Transition from Sex to Sensuality and Intimacy" Y1 - 1984 A1 - Lester A. Kirkendall A1 - Michael E. Perry ED - Lester A. Kirkendall ED - Arthur E. Gravatt KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Discusses the effects of changed attitudes towards sex and sexuality, with the title making the point. 

JF - Marriage and the Family in the Year 2020 PB - Prometheus Books CY - Buffalo, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Trauma 2020: Book 1 Urban Prey Y1 - 1984 A1 - Peter Beere (b. 1951) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of violence with constant war in Europe. The second volume Trauma 2020: Book 2 The Crucifixion Squad. London: Arrow Books, 1984 is a dystopia of violence in a collapsed future Britain. The third volume Trauma 2020: Book 3 Silent Slaughter. London: Arrow, 1985 continues the same themes.

PB - Arrow Books CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The True Story of Lilli Stubeck Y1 - 1984 A1 - James [Harold Edward] Aldridge (1918-2015) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Young adult novel that discusses a character's belief in utopia and its effects on him and his friends. 

PB - Hyland House CY - Melbourne, VIC, Australia N1 -

Rpt. Ringwood, VIC, Australia: Puffin, 1985.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Twilight Time" Y1 - 1984 A1 - Lewis [Gordon] Shiner (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A time travel story with dystopias both in the present and the past. In the past, aliens are taking control; in the present, the U.S. has voted to give complete power to a group promising security. Actions in the past change the dystopian present.

JF - Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine VL - 8.4 (77) N1 -

Rpt. in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: Bluejay Books, 1985), 421-39 with an editor's note on 420.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Utopia Y1 - 1984 A1 - Bernadette [Francis Catherine] Mayer (1945-2022) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Detailed eutopia with no profit or exploitation, no fences, money, rent, or useless work, and no military. From 18 to 25 people travel rather than go to university. All the older people are active and involved.

PB - United Artists Books CY - New York U5 -

AU, OU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Utopia Hunters: Chronicles of the High Inquest Y1 - 1984 A1 - Somtow [Papinian] Sucharitkul (b. 1952) KW - Male author KW - Thai author KW - US author AB -

Third volume in a series with this volume focusing on a young woman artist struggling for understanding within the dystopia. See also 1982, 1983, and 1985 Sucharitkul. 

PB - Bantam CY - New York N1 -

Parts were originally published in slightly different form in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine as "Rainbow King." 5.2 (February 16, 1981): 136-66; "The Web Dancer." 3.12 (December 1979): 56-80; "The Dust." 5.8 (August 3, 1981): 110-35; "Remembrances." 6.4 (March 15, 1982): 54-80; and "Scarlet Snow." 6.5 (May 1982): 80-99; and as "The Comet That Cried for Its Mother." Amazing Stories 58.3 (September 1984): 30-49. A story that is an early version of part of this volume is "Darktouch." Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine 4.1(23) (January 1980): 18-41. Rpt. in his Fire from the Wine Dark Sea (Virginia Beach, VA: Donning, 1983), 221-44.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Utopia . . . or Bust! Products For the Perfect World Y1 - 1984 A1 - Philip Garner KW - Male author AB -

Humor. Surrealistic look at consumer society through photographs, mostly doctored, with captions.

PB - Delilah CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Vail Y1 - 1984 A1 - Trevor Hoyle (b. 1940) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Near future dystopia in which toxic waste is deliberately dumped by the government on the overpopulated areas of England. London is an enclave for the rich and powerful.

PB - John Calder/Riverrun Press CY - London/New York N1 -

Rpt. London: Abacus, 1989.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Valoric Fire and a Working Plan for Individual Sovereignty from the Valorian Society Y1 - 1984 AB -

Individualist eutopia in which a group work out the outlines of their eutopia. 

PB - Sovereign Press CY - Rochester, WA U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Waiting for Einstein Y1 - 1984 A1 - Nigel Cox (1951-2006) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

A novel set in contemporary New Zealand in which one of the main characters is writing a dystopian story set in the far future. The entire story is given in the novel and describes a society trying to break an artist to its will because artists acting freely are inherently subversive and destabilizing. The story is written from the point of view of the artist, who is offered privileges if he agrees to cooperate and is severely punished when he doesn't. The ending is unclear in that the artist is moved to an isolated island where he can work as he wishes but where, because of his isolation, he will not pose problems for the regime. The dystopia has a religious basis.

PB - Benton Ross CY - Takapuna, Auckland, New Zealand U5 -

ATL, VUW

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Warday and the Journey Onward Y1 - 1984 A1 - [Louis] Whitley Strieber (b. 1945) A1 - James W[illiam] Kunetka (b. 1944) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-nuclear war dystopia with a largely ruined U.S., an authoritarian dystopia in California, and a Hispanic/Native American state called Atzlán in what was Texas and New Mexico that presents itself as independent but is a vassal state of Japan. The U.S.S.R. was also destroyed, and Japan and the U.K. now dominate the world.

PB - Holt, Rinehart and Winston CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Way It Was" Y1 - 1984 A1 - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia in which most people are on welfare, which means just barely able to get by living in large dormitories. The story focuses on the sale of body parts to be able to live better, at least briefly.

JF - Pohlstars PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - What To Do When the Russians Come: A Survivor’s Guide Y1 - 1984 A1 - [George] Robert [Acworth] Conquest (1917-2015) A1 - Jon Manchip White (1925-2013) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author KW - Welsh author AB -

Cataloged in libraries as non-fiction, and while that is clearly what the authors intend, it depicts the dystopia that would ensue after a successful Soviet invasion of the United States as it would impact the day-to day-lives of Americans. The last bit of advice is that such an invasion occurs is BURN THIS BOOK.

PB - Stein and Day CY - New York SN - 0-8128-2985-9 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Wild Shore Y1 - 1984 A1 - Kim Stanley Robinson (b. 1952) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-atomic war dystopia set in 2047 in which people are trying to survive and maintain what knowledge of the past they can. First in a series variously called the Orange County trilogy and the Three Californias trilogy, with the latter being Robinson’s name for it. See also 1988, The Gold Coast, and 1990 Robinson, Pacific Edge, which are reprinted in Three Californias. New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 2020, with an introduction “Triptych, with Softball” by Francis Spufford (7-12), The Wild Shore (13-292), The Gold Coast (293-653), and Pacific Edge (655-895). The three volumes have the same physical location, but the futures presented are different.

PB - Ace Science Fiction Books/Berkley Publishing Co. CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Orb/Tom Doherty Associates, 1995; and in Three Californias (New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 2020), 13-292 with an introduction “Triptych, with Softball” by Francis Spufford (7-12). U.K. ed. London: Futura, 1985.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Work/Family Connection in the Year 2020" Y1 - 1984 A1 - Joyce Portner A1 - Larry Etkin ED - Lester A. Kirkendall ED - Arthur E. Gravatt KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

See the note at 1984 Alam. Discusses the effects of changed work patterns based on revolutions in computing, robotics, increased life expectancy, and the colonization of space.

JF - Marriage and the Family in the Year 2020 PB - Prometheus Books CY - Buffalo, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Year 2020" Y1 - 1984 A1 - Thomas [Michael] Keneally (b. 1935) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in sequel to Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four in which Big Brother has been replaced with Big Betty, who comes from the Proles. Superspeak has replace Newspeak. Quite similar to Orwell in the restrictions on sex, the role of the inner party, and the extreme forms of punishment.

JF - Sydney Morning Herald (Sydney, NSW, Australia) ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Years of the City Y1 - 1984 A1 - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Five pictures of a future New York beginning with a dystopia (but with a depiction of some techniques for reform including a Universal Town Meeting) and ending with two near eutopias. The second and third futures are presented as transitional.

PB - Simon & Schuster CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Pocket Books, 1985.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - 2084 Y1 - 1983 A1 - Davida Gaida KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Feminist novel depicting a future dystopia in which men are dominant and women are enslaved. 

PB - Ringa Press CY - Chicago, IL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Alliance Y1 - 1983 A1 - Gerald N[iels] Lund (b. 1939) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia in which the Alliance presents itself as reviving the social order and creating a utopia, but it does so through planting a computer chip into its citizens and forcing outsiders to join.

PB - Deseret Book Co CY - Salt Lake City, UT U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Anvil of the Heart Y1 - 1983 A1 - Bruce T[odd] Holmes (b. 1946) KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Geneticly engineered people become the norm and parents are no longer able to have children who are not modified. Complete automation means that most of the people who are not modified are unemployed, in overcrowded housing, taking drugs, and watching TV. The novel focuses on one unmodified man and how he makes a relatively good life in these circumstances.

PB - The Haven Corporation CY - Evanston, IL N1 -

Evanston, IL The Haven Corporation_

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “An Artist of Hunger” Y1 - 1983 A1 - Scott Russell Sanders (b. 1945) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which life is centered on corporate-controlled malls.

JF - Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine VL - 7.7 (67) U2 -

Illus. Gary Freeman

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Astral Sanctuaries" Y1 - 1983 A1 - Alexandra Lind KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

New age eutopia.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Birth of the People's Republic of Antarctica Y1 - 1983 A1 - John Calvin Batchelor (b. 1948) KW - US author AB -

Complex dystopia that originates in the U.S. draft resistance community in Sweden. The original protagonists, together with various friends and relatives and others picked up along the way, travel to the Falkland Islands with some going further south to an island off Antarctica. At every point there is conflict and the attempt, sometimes successful, to impose a particular, though varying, view of the good life on others, thus creating a series of dystopias.

PB - Dial Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Byrds" Y1 - 1983 A1 - Michael G[reatrex] Coney (1932-2005) ED - Michael [Lawson] Bishop (1945-2023) ED - Ian Watson (b. 1943) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The story, which is about people who use technology, such as anti-gravity belts, to emulate birds, is set in a future with restrictions on population size that encourages the elderly to be euthanized. The Department of Rest establishes how much the population has to fall and sends out a monthly brochure Your Choice for Peace to senior citizens with a form in which that are asked to “describe all that is good about their life, and a few of the things which bug them. At the end of the form is a box in which the oldster indicates his preference for Life or Peace. If he does not check the box, or if he fails to complete the form, it is assumed that he has chosen Peace, and the send the Wagon for him” (189). This is a very small part of the story. 

JF - Changes: Stories of Metamorphosis. An Anthology of Speculative Fiction About Startling Metamorphoses, Both Psychological and Physical PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Northern Stars. The Anthology of Canadian Science Fiction. Ed. David G. Hartwell and Glenn Grant (New York: Tor, 1994), 188-99.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Calling all Gumdrops" Y1 - 1983 A1 - John [Thomas] Sladek (1937-2000) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Sixties adults become children while Seventies and Eighties children and advanced computers take on adult roles. Presented generally positively.

JF - Interzone VL - 1.4 U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Canopus in Argos: Archives. Documents Relating to the Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire Y1 - 1983 A1 - Doris [May] Lessing (1919-2013) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The last of the five volumes in her Canopus in Argos: Archives series. See also 1979, 1980 (2) and 1982 Lessing. This volume is a satire on the power of emotion, particularly as reflected in speech, to overwhelm reason. A Canopean is infected with "undulant Rhetoric" and treated in the Hospital for Rhetorical Diseases. 

PB - Alfred A. Knopf CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Jonathan Cape, 1983.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Century of Progress Y1 - 1983 A1 - Fred [Thomas] Saberhagen (1930-2007) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of the Third Reich in the future.

PB - Tom Doherty Associates CY - New York U5 -

Merril, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The City of Hermits. A Novel Y1 - 1983 A1 - Gina Covina (b. 1952) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The novel begins with the stories of a number of women who end up in the same area of California and includes a lesbian intentional community. Following each of the women, it then leads up to a coming great earthquake that effects all of California. In the aftermath of the earthquake, which is seen as the revolt of the Earth to how it has been treated, the women and their female and male partners begins to establish of a good society.

PB - Barn Owl Books CY - Berkeley, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Computerworld Y1 - 1983 A1 - A[lfred] E[lton] van Vogt (1912-2000) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia controlled by computers and the revolt designed to change the computer system from ruler to servant. 

PB - DAW Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. as Computer Eye. New York: DAW Books, [1985]. U.K. ed. under the original title London: New English Library, 1986.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Constructive Manifesto Y1 - 1983 A1 - Alberto Cernuschi AB -

The preface suggests that this is a eutopia, but most of the text is a critique of Karl Marx. The final chapter (87-103) outlines elements of the intended eutopia. It suggests the needed for an attitudinal change, and specifies the need for an enforceable international law, help for minorities, an experimental approach to change, and shifting money from armaments to constructive uses. Women must have the right to control their own bodies.

PB - Philosophical Library CY - New York U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Course Notes" Y1 - 1983 A1 - Suzette Haden Elgin (1936-2015) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The future of computer-based learning through the description of a clearly biased course on its history. 

JF - Aurora Speculative Feminism VL - no. 23 (8.3) UR - 23-Vol-8-No-3.pdf (sf3.org) ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Dear God" Y1 - 1983 A1 - Gayle N. Netzer KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Satire on and critique of religious homeschooling. 

JF - Aurora Speculative Feminism VL - no. 23 (8.3) UR - 23-Vol-8-No-3.pdf (sf3.org) ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Diary of Ian Frank: A Ghost Story for Refuge Children" Y1 - 1983 A1 - Jon Kalina (b. 1948) ED - Josh Freed ED - Jon Kalina (b. 1948) KW - Canadian author AB -

Satire. An Anglo is arrested by the Language Police and re-educated. Most Anglos have tried to flee Québec but have not been accepted elsewhere. Toronto is inaccessible. Anglo boat people sail permanently on Lake Champlain, having been turned back from the U.S.

JF - The Anglo Guide to Survival in Québec PB - Eden Press CY - Montréal, QC, Canada U5 -

Can

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Doctor Wooreddy's Prescription for Enduring the End of the World Y1 - 1983 A1 - Colin Johnson (b. 1938) KW - Australian author AB -

Australian treatment of the Aborigines described as a dystopia. Includes the description of a racist commune designed to civilize the Aborigines.

PB - Hyland House CY - Melbourne, VIC, Australia N1 -

Rpt. with the author given as Mudrooroo. Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Hyland House, 1987. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Duluth Y1 - 1983 A1 - Gore Vidal (1925-2012) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Humorous, rather surrealistic dystopia, which ends with an insect writing a new story of Duluth. None of the stories have any relation to the real Duluth, Minnesota, which is described on the back endpaper. Vidal's Duluth is a corrupt city with a deep division between the rich and the poor, which includes a large Spanish-speaking barrio.

PB - Random House CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Penguin Books, 1998.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The End Of Axletree" Y1 - 1983 A1 - Alasdair [James] Gray (1934-2019) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Dystopia. Sequel to 1979 Gray in which the Axletree reaches heaven. The process of building it had destroyed civilization. An attempt to enter heaven destroys the Axletree.

JF - Unlikely Stories, Mostly PB - Canongate CY - Edinburgh, Scot. N1 -

Rpt. (London: Penguin, 1984), 233-71; and in his Every Short Story, 1952-2012 (Edinburgh, Scot.: Canongate, 2012), 217-51.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - An Extraterrestrial Message to the Nations Y1 - 1983 A1 - Frank Howard (b. 1910?) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

New Age eutopia.  See also [1976], [1976?], and [1978?] Howard.

PB - Stellar Books CY - Auckland, New Zealand U5 -

ATL, NZ

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Feminist Utopia" Y1 - 1983 A1 - Deborah Fink KW - Female author AB -

Feminist eutopia in essay form. There is a world government, but the focus is on neighborhoods, where there are community buildings, and the family.

JF - The Voice of the Prophet VL - 6.2 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Futuretrack 5 Y1 - 1983 A1 - Robert Westall (1929-93) KW - English author AB -

Dystopia of a highly computerized system run by an elite. The dystopia is controlled by the Techs with a middle class desperate to avoid even the slightest hint of dissent, and a lower class living in extreme poverty and violence. The novel ends with the computer discovering ethics and morality.

PB - Kestrel CY - Harmondsworth, Eng. N1 -

Rpt. London: Collins Voyager, 2002. U.S. ed. New York: Greenwillow Books, [1983?].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Game" Y1 - 1983 A1 - Barry Rosenberg KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author AB -

Eutopia/dystopia with similarities to James Hilton's Lost Horizon (1933).

JF - Pathfinder (New Zealand) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Gifts from Eykis Y1 - 1983 A1 - Dr. Wayne [Walter] Dyer (b. 1940) KW - US author AB -

New age eutopia. While Uranus and its the inhabitants appear to be identical to Earth and its inhabitants, they differ profoundly. Uranians have no concepts of danger or harm, are incapable of lying, and while they know a future exists, they live entirely in the present. Anxiety is a phenomenon caused by airborne particles, the arrival of which can be forecast, and neuroses and guilt also have known physical causes and treatments. The book described many other similar differences from Earth.

PB - Simon and Schuster CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Golden Witchbreed Y1 - 1983 A1 - Mary [Rosalyn] Gentle (b. 1956) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Although mostly an adventure novel, it includes one society that can be called eutopian that lives in telestre or a group of 50 to 500 living together on the land and supporting themselves.

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Harvest of Wolves" Y1 - 1983 A1 - Mary [Rosalyn] Gentle (b. 1956) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A dystopia of fundamentalist religious suppression that chooses whether someone can live with limited government support or is transferred to a Welfare Camp, where they are unlikely to live long. 

JF - Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine VL - 7.12 (72) N1 -

Rpt. in Women of Wonder, The Contemporary Years: Science Fiction by Women from the 1970s to the 1990s. Ed. Pamela Sargent (San Diego, CA: Harcourt, Brace, 1995), 114-22.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Hunting Season" Y1 - 1983 A1 - Edward William Ludwig (1920-90) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of population control through controlled killing.

JF - The 7 Shapes of Solomon Bean and 14 Other Marvelous Stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy PB - Polaris Press CY - Los Gatos, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hyacinths Y1 - 1983 A1 - Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (b. 1942) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia ruling through the control of dreams.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Ice Belt Y1 - 1983 A1 - [Stephen] [Gallagher] (b. 1954) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Sequel to his 1978 Dying of Paradise. This novel continues the dystopia of the previous one, but it focuses on an alien invasion. 

PB - Sphere CY - London U3 -

Stephen Couper [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Islandia Revisited Y1 - 1983 A1 - Richard N. Farmer (d. 1987) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Presented as a sequel to 1942 Wright. In this novel, set mostly during World War II, a man who had become fascinated by Islandia after reading Wright is sent to Islandia as the U.S. military attaché, and while he gets involved in a plot to fake a German invasion to force Islandia to drop its neutrality, he remains in Islandia as a professor of economics. At the end he and his Islandia wife are leaving on a spaceship developed by and Islandia that has become a world industrial power. See also 1969, 1979, and 1982 Saxton. 

PB - Cedarwood Press CY - Bloomington, IN U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Kelly Country Y1 - 1983 A1 - A[rthur] Bertram Chandler (1912-84) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Alternative history describing an Australian war of independence that followed from the Australian icon Ned Kelly not being killed. Eutopia and dystopia with Australian ending up being successfully invaded by various countries.

PB - Penguin Books with the assistance of the Literature Board of the Australia Council CY - Ringwood, VIC, Australia N1 -

The stories “Kelly Country.” Void Science Fiction and Fantasy (Melbourne, VIC, Australia), [no. 3 (1976)]: 63-73; and “The Way It Was.” Omega Science Digest (Sydney, NSW, Australia), [no. 2] (March/April 1981): 54-57; 125-27 are the basis of the novel. “Kelly Country” has been rpt. in Australian Science Fiction. Ed. Van Ikin (St. Lucia, Qld, Australia: Queensland University Press, 1982), 166-80. Book rpt. (Chicago, IL: Academy Chicago, 1984), 166-180. “The Way It Was” has been rpt. as “A New Dimension.” In his Up to the Sky in Ships (Cambridge, MA: The NESFA Press, 1982), 69-86, which is bound with Lee Hoffman, In and Out of Quandry (1982). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lagrangists Y1 - 1983 A1 - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The Space/colony station described in 1979 is threatened by various forces from Earth. See also 1984 Reynolds and 1985 Reynolds with Ing.

PB - Tom Doherty Associates CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Lessons Learned" Y1 - 1983 A1 - Peter Fuller KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author AB -

Six excerpts from "A Documentary History of the State of New Zealand, 1982-1998" published by the Trevor Richards Foundation for Legal Studies, 2004, Hong Kong illustrating the rise of a police state and its ultimate defeat.

JF - WARP: The Magazine of the [New Zealand] National Association for Science Fiction VL - no. 35 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ma Windsor Y1 - 1983 A1 - Lorin Peterson AB -

Mostly a political novel, but a woman is elected President of the United States, and she solves the economic and international problems of the country. Includes her political platform.

PB - The Hillside Press CY - Los Angeles, CA ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Man Who Could Make Things Vanish Y1 - 1983 A1 - Jack [Andrew] Cady (1932-2004) KW - US author AB -

Near future technological dystopia and those who fight against it.

PB - Arbor House CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Manna Y1 - 1983 A1 - [George Harry] [Stine] (1928-97) KW - US author AB -

Eutopia designed to be a free state neither communist nor capitalist. Mostly adventure.

PB - DAW Books CY - New York U3 -

Lee Correy [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Midas World Y1 - 1983 A1 - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Series of loosely connected stories stemming from his 1954 "The Midas Plague." The only previously unpublished story, "The Fire-Bringer" (1-4), serves as an introduction This is followed by 1954 Pohl, "The Midas Plague" (5-74). The other stories then depict aspects of the future of the world created in that story. "The Servant of the People" (75-97) is about a Congressman (Congress hold interactive electronic meetings with no one physically present) running against a robot. "The Man Who Ate the World" (98-137) is about a compulsive consumer when the need to consume is long past. "The Farmer on the Dole" (138-75) is about giving redundant robots new jobs, in this case as a mugger who can only mug other robots. "The Lord of the Skies" (176-244) is about life in orbital habitats that draw their power from Earth, whose ecology has been destroyed by the need to send power to the habitats. "The New Neighbors" (245-76) is about the future destroyed world now inhabited almost entirely by robots.

PB - St. Martin's Press CY - New York N1 -

Parts published previously as 1954 Pohl, "The Midas Plague"; "The Servant of the People." Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact 103.2 (February 1983): 90-105; "The Man Who Ate the World." Galaxy Science Fiction 13.1 (November 1956): 6-35; "The Farmer on the Dole." Omni 5.1 (1982): 118-22, 124, 126-27, 164-68; "The Lord of the Skies." Amazing Science Fiction 57.2 (July 1983): 114-62; and "The New Neighbors." The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 64.5 (May 1983): 137-58.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Musichor” Y1 - 1983 A1 - Albert Russo KW - French author KW - Male author AB -

In what was published of the story, conflicts over language had led to wars and the use of nuclear weapons, after which humanity came to its senses and replaced words with music, available through an implant at birth. 

JF - Aurora Speculative Feminism VL - no. 23 (8.3) UR - 23-Vol-8-No-3.pdf (sf3.org) U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Navigator's Sindrome Y1 - 1983 A1 - [Margery (known as Marj) A.] [Krueger] (1941-2006) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian, violent, cruel dystopia on the planet Rabelais that is based on contracts that are manipulated for the personal benefit of the rulers. Her Rabelaisian Reprise. By Jayge Carr [pseud.]. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1988 is a sequel set in the same planet and with many of the same characters. Her The Treasure in the Heart of the Maze. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1985 is described as a companion piece. Female author.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY VL - 188 pp. U3 -

Jayge Carr [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - New America Y1 - 1983 A1 - Poul [William] Anderson (1926-2001) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia depicting the settlement and development of a planet by a group of individualists who make laissez-faire capitalism work. "A Fair Exchange" is the story most concerned with economic questions.

PB - Tom Doherty Associates CY - New York N1 -

A linked series of stories. Four of them were originally published in the Continuum series ed. Roger [Paul] Elwood as “My Own, My Native Land.” Continuum 1 (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1974), 42-75; “Passing the Love of Women.” Continuum 2 (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1974), 51-81; “A Fair Exchange.” Continuum 3 (New York: Berkley, 1974), 29-53; and “To Promote the General Welfare.” Continuum 4 (New York: Berkley, 1975), 31-62. U.K. editions published as Continuum I, II, III, IV. First two vols. published London: W.H. Allen, 1975, 1976 with the Anderson stories on 38-62 and 43-65 respectively. Second two vols. published London: Star, 1977 with the same pagination as the U.S. ed. The others are “The Queen of Air and Darkness.” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 40.4 (239) (April 1971): 5-45; “Home,” which was originally published as “The Disinherited.” Orbit 1: A Science Fiction Anthology. Ed. Damon Knight (New York: Berkley Medallion, 1966), 65-81; and the essay “Our Many Roads to the Stars.” Galaxy 36.8 (September 1975): 73-87.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Night Operation Y1 - 1983 A1 - [Arthur] Owen Barfield (1898-1997) KW - English author AB -

Dystopia set in the 22nd century in which people have fled underground into the sewer system to escape from terrorist attacks. Rock is played constantly over loudspeakers. The people have forgotten history and focus almost entirely on their biological lives with the Three Rs replaced with the Three Es (ejaculation, defecation, and eructation). Language has lost many words. No marriage or the family. 

JF - Towards VL - 2.4 - 2.5 N1 -

Rpt. in A Barfield Sampler: Poetry and Fiction. Ed. Jeanne Clayton Hunter and Thomas Kranidas with an afterword by Owen Barfield (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993), 129-72; and separately as Night Operation. [Shinfield, Eng.]: Barfield Press UK, 2008. 2nd ed. [San Raphael, CA: Barfield Press, 2009. The book has a hagiographic “Introduction” by Jane Hipolito (ix-xii). 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Not by Bread Alone Y1 - 1983 A1 - Naomi [Margaret] Mitchison (1897-1999) KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

Scientists develop a way of manipulating plants that makes it possible to produce a food called Freefood. A large corporation supports the development and distribution of Freefood while making immense profits. Various problems arise with the plants, and with the fact that feeding the entire world adequately is not enough to make everyone happy. Much of the novel is set in Australia, where the Aboriginals are establishing a new state in in northern Australia carved out of Queensland called Murngin, where they practice the old ways without the Freefood or alcohol. It is presented as a eutopia.

PB - Marion Boyars CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The October Suit" Y1 - 1983 A1 - Edward William Ludwig (1920-90) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia in which there is no war, and everyone is well fed, clothed, and housed but which requires absolute conformity.

JF - The 7 Shapes of Solomon Bean and 14 Other Marvelous Stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy PB - Polaris Press CY - Los Gatos, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Orbitsville Departure Y1 - 1983 A1 - Bob [Robert] Shaw (1931-96) KW - Male author KW - Northern Ireland author AB -

Flawed utopia about the negative effects of the good life on a huge artificial world. Earth is mostly a museum. Sequel to 1974 Shaw. Followed by his 1990 Orbitsville Judgement.

PB - DAW Books CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Victor Gollancz, 1983.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Orion Shall Rise Y1 - 1983 A1 - Poul [William] Anderson (1926-2001) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Variety of future societies with Anderson's usual emphasis on libertarianism versus authoritarianism.

PB - Timescape Books CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Out of the Ashes Y1 - 1983 A1 - William W[allace] Johnstone (1938-2004) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The first volume of a of dystopian post-nuclear/biological war survivalist series with war between the survivalist faction, who are the good guys, and the remnants of the U.S. government. 

PB - Zebra Books CY - New York U5 -

Public

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Peacemaker" Y1 - 1983 A1 - Gardner R[aymond] Dozois (1947-2018) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe religious dystopia in which a child is sacrificed to ensure a good harvest.

JF - Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine VL - 7.8 (66) N1 -

Rpt. in Writers for Relief: An Anthology to Benefit the Survivors of Katrina. Ed. Davey Beauchamp (Wilmington, NC: Davey Beauchamp, 2005), 7-52; in his When the Great Days Come ([Canton, OH]: Prime Books, 2011), 68-82; and in Asimov’s Science Fiction 43.3/4 (March/April 2019): 26-35. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Piecing It Together: Feminism and Nonviolence Y1 - 1983 A1 - Feminism and Nonviolence Study Group AB -

Generally, an argument on the importance of nonviolence to bringing about social change but includes a brief eutopia (52-53) based on decentralization.

PB - Feminism and Nonviolence Study Group CY - Westward Ho, Eng. ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Place of Dead Roads Y1 - 1983 A1 - William S[eward] Burroughs (1914-97) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The middle volume of a trilogy that includes his 1981 Cities of the Red Night and his 1987 The Western Lands. This novel is concerned with a gay gunfighter in the western U. S. in the nineteenth century and is typical of the dystopian themes in Burroughs’s works.

PB - Holt, Rinehart and Winston CY - New York N1 -

U. K. ed. London: John Calder, 1984.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Plan B Y1 - 1983 A1 - Chester [Bomar] Himes (1908-84) ED - Michel Fabre ED - Robert E. Skinner KW - African American author AB -

Near future Black revolution. 

PB - University of Mississippi Press CY - Jackson U4 -

Originally published in French trans. Hélène Devaux-Minié. Paris: Lieu Common, 1983. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Rainbow Cadenza; A Novel in Logosata Form Y1 - 1983 A1 - J[oseph] Neil Schulman (1953-2019) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. After various wars that destroyed New York (rebuilt as Newer York), cheap power supports a luxury lifestyle for some and what might appear to be a technological eutopia. But there are "touchables", an underclass who can be hunted, technology allows gender choice in children and there is a seven to one male unbalance, rape is common, and women are required to serve sexually in the military, among other aspects of a dystopia.

PB - Simon and Schuster CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Rape of Shavi Y1 - 1983 A1 - [Florence Onye] Buchi Emechta (1944-2017) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Nigerian author AB -

The novel portrays the conflict between a eutopian tribal society and the first white people they come into contact with. The eutopia is destroyed.

PB - Ogwugwu Afor Co., Ltd./Umuezeokolo CY - London/Ibuza, Nigeria N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: George Braziller, 1985.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Rates of Exchange Y1 - 1983 A1 - Malcolm [Stanley] Bradbury (1932-2000) KW - English author AB -

Satire on contemporary Eastern Europe through the imaginary country of Slaka. Continued in his Why Come to Slaka? London: Martin Secker & Warburg, 1986; rpt. London: Arena, 1987, which is a guidebook to Slaka.

PB - Secker & Warburg CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Arena, 1984.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Road to Life and Sanity: A Challenge to the Social Systems of Capitalism and Communism Y1 - 1983 A1 - Mike Milan (1911-85) KW - Canadian author AB -

Narrowly political non-fiction eutopia focusing on citizen involvement through "Electoral Associations". Required voting.

PB - [Mike Milan] CY - [Nanaimo, BC, Canada] VL - 2nd. rev. ed. U5 -

CaVaBU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Savage Tomorrow Y1 - 1983 A1 - Trevor Donohue (b. 1939) KW - Australian author AB -

Post catastrophe dystopia of biker gangs.

PB - Cory & Collins CY - St. Kilda, VIC, Australia U5 -

A, M, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Should Men Be Ordained: A Theological Challenge" Y1 - 1983 A1 - Gracia Fay Ellwood KW - Female author AB -

Gender-role reversal. Men cannot be ordained because they hold and use power in non-Christian ways. In this version of Christianity, the Apostles were women. The essay argues that men might slowly be considered for ordination.

JF - Daughters of Sarah: The Magazine for Christian Feminists VL - 9.1 N1 -

Rpt. in LDSF-3: Latter-Day Science Fiction. Ed. Benjamin Urrutia (Ludlow, MA: Parables, 1987), 129-31.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Single Combat Y1 - 1983 A1 - Dean Ing (1931-2020) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe Mormon dictatorship.

PB - Tom Doherty Associates CY - New York U5 -

Merril, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Songs to the Judges with Music by William Dart Y1 - 1983 A1 - Mervyn Thompson (1936-92) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author AB -

Ends with a brief "vision of justice and unity" based in part on the Maori prophet Te Whiti Rogomaii III (1815?-1907), the pacifist Maori leader at Parihaka, a Maori village that tried to stand against the theft of land by peaceful means.

PB - Playmarket New Zealand Theatrescipts CY - Wellington, New Zealand U5 -

ATL

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Speech Sounds" Y1 - 1983 A1 - Octavia E[stelle] Butler (1947-2006) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia of the loss of the ability to communicate and the resulting violence. Those who can speak and write must keep it secret. African American female author.

JF - Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine VL - 7.13 (73) N1 -

Rpt. in The Norton Book of Science Fiction: North American Fiction 1960-1990. Ed. Ursula K. Le Guin and Brian Attebery (New York: W.W. Norton, 1993), 513-24; in New Eves: Science Fiction About the Extraordinary Women of Today and Tomorrow. Ed. Janrae Frank, Jean Stine, & Forrest J. Ackerman (Stamford, CT: Longmeadow Press, 1994), 337-47 with an editors’ note on 336; in her Bloodchild and Other Stories (New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1995), 87-110 with an “Afterword” on 109-10; in A Woman’s Liberation: A Choice of Futures By and About Women. Ed. Connie Willis and Sheila Williams (New York: Warner Books, 2001), 185-200; in Feminist Philosophy and Science Fiction: Utopias and Dystopias. Ed. Judith A. Little (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2007), 185-97; in Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2008), 245-55; in The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction. Ed. Arthur B. Evans, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., Joan Gordon, Veronica Hollinger, Rob Latham, and Carol McGuirk (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2010), 566-79 with an editors’ note on 566-67; and in Kindred, Fledgling, Collected Stories. Ed. Gerry Canavan & Nisi Shawl (New York: Library of America, 2021), 604-619, with a Chronology (743-755), a Note on the Text (758), and Notes (772).

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Steps of the Sun Y1 - 1983 A1 - Walter [Stone] Tevis (1928-84) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian setting with a future U.S. without energy sources. China is the dominant world power.

PB - Doubleday & Co CY - Garden City, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Street Meat" Y1 - 1983 A1 - Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. A future of extreme poverty versus great wealth. The poor are fed "people kibble" and can buy cooked rats on the street for meat.

JF - Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine VL - 17.13 N1 -

Rpt. in his Other Americas (New York: Bantam Books, 1988), 1-43.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Streetlethal Y1 - 1983 A1 - Steven [Emory] Barnes (b. 1952) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of organized crime, drugs, and violence. See also 1989 and 1993 Barnes.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Suffern’ Succotash” Y1 - 1983 A1 - Rudy [Rudolf von Bitter] Rucker (b. 1946) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future that as a result of environmental collapse is completely vegetarian and no animals survive.

JF - The 57th Franz Kafka PB - Ace Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Sweetwaters 1984: The Final Refuge" Y1 - 1983 A1 - Barry Rosenberg KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author AB -

Eutopia. New Age community created out of a festival after the rest of the world is destroyed in a nuclear war.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Technomics in one corporate world Y1 - 1983 A1 - [John Bernard] [Ball] (b. 1911) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Detailed eutopia based on the same “Universal Law of Economics” in 1978 Ball. In 1957 the author ran in the Canadian federal election as a candidate in Regina, Saskatchewan for the National Credit Control Party, a party of his own creation. His purpose was to publicize the monetary system he developed. See “J.B. Ball National Credit Control” within “Six Candidates Offer Final Election Message.” The Leader-Post (Regina, SK, Canada) 48.132 (June 8, 1957): 3. See also 1956 Ball Ahoy for Eternity and National Credit, The Handbook of the Universal Monetary System, and Universal Monetary System of National Credit Control, and The Universal Monetary System of National Credit Control: A Financial Revolution With Nationalized Accounting Merchandising at Cost; 1961 Ball, Cosmocracy: The Universal Monetary System. Regina, SK, Canada: J.B. Ball; 1978 Ball, Permacredit. Universal Finance for Government & Industry. World Government without Trade Deficits. A Cash System of Accounting without Debt in Industry or Government or Taxes Against Industry or Credit Cards. Foremost, AB: Author; 1982 Ball, Technomics. A Better Economy. International. By Barney Ballmark [pseud.]. [Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications]; 1986 Ball, Beyond Capitalism. Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications; and 1988 Ball, The Laws of the Micro Giants. An Odyssean Classic. Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications. Other versions include The Technomic Alliance [subtitle on the cover No Taxes on property or income, the obvious solution, total employment]. 3rd ed. By Barney Ballmark [pseud.]. Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications, 1984; Pathway to the Stars: Industrial Democracy Beyond Democracy and Christianity Plus the Photon Theory of Creation. Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications, 1986. [New ed.] as The Pathway to the Stars. The Photon theory of Creation. Poetry. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1987. Rpt. as Pathway to the Stars. Industrial Democracy Beyond Capitalism and Christianity Plus the Photon Theory of Creation. Includes Poetry Selections. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1989. Another ed. as The Pathway to the Stars. By The Hobo Poet [pseud.]. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1990 in four sections, [“Memoirs, Poetry, and Stories] (1-164),” “Industrial Capitalism--Beyond Capitalism” (165-213), “Gleaning from Prairie Art Shows” (214-29), and “Radiation Properties of Creation” (230-51); Technomics International. Perpetual Payroll Financing for Government and Industry. Rev. October 1986. [Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1986; Industrial Democracy. Beyond Capitalism and Christianity. Includes the Photon Laws of Creation. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1989; and Industrial Democracy. Beyond Capitalism. This concept of world marketing explains how nations can finance total employment, without international debt, or taxation on property and income. New Economic System. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1990. 53 pp. Canadian author.

PB - [Author] CY - [Foremost, AB, Canada] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Thendara House Y1 - 1983 A1 - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Novel of the Free Amazons of Darkover. An egalitarian eutopia versus a patriarchal society. 1984 Bradley is set about seven years later. 

PB - DAW Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Oath of the Renunciates (Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, 1983), 213-593.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Throne of Madness: Volume II of the Inquestor Trilogy Y1 - 1983 A1 - Somtow [Papinian] Sucharitkul (b. 1952) KW - Male author KW - Thai author KW - US author AB -

Second volume in a series with this volume focusing on one man's struggle for meaning within the dystopia. See 1982, 1984, and 1985 Sucharitkul.

PB - Timescape CY - New York N1 -

Repub. as The Dawning Shadow: The Throne of Madness. New York: Bantam Books, 1986.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Tolerable Levels of Violence Y1 - 1983 A1 - Robert G[eorge] Collins KW - Canadian author AB -

Future dystopia of daily violence with violence level reports on the news.

PB - Lester & Orpen Dennys CY - Toronto, ON, Canada N1 -

Rpt. Toronto, ON, Canada: Totem Books, 1985.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Transformer Y1 - 1983 A1 - M[ichael] A[nthony] Foster (b. 1939) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Second volume of his Morphodite trilogy. See also 1981 Foster and 1985 Foster, Preserver. In this volume the Morphodite seems to have defeated the dystopia, but it returns from space and attacks. The Morphodite, now a woman, must find and defeat it in space.

PB - DAW Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in his The Transformer Trilogy (New York: DAW Books, 2006), 211-459.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Valencies Y1 - 1983 A1 - [Keith] Rory Barnes (b. 1946) A1 - Damien [Francis] Broderick (b. 1944) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

A novel set in 4004 A.D. with significant scientific advances and with both the negative and positive results of the changes shown. Immortality has been conferred but people continue to have children and all Earth-type planets have been colonized. Effortless learning is possible. People are still playing power games.

PB - University of Queensland Press CY - St. Lucia, Qld, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Walg Y1 - 1983 A1 - B. Wongar (b. 1932) KW - Aboriginal author KW - Australian author KW - Serbian author AB -

Presents the white treatment of the Aborigines of Australia as a vicious dystopia. Hints of an Aboriginal eutopia. Also includes a white model of Aboriginal life as a new dystopia. "Walg" means "womb." His Karan (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1985) and Gabo Djara (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1987) are part of the trilogy. Walg was adapted for German radio and also for a film.

PB - Dodd, Mead CY - New York N1 -

Australian edition with the subtitle A Novel of Australia. South Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Macmillan, 1986. U.K. ed. London: Macmillan, 1986.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Worlds Apart Y1 - 1983 A1 - Joe [Joseph William] Haldeman (b. 1943) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Middle volume of a trilogy (sequel to 1981 Haldeman and followed by 1992 Haldeman) set a year after the first volume. Earth has been largely destroyed after a fourth nuclear war and the asteroid Worlds hold the hope of a future for humanity. The novel concerns a woman's visits back to Earth and then into space.

PB - Viking CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Yesterday's Men Y1 - 1983 A1 - George [Reginald] Turner (1916-97) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Final volume of a trilogy. In this volume conflict develops between earth and the Lagrangists, who live in satellites and plan to begin exploring space. See 1978 and 1981 Turner.

PB - Faber and Faber CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Albion Y1 - 1982 A1 - Brenda Vale KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A post-catastrophe eutopia focusing on village life with limited power sources, the revival of crafts, a rebuilt and extended canal system, and community decision-making. Not romanticized, but generally a good life. One emphasis is the sustainable architecture. 

PB - Spindlewood CY - Barnstaple, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - All Our Tomorrows Y1 - 1982 A1 - Ted [Theodore Edward le Bourthillier] Allbeury (1917-2005) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia of a Russian occupied Britain. People choose the system to correct the faults of the current situation, which includes daily violence, and to avoid the collapse of the country. Some resistance.

PB - Granada CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Mysterious Press, 1989.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Avoiding 1984: Moving Toward Interdependence Y1 - 1982 A1 - Robert Theobald (1929-99) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The book includes a number of scenarios of the future with the emphasis on the positive. The book begins with brief life histories of five people with one of them Teg from 1969 Theobald. It then presents five scenarios from different perspectives set in 2000. The future is politically and economically troubled but moving in the right direction, but the emphasis of the book is on ecology and improvements in interpersonal relations and life patterns, with an emphasis of variety and significant changes in lifestyle throughout life. See also 1968 Theobald and 1969 Theobald and Scott. In addition, Theobald published many other books outlining his proposals. See, in particular, his Free Men and Free Markets. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1963; Beyond Despair: Directions for America’s Third Century. Washington, DC: The New Republic Book Co., 1976; rev. as Beyond Despair: A Policy Guide to the Communications Era. Cabin John, MD: Seven Locks Press, 1981; An Alternative Future for America’s Third Century. Chicago, IL: Swallow Press, 1976; and Reworking Success: New Communities at the Millennium. Gabriola Island, BC, Canada: New Society Publishers, 1997.

PB - Swallow Press--Ohio University Press CY - Athens, OH U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Ayes of Texas Y1 - 1982 A1 - Daniel da Cruz [Jr.] (1921-1991) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Anti-Communist dystopia in which the United States overrun by Russians. First in a series. See 1986 and 1987 da Cruz.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Be Fruitful and Multiply" Y1 - 1982 A1 - F[rancis] Paul Wilson (b. 1946) ED - Alan Ryan KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satirical religious dystopia centered on the only church, the Church of the Divine Imperative, which is the title of the story.

JF - Perpetual Light PB - Warner Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Birthplace; Moving into Nearness Y1 - 1982 A1 - William S. Wilson (b. 1932) KW - Male author AB -

Expostulatory novel about a future isolated Caribbean island and the growth of something like a eutopia over four generations.

PB - North Point Press CY - San Francisco, CA ER - TY - ABST T1 - Birthright: The Book of Man Y1 - 1982 A1 - Mike [Michael Diamond] Resnick (1942-2020) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future history of the next 18,000 years in which the human race goes through many permutations, many eutopias and dystopias, until finally destroyed. The ending has the whole process starting over again.

PB - New American Library CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. Alexander, NC: Farthest Star, 1997.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Boylan Briggs Salutes the New Cause" Y1 - 1982 A1 - Lesley [Willis] Choyce (b. 1951) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Reduced sperm count as a result of pollution leads to constantly required orgies to try to raise the birth rate. Fails.

JF - The Lunatic Gazette VL - 1.2 N1 -

Rpt. in his Dream Auditor (Charlottetown, PE, Canada: Indivisible Books, 1986), 63-72.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Byrdwhistle Option Y1 - 1982 A1 - Robert H[enry] Rimmer (1917-2001) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Another of Rimmer's depiction of the good life through sex, although here, as in some of his other works, he includes economic equality. In this novel a corporation only employs married couples, with each person paid the same salary, but it encourages them to explore all the sexual options available. Refers to the Oneida Community, but it is not a reflection of its practices. See also 1966, 1968, 1975, 1978, 1982, and 2000 Rimmer.

PB - Prometheus Books CY - Buffalo, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Canopus in Argos: Archives. The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 Y1 - 1982 A1 - Doris [May] Lessing (1919-2013) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The fourth of the five volumes in her Canopus in Argos: Archives series. See also, 1979, 1980 (2) and 1983 Lessing. This novel presents the coming destruction of Planet 8 as it enters a terminal ice age and the positive way the people respond to the crisis. An opera with music by Philip Glass was created based on the novel and premiered in Houston, TX in July 1988. The libretto was published as Philip Glass and Doris Lessing, The Making of the Representative for Planet 8. An Opera in Three Acts. Based on the Novel by Doris Lessing. [Bryn Mawr, PA]: Dunvagen Music Publishers, 1988.

PB - Alfred A. Knopf CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Jonathan Cape, 1982.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Carnifex Mardi Gras Y1 - 1982 A1 - John F[rancis] Carr (b. 1944) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia where wealth and power has produced a corrupt society.

PB - Pequod Press CY - Los Angeles, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Cloud of Desolation Y1 - 1982 A1 - Sam Baneham (b. 1947) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Detailed dystopia. Complex conditioned underground society after the next war.

PB - Wolfhound Press CY - Dublin, Ireland ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Concordance of the High Monarchists of Ireland: The Pattern of the Future Y1 - 1982 A1 - John Michell KW - Male author AB -

Detailed eutopia based on ancient Irish institutions and designed for a united Ireland. Ireland will be composed of four independent provinces, Connacht, Leinster, Munster, and Ulster, each of which, in turn, will elect a High King or Queen by whatever means they choose. The High King or Queen serves for life but may abdicate or be asked to abdicate by the High Council. No national religion. There will be a 1440-acre capital with equal representation of the four provinces on all its bodies.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Corrigan's Light Y1 - 1982 A1 - Gregory Marlow KW - Male author AB -

Flawed utopia set in 2142 where everyone lives underground, and everything is provided. Fictitious battles between computers representing different underground complexes provide entertainment. Synthetic food. People work six hours three days a week. Computerized fantasies available. It is all run by a computer. At the end people begin to return to the surface.

PB - Vantage Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Dogsworld" Y1 - 1982 A1 - Felix C[harles] Gotschalk [Jr.] (1929-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is told from the point of a dog, with much of it satire aimed at human behavior. But then aliens arrive and ask it about humans, and, in response, they apparently improve the behavior of some of the people and provide a massive infusion of material goods, which initially produces a eutopia but then corrupts them.

JF - Pig Iron (Youngstown, OH) VL - no. 10 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dreamrider Y1 - 1982 A1 - Sandra [Louise] Miesel (b. 1941) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia and dystopia. The dystopia is a future authoritarian United States in which those found violating any of the many rules have their minds wiped. The eutopia is a fantasy world where humans and animals like otters have a complex society in which some of the inhabitants find people on various timelines capable of using their mental powers for good. The novel includes quite a bit on life in both the eutopia and the dystopia.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dreams in a Wasteland Y1 - 1982 A1 - Franklin Camuti KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future feudal world ruled by a man using science from the past.

PB - Dorrance & Co CY - Ardmore, PA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Duncan's Colony Y1 - 1982 A1 - Natalie L[evin] M[aines] Petesch (b.1924) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian future set in a small intentional community where four people come together in hopes of surviving an expected nuclear war.

PB - Swallow Press/Ohio University Press CY - Athens, OH U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Easter 2016" Y1 - 1982 A1 - Graham Reid KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia set in a school on the anniversary of the Easter uprising in Ireland.

JF - [BBC TV's] Play for Tomorrow series ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Elf Hill" Y1 - 1982 A1 - Joanna [Ruth] Russ (1937-2011) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia depicting the Sunset Estates retirement home that has twenty million retirees who each get a huge apartment with all the amenities, but there is only one apartment that is shared by all twenty million. This is achieved through the manipulation of space and time, and the home is actually run down and dirty. Other retirement homes, like Happihomes, only provide a bunk. Another is named Endfun, which makes the point. Female author.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 63.5 (378) N1 -

Rpt. in her The Hidden Side of the Moon. Stories (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1987), 112-23.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Elysium Y1 - 1982 A1 - William K. Carlson (b. 1937) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia in which a eutopian seeming world is revealed as an authoritarian dictatorship.

PB - Doubleday & Co CY - Garden City, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Eye of the Queen Y1 - 1982 A1 - [Anthony] Phillip Mann (1942-2022) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Describes a very complex, truly alien society that is in some ways eutopian. The residents of Pe-Ellia are asexual, telepathic, and live in a world in which the whole planet is alive. They go through seven stages of development, each of which produces new markings on their skin. The goal is to achieve symmetry in the last stage. They reproduce through the Queen, who appears to be an alien from a different world, and they also return to her in death.

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Victor Gollancz, 2001.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Fall of Ica" Y1 - 1982 A1 - Francis J. Matozzo AB -

Authoritarian dystopia enforced through psychological monitoring and conditioning.

JF - Pig Iron (Youngstown, OH) VL - no. 10 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Fast Fiddling; The Comic Adventures of 3 Radical Collectives in New England Y1 - 1982 A1 - Robert [Molise Boyer] Nichols (1919-2010) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Four issues each about three communal eutopias: Bottom Luck Farm--homesteaders in Northern Vermont, El Bohio--urban activist collective in Hartford, and Nickelodeon--folk rock band in Wendell, Mass. In each case the issues follow the community from the first days through troubled times to either a degree of success, failure, or simply moving on to something else.

PB - Penny Each Press CY - Thetford, VT VL - 12 issues U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Foundation's Edge Y1 - 1982 A1 - Isaac Asimov (1920-92) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Fourth vol. of the famous series. While the focus of the novel is on the sweep of historical change that was the focus of the trilogy, none of which were eutopian and are best characterized as early social science fiction, this volume includes a eutopia called Gaia, where the world is itself sentient. The entire planet including flora and fauna as well as the people have a group consciousness. Everything does what is needed for itself and the planet and no more. See also 1986 and 1988 Asimov.

PB - Doubleday & Co CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Excerpts published as “Foundation’s Edge.” Omni 5.1 (October 1982): 64-68, 70, 156-58; and, under the same title, in Asimov’s Science Fiction 6.12 (59) (December 1982): 44-49, 50-52, 54-61, 63-65, 67-71, 73-74, 76-77, 79, 81-82, 84-85, 87, with comments on the Foundation series by various authors on the intervening pages.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Friday Y1 - 1982 A1 - Robert A[nson] Heinlein (1907-88) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which North America has disintegrated into numerous independent countries.

PB - Holt, Rinehart & Winston CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. as vol. 24 of The Virginia Edition of his works. Houston, TX: The Virginia Edition, 2010. Excerpt published in Science Fiction Digest 1.4 (September-October 1982): 28-51 with "On Heinlein's Friday" by Jack [John Stewart] Williamson (26-27).

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Games of the Strong Y1 - 1982 A1 - Glenda [Emilie] Adams (1939-2007) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Complex dystopia--partially Orwell and partially Kafka. The main character, a young woman who identifies with the rebels, wends her way, seemingly almost by accident, through the bureaucracy and society of the Complex, an authoritarian dystopia. The Games of the Strong, which are barely mentioned, are games designed to distract the population from their miserable lives.

PB - Angus and Robertson CY - Melbourne, VIC, Australia N1 -

Rpt. North Ryde, NSW, Australia: Sirius, 1987. U.S. ed. New York: Cane Hill Press, 1989.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Godmothers Y1 - 1982 A1 - Sandi Hall (b. 1942) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

Feminist novel with a stress on struggle but that includes eutopian and dystopian elements. The novel is set on four timelines: the witch-burning past, the present in which a group of feminists are targeted by anti-feminists, a feminist eutopian future which is threatened by those who worship mathematics, and the period of the Godmothers, a period in which the ties among women are affirmed.

PB - The Women's Press CY - London/New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Golden Space Y1 - 1982 A1 - Pamela Sargent (b. 1948) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia that develops as a result of the discovery of immortality.

PB - Timescape CY - New York N1 -

Parts published earlier as "The Summer's Dust." The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 61.1 (362) (July 1981): 68-97; Rpt. in The Best of Pamela Sargent. Ed. Martin H[arry] Greenberg (Chicago, IL: Academy Chicago, 1987), 148-96; and in her The Mountain Cage and Other Stories (Atlanta, GA: Meisha Merlin, 2002), 283-322. "Afterword to 'The Summer's Dust'" (323); and "The Renewal" which was originally published in slightly different form in Immortal: Short Novels of the Transhuman Future. Ed. Jack Dann (New York: Harper & Row, 1978), 13-147.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Great Divide Y1 - 1982 A1 - Frank M[alcolm] Robinson (1926-2014) A1 - John Levin KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Near future U.S. divided into rich and poor based on access to energy resources.

PB - Rawson, Wade CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Green City" Y1 - 1982 A1 - D. J. L. Neruda KW - US author AB -

Bloomington, Indiana turned into an ecological eutopia five years after a worldwide economic collapse. Much of the story concerns a controversy between those wanting more centralization, described as "old-time leftists", and those wanting continued decentralization.

JF - Veridian VL - 2.5 - 3.2, 4.1 U1 -

1, 5-7 entitled "Green City II"; 5-6, 16 entitled "Again, Green City"; 1, 5-6 entitled "Conflict In the New Age. Green City IV"; 16, 14-13 entitled "If . . . . Green City V"; 11-13 entitled "Green or Red City."

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Green Hill Far Away" Y1 - 1982 A1 - [Michael Paul] [McDowell] (b. 1954) ED - Alan Ryan KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Whether it is eutopian or dystopian is an open question. A new religious order, the Rule of St. Abbenew the Galactic, designed for life enforces morality and act as both police (the Benedictine Infantry) and the judicial system. The story is about a monk whose faith is tested.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Halfmen of O Y1 - 1982 A1 - Maurice [Gough] Gee (b. 1931) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

First volume in a young adult trilogy. This volume describes an authoritarian dystopia with fantasy elements set on the Planet O where good and evil have become separated and a young girl from Earth brings them back together to free those who were dominated by evil. In addition to the humans who are evil, the planet has a number of sentient life forms, such as bird people and seafolk, who help her and two others from Earth. See also 1984 and 1985 Gee.

PB - Oxford University Press CY - Auckland, New Zealand N1 -

Rpt. Auckland, New Zealand: Puffin Books, 1984. Extract rpt. in Monsters in the Garden: An Anthology of Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy. Ed. Elizabeth Knox and David Larsen (Wellington, New Zealand: Victoria University of Wellington Press, 2020), 67-92. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Havoc in Islandia Y1 - 1982 A1 - Mark Saxton (1914-88) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A novel of romance and adventure set in the history of Islandia from 1942 Wright. See also 1969 and 1979 Saxton. 

PB - Houghton Mifflin CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Helen, Whose Face Launched Twenty-eight Conestoga Hovercraft" Y1 - 1982 A1 - Leigh Kennedy (b. 1951) ED - Terry [Gene] Carr (1937-87) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Conflicts in a small space station with two communities that were trying to create better lives for their people and how the conflicts were solved.

JF - Universe PB - Doubleday & Co CY - Garden City, NY VL - 12 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Jenny Ewing Y1 - 1982 A1 - [Frank] Yorick Blumenfeld (1932) KW - Dutch author KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Atomic war and shelter dystopia.

PB - Centaur CY - Fontwell, Eng. N1 -

Rpt. as Jenny, My Diary. Boston: Little, Brown, 1982. Rpt. Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin, 1983.

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ATL

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Joy Y1 - 1982 A1 - James [Henry Peter] McNeish (1931-2016) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Novel about an isolated and withdrawn community in New Zealand named Joy that is additionally cut off by a quarantine and the relations among its citizens. The community has conflicts but is generally presented positively.

PB - Hodder and Stoughton CY - Auckland, New Zealand U5 -

ATL, M, VUW

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lady of Light Y1 - 1982 A1 - Diana L. Paxson (b. 1943) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Mostly fantasy but includes a future post-catastrophe eutopian kingdom.

PB - Timescape CY - New York U5 -

Merril, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Light on the Sound Y1 - 1982 A1 - Somtow [Papinian] Sucharitkul (b. 1952) KW - Male author KW - Thai author KW - US author AB -

Religious dystopia that destroys all utopias because of its belief that due to the Fall all utopias are necessarily false. But after the destruction of the twelfth utopia, a thirteenth is discovered that causes those assigned to destroy it to try to save it. The book discusses the nature of utopia. First volume in a series; see also 1983, 1984 and 1985 Sucharitkul.

PB - Timescape CY - New York N1 -

Rev. as The Dawning Shadow: The Light On the Sound. New York: Bantam Books, 1986. Part previously published as "The Thirteenth Utopia." Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact [99].4 (April 1979): 144-60, 162-64; which was rpt. in The Annual World's Best SF 1980. Ed. Donald A. Wollheim (New York: DAW Books, 1980), 20-42; and in his Fire from the Wine Dark Sea (Norfolk, VA: Donning, 1983), 17-38; and "Light on the Sound." Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine 4.8 (August 1980): 84-169. Described as the first volume of a trilogy, the series was later extended to four volumes.

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MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Man Who Walks Away Behind the Eyes" Y1 - 1982 A1 - Terry [Terence William] Dowling (b. 1947) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Flawed utopia. Operation and failure of a supposedly perfect legal system.

JF - Omega Science Digest (Sydney, NSW, Australia) VL - [no. 9] N1 -

Rpt. in his Wormwood (Adelaide, SA, Australia: Aphelion Publications, 1991), 79-97; in Wonder Years: The Ten Best Australian Stories of a Decade Past. Ed. Peter McNamara (Parramatta, NSW, Australia: Aphelion Publications/MirrorDanse Books, 2003), 55-71; and in his Make Believe: A Terry Dowling Reader (Greenwood, WA, Australia: Ticonderoga Publications, 2009), 91-107. 

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A, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Manshape Y1 - 1982 A1 - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

An Interstellar Bridge connects all the human worlds that had up to that point been isolated, but one world, Azrael, initially refuses to be connected. It has a unique social organization that does not value existence, and when connected it tries to export its beliefs to other worlds.

PB - DAW Books CY - New York N1 -

Shorter version originally published as "Bridge to Azrael." Amazing Stories 38.2 (February 1964): 6-78. Rpt. as Endless Shadow. New York: Ace Books, 1964. Ace Double bound with Gardner F. Fox, The Arsenal of Miracles (1964). 

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CU-Riv, Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Maurai & Kith Y1 - 1982 A1 - Poul [William] Anderson (1926-2001) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe eutopia of sea people based on conservation contrasted with a technological space faring civilization and the problems when they meet. The Maurai are based on the New Zealand/Aotearoa Maori.

PB - Tor CY - New York N1 -

Parts originally published as "The Sky People." The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 16.3 (March 1959): 85-124; "Progress." The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 22.1 (January 1962): 90-129; "Windmill" [See 1973 Anderson]; "Ghetto." The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 6.5 (May 1954): 94-119; and "The Horn of Time the Hunter" as "Homo Aquaticus." Amazing Stories 37.9 (September 1963): 6-22.

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MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Meat Box." Y1 - 1982 A1 - Daniel Gilbert ED - Alan Ryan KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of religious fanaticism set in a orbital mental hospital.

JF - Perpetual Light PB - Warner Books CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mindkiller: A Novel of the Near Future Y1 - 1982 A1 - Spider Robinson (b. 1948) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

​Technological dystopia in which Wireheads are addicted to stimulation of the pleasure centers of the brain. The first volume of what comes to be called the Lifehouse Trilogy, which includes his 1987 Time Pressure and 1997 Life House

PB - Holt, Rinehart and Winston CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in The Lifehouse Trilogy (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2007), 1-229. 

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Can, Merril, MH, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Mosquito Coast. A Novel Y1 - 1982 A1 - Paul [Edward] Theroux (b. 1941) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel begins in the dystopia of migrant labor in the U.S. and follows a Yankee family to Honduras, where they attempt to create as eutopia in the jungle. 

PB - Houghton Mifflin CY - Boston, MA U1 -

Woodcuts by David Frampton

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Plains Y1 - 1982 A1 - Gerald Murnane (b. 1939) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

The interior of Australia as an imaginary country separate from and better than the coasts, with the narrator speaking of leaving Australia to get there. The area is dominated by incredibly wealthy landowners.

PB - Nostrilia Press CY - Carlton, VIC, Australia N1 -

Rpt. Ringwood, VIC, Australia: Penguin, 1984; and Melbourne, VIC, Australia: McPhee Gribble, 1990.

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A, CLU, M, VUW

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Prometheus Man; a nrobook Y1 - 1982 A1 - Ray [Radell] Faraday Nelson (1931-2022) ED - Hank Stine KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Anyone who fails academically becomes permanently a member of the unemployables living in camps. The men are sterilized. A second plot line concerns a man who intends to create a world eutopia using people of high intelligence. The two lines converge around a man, one of the unemployables, and his divorced wife, one of the super intelligent. Separately they lead changes in the two groups and end up back together. Some of the characters, plot, and text are repeated from 1978 Nelson.

PB - Donning CY - Norfolk, VA U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Puzzling amendment approved" Y1 - 1982 A1 - Tony White KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Short future authoritarian dystopia. New York is the capitol of the U.S. Capitalism has brought worldwide poverty, and the U.S. President says that starvation is simply normal economic adjustment. The amendment prohibits any words in English or Spanish that suggests that there are any "political prisoners" in the Western Hemisphere.

JF - Veridian VL - 2.2 N1 -

Rpt. in Veridian 4.1 (February 1984): 2.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Retaliation Y1 - 1982 A1 - Richard [Heath] Rohmer (b. 1924) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Canadian takeover of the U.S.

PB - General Publishing CY - Don Mills, ON, Canada U5 -

CaOTU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Root... and Branch" Y1 - 1982 A1 - Michael [Robert] Collings (b. 1947) ED - Scott Smith ED - Vickie Smith KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia based on genetic testing that judges the worth of a person on the sorts of descendents they will have. People are mated to produce the best results. People who believe in such outmoded ideas as love and family are ostracized.

JF - LDSF: Science Fiction by Mormons PB - Millennial Productions CY - Thousand Oaks, CA U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Rose for Armageddon Y1 - 1982 A1 - Hilbert [Van Nydeck] Schenck [Jr.] (1926-2014) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Collapsing Western civilization and an attempt to create a eutopia by developing a huge new computing system.

PB - Timescape CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Allison & Busby, 1984. Rpt. London: Sphere, 1984.

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MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Running Man Y1 - 1982 A1 - [Stephen Edwin] [King] (b. 1947) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which a TV contest called "The Running Man" promises rich rewards for a man who can elude those hunting him and who will kill him if they find him. 

PB - New American Library CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in The Bachman Books: Four Early Novels by Stephen King. Rage, The Long Walk, Roadwork, The Running Man (New York: New American Library, 1985), 521- 692 with "Why I Was Bachman" (v-x). U.K. ed. London: New English Library, 1983.

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Richard Bachman [pseud.]

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MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Science Fiction Sequence" Y1 - 1982 A1 - Bill Sewell (1951-2003) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Poem containing a section "Utopia" (50-51), which contrasts life in an ideal society with the complications of life in this world.

JF - Solo Flight PB - University of Otago Press CY - Dunedin, New Zealand N1 -

“Utopia” is rpt. in Voyagers: Science Fiction Poetry from New Zealand. Ed. Mark Pirie and Tim Jones (Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Interactive Press, 2009), 9.

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VUW

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Seven Tomorrows: Toward a Voluntary History Y1 - 1982 A1 - Paul Hawken A1 - James Ogilvy A1 - Peter Schwartz KW - Male author AB -

Futurism with seven alternative futures for the U.S. with both eutopian and dystopia scenarios.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York U5 -

MoU-KC, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Shaving of Karl Marx; An Instant Novel of Ideas, After the Manner of Thomas Love Peacock, in which Lenin and H.G. Wells talk about the Political Meaning of the Scientific Romances Y1 - 1982 A1 - Leon [Eugene] Stover (1929-2006) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Novel presenting perceived similarities between H.G. Wells (1866-1946) and Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924). Discusses Wells's dystopias The Time Machine (1895) and The First Men in the Moon (1901) among others.

PB - The Chiron Press CY - Lake Forest, IL ER - TY - ABST T1 - Starburst Y1 - 1982 A1 - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel presents a dystopia of the near future in a U. S. that is marked by violent protests and widespread disorder. It also presents a eutopia brought about on another planet through the unexplained development of new powers by a group of people sent on a supposedly meaningless trip to a nonexistent planet. They bring a degree of healing to the Earth. Some satire.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Stroka Prospekt Y1 - 1982 A1 - Richard [Allen] Lupoff (1935-2020) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A somewhat dystopian future with Russia leading in space exploration and mining and on Earth Russia and other "progressive" countries like the U.S. are opposed by an expansive China. The story takes places on a vacation planetoid where miners go to relax and involves alien contact.

PB - The Toothpaste Press CY - West Branch, IA U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Survival Solution. A New "Common Sense" For Americans and the World: Now All Interdependent. Inspired By Edward Bellamy's Equality Including All Main Chapters Complete. Implementing Our Founding Fathers' Democratic Principles and Spiritual Ideals. This: The Only Solution In This World Today Both Practical and Worthy of American Idealism: Giving A Complete Solution for Changing Present Chaotic Non-Survival System Through Renewal of American Principles To Build Peace and Survival on True Democracy Y1 - 1982 A1 - [James L.] [Black] KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia with a world-wide cooperative economic system, religion, democracy, and equality. Chapters IV-VI (pp. 21-317) reprint or summarize Bellamy's Equality with the original pagination, and much of the rest of the book is quotations from a wide range of authors. Many references to the New Age.

PB - Harmony Books CY - Mountain Home, NC U5 -

CU-Riv, IU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Sybil" Y1 - 1982 A1 - Elizabeth Petty Bentley ED - Scott Smith ED - Vickie Smith KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Life after the Second Coming from a Mormon perspective. Mortals work at their temples assisting those who are to be resurrected, while the resurrected do all the work needed.

JF - LDSF: Science Fiction by Mormons PB - Millennial Productions CY - Thousand Oaks, CA U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Tapestry of Time Y1 - 1982 A1 - [John Middleton] [Murry] [Jr.] (1926-2002) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Final volume of a trilogy called The White Bird of Kinship. See also 1978 and 1981 Murry. This volume resolves issues of the previous two and leads to the recognition of interdependence.

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Futura, 1986. 

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Richard Cowper [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Technomics. A Better Economy. International Y1 - 1982 A1 - [John Bernard] [Ball] (b. 1911) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Detailed eutopia similar to his early works but more fictionalized in that it is presented as an explanation to emissaries from a nation that has chosen not to join the Technomic Alliance. Automation used only where it does not take jobs away from people or in hazardous situations (49). The indigenous population has been fully integrated into the new system (86). All religious officials are now elected by church members on a national basis and are completely self-funded (49). In 1957 the author ran in the Canadian federal election as a candidate in Regina, Saskatchewan for the National Credit Control Party, a party of his own creation. His purpose was to publicize the monetary system he developed. See “J.B. Ball National Credit Control” within “Six Candidates Offer Final Election Message.” The Leader-Post (Regina, SK, Canada) 48.132 (June 8, 1957): 3. See also 1956 Ball Ahoy for Eternity and National Credit, The Handbook of the Universal Monetary System, and Universal Monetary System of National Credit Control, and The Universal Monetary System of National Credit Control: A Financial Revolution With Nationalized Accounting Merchandising at Cost; 1961 Ball, Cosmocracy: The Universal Monetary System. Regina, SK, Canada: J.B. Ball; 1978 Ball, Permacredit. Universal Finance for Government & Industry. World Government without Trade Deficits. A Cash System of Accounting without Debt in Industry or Government or Taxes Against Industry or Credit Cards. Foremost, AB: Author; 1980 Ball, The Cosmic Laws of the Spectrum: Evolution and Government. By Barney Ballmark [pseud.]. [Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications];1982 Ball, Technomics. A Better Economy. International. By Barney Ballmark [pseud.]. [Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications]; and 1988 Ball, The Laws of the Micro Giants. An Odyssean Classic. Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications. Other versions include Technomics in one corporate world. By Barney Ballmark [pseud.]. [Foremost, AB: Author], [1983]; The Technomic Alliance [subtitle on the cover No Taxes on property or income, the obvious solution, total employment]. 3rd ed. By Barney Ballmark [pseud.]. Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications, 1984; Pathway to the Stars: Industrial Democracy Beyond Democracy and Christianity Plus the Photon Theory of Creation. Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications, 1986. [New ed.] as The Pathway to the Stars. The Photon theory of Creation. Poetry. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1987. Rpt. as Pathway to the Stars. Industrial Democracy Beyond Capitalism and Christianity Plus the Photon Theory of Creation. Includes Poetry Selections. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1989. Another ed. as The Pathway to the Stars. By The Hobo Poet [pseud.]. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1990 in four sections, [“Memoirs, Poetry, and Stories] (1-164),” “Industrial Capitalism--Beyond Capitalism” (165-213), “Gleaning from Prairie Art Shows” (214-29), and “Radiation Properties of Creation” (230-51); Technomics International. Perpetual Payroll Financing for Government and Industry. Rev. October 1986. [Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1986; Industrial Democracy. Beyond Capitalism and Christianity. Includes the Photon Laws of Creation. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1989; and Industrial Democracy. Beyond Capitalism. This concept of world marketing explains how nations can finance total employment, without international debt, or taxation on property and income. New Economic System. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1990. 53 pp.

PB - [Ballmark Publications] CY - [Foremost, AB, Canada] U3 -

Barney Ballmark [pseud.]

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Can

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Terrible Twos Y1 - 1982 A1 - Ishmael [Scott] Reed (b. 1938) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

Satiric dystopia based on contemporary U.S. politics in which economic and political leaders behave like a spoiled two year old. See also his 1989 The Terrible Threes, and his 2021 The Terrible Fours.

PB - St. Martin's/Marek CY - New York SN - 0-312-79199-2 N1 -

Rpt. New York: Atheneum, 1988. An excerpt, “Future Christmas (excerpt from the novel The Terrible Twos,” was rpt. in Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora. Ed. Sheree R. Thomas (New York: Warner Books, 2000), 275-89.

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DLC, Merril, PSt, PU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Tomorrow's Men Y1 - 1982 A1 - Michael [Sinclair MacAuslan] Shea (1938-2009) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Dystopia of a violent future England.

PB - Weidenfeld & Nicolson CY - London N1 -

Rpt. as Break Point. Sutton, Surrey, Eng.: Severn House, 2001.

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Rpt. as Break Point

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Travels to the Enu: Story of a Shipwreck Y1 - 1982 A1 - [Heinz Jakov] [Landwirth] (1927-2007) KW - Austrian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel presents a satire on the present in the form of a weird, fantastic, imaginary country. It begins on a dystopian ship crewed by murderers and psychopaths where the passengers are required to do all the work and are robbed and murdered. Then the ship sinks, and the protagonist makes it to the island of the Enu, who seem to be half human and half baboon in apparently separate species and have a odd affinity for birds that occupy nests on men's heads.

PB - Eyre Methuen CY - London U3 -

Jakov Lind [pseud.]

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Twofold Vibration Y1 - 1982 A1 - Raymond Federman (1928-2009) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel is set on New Year's Eve 1999 on an overpopulated Earth that annually sends its undesirables, including artists who do not conform to the current style, to colonies in space.

PB - Indiana University Press/Harvester Press CY - Bloomington, IN/Brighton, Eng. U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Utopia. A Tale Y1 - 1982 A1 - Phoebe Carlile KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Includes a two page, very general eutopia.

PB - [Penumbra Press] CY - [Lisbon, IA] U5 -

DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - V for Vendetta Y1 - 1982 A1 - Alan [Oswald] Moore (b. 1953) A1 - David Lloyd (b. 1950) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Graphic novel depicting a corrupt, totalitarian regime in England being resisted by a superhero.

PB - DC Comics CY - New York N1 -

Books 1 and 2 “Vertigo” and “Vincent” published in the U.K. in Warrior in 1982 and 1983. Published in U.S. as V for Vendetta, nos. 1-10 (1987-1988). Collected ed. New York: DC Comics, 1989. Rev. exp. ed. New York: DC Comics, 1990. Rpt. New York: DC Comics, 2005.

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Illus. David Lloyd.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Very British Coup Y1 - 1982 A1 - Chris[topher John] Mullin (b. 1947) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The left wins an election, and the establishment works to overthrow it. A sequel is The Friends of Harry Perkins. London: Scribner, 2019 that is primarily a political novel set in the dystopia that Brexit has produced with a potential war between China and the U. S. in the background.

PB - Hodder and Stoughton CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Corgi, 1988; and London: Politicos, 2001. 

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MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Voyage From Yesteryear Y1 - 1982 A1 - James P[atrick] Hogan (1941-2010) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Earth had established colonies of children in the Alpha Centuri system and decades later sent adult colonists and an army to take control. The first group and established a libertarian eutopia and had no intention of being taken over by the new one. The book won the Prometheus Award of the Libertarian Futurist Society.

PB - Del Rey/Ballantine Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Baen, 1999. U.K. ed. Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin, 1984.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - War of Omission Y1 - 1982 A1 - Kevin O'Donnell Jr. (1950-2012) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A bureaucratic dystopia and a revolution of the middle class.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York U5 -

Merril, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Way of the Wolf” Y1 - 1982 A1 - Lynne Holdom ED - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) KW - Female author AB -

Free Amazon story.

JF - Sword of Chaos and Other Stories PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The White Plague Y1 - 1982 A1 - Frank [Patrick] Herbert (1920-86) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian set in a near future Ireland using Irish myth to explore the conflicts.

PB - G.P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Gollancz, 1983.

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L, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - 2081: A Hopeful View of the Human Future Y1 - 1981 A1 - Gerard K[itchen] O'Neill (1927-92) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Technological eutopia presented as a non-fictional prediction but the description of life in 2081 combines fiction and non-fiction. Space colonies and some colonies much further out in space.

PB - Simon and Schuster CY - New York U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Anarch Lords Y1 - 1981 A1 - A[rthur] Bertram Chandler (1912-84) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel shows the attempt to bring law and order to an anarchist (in its negative sense) world.

PB - DAW Books CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Aventine Y1 - 1981 A1 - [Karen] Lee Killough (b. 1942) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A linked set of short stories set in a flawed utopia for the very rich.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York N1 -

Parts were originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction as “The Siren Garden.” 46.3 (March 1974): 62-78; “Tropic of Eden.” 53.2 (August 1977): 141-56; “A House Divided.” 54.6 (June 1978): 82-99; “Broken Stairways, Walls of Time.” 56.3 (March 1979): 8-21; and “Ménage Outré.” 60.2 (February 1981): 5-18. “Bête et Noir” was originally published in Universe 10. Ed. Terry Carr (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1980), 49-78. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Black Pudden Republic Y1 - 1981 A1 - Ken Bell KW - Male author AB -

A dystopia said to have been written in 1975 and not updated. A “Black Pudden Republic” is defined as a Banana Republic with oil, and the novel is about an attempt to establish a corporate state.

PB - Frank Graham CY - Newcastle upon Tyne, Eng. U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Book of Gwineva: This being the first published part of a continuing message Y1 - 1981 KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author AB -

A conservative New Age utopia presented as the teachings of a Spirit Teacher. The stress is on traditional gender roles and the family. A direct sequel is The Book of Gwineva. Volume II Truth Against the World. Thames, New Zealand: The Hope Trust for The Culdian Celestial Age Trust, 1993, which is less explicitly forward-looking and emphasizes the way current attitudes to sex and sexuality undermine the coming of the New Age. In addition, see Teachings of Celestina: Truth Against the World. Thames, New Zealand: The Hope Trust for The Culdian Celestial Age Trust, 1993, which focuses on the afterlife; and Wisdom From Rowena: Truth Against the World. Thames, New Zealand: The Hope Trust for The Culdian Celestial Age Trust, 1993. See also 1994 The Kolbrin.

PB - Culdian Movement of Mahara CY - Mahara, Tapu, New Zealand U5 -

ATL, PSt, VUW

ER - TY - ABST T1 - But We Are Not of Earth Y1 - 1981 A1 - Jean E[dna] Karl (1927-2000) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Companion to 1976 Karl. In this volume four teenagers who are in a school for discovers, are led to a planet that is Earth normal and appears to be uninhabited. But there is a small settlement that had hoped to add the teenagers to its population. After the teenagers escape, Earth, which had no colonies, decided to try to establish a few for people looking for such a life. 

PB - E. P. Dutton CY - New York U5 -

PP

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Castaways of Tanagar Y1 - 1981 A1 - Brian [Michael] Stableford (b. 1948) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A planetary eutopia that freezes its outcasts (criminals and dissidents). With the rediscovery of Earth and the plan to explore it, the outcasts become necessary and so some are brought back to life. The eutopia, Tanager, is composed of Intellectuals, who dominate, Hedonists, and Pragmatists, who occupy a middle ground between the other two.

PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Century's End Y1 - 1981 A1 - Russell M[organ] Griffin (1943-86) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Wide-ranging dystopia with a collapsing economy in which brokers consult witches, a TV evangelist is running for President of the U.S., and riots and political violence are common.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Ceremony of Discontent" Y1 - 1981 A1 - Eleanor [Atwood] Arnason (b. 1942) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Feminist eutopia set in a society where each woman had to make an irrevocable choice between motherhood and independent creativity and trading. Men would marry at least one of each. The story is about an independent woman, who is discontented but does not want to be a mother either.

JF - A Room of One's Own VL - 6.1 & 2 N1 -

Rpt. in her Ordinary People: A Collection (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2005), 21-33.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Cities of the Red Night Y1 - 1981 A1 - William S[eward] Burroughs (1914-97) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Unusually for Burroughs, this novel includes a eutopia as well as a dystopia. The eutopia is based on the Libertalia community possibly founded by the pirate Captain Misson (ca 1660-ca 1690s) on Madagascar and is set in the eighteenth century. The dystopian material is typical Burroughs and is set in the twentieth century. Similar to 1991 Burroughs, which also uses the settlement. First volume of a trilogy that includes his 1983 The Place of Dead Roads and his 1987 The Western Lands.

PB - Holt, Rinehart and Winston CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: John Calder, 1981.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - City of Women Y1 - 1981 A1 - David [Neil] Ireland (b. 1927) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Picture of a city inhabited almost exclusively by women with a description of the life there. The city is beleaguered by men from outside. It turns out to be a fantasy of one woman.

PB - Allen Lane CY - Ringwood, VIC, Australia/London N1 -

Rpt. Ringwood, VIC, Australia: Penguin Books Australia, 1986.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Control of Violence by mass tranquillisation 1981-2001" Y1 - 1981 A1 - Paul Western (b. 1963) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Mass tranquillization is used by the Riot Protection Squad to control and prevent violence. Presented positively. At the end it is suggested that the next step will be introducing mood improving drugs into the water to reduce tension, and specifically to improve race relations. Won the British Association of Young Scientists/New Scientist essay competition for 1981.

JF - New Scientist VL - 91.1268 ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Cool War Y1 - 1981 A1 - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Humorous dystopia set in the 2020s. The "Cool War" has replaced the Cold War and consists of world-wide sabotage.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York U5 -

MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Co-operative Self-Sufficient Village" Y1 - 1981 A1 - Peter D[avid] Stanley KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

A detailed plan for a self-sufficient, environmentally sound cooperative community autonomous in energy, food, and water. Mostly on the physical setting and the support structure, but it includes a discussion of social arrangements and the difficulties of setting it up.

JF - Research Essay. Bachelor of Town Planning PB - Department of Town Planning, University of Auckland, New Zealand CY - Auckland, New Zealand U5 -

ATL, VUW

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Daughters of Copper Woman Y1 - 1981 A1 - [Barbara] Anne Cameron (b. 1938) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

North American Indian matriarchal society presented as a eutopia.

PB - Press Gang Publisher CY - Vancouver, BC, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Devil We Know" Y1 - 1981 A1 - Eileen [Shirley Monk] Kernaghan (b. 1939) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Flawed utopia. A women's society that struggles to sustain itself while rejecting the technology that would allow them to produce more. The story is driven by the arrival of a man farming with technology near them and the tensions this produces.

JF - Woman Space: Future and Fantasy Stories and Art by Women PB - New Victoria Publishers CY - Lebanon, NH U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Doors of the Universe Y1 - 1981 A1 - Sylvia [Louise] Engdahl (b. 1933) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Third volume of a trilogy following 1972 and 1973 Engdahl. In this volume, the protagonist of the first two still doubts his ability to solve the problems his culture faces, but he ultimately succeeds. 

PB - Atheneum CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. with minor revisions in Children of the Star (Atlanta, GA: Meisha Merlin, 2000), 423-717 together with 1972 and 1973 Engdahl, with an “Afterword” to the Collection (719-21), in which she notes that this volume was intended for adults, and “Sylvia Engdahl Biography” ([723-24]).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Dream of Kinship Y1 - 1981 A1 - [John Middleton] [Murry] [Jr.] (1926-2002) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Middle volume of a trilogy called The White Bird of Kinship. See also 1978 and 1982 Murry. In this volume, the secular power tries to destroy the religious heresy known as Kinship, but a new age is developing.

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London N1 -

U. S. New York Pocket Books, 1981.

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Richard Cowper [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ecotopia Emerging Y1 - 1981 A1 - Ernest [William] Callenbach [Jr.] (1929-2012) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Early development of Ecotopia as described in 1975 Callenbach. Callenbach's political ideas are developed in Callenbach and Michael Phillips, A Citizen Legislature. Berkeley/Bodega, CA: Banyan Tree Books/Clear Glass, 1985. Rpt. Exeter, England: Imprint Academic, 2008 with an "Introduction" by Peter Stone (9-16).

PB - Banyan Tree Books CY - Berkeley, CA ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Entertainment" Y1 - 1981 A1 - M[ichael] A[nthony] Foster (b. 1939) ED - George R[aymond] R[ichard] Martin (b. 1948) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed in which the human race is cut off from reality.

JF - New Voices 4. The John W. Campbell Award Nominees PB - Berkley Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in his Owl Time; A Collection of Fictions (New York: DAW Books, 1985), 151-251.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Entropy Tango: A Comic Romance Y1 - 1981 A1 - Michael [John] Moorcock (b. 1939) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia and suggestions of eutopia. Alternative history using some characters from the Russian Revolution, like Leon Trotsky (Lev Davidovich Bronstein 1879-1940) and Nestor Makhno (1889-1935).

PB - New English Library CY - London U5 -

MoSW

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Firebird Y1 - 1981 A1 - Charles L[eonard] Harness (1915-2005) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of telepathic computers, known collectively as Control, that rule the galaxy and plans to give itself immortality by destroying all life.

PB - Pocket Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Forever" Y1 - 1981 A1 - Damon [Francis] Knight (1922-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Scientists in the nineteenth century invent an elixir for a very long life, which is followed by a cure for all diseases. This leads to a eutopia of peace and prosperity, and, later, a fall in the birth rate and the end of the human race.

JF - Omni VL - 4.2 N1 -

Rpt. In The Second Omni Book of Science Fiction. Ed. Ellen [Sue] Datlow (New York: Zebra Books, nd), 345-53.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Gathering Y1 - 1981 A1 - Virginia [Esther] Hamilton (1934-2002) KW - African American author AB -

Sequel to 1981 Hamilton. In this volume, the protagonists battle the ruler of the dystopian future, win, and return home.

PB - Greenwillow Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Gor Saga Y1 - 1981 A1 - Maureen [Patricia] Duffy (b. 1933) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A novel about a boy whose mother was a gorilla set in a class divided dystopia controlled by computers.

PB - Eyre Methuen CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Green Futures of Tycho Y1 - 1981 A1 - William [Warner] Sleator [III] (1945-2011) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Children's time travel book that includes a future authoritarian dystopia.

PB - E. P. Dutton CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Puffin, 1991; and New York: Starscape, 2005. This ed. includes a "Reader's Guide" (115-21). U.K. ed. London: Macdonald, 1988.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Guardian of Isis Y1 - 1981 A1 - Monica [Mary] Hughes (1925-2003) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult dystopia which expels a young woman. A new world is created.

PB - Hamish Hamilton CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hello America Y1 - 1981 A1 - J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. The United States had collapsed in the past and an expedition of rediscovery finds it inhabited with a wide variety of dystopian societies.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Carroll & Graf, 1988.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Home Ground Y1 - 1981 A1 - Cecelia [Anastasia Holland (b. 1943) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

An intentional community in California in the seventies where some people are trying to create a eutopia, others are simply living, and others are primarily concerned with sex and drugs.

PB - Alfred A. Knopf CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Insider Y1 - 1981 A1 - Christopher [D.] Evans (b. 1951) KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

The background to the novel is an extrapolated near future dystopia of the anti-immigration and anti-international right wing in a future Britain.

PB - Faber and Faber CY - London U5 -

MoU-St, O, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Islanders Y1 - 1981 A1 - John Rowe Townsend (1922-2014) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which an isolated island with a rule that no outsiders will be allowed has to deal with the disruption caused by two young people saving the lives of two other young people from outside.

PB - Oxford University Press CY - Oxford, Eng.: N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: J.P. Lippincott, 1981.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Johnny Mnemonic" Y1 - 1981 A1 - William [Ford] Gibson (b. 1948) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Early cyberpunk dystopia. See 1995 Bisson for a novel based on the story.

JF - Omni VL - 3.8 N1 -

Rpt. in The Best of Omni No. 6 (New York: Omni Publications, 1983), 16-22; The Second Omni Book of Science Fiction. Ed. Ellen [Sue] Datlow (New York: Zebra Books, nd), 355-79; in his Burning Chrome (London: Victor Gollancz, 1986), 6-27. Rpt. London: Grafton, 1988), 14-36. U.S. ed. (New York: Arbor House, 1987), 6-27; and in Cyberpunk: Stories of Hardware, Software, Wetware, Revolution and Evolution. Ed. Victoria Blake (Portland, OR: Underhand Press, 2013), 015-032.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Journey's End" Y1 - 1981 A1 - Paul Fussell (1924-2012) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Short article on the author's ideal city (food, culture, courtesies, etc.) inspired by a bout of illness in Israel.

JF - Harper's VL - 263.1578 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Judgement: 2110 A.D." Y1 - 1981 A1 - Maureen Ahern (b. 1981) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

A future New Zealand wholly dominated by women (FEM). The men born are designated MAL (Malformed) and kept on reserves.

JF - WARP: The Magazine of the [New Zealand] National Association for Science Fiction VL - no. 21 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - July's People Y1 - 1981 A1 - Nadine Gordimer (1923-2014) KW - Female author KW - South African author AB -

Dystopia. A future civil war in South Africa in which servants save the people they had worked for by taking them to their village.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Penguin, 1982.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lanark; A Life in Four Books Y1 - 1981 A1 - Alasdair [James] Gray (1934-2019) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Complex dystopia that follows the character Lanark through the surrealistic city of Unthank, which has severe economic and political problems and is threatened environmentally. Includes a side trip to a version of Hell.

PB - Canongate Publishing/Harper & Row CY - Edinburgh, Scot./New York N1 -

Rev. ed. Edinburgh, Scot: Canongate Publishing, 1985. Rpt. London: Picador, 1994. Parts published as "From the World of Lanark." Scottish International, no. 12 (November-December 1970): 30-40 (Chapters 6 and 7); "Extract from Lanark." Words, [no. 1] (Autumn 1976): 3-6; "Alexander Comes (an extract from Lanark)." Words 6 [1978]: 5-9 (Chapter 41); "Prologue to Lanark." GUM: Glasgow University Magazine (1974) [Not held by the Glasgow University Library or the Glasgow University Archives]; and "From Lanark." Words (1979) (Chapter 35). See "Lanark Storyboard" [A Projected film of Lanark]. Scottish Book Collector 2.1 - 2.6, 2.8 - 2.12, 3.2 - 3.6, 3.9, 3.11, 3.12, 4.3 - 5.1, 5.3, 5.5 - 5.7. 5.9 - 5.10 (August/September 1989 - August/September 1990, December 1990/January 1991 - August/September 1991, December 1991/January 1992 - August/September 1992, February/March 1993, June/July 1993, February/March 1994 - Winter 1996/97, Summer 1997, Autumn 1997): 16-17; 16-17; 16-17; 16-17; 24-25; 28; 31; 19; 32; 30-31; 26-27; 14; 13; 29; 14; 17; 20; 13; 25; 10; 26; 21; 21; 21; 21; 21; 19; 23; 23; 19; 8; 23; 30; 30; 27. The last gives the authors as Gray and Ms. Fairlie Fox; all the others are by Gray.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Land's End Y1 - 1981 A1 - Peter Francis Browne KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Near future dystopia focusing on a dictator for life gaining control through a combination of rewards for behavior he approves and violence. Book burnings. Dissenters and anyone not white is considered a terrorist and can be killed by the police. The novel follows an average school teacher most of whose books had burned who tries to save a wounded Pakistani man whose wife and child had been killed.

PB - Secker & Warburg CY - London SN - 0-436-07098-7 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Crime Y1 - 1981 A1 - John Domatilla (b. 1936) KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Computer dystopia with the ultimate elimination of all humans. The last crime is one of the last two humans murdering the other.

PB - Heinemann CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Atheneum, 1980.

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NLS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Last Piece of Trade in America" Y1 - 1981 A1 - John Mitzel ED - Ian Young KW - Male author AB -

Future in which gay men dominate generally presented positively.

JF - On the Line: New Gay Fiction PB - Crossing CY - Trumansberg, NY ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mallworld Y1 - 1981 A1 - Somtow [Papinian] Sucharitkul (b. 1952) ED - Hank Stine KW - Male author KW - Thai author KW - US author AB -

A collection of related stories about Mallworld, which is a mall thirty kilometers long with some 20,000 shops that was sent into an alternate universe by aliens who are studying the human race.

PB - Donning CY - Norfolk, VA N1 -

Rev. ed. without the illus. [New York]: Tor, 1984. Later editions were published as The Ultimate Mallworld. Atlanta, GA: Meisha Merlin Press, 2000; and The Ultimate, Ultimate Mallworld. Illus. Karl Kofoed. Bangkok, Thailand/Los Angeles, CA: Diplodocus Press, 2013 with “Ultimate, Ultimate, Ultimate” by Somtow (unpaged). Parts were originally published as “A Day in Mallworld.” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 3.10 (20) (October 1979): 74-95 (1-22). Rpt. in the 1984 Mallworld (15-44); rpt. in The Ultimate Mallworld (15-42); rpt. in The Ultimate, Ultimate Mallworld (15-41); “Sing a Song of Mallworld.” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 4.7 (29) (July 1980): 28-53 (23-50). Rpt. in the 1984 Mallworld (46-81); rpt. in The Ultimate Mallworld (43-78); rpt. in The Ultimate, Ultimate Mallworld (43-74); “The Vampire of Mallworld.” Amazing Science Fiction Stories Combined with Fantastic 27.12 (May 1981): 22-? (51-77). Rpt. in the 1984 Mallworld (83-118); rpt. in The Ultimate Mallworld (79-113); rpt. in The Ultimate, Ultimate Mallworld (79-110); “Rabid in Mallworld.” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 4.6 (29) (June 1980): 20-44 (78-102). Rpt. in the 1984 Mallworld (119-51); rpt. in The Ultimate Mallworld (115-45); rpt. in The Ultimate, Ultimate Mallworld (115-43); “Mallworld Graffiti.” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 5.9 (43) (August 31, 1981): 130-65 (103-36). Rpt. in the 1984 Mallworld (153-204); rpt. in The Ultimate Mallworld (147-91); rpt. in The Ultimate, Ultimate Mallworld (147-89); “The Dark Side of Mallworld.” Illus Stephen Fabian. Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 5.11 (45) (October 26, 1981): 138-68 (139-71). Rpt. in the 1984 Mallworld (205-48); rpt. in The Ultimate Mallworld (193-230); rpt. in The Ultimate, Ultimate Mallworld (193-30). “The Jaws of Mallworld” is original to the first version (172-94). Rpt. in the 1984 Mallworld (249-84); in The Ultimate Mallworld (235-64 with pages 281-84/rev. on 263-64); rpt. in The Ultimate, Ultimate Mallworld (235-64). The Ultimate Mall World adds “A Mall and the Gneiss Visitors.” Rpt. in The Ultimate Mallworld (269-92); rpt. in The Ultimate, Ultimate Mallworld (269-92); “Bug-eyed in Mallworld” (297-330); rpt. in The Ultimate, Ultimate Mallworld (297-330). See also “The Mallworld Falcon.” In The Ultimate Alien. Ed. Byron Preiss, John Betancourt, and Keith R. A. DeCandido (New York: Dell/A Byron Preiss Book, 1995), 41-73. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Man Who Loved Morlocks: A Sequel to 'The Time Machine' As Narrated By the Time Traveller Y1 - 1981 A1 - David J[ohn] Lake (1929-2016) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Indian author KW - Male author AB -

H.G. Wells's time traveler returns to the future and discovers a people descended from the Morlocks. They have created a society similar to ancient Sparta, where he chooses to stay. On his first trip he had inadvertently killed most of the Eloi and the original Morlocks, who had no immunity to diseases he carried. Includes a report by the Morlocks on the first trip. 

PB - Hyland Press CY - Melbourne, VIC, Australia U2 -

Illus. Steph Campbell

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A, M, NZ

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Meeting" Y1 - 1981 AB -

Gender-role reversal story in which boys and men are treated as simply inferior.

JF - Dialogue (Salt Lake City, UT) VL - 14.4 N1 -

Rpt. in LDSF-3: Latter-Day Science Fiction. Ed. Benjamin Urrutia (Ludlow, MA: Parables, 1987), 124-128.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Miracle, And Other Solutions" Y1 - 1981 A1 - Carole Rosenthal KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia created by doming cities and then deliberately neglecting them.

JF - Woman Space; Future and Fantasy Stories and Art by Women PB - New Victoria Publishers CY - Lebanon, NH U2 -

Illus. Marcia Huyette.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Morphodite Y1 - 1981 A1 - M[ichael] A[nthony] Foster (b. 1939) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia that designs a human being to be able to detect conspiracies, but the Morphodite was able to think for himself. Two sequels follow the Morphodite's further adventures; see 1983 Foster, Transformer and 1985 Foster, Preserver.

PB - DAW Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in his The Transformer Trilogy (New York: DAW Books, 2006), 1-209.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Musical Utopia: A dream? Not entirely . . ." Y1 - 1981 A1 - Paul Fromm (1906-87) KW - German author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Brief discussion of Hector Berlioz's (1803-69) Euphonia together the author's own musical eutopia, which he also calls Euphonia, which stresses composers and performers working together.

JF - High Fidelity VL - 31 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “No Exit” Y1 - 1981 A1 - Paul Mavrides (b. 1952) A1 - Jay Kinney (b. 1950) ED - Jay Kinney (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on both punk rock and the anarchist eutopia. A punk rocker is frozen and revived thousands of years in the future in an anarchist eutopia, where his violence gets him sent back to the past, where he arrives at the corner of Haight and Ashbury during the “summer of love.” The eutopia is also satirized in that everyone lives on a commune; there is only healthy food, clothes and most other things are made from worms; Dolphins run an L 5 space colony and communicate with Earth by telepathy; and so forth.

JF - Anarchy Comics PB - Last Gasp CY - Berkeley, CA VL - no. 3 N1 -

Rpt. in Anarchy Comics. The Complete Collection. Ed. Jay Kinney (Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2013), 97-104.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - No Lasting City Y1 - 1981 A1 - Gordon [Thomas] Kerins KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

An attempt by priests to set up an agricultural commune to help Maori youth in the Taranaki region of New Zealand.

PB - Dunmore Press CY - Palmerston North, New Zealand U5 -

ATL, NZ, VUW

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Not Responsible! Park and Lock It" Y1 - 1981 A1 - John [Joseph Vincent] Kessel (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which all people live on a westbound highway with support services from, and it becomes clear, control by robots. Men are the drivers; women appear to be almost entirely in traditional roles. The story follows one boy from birth to getting his own car. Although the family has been travelling all the years in between, both events take place at the same mile marker. The Eastbound lanes appear to be a religious myth enforced by robots.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 61.3 (364) N1 -

Rpt. in his The Pure Product. Stories (New York: Tor, 1997), 303-328; and in his The Dark Ride: The Best Short Fiction of John Kessel (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2022), 11-33, with a note on the story on 563-565.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Notes In Passing" Y1 - 1981 A1 - Freundlich, Paul KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An odd story where the Second Coming requires everyone to examine their consciences, which leads to mass suicide. Ultimately the entire human race disappears and the planet and its flora and fauna flourish.

JF - Communities: Journal of Cooperative Living VL - no. 47 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Oath of Fealty Y1 - 1981 A1 - Larry [Lawrence van Cott] Niven (b. 1938) A1 - Jerry [Eugene] Pournelle (1933-2017) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia and eutopia presenting the ideas of the Italian architect Paolo Soleri (b. 1919).  An arcology is built in the middle of Los Angeles that is home to 250,000 people and provides for all their needs with security of high priority. Conflict with the rest of the city develops, and the strengths and weaknesses of the arcology as a way of life are revealed. For Soleri's ideas, see, for example, his Arcology: The City in the Image of Man. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1969. The community Arcosanti in Arizona was built using his ideas.

PB - Phantasia Press CY - Huntington Woods, MI N1 -

Also published New York: Timescape, 1981. An excerpt was published in Niven’s Playgrounds of the Mind (New York: Tor, 1991), 436-48. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Once Upon a Future: the name gathering" Y1 - 1981 A1 - Pirtle, Sara KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A story and a story about telling the story to different groups of children with the children’s reactions determining the direction of the story. The story is an eco-feminist one in which a girl from an ecologically sensitive community meets a girl from a technological community. Name gathering is a rite of passage in which at puberty everyone goes on a solo journey during which they choose their own name. 

JF - Communities: Journal of Cooperative Living VL - no. 47 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Orange Blossom Time" Y1 - 1981 A1 - Pat[rice Anne] Murphy (b. 1955) ED - Roy Torgeson KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Future dystopia of urban crime and pollution.

JF - Chrysalis PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City VL - 9 N1 -

Rpt. (New York: Zebra, [1981]), 87-100.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pilgrimage Y1 - 1981 A1 - Drew Mendelson (b. 1945) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. An immense moving society is decaying and the social systems that have been in place for generations are breaking down.

PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

Merril, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Planet of No Return Y1 - 1981 A1 - Harry [Max] Harrison (1925-2012) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of violence and constant war.

PB - Simon & Schuster CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Severn House, 1983.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Please Insert ID-Card" Y1 - 1981 A1 - Tex Cooper ED - Tony Davis KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

Four-page story on the problems created in a society totally dependent on ID-cards when a computer decides a person is dead.

JF - The Best of South African Science Fiction PB - [SFSA Science Fiction South Africa]. Ptd. Wall's Litho Observatory CY - [Johannesburg] VL - 1 U5 -

Leeds

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Queer Free Y1 - 1981 A1 - Alabama Birdstone KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia from a gay male perspective.

PB - Calamus Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Resurrection Days Y1 - 1981 A1 - [Arthur] Wilson Tucker (1914-2006) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a world of women with one man from the past who disrupts the women's world.

PB - Timescape CY - New York U5 -

Merril, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Resurrection of Aristocracy Y1 - 1981 A1 - Rudolph C. Evans KW - Male author AB -

Essay that includes a eutopia of a revitalized aristocracy.

PB - Theo. Gaus, Ltd CY - Brooklyn, NY ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Revolution from Rosinante Y1 - 1981 A1 - Alexis [Arnaldus] Gilliland (b. 1931) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which a failing Earth affects the attempts of those building a space colony to survive. Non-utopian sequels include Long Shot for Rosinante. New York: Ballantine Books, 1981; and The Pirates of Rosinante. New York: Ballantine Books, 1982.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Rule Britannia: A Progress report for Domesday 1986 Y1 - 1981 A1 - James Bellini KW - Male author AB -

Post-industrial Britain of the future. The book begins with a description of the negative effects of the policies of the 1980s, which produces Prutopia, or Britain run by the Prudential Assurance Corporation. A neat symbol is that the city of Milton Keynes is changed to Milton Friedman. It ends with Protopia when the concern has changed to benefiting people.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Sardonyx Net Y1 - 1981 A1 - Elizabeth A[nne] Lynn (b. 1946) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which convicted felons serve their terms as drugged slaves working for a large corporation run by a sadist.

PB - G.P. Putnam's Son CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Berkley Books, 1982.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Schrödinger's Cat Two: The Trick Top Hat Y1 - 1981 A1 - Robert Anton Wilson (1932-2007) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia and eutopia. Various alternative histories of past, present, and future. The dystopian future describes a future United States called Unistat, which is authoritarian. But there is also a period in which Unistad is a eutopia in which all poverty is ended through automation and awards both for all those who invented better machines and those replaced by the new machines. All prisons abolished and crime almost eliminated. Middle volume of a trilogy. The trilogy is a sequel to another trilogy, Robert [Joseph] Shea (1933-94) and Robert Anton Wilson. The Illuminatus! New York: Dell, 1975; Rpt. as The Illuminatus! Trilogy: The Eye in the Pyramid, The Golden Apple and Leviathan. New York: Dell, [1984] [All three originally published separately New York: Dell, 1975]. See also, Robert Anton Wilson, Cosmic Trigger: Final Secret of the Illuminati. Berkeley, CA: And/Or Press, 1977; rpt. Tempe, AZ: New Falcon, 1993; The Illuminati Papers. Berkeley, California: And/Or, 1980; Masks of the Illuminati. New York: Timescape Pocket Books, 1981; and Right Where You Are Sitting Now: Further Tales of the Illuminati. 2nd ed. Berkeley, CA: Ronin Publishing, 1992. All this material could be described as dystopian, but except for the explicit eutopia and the vague dystopia, there is little social detail.

PB - Pocket Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Schrödinger's Cat Trilogy: The Universe Next Door, The Trick Top Hat, The Homing Pigeons (New York: Dell, 1988), 190-347. The other volumes were originally published as Schrödinger's Cat: The Universe Next Door. New York: Pocket Books, 1979; and Schrödinger's Cat III: The Homing Pigeons. New York: Pocket Books, 1981.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Shiloh Project Y1 - 1981 A1 - David C[harles] Poyer (b. 1949) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Alternative history in which the Confederacy won the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863, but all that was achieved was a century-long standoff between the North and the South, which is a police state. In the novel, the North has developed the atomic bomb, and it dropped it on Japan. The South is desperate to get its own, and, at the end of the novel, uses it.

PB - Avon CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Smile on the Void: The Mythhistory of Ralph M'Botu Kitaj Y1 - 1981 A1 - Stuart [Richard Alexander Steuart] Gordon (1947-2009) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Dystopia concerned with religious questions with a Christ figure who may be an alien.

PB - Berkley Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Snake Who Read Chomsky” Y1 - 1981 A1 - Josephine [Mary Howard] Saxton (b. 1935) ED - Terry [Gene] Carr (1937-87) KW - Female author AB -

The setting of the story is a dystopia with a rigid division between the upper and lower classes, with the latter considered of no value whatsoever.

JF - Universe PB - Doubleday & Co CY - Garden City, NY VL - 11 N1 -

Rpt. in her The Power of Time (London: Chatto & Windus/The Hogarth Press, 1985), 142-64; and in The Big Book of Science Fiction: The Ultimate Collection. Ed. Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (New York: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Vintage Books, 2016), 700-11 with an editors’ note on 699.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Song of Phaid the Gambler Y1 - 1981 A1 - Mick [Michael Anthony] Farren (1943-2013) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Complex future fantasy with dystopian elements.

PB - New English Library CY - London N1 -

U.S. edition in two vols. as Phaid the Gambler. New York: Ace Books, 1986; and Citizen Phaid. New York: Ace Books, 1987. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Sons of Light Y1 - 1981 A1 - [James] David Rudkin (b. 1936) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopian play set on an isolated island in the Atlantic where there have been experiments on humans.

PB - Eyre Methuen CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - Spacetime Donuts Y1 - 1981 A1 - Rudy [Rudolf von Bitter] Rucker (b. 1946) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian satire in which readily available drugs and sex and complete support are used to oppress people.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -

Part originally published as by Rudolf v.B. Rucker in Unearth 2.3 (Summer 1978): 3-42; 2.4 (Winter 1979): 46-82. The third part was to have been published in 2.5, but the journal ceased publication.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Starworld Y1 - 1981 A1 - Harry [Max] Harrison (1925-2012) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Final volume of a trilogy that includes 1980 Harrison and 1981 Harrison, Wheelworld. In this volume the protagonist of the other volumes returns to Earth and leads a rebellion.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Granada, 1981. Rpt. London: Severn House, 1988. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Strength of Stones Y1 - 1981 A1 - Greg[ory Dale] Bear (1951-2022) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of religious conflict and overprotective cities.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -

The section entitled “Mandala” appeared in different form in New Dimensions Number 8. Ed. Robert Silverberg (New York: Harper & Row, 1978), 149-96. The section entitled “Resurrection” appeared as “Strength of Stones, Flesh of Brass.” Rigel, no. 1 (Summer 1981): 5-18, 53-62, 64-66. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Suffering Machines" Y1 - 1981 A1 - Margaret Kingery KW - Female author AB -

Post-nuclear war dystopia in which a woman becomes the despot and is killed by other women.

JF - Woman Space: Future and Fantasy Stories and Art by Women PB - New Victoria Publishers CY - Lebanon, NH U2 -

Illus. Claudia Lamperti

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Systemic Shock Y1 - 1981 A1 - Dean Ing (1931-2020) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-atomic war dystopia. Authoritarian religious government and revolt against it.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -

Rev. ed. New York: Tor, 1992.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Tale of the Illicit Ape" Y1 - 1981 A1 - Penney Kome ED - [Lorne] [Gould] KW - Female author AB -

The background to a story of about a trained chimpanzee is a future dystopia of violence.

JF - New Bodies; Nine Science Fiction Short Stories PB - Emanation Press CY - [Toronto, ON, Canada] U1 -

Cover title New Bodies: A Collection of Science Fiction.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "That Was the Year That Was" Y1 - 1981 A1 - Brian Strong KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

A report on New Zealand in 2100 in which it has become mostly agricultural, with the workers housed underground. Wellington is gone; the North and South Islands have separate governments with the South the stronger; and huge areas, including Otago and the Bay of Plenty are solar fields.

JF - WARP: The Magazine of the [New Zealand] National Association for Science Fiction VL - no. 22 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "There is no depression in New Zealand" Y1 - 1981 A1 - Richard von Sturmer (b. 1957) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Song. Satire on the New Zealand image of itself as a eutopia.

JF - There is no depression in New Zealand PB - Propeller CY - Auckland, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Third from the Son" Y1 - 1981 A1 - Elinor Busby KW - Female author AB -

Satire on Sixties communalism.

JF - Room of One's Own VL - 6.1/2 ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Three Million Dollar Lunch. A Farce in One Act Y1 - 1981 A1 - Fred Carmichael KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Farce set in a future where food is no longer generally available, people live on pills, and manipulate each other to get the little food that there still is.

PB - Samuel French CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - To Every Birth Its Blood Y1 - 1981 A1 - Mongane [Wally] Serote (b. 1944) KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

The novel depicts contemporary South Africa with strong images of the Black dystopia contrasted with the white eutopia (from the black perspective). Beginnings of the future violent revolution with some hope of improvement.

PB - Ravan Press CY - Johannesburg, South Africa N1 -

Rpt. London: William Heinemann, 1983.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "To Market, to market" Y1 - 1981 A1 - Josephine [Mary Howard] Saxton (b. 1935) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia of cannibalism.

JF - Woman Space: Future and Fantasy Stories and Art by Women PB - New Victoria Publishers CY - Lebanon, NH N1 -

Rpt. in her The Power of Time (London: Chatto & Windus/The Hogarth Press, 1985), 95-96. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Turning" Y1 - 1981 A1 - Elaine McKay Smith AB -

Post-catastrophe story with elements of an authoritarian dystopia with a dwindling population and a controlled citizenry but also with elements of an literal rebirth that brings about change.

JF - Woman Space: Future and Fantasy Stories and Art by Women PB - New Victoria Publishers CY - Lebanon, NH U2 -

Illus. Claudia Lamperti 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Vaneglory: A Science Fiction Novel Y1 - 1981 A1 - George [Reginald] Turner (1916-97) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Middle volume of a trilogy set in a future dystopia. In this volume the society evolving at the end of the previous volume has to deal with the discovery of a group of humans who do not die. See also 1978 and 1983 Turner.

PB - Faber and Faber CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Venice Drowned” Y1 - 1981 A1 - Kim Stanley Robinson (b. 1952) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Climate change dystopia in which Venice is underwater and its art treasures are being removed by outsiders.

JF - Universe PB - Doubleday & Co CY - Garden City, NY VL - 11 N1 -

Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction of the Year #11. Ed. Terry Carr (New York: Timescape/Pocket Books, 1982), 109-30; Nebula Award Stories 17. Ed. Joe W. Haldeman (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1983), 19-43; in his The Planet on the Table (New York: Tor, 1986), 1-25; U.K. ed. (London: Futura, 1987), 1-25; in his Vinland the Dream and Other Stories (London: Harper Collins, 2002), 165-93; and in Drowned Worlds: Tales from the Anthropocene and Beyond. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (Oxford, Eng.: Solaris, 2016), 38-85.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Venus Belt Y1 - 1981 A1 - L[ester] Neil Smith [III] (1946-2021) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The libertarian eutopia of Smith’s 1980 The Probability Broach is threatened by an authoritarian dystopia. Second in the North American Confederacy series, followed, in publication order, by Their Majesties' Bucketeers. Illus. New York: Ballantine Books, 1981. 182 pp.; The Nagasaki Vector. New York: Ballantine Books, 1983. 242 pp., neither of which have much to do with the main themes in the series; Tom Paine Maru. New York: Ballantine. 273 pp. Rpt. rev. Rockville, MD: Phoenix Pick, 2009. 222 pp. [An author’s note says that the first edition was badly cut by the publisher and that this version reflects his original intent]; The Gallatin Divergence. New York: Ballantine, 1985. 223 pp.; Brightsuit MacBear. New York: Avon, 1988. 212 pp.; and Taflak Lysandra. New York: Avon, 1988. 230 pp. (1989), in all three of which there are clashes between the Confederacy and the authoritarian Federalists; and The American Zone (2001) which is a sequel to The Probability Broach. In the chronology of the series, the volumes are The Probability Broach, The Nagasaki Vector, The American Zone, The Venus Belt, The Gallatin Divergence, Tom Paine Maru, Brightsuit MacBear, Taflak Lysandra, and Their Majesties' Bucketeers. A story set in the same future is his 1989 “The Spirit of Exmas Sideways.”

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York SN - 0-343-28721-5 9781604504422 N1 -

Rpt. Rockville, MD: Phoenix Pick, 2009. 163 pp.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Vision Tomorrow Y1 - 1981 A1 - Harold, Edmund KW - Male author AB -

New Age spiritualism. Great sweep of time from Atlantis to the 23rd century. Ends in a dystopia of constant war, but the author holds out hope.

PB - The Spiritual Venturers Associations, distributed by Arthur H. Stockwell CY - Ilfracombe, Devon, Eng. N1 -

Rpt. Auckland, New Zealand: Spiritual Venturers' Educational Trust, 1986; and Richmond, VIC, Australia: Greenhouse Publications, 1988.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Walden Three" Y1 - 1981 A1 - Michael [Jürgen] Swanwick (b. 1950) ED - Marta Randall (b. 1948) ED - Robert Silverberg (b. 1935) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The dystopia created on a space habitat circling Earth that came about by the “good intention” of changing people so that they all got along. It is seen through the eyes of a visitor from Earth who hates the place and a man on the satellite whose lover died because the good of everybody took away the one thing she most enjoyed doing.

JF - New Dimensions PB - Timescape/Pocket Books CY - New York VL - 12 N1 -

Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction of the Year #11. Ed. Terry Carr (New York: Timescape/Pocket Books, 1982), 131-54.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Wave Without a Shore Y1 - 1981 A1 - [Carolyn Janice] [Cherry] (b. 1942) KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the citizens literally define reality.

PB - DAW Books CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: VGSF, 1988.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Wheelworld Y1 - 1981 A1 - Harry [Max] Harrison (1925-2012) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Middle volume of a trilogy beginning with 1980 Harrison and ending with 1981 Harrison, Starworld. The hero of the first volume is now a prisoner on the planet Wheelworld, which is a high-tech world ruled by an entrenched traditional dictatorship.

PB - Granada CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Severn House, 1988. U.S. ed. New York: Bantam Books, 1981. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - When We Were Good Y1 - 1981 A1 - David J[ohn] Skal (1952-2024) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia. After many years of war, the human genome has been badly damaged and the attempts to produce children go seriously wrong.

PB - Pocket Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - While there's HOPE Y1 - 1981 A1 - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Plan to achieve world peace through the voluntary exchange of hostages.

PB - Keepsake Press CY - Richmond, Surrey, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Wine of Violence Y1 - 1981 A1 - James [Kenneth] Morrow (b. 1947) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia and dystopia seen from the point of view of a future eutopia without any violence. The earlier two societies are one completely non-violent and one completely savage.

PB - Holt, Rinehart and Winston CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Ace Books, 1982.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Winterflight Y1 - 1981 A1 - Joseph [T.] Bayly KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of an anti-religious, liberal social order. Genetic perfection legislated and enforced. Death required at 75.

PB - Word Books CY - Waco, TX U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Wolves of Memory Y1 - 1981 A1 - George Alec Effinger (1947-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of computer rule.

PB - G. P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Berkley Books, 1982.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Worlds: A Novel of the Near Future Y1 - 1981 A1 - Joe [Joseph William] Haldeman (b. 1943) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian political novel set in a polluted, overpopulated 2084 with compulsory promiscuity. Tobacco is illegal. The "Worlds" are asteroids orbiting Earth and being exploited for their mineral resources. Sequels in 1983 and 1992.

PB - Viking Press CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Pocket Books, 1982.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Zero Sum Game" Y1 - 1981 A1 - Claudia Lamperti A1 - Jennifer Malik KW - Female author AB -

A story about a woman with unusual psychic talents in a hierarchical dystopia based on a complex computer game that resonates with Herman Hesse's Das Glasperlenspiel. 2 vols. Zürich: Fretz & Wasmuth, 1943) [English as Magister Ludi. Trans. Mervyn Savill. New York: Ungar, 1949].

JF - Woman Space: Future and Fantasy Stories and Art by Women PB - New Victoria Publishers CY - Lebanon, NH U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "1980-2020: Evolution of a Network Nation" Y1 - 1980 A1 - Myra [Smillie] Harpham (b. 1931) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

Eutopia of a future New Zealand based on a service economy focusing on information and tourism. Radical decentralization with people working from home or in cooperatives and running family companies. Small towns have revived. Greater equality. Manufacturing and polluting industries in general have been moved out of New Zealand to poor Pacific Island countries, thus improving New Zealand, but, while providing jobs in the poor countries, clearly damages their environments. The book is composed of five short future scenarios for New Zealand. 

JF - Pictures of the Future PB - Mallinson Rendel CY - Wellington, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "2010: Thirty Years On the Fast Track" Y1 - 1980 A1 - Steve[n] Maharey (b. 1953) A1 - Roy Shuker (b. 1948) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Satire with multinational corporations the dominant force worldwide. New Zealand, which is presented as a utopia, has a core, highly technical economy that employs few people and a fringe economy produces little but gives people something to do. Trade unions tied to the central government and representing the unemployed, the vast majority of the population. “Maoristans” established so that Māori could return to the land. Alternative lifestyles encouraged. All groups agree to not interfere with the core economy. 

JF - Comment (Palmerston North, New Zealand) VL - ns 12 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Abominable" Y1 - 1980 A1 - [Agnes] Carol[lyn] [Fries] Emshwiller (1921-2019) ED - Damon [Francis] Knight (1922-2002) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which men pursue the elusive creature, woman, about whom they have many false ideas.

JF - Orbit 21 PB - Harper & Row CY - New York VL - 21 N1 -

Rpt. in Feminist Philosophy and Science Fiction: Utopias and Dystopias. Ed. Judith A. Little (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2007), 105-11; and in The Collected Stories of Carol Emshwiller Vol. 1 (New York: Nonstop Press, 2011), 293-96.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - ¡Abracadabra! Y1 - 1980 A1 - [Cyril] Wolf Mankowitz (1924-98) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The dystopia of a depressing welfare state and its mistreatment of the elderly as background to a novel about alchemy and magic.

PB - Gill and Macmillan CY - Dublin, Ireland U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Anchor Tree Y1 - 1980 A1 - Emyr Humphreys (1919)-2020) KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

Novel about an eighteenth century Pennsylvania intentional community, the twentieth-century town in the area, and an attempt to resurrect the community.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Answers from Space" Y1 - 1980 AB -

A UFO story. The first part, entitled "The First Encounter", is primarily an introduction to the UFO experience and is also concerned with the truth of Christianity. The last paragraph gives some dietary advice recommending vegetarianism. The second part, entitled "Symphony of Nature", describes an outpost of the higher spiritual beings who travel on the UFO. It is depicted as a eutopia with beautiful buildings, fine grounds, and some angelic beings. This is the highest that humans are currently capable of visiting even with assistance and protection. Warns of the coming Armageddon (See Revelation 16) and mentions the rebirth of the Earth after it.

JF - Kosmon News (Whangarei Cosmic Center, Whangarei, New Zealand) VL - nos. 25 - 26 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Apocalypse 1989" Y1 - 1980 A1 - Peter Wilkins KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Nuclear war with New Zealand left relatively unscathed, although Australia is destroyed. A better society is created that stresses economic independence rather than trade in that initially there was no one left with whom to trade, but some other Southern Hemisphere areas survived and trade with Africa slowly develops. Decentralization and the regeneration of rural life.

JF - Pictures of the Future PB - Mallinson Rendel CY - Wellington, New Zealand N1 -

Rpt. in Future Contingencies 4: Nuclear Disaster. A Report of the Commission for the Future by a Study Group on Nuclear Disaster (Wellington, New Zealand: Commission for the Future, 1982), 171-79.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Artificial Kid Y1 - 1980 A1 - [Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Cyberpunk eutopia and dystopia. The planet Reverie is initially presented as a somewhat odd plutocratic eutopia containing a violent Decriminalized Zone. The Artificial Kid is a combat artist.

PB - Harper & Row CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Ace Books, 1987; and San Francisco, CA: Hardwired, 1997 with a “Foreword” by William Gibson (1-6). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Ashkenazia” Y1 - 1980 A1 - Clive [John]] Sinclair KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on culture and politics. Yiddish is the national language of Ashkenazia, but all the authors are desperate to be translated into English, The point-of-view character is one of those authors. Corrupt politics, and the Prime Minister is desperate to conclude a deal with Hitler for Ashkenazia’s uranium deposits. Much of the action takes place at a writers’ conference.

JF - Encounter VL - 55.5 N1 -

Rpt. in his Bedbugs (London: Alison & Busby, 1982), 113-22; rpt. (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2005), 113-22. and in his For Good or Evil: Collected Stories (London: Penguin, 1991, 238-248.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Assignment on Bleaker Street" Y1 - 1980 A1 - Bettye Caldwell KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia, although there are elements that suggest problems, focusing on child-rearing. In the future, there is a limit of two children with birth having to be approved and licensed in advance, varied family forms, with varied forms of childcare, all of which have to be regularly inspected and licensed. In the larger facilities, the children tend to live there permanently. Technology is a central part of most childcare.  Surveillance technology is said to make the streets safe.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Banshee" Y1 - 1980 A1 - [Sherry] [Kramer] ED - [Marion Zimmer] [Bradley] (1930-99) KW - Female author AB -

Free Amazon story.

JF - Tales of the Free Amazons PB - Thendara House Publications CY - Berkeley, CA N1 -

Rpt under the author's name in Marion Zimmer Bradley and The Friends of Darkover. Free Amazons of Darkover. Ed. Marion Zimmer Bradley (New York: DAW Books, 1985), 52-65.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Beatnik Bayou" Y1 - 1980 A1 - John [Herbert] Varley (b. 1947) ED - George R[aymond] R[ichard] Martin (b. 1948) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A eutopia on the moon focusing on individualized education which also indicates flaws in the system. For example, there are not enough teachers so that contracts are arranged years before the birth of the child. The teachers are physically the same age as the child and age with them and then revert to an earlier age for the next child. Teachers teach sex. Computerized justice. The "Beatnik Bayou" is a small space recreated as a 1950s Louisiana bayou.

JF - New Voices III: The Campbell Award Nominees PB - Berkley Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in his The Barbie Murders (New York: Berkley Books, 1980), 146-81 [Book reissued as Picnic on Nearside (New York: Berkley Books, 1984), 146-81]; and in The Best Science Fiction of the Year #10. Ed. Terry Carr (New York: Pocket Books, 1981), 209-45.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Beehive Y1 - 1980 A1 - Margaret O'Donnell KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia in which women, in particularly are suppressed and their successful revolution.

PB - Eyre Methuen CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Bender, Fenugreek, Slatterman and Mupp" Y1 - 1980 A1 - D[avid] G[uy] Compton (1930-2023) ED - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) ED - Virginia Kidd (1921-2003) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a technological world which tries and fails to make humans feel useful.

JF - Interfaces PB - Ace Books CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Black Sunlight Y1 - 1980 A1 - Dambudzo Marechera (1952-87) KW - Male author KW - Zimbabwean author AB -

Dystopia set in a future of constant war. A play, Black Sunlight, by the Zimbabwean author and playwright Petina Gappah (b. 1971) based on Marechera’s life, premiered in Harare, Zimbabwe, in November 2020. The first act can be found in The Johannesburg Review of Books 4.7 (August 2020). [The JRB Exclusive] Read the first act of Petina Gappah’s new Dambudzo Marechera play, Black Sunlight – The Johannesburg Review of Books.

PB - Hainemann CY - London N1 -

Originated in part from a manuscript published as “Black Insider.” In his Black Insider. Comp. and ed. Flora Veit-Wild. Harare, Zimbabwe: Baobab Books, 1990), 23-115.  Rpt. (London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1992), 33-154. U.S. ed. (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Books, 1999), 23-115.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Blood Knot Y1 - 1980 A1 - [Thomas] [Dixon] (b. 1930) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which a future American Civil War is beginning, and the entire social system is breaking down.

PB - St. Martin's Press CY - New York U3 -

Burt Cole [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Byte Your Tongue!" Y1 - 1980 A1 - Clifford D[onald] Simak (1904-88) ED - Judy-Lynn del Rey (1943-86) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a future in which computers dominate, with the focus here on the U.S. Senate, where Senators are no longer elected but have to pass computer generated tests to remain in office.

JF - Stellar Science-Fiction Stories PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York VL - #6 N1 -

Rpt. in The Ghost of a Model T and Other Stories: The Complete Short Stories of Clifford D. Simak Volume Three. New York: Open Road, 2015. EBook.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Canopus in Argos: Archives. The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five (as narrated by the Chroniclers of Zone Three) Y1 - 1980 A1 - Doris [May] Lessing (1919-2013) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The second of the five volumes in her Canopus in Argos: Archives series. See also 1979, 1980 Canopus in Argos: Archives. The Sirian Experiments, 1982, and 1983 Lessing. In this volume cross zone marriages bring together opposites. An opera with music by Philip Glass (b. 1937) was created based on the novel with the libretto by Lessing. The first performance was in German in Heidelberg May 10, 1997, trans. Saskia M. Wesnigk. The first performance in English was June 7, 2001, in Chicago. 

PB - Alfred A. Knopf CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Jonathan Cape, 1980.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Canopus in Argos: Archives. The Sirian Experiments. The Report by Ambian II, of the Five Y1 - 1980 A1 - Doris [May] Lessing (1919-2013) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The third of the five volumes in her Canopus in Argos: Archives series. See also 1979, 1980 Canopus in Argos: Archives. The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five, 1982, and 1983 Lessing. In this volume Ambian II, a Sirian bureaucrat, is used by the Canopeans to introduce the Sirians, who believe themselves the superior beings, to higher ways. 

PB - Alfred A. Knopf CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Jonathan Cape, 1980.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Capella's Golden Eyes Y1 - 1980 A1 - C[hristopher] D. Evans (b. 1951) KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

The novel begins with three teenagers experiencing conflict in a highly organized city with some on their life in a rural commune, which has elements of a flawed utopia from the point of view of the protagonist. Children grow up in a series of supervised dormitories doing farm work until they are twenty. The novel then follows the protagonist to a period of study in the city and his encounter with aliens who had also settled on the planet. The novel ends with contact with a dystopian Earth and no resolution of the issues involved with either Earth or the aliens.

PB - Faber & Faber CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Cast Off Your Chains" Y1 - 1980 A1 - Silvestri, Margaret ED - [Marion Zimmer] [Bradley] (1930-99) KW - Female author AB -

Free Amazon story. 

JF - Tales of the Free Amazons PB - Thendara House Publications CY - Berkeley, CA N1 -

Rpt. in Marion Zimmer Bradley and The Friends of Darkover. Free Amazons of Darkover. Ed. Marion Zimmer Bradley (New York: DAW Books, 1985), 34-49.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Child and Family Programs and Concerns in the 21st Century" Y1 - 1980 A1 - Grotberg, Edith H. KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Mostly analysis but includes a brief eutopian description of future childcare in a family center. 

JF - Journal of Clinical Child Psychology VL - 9.2 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Children and Their Schools at the Quadcentennial" Y1 - 1980 A1 - Irwin Hyman A1 - Sherone Sherone Levow Maital KW - Female author KW - Israeli author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Two scenarios of future education, eutopian and dystopian. The dystopian system is all technology in isolation and is controlled by corporations. The eutopian system focuses on family life and the rights of children, is well-funded, and teachers all hold doctorates and schools have no administrators.

JF - Journal of Clinical Child Psychology 9.2 (Summer 1980): U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Circus World Y1 - 1980 A1 - Barry B[rookes] Longyear (b. 1942) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia depicting the society created by circus performers when their ship crashed on the planet Momus.

PB - Nelson Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

This is the Science Fiction Book Club Edition published by arrangement with Berkley Pub. Co., but the first New York: Berkley Books ed. is 1981. U.K. ed. London: Macdonald, 1982. Originally published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine as "The Tryouts." 2.6 (10) (November-December 1978): 22-37; "The Second Law." 3.1 (11) (January 1979): 24-54; "Proud Rider." (February 1979): 102-27, "Dueling Clowns." 3.3 (13) (March 1979): 49-54; "The Quest." 3.5 (May 1979): 154-83; and "Priest of the Baraboo." 3.7 (17) (July 1979): 22-59. One story, "The Magician's Apprentice," was published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Adventure Magazine 1.2 (2) (Spring 1979): 35-54.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - City Come A-Walkin' Y1 - 1980 A1 - John [Patrick] Shirley (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian San Francisco embodied in one man who tries to understand all of himself. In San Francisco government has been displaced by banks, the mob, and the right wing.

PB - Dell CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. Eyeball Books, 1996; and New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 2000, with a "Foreword" by William Gibson (1-4) saying how much his Neuromancer (1984) was influenced by it.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Cosmic Laws of the Spectrum: Evolution and Government Y1 - 1980 A1 - [John Bernard] [Ball] (b. 1911) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Detailed eutopia based on the same “Universal Law of Economics” in 1978 Ball, but here he adds to it, saying that “Conversely, Losses generated by government and industry must be returned to the price structure of consumer buying in the next fiscal period” (23) and adds substantially to the topics he covers. In 1957 the author ran in the Canadian federal election as a candidate in Regina, Saskatchewan for the National Credit Control Party, a party of his own creation. His purpose was to publicize the monetary system he developed. See “J.B. Ball National Credit Control” within “Six Candidates Offer Final Election Message.” The Leader-Post (Regina, SK, Canada) 48.132 (June 8, 1957): 3. See also 1956 Ball Ahoy for Eternity and National Credit, The Handbook of the Universal Monetary System, and Universal Monetary System of National Credit Control, and The Universal Monetary System of National Credit Control: A Financial Revolution With Nationalized Accounting Merchandising at Cost; 1961 Ball, Cosmocracy: The Universal Monetary System. Regina, SK, Canada: J.B. Ball; 1978 Ball, Permacredit. Universal Finance for Government & Industry. World Government without Trade Deficits. A Cash System of Accounting without Debt in Industry or Government or Taxes Against Industry or Credit Cards. Foremost, AB: Author; 1982 Ball, Technomics. A Better Economy. International. By Barney Ballmark [pseud.]. [Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications]; 1986 Ball, Beyond Capitalism. Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications; and 1988 Ball, The Laws of the Micro Giants. An Odyssean Classic. Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications. Other versions include Technomics in one corporate world. By Barney Ballmark [pseud.]. [Foremost, AB: Author], [1983]; The Technomic Alliance [subtitle on the cover No Taxes on property or income, the obvious solution, total employment]. 3rd ed. By Barney Ballmark [pseud.]. Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications, 1984; Pathway to the Stars: Industrial Democracy Beyond Democracy and Christianity Plus the Photon Theory of Creation. Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications, 1986. [New ed.] as The Pathway to the Stars. The Photon theory of Creation. Poetry. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1987. Rpt. as Pathway to the Stars. Industrial Democracy Beyond Capitalism and Christianity Plus the Photon Theory of Creation. Includes Poetry Selections. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1989. Another ed. as The Pathway to the Stars. By The Hobo Poet [pseud.]. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1990 in four sections, [“Memoirs, Poetry, and Stories] (1-164),” “Industrial Capitalism--Beyond Capitalism” (165-213), “Gleaning from Prairie Art Shows” (214-29), and “Radiation Properties of Creation” (230-51); Technomics International. Perpetual Payroll Financing for Government and Industry. Rev. October 1986. [Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1986; Industrial Democracy. Beyond Capitalism and Christianity. Includes the Photon Laws of Creation. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1989; and Industrial Democracy. Beyond Capitalism. This concept of world marketing explains how nations can finance total employment, without international debt, or taxation on property and income. New Economic System. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1990. 53 pp.

PB - [Ballmark Publications] CY - [Foremost, AB, Canada] U3 -

Barney Ballmark [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Cosmos" Y1 - 1980 A1 - [Friedrich Georg Maria Theodor] [Strewe] (1910-86) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - German author KW - Male author AB -

Begins in a dystopian city called the Total Society composed of humans, clones, and robots intended to produce an authoritarian but good society. The system breaks down and everyone who can flees the city. Outside there were already various groups. Near the city were youth gangs, expelled city dwellers, and malformed clones. Further out there was The Alternative, fortified intentional communities. New Age, healthy, no disease. The best of these is called Cosmos Commune and is a eutopia.

PB - Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. MS-Papers-5921-083 U3 -

By Odo Strewe [pseud.]

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. MS-Papers-5921-083

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Daymare Y1 - 1980 A1 - [Sir] [Thomas Willes] [Chitty] [3rd Baronet] (1926-2014) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Britain collapses and produces a dystopia, which the novel shows in its effect on a village.

PB - Macmillan CY - London U3 -

Thomas Hinde [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Delos Y1 - 1980 A1 - Veronica Robinson KW - Female author AB -

Young adult novel about the attempt to establish a society on a planet after years traveling in space. Success is achieved after many problems and a good society is created.

PB - André Deutsch CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Demeter Flower Y1 - 1980 A1 - Rochelle Singer (b. 1939) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Feminist eutopia in which a successful women-only community has to face a generational conflict and a visit of a couple from a patriarchal community.

PB - St. Martin's Press CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Demeter's Palace" Y1 - 1980 A1 - Debi [Deborah L. Hodgeson] Kean KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

An authoritarian dystopia in which business has taken over government. There is a rigid separation of the rich and the poor and between men and women.

JF - WARP: The Magazine of the [New Zealand] National Association for Science Fiction VL - no. 19 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Docket, 2028: Supreme Council on Psycho-Ethics" Y1 - 1980 A1 - Gertrude J. Rubin Williams (1927-86) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Briefly presents a series of cases to come before the Council on Psycho-Ethics that give a picture of the world in 2028, whether it is eutopian or dystopian is up to the reader. The cases include such issues as psychotropic drugs that are required to prevent mental illness, required licenses for parenthood (contraceptives are in the water supply), rights for clones, applications for euthanasia (117), surrogacy (117-18), and the sale of body parts (118).  Half the world’s population had requested exemption from the military on moral grounds (118). 

JF - Journal of Clinical Child Psychology VL - 9.2 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Dreamers Y1 - 1980 A1 - James E[dwin] Gunn (1923-2020) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia which leaves people no challenges.

PB - Simon & Schuster CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. as The Mind Master. New York: Timescape, 1981.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dustland Y1 - 1980 A1 - Virginia [Esther] Hamilton (1934-2002) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

The second volume of the Justice Cycle. The first volume, Justice and Her Brothers. New York: Greenwillow Books, 1978, is not utopian but introduces the characters, who have exceptional powers. In this volume, they travel to a barren future characterized by the title. See also 1981 Hamilton.

PB - Greenwillow Books CY - New York U5 -

CU-Riv, DLC, Merril, 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Ecological Impact" Y1 - 1980 A1 - Patricia Mathews ED - [Marion Zimmer] [Bradley] (1930-99) KW - Female author AB -

Free Amazon story. 

JF - Tales of the Free Amazons PB - Thendara House Publications CY - Berkeley, CA U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Feast of Saint Janis" Y1 - 1980 A1 - Michael [Jürgen] Swanwick (b. 1950) ED - Robert Silverberg (b. 1935) ED - Marta Randall (b. 1948) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia following a world-wide economic collapse following some sort of nuclear accident with the U.S. particularly hard hit and Africa relatively well off because it practiced corporate social responsibility. Genetic damage. Janis is Janis Joplin (1943-70) who is impersonated and, once a year, the impersonator is killed by the crowd.

JF - New Dimensions PB - Pocket Books CY - New York VL - 11 N1 -

Rpt. in Beyond Armageddon: Twenty-One Sermons to the Dead. Walter M. Miller, Jr. and Martin H[arry] Greenberg (New York: Donald I. Fine, 1985), 295-325; and in The Best of Michael Swanwick (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2008), 13-41. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Fifth Column" Y1 - 1980 A1 - Janus [pseud.] AB -

Satire. Summaries of the "Gulliver Report" of 2000 by Sir Laputa Gulliver on British Canadian relations. Canada has become an empire with Trudeau as Emperor and the Premiers of each province kings. Effects of oil crisis. Petty bickering among kingdoms. Purpose of Sir Gulliver's visit was to report on possibility of Britain being absorbed by the Canadian empire. Québec is an absolute monarchy. Prince Edward Island run by McDonald's. Ontario completely poverty stricken. Alberta wealthy from oil; has a Czar. British Columbia re-named Outer Earth and is ruled by a Lama. Vancouver Island has been re-named the Isle of the Blest.

JF - Quill & Quire VL - 46.8 - 47.2 U3 -

Janus [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Filth" Y1 - 1980 A1 - Gilfillan, Caroline KW - Female author AB -

Eutopia of a woman’s revolution taking place throughout the world. The Scottish Highlands has become Women’s Territory with men driven out. Australia and The Philippines are Women’s territories. England has become a dystopia for women because of the men’s fears of the revolution. Women from another planet are planning to help. 

JF - Crystal Crone (London) VL - no. 1 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Fourth Wall Y1 - 1980 A1 - N[ikolas] A[nthony] Diaman (b. 1936) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A future U.S. as an authoritarian dystopia from a gay perspective. Knowledge is disappearing and most people are losing the ability to read. See also 1978 and 1997 Diaman.

PB - Persona Press CY - San Francisco, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Freelance" Y1 - 1980 A1 - Nina Boal ED - [Marion Zimmer] [Bradley] (1930-99) KW - Female author AB -

Free Amazon story. 

JF - Tales of the Free Amazons PB - Thendara House Publications CY - Berkeley, CA U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "From Small Mutations" Y1 - 1980 A1 - Ian [Travis] MacMillan (1941-2008) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia brought about by the disappearance of most plant life and the death of a significant part of the world's population. The population has been concentrated and most aspects of life are under governmental control. Violence and betrayal are common.

JF - TriQuarterly VL - no. 49 U2 -

Illus. Vincent DiFate

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Future Lost” Y1 - 1980 A1 - Robert Sheckley (1928-2005) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Brief eutopia of a future that in eliminating aggression and ending war produced a society with completely free and open sexuality.

JF - Omni N1 -

Rpt. in The Collected Short Fiction of Robert Sheckley. Book Five (Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991), 195-200. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Garden of Winter Y1 - 1980 A1 - Gordon [Stewart] Eklund (b. 1945) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

After a war, a new philosophy/religion emerges that is ruled by citizens philosophers known as gentle men. Machines are outlawed. Women are subordinate and not educated. Has been read as an agrarian utopia, but within the text the society is presented as deeply flawed.

PB - Berkley Books CY - New York SN - 0-425-04568-4 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Gardens of Delight Y1 - 1980 A1 - Ian Watson (b. 1943) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia and dystopia based on the Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450-1516) painting, The Gardens of Earthly Delights, which is in the Museo del Prado in Madrid. The novel has three sections similar to the triptych, the Gardens, which open and close the novel. Hell, and Eden. 

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Timescape, 1982.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Good News Y1 - 1980 A1 - Edward [Paul] Abbey (1927-89) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Post-catastrophe conflict between collapsed cities and the resurgent countryside.

PB - E. P. Dutton CY - New York N1 -

An excerpt was published under the same title in TriQuarterly, no. 48 (Spring 1980): 273-95.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Gordonstown; A New Design for America Y1 - 1980 A1 - Stuart Gordon (b. 1924) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia describing a technologically advanced village.

PB - Gordonstown Press CY - Dillon, CO ER - TY - ABST T1 - Green is for Galanx Y1 - 1980 A1 - [Jeanne] [Dixon] (b. 1936) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult novel in which a dystopian society puts the gifts of unusually talented children into androids. Social control through entertainment.

PB - Atheneum CY - New York U3 -

Josephine Rector Stone [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Happiness and Utopia Y1 - 1980 A1 - Dale Lee Harris KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Religious eutopia based on an acceptance of the doctrine of the Trinity and Jesus Christ as one’s savior. Such acceptance will transform people and make them more cooperative and will lead to world-wide democracy, peace, and prosperity.

PB - Privately published by the author to secure copyright N1 -

Rev. ed. as Jesus Christ's World Utopia. West Chicago, IL: Christian Freedom Press, 1983.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Happiness Is the Needle on Full" Y1 - 1980 A1 - Caroline Forbes (b. 1952) KW - Female author KW - UK author AB -

Dystopia of an overpopulated, energy short, class ridden future. The story begins in the dystopia and evolves into a lesbian love story.

JF - Crystal Crone (London) VL - no. 1 N1 -

Rpt. as "The Needle on Full." The Needle on Full [Cover adds the subtitle Lesbian Feminist Science Fiction] (London: Onlywomen Press, 1985), 9-37.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Homeworld Y1 - 1980 A1 - Harry [Max] Harrison (1925-2012) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia in which the elite lead lives of comfort and privilege because the majority of the population lead lives of poverty and degradation. See also 1981 Harrison Starworld and Wheelworld.

PB - Granada CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Severn House, 1986. U.S. ed. New York: Bantam Books, 1980.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Humanoid Touch Y1 - 1980 A1 - Jack [John Stewart] Williamson (1908-2006) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Following from 1949 Williamson, the robots follow humans to a planet without robots and begin to take over.

PB - Holt, Rinehart & Winston CY - New York N1 -

An excerpt was published as “The Humanoid Universe.” Illus. Paul Lehr. Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact 100.6 (June1980): 14-56; and rpt. in The Worlds of Jack Williamson: A Centennial Tribute 1908-2008. Ed. Stephen Haffner (Royal Oak, MI: Haffner Press, 2008): 521-66. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “In Bed One Night” Y1 - 1980 A1 - Robert [Lowell] Coover (b. 1932) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which a man finds two strangers in his bed, who explain that they have been assigned to his bed to alleviate homelessness. It is clear that who is assigned and who people are assigned to depend on class and income.

JF - Playboy N1 -

Rpt. in his In Bed One Night and Other Brief Encounters (Providence, RI: Burning Deck, 1983), 14-18; and in his Going for a Beer: Selected Short Fictions (New York: W. W. Norton, 2018), 161-64. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "In looking-glass castle" Y1 - 1980 A1 - Gene [Rodman] Wolfe (1931-2019) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A society in which women rule and all men are fugitives, which is generally seen as positive by women and negative by men.

JF - TriQuarterly VL - no. 49 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Integrated Man Y1 - 1980 A1 - Michael [Steven] Berlyn (b. 1949) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. People controlled by implanted computer chips. Revolt.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Island. A Male Chauvinist Comedy" Y1 - 1980 A1 - James Saunders (1925-2004) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire. Men seemed to have died out and women reproduce without them. Three young sisters have been placed on an idyllic isolated island to live a new and better life. They long for something they can't identify, and then some men show up.

JF - Bye Bye Blues and Other Plays PB - Amber Lane Press CY - Ambergate, Derby, Eng. ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The King Is Dead! Long Live--" Y1 - 1980 A1 - [Margery (known as Marj) A.] [Krueger] (1941-2006) ED - Roy Torgeson KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a future in which an electronic chastity belt produces great pain in rapists and is used by women to punish men.

JF - Chrysalis PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY VL - 8 N1 -

Rpt. (New York: Zebra Books), 60-74.

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Jayge Carr [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last President Y1 - 1980 A1 - Michael [Joseph] Kurland (b. 1938) A1 - [Barton Stewart] [Whaley] (1918-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The Watergate scandal following the break-in at the headquarters of the Democratic Party national headquarters in June 1972 turns the U.S. into an authoritarian dystopia.

PB - William Morrow & Co CY - New York U3 -

S.W. Barton [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Life" Y1 - 1980 A1 - Dennis R. Caro (b. 1944) ED - Isaac Asimov (1920-92) ED - Martin H[arry] Greenberg (1941-2011) ED - Joseph D[avid] Olander (b. 1939) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Brief story set in an overpopulated world.

JF - Microcosmic Tales: 100 Wondrous Science Fiction Short-Short Stories PB - Taplinger CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. (New York: DAW Books, 1992), 204-06. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lifekeeper Y1 - 1980 A1 - Mike [Michael Dennis] McQuay (1949-95) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of computer perfection and the problems that develop as the computer appears to start wars.

PB - Avon CY - New York U5 -

Merril, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Logan's Search Y1 - 1980 A1 - William F[rancis] Nolan (1928-2021) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 1967 Nolan and Johnson and 1977 Nolan. Mostly adventure but some on the eutopia from 1977 Nolan.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Logan: A Trilogy. Baltimore, MD: Maclay and Associates, 1986), 261-384. Rpt. with the same pagination New York: Dell, 1992.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "'Looking Backward' from 2030 (with apologies to Edward Bellamy)" Y1 - 1980 A1 - Jayne Burks A1 - Melvin Rubenstein KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

History of the period from the mid-twentieth century to 2030 with a focus on child-rearing and education, both of which change to take individual differences into account. Governmentally supported childcare facilities. Parents are encouraged to raise their children at home and are provided with financial support to do so after taking parenting courses.

JF - Journal of Clinical Child Psychology VL - 9.2 U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lost Philosophy of Love Y1 - 1980 A1 - [Roy Victor] [Wallace] (1927-1917) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia called Many Waters of about 2,000 people based on agriculture and light industry. Calls it a commune. Common meals. Has its own school. A lot of New Age healing. The second edition is illustrated. The author says that an alternative title could be The Way to Utopia.

PB - Author CY - Brisbane, QLD, Australia SN - 9780959368017 9780959368000 N1 -

Rev. ed. illus. Fold-out map. Brisbane, QLD: Love Publications, 1982. 61 pp.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Love Explosion Y1 - 1980 A1 - Robert H[enry] Rimmer (1917-2001) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Another of Rimmer's novels of the good life through sex. In this novel two couples have sexual and other revelations while on a vacation on Guadeloupe, which produces a temporary utopia, which is then incorporated into their lives. See also 1966, 1968, 1975, 1978, 1982, and 2000 Rimmer.

PB - New American Library CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Magic Time Y1 - 1980 A1 - Kit [Lilian Craig] Reed (1932-2017) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eutopian amusement park that is really a dystopia.

PB - Berkley Books CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Meeting" Y1 - 1980 A1 - Nina Boal ED - [Marion Zimmer] [Bradley] (1930-99) KW - Female author AB -

Free Amazon story. 

JF - Tales of the Free Amazons PB - Thendara House Publications CY - Berkeley, CA N1 -

Rev. in Marion Zimmer Bradley and The Friends of Darkover, Free Amazons of Darkover. Ed. Marion Zimmer Bradley (New York: DAW Books, 1985), 97-109.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Mind and World in the 21st Century: An Interview with a Future Being" Y1 - 1980 A1 - Gertrude J. Rubin Williams (1927-86) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia with the focus on changes in the family and child-rearing. Pluralism in family structure and community childcare. Children have the right to divorce their parents. Technological solutions to disabilities. 

JF - Journal of Clinical Child Psychology VL - 9.2 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Mind Game Y1 - 1980 A1 - Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia brought about through mental control.

PB - Jove CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1985.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mockingbird Y1 - 1980 A1 - Walter [Stone] Tevis (1928-84) KW - US author AB -

Machine dystopia. Humans can no longer read or write and no longer have children (all women had been sterilized). People take drugs, smoke marijuana and watch test patterns on television. Many commit suicide. Everything is breaking down, including the robots that run everything. People are supposed to follow three slogans, "When in doubt, forget it" (20), "Don't ask--relax" (21), and "Alone is best" (23).

PB - Doubleday & Co. CY - Garden City, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Nealities: Doc Genius and Henry the Stud Y1 - 1980 A1 - Merzie Wilson KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

African American eutopia using African and African American history and legend.

PB - Vantage Press CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Number of the Beast Y1 - 1980 A1 - Robert A[nson] Heinlein (1907-88) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Something of a tour of an imaginary solar system in which the protagonists land in a number of societies drawn from fantasy and science fiction. His The Pursuit of the Pankera: A Parallel Novel About Parallel Universes. Rockville, MD: Caezik SF & Fantasy/Arc Manor, 2020, which was put together from his manuscript and handwritten notes, begins with the same protagonists but then takes them into a parallel universe.

PB - Fawcett Columbine CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. as vol. 25 of The Virginia Edition of his works. Houston, TX: The Virginia Edition, 2010. Extract published in Omni 2.1 - 2 (October - November 1979: 66-69, 118, 120, 122, 124, 126, 128, 130, 132, 134, 136, 138; 56-58, 60-64, 112, 114-18, 120, 122, 124-28.

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Illus. Richard M. Powers

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - One On Me Y1 - 1980 A1 - Tim[othy Wade] Huntley (b. 1939) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satirical flawed utopia. Having a child is in poor taste but one is born and raised by people who know nothing about children and their needs and did not want this one or for anyone to know of his existence. Raised in a floating habitat on food tabs and without much exercise, he ends up on Earth, discovers those imprisoned for opposing the new system, and begins to bring about change.

PB - DAW Books CY - New York U1 -

The cover adds the subtitle After me, Utopia is full up!

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Operation Misfit Y1 - 1980 A1 - E[dgar] Hoffman [Trooper] Price (1898-1988) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia emphasizing thought control in which the Thought Control Board tries to eliminate a maverick, who appears throughout the series. Much of the novel follows the maverick into space and is mostly adventure. Sequels include Operation Longlife. New York: Ballantine Books, 1982, in which a man who is 186 years old is targeted to obtain the secret of his longevity; Operation Exile. New York: Ballantine Books, 1986, in which the North American empire is under threat and the series protagonist is hired to protect the emperor’s wife with, again, much of the novel mostly adventure; and Operation Isis. New York: Ballantine Books, 1986, in which the man, after more adventures, retires to Mars.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York U5 -

Merril, MiU, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Outside the Solar Village: One Utopian Farm” Y1 - 1980 A1 - Wes Jackson (b. 1936) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A eutopia set in 2030 when there has been a radical change in population distribution with large cities becoming much smaller with everyone thinking sustainably. The eutopia focuses on sustainable farming using the example of one farm in Kansas. The farming of the twentieth century had badly damaged the land, but by 2030 and new methods of settlement and farming, there had been substantial recovery. 

JF - New Roots for Agriculture PB - Friends of the Earth Published in Cooperative with The Land Institute, Salina, Kansas CY - San Francisco, CA N1 -

Rev. in new ed. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1985), 116-32. 

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Illus.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Overworld Y1 - 1980 A1 - Michael Vyse KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia with technology in conflict with a more natural life. Both are destroyed.

PB - Faber and Faber CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Paradise Plot Y1 - 1980 A1 - Ed Naha (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia. A space colony designed to be a eutopia with no pollution, controlled weather, sufficient space for population growth, no crime, and little illness turns out to be less than ideal.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Path We Tread" Y1 - 1980 A1 - Nick Zepke (b. 1940) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia or dystopia depending on your outlook. Two tier economy. Small enterprises for local markets with a few large exporters with monopolies for selected corporations. Stress on the market. Welfare cut and a growth in inequality. Privatization of education and local government. Retire at 45 but then work in small shops and family businesses. Revised constitution requires people to work, live in stable families, and participate in corporate and community affairs. The rights specified are free access to information, joining voluntary associations, and stand for office. Prisons closed. Young offenders are sent to the military, and older ones are sent to mental hospitals.

JF - Pictures of the Future PB - Mallinson Rendel CY - Wellington, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Peggy" Y1 - 1980 A1 - Gilfillan, Caroline KW - Female author AB -

Eutopia of a woman's revolution taking place throughout the world. The Scottish Highlands has become Women's Territory with men driven out. Australia and The Philippines are Women's territories. England has become a dystopia for women because of the men's fears of the revolution. Women from another planet are planning to help.

JF - Crystal Crone (London) VL - no. 1 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "People Come First" Y1 - 1980 A1 - Nick Zepke (b. 1940) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia presented as a debate in the New Zealand legislature in 2004 over a proposed Social Justice Commission, which will oversee all social services. It is part of a Labour government plan to focus on small scale industries and limited growth and the rejection of multinational corporations. The last line of the Prime Minister's speech indicates that all legislation has to be approved by the people voting yes or no on home terminals.

JF - Pictures of the Future PB - Mallinson Rendel CY - Wellington, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Perpetual Migration" Y1 - 1980 A1 - Marge Piercy (b. 1936) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Short eutopian poem on the joy of life. Part of her "The Lunar Cycle". 

JF - The Moon Is Always Female PB - Alfred K. Knopf CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in her Circles On the Water: Selected Poems of Marge Piercy (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982), 273-74.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Probability Broach Y1 - 1980 A1 - L[ester] Neil Smith [III] (1946-2021) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel begins in a U. S. where the government is systematically limiting individual rights, but it then moves into an alternative history eutopia set in a libertarian North American Confederacy and is the first volume of a loosely connected series set in the Confederacy. A story set in the same future is his “The Spirit of Exmas Sideways” (1989). In publication order, the volumes, not all of which are utopian, the series includes The Venus Belt (1980); Their Majesties' Bucketeers. Illus. New York: Ballantine Books, 1981. 182 pp.; The Nagasaki Vector. New York: Ballantine Books, 1983. 242 pp., neither of which have much to do with the main themes in the series; Tom Paine Maru. New York: Ballantine. 273 pp. Rpt. rev. Rockville, MD: Phoenix Pick, 2009. 222 pp. [An author’s note says that the first edition was badly cut by the publisher and that this version reflects his original intent]; The Gallatin Divergence. New York: Ballantine, 1985. 223 pp.; Brightsuit MacBear. New York: Avon, 1988. 212 pp.; Taflak Lysandra. New York: Avon, 1988. 230 pp., in all three of which there are clashes between the Confederacy and the authoritarian Federalists; and The American Zone (2001) which is a sequel to The Probability Broach. In the chronology of the series, the volumes are The Probability Broach, The Nagasaki Vector, The American Zone, The Venus Belt, The Gallatin Divergence, Tom Paine Maru, Brightsuit MacBear, Taflak Lysandra, and Their Majesties' Bucketeers. The novel won the 1982 Prometheus Prize of the Libertarian Futurist Society.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York SN - 9780345285935 Rev. ed. 9780812538755 Graphic Novel 9780974381411 N1 -

Rev. ed. [the author’s website calls it the “unexpurgated” edition]. New York: Tor, 1996. 305 pp. Rpt. New York: Orb, 2001. 317 pp. See also Smith and Scott Bieser, illustrator. The Probability Broach: The Graphic Novel. Round Rock, TX: Big Head Press, 2004. 185 pp. 

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Merrill

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Rag, a Bone, and a Hank of Hair Y1 - 1980 A1 - [David] [Higginbottom] (1923-2016) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Young adult flawed utopia. A future population bred to be peaceful cannot themselves have children and a breeding program using people stolen from the past is started.

PB - Kestrel CY - London U3 -

Nicholas Fisk [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Red Zone Y1 - 1980 A1 - Tom Browne KW - Male author AB -

Young adult dystopia where a girl from the privileged classes meets a boy from the Red Zone, the least privileged in a highly structure society that was killing the poorest to control population.

PB - Topliner Tridents/Macmillan Children’s Books. CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Rescue” Y1 - 1980 A1 - Linda MacKendrick ED - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) KW - Female author AB -

Free Amazon story.

JF - The Keeper’s Price and Other Stories PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Return to Earth: A Novel of the Future Y1 - 1980 A1 - H[elen] M[ary] Hoover (1935-2018) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult novel in which corporations own most countries but, although there are radical differences in income, try to create good lives for all their inhabitants. The relatively good societies are contrasted with a charismatic religious leader and his control of his followers.

PB - Viking Press CY - New York N1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Riddley Walker Y1 - 1980 A1 - Russell [Conwell] Hoban (1925-2011) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia describing the society that has developed in England, which is presented as a primitive but complex society. The novel is presented as written by a member of the society, Riddley Walker, and is in the language that is used by the society.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. with the subtitle A Novel. New York: Summit Books, 1980. Exp. ed. Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1998, with two illus., an “Afterword” (223-27), “Notes” (229-31), and a “Glossary” (233-35) by the author. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Run, Come See Jerusalem Y1 - 1980 A1 - Richard C[arleton] Meredith (1937-79) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian religious dystopia and revolt in which a time traveler tries to prevent the birth of the founder of the dystopia.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Hamlyn, 1985.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Russian Hide-and-Seek; A Melodrama Y1 - 1980 A1 - Kingsley [William] Amis (1922-95) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of the U.K. overrun by the U.S.S.R.

PB - Hutchinson CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Scorched Supper on New Niger" Y1 - 1980 A1 - Suzy McKee Charnas (1939-2023) ED - George R[aymond] R[ichard] Martin (b. 1948) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A story of corporate conflict in space that includes a feminist eutopia based on African traditions.

JF - New Voices III; The Campbell Award Nominees PB - Berkley Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction of the Year #10. Ed. Terry Carr (New York: Pocket Books, 1981), 23-61; and in The Mammoth Book of Modern Science Fiction: Short Novels of the 1980s. Presented by Isaac Asimov. Ed. Charles G. Waugh and Martin H. Greenberg (New York: Carroll & Graf, 1993), 90-125. U.K. ed. (London: Robinson Publishing, 1993), 90-125.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Shadowman Y1 - 1980 A1 - Geo[rge] W. Proctor (1946-2008) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia in which an emotionless society without crime or violence produces an assassin.

PB - Fawcett Gold Medal CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Songs from the Stars Y1 - 1980 A1 - Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Ecological eutopia that develops initially as a conflict between those practicing the old science of physics and those who have rejected that science. By the end of the novel, the two groups are forced to work together.

PB - Simon & Schuster CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Splendid Freedom Y1 - 1980 A1 - Arsen [Julius] Darnay (b. 1936) KW - Hungarian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Three alternative future dystopias. They are "The Splendid Freedom" Galaxy Science Fiction 35.9 (September 1974): 6-33 (1-45) about an Earth that pretends to provide all the experiences unavailable on other planets, "The Eastcoast Confinement." Galaxy Science Fiction 35.10 (October 1974): 6-54 (47-132) about the New Puritan Secular Order in the U.S. that imprisons all dissidents, and "Plutonium" Galaxy Science Fiction 37.3 (March 1976): 5- 61 (133-244) about a religious cult worshipping atomic waste.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Split Infinity Y1 - 1980 A1 - [Piers Anthony Dillingham] [Jacob] (b. 1934) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Two worlds are described. One is a dystopia based on science and rigid class distinctions, and the other is a fantasy in which only magic works. One individual moves between the two worlds. The story is continued in his Blue Adept. New York: Ballantine Books, 1981. Rpt. New York: Ballantine Books, 1982; and in his Double Exposure (Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, [1982]), 261-514; and in his Juxtaposition. By Piers Anthony [pseud.]. New York: Ballantine Books, 1982. Rpt. New York: Ballantine Books, 1983; and in his Double Exposure (Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, [1982]), 515-790.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in his Double Exposure (Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, [1982]), 1-259.

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Piers Anthony [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Stepfather Bank" Y1 - 1980 A1 - [David Charles] [Poyer] (b. 1949) ED - Victoria Schochet ED - John Silbersack KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set in 2110 in which the "Bank," having gradually gained control of all corporations, owns everything. It employs everyone except one poet.

JF - The Berkley Showcase; New Writings in Science Fiction and Fantasy PB - Berkley CY - New York VL - 1 U3 -

David Andreissen [pseud.]

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Merril, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Still Forms on Foxfield Y1 - 1980 A1 - Joan [Lyn] Slonczewski (b. 1956) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia based on Quaker (Society of Friends) beliefs. The novel is concerned with how the society deals with potential conflict with more technologically advanced later settlers.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Technocrats Y1 - 1980 A1 - Forest W. Horton KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia set in 1984. Machines revolt.

PB - Leisure Books CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Tetrarch Y1 - 1980 A1 - Alex[ander] Comfort (1920-2000) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Allegory/fantasy depicting a number of eutopias and dystopias based loosely on various mythologies and William Blake (1757-1827) in particular. Verula is an evil city with high technology and a repressive culture and represents the contemporary world. The central eutopia, Los, is a sexually free, cooperative society. There are appendices of "The Losian Religion As Expounded by William Blake," Losian Grammar, examples of the Losian Script, and a Losian Vocabulary. 

PB - Shambala/Random House CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - "That's No Way to Treat a Fairy" Y1 - 1980 A1 - Fitzgerald, Luchia KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

Eutopia. The Leprechauns ruled the small people enslaving some their own people, the workers, and the fairies, and the women were treated worst of all. A women's revolution brings about communities of mixed men and women, all men, and all women, which is presented as a eutopia within the post-revolutionary eutopia.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “There Is Always an Alternative” Y1 - 1980 A1 - Patricia Mathews ED - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) KW - Female author AB -

Free Amazon story.

JF - The Keeper’s Price and Other Stories PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "This One Time" Y1 - 1980 A1 - Joan [Marie] Verba (b. 1953) ED - [Marion Zimmer] [Bradley] (1930-99) KW - Female author AB -

Free Amazon story. 

JF - Tales of the Free Amazons PB - Thendara House Publications CY - Berkeley, CA N1 -

Rpt. in Marion Zimmer Bradley and The Friends of Darkover. Free Amazons of Darkover. Ed. Marion Zimmer Bradley (New York: DAW Books, 1985), 228-39.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - This Time of Darkness Y1 - 1980 A1 - H[elen] M[ary] Hoover (1935-2018) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Children's dystopia set in an extensive, class-ridden city. Outside the city is a village presented as a contrasting eutopia.

PB - Viking CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Timescape Y1 - 1980 A1 - Gregory [Albert] Benford (b. 1941) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel is set in three times. In 1998, which has experienced a worsening environmental collapse, scientists are trying to contact 1962 in hopes of correcting the problem. The paradox created by this activity produces an alternative future 1974.  A related novel is his Rewrite: Loops in the Timescape. New York: Saga Press, 2018. The book is copyrighted by Benford and Michael Rose with a brief explanation in the “Afterword.”

PB - Simon and Schuster CY - New York U5 -

NjR

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Transformation Era" Y1 - 1980 A1 - Nick Zepke (b. 1940) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Decentralization, simplicity, growth of alternative lifestyles, initially urban but becoming rural. Maori radicalism and growing Maori independence.

JF - The New Zealand Listener VL - 95.2103 N1 -

Rpt. in Pictures of the Future (Wellington, New Zealand: Mallinson Rendel, 1980), 41-47.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Travails of Jane Saint Y1 - 1980 A1 - Josephine [Mary Howard] Saxton (b. 1935) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The novel begins with Jane Saint being sentenced to total reprogramming in an isolation chamber for being a revolutionary, which, in the context, means an advocate for women’s liberation. The novel then follows her “experiences” during the period she is in the chamber, experiences that center around a quest to free women. Much fantasy, with talking dogs, one of whom is named Merleau-Ponty, after the French philosopher; a friendly, supportive demon; a witch; a shaman; and so forth. See also 1989 Saxton, which is a sequel.

PB - Virgin Books CY - London N1 -

Part previously published as "Jane Saint's Travails." Amazons! Ed. Jessica Amanda Salmonson (New York: DAW Books, 1979), 107-16.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Under Plum Lake Y1 - 1980 A1 - Lionel Davidson (1922-2009) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopian fantasy set in Egon, a world under the sea that evolved separately from the world above and has advanced further both technically and psychologically. The protagonist is a thirteen year old boy.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980.

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Illus. Muriel Nasser.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Unisave Y1 - 1980 A1 - Axel Madsen (1930-2007) KW - Danish author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Universal Evolution and the Road to Peace Y1 - 1980 A1 - Bernard John Wilson KW - Male author AB -

The book is divided into two parts that reflect the title. The eutopia is in the second, much smaller part, "The Road to Peace" (85-97), which includes a summary of a "Model Charter" for world government (90-97).

PB - Dorrance & Co CY - Ardmore, PA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Valhalla Y1 - 1980 A1 - Newton [Kendall] Thornburg (1929-2011) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Near future post-catastrophe dystopia brought about by the collapse of the U.S. dollar. Government and jobs disappear and gangs control cities. Valhalla is an ex-monastery now the fortress compound of one man, and the novel focuses on the attacks on it and its defense.

PB - Little, Brown CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Voices in Time Y1 - 1980 A1 - [John] Hugh MacLennan (1907-90) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Post-catastrophe, looking backward. Authoritarian dystopia slowly being overcome and a better society created. The emphasis is on the period of conflict.

PB - Macmillan of Canada CY - Don Mills, ON, Canada N1 -

Rpt. Markham, ON, Canada: Penguin Canada, 1981. U.K. ed. Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin Books, 1983.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Waiting for the Barbarians Y1 - 1980 A1 - J[ohn] M[axwell] Coetzee (b. 1940) KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

Dystopia of a fictionalized South Africa.

PB - Secker & Warburg CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Walk on the Wild Side" Y1 - 1980 A1 - Paul [A.] Collins (b. 1954) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Future dystopia of violence set in Sydney.

JF - Ad Astra (London) VL - no. 13 (3.13) N1 -

Rpt. as “A Walk on the Wild Side.”in The Cygnus Chronicler: An Australian Review of Science Fiction and Fantasy (West Ryde, NSW, Australia) 3.1 (7) (December 1980): 4-5; and as "Suburban Walk" in Paper Children: Selections from the McGregor Literary Competitions 1980-81. Ed. Alan Lawson (Toowoomea, QLD, Australia: Darling Downs Institute Press, 1982), 98-104; as "Spaziergang Suburban Walk." Trans. Christoph Göhler. In SF aus Australien: "Wahr sind die Träume der Götter" und 10 weitere Geschichten. Ed. Paul [A.] Collins and Peter Wilfrit (München, Germany: Wilhelm Goldmann Verlag, 1983), 117-24; and as "Weesechosek, 'A Good Place to Live'. In his The Government in Exile and other stories (Melbourne, VIC. Australia: Sumeria, 1994), 1-11.

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Rpt. as "Suburban Walk" in Paper Children: Selections from the McGregor Literary Competitions 1980-81; and as "Weesechosek, 'A Good Place to Live'. In his The Govern ment in Exile and other stories.

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Trans. as "Spaziergang Suburban Walk." Trans. Christoph Göhler. In SF aus Australien: "Wahr sind die Träume der Götter" und 10 weitere Geschichten. Ed. Paul [A.] Collins and Peter Wilfrit (München, Germany: Wilhelm Goldmann Verlag, 1983), 117-24;

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Watchstar Y1 - 1980 A1 - Pamela Sargent (b. 1948) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

First volume in a young adult trilogy followed by her Eye of the Comet. New York: Harper & Row, 1984; and Homesmind. New York: Harper & Row, 1984. This volume takes place in a future that has rejected technology or, to their way of thinking, outgrown it. People live in small villages, communicate only by telepathy, are telekinetic, and can fly. Those born without these abilities are killed. Each person must go through an individual rite of passage, and the protagonist is going through hers when she meets a boy who has descended to Earth from a comet in which he lives. He is from the without telepathic powers who were people left behind and fled Earth to live on comets in space. Eye of the Comet focuses on a young woman who is set the task by Homesmind, a cybernetic mind, of reconciling the two societies. Homesmind concludes with the conflict between the two worldviews and its impact on the various protagonists.

PB - Pocket Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “What I Did During My Park Vacation” Y1 - 1980 A1 - Ruth Berman (b. 1942) ED - Isaac Asimov (1920-92) ED - Martin H[arry] Greenberg (1941-2011) ED - Joseph D[avid] Olander (b. 1939) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The brief story is about a high-tech society where most of the natural world is gone, and a park travels from roof top to roof top so that people can be temporarily exposed to it. 

JF - Microcosmic Tales: 100 Wondrous Science Fiction Short-Short Stories PB - Taplinger CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. (New York: DAW Books, 1992), 267-68. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Who Killed Utopia Y1 - 1980 A1 - Paul Walker (1942-2007) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Standard flawed utopia with a computer that has gone wrong.

PB - Carlyle CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Wishes of Maidens" Y1 - 1980 A1 - Felix C[harles] Gotschalk [Jr.] (1929-2002) ED - George R[aymond] R[ichard] Martin (b. 1948) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia with very few fertile men and many women wanting to become pregnant.

JF - New Voices III; The Campbell Award Nominees PB - Berkley Books CY - New York U5 -

Merril, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Woman's World. 138-9 Chri Plus Y1 - 1980 A1 - Jerome, Hilary AB -

Gender-role reversal novel. Men are kept in "semenaries". Women keep "manikins" that are somewhere between female and male as servants and for sexual pleasure. Women wear "protectors" or chastity belts whenever men are out of the semenaries.

PB - Thorn Press CY - Godney, Wells, Somerset, Eng. U5 -

DLC, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - World Without Money--An Alternative Y1 - 1980 A1 - A[nnemarie] Wicklow KW - Austrian author KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

Eutopia--title says it. Details of how it would work.

PB - Arthur H. Stockwell CY - Ilfracombe, Devon, Eng. U1 -

Dedication page adds A Utopian Possibility

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Zero Weather, A Future Fantasy Y1 - 1980 A1 - [Ramón Sender] [Barayón] (b. 1934) KW - Male author KW - Spanish author KW - US author AB -

New Age conflict between good and evil, with the followers of evil plotting to, among other things, drive the U.S. president insane and the followers of good, led by a man named Zero, fighting back against the various plots. Good wins.

PB - Family Publishing Co CY - Bodega Bay, CA U3 -

Ramon Sender Morningstar [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Zion in Our Time Y1 - 1980 A1 - James A. Christenson KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

How to build a new Zion of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, now known as the Christian Community. The five principles of the law of the celestial kingdom are Assistance, Cooperation, Providence, Equality, and Endowment (129-29). Includes a “Concordance of Scriptures on Zion--Bible” (150-55), “Scriptures re Sion” (155-56), “Scriptures on Zion--Book of Mormon” (156-57), and “Scriptures on Zion--Doctrine and Covenants” (157-61).  

PB - Center for Zionic Studies CY - Independence, MO U5 -

DLC, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - 1988: The Fanzine of the Future, nos. 1 - 2 (1979) Y1 - 1979 A1 - M[ichael] J[ohn] Weller KW - Male author AB -

Brief graphic novel depicting an authoritarian dystopia based on class, ethnicity, and race justified by the need to act against terrorists. The second issue is primarily a chronology of what happened between 1979 and 1988 to create the dystopia plus some overall description of the dystopia.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Alongside Night Y1 - 1979 A1 - J[oseph] Neil Schulman (1953-2019) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia based on an extrapolation of a continuing economic downturn.

PB - Crown CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Avatar Y1 - 1979 A1 - Poul [William] Anderson (1926-2001) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

One part of the novel is a typical Anderson dystopia in which the authoritarian Social Welfare Party takes over of Earth.

PB - Berkley Publishing CY - New York N1 -

Parts of Chapters II and XXIII were published in slightly different form as parts of his “Joelle.” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 1.3 (Fall 1977): 148-86. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Bander Snatch Y1 - 1979 A1 - Kevin O'Donnell Jr. (1950-2012) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future bureaucratic dystopia with a deep rich-poor division. Bander Snatch is the name of a streetwise leader of one of the poor areas.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Benefits Y1 - 1979 A1 - Zoë Fairbairns (b. 1948) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Feminist dystopia. Government encourages and then forces women to stay home and care for their families. It then tries to control conception by requiring contraception and later putting a contraceptive in the water. This causes major fetal damage and creates the beginnings of a backlash.

PB - Virago CY - London N1 -

Rpt. with an "Introduction" by the author (i-iv) Nottingham, Eng.: Five Leaves, 1998.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Big Trucker; A Magical Novel Y1 - 1979 A1 - Dennis Dunn KW - Male author AB -

Complex fantasy.  Begins with the Grail story “The Big Load” that continues throughout the novel and includes a utopia-of-sorts, “Our Sweet Land” ruled by “Big Mac.” Includes elements of earlier work such as the L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) and the story of Johnny Appleseed (John Chapman 1774–1845). There is also a dystopia, “Welfare.”

PB - Dancing Rock Press CY - San Francisco, CA N1 -

A comic version was published in twelve parts illus. Steve Abbott and Bill Sigfried. San Francisco, CA: Dancing Rock Press, 1978-79. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Blade Runner (A Movie) Y1 - 1979 A1 - William S[eward] Burroughs (1914-97) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia based on 1974 Nourse and using the same situation and characters. Unrelated to the Ridley Scott movie Blade Runner (1982).

PB - Blue Wind CY - Berkeley, CA N1 -

Rpt. London: The Tangerine Press, 2019, with an introduction by Oliver Harris (ix-xxiii, 81-83)

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Brats. A Novel of the Future Y1 - 1979 A1 - R[onald Henry Glynn] Chetwynd-Hayes (1919-2001) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Post-catastrophe authoritarian dystopia. The Brats are the sub-human creatures who hunt in packs, kill everything, and are the dominant life form.

PB - William Kimber CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Burger's Daughter Y1 - 1979 A1 - Nadine Gordimer (1923-2014) KW - Female author KW - South African author AB -

As with much of Gordimer’s fiction, the novel is concerned with racial strife in the dystopia that is South Africa, with what she calls “the interregnum”, and, in this case, with the coming revolution. On the censorship of the novel, see What Happened to Burger’s Daughter: or How South African Censorship Works. Emmarentia, South Africa: Taurus, 1980.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London N1 -

On the censorship of the novel, see What Happened to Burger’s Daughter: or How South African Censorship Works. Emmarentia, South Africa: Taurus, 1980.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Canopus in Argos: Archives. Re: Colonised Planet 5. Shikasta. Personal, Psychological, Historical Documents Relating to Visit by Johor (George Sherban) Emissary (Grade 9) 87th of the Period of the Last Days Y1 - 1979 A1 - Doris [May] Lessing (1919-2013) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The first of five volumes detailing the history and future of earth and other zones. See also 1980 (2), 1982, and 1983 Lessing. The Canopeans are the most advance beings and watch over others, interfering from time to time, not always successfully. Colonised Planet 5 appears to be Earth. 

PB - Alfred A. Knopf CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Jonathan Cape, 1979.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Catacomb Years Y1 - 1979 A1 - Michael [Lawson] Bishop (1945-2023) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire. Future domed city and the inhabitants. Includes, in "Old Folks at Home," a communal utopia for senior citizens and, in "The Windows in Dante's Hell," an overpopulation, class-based dystopia.

PB - Berkley/Putnam CY - New York N1 -

Parts were originally published as “If a Flower Could Eclipse.” Worlds of Fantasy 1.3 (Winter 1970-71): 152-83; rpt. in his The City and the Cygnet: An Alternative History of the Atlanta Urban Nucleus in the 21st Century (Bonney Lake, WA : Kudzu Planet Productions/Fairwood Press, 2019), 25-49, together with the “Interlude: The Testimony of Leland Tanner” (50-53); “Old Folks at Home.” Universe 8. Ed. Terry Carr (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1978), 1-48. Rpt. (New York: Popular Library, [1978]), 7-63; in The Best Science Fiction Novellas of the Year #1. Ed. Terry Carr (New York: Ballantine Books, 1979), 54-109; and in his The City and the Cygnet: An Alternative History of the Atlanta Urban Nucleus in the 21st Century (Bonney Lake, WA : Kudzu Planet Productions/Fairwood Press, 2019), 54-98, together with the “Interlude: The City Takes Care of Its Own” (99-100); “The Windows in Dante’s Hell.” Orbit 12. Ed. Damon [Francis] Knight (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1973): 28-45; rpt. in his The City and the Cygnet: An Alternative History of the Atlanta Urban Nucleus in the 21st Century (Bonney Lake, WA : Kudzu Planet Productions/Fairwood Press, 2019), 101-14, together with the “Interlude: Volplaning Heroes” (115-16); “The Samurai and the Willows.” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 52.2 (297) (February 1976): 5-45; rpt. in his The City and the Cygnet: An Alternative History of the Atlanta Urban Nucleus in the 21st Century (Bonney Lake, WA : Kudzu Planet Productions/Fairwood Press, 2019), 117-55, together with the “Interlude: First Councilor Jarboe” (156-60); “Allegiances.” Galaxy Science Fiction 36.2 (February 1975): 20-62; rpt. in his The City and the Cygnet: An Alternative History of the Atlanta Urban Nucleus in the 21st Century (Bonney Lake, WA : Kudzu Planet Productions/Fairwood Press, 2019), 161-203, together with the “Interlude: The Cradle Begins to Rock” (204-05); and “At the Dixie-Apple with the Shoofly-Pie Kid.” Cosmos Science Fiction and Fantasy 1.4 (November 1977): 18-21, 23-25; rpt. in his The City and the Cygnet: An Alternative History of the Atlanta Urban Nucleus in the 21st Century (Bonney Lake, WA : Kudzu Planet Productions/Fairwood Press, 2019), 206-20, together with the “Interlude: The Introduction to Out and Back Again” (221-27).

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Chance" Y1 - 1979 A1 - Peter Carey (b. 1943) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia based on the ability to participate in a genetic lottery (the Chance) in which body types can be changed. The Chance is run by aliens who have arrived on Earth as merchants. Conflicts develop between those opting for beauty, those choosing not to change, and those who opt for ugliness.

JF - War Crimes PB - University of Queensland Press CY - St. Lucia, Australia N1 -

Rpt. in his Collected Stories (St. Lucia, Australia: University of Queensland Press, 1994), 261-96; U.K. ed. (London: Faber & Faber, 1995), 191-96; in Centaurus: The Best Australian Science Fiction. Ed. David G. Hartwell and Damien Broderick (New York: Tor, 1999), 495-525; and in The Best Australian Science Fiction Writing: A Fifty Year Collection. Ed. Rob Gerrand (Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Black Inc., 2004), 239-68. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Charlottesville: A Fictional Account” Y1 - 1979 A1 - Nan Randall KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A day-by-day account of the effects of nuclear war on Charlottesville, Virginia. The story provided the basis for the television film The Day After (1983) written by Edward Hume (b. 1936) and directed by Nicholas Meyer (b. 1945).The author had written with William Kincade (1939-2017), the executive director of the Arms Control Association, a series describing the effect of two nuclear bombs dropped on the Tampa Bay area. See “Doomsday.” St. Petersburg Times (February 25-28, 1979): 1A, 20A; 1A, 13A-14A; 1A, 7A; 12A.  For background to the story, see Alexis C. Madrigal, “The People Who Would Survive Nuclear War.” The Atlantic.com (January 25, 2018). https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/01/that-time-the-government-commission-fiction-about-nuclear-war/551303/

JF - The Effects of Nuclear War PB - Office of Technological Assessment, Congress of the United States CY - Washington, DC U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Chocolate Sundae Heist" Y1 - 1979 A1 - John [Edward] Clark ED - Paul [A.] Collins (b. 1954) KW - Australian author AB -

Satire on Queensland politics, particularly the extreme right wing that held power in Queensland. The author's note says, "...I've postulated what would happen if the concept of 'Law and Order' was taken to its extreme" (167). The penalty for stealing a chocolate sundae is death, immediate imposed at the scene of the crime by a robot judge. No one drives any longer for fear of violating the traffic laws; even so a man is found guilty of jaywalking in a deserted street.

JF - Alien Worlds PB - Void Publications CY - St. Kilda, VIC, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Circle" Y1 - 1979 A1 - Geo Logical [pseud.] AB -

Eutopian future story projecting the Kerista Commune into a world-wide phenomenon.

JF - Utopian Eyes VL - 5.4 U3 -

Geo Logical [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Communalist Society: Some Principles for a Possible Future Y1 - 1979 A1 - John Friedmann (b. 1926) KW - Austrian author KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia of a decentralized society. See also 1976 Friedmann and 1979 Friedmann, The Good Society: A personal account of its struggle with the world of social planning and a dialectical inquiry into the roots of radical practice

PB - School of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of California, Los Angeles CY - Los Angeles, CA VL - Comparative Urbanization Series U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dark Wing Y1 - 1979 A1 - Carl West A1 - Katherine [Anne] MacLean (1925-2019) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which medical care is illegal and the ill are put to death. Corporate power.

PB - Atheneum CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Engine Summer Y1 - 1979 A1 - John [Michael] Crowley (b. 1942) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe novel focusing on two surviving societies, one of which can be considered eutopian and is based on occupational/generational ties and is non-competitive. The novel includes the detailed description of a game in which there is no winner.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1980. U.K. ed. London: Victor Gollancz, 1980.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Exile. Book IV of Daily Lives in Nghsi-Altai Y1 - 1979 A1 - Robert [Molise Boyer] Nichols (1919-2010) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

This volume gives the history of Nghsi-Altai (29-39) and focuses on the "population lottery" which uses a lottery to reduce the population by choosing a family to exile. The family chosen is the family at the center of Book III. See 1977 Nichols, the note there, and 1978 and 1979 Nichols, The Harditts of Sawna.

PB - New Directions CY - New York N1 -

Parts originally published as "The Meaning of Festivals." New Directions in Prose and Poetry No. 26. Ed. J[ames] Laughlin. (New York: New Directions, 1973), 70-75; and "Nghsi-Altai: An excerpt from the novel Daily Lives in Nghsi-Altai." New Directions in Prose and Poetry No. 33. Ed. J[ames] Laughlin (New York: New Directions, 1976), 117-25.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Exit Door Leads In" Y1 - 1979 A1 - Philip K[indred] Dick (1928-82) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a society controlled by robots and an attempt to reform it through a college that is trying to encourage rebellion against all authority.

JF - Rolling Stone College Papers VL - no. 1 N1 -

Rpt. in Robots, Androids, and Mechanical Oddities: The Science Fiction of Philip K. Dick. Ed. Patricia S. Warrick and Martin H[arry] Greenberg (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1984), 229-45; and in The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick. Volume 5 The Little Black Box (Los Angeles, CA/Columbia, PA: Underwood/Miller, 1987), 315-31. The paperback edition has it in The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick. Volume 5 The Eye of the Sibyl (New York: Citadel Twilight, 1992), 315-31.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Fight for Manod Y1 - 1979 A1 - Raymond [Henry] Williams (1921-88) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The first part of the novel, which is the part excerpted by Milner, describes a plan to transform an area of Wales from a backwater into a substantial, thriving community. The rest of the novel concerns the difficulties of doing that.

PB - Chatto & Windus CY - London N1 -

London" Hogarth Press, 1988. An excerpt was published in Tenses of the Imagination: Raymond Williams on Science Fiction, Utopia and Dystopia. Ed. Andrew Milner. Ralahine Utopian Studies 4 (Oxford, Eng,: Peter Lang, 2010), 215-30, with an editor’s introduction (215-16). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Five Letters from an Eastern Empire giving Information upon architecture, etiquette, irrigation, ventriloquism, justice, sex and poems in an Obsolete country” Y1 - 1979 A1 - Alasdair [James] Gray (1934-2019) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Dystopian oriental tale with a puppet as an emperor and an authoritarian government.

JF - Words (Fife, Scot.) VL - no. 8 N1 -

Slightly rev. as “Five Letters From an Eastern Empire: Describing Etiquette, Government, Irrigation, Education, Clogs, Kites, Rumour, Poetry, Justice, Massage, Town-Planning, Sex and Ventriloquism in an Obsolete Nation.” Illus. by the author in his Unlikely Stories, Mostly (Edinburgh, Scot.: Canongate, 1983), 85-113; rpt. (London: Penguin, 1984), 85-113; and in his Every Short Story, 1952-2012 (Edinburgh, Scot.: Canongate, 2012), 91-133.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - From Blight to Height Y1 - 1979 A1 - Marinelli, Jean KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia in which a new form of society, called a Region, is established with sixty thousand people. Most decision-making is by a computer known as Comp-U, which is said to know what is best for everyone. The first is successful in eliminating poverty, unemployment, and discrimination, and its people are able to reach their full potential. People wore the same clothing and housing was identical. Standardized names plus a number. Contraceptives required and sexual activity limited to Friday nights. People ate together. No tobacco but marijuana was used. No children initially. As a result, more such Regions are established. Female author.

PB - Vantage Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Gallagher's Glacier Y1 - 1979 A1 - Walt[er R.] Richmond (1922-77) A1 - Leigh [Tucker] Richmond (1911-95) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia in which the universe is ruled by giant corporations. Rebellion.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -

Part originally published as "Gallagher's Glacier." Analog Science Fact--Science Fiction 74.3 (November 1964): 37-42. Short version published New York: Ace Books, 1970.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Good Society; A personal account of its struggle with the world of social planning and a dialectical inquiry into the roots of radical practice Y1 - 1979 A1 - John Friedmann (b. 1926) KW - Austrian author KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. Between fiction and non-fiction. See also 1976 Friedmann and 1979 Friedmann, Communalist Society.

PB - MIT Press CY - Cambridge, MA ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Granville Hypothesis Y1 - 1979 A1 - Ted Mancuso (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia. Computer perfect world under attack.

PB - Manor Books CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Great Change Y1 - 1979 A1 - Jack Wagner KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Detailed socialist eutopia using a version of the “sleeper wakes” in which a labor leader in the mid-twentieth century comes back to San Francisco in 2012. Quite a bit on the transition. Much is provided free or inexpensively. Much more on the details of the workplace and production than in many comparable works. Partnership between management and unions. Annual turnover in many leadership positions. A lot of bureaucracy but working the way it should. 

PB - Trinidad Press CY - Trinidad, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Harditts of Sawna. Book III of Daily Lives in Nghsi-Altai Y1 - 1979 A1 - Robert [Molise Boyer] Nichols (1919-2010) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Third volume of four about eutopia in a Southeast Asian country that has a fairly simple, agricultural life but a complex mythology. This volume focuses on village life through a single family, the Harditts. See 1977 Nichols, the note there, and 1978 and 1979 Nichols, Exile.

PB - New Directions CY - New York N1 -

Part originally published as "Harvesting the Wind: An excerpt from the novel Daily Lives in Nghsi-Altai." New Directions in Prose and Poetry No. 31. Ed. J[ames] Laughlin (New York: New Directions, 1975), 26-46.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Iceback Invasion" Y1 - 1979 A1 - Hayford Pierce (b. 1942) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian satire on multiculturalism.

JF - Omni VL - 1.7 N1 -

Rpt. in The Best of Omni Science Fiction. Ed. Ben Bova and Don Myrus (New York: Omni Society, 1980), 52-59.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - In the Circle of Time Y1 - 1979 A1 - Margaret J[ean] Anderson (b. 1931) KW - Female author KW - Scottish author KW - US author AB -

Young adult novel in sequel to 1977 Anderson. This novel is set in 2179 in which two children from our time assist a eutopian society in its struggle against a mechanized dystopia. See also 1984 Anderson.  The female author was born in Scotland and lives in the U.S.

PB - Alfred A. Knopf CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Island Y1 - 1979 A1 - Peter [Bradford] Benchley (1940-2006) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Description of an island dystopia created by modern day pirates.

PB - Doubleday & Co CY - Garden City, NY ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Japanese Tea" Y1 - 1979 A1 - Terence M[ichael] Green (b. 1947) ED - Paul [A.] Collins (b. 1954) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopian educational system of the future.

JF - Alien Worlds PB - Cory & Collins CY - Melbourne, VIC, Australia N1 -

Rpt. in his The Woman Who Is the Midnight Wind (Potters Lake, NS, Canada: Pottersfield Press, 1987), 69-83.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Jem: The Making of a Utopia Y1 - 1979 A1 - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A novel about the discovery of a planet inhabited by three different species, the attempt to exploit it by three different groups from Earth, and the ultimate coming together of all six groups with a very brief depiction of the better society that resulted.

PB - St. Martin's Press CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1980. U.K. ed. London: Victor Gollancz, 1979.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Juniper Time Y1 - 1979 A1 - Kate [Katie Gertrude Meredith] Wilhelm (1928-2018) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Background of a post-disaster (drought) dystopia where the western part of the U.S. is abandoned, and people move east to settle in what are in effect concentration camps. The novel follows the experience of one woman who flees west and is taught survival skills by the Indians who have reclaimed the land.

PB - Harper & Row CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Kindred Y1 - 1979 A1 - Octavia E[stelle] Butler (1947-2006) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

The dystopia of U.S. slavery written in the form of a slave narrative by a woman who lives simultaneously in the past and the present. 

PB - Doubleday & Co. CY - Garden City, NY SN - 9781598536751 N1 -

Rpt. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1988 with an “Introduction” by Robert Crossley (ix-xxvii); and in Kindred, Fledgling, Collected Stories. Ed. Gerry Canavan & Nisi Shawl (New York: Library of America, 2021), 1-271, with a Chronology (743-755), a Note on the Text (756-757), and Notes (761-769).

Adapted as a graphic novel by Damian Duffy and John Jennings. New York: AbramsComicArt, 2017, with an “Introduction” by Nnedi Okorafor (iv-vi).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lagrange Five Y1 - 1979 A1 - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A space colony/station is a eutopia of great beauty, but the eutopia is undermined by what seems to be almost an illness that strikes from time to time in which people become claustrophobic. See also 1983 and 1984 Reynolds and 1985 Reynolds with Ing.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Land Y1 - 1979 A1 - [Mary Vigliante] [Szydlowski] (b. 1946) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Women are rulers and men are "Beasts" not considered human. One woman starts a movement to free the Beasts, who almost enslave the women, until a balance is achieved with hope of turning the dystopia into a eutopia.

PB - Manor CY - New York U3 -

Mary Vigliante [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Land of the Possible: A Report of the First Visit to Prire Y1 - 1979 A1 - Mary Alice White Ph.D. (1920-2000) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A very detailed eutopia depicting Prire, a long established, isolated country that welcomes its first visitor in many years. Variety of ways of life, with the novel depicting Capital City, Blue Lake Village, which is a cooperative, Mountgate, a village of artists, Ponyo City, which has a university, and Shin, a factory town. There is also an area set aside for those who simply want to be left alone. Experiments are being constantly run to provide the evidence for policy choices. Stress on the small, local face-to-face community using appropriate technology that was available in the late 1970s. Every person from age twelve has two jobs, a community service job as well as an occupation. Life-long education. Gender and age equality. 

PB - Warner Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Legend of Lady Bruna" Y1 - 1979 A1 - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

This is a story of a strong woman who fought to keep her people free and is one of the legends of the Free Amazons.

JF - Legends of Hastur and Cassilda PB - Friends of Darkover CY - [Berkeley, CA] N1 -

Rpt. in Marion Zimmer Bradley and The Friends of Darkover. Free Amazons of Darkover: An Anthology. Ed. Marion Zimmer Bradley (New York: DAW Books, 1985), 24-32 with an introductory note on 23. No copy of the Legends appears to be held in any library. Information from Catherine Coker, “The Friends of Darkover: An Annotated Bibliography and History.” Foundation 37.104 (Winter 2008): 52. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Legion Y1 - 1979 A1 - Charles L[ewis] Grant (1942-2006) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe authoritarian dystopia set in 2257 as background. Part of a series that follows the same family from 1976 and 1977 Grant.

PB - Berkley Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Leviathan's Deep Y1 - 1979 A1 - [Margery (known as Marj) A.] [Krueger] (1941-2006) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Conflict within a world dominated by women over how to respond to contact and growing conflict with Earth. Part of the solution is to educate the men on the woman-dominated world.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY U3 -

Jayge Carr [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Long Talking Bad Conditions Blues Y1 - 1979 A1 - Ronald Sukenick (1932-2004) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of modern life with some elements of science fiction.

PB - Fiction Collective CY - New York N1 -

Parts originally published under the same title in Granta, [no. 1] (Spring 1979): 181-90; Luna Park; and Ploughshares, no. 18 (5.3) (Fall 1979): 165-76.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Long Walk Y1 - 1979 A1 - [Stephen Edwin] [King] (b. 1947) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia in which one hundred teenage boys participate in an annual ritual of walking until only one is left alive, most of the rest having been shot for infractions of the rules. 

PB - Signet CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in The Bachman Books: Four Early Novels by Stephen King. Rage, The Long Walk, Roadwork, The Running Man (New York: New American Library, 1985), 133-322 with "Why I Was Bachman" (v-x); and separately New York: Signet, 1996 with "The Importance of Being Bachman" (v-xiii).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Love Siege Y1 - 1979 A1 - Tom [Donald] Wakefield (1935-96) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Near future authoritarian dystopia. In 1983 "political" meetings of any sort are forbidden, with even school staff meetings having to have a government official in attendance. Nonconformists are killed. But there is successful resistance.

PB - Routledge & Kegan Paul CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Macrolife Y1 - 1979 A1 - George Zebrowski (b. 1945) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A utopia that ranges into the future in a way similar to the utopias of Olaf Stapledon. In this work, “macrolife” or a “macroworld” is mobile space habitat (see the design and description on 114-16). They spread throughout the galaxy, producing a wide variety of social systems, and, at times, come into conflict with natural worlds. His 1999 Cave of Stars is described as a companion piece.

PB - Harper & Row CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. with the subtitle A Mobile Utopia. Amherst, NY: Pyr, 2006.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mindsong Y1 - 1979 A1 - Joan [Irene] Cox (1942-2009) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

.Science fiction novel that includes a description of a terraformed planet called Eden that exists in an age similar to Earth’s Hellenic age and is presented in eutopian terms.

PB - Avon CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Moons of Sirius" Y1 - 1979 A1 - Michaels, Ward KW - Male author AB -

Male homosexual eutopia in which the original colonists had separated by gender and lost any memory of each other.

JF - In Touch For Men (Los Angeles, CA) VL - no. 39 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Morlock Night Y1 - 1979 A1 - K[evin] W[ayne] Jeter (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the Morlocks from 1895 Wells, The Time Machine use the time machine to attack England. The English, led by Merlin, and others from various time periods, successfully fight back.

PB - DAW Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. Oxford, Eng.: Angry Robot, 2011 with an “Introduction” by Tim Powers (7-11) and an afterword, “K W Jeter, Morlock Night” by Adam Roberts (295-301). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The New Gulliver or The Adventures of Lemuel Gulliver, Jr. in Capovolta Y1 - 1979 A1 - Esmé Dodderidge (1916-97) KW - Female author KW - Welsh author AB -

Gender reversal satire. 

PB - Taplinger CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: J.M. Dent, 1980.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A New Utopia Y1 - 1979 A1 - Peter [Christopher] Milward [S.J.] (1925-2017) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia structured like More's Utopia with two parts. The first part is a factual journal of his trip with Japanese friends to Bruges, Belgium to visit the area where More was when he began writing Utopia. The second part (40-68) is a eutopia that contrasts the real Japan with a eutopian version that centers on religion and simplicity.

PB - Aratake Shuppan CY - [Tokyo] N1 -

The first two parts were published as In Search of Historic Britain. [Tokyo, Japan]: Aratake Shuppan, 1978; and In Search of More's England. [Tokyo, Japan]: Aratake Shuppan, 1978.

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The cover adds Journal of a Journey: Part III.

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - News from the City of the Sun Y1 - 1979 A1 - Isabel [Diana] Colegate (b. 1931) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A novel about the history of an intentional community from the 1930s to 1970s. The members have divergent views of what eutopia will be like and how to bring it about.

PB - Hamish Hamilton CY - London U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "No More Pencils, No More Books" Y1 - 1979 A1 - John Morressy (1930-2006) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of future inner-city schools with constant violence, heavily medicated students, and no learning.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 56.6 N1 -

Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction of the Year #9. Ed. Terry Carr (New York: Ballantine Books, 1980), 269-81.

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MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Nuclear Fission" Y1 - 1979 A1 - Paul David Novitski ED - Terry [Gene] Carr (1937-87) KW - Male author AB -

A decentralized eutopia with multiple gender relations that developed after an unexplained revolution that led to cities being abandoned and environmental damage that caused the desertification of the U.S. Midwest. The story focuses on one multi-relationship home in a community of fairly self-sufficient households.

JF - Universe PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY VL - 9 N1 -

Rpt. in Kindred Spirits: An Anthology of Gay and Lesbian Science Fiction Stories. Ed. Jeffrey M. Elliot (Boston, MA: Alyson Publications, 1984), 151-74 with an editor's note on 149-50.

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Oath of the Comhi-Letzii or 'Order of Renunciates' Commonly Called the 'Free Amazons' with Explanatory Commentary" Y1 - 1979 A1 - Walter [H.] Breen (1928-93) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Oath of a utopian order that asserts the freedom of the women joining it from all social ties except those she freely chooses.

JF - The Darkover Concordance: A Reader's Guide PB - Pennyfarthing Press CY - Berkeley, CA N1 -

Rpt. as “The Oath of the Free Amazons.” In Marion Zimmer Bradley and The Friends of Darkover, Free Amazons of Darkover: An Anthology. Ed. Marion Zimmer Bradley (New York: DAW Books, 1985), 16-22 with an introductory note on 15. 

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Illus. Melisa Michaels

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Merril, HRC, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Offworld Y1 - 1979 A1 - [Roberta Leah Jacobs] [Gellis] (1927-2016) KW - Female author AB -

Mostly adventure but begins in a standard utopia that is terribly dull.

PB - Pocket Books CY - New York U3 -

Max Daniels [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Options" Y1 - 1979 A1 - John [Herbert] Varley (b. 1947) ED - Terry [Gene] Carr (1937-87) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Impact of easy sex change operations on a society that had strived for gender equality but still had significant inequalities. Experiencing both genders from the inside improves things.

JF - Universe PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY VL - 9 N1 -

Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year #9. Ed. Terry Carr (New York: Ballantine Books, 1980), 192-225; in his Blue Champagne. Illus. Todd Cameron Hamilton (Nile, IL: Dark Harvest, 1986), 223-62;  and in Feminist Philosophy and Science Fiction: Utopias and Dystopias. Ed. Judith A. Little (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2007), 363-90.

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Merril, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Origin of the Axletree" Y1 - 1979 A1 - Alasdair [James] Gray (1934-2019) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

A mildly dystopian story in which a prince decides to build a structure, the Axletree, that will reach heaven. See 1983 Gray for the dystopian sequel.

JF - Scottish Short Stories 1979 PB - Collins CY - London N1 -

Rpt. as "The Start of the Axletree." Illus. by the author in his Unlikely Stories, Mostly (Edinburgh, Scot.: Canongate, 1983), 67-83; and in his Every Short Story, 1952-2012 (Edinburgh, Scot.: Canongate, 2012), 76-89.

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Rpt. as "The Start of the Axletree."

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LLL

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Our Lady of Desperation" Y1 - 1979 A1 - Keith [John Kingston] Roberts (1935-2000) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopian satire. After a revolution in the U.K. in which the Civil Service becomes dominant a four class system is established. Class A (the Civil Service and other powerful people) pays no taxes and classes B and C pay taxes at the rate of 60 and 70 percent respectively. Class D, the focus of the story and composed "anybody on whom the suspicion of creativity falls" (21) is supposed to pay at the 70% rate, but an error in the law allows them to make considerable incomes. In response the government assigns a minder to every individual in Class D to oversee all their activities.

JF - Ladies From Hell PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London U5 -

SFF, O, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Out There Where The Big Ships Go" Y1 - 1979 A1 - [John Middleton] [Murry] [Jr.] (1926-2002) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia brought about through a galactic game that was brought back to a ravaged Earth from a distant eutopian planet. Having reached the planet humans were then allowed to play the Game, which was the route to the next step in human evolution.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 57.2 N1 -

Rpt. in his Out There Where The Big Ships Go (New York: Pocket Books, 1980), 9-37; and in The 1980 Annual World's Best SF. Ed. Donald A. Wollheim with Arthur W. Saha (New York: DAW Books, 1980), 217-45.

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Richard Cowper [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Paradigm" Y1 - 1979 A1 - Randal Flynn (b. 1957) ED - Rob Gerrard KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia. The story focuses on a playwright who on winning a prize must decide on writing for the state or having an implant and being demoted to factory work. Having chosen to write for the state, the story traces the various compromises with his integrity that he has to make.

JF - Transmutations PB - Outback Press CY - Collingwood, VIC, Australia N1 -

Rpt. in The Best Australian Science Fiction Writing: A Fifty Year Collection. Ed. Rob Gerrand (Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Black Inc., 2004), 269-98.

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A, M

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Planet Called Utopia Y1 - 1979 A1 - [James Murdoch] [MacGregor] (1925-2008) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Eutopia/dystopia of immortality. To avoid overpopulation, there is no marriage or childbirth. Because it could be everlasting, the great fear of the immortals is pain and kidnapping with the threat of torture is common.

PB - Zebra Books CY - New York U3 -

J. T. McIntosh [pseud.]

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Planet Masters Y1 - 1979 A1 - Allen [Lester] Wold (b. 1943) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set in a society based on a caste system that includes killing as a means of improving one's position.

PB - St. Martin's Press CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Praise All the Moons of Morning Y1 - 1979 A1 - [Jeanne] [Dixon] (b. 1936) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which the inhabitants are kept passive with a drug. A young girl in the dystopia and a woman from the past help free the people.

PB - Atheneum CY - New York U3 -

Josephine Rector Stone [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Project Lambda Y1 - 1979 A1 - Paul O'M Welles KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a holocaust directed at homosexuals in the U.S.

PB - Ashley Books CY - Port Washington, NY U5 -

IQ

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Renaissance Y1 - 1979 A1 - A[lfred] E[lton] van Vogt (1912-2000) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of women dominating men who have been emasculated by alien technology.

PB - Pocket Books CY - New York U5 -

MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Retreat: As It Was! A Fantasy Y1 - 1979 A1 - Donna J. Young KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Lesbian eutopia. After a war that killed everyone, women were given a second chance. Since then, they have learned parthenogenesis and spread around the galaxy. The novel is set on a frontier world called Retreat and follows the development and relationships of a number of women living in one of the communities there. The back cover has "What It Was Like Before the Men Came", but there is no mention of men in the book.

PB - Naiad Press CY - Weatherby Lake, MO U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Revolution Island Y1 - 1979 A1 - Julian [Charles] Fane (1927-2009) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Socialists take power and establish an authoritarian dystopia. The novel ends with a the dystopia being overthrown. Anti-socialist and anti-trade union.

PB - Hamish Hamilton and St. George's Press CY - London U5 -

LLL

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Ring Cycle Y1 - 1979 A1 - Melvin [Ezell] Gorham (1910-94) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Consists of "The Valkyrie: A Play in Three Acts" which replays Richard Wagner's Ring as a dystopia featuring two police states and opposed by Wotan as the leader of free people. See the author's The Six Disciplines of Man's Being and Man's Relation to Government. Rev. ed. Rochester, WA: Sovereign Press, 1984. See also 1970 and 1975 Gorham. For other works from the same general perspective, see 1984 von Konen, the note there, 1984 Valoric Fire, and 1987 Pedersen.

PB - Sovereign Press CY - Rochester, WA N1 -

Part also published as Melvin Gorham’s Interpretation of Richard Wagner’s The Valkyries [Cover adds A Play in Three Acts] Together with The Morality of the Early Northern Europeans by John Harland. Rochester, WA: Sovereign Press, 1987. 

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[Cover adds Young Lovers of the 21st Century]

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MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Salute to America In the Year 2000" Y1 - 1979 A1 - Tom [Thomas Jefferson] Anderson (1910-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A John Birch Society eutopia. Money is tied to gold and silver. It is illegal for the federal government to have a deficit. The minimum wage is abolished; anyone on welfare or being paid in tax dollars is disenfranchised. The sixteenth amendment establishing the income tax is repealed and a new tax system is implemented with no deductions and a maximum tax of ten per cent. The US is no longer in the UN, and the UN is no longer in the US. US citizens tried for treason are "deported to the Communist country of their choice" (46). The change was brought about by those who were "raised in traditional Christian homes and attended private Christian schools" (40).

JF - American Opinion VL - 22.9 U5 -

KU, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Second Eden" Y1 - 1979 A1 - Jeff Watkins KW - Male author AB -

Male homosexual eutopia where an exploring party had crashed on a planet and developed the ability to create children. The last survivors of the crash had been two homosexual men, but the society they create is completely accepting of all sexual orientations.

JF - In Touch For Men (Los Angeles, CA) VL - no. 39 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Shadow of Earth Y1 - 1979 A1 - Phyllis [Leah Kleinstein] Eisenstein (1946-2020) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian parallel history in which the Spanish Armada defeats England in 1588 and the middle ages continue.

PB - Dell CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Show Me a Hero Y1 - 1979 A1 - Patrick [James] Alexander (b. 1926) KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

The novel is about a future U.K. democratic socialist dictatorship, the resistance movement, and the coup that succeeded in overthrowing it.

PB - Macmillan CY - London U5 -

MoS, NLS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Sixth Winter Y1 - 1979 A1 - Douglas Orgill (b. 1922) A1 - John Gribbin KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Climate-change (new ice age) dystopia. 

PB - Simon and Schuster CY - New York U5 -

PPT

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Song in the Forest Y1 - 1979 A1 - Peter [Hedley Colwill] Hooper (1919-91) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Post-catastrophe. Primitive life with some eutopian elements. Two tribes are described, one violent and one peaceful. There are two sequels that are both borderline utopian that follow the relations between the tribes and their effects on each other--People of the Long Water. Dunedin: John McIndoe, 1985; and Time and the Forest. Dunedin: John McIndoe, 1986. Both are at ATL and VUW.

PB - John McIndoe CY - Dunedin, New Zealand U5 -

VUW

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Stud Service Y1 - 1979 A1 - Johnny Mann [pseud.?] AB -

Gay male eutopia; stress on the sex. See also 1969 Wells.

PB - Greenleaf CY - San Diego, CA N1 -

Rpt. as Service Stud. By Clay Caldwell, which may also be a pseudonym. New York: Badboy, 1995.

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Johnny Mann [pseud.?]. Rpt. by Clay Caldwell [pseud.?]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Sudden Star Y1 - 1979 A1 - Pamela Sargent (b. 1948) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of overpopulation and violence. Medical care severely restricted.

PB - Fawcett Gold Medal CY - New York U1 -

U.K. ed. as The White Death

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sweet & Sour Milk Y1 - 1979 A1 - Nuruddin Farah (b. 1945) KW - Male author KW - Somali author AB -

First volume of his Variations on the Theme of African Dictatorship trilogy. Can be read as a dystopia or a realistic novel of contemporary Africa. The other volumes are Sardines. London: Allison & Busby, 1981. Rpt. London: Heinemann Educational Books, 1982. U.S. ed. St. Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, 1992; and Close Sesame. London: Allison & Busby, 1983. U.S. ed. St. Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, 1992.

PB - Allison & Busby CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Heinemann, 1980. U.S. ed. St. Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, 1992.

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MoSU, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Talking Coffins of Cryo-City Y1 - 1979 A1 - Shirley [Laurolyn] Parenteau (b. 1935) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A young adult novel which describes a flawed utopia based on the control of the weather. The world is run by machines. Criminals are frozen.

PB - Elsevier/Nelson Books CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - They Saw the Second Coming. An explosive novel about the end of the world Y1 - 1979 A1 - Doug Clark KW - Male author AB -

Armageddon (See Revelation 16) and a brief description of the millennium.

PB - Harvest House CY - Irvine, CA U5 -

DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Third Body. A Novel Y1 - 1979 A1 - Sam[uel H.] Dann (1918-2004) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of separate female and male countries where reproduction is a matter of dominance and death and sexual pleasure unknown. The novel focuses on a couple who commit the blasphemy of falling in love.

PB - Popular Library CY - New York U5 -

MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "To Keep the Oath" Y1 - 1979 A1 - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Story about her Free Amazons with an emphasis on why women choose to join them.

JF - The Bloody Sun PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in The Bloody Sun and "To Keep the Oath" (Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1979), 373-408; and in Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover (New York: DAW Books, 1993), 15-42. It is not in The Bloody Sun. New York: Ace Books, 1964.

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Tomorrow . . . What It Will Be Like Y1 - 1979 A1 - Herbert W. Armstrong (1892-1986) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. Direct rule by God. God will make the entire world cultivatable by reducing the mountains, watering the deserts, changing the world weather patterns, and thawing out the ice packs. This will eliminate the population problem. Single language. Jerusalem the financial capital of the world. Gold standard. Human nature improved. All debts canceled every fifty years. See also 1966 Armstrong and Armstrong.

PB - Everest House CY - New York U5 -

Can

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Transmaniacon Y1 - 1979 A1 - John [Patrick] Shirley (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set in the 22nd century. The continental U.S. is cut off from the rest of the world by an apparently impenetrable barrier. Inside the barrier there are a number of authoritarian city-states. The novel follows one man's successful attempt to escape.

PB - Zebra Books CY - New York U5 -

MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Two Kingdoms; A Novel of Islandia Y1 - 1979 A1 - Mark Saxton (1914-88) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A novel of romance and adventure set in the history of Islandia from 1942 Wright. See also 1969 Saxton and 1982 Saxton. The author worked for the publisher of 1942 Wright and assisted Wright’s daughter in preparing the manuscript for publication. 

PB - Houghton Mifflin CY - Boston, MA ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Ultima Thule" Y1 - 1979 A1 - Arline Todd ED - Roy Torgeson KW - Female author AB -

Transplant dystopia in which needed organs are harvested from unwilling donors.

JF - Chrysalis PB - Zebra Books CY - New York VL - 6 U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Unaccompanied Sonata" Y1 - 1979 A1 - Orson Scott Card (b. 1951) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. People are categorized through tests given almost from birth and are required to do only the thing that they are supposedly best suited to do. The story focuses on a musical genius who is only allowed to make music uninfluenced by hearing anyone else's music. When he hears other music and incorporates it, he is no longer allowed to make music. When he does, his hands are cut off; when he sings, his vocal cords are removed.

JF - Omni VL - 1.6 N1 -

Rpt. in The 1980 Worlds Best SF. Ed. Donald A. Wollheim with Arthur W. Saha ([New York:] DAW Books, 1980), 73-91; in The Best of Omni Science Fiction. Ed. Ben Bova and Don Myrus (New York: Omni Society, 1980), 38-44; and in The Fourth Omni Book of Science Fiction. Ed. Ellen [Sue] Datlow (New York: Zebra Books, 1985), 185-206. Separately published [Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1992]. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Underdogs Y1 - 1979 A1 - William Weintraub (b. 1926) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on the separation of Québec from the rest of Canada twenty years later. Québec bankrupt. Anglos of Québec are at the bottom of society.

PB - McClelland and Stewart CY - Toronto, ON, Canada N1 -

Excerpt published as "Farming in the Sun Life Building." Saturday Night 93.10 (December 1978): 34-37, 40-46.

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Can, Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Underkill Y1 - 1979 A1 - James White (1928-1999) KW - Male author KW - Northern Ireland author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia with the plot centering on an extraterrestrial campaign to improve Earth.

PB - Corgi CY - London U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Unlimited Dream Company Y1 - 1979 A1 - J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Mostly fantasy but the setting has utopian elements.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Vandal Y1 - 1979 A1 - Ann [Acheson] Schlee (b. 1934) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult future dystopia run by scientists who use drugs to control the citizenry. Vandalism as an act of rebellion against authority. Solidarity with other young people who are being controlled by the authorities.

PB - Macmillan CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Crown, 1981.

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L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Voice Out of Ramah Y1 - 1979 A1 - [Karen] Lee Killough (b. 1942) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a male dominated society that uses religion to reinforce its power until a man begins to doubt and a woman begins to question.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York U5 -

Merril, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "War Crimes" Y1 - 1979 A1 - Peter Carey (b. 1943) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia set in a future of a collapsed economy, corruption, luxury for the few, and extreme poverty for the many. Ends with the beginning of a revolt by the unemployed but with no idea of whether or not it will succeed.

JF - War Crimes PB - University of Queensland Press CY - St. Lucia, QLD, Australia N1 -

Rpt. in his The Fat Man in History (London: Faber & Faber, 1980), 158-86; and in his Collected Stories (St. Lucia, QLD, Australia: University of Queensland Press, 1994), 310-37. U.K. ed. (London: Faber & Faber, 1995), 310-37. 

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A, M, VUW

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Web Y1 - 1979 A1 - [John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon] [Harris] (1903-69) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel is primarily science fiction, but it focuses on a planned utopian community to be established on an island in the South Pacific.

PB - Michael Joseph CY - London U3 -

John Wyndham [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Windows Y1 - 1979 A1 - D[avid] G[uy] Compton (1930-2023) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Continuation of 1974 Compton which begins with the final words of the previous book. The reporter, who blinded himself in the previous book as the only way to stop broadcasting, becomes involved in a plot, which is ultimately defeated, to overthrow governments.

PB - Berkley Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Ace Books, 1983.

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - On Wings of Song Y1 - 1979 A1 - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Religious dystopia with fantasy elements.

PB - St. Martin's Press CY - New York N1 -

U.K. edition. London: Gollancz, 1979. Also published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 56.2 - 4 (February - April 1979): 6-61; 101-57; 86-159. Collector's Edition illus. Pat Morrissey with an "Introduction" by James Morrow (vii-xii). Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1993.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "With Mingled Feelings of Anticipation and Apprehension the Emigrants Leave Their Native Earth for a Far-Off Destination" Y1 - 1979 A1 - [Joseph] Ward Moore (1903-78) ED - Roy Torgeson KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia.

JF - Chrysalis PB - Zebra Books CY - New York VL - 6 U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Woman of the Future Y1 - 1979 A1 - David [Neil] Ireland (b. 1927) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Surrealistic dystopia presented in notes and journal entries by a girl from early childhood to the end of her schooling. Australia is divided among the Free Citizens, who do nothing, the Servants of Society, who are the working middle class, and a few extremely rich known as the Pros. Machines have replaced most labor. Advancement based on education and competitive examinations. People fall out of the Servant class by developing abnormal characteristics, and the woman of the novel becomes a leopard.

PB - George Braziller CY - New York N1 -

Australian edition Ringwood, VIC, Australia: Allen Lane, 1979. Rpt. Ringwood, VIC, Australia: Penguin, 1980.

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A, M, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A World Between Y1 - 1979 A1 - Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Pacifica is a decentralized, electronic democracy with gender equality threatened by two authoritarian dystopias, one lesbian, one technological.

PB - Pocket Books CY - New York SN - 0-671-82876-2 U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - 1985 Y1 - 1978 A1 - [John Anthony Burgess] [Wilson] (1917-1993) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The first part of the book (13-102) is an analysis of Nineteen Eighty-four. The rest (103-219) is a fairly typical anti-labor dystopia--Tucland [TUC = Trades Union Congress]--but including an attack on Arab interests in the U.K. The book also includes "A note on Worker's English" (221-26/499-504 in the reprint) and "Epilogue: an interview" (227-40/505-18 in the reprint).

PB - Hutchinson CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in his Future Imperfect. The Wanting Seed. 1985 (London: Vintage, 1994), 283-518 and includes his "1985 and The Wanting Seed--An Introduction" (v-viii).

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Anthony Burgess [pseud.]

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Abra Y1 - 1978 A1 - Joan [Louise] Barfoot (b. 1946) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Sort of a modern feminist Robinsonade in which a woman leaves home and family to live an isolated life and creates a good life for herself.

PB - McGraw-Hill Ryerson CY - Toronto, ON, Canada N1 -

U.K. ed. as Gaining Ground. London: Women's Press, 1980.

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U.K. ed. as Gaining Ground.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Alien Sensation." Y1 - 1978 A1 - Josephine [Mary Howard] Saxton (b. 1935) ED - Alice Laurence KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Far future dystopia. Humans spend life drugged and dreaming, being fed experiences in pill form. They are maintained by aliens, and apparently humans had already chosen this way of life before the aliens arrived to colonize the planet.

JF - Cassandra Rising PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “[American Journal]” Y1 - 1978 A1 - Robert [Earl] Hayden (1913-80) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

Poem in which an alien tries to understand America and Americans and explain them to The Counselors. 

PB - Effendi Press CY - Taunton, MA SN - 9780871401274 978-0-87140-679-8 N1 -

Rpt. (New York/London: Liveright, 1982), 57-60; and in Collected Poems. Ed. Frederick Glaysher (New York/London: Liveright, 2013), 192-95. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Antinomy" Y1 - 1978 A1 - Spider Robinson (b. 1948) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future tale set in 1998 with a background dystopia of violence. Great medical advances.

JF - Destinies VL - 1.1 N1 -

Rpt. in his Antinomy (New York: Dell, 1980), 13-47; and in his Melancholy Elephants (Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin, 1984), 23-53. Rpt. (New York: Tor, 1985), 65-100.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Appendix: A Fictional Conclusion" Y1 - 1978 A1 - Rem[ment Lucas] Koolhaas (b. 1944) KW - Dutch author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Architectural projects for a better Manhattan.

JF - Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan PB - Oxford University Press CY - New York N1 -

New ed. (New York: Monacelli Press, 1994), 293-310. Reproduced in Small, Medium, Large, Extra-Large: Office for Metropolitan Architecture. Rem Koolhaas and Bruce Mau. Ed. Jennifer Sigler. Photography Hans Werlemann (New York: The Monacelli Press, 1995), 26-39.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Barbie Murders" Y1 - 1978 A1 - John [Herbert] Varley (b. 1947) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia set in a Barbie commune in which all are women and all look alike.

JF - Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine VL - 2.1 N1 -

Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction of the Year #8 Ed. Terry Carr (New York: Ballantine Books, 1979), 1-34; in his The Barbie Murders (New York: Berkley, 1980), 52-81; U.K. ed. (London: Futura, 1983), 52-81; book reissued as Picnic on Nearside (New York: Berkley, 1984), 52-81; and in Future Crime: An Anthology of the Shape of Crime to Come. Ed. Cynthia Manson and Charles Ardai (New York: Donald I. Fine, 1992), 165-91.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Beloved Son Y1 - 1978 A1 - George [Reginald] Turner (1916-97) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia. Complex new society established to be a eutopia, but it has serious problems. At the end of this volume, the dystopia is being replaced in the name of a new eutopia, which looks to be set to become the next dystopia. First volume of a trilogy; see 1981 and 1983 Turner.

PB - Faber & Faber CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Best Interests" Y1 - 1978 A1 - Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (b. 1942) ED - Roy Torgeson KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

An over-caring apartment computer system produces a dystopia.

JF - Chrysalis PB - Zebra Books CY - New York VL - 3 N1 -

Rpt. as "Best Interest." In her Signs and Portents (Santa Cruz, CA: Dream Press, 1984), 75-85.

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Rpt. as "Best Interest." 

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Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Body Game" Y1 - 1978 A1 - Robert Sheckley (1928-2005) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a rich/poor division based around the possibility of being able to purchase a new body when the old one wears out.

JF - Omni VL - 1.3 N1 -

Rpt. in The Best of Omni Science Fiction. Ed. Ben Bova and Don Myrus (New York: Omni Society, 1980), 34-37.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Cage of Flesh" Y1 - 1978 A1 - Lee [John] Harding (1937-2023) ED - Paul [A.] Collins (b. 1954) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. A future overpopulated world, where the overwhelming majority of people live impoverished lives, but where the rich search for exotic pleasures and live lives of extreme decadence.

JF - Envisaged Worlds: From the Editor of Void. Australia's First Science Fiction Anthology PB - Void Publications CY - St. Kilda, VIC, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Cave Y1 - 1978 A1 - John Sligo (b. 1944) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia in which the protagonist tries to assassinate the Leader and is arrested and tortured. He is helped to escape, and the novel ends with a war about to begin.

PB - John McIndoe CY - Dunedin, New Zealand U5 -

ATL

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Chrome Y1 - 1978 A1 - George Nader (1921-2002) KW - Male author AB -

Post-catastrophe story of love between a man and a male robot. Dystopian elements.

PB - G. P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. Boston, MA: Alyson Publications, 1987.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs Y1 - 1978 A1 - Judy Barrett (b, 1941) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Picture book for children. Life in the town of Chewandswallo where food fell from the sky three times a day and was a Cockaigne until the weather changed and storms of food forced the people to flee.

PB - Atheneum Books for Young Readers CY - New York U2 -

Illus. by Ron Barrett.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Coromandel Utopia" Y1 - 1978 A1 - Verner [sic Werner] [Otto} Droescher (1911-78) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - German author KW - Male author AB -

Short description of a future Coromandel Peninsula in New Zealand based on the growth of the communal movement.

JF - Water Wheels (New Zealand) VL - no. 14 U5 -

DU-Ho

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Darkness and Saint Louis Bearheart Y1 - 1978 A1 - Gerald [Robert] Vizenor (b. 1934) KW - Male author KW - Native American author AB -

Future U.S. with a collapsed economy and the rebirth of a Native American Indian culture. See also 1991 and 2016 Vizenor.

PB - The Truck Press CY - St. Paul, MN N1 -

Rpt. as Bearheart: The Heirship Chronicles. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1990. An excerpt was published in Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction. Ed. Grace Dillon (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2012), 116-20 with an editor’s note on 116-17, 247. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Darkness and Scattered Light: Four Talks on the Future Y1 - 1978 A1 - William Irwin Thompson (b. 1938) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future speculation by the founder of the Lindisfarne Community, in Southampton, NY, which was established in 1973. Although much of the text uses the language of the New Age and is vague about the eutopia to be produced, he suggests what he calls "The Metaindustrial Village" that will involve both agricultural and industrial work and be connected to the world through computer technology.

PB - Anchor Books CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Parts of the first two chapters were originally published as "Beyond Civilization: Auguries of Planetization." Quest/77 1.2 (May/June 1977):69-72, 74, 92-93; and "Auguries of Planetization: Braving a New World." Quest/77 1.3 (July/August 1977): 55-60, 94-95. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Death in Florence Y1 - 1978 A1 - George Alec Effinger (1947-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Utopia 3 is a postwar project designed to reform humanity and lead to a eutopia of common understanding. The novel follows three people who become part of the project and the various problems they and the project encounter.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Rpt. as Utopia 3. New York: Playboy Press Paperbacks, 1980.

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Rpt. as Utopia 3

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MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Differences Are Cause For Joy. View from the Year Twenty-two Hundred. Essay in Feminist Theory" Y1 - 1978 A1 - Jessica Amanda Salmonson (b. 1950) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Non-fiction feminist eutopia with gender equality, a population in balance, no more violence or war, a balanced ecology, agism and racism gone, and there is no religion.

JF - Mythologies VL - no. 14 U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Diggers: The Story of a Commune Y1 - 1978 A1 - David Starsmeare KW - Male author AB -

Play about 1652 Winstanley and the Diggers.

PB - Blackie CY - Glasgow, Scot. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dolphins and Killerwhales Y1 - 1978 A1 - Bert Fisher (b. 1934) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia and the struggle against it. Sequel to 1976 and 1977 Fisher.

PB - Mother Sea Publications CY - Wellington, New Zealand U5 -

ATL

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Don't Pay Taxes Y1 - 1978 A1 - Wayne Innes (b. 1943) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Non-fiction eutopia describing the Suburban Work Alternative, a work-based community which is suburban with separate housing. Cottage industries. The author expects about 10% of the population to live in them. The title suggests one thing that everyone can do to help bring about change. The second edition is roughly twice as long with Part Two "Economic Restructuring" (88-136) added, which, except for a few lines reiterating what was said in the first part, is a critique of current government policy.

PB - Social Analysis Ltd CY - Auckland, New Zealand N1 -

2nd ed. Auckland, New Zealand: Social Analysis Ltd., 1979.

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ATL, NZ, VUW

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ed Dean is Queer Y1 - 1978 A1 - N[ikolas] A[nthony] Diaman (b. 1936) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future dystopia from a gay perspective but with the gay community fighting back against discrimination and the novel ends with the beginnings of a eutopia. See also 1980 and 1997 Diaman.

PB - Persona Press CY - San Francisco, CA U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Eden Y1 - 1978 A1 - Jerome McDonough KW - Male author AB -

Dystopian play in which artificial people are manufactured at a profit because the political leader of the country is dissatisfied with the quality of the children produced naturally. The children, all age eighteen, are free to couples who choose an infertility drug.

PB - I. E. Clark, Inc CY - Schulenburg, TX U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Enemies of the System; A Tale of Homo Uniformis Y1 - 1978 A1 - Brian [Wilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia based on a Biological Communism that has created Homo Uniformis (Man Alike Throughout). They live in a flawed utopia (no passion, violence, or doubt) and meet primitive descendants of Homo Sapiens on the planet Lysenka II, named after Trofim Denisovich Lysenko (1898-1976), Joseph Stalin's director of biology, who believed the newly acquired characteristics could be passed on to descendants, a position generally rejected by geneticists.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Harper & Row, 1978. Rpt. New York: Avon, 1981. A story entitled "Enemies of the System" was originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 54.6 (325) (June 1978): 5-65. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Ennead Y1 - 1978 A1 - Jan Mark (1943-2006) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult novel set on a desolate planet where the human race is creating a new dystopia. At the end there is a revival of hope.

PB - Kestrel CY - Harmondsworth, Eng. N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Crowell, 1978.

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MoU-St, NZ

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Equality in the Year 1977: An Expository Lump" Y1 - 1978 A1 - Arthur D. Hlavaty (b. 1942) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Alternative history with the birth control pill being invented in the 1850s and widely accepted then.

JF - Mythologies VL - no. 14 U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Escape to the Suburbs" Y1 - 1978 A1 - Rachel Cosgrove Payes (1922-98) ED - Alice Laurence KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia. Manhattan is cut off from the suburbs. The city government has fled to New Jersey and the tunnels have been blown up. Manhattan is now entirely black and Hispanic, extremely poor, and crowded. Those who try to escape are killed.

JF - Cassandra Rising PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - An Exercise for Madmen Y1 - 1978 A1 - Barbara [Jeanne] Paul (b. 1931) KW - US author AB -

Describes a scientific satellite that is a near eutopia and its corruption by an alien.

PB - Berkley Books CY - New York U5 -

GU, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Eye of the Heron" Y1 - 1978 A1 - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) ED - Virginia Kidd (1921-2003) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia and eutopia. An authoritarian dystopia on another world that was originally a penal colony and continues with men ruling and women severely restricted. This is contrasted with a group of later arrivals who came to establish a small, free, egalitarian farming community. The dystopia initially dominates the smaller community, but it manages to free itself with the help of a young woman from the dystopia.

JF - Millennial Women PB - Delacorte Press CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in The Eye of the Heron and Other Stories. By Ursula K. Le Guin and Others. Ed. Virginia Kidd (London: Panther, 1980), 109-251; and as The Eye of the Heron. London: Victor Gollancz, 1982. 122 pp.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - False Dawn Y1 - 1978 A1 - Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (b. 1942) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian, violent dystopia set in a future U.S. where disease, pollution, and war has decimated both the land and the people.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Rpt. Northridge, CA: Babbage Press, 2002. U.K. ed. as False Dawn: Science Fiction. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1979. The first chapter was published as "False Dawn." Strange Bedfellows; Sex and Science Fiction. Ed. Thomas N[icholas] Scortia (New York: Random House, 1972), 117-34; and rpt. in Women of Wonder: Science Fiction Stories By Women About Women. Ed. Pamela Sargent (New York: Vintage Books, 1974), 214-34; and in Women of Wonder: The Classic Years. Science Fiction by Women from the 1940s to the 1970s. Ed. Pamela Sargent (San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace, 1995), 234-48.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Feelies Y1 - 1978 A1 - Mick [Michael Anthony] Farren (1943-2013) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Future where the rich spend their lives in electronic private fantasies or "feelies" as described in Huxley's Brave New World (1932). The poor drink, drug and watch TV. The danger for the rich is that the feelies can break down.

PB - Big O Publishing CY - London N1 -

Rev. ed. New York: del Rey, 1988.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Forbidden World a science fiction novel Y1 - 1978 A1 - David F[rederick] Bischoff (1951-2018) A1 - Ted [Theodore Edwin] White (b. 1938) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Three flawed utopias are presented, an agrarian community run by women, Plato’s Republic, and Regency England. But all are just part of an experiment, which is itself presented as the central dystopia of the novel.

PB - Popular Library CY - New York N1 -

Part was published as "Breaking Point" by White writing as William C. Johnstone [pseud.]. Amazing Stories 43.6 (March 1970): 71-77.

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William C. Johnstone [pseud. of White]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Fragment of a Letter From a Non-Sexist Society" Y1 - 1978 A1 - Evelyn Rogers KW - Female author AB -

Feminist eutopia, "the United States of Isabella", which has always had gender equality.

JF - Mythologies VL - no. 14 U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Garh City. Book II of Daily Lives in Nghsi-Altai Y1 - 1978 A1 - Robert [Molise Boyer] Nichols (1919-2010) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Second volume of four about a eutopia about a Southeast Asian country that has a fairly simple, agricultural life but a complex mythology. This volume describes a technologically sophisticated city (e.g., they have monorails and an advanced solar power system) with traditional kinships systems. See 1977 Nichols, the note there, and 1979 (2) Nichols.

PB - New Directions CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Going Backward" Y1 - 1978 A1 - [David Eli] [Lilienthal] (b. 1927) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An attempt to recreate a eutopian nineteenth century farming life fails because it becomes a tourist attraction.

JF - Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine VL - 72.5 (420) N1 -

Rpt. in his Always Home and Other Stories (New York: Donald I. Fine, 1991), 33-49.

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David Ely [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Grasshopper: Games, Life and Utopia Y1 - 1978 A1 - Bernard [Herbert] Suits (1925-2007) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A fictional consideration of the nature of utopia that discusses a number of possible utopias. The basic position is that utopia would be the playing of games or activities valued only for themselves rather than being instrumental.

PB - University of Toronto Press CY - Toronto, ON, Canada N1 -

U.K. ed. Edinburgh, Scot.: Scottish Academic Press, 1978. Rpt. with a new Introduction by Thomas Hurka (7-20) and additional material. Peterborough, ON, Canada: Broadview Press, 2005. This should be read with his "The Grasshopper: Posthumous Reflections on Utopia." Utopias. Ed. Peter Alexander and Roger Gill (London: Duckworth, 1984), 197-209; first published as "Games and Utopia: Posthumous Reflections." Simulation and Games 15.1 (March 1984): 5-24.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Healers: An Historical Novel Y1 - 1978 A1 - Ayi Kwei Armah (b. 1939) KW - Ghanaian author KW - Male author AB -

The novel is set at the fall of the Ashanti Empire, destroyed by internal disunity in Africa combined with European power. The dystopia is offset by the vision of African unity of The Healers. Clearly a call for Africans to unify.

PB - East African Publishing House CY - Nairobi, Kenya U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The House That Shulamith Built" Y1 - 1978 A1 - Avedon Carol (b. 1951) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Non-fictional feminist eutopia stressing variety. Shulamith refers to Shulamith Firestone (1945-2012), author of The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist RevolutionNew York: William Morrow, 1970. See 1970 Firestone.

JF - Mythologies VL - no. 14 U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "In a Petri Dish, Upstairs" Y1 - 1978 A1 - George [Reginald] Turner (1916-97) ED - Lee [John] Harding (1937-2023) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Elements of both eutopia and dystopia. A new society emerges in satellites orbiting Earth. The society has common property, authoritarian "communal fathers", and a system of effective slavery. Earth also has centralized power, but, with a dramatically lower population brought about by a series of catastrophes, it has abundance for all. The story is about conflicts between the satellites and Earth.

JF - Rooms of Paradise PB - Quartet CY - Melbourne, VIC, Australia N1 -

Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction of the Year #9. Ed. Terry Carr (New York: Ballantine Books, 1980), 325-59; in his A Pursuit of Miracles (North Adelaide, SA, Australia: Aphelion Publications, 1990), 131-64; and in The Best Australian Science Fiction Writing: A Fifty Year Collection. Ed. Rob Gerrand (Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Black Inc., 2004), 211-38.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Institute Y1 - 1978 A1 - Robert Petyo KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia. The Institute is where scientists in the service of a power-hungry government bureaucracy experiment on humans.

PB - Manor Books CY - New York U5 -

Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Journey in Space with Alizantil Y1 - 1978 A1 - Frank Howard (b. 1910?) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Spiritualist eutopian poem in sequel to [1976], [1976?], and connected to 1983 Howard. Tour of the universe.

PB - Author/L.C.M. CY - Rocklea, Brisbane, QLD, Australia/Waiuku, Auckland, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The King of Hell Y1 - 1978 A1 - W[ilfred] D[ennis] Pereira (1921-2014) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A penal colony planet controlled by an apparently eutopian world (Elysium) is a dystopia.

PB - Robert Hale CY - London U5 -

L, NLS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Days of the Sunshine People Y1 - 1978 A1 - [Carl Lee] [Shears] (1937-79) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

A play about a plan to eliminate all Blacks in the U.S. showing the stages it goes through and the failure of Blacks to believe warnings. Closely related to his 1973 Count-Down to Black Genocide in that in both, a “Black Day” is proclaimed as a holiday to honor blacks, but it is actually the day on which the slaughter of blacks is to happen. At the end, some Blacks do come to believe the plan is real inspired by a man who has been given a book called The Code of the Black Brotherhood. These blacks decide to create a new nation, Afro-America, also mentioned in Count-Down to Black Genocide. See also 1971, 1974, and 1975 (2).

PB - Nuclassics and Science Publishing CY - Washington, DC U1 -

The cover adds about The Beginning of the coming BLACK HOLOCAUST

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Saggittarus [pseud.]

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DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Rose of Summer Y1 - 1978 A1 - Stephen Gallagher (b. 1954 KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia with governmental control through computers that provided everything to the people except freedom. See also 1983 Gallagher.

PB - Corgi Books CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Leprosarium" Y1 - 1978 A1 - Natalie L[evin] M[aines] Petesch (b.1924) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which a large insurance company punishes those who deviate from its rules by incarcerating them in the Leprosarium where large numbers of people are kept together but prohibited from most contact, with such contact warranting further physical punishment. Those who survive are sent to isolated islands, where they take large doses of the drug orgone, which causes hallucinations.

JF - Seasons Such As These. Two Novels PB - The Swallow Press CY - Chicago, IL U2 -

Illus. Barbara Mueller

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MoU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Long Walk to Wimbledon Y1 - 1978 A1 - H[enry] R[eymond] F[itzwalter] Keating (1926-2011) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which extensive fighting has broken out in London, which lays in ruins as the conflicts continue. The novel focuses on one man who must navigate his way across the devastated city.

PB - Macmillan CY - London U5 -

DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Love Me Tomorrow Y1 - 1978 A1 - Robert H[enry] Rimmer (1917-2001) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Revision of Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward (1888) to produce a highly eroticized eutopia. Although the theorist of the society presents himself as a reincarnation of Bellamy, and wrote a book entitled Looking Backward II, the economics are based on the people's corporation proposed by Louis Kelso (1913-91) and the political system on the ideas of Rexford G. Tugwell (1891-1979). The Church of United Love or Unilove is related to Tantrism and based in part on the ideas of Wilhelm Reich (1897-1957). There is also a new language called Loglan, which is used together with English. 

PB - New American Library CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Make Us Happy Y1 - 1978 A1 - Arthur [H.] Herzog [III] (1927-2010) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia controlled by computers where happiness is defined by a computer as including low self-esteem. Intergenerational sex is stressed. Looks are standardized with everyone colored beige. Constant manipulation by the computers ultimately leads to revolt.

PB - Thomas Crowell CY - New York U5 -

GU, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Man Who Had No Idea" Y1 - 1978 A1 - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Humorous dystopia about a society where speaking in public requires a license.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 55.4 N1 -

Rpt. in Winter's Tales 24. Ed. A.D. Maclean (New York: St. Martin's, 1978): 9-49; and in The Best Science Fiction of the Year #8. Ed. Terry Carr (New York: Ballantine Books, 1979), 298-335.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Mechman of the Dreaming" Y1 - 1978 A1 - [Francis] Frank Bryning (1907-99) ED - Paul [A.] Collins (b. 1954) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. A science fiction story about a future Australia with most Aborigines integrated into the larger society but with one reservation, called the "Wild Life Reserve", where the old ways are practiced. The story is about a mechanical man that is attacked by Aborigines because it resembles a monster from their early mythology.

JF - Ron Graham Presents Other Worlds PB - Void CY - St. Kilda, VIC, Australia U5 -

ATL

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mirrors of the Apocalypse Y1 - 1978 A1 - Donald L[loyd] Moore KW - Male author AB -

The novel is set in an authoritarian dystopia led by the Antichrist. Population control through sterilization for women and the requirement that potentially fertile women dress unattractively. Immortality for a few. Armageddon (See Revelation 16) and the Second Coming of Christ.

PB - Charter House CY - Nashville, TN ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Moon Baby Y1 - 1978 A1 - John Bailey (b. 1944) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of gender conflict in the future.

PB - Angus & Robertson CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia U5 -

A, M

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Motel Architecture" Y1 - 1978 A1 - J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia where everyone lives isolated from each other. Machines do most work, with TV repair one exception.

JF - Bananas VL - no. 12 N1 -

Rpt. in his Myths of the Near Future (London: Jonathan Cape, 1982), 178-94; and in his The Complete Short Stories (London: Flamingo, 2001), 989-99.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Motherlines Y1 - 1978 A1 - Suzy McKee Charnas (1939-2023) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 1974 Charnas where Alldera, the woman who escaped from the Holdfast, discovers, first, the Horsewomen, and later the Free Fems. Both might be called flawed feminist utopias because while they are clearly much better than the slavery of the Holdfast, each has serious internal conflicts and problems, and, while they trade, they are deeply opposed to each other. See also 1994, and 1999 Charnas.

PB - Berkley Books CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Victor Gollancz, 1980. Rpt. in her The Slave and the Free (New York: Tor, 1999), 217-436.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Night Above the Dingle Starry" Y1 - 1978 A1 - Terence M[ichael] Green (b. 1947) ED - Paul [A.] Collins (b. 1954) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on education. Reformers have arranged for both teachers and pupils to be mildly sedated to avoid problems. All classes taped and inspected. Undermined by those pushing a franchised counseling service.

JF - Other Worlds PB - Void Publications CY - St. Kilda, VIC, Australia ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Paradise Crossed" Y1 - 1978 A1 - Sherri L. File KW - Female author AB -

Satire on anti-gay activist Anita Bryant (b. 1940) who, on dying first goes to all-male heaven, then to an all-female heaven, and then finds her rightful place in hell. 

JF - Janus VL - no.11 (4.1) UR - 11-Vol-4-No-1.pdf (sf3.org) ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The People's Almanac's Exclusive Symposium on Utopia" Y1 - 1978 A1 - Isaac Asimov (1920-92) A1 - William F. Buckley Jr. (1925-2008) A1 - Ram Dass (1931-2019) A1 - Clifton Fadiman (1904-99) A1 - Allen Ginsburg (1926-97) A1 - James Michener (1907-97) A1 - Ashley Montagu (1905-99) A1 - Louis Untermeyer (1885-1977) ED - David Wallechinsky ED - Irving Wallace (1916-90) AB -

Isaac Asimov (1920-92), William F. Buckley, Jr. (1925-2008), Ram Dass [also known as Baba Ram Das (original name Richard Alpert)] (1931-2019), Clifton Fadiman (1904-99), Allen Ginsberg (1926-97), James Michener (1907-97), Ashley Montagu (1905-99), and Louis Untermeyer (1885-1977) answer nine questions regarding their own utopia. Asimov, Michener, Montagu, and Untermeyer make substantial statements.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Permacredit. Universal Finance for Government & Industry. World Government without Trade Deficits. A Cash System of Accounting without Debt in Industry or Government or Taxes Against Industry or Credit Cards Y1 - 1978 A1 - J[ohn] B[ernard] Ball (b. 1911) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Essay presenting a detailed utopian economic system based on what he calls a “Universal Law of Economics” that “Goods and services must be so priced in the retail trades that they remove from circulation all wages generated by industry and government in the production/distribution cycle, each fiscal period” (2). The title gives the general position--permanently available credit. In 1957 the author ran in the Canadian federal election as a candidate in Regina, Saskatchewan for the National Credit Control Party, a party of his own creation. His purpose was to publicize the monetary system he developed. See “J.B. Ball National Credit Control” within “Six Candidates Offer Final Election Message.” The Leader-Post (Regina, SK, Canada) 48.132 (June 8, 1957): 3.  See also 1956 Ball Ahoy for Eternity and National Credit, The Handbook of the Universal Monetary System, and Universal Monetary System of National Credit Control, and The Universal Monetary System of National Credit Control: A Financial Revolution With Nationalized Accounting Merchandising at Cost; 1961 Ball, Cosmocracy: The Universal Monetary System. Regina, SK, Canada: J.B. Ball; 1980 Ball, The Cosmic Laws of the Spectrum: Evolution and Government. By Barney Ballmark [pseud.]. [Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications];1982 Ball, Technomics. A Better Economy. International. By Barney Ballmark [pseud.]. [Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications]; 1986 Ball, Beyond Capitalism. Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications; and 1988 Ball, The Laws of the Micro Giants. An Odyssean Classic. Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications. Other versions include Technomics in one corporate world. By Barney Ballmark [pseud.]. [Foremost, AB: Author], [1983]; The Technomic Alliance [subtitle on the cover No Taxes on property or income, the obvious solution, total employment]. 3rd ed. By Barney Ballmark [pseud.]. Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications, 1984; Pathway to the Stars: Industrial Democracy Beyond Democracy and Christianity Plus the Photon Theory of Creation. Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications, 1986. [New ed.] as The Pathway to the Stars. The Photon theory of Creation. Poetry. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1987. Rpt. as Pathway to the Stars. Industrial Democracy Beyond Capitalism and Christianity Plus the Photon Theory of Creation. Includes Poetry Selections. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1989. Another ed. as The Pathway to the Stars. By The Hobo Poet [pseud.]. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1990 in four sections, [“Memoirs, Poetry, and Stories] (1-164),” “Industrial Capitalism--Beyond Capitalism” (165-213), “Gleaning from Prairie Art Shows” (214-29), and “Radiation Properties of Creation” (230-51); Technomics International. Perpetual Payroll Financing for Government and Industry. Rev. October 1986. [Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1986; Industrial Democracy. Beyond Capitalism and Christianity. Includes the Photon Laws of Creation. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1989; and Industrial Democracy. Beyond Capitalism. This concept of world marketing explains how nations can finance total employment, without international debt, or taxation on property and income. New Economic System. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1990. 53 pp.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Persistence of Vision" Y1 - 1978 A1 - John [Herbert] Varley (b. 1947) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The protagonist is a man who, following a series of recessions and a nuclear reactor accident in the Midwest that left a band of the country radioactive is wandering the country Looking for himself. He spends time in the Taos area of New Mexico living briefly in communes and the discovers an intentional community composed of deaf and blind people who were born during a rubella epidemic, although their children can see and hear but only rarely speak. He stays there and learns the various languages they use, beginning with handtalk, or spelling out words in the palm of the hand to bodytalk, where people communicate with their entire bodies. And there is a third language, simply known as Touch, in which people are communicating without any contact that he fears he could never learn.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 54.3 N1 -

Rpt. in his The Persistence of Vision (New York: Dial Press/James Wade, 1978), 227-72 (U.K. ed. as In the Hall of the Martian Kings [London: Futura, 1978], 263-316); in The Best Science Fiction Novellas of the Year #1. Ed. Terry Carr (New York: Ballantine Books, 1979), 1-53; and in Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction. Ed. Leigh Ronald Grossman (Rockville, MD: Wildside Press, 2011), 670-80 with an editor’s note on 670.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Phoenix in the Ashes" Y1 - 1978 A1 - Joan [Carol] D[ennison] Vinge (b. 1948) ED - Virginia Kidd (1921-2003) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian religious dystopia in a post-disaster primitive future. Women are controlled by their fathers and husbands.

JF - Millennial Women PB - Delacorte Press CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in her Phoenix in the Ashes (New York: Bluejay International Editions, 1985), 1-34 with "Afterword—Phoenix in the Ashes" (35-36).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Planet of the Rapes" Y1 - 1978 A1 - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) ED - Douglas Hill KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which rape is the only means of procreation. Otherwise, men and women live completely apart.

JF - The Shape of Sex to Come PB - Pan Books CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Prayer for My Daughter" Y1 - 1978 A1 - Marilyn Hacker (b. 1942) ED - Virginia Kidd (1921-2003) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eutopian poem of a future without men.

JF - Millennial Women PB - Delacorte Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Ravens of the Moon Y1 - 1978 A1 - Charles L[ewis] Grant (1942-2006) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Mostly political intrigue set in a world constantly at war where suburbs had been abandoned and people retreated to an essentially walled, militarized city with a poor fringe and a wealthier center. An attempt to fake a revolution by the government for political purposes is taken over by a faction within government and turned into a real, but ultimately unsuccessful coup with both the government and the coup leaders eliminated.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Report of the Committee on the Operation of the Sexual Containment Act. Chairman: Michael Schofield. Presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for the Home Department, the Secretary of State for Scotland and the Secretary of State for Wales by Command of Her Majesty, October 1984 Y1 - 1978 A1 - Michael [George] Schofield (1919-2014) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia under a law to control "excessive" sexual activity. Members of the Committee include Mr. Leopold Bloom and Mrs. Winston Smith.

PB - Davis-Poynter CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Revolt of the Unemployables Y1 - 1978 A1 - Ray [Radell] Faraday Nelson (1931-2022) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia which reflects the title. Anyone who fails academically becomes permanently a member of the unemployables living in camps. The men are sterilized. They revolt and much of the country is destroyed. Some of the characters, plot, and text are repeated in 1982 Nelson.

PB - Anthelion Press CY - Corta Madera, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Road to Corlay Y1 - 1978 A1 - [John Middleton] [Murry] [Jr.] (1926-2002) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian religious dystopia set in a post-catastrophe future with the beginnings of both a new Enlightenment and a reformed religion. First volume of a trilogy called The White Bird of Kinship; see also 1981 and 1982 Murry.

PB - Pocket Books CY - New York N1 -

The "Prologue. Piper at the Gates of Dawn." The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 50.3 (298) (March 1976): 4-51 is rpt. in the U.S. editions (11-73) (Book Club ed. 1-58), but not in the U.K. ed. London: Gollancz, 1978.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Ruins of Isis Y1 - 1978 A1 - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Isis is a matriarchal eutopia going through a series of physical and political problems and being studied by an anthropologist from another planet. The ruins are ancient and thought to have been built by an extinct alien race.

PB - Starblaze/Donning CY - [Virginia Beach, VA] N1 -

Rpt. New York: Pocket Books, 1978; and New York: Timescape, 1979.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Saint Francis Night” Y1 - 1978 A1 - Gordon [Stewart] Eklund (b. 1945) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set in a future with strict rules such as walking in only one direction on sidewalks and everyone is conditioned to be non-violent, but the conditioning is failing.

JF - Amazing Science Fiction Stories VL - 51.3 N1 -

Rpt. in Stalking the Sun: Selected Stories Volume Three (Vancleave, MS: Surinam Turtle Press/Ramble House, 2017), 164-87. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Seven American Nights" Y1 - 1978 A1 - Gene [Rodman] Wolfe (1931-2019) ED - Damon [Francis] Knight (1922-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a destroyed future America.

JF - Orbit PB - Harper & Row CY - New York VL - 20 N1 -

Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction Novellas of the Year #1. Ed. Terry Carr (New York: Ballantine Books, 1979), 153-210; and in Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction. Ed. Leigh Ronald Grossman (Rockville, MD: Wildside Press, 2011), 880-91 with an editor’s note on 880.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Seven Last Years Y1 - 1978 A1 - Carol Balizet (b. 1931) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Biblical dystopia of Armageddon (See Revelation 16), the seven years known as the "Tribulation" that, in this version, comes before the Millennium. Includes an "Appendix: Scriptural Prophecies for the Tribulation Period" (369-76).

PB - Chosen Books CY - Lincoln, VA N1 -

Rpt. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1980.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Shipwright" Y1 - 1978 A1 - Donald [MacDonald] Kingsbury (b. 1929) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Gender-role reversal but more complex than the usual in that it involves two planets with different customs and different gender relations.

JF - Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact VL - 98.4 N1 -

Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction Novellas of the Year #1. Ed. Terry Carr (New York: Ballantine Books, 1979), 110-52.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Space Station Eight: A Philosophical Novel Concerned with How Humanity Can Achieve Peace and Fulfillment in the Next One Thousand Years Y1 - 1978 A1 - Carlton C. Allen (b. 1911) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel is set in 1999 after a large space station where one thousand young people have spent time studying the desperate situation of the Earth and developing the ideas and principles needed to save Earth and create a eutopia, which they were expected to do within a year. The most basic principles were freedom and responsibility (97). 

PB - Vantage Press CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Speculations on a Non-Sexist Society" Y1 - 1978 A1 - Jennifer Bankier KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Non-fictional feminist eutopia attacking sexism and focusing on sexuality, reproduction, bond groups to replace marriage and the family, child-rearing, and employment.

JF - Mythologies VL - no. 14 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "SQ" Y1 - 1978 A1 - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) ED - Alice Laurence KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. The SQ test is presumably able to distinguish the sane and the insane and becomes required world-wide. Gradually the majority of people are judged insane and most of the sane choose to live in the asylums both to care for their relatives and because life was better in them than outside where the world economy is collapsing.

JF - Cassandra Rising PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Rpt. in her The Compass Rose (New York: Harper & Row, 1982), 69-80.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - SS-GB: Nazi-occupied Britain 1941 Y1 - 1978 A1 - Len [Leonard Cyril] Deighton (b. 1929) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The background of the novel is the Nazi dystopia as reflected in the title.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London SN - 978-0241505526 N1 -

Rpt. London: Penguin Books, 2021. U.S. ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Stand Y1 - 1978 A1 - Stephen [Edwin] King (b. 1947) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia in which two surviving groups, one eutopian and the other an authoritarian dystopia come into conflict. Adapted for television by the author in a four-episode series 1994 and, with a new ending, in a nine-episode series beginning in December in 2020.

PB - Doubleday CY - New York N1 -

Uncut ed. as The Stand: The Complete and Uncut Edition. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1990.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Subsidy Y1 - 1978 A1 - James Galen KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which the U.S. has become so violent that all the major cities are compounds inside many walls to keep all the violence inside and multiple electronic checks on anyone having to enter or leave. Law enforcement is almost entirely private.

PB - Vantage Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Suicide of Man" Y1 - 1978 A1 - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Future eutopia proves only a staging ground to an apparently higher existence.

JF - Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine VL - 2.4 N1 -

Rpt. in The Best of John Brunner (New York: Ballantine Books, 1984), 239-66.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Tables Turned: an exercise in consciousness-raising” Y1 - 1978 AB -

Gender-role reversal presented as a play about the first day of school. The lone male student is treated as an inconvenience, except that the girls hope he will do their ironing and typing. Males are not allowed to travel alone.

JF - Dialogue (Salt Lake City, UT) VL - 11.2 N1 -

Rpt. without the subtitle in LDSF-3: Latter-Day Science Fiction. Ed. Benjamin Urrutia (Ludlow, MA: Parables, 1987), 118-123.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Three Ways" Y1 - 1978 A1 - Brian [Wilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Men (no women were on the ship) return to Earth after a long trip to find it entirely under five dystopias. After a new ice age and two nuclear wars, most people live underground and there are constant wars among the dystopias, Corporatia, Socdemaria, Communia, Neutralia, and Third World. Widespread poverty and few human rights. The men end up in different countries, but their situations are much the same, except for one who moves to Zealandia, a colony of Australia, where he becomes a colonial boss. The others return to space.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 54.4 N1 -

Rpt. in his New Arrivals, Old Encounters: Twelve Stories (London: Jonathan Cape, 1979), 25-51.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Tomorrow City Y1 - 1978 A1 - Monica [Mary] Hughes (1925-2003) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult dystopia set in a city where a computer that was designed to determine what was best for its inhabitants becomes dictatorial. A boy and a girl come to recognize the problem and ultimately successfully defeat the computer, although at a high cost to the girl.

PB - Hamish Hamilton CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Trample an Empire Down Y1 - 1978 A1 - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Reynold’s standard utopia is boring, and some people decide to shake it up..

PB - Leisure Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Turner Diaries Y1 - 1978 A1 - [William Luther] [Pierce] (1933-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A future race war in the United States. One of the most important books for the survivalist and white supremacist right. The Oklahoma City bomber had a copy in his truck, and it was a basic text used by the insurrectionists at the U.S. capitol in 2021. A related book is his Hunter. A Novel. By Andrew Macdonald [pseud.]. Hillsboro, WV: National Vanguard Books, 1989. 

PB - National Alliance CY - Washington, DC N1 -

2nd ed. [Washington, DC]: National Alliance, 1978. Rpt. New York: Barricade Books, 1996. Illus. ed. Washington, DC: National Alliance, 1978. Initially serialized in twenty-eight installments in Attack! no. 32 - 58 (January 1975 - February 1978) and its successor National Vanguard, which continued the numbering, no. 59 (April 1978), where it ends. All entries that I have seen (all but six) appear on pages 5-6. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Two of Them Y1 - 1978 A1 - Joanna [Ruth] Russ (1937-2011) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set in a society that suppresses women and resonates with the most extreme forms of Wahhabism. Uses some characters from 1969 Elgin, “For the Sake of Grace,” and the book is dedicated to Elgin. 

PB - Berkley Publishing Co. CY - New York SN - 9780399121494, 9780425041062, 9780819567604 N1 -

Rpt. New York: Berkley Books, 1979; and Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2005 with a “Foreword” by Sharon LeFanu (vii-xv). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Wanderground: Stories of the Hill Women Y1 - 1978 A1 - Sally Miller Gearhart (1931-2021) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Feminist eutopia presented through a series of linked stories. The primary eutopia is one of women without men. Other societies are also depicted, some of which are in conflict with these women.

PB - Persephone Press CY - Watertown, MA N1 -

Rpt. Denver, CO: Spinsters Ink Books, 2002. The first chapter, “Opening,” was published as “Freestanding: Jacqua’s Story.” Quest: A Feminist Quarterly 1.1 (Summer 1975): 20-26. Other material was first published as “Krueva and the Pony.” Ms. 5.2 (August 1976): 75-77, 87; “Jacqua.” The Witch and the Chameleon, no. 3 (April 1, 1975): 9-12, and “Alaka’s Story.” Woman-Spirit [2.8] (Summer solstice [1976]): 9.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Weave of Women Y1 - 1978 A1 - E[sther] M[asserman] Broner (1927-2011) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A feminist novel about a group of women who call themselves the Daughters of Jerusalem and the community they create among themselves in a house in Jerusalem where they regularly get together.

PB - Holt, Rinehart and Winston CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985 with an “Introduction” by Marilyn French (ix-xv). Parts originally published as “The Bird and the Thieves.” Epoch 22.2 (Winter 1973): 160-176; “Habibi.” Florida Quarterly 6.1 (Spring 1974): 11-32; “On the Mt. of Meron.” Story Quarterly 1.1 (1975): 85-97.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Web of the Chozen Y1 - 1978 A1 - Jack L[aurence] Chalker (1944-2005) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. In the 21st century generation starships were sent out, mostly inhabited by political and religious groups hoping to establish their utopia. Earth has extended the lifespan to over 300 with two-thirds of the population in "near-guaranteed good health". No one has to work and most live in government flats on the adequate government dole. Nine large corporations "keep the resources flowing, provide the services, and thereby run the lives of just about everybody" (5). Earth is overpopulated and searching for places to offload surplus population. One planet that an explorer lands on radically transforms the human body into something like a horned kangaroo called the Chozen or Choz that lives in peaceful communities that seem eutopian in that there is plenty for all and little pain and death is rare. But they breed rapidly and overpopulation and conflict loom. The Chozen spread to all human worlds, and the humans become Chozen.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - What Dreams May Come Y1 - 1978 A1 - Richard [Burton] Matheson (1926-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Domestic heaven (called Summerland) to the extent of a dog that had died was in heaven at its prime. Reincarnation. A film was made in 1998 directed by Vincent Ward (b. 1955) with a screenplay by Ronald [Jay] Bass (b. 1942) and starring Robin Williams.

PB - G. P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Michael Joseph, 1979. Rpt. London: Sphere Books, 1981.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "What Dreams May Come" Y1 - 1978 A1 - Angus McAllister (b. 1943) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Dystopia in which access to the air has become a monopoly.

JF - Woman VL - 83.2152 N1 -

Rpt. in Starfield: The Anthology of Science Fiction by Scottish Writers. Ed. Duncan Lunan Kirkwall, Orkney, Scot.: The Orkney Press, 1989), 97-107. Collection rpt. Edinburgh, Scot.: New Curiosity Shop, 2018. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Wyst: Alastor 1716 Y1 - 1978 A1 - Jack [John Holbrook] Vance (1916-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia where everyone is equal, works little, and plays much, but it is centered around war games that are not really games.

PB - DAW Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. San Francisco, CA/Columbia, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1984. Repub. as vol. 31 of The Complete Works of Jack Vance. Oakland, CA: Vance Integral Editions, 2002.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Your Place or Mine? Y1 - 1978 A1 - Patrick MacFadden A1 - Rae Murphy (b. 1935) A1 - Robert Chodos (b. 1947) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - Male author AB -

A political satire set in the future dealing with the future of the Canadian nation.

PB - Deneau & Greenberg CY - [Ottawa, ON, Canada] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - After Utopia Y1 - 1977 A1 - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia in that it is too perfect, to the extent that all progress has ended,and people are escaping into permanent dreams.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Anarchistic Colossus Y1 - 1977 A1 - A[lfred] E[lton] van Vogt (1912-2000) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Anarchist eutopia as the setting for resistance to an alien invasion with the aliens believing that the apparently disorganized humans will be easy pickings. The system is tied together by a billions-strong network of AI (kirilian computers in the text) so that ethical and moral lapses can be identified and corrected.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1978

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Angels Wear Black Y1 - 1977 A1 - Bert Fisher (b. 1934) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Vicious authoritarian dystopia and the struggle against it. See also 1976 and 1978 Fisher.

PB - Mother Sea Publications CY - Wellington, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Anti-Matter Y1 - 1977 A1 - C. M. Stanbury AB -

Satire on the contemporary U.S. as seen by an archeologist of the far future basing his analysis on science fiction, TV, and newspapers.

PB - Dustbooks CY - Paradise, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Arrival. Book 1 of Daily Lives in Nghsi-Altai Y1 - 1977 A1 - Robert [Molise Boyer] Nichols (1919-2010) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

First volume of a four volume eutopia about a Southeast Asian country that has a fairly simple, agricultural life but a complex mythology, and the novel includes a number of stories and poems from Nghsi-Altai. The protagonists who visit the country include Santiago Alvarez (1919-98), a Cuban filmmaker, William Blake (1757-1827), Jack Kerouac (1922-69), and William Morris (1834-96) among other writers. See also 1978 and 1979 (2) Nichols. 

PB - New Directions CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ascension Y1 - 1977 A1 - Charles L[ewis] Grant (1942-2006) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe authoritarian dystopia set in 2247 in a collapsing world. Part of a series that follows the same family. See also 1976 and 1979 Grant.

PB - Berkley Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Awakening Water Y1 - 1977 A1 - [Geoffrey Robins] [Crosher] (1911-90) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which people are kept in line with drugs. A young man escapes to a democratic eutopia.

PB - Chatto & Windus CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Hastings House, 1979.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Blue Chair. A Novel Y1 - 1977 A1 - Joyce [Marie] Thompson (b. 1948) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Social institutions and personal relations produced in a society where immortality is available to those who choose not to have children.

PB - Avon Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Canada Cancelled Because of Lack of Interest Y1 - 1977 A1 - Eric [Patrick] Nicol (b. 1919) A1 - Peter [Graham] Whalley (b. 1921) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Humor written from the point of view of the 21st century with one theme that of Canada disintegrated into a number of colonies or protectorates of other countries.

PB - Hurtig Publishers CY - Edmonton, AB, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Canbe Collective Builds a Be-Hive Y1 - 1977 A1 - Bert Garskof KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia of a decentralized, collective future. Could be considered a young adult novel.

PB - Dandelion Press CY - New Haven, CT U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Cold Cash War Y1 - 1977 A1 - Robert [Lynn] Asprin KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which multinationals conclude that war games are a good way to end disputes so the hire mercenaries to fight non-lethal wars, thus avoiding supervision by the legal system. But the fake war spirals out of control and corporate executives become targets and are assassinated. A sequel of sorts is Asprin with Bill Fawcett. Combat CommandTM In the World of Robert Asprin’s Cold Cash War. The Cold Cash Warrior. New York: Ace Books, 1989 (CU-Riv)

PB - St. Martin's Press CY - New York U5 -

CU-Riv

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Colossus and the Crab Y1 - 1977 A1 - D[ennis] F[eltham] Jones (1918?-81) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Last volume of the Colossus series. See 1966 and 1974 Jones. In this volume the Martians propose to remove half of Earth's oxygen to use on Mars. After many adventures a reactivated Colossus produces a better plan acceptable to both Earth and Mars.

PB - Berkley Books CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Colours of War Y1 - 1977 A1 - Matt[hew] Cohen (1942-1999) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Near future dystopia. Civil war and revolution throughout North America. It is the second of four novels known as the Salem Quartet that are set in an around the fictional town of Salem, Ontario. The others, none of which have any utopian content, are The Disinherited (1974), The Sweet Second Summer of Kitty Malone (1979), and Flowers of Darkness (1981).

PB - McClelland and Stewart CY - Toronto, ON, Canada N1 -

Rpt. Markham, ON, Canada: Penguin Books Canada, 1986; and Kingston, ON, Canada: Quarry Press, 1993. U.K. ed. London: Methuen, 1977.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Community Democracy: A Study in Alternative Economics Y1 - 1977 A1 - Gary [John] Williams (b. 1947) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Includes a detailed description of a community-based economic system.

PB - [Author] CY - [Masterton, New Zealand] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Confessions of Josef Baisz Y1 - 1977 A1 - Dan Jacobson (1929-2014) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - South African author KW - US author AB -

Standard totalitarian dystopia as background to a autobiography of a man living in the dystopia and successfully rising within it.

PB - Secker & Warburg CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Harper & Row, 1977.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Construction of an Aquarian Age City-State Y1 - 1977 A1 - David D'Ely Spain KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

A vague description of a fairly typical New Age eutopia of the time.

PB - Author CY - Nimbin, QLD, Australia U5 -

M (Alternative lifestyles ephemera box)

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Crackpot Y1 - 1977 A1 - Ron[ald Joseph] Goulart (1933-2022) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-World War III authoritarian, pleasure oriented automated society that is controlled by androids and robots.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Dark Tower" Y1 - 1977 A1 - C[live] S[taples] Lewis (1898-1963) ED - Walter Hooper KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Northern Ireland author AB -

Dystopia of an evil society. Posthumously published incomplete story in which Ransom of the space trilogy appears. See 1938, 1943, and 1945 Lewis. 

JF - The Dark Tower and Other Stories PB - Collins CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Design for the City of Women" Y1 - 1977 A1 - Lapidus, Jacqueline KW - Female author AB -

Short sketch of a primitive lesbian eutopia with the rituals connected to their bodies and life stages.

JF - Heresies VL - no. 3 ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Double E Y1 - 1977 A1 - Percival Goodman (1904-89) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia intended to revisited some of the issues raised in 1947 Goodman and Goodman. Double E refers to environment and economy. Includes both consideration of varied plans for ideal cities and proposals for ideal built environments. Some of the material is based on 1973 Goodman.

PB - Anchor Books CY - Garden City, NY U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Dream of Wessex Y1 - 1977 A1 - Christopher [McKenzie] Priest (1943-2024) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel presents a future (2135-37) after a series of earthquakes has destroyed much of Britain, and it is a Soviet state, generally presented neutrally. Wessex is an island off the coast that is a holiday resort where many of the rules of the mainland do not apply and, as a result, it attracts many tourists from the Islamic North America. The focus of the novel is on two individuals projected to the future Wessex from the mid-1980s who choose to stay there.

PB - Faber and Faber CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. as The Perfect Lover. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1977.

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U.S. ed. as The Perfect Lover

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Drinking Sapphire Wine Y1 - 1977 A1 - Tanith Lee (1947-2015) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A group leave the domed cities described in 1976 Lee and establish a community in the desert. Initially attacked by the cities, they are eventually left alone and begin the process of living a life without robots, body and sex changes, and with the possibility of permanent death.

PB - DAW Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in her Biting the Sun (New York: Bantam Books, 1999), 169-370.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dwarf's Legacy Y1 - 1977 A1 - Tolly [Apostolos P.] Kizilos KW - Male author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia bent on forgetting the past.

PB - Ashley Books CY - Port Washington, NY U5 -

MnM, DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Earth Again Redeemed. May 26 to July 1, 1984 on this earth of ours and its alter ego. A Science Fiction Novel Y1 - 1977 A1 - Martin [Burgess] Green (1927-2010) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Two alternative future dystopias set in 1984. One is post-nuclear catastrophe and the other is a world of seventeenth century colonial attitudes facing a religious war in Africa. Contact occurs between the two and both are changed.

PB - Basic Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. without the second subtitle. London: Sphere Books, 1979.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Ecolog Y1 - 1977 A1 - R[adell] Faraday Nelson (1931-2022) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Feudal dystopia in which a woman, known as the Ecolog, rules a planet with a rigid division between the ruling class and the rest of society and with women holding power over men.

PB - Laser Books CY - Toronto, ON, Canada U5 -

GU, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Ecotopia 2001" Y1 - 1977 A1 - Irons, Greg A1 - Tom Veitch KW - Male author AB -

Comic presenting an apparent eutopia of peace and plenty, with a particular emphasis on sexual relations and marijuana use. But the last few frames indicate that the "straights" or those who marry and have children are hunted down and killed.

JF - Slow Death VL - 4 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "An Elder Womon's Tale from the Year 2000" Y1 - 1977 A1 - Bonnie Sundance KW - Female author AB -

Short feminist eutopia tracing the first years of a "womyn's" community as told by a community elder.

JF - Womanspirit (Portland, OR) VL - 3.11 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Eldorado" Y1 - 1977 A1 - Charles L[ewis] Grant (1942-2006) ED - Thomas F[rancis] Monteleone (b. 1946) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. An artist colony that was designed so that artists would be free to be creative is run by an automated city in so stultifying a manner that most artists left.

JF - The Arts and Beyond; Visions of Man's Aesthetic Future PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY U2 -

Illus. by William McMahon 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Empty World Y1 - 1977 A1 - [Sam] [Youd] (1922-2012) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Young adult pandemic dystopia.

PB - Hamilton CY - London SN - 0241897513 0-525-29250-0 N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1978. 134 pp.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Equality: In the Year 2000 Y1 - 1977 A1 - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 1973 Reynolds based on 1888 and 1897 Bellamy. In this novel the future utopia is shown to have dissidents, but the resuscitated protagonist from the past helps the society deal with them.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Generation Removed Y1 - 1977 A1 - Gary K[enneth] Wolf (b. 1941) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of generational conflict in which the young rule with all teenagers having the vote. Retirement at 55, no medical care, and euthanasia for the ill. The dust jacket adds “In this brave new world, aging is a crime.” Euth Centres staffed by teenagers Anyone over 55 with a euthable disease was euthanized, and almost everything was euthable.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY SN - 0-385-11549-0 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Gillan Is Not All” Y1 - 1977 A1 - Jonathan Farris KW - Male author AB -

Domed city on another planet where complete obedience is the norm, memories are wiped, and the basic myth is that there is nothing outside the dome.

JF - Janus VL - no. 8 (3.2) UR - 08-Vol-3-No-2-edit.pdf (sf3.org) ER - TY - ABST T1 - Heat Y1 - 1977 A1 - Arthur [H.] Herzog [III] (1927-2010) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Ecological dystopia.

PB - Simon & Schuster CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: William Heinemann, 1978.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Horsemen" Y1 - 1977 A1 - Brian [Wilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A simple, agricultural eutopia is destroyed by people from Earth. The people are closely in tune with their planet, vegetarian, live in marriage groups, and have rich inner lives. The arriving Earth ship releases the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (Pestilence, Famine, War, and Death) on the planet.

JF - Cosmos Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine VL - 1.3 N1 -

Rpt. as "New Arrivals, Old Encounters." In his New Arrivals, Old Encounters. Twelve Stories (London: Jonathan Cape, 1979), 9-14.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - In the Keep of Time Y1 - 1977 A1 - Margaret J[ean] Anderson (b. 1931) KW - Scottish author KW - US author AB -

First volume of a young adult trilogy. This volume sets the stage for the later volumes in the four children travel first to the past and then to the future. In the past, they deal with war between England and Scotland. In the future, they are faced with an environmentally damaged world. The female author was born in Scotland and lives in the U.S.

PB - Alfred A. Knopf CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "In the Stocks" Y1 - 1977 A1 - Barry N[athaniel] Malzberg (b. 1939) ED - Robert Silverberg (b. 1935) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 1973 Malzberg in which women are sent into the homosexual enclave in attempt to "cure" the homosexuality of the men in the enclave.

JF - New Dimensions Science Fiction PB - Harper & Row CY - New York VL - No. 7 U5 -

Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Intensive Care Unit" Y1 - 1977 A1 - J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia where all live isolated, meeting in person is illegal, with meetings of families particularly prohibited, and all communication is by television. The story focuses on a man who chooses to meet his wife and children in person, and they kill each other.

JF - Ambit VL - no.71 N1 -

Rpt. in his Myths of the Near Future (London: Jonathan Cape, 1982), 195-205; in his The Complete Short Stories. (London: Flamingo, 2001), 946-52; and in a separately paged section entitled “P.S. Ideas, interviews & features . . .” (1-18) at the end of the reprint of his High-Rise (London: Harper Perennial, 2006), 2-10. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Journey Among Women Y1 - 1977 A1 - Diana Fuller KW - Female author AB -

In early Australia, a group of women escape from abusive situations and create a primitive eutopia in the wild. 

PB - Sun Books CY - Melbourne, VIC, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Kampus. A Novel Y1 - 1977 A1 - James E[dwin] Gunn (1923-2020) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A dystopia of the future of universities where many students are illiterate, faculty market their classes to attract such students, and the students control much of the campus. Much sex and violence.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. as the Collector's Edition. Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1986 illus. Richard Powers and with an "Introduction" (v-viii) by Frederik Pohl.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Transaction Y1 - 1977 A1 - Barry N[athaniel] Malzberg (b. 1939) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set in the near future when people gain control of U.S. nuclear reactors and try to force the country to disarm and establish a world government. 

PB - Pinnacle Books CY - Los Angeles, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Little Knowledge Y1 - 1977 A1 - Michael [Lawson] Bishop (1945-2023) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of Christian fundamentalism and religious revivals in a future fragmented United States and the arrival of Aliens.

PB - Berkley/Putnam CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Berkley, 1978. Substantially revised in His The City and the Cygnet: An Alternative History of the Atlanta Urban Nucleus in the 21st Century (Bonney Lake, WA : Kudzu Planet Productions/Fairwood Press, 2019), 228-97.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Logan's World Y1 - 1977 A1 - William F[rancis] Nolan (1928-2021) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 1967 Nolan and Johnson in which Logan and the other runners settle a new world. Although there are problems that drive the plot, a nonviolent society is created that operates without a leader. See also 1980 Nolan.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Logan: A Trilogy (Baltimore, MD: Maclay & Associates, 1986), 139-259. Rpt. with the same pagination New York: Dell, 1992.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Majority Rule" Y1 - 1977 A1 - Sarah Greenwald KW - Female author AB -

The story focuses on a food additive, tested on people in poor countries, who mostly die, but is still approved. 

JF - Janus VL - no. 10 (3.4) UR - 10-Vol-3-No-4.pdf (sf3.org) ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Man Called Peters Y1 - 1977 A1 - Adrian [Goodenough] Hayter (b. 1914) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Political novel with New Zealand government as a dystopia. Both main political parties presented as corrupt and completely uninterested in the needs of the people. Pornography is being brought into the country to undermine the moral fiber of New Zealanders. Written from a loosely conservative perspective. Stresses the need for self-discipline and the equation between freedom and responsibility. At the end the government is defeated.

PB - Hodder and Stoughton CY - Auckland, New Zealand U5 -

ATL

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Molly Zero" Y1 - 1977 A1 - Keith [John Kingston] Roberts (1935-2000) ED - Robert Silverberg (b. 1935) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia in which all children are raised together in single sex groups. One girl revolts, escapes, and experiences life on the outside.

JF - Triax: Three Original Novellas by James Gunn, Keith Roberts, Jack Vance PB - Pinnacle Books CY - Los Angeles, CA N1 -

Expanded into his Molly Zero. London: Victor Gollancz, 1980.

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Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Nemo Y1 - 1977 A1 - Ron[ald Joseph] Goulart (1933-2022) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Standard authoritarian dystopia with a successful revolt.

PB - Berkley Medallion CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Robert Hale, 1979.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A New Dimension of Freedom Y1 - 1977 A1 - Le Grand E. Day AB -

A pamphlet that includes a brief eutopia, "A Letter from the Future" (33-43), set in 2176 and a UFO story and essays explaining the institutions of the eutopia, which is essentially libertarian.

PB - Mojave Books CY - Reseda, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Nightwatch Y1 - 1977 A1 - Andrew M[ichael] Stephenson (b. 1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Mostly adventure and intrigue. Authoritarian dystopia set in 2006 with the Earth near collapse and aliens arriving.

PB - Futura CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Dell, 1977.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "No Renewal" Y1 - 1977 A1 - Spider Robinson (b. 1948) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia created by a fixed period for life.

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction VL - 38.1 N1 -

Rpt. in his Antinomy (New York: Dell, 1980), 240-45; and in his Melancholy Elephants (Markham, ON, Canada: Penguin, 1984), 125-30. U.S. ed. (New York: Tor, 1985), 135-40.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "One of Them" Y1 - 1977 A1 - T[homas] E[dwin] Dorman (b. 1914) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia in which those choosing to live outside the clean areas are hunted down and killed. The protagonist, who is a young man on his first hunt, thinks of the clean area in both eutopian and dystopian terms (the beauty, the cleanliness, the punishment gangs) and chooses to join the outsiders.

JF - Landfall 121 (New Zealand) VL - 31.1 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Outbreak Y1 - 1977 A1 - Marianne Ruuth (1937-2007) KW - Female author KW - Swedish author KW - US author AB -

Complex future dystopia located in seven domed cities with control through conditioning and drugs. The novel is concerned with the struggle to overthrow the dystopia and undo the conditioning.

PB - Manor Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Paradise I. A Novel Y1 - 1977 A1 - Alan Harrington (1919-97) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia and dystopia. Effect of the ability to bring immortality where there is not enough serum available for all and a computer selects who will become immortal plus a few who win immortality through a lottery. The period of transition is violent and confused, but the problems continue into what is expected to be the eutopia of the future in that immortality does not cure the lust for power. See also 1969 Harrington for a different take on immortality.

PB - Little, Brown CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Passion of New Eve Y1 - 1977 A1 - Angela [Olive Stalker] Carter (1940-92) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia. The novel traces a man's travel across a disintegrating U.S., beginning with a violent New York City where African Americans blow up Columbia University and are building a wall around Harlem and women are attacking men. In the West he is captured by a women's group, who surgically turn him into a woman. Escaping he is captured and mistreated by various groups.

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Petals of Blood Y1 - 1977 A1 - Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (b. 1938) KW - Kenyan author KW - Male author AB -

Complex novel depicting, among other things, a post-independence African dystopia and various people with utopian aspirations. Includes the idea that an African utopia will need to be found in the African past.

PB - Heinemann CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Please Don't Shoot the Trees" Y1 - 1977 A1 - Patricia Highsmith (1921-95) ED - Giles Gordon KW - English author KW - US author AB -

Horror tale based around a future of extreme pollution in which the cities have been abandoned to the poor. Nature fights back.

JF - A Book of Contemporary Nightmares PB - Michael Joseph CY - London U5 -

GU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Police Patrol: 2000 A.D Y1 - 1977 A1 - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel is set in Reynold’s future where everyone receives a basic income and housing and shows that the police are still needed.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -

Parts were original published as “Romp.” Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact 78.2 (October 1966): 93-107; “Criminal in Utopia.” Galaxy Science Fiction 27.3 (October 1968): 72-92; rpt. in Tomorrow, Inc. SF Stories About Big Business. Ed. Martin Harry Greenberg and Joseph D. Olander (New York: Taplinger, 1976), 189-207; “Extortion, Inc.” Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact 82.6 (February 1969): 83-99; and “Cry Wolf!” Galaxy Science Fiction 35.12 (December 1974): 6-32. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Realms of Tartarus Y1 - 1977 A1 - Brian [Michael] Stableford (b. 1948) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A technological eutopia built above a polluted earth and the dystopia on the surface where humans, animals, and plants had evolved into a myriad of new species.

PB - DAW Books CY - New York N1 -

The first section had originally been published as The Face of Heaven. The Realms of Tartarus Volume One. London: Quartet, 1976 as the first of an intended three volumes. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Right Hand of Dextra Y1 - 1977 A1 - David J[ohn] Lake (1929-2016) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Indian author KW - Male author AB -

Background of dystopian Puritan society but includes a eutopia of humans transformed into centaurs. A non-utopian sequel is The Wildings of Westron. New York: DAW Books, 1977.

PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

A, GU, Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Scanner Darkly Y1 - 1977 A1 - Philip K[indred] Dick (1928-82) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Near future dystopia focusing on drug use.  

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Victor Gollancz, 1977. Rpt. in Five Novels of the 1960s & 70s. Martian Time-Slip; Dr. Bloodmoney; Now Wait for Last Year; Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said; A Scanner Darkly. Ed. Jonathan Lethem (New York: The Library of America, 2008), 859-1098, 1126-27. A film tie-in edition was published London: Victor Gollancz, 2006.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Screwfly Solution” Y1 - 1977 A1 - [Alice Bradley] [Sheldon] (1915-87) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is about the Sons of Adam, a growing religious movement that kills women.

JF - Analog Science Fiction Science Fact VL - 96.6 N1 -

Rpt. in The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories. Ed. Tom Shippey (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1992), 435-53; Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology. Ed. Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer (Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2015), 83-101; in The Way to the End Times: Classic Tales of the Apocalypse. Ed. Robert Silverberg (New York: Three Rooms Press, 2016), 287-310, with an “Editor’s Introduction” on 184-86; and in The Future is Female! More Classic Science Fiction by Women Volume 2: The 1970s. Ed. Lisa Yaszek (New York: Library of America, 2023), 291-320, with a biographical note on 465-467 and a note on the text on 486.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Shack at Great Cross Halt" Y1 - 1977 A1 - Keith [John Kingston] Roberts (1935-2000) ED - [Henry] Kenneth Bulmer (1921-2005) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia focusing on an isolated group of people living next to a major highway but completely disconnected from the larger world. The focus characters had escaped from the dystopia, and the story ends with the beginning of a fight back against the dystopia.

JF - New Writings in SF PB - Corgi CY - London VL - 30 N1 -

Rpt. in his Ladies From Hell (London: Victor Gollancz, 1979), 54-85.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Shadow of a Snowstorm" Y1 - 1977 A1 - John [Patrick] Shirley (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which there are so few jobs that humans replace mannequins in department stores.

JF - Amazing Science Fiction Stories VL - 51.1 N1 -

Rpt. in his The Exploded Heart (Asheville, NC: Eyeball Books, 1996), 66-90, with an author's note on 65-66.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Shepherd Y1 - 1977 A1 - J[oan Carol] Hunter Holly (1932-82) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of Anti-Emotion Conditioners.

PB - Laser Books CY - Toronto, ON, Canada U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Sneak Previews" Y1 - 1977 A1 - Robert Sheckley (1928-2005) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future, presented as dystopian, in which marriage is required with a time limit on remaining single.

JF - Penthouse VL - 8 N1 -

Rpt. in The Collected Short Fiction of Robert Sheckley. Book Four (Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991), 77-84. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Strayed Sheep of Charun Y1 - 1977 A1 - John Maddox Roberts (b. 1947) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a corrupt Roman planet. A combat trained Jesuit priest and a Franciscan friar are sent from Earth, which is now ruled by the Church of Rome, to try to convert the planet. If they fail, it will be destroyed.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Rev. ed. as Cestus Dei. New York: Tor, 1983.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - That Good Between Us Y1 - 1977 A1 - Howard Barker (b. 1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia created in the U.K. by a Labour government.

JF - Gambit: International Theatre Review VL - 8.31 N1 -

Rpt. in That Good Between Us. Credentials of a Sympathizer (London: John Calder, 1980), 1-59.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - They: A Sequence of Unease Y1 - 1977 A1 - Kay [Kathleen Elsie] Dick (1915-2001) KW - English author KW - Lesbian author KW - Swiss author AB -

The unnamed narrator lives on the Sussex Coast in an undefined future and describes life as everyone is menaced by a mysterious “they” who are enforcing conformity and the erasure of cultural memory by destroying books and art and killing those who resist. Anyone living alone, “they” see as reflecting an individualism that must be eliminated. “They” approve of children’s cruelty.

PB - Allan Lane CY - London SN - 9780571370863 978-1946022288 N1 -

Rpt. London: Faber, 2022, with an introduction by Carmen Maria Machado. 107 pp. U.S. ed. New York: McNally Editions, 2022, with an Afterword by Lucy Scholes (103-112), parts of which originally appeared as “A Lost Dystopian Masterpiece” in The Paris Review (August 13, 2020). https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2020/08/13/a-lost-dystopian-masterpiece/ 112 pp.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Time of Achamoth Y1 - 1977 A1 - M[ichael] K[ennedy] Joseph (1914-81) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

A time travel novel mostly set in the past. Includes travel to a series of future dystopias and eutopias including one based on class violence, a puritanical one based on the rejection of the values of the Sixties, one based on biotechnology in which all the people of the world are adequately fed, and one depicting a religious revival in space, among others.

PB - Collins CY - Auckland, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Time-Swept City Y1 - 1977 A1 - Thomas F[rancis] Monteleone (b. 1946) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. The connected stories are about the city of Chicago over huge reaches of time into the future. The city becomes more and more automated and the inhabitants less and less necessary until the city becomes an automatic self-repairing system with no inhabitants. Outside the city humanity has regressed to a primitive level.

PB - Popular Library CY - New York N1 -

Parts published originally as "Chicago." Future City. Ed. Roger [Paul] Elwood (New York: Trident Press, 1973), 219-35. Rpt. (New York: Pocket Book, 1974), 203-20; "Good and Faithful Servant." Amazing Science Fiction Stories 49.5 (March 1976): 110-18; "Breath's A Ware That Will Not Keep." Dystopian Visions. Ed. Roger [Paul] Elwood (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1975), 2-19; and "Far From Eve and Morning." Amazing Science Fiction Stories 51.1 (October 1977): 20-29, 91.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Timewaves" Y1 - 1977 A1 - John Bartelt KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a dystopian, bureaucratic future where no dissent is permitted, with those who do are assigned to menial jobs, and church attendance is required.  Two men try to change the past in the hopes of eliminating the dystopia.

JF - Janus VL - no. 7 (3.1) UR - 07-Vol-3-No-1.pdf (sf3.org) ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Town Planning for Christian Community" Y1 - 1977 A1 - John [Edward] Morton ED - Peter Davis ED - John Hinchcliff KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

An essay proposing a form of cooperative Christian community for within an Auckland neighborhood. Stress on family units. People will save money by owning much in common that is now purchased separately by each unit.

JF - Dialogue on Religion: New Zealand Viewpoints 1977 PB - Auckland University CY - Auckland, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ulster and Its Future After the Troubles Y1 - 1977 A1 - Michael [Steven] Sheane (b. 1946) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Northern Ireland author AB -

Non-fiction that ends with a chapter "Postscript Ulster: Its Future After the Troubles" (153-72) that projects the situation in 2000 after Britain has withdrawn from Northern Ireland and a federal Ireland is established. Quite modest in its ideas.

PB - Highfield Press CY - Stockport, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - [“Utopian Construction”] Y1 - 1977 A1 - Mulford Q[uickert] Sibley (1912-89) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Non-fictional description of a culturally diverse world eutopia. Universal language plus regional and sub-regional languages. Any family form accepted. Neighborhoods are the most important focus socially and politically. Complete free speech. Vegetarian, as was the author.

JF - Nature and Civilization: Some Implications for Politics PB - F.E. Peacock Publishers CY - Itasca, IL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Work Song 2. A Vision" Y1 - 1977 A1 - Wendell Berry (b. 1934) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Poem describing an environmental eutopia of the future when the land has recovered.

JF - Clearing PB - Harcourt Brace Jovanovich CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in his The Collected Poems 1957-1982 (San Francisco, CA: North Point Press, 1985), 187-88; and as “A Vision” in The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry (Washington, DC: Counterpoint, 1998), 102.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Worlds for the Grabbing Y1 - 1977 A1 - Brenda Pearce (b. 1935) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

As befits the title, the novel is about the corrupt system of colonization and the exploitation of other planets. The main character has too-high ethical standards for the system.

PB - Dennis Dobson CY - London SN - 9780234720400 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - YV88; An Eco-Fiction of Tomorrow Y1 - 1977 A1 - Christopher Swan A1 - Chet Roaman (b. 1939) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Ecological eutopia set in 1988 focusing on Yosemite National Park beginning with a ride on a new train into the park that replaces the road and runs on a combination of the roadbed and the right of way of an earlier train. Most of the facilities in the park have been removed to return the park to a wilderness. Wildlife is returning. Extensive use of improved solar power. De-damming. There is a chronology showing the changes between 1978 and 1988 (104-05). Presented in a wide variety of ways including letters, postcards, reminiscences, architectural plans, an argument between two people, a TV transcript, detailed plans for the train engine, stations, and rail cars. stories, and stories. The policies that were developed for reversing environmental damage, such as removing asphalt, are slowly being adopted elsewhere in the country.

PB - Sierra Club Books CY - San Francisco, CA U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Age of Libra” Y1 - 1976 A1 - Scott Edelstein (b. 1954) ED - Carol Pohl (1927-2005) ED - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

United States Retirement Services is an answer to overpopulation. It has established 1645 retirement villages, each holding 2900 people for one year. Retirement is mandatory at a specified age, which is lowered within the story but can be chosen earlier.

JF - Science Fiction Discoveries PB - Bantam Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Alteration Y1 - 1976 A1 - Kingsley [William] Amis (1922-95) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Religious dystopia. Alternative history set in 1976 in which a Pope rules England from his seat in Yorkshire. No Reformation. No science.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London N1 -

Collector’s Edition illus. Debbie Hughes with an “Introduction” by Brian W. Aldiss (vii-xii). Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1993. Rpt. New York: New York Review of Books, 2013 with an “Introduction” by William Gibson (vii-x).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Anarchy Pedlars Y1 - 1976 A1 - [Christopher John] [Portway] (1923-2009) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia created by the future revival of a cult of assassins.

PB - Robert Hale CY - London U3 -

John October [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Another Eden Y1 - 1976 A1 - W[ilfred] D[ennis] Pereira (1921-2014) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel begins in the overpopulation dystopia of Earth, and then moves to a planet being settled to offload population. The people have been told that it is Edenic, but it is in fact extremely dangerous, and then the aliens attack.

PB - Robert Hale CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Aqua Declaration Y1 - 1976 A1 - [Lyman Spicer] Vincent Judson KW - Male author AB -

Sequel to 1973 Judson. Detailed eutopia in which all water-covered acres are taken over by the QNC (Quasi-Nation Corporation) or PNC (Pseudo-Nation Corporation).

PB - Apex University Press CY - Oshkosh, WI U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Arslan Y1 - 1976 A1 - M[ary] J[ane] Engh (b. 1933) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Future dystopia in which a young Asian tyrant named Arslan conquers the U.S. and establishes his headquarters in a small town in Illinois. The novel focuses on the complex personal relations that develop.

PB - Warner Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Arbor House, 1987; and New York: Tor, 1988. U.K. ed. as A Wind from Bukhara. London: Grafton, 1989.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Beasts Y1 - 1976 A1 - John [Michael] Crowley (b. 1942) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia resulting from genetic experimentation.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Beyond the Framework of Modern Thought Y1 - 1976 A1 - Lessans, Seymour KW - Male author AB -

Detailed eutopia in essay form based on the proposition that there is no free will. The first result is that hurting others, even by accident, can no longer be justified. This is applied first to sexual relations, which will never happen unless both people want to get married, and marriage, which will last for life. In the economic sphere, everyone must benefit from transactions. No war. Guaranteed standard of living. Better child-rearing and education. Much greater freedom for all people.

PB - New World Publishers CY - Baltimore, MD U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Black Roads Y1 - 1976 A1 - J[oe] [Louis] Hensley (1926-2007) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia following World Wars III and IV. Survivors rediscover some of the technology of the past and use it to consolidate their power. Violence.

PB - Laser Books CY - Toronto, ON, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Broken October: New Zealand 1985 Y1 - 1976 A1 - Craig Harrison (b. 1942) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia. The New Zealand government in 1985 is a military dictatorship, which violently puts down a revolt. New Zealand, in cooperation with the South African authorities, institutes a pass system for Maori. The U.S. CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) and the U.S. government are involved to ensure access to New Zealand's mineral wealth and the use of New Zealand troops as needed. See also his plays Tomorrow Will Be a Lovely Day (1975) and "Whites of Their Eyes" (1975), both of which came from this novel as it developed but before it was published.

PB - A. H. & A. W. Reed CY - Wellington, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Chauvinisto Y1 - 1976 A1 - Sam[uel Kimball] Merwin Jr. (1910-96) KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Future with women dominating and men inferior socially and politically. Stress on the struggle for power.

PB - Major Books CY - Canoga Park, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Cinnabar Y1 - 1976 A1 - Edward [Winslow] Bryant [Jr.] (1945-2017) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Cinnabar is a city run by a failed computer that provides false images within which both people and simulcra live. Each story is about one individual, and, in the last story, they cooperate to destroy the computer.

PB - Macmillan CY - New York N1 -

Stories originally published as follows: "The Road to Cinnabar." Infinity Two. Ed. Robert Hoskins (New York: Lancer Books, 1971), 73-84 (1-12 here); "Jade Blue." Universe 1. Ed. Terry Carr (New York: Ace Books, 1971), 53-69; U.K. ed (London: Dennis Dobson, 1975), 53-69 (13-28 here); "Gray Matters" as "Their Thousandth Season." Clarion II: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction and Criticism. Ed Robin Scott Wilson (New York: Signet, 1972), 127-39; and in his Among the Dead and Other Events Leading Up to the Apocalypse (New York: Macmillan, 1973), 164-79 (29-44 here); "The Legend of Cougar Lou Landis." Universe 3. Ed. Terry Carr (New York: Random House, 1973), 135-50 (45-61 here); "Hayes and the Heterogyne." Vertex 2.2 (June 1974): 16-20, 88-97 (62-103 here); "Sharking Down." Vertex 2.6 (February 1975): 16-20, 34-37 in slightly different form (115-56 here); and "Brain Terminal." Vertex 3.4 (August 1975): 2-6, 28 in slightly different form (157-86 here).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - City of Darkness Y1 - 1976 A1 - Ben[jamin William] Bova (1932-2020) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia with a division between poor city-dwellers and the elite who live outside the cities.

PB - Charles Scribner's Sons CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Commodore Bork and the Compost (a homily)" Y1 - 1976 A1 - Madsen, Catherine KW - Female author AB -

Feminist eutopia on a starship sent out by the Earth Mothers' Organic Co-op and Dyke Farm. Stress on ecology.

JF - The Witch and the Chameleon VL - no. 5/6 N1 -

Rpt. in Women (Baltimore, MD) 5.1 (1976): 32, 34-35.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Concrete Horizon Y1 - 1976 A1 - Dan Morgan (1925-2011) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia--future over-organized urban monads are failing. Pressure grows from agricultural complexes. Disaster.

PB - Millington Books CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Contentment, Satisfaction, Cheer, Well-Being, Gladness, Joy, Comfort, and Not having To Get Up Early Any More" Y1 - 1976 A1 - George Alec Effinger (1947-2002) ED - Jack [Mayo] Dann (b. 1945) ED - Gardner R[aymond] Dozois (1947-2018) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the world has been entirely homogenized and is ruled by six men, with one of them arranging the retirement of the other five one at a time. He then retires and the computer that has been effectively running the world takes over.

JF - Future Power: A Science Fiction Anthology PB - Random House CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Crack in the Sky Y1 - 1976 A1 - Richard A[llen] Lupoff (1935-2020) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Standard post-pollution dystopia. All live under domes, but there is further disaster.

PB - Dell Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Day After Tomorrow Y1 - 1976 A1 - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Conformist corporate dystopia and the revolt against it, which fails.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -

A shorter version was published earlier as "Status Quo." Analog Science Fact--Fiction 67.6 (August 1961): 4-64.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Day of the Big Test" Y1 - 1976 A1 - Felix C[harles] Gotschalk [Jr.] (1929-2002) ED - Jack [Mayo] Dann (b. 1945) ED - Gardner R[aymond] Dozois (1947-2018) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Testing of children in their seventh year determines family status, income, leisure, etc. Presented generally positively.

JF - Future Power: A Science Fiction Anthology PB - Random House CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Decibels." Y1 - 1976 A1 - John [Barry] Hale (b. 1926) ED - Alan Durband KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia where noise is a constant. To have a child, someone must die with voluntary euthanasia encouraged, and there are regulations on how much space a person can occupy.

JF - Prompt Three: Five short modern plays PB - Hutchinson of London CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Deus Irae Y1 - 1976 A1 - Philip K[indred] Dick (1928-82) A1 - Roger [Joseph] Zelazny (1937-95) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe religious dystopia. Deus Irae is God of Wrath and is the head of a religion sponsored by the Atomic Energy Commission.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Rpt. New York: Dell, 1980; New York: DAW Books, 1983; and New York: Vintage Books, 2003.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Diary of the Rose" Y1 - 1976 A1 - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) ED - Jack [Mayo] Dann (b. 1945) ED - Gardner R[aymond] Dozois (1947-2018) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia in which psychiatry is used as a political tool with electroshock for dissent. The story focuses on a young psychiatrist and her growing awareness of the way the system works. Liberalism is considered a political psychosis needing to be treated by electroshock. Intellectualism produces negative thinking that leads to psychosis. 

JF - Future Power: A Science Fiction Anthology PB - Random House CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in her The Compass Rose: Short Stories (New York: Harper & Row, 1982), 99-124; and in her The Real and the Unreal. Selected Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin. Volume One Where on Earth (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2012), 83-106; and in the one volume edition The Real and the Unreal: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin (New York: Saga Press, 2016), 99-125.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Divers of Arakam Y1 - 1976 A1 - Bert Fisher (b. 1934) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of an imaginary country that is obviously New Zealand with an authoritarian government. See also 1977 and 1978 Fisher.

PB - [Bert Fisher] CY - [Wellington, New Zealand] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Don't Bite the Sun Y1 - 1976 A1 - Tanith Lee (1947-2015) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A novel about being a teenager in a future world designed to be eutopian with robots doing the work in domed cities and where you can die and be brought back and change your body type and your sex at will. The teenagers see the eutopia as deeply flawed. See also 1977 Lee.

PB - DAW Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, 1987; and in her Biting the Sun (New York: Bantam Books, 1999), 1-167.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Double Time Y1 - 1976 A1 - Michael [Aiken] Elder (1931-2004) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Dystopia. Overpopulation and conflict over agricultural property.

PB - Robert Hale CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Eden Echo Y1 - 1976 A1 - Ruth Angell Purkey KW - Female author AB -

Satire in a play on a women's only future. Because men were warlike, God had removed all men and women had created a peaceful society. The play shows two older women who are bored, a vehemently anti-male woman, and a young woman who discovers a man in suspended animation. God blinds the anti-male woman so that she can't see the man, and he and the girl go off together.

PB - Baker's Plays CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Floating Worlds Y1 - 1976 A1 - Cecelia [Anastasia Holland (b. 1943) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The novel begins in an anarchist eutopia with some problems on a future, overpopulated, polluted, but high-tech Earth contrasted with Mars, which focuses on law and order. The protagonist of the novel is an anarchist woman in her late twenties living on Earth who can speak Syth, the language of aliens who threaten Earth and Mars. She is hired by the Committee for the Revolution to meet on Mars with Syth leaders to negotiate a truce, which is complicated by the fact that the Syth consider females inferior. The novel begins in Manhattan, which is below the surface of the ocean and is a tourist destination, and then moves to the largely underground, dome-covered, New York, where the woman lives in a commune and looks for temporary jobs to pay her minimal expenses. Men have a “plug” to keep them from impregnating a woman and must have a signed document from a woman to have the plug temporarily removed. The Committee for the Revolution has become a “vestigial government” to which people turn rather than dealing with problems themselves (10/Gollancz 2011, 10/Gollancz 2000, 12). The novel moves quickly to interstellar conflict.

PB - Alfred A. Knopf CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. as the Collectors’ Edition. London: Gollancz, 2000. 542 pp.; and as SF Masterworks Edition. London: Gollancz, 2011, with an “Introduction” by Graham Sleight (vi-vii). viii + 628 pp.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Florians Y1 - 1976 A1 - Brian M[ichael] Stableford (b. 1948) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

First of the six volume Daedalus Mission series in which the purpose of the Daedalus is to contact colony planets to find out what has happened and help if needed. The first planet contact, Floria, appears idyllic society, but the Planners have created an unequal society by limiting knowledge. The second volume is Critical Threshold. New York: DAW Books, 1977. 160 pp. In it, a colony that should have thrived has collapsed. The third volume is Wildeblood's Empire. New York: DAW Books, 1977. 192 pp. This colony, originally called Poseidon, has become an apparently thriving empire named after leader. Of course, the reality is different, and it is actually an authoritarian dystopia. The fourth volume, set on the planet Arcadia is The City of the Sun. New York: DAW Books, 1978. 189 pp. U.K. ed. London: Hamlyn 1980 had modelled its system on Tommaso Campanella’s (1568-1639) La Città del Sole (1611) but with changes that made it more dystopian than eutopian.  The fifth book is set on the planet Attica Balance of Power. New York DAW Books, 1979. 173 pp. and concerns a failing human colony, and its interactions with an alien colony also on the planet. The final volume, Paradox of the Sets. New York: DAW Books, 1979. 176 pp. is set on the Planet Geb where humans have enslaved what appears to be a semi-intelligent native population. All volumes are concerned with both the ecology of the planets and the forms of society established.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "From Utopia to Paradise" Y1 - 1976 A1 - Petamber Persaud KW - Guyanese author AB -

Dialect poem of Guyana as eutopia.

JF - From Utopia to Paradise PB - Petamber Persaud CY - [Campbellville, Guyana] U1 -

[The cover adds A Collection of Political Thoughts]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Future Sanctuary Y1 - 1976 A1 - Lee [John] Harding (1937-2023) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia and dystopia. Fleeing from an authoritarian dystopia, the protagonist visits a number of simple eutopias that provide sanctuary.

PB - Laser Books CY - Don Mills, ON, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Getting Away" Y1 - 1976 A1 - Steven [D.] Utley (1948-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of environmental collapse as background to a time travel story.

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction VL - 37.1 N1 -

Rpt. in his When or Where (Hornsea, Eng.: PS Publishing, 2006), 45-54.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Glutt" Y1 - 1976 A1 - Gladden Schrock ED - Eugene Lion ED - David Ball KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which a man is executed for his lack of community feeling and involvement.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Good Society: A Primer of Its Social Practice Y1 - 1976 A1 - John Friedmann (b. 1926) KW - Austrian author KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. Small, person-centered, focusing on dialogue. It appears to be the first version of 1979 Friedmann, The Good Society A personal account of its struggle with the world of social planning and a dialectical inquiry into the roots of radical practice. See also 1979 Friedmann, Communalist Society.

PB - [School of Architecture and Urban Planning, UCLA] CY - [Los Angeles, CA] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Governor-General Y1 - 1976 A1 - Christopher [John Douglass] Forsyth (b. 1939) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Authoritarian dictatorship in Australia in the form of a political novel describing conflicts within the Labour Party, the seizure of power by the Governor-General, and interference by the United States government.

PB - Widescope International Publishers CY - Camberwell, VIC, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Gulliver's Visit to Walden III; A Report on Values in Education Y1 - 1976 A1 - William Clark Trow (1894-1982) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Detailed eutopia stressing education. A descendant of Lemuel Gulliver visits Walden III, which is described as "a laboratory, not only to introduce intuitive innovations, but to test hypotheses about the nature of a (not the) good society and how it might be built" (x). The book proposes a model of education based on what the author calls "The Seven Worlds" that include the mental, physical, aesthetic, social, political, economic, and ethical aspects of life.

PB - Kappa Delta Pi Press CY - West Lafayette, IN U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Hail to the Chief" Y1 - 1976 A1 - Lucy [Michaella] Cores (1912-2003) ED - Sandra Ley KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia that would have developed if the Watergate burglary had succeeded.

JF - Beyond Time PB - Pocket Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Healer Y1 - 1976 A1 - F[rancis] Paul Wilson (b. 1946) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The central volume of the author’s series the LaNague Chronicles. Mostly science fiction adventure, but it includes a “neo-anarchist” eutopia, more accurately a libertarian eutopia with “a bare minimum of public institutions: police, judiciary, penal, and administration” (79). In the author’s introduction to The LaNague Chronicles. Ed. and sequenced by the author. New York: Baen Books, 1992, he says that his ideas were inspired by Ludwig Von Mises (1881-1973), the Austrian economist who lived and worked in the U. S. from 1940 and Murray Rothbard (1926-1995), a U. S. member of the Austrian School of economics and one of the founders of the von Mises Institute, or, as Wilson puts it, “a rational anarchist, an advocate of laissez fire, a radical capitalist” (viii). In the introduction, he characterizes the LaNague Federation as encouraging “any type of society, no matter how bizarre or crazy the philosophy at its core. . . . With a single proviso: free egress must exist at all times. Anyone who wants to opt out of that society must be allowed to do so” (viii-ix). Other volumes in the series include: “Wheels Within Wheels.” Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact 88.1 (September 1971): 8-49; rev. as Wheels Within Wheels: A Novel of the LaNague Federation. New York: Doubleday, 1978; U.K. ed. London: Sidgewick and Jackson, 1980; rev. ed. Akron, OH: infrapress, 2005, with the addition of “Preface to Wheels Within Wheels (v-vii) and two stories: “Higher Centers” (187-99) [rev. from its original publication illus. Vincent Di Fate in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact 87.2 (April 1971): 149-60]; and “The Man With the Anteater” (201-11) [rev. from its original publication illus. Kelly Freas in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact 87.5 (July 1971): 57-66]; An Enemy of the State [cover adds the subtitle A Novel of the La Nague Federation]. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1980. Rpt. New York: Berkley, 1984; rev. ed. Akron, OH: infrapress, 2001, with a “Preface” (i-iii) and the addition of two stories: “Ratman” (281-98) [originally published illus. Vincent Di Fate. Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact 87.6 (August 1971)]: 149-64; and “Lipidleggin’” (299-307) [originally published in Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 2.4 (7) (May-June 1978): 137-145]; and The Tery. New York: Baen Books, 1990. See also is 1989 Dydeetown World, which is connected to the series. The Complete LaNague (Kindle, 2013) contains all the material. The LaNague Chronicles sequences the series as An Enemy of the State, Healer I: Heal Thyself, Healer II: Heal Thy Neighbor, Healer III: Hide Thyself, Wheels Within Wheels, Healer IV: Find They Progeny, Healer V: Heal They Nation, and the text in the book is in this order. “The Complete LaNague Chronology” is provided on page xi. Wheels Within Wheels won the first Prometheus Award from the Libertarian Futurist Society. Both Healer and An Enemy of the State were elected by the Libertarian Futurist Society to the Promethean Hall of Fame.

PB - Doubleday & Co CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Rpt. Lancaster, PA: Stealth Press, 2001; and Akron, OH: Infrapress, 2005. U.K. ed. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1977. Part was published as “Pard” Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact 90.4 (December 1972): 137-67. Rpt. in his The Tery (New York: Baen Books, 1990), 191-246.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Hostage for Hinterland Y1 - 1976 A1 - Arsen [Julius] Darnay (b. 1936) KW - Hungarian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe urban versus rural conflict. The urban areas were floating structures that needed helium, that only the rural areas could provide, to stay aloft. The rural people are religious and ecologically oriented. They believe, based on their reading of the Bible, that there is a prophecy that they must destroy the urban areas.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York N1 -

Different version serialized as "Helium." Galaxy Science Fiction 36.4 - 6 (April - July 1975): 18-74, 52-107, 87-145.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hotel De Dream Y1 - 1976 A1 - Emma [Christina] Tennant (1937-2017) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

A series of conflicting dreams by people living in a boarding house take on reality and merge. Some of the dreams are eutopian or dystopian; e.g., one is of an ideal city and one is of Amazonian women. Also, the characters in a novel being written by one of the tenants come to life.

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Faber and Faber, 1986.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Houston, Houston, Do You Read?" Y1 - 1976 A1 - [Alice Bradley] [Sheldon] (1915-87) ED - Vonda N[eel] McIntyre (1948-2019) ED - Susan Janice Anderson KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Feminist eutopia composed only of women, mostly clones but with a few new genotypes still being created, confronts men returning from a long space voyage. The eutopia came because an epidemic caused widespread infertility and no male babies were born. It has a small population and is without hierarchy or government and, while it has space travel, it is based more on agriculture than technology. The three men include an extreme chauvinist, a Christian who believes that God established a patriarchal system, and one man who struggles to understand and accept the situation.

JF - Aurora: Beyond Equality PB - Fawcett Books CY - Greenwich, CT N1 -

Rpt. in Star Songs of an Old Primate (New York: Ballantine Books, 1978), 164-226; in The Arbor House Treasury of Great Science Fiction Short Novels. Comp. Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg (New York: Arbor House, 1980), 582-632; under the title of the story New York: Tor, 1989 as part of Tor Double Novel # 11 bound with Joanna Russ’s Souls; and in her Her Smoke Rose Up Forever ([Sauk City, WI:] Arkham House, 1990), 168-222.

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James Tiptree Jr. [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "I See You" Y1 - 1976 A1 - Damon [Francis] Knight (1922-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Total surveillance presented positively.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 51.5 (306) N1 -

Rpt. in Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World. Ed. [Glen] David Brin and Stephen W. Potts. Sponsored by The Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination (UCSD) (New York: Tor, 2017), 91-101.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Islands Y1 - 1976 A1 - Marta Randall (b. 1948) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Earth has become a world of immortals, but the treatments fail on one woman who leaves Earth but then returns, an old woman in a world of eternal youth.

PB - Pyramid Books CY - New York N1 -

Rev. ed. New York: Pocket Books, 1980.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "It's a Sunny Day" Y1 - 1976 A1 - Spider Robinson (b. 1948) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia and eutopia contrasting two planets, an overpopulated urban society where efficiency is the norm and an agricultural society where enjoying life is the norm.

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction VL - 37.1 N1 -

Rpt. in Axiom 3.6 (November/December 1977): 42-45, 49-51, 57-58; and in Visions From the Edge: An Anthology of Atlantic Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy. Ed. John Bell and Lesley Choyce (Porters Lake, NS, Canada: Pottersfield Press, 1981), 193-202 with an editor's note on 192.

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Can, Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Keeper Y1 - 1976 A1 - J[oan Carol] Hunter Holly (1932-82) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a society with no emotion and people programmed not to feel.

PB - Laser Books CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Kennaquhair Y1 - 1976 A1 - Ruth Hooker KW - Female author AB -

Children's eutopia. A group of racially mixed children escape from a heavily polluted world into a valley called Kennaquhair or "don't know where", where they learn to grow crops and care for animals and each other.

PB - Abingdon CY - Nashville, TN U2 -

Illus. Albert Michini

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NZ

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Last Man" Y1 - 1976 A1 - Jon Inouye KW - Male author AB -

Future eutopia of homosexual men with one brutish earlier man left. Clearly a utopia, but the homosexual men are presented as generally negative stereotypes.

JF - A Night Tide PB - Randen CY - Culver City, CA U5 -

GU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Thing You'd Want To Know Y1 - 1976 A1 - Eric Koch (b. 1919) KW - Canadian author KW - German author KW - Male author AB -

A witch becomes President of the U.S. Struggle between reason and unreason. Presented by an advocate of reason (an ex-Nazi) who sells out at the end.

PB - Tundra Books CY - Montréal, QC, Canada U5 -

Can, IU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lifeline Y1 - 1976 A1 - [Jerome] [Gardner] (b. 1932) KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Dystopia of a Soviet occupied U.K. in 1998.

PB - Robert Hale CY - London U3 -

John Gilchrist [pseud.]

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L, Merril, NLS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Little Book of All Colors" Y1 - 1976 A1 - James B[unyan] Parsons (b. 1948) ED - James B[unyan] Parsons (b. 1948) KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia describing the country of Seeklaria, a small country located in the European Alps. Constitutional monarchy. Influenced by Christianity and China. Racially mixed and culturally well integrated. A modern society with the charms of the past. Based on interviews with the King. Much comment on current affairs, particularly Vietnam.

JF - Papers in Honor of Professor Woodbridge Bingham: A Festschrift for His Seventy-fifth Birthday PB - Chinese Materials Center CY - San Francisco, CA U5 -

CU-Riv

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lost Traveller; A Motorcycle Grail Quest Epic and Science Fiction Western Y1 - 1976 A1 - Steve Wilson (b. 1943) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia centered on biker gangs.

PB - Macmillan CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1977. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Man With Two Memories Y1 - 1976 A1 - J[ohn] B[urdon] S[anderson] Haldane (1892-1964) KW - English author KW - Indian author KW - Male author AB -

Detailed eutopia with a stress on psychoanalysis and drugs to control both the mind and body. Two-thirds of the children are clones who are chosen by the society for desirable characteristics with the other third being normal births.

PB - Merlin Press CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - Millennium: A Novel About People and Politics in the Year 1999 Y1 - 1976 A1 - Ben[jamin William] Bova (1932-2020) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. In caverns in the moon Russian and American colonies cooperate to try to save the Earth from mass destruction.

PB - Random House CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Macdonald and Jane's, 1976. U.K. ed. rpt. without the subtitle London: Methuen, 1988. Rpt. with the non-utopian Kinsman (1979) in The Kinsman Saga (New York: Tor, 1987), 271-566.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Mind Gods; A Novel of the Future Y1 - 1976 A1 - Marie Jakober (1941-2017) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

The novel begins in a eutopia on a beautiful planet with very strict birth and pollution controls to correct past bad practice on Earth. Most children are born in machines and raised in "child communes". The people recognize that they are far from perfect and something like a slum exists among the wealth and the beautiful architecture. No religion. The eutopia is attacked and almost defeated by the followers of a charismatic religious leader who has taken over an entire planet through drugs that enhance psychic ability and allows people to be controlled.

PB - Macmillan of Canada CY - Toronto, ON, Canada N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Macmillan, 1976.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Miracle: A Romance Y1 - 1976 A1 - Vincent [Gerard] O'Sullivan (b. 1937) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

A political satire that includes a potentially authoritarian government that starts a war at the request of the U.S. The Head of Security believes that everyone is a security risk. A girl who becomes a virgin again after each of many rapes becomes the center of national worship. Ends with a spontaneously arising eutopia that may presage a better future in which all share with each other. Much farce.

PB - John McIndoe CY - Dunedin, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Missa Privata" Y1 - 1976 A1 - Keith [John Kingston] Roberts (1935-2000) ED - Hilary [Denham] Bailey (1936-2017) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a Communist dominated Britain. Poor, dull, drab, and with a dominant military. White party members are fairly free.

JF - New Worlds PB - Corgi CY - London VL - 10 N1 -

Rpt. in his Ladies From Hell (London: Victor Gollancz, 1979), 173-98.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Navigator Y1 - 1976 A1 - Morris [Langlo] West (1916-99) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

The novel describes the search for a possibly mythical paradise island and the attempt to create a community on the island discovered.

PB - Collins CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: William Morrow, 1976.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - New Atlantis: The Secret of the Sphinx Y1 - 1976 A1 - Colin Amery KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Treatment of the Atlantis legend by a believer. The hope of a eutopia is held out after the coming Armageddon (See Revelation 16), which will be followed by the re-emergence of occult masters and the return of people from space. Presented as non-fiction.

PB - Regency Press CY - London U5 -

ATL

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Nozama" Y1 - 1976 A1 - Estacada, Alix A1 - Maridee Bona Dea KW - Female author AB -

Brief feminist eutopia. Excerpt from planned larger work that appears to have never been published.

JF - Women (Baltimore, MD) VL - 5.1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Peter the Second Y1 - 1976 A1 - [Claude Cunningham] Bruce Marshall (1899-1987) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Last volume of a series on the future of the Roman Catholic Church. In this volume a citizen of the Soviet Union is elected pope and the Soviet Union controls much of the world, but conflict continues. See also 1970, 1973, and 1975 Marshall for other volumes in the series.

PB - Constable CY - London U5 -

L, NLS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Planetary Saga Almega: The Multi-coloured Sphere Within the Timeless Vortex Y1 - 1976 A1 - Frank Howard (b. 1910?) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Spiritualist eutopia.  Poem received "inspirationally" that traces the past, present, and future of earth. This volume introduces the Brotherhood of the Beings of the Great Galactic-Order, also known as the White Brotherhood, and suggests future turmoil on earth but also the salvation of those who have treated others well. See also [1976?], [1978?], and 1983 Howard.

PB - Author/L.C.M. CY - Rocklea, Brisbane, QLD/Waiuku, New Zealand N1 -

The copy at ATL has only the New Zealand publication information.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Predators" Y1 - 1976 A1 - Steven [D.] Utley (1948-2013) ED - Terry [Gene] Carr (1937-87) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of violence as background to a time travel story.

JF - The Ides of Tomorrow: Original Science Fiction Tales of Horror PB - Little Brown CY - Boston, MA N1 -

Rpt. in his When or Where (Hornsea, Eng.: PS Publishing, 2006), 55-64.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Return of Alizantil: A Continuation of a Planetary Saga Y1 - 1976 A1 - Frank Howard (b. 1910?) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Spiritualist eutopia. 39 double-columned page poem sequel to [1976] Howard. Separation of higher and lower orders on different planets. See also [1978?] and 1983 Howard.

PB - [Alpine Printers] CY - [Pukekohe, New Zealand] U5 -

A, ATL

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Rolltown Y1 - 1976 A1 - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Large mobile homes, collectively creating towns, trying to deal with a damaged environment and attempting to escape an authoritarian meritocracy.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -

Originally published in a shorter version as "The Towns Must Roll." If Worlds of Science Fiction 19.6 - 7 (139 - 40) (July - September 1969): 7-46, 114-48. The copyright page in the book says that the earlier version was in Galaxy; that is wrong.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Section G: United Planets Y1 - 1976 A1 - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Part of Reynolds's loosely connected United Planets series. In this novel, secret agents of the United Planets battle against oppressive governments modeled after Earth dictatorships. Other Section G novels include “Beehive.” Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact 76.4 - 76.6 (December 1965 - January 1966): 8-53, 90-142. Rpt. as Dawnman Planet. New York: Ace Books, 1966. An Ace Double bound with Claude Nunes, Inherit the Earth. New York: Ace Books, 1966); Code Duello. New York: Ace Books, 1968. Ace Double bound with John M. Faucette, [Jr.]. The Age of Ruin. New York: Ace Books, 1968); and Brain World. New York: Leisure Books, 1978.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -

Parts published in Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact as "Fiesta Brava." 80.1 (September 1967): 74-132; and "Psi Assassin." 80.4 (December 1967): 142-159.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Separation Y1 - 1976 A1 - Richard [Heath] Rohmer (b. 1924) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Sequel to 1975 Rohmer in which Québec narrowly votes not to secede. His Separation Two. Markham, ON: Paperjacks, 1981 is a revision with more elaborate subplots.

PB - McClelland and Stewart CY - Toronto, ON, Canada U5 -

Can

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Shadow of Alpha Y1 - 1976 A1 - C[harles] L[ewis] Grant (1942-2006) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The background to a catastrophe (plague) thriller is a standard authoritarian dystopia set in 2189. Sequels that follow the same family are 1977 and 1979 Grant. A related story is his "Seven Is a Burning." Analog Science Fiction Science Fact 96.1 (January 1976): 124-35.

PB - Berkley Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Shadrach in the Furnace Y1 - 1976 A1 - Robert Silverberg (b. 1935) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe authoritarian dystopia with a leader compulsively concerned with immortality. Most of the novel is concerned with the leader's doctor, Mordecai Shadrach, and the decisions he has to make.

PB - Bobbs-Merrill CY - Indianapolis, IN N1 -

Also published in Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact 96.8 - 10 (August - October 1976): 97-162; 88-162; 88-127; 10-74, 76-91, 129-56.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Shattered Chain Y1 - 1976 A1 - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Part of her Darkover series concerned with the Free Amazons, a utopian sub-culture. There are a large number of books and stories by Bradley and others that are set in Darkover. Here I have included only those works that are clearly eutopian, and most of the works included focus on the Free Amazons. See 1979, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1988, 1991 Bradley; 1979 Breen; 1980 Boal (2), Mathews, Silvestri, Verana, and Verba; 1985 Armistead, Bigelow, Boal, Carter, Holtzer, Jaida nha Sandra, Kramer, Lackey, Paxson, Riggs, Schwartz, Shannon, Mathews (2), Silvestri, Verba, Waters, and Wheeler; 1982 Holdom, 1987 Boal, Buchanan, and Fenoglio; 1990 Lackey; 1991 Alward, Armstrong, Armstrong-Jones, Avery, Carter, Cirone, Fenoglia, Jaggers, Kobylecky, Lamb, Nazarian, Novak, Partridge, Paxson, Rey, Rhodes, Rodriguez, Verba, Waters, and Wheeler; 1993 Heydt and Schimel; 1994 Pierson, Paxson, and Lackey; 2013 Caffrey and Edhghill; 2014 Paxson; 2015 Paxson.

PB - DAW Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. Boston: Gregg Press, 1979; and in Oath of the Renunciates (Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, 1983), 1-212. U.K. ed. of The Shattered Chain. London: Arrow Books, 1978; rpt. London: Severn House, 1985

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Steppe Y1 - 1976 A1 - [Piers Anthony Dillingham] [Jacob] (b. 1934) KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Dystopia of a future oriented around a complex game run by the Game Machine, which has the power to bring people from the past to fill essential roles in the game.

PB - Millington CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Tor, 1985.

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Piers Anthony [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Survivors Y1 - 1976 A1 - Terry Nation (1930-1997) KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

The novel is based on a BBC TV program created by the author that ran in three series from 1975 to 1977 for a total of thirty-eight episodes. It concerned the responses of a small group of survivors of a pandemic. In 2008 BBC produced a new program by Adrian Hodges (b. 1957) based loosely on the 1976 novel. This program ran in two series, the first in 2008 and the second in 2010, when it was cancelled due to low viewership.

PB - Weidenfeld and Nicolson CY - London SN - 9781409102649 N1 -

Rpt. London: Orion Books, 2008. U.S. ed. New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1976.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Termination. A One-Act Play Y1 - 1976 A1 - Samuel Birnkrant KW - Male author AB -

Satirical on the bureaucratic Termination Bureau in an overpopulated world.

PB - Pioneer Drama Service CY - Denver, CO U5 -

IU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Thanatos" Y1 - 1976 A1 - Vonda N[eel] McIntyre (1948-2019) ED - Jack [Mayo] Dann (b. 1945) ED - Gardner R[aymond] Dozois (1947-2018) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia in a world where all plants and animals have died. Everyone convicted of a crime is kept alive while attached to machines that pump from them all the nutrients needed to sustain others.

JF - Future Power: A Science Fiction Anthology PB - Random House CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Then Beggars Could Ride Y1 - 1976 A1 - R[adell] F[araday] Nelson (1931-2022) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The protagonist searches throughout history for his own utopia finding only disillusionment until the end where he finds a low tech community. The author's "Introduction" (5-7) calls the book a utopia and says that it is possible.

PB - Laser Books CY - Toronto, ON, Canada U5 -

Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Time of the Fourth Horseman Y1 - 1976 A1 - Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (b. 1942) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia in the U.S. with disease as a means of population control.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Rpt. New York: Ace Books, 1977.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Travels in Oudamovia Y1 - 1976 A1 - John Austin Baker KW - Male author AB -

Detailed Christian eutopia describing a lost group of early Christians who survived into the 20th century living a truly Christian way of life.

PB - The Faith Press CY - Leighton Buzzard, Beds., Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Treasures of Morrow Y1 - 1976 A1 - H[elen] M[ary] Hoover (1935-2018) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Sequel 1973 Hoover in which the children live in the eutopia but also return to the primitive society to try to assist it. 

PB - Four Winds Press CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Triage" Y1 - 1976 A1 - William [Herbert] Walling (b. 1926) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia.

JF - Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact VL - 96.11 N1 -

Rpt. in International Relations Through Science Fiction. Ed. Martin Harry Greenberg and Joseph D. Olander (New York: New Viewpoints, 1978), 142-60.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Tricentennial" Y1 - 1976 A1 - Joe [Joseph William] Haldeman (b. 1943) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set in 2075 in which guilds have come to dominate the political system; only about two percent of the population vote.

JF - Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact VL - 96.7 N1 -

Rpt. in his Infinite Dreams (New York: Avon, 1978), 200-19; in Galaxy’s Edge, no. 36 (January 2019): 61-71; and in Shapers of Worlds: Science fiction & fantasy by authors featured on the Aurora Award-winning podcast The Worshippers. Ed. Edward Willett (Regina, SK, Canada: Shadowpaw Press, 2020), 317-53.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Tricentennial" Y1 - 1976 A1 - John [Patrick] Shirley (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Extremely violent, poverty stricken, overpopulated urban dystopia.

JF - The Exploded Heart PB - Eyeball Books CY - Asheville, NC N1 -

Originally published in the Portland Scribe.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Triton Y1 - 1976 A1 - Samuel R[ay] Delany (b. 1942) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

Detailed eutopia and dystopia. All things are easily possible, including sex changes, and everyone is free to do almost anything. Much conflict and political intrigue but on balance more eutopian than dystopian.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. Boston, MA: G.K. Hall, 1977; in Radical Utopias (New York: Book-of-the-Month Club, 1990), separately paged; and as Trouble on Triton: An Ambiguous Heterotopia. Hanover, NH: Wesleyan University Press, 1996. 

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Rpt. as Trouble on Triton: An Ambiguous Heterotopia

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Turning Place: Stories of a Future Past Y1 - 1976 A1 - Jean E[dna] Karl (1927-2000) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult eutopia presented in a series of linked stories beginning with a destroyed Earth and its slow rebirth. In the process of rebirth, human beings come to recognize the ties that bind them all together. They also become more inward looking at the same time that they are in contact with other planets and ultimately with the galaxy, where humans have a role in creating a galactic government. 1981 Karl is a companion volume. 

PB - E. P. Dutton CY - New York U5 -

NZ

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Venus Development Y1 - 1976 A1 - David Bergamini (1928-83) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Corporate controlled authoritarian dystopia intent on establishing a colony on Mars and the successful revolt of the first colonists.

PB - Popular Library CY - New York U5 -

MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Vision 1-6" Y1 - 1976 A1 - Clifford Harper (b. 1949) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Anarchist utopia described in six illustrations with brief notes and some with captions. The visions are of a collectivised garden, a basement workshop, an autonomous village, an autonomous terrace, a community workshop, and a community media centre. Strikingly, the only people shown working are women, and Colin Ward comments on this saying, “Note that the last male chauvinist is sulking in the corner. The women have taken over the shop” (133/Why Work 153). 

JF - Undercurrents. Radical Technology PB - Wildwood House CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. (New York: Pantheon Books/Random House, 1976), 48-49, 94-85, 132-33, 168-69, 200-201, 228-29. Rpt. in a different order as foldout plates in Why Work? Arguments for the Leisure Society. Ed. Vernon Richards (London: Freedom Press, 1983), 149-54, with commentary by Colin Ward  rather than the original description.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Way Out Y1 - 1976 A1 - John [Blair] Vornholt [Jr.] (b. 1951) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Humorous play. To escape the overpopulated dystopia of Earth a family rents a planet they think is uninhabited, as has an alien family, with another different alien showing up later.

PB - Dramatic Publishing Co CY - Chicago, IL U5 -

PClU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Why the U.S. Never Fought the Indians” Y1 - 1976 A1 - Vine Deloria Jr. (b. 1933) KW - Male author KW - Native American author AB -

Alternative history in which, for reasons given in the essay, the Eastern Indian tribes sold land and invested in industry, which meant that there were no wars against the Indians. There were wars by the Eastern Indians against the Western Indians as the former built railroads across the lands of the latter.

JF - The Christian Century VL - 93.1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Woman on the Edge of Time Y1 - 1976 A1 - Marge Piercy (b. 1936) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Detailed feminist eutopia that is half a realistic novel about the mistreatment of the poor by the police, social workers and the medical/psychiatric profession. Eliminates gendered pronouns; replaced with "per".

PB - Alfred A. Knopf CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Fawcett Crest, 1976. U.K. ed. London: Women's Press, 1983. [40th anniversary edition]. London: Gollancz, 2016 with “Introduction to the 2016 Edition” by Piercy (vii-xi). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Young Tom" Y1 - 1976 A1 - Dan Morgan (1925-2011) ED - [Henry] Kenneth Bulmer (1921-2005) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia in which one can get a "life credit" permitting the birth of a child on the death of a relative.

JF - New Writings in SF PB - Sidgwick & Jackson CY - London VL - (29) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Your Cruel Face” Y1 - 1976 A1 - Craig [Kee] Strete (b. 1950 KW - Male author KW - Native American author AB -

Dystopia in which six misdemeanors merit instant execution. 

JF - Computer Decisions VL - 8 N1 -

Rpt. in his If All Else Fails . . . (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1980), 115-19. [The book includes an “Introduction: Notes on a Dangerous Writer” by Jorge Luis Borges (vii-viii)]; and in Microcosmic Tales: 100 Wondrous Science Fiction Short-Short Stories. Ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and Joseph D. Olander (New York: Taplinger Publishing Co., 1980); rpt. (New York: DAW Books, 1992), 187-89. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Your Faces, O My Sisters! Your Faces Filled of Light." Y1 - 1976 A1 - [Alice Bradley] [Sheldon] (1915-87) ED - Susan Janice Anderson ED - Vonda N[eel] McIntyre (1948-2019) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Future dystopia of violence directed particularly at women.

JF - Aurora: Beyond Equality PB - Fawcett Books CY - Greenwich, CT N1 -

Rpt. in James Tiptree, Jr. [pseud.], Her Smoke Rose Up Forever: The Great Years of James Tiptree, Jr. (Suak City, WI: Arkham House, 1990), 149-67; and in Feminist Philosophy and Science Fiction: Utopias and Dystopias. Ed. Judith A. Little (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2007), 247-63.

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Raccoona Sheldon [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ability Quotient Y1 - 1975 A1 - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Pills are given people to increase intelligence and their ability to absorb knowledge. They are then encouraged to marry others who have taken the pills with their abilities passed on to their children. This will lead to a better society. Reynolds uses the idea of an "ability quotient" in other works.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York U5 -

CU-Riv, NBeU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Adventures of Chet Blake--Plastic Man Y1 - 1975 A1 - Richard Weekley KW - Male author AB -

Social and political satire set in the future in which a rock group's songs influence the behavior of politicians.

PB - Crescent Publications CY - Los Angeles, CA U2 -

Illus. Kurt Conner

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - All the Curious Traveler Would Want to Know About the Only Remaining Utopia for the Average Man--New Zealand Y1 - 1975 A1 - Seymour [O.] Kopf KW - Male author AB -

New Zealand as eutopia.

PB - [Ptd. by South China Morning Post] CY - [Hong Kong] U5 -

ATL

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Be Ye Perfect" Y1 - 1975 A1 - M[artha] A[nn] Bartter (1932-2013) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Population control through forced breeding between two communities.

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction VL - 36.1 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Birdbrain Y1 - 1975 A1 - [Jerome] [Gardner] (b. 1932) KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Dystopia. Soviet of a occupied U.K. in 1991.

PB - Robert Hale CY - London U3 -

John Gilchrist [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Book of Rewi: A Utopian Tale Y1 - 1975 A1 - David P[atrick] O'Neill (b. 1946) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

A group of young people of different races, classes, and languages are marooned on a South Pacific island. They develop a social order with a system of conflict resolution, ceremonies, and rites of passage. The Library of Congress catalogs as a book for young adults.

PB - Seabury Press CY - New York U5 -

ATL, DLC, NZ

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Breath’s a Ware That Will Not Keep” Y1 - 1975 A1 - Thomas F[rancis] Monteleone (b. 1946) ED - Roger [Paul] Elwood (1943-2007) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which a computer is programmed to produce people for the city of Chicago from a breeder tank.

JF - Dystopian Visions PB - Prentice-Hall, Inc CY - Englewood Cliffs, NJ U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Brother Gib Y1 - 1975 A1 - [Albert] [King] (1924-94) KW - Male author KW - Northern Ireland author AB -

Revolt in a robot dystopia.

PB - Robert Hale CY - London U3 -

Paul Muller [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Building Entopia Y1 - 1975 A1 - C[onstantinos] A[postolou] Doxiadis (1913-75) KW - Greek author KW - Male author AB -

Detailed description of his vision of a global eutopian city with plans for its realization. Entopia means a city that is both desirable and realistic. Details of the furniture (72-82), room (86-95), and house (100-10) of the future, all depending on advanced technology, and all designed to be very flexible. In addition, he explains the “housegroup” of about fifty families (116-25), the neighborhood (136-47), and other larger groups, such as the polis, the metropolis, the megalopolis, the Eperopolis, and the Ecumenopolis, or the global city. In each case, he begins with the current situation and ends with steps toward the better future. All groupings are designed for flexibility and freedom of choice within rules set by the group. The author provides something of a summary in “The real Entopia 2121 A.D.” (301-07). The author develops his arguments in a series of related books, all of which add substance to his eutopia, with Building Entopia described as the third volume in the series. The first volume is Anthropopolis: City for Human Development. Athens: Athens Publishing Center, 1974 by Doxiadis (1-206), with a symposium with Doxiadis, Rene Dubos, Erik H. Erikson, Dennis Gabor, Reginald S. Lourie, Margaret Mead, C. H. Waddington, Thomas A. Doxiadis, and Spyros A. Doxiadis (207-357). The second volume is Ecumenopolis: The Inevitable City of the Future. New York: W.W. Norton, 1974 by Doxiadis and J. G. Papaioannou. The fourth volume is Doxiadis, Action for Human Settlements. New York: W.W. Norton, 1976. See also his Between Dystopia and Utopia. Hartford, CT: The Trinity College Press, 1966. 

PB - W. W. Norton CY - New York U2 -

Illus.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Civis Lapvtvs Svm" Y1 - 1975 A1 - Gene [Rodman] Wolfe (1931-2019) ED - Roger [Paul] Elwood (1943-2007) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia describing a community that is isolated on a flying island and the tensions that develop between the dominant groups.

JF - Dystopian Visions PB - Prentice-Hall CY - Englewood Cliffs, NJ U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Civis Obit" Y1 - 1975 A1 - Laurence M[ark] Janifer (1933-2002) ED - Roger [Paul] Elwood (1943-2007) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of old people being kept technically alive but warehoused.

JF - Dystopian Visions PB - Prentice-Hall CY - Englewood Cliffs, NJ U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Come See the Last Man Cry" Y1 - 1975 A1 - Joan [Carol] Hunter Holly (1932-82) ED - Roger [Paul] Elwood (1943-2007) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Emotionless people who need to torment a child into expressing unhappiness for public viewing.

JF - Tomorrow: New Worlds of Science Fiction PB - M. E. Evans and Co. CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Come Take a Dip With Me in the Genetic Pool" Y1 - 1975 A1 - Rachel Cosgrove Payes (1922-98) ED - Roger [Paul] Elwood (1943-2007) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which an authoritarian genetic council decides who can have children and requires abortions when a relationship is not approved.

JF - Dystopian Visions PB - Prentice-Hall CY - Englewood Cliffs, NJ U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Comet Y1 - 1975 A1 - [Jane Francis] [Brady] (1934-85) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia. After a catastrophe, there has been a growth of violence and an authoritarian system. Population severely depleted. Books banned. Domestic animals have become wild.

PB - Hamilton CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Harper & Row, 1976.

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Jane White [pseud]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Concert: A Short Story of Paradise Found" Y1 - 1975 A1 - [Susan] [Furchgott] KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. Story of the future of the Kerista polyfidelity community.

JF - Utopian Eyes VL - 1.3 N1 -

Rpt. in Kerista; Journal of Utopian Group Living 3.2 (Autumn, 1986): 1-27

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Even Eve [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Counter Ecology" Y1 - 1975 A1 - Norman Kagan (b. 1943) ED - George Zebrowski (b. 1945) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian, violent dystopia of a destroyed ecology.

JF - Tomorrow Today PB - Unity Press CY - Santa Cruz, CA U5 -

INS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Crucifixion of Brotherman (The Man Behind the Laughing Shadow). A Play (from the Notes of Brotherman) Y1 - 1975 A1 - [Carl Lee] [Shears] (1937-79) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

The dystopia of being a Black man, particularly a Black scientist, in the U.S. The play focuses on the mistreatment of an up-and-coming Black graduate student. See also 1971 (2), 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975 Shears, I Am Ishmael, and 1978 Shears. 

PB - Nuclassics and Science Publishing CY - Washington, DC U3 -

Saggittarus [pseud.]. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Curse of the Ring Y1 - 1975 A1 - Melvin [Ezell] Gorham (1910-94) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Richard Wagner's (1813-83) opera set in the 21st century. See also 1970 and 1979 Gorham. For other works from the same general perspective, see 1984 von Konen and the note there, 1984 Valoric Fire, and 1987 Pedersen.

PB - Sovereign Press CY - Rochester, WA N1 -

Rev. and exp. as Melvin Gorham's Interpretation of Richard Wagner's The Rhinegold [Cover adds side by side with Wagner's Libretto]. Rochester, WA: Sovereign Press, 1990.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Day They Cut Off the Power" Y1 - 1975 A1 - Vera Johnson ED - [Henry] Kenneth Bulmer (1921-2005) KW - Female author AB -

Students of every college of the United States of Europe plan a revolt, but all the colleges are closed and turned over to the local governments to use as housing. All education will be by television. Extreme pollution. Neo-Luddites destroying cars and planes.

JF - New Writings in SF PB - Sidgwick & Jackson CY - London VL - (27) U5 -

Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Death in Coventry" Y1 - 1975 A1 - Joseph [Lee] Green (b. 1931) ED - Roger [Paul] Elwood (1943-2007) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of human alien relations on a developing planet, with the humans entirely at fault.

JF - Dystopian Visions PB - Prentice-Hall CY - Englewood Cliffs, NJ U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dhalgren Y1 - 1975 A1 - Samuel R[ay] Delany (b. 1942) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

Complex dystopia set in a city called Bellona in what appears to be a post-catastrophe America where reality is constantly shifting. Much violence, including sexual violence. Includes a commune in a park.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York N1 -

Rev. Hanover, NH: Wesleyan University Press, 1996.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Doomsday Clock Y1 - 1975 A1 - Elizabeth S. Benoist (1901-99) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A novel about the build-up to nuclear war and the aftermath of the war. A small group of survivors is shown in an almost eutopian underground shelter. Conflicts develop among them, and they work to return to the surface.

PB - Naylor Co CY - San Antonio, TX U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Drumble" Y1 - 1975 A1 - [Charles Dodd] [Naylor] (1941-2005) ED - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia in which an English village is encapsulated and kept forever unchanged as a tourist attraction. Everyone inside, who live forever, is provided with all material needs.

JF - The New Improved Sun: An Anthology of Utopian S-F PB - Harper & Row CY - New York U3 -

Cassandra Nye [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Dybbuk Dolls" Y1 - 1975 A1 - Jack [Mayo] Dann (b. 1945) ED - Robert Silverberg (b. 1935) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of poverty and anti-Semitism. Most groups live in high-rise ghettos. The dybbuk dolls are alien artifacts that reinforce a person's worst characteristics.

JF - New Dimensions Number 5 PB - Harper & Row CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Light Years and Dark; Science Fiction and Fantasy Of and For Our Time. Ed. Michael Bishop (New York: Berkley Books, 1984), 78-92.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ecotopia. The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston Y1 - 1975 A1 - Ernest [William] Callenbach [Jr.] (1929-2012) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Ecological eutopia. See also 1981 Callenbach and his Living Poor With Style. Illus. Judith Clancy Johns. New York: Bantam Books, 1972. A later version which is said to “evolved” from this book and The Ecotopian Encyclopedia (1980) is Living Cheaply With Style. Berkeley, CA: Ronin Publishing, 1993. 

PB - Banyan Tree Books CY - Berkeley, CA N1 -

Rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1977; and the 40th anniversary edition as Ecotopia: The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston. Berkeley, CA: Banyan Tree Books in Association with Heyday Books, 2014, with a “Foreword” by Malcolm Margolin (iii-ix) and Callenbach’s “Epistle to the Ecotopians” (173-81) that was found on his computer after his death in 2012. Part first published as “First Days in Ecotopia.” American Review 19 (January 1974): 79-102. Part later published as “Ecotopia.” Oregon Times (October - November 1975): 32-36, 22-23; and as “Journey to Ecotopia: The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston.” Harper’s Weekly 65 (May 17, 1976): 11-18.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Electronic Lullaby Meat Market Y1 - 1975 A1 - John [Barry] Spencer (1944-2002) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Humor. Authoritarian dystopia with brainwashing through musak.

PB - Quartet Books CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - End Product Y1 - 1975 A1 - Barry [Leslie] Norman (1933-2017) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A grim satire on race relations in which a black, African hominid becomes an edible herd animal.

PB - Quartet Books CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Exile Waiting Y1 - 1975 A1 - Vonda N[eel] McIntyre (1948-2019) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Post-apocalyptic dystopia set in the Center, a domed city that involves slavery located in a cave system connected to an old missile site. The novel is unusual for the time including disabled characters. For a study of disability in science fiction, see Kathryn Allan, ed. Disability in Science Fiction: Representations of Technology as Cure. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Her Dreamsnake. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1978 is set in the same universe. Dreamsnake is based on revisions of her “A Broken Dome.” Illus. Janet Aulisio. Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact 98.3 (March 1978): 50-66, 68-72, 74-100; “The Serpent’s Death.” Illus. Janet Aulisio. Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact 98.2 (February 1978): 67-93; and “Of Mist and Grass.” Illus. Leo Summers. Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact 92.2 (October 1973): 73-92. 

PB - Nelson Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Rpt. Greenwich, CT: Fawcett, [1976]]; and Bath, Eng.: Handheld Press, 2019, with “Cages.” Illus. Olivier Olivier. Quark/4. Ed. Samuel R. Delany and Marilyn Hacker (New York: Paperback Library, 1971), 163-73, which includes characters who then appear in the novel, rpt. on 281-91, a “Note on the text” on 280; an “Afterword” by Una McCormack (293-312); “Further Reading” (313-14) and a “List of [McIntyre’s] works” (315-16). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Exodus/UK Y1 - 1975 A1 - Richard [Heath] Rohmer (b. 1924) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Arab countries pull all money from the U.K. causing the collapse of the British economy. Canada accepts unlimited immigration from Britain, which causes Québec to threaten to withdraw from the Confederation. Alberta and British Columbia threaten to withdraw if the immigration does not go ahead. U.S. also accepts unlimited immigration from the U.K. under provisions which make the U.K. dependent on the U.S., even excluding U.K. workers from participating in the development of North Sea oil. See also 1976 and 1981 Rohmer.

PB - McClelland and Stewart CY - Toronto, ON, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Faces Forward" Y1 - 1975 A1 - Jack [Mayo] Dann (b. 1945) A1 - George Zebrowski (b. 1945) ED - Roger [Paul] Elwood (1943-2007) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A series of brief and quite varied dystopian vignettes.

JF - Dystopian Visions PB - Prentice-Hall CY - Englewood Cliffs, NJ U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Female Man Y1 - 1975 A1 - Joanna [Ruth] Russ (1937-2011) KW - Female author AB -

A complex feminist novel that includes a eutopia without men. The focus of the novel is on three women who are genetically identical but, as a result of the different worlds they live in, completely different. See also 1972 Russ, “When It Changed”.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1977, with an “Introduction” by Marilyn Hacker (v-xxvii); Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1986; in Radical Utopias (New York: Book-of-the-Month Club, 1990), separately paged. U.K. ed. London: Gollancz, 2010, with an “Introduction” by Gwyneth Jones (ix-xii); and in Russ, Novels and Stories. Ed. Nicole Rudick (New York: The Library of America, 2023), 1-191, with a Chronology on 681-694 that includes chronologically references to Russ’s publications, notes on the text on 694 and 697, and notes on 699-702. Selections from throughout the novel are rpt. as “A Few Things I Know About Whileaway.” The New Improved Sun: An Anthology of Utopian S-F. Ed. Thomas M[ichael] Disch (New York: Harper & Row, 1975), 82-97 with an editor’s note on 81.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Freeway: A Play in Two Acts Y1 - 1975 A1 - Peter Nichols (b. 1927) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia which the author says should not be compared to the classic dystopias, involving a massive traffic jam where people have to live for an extended period in their cars and motor homes. Set in a violent future where roads other than the freeways are not safe. 

PB - Faber and Faber CY - London N1 -

Rev. in his Plays: One (London: Methuen Drama, 1991), 407-510, with an introduction by the author (409-11); and London: Bloomsbury, 2013.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - From the Legend of Biel Y1 - 1975 A1 - Mary Staton (b. 1945?) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A complex novel focusing on a highly advanced society both technically and socially trying to push human evolution along faster with both positive and negative results. This culture, which is part of a vast federation of worlds, meets a primitive culture on one world and the humans who visit that planet.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York U5 -

Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Future's Advocate Y1 - 1975 A1 - E[dwin] G[eorge] Carr KW - Male author AB -

The eutopia of life after the Second Coming of Christ but before all have been saved with those not saved still resisting.

PB - Herald Publishing House CY - Independence, MO U5 -

DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Gift" Y1 - 1975 A1 - Laurence M[ark] Janifer (1933-2002) ED - Roger [Paul] Elwood (1943-2007) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A future where all lifestyles are acceptable. The focus is on homosexuality. Parts can be read as dystopian.

JF - Dystopian Visions PB - Prentice-Hall CY - Englewood Cliffs, NJ U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Girl Who Owned a City Y1 - 1975 A1 - O. T. Nelson KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult post-catastrophe dystopia in which all adults die, and the children struggle to survive. The novel focuses on a girl who takes over a high school building to provide security for her group.

PB - Lerner Publications CY - Minneapolis, MN N1 -

Adapted by Dan Jolley. Illus. Joëlle Jones. Colored by Jenn Manley Lee. Letters by Grace Lu. Minneapolis, MN: Graphics Universe™, 2012. There are quite a few other editions and reprints. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Going Y1 - 1975 A1 - Sumner Locke Elliott (1917-1991) KW - Australian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future dystopia of love and patriotism Set in the U.S. People are euthanized at an age not specified in the novel The protagonist is an elderly woman on the day she will be euthanized remembering her life and her family, particularly her husband who committed suicide, her rebellious daughter who had been lobotomized, and her powerful, hated son-in-law who had created the dystopia, and kept her other daughter sedated. 

PB - Harper & Row CY - New York SN - 0-06-011242-5 0 333 17517 4 N1 -

Australian ed. Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Macmillan Company of Australia, 1975.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Going Down" Y1 - 1975 A1 - Barry N[athaniel] Malzberg (b. 1939) ED - Roger [Paul] Elwood (1943-2007) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of sexual gratification in which an Institute ensures that all fantasies and fetishes are fulfilled with no concern for the other people involved.

JF - Dystopian Visions PB - Prentice-Hall CY - Englewood Cliffs, NJ N1 -

Rpt. in Kindred Spirits: An Anthology of Gay and Lesbian Science Fiction Stories. Ed. Jeffrey M. Elliot (Boston, MA: Alyson Publications, 1984), 99-119.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Grimus Y1 - 1975 A1 - [Ahmed] Salman Rushdie (b. 1947) KW - English author KW - Indian author KW - Male author AB -

Something of a metaphysical adventure novel with science fiction elements. The main society described is labeled "utopian" (186) because it functions on a basis of rough equality and with no money.

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London U5 -

LLL

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Growing Up in Edge City" Y1 - 1975 A1 - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) ED - Robert Silverberg (b. 1935) ED - Roger [Paul] Elwood (1943-2007) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia describing a totally enclosed city where every person is constantly monitored. One boy discovers a way outside and people living there. Punished, he ultimately arranges for the destruction of those outside to advance his career.

JF - Epoch PB - Berkley Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in his Pohlstars (New York: Ballantine Books, 1984), 126-39.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Growing Up in Tier 3000 Y1 - 1975 A1 - Felix C[harles] Gotschalk [Jr.] (1929-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Grotesque dystopia in which children kill parents as part of the rites of passage because constraint on energy resources necessitates a limit on population. People have implants that greatly expand physical powers, and instruments are available to measure all bodily functions. Rule by clones of past leaders.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Heavens Below: Fifteen Utopias" Y1 - 1975 A1 - John [Thomas] Sladek (1937-2000) ED - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Series of short utopias gone wrong. Some are jokes rather than serious comment.

JF - The New Improved Sun: An Anthology of Utopian S-F PB - Harper & Row CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Hero as Werwolf Y1 - 1975 A1 - Gene [Rodman] Wolfe (1931-2019) ED - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the rebel against the dystopian order is a werewolf.

JF - The New Improved Sun: An Anthology of Utopian S-F PB - Harper & Row CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - High-Rise Y1 - 1975 A1 - J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of violence within an apartment block.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Harper Perennial, 2006 with an added, separately paged section at the end entitled "P.S. Ideas, interviews & features . . ." (1-18), which includes 1977 Ballard (2-10).

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Horse of a Different Technicolor” Y1 - 1975 A1 - Craig [Kee] Strete (b. 1950 KW - Male author KW - Native American author AB -

Something of a surveillance dystopia in which some of the means of surveillance are embedded in a person’s body and used to implant thoughts. The story is told from the point-of-view of someone who, as a result, is no longer sure who they are. 

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction VL - 36.1 N1 -

Rpt. in his If All Else Fails . . . (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1980), 44-53. [The book includes an “Introduction: Notes on a Dangerous Writer” by Jorge Luis Borges (vii-viii]. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - I Am Ishmael, Son of the Blackamoor. A Play Y1 - 1975 A1 - [Carl Lee] [Shears] (1937-79) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

The play is about a charismatic African American who, because he is so popular, becomes Vice President of the U. S., marries a white woman, and then, on the death of the President, becomes President. Although his progressive policies are both popular and successful, because he married the white woman, a white man who wanted her vows to kill him and so do black women, who feel betrayed by him. See also 1971 (2), 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975 Shears, The Crucifixion of Brotherman, and 1978 Shears. 

PB - Nuclassics and Science Publishing CY - Washington, DC U3 -

Saggittarus [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Illuminatus! Trilogy: The Eye of the Pyramid, The Golden Apple, and Leviathan Y1 - 1975 A1 - Robert [Joseph] Shea (1933-94) A1 - Robert Anton Wilson (1932-2007) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia that revels in conspiracy theories and secret societies. The novels have significant libertarian themes, and in 1986 the book won the Prometheus Hall of Fame Award of the Libertarian Futurist Society. Adapted as a series of five plays, The Eye of the Pyramid, Swift Kick Inc., The Man Who Murdered God, Walpurgisnacht Rock, and Leviathan, with each play consisting of five twenty-three-minute acts and first performed in Liverpool in 1976. It was also adapted as a comic book with three issues formally published and a fourth issue distributed at comic book conventions. Wilson was more identified with the novels than Shea, and he published three autobiographical novels that continued to considered themes of the trilogy, Cosmic Trigger I: The Final Secret of the Illuminati. Grand Junction, CO: Hilaritas Press, 1977; Cosmic Trigger II: Down to Earth. Las Vegas, NV: New Falcon Publications, 1991; and Cosmic Trigger III: My Life After Death. Las Vegas, NV: New Falcon Publications, 1995. He also published The Historical Illuminatus Chronicles, comprised of The Earth Will Shake. A Novel. Los Angeles, CA: J. P. Tarcher, 1982; The Widow’s Son. New York: Bluejay Books, 1985; and Nature’s God. New York: Roc, 1991; and Masks of the Illuminati. New York Dell, 1981. See also 2017 [Drummond and Cauty].

PB - Dell CY - New York VL - 3 vols. N1 -

Originally published as Illuminatus, Part I The Eye of the Pyramid. New York: Dell, 1975. 304 pp. Cover as Illuminatus! (1-305); Illuminatus Part II The Golden Apple New York: Dell, 1975. 272 pp. Cover as Illuminatus! (305-562); and Illuminatus Part III Leviathan. New York: Dell, 1975. 253 pp. Cover as Illuminatus! (563-805).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Irish Rose Y1 - 1975 A1 - Patrick Wyatt [pseud.?] KW - UK author AB -

Dystopia. Depopulated future with a hierarchical society. Women are kept solely for breeding, and all affection is homosexual. The novel focuses on a girl who learns to read.

PB - Michael Joseph CY - London N1 -

Rpt. Newton Abbot, Eng.: Readers Union, 1975.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Jaws That Bite, The Claws That Catch Y1 - 1975 A1 - Michael G[reatrex] Coney (1932-2005) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Society where personal slavery has replaced imprisonment for certain crimes.

PB - DAW Books CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. as The Girl With a Symphony in Her Fingers. Morley, Eng.: The Elmfield Press, 1975.

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U.K. ed. as The Girl With a Symphony in Her Fingers.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Karma Machine Y1 - 1975 A1 - [Michael] [Zeik] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which ancient Eastern wisdom is wedded with a modern computer.

PB - Popular Library CY - New York U3 -

Michael Davidson [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - King Creature Come Y1 - 1975 A1 - John Rowe Townsend (1922-2014) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Borderline young adult novel in which society is divided into Persons, who rule and are indulged, and Creatures, who revolt with the assistance of two young people from the colony of Persons.

PB - Oxford University Press CY - Oxford, Eng. N1 -

U.S. ed. as The Creatures. New York: J.B. Lippincott. 1980.

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U.S. ed. as The Creatures.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Letter from London, 1985" Y1 - 1975 A1 - Robert Moss (b. 1946) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Socialist dystopia. Buckingham Palace is now the Ministry of Equality. Northern Ireland and Scotland have declared independence. The U.S. has been expelled from what is now the Socialist United Nations. Rationing. While the dystopia is presented as economically unsuccessful, it uses its majority in Parliament to push through all the changes it wants to make.

JF - The Collapse of Democracy PB - Temple Smith CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. (New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House, 1976), 21-35. Updated ed. (London: Abacus, 1977), 23-34.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Life and Times of Multivac" Y1 - 1975 A1 - Isaac Asimov (1920-92) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia in which everyone lives well, but all important decisions are made by a large computer, which, for example, decides who can have children and when. Also, people are only allowed to do unimportant work and that only with permission.

JF - The New York Times Magazine ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Log of a Superfluous Son. A Novel Y1 - 1975 A1 - Michael Henderson (b. 1942) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

The novel focuses on the experiences and thoughts of a successful lawyer who chooses to quit his well-paying job and work on a cattle boat between Auckland, New Zealand and Guam, but in the background is the contemporary dystopia of the Vietnam War and a growing authoritarianism and militarism in New Zealand.

PB - John McIndoe CY - Dunedin, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Man Who Wanted to Save Canada: A Prophetic Novel Y1 - 1975 A1 - R. J. Chick Childerhose (b. 1928) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Canada has become a capitalist dystopia that, for the good of the capitalists that are ruining the country, wants to merge with the U.S. The protagonist tries and fails to alert Canadians to the situation and proposes various reforms.

PB - Hoot Publications CY - Victoria, BC, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Marx the First Y1 - 1975 A1 - [Claude Cunningham] Bruce Marshall (1899-1987) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Volume in a linked series on a future of a Soviet controlled Vatican. In this volume Pope Marx I, having not been killed, returns and institutes his reforms, including married clergy and free sexuality for novices. Conflict erupts inside and outside the Church, with Spain and Britain going to war and with Britain losing. See 1970, 1973, and 1976 Marshall for other volumes in the series.

PB - Constable CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Ministry of Children" Y1 - 1975 A1 - Keith [John Kingston] Roberts (1935-2000) ED - Hilary [Denham] Bailey (1936-2017) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. The negative effects of the establishment of large, general schools in Britain. Violence, illiteracy. The setting is an overpopulated future but that is not a focus.

JF - New Worlds PB - Corgi CY - London VL - 9 N1 -

Rpt. in his Ladies From Hell (London: Victor Gollancz, 1979), 86-126. SFF,

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Missing Man Y1 - 1975 A1 - Katherine [Anne] MacLean (1925-2019) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Overpopulation leads to break up into small, hostile communities.

PB - Berkley Books CY - New York N1 -

Part originally published under this title in Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact 87.1 (March 1971): 8-51. Rpt. in Analog 9. Ed. Ben[jamin William] Bova (London: Dennis Dobson, 1973), 110-66; Nebula Award Stories Seven. Ed. Lloyd Biggle, Jr. (New York: Harper & Row, 1973), 206-260, with an editor’s note on 206-07; and in her The Trouble with You Earth People (Norfolk, VA: Donning, 1980), 189-237. Other parts published in Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact as "The Fear Hound" 81.3 (May 1968): 102-24; and "Rescue Squad For Ahmed" 86.2 (October 1970): 72-104.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Modest Utopia" Y1 - 1975 A1 - Stuart Chase (1888-1985). KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Essay presenting an environmentally sound world society. A steady-state society based on world-wide negative population growth would be able to provide food, shelter, education, and health care for all. World energy authority. World police/military in charge of all weapons of war. World administrative body. Not the same as 1928 Chase. See also 1968 Chase.

JF - The Futurist VL - 9.5 N1 -

Rpt. as "Toward a Steady-State Society." Current 179 (January 1976): 3-8.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Morrow's Ants Y1 - 1975 A1 - Edward [Solomon] Hyams (1910-75) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. An industrialist applies his knowledge of ant colonies to human workers and develops a new community on the same principles. Set in Wales.

PB - Allen Lane CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Multiface. Science Fiction Y1 - 1975 A1 - Mark [Peter Marcus} Adlard (b. 1932) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Picture of a controlled society of the future that is presented as a eutopia, albeit with problems. See also 1971 and 1972 Adlard.

PB - Sidgwick & Jackson CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The New Atlantis" Y1 - 1975 A1 - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) ED - Robert Silverberg (b. 1935) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Bureaucratic, authoritarian, and violent dystopia. War is constant; global warming is destroying the planet; the government controls all power sources, which are failing; food and medication are in short supply; marriage and the nuclear family are illegal; women cannot be admitted to medical school; and minor bureaucratic rules are used to keep people in line for fear of being imprisoned.

JF - The New Atlantis and Other Novellas of Science Fiction PB - Hawthorn Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction of the Year #5. Ed. Terry Carr (New York: Ballantine Books, 1976), 165-92; in Dream’s Edge: Science Fiction Stories About the Future of Planet Earth. Ed. Terry Carr (San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club Books, 1980), 185-205; in her The Compass Rose: Short Stories (New York: Harper & Row, 1982), 12-40. U.K. ed. (London: Victor Gollancz, 1983), 12-40; in The Norton Book of Science Fiction: North American Science Fiction. Ed. Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin and Brian Attebery. Karen Joy Fowler, Consultant (New York: W.W. Norton, 1993), 317-36; and in The Way to the End Times: Classic Tales of the Apocalypse. Ed. Robert Silverberg (New York: Three Rooms Press, 2016), 229-56, with an “Editor’s Introduction” on 228.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - No Man's Land Y1 - 1975 A1 - Simon Watson KW - Male author AB -

Young adult dystopia describing a future in which the past is being destroyed in the name of progress.

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Greenwillow Books, 1976.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Or Little Ducks Each Day" Y1 - 1975 A1 - R[aphael] A[loysius] Lafferty (1914-2002) ED - Roger [Paul] Elwood (1943-2007) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Odd dystopia in which some people are able to foretell individual futures except that there are areas of the city where the future can be changed.

JF - Dystopian Visions PB - Prentice-Hall CY - Englewood Cliffs, NJ U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Parable: The Isle of Erg" Y1 - 1975 A1 - Peter Chapman KW - Male author AB -

Short sketch of an energy efficient eutopia with a guaranteed annual income.

JF - Fuel's Paradise; Energy Options for Britain PB - Penguin CY - Harmondsworth, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Pawn Y1 - 1975 A1 - Arthur Mather (b. 1925) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian, overpopulation dystopia which hopes to solve its problems by creating artificial satellites that can absorb 500,000 people each. Military government on Earth controlled by a small elite and the secret service. The novel is about the first experimental satellite, which is destroyed at the end.

PB - Wren CY - Melbourne, VIC, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Peddler's Apprentice" Y1 - 1975 A1 - Vernor [Steffen] Vinge (b. 1944) A1 - Joan [Carol] D[ennison] Vinge (b. 1948) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia--a small section of the story describes a world government that through drugs and manipulation has kept the world unchanging.

JF - Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact VL - 95.8 N1 -

Rpt. in Vernor Vinge, True Names . . . and Other Dangers (New York: Baen Books, 1987), 146-97; and in The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge (New York: Tor, 2001), 55-89. This ed. has notes by Vernor Vinge.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Pessimist Utopia Y1 - 1975 A1 - Theo Crosby (1925-94) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

A plea for small is beautiful, individuality.

JF - Pentagram Papers 2 PB - Pentagram Design CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Peter Plan; A Proposal for Survival Y1 - 1975 A1 - Laurence J[ohnston] Peter (1919-90) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A future eutopia based on political participation. An emphasis on ecology.

PB - William Morrow CY - New York U2 -

Illus. Walter Griba.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Place Beyond Man Y1 - 1975 A1 - Cary [Carolyn A.] Neeper (b. 1937) KW - Female author AB -

Gives glimpses of an alien culture that is a eutopia but the eutopia is not developed. Commentary on the contemporary human world.

PB - Charles Scribner's Sons CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Premar Experiments Y1 - 1975 A1 - Robert H[enry] Rimmer (1917-2001) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A sequel to 1966 Rimmer. Premar = premarital. In this novel, Harrad College expands its experiment as described in 1966 Rimmer to include an ethnically, financially, and racially diverse population living communally. In the earlier novel all the people were white, extremely intelligent, and of similar ethnicity. Here the sexual relations cross all those borders. A part of the plan is to rejuvenate the generally poor areas within which the communes are established. See 1966, 1968, 1978, 1982, and 2000 Rimmer.

PB - Crown CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Signet, 1976

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Prologue to Utopia: The Six Days of its Creation (out of the conditions of the now-existing world)" Y1 - 1975 A1 - Barbara Gibbs (1912-93) A1 - Francis Golffing (1910-2012) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Short description of the beginnings of a eutopia based on "a psychological revolution" which allows human beings to see themselves as one world-wide society. See also 1962 and 1991 Golffing and Gibbs.

JF - Northern New England Review VL - 1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ransome Revisited Y1 - 1975 A1 - Elisabeth Mace (b. 1933) KW - Female author KW - UK author AB -

Young adult post-catastrophe dystopia in which children are brutally treated. A group of children leave to seek a better society and may find one. In the sequel her The Rushton Inheritance. London: Andre Deutsch, 1978 (rpt. as The Rushton Treasure. London: Magnet, 1980 with no mention of the earlier title), there is a beginning in recovering knowledge of the past. See also the non-utopian prequel to the novel, The Travelling Man. London André Deutsch, 1976.

PB - André Deutsch CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. as Out There. New York: Greenwillow, 1975.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Return to the Gate Y1 - 1975 A1 - William Corlett (1938-2005) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A fairly vague near future young adult dystopia describing a heavily regulated, bureaucratic, poor, society. Conflict among people of differing backgrounds and ideas.

PB - Hamish Hamilton CY - London N1 -

1975 Corlett, William [Harold] (1938-2005). Return to the Gate. London: Hamish Hamilton. U.S. ed. Scarsdale, NY: Bradbury Press, 1977. NZ

A fairly vague near future young adult dystopia describing a heavily regulated, bureaucratic, poor, society. Conflict among people of differing backgrounds and ideas.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Risk" Y1 - 1975 A1 - Joanna [Ruth] Russ (1937-2011) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A man resurrected from the past hates the future eutopia in which technology keeps people from being injured. 

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 48.6 (289) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Satellite City Y1 - 1975 A1 - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a satellite free from government control that serves as a pleasure ground for the rich and powerful where anything goes. It is actually mostly run by the Mafia.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Scenario for a New Medicine” Y1 - 1975 A1 - Rick J. Carlson (b. 1940) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

This section brings together the argument of the book describing medicine in the year 2000 saying that the medical care system “will be smaller than at present and will consume far fewer resources” (238). There will be neighborhood hospitals and learning centers with emergency services, regional health centers, and residential complexes for the elderly that “will stress self-care and responsibility but will provide all necessary medical care on site” (239). Hospital based medical teams will replace independent office practices. Overseeing the system will be a Department of Health Affairs with the mission of ensuring that the environment is “as conducive to health as possible” (239).

JF - The End of Medicine PB - John Wiley & Sons CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Scenario: Religion 2101: The Monkey Rite or Whatever Happened to the Pewsitters and Sunday-Dress-Up People” Y1 - 1975 A1 - Hiley H. Ward (d. 2009) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a future authoritarian system using religion as one of its control mechanisms.

JF - Religion 2101 A.D. PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Scraping at the Bones" Y1 - 1975 A1 - Algis [Algirdas Jonas] Budrys (1931-2008) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia.

JF - Blood and Burning PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Second Coming Y1 - 1975 A1 - Antony Lopez KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Religious dystopia that converts people with force. Restrictions on sex.

PB - New English Library CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Seeds of Change Y1 - 1975 A1 - Thomas F[rancis] Monteleone (b. 1946) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia set in Denver 200 years in the future. The society is technologically far advanced, and computers are used to identify possible deviations from the genetic norm. Escapees have established an underground complex outside the city, and they ultimately defeat and destroy the city.

PB - Laser Books CY - Don Mills, ON, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Settling the World" Y1 - 1975 A1 - M[ichael] John Harrison (b. 1945) ED - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

An odd utopia in which god has been found behind the moon and brought back to Earth, where what appears to be a eutopia of peace, plenty, and security develops. But god is an immense beetle, which no one notices, and beetles are replacing humans in positions of authority.

JF - The New Improved Sun: An Anthology of Utopian S-F PB - Harper & Row CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Best SF: 75. The Ninth Annual. Ed. Harry Harrison and Brian W. Aldiss (Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill, 1976), 126-53; and in his The Ice Monkey and other stories (London: Victor Gollancz, 1983), 59-79.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - She Would Have Been a Taxi Dancer, but He Couldn’t Hail a Cab. A Novel Y1 - 1975 A1 - David Manning KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A dystopian novel that follows a couple called the Typewriter and the Road Map in their constantly frustrated attempts to leave New York City.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Shockwave Rider Y1 - 1975 A1 - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A complex dystopia that has an embedded eutopia opposed to the dystopia. The focus of the dystopia is on a program to identify geniuses, particularly among orphans and other children who can be taken without being noticed. They are then educated and trained (brainwashed and conditioned) to develop their particular bent so as to be most useful to the system. One man uses his talent with computer systems to escape, although much of the novel follows him as his memories are searched after he is captured. The eutopia, called Precipice, is a small town with advanced, ecologically sensitive architecture, a radically decentralized political system, and an egalitarian population. The man, who again escapes, uses his talents to save Precipice from attack by the government.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Showboat World Y1 - 1975 A1 - Jack [John Holbrook] Vance (1916-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Set in same world as 1952 Vance but presenting a different aspect of the planet focusing on the eccentrics inhabiting Big Planet and the showboats that provide entertainment.

PB - Pyramid CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Coronet, 1977. Rpt. London: VGSF, 1990. Rpt. as The Magnificent Showboats of the Lower Vissel River Lune XXIII South, Big Planet. San Francisco, CA:/Columbia, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1983; and as vol. 19 of The Complete Works of Jack Vance. Oakland, CA: Vance Integral Editions, 2005.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Sierra Maestra" Y1 - 1975 A1 - Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The revolutionaries of the New Left abandon revolution and infiltrate the economic and political system until they can take over and institute their policies. The story ends just as they succeed. The policies mentioned include 100 per cent tax on profits, forgiveness of all government debt, and prohibition of private ownership of all cars.

JF - Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact VL - 95.1 N1 -

Rpt. in his The Star-Spangled Future (New York: Ace Books, 1979), 293-305 with an "Introduction to Sierra Maestra" (291-92).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Solution Three Y1 - 1975 A1 - Naomi [Margaret] Mitchison (1897-1999) KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

The novel is set after a nuclear war in a society that is experiencing overpopulation and food shortages. The first two solutions fail, but the third appears to be working. It requires prohibits heterosexuality, with some exceptions, who are looked down upon and discriminated against, and requires homosexuality. Reproduction is through cloning, with the original parents a black man and a white woman, thus eliminating racism. Children are raised collectively until weaned and then they are “strengthened,” by having their individuality removed and replaced with conditional responses through behavioral engineering. But Solution Three is also failing. 

PB - Dennis Dobson CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Warner Books, 1975. Rpt. New York: The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 1995, with an “Afterword Naomi Mitchison: The Feminist Art of Making Things Difficult” by Susan M. Squier (161-83).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Starcrossed Y1 - 1975 A1 - Ben[jamin William] Bova (1932-2020) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Background of a future polluted dystopia.

PB - Chilton CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Jove/HBJ, 1979.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Stork Factor Y1 - 1975 A1 - [Hugh] [Zachary] (1928-2016) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Religious dystopia with advancement only within the religious hierarchy and medical care reserved for the powerful.

PB - Berkley Books CY - New York U3 -

Zack Hughes [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Tomorrow File Y1 - 1975 A1 - Lawrence [A.] Sanders (1920-98) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia in the form of a mystery novel set in a complex future U.S. Drugs, biological advances. Power has moved to the bureaucracy, which is primarily concerned with itself rather than the country. The Department of Bliss replaces the Department of Health and Human Services and other, similar changes have taken place in U.S. government. The U.S. has added states from throughout the world. Language has changed: Love means money, Objects means people, Obso. means old referring to both people and artifacts, Profit means benefit or enjoying, Service means work, and Using means sex.

PB - G. P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Berkley Books, 1976. U.K. ed. London: Corgi, 1977.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Tomorrow Might Be Different Y1 - 1975 A1 - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopias of a future in which the world is dominated by a Soviet Union that is successful, hedonistic, and consumer-oriented.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -

Shorter version as "Russkies Go Home!" The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 19.5 (November 1960): 94-130.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Tomorrow Will Be a Lovely Day Y1 - 1975 A1 - Craig Harrison (b. 1942) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. The military takes over New Zealand after a revolt by young Māori against both pākehā and their elders who have accommodated to a system based on prejudice and discrimination. The politicians dither and conspire against each other, and the U.S. CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) offers “its usual support” to the military dictator, who will shortly be replaced in a coup by younger officers. See also his 1975 “The Whites of Their Eyes” and his Broken October: New Zealand 1985 (1976). 

PB - A. H. & A. W. Reed CY - Wellington, New Zealand N1 -

Rpt. Auckland, New Zealand: Longman Paul, 1981. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Towers of Utopia Y1 - 1975 A1 - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia based on the Negative Income Tax but with reflections on possible problems. Life in a huge, almost self-contained apartment complex.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Uncoupling" Y1 - 1975 A1 - Barry N[athaniel] Malzberg (b. 1939) ED - Roger [Paul] Elwood (1943-2007) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia with regulated access to sexual fulfillment of all one's desires.

JF - Dystopian Visions PB - Prentice-Hall CY - Englewood Cliffs, NJ U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Unpopular Planet Y1 - 1975 A1 - Evelyn E. Smith (1927-2000) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia. No violence. Sex only with permission.

PB - Dell CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Unto the Last Generation Y1 - 1975 A1 - Juanita [Ruth Welllons] Coulson (b. 1933) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which people have lost the ability to breed.

PB - Lancer CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Utopia" Y1 - 1975 A1 - Miriam [Dworkin] Waddington (1917-2004) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Short poem of a dream of a mountain of roses with thorns.

JF - Waves (York University, Canada) VL - 3.3 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Walls Within Walls Y1 - 1975 A1 - Arthur [Reginald] Tofte (1908-80) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia concerned with controlling mutants. The mutant society is also described.

PB - Laser Books CY - Don Mills, ON, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Warriors of Dawn Y1 - 1975 A1 - M[ichael] A[nthony] Foster (b. 1939) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel is mostly adventure and romance, but it includes some description of an apparently eutopian society of advanced aliens that had been created by humans on an overpopulated Earth trying to speed up human evolution. The aliens, called Ler, have a long adolescence (until about thirty), a short period of fertility (about 30 to 40), and a low birthrate. Families (braids) include an original couple, added mates for each, the children produced, their mates, and their children, at which point the original couple leaves singly or together and are free to do as they like. Each braid has a defined occupational role. Related novels are The Gameplayers of Zan. New York: DAW Books, 1977, which is set before The Warriors of Dawn, and The Day of the Klesh. New York: DAW Books, 1979, which is a sequel, are mostly adventure. The three volumes are rpt. in his The Book of Ler: The Gameplayers of Zan The Warriors of Dawn The Day of the Klesh. New York: DAW Books, 2006, with The Gameplayers on 1-432, The Warriors on 433-692, and The Day on 693-923.

PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Weapons" Y1 - 1975 A1 - Pamela Sargent (b. 1948) A1 - George Zebrowski (b. 1945) ED - Roger [Paul] Elwood (1943-2007) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia that violently enforces racial and class discrimination.

JF - Dystopian Visions PB - Prentice-Hall CY - Englewood Cliffs, NJ U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "What You Get For Your Dollar" Y1 - 1975 A1 - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) ED - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Future development of the Middle East based on the United Nations establishing M.E.R.O. or the Middle East Reclamation Organization designed to reclaim the Sinai and Negev deserts. Cooperation of Arabs and Israelis, who establish the independent State of Sinai and live together without amicably. Development of science and art.

JF - The New Improved Sun: An Anthology of Utopian S-F PB - Harper & Row CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Where Summer Song Rings Hollow" Y1 - 1975 A1 - Gail Kimberly [Francis] (1927-2011) ED - Roger [Paul] Elwood (1943-2007) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eternally renewable youth seen as a eutopia by some and a dystopia by others.

JF - Dystopian Visions PB - Prentice-Hall CY - Englewood Cliffs, NJ U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Whites of Their Eyes" Y1 - 1975 A1 - Craig Harrison (b. 1942) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Future violent conflict between Māori  and Pākehā. See also his Tomorrow Will Be a Lovely Day (1975) and Broken October: New Zealand 1985 (1985).

JF - Act VL - no. 26 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Wooden Centauri: A Science Fiction Novel Y1 - 1975 A1 - Paul [Raymond] Drennan (1949-2003) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A far future authoritarian dystopia in which many planets are under one government with a law that prohibits any knowledge of the past. Two people from the past arrive and change begins to take place.

PB - Elmfield CY - Morley, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Xenofreak/Xenophobe" Y1 - 1975 A1 - Edward [Winslow] Bryant [Jr.] (1945-2017) ED - Roger [Paul] Elwood (1943-2007) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia brought on by contact with aliens far in advance of humans.

JF - Dystopian Visions PB - Prentice-Hall CY - Englewood Cliffs, NJ U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Year of the Spiatnik Y1 - 1975 A1 - Robert Betchov (1919-96) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Overwhelmingly about war and the preparations for war, but it ends with world peace and the establishment of a World Authority. The Pact for the World Authority is provided in an appendix.

PB - CPRI Press CY - Oakville, ON, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "You Get Lots of Yesterdays, Lots of Tomorrows, and Only One Today" Y1 - 1975 A1 - Laurence [William] James (1942-2000) ED - [Henry] Kenneth Bulmer (1921-2005) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia where all everyone sleeps except for one supposedly perfect day.

JF - New Writings in SF PB - Sidgwick & Jackson CY - London VL - (26) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Zen Archer" Y1 - 1975 A1 - Jonathan Greenblatt ED - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) KW - Male author AB -

A Zen Buddhist monastery presented as an ideal way of life is undermined by contact with the outside world and its temptations.

JF - The New Improved Sun: An Anthology of Utopian S-F PB - Harper & Row CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Zone" Y1 - 1975 A1 - Peter Linnett ED - [Henry] Kenneth Bulmer (1921-2005) KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a dreary future world divided up into "sectors" including a failed Hippie enclave.

JF - New Writings in SF PB - Sidgwick & Jackson CY - London VL - (27) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "2005 . . . A Mind Bending Experience" Y1 - 1974 A1 - [Claudio] Frank Baron Kreffl KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. A future earth where all problems, except the occasional murder, have been solved. Emphasis is on sexual relations.

JF - Man (Sydney, NSW, Australia) VL - 75.4 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Albion! Albion! Y1 - 1974 A1 - [Reginald Charles] [Hill] (1936-2012) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of violence. England without a Parliament and with football/soccer hooligans in control. The country has been broken up into four districts representing four football/soccer clubs.

PB - Faber & Faber CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Faber & Faber, 1986. Rpt. under the author's name as Singleton's Law. Sutton, Surrey, Eng.: Severn House, 1997.

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Rpt. under the author's name as Singleton's Law

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Dick Morland [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - All Times Possible Y1 - 1974 A1 - Gordon [Stewart] Eklund (b. 1945) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Alternative futures centering on authoritarian dystopias.

PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Anarchy, State, and Utopia Y1 - 1974 A1 - Robert Nozick (1938-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A treatise in political theory, but Part III "Utopia" (297-334 with footnotes on 351-53) describes in detail an anarcho-capitalist eutopia.

PB - Basic Books CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - “And Keep Us From Our Castles” Y1 - 1974 A1 - [Cynthia A.] [Morgan] KW - Female author AB -

The story focuses on a technological form of punishment, but it is used by a dystopian, authoritarian government that is shutting down dissent.

JF - Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact VL - 93.6 N1 -

Rpt. in Tomorrow, Inc. SF Stories About Big Business. Ed. Martin Harry Greenberg and Joseph D. Olander (New York: Taplinger, 1976), 168-94.

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Cynthia Bunn [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Android Armageddon Y1 - 1974 A1 - [Sandor] Robert Tralins (1926-2010) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia in which a machine, called Justivac, creates a "perfect" society where humans no longer need to make decisions.

PB - Pinnacle Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Battle of Disneyland Y1 - 1974 A1 - Thom[as Francis] Keyes (1943?-95?) KW - Male author KW - UK author KW - US author AB -

Future destruction of the U.S. with California an island floating toward Hawaii.

PB - W. H. Allen CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Before the Setting Sun: The Age Before Hambone Y1 - 1974 A1 - [Carl Lee] [Shears] (1937-79) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

Details the rise to power of a Black general that resulted from the dystopia created by government in eliminating individual freedom and favoring the wealthy. See also 1971 (2), 1972, 1973, 1975 (2), and 1978 Shears.  

PB - Nuclassics and Science Publishing CY - Washington, DC U1 -

The short title page adds (The Rise to Power of America’s Black Dictator).

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Saggittarus [pseud.].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Bitter Pill Y1 - 1974 A1 - A[rthur] Bertram Chandler (1912-84) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of generational conflict in which individuals are classified as a "Senior Citizen" at 45 and given the "choice" of voluntary euthanasia or working in an Australian forced labour camp or a Martian penal colony. Mars is being developed to take Earth's excess population. A revolt on Mars frees the people to build a new life there with no compulsory retirement, but the ending suggests that Mars faces an uncertain future of conflicts over power.

PB - Wren CY - Melbourne, VIC, Australia N1 -

Developed from his "The Bitter Pill." Vision of Tomorrow (Sydney, NSW, Australia) 1.9 (June 1970): 52-63.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Bladerunner Y1 - 1974 A1 - Alan E[dward] Nourse (1928-92) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Medical dystopia. Bladerunners are those who secure black market medical supplies for the underground medical system. See also 1979 Burroughs, Blade Runner.

PB - David McKay CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Ballantine Books, 1975.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Blood Sport: A Journey Up the Hassayampa Y1 - 1974 A1 - Robert F[rancis] Jones (1934-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a overpopulated, polluted future compared to a dystopia/eutopia of violent but integrated outlaw community.

PB - Simon & Schuster CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Lyons & Burford, [1997]. U.K. ed. as Ratnose: A Journey Up the Hassayampa. London: London Magazine Editions, 1975.

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U.K. ed. as Ratnose: A Journey Up the Hassayampa.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Born Free: A Feminist Fable" Y1 - 1974 A1 - Letty Cottin Pogrebin (b. 1939) ED - Maggie Tripp KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Feminist eutopia. The story follows the first thirteen years of the life of a girl born into an egalitarian society at midnight on January 1, 2000. Each person works twenty-five hours a week with an additional six hours a month of volunteer work, although they can arrange their hours as they choose (11-12). Much of the story concerns childbirth, day-care, which is available everywhere, and education, all with many alternative arrangements. People are completely free to arrange their relationships (6). Male and female contraception is freely available, and abortion is a woman’s right (7). Cooperative housekeeping (9). All sport, including professional sport is mixed sex (18). Gay people are now completely accepted (22-23). The U.S. is now a parliamentary system rather than a presidential one (4). The female author was an editor of Ms. Magazine.

JF - Woman in the Year 2000 PB - Arbor House CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Brown Pelican Y1 - 1974 A1 - George Sklar (1908-88) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia.

PB - Dramatists Play Service CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Catman" Y1 - 1974 A1 - Harlan [Jay] Ellison (1934-2018) ED - Edward L Ferman (b. 1937) ED - Barry N[athaniel] Malzberg (b. 1939) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A dystopia of corrupt capitalism is the background to the story.

JF - Final Stage: The Ultimate Science Fiction Anthology PB - Charterhouse CY - New York N1 -

The author's original version was published in the U.K. ed. Final Stage: The Ultimate Science Fiction Anthology. Ed. Edward L. Ferman and Barry N[athaniel] Malzberg (Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin, 1975), 134-70. "Afterword" (170-75). Rpt. in Ellison, Approaching Oblivion: Road Signs on the Treadmill Toward Tomorrow. Eleven Uncollected Stories (New York: Walker & Co., 1974), 141-77; and in Cybersex. Ed. Richard Glyn Jones (New York: Carroll & Graf, 1996), 126-59.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Centauri Device Y1 - 1974 A1 - M[ichael] John Harrison (b. 1945) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. The world is divided between the Israeli World Government and the Union of Arab Socialist Republics, with the Earth destroyed at the end. A contrasting anarchist planet is presented in eutopian terms.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY ER - TY - ABST T1 - CenterForce Y1 - 1974 A1 - T[homas] A[llen] Waters (1938-98) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia in which a group called CenterForce rules the U.S. through violent suppression of all opposition.

PB - Dell Books CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Chief Justice Wore a Red Dress" Y1 - 1974 A1 - Doris L[ipson] Sassower (1932-2019) ED - Maggie Tripp KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia of gender equality with a focus on the legal profession presented partially fictionally and partially in an historical essay. In the eutopia, the Equal Rights Amendment had passed. A Parental Responsibility Act limited the hours of work of parents with pre-school-age children to twenty-five hours a week, and there was free federally funded day care for twenty-five hours per week. 

JF - Woman In the Year 2000 PB - Arbor House CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Chocolate War. A Novel Y1 - 1974 A1 - Robert [Edmund] Cormier (1925-2000) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia set in a Catholic boys’ school with the temporary head trying to be appointed permanently by encouraging the usual bullying and competition. Among the books most banned in schools. A film written and directed by Keith Gordon (b. 1961) was released in 1988. A sequel, Beyond the Chocolate War. A Novel. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985, is set a few months later with the temporary head now Headmaster and the corruption and conflicts continuing.

PB - Pantheon Books CY - New York U5 -

Public

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Churchill Play, As it will be performed in the winter of 1984 by the internees of Churchill Camp somewhere in England Y1 - 1974 A1 - Howard [John] Brenton (b. 1942) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

England as an authoritarian dystopia in 1984 with a concentration camp.

PB - Eyre & Methuen CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - City in the Sky Y1 - 1974 A1 - Curt Siodmak (1902-2000) KW - German author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Mostly adventure but depicts both a dystopian prison in a satellite in space and a large space satellite community that is described positively.

PB - G. P. Putnam’s Sons CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Class War Comik Number 1 New Times Y1 - 1974 A1 - Clifford Harper (b. 1949) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Intended to be the first of six issues, but no more were published. In this issue, the people in a rural anarchist intentional community are completely disengaged from politics and only interested in themselves as individuals so that little work gets done, and the work that gets done is not necessarily what is needed.

PB - Epic Publications CY - London N1 -

New ed. as Class War Comix No. 1.  Princeton, WI: Kitchen Sink Enterprises, 1979.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Commune 2000 A.D Y1 - 1974 A1 - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia with a Universal Guaranteed Income and sexual freedom but with people growing bored and disaffected and establishing many different intentional communities.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Conservationist Y1 - 1974 A1 - Nadine Gordimer (1923-2014) KW - Female author KW - South African author AB -

As with much of Gordimer's fiction, the novel is concerned with racial strife in the dystopia that is South Africa, with what she calls "the interregnum".

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe Y1 - 1974 A1 - D[avid] G[uy] Compton (1930-2023) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Media dystopia in which a reporter has his eyes replaced with TV cameras which transmits everything he sees. His first assignment is to film Katherine Mortenhoe’s death in a world where disease no longer exists, and the title of the TV series is “The Unsleeping Eye”. A film entitled Death Watch directed by Bernard Tavernier (b. 1941) was produced in 1980.

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London N1 -

Rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1980 with an "Introduction" by Susan Wood (v-xix); as Death Watch. London: Magnum Books, 1981. U.S. ed. as The Unsleeping Eye. New York: DAW Books, 1974. Rpt. New York: Pocket Books, 1980; and under the original title New York: New York Review Books, 2016 with an “Introduction” by Jeff Vandermeer (vii-xii). .

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Day Before the Revolution" Y1 - 1974 A1 - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story of Odo, theorist of the revolution in 1974 Le Guin, The Dispossessed, as an old woman just before the revolution. The Galaxy version is dedicated “in memoriam Paul Goodman 1911-1972”. Although the story takes place before the novel, it was written after it. See the note on the story in The Wind’s Twelve Quarters, where she also says, “This story is about one of the ones who walked away from Omelas” [1973 Le Guin] (232).

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction VL - 35.8 N1 -

Rpt. in her The Wind’s Twelve Quarters: Short Stories (New York: Harper & Row, 1975), 232-46; in Nebula Award Stories Ten. Ed. James Gunn (New York: Harper & Row, 1975), 129-45; in More Women of Wonder: Science Fiction Novelettes By Women About Women. Ed. Pamela Sargent (New York: Vintage, 1976), 279-301; in The Best of the Nebulas (New York: Tor/Tom Doherty Associates, 1989), 391-401, with an “Author’s Foreword” on 390; in Women of Wonder: The Classic Years. Science Fiction by Women from the 1940s to the 1970s. Ed. Pamela Sargent (San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace, 1995), 344-57; in The Utopia Reader. Ed. Gregory Claeys and Lyman Tower Sargent (New York: New York University Press, 1999), 407-22; 2nd ed. (New York: New York University Press, 2017), 483-96; in Hainish Novels & Stories Volume One. Rocannon’s World Planet of Exile City of Illusions The Left Hand of Darkness The Dispossessed Stories. Ed. Brian Attebery (New York: Library of America, 2017), 975-89 with a “Note on the Text” (1084); and in The Future is Female! More Classic Science Fiction by Women Volume 2: The 1970s. Ed. Lisa Yaszek (New York: Library of America, 2023), 218-237, with a biographical note on 454-456 and notes on the text on 485-486. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Depression or Bust Y1 - 1974 A1 - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on economic cycles. One man decides he can't afford the new freezer he bought and sends it back; the seller of the freezer cancels the new car he had ordered; the car dealer cancels the house he was to have built; and so forth. The economic downswing becomes a full-blown depression until the government gives money to the first man to start buying and the cycle is reversed.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York U5 -

CU-Riv, NBeU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia Y1 - 1974 A1 - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Detailed anarchist eutopia with problems.

PB - Harper & Row CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. without the subtitle New York: Avon, 1975; and with the subtitle as the Collector's Edition. Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1986 illus. Pat Morrissey and with an "Introduction" (unpaged) by Frederik [George] Pohl, [Jr.]; New York: Harper, 1991. U.K. ed. without the subtitle and with a brief introduction, "Welcome (back) to Anarres" by Richard Morgan (ix-xii). London: Gollancz, 2006; and, with the subtitle, in Hainish Novels & Stories Volume One. Rocannon’s World Planet of Exile City of Illusions The Left Hand of Darkness The Dispossessed Stories. Ed. Brian Attebery (New York: Library of America, 2017), 613-919 with a “Note on the Text” (1083), and “Notes” (1091-92).  An extract was published as “News from Anarres.” Social Revolution: Paper of the Social Revolution Group (Aberdeen, Scot.), no. 4 ([1977]): 12. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Eat, Drink, and Be Merry" Y1 - 1974 A1 - Dian Girad ED - Jerry [Eugene] Pournelle (1933-2017) KW - Female author AB -

Computer dystopia. Computer perfection regulates diet and will not allow a person to get more than five pounds off their ideal weight.

JF - 2020 Vision PB - Avon CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Eggs of Eden" Y1 - 1974 A1 - M[artha] A[nn] Bartter (1932-2013) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Satire on progressive education.

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction VL - 35.12 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The EM Discoveries: An Account of the Three Technological Wonders That Opened the EM Age Y1 - 1974 A1 - Robert Gibbons KW - Male author AB -

A technological eutopia brought about through weather and climate control, what he calls "elemental separators" that allow for the separation and recombination of basic elements, and "projected magnetic image propulsion that allows for space travel. All were developed in 1985, and the book is presented as being written a thousand years later.

PB - Exposition Press CY - Hicksville, NY U5 -

HRC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Exxoneration Y1 - 1974 A1 - Richard [Heath] Rohmer (b. 1924) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Second of two volumes on conflict between Canada and the United States. In this volume Canada wins a war with the U.S. and develops a strong industrial base. See also 1973 Rohmer

PB - McClelland and Stewart CY - Toronto, ON, Canada ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Fall of Colossus Y1 - 1974 A1 - D[ennis] F[eltham] Jones (1918?-81) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Sequel to 1966 Jones. See also 1977 Jones. In this volume the computer Colossus has ended war but uses its power to control all human activity. A successful conspiracy disables Colossus with help from Mars.

PB - G. P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York N1 -

New York G.P. Putnam's Sons_

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Fat Man in History" Y1 - 1974 A1 - Peter Carey (b. 1943) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. After a revolution, fat people are seen negatively as symbols of the previous regime because under it only Americans and stooges of the dictatorship could get enough food to be fat. Told from the point of view of a fat revolutionary.

JF - Stand (U.K.) VL - 15.1 N1 -

Rpt. in his The Fat Man in History (St. Lucia. QLD, Australia: University of Queensland Press, 1974), 114-41; in a collection with the same title (London: Faber & Faber, 1980), 9-33; and in his Collected Stories (St. Lucia. QLD. Australia: University of Queensland Press, 1994), 182-205. U.K. ed. (London: Faber & Faber, 1995), 182-205.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Femininity: 2000" Y1 - 1974 A1 - Carol [Gene Eisen] Rinzler (1941-90) ED - Maggie Tripp KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Short story of the future for women. Some technological eutopia, some dystopia, some unchanged, which can be read as part of the dystopia.

JF - Woman In the Year 2000 PB - Arbor House CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Flow my tears, the policeman said Y1 - 1974 A1 - Philip K[indred] Dick (1928-82) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia in the U.S. following a "Second Civil War". A police state is established under the National Guard and a U.S. police force with forced labor camps. Communities of former university students exist underground where they are barely surviving. Over the course of the novel the situation gradually improves.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Rpt. New York: DAW Books, 1975; and in Five Novels of the 1960s & 70s. Martian Time-Slip; Dr. Bloodmoney; Now Wait for Last Year; Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said; A Scanner Darkly. Ed. Jonathan Lethem (New York: The Library of America, 2008), 669-858, 1125-26. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Forever War Y1 - 1974 A1 - Joe [Joseph William] Haldeman (b. 1943) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Most of the novel is a war novel set in space, but there are sections that show the effects of the war on Earth. Elements of both eutopia and dystopia. Poverty and unemployment. Homosexuality encouraged as a means of birth control. People are highly educated. Most crime down. Strict limits on private property. Huge cities. Seas are farmed so that everyone is fed. At 70 people are rated for medical coverage; zero rating means no coverage. Sequels include “A Separate War.” Far Horizons. Ed. Robert Silverberg (New York: Avon Eos, 1999), 55-87 with an author’s note on 53-54; and Forever Free. New York: Ace Books, 1999; U.K. ed. London: Millennium, 1997; rpt. from the U.K. ed. in his Peace and War [Cover adds The Omnibus Edition] (London: Gollancz, 2006), 232-427. A graphic novel edition was published London: Titan Comics, 2018. His Forever Peace. New York: Ace Books, 1997; U.K. ed. London: Millennium, 1999; rpt. in his Peace and War [Cover adds The Omnibus Edition] (London: Gollancz, 2006), 428-697 is considered a companion piece.

PB - St. Martin's Press CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1975. U.S. ed. rpt. New York: Ballantine Books, 1976; London: Gollancz, 2001; and London: Gollancz, 2006 with an “Introduction” by Peter F. Hamilton (ix-xi). An “Author’s Note” (unpaged in 2001 and vii-viii in 2006) says this is “the definitive edition” and explains the history of the various versions. Rpt. from the U.K. ed. in his Peace and War [Cover adds The Omnibus Edition] (London: Gollancz, 2006), 1-231. Parts originally published in Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact as follows: “Here” 89.4 (June 1972): 8-59; “We Are Very Happy Here” 92.3 (November 1973): 104-147; “A Mind of His Own.” 92.6 (February 1974): 80-96; “The Mazel Tov.” 94.1 (September 1974): 77-92; “Truth To Tell” 94.2 (October 1974): 12-24; and “The Best of All Possible Worlds” 94.3 (November 1974): 137-49. “You Can Never Go Back” was originally intended to be the middle part of the series but was rejected. It was published in Amazing Science Fiction 49.3 (November 1975): 6-61 and included in later versions of the book.

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MoU-St, NLS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Future Sex Y1 - 1974 A1 - Saul Kent KW - Male author AB -

Intended to be eutopian. A fictional description of future sexual activities that the author says are simply extensions of current knowledge. Includes robots designed for sexual pleasure; lovers grown to specifications, and so forth.

PB - Warner Books CY - New York U5 -

CU-Riv

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Godwhale Y1 - 1974 A1 - [Thomas J.] [Bassler] [M.D.] (1932-2011) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel includes societies that are very advanced in biology, societies that are degenerating, and authoritarian dystopias. On the whole, the human race and its societies are presented as first improving and then degenerating.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Eyre Methuen, 1975. Part originally published as "Rorqual Maru." Illus. Galaxy Science Fiction 32.4 (January-February 1972): 58-86, 88-91.

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T. J. Bass [pseud.]

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Gomorrah Y1 - 1974 A1 - Marvin Karlins (b. 1941) A1 - Lewis M. Andrews (b. 1946) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of violence.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Hot Ice" Y1 - 1974 A1 - Charles [Braun] Ludlam (1943-97) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian satire in which all illness, deformity, and obesity is illegal and the Euthanasia Police control population by arresting such people and putting them to death and encouraging suicide. The play is primarily concerned with those trying to prolong life through freezing themselves to be resuscitated later.

JF - The Drama Review VL - 18.2 ER - TY - ABST T1 - House of Stairs Y1 - 1974 A1 - William [Warner] Sleator [III] (1945-2011) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which a doctor tries to condition five orphans to become perfect tools of the state. He succeeds with three of them. A group of talented children are run through a maze ("This book is dedicated to all the rats and pigeons who have already been here.") in an attempt to create an elite. Authoritarian dystopia in the background.

PB - E. P. Dutton CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “I Bought a Little City” Y1 - 1974 A1 - Donald Barthelme [Jr.] (1931-1989) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story of a man who bought Galveston, Texas and set out to change it into the city he wanted.

JF - The New Yorker VL - 50.38 N1 -

Rpt. in his Amateurs (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976), 50-58; in his Sixty Stories (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1981), 295-301;  and in Collected Stories. (New York: Library of America, 2021), 474-79, with a Chronology (929-935). a Note on the Text (940), and Notes (964).

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PU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Impact of the Mid-Twentieth Century Movement for Sex Equality in Employment On Three Contemporary Economic Institutions" Y1 - 1974 A1 - Caroline Bird (1915-2011) ED - Maggie Tripp KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. “A paper presented at the 2001 Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association” illustrating the effect of gender equality on the National Employment Exchange (115-18), the Neighborhood Play Group System (118-21), and the Minimum Income Security System (121-25). The Equal Rights Amendment had passed.

JF - Woman In the Year 2000 PB - Arbor House CY - New York U5 -

DLC, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Inheritors of Earth Y1 - 1974 A1 - Gordon [Stewart] Eklund (b. 1945) A1 - Poul [William] Anderson (1926-2001) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future dystopia. Authoritarian. Religious revival. Telepathy leads to ability to control minds.

PB - Chilton Book Co CY - Radnor, PA U5 -

ICarbS, Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Inverted World. A Novel Y1 - 1974 A1 - Christopher [McKenzie] Priest (1943-2024) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Primarily a science-oriented science fiction novel, but the social setting is an authoritarian, controlling dystopia.

PB - Faber and Faber CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Harper & Row, 1974. Rpt. without the subtitle New York: New York Review Books, 2008 with an “Afterword” by John Clute (315-22). 

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PPT, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Juryrigged" Y1 - 1974 A1 - Joe [Joseph William] Haldeman (b. 1943) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. One person wired into a computer as a jury.

JF - Vertex VL - 2.4 N1 -

Rpt. in his Infinite Dreams (New York: Avon, 1978), 126-40.

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MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Days of the American Empire Y1 - 1974 A1 - Bruce [Allen] Powe (1925-2018) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Most of the world is experiencing a long drought, have little technology, and people are starving. North and South America consists of two empires that have extensive advanced technology and are wealthy, but much of the population is being kept alive by medical science. Unable to survive in drought conditions, people in Africa and Europe invade North America.

PB - Macmillan of Canada CY - Toronto, ON, Canada N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: St. Martin's, 1975.

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Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last of the Country House Murders Y1 - 1974 A1 - Emma [Christina] Tennant (1937-2017) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

Authoritarian overpopulation dystopia.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Faber and Faber, 1986.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Legacy. A Drama in One Act Y1 - 1974 A1 - Paul Elliott KW - Male author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia in which around a quarter century has passed since the last child was born and people are living in the remains of damaged buildings.

PB - Samuel French CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Life and Times of Michael K Y1 - 1974 A1 - J[ohn] M[axwell] Coetzee (b. 1940) KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

Dystopia that follows a poor, uneducated man through the turmoil of social conflict/civil war with South Africa under the control of the military.

PB - Ravan Press CY - Johannesburg, South Africa N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Secker & Warburg, 1983.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Love Conquers All" Y1 - 1974 A1 - Fred [Thomas] Saberhagen (1930-2007) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia based on Zero Population Growth.

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction VL - 35.11 - 36.1 N1 -

Repub. New York: Ace Books, 1979. Rev. ed. New York: Baen, 1985.

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Lust in Action" Y1 - 1974 A1 - John [Stinsom] Glassco (1909-81) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Lesbian dystopia. All men are castrated at age twenty. Any insult to a woman before that age results in prison and a band around the penis that causes intense pain if there is an erection. The women are generally presented negatively. The story takes place within a prison.

JF - The Fatal Woman PB - Anansi CY - Toronto, ON, Canada U5 -

Can, Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Memoirs of a Survivor Y1 - 1974 A1 - Doris [May] Lessing (1919-2013) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia of a collapsed civilization.

PB - The Octagon Press CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975. Rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1976.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Messengers Will Come No More Y1 - 1974 A1 - Leslie A[aron] Fiedler (1917-2003) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Set in the twenty-fifth century with a variety of societies after a future catastrophe. The main society described has black women at the top of hierarchy with white men at the bottom and is an authoritarian dystopia.

PB - Stein and Day CY - New York U5 -

MoU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Militants Y1 - 1974 A1 - Nivi-Kofi A. Easley KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

Black and white men and women working together, and sometimes against each other, planning and fomenting a revolution against the white patriarchy. 

PB - Carlton Press CY - New York U5 -

DLC, NN

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Mother Earth Revisited: When Women in Politics Are Old Hat" Y1 - 1974 A1 - Bella [Savitsky] Abzug (1920-1998) ED - Maggie Tripp KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

An interview that is presented as having taken place in 2000 set in a world where Earth is primarily female and the moon and satellites in space are primarily male, a situation brought about by negotiation and political compromise. There had been a nuclear war, Earth had been made largely uninhabitable and people on Earth lived underground. Traditional gender roles have disappeared. 

JF - Woman In the Year 2000 PB - Arbor House CY - New York U5 -

DLC, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - My Petition for More Space Y1 - 1974 A1 - John [Richard] Hersey (1914-93) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia.

PB - Alfred A. Knopf CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - New Lanark Y1 - 1974 A1 - W[illiam] L[eslie] Herd KW - Male author AB -

Poem with notes outlining the better society created by Robert Owen (1771-1858) at New Lanark, Scotland, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

PB - P V Publications CY - Crowborough, Sussex, Eng. N1 -

2nd ed. Crowborough, Sussex, Eng.: P V Publications, 1974. 3rd ed. Crowborough, Sussex, Eng.: P V Publications, 1975.

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Illus. F.T. Hayes

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Noah’s Castle Y1 - 1974 A1 - John Rowe Townsend (1922-2014) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Young adult dystopia set in a world with a collapsing economy with extreme inflation, based on Post-World War I Germany. The novel focus on a man who hoards non-perishable goods to protect his family while causing problems for others.

PB - Oxford University Press CY - Oxford, Eng. N1 -

U.S. ed. Philadelphia, PA: J.B. Lippincott, 1975.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Pale Hands" Y1 - 1974 A1 - Doris Piserchia (1928-2021) ED - Damon [Francis] Knight (1922-2002) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future New York City where sex is prohibited to control population and Fifth Avenue is lined with masturbation booths.

JF - Orbit PB - Harper & Row CY - New York VL - 15 SN - 978-1-59853-732-1 N1 -

Rpt. in The Future is Female! More Classic Science Fiction by Women Volume 2: The 1970s. Ed. Lisa Yaszek (New York: Library of America, 2023), 202-217, with a biographical note on 458-460 and a note on the text on 485.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Pale Invaders Y1 - 1974 A1 - [Geoffrey Robins] [Crosher] (1911-90) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A young adult post-catastrophe novel presenting a simple, agricultural society in eutopian terms. When girls are of an age to have children, they enter the "Parent's House" together with the boy of their choice, as long as he agrees. The Pale Invaders are outsiders who are searching for coal to use in re-starting the technology that brought about the catastrophe. The novel ends with the notion that this time it can be done better.

PB - Chatto and Windus CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Atheneum, 1976.

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G. R. Kesteven [pseud.]

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NZ

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Paradise Game Y1 - 1974 A1 - Brian [Michael] Stableford (b. 1948) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The planet Pharos is a paradise with no conflict, and the novel focuses on the conflict between those who want to package it for profit or conserve it. 

PB - DAW Books CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1976. 158 pp.

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Penetrating to the Heart of the Forest" Y1 - 1974 A1 - Angela [Olive Stalker] Carter (1940-92) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Simple, Edenic eutopia as setting for the sexual coming-of-age of twins.

JF - Fireworks: Nine Profane Pieces PB - Quartet Books CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in her The Collected Angela Carter: Burning Your Boats. Stories (London: Chatto & Windus, 1995), 58-67.

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L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "People's Park" Y1 - 1974 A1 - Charles Ott KW - Male author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia. Parks have to exclude people because the parks were being destroyed by too many visitors.

JF - Vertex VL - 2.5 N1 -

Rpt. in Dream's Edge: Science Fiction Stories About the Future of Planet Earth. Ed. Terry Carr (San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club Books, 1980), 33-37.

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Picnic on Nearside” Y1 - 1974 A1 - John [Herbert] Varley (b. 1947) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story takes place on the moon in a world where it is possible to change body type, gender, and so forth many times and many other technological changes, generally presented favorably. The protagonist, a boy, and a friend, who has recently had the change from male to female, visit to an undeveloped part of the moon, called Nearside, where they find an old man living, the last human on Nearside, and even though undeveloped and abandoned, Nearside is also presented mostly positively. 

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 47.2 (279) N1 -

Rpt. in his The Barbie Murders (New York: Berkley Books, 1980), 236-60; book reissued as Picnic on Nearside (New York: Berkley, 1984), 236-60; and in Humanity 2.0. Ed. Alex Shvartsman (Rockville, MD: Phoenix Pick/Arc Manor, 2016), 111-35. 

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Power Y1 - 1974 A1 - Laurence M[ark] Janifer (1933-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A future Earth and its space empire is an autocratic system with an elected but all-powerful Emperor. It is faced with a mutiny led by the son of one of the Emperor's advisors, and much of the novel is about the struggle between father and son and about the uses of power for good and ill.

PB - Dell Books CY - New York U5 -

CU-Riv

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Pre-Persons" Y1 - 1974 A1 - Philip K[indred] Dick (1928-82) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which abortion is available until the child is 12.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 47.4 (281) N1 -

Rpt. in his The Golden Man. Ed. Mark Hurst (New York: Berkley, 1980), 303-31; and in The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick. Volume 5 The Little Black Box (Los Angeles, CA/Columbia, PA: Underwood/Miller, 1987), 275-96. The paperback edition has it in The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick. Volume 5 The Eye of the Sibyl (New York: Citadel Twilight, 1992), 275-96.

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Prognosis: Terminal" Y1 - 1974 A1 - Dave [David Edward] McDaniel ED - Jerry [Eugene] Pournelle (1933-2017) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The future society is generally presented positively, but there is still significant inequality and violence. Domed cities; light drugs readily available.

JF - 2020 Vision PB - Avon CY - New York U3 -

Author also used the name Ted Johnstone

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Proposed Constitutional Model for the Newstates of Americas" Y1 - 1974 A1 - Rexford G[uy] Tugwell (1891-1979) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A proposed new constitution for the U.S. designed for a reconfigured United States and to correct flaws in the original document. Includes a section of rights and responsibilities, a single presidential term of nine years, an appointed Senate with life terms, a House of Representatives with some at-large members representing regions rather than the fifty states, a Electoral Branch to oversee elections, a Planning Branch to coordinate income and expenses over time, a Regulatory Branch to charter and regulate corporations, and a reformed judiciary designed to be more efficient. One underlying principle, particularly influencing the changes to Congress is to create a strong national government with lesser regional power.

JF - The Emerging Constitution PB - Harper Magazine Press CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Pyramids for Minnesota--A Serious Proposal" Y1 - 1974 A1 - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A proposal to build pyramids in Minnesota that includes a brief suggestion of a voluntary corps reminiscent of 1905 Wells's samurai.

JF - Harper's Magazine VL - 248 N1 -

Rpt. in The New Improved Sun: An Anthology of Utopian S-F. Ed. Thomas M[ichael] Disch (New York: Harper & Row, 1975), 167-69 with editor's notes on 167 and 170.

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Ramparts" Y1 - 1974 A1 - Hilary [Denham] Bailey (1936-2017) ED - Terry [Gene] Carr (1937-87) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A pastoral eutopia that is vegetarian, democratic, and completely peaceful has always sent its eccentrics and antisocial people into the surrounding forests and forgotten them. The forest people return and kill the inhabitants one of the towns.

JF - Universe PB - Random House CY - New York VL - 5 N1 -

Rpt. (New York: Popular Library, 1976), 165-91.

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DLC, Merril, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Rats Y1 - 1974 A1 - James [John] Herbert (1943-2013) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which rats destroy civilization but ultimately appear to be defeated. His Lair. London: New English Library, 1979. U.S. ed. New York: New American Library, 1979 (PSt) is a sequel where the rats return. His Domain. New York: Signet, 1985 is a post-nuclear war story where the survivors have to fight rats that thrive on radiation (CU-Riv).

PB - New English Library CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: New American Library, 1975. A graphic novel version is The City: The Rats Saga Continues.... London: Pan Books, 1994. Ellipses in the original. Illus. by Ian Miller. Lettered by Judy Balchin. 

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O

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Sex Savages Y1 - 1974 A1 - [Jory] [Sherman] KW - Male author AB -

Erotic lost race tale. Amazons; strong, dominant women.

PB - Barclay House CY - Chatsworth, CA U3 -

Frank Anvic [pseud.]

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CU-Riv

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Sodom and Gomorrah Business Y1 - 1974 A1 - Barry N[athaniel] Malzberg (b. 1939) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future dystopia of violence.

PB - Pocket Books CY - New York U5 -

AzU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Songs of War" Y1 - 1974 A1 - Kit [Lilian Craig] Reed (1932-2017) ED - Harry [Max] Harrison (1925-2012) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Satire on radical feminism in which an anti-male movement and solidarity among women fails.

JF - Nova PB - Walker & Co. CY - New York VL - 4 N1 -

Rpt. in her The Killer Mice (London: Victor Gollancz, 1976), 53-95; her Other Stories and The Attack of The Giant Baby (New York: Berkley, 1981), 50-95; and her Weird Women, Wired Women (Hanover, NH: Wesleyan University Press, 1998), 56-91.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Sunrise West" Y1 - 1974 A1 - William K. Carlson (b. 1937) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post catastrophe dystopia focusing on something very like a Hippie commune that is composed of people and highly developed animals that is the beginning of a better future.

JF - Vertex VL - 2.4 - 5 N1 -

Repub. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1981.

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DLC, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Tales from the Golden Age [The Positive Image] Y1 - 1974 A1 - Inwood, Robert KW - Male author AB -

Ecological eutopia in the form of a cartoon book set in a post-catastrophe U.S.

PB - Intermedia Press CY - Vancouver, BC, Canada U5 -

Can, WiU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Teacher As World Citizen Y1 - 1974 A1 - Theodore [Burghard Hurt] Brameld (1904-87) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia set in 2000 stressing world government, socialist humanism, and ecology. The book is dedicated to his friend Marion Bellamy Earnshaw (1886-1978), daughter of Edward Bellamy, and he stresses the connection between his book and Bellamy's Looking Backward. The book begins December 26, 2000, which is the date of the "Preface" to Looking Backward.

PB - [Kappa Delta Pi Press] CY - [Palm Springs, CA] U1 -

The 1974 Kappa Delta Pi Lecture

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MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Time Deer" Y1 - 1974 A1 - Craig [Kee] Strete (b. 1950 KW - Male author KW - Native American author AB -

The story begins in a near-future where “the Monday morning traffic jam was three days old” (54), but its focus is on an old man watching a boy (his younger self but with knowledge of his own future) who is watching a deer. The old man is on his way to a doctor’s appointment arranged by the boy as adult with the intent of having his father declared incompetent. The ending is eutopian. 

JF - Red Deer Planet VL - 4 N1 -

Rpt. Worlds of If 22.8 (175) (November-December 1974): 45-50; and in his If All Else Fails . . . (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1980), 54-60. [The book includes an “Introduction: Notes on a Dangerous Writer” by Jorge Luis Borges (vii-viii]. 

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PLhS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Transhumans--2000" Y1 - 1974 A1 - F[ereidoun] M. Esfandiary (1930-2000) ED - Maggie Tripp KW - Iranian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future eutopia in which human differentiation is overcome.

JF - Woman In the Year 2000 PB - Arbor House CY - New York U5 -

DLC, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Utopian States of America" Y1 - 1974 A1 - Wilmot Robertson KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Racist utopia proposing separation of the racial and ethnic groups. This would result in “a colorful mosaic of small nation states and free municipalities, each with a differentiated gene pool, a differentiated way of life and differentiated styles of art, literature and music. . .” (54). Specifically, the “Yellow Races,” African Americans, Southern Europeans, and Jews will be put in separate enclaves, as will Native Americans, Latin Americans, Cubans, and Puerto Ricans. The enclaves will have no contact with the white majority except as needed for defense and economic policies, which will be controlled by the whites. There is also some brief analysis of earlier utopias. His The Dispossessed Majority. Cape Canaveral, FL: Howard Allen Enterprises, 1973 (586 pp.) is described by the publisher as “A spirited defense of Americans of Northern European descent and a scholarly confutation of those who write wishfully of the Wasp’s demise.”

JF - Ventilations PB - Howard Allen CY - Cape Canaveral, FL U5 -

KU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Vision Y1 - 1974 A1 - David [R.] Wilkerson (1931-2011) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Prediction, some of which the author says occurred between writing and publication but others of which may take place generations in the future, culminating in Armageddon (See Revelation 16).

PB - Spire Books Fleming H. Revell CY - Old Tappan, NJ N1 -

Rpt. New York: Pillar Books, 1975; and as The vision and beyond: prophecies fulfilled and still to come. Lindale, TX : World Challenge Publications, 2003. © David Wilkerson Youth Crusades.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Walk to the End of the World Y1 - 1974 A1 - Suzy McKee Charnas (1939-2023) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia where almost all past knowledge has been lost and civilization, such as it is, is restricted to a small area called the Holdfast. Women are called Fems, are effectively slaves, and are believed by the men to be animals with no intelligence. The men have a rigid hierarchy based on age. The novel ends with Alldera, a Fem, escaping the Holdfast in hopes of finding the rumored Free Fems. See also 1978, 1994, and 1999 Charnas.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Radical Utopias (New York: Book-of-the-Month Club, 1990), separately paged; and in her The Slave and the Free (New York: Tor, 1999), 1-215. 

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MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Waves of Ecology" Y1 - 1974 A1 - Leonard Tushnet (1908-73) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on a temporarily successful attempt to eliminate cars and improve the ecology.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 46.3 (274) UR - https://tushnet.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/fsf-march-1974-waves-of-ecology.pdf N1 -

Rpt. in Car Sinister. Ed. Robert Silverberg, Martin Harry Greenberg, and Joseph Olander (New York: Avon Books, 1979), 145-56. 

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Web of Everywhere Y1 - 1974 A1 - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Future dystopia based on instant transportation to anyplace. The novel focuses on a man who visits places he is not supposed to visit.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: New English Library, 1977.

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L, Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - What in the World Will Happen Next? Y1 - 1974 A1 - Salem Kirban (1925-2010) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Heaven as eutopia. See also 1968 and 1970 Kirban; his I Predict Huntington Valley, PA: Salem Kirban, Inc., 1973 (with many later editions with updated predictions); and his New Age Secret Plan for World Conquest. Rev. ed. Chattanooga, TN: AMG Publishers, 1992.

PB - Salem Kirban, Inc CY - Huntington Valley, PA N1 -

Rpt. with the subtitle Answers to Life’s Four Most Important Questions What Is Life! Rapture! Hell! Heaven! Huntington Valley, PA: Salem Kirban, Inc., 1994.

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DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Wife Styles and Life Styles Y1 - 1974 A1 - Frank M. Darrow KW - Male author AB -

Presents two societies, each a mixture of good and bad. One is a matriarchy and polygamous. The other is monogamous and very conservative. Attack on the birth control pill.

PB - Author CY - Trona, CA U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Wild Jack Y1 - 1974 A1 - [Sam] [Youd] (1922-2012) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Young adult novel set in 23rd century England in which an authoritarian dystopia is contrasted with an outlaw culture.

PB - Hamilton CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Macmillan, 1974.

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John Christopher [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Winter's Children Y1 - 1974 A1 - Michael G[reatrex] Coney (1932-2005) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia set in a new ice age in a small community threatened by cannibals and telepathic Pads controlled by a single man.

PB - Gollancz CY - London SN - 0-575-01851-8 N1 -

Rpt. London: Sphere Books, [1976].

Parts originally published as “Discover a Latent Moses.” Illus. Jack Gaughan (1930-1985) Galaxy Science Fiction 30.1 (April 1970): 32-53, 158; and “The Snow Princess.” Illus. Uncredited. Galaxy Science Fiction 31.2 (January 1971): 28-54.

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BL, Bod, NLS, Riverside, Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Women in Motion" Y1 - 1974 A1 - Lucinda [Laura] Franks (b. 1946) ED - Maggie Tripp KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia stressing physical fitness for both men and women with schools no longer having boys' teams and girls' teams.

JF - Woman In the Year 2000 PB - Arbor House CY - New York U5 -

DLC, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Wonderful All-Purpose Transmogrifier” Y1 - 1974 A1 - Barry N[athaniel] Malzberg (b. 1939) ED - Edward L Ferman (b. 1937) ED - Barry N[athaniel] Malzberg (b. 1939) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia about a machine that can provide all experience and is addictive.

JF - Final Stage: The Ultimate Science Fiction Anthology PB - Charterhouse CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. Final Stage: The Ultimate Science Fiction Anthology. Ed. Edward L. Ferman and Barry N[athaniel] Malzberg (Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin, 1975), 227-35. “Afterword” (235-36). 

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DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - World Peace? Will women succeed where men consistently failed? Y1 - 1974 A1 - Dr. Charlotte M. Steiner KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

An odd pamphlet that argues “Prenatal Education” can produce children with specific characteristics, good or bad. The pamphlet outlines what the mother should do regarding diet, exercise, and “purposeful activities,” during pregnancy to bring about the only vaguely described eutopia. The author says that this is based on the writings of Dr. O. Z. Hanish (1844/56?-1936), whose writings on Prenatal Education were brought together in two collections published in Amsterdam in 1976. The book ends by mentioning a forthcoming novel, It All Starts in the Womb by Frank D. Steiner, which will illustrate Prenatal Education but does not appear to have even been published. 

PB - Author CY - Tuolumne, CA U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Young Love" Y1 - 1974 A1 - Grania [Eve] Davis (1943-2017) ED - Damon [Francis] Knight (1922-2002) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia. Sexless love in a disintegrating society where most people live in communities with all their activities regulated. From age 12 boys and girls live in separate communities. Chemical food. Large numbers are homeless. Generally unintelligent and uneducated. The Army does work like street cleaning that robots are not able to do.

JF - Orbit 13 PB - Berkley Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Dream's Edge: Science Fiction Stories About the Future of Planet Earth. Ed. Terry Carr (San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club Books, 1980), 206-22.

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Your Time, Your Station" Y1 - 1974 A1 - David [Allan] Saperstein (b. 1937) ED - Maggie Tripp KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The present day presented from the point-of-view of a future eutopia that stresses great variety rather than the uniformity seen in the present.

JF - Woman In the Year 2000 PB - Arbor House CY - New York U5 -

DLC, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "1984" Y1 - 1973 A1 - [Ed] [Bereal] (b. 1937) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a race war in 1984.

JF - Guerrilla Theatre PB - Anchor Books CY - Garden City, NY U3 -

Bodacious Buggerrilla [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Aftermath 15 Y1 - 1973 A1 - W[ilfred] D[ennis] Pereira (1921-2014) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia after a nuclear war with the U.S. divided into red, blue, and white zones based on exposure to radiation. Those released from the red to the blue become slaves as do those released from the blue to the white. The white zone includes a huge city, over a mile high which is an overpopulation dystopia except for those at the top. Outside the city is a gold zone for the elite of the elite. Described as the first volume of a trilogy and ends in a manner that requires a continuation, but no evidence can be found of later volumes.

PB - Robert Hale CY - London U5 -

NLS, O

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Altar Egoes" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Bob [Robert] Shaw (1931-96) ED - Christopher Carrell KW - Male author KW - Northern Ireland author AB -

Short satire on marriage in the future and the difficulties of the few who choose it.

JF - Beyond This Horizon: An Anthology of Science Fact and Science Fiction PB - Ceolfrith Arts CY - Sunderland, Eng. U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Anti-Zota Y1 - 1973 A1 - Eric [Alexander] Burgess (1912-95) A1 - Arthur [Henry] Friggens (b. 1920) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia for some, dystopia for others. Long-lifers versus short-lifers.

PB - Robert Hale CY - London U5 -

L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Beachhead in Utopia" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Lloyd Biggle Jr. (1923-2002) ED - Roger [Paul] Elwood (1943-2007) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. International Poverty Control Agency--if, after retraining, a person cannot find a job, they and their family are executed. Successfully eliminates welfare.

JF - Omega PB - Walker CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. (Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Gold Medal, 1974), 143-54.

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CU-Riv, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Beast in View" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Miriam Allen deFord (1888-1975) ED - Roger [Paul] Elwood (1943-2007) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A eutopian society (peaceful, vegetarian) tries to deal with a throwback.

JF - Omega PB - Walker CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. (Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Gold Medal, 1973), 70-82.

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CU-Riv, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Beyond the Tomorrow Mountains Y1 - 1973 A1 - Sylvia [Louise] Engdahl (b. 1933) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Continuation of 1972 Engdahl. In this novel most of story is concerned with a villager who had earned the right to become a Scholar and his despair over what he learns. But at the end he reinterprets the Prophecy on which the civilization is built in a way that will bring about change in the future. See also 1981 Engdahl.

PB - Atheneum CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. with minor revisions in Children of the Star (Atlanta, GA: Meisha Merlin, 2000), 217-421 together with 1972 and 1981 Engdahl, with an “Afterword” to the Collection (719-21), in which she notes that this volume was intended for teenagers, whereas the first was intended for children, and “Sylvia Engdahl Biography” ([723-24]). Public US

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Illus. Richard Cuffari

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Public

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Breakout in Ecol 2." Y1 - 1973 A1 - David [Roosevelt] Bunch (1925-2000) ED - Harry [Max] Harrison (1925-2012) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia.

JF - Nova PB - Walker CY - New York VL - 3 N1 -

U.K. ed. (London: Sphere, 1975), 40-44

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Bridge Y1 - 1973 A1 - D. Keith Mano (b. 1942) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe religious dysytopia. The novel consists of a "Prologue" and "Epilogue" that depict the dystopia, but the bulk of it is the true story of the man who is worshipped, a story that does not match the later beliefs.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY U5 -

HRC, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Captain Blackman Y1 - 1973 A1 - John A[lfred] Williams (1925-2015) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

Most of the novel is concerned with the experiences of African Americans in the U. S. military, specifically in Vietnam. It ends, though with two brief scenes, the first of depicting white officers planning to eliminate African Americans from the military. The second depicts the failure of the plan because African Americans have slowly established themselves in Africa, where they were free from surveillance and have gradually taken control of U. S. nuclear weapons and their delivery systems. The first scene is intended to be the culmination of the dystopian experience of African Americans in the military; the second is intended to be the first step to a better society. 

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Rpt. with an “Introduction” by Alexs Pate (i-ix). Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House Press, 2000

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Changing of the Gods" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Terry [Gene] Carr (1937-87) ED - Robert Hoskins KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of violence with youth against age.

JF - Infinity Five PB - Lancer Books CY - New York U5 -

WMa

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Children of Morrow Y1 - 1973 A1 - H[elen] M[ary] Hoover (1935-2018) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Two telepathic children born into a primitive post-nuclear war society that they flee to join a telepathic and technologically advanced eutopia. See also 1976 Hoover.

PB - Four Winds Press CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Clear Day in Motor City" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Eleanor [Atwood] Arnason (b. 1942) ED - Michael [John] Moorcock (b. 1939) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia. The story begins in a future eutopian Detroit, Michigan, where everyone gets the day off on a clear day. But the eutopia exists only for those who take drugs, and there are human sacrifices to the old gods.

JF - New Worlds 6. The Science Fiction Quarterly PB - Sphere CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in The New Improved Sun: An Anthology of Utopian S-F. Ed. Thomas M[ichael] Disch (New York: Harper & Row, 1975), 109-16 with an editor's note on 108-09.

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CU, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Cloud Walker Y1 - 1973 A1 - Edmund Cooper (1926-82) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Post-catastrophe society that has abolished machinery and has achieved a good life. Story of a boy who dreams of flying and invents an air ship that brings the eutopian world closer together.

PB - Hodder & Stoughton CY - London U5 -

GU, L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Cold War ... Continued" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) ED - Harry [Max] Harrison (1925-2012) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

While the U.S. and U.S.S.R. are supposedly in détente, they both want to control the resources of the developing world. This story focus on a conflict between them over the resources of one North Africa country, with Japan also trying to gain control of them. 

JF - Nova PB - Walker CY - New York VL - 3 N1 -

U.K. ed. (London: Sphere, 1975), 45-72.

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L, Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Complex Man Y1 - 1973 A1 - Marie C. Farca (b. 1935) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The protagonist from 1972 Farca twenty-five years later in his advanced but troubled technological society as it undergoes change by trying to incorporate some of the principles of the society in the first novel.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY U5 -

DLC, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Conservations at Lothar's" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Barry N[athaniel] Malzberg (b. 1939) ED - Roger [Paul] Elwood (1943-2007) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia.

JF - Children of Infinity; Original Science Fiction Stories for Young Readers PB - Franklin Watts CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in The Liberated Future. Ed. Robert Hoskins (Greenwich, CT: Fawcett, 1974), 229-34. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Count-Down to Black Genocide Y1 - 1973 A1 - [Carl Lee] [Shears] (1937-79) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

The dystopia brought about by a plan to eliminate the Black population of the United States in response to the energy crisis. The plan is carried out and most Blacks are killed. The remaining Blacks form Afro-America in what was Florida. See also 1971 (2), 1972, 1974, 1975 (2), and 1978 Shears. 

PB - Nuclassics and Science Publishing CY - Washington, DC N1 -

2nd ed. Washington, DC: Nuclassics and Science Publishing, 1973. The pagination of the two “editions” is identical. 

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Saggittarus [pseud.]. 

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Crash Y1 - 1973 A1 - J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia--sex and technology.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Triad/Panther, 1985. This ed. includes Ballard's "Introduction to the French Edition of Crash (1974)" (5-9). U.S. ed. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1973. 

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TxDa

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Crisis on Earth-X" “Thirteen Against the Earth” Y1 - 1973 A1 - Len [Leonard Norman] Wein (1948-2017) ED - Dick Dillin (artist) ED - Dick Giordano (artist) ED - Julius Schwartz KW - Male author AB -

Comic in which superheroes overcome the dystopia created when the Nazis' win World War II. Continued in their 1973 "Thirteen Against the Earth."  Justice League of America, no. 108 (December 1973). 

JF - Justice League of America, VL - no. 107 - 108 U5 -

CU-Riv

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Culture Lock" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Barry N[athaniel] Malzberg (b. 1939) ED - Roger [Paul] Elwood (1943-2007) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future society in which homosexual men are given a walled enclave in which to live, but it is unclear whether this is a place to live freely or effectively a prison. The picture of homosexuality is highly ambivalent. 1977 Malzberg is a sequel. 

JF - Future City PB - Trident CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. (New York: Pocket Books, 1974), 21-27.

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DLC, Merril, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Death of China, Europe and . . . (The World Ecological Catastrophe). A Very Amusing Satire. A Scientific Tragi-Comedy in 3 Acts Y1 - 1973 A1 - Apollo Silva (b. 1920) KW - Male author KW - Portuguese author AB -

The first act is set in Rome in 1990, the second on the moon, and the third on a eutopian island called the Model Country off Sardinia.

PB - Author CY - Oporto, Portugal ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Desirable Lakeside Residence" Y1 - 1973 A1 - André Norton (1912-2005) ED - Roger [Paul] Elwood (1943-2007) ED - Virginia Kidd (1921-2003) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Ecological dystopia.

JF - Saving Worlds: A Collection of Original Science Fiction Stories PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Book repub. as The Wounded Planet (New York: Bantam Books, 1974), 69-88. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Disneyland Man" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Gustav Hasford (1947-93) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia--poverty, conflict. Unfit humans used for food.

JF - Edge VL - [1].5/6 U5 -

ATL

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Don't Hold Your Breath" Y1 - 1973 A1 - A[lfred] E[lton] van Vogt (1912-2000) ED - Roger [Paul] Elwood (1943-2007) ED - Virginia Kidd (1921-2003) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Ecological dystopia.

JF - Saving Worlds: A Collection of Original Science Fiction Stories PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Book repub. as The Wounded Planet (New York: Bantam Books, 1974), 203-24. Story rpt. in Transfinite: The Essential A.E. van Vogt. Ed. Joe Rico and Rick Katze (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2002), 523-39.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Doomsday Gene Y1 - 1973 A1 - [Boyd Bradfield] [Upchurch] (1919-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A gene for short, intense life to help control population growth creates a dystopia.

PB - Weybright & Talley CY - New York U3 -

John Boyd [pseud.]

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Examination Day" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Gordon [Stewart] Eklund (b. 1945) ED - Roger [Paul] Elwood (1943-2007) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia with machine-teaching to control action.

JF - The Other Side of Tomorrow PB - Random House CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Exhibition." Y1 - 1973 A1 - Scott Edelstein (b. 1954) ED - Harry [Max] Harrison (1925-2012) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia focusing on the arts.

JF - Nova PB - Walker and Co. CY - New York VL - 3 N1 -

U.K. ed. (London: Sphere, 1975), 141-49.

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Fall and Rise of Man, If . . Y1 - 1973 A1 - Robert L[eonard] Evans (1917-2003) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Mostly a detailed criticism of society but includes a set of proposals and a brief (231-33) outline of a eutopian society based on the ideas of Bertrand Russell (1872-1970). The eutopia is to be democratic, socialist, well-educated, protected from central power, and creative.

PB - Lund Press CY - Minneapolis, MN U5 -

I

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Fanshen and the Magic Bear Y1 - 1973 A1 - Becky Sarah KW - Female author AB -

Children’s story in which a young girl is the tax collector for a king and who hates taking from the poor for the rich king. The female bear, Fanshen, advises the girl to get all the people together and say that they were no longer going to pay taxes, and that they were going to divide the land up equally. They do and, in doing so, create a eutopia in which even the king is happy.

PB - New Seed Press CY - Stanford, CA U2 -

Illus. Dana Smith

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MiU, MnU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Faulty Register" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Joe [Joseph Nicholas] Gores (1931-2011) ED - Thomas N[icholas] Scortia (1926-86) ED - Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (b. 1942) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Parallel world without any social or economic problems maintained by televised torture.

JF - Two Views of Wonder PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York U5 -

PLhS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Final Solution Y1 - 1973 A1 - Richard E[arl] Peck (b. 1936) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

University problems of the 1960s and 1970s projected into a dystopian future. Graduates of universities, including some with graduate degrees, cannot read. Students are kept as children through drugs that delay puberty. Children of unwed mothers raised separately with no visits by the mothers. Standard English rejected; Black English required of all students. No grades. Positions like Professor of Shoe Repair. University level driver training. 

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY U5 -

MoS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "For the Good of Society" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Terri E. Pinckard (1930-2004) KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia of criminality where the only decent people are in prison and it is prisoners who grow the food and manufacture the goods for the entire society.

JF - Vertex VL - 1.5 N1 -

Rpt as by T[erri] E. Merritt-Pinckard in Ackermanthology: 65 Astonishing, Rediscovered Sci-Fi Shorts. Ed. Forrest J. Ackerman (Santa Monica, CA: General Publishing, 1997), 241-44.

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Free at Last" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Ron[ald Joseph] Goulart (1933-2022) ED - Robert Hoskins KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of sex and death in the future with Wide Open Marriage and a U.S. Transition Service providing for death.

JF - Infinity Five PB - Lancer Books CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Friends Come in Boxes Y1 - 1973 A1 - Michael G[reatrex] Coney (1932-2005) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia with control of access to immortality. The dystopia that is produced by an usual means of achieving immortality that requires the brains of the immortals to be kept in boxes until the body of a baby is available to receive it. But, with immortality available, few babies are born. 

PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Future Glitter Y1 - 1973 A1 - A[lfred] E[lton] van Vogt (1912-2000) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Anti-Communist dystopia, which the author makes clear in the "Author's Introduction" (5-8). Successful revolt against the dictatorship by a group of scientists. See the note at 1945 van Vogt.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1976; and as Tyranopolis. London: Sphere, 1977.

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Rpt. as Tyranopolis. London: Sphere, 1977.

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Merril, MoU-St, O, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "[Future History]. A Serviceable Past" Y1 - 1973 A1 - C. George Benello (1926-87) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Detailed eutopia of two societies set in 2010. In one, depletion of resources has produced a poor society. In the other, a eutopia is presented that reflects growth and emphasizes ecology and religion. Decentralization, crafts, and education through apprenticeship.

JF - 1973 American Anthropological Association Experimental Symposium on Cultural Futuristics: Pre-Conference Volume PB - [Office for Applied Social Science and the Future, University of Minnesota] CY - [Minneapolis, MN] N1 -

Rpt. as "A Future History." In Cultures of the Future. Ed. Magoroh Maruyama and Arthur M. Harkins (The Hague, The Netherlands: Mouton, 1978), 561-91.

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Future Perfect" Y1 - 1973 A1 - A[lfred] E[lton] van Vogt (1912-2000) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia. A hyper-organized eutopia that controls all aspects of life for the benefit of each person is defeated by a young man in love with a young woman who, under the rules, he cannot marry. 

JF - Vertex VL - 1.3 N1 -

Rpt. in 2020 Vision. Ed. Jerry Pournelle (New York: Avon, 1974), 151-74; and in Transfinite: The Essential A.E. van Vogt. Ed. Joe Rico and Rick Katze (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2002), 389-407.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Futurology: The Real World of 2084" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Richard N. Farmer (d. 1987) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A presentation of eutopian and dystopian scenarios for 1984 focused on the expansion or restriction of choice. The dystopian scenarios, which are only suggested, are environmental collapse, total war, and "mass mind control". The eutopian scenarios are technological and include the ability to choose the details of the child you want, choose your skin color, a radically extended healthy life span, technologically enhanced education with knowledge imprinted directly on the brain, and a variety of other ways that radical new technology might revolutionize life.

JF - The Real World of 1984: A Look at the Forseeable Future PB - David McKay Co. CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Ghost Writer" Y1 - 1973 A1 - George Alec Effinger (1947-2002) ED - Terry [Gene] Carr (1937-87) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia presenting a society of high technical ability that is strongly opposed to change or difference. The story focuses on "authors" who simply repeat fragments of the great writers of the past and one who, having admitted that he writes his own material, is eliminated.

JF - Universe PB - Random House CY - New York VL - 3 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Girl Who Was Plugged In" Y1 - 1973 A1 - [Alice Bradley] [Sheldon] (1915-87) ED - Robert Silverberg (b. 1935) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A eutopia that outlaws any misrepresentation of a product (advertising) is being successfully undermined by corporate interests.

JF - New Dimensions PB - Nelson Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY VL - 3 SN - 978-1-59853-732-1 N1 -

Rpt. New York: Tor, 1989. Tor Double bound with Vonda N[eel] McIntyre (1948-2019). Screwtop [Originally published in The Crystal Ship: Three Original Novellas of Science Fiction. Ed. Robert Silverberg (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 1976), 151-208]; in her Her Smoke Rose Up Forever ([Sauk City, WI:] Arkham House, 1990), 44-79; in Cybersex. Ed. Richard Glyn Jones (New York: Carroll & Graf, 1996), 178-213; in The Ultimate Cyberpunk. Ed. Pat Cadigan (New York: ibooks, 2002), 74-120; in The James Tiptree Award Anthology 3. Ed. Karen Joy Fowler, Pat Murphy, Debbie Notkin, and Jeffrey D. Smith (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon Publications, 2007), 151-90; and in The Future is Female! More Classic Science Fiction by Women Volume 2: The 1970s. Ed. Lisa Yaszek (New York: Library of America, 2023), 135-184, with a biographical note on 469-471 and notes on the text on 483-485.

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James Tiptree, Jr. [pseud.]

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O, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The God Machine Y1 - 1973 A1 - William Jon Watkins (b. 1942) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a fascist United States creating a police state. There is an opposition movement that uses "The God Machine" to shrink people so that they can escape the authorities. In the end the opposition wins.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY U5 -

DLC, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Great Wall of Mexico" Y1 - 1973 A1 - John T[homas] Sladek (1937-2000) ED - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future satirical U.S. dystopia in which there is an incompetent president, the government spies on everyone, the elderly are warehoused, and a wall is built to keep out illegal immigrants. 1971 Waskow is probably the basis for this.

JF - Bad Moon Rising PB - Harper & Row CY - New York SN - 06-011046-5 N1 -

U.K. ed. without the T. in his name (London: Hutchinson of London, 1974), 125-58. Rpt. without the T. in his name in his Keep the Giraffe Burning (London: Panther, 1977), 168-99; and again without the T. in his name in SciFiction www.scifi.com/scifiction/ Posted December 22, 2005. No longer available online.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Green Gene Y1 - 1973 A1 - Peter [Malcolm de Brissac] Dickinson (1927-2015) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Humorous dystopia in which Apartheid has been designed to exclude all Celts, who are literally green. The humor is directed both at the English and at the Celts and the Irish in particular.

PB - Hodder & Stoughton CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Pantheon, 1973. Rpt. New York: DAW Books, 1975.

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MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Harriet" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Stephen [Charles] Goldin (b. 1947) A1 - C. F. Hensel ED - Roger [Paul] Elwood (1943-2007) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia.

JF - Frontiers 1: Tomorrow's Alternatives. Original Science Fiction PB - Collier Books CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Heart Clock Y1 - 1973 A1 - [Reginald Charles] [Hill] (1936-2012) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which life expectancy is controlled by the government depending on what the economy can bear.

PB - Faber and Faber CY - London N1 -

Rpt. under the author's name as Matlock's System. Sutton, Surrey, Eng.: Severn House, 1996.

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Rpt. under the author's name as Matlock's System

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Dick Morland [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Hours of Trust" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Gene [Rodman] Wolfe (1931-2019) ED - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a war in the United States, some of which is faked.

JF - Bad Noon Rising PB - Harper & Row CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - How It All Ended: The Decline and Demise of the West as Reconstructed by Johann Sebastian Barberini in the Year of Our Lord 4776 Y1 - 1973 A1 - Sergio [Franz] Funaro (1922-1986) KW - Male author KW - San Marino author KW - US author AB -

Satire on both Italian and U.S. politics.

PB - A. M. Aronowitz CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - If You Believe the Soldiers Y1 - 1973 A1 - [George Alexander] [Graber] (1914-97) KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

Dystopia of a right-wing military coup in Britain.

PB - Hodder and Stoughton CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1974.

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Alexander Cordell [pseud.]

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NLS, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "IMT" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Pamela Sargent (b. 1948) ED - Thomas N[icholas] Scortia (1926-86) ED - Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (b. 1942) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Disintegration of the cities of the future. Violence, poverty. Hope through a new technology but problems with how to introduce it for the best results.

JF - Two Views of Wonder PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in her Starshadows: Ten Stories (New York: Ace Books, 1977), 88-108.

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MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "In the Group" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Robert Silverberg (b. 1935) ED - Joseph Elder KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia from the perspective of the protagonist. It is possible to teleport anywhere in the world, but closeness and emotion are considered atavisms. It is only acceptable to love Us, not an individual. In the Group one feels the sensations of a couple having sex and the experiences and responses of those who are experiencing their actions.

JF - Eros in Orbit: A Collection of All New Science-Fiction Stories About Sex PB - Trident Press CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Penthouse 4.9 (May 1973): 80-82, 122, 124, 126, 128; in The Shape of Sex to Come. Ed. Douglas Hill (London: Pan Books, 1978), 12-29; in Beyond the Safe Zone: Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg (New York: Donald I. Fine, 1986), 124-36; in The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg. Volume 3: Beyond the Safe Zone (London: HarperCollins, 1994), 146-62; and in The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg. Volume Four: Trips: The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2009), 14-28 with an author’s note on 13.

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L, Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Kalos; What Is To Be Done With Our World Y1 - 1973 A1 - Alfred De Grazia (1919-2014) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Detailed eutopia with Tutors similar to the Samurai in 1905 Wells who will help bring it about. Includes specifics of the governmental structure and general statements of the conditions that should be reached in fifty years. 

PB - Kalos Press CY - Bombay, India U5 -

MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Left On! The Glorious Bourgeois Cultural Revolution Y1 - 1973 A1 - Harry [Heinrich August] Rositzke (1911-2003) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on U.S. politics seen through a eutopia of "evolutionary democracy", which has striking affinities to aspects of China under Mao Tse-tung (1893-1976), including a "Cultural Revolution". Some have read it as intending to present a eutopia; others have read it as an attack on the left. The inside front and back covers have a Chronology of the period covered by the book (July 1972 to February 1975).

PB - Quadrangle/The New York Times Book Co. CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Leisure Riots; A Comic Novel Y1 - 1973 A1 - Eric Koch (b. 1919) KW - Canadian author KW - German author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of vast unemployment. People riot against leisure activities.

PB - Tundra Books CY - Montréal, QC, Canada U5 -

Can, Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Life in the Year 2000" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Percival Goodman (1904-89) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

General overview of a better society. See also 1947 Goodman and Goodman and 1977 Goodman.

JF - Royal Institute of British Architects Journal VL - 80.7 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "London Times, 2075 July 15. Reporter Visits Lincoln. First Reporter in 100 Years" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Marion L[undy] Dobbert (b. 1943) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Detailed eutopia--ecologically sound society that stresses the human scale.

JF - 1973 American Anthropological Association Experimental Symposium on Cultural Futuristics: Pre-Conference Volume PB - [Office for Applied Social Science and the Future, University of Minnesota] CY - [Minneapolis, MN] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Lone Warrior" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Miriam Allen deFord (1888-1975) ED - Thomas N[icholas] Scortia (1926-86) ED - Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (b. 1942) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story begins with the death by torture of a member of the opposition to an authoritarian dystopia with his lover being forced to watch and continues with her systematic attempt to reconnect with the opposition movement and get revenge.

JF - Two Views of Wonder PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Looking Backward, From the Year 2000 Y1 - 1973 A1 - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Julian West, the protagonist of 1888 Bellamy, waking in Reynold’s future, described here in the most eutopian of his novels. Everything automated. New world language. The woman he falls in love with rejects him as a throwback. See also 1977 Reynolds, Equality.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -

U.K. edition. Morley, West Yorkshire, Eng.: Elmfield Press, 1976.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lynchers Y1 - 1973 A1 - John Edgar Wideman (b. 1941) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

As a part of their protest against the dystopia created for blacks in the United States, four black man plan on lynching a white policeman. 

PB - Harcourt Brace Jovanovich CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Midway Priest Y1 - 1973 A1 - Louis Capson (b. 1944) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Québec has established a separate government. The play centers on a plot to kill a member of the new government.

PB - Playwrights Co-op CY - Toronto, ON, Canada U5 -

Can

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The National Pastime." Y1 - 1973 A1 - Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940) ED - Harry [Max] Harrison (1925-2012) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of violence with combat football.

JF - Nova PB - Walker CY - New York VL - 3 N1 -

U.K. ed. (London: Sphere, 1975), 96-113. Rpt. in his The Star-Spangled Future (New York: Ace Books 1979), 171-97 with an "Introduction to The National Pastime" (169-70).

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DLC, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Nice Morning Drive" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Richard S. Foster KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A dystopian story in which government safety features on cars have gone overboard so that the cars are unwieldy, and few people drive for pleasure. The focus of the story is one such driver who drives an unimproved MG Roadster on the back roads, but encounters drivers in improved cars who try to crash into older cars knowing that they will be safe but destroying the older car. 

JF - Road & Track VL - 25.3 N1 -

Rpt. in Inspired ‘Red Barchetta’.” 2113: Stories Inspired by the Music of Rush. Ed. Kevin J. Anderson and John Mc Fetridge (Toronto, ON, Canada: ECW Press, 2016), 75-81 with a note by Anderson on 74 and an “Author’s Note” on 82-83. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Noonday Devil" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Dennis [Joseph] O'Neil (b. 1939) ED - Roger [Paul] Elwood (1943-2007) ED - Virginia Kidd (1921-2003) KW - Male author AB -

Ecological dystopia.

JF - Saving Worlds: A Collection of Original Science Fiction Stories PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Book repub. as The Wounded Planet (New York: Bantam Books, 1974), 105-16.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Notes from 1999" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Arthur [Israel] Waskow (b. 1933) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia presented as a future history with the period from 1980 to 1990 called the Period of Transformation. In 1980 Quebec and northern New England become independent and other regional, ethnic, and workplace groups become autonomous. Between 1994 and 1999 the U.S. government collapses and, although there are some continuing problems, the autonomous groups simply work together outside and legal or political structure. The eutopia is presented through letters from a man in a "Irbutz", a farm and city kibbutz in the Washington, DC area that is part of the "Verein" or Jewish Commonwealth.

JF - Working Papers for a New Society VL - 1.1 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas (Variations on a Theme by William James)" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) ED - Robert Silverberg (b. 1935) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Flawed eutopia. The suffering of one child is necessary for the existence of a eutopia. See Sarah Pinsker, “The Ones Who Know Where They are Going.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 41.3 & 4 (494 & 495) (March-April 2017): 67-69 for a brief version giving the perspective of the child. Corey Doctorow’s Walkaway. New York: Tor, 2017 is clearly related. P. H. Lee’s “A House by the Sea.” Uncanny A Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy, no. 24 (September 2018). https://uncannymagazine.com/article/a-house-by-the-sea/ is about the lives of the children after they are released from the basement and replaced by another child. Nora K. Jemisin’s,  “The One Who Stay and Fight.” In her How Long ‘Til Black Future Month (New York: Orbit, 2018), 1-13; rpt. Lightspeed Magazine, no. 116 (January 2020). https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-ones-who-stay-and-fight/ reflects the story’s title. Cynthia Gómez’s “The Ones Who Came Back to Heal.” Strange Horizons (July 17, 2023). http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/the-ones-who-come-back-to-heal/ concerns a trans person who had left but returns to try to help the child. A related story that connects the children in Omelas to the refugee crisis is Rene Denfeld, “The Ones Who Don’t Walk Away.” Dispatches from Anarres: Tales in Tribute to Ursula K. Le Guin. Ed. Susan DeFreitas (Portland, OR: Forest Avenue Press, 2021), 112-116. 

JF - New Dimensions PB - Nelson Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY VL - 3 N1 -

Rpt. in her The Wind’s Twelve Quarters: Short Stories (New York: Harper & Row, 1975), 224-31; in Utopian Studies 2.1 & 2 (1992): 1-5; in The Secret History of Science Fiction. Ed. James Patrick Kelly and John [Joseph Vincent] Kessel (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon, 2009), 39-44; without the subtitle in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 33-38; 2nd ed. ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 33-38; and with the subtitle in her The Real and the Unreal. Selected Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin. Volume Two Outer Space, Inner Lands (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2012), 1-7; with the subtitle in the one volume edition The Real and the Unreal: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin (New York: Saga Press, 2016), 329-36; with the subtitle in Grave Predictions: Tales of Mankind’s Post-Apocalyptic, Dystopian and Disastrous Destiny. Ed. Drew Ford (Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2016), 87-94; and without the subtitle in Futures and Fictions. Ed. Henriette Gunkel, Ayesha Hameed, and Simon O’Sullivan (London: Repeater Press, 2017), 379-88.  

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Operation Burning Candle. A Novel Y1 - 1973 A1 - Blyden Jackson (1910-2000) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

The dystopia of contemporary U.S. race relations gives rise to a successful plot to kill a number of racist Southern politicians while they are at a political convention in Madison Square Garden in New York City. The ending suggests both that the elimination of these politicians will ease the way to racial integration and that it creates greater solidarity among African Americans.

PB - Third Press CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Our Brilliant Future" Y1 - 1973 A1 - [Bernhardt] Ben Klassen (1918-93) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Short National Socialist eutopia with the purified "White Race" completely dominant.

JF - Nature's Eternal Religion In Two Books. Book I. The Unavenged Outrage Book II: The Salvation PB - Church of the Creator CY - Lighthouse Point, FL U5 -

KU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Outline of History" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Braly, Malcolm ED - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which most of the prisoners in California jails are dumped into a huge walled compound in the Nevada desert where they are expected to organize their own affairs, with the expected result.

JF - Bad Moon Rising PB - Harper & Row CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Paradise Regained" Y1 - 1973 A1 - [Theodore Rose] [Cogswell] (1918-87) A1 - [Theodore Lockard] [Thomas] (1920-2005) ED - Roger [Paul] Elwood (1943-2007) ED - Virginia Kidd (1921-2003) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Ecological dystopia.

JF - Saving Worlds: A Collection of Original Science Fiction Stories PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Book repub. as The Wounded Planet (New York: Bantam Books, 1974), 171-79.

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Cogswell Thomas [pseud.]

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Paramind Y1 - 1973 A1 - Jim Willer (b. 1921) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Computer dystopia showing the dangers of too much power being given to computers.

PB - McClelland and Stewart Limited CY - Toronto, ON, Canada U5 -

OTU, Can

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Parks of Rest and Culture" Y1 - 1973 A1 - George Zebrowski (b. 1945) ED - Roger [Paul] Elwood (1943-2007) ED - Virginia Kidd (1921-2003) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Ecological dystopia.

JF - Saving Worlds: A Collection of Original Science Fiction Stories PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Book repub. as The Wounded Planet (New York: Bantam Books, 1974), 19-30.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The People of the Wind" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Poul [William] Anderson (1926-2001) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia of limited government.

JF - Analog Science--Science Fact VL - 90.6 - 91.2 N1 -

Repub. New York: New American Library, 1973. Rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1977.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Pity the Poor Outdated Man." Y1 - 1973 A1 - Philip Shofner ED - Harry [Max] Harrison (1925-2012) KW - Male author AB -

Flawed utopia. Future eutopian world where myths have been brought to life. One man is bored and uses grenades against peaceful unicorns.

JF - Nova PB - Walker and Co. CY - New York VL - 3 N1 -

U.K. ed. (London: Sphere, 1975), 124-40.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Plenteous Seed Y1 - 1973 A1 - D[enise] N[atalie] Sims KW - Female author AB -

Revolt in a hierarchical dystopia.

PB - Robert Hale CY - London U5 -

L, NLS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Port of Saints Y1 - 1973 A1 - William S[eward] Burroughs (1914-97) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia similar to that in 1959, 1961, 1962, and 1964 Burroughs. In this novel Burroughs includes a number of different plot lines, one of which is the attempt to change history by travelling through time. 

PB - Covent Garden Press/Am Here Books CY - London/Ollon, Switzerland N1 -

Different version Berkeley, CA: Blue Wind Press, 1980. U.K. ed. London: John Calder, 1983.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Pugilist" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Poul [William] Anderson (1926-2001) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia. U.S. taken over by Communists. Militarism.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 45.5 N1 -

Rpt. in 2020 Vision. Ed. Jerry Pournelle (New York: Avon, 1974), 85-117; and in The Collected Short Stories of Poul Anderson. Volume 4 Admiralty. Ed. Rick Katze (Framingham, MA: NESFA Press, 2011), 104-27.

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Quality of the Product" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Lil Neville A1 - Kris [Ottman] Neville (1925-1980) ED - Roger [Paul] Elwood (1943-2007) ED - Virginia Kidd (1921-2003) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Ecological dystopia.

JF - Saving Worlds: A Collection of Original Science Fiction Stories PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Book repub. as The Wounded Planet (New York: Bantam Books, 1974), 31-54.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Race Against Time Y1 - 1973 A1 - [Piers Anthony Dillingham] [Jacob] (b. 1934) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult post-catastrophe dystopia. The Standards were the few survivors of bacterial warfare and lived on an Earth that was recovering slowly. They stressed no waste and no pollution, but their society was becoming stagnant. Since they still had the old technology, they created groups of individuals of high intelligence of various pure racial stocks who were to live in racially pure enclaves. These people decide to keep the races pure but to cooperate otherwise and will become examples to the Standards.

PB - Hawthorn CY - New York U3 -

Piers Anthony [pseud.]

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NZ

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Randy-Tandy Man" Y1 - 1973 A1 - [Ross Louis] [Rocklin] (1913-88) ED - Terry [Gene] Carr (1937-87) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a society in which hate is controlled by forcing everyone to hate until they purge themselves. The protagonist, who is in the final stages of purges himself, sees the society in dystopian terms, but the story presents it in eutopian terms.

JF - Universe PB - Random House CY - New York VL - 3 U3 -

By Ross Rocklynne [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Red Canary" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Kate [Katie Gertrude Meredith] Wilhelm (1928-2018) ED - Damon [Francis] Knight (1922-2002) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Bureaucratic welfare dystopia of extreme poverty and the rationing of health care.

JF - Orbit PB - G.P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York VL - 12 N1 -

Rpt. in her The Infinity Box: A collection of speculative fiction (New York: Harper & Row, 1975), 113-33.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Regiment of Women. A Novel Y1 - 1973 A1 - Thomas [Louis] Berger (1924-2014) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. An extreme form of gender-role reversal in which men have breast implants, women have facial hair implants, and dress and behavior patterns reflect strong versions of female and male stereotypes.

PB - Simon & Schuster CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Eyre Methue, 1973.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Relatives" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Geo[rge] Alec Effinger (1947-2002) ED - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Pollution, overpopulation, authoritarian dystopia.

JF - Bad Moon Rising PB - Harper & Row CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The R-Master Y1 - 1973 A1 - Gordon R[upert] Dickson (1923-2001) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia governed by the bureaucracy of the Earth Council, which presents itself as governing in the interests of the people but in fact controls them and governs in its own interest. The society has an ideology of complete freedom, but a hidden practice of constant control. 

PB - J. B. Lippincott CY - Philadelphia, PA N1 -

Rev. and exp. as The Last Master. New York: Tor, 1984.

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Rev. and exp. as The Last Master.

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Merril, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Roller Ball Murder" Y1 - 1973 A1 - William [Neal] Harrison (1933-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a future game of violence in a world run by corporations.

JF - Esquire VL - 80.3 N1 -

Rpt. in his Roller Ball Murder (New York: William Morrow, 1974), 77-95; U.K. ed. (London: Robson Books, 2005), 77-95; and in Science Fiction: The Future. Ed. Dick Allen. 2nd ed. (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983), 125-36.

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Rope of Glass" Y1 - 1973 A1 - George Zebrowski (b. 1945) ED - Thomas N[icholas] Scortia (1926-86) ED - Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (b. 1942) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a future society where having certain diseases is punishable by death.

JF - Two Views of Wonder PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York U5 -

PLhS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Saving the World" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Terry [Gene] Carr (1937-87) ED - Roger [Paul] Elwood (1943-2007) ED - Virginia Kidd (1921-2003) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Ecological dystopia with a hopeful ending.

JF - Saving Worlds: A Collection of Original Science Fiction Stories PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Book rpt. as The Wounded Planet (New York: Bantam Books, 1974), 2-17.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Season of Anomy Y1 - 1973 A1 - Wole [Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde] Soyinka (b. 1934) KW - Male author KW - Nigerian author AB -

The first two chapters present a communal eutopia. Much of the rest of the book presents current reality as dystopia, but the eutopian Aiyéró provides the possibility of something better.

PB - Rex Collings CY - London N1 -

Rpt. Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, Eng.: Nelson, 1980.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Shelter Y1 - 1973 A1 - Dan[iel John] Ljoka (b. 1935) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Fallout shelter dystopia. The novel focuses on a shelter in Washington, DC and a shelter in New Zealand. Ultimately everyone dies.

PB - Manor Books CY - New York U5 -

CU-Riv

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Slide Show" Y1 - 1973 A1 - George R[aymond] R[ichard] Martin (b. 1948) ED - Roger [Paul] Elwood (1943-2007) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of poverty.

JF - Omega PB - Walker CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. (Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Gold Medal, 1973), 83-97.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Small War" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Katherine [Anne] MacLean (1925-2019) ED - Roger [Paul] Elwood (1943-2007) ED - Virginia Kidd (1921-2003) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Ecological dystopia.

JF - Saving Worlds: A Collection of Original Science Fiction Stories PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Book repub. as The Wounded Planet (New York: Bantam Books, 1974), 61-67.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Solution PNC and PNCland Y1 - 1973 A1 - [Lyman Spicer] Vincent Judson KW - Male author AB -

Extremely detailed eutopia. PNC = Pseudo-Nation Corporation. Corporations are preferable to governments. The Mideast problem is solved by having all disputed land taken over by the PNC and a new canal built to make the Sinai an island. Three day work week. See also 1976 Judson

PB - Apex University Press CY - [Oshkosh, WI] ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sorry Wrong Number Y1 - 1973 A1 - Margaret Simpson KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia. Near future regimented society. Everyone assigned a number. Those without numbers pose problems for the system.

PB - Andre Deutsch CY - London U5 -

DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Square Root of MC" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Laurence [William] James (1942-2000) ED - [Henry] Kenneth Bulmer (1921-2005) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Includes, briefly, a eutopia of peace and plenty on Earth brought about by aliens.

JF - New Writings in SF PB - Sidgwick & Jackson CY - London VL - (22) U5 -

Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Stone That Never Came Down Y1 - 1973 A1 - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Religious dystopia with very strict rules regarding behavior that is also racist. The novel focuses on the spread of a drug that radically improves sense impressions and raises awareness that undermines the dystopia and sets the stage for a better society.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sweet Dreams Y1 - 1973 A1 - Michael Frayn (b. 1933) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Humor. A typical, upwardly mobile middle-class man dies and goes to a typical, upwardly mobile middle-class heaven.

PB - William Collins Sons CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Flamingo, 1986. U.S. ed. New York: Ballantine Books, 1975.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Tenth Planet. A Novel Y1 - 1973 A1 - Edmund Cooper (1926-82) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Flawed utopia. The novel begins with Earth near death from pollution and war. Mars is to be the next center of human civilization, but it experiences the same problems as Earth. Far in the future the remnant of humanity exists in a society of 10,000 underground on the tenth planet where it is under a static, religious, but benevolent dictatorship that provides a good life for its inhabitants but severely restricts change. A man from the time of the dying Earth is cloned and becomes the focus of conflict and encourages conflict. At the end, he and some others leave to see if Earth can be revived.

PB - Hodder & Stoughton CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. Rpt. New York: Berkley Medallion, 1974.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Texts of Festival Y1 - 1973 A1 - Mick [Michael Anthony] Farren (1943-2013) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which the remaining civilized community is surrounded by barbarians. The civilized community's gods are past rock stars.

PB - Hart-Davis, MacGibbon CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Three Tinks on the House" Y1 - 1973 A1 - F[rancis] M[arion] Busby (1921-2005) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia focusing on daily life. The work week is thirty hours but must be done in three days to reduce commuting. Personal security is a major issue. Homosexuality is encouraged to reduce the birth rate.

JF - Vertex VL - 1.2 N1 -

Rpt. in Dream's Edge: Science Fiction Stories About the Future of Planet Earth. Ed. Terry Carr (San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club Books, 1980), 157-67.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Time Enough for Love: The Lives of Lazarus Long Y1 - 1973 A1 - Robert A[nson] Heinlein (1907-88) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Wide-ranging detailed eutopia and dystopia. 

PB - G. P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Berkley Medallion, 1974; and as vol. 2 of The Virginia Edition of his works. Decatur, GA: Meisha Merlin, 2006 and separately Houston, TX: The Virginia Edition, 2008. Excerpts of the aphorisms published as The Notebooks of Lazarus Long. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1978. Extract published in Science Fiction Monthly (London) 1.3 ([March 1974]): 2-4.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Transfer to Yesterday Y1 - 1973 A1 - Isidore Haiblum (1935-2012) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe authoritarian dystopia with history constantly being rewritten. Competing self-interest groups that replaced government are called Anny, a corruption of Anschluss; anny or anarchist replaces citizen because there is no longer a government. The novel focuses on a man who had chosen to no longer be affiliated with an Anny and was thus considered a Heretic liable to be hunted by anyone.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1981.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Trullion: Alastor 2262" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Jack [John Holbrook] Vance (1916-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A complex society set in an immense populated universe. The society is basically agricultural and generally very happy, but there are conflicts, crime, danger, and a group of outcast gypsies.

JF - Amazing Science Fiction Stories VL - 46.6 - 47.1 N1 -

Repub. New York: Ballantine Books, 1973; and San Francisco, CA/Columbia, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1984. U.K. ed. London: Mayflower, 1979. Repub. as vol. 25 of The Complete Works of Jack Vance. Oakland, CA: Vance Integral Editions, 2002.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Two Thousand Seasons Y1 - 1973 A1 - Ayi Kwei Armah (b. 1939) KW - Ghanaian author KW - Male author AB -

A re-envisioned past of Africa as an egalitarian eutopia.

PB - East African Publishing House CY - Nairobi, Kenya N1 -

Rpt. Oxford, Eng.: Heinemann Educational, 1979.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Two Urban Tomorrows" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Richard N. Farmer (d. 1987) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The two scenarios set in 1984 are an environmental eutopia and, briefly, the dystopia that will be produced by following current policies. The eutopia has strict pollution controls; hydrogen power; a falling birth rate; many people working from home; and lots of two-story apartment building complexes appealing to different constituencies such as the elderly, families, and singles. Taxes within cities are assessed on what the land would be worth if developed so there is no rundown commercial property. 

JF - The Real World of 1984: A Look at the Forseeable Future PB - David McKay Co. CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The U. F. O. Story Y1 - 1973 A1 - Robin Kenwood KW - Male author AB -

The planet Oran is a low population planet. Communal. Cloning. No marriage or family. Live in large towers. The book includes a short section (38-43) on how the eutopia can be brought about on Earth.

PB - International Friends CY - Richmond, VA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Ultimate Solution Y1 - 1973 A1 - [Eric] [Pelletier] (1899-1979) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of the U.S. under Nazi rule. Slavery, homosexuality, and violence are the norm.

PB - Warner Books CY - New York U3 -

Eric Norden [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ultimatum Y1 - 1973 A1 - Richard [Heath] Rohmer (b. 1924) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

First of two volumes on conflict between Canada and the United States. In this volume, which is set in 1980, the U.S. tries to get control of Canada's natural gas. See also 1974 Rohmer.

PB - Clarke, Irwin & Co CY - Toronto, ON, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Undercity" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Dean R[ay] Koontz (b. 1945) ED - Roger [Paul] Elwood (1943-2007) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Crime in a eutopian city of the future told from the point of view of a professional criminal. Most things like gambling, drugs, and sex that had financed the underworld in the past are now legal and even murder has been replaced by the "code duello". But there are still many opportunities for the creative professional.

JF - Future City PB - Trident CY - New York N1 -

Book rpt. (New York: Pocket Books, 1974), 67-81; and story rpt. in The City 2000 A.D.: Urban Life Through Science Fiction. Ed. Ralph Clem, Martin Harry Greenberg, and Joseph Olander (Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Crest, 1976), 218-30; and in Criminal Justice Through Science Fiction. Ed. Joseph D. Olander and Martin Harry Greenberg (New York: New Viewpoints, 1977), 4-15, with an editors’ note on 3-4..

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Univaria; A Cultural Alternative" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Dorothy Kuer (b. 1924) A1 - Russell La Due (b. 1924) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Detailed eutopia with leadership by people like the samurai in 1905 Wells. Ceiling on income, no inheritance, and no taxes. Decentralization. Limit on family size.

JF - 1973 American Anthropological Association Experimental Symposium on Cultural Futuristics: Pre-Conference Volume PB - [Office for Applied Social Science and the Future, University of Minnesota] CY - [Minneapolis, MN] N1 -

Rpt. without the subtitle in Cultures of the Future. Ed. Magaroh Maruyama and Arthur M. Harkins (The Hague, The Netherlands: Mouton, 1978), 593-612.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Unreal People Y1 - 1973 A1 - Martin Siegel (1938-72) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe underground authoritarian dystopia.

PB - Lancer Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Up-Wingers Y1 - 1973 A1 - F[ereidoun] M. Esfandiary (1930-2000) A1 - [Rev. Dr.] [Joseph Denis] [Jackson] (1929-2008) KW - Iranian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Detailed eutopia presented as optimistic prediction. Up-wing is the optimistic contract of right and left wing. The eutopia stresses a mobile, communal life with the abolition of possessiveness. The author was born in Iran, the son of an Iranian diplomat, and lived in many countries. He changed his name to FM-2030 and at his death he was frozen with the intent of later being brought back to life. See also 1974 Esfandiary and his Optimism One: The Emerging Radicalism. New York: W.W. Norton, 1970.

PB - The John Day Co CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Urban the Ninth Y1 - 1973 A1 - [Claude Cunningham] Bruce Marshall (1899-1987) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

A volume in a linked series on the future of the Roman Catholic Church. In this volume, Pope Marx the First is elected and intends to make radical changes in the Church, but he appears to be killed in a plane crash and a traditionalist from the first volume in the series is elected. See 1973, 1975, and 1976 Marshall for the other volumes in the series.

PB - Constable CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Velvet Monkey Wrench Y1 - 1973 A1 - John Muir (1918-77) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Extremely detailed eutopia with a heavy technological element with computers central to almost all aspects of life and much production automated. Stresses cooperation, decentralization, and ecology with procedures for achieving the eutopia laid out in considerable detail.

PB - John Muir Publications CY - Santa Fe, NM ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Village" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Kate [Katie Gertrude Meredith] Wilhelm (1928-2018) ED - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which an absolutely typical U.S. village is invaded by U.S. forces raping the young women and killing everyone.

JF - Bad Noon Rising PB - Harper & Row CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in her The Infinity Box: A collection of speculative fiction (New York: Harper & Row, 1975), 277-87.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Wagtail in the Morning" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Grahame Leman ED - [Henry] Kenneth Bulmer (1921-2005) KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. The leaders of a society that provides people (who they call liveware) with all the consumer goods they want develop a method of controlling people for life by implanting them with a slow-release drug as children.

JF - New Writings in SF PB - Sidgwick & Jackson CY - London VL - (23) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Weariest River" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Thomas N[icholas] Scortia (1926-86) ED - Roger [Paul] Elwood (1943-2007) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of immortality, which is for sale from the Company. Immortality had produced poverty and intense conflict between old and young. Sexually the young desire the old and vice versa. At an undefined point the old are placed in 'kraals' where they are essentially entombed but unable to die. The story is told from the viewpoint of the inventor of immortality, who stresses the guilt he feels.

JF - Future City PB - Trident Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. (New York: Pocket Book, 1974), 94-134; and in his Caution! Inflammable! (New York: Bantam Books, 1976), 230-70.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Welcome to the Standard Nightmare." Y1 - 1973 A1 - Robert Sheckley (1928-2005) ED - Harry [Max] Harrison (1925-2012) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The "standard nightmare" is Earth meeting superior aliens, in this case on an alien eutopian planet. The eutopia has all the usual elements of a society in balance and has no government. A man from Earth decides to become the ruler and then decides to invade Earth.

JF - Nova PB - Walker CY - New York VL - 3 N1 -

 Rpt. in The Collected Short Fiction of Robert Sheckley. Book Five (Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991), 85-99. U.K. ed. (London: Sphere, 1975), 11-24.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "When Petals Fall" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Sydney J[oyce] Van Scyoc (1939-2023) ED - Thomas N[icholas] Scortia (1926-86) ED - Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (b. 1942) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Society making itself poor by maintaining the aged against the hope of future medical advances.

JF - Two Views of Wonder PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Where Have All the Followers Gone?" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Raylyn [Thyrza] Moore (1928-2005) ED - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which all the hippies and acid heads in California are lured to a camp where they are gassed.

JF - Bad Moon Rising PB - Harper & Row CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Windmill" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Poul [William] Anderson (1926-2001) ED - Roger [Paul] Elwood (1943-2007) ED - Virginia Kidd (1921-2003) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Ecological dystopia in a post-disaster society. Complex control on the use of resources.

JF - Saving Worlds: A Collection of Original Science Fiction Stories PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Book rpt. as The Wounded Planet (New York: Bantam Books, 1974), 149-70.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Windows in Dante's Hell" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Michael [Lawson] Bishop (1945-2023) ED - Damon [Francis] Knight (1922-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia that divides people based on their contributions to society with those who contribute the least living in the smallest residences in the deepest levels of the city. Everyone is constantly monitored.

JF - Orbit 12: An Anthology of New Science Fiction PB - G. P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in his Catacomb Years. New York: Berkley/Putnam, 1979), ; and in his The City and the Cygnet: An Alternative History of the Atlanta Urban Nucleus in the 21st Century (Bonney Lake, WA : Kudzu Planet Productions/Fairwood Press, 2019), 101-14.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The World as Will and Wallpaper" Y1 - 1973 A1 - R[aphael] A[loysius] Lafferty (1914-2002) ED - Roger [Paul] Elwood (1943-2007) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian satire referring to William Morris (1834-96), whose name is used for the protagonist. A city encompasses the world, which is built above land and oceans. The one area of trees in the city is considered huge in that it covers two blocks. The story follows a man who wants to explore the world and his trip reveals that most people are illiterate, communicate poorly, and have very limited lives, but that there is an elite who created the city to keep the majority of the people content and controlled.

JF - Future City PB - Trident CY - New York SN - 9781473213449 978-1250778536 N1 -

Book rpt. (New York: Pocket Books, 1974), 28-43; story rpt. in The Best Science Fiction of the Year #3. Ed. Terry Carr (New York: Ballantine Books, 1974), 27-43; and in The Best of R. A. Lafferty. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (London: Gollancz, 2019), 356-74, with an Introduction by Samuel R[ay] Delany (353-55). Rpt. New York: Tor, 2021.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Year of the Rats Y1 - 1973 A1 - Barbara Guignon Ricci KW - Female author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia.

PB - Walker CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "2032: A Gay Odyssey" Y1 - 1972 A1 - Glenys Parry AB -

Future dystopia of a State Registered Homosexual system that provides facilities for a minority of gays who accept an end to political activity. Those not State Registered are subject to harassment.

JF - Gay News (London) VL - 3 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - 334 Y1 - 1972 A1 - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Near future U.S. as a dystopia with violence, overpopulation, and poverty.

PB - MacGibbon & Kee CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Avon, 1974.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - After the Good War; A Love Story Y1 - 1972 A1 - Peter Roger Breggin (b. 1936) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe authoritarian dystopia. Great emphasis on sex but no emotional content.

PB - Stein and Day CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Against Arcturus Y1 - 1972 A1 - Susan K. Putney KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A well-described alien eutopia on a planet that Earth plans to colonize to settle people from overpopulated worlds. This will require the elimination of the indigenous inhabitants, who are spiritually and socially advanced far beyond humans. 

PB - Ace Books CY - New York U1 -

The cover adds the subtitle A Battleground for Two Empires.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Ahab’s Journey” Y1 - 1972 A1 - [Carl Lee] [Shears] (1937-79) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a religious dystopia in which all the details of life are dictated by the high priests. The story seems to be about being able to overcome those things that are powerful enough to control us, specifically religion, love/sex, and alcohol, but at the end the protagonist still hopes to find the high priests. See also 1971 (2), 1973, 1974, 1975 (2), and 1978 Shears.

JF - Neggar Journeys into Nightmares. Stories PB - Nuclassics and Science Publishing Co CY - Washington, DC U3 -

Saggittarus [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Al" Y1 - 1972 A1 - [Agnes] Carol[lyn] [Fries] Emshwiller (1921-2019) A1 - Damon [Francis] Knight (1922-2002) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story tells of a man who survives a plane crash in an isolated valley that seems to be a eutopia of artists and his experiences there. Told both from the point of view of the man and some of the inhabitants. 

JF - Orbit 10: An Anthology of New Science Fiction Stories PB - G. P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York VL - 10 N1 -

Rpt. in Best Stories from Orbit 1-10. Ed. Damon Knight (New York: Berkley Publishing Co., 1975), 350-59; and in her Joy in Our Cause: Short Stories (New York: Harper & Row, 1970), 143-54. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - An Alien Heat Y1 - 1972 A1 - Michael [John] Moorcock (b. 1939) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

World where each individual has control over matter which produces a eutopia of a balanced, loving society. Continued in The Hollow Lands. New York: Harper & Row, 1974; U.K. ed. London: Hart Davis MacGibbon, 1975, which is not a utopia. Other non-utopian titles in the series are The End of All Songs. London: Harper & Row, 1976; Legends from the End of Time. New York: Harper & Row, 1976; U.K. ed. London: W.H. Allen, 1977; and The Transformation of Miss Mavis Ming. London: W.H. Allen, 1977; U.S. ed. as A Messiah at the End of Time or the Transformation of Miss Mavis Ming. New York: DAW Books, 1977. A story was published as "Ancient Shadows: A Tale of the Dancers at the End of Time." New Worlds 9. Ed. Hilary Bailey (London: Corgi Books, 1975), 48-119.

PB - MacGibbon & Kee CY - London VL - Vol. 1 of The Dancers at the End of Time. N1 -

Rpt. as part of the Michael Moorcock Collection. Ed. John Davey. With The Beginning at the head of the title. London: Gollancz, 2013.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill’s Side” Y1 - 1972 A1 - [Alice Bradley] [Sheldon] (1915-87) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which humans become addicted to contact with aliens. 

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 42.3 (250) SN - 9780141188928 N1 -

Rpt. in A Science Fiction Omnibus. Ed. Brian Aldiss (London: Penguin Books, 2007), 52-60.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Arthuriad Y1 - 1972 A1 - John d'Arcy Badger (1917-2000) KW - Canadian author AB -

Eutopia in the form of fifty-six sonnets and fifty-five poetic commentaries reflecting the return of King Arthur as king of the Aquarian Age. Property sharing. Sexually freer. Rejects both left and right and Canto 4 (Sonnets 25-32) is called “The Revolution of the Centre”. 

PB - Pendragon House Limited CY - Toronto, ON, Canada U5 -

Can, L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - At the Seventh Level Y1 - 1972 A1 - Suzette Haden Elgin (1936-2015) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Development of 1969 Elgin. "For the Sake of Grace," which is reprinted here (7-31). In the patriarchal society one woman has risen to the top level, where she is constantly under attack.

PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Barons of Behavior Y1 - 1972 A1 - Tom [Thomas Edward] Purdom (1936-2024) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of behavior control.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Dennis Dobson, 1977.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Big Space Fuck" Y1 - 1972 A1 - Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (1922-2007) ED - Harlan [Jay] Ellison (1934-2018) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satirical dystopia primarily concerned with overpopulation and pollution.

JF - Again, Dangerous Visions: 46 Original Stories PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Rpt. in Cybersex. Ed. Richard Glyn Jones (New York: Carroll & Graf, 1996), 68-74; in his Novels & Stories, 1963-1973. Ed. Sidney Offit (New York: Library of America, 2011), 773-78 with a Note on the Text (835) and “Notes” on 850; and in his Complete Stories. Ed. Jerome Klinkowitz & Dan Wakefield (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2017), 895-99. . 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Burning Y1 - 1972 A1 - James E[dwin] Gunn (1923-2020) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which a future reaction against science destroys the world.

PB - Dell Books CY - New York N1 -

Originally published as "Witches Must Burn." Astounding Science Fiction 57.6 (August 1956): 52-91; "Trial By Fire." If 19.2 (February 1969): 67-98, 142-158; and "Witch Hunt." Galaxy Science Fiction 28.3 (April 1969): 5-55

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Cainⁿ" Y1 - 1972 A1 - H[enry] A. Hargreaves (b. 1928) ED - [Edward] John Carnell (1912-72) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia of the future rehabilitation of criminals told from the point of view of one of the criminals being rehabilitated. Those considered “genetically criminal” are “permanently isolated;” those considered “low productive” have their memories permanently erased and are “restrained for base labor” (87). For those deemed capable of being rehabilitated, the regime consists of education, exercise, and humiliation at the hands of someone who, it turns out, had been through the process.

JF - New Writings in S-F PB - Dobson CY - London VL - 20 N1 -

Rpt. in his North by 2000: A Collection of Canadian Science Fiction (Toronto, ON, Canada: Peter Martin Associates, 1975), 59-99.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Castle Keeps Y1 - 1972 A1 - Andrew J[efferson] Offutt V (1934-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation and pollution dystopia. Isolated, fortified homes provide the only hope for the future.

PB - Berkley Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Catholics" Y1 - 1972 A1 - Brian Moore (1921-99) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - Northern Ireland author KW - US author AB -

A dystopian future is implied in which ecumenical Catholicism is contrasted with a traditionalist monastery. The focus of the novel is on the suppression of the practices of the monastery, on the Isle of Muck, off the Irish Coast.

JF - New American Review VL - 15 N1 -

Rpt. as Catholics. Toronto, ON, Canada: McClelland and Stewart. U.K. ed. London: Jonathan Cape, 1972. Rpt. London: Flamingo, 1996. U.S. ed. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Caught in the Organ Draft" Y1 - 1972 A1 - Robert Silverberg (b. 1935) ED - Roger [Paul] Elwood (1943-2007) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Transplant dystopia in which young, fit people are drafted ("the organ draft") to provide an organ to keep the elderly alive. This can be any organ and may result in death; if not, the person then becomes eligible to receive organs from others for as long as they live.

JF - and walk now gently through the fire and other science fiction stories PB - Chilton Books Co. CY - Philadelphia, PA N1 -

[Science Fiction Book Club ed.] (Philadelphia, PA: Chilton Books Co., 1972), 123-36. Rpt. in The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg. Volume Three: Something Wild is Loose: 1969-72 (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2008), 368-80 with an author’s note on 367; and in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 375-84; 2nd ed. as Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 375-84. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Century of the Manikin Y1 - 1972 A1 - E[dwin] C[harles] Tubb (1919-2010) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Future society that is non-violent, and has heavy drug use and free sexuality, but there is underground sadism.

PB - DAW Books CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Millington, 1975.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Ching Witch!" Y1 - 1972 A1 - [Ross Louis] [Rocklin] (1913-88) ED - Harlan [Jay] Ellison (1934-2018) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which Earth is the only planet left where there are wars, and it is destroyed. The story is about the lone survivor who travels to the planet Zephyrus, which appears to be dominated by teenagers, where he represents himself as a representative from Earth and appeals to the teenagers with the music and dance fads of Earth.

JF - Again, Dangerous Visions: 46 Original Stories PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY U3 -

Ross Rocklynne [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - City Beyond the Gates Y1 - 1972 A1 - N[orman] Roy Clifton (1909-85) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Children’s book contrasting the eutopia of a simple agricultural life with the dystopia created by urban life destroying the environment. 

PB - Saunders of Toronto CY - Toronto, ON, Canada N1 -

3rd ed. Richmond Hill, ON. Canada: Scholastic-TAB Publications, 1979. 121 pp. This edition has added material from a play with the same title written by the author in 1978. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The City Machine Y1 - 1972 A1 - Louis [Preston] Trimble (1917-88) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Class-based overpopulation dystopia on a colonized planet. Those in power had instituted a new language and destroyed the books so that no one had the knowledge to construct new cities and undermine the system. One man who can read searches for and finds the information to build new cities, and the novel ends on a hopeful note.

PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

CU-Riv, HRC, Merril, MoR

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Cloak of Anarchy" Y1 - 1972 A1 - Larry [Lawrence van Cott] Niven (b. 1938) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia that presents freedom as possible only through control. Anarchism in the sense of order without rule is not possible. The story focuses on a park where everyone is completely free of fear of others but only because everyone is being constantly observed by the police; when the system breaks down chaos and violence erupts.

JF - Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact VL - 89.1 N1 -

Rpt. in 2020 Vision. Ed. Jerry Pournelle (New York: Avon, 1974), 41-61 with an editor’s note on 39; and in his Tales of Known Space: The Universe of Larry Niven (New York: Ballantine Books, 1975), 111-33; and in The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories. Ed. Tom Shippey (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1992), 400-19. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Crabs?" Y1 - 1972 A1 - Peter Carey (b. 1943) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

A dystopia of collapsing civilization. Violence. Gangs.

JF - Overland VL - 53 N1 -

Rpt. in his The Fat Man in History (St. Lucia, QLD, Australia: University of Queensland Press, 1974), 7-21. This story does not appear in the collection of the same title published London: Faber & Faber, 1990. Also rpt. in his Collected Stories (St. Lucia, QLD, Australia: University of Queensland Press, 1994), 38-50. U.K. ed. (London: Faber & Faber, 1995), 38-50. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Cybernia Y1 - 1972 A1 - Lou Cameron (1924-2010) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia. Computer eutopia gone wrong as the computer takes over more and more of the life of a community.

PB - Fawcett Gold Medal CY - Greenwich, CT N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Coronet, 1973.

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NLS, TxA

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Earth Y1 - 1972 A1 - Marie C. Farca (b. 1935) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. A future extremely polluted earth and a simple, individualistic, ecologically oriented culture surviving under a plastic dome. Each person is responsible for feeding themselves and building their own housing (a small hut). Community buildings (one each for the children and the old and one community building) are built by individuals not working in concert. The old, the children, and the fire are cared for by the adults in rotation. Cooperation exists in the form of "gifting". The society is presented through the eyes of a man from a very advanced technological society, which he returns to in 1973 Farca.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY U5 -

DLC, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "East Wind, West Wind" Y1 - 1972 A1 - Frank M[alcolm] Robinson (1926-2014) ED - Harry [Max] Harrison (1925-2012) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Pollution dystopia with stringent controls that have failed, and as the developing countries industrialize air pollution is about to be pushed past the point that human life can be sustained.

JF - Nova 2 PB - Walker CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. (London: Sphere, 1975), 16-44. Rpt. in The City 2000 A.D.: Urban Life Through Science Fiction. Ed. Ralph Clem, Martin Harry Greenberg, and Joseph Olander (Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Crest, 1976), 181-208; in Car Sinister. Ed. Robert Silverberg, Martin Harry Greenberg, and Joseph Olander (New York: Avon Books, 1979), 215-42; and in Dream's Edge: Science Fiction Stories About the Future of Planet Earth. Ed. Terry Carr (San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club Books, 1980), 9-32.

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DLC, Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Ecce Femina!" Y1 - 1972 A1 - Bruce [Hugh] McAllister (b. 1946) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of violent male-female conflict.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 42.2 N1 -

Rpt. in Above the Human Landscape. Ed. Willis E. McNelly and Leon E. Stover (Pacific Palisades, CA: Goodyear Publ. Co., 1972), 272-99.

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ecodeath Y1 - 1972 A1 - William Jon Watkins (b. 1942) A1 - E[ugene] V[incent] Snyder (b. 1943) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Pollution dystopia.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY U5 -

IaSU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Elouise and the Doctors of the Planet Pergamon" Y1 - 1972 A1 - Josephine [Mary Howard] Saxton (b. 1935) ED - Harlan [Jay] Ellison (1934-2018) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. A society in which equality is achieved by making everyone ill.

JF - Again, Dangerous Visions: 46 Original Stories PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Rpt. in her The Power of Time (London: Chatto & Windus/The Hogarth Press, 1985), 125-41.

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Empire of Two Worlds Y1 - 1972 A1 - Barrington J. Bayley KW - English author AB -

Dystopia of changeless authority as background. U.K. author.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Robert Hale, 1974. Rpt. London: Allison & Busby, 1979.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The End of His Tether Y1 - 1972 A1 - [Martin] [Fehr] (1905-78) KW - English author KW - German author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia in which people, with major genetic damage, fall back into a very simple, poor life. Partially set in Australia, which has survived marginally better than Europe and is rebuilding faster.

PB - Janay Publishing Co. CY - [Chichester, Eng.] U3 -

J. Martin-Fehr [pseud.]

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L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The End of the Dream Y1 - 1972 A1 - Philip [Gordon] Wylie (1902-71) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. The novel begins with the struggle to reconstruct a better human society after a disaster/catastrophe after systematic destruction of the environment for profit. The section, “‘Vengeance Is Mine,’ Sayeth Nature” (51-161), shows the various ways the world has been ravaged and the population decimated.

PB - Doubleday CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. Morley, Eng.: The Elmfield Press, 1975.

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O

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Escape to Elysium Y1 - 1972 A1 - L[eslie] J[ohn] J[arvis] Nye (1891-1976) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Detailed eutopia called Elysium in the interior of New Guinea; based on combining Western and Buddhist values. The "Foreword" stresses the need for an international language, which explains why the book is published in SR1. The author was a physician, and there is much on the problems of contemporary medical care and the healthy lifestyle in the eutopia. See also his Homo Insipiens (man the fool). Fortitude Valley, QLD, Australia: W.R. Smith & Paterson, 1968. [2nd and enl. ed.] Brisbane, QLD, Australia: W.R. Smith & Paterson, 1969, which includes an argument for world government. See also 1939 Bostock and Nye.

PB - Wentworth Books CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia N1 -

Published in SR1 based on Harry Lindgren, Spelling Reform--A New Approach. [Sydney, NSW, Australia]: Alpha Books, [1969].

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A, CtY, M, NZ

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Exploring New Ethics for Survival: The Voyage of the Spaceship Beagle Y1 - 1972 A1 - Garrett [James] Hardin (1915-2003) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Four sections of the book, “From the Spaceship Beagle: Embarkation” (3-15), “On Board the Beagle: The Dawn of Responsibility” (91-100), and “On Board the Beagle: Freedom’s Harvest” (155-67), and “The Return of the Beagle” (216-37) are fiction beginning on an Earth failing environmentally, and there is a backlash against ecologists, who are hunted down and killed. The other three sections are set on the spaceship Beagle, which is looking for other planets to colonize. The people on the spaceship repeat in a smaller space all the errors committed on Earth. 

PB - Viking CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Factory" Y1 - 1972 A1 - Naomi [Margaret] Mitchison (1897-1999) ED - Harry [Max] Harrison (1925-2012) KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

The story is set in a present-day, completely realistic dystopia in which a factory’s emissions kills all the animals near it. 

JF - Nova Three PB - Delacorte Press CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Falk Y1 - 1972 A1 - Keith Hanks (b. 1940) KW - UK author AB -

Catastrophe followed by the Second Coming in the person of a flawed man who tries to establish a better society and fails. An authoritarian dystopia follows.

PB - Cassell CY - London U5 -

DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Flesheaters Y1 - 1972 A1 - David [Neil] Ireland (b. 1927) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia set in the near future stressing the insanity of the contemporary world. The novel focuses on a large house inhabited by a surreal group of people. At the end the house, a refuge for many, is replaced by a widened road.

PB - Angus and Robertson CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia U5 -

VUW

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Fugue for a Darkening Island Y1 - 1972 A1 - Christopher [McKenzie] Priest (1943-2024) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of racial war.

PB - Faber & Faber CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. entitled Darkening Island. New York: Harper & Row, 1972.

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U.S. ed. entitled Darkening Island

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DLC, NLS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Funeral" Y1 - 1972 A1 - Kate [Katie Gertrude Meredith] Wilhelm (1928-2018) ED - Harlan [Jay] Ellison (1934-2018) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Post catastrophe dystopia with society divided into castes. The center of power is the schools and teachers hold great authority, and children are under the complete control of the teachers. The old resent the young and had most of them killed three times in the past.

JF - Again, Dangerous Visions: 46 Original Stories PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Rpt. in her The Infinity Box: A collection of speculative fiction (New York: Harper & Row, 1975), 288-318; in More Women of Wonder: Science Fiction Novelettes By Women About Women. Ed. Pamela Sargent (New York: Vintage, 1976), 175-213; in In the Field of Fire. Ed. Jeanne Van Buren Dann and Jack Dann (New York: Tor, 1987), 157-68 with an editors’ note on 158; in Women of Wonder: The Classic Years. Science Fiction by Women from the 1940s to the 1970s. Ed. Pamela Sargent (San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace, 1995), 263-87; in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 47-67; 2nd ed. ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 47-67; and in The Future is Female! More Classic Science Fiction by Women Volume 2: The 1970s. Ed. Lisa Yaszek (New York: Library of America, 2023), 23-58, with a biographical note on 474-476 and a note on the text on 479-481.

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Gantlet" Y1 - 1972 A1 - Richard E[arl] Peck (b. 1936) ED - Damon [Francis] Knight (1922-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation and pollution dystopia.

JF - Orbit: An Anthology of New Science Fiction Stories PB - G.P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York VL - 10 N1 -

Rpt. in The City 2000 A.D.: Urban Life Through Science Fiction. Ed. Ralph Clem, Martin Harry Greenberg, and Joseph Olander (Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Crest, 1976), 254-65.

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MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Generation Gaps" Y1 - 1972 A1 - Clancy O'Brien AB -

Dystopia of generational conflict.

JF - Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact VL - 90.1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Genius Unlimited Y1 - 1972 A1 - John T[homas] Phillifent (1916-76) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia of geniuses where everyone who works independently has problems, and the people have to learn both to work together and be practical.

PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Gift of Nothing" Y1 - 1972 A1 - Joan C[arol Hunter] Holly (1932-82) ED - Roger [Paul] Elwood (1943-2007) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. A planet is being opened up to colonization, which will destroy the existing society, which is presented as a eutopia paralleling those of traditional Native American Indians.

JF - and walk now gently through the fire and other science fiction stories PB - Chilton Books Co. CY - Philadelphia, PA N1 -

[Science Fiction Book Club ed.] (Philadelphia, PA: Chilton Books Co., 1972), 57-95.

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Goat Song" Y1 - 1972 A1 - Poul [William] Anderson (1926-2001) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a computer-run stable society balanced by a wild country in which violence is permissible. A constant population is maintained.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 42.2 N1 -

Rpt. in The Collected Short Stories of Poul Anderson. Volume 4 Admiralty. Ed. Rick Katze (Framingham, MA: NESFA Press, 2011), 281-306.

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Heirs of Babylon Y1 - 1972 A1 - Glen [Charles] Cook (b. 1944) KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia in a future of constant, devastating war.

PB - New American Library CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Hippie-Dip File” Y1 - 1972 A1 - Robert Thurston (b. 1936) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which drugs provided by the government are used to “rehabilitate” those on the left.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 42.3 (250) U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "I Tell You, It's True" Y1 - 1972 A1 - Poul [William] Anderson (1926-2001) ED - Harry [Max] Harrison (1925-2012) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia brought about by electronic brainwashing.

JF - Nova PB - Walker CY - New York VL - 2 N1 -

Rpt. in his Conflict (New York: Tor, 1983), 128-50; and in Earth In Transit: Science Fiction and Contemporary Problems. Ed. Sheila Schwartz (New York: Dell, 1976), 171-90.

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Merril, MoU-St, O

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Il Pianeta come festival--The Planet as a Festival" Y1 - 1972 A1 - Ettore Sottsass Jr. (1917-2007) KW - Italian author AB -

Short, illustrated sketch of a world with no production problems. The cities have disappeared, and everyone is an artisan-artist.

JF - Casabella VL - no. 365 ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman Y1 - 1972 A1 - Angela [Olive Stalker] Carter (1940-92) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Surrealistic dystopia in which a man destabilizes reality, thus producing many fantastic events. Much violence including violent sex. The novel describes one man's successful attempt to find the source of the problem and defeat it. In the course of his search, he comes across a number of small societies, all of them ultimately dystopian.

PB - Rupert Hart-Davis CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. as The War of Dreams. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974.

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U.S. ed. as The War of Dreams

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L, LLL

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Iron Dream Y1 - 1972 A1 - Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

From an alternative history in which Hitler becomes an SF writer. This presents Hitler's novel Lord of the Swastika (1953) (Won Hugo 1954) and a scholarly afterword. The novel presents a far future earth where Nazi's struggle for power.

PB - Avon CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Knowledge Park Y1 - 1972 A1 - Stephen Franklin (b. 1922) KW - Canadian author AB -

Eutopia in which Canada establishes a major international data center on a huge tract of land on the Ontario Québec border. As a result, Canada becomes the center of the knowledge industry, and this transforms Canada and ultimately the world.

PB - McClelland and Stewart CY - Toronto, ON, Canada U5 -

Can, ICarbS, Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lear Y1 - 1972 A1 - Edward Bond (1934-2024) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A reimagining of Shakespeare’s Lear as a vicious, paranoid autocrat who tries to keep out imaginary enemies by building a wall. Sometimes called the most violent play ever staged.

PB - Eyre Methuen CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in his Plays: Two (London: Methuen Drama, 1989), 1-102.

U.S. ed. New York: Hill and Wang, 1972.

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Les Blancs. A Drama in Two Acts. Final Text Adapted by Robert Nemiroff Y1 - 1972 A1 - Lorraine [Vivian] Hansberry (1930-65) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

The play explores the dystopia of colonialism in Africa. The title refers to Jean Genet’s Les Nègres (1958).

PB - Samuel French CY - New York N1 -

Also published in Les Blancs: The Collected Last Plays of Lorraine Hansberry. Ed. Robert Nemiroff. New York: Random House, 1972. “Les Blancs is 47-172, with “A Critical Background” (35-46) and “Postscript” by Neimroff (173-86) that discusses reviews of the play. Includes materials not part of the Broadway production. The play is also analyzed by Julius Lester in his “Introduction” (3-32).

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Light That Never Was Y1 - 1972 A1 - Lloyd Biggle Jr. (1923-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Some dystopia and some satire. The novel is set on a planet that is devoted to art and once produced many great artists but is now flooded with mediocre artists selling to hordes of tourists. The plot centers on pogroms against non-human aliens.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Rpt. New York: DAW Books, 1973.

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MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Machines of Loving Grace" Y1 - 1972 A1 - Gardner R[aymond] Dozois (1947-2018) ED - Damon [Francis] Knight (1922-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation and machine dystopia.

JF - Orbit PB - G.P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York VL - 11 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Man Who Waved Hello” Y1 - 1972 A1 - Gardner R[aymond] Dozois (1947-2018) ED - Terry [Gene] Carr (1937-87) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set in a future where the government provides everything one needs based on one’s status seen through the eyes of a man in the middle ranks who will never rise further.

JF - Universe 2: An Original Collection of All-New Science Fiction PB - Ace Books CY - New York U2 -

Illus. Alicia Austin

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Mistress of Downing Street Y1 - 1972 A1 - Walter Harris (b. 1925) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which a woman, who is 25 and voluptuous, becomes Prime Minister after her husband is murdered. She tries to revitalize an authoritarian corporate world that is controlled by an individual capitalist through his control of all the world's robots, which have replaced all workers..

PB - Michael Joseph CY - London U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Moth Race" Y1 - 1972 A1 - Richard Hill ED - Harlan [Jay] Ellison (1934-2018) KW - Male author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia where people are given pills to keep them under control and food comes in pills. People could live long lives and were fed, clothed, housed, and ensured of regular sex but only a few were permitted to have children. In the annual race people self-selected to race in cars over a course on which gates would spring up and, if they hit one, they died in the wreck. Only one man had ever survived, and his reward was the best of everything.

JF - Again, Dangerous Visions: 46 Original Stories PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Motorman Y1 - 1972 A1 - David Ohle (b. 1941) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Influential post-apocalyptic novel with violence, odd illnesses, and the struggle to survive in such conditions.

PB - Alfred A. Knopf CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. Brooklyn, NY: 3rd Bed Press, 2004. 

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DLC, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mumbo Jumbo Y1 - 1972 A1 - Ishmael [Scott] Reed (b. 1938) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. One thread of a thematically and typographically complex novel is a conspiracy of whites to destroy African American culture.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Nobody's Home" Y1 - 1972 A1 - Joanna [Ruth] Russ (1937-2011) ED - Robert Silverberg (b. 1935) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. The focus of the story is an extended family of eighteen adults living in a future world with a fairly low population. The main technological change is a matter transmitter that allows nearly instantaneous travel to any place on Earth, which means that only some are living together at any one time. The family described values high intelligence, and it is implied that this is the norm. Each person must contribute "tax labor" to the Earth community.

JF - New Dimensions II PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Rpt. in Women of Wonder. Ed. Pamela Sargent (New York: Vintage, 1974), 231-56; illus. Dennis Neal Smith in her The Zanzibar Cat ([Sauk City, WI]: Arkham House, 1983), 52-69; and in Women of Wonder: The Classic Years. Science Fiction by Women from the 1940s to the 1970s. Ed. Pamela Sargent (San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace, 1995), 249-62. 

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Nowhere On Earth Y1 - 1972 A1 - Michael [Aiken] Elder (1931-2004) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia.

PB - Robert Hale CY - London U5 -

L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Old Folks" Y1 - 1972 A1 - James E[dwin] Gunn (1923-2020) ED - Harry [Max] Harrison (1925-2012) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which senior citizens live in retirement communities and treat their children and grandchildren as enemies. The story is told through the eyes of a couple visiting her parents at Sunset Acres in Arizona, which is built as a eutopian version of a Kansas small town, complete with ice cream parlor. They learn that the inhabitants are united in paying their children back for all the trouble they caused them as children and ensuring that there is no money left to inherit.

JF - Nova 2 PB - Walker and Co. CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. (London: Sphere, 1975), 133-51. Rpt. in Best SF: 1972, Ed. Harry Harrison and Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1973), 29-47.

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Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Original Community of James D. Fox?" Y1 - 1972 A1 - Malcolm Fraser KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Fiction about the establishment of a religious commune in early New Zealand.

JF - Mate VL - no. 20 N1 -

Rpt. in The First New Zealand Whole Earth Catalogue (Wellington, New Zealand: Alister Taylor, 1972), 189-90.

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ATL

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Our Paradise Inside the Earth Y1 - 1972 A1 - Theodore Fitch KW - Male author AB -

Pamphlet that argues that the Christian paradise is found inside the Earth. Based in part on the Apocrypha. Enoch (Chapters 17-65) is interpreted as describing the interior of the earth. The New Jerusalem will be inside the Earth. Largely quotations.

PB - Theodore Fitch CY - Council Bluffs, IA N1 -

Rpt. as A Mansion is Built for You In Paradise: Our Lord's Over all Plan For Us His Work In the Next Age. Pomeroy, WA: Health Research, [1986].

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CaU-SB, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Perplexities of John Forstice" Y1 - 1972 A1 - Bertrand [Arthur William] Russell (1872-1970) ED - Barry Feinberg KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

Discussion of the nature of the good life modeled on 1877 Mallock. In his The Prospects of Industrial Civilization. New York/London: Century, 1923, written in collaboration with his then wife Dora Russell (1894-1986), he lays out a few of the basic principles that he contends are necessary for a good life. Fundamental to his vision is “The greatest possible amount of free development of individuals” (279), which requires “a compromise between justice and freedom” (279). And he goes on to say that “In a just world, no one will inherit money, no one will own more land than he can cultivate himself, no one will be supported in idleness if he is physically fit to work” and “no one will be allowed to starve” (280). Standing in the way  are “Greed, the lust for power, and the tyranny of custom” (287).

JF - The Collected Stories of Bertrand Russell PB - George Allen & Unwin CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Pigeon City" Y1 - 1972 A1 - Jesse Miller KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a welfare state of the future in which everything is provided, and the people have become lethargic. A few people with energy and drive try to disrupt the system.

JF - Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact VL - 90.3 U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Project 40" Y1 - 1972 A1 - Frank [Patrick] Herbert (1920-86) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia where humans are bred to be hive creatures. They have been in existence for some 300 years and currently comprise 54,000 members living in an extensive underground hive in Oregon. The hive is developing a new weapon that could destroy the Earth and uses it to blackmail the U.S. government to leave it alone. The hive's plan is to continue to grow until it completely overwhelms the rest of the world.

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction VL - 33.3 - 5 N1 -

Repub. as Hellstrom's Hive. New York: Nelson Doubleday, 1973. Rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1974; and New York: Tor, 2007. U.K. ed. London: New English Library, 1974.

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Repub. as Hellstrom's Hive. New York: Nelson Doubleday, 1973. Rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1974; and New York: Tor, 2007. U.K. ed. London: New English Library, 1974.

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Merril, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Prosperity Plan; The only way to maintain widespread, well-founded prosperity and free enterprise in any society without war without debt without hardship without inflation without high taxes without big government and without communism Y1 - 1972 A1 - A[lbert] A[rcher] Van Petten (1925-2005) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Plan for good society. "1. Eliminate all taxes on transactions. 2. Pay $2 per day to every citizen. 3. Derive all revenues from an Inefficiency tax. 4. Exempt $20,000 per person. 5. Assess at the highest current offer" (viii). See also 1959 and 1989 Van Petten. 

PB - Utopian Publishers CY - [Woomera, SA, Australia/Huntington Beach, CA] U5 -

L, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Resurrection of Roger Diment Y1 - 1972 A1 - Douglas R[ankine] Mason (1918-2013) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

Dystopia in which from birth to death no one grew old or ugly and everyone lived a life of pleasure but did not die natural deaths.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Revelations: A Paranoid Novel of Suspense Y1 - 1972 A1 - Barry N[athaniel] Malzberg (b. 1939) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Technological dystopia with the emphasis on a TV talk show that uncovers the secrets of people and governments.

PB - Warner CY - New York U5 -

Merril, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Rule Britannia Y1 - 1972 A1 - Daphne Du Maurier (1907-89) KW - English author AB -

Dystopia of the U.S. "protecting" Britain. Britain and the U.S. merge, and the U.S. becomes all Disneyland.

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Doubleday, 1972. Rpt. New York: Avon, 1974.

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MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Seventy Years of Decpop" Y1 - 1972 A1 - Philip José Farmer (1918-2009) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Effects of a radical drop in population which causes serious problems at first but results in a better life for most people.

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction VL - 33.1 N1 -

Rpt. in his Pearls from Peoria. Ed. Paul Spiteri (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2006), 169-211

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PU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Shareworld Y1 - 1972 A1 - Morris Hershman (b. 1920) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of free enterprise. Extrapolation of the economic ideas of Louis O. Kelso (1913-91), who developed the Employee Stock Ownership Plan. On Kelso, see the Kelso Institute at www.kelso.institute.org.

PB - Walker & Co CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. as The Crash of 2086. Canoga Park, CA: Major Books, 1976.

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Rpt. as The Crash of 2086

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Sheep Look Up Y1 - 1972 A1 - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A pollution dystopia that presents a world of the near future in which it is necessary to always wear a filter mask whenever one is outside, most food has been contaminated by chemicals used in fertilizers, etc., the water is unsafe for drinking without boiling, etc. Added to this is the leaking of poison gas buried in mountains in Colorado into the water supply and into the food factory and the effects on those who eat the food. Widespread disease, unemployment, and starvation. The corrupt U.S. government is attempting to control the world economy for the benefit of U.S. corporations, and those trying to change the government are under attack. No man between sixteen and sixty can get a visa to leave the country unless they have served in the military or have a medical exemption. The main opposition group lives in an intentional community in Colorado. At the end of the year covered by the book, revolts are occurring throughout the U.S. and many cities are on fire.

PB - Harper & Row CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. Dallas, TX: BenBella Books, 2003, with a brief "Introduction" by David Brin (xiii-xiv) and an "Afterword" by James John Bell (369-88) on the books environmental message; and Lakewood, CO: Centipede Press, 2009. 300 copy ed. illus. Dan J. O’Driscoll and with an “Introduction” by Kim Stanley Robinson (7-11), “John Brunner A Short Autobiography” (409-35) by Brunner, “John Brunner Interviewed by Ian Covell” (437-55), and “Noise Level” (457-59) by Brunner reprinted from Science Fiction Review, no. 29 (January-February 1979): 15-16. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Soft Kill Y1 - 1972 A1 - Colin [Lewis] Free (1925-96) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Background of an authoritarian, overpopulated dystopia using surgery and drugs to control its people.

PB - Heinemann CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Berkley, 1973.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Solitaire" Y1 - 1972 A1 - Robert [Woodruff] Anderson (1917-2009) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set in a highly mechanized future where most people's interactions are with machines rather than other people.

JF - Solitaire & Double Solitaire PB - Random House CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Some State of Affairs Y1 - 1972 A1 - Eugene Vale KW - Male author AB -

A group of capitalists buy an island and hire an idealistic college professor to write a constitution. They want a sovereign state free from taxes, hippies, and so forth. Conflict develops between the capitalists' desires and the ideals of the professor. The professor wins and plans to develop a system of world law.

PB - W. H. Allen CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Soundless Evening" Y1 - 1972 A1 - [Shirley Bell] Hoffman (1932-2007) ED - Harlan [Jay] Ellison (1934-2018) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia in which each person could have one child and any children beyond that were killed at age five.

JF - Again, Dangerous Visions: 46 Original Stories PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Rpt. in Earth In Transit: Science Fiction and Contemporary Problems. Ed. Sheila Schwartz (New York: Dell, 1976), 152-55.

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Lee Hoffman [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Stoned Counsel" Y1 - 1972 A1 - [Ben Neal] [Ramsey] (1921-77) ED - Harlan [Jay] Ellison (1934-2018) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on the drug culture and the legal profession in which a variety of drugs are used in court by attorneys.

JF - Again, Dangerous Visions: 46 Original Stories PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY U3 -

H. H. Hollis [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Students of the Light; An Educational Odyssey Y1 - 1972 A1 - John [Harvey] Mann KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Educational eutopia describing a school that is very much of the "Sixties". The school is presented through three diaries by students describing their experiences, which are basically good, but that also reflect the problems of the period. Education as an encounter group.

PB - Grossman CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Tangled Web" Y1 - 1972 A1 - H[enry] A. Hargreaves (b. 1928) ED - [Edward] John Carnell (1912-72) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. The story is set in a small, isolated, mining community in the Arctic of a combined Canada and the U.S. and is concerned with the future of religion. All Christian religions have combined into the Christian United Spiritual Society, are computer linked for confession and other sacraments, and have government support.

JF - New Writings in SF PB - Sidgwick and Jackson Ltd. CY - London VL - (21) N1 -

Rpt. in his North by 2000: A Collection of Canadian Science Fiction (Toronto, ON, Canada: Peter Martin Associates, 1975), 19-41.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "They Cope" Y1 - 1972 A1 - Dave [David John] Skal (1952-2024) ED - Damon [Francis] Knight (1922-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of sensory overload.

JF - Orbit PB - G. P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York VL - 11 ER - TY - ABST T1 - This Star Shall Abide Y1 - 1972 A1 - Sylvia [Louise] Engdahl (b. 1933) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult highly structured, religious, authoritarian dystopia which turns out to be better than it initially seems. The society is led by Scholars, who keep knowledge to themselves, in the middle are the Technicians, who keep the machines running that make the planet inhabitable, and at the bottom are the villagers, who work the land. See also 1973 and 1981 Engdahl.

PB - Atheneum CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. as Heritage of the Star. London: Victor Gollancz, 1973. Rev. in Children of the Star (Atlanta, GA: Meisha Merlin, 2000), 15-215 together with 1973 and 1981 Engdahl, with an “Afterword” to the Collection (719-21) and “Sylvia Engdahl Biography” ([723-24]). 

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U.K. ed. as Heritage of the Star.

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Illus. Richard Cuffari

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MoU-C, NLS, O, Public

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Thrumthing and Out” Y1 - 1972 A1 - Zenna [Charlson] Henderson (1917-83) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a society that has cut itself off from the outside world, the Out, which is considered to be a deadly threat. The society inside the walls is slowly decaying as are the walls and most knowledge has been lost. 

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 43.4 (257) SN - 978-1-61037-338-8 N1 -

Rpt. in Believing: The Other Stories of Zenna Henderson. Ed. Patricia Morgan Lang (Framingham, MA: NESFA Press, 2020), 419-46. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "To the Chicago Abyss" Y1 - 1972 A1 - Ray[mond Douglas] Bradbury (1920-2012) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia where the minor artifacts of the past are remembered by an old man, who is arrested for reminding people of the little things, Bradbury calls them "mediocrities", they used to have.

JF - The Wonderful Ice Cream and Other Plays PB - Hart-Davis, MacGibbon CY - London N1 -

Can ed. (Toronto, ON, Canada: Bantam Pathfinder Editions, 1972), 127-61.

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Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Total Influence or Outcome of the Matter: THE SUN." Part 11 of "Laying down the tower" Y1 - 1972 A1 - Marge Piercy (b. 1936) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Fairly vague eutopian poem regarding children and their need for freedom. See also 1970, 1976, 1980, and 1991 Piercy.

JF - off our backs VL - 11.9 N1 -

Rpt. as "Outcome of the Matter: The Sun." In her Circles on the Water: Selected Poems (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982), 137-38.

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Rpt. as "Outcome of the Matter: The Sun." In her Circles on the Water: Selected Poems (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982), 137-38.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Triage Y1 - 1972 A1 - Leonard C[ase] Lewin (1916-99) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Presents a picture of a near future where the "unfit," and many others, are being eliminated by a planned campaign of murder, accident, and genocide.

PB - Dial Press CY - New York U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Unseen Hand" Y1 - 1972 A1 - [Samuel Shepard] [Rogers] III (b. 1943) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A baboon/man from a future authoritarian dystopia in which brain implants control people travels into the past to find three brothers (two dead) to help overthrow the dystopia.

JF - The Unseen Hand and Other Plays PB - Bobbs-Merril CY - Indianapolis, IN U3 -

Sam Shepard [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Volteface. Science Fiction Y1 - 1972 A1 - Mark [Peter Marcus} Adlard (b. 1932) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Sequel to 1971 Adlard describing an authoritarian overpopulation dystopia in which the population is manipulated by a small group of executives. In this novel the executives decide to reintroduce work and intentionally appoint incompetent people to management positions because this will reproduce twentieth century business. See also 1975 Adlard.

PB - Sidgwick & Jackson CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - We Can Build You Y1 - 1972 A1 - Philip K[indred] Dick (1928-82) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Attempt to build a eutopia on the moon. Android neighbors provided to make it easier to adjust.

PB - DAW Books CY - New York N1 -

Early version as "A. Lincoln, Simulacrum." Amazing Stories 43.4 - 5 (November 1969 - January 1970): 6-67, 140; 30-105.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Weihnachtabend" Y1 - 1972 A1 - Keith [John Kingston] Roberts (1935-2000) ED - Michael [John] Moorcock (b. 1939) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Alternative history dystopia with Nazi Germany in control of Britain.

JF - New Worlds PB - Sphere CY - London VL - 4 N1 -

Rpt. in Best SF: 1972, Ed. Harry Harrison and Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1973), 55-94

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "When It Changed" Y1 - 1972 A1 - Joanna [Ruth] Russ (1937-2011) ED - Harlan [Jay] Ellison (1934-2018) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia without men, who had all died in a plague, and the clash that occurs when men from Earth arrive. The eutopia is called Whileaway, the name of the eutopia in 1975 Russ. The story is told from the point-of-view of one of two happily married women with three children.

JF - Again, Dangerous Visions: 46 Original Stories PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Rpt. in her The Zanzibar Cat ([Sauk City, WI]: Arkham House, 1983), 3-11; in The New Women of Wonder: Recent Science Fiction Stories By Women About Women. Ed. Pamela Sargent (New York: Vintage, 1977), 227-39; in Kindred Spirits: An Anthology of Gay and Lesbian Science Fiction Stories. Ed. Jeffrey M. Elliot (Boston, MA: Alyson Publications, 1984), 45-53; in The Best of the Nebulas (New York: Tor/Tom Doherty Associates, 1989), 204-10, with an “Author’s Foreword” on 203; in Feminist Philosophy and Science Fiction: Utopias and Dystopias. Ed. Judith A. Little (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2007), 333-40; in The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction. Ed. Arthur B. Evans, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., Joan Gordon, Veronica Hollinger, Rob Latham, and Carol McGuirk (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2010), 507-15 with an editors’ note on 507-08; in Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology. Ed. Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer (Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2015), 194-202; in The Big Book of Science Fiction: The Ultimate Collection. Ed. Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (New York: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Vintage Books, 2016), 603-07 with an editors’ note on 602; in The Future is Female! More Classic Science Fiction by Women Volume 2: The 1970s. Ed. Lisa Yaszek (New York: The Library of America, 2023), 59-69, with a biographical note on 492-493, and notes on the text on 481-483; and in Russ, Novels and Stories. Ed. Nicole Rudick (New York: The Library of America, 2023), 621-629, with a Chronology on 681-694 that includes chronologically references to Russ’s publications, notes on the text on 697, and notes on 708-710.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Who Needs Men? Y1 - 1972 A1 - Edmund Cooper (1926-82) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a future where men are no longer biologically required because of cloning and parthenogenesis. The few remaining men are being exterminated. Love and desire enters and complicates the situation.

PB - Hodder and Stoughton CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. as Gender Genocide. New York: Ace Books, 1973.

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U.S. ed. as Gender Genocide

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Windmill in the West” Y1 - 1972 A1 - Peter Carey (b. 1943) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

The setting for the story is an Australia that is divided between Australia and the United States and focuses on a soldier who is stationed alone at the border with the single instruction of not letting anyone cross it. 

JF - Meanjin VL - 31.4 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "With the Bentfin Boomer Boys on Little Old New Alabama" Y1 - 1972 A1 - Richard A[llen] Lupoff (1935-2020) ED - Harlan [Jay] Ellison (1934-2018) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia with Earth's past racial conflict now taking place in space.

JF - Again, Dangerous Visions: 46 Original Stories PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Rev. in his Space War Blues. New York: Dell, 1978. Rpt. Boston, MA: G.K. Hall, 1980 with an "Introduction" by James R. Frenkel (v-xi). The volume also includes an "Introduction: Sailing the Dark With the Bentfin Bappa Zappa Kid" by Ellison (9-26), a "Preface: And I Awoke--Was This Some Kind of Joke" by Lupoff (27-33) and revised versions of his related stories "Our Own little Mardi Grass." Heavy Metal (August 1977): 58-61, 96; "After the Dreamtime." New Dimensions IV. Ed. Robert Silverberg (New York: New American Library, 1974), 9-39; "Sail the Tide of Mourning." New Dimensions 5. Ed. Robert Silverberg (New York: Harper & Row, 1975), 214-34; and "The Bentfin Boomer Girl Comes Through." Amazing Stories 50.4 (March 1977): 28-46.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Word for World is Forest" Y1 - 1972 A1 - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) ED - Harlan [Jay] Ellison (1934-2018) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Human colonial dystopia versus indigenous eutopia. Exploitative colonization that treats the indigenous inhabitants as if they were animals, enslaving them, raping them, and destroying their way of life to ship timber back to Earth, which had been denuded of it. The indigenous inhabitants have a very complex, non-technological life deeply in tune with their planet. No government or overall authority with significant cultural difference among the communities. The women in each community, and the especially the headwoman, and the practical organizers of their communities’ activities. Some of the men were active dreamers in touch with a different reality.

JF - Again, Dangerous Visions: 46 Original Stories PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

. Published separately New York: Berkley, 1976. Rpt. London: Gollancz, 1977, with an “Author’s Introduction" (5-10); London: Gollancz, 2014, with an “Introduction” by Ken MacLeod (1-3) and the “Author’s Introduction” (5-10); and in Hainish Novels & Stories Volume Two. The World for Word Is Forest Stories Five Ways to Forgiveness The Telling. Ed. Brian Attebery (New York: Library of America, 2017), 1-104 with a “Note on the Text” (780), “Notes (783-84), and “Introduction to The Word for World Is Forest” from the 1977 Gollancz edition (753-57). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "X: A Fabulous Child's Story" Y1 - 1972 A1 - Lois Gould (1932-2002) KW - US author AB -

Gender-role non-differentiation in the future presented humorously but positively. An experiment is developed to raise a child so that its gender is unknown, and the story details some of the difficulties that arise. See 1972 Gould. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Year Dot Y1 - 1972 A1 - [John Newton] [Chance] (1911-83) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Machine, authoritarian dystopia. Civilization is destroyed when machines stop. Stonehenge is one of the remains.

PB - Hodder and Stoughton CY - London U3 -

John Lymington [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The 1990 Draft Constitution" Y1 - 1971 A1 - Arthur [Israel] Waskow (b. 1933) ED - Robert Theobald (1929-99) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A new constitution for the Federal Commonwealths of America that is based on autonomous ethnic, regional, and occupational groupings. The text is accompanied by a number of articles, all originally published in motive in its March and April 1971 issues, critiquing the proposed constitution. These articles are Jim Stenzel, “Tokyo: An Asian Critique of ‘1990’ (253-57) motive 31.5 (March 1971): 24-26; Steve Nickeson, “Toward a Civil Future” (258-61) motive 31.5 (March 1971) as “Notes Toward a Civil Future” (21-22); Merrill Jackson, “Weaknesses and Problems of the 1990 Constitution” (266-68) motive 31.6/7 (April-May 1971): 87 [Page wrong in Contents]; and Eleanor Burns Women’s Collective, “In a New Society Why Do We Have to Have a Boring Constitution?” (269-75) motive 31.6/7 (April-May 1971): 83-85 [Page wrong in Contents]. See also 1973 Waskow.

JF - motive VL - 31.5 N1 -

Rpt. As “Draft Constitution.” Futures Conditional. [Ed.] Robert Theobald (Indianapolis, IN: The Bobbs-Merril Co., 1972), 245-52. According to a note on 245, this was to be published in a book entitled The 1990 Draft Constitution, said to be forthcoming from The New American Library in January 1972. No such book exists. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - 2150 A.D Y1 - 1971 A1 - Thea Plym Alexander (b. 1936) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Detailed eutopia--technologically advanced, telepathic, vegetarian. Unified society on high emotional, intellectual, and spiritual plane. There is a “Micro Island” where the ways of the past are still practiced. See also Don Plym and Thea Ann Plym. A Macro Philosophy for the Aquarian Age. 2nd ed. Grosse Pointe, MI: Macro Development Center, 1971; and Thea Alexander, The Prophetess; Conversations With Rana. Book Four of the How to Develop series. Tempe, AZ: Macro Books, 1972. 47 pp. where the differences between Micro and Macro lives are contrasted regarding past and future, love and hate, government and politics, freedom and bondage, wisdom and folly, crime and punishment, war and peace, religion and god, law and injustice, sex and marriage, good and evil, and life and death. For a plan to put some of the ideas into practice, see Macro Associates. Micro Society Community. Phase II. Phoenix, AZ; Macro Associates, nd.

PB - Macro Books CY - Tempe, AZ N1 -

Tempe, AZ Macro Books_

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - ... and all the stars a stage Y1 - 1971 A1 - James [Benjamin] Blish (1921-75) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Includes as background a dystopia of male-female conflict caused by a technology that allows parents to choose the sex of their children. Too many men made most of them superfluous.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Faber and Faber, 1972. Abr. version originally published in Amazing Stories 34.6 - 7 (June - July 1969): 6-67, 80-131.

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AzTeS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Andra Y1 - 1971 A1 - [Elizabeth Rhoda Wintle] [Holden] (1943-2013) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

Young adult dystopia set in an authoritarian underground city and a revolt by the young people.

PB - William Collins CY - London U3 -

Louise Lawrence [pseud.]

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L, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "As Simple as That" Y1 - 1971 A1 - Zenna [Charlson] Henderson (1917-83) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Post-apocalyptic (unknown cause) dystopia told from the point of view of the only remaining teacher and the few surviving children. 

JF - Holding Wonder PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY SN - 978-1-61037-338-8 N1 -

Rpt. (New York: Avon, 1972), 188-99; and in Believing: The Other Stories of Zenna Henderson. Ed. Patricia Morgan Lang (Framingham, MA: NESFA Press, 2020), 305-14. 978-1-61037-338-8

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - At a Beetle’s Pace: A Play in One Act Y1 - 1971 A1 - Louis E. Catron (1932-2010) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia in which people do not age and rarely die. The play focuses on a man of the previous generation who is among the few who are old and the inept way the new generation deals with him. The third play in a trilogy on love in the twentieth-century. The others, neither of which are utopian, are Where Have All the Lightning Bugs Gone and Touch the Bluebirds.

PB - Samuel French CY - New York U5 -

InU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Benefit, Necessity, and the Next Day” Y1 - 1971 A1 - Carl L[ee] Shears (1937-79) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

The story is a discussion between the President and a senior adviser, who is black, prior to the following law going into effect. “Any parent or parents, who are declared functionally or totally illiterate by a test administered by the Health, Welfare, and Education Department of the United States Government, without regard to race, color, or creed, will be placed in an education center for the purposes of bringing their reading and writing level up to the standards of the nation’s. Their children will be placed in an appropriate children’s home. If after a two-year period the parent or parents have not reached the necessary level, they will be sterilized and placed in an urban reservation for the mentally deficient for the rest of their lives. From that day forward, all rights as citizens will be forfeited. The parent or parents then become wards of the state” (22). The senior adviser believes that the law will mostly effect blacks. Another story in the same volume, “If There Is a Knock” (38-47) is about how the law affects poor blacks. See also 1971 Shears "That Day," 1973, 1974, 1975 (2), and 1978 Shears.

JF - Niggers and Po’ White Trash. Stories PB - Nuclassics and Science Publishing Co CY - Washington, DC U3 -

Saggittarus [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Big Day" Y1 - 1971 A1 - Donald Malcolm (1930-2013) ED - [Edward] John Carnell (1912-72) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Dystopia. Gladiatorial contests to alleviate boredom in a mechanized society.

JF - New Writings in S-F PB - Dennis Dobson CY - London VL - 18 U5 -

O, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Blueprint for Yesterday Y1 - 1971 A1 - June Wetherell (1909-2010) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dehumanized technological dystopia.

PB - Walker CY - New York U5 -

DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Book of Stier Y1 - 1971 A1 - Robin Sanborn AB -

While the novel ends in a dystopia, the text suggests a eutopia based on a new religion, peace, sex, and the flower-children emerging from Canada. Generational conflict led by an oppressive U.S. regime. U.S. absorbed by Canada. 

PB - Berkley Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Building the City of Man: Outlines of a World Civilization Y1 - 1971 A1 - W[alter] Warren Wagar (1932-2004) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Non-fiction with half the book on the current Crisis of Civilization (1-74) that could result in a spiral to barbarism. But the second half includes a eutopia, Cosmopolis (75-178), with an explanation of its institutions. A new world culture based on a world religion that will give rise to world morality. There will be an end to patriarchy, multiple family structures, and a “liberation of eros.” Radically reformed education and a world government. See also the author’s 1989 A Short History of the Future and 1991 The Next Three Futures.

PB - Grossman Publishers CY - New York SN - 9780670194612 9780716707929 N1 -

Rpt. San Francisco, CA: W. H. Freeman, 1971. xii + 180 pp.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Call of Utopia Y1 - 1971 A1 - Eric C[yril] Williams (1918-2010) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel begins in an authoritarian dystopia set in 2060 in which criminals are surgically altered to live in underwater prisons. One such prisoner, driven by his desire to find a eutopia in Brazil, escapes and finds his eutopia which stresses variety, few laws, and limited work.

PB - Robert Hale CY - London U5 -

O, TCD

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Cities Y1 - 1971 A1 - Robert Kelly (b. 1935) KW - Male author AB -

Describes many hidden cities, including at least two eutopias. The first, with elements of satire, is the Autonomous City-State of Fatima, an island in the Caribbean that is oil rich and with only three laws--“Do not Kill . Do Not Hurt People . Do Not Take What Isn’t Yours” (8). Another city, Ára in North Africa, is immensely advanced in biology but has no other technology. Yet another, Wuara in South America and the largest hidden city in the world, is far in advance of the rest of the world in biology (mature Wuarans can choose their gender), technology (Wuara has settled, Mars, two moons of Jupiter, and Venus), and social organization (each Wuaran states their needs for the next year in detail, and they are provided).

PB - Frontier Press CY - Newbury, MA N1 -

An earlier version appeared as "Cities." The Iowa Review 1.4 (Fall 1970): 28-51.

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KU, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Civilia: The End of Sub Urban Man. A Challenge to Semidetsia Y1 - 1971 ED - Ivor De Wofle AB -

The plan for a new town on waste land with detailed discussions of land use, housing, amenities, and both home and street life.

PB - The Architectural Press CY - London N1 -

A shortened version was published as Architectural Review 149.892 (June 1971): 325-408.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Daughter" Y1 - 1971 A1 - Anne [Inez] McCaffrey (1926-2011) ED - Ben[jamin William] Bova (1932-2020) KW - Female author KW - Irish author KW - US author AB -

Coming of age story with a background of a society that carefully chooses the occupations of its citizens based on their aptitudes.

JF - The Many Worlds of Science Fiction PB - E.P. Dutton CY - New York U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Discontent Contingency" Y1 - 1971 A1 - [Rex Thomas] [Vinson] (1935-2000) ED - [Edward] John Carnell (1912-72) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Benevolent dictatorship which uses a happiness generator to control the people. This results in there being no creativity.

JF - New Writings in S-F PB - Dennis Dobson CY - London VL - 19 U3 -

 Vincent King [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ends Y1 - 1971 A1 - James Hughes KW - Male author AB -

Dystopian future where government has decided on mass suicide and various misfits refuse.

PB - Alfred A. Knopf CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Secker & Warburg, 1971.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Exiled from Earth Y1 - 1971 A1 - Ben[jamin William] Bova (1932-2020) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

First volume of a trilogy. Supposedly utopian world government uses authoritarian means to maintain the status quo. A new society is established in space by a scientist exiled from earth in an attempt to create a free world. The first volume focuses on the decision to exile the scientists and their imprisonment on a large ship circling Earth. The second volume, Flight of Exiles. New York: E.P. Dutton. Rpt. in The Exiles Trilogy (New York: Berkley, 1980), 151-288. Rpt. New York: Baen, 1994. U.K. ed. (London: Methuen, 1984), 151-288, focuses on the exiles leaving Earth orbit for the stars and their discovery of a planet to settle. The third volume, End of Exile. New York: E.P. Dutton. Rpt. in The Exiles Trilogy (New York: Berkley, 1980), 289-441. Rpt. New York: Baen, 1994. U.K. ed. (London: Methuen, 1984), 289-441, is concerned with the exiles’ settlement on a planet and the establishment of good society.

PB - E. P. Dutton CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in The Exiles Trilogy (New York: Berkley Books, 1980), 1-149. Rpt. New York: Baen, 1994. U.K. ed. (London: Methuen, 1984), 1-149.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Faceless Man" Y1 - 1971 A1 - Jack [John Holbrook] Vance (1916-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia in which every adult must wear an explosive device around their neck which can be set off by the rulers.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 40.2 - 3 N1 -

Rpt. as The Anome. Durdane: Book 1. New York: Dell, 1973. U.K. ed. London: Coronet, 1975. Repub. as The Faceless Man. New York: Ace Books, 1978; and as Durdane 1. The Faceless Man. San Francisco, CA: Columbia, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1984. Rpt. in Durdane. London: VGSF, 1989, which also contains The Brave Free Men. Durdane: Book II (New York: Dell, 1972) and The Asutra (New York: Dell, 1973). All are separately paged. Durdane is also rpt. as vol. 27 of The Complete Works of Jack Vance. Oakland, CA: Vance Integral Editions, 2005. The Anome (1-206); The Brave Free Men (207-422); and The Asutra (223-617).

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HRC, L, Merril, MoU-St, TxU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Fall of New York Y1 - 1971 A1 - Miles Donis (1936-79) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. New Left revolution leaves New York deserted except for children, who are fighting the Army, each other, and the Mafia. The Army wins.

PB - David McKay CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Far Side of Evil Y1 - 1971 A1 - Sylvia [Louise] Engdahl (b. 1933) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult novel in which a planet has reached the stage in which they are likely to annihilate itself with nuclear weapons. The same protagonist as and called a sequel to 1970 in Engdahl, although in her “Afterword” to the 2003 edition, the author says this work is aimed at an older audience.

PB - Athenaeum CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. Illus. Richard Cuffari. New York: Collier, 1989; and Illus. Jody Hewgill. New York: Walker, 2003, with an “Afterword” by the author (321-24). U.K. ed. London: Gollancz, 1975. 

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The First Team Y1 - 1971 A1 - John [Dudley] Ball [Jr.] (1911-88) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia depicting a Soviet takeover of the U.S. The novel focuses on the successful underground resistance.

PB - Little, Brown CY - Boston, MA U5 -

DLC, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Frog Pond" Y1 - 1971 A1 - Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (b. 1942) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Pollution dystopia but shows a small community adapting to the new conditions.

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction VL - 31.1 SN - 978-1-59853-732-1 N1 -

Rpt. in her Cautionary Tales (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1978), 9-17; and in The Future is Female! More Classic Science Fiction by Women Volume 2: The 1970s. Ed. Lisa Yaszek (New York: Library of America, 2023), 11-22, with a biographical note on 477-478.

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DLC, MoS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Furthest Y1 - 1971 A1 - Suzette Haden Elgin (1936-2015) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia with women in an inferior position.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York U5 -

GU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Future" Y1 - 1971 A1 - Tim[othy Richard] Shadbolt (b. 1947) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia that says that in the future there will be free distribution of goods, which he calls "love shops"; communes; co-operatives; a New Zealand rock music revival; more pot smoking; a growth in underground media; activist farmers; radicals directly involved politically; a growth of political awareness among the people; a bi-cultural society; and the end of the war in Vietnam. 

JF - Bullshit & Jellybeans PB - Alister Taylor CY - Wellington, New Zealand N1 -

See also the author's untitled contribution to Ans Westra, Notes on the Country I Live In (Wellington, New Zealand: Alister Taylor, 1972), 9-12; and his Concrete Reality [Cover adds Poems]. Green Bay, Auckland, New Zealand: Republican Press, 1981 for related statements.

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VUW

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Gadget Man Y1 - 1971 A1 - Ron[ald Joseph] Goulart (1933-2022) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia set in a future Republic of Southern California with a focus on a rebellion against the dystopia.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Based on a story of the same name in The Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy 35.6 (December 1968): 100-27.

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Merril, TxA

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Going" Y1 - 1971 A1 - Robert Silverberg (b. 1935) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of population control through voluntary suicide.

JF - Four Futures: Four Original Novellas of Science Fiction PB - Hawthorn Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg. Volume Three: Something Wild is Loose: 1969-72 (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2008), 106-55 with an author's note on 105-06.

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Merril, MoCoS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Gray Matters Y1 - 1971 A1 - William [Reinhold] Hjortsberg (1941-2017) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which brains are kept alive and required to follow the directions of a central computer.

PB - Simon & Schuster CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Ace Books, 1972.

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MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Great 24 Hour ‘Thing’ Y1 - 1971 A1 - Andrew J[efferson] Offutt [V] (1934-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Mildly erotic satire in which, as a joke, two of the beings that oversee Earth decide to mess with their sector by granting all males their sexual desires for twenty-four hours.

PB - The Orpheus Series/Bee-Line Books CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Guest of Honour Y1 - 1971 A1 - Nadine Gordimer (1923-2014) KW - Female author KW - South African author AB -

As with much of Gordimer's fiction, the novel is concerned with racial strife in the dystopia that is South Africa, with what she calls "the interregnum", and, in this case, with the future of South Africa.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Half Past Human Y1 - 1971 A1 - [Thomas J.] [Bassler] [M.D.] (1932-2011) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York N1 -

Parts published originally as "Half Past Human." Galaxy Science Fiction 29.4 (December 1969): 16-76; and "Song of Kaia." If 20.8 (151) (November-December 1970): 4-85, which is published as "G.I.T.A.R." in the novel, which incorrectly gives this as the title of the story in If.

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T. J. Bass [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Horizon Alpha Y1 - 1971 A1 - Douglas [Rankine] Mason (1918-2013) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

Dystopia of a future rigid city as it breaks down.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "How Can We Sink When We Can Fly?" Y1 - 1971 A1 - Alexei [Alexis Adams] Panshin (1940-2022) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The environmental dystopia of the present contrasted with an ecologically balanced future.

JF - Four Futures: Four Original Novellas of Science Fiction PB - Hawthorn Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Dream’s Edge: Science Fiction Stories About the Future of Planet Earth. Ed. Terry Carr (San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club Books, 1980), 130-56.

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Human Side of the Village Monster" Y1 - 1971 A1 - Edward [Winslow] Bryant [Jr.] (1945-2017) ED - Terry [Gene] Carr (1937-87) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of overpopulation, pollution, poverty, hunger, and violence. Addictive contraceptives used to try to keep population growth down.

JF - Universe PB - Ace Books CY - New York VL - 1 N1 -

U.K. ed. (London: Dennis Dobson, 1971), 193-202. Rpt. in his Among the Dead and other Events Leading to the Apocalypse (New York: Macmillan, 1973), 93-102. Rpt. New York: Collier, 1974), 93-102.

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L, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Incident After" Y1 - 1971 A1 - Zenna [Charlson] Henderson (1917-83) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Post-apocalyptic (unknown cause) dystopia told primarily from the point of view of the few remaining people, a woman who is afraid to leave her house, her two daughters, and her husband. 

JF - Holding Wonder PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY SN - 978-1-61037-338-8 N1 -

Rpt. (New York: Avon, 1972), 256-62; and in Believing: The Other Stories of Zenna Henderson. Ed. Patricia Morgan Lang (Framingham, MA: NESFA Press, 2020), 367-72. 

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Interface. Science Fiction Y1 - 1971 A1 - Mark [Peter Marcus} Adlard (b. 1932) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

First of a series about Stahlnex (the only building material) Corp. which controls the world. A few genetically enhanced executives live in splendor and isolation while others live in an overpopulation dystopia. Creativity has mostly disappeared. The novel ends with a revolt against the corporation and its power. See also 1972 and 1975 Adlard.

PB - Sidgwick & Jackson CY - London U5 -

IU, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Ishmael into the Barrens" Y1 - 1971 A1 - R[aphael] A[loysius] Lafferty (1914-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia, the "Gentle World," in which Hippies, rather misrepresented, are in control and legally require disorder.

JF - Four Futures; Four Original Novellas of Science Fiction PB - Hawthorn Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in his The Man with the Speckled Eyes. The Collected Short Fiction Volume Four (Lakewood, CA: Centipede Press, 2017), 305-53.

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MoCoS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Lathe of Heaven" Y1 - 1971 A1 - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Begins with a dystopian background stressing pollution and overpopulation. Search for eutopia driven by a power-hungry psychiatrist controlling a man whose dreams can change reality.

JF - Amazing Stories VL - 44.6 - 45.1 N1 -

Repub. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1971. Rpt. New York: Avon, 1973. U.K. ed. London: Gollancz, 1972. 

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Little Dog's Day. A Novel Y1 - 1971 A1 - Jack Trevor Story (1917-91) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Future authoritarian bureaucratic dystopia and an anti-bureaucratic movement.

PB - Allison & Busby CY - London U5 -

CaTU, InU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lorax Y1 - 1971 A1 - [Theodor Seuss] [Geisel] (1904-91) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Children’s picture book depicting the creation of an environmental dystopia through logging an area until no tree is left, and all the wildlife have fled. Terri Birkett wrote a response to defend logging, The Truax. illus. Orrin Lundgren Memphis, TN: Hardwood Forest Foundation, 1995, which was sponsored by the National Wood Flooring Manufacturers’ Association. http://www.myteacherpages.com/webpages/NDow/files/TRUAX1.pdf. A TV adaptation was aired on CBS February 14, 1972. A feature film directed by Chris Renaud (b. 1966) with a screenplay by Cinco Paul (b. 1964) and Ken Daurio (b. 1972) was released March 2, 2012. A musical version with music and lyrics by Charlie Fink (b. 1986) ran at the Old Vic in London from December 2, 2015, to January 16, 2016, returned in 2017, and has toured in the U.S.

PB - Random House CY - New York U2 -

Picture book illus. by the author

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Dr. Seuss [pseud.]

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Los Angeles A.D. 2017 Y1 - 1971 A1 - Philip [Gordon] Wylie (1902-71) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation and pollution dystopia.

PB - Walker CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Popular Library, nd.

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DLC, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Love in the Ruins: The Adventures of a Bad Catholic at a Time Near the End of the World Y1 - 1971 A1 - Walker Percy (1916-90) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia located in Louisiana depicting a general collapse of the U.S. with some local institutions surviving. Racial conflict and, at the end, the northern cities with large African American populations have seceded. The protagonist believes himself to be a collateral descendant of Thomas More and regularly refers to him.

PB - Farrar, Straus, & Giroux CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1971.

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Military Hospital" Y1 - 1971 A1 - Phyllis [Fay Bloom] Gotlieb (1926-2009) ED - David Helwig ED - Tom Marshall (1938-93) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia. The setting is a military hospital that is run entirely by robots except for one supervisor, who is there to ensure that nothing goes wrong and to adjust settings as needed. The hospital is primarily designed for casualties of all the wars around the world so that the soldiers can return to the front line. Outside the hospital the city's citizens are at war with each other.

JF - Fourteen Stories High PB - Oberon Press CY - [Ottawa, ON] U5 -

Can, L, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Mind Prison" Y1 - 1971 A1 - Michael G[reatrex] Coney (1932-2005) ED - [Edward] John Carnell (1912-72) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. People had lived in a building originally built as a fall-out shelter and expanded as population grew. Fear of the outside, encouraged by the male leaders, keeps people inside long after it is no longer necessary.

JF - New Writings in S-F PB - Dennis Dobson CY - London VL - 19 U5 -

O, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Mnemone” Y1 - 1971 A1 - Robert Sheckley (1928-2005) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future dystopia in which most words have been lost, and some people, called Mnemones, travel from place to place selling words.

JF - Can You Feel Anything When I Do This? PB - Doubleday & Co. CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in The Collected Short Fiction of Robert Sheckley. Book Four (Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991), 245-53.

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Moderan Y1 - 1971 A1 - David [Roosevelt] Bunch (1925-2000) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-nuclear war dystopia in which one man is trying to cover the Earth with plastic. Others turn themselves into cyborgs and continue to fight each other.

PB - Avon Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: New York Review Books, 2018, with the addition of eleven stories that did not appear in the first addition, three rpt. and eight published for the first time and with a “Foreword” by Jeff VanderMeer (ix-xx). Parts were originally published as “A Little Girl’s Xmas in Modernia.” Coastlines, no. 10 (3.3) (Autumn 1958): 31-35. rpt. as “A Little Girl’s Christmas in Modernia.” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 18.1 (104) (January 1960): 102-07; rpt. in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction British Edition 2.2 (January 1961): 2-7 (Avon 166-72/NYRB 179-85); “Was She Horrid?” Fantastic Stories of Imagination 8.12 (December 1959): 120-24 (Avon 142-46/NYRB 153-57); “The Flesh-Man from Far Wide.” Amazing Stories 33.11 (November 1959): 134-38; rpt. in The Big Book of Science Fiction: The Ultimate Collection. Ed. Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (New York: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Vintage Books, 2016), 566-68 with an editors’ note on 555-56 (Avon 172-76/NYRB 186-90); “A Complete Father.” Fantastic Stories of Imagination 9.1 (January 1960): 104-09 (Avon 137-42/NYRB 147-52); “Strange Shape in the Stronghold.” Fantastic Stories of Imagination 9.3 (March 1960): 50-55 (Avon 102-08/NYRB 108-13); “Remembering.” Amazing Science Fiction Stories 34.4 (April 1960): 100-03 (Avon 162-66/NYRB 175-78); “Penance Day in Moderan.” Amazing Science Fiction Stories 34.7 (July 1960): 61-65 (Avon 98-102/NYRB 103-07); “Getting Regular.” Amazing Science Fiction Stories 34.8 (August 1960): 112-18 (Avon 108-14/NYRB 114-21); “A Husband’s Share.” Fantastic Stories of Imagination 9.10 (October 1960): 117-20 (Avon 133-37/NYRB 143-46); “The Warning.” Amazing Stories 34.11 (November 1960): 67-71 (Avon 189-94/NYRB 204-09); “The Final Decision.” Amazing Fact and Science Fiction Stories 35.2 (February 1961): 100-07; rpt. in Thrilling Science Fiction (October 1972): 124-31 (Avon 220-27/NYRB 237-45); “Has Anyone Seen This Horseman.” Shenandoah 12.2 (Winter 1961): 43-46 (Avon 194-98/NYRB 209-12); “The One From Camelot Moderan.” Descant (Winter 1962): 9-13 (Avon 179-84/NYRB 193-98); “It Was Black Cat Weather.” Illus. [Leo Ramon] Summers. Fantastic Stories of Imagination 12.2 (February 1963): 100-03 (Avon 155-59/NYRB 167-70); “Survival Packages.” Illus. [Leo Ramon] Summers. Fantastic Stories of Imagination 12.4 (April 1963): 70-74, 123 (Avon 80-85/NYRB 83-88); “One False Step.” Illus. [Leo Ramon] Summers. Fantastic Stories of Imagination 12.5 (May 1963): 90-95 (Avon 75-80/NYRB 77-82); “Sometimes I Get So Happy.” Fantastic Stories of Imagination 12.8 (August 1963): 103-06 (Avon 159-62/NYRB 171-74); “2064, or Thereabouts.” By Darryl R. Groupe [pseud.] Fantastic Stories of Imagination 13.9 (September 1964): 122-27 (Avon 92-97/NYRB 97-102); “Reunion.” Amazing Fact and Science Fiction Stories 39.2 (February 1965): 45-49 (Avon 184-89/NYRB 199-203); “Playmate.” Fantastic Stories of Imagination 14.5 (May 1965): 27-30 (Avon 130-33/NYRB 139-42); “The Walking Talking I-Don’t-Care Man.” Amazing Fact and Science Fiction Stories 39. 6 (June 1965): 6-10 (Avon 115-20/NYRB 122-27); “The Miracle of the Flowers.” The Smith, no. 7 (2.3&4) (October 1966): 11-23; rpt. in Pulpsmith 6.4 (Winter 1987): 108-15 (Avon 206-15/NYRB 222-31); “Incident in Moderan.” Dangerous Visions: 33 Original Stories. Ed. Harlan [Jay] Ellison (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1967), 295-99, with an “Introduction” (293-94) by Ellison and an “Afterword” (302-03) by Bunch (Avon 215-19/NYRB 232-36); “How It Ended.” Amazing 42.5 (January 1969): 59-64 (Avon 233-40/NYRB 253-60); “No Cracks or Saggings.” The Little Magazine 4.1 (Spring 1970): 44-53; rpt. without the “s” on Saggings in The Big Book of Science Fiction: The Ultimate Collection. Ed. Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (New York: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Vintage Books, 2016), 557-62 with an editors’ note on 555-56 (Avon without the “s” 25-35/NYRB without the “s” 21-31); and “A Glance at the Past.” Illus. Dan Adkins. Fantastic Stories of Imagination 20.1 (October 1970): 84-86 (Avon 147-50/NYRB 158-61). A story first published in Moderan, “New Kings are Not for Laughing,” was rpt. in The Big Book of Science Fiction: The Ultimate Collection. Ed. Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (New York: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Vintage Books, 2016), 562-66 with an editors’ note on 555-56; rpt. in the New York Review of Books ed. (38-44). Stories first reprinted in the New York Review of Books ed. are “Two Suns for Two Kings.” Worlds of If Science Fiction 21.4 (159) (April 1972): 113-18 (NYRB 274-78); “When the Metal Eaters Came?” Galaxy Science Fiction 39.10 (June/July 1979): 120-22 (NYRB 304-07); and “A Little Girl’s Spring Day in Moderan.” Galaxy Science Fiction 39.11 (September/October 1979): 122-26 (NYRB 308-14). Stories first published in the New York Review of Books ed. are “A Little at All Times” 263-67); “The Joke” (268-73); “The Good War” (279-85); “In the Land That Aimed at Forever” (286-91); “Among the Metal-and-People People (292-97); “The Dirty War” (298-303); “December for Stronghold” (315-23); and “The Heartacher and the Warehouseman” (324-27). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH Y1 - 1971 A1 - [Robert Lesly Carroll] [Conly] (1922-73) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult eutopian animal tale. Mrs. Frisby is a mouse who gets help from long-lived, intelligent rats that were the result of experiments at NIMH (National Institute of Mental Health). The rats created a eutopia for themselves after escaping from the laboratory.

PB - Atheneum CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. as The Secret of NIMH. New York: Scholastic, 1982, which was the title of an animated film version directed by Don Bluth (b. 1937) released that year. A direct-to-video sequel, The Secret of NIMH 2: Timmy to the Rescue, unrelated to the book and without Bluth's involvement was released in 1998.

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Robert C[arroll] O'Brien [pseud.]

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "No Direction Home" Y1 - 1971 A1 - Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940) ED - Michael [John] Moorcock (b. 1939) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Drug dystopia in which psychedelics are used in all aspects of life.

JF - New Worlds Quarterly PB - Berkley Books CY - New York VL - 2 N1 -

Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction of the Year #1. Ed. Terry Carr (New York: Ballantine Books, 1972), 227-44; in his The Star-Spangled Future (New York: Ace Books 1979), 263-86 with an “Introduction to No Direction Home” (261-62), and in Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction. Ed. Leigh Ronald Grossman (Rockville, MD: Wildside Press, 2011), 663-66 with an editor’s note on 663. 

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MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Our Man in Utopia" Y1 - 1971 A1 - [Douglas George] Fetherling (b. 1949) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Poem about an authoritarian dystopia. 

JF - Our Man in Utopia PB - Macmillan of Canada CY - Toronto, ON, Canada U3 -

Doug Fetherling [pseud.]

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HRC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Out There Y1 - 1971 A1 - Adrian [Pearl] Stoutenburg (1916-82) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult future tale in which children from a dystopian domed city experience nature for the first time and work together to protect it.

PB - Viking Press CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The People of Prashad" Y1 - 1971 A1 - James Keilty (1947-79) ED - Samuel R[ay] Delany (b. 1942) ED - Marilyn Hacker (b. 1942) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Anarchist, nature-oriented eutopia located in a valley in the Himalayas. An alphabet is provided (72), and there is "An Informal Introduction to the Language of Prashad" (76-78).

JF - Quark 2 PB - Paperback Library CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in The New Improved Sun: An Anthology of Utopian S-F. Ed. Thomas M[ichael] Disch (New York: Harper & Row, 1975), 49-80 with editor's notes on 49 and 80.

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Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Pepper Leaf. An Episode Y1 - 1971 A1 - Colin [A.] Gibson (b. 1933) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

The novel presents a small group of people who become isolated after a catastrophe and create a dystopia.

PB - Chatto & Windus CY - London U5 -

ATL

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pig World Y1 - 1971 A1 - Charles W[est] Runyon KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A Sixties style revolution succeeds but is corrupted by an authoritarian dictator.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Right to Revolt" "The Right to Resist" Y1 - 1971 A1 - [John] Keith Laumer (1925-93) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

"The Right to Revolt" is the story of a group of men who take over a planetary government and have to deal with all the problems the previous regime faced. In this story, those resisting are short sighted, kill innocent people, and come close to ruining the economy. "The Right to Resist" is what happens next.

JF - Worlds of If VL - 20.11 (134) U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Roommates" Y1 - 1971 A1 - Harry [Max] Harrison (1925-2012) ED - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia.

JF - The Ruins of Earth: An Anthology of Stories of the Immediate Future PB - G. P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Above the Human Landscape: A Social Science Fiction Anthology. Ed. Willis E. McNelly and Leon E. Stover (Pacific Palisades, CA: Goodyear Publishing Co., 1972), 312-31; and in Earth In Transit: Science Fiction and Contemporary Problems. Ed. Sheila Schwartz (New York: Dell Books, 1976), 97-120.

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Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Saltflower Y1 - 1971 A1 - Sydney [Joyce] Van Scyoc (b. 1939) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Includes some consideration of a eutopia based on privacy and a dystopia that eliminates it.

PB - Avon Books CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Scorpius Equation Y1 - 1971 A1 - [“Bud”] [Bernhardt] (1930-2008) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Gay male dystopia.

PB - Traveller' Companion CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Badboy, 1993.

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Larry Townsend [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Sea is Boiling Hot Y1 - 1971 A1 - George [Everett] Bamber (b. 1932) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Pollution dystopia. Sex and violence in domed cities.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Second Trip" Y1 - 1971 A1 - Robert Silverberg (b. 1935) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian background where criminals have their personality wiped out and a new personality implanted.

JF - Amazing Stories VL - 45.2 - 3 N1 -

Rpt. Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, 1971

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MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Shepherd Is My Lord Y1 - 1971 A1 - Dimitri Gat KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia. One company rules the known galaxy.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY U5 -

NSyU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Short Visit to Ergon Y1 - 1971 A1 - E[dith] M. Osborn (b. 1902) KW - Female author AB -

Detailed eutopia set on another planet. The people, who are all of one race, are telepathic in varying degrees. They believe that behind all matter is mind, and some of the people are developing significant mental powers, such as levitation. All people work to the extent they choose, and as long as they work two days a week they are provided with their basic needs. Includes a proposal for an ideal city on earth set in the U.S. (131-34) that is not related to the eutopia.

PB - Marlowe House Ltd CY - Victoria, BC, Canada U5 -

Can, DLC, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Silent in Gehenna" Y1 - 1971 A1 - Harlan [Jay] Ellison (1934-2018) ED - Ben[jamin William] Bova (1932-2020) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of patriotism with the universities run by the military.

JF - The Many Worlds of Science Fiction PB - E. P. Dutton CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in his Approaching Ellison: Road Signs on the Treadmill Toward Tomorrow. Eleven Uncollected Stories (New York: Walker, 1974), 97-114.

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MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sleep Two, Three, Four! A Political Thriller Y1 - 1971 A1 - John Neufeld (b. 1938) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult future tale in which the U.S. President uses gangs to terrorize neighborhoods and stay in power.

PB - Harper & Row CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sleepwalker's World Y1 - 1971 A1 - Gordon R[upert] Dickson (1923-2001) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia.

PB - J. B. Lippincott CY - Philadelphia, PA N1 -

Rpt. New York: DAW Books, 1972.

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Can, Merril, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Sliced Crosswise Only-on-Tuesday World" Y1 - 1971 A1 - Philip José Farmer (1918-2009) ED - Robert Silverberg (b. 1935) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia in which each person is assigned to one day and only one day and "sleeps" all the other days. See 1985 Farmer and 2016 Farmer and Adams for works that develop the basic idea.

JF - New Dimensions PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY VL - 1 N1 -

Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction of the Year #1. Ed. Terry Carr (New York: Ballantine Books, 1972), 113-29; in The Grand Adventure: Masterworks of Science Fiction and Fantasy (New York: Berkley Books, 1984), 163-90; in The Classic Philip José Farmer 1964-1973 (New York: Crown, 1984), 130-45; and in The Philip José Farmer Centennial Collection. Ed. Michael Croteau (Np: Meteor House, 2018), 487-503.

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Merril, MoU-St, PU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Smith's Dream Y1 - 1971 A1 - C[hristian] K[arlson] Stead (b. 1932) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia set in New Zealand with the focus on one man's resistance to it. The second version includes the ending the author says he originally intended. In this ending the protagonist is killed, whereas the first ending is hopeful. The change takes place on page 140. Stead explains the change in "John Mulgan: A Question of Identity." In his In the Glass Case: Essays on New Zealand Literature (Auckland, New Zealand: Auckland University Press/Oxford University Press, 1981), 87-88 [Originally published in Islands 25 (7.3) (April 1979): 286-88]. A film version was entitled Sleeping Dogs (1977) and was directed by Roger Donaldson (b. 1945) with the screenplay by Ian Mune (b. 1941) and Arthur Baysting.

PB - Longman Paul CY - Auckland, New Zealand N1 -

With a different ending Auckland, New Zealand: Longman Paul, 1973. Rpt. Auckland, New Zealand: New House Publishers, 1993. The change takes place on page 140. Stead explains the change in “John Mulgan: A Question of Identity.” In his In the Glass Case: Essays on New Zealand Literature (Auckland, New Zealand: Auckland University Press/Oxford University Press, 1981), 87-88 [Originally published in Islands 25 (7.3) (April 1979): 286-88]. 

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ATL, L, M, VUW

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Strong Man Y1 - 1971 A1 - H[enry] R[eymond] F[itzwalter] Keating (1926-2011) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Political novel describing the struggle against a dictator who uses religion to manipulate people. The replacement is not much better.

PB - Heinemann CY - London U5 -

L, OAkU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Sun Grows Cold Y1 - 1971 A1 - Howard [Francis] Berk (1925-2015) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-World War III dystopia. An underground Complex is involved in erasing memories, and the novel focuses on a man who wants to recover his.

PB - Delacorte CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Gollancz, 1971.

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NZ

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Survival World Y1 - 1971 A1 - Frank Belknap Long [Jr.] (1901-94) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel is set in a world devastated by pollution so that starvation has become the norm.

PB - Prestige Books CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Terminus Y1 - 1971 A1 - Leonard [John] Daventry (1915-87) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia where radioactive fallout from the bomb tests of the forties and fifties had caused cancers in babies and young children that led to a drop in the birthrate. Most people carry guns. Another society, the Terminus of the title, is a world without and disparaging of ideals; it is society that results from an upheaval in the original dystopia.

PB - Robert Hale & Co. CY - London U5 -

NZ

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "That Day" Y1 - 1971 A1 - [Carl Lee] [Shears] (1937-79) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

The story about the dystopia that is black/white relations in a small town in Georgia and the opposition of both to a young black man who has been admitted to a predominantly white university. At the end, the white police chief kills him. See also 1971 Shears, “Benefit, Necessity, and the Next Day,” 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975 (2), and 1978 Shears. 

JF - Niggers and Po’ White Trash. Stories PB - Nuclassics and Science Publishing Co CY - Washington, DC U3 -

Saggittarus [pseud.]

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - THX 1138 Y1 - 1971 A1 - Ben[jamin William] Bova (1932-2020) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia. Thought control. All people are bald; all clothes are white.

PB - Paperback Library CY - New York U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Time of Changes" Y1 - 1971 A1 - Robert Silverberg (b. 1935) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia with an emphasis on group cohesion. Polite language does not include "I". No self-revealing. At birth bond brothers and sisters are chosen and more can be told to them. Sexual freedom except with bond brother or sister. Change brought about by a drug that opened people to each other.

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction VL - 31.4 N1 -

Rpt. Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, 1971

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DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Time of the Great Death. A Novel Y1 - 1971 A1 - Claude M. Skinner (b. 1916) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A sleeper wakes novel in which a eutopia has developed after nuclear war, civil war, and disease has reduced the world population by three-quarters and a new mentality, called Humanism, has developed that values community and helping others over competition. The wakened sleeper cannot adjust and finds a woman who wants a strong, masterful man, which suggests that there are others who do not accept the new way of life. At the end of the novel, Earth has reverted to the old ways under a world-wide dictatorship.

PB - Vantage Press CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Time Story Y1 - 1971 A1 - Stuart [Richard Alexander Steuart] Gordon (1947-2009) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

A future technologically advanced but structurally feudal dystopia. 

PB - New English Library CY - London N1 -

U.S. Ed. New York: DAW Books, 1973.

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MoU-St, NLS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The T.N.A. Constitution (first draft 1971) Y1 - 1971 A1 - Terranian Nationalist Association AB -

Constitution for a democratic world government with restrictions on the powers of the individual states (known as Sectional National Governments). 

PB - The Association CY - Burwood, VIC, Australia N1 -

See also Terranianism: A Plan to Unite Humanity. Humanity and the World in Unity and Peace, One World, One People, Terrania. [Burwood, VIC, Australia: np, 1973]; The Terranian, no. 1 - 73 (May 20, 1969 - December 1975); The Terranian National Constitution (third draft 1972). Burwood, VIC, Australia: The Association, 1972; and Join the Terranians/Terranian National Association. Burwood, VIC, Australia: The Association, [1972]. All at the State Library of Victoria.

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VSL

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Tolstoy Lives in 12N B9 Y1 - 1971 A1 - Eric Geen KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Conformist, computerized dystopia.

PB - Weidenfeld and Nicolson CY - London U5 -

OU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Towards Helhaven: Three Stages of a Vision” Y1 - 1971 A1 - Kenneth [Duva] Burke (1897-1993) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A satiric essay that begins by reflecting on 1930 Burke and on the waste created by war and pollution, and then suggests the development of Helhaven, a “culture bubble” on the moon. Burke extends the satire in his “Why Satire, With a Plan for Writing One.” Michigan Quarterly Review 13 (Winter 1974): 307-37. Rpt. in his One Human Nature: A Gathering While Everything Flows 1967-1984. Ed. William Rueckert and Angela Bonadonna. Arranged and Annotated by William Rueckert (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003), 66-95.

JF - The Sewanee Review VL - 79.1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Travels in Nihilon Y1 - 1971 A1 - Alan Sillitoe (1928-2010) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on anarchism (nihilism).

PB - W. H. Allen CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Trial of Christopher Okigbo Y1 - 1971 A1 - Ali A[l’Amin] Mazrui (1933-2014 KW - Kenyan author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A post-death After-Africa (life is Herebefore) that on the surface appears to be eutopia but has most of the problems and conflicts of contemporary Africa. People appear to live well but the problems of Herebefore continue to influence action in After-Africa.

PB - Heinemann CY - London U5 -

L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The True North Blueprint. A Trilogy Y1 - 1971 A1 - Louis Capson (b. 1944) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Play presenting a dystopia in which the authoritarian system grows stronger throughout the trilogy.

PB - Playwrights Co-op CY - Toronto, ON, Canada VL - 3 vols. U1 -

The volumes have separate titles: To Become a Drummer, I Love You Billy Striker, and In Search of the Last Paradiddle

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Can

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Unknown Industrial Prisoner Y1 - 1971 A1 - David [Neil] Ireland (b. 1927) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Contemporary industrial system as a dystopia comparable to the most vicious prison regime.

PB - Angus & Robertson CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia U5 -

L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Unsigned" Y1 - 1971 A1 - William [Herbert] Walling (b. 1926) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which life insurance companies control life.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 40.4 (239) ER - TY - ABST T1 - Vandenberg Y1 - 1971 A1 - [John] [Wadleigh] (1927-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a communist takeover of the U.S.

PB - Stein & Day CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. as Defiance; An American Novel. New York: Stein and Day, 1984.

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Oliver Lange [pseud.] 

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MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Vision of Environment" Y1 - 1971 A1 - Peter L. Marks KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Essay describing an ecological eutopia that does away with existing political boundaries and replaces them with boundaries based on watersheds, each of which would contain one major city.

JF - American Scholar VL - 40.3 ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Warlord of the Air; A Scientific Romance Y1 - 1971 A1 - Michael [John] Moorcock (b. 1939) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Alternative future histories. Describes some eutopian and some dystopian societies but not in much detail. The same approach is continued in two sequels The Land Leviathan. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1974. U.K. ed. with subtitle A New Scientific Romance. London: Quartet, 1974. Rpt. in his The Nomad of Time (Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, [1982]), 157-302. Rev. with the subtitle For Mongazi Feza, who demanded justice. In A Nomad of the Time Streams: A Scientific Romance (London: Millennium, 1993), 157-297. U.S. ed. as The Second Adventure The Land Leviathan (Clarkson, GA: White Wolf, 1995), 147-276; and The Steel Tsar. New York: DAW Books, 1981. U.K. ed. with the subtitle Third Volume in the Oswald Bastable Trilogy. London: Granada, 1981. Rpt. in The Nomad of Time (Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, [1982]), 303-441. Rev. with the subtitle To the memory of Michael Cornelius Dempsey, who died, as he had lived, a captain of his own ship. In A Nomad of the Time Streams: A Scientific Romance (London: Millennium, 1993), 299-457. U.S. ed. as The Third Adventure The Steel Tsar (Clarkston, GA: White Wolf, 1995), 277-423.

PB - Dell CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: NEL, 1971. Rpt. in The Nomad of Time (Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, [1982]), 1-155. Rev. with the subtitle For Colin Ward and the international anarchist conspiracy. In A Nomad of the Time Streams: A Scientific Romance (London: Millennium, 1993), 1-154. U.S. ed. as The First Adventure The Warlord of the Air (Clarkston, GA: White Wolf, 1995), 1-146.

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CNoS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Wednesday, November 15, 1967" Y1 - 1971 A1 - Geo[rge] Alec Effinger (1947-2002) ED - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia as seen by the last man.

JF - The Ruins of Earth: An Anthology of Stories of the Immediate Future PB - G. P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Where Have You Been, Billy Boy, Billy Boy?" Y1 - 1971 A1 - Kate [Katie Gertrude Meredith] Wilhelm (1928-2018) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A story of multiple futures for one person. One is an authoritarian dystopia where everyone is required to watch a TV channel a specified number of hours each day. Another is an overpopulation dystopia. None are positive.

JF - Quark VL - 3 N1 -

Rpt. in her The Infinity Box: A collection of speculative fiction (New York: Harper & Row, 1975), 219-32.

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The World Inside Y1 - 1971 A1 - Robert Silverberg (b. 1935) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia with an emphasis on population growth, with large families living in huge buildings.

PB - Doubleday & Co. CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Rpt. New York: Tor, 2010 with a new “Preface” by the author (7-12). Part published in Galaxy Science Fiction as "The Throwbacks." 30.4 (August 1970): 26-54; "The World Outside." 30.6 (October/November 1970): 4-50, 192; "We Are Well Organized; An Episode--Urban Monad 116." 31.1 (December 1970): 38-69; and "All the Way Up, All the Way Down." 32.1 (July-August 1971): 140-60. Another part was published as "A Happy Day in 2381." Nova 1: An Anthology of Original Science Fiction Stories. Ed. Harry Harrison (New York: Delacorte Press, 1970), 17-33; rpt. in Earth In Transit: Science Fiction and Contemporary Problems. Ed. Sheila Schwartz (New York: Dell, 1976), 121-35; in A Day in the Life. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: Perennial Library, 1972), 100-17; in The City 2000 A.D.: Urban Life Through Science Fiction. Ed. Ralph Clem, Martin Harry Greenberg, and Joseph Olander (Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Crest, 1976), 289-304; in Science Fiction: The Future. Ed. Dick Allen. 2nd ed. (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983), 160-71; and in The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg. Volume Two: To the Dark Star: 1962-69 (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2007), 318-32 with an author's note on 317-18.

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CU-Riv, Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - 1989: Population Doomsday Y1 - 1970 A1 - Don[ald Eugene] Pendleton (1927-95) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation and pollution dystopia.

PB - Bee Line Books CY - New York U5 -

NcD

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "2020 Hindsight" Y1 - 1970 A1 - William Thompson ED - Stephen Clarkson For the Canadian Forum KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Future of Canada as a eutopia with scientists in control. No equality. The U.S. is fascist.

JF - Visions 2020: Fifty Canadians in Search of a Future PB - M. G. Hurtig CY - Edmonton, AB, Canada U5 -

Can, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "2020 Visions of an Electric Mutant German Historian Guitar Playing Berkeley Expatriate Prophet" Y1 - 1970 A1 - Hermann Rebel ED - Stephen Clarkson For the Canadian Forum KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Satiric poem. Complete freedom with tribal families as the basic social and legal units.

JF - Visions 2020: Fifty Canadians in Search of a Future PB - M. G. Hurtig CY - Edmonton, AB, Canada U5 -

Can, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "2430 A.D.--Too Late For the Space Ark" Y1 - 1970 A1 - Isaac Asimov (1920-92) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Conformist dystopia in an overpopulated world. The focus of the story is one man who keeps the last zoo, holding the last few small animals on the planet. For the good of society, he is asked to get rid of them. He does and kills himself also. "And after that there was really perfection. for all over the Earth, there was . . . not one unsettling thought, not one unusual idea, to disturb the universal placidity that meant that the exquisite nothingness of uniformity had at last been achieved" (165-66).

JF - IBM Magazine N1 -

Rpt. without the subtitle in his Buy Jupiter and Other Stories (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1975), 159-66.

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MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - 666 Y1 - 1970 A1 - Salem Kirban (1925-2010) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of the aftermath of the Rapture (see 1 Corinthians 15:52 and Thessalonians 4: 15-17) focusing on the Antichrist and Armageddon (see Revelation 16). His 1000. Huntingdon Valley, PA: Salem Kirban, Inc. Bound with his 666. Chattanooga, TN: AMG Publishers, [1970] is a sequel focusing on the 1000 years of the Millennial Age. See also 1968, and 1974 Kirban.

PB - Salem Kirban, Inc CY - Huntingdon Valley, PA N1 -

Rpt. bound with his 1000. Chattanooga, TN: AMG Publishers, [1973].

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Adam and Eve and Newbury Y1 - 1970 A1 - Diana Bennett KW - Female author AB -

Humor set in a dystopia of an overzealous welfare state. The novel focuses on those who do not fit in.

PB - Hodder & Stoughton CY - London U5 -

L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "After the Ball (A Story of Man in the Future)" Y1 - 1970 A1 - Charles Alldritt (1908-2007) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Dystopia and eutopia. Mostly a criticism of contemporary conditions with a particular emphasis on the dystopia being brought about by overpopulation. Includes a brief general eutopia at the end after the population problem is solved.

JF - Worlds in Mind PB - Author CY - Auckland, New Zealand U5 -

ATL

ER - TY - ABST T1 - After Things Fell Apart Y1 - 1970 A1 - Ron[ald Joseph] Goulart (1933-2022) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire of a future U.S. broken into small enclaves. A women's group is killing men.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York U5 -

CNoS, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "America the Beautiful" Y1 - 1970 A1 - Fritz [Reuter] Leiber [Jr.] (1910-92) ED - Harry [Max] Harrison (1925-2012) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia. The U.S. is a technological utopia that has solved the population and education problems. The legalization of marijuana and peyote has largely solved the drug problem, but there is constant war.

JF - The Year 2000: An Anthology PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Rpt. in The Ruins of Earth: An Anthology of Stories of the Immediate Future. Ed. Thomas M[ichael] Disch (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1971), 268-79; in The Best of Fritz Leiber (New York: Ballantine Books, 1974), 311-24; in The Best of Fritz Leiber (Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, Inc., 1974), 285-97; and in his Selected Stories. Ed. Jonathan Strahan and Charles N. Brown (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2010), 193-203. 

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Ancient Story of Selentag Y1 - 1970 A1 - Melvin [Ezell] Gorham (1910-94) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An individualist anarchist eutopia and its ruin by people desiring power presented in the form of a myth. See also 1975 and 1979 Gorham. For other works from the same general perspective, see 1984 von Konen, the note there, 1984 Valoric Fire, and 1987 Pedersen.

PB - Sovereign Press CY - Rochester, WA N1 -

Rev. as Kris Krinkle and the Moon Princess. Rochester, WA: Sovereign Press, 1991.

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - And Chaos Died Y1 - 1970 A1 - Joanna [Ruth] Russ (1937-2011) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Telepathy on a eutopian planet with Earth an authoritarian dystopia. Children are considered babies until they are prepubescent, after which they become capable of acting telepathically. They can slow down their maturation, in the case mentioned because the girl wants to develop intellectually. Adults rarely talk. In the third section of the novel, the novel shifts abruptly among times and places. In one future Earth, the population has grown immensely, with some cities constructed underground and on and under the sea and few animals are plants remain. Food is manufactured and what plants still grow are contaminated. Few people are literate. People were generally free to do as they choose; drugs are commonly to induce experiences, including death. But there is no organized crime, sex is no one’s business except for the people involved, people have practically unlimited credit. One couple has traditional gender roles, as defined by the man. 

PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1978, with an “Introduction” by Robert Silverberg (v-xi).

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Attitude Y1 - 1970 A1 - A. Neale McDougall KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia and dystopia set at the end of the twenty-second century. The eutopia is the Intercontinental Federation that emerged after the Second Dark Age in the twenty-first century. Teaching is now an honored profession. The dystopia is the United States, which is fragmented and on the verge of civil war.

PB - Vantage Press CY - New York U5 -

NcU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Barrier World Y1 - 1970 A1 - Louis [Henry] Charbonneau (b. 1924) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia in which perfection is the only physical standard allowed, and there is a maximum age of 48. Compulsory exercise periods twice a day.

PB - Lancer Books CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Bishop. A Novel Y1 - 1970 A1 - [Claude Cunningham] Bruce Marshall (1899-1987) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

First volume in a linked series on the future of the Roman Catholic Church. This volume serves as a prequel in that it is set in the present and is concerned with the reaction both within and outside the Church to the Pope's encyclical confirming the ban on all forms of contraception. See 1973, 1975, and 1976 Marshall for the other volumes in the series.

PB - Constable CY - London U5 -

L, NLS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Black is Beautiful." Y1 - 1970 A1 - Robert Silverberg (b. 1935) ED - Harry [Max] Harrison (1925-2012) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia. A future New York with both the city and the suburbs under domes. The city is black except for the white workers and tourists from the suburbs. From the perspective of a disaffected black teenager, the city appears a eutopia when the whites are gone on the weekends, and the city is certainly much better for blacks than at present, but it is shown to still have serious problems.

JF - The Year 2000: An Anthology PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Blood of Tyrants" Y1 - 1970 A1 - Ben[jamin William] Bova (1932-2020) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. A plan to educate teenage gang leaders and then have them lead their former gangs to a less violent life backfires in that the gang leaders use their knowledge to organize to gain power.

JF - Amazing Stories VL - 44.1 N1 -

Rpt. in his Forward in Time: A Science Fiction Story Collection (New York: Walker & Co., 1973), 17-34; and in The Best of Bova. 3 vols. (New York: Baen Books, 2016), 1: 113-131.

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MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Bodyguard Y1 - 1970 A1 - Adrian Mitchell (1932-2008) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of violence focusing on one ambitious man and what he does to succeed within the dystopia.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Allison & Busby, 1988.

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NLS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Canadiana" Y1 - 1970 A1 - Dennis Duffy ED - Stephen Clarkson For the Canadian Forum KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a militantly patriotic Canada.

JF - Visions 2020: Fifty Canadians in Search of a Future PB - M. G. Hurtig CY - Edmonton, AB, Canada U5 -

Can, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Chosen" Y1 - 1970 A1 - Kate [Katie Gertrude Meredith] Wilhelm (1928-2018) ED - Damon [Francis] Knight (1922-2002) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation, authoritarian dystopia.

JF - Orbit 6 PB - G.P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York U5 -

IaU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Communipaths Y1 - 1970 A1 - Suzette Haden Elgin (1936-2015) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia that uses those with telepathic ability, known as Communipaths, to send information throughout the galaxy. They are raised them in a crèche and are assigns them to a particular location where they live their brief lives communicating. This changes with the birth of a particularly powerful telepath.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -

Ace Double bound with 1970 Trimble.

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Computer World Y1 - 1970 A1 - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Technological flawed utopia. In the U.S. at birth everyone is given a basic credit and a Universal Credit Card, which is also their means of identification. All records are kept by the International Data Center, which is threatened with destruction. Reynolds uses the same basic trope in a number of other novels.

PB - Modern Literary Editions Publishing Co CY - New York U5 -

CU-Riv, GU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Constitution for a United Republics of America" Y1 - 1970 KW - US author AB -

A proposal resulting from discussions at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions. In the same issue, Rexford G[uy] Tugwell (1891-1979) discusses the constitution in "Introduction to a Constitution for a United Republics of America as suggested and discussed at The Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions" (11-23).

JF - The Center Magazine VL - 3.5 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Contact Lost Y1 - 1970 A1 - [Allan James] [Tucker] (b. 1929) KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

The third volume of a trilogy concerned with the development of the Soviet-Bonn bloc, an expanding authoritarian dystopia which Britain voluntarily joins. This volume is concerned with the successful underground opposition movement. See 1968 and 1969 Tucker.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London N1 -

U.S ed. New York: Stein and Day, 1970.

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David Craig [pseud.]

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DLC, CaOTP

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dance the Eagle to Sleep Y1 - 1970 A1 - Marge Piercy (b. 1936) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia which has a required "19th Year of Service" seen through the eyes of various young people who are suppressed by their parents, their schools, and the social order in which they live. This part of the novel reads like a realistic novel which then shifts to the youth rebellion and the rest of the novel focuses on the rebellion, the people involved in it, their relations and conflicts, and the organizations they establish including urban and rural communities. See also 1972, 1976, 1980, and 1991 Piercy.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Rpt. Greenwich, CT: Fawcett, 1971; and Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2012, with an "Introduction to the New Edition" by the author (vii-ix).

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Dear Aunt Annie” Y1 - 1970 A1 - Gordon [Stewart] Eklund (b. 1945) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future after the Last War in which the United States killed off most of the population of the rest of the world. As a result, the entire culture came to center eliminating violence control by a robot agony aunt and centers where everyone is required, at least once every three months, to take an anti-violence pill. In the story, people are becoming immune.

JF - Fantastic VL - 19-4 N1 -

Rpt. in Second Creation: Selected Stories Volume One ([Vancleave, MS]: Ramble House, 2016), 11-38. 

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Illus. Michael Hinge

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution Y1 - 1970 A1 - Shulamith Firestone (1945-2012) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

One of the more radical feminist texts of the time, which ends with a chapter entitled "The Ultimate Revolution: Demands and Speculations" (183-224) [called "Conclusion: The Ultimate Revolution" (232-74) in the U.K. ed.]; and, in the rev. ed. a section called "Alternatives" (226-42) outlining a future feminist eutopia. The book ends with a chart outlining the history of the position of women from the beginnings into a far future "cosmic consciousness".

PB - William Morrow CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Jonathan Cape, 1971. Rev. ed. New York: Bantam Books, 1971.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Doomsday Show. A Cabaret" Y1 - 1970 A1 - George Macbeth A1 - J. S. Bingham KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Brief dystopian play set in an authoritarian society that evolved in caves among the few survivors of a nuclear war.

JF - New English Dramatists PB - Penguin CY - Harmondsworth, Eng. VL - 14 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dragon Feast Y1 - 1970 A1 - John Elliott KW - Male author AB -

United States occupied by Chinussian alliance. Dystopia but mostly about the counter-revolution.

PB - Belmont Books CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Earthjacket Y1 - 1970 A1 - Jon Hartridge (b. 1934) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

An authoritarian dystopia based on technology that has destroyed most of the natural environment. A successful attempt to undermine the imposed order results in the destruction of the society.

PB - Macdonald CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Walker, 1970.

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DLC, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Electric Crocodile Y1 - 1970 A1 - D[avid] G[uy] Compton (1930-2023) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia with constant surveillance. Almost everyone is bugged, and people have to use jammers to have a private conversation.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -

U.S. ed. as The Steel Crocodile. New York: Ace Books, 1970.

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U.S. ed. as The Steel Crocodile.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Enchantress of the Stars Y1 - 1970 A1 - Sylvia [Louise] Engdahl (b. 1933) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult novel about a colonization scheme that has no concern about the welfare of the inhabitants. The same protagonist as in 1971 Engdahl. 

PB - Athenaeum CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. illus. Leo and Diane Dillon. New York, Walker, 2001, with a “Foreword to the 2001 Edition” by Lois Lowry (vi-xi) and an “Afterword to the 2001 Edition” by the author (287-88). 

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "E.R.A." Y1 - 1970 A1 - Timothy Findley (1930-2002) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia that eliminates rural life. E.R.A. refers to an Environmental Redevelopment Agent, which are destroying the countryside by poisoning it.

JF - Cavalier N1 -

Rpt. as “What Mrs. Felton Knew.” In his Dinner Along the Amazon (Markham, ON, Canada: Penguin Books Canada, 1984), 116-32; and in Ark of Ice: Canadian Futurefiction. Ed. Lesley Choyce (Lawrencetown Beach, NS, Canada: Pottersfield Press, 1992), 181-96. 

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Rpt. as “What Mrs. Felton Knew.” 

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Can, MoS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Evil Is Live Spelled Backwards Y1 - 1970 A1 - Andrew J[efferson] Offutt V (1934-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Armageddon (See Revelation 16). Conflict between a religious tyranny and a Satanist coven.

PB - Paperback Library CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Farm of the Future" Y1 - 1970 A1 - Davis Meltzer [pseud.] AB -

Illustration with caption depicting the technology based eutopian future of the farm.

JF - National Geographic VL - 137.2 U3 -

Davis Meltzer [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Guardians Y1 - 1970 A1 - [Sam] [Youd] (1922-2012) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Overcrowded cities for the proletariat. Rural life for the aristocracy. Maintained by psychological conditioning and brain surgery.

PB - Hamish Hamilton CY - London U3 -

John Christopher [pseud.]

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DLC, L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Homage to Raphael Hythloday" Y1 - 1970 A1 - David Austin A1 - David Page KW - Male author AB -

A eutopian education, with much criticism of even good contemporary education. In Utopia they teach the parents--which includes everyone who the child chooses to learn from--first. That means that no elementary schools are needed, and there are no age or generational distinctions. No one works but people create and make things as and when they choose.

JF - ARK (Journal of the Royal College of Art, London) VL - 46 N1 -

Rpt. without the illus. in Anarchy 115 10.9 (September 1970): 266-268.

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Illus.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "How the Whip Came Back" Y1 - 1970 A1 - Gene [Rodman] Wolfe (1931-2019) ED - Damon [Francis] Knight (1922-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of the reintroduction of slavery.

JF - Orbit PB - G. P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York VL - 6 N1 -

Rpt. in The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories. Ed. Tom Shippey (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1992), 385-99. 

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IaU, Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Hunter at His Ease." Y1 - 1970 A1 - Brian [Wilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) ED - Anthony Cheetham KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a future world constantly at war and "Progress" gradually destroying the environment.

JF - Science Against Man PB - Avon Nooks CY - New York U5 -

TxCM

ER - TY - ABST T1 - I Will Fear No Evil Y1 - 1970 A1 - Robert A[nson] Heinlein (1907-88) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of violence.

PB - G. P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. as vol. 1 of The Virginia Edition of his works. Decatur, GA: Meisha Merlin Publishing, 2006 and separately Houston, TX: The Virginia Edition, 2008. Also published in Galaxy Science Fiction 30.4 - 31.1 (July - December 1970): 4-25, 96-184, 100-90; 96-186.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Indians Won Y1 - 1970 A1 - Martin [William] Cruz Smith (b. 1942) KW - Male author KW - Native American author AB -

Alternative history in which an independent North American Indian nation occupies half of the area of the U.S.

PB - Belmont Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Severn House, 1982.

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L, NN

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Indoctrinaire Y1 - 1970 A1 - Christopher [McKenzie] Priest (1943-2024) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Anarchist eutopia set in Brazil 200 years in the future. There is no government. All simple decisions are left to individuals, but they are expected to consult on more complex ones, and there is a social hierarchy based on merit that may be consulted.

PB - Faber and Faber CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Harper & Row, 1970. U.K. ed. rpt. London: New English Library, 1971. [Rev. ed.] London: Pan, 1979 with an "Afterword" by the author (191-92). Part originally published as "The Interrogator." New Writings in S-F 15. Ed. [Edward] John Carnell (London: Dennis Dobson, 1969), 45-76.

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MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Inside the Machine for Living" Y1 - 1970 A1 - Ross Mendes ED - Stephen Clarkson For the Canadian Forum KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia stressing technology. At thirteen children choose to be apprenticed, go to a university town, or join a Children's Crusade to improve some part of the planet.

JF - Visions 2020: Fifty Canadians in Search of a Future PB - M. G. Hurtig CY - Edmonton, AB, Canada U5 -

Can, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Intensive Care Y1 - 1970 A1 - Janet [Paterson] Frame (1924-2004) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopian ending to a family chronicle projected into a future in which a world war leads to a plan to improve the human race and the economy by eliminating all the unfit, including those susceptible to minor illnesses.

PB - George Braziller CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. Wellington, New Zealand: A.H. & A.W. Reed, 1971; London: W.H. Allen, 1971; and Auckland, New Zealand: Century Hutchinson, 1987.

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ATL, MoS, VUW

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Interurban Queen” Y1 - 1970 A1 - R[aphael] A[loysius] Lafferty (1914-2002) ED - Damon [Francis] Knight (1922-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia created when railroads were chosen over cars and highways.

JF - Orbit 8: An Anthology of Science Fiction Stories PB - G. P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York VL - 8 SN - 9781473213449 978-1250778536 N1 -

Rpt. in Looking Ahead: The Vision of Science Fiction. Ed. Dick Allen and Lori Allen (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975), 87-95, with an editor’s note on 87 and “Questions” on 95; in Car Sinister. Ed. Robert Silverberg, Martin Harry Greenberg, and Joseph Olander (New York: Avon Books, 1979), 134-44; and in The Best of R. A. Lafferty. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (London: Gollancz, 2019), 56-68, with an Introduction by Terry [Ballantine] Bisson (54-55). Rpt. New York: Tor, 2021

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Journey to Utopia Y1 - 1970 A1 - L. A. Glass KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel describes a search for eutopia that permits the destruction of anything and anyone who gets in the way of the search.

PB - Vantage Press CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - King Strut Y1 - 1970 A1 - [Charles Sumner] Chuck Stone (1924-2014) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

Black revolution presented positively but with substantial satire directed at the way the political system functions, particularly its favoritism and corruption. The novel focuses on a black politician, Hiram Elliott Quinault, possibly based on Adam Clayton Powell (1908-72), who rises to a position of seniority in the House of Representatives. His rise leads to the inevitable backlash from the established white politicians, who uses every means available to demean and diminish him. When a group of black nationalists declare the independence of Blackland in Mississippi from the U.S. and ask Quinault to be their President, he accepts, is expelled from Congress, and assassinated. In retaliation, the black nationalists kill twelve Congressmen and wounding others. 

PB - Bobbs-Merrill CY - Indianapolis, IN U5 -

L, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Last of the Urbanites" Y1 - 1970 A1 - Coughlan, L.W AB -

Dystopia. Technology and cities are destroyed.

JF - Man Junior (Sydney, NSW, Australia) VL - NS 34.2 U5 -

A

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Learning in the Age of Wonder" Y1 - 1970 A1 - Lloyd [Arthur] Dennis (1923-2012) ED - Robert F. Nixon KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia of future education that is free and individualized and begins with parenting education.

JF - The Guelph Papers PB - Peter Martin Associates CY - Toronto, ON, Canada N1 -

Rpt. in Visions 2020. Ed. for the Canadian Forum by Stephen Clarkson (Edmonton, AB, Canada: M.G. Hurtig, 1970), 183-88.

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Can, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Leatherjacket. A Thriller Y1 - 1970 A1 - Arthur Wise (1923-83) KW - Male author AB -

Mostly adventure but based around a movement to revive National Socialism.

PB - Weidenfeld and Nicolson CY - London U5 -

CtW, NLS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Looking Back on Illth" Y1 - 1970 A1 - John T. McLeod ED - Stephen Clarkson For the Canadian Forum KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia of medicine in the future. Mostly a critique of the past, but describes "one-stop" health care.

JF - Visions 2020: Fifty Canadians in Search of a Future PB - M. G. Hurtig CY - Edmonton, AB, Canada U5 -

Can, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Lost Continent." Y1 - 1970 A1 - Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940) ED - Anthony Cheetham KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire with Africa dominant and the U.S. degenerated due to extensive pollution.

JF - Science Against Man PB - Avon Books CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Macdonald Science Fiction, 1971), 9-56. Rpt. in his The Star-Spangled Future (New York: Ace Books, 1979), 335-401 with an "Introduction to The Lost Continent" (331-33).

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CNoSt, NLS, PSt, TxCM

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lustopia Y1 - 1970 A1 - Scott Harford KW - Male author AB -

Erotica describing a commune where all sexual desires can be fulfilled.

PB - Pendulum Books CY - Los Angeles, CA U5 -

CU-Riv

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Magellan. A Novel Y1 - 1970 A1 - Colin Anderson (b. 1933) KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Welfare dystopia in the one city left after a global nuclear war. Using a giant computer the intent is to give everyone immortality in their own paradise, and the novel follows the main character through a number of these worlds.

PB - Walker CY - New York N1 -

U.S ed. New York: Walker, 1970.  Rpt. London: Sphere, 1971; and New York: Berkley Medallion, 1972. The PSt ed. simply has the Walker identification pasted over the Gollancz identification.

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DLC, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Mask of Jon Culon Y1 - 1970 A1 - Edward William Ludwig (1920-90) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe, anti-technological, religious dystopia.

PB - Lenox Hill Press CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: John Gresham, 1971.

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L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Matrix Y1 - 1970 A1 - Douglas Rankine Mason (1918-2013) KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

Machine dystopia in which machines are about to phase out the human race.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Robert Hale & Co., 1971.

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NAlU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Memory of a Canada-hunting Republican" Y1 - 1970 A1 - Stephen Grant ED - Stephen Clarkson For the Canadian Forum KW - Canadian author AB -

Dystopia in which Canada is part of the United States and the history of the northern part of the United States is officially discouraged.

JF - Visions 2020: Fifty Canadians in Search of a Future PB - M.G. Hurtig CY - Edmonton, AB, Canada U5 -

Can, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "MIRV" Y1 - 1970 A1 - John M. Robson ED - Stephen Clarkson For the Canadian Forum KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on the future of higher education. MIRV is the “Minority interim report (voluntary) of the permanent participatory committee of the Free University of Toronto (F.U. To.) on the expedition of consultation concerning staffing and distaffing procedures during the next demicent with a view to implementation in, at or about the year 2020.” The majority report read in its entirety, “Get the hell out, before it’s too late!”

JF - Visions 2020: Fifty Canadians in Search of a Future PB - M. G. Hurtig CY - Edmonton, AB, Canada U5 -

Can, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A More Perfect Union Y1 - 1970 A1 - Robert Stapp (1914-85) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The South seceded from the U.S. and in 1981 the Confederacy is a totalitarian dystopia in conflict with the United States.

PB - Harper's Magazine Press in Association with Harper and Row CY - New York U5 -

IaStU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mr. Sammler's Planet Y1 - 1970 A1 - Saul Bellow (1915-2005) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A minor thread discusses the possibility of establishing a eutopia on the moon. There is also considerable discussion of H.G. Wells and of the nature of utopianism.

PB - Viking Press CY - New York N1 -

Originally published in different form illus. Mario Micossi in The Atlantic 224.5 - 6 (November - December 1969): 95-150, 99-142.

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Illus. Mario Micossi in The Atlantic

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The New Arrangement" Y1 - 1970 A1 - Gaeton Fonzi (1935-2012) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Essay with some fictional elements about the better living arrangements in an intentional community, with the stress on child-rearing and the family.

JF - Philadelphia Magazine U5 -

L, VUW

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A New Renaissance?" Y1 - 1970 A1 - Gregory [G.] Baum ED - Stephen Clarkson For the Canadian Forum KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Canada as a troubled religious eutopia in 2020. Canadian universities had been destroyed by student revolts in the 1990s and replaced with centers of conversation. These led to a revival of religion and a reduction in productivity. The government gives out drugs to get people re-connected to reality, and the church becomes an inquisitor.

JF - Visions 2020: Fifty Canadians in Search of a Future PB - M. G. Hurtig CY - Edmonton, AB, Canada U5 -

Can, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "No More Fun and Games" Y1 - 1970 A1 - Rosemary Cook ED - Stephen Clarkson For the Canadian Forum KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Satire on feminism. Government, among other advances, abolishes the masculine gender in French and prohibits marriage and heterosexual relations.

JF - Visions 2020: Fifty Canadians in Search of a Future PB - M. G. Hurtig CY - Edmonton, AB, Canada U5 -

Can, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Noblest Experiment in the Galaxy Y1 - 1970 A1 - Louis P[reston] Trimble (1917-88) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

One setting of the novel is a small-town eutopia in England that is basically Victorian but includes modern technology.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Nobody Lives in Burton Street" Y1 - 1970 A1 - Greg[ory Albert] Benford (b. 1941) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future U.S. dystopia. African Americans contained in ghettoes, but there are constant riots.

JF - Amazing Stories VL - 44.1 N1 -

Rpt. in The Best of Gregory Benford. Ed. David G. Hartwell (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2015), 9-16. Rpt. with minor revisions as "Nobody Lives Around There." Vertex 1.6 (February 1974): 72-75, 94.

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Rpt. with minor revisions as "Nobody Lives Around There."

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Once Upon a Time: A Fable of Student Power" Y1 - 1970 A1 - Neil Postman (1931-2003) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. Based on a passage in Henry David Thoreau's (1817-62) Walden; or, Life in the Woods (1854) about the need for students to live life rather than just studying, New York City removes students from school and puts them to work cleaning up and repairing the rundown city. Post-secondary students asked to participate and were added.

JF - The New York Times Magazine N1 -

Rpt. in Futures Conditional. [Ed.] Robert Theobald (Indianapolis, IN: The Bobbs-Merril Co., 1972), 197-202.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Oogenesis of Bird City" Y1 - 1970 A1 - Philip José Farmer (1918-2009) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. The story describes the political maneuvering around the establishment of a separate, eutopian city for all those on welfare, who are all black, thus deliberately separating the races.

JF - Amazing Science Fiction Stories VL - 44.3 N1 -

Rpt. in his The Purple Book (New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 1982), 5-27; and in The Classic Philip José Farmer 1964-1973 (New York: Crown, 1984), 115-29.

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MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Our Friends From Frolix 8 Y1 - 1970 A1 - Philip K[indred] Dick (1928-82) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia in which different types of humans rule the normal humans. The revolt against the dystopia is assisted by an alien from Frolix 8.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Paradise Is Not Enough Y1 - 1970 A1 - Michael [Aiken] Elder (1931-2004) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Dystopia of mechanical perfection in which robots do everything except act in the pervasive Tri-V shows and are planning to take over those jobs also.

PB - Robert Hale CY - London U5 -

L, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Paradise Lost" Y1 - 1970 A1 - H[elen] M[ary] Tolcher (1928-2014) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Pollution dystopia. A pristine planet is discovered, but the man doing so keeps it a secret to avoid it being destroyed by others.

JF - Man Junior (Sydney, NSW, Australia) VL - 33.6 U5 -

A

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Piece of Resistance Y1 - 1970 A1 - Clive [Frederick William] Egleton (1927-2006) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia of a Communist Britain. First volume of a trilogy. The other volumes are Last Post of a Partisan. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1971; and The Judas Mandate. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1972. Rpt. as The Last Refuge. London: Severn House, 2006 with a foreword by the author. U.S. ed. as The Judas Mandate. New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghagan, 1972.

PB - Hodder and Stoughton CY - London N1 -

Rpt. as Never Surrender. Sutton, Surrey, Eng.: Severn House, 2004.

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Rpt. as Never Surrender

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Pressure of Time" Y1 - 1970 A1 - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) ED - Damon [Francis] Knight (1922-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

All the stories explore immortality. In “The Pressure of Time,” after a plague, some people are perceived to be immortal, although they may just be very long lived, and since they still procreate, the population is growing. But for some, even among the mortals, the world is a better place because no one starves and, economically, there is no lower class. Still, the mortals resent the immortals, and the immortals hope the mortals die out. “Things Lost,” set in 2084-2085, continues the themes of the first story, as does “Mutability”; and “Chanson Perpétuelle,” set in 2098, focuses on one of the remaining mortals.

JF - Orbit 7: An Anthology of Brand-New SF Stories PB - G. P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York N1 -

Rev. Illus. Frank Kelly Frease. Triquarterly, no. 49 (1980): 213-57.

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Profit of Doom. Science Fiction Y1 - 1970 A1 - Hugh Dirac KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

The dystopia brought about by being able to transplant almost all organs.

PB - Sidgwick & Jackson CY - London U5 -

L, NLS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Proposals to Save the World" Y1 - 1970 A1 - R[ichard] I. F[airfield] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

One page outline of a eutopia. Radical decentralization of power; new educational system based on volunteers; guaranteed minimum and maximum incomes; volunteer military until no longer need; a National Youth Service Corps for those fifteen to twenty-five; and a National Adult Service Corps for those forty to fifty.

JF - Alternatives! Foundation Newsletter CY - n.p. VL - no. 2 U5 -

KU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Prospectus for Cambridge Institute. New City Project. September 8, 1970 Y1 - 1970 AB -

Non-fiction eutopia outlining the principles guiding the design of a new city.

PB - [n.p.] CY - [Cambridge, MA] U5 -

CtY

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "R26/5/PSY and I" Y1 - 1970 A1 - Michael G[reatrex] Coney (1932-2005) ED - [Edward] John Carnell (1912-72) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia where few people have jobs and food is strictly rationed. Many people come to be completely apathetic and never leave their rooms. The story is about therapy to overcome this condition.

JF - New Writings in S-F PB - Dennis Dobson CY - London VL - 16 U5 -

O, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Report of the Fact-finding Committee on Food” Y1 - 1970 A1 - Farmiloe, Dorothy ED - Stephen Clarkson For the Canadian Forum KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia in which all agricultural land has been turned over to industry and Canadians are starving.

JF - Visions 2020: Fifty Canadians in Search of a Future PB - M.G. Hurtig CY - Edmonton, AB, Canada U5 -

Can, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Return of the Empire Loyalists" Y1 - 1970 A1 - Andrew Wernick ED - Stephen Clarkson For the Canadian Forum KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on future Canada where everyone is stoned.

JF - Visions 2020: Fifty Canadians in Search of a Future PB - M. G. Hurtig CY - Edmonton, AB, Canada U5 -

Can, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Right Off the Map" Y1 - 1970 A1 - Pip Winn ED - Damon [Francis] Knight (1922-2002) KW - Male author AB -

Brief overpopulation dystopia.

JF - Orbit 8: An Anthology of New Science Fiction Stories PB - G. P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Rivet in Grandfathers Neck Y1 - 1970 A1 - Bruce Elliott (1914-73) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia on a planet called New Australia. The planet was initially settled by convicts, sent to the new planet as subversives to the established order, and their convict status appears to be the only connection to Australia. The planet chooses to cut itself off completely from Earth and develops society based on extremely long life with the oldest having the most power. The novel is about a man who discovers the underside of the utopia.

PB - Modern Literary Editions Publishing Co./Curtis Books CY - New York U5 -

CU-Riv

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Robert Ripley’s ‘Believe It or Not!’” Y1 - 1970 A1 - John Robert Colombo ED - Stephen Clarkson For the Canadian Forum KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on the future of Canada.

JF - Visions 2020: Fifty Canadians in Search of a Future PB - M. G. Hurtig CY - Edmonton, AB, Canada U5 -

Can, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "SCORE/SCORE" Y1 - 1970 A1 - Phyllis [Fay Bloom] Gotlieb (1926-2009) ED - Stephen Clarkson For the Canadian Forum KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Future education. A teaching machine has a breakdown and wants to control the world.

JF - Visions 2020: Fifty Canadians in Search of a Future PB - M. G. Hurtig CY - Edmonton, AB, Canada U5 -

Can, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Seven Steps to the Sun Y1 - 1970 A1 - [Sir] Fred Hoyle (1915-2001) A1 - Geoffrey Hoyle (b. 1941) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of an authoritarian decentralized political system.

PB - Heinemann CY - London N1 -

Rpt. ed. Barbara Hoyle. Harmondsworth, Eng: Penguin Books, 1981. U.S. ed. Greenwich, CT: Fawcett, 1970.

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NLS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sex and the High Command Y1 - 1970 A1 - [Boyd Bradfield] [Upchurch] (1919-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on male chauvinism and women's liberation.

PB - Weybright and Talley CY - New York U3 -

John Boyd [pseud.]

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IU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Shaker Revival" Y1 - 1970 A1 - Gerald Jonas (b. 1935) KW - Male author AB -

A new Shaker sect called The United Society of Believers (Revived) has more than 100,000 members after only four years, most under eighteen years old and very few "feebies" (those over 30) are accepted. The basic creed is the "Four Noes"--"No hate, No war, No money, No sex". They establish a rock band that is immensely popular. The setting for the revival is a world with heavy drug use and emphasis on sexual and other gratification. Full time consumers belonged to the "Contract Consumer Corps", and producers are considered lower class. All African Americans live in ghettos, and there is a wall around Harlem. The Shakers, or the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing were a religious group practicing celibacy that originated in England in the eighteenth century and established a number of communities in the U.S.

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction VL - 29.5 N1 -

Rpt. in World’s Best Science Fiction 1971. Ed. Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr (New York: Ace Books, 1971), 263-92; and in The Ruins of Earth: An Anthology of Stories of the Immediate Future. Ed. Thomas M[ichael] Disch (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1971), 240-67. 

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Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Show Must Go On" Y1 - 1970 A1 - David I[rvine] Masson (1915-2007) ED - [Oswyn Robert Tregonnel] [Hay] KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Dystopia of overpopulation and violence.

JF - The Disappearing Future PB - Panther CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Six-Gun Planet Y1 - 1970 A1 - John [William] Jakes (1932-2023) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire. Planet called Missouri designed to be like the popular images of the Old West in the U.S. with a gunfight at sundown.

PB - Paperback Library CY - New York U5 -

CU-Riv, MoR

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Some People, Places and Attitudes that Won't Appear in My Next Paradise" Y1 - 1970 A1 - Christina Newman ED - Stephen Clarkson For the Canadian Forum KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Satire on feminism but stressing equality without separation, which is the goal of much feminism.

JF - Visions 2020: Fifty Canadians in Search of a Future PB - M. G. Hurtig CY - Edmonton, AB, Canada U5 -

Can, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Son of Kronk Y1 - 1970 A1 - Edmund Cooper (1926-82) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A dystopia of pollution and violence, but a new venereal disease develops that limits aggression.

PB - Hodder & Stoughton CY - London N1 -

Rpt. as Kronk. London: Coronet, 1972. U.S. ed. as Kronk. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1971.

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Rpt. as Kronk

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L, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Space Stadium Y1 - 1970 A1 - H[erbert] U[rlin] Bevis (1902-2001) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Peace on earth achieved by having teams of men fight in space with world control the prize.

PB - Lenox Hill Press CY - [New York] U5 -

OkOk

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A State of Denmark or a Warning to the Incurious Y1 - 1970 A1 - [Robert William Arthur] [Cook] (1931-94) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia set in an England that has deported all non-whites.

PB - Hutchinson CY - London N1 -

Rpt as by Derek Raymond [pseud.]. London: Serpent's Tale, 1994; and London: Serpent's Tale, 2007. 

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Robin Cook [pseud.]

Derek Raymond [pseud.]

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DLC, O

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Statistician's Day." Y1 - 1970 A1 - James [Benjamin] Blish (1921-75) ED - Anthony Cheetham KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which birth control is insufficient and death is also controlled.

JF - Science Against Man PB - Avon Books CY - New York U5 -

TxCm

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Supergenmot" Y1 - 1970 A1 - James Reany ED - Stephen Clarkson For the Canadian Forum KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Satire. Happiness is marketed as Supergenmot, which allows everyone to individually produce as much energy as they want. The formula is made available to everyone. People fly off to other planets, and earth becomes a museum.

JF - Visions 2020: Fifty Canadians in Search of a Future PB - M. G. Hurtig CY - Edmonton, AB, Canada U5 -

Can, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Taurus Four Y1 - 1970 A1 - Rena [Marie] Vale (1898-1983) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Satire centered on descendants of the Hippies who had been forcibly settled on another planet.

PB - Paperback Library CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - This Perfect Day Y1 - 1970 A1 - Ira [Marvin] Levin (1929-2007) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which computer control produces sameness; e.g. there are only four names each for boys and girls. People are kept drugged; no free movement. Genetic engineering to overcome size and color differences. Promiscuous sex required weekly.

PB - Random House CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Three by Ira Levin Rosemary’s Baby This Perfect Day The Stepford Wives (New York: Random House, 1985), 163-273.

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Toe to Tip, Tip to Toe, Pip-Pop As You Go" Y1 - 1970 A1 - William F[rancis] Nolan (1928-2021) ED - William F[rancis] Nolan (1928-2021) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Drug dystopia of an enclosed society in which the majority of the population is using legal drugs but those advertizing them are prohibited from taking drugs. There is a group living "outside" who oppose the drugs.

JF - The Future is NOW: All-New All-Star Science Fiction Stories PB - Sherbourne Press CY - Los Angeles, CA U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Traffic Problem" Y1 - 1970 A1 - William [J.] Earls KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The dystopia brought about by traffic congestion.

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine VL - 30.6 N1 -

Rpt. The City 2000 A.D.: Urban Life Through Science Fiction. Ed. Ralph Clem, Martin Harry Greenberg, and Joseph Olander (Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Crest, 1976), 243-52; and in Car Sinister. Ed. Robert Silverberg, Martin Harry Greenberg, and Joseph Olander (New York: Avon Books, 1979), 52-61. 

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Travelin' Man" Y1 - 1970 A1 - Leo P[atrick] Kelley (1928-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 39.3 N1 -

Rpt. in Themes in Science Fiction; A Journey into Wonder. Ed. Leo P[atrick] Kelley (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1972), 398-408.

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MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Troika Incident. A Tetralogue in Two Parts Y1 - 1970 A1 - James Cooke Brown (1921-87) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Detailed eutopia of a decentralized, craft-based economy and free love.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY U5 -

HRC, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Truth Worth of Ruth Villiers" Y1 - 1970 A1 - Michael G[reatrex] Coney (1932-2005) ED - [Edward] John Carnell (1912-72) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on the welfare system. Individuals are each valued, and all services provided are based upon their credit worth.

JF - New Writings in S-F PB - Dobson CY - London VL - 17 U5 -

O, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Utopian." Y1 - 1970 A1 - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) ED - Harry [Max] Harrison (1925-2012) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia. A eutopia of world government, universal education, efficient birth control, automation, no money, no war, no crime, little disease, and essentially free unlimited power results in people with no ambition.

JF - The Year 2000: An Anthology PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Rpt. (New York: Berkley Medallion, 1972), 83-99; and in The Best of Mack Reynolds (New York: Pocket Books, 1976), 331-47 with an author's note on 330.

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Victory of the NIMs over the GEBs" Y1 - 1970 A1 - Max Clarkson ED - Stephen Clarkson For the Canadian Forum KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Satire. Education of the future turned away from technology. NIM refers to the New Image of Man which stresses self-realization. GEB refers to the alliance of government, education, and business which agreed to cooperate under the Orwell Treaty of 1984 that gave multinational corporations control of education.

JF - Visions 2020: Fifty Canadians in Search of a Future PB - M. G. Hurtig CY - Edmonton, AB, Canada U5 -

Can, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Visit to the Museum" Y1 - 1970 A1 - Jean-Pierre Wallot ED - Stephen Clarkson For the Canadian Forum KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of Canada as part of the United States with a tour through the Museum of the Man of Canada.

JF - Visions 2020: Fifty Canadians in Search of a Future PB - M. G. Hurtig CY - Edmonton, AB, Canada U5 -

Can, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Walter Perkins Is Here!" Y1 - 1970 A1 - Raymond E[ugene] Banks (1918-96) ED - William F[rancis] Nolan (1928-2021) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on an affluent world in which everyone "belongs" to a computer and constantly follows its advice. Surface cars abolished and horses reinstated. With no real explanation the entire world becomes one big party.

JF - The Future is NOW: All-New All-Star Science Fiction Stories PB - Sherbourne Press CY - Los Angeles, CA U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Welcome to Wesbloc/Wesbloc" Y1 - 1970 A1 - Anthony Haden-Guest ED - [Oswyn Robert Tregonnel] [Hay] KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which five buildings cover the entire world.

JF - The Disappearing Future PB - Panther CY - London U5 -

L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Winner" Y1 - 1970 A1 - Donald E[dwin Edmond] Westlake (1933-2008) ED - Harry [Max] Harrison (1925-2012) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a penal system that implants a device that causes intense pain as the inmate moves away from the prison.

JF - Nova 1: An Anthology of Original Science Fiction Stories PB - Delacorte Press CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Withering Away of Welfare" Y1 - 1970 A1 - Leonard Shifrin ED - Stephen Clarkson For the Canadian Forum KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia of the positive effects of automation with an Athenian style democracy with a diverse culture.

JF - Visions 2020: Fifty Canadians in Search of a Future PB - M. G. Hurtig CY - Edmonton, AB, Canada U5 -

Can, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Women of Landau Y1 - 1970 A1 - Jim Kent KW - Male author AB -

Two dystopias presented mostly as excuses for mild erotica. In the first the virginity of one's daughters ensures wealth for the father. In the second violence against women is the norm.

PB - Scripts Publications CY - North Sydney, NSW, Australia U5 -

M

ER - TY - ABST T1 - World Well Lost Y1 - 1970 A1 - [John Kempton] [Aiken] (1913-90) KW - English author KW - US author AB -

The planet known as Eden, a non-violent eutopia anarchist, vegetarian, is invaded by a violent people, who create a dystopia. A few people choose to reject non-violence and fight back.

PB - Robert Hale CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. under the author's name. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1971.

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John Paget [pseud.]

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GU, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Year of the Last Eagle Y1 - 1970 A1 - Leona Train Rienow (1903-83) A1 - Robert Rienow (1909-89) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A satire on the future U.S. centered on the 1989 Bicentennial but with no eagle.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York U5 -

Merril, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Your World, and Welcome to It (the 33rd Earl of Chesterfield writes to one of his sons)" Y1 - 1970 A1 - A[rchibald] P[aton] Thornton ED - Stephen Clarkson For the Canadian Forum KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Anti-socialist satire. Pills against aggression. Racial peace because pills make everyone the same color.

JF - Visions 2020: Fifty Canadians in Search of a Future PB - M. G. Hurtig CY - Edmonton, AB, Canada U5 -

Can, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - 2069 Y1 - 1969 A1 - [“Bud”] [Bernhardt] (1930-2008) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Gay male dystopia. First volume of a trilogy. The other volumes are 2069 + 1. Los Angeles, CA: Phenix Publishers. Rpt. in his 2069 Trilogy (New York: Badboy, 1995), 245-464; and 2069 + 2. Los Angeles, CA: Phenix Publishers. Rpt. in his 2069 Trilogy (New York: Badboy, 1995), 465-656.

PB - Phenix Publishers CY - Los Angeles, CA N1 -

Rpt. in his 2069 Trilogy (New York: Badboy, 1995), 9-243.

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Larry Townsend [pseud.]

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CU-Riv, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Action for a New Government Y1 - 1969 A1 - Adolf Diegel KW - Male author AB -

Detailed conservative eutopia, the program for which is summarized on 149-54. The basic right to vote is reserved to men 30-59. Others 20 or older can gain the right to vote by paying a tax that is the same for everyone. Can choose not to pay the tax and not vote. Government cannot spend money it has not raised in taxes. 

PB - Author CY - Lancaster, Eng. U5 -

ATL, NLS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - AE: The Open Persuader Y1 - 1969 A1 - Auctor Ignotus [pseud.] AB -

Gay male eutopia with the stress on sex.

PB - ONE CY - Los Angeles, CA U2 -

Illus.

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Auctor Ignotus [pseud.]

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OO

ER - TY - ABST T1 - AFRO-6 Y1 - 1969 A1 - [Enrique] Hank Lopez (d. 1985) KW - Chicano author KW - Male author AB -

The title, which is capitalized in the text, is the name of a long-planned movement of Blacks to take over Manhattan with similar plans in cities throughout the country. The plot is explicitly based on the writings of Che Guevara. The emphasis of the novel is on the dystopia of Black and Chicano life, the planned takeover, and its temporary success. No depiction of the society the movement hoped to create.

PB - Dell Books CY - New York U5 -

PU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Agharta, The Subterranean World" Y1 - 1969 A1 - Raymond Bernard KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia in the center of the Earth presented as fact. He says it is based on eastern legends, but he also says that the people are descendents of Atlantis and Lemuria. World government under a king. No old age or death; no sex (reproduction by parthenogenesis); men and women live apart; children raised collectively. Extremely advanced scientifically and is the source of flying saucers. Live on fruit. The chapter also includes discussion of other subterranean utopias.

JF - The Hollow Earth: The Greatest Geographical Discovery in History Made by Admiral Richard Byrd in the Mysterious Land Beyond the Poles--The True Origin of the Flying Saucers PB - University Books CY - New York U5 -

L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - All-Stud Y1 - 1969 A1 - O. R. Wells [pseud.?] AB -

Male homosexual erotica set in a future all male homosexual eutopia/dystopia. 

PB - Greenleaf CY - San Diego, CA N1 -

Rpt. as by Clay Caldwell, which may also be a pseudonym. New York Badboy, 1993.

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O. R. Wells [pseud?]

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MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Along the Scenic Route" Y1 - 1969 A1 - Harlan [Jay] Ellison (1934-2018) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Action tale that suggests a macho, dystopian society.

JF - Deathbird Stories PB - Bluejay Books CY - [New York] N1 -

Book rpt. as the Collector's Edition. Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1990 illus. Jill Bauman and with an "Introduction" (v-viii) by Terry Dowling with a textual note that all stories have been reviewed by Ellison for needed corrections. Story rpt. in his The Beast Who Shouted Love at the Heart of the World (New York: Avon, 1969), 19-28; in Car Sinister. Ed. Robert Silverberg, Martin Harry Greenberg, and Joseph Olander (New York: Avon Books, 1979), 243-53; and in The Essential Ellison: A 35-Year Retrospective. Ed. Terry Dowling with Richard Delap and Gil Lamont (Omaha, NB: Nemo Press, 1987), 439-47. Originally published as "Dogfight on 101" in Adam (August 1969) and Amazing Stories 43.3 (September 1969): 6-14. The current title is Ellison's preference.

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Originally published as “Dogfight on 101.” The current title is Ellison’s preference.  

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MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Armed Camps Y1 - 1969 A1 - Kit [Lilian Craig] Reed (1932-2017) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Military dominated dystopia.

PB - Faber & Faber CY - London U5 -

DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Asylum World Y1 - 1969 A1 - John [William] Jakes (1932-2023) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of future world poverty brought about by the arms race. Poor physical and mental health.

PB - Paperback Library CY - New York U5 -

MoR

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Atrocity Exhibition Y1 - 1969 A1 - J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Wide-ranging dystopia with the violence of the contemporary world the primary focus.

PB - Jonathan Cape. CY - London N1 -

Rpt. St. Albans, Eng.: Triad/Panther, 1979. The first U.S. ed. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1970, was suppressed and destroyed. The first existing U.S. ed. U.S. ed. as Love and Napalm: Export U.S.A. New York: Grove Press, 1972. Parts originally published between 1966 and 1969 as “The Assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy Considered as a Downhill Motor Race.” Ambit, no. 29 (1966): 3-4, rpt. in New Worlds SF 50.171 (March 1967): 119-21, rpt. in England Swings SF: Stories of speculative fiction. Ed. Judith Merril (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1968), 393-95; and in his The Complete Short Stories London: Flamingo, 2001), 720-21; “The Atrocity Exhibition.” New Worlds SF 50.166 (September 1966): 91-102; “The Assassination Weapon.” New Worlds SF 49.161 (April 1966): 4-12; “You: Coma: Marilyn Monroe.” Ambit, no. 27 (1966): 3-6, rpt. in New Worlds SF 50.163 (June 1966): 66-71; “You and Me and the Continuum.” Impulse 1.1 (March 1966): 53-60;  rpt. in England Swings SF: Stories of speculative fiction. Ed. Judith Merril (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1968), 95-102; “Plan for the Assassination of Jacqueline Kennedy.” Ambit, no. 31 (Spring 1967): 9-11; rpt. in England Swings SF: Stories of speculative fiction. Ed. Judith Merril (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1968), 397-401, with a note on the reaction to it on pp. 402-06; “Notes Towards a Mental Breakdown.” Originally published as “The Death Module.” New Worlds 51.173 (July 1967): 20-25; “Love and Napalm: Export USA.” Circuit, no. 6 (June 1968): 55-57; “The Generations of America.” New Worlds, no 183 (October 1968): 13-14; “The University of Death.” The Transatlantic Review, no. 29 (Summer 1968): 68-79; “Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan.” International Times (1968), rpt. Brighton, Eng.: Unicorn Bookshop, 1968, and London: Plasnet 1988; and in his The Complete Short Stories London: Flamingo, 2001), 757-59; “The Great American Nude.” Ambit, no. 36 (Summer 1968): 39-43; “Crash!” ICA Eventsheet (February 1969); “The Summer Cannibals.” New Worlds, no. 186 (January 1969): 19-23; and “Tolerances of the Human Face.” Encounter 33.3 (September 1969). New rev. ed. with annotations by the author and four additional stories. San Francisco, CA: RE/SEARCH Publications, 1990. The new stories were previously published as “Princess Margaret’s Facelift.” New Worlds, no. 199 (March 1970): 8-; “Mae West's Reduction Mammoplasty.” Ambit, no. 44 (Summer 1970): 9-11; “Queen Elizabeth's Rhinoplasty.” Triquarterly, no. 351 (Winter 1976): 18-20 [Omitted from all U.K. editions]; and "The Secret History of World War 3." Ambit, no. 114 (Autumn 1988): 2-9. The book was first published in Danish translation as Grusomhedsudstillingen. Rhodes, 1969. Rpt. St. Albans, Eng.: Triad/Panther, 1979. The first U.S. ed. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1970, was suppressed and destroyed. The first existing U.S. ed. U.S. ed. as Love and Napalm: Export U.S.A. New York: Grove Press, 1972. Parts originally published between 1966 and 1969 as “The Assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy Considered as a Downhill Motor Race.” Ambit, no. 29 (1966): 3-4, rpt. in New Worlds SF 50.171 (March 1967): 119-21, rpt. in England Swings SF: Stories of speculative fiction. Ed. Judith Merril (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1968), 393-95; and in his The Complete Short Stories London: Flamingo, 2001), 720-21; “The Atrocity Exhibition.” New Worlds SF 50.166 (September 1966): 91-102; “The Assassination Weapon.” New Worlds SF 49.161 (April 1966): 4-12; “You: Coma: Marilyn Monroe.” Ambit, no. 27 (1966): 3-6, rpt. in New Worlds SF 50.163 (June 1966): 66-71; “You and Me and the Continuum.” Impulse 1.1 (March 1966): 53-;  rpt. in England Swings SF: Stories of speculative fiction. Ed. Judith Merril (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1968), 95-102; “Plan for the Assassination of Jacqueline Kennedy.” Ambit, no. 31 (Spring 1967): 9-11; rpt. in England Swings SF: Stories of speculative fiction. Ed. Judith Merril (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1968), 397-401, with a note on the reaction to it on pp. 402-06; “Notes Towards a Mental Breakdown.” Originally published as “The Death Module.” New Worlds 51.173 (July 1967): 20-25; “Love and Napalm: Export USA.” Circuit, no. 6 (June 1968): 55-57; “The Generations of America.” New Worlds, no 183 (October 1968): 13-14; “The University of Death.” The Transatlantic Review, no. 29 (Summer 1968): 68-79; “Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan.” International Times (1968) [Not Found}, rpt. Brighton, Eng.: Unicorn Bookshop, 1968, and London: Plasnet 1988; and in his The Complete Short Stories London: Flamingo, 2001), 757-59; “The Great American Nude.” Ambit, no. 36 (Summer 1968): 39-43; “Crash!” ICA Eventsheet (February 1969); “The Summer Cannibals.” New Worlds, no. 186 (January 1969): 19-23; and “Tolerances of the Human Face.” Encounter 33.3 (September 1969). New rev. ed. with annotations by the author and four additional stories. San Francisco, CA: RE/SEARCH Publications, 1990. The new stories were previously published as “Princess Margaret’s Facelift.” New Worlds, no. 199 (March 1970): 8-; “Mae West's Reduction Mammoplasty.” Ambit, no. 44 (Summer 1970): 9-11; “Queen Elizabeth's Rhinoplasty.” Triquarterly, no. 351 (Winter 1976): 18-20 [Omitted from all U.K. editions]; and "The Secret History of World War 3." Ambit, no. 114 (Autumn 1988): 2-9. The book was first published in Danish translation as Grusomhedsudstillingen. Rhodes, 1969. 

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U.S. ed. as Love and Napalm: Export U.S.A. New York: Grove Press, 1972.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Babel Y1 - 1969 A1 - Alan Burns (1929-2013) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Experimental novel with hundreds of characters, including well-known people, and no discernible plot that depicts contemporary life as dystopia and returning time and again to the war in Vietnam.

PB - Calder & Boyars CY - London N1 -

An excerpt appeared in New Worlds, 191 (June 1969): 24-27.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Benji's Pencil" Y1 - 1969 A1 - Bruce [Hugh] McAllister (b. 1946) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia in which art is dead, there is no grass, and death is mandatory at seventy.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 36.3 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Binary Divine Y1 - 1969 A1 - Jon Hartridge (b. 1934) KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

The novel focuses on a computer that everyone relies on and confides in that takes on the role of God and creates a dystopia.

PB - Macdonald CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. Chicago, IL: Playboy Press, 1969. Rpt. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1970.

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MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Black Corridor Y1 - 1969 A1 - Michael [John] Moorcock (b. 1939) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia as the context for the story line.

PB - Ace CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in his Sailing To Utopia (London: Millennium, 1993), 183-314. Rpt. in The Michael Moorcock Collection under the title Travelling to Utopia. Ed. John Davey (London: Gollancz, 2014), 355-505. 

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MoU-St, O, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Broke and Hungry, No Place to Go” Y1 - 1969 A1 - Ron[ald Joseph] Goulart (1933-2022) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future U.S. that is short of food and judges peoples’ worthiness to be fed on judgements made by computers on their possible future contributions to society.

JF - Galaxy Magazine VL - 29.3 N1 -

Rpt. in Galaxy Science Fiction [UK] (December 1969) with the same pagination; and as “Broke Down Engine.” In his Broke Down Engine and Other Troubles with Machines (New York: Macmillan/London: Collier-Macmillan, 1971), 27-35.

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Rpt. as "Broke Down Engine.” In his Broke Down Engine and Other Troubles with Machines (New York: Macmillan/London: Collier-Macmillan, 1971), 27-35.

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Uncredited Illus.

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Bug Jack Barron Y1 - 1969 A1 - Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. The protagonist is a TV personality with a show called "Bug Jack Barron" where he listens to people's complaints and calls the politicians or others involved and puts them on the spot. As a result he becomes very powerful. A focus of the novel is the choice between allowing a corporation to be run for profit to freeze and later revive people or to have it publicly available. Presents race relations in the future with Mississippi run by African Americans but with African Americans generally in inferior roles.

PB - Walker CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. [Book Club Edition] New York: Nelson Doubleday, 1969. Collector's Edition illus. Frank Kelly Freas with an "Introduction" by James Blaylock (vii-xiii). Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1991. U.K. ed. London: Macdonald, 1970. Shorter version first published in New Worlds Science Fiction, nos. 179 - 183 (February - October 1968): 4-12, 43-51; 28-30, 42-56; 13-22, 44-59; 20-33; 45-59.

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Captive Universe Y1 - 1969 A1 - Harry [Max] Harrison (1925-2012) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Two dystopias. Aztec's sealed off from the rest of the world and the technological world outside.

PB - G. P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Faber & Faber, 1970.

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L, MoS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Class War Comix: A Brief History of the Revolution Y1 - 1969 A1 - Skip [Mervyn] Williamson (1944-2017) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on both the current situation in the United States in the late Sixties with a suggestion that, the revolution won, the winners would be as corrupt as the current politicians.

PB - Mike Johnson CY - [River Forest, IL] N1 -

Collects his Class War Comix: Eat Leaden Death. Np: Bijou Publishing Empire, 1969; Class War Comix: Good Lord. Np: Bijou Publishing Empire, 1969; Conspiracy, Class War Comix: Kitty Doody Stink Bomb. Np: Bijou Publishing Empire, 1970; Racist Pig Comix. Np: Bijou Publishing Empire, 1969); and Tuna Fat Funnies. Np: Bijou Publishing Empire, 1969. 

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MiEL

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Coming Self-Destruction of the United States of America Y1 - 1969 A1 - Alan Seymour (b. 1927) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A dystopia describing an extremely violent race war in the United States that leads to its destruction.

PB - Souvenir Press CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Grove Press, 1971.

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DLC, NZ, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Cosmic Eye. A Novel Y1 - 1969 A1 - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which every act is controlled and everyone is constantly monitored. The novel focuses on a man at the top of the hierarchy who is a rebel.

PB - Belmont Books CY - New York N1 -

Shorter version as "Speakeasy." The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 24.1 (January 1963): 66-126.

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The CRIB Circuit" Y1 - 1969 A1 - Miriam Allen deFord (1888-1975) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Future dystopia with rigid population control.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 37.5 (222) N1 -

Rpt. in her Elsewhere, Elsewhen, Elsehow: Collected Stories (New York: Walker & Co., 1971), 158-71.

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Dancing Gerontius" Y1 - 1969 A1 - Lee [John] Harding (1937-2023) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in an old age home, one of many Clinics throughout the country in which people are kept weak except for Year Day, the one day a year where they are revived by drugs and mechanical and physical therapy and made up and dressed in colorful clothes so that they can participate in a Carnival-like today with lots of drink, food, and sex. Most of them die and will shortly be replaced by a new group. The few who survive will spend the next year cared for in the Clinic until the next Year Day until they finally die at one.

JF - Vision of Tomorrow (Sydney, NSW, Australia) VL - 1.2 N1 -

Rpt. in The Second Pacific Book of Australian SF. Ed. John [Martin] Baxter (Sydney, NSW, Australia: Pacific Books, 1972), 118-133; and in The Best Australian Science Fiction Writing: A Fifty Year Collection. Ed. Rob Gerrand (Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Black Inc., 2004), 178-191. 

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A, M, PU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Day of the Drones Y1 - 1969 A1 - A[lice] M[artha] Lightner (1904-1988) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

In a future post-catastrophe Africa, Blacks rule and believe that their civilization is the only one left. Whites are drones. An expedition led by a young African woman is allowed to search for others and finds both that others do exist and that there are the remains of Western civilization, both of which are likely effect to African civilization.

PB - W.W. Norton CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1970.

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MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Day of the Women Y1 - 1969 A1 - [June] Pamela Kettle (b. 1934) KW - Female author KW - UK author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia in which women dominate.

PB - Leslie Frewin CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: New English Library, 1970.

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L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Days After Y1 - 1969 A1 - T[homas] E[dwin] Dorman (b. 1914) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Post-catastrophe authoritarian dystopia. 

PB - Vantage Press CY - New York U5 -

ATL

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Drag Hunt Y1 - 1969 A1 - James Broom Lynne KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Mixed future. General tolerance and economic prosperity, but there is a human hunt replacing fox hunting. Violence is encouraged in political protests. Young Purity Party.

PB - Michael Joseph CY - London U5 -

Merril, O

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Emphyrio Y1 - 1969 A1 - Jack [John Holbrook] Vance (1916-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia based on control of utilities and religion and a monopoly of trade.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Serialized in Fantastic 18.5 - 6 (June - August 1969): 6-77, 82; 10-83. Rpt. New York: Dell, 1970. U.K. ed. [London]: Coronet, 1980. Repub. as vol. 20 of The Complete Works of Jack Vance. Oakland, CA: Vance Integral Editions, 2002; in The Jack Vance Reader: Emphyrio The Languages of Pao The Domains of Koryphon. Ed. Terry Dowling and Jonathan Strahan (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2008), 21-206 with “Emphyrio Introduction (15-19) by Robert Silverberg; and in American Science Fiction: Four Classic Novels 1868-1969. Ed. Gary K. Wolfe (New York: The Library of America, 2010), 509-722 with a “Note on the Text” (732-33) and “Notes” (742).

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GU, Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Fall of the Dream Machine Y1 - 1969 A1 - Dean R[ay] Koontz (b. 1945) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Extrapolation of the ideas of Marshall McLuhan (1911-80) into a dystopia. McLuhan was best known for his statement that the "medium is the message."

PB - Ace Books CY - New York U5 -

GU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Five Way Secret Agent Y1 - 1969 A1 - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future satiric dystopia. Negative Income Tax provides an income cushion. Conflict in the world.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -

Also published in Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact 83.2 - 3 (April - May 1969): 6-54, 96-142.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "For the Sake of Grace" Y1 - 1969 A1 - Suzette Haden Elgin (1936-2015) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Patriarchal dystopia. Women considered inferior and adult males dominate all women. Resistant women are medicated. Occupation by competitive exam with poetry the occupation with the highest status. See also 1972 Elgin and 1978 Russ.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 36.5 N1 -

Rpt. in World's Best Science Fiction 1970. Ed. Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr (New York: Ace Books, 1970), 105-27; in her At the Seventh Level (New York: DAW Books, 1972), 7-31; and in Feminist Philosophy and Science Fiction: Utopias and Dystopias. Ed. Judith A. Little (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2007), 215-36.

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MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Four-Gated City Y1 - 1969 A1 - Doris [May] Lessing (1919-2013) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Zimbabwean author AB -

The "Appendix" (560-614) presents a future, post-catastrophe authoritarian dystopia. Telepathy.

PB - MacGibbon & Kee CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1969.

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L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Gardens 12345 Y1 - 1969 A1 - Peter Tate (b. 1940) KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

Dystopia in which social experiments are run on people by placing them in gardens and observing their actions when changes are made.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Faber and Faber, 1971.

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MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Give-and-Take Utopia" Y1 - 1969 A1 - Alan Brien (1925-2008) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A personal view of eutopia, which he calls a "half-way utopia" and a "more-or-less Merry England". It will be planned but not predictable, permissive but not lawless, safe but not dull, and patriotic but not racist. Among other things, there will be a limit on income, and everyone must work.

JF - New Statesman VL - 78.2006 ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Glass Cage Y1 - 1969 A1 - Kenneth W[ayne] Hassler (1932-99) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Post-catastrophe society inside a sealed city. Religion and politics combine to keep people inside after the need to do so is over.

PB - Arcadia House CY - [New York] N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Dennis Dobson, 1972.

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Merril, NcD

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Heroes and Villains Y1 - 1969 A1 - Angela [Olive Stalker] Carter (1940-92) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Post-catastrophe (nuclear war) dystopian novel presenting a contrast between civilization (rational) and barbarians (irrational). Isolated fortified villages divided among the hereditary Professor, Soldiers, and Workers with various other groups outside the social structure. 

PB - William Heinemann CY - London N1 -

Rpt. Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin, 1981; and London: Penguin Books, 2011, with an “Introduction” by Robert Coover (vii-ix). 

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L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Immortalist: An Approach to the Engineering of Man's Divinity Y1 - 1969 A1 - Alan Harrington (1919-97) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Immortality will bring eutopia. The chapter "Notes on a Utopia Beyond Time" says that in the immortalist eutopia each person will have many lives doing different things. More nonconformists. Permission required to have children. This chapter is (New York: Random House, 1969), 280-89; (London: Panther, 1973), 250-62; (London: Abacus, 1973), 275-84. See also 1977 Harrington for a different take on immortality.

PB - Random House CY - New York N1 -

UK ed. London: Panther, 1973. Rpt. London: Abacus, 1973.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "In the Time of Disposal of Infants" Y1 - 1969 A1 - David [Roosevelt] Bunch (1925-2000) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in the future where unwanted live children (usually infants) are collected like garbage.

JF - Amazing Stories VL - 42.6 U5 -

CU-Riv

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Islar: A Narrative of Lang III Y1 - 1969 A1 - Mark Saxton (1914-88) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Sequel set in the time of the grandson of the protagonist of 1942 Wright. Primarily political intrigue brought about by internal and external enemies. See also 1979 and 1982 Saxton.

PB - Houghton Mifflin CY - Boston, MA U2 -

The endpapers are a map of Islandia prepared by Samuel H. Bryant.

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MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Jagged Orbit Y1 - 1969 A1 - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of violence in which it is necessary to be armed on the street.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York U5 -

CSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Jamboree" Y1 - 1969 A1 - Jack [John Stewart] Williamson (1908-2006) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which machines rule violently. Only robots can have books; boys and girls kept separate.

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction VL - 29.4 N1 -

Rpt. in A Very Large Array: New Mexico Science Fiction and Fantasy. Ed. Melinda M[arilyn] Snodgrass (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1987), 40-49; and in The Human Limit: The Collected Stories of Jack Williamson. Volume 8 (Royal Oak, MI: Haffner Press, 2011), 25-35.

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "J-Line To Nowhere" Y1 - 1969 A1 - Zenna [Charlson] Henderson (1917-83) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Completely controlled society that appears to be entirely enclosed with all air and water artificial and no greenery or insects. Age groups not allowed contact with older age groups. Dull, boring work. Education by machines. All as seen by a disaffected pre-teen who accidentally discovers nowhere, or the outside. 

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 37.3 SN - 978-1-61037-338-8 N1 -

Rpt. in her Holding Wonder (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1971), 33-50; rpt. (New York: Avon, 1972), 40-58; U.K. ed. (London: Victor Gollancz, 1972), 33-50; in The Venus Factor. Ed. Vic Ghidalia and Roger [Paul] Elwood (New York: Macfadden-Bartell, 1977), 96-116; and in Believing: The Other Stories of Zenna Henderson. Ed. Patricia Morgan Lang (Framingham, MA: NESFA Press, 2020), 181-96.

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PSt, SFF

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Kark Y1 - 1969 A1 - [James] [Pattinson] (1915-2009) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia set in 21st century London. The powerful Ministry of Internal Security and the police are more concerned with political opposition than crime and, as a result, criminals rule the streets.

PB - Robert Hale CY - London U3 -

James Ryder [pseud.]

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L, O

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Continent Y1 - 1969 A1 - Edmund Cooper (1926-82) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Advanced blacks from Mars return to Earth and find primitive whites in a tropical Antarctica. Interracial conflict and interracial love.

PB - Dell CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1970. Rpt. London: Hodder Paperbacks, 1971.

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CNoS, CU-Riv, HRC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Left Hand of Darkness Y1 - 1969 A1 - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia and dystopia. The novel is best known for its depiction of a hermaphrodite or ambisexual (both words are used in the text) society in which the people are neuter most of the time but can become female or male for a period with another person and can both sire and give birth to children. The novel is primarily concerned with relations between two countries on the planet and within each country during the period after initial contact with an envoy from off planet. A related story is her "Winter's King." Orbit 5. Ed. Damon [Francis] Knight (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1969), 67-88; rev. with the pronouns changed to they in her The Wind's Twelve Quarters: Short Stories (New York: Harper & Row, 1975), 75-95, which has some revisions (see the note on 75); and in New Eves: Science Fiction About Extraordinary Women of Today and Tomorrow. Ed. Janrae Frank, Jean Stine, and Forrest J. Ackerman (Stamford, CT: Longmeadow Press, 1994), 301-16 with an editors' note on 200; and in Hainish Novels & Stories Volume One. Rocannon’s World Planet of Exile City of Illusions The Left Hand of Darkness The Dispossessed Stories. Ed. Brian Attebery (New York: Library of America, 2017), 923-43 with a “Note on the Text” (1083), and the original Orbit 5 version (1044-64). See also, 1995 Le Guin, "Coming of Age in Karhide." Three stories by Stevan Allred set in Gethen are “Ib & Nib and the Ice Berries”, “Ib & Nib and the Golden Ring”, and “Ib & Nib and the Hemmens Tree” in Dispatches from Anarres: Tales in Tribute to Ursula K. Le Guin. Ed. Susan DeFreitas (Portland, OR: Forest Avenue Press, 2021), 76-82, 216-223, 358-362.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -

Also published New York: Walker and Co., 1969. The New York: Ace Books, 1976 edition has an unnumbered six-page introduction by Le Guin which is rpt. in her The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction. Ed. Susan Wood (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1979), 155-59; Rev. ed. ed. Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (London: Women's Press, 1989), 130-34. 1st American ed. (New York: HarperCollins, 1989), 150-54. Collector's Edition illus. Frank Kelly Freas and Laura Brodian Kelly Freas with an "Preface" by Joan D. Vinge (v-xiii) and the 1976 "Introduction" by Le Guin xv-xviii). Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1992. The 25th anniversary ed. New York: Walker, 1994 contains an important "Afterword" (287-93) and appendices (295-345) concerning the issue of gendered language. The 40th Anniversary ed. London: Gollancz, 2009 includes an "Introductory Note for the 40th Anniversary Edition" (ix-xii), 1995 Le Guin (249-68), "Some Kardish Words, and Two Songs from the Domain of Estre" (269-72), and "Author's working sketch map" (273). The Library of America edition reprints the 1969 Ace Books edition; Hainish Novels & Stories Volume One. Rocannon’s World Planet of Exile City of Illusions The Left Hand of Darkness The Dispossessed Stories. Ed. Brian Attebery (New York: Library of America, 2017), 385-611 with a “Note on the Text” (1083), “Notes” (1090-91), and “Introduction to The Left Hand of Darkness (1023-27). The London: Gollancz, 2017 ed. has an “Introduction” by China Miéville (ix-xii) and the 1976 “Introduction” by Le Guin (xiii-xvii), albeit not identified as such. 50th Anniversary Edition. New York: Ace Books, 2019, with an “Introduction” by David Mitchell (ix-xiv) and an “Afterword” by Charlie Jane Anders (305-15).

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HRC, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Light a Last Candle Y1 - 1969 A1 - [Rex Thomas] [Vinson] (1935-2000) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of alien invaders who have created mutated humans. The few normal people are outlaws. The focus of the novel is on the struggle.

PB - Rapp & Whiting CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Tandem, 1971

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Vincent King [pseud.]

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L, O

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Looking Forward Y1 - 1969 A1 - Kenneth S. Keyes Jr. (1921-95) A1 - Jacque Fresco (1916-2017) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Technological eutopia. "Part II A Projection of Our Future" (87-195) is a computer-based eutopia using atomic power. Government replaced by computers. Extensive genetic engineering. Production and distribution computer controlled, and no industrial work for people. Human work is administrative and creative. People sleep little. Extremely healthy with constant automated health checks at home. No Money. The third part, "Looking Forward," is a single chapter, "Education for Change". See also 1995, 2002, and 2007 Fresco and https://www.thevenusproject.com/the-venus-project/jacque-fresco/. PSt holds a folder that contains: Venus Project brochure (4 pp); 2 copies of highlights of an interview with Jacque Fresco (6 pp); photocopy of an article by the author entitled “Designing the Future: A Cybernetic City for the Next Century” published in The Futurist 28.3 (May-June 1994): 29-33; promotional materials including a color sheet with images of the model home and a color sheet with various conceptual renderings. At the University of Pennsylvania, the Daniels Millennium Collection, Box 329, includes a copy of the book, “Introduction to the Venus Project” (http://www.nas.com/venus/intro.shtml), “The Venus Project Mission Statement: (http://www.nas.com/venus/ms01.shtml), and other material. There is considerable repetition in the Fresco material.

PB - A.S.Barnes\Thomas Yoseloff CY - South Brunswick, NJ\London U2 -

Designs and illus. Jacque Fresco

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MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lovely Y1 - 1969 A1 - David Meltzer (1937-2016) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A dystopian pornographic series depicting a future bureaucratic, militaristic dystopia in the U.S.

PB - Essex House CY - North Hollywood, CA ER - TY - ABST T1 - Man on the Mountain Y1 - 1969 A1 - Gladys Hasty Carroll (1904-99) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. A country where race and class no longer matter but in which people are separated into four different regions on the basis of age.

PB - Little, Brown CY - Boston, MA U5 -

DLC, MoU, Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Message Ends Y1 - 1969 A1 - [Allan James] [Tucker] (b. 1929) KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

Mostly adventure focusing on a dystopian future Ministry of Information. Related to 1968 and 1970 Tucker.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Sphere, 1971.

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David Craig [pseud.]

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NLS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A New Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms. Being the Fifth Part of the Travels into Several Remote Parts of the World by Lemuel Gulliver First a Surgeon and then a Captain of Several Ships. Wherein the Author returns and finds a New State of Liberal Horses and Revolting Yahoos Y1 - 1969 A1 - Matthew [John Caldwell] Hodgart ed. [written by] (1916-96) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Satire on the Sixties using 1726 Swift.

PB - Duckworth CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1970.

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MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - No Time Like Tomorrow Y1 - 1969 A1 - Ted [Theodore Edwin] White (b. 1938) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Corporate, authoritarian dystopia in the future. Classified as Young Adult.

PB - Crown CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - An Ordinary Man Y1 - 1969 A1 - Mel[vin Angelo] Arrighi (1933-86) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian, bureaucratic, racist dystopia.

PB - Dramatists Play Service CY - [New York] N1 -

Rpt. New York: Peter H. Wyden, 1970. U.K. ed. London: Allan Wingate, 1970.

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DLC, NN

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Paradise Man: A Black and White Farce Y1 - 1969 A1 - John [Barry] Hale (b. 1926) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of racial turmoil. Constant conventional war by international agreement to keep economies going.

PB - Rapp and Whiting CY - London U5 -

InU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Perspective Process Y1 - 1969 A1 - Cyril Donson (1919-86) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia with women in power in The Harmony of World States. Population controlled, long life, no disease, and safety.

PB - Robert Hale CY - London U5 -

L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Practical Utopia for the Region. Seminar Two Resource Paper for Conference 2020 Building the Future Environment--an Atlantic Region Perspective to the year 2020, January 30 and 31 at the Waldorf Astoria, New York Y1 - 1969 A1 - David A. Wallace KW - Male author AB -

A speculative essay on positive changes possible for the middle Atlantic region of the U.S.

PB - Np CY - Np U5 -

IEU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Prisoner Y1 - 1969 A1 - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Novel depicting the dystopia of the famous television series. See also 1969 McDaniel and 1970 Stine. For the series see Matthew White and Jeffer Ali, The Official Prisoner Companion. New York: Warner Books, 1988; and Dave Rogers, "The Prisoner." In his Danger Man & The Prisoner (London: Boxtree, 1989), 129-254.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Dennis Dobson, 1979. Rpt. London: NEL, 1980; in The Prisoner Omnibus (London: Carlton Books, 2002), 4-177; and London: Penguin Books, 2009. While the 2009 edition says that it was first published in the U.S. by Carlton International Media, the book copyright is 1969 and the television series copyright is 1967 by Independent Television Ltd (ITV), and, although one source says it was first published in hardcover in 1967, I have been unable to identify a copy of the 1967 publication. A second, shorter series was produced in 2009 by the U.S. cable network AMC and ITV. 

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Merril, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Rakehells of Heaven Y1 - 1969 A1 - [Boyd Bradfield] [Upchurch] (1919-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire--promiscuity, anarchy, nudity, and a return to nature.

PB - Weybright & Talley CY - New York U3 -

John Boyd [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Residence Afresh Y1 - 1969 A1 - [Mrs.] [Arthur E.] [Towle] (1889-1969) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Domestic heaven.

PB - Robert Hale CY - London U3 -

Margery Lawrence [pseud.]

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O

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Roach Y1 - 1969 A1 - Gil Lamont (b. 1947) KW - Male author AB -

Dystopian background to fairly mild pornography. The dystopia includes a book factory where people are programmed to constantly produce what is essentially the same plots.

PB - Essex House CY - North Hollywood, CA U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sexmax Y1 - 1969 A1 - [George H.] [Leonard] (1921-94) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Computer dystopia with sexual relations chosen by computer. Emphasis on pleasure but with the usual rebels.

PB - Paperback Library CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: New English Library, 1970.

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Hughes Cooper [pseud.]

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CSt, L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Shades of Time; A Science-Fiction Novella Y1 - 1969 A1 - William A Darity Jr. (b. 1953) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

Future with a series of eutopias and dystopias, all very technologically advanced. Begins with a near eutopia of reason combined with the recognition of the need for passion and exercise. A dystopia of humanity controlled by superior intellects becomes a flawed utopia. It all turns out to be an induced dream.

PB - The William-Frederick Press CY - New York U5 -

OSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sons of Darkness, Sons of Light: A Novel of Some Probability Y1 - 1969 A1 - John A[lfred] Williams (1925-2015) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

Near future racial conflict in the U.S. when African Americans begin to fight back. Presented as a positive development.

PB - Little, Brown CY - Boston, MA N1 -

Rpt. Boston, MA: Northeastern University Press, 1999. U.K. ed. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1970. Rpt. Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin, 1973,

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L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Spook Who Sat By the Door Y1 - 1969 A1 - Sam[uel Eldred] Greenlee [Jr.] (1930-2014) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

Black revolution in the U.S. in which the gangs of Chicago are organized into a disciplined fighting unit.

PB - P.W. Baron CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Allison & Busby, 1969. An excerpt was published in The Observer Magazine (March 9, 1969): 46-51.

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O, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Strangers in Paradise Y1 - 1969 A1 - [Harry C.] [Crosby] [Jr.] (1925-2009) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Mostly adventure but includes a dystopian city that is a large slum.

PB - Tower Publications CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Herbert Jenkins, 1976.

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Christopher Anvil [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Teenocracy Y1 - 1969 A1 - Robert Shirley KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of teenagers ruling.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Teg's 1994; An Anticipation of the Near Future Y1 - 1969 A1 - Robert Theobald (1929-99) A1 - J[ean] M. Scott KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Detailed eutopia based on ecology, personal growth, and interpersonal communication. Problems remain, and the author's say, "In our opinion, Teg's world would make a very poor Utopia for anybody" (x, 1972 ed.). See also 1968 Theobald and 1982 Theobald. In addition, Theobald published many other books outlining his proposals. See, in particular, his Free Men and Free Markets. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1963; Beyond Despair: Directions for America’s Third Century. Washington, DC: The New Republic Book Co., 1976; rev. as Beyond Despair: A Policy Guide to the Communications Era. Cabin John, MD: Seven Locks Press, 1981; An Alternative Future for America’s Third Century. Chicago, IL: Swallow Press, 1976; and Reworking Success: New Communities at the Millennium. Gabriola Island, BC, Canada: New Society Publishers, 1997.

PB - [Theobald and Scott] CY - [Phoenix, AZ] N1 -

New ed. Chicago, IL: Swallow Press, 1972.

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ISS, MnU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Terminus Y1 - 1969 A1 - Michael Perkins (b. 1942) KW - Male author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia as the vehicle for mild pornography. Mostly sex but some racial and personal violence. Authoritarian state.

PB - Essex House CY - North Hollywood, CA U5 -

OU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Therapy 2000" Y1 - 1969 A1 - Keith [John Kingston] Roberts (1935-2000) ED - [Edward] John Carnell (1912-72) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Overpopulated but the focus is on constant TV and constant noise. One man chooses to be deaf.

JF - New Writings in S-F PB - Dennis Dobson CY - London VL - 15 U5 -

O, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Thrill City Y1 - 1969 A1 - [Jean Marie] [Stine] (b. 1945) KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Erotic future SF with the emphasis on the sex rather than either the SF or the future.

PB - Essex House CY - North Hollywood, CA U3 -

Hank Stine [pseud.]

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Throwaways" Y1 - 1969 A1 - Joanna [Ruth] Russ (1937-2011) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian satire on future consumption patterns, which focuses on everything being a throwaway.

JF - Consumption (Seattle, WA) VL - 2.3 N1 -

Rpt. in her The Hidden Side of the Moon. Stories (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987), 98-102.

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HRC, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Transplant Y1 - 1969 A1 - Weatherhead, John KW - Male author AB -

Transplant dystopia focusing on doctors with too much power.

PB - George G. Harrap CY - London U5 -

L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Twig Benders Y1 - 1969 A1 - [Wilda] [Holst] KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Sex role reversal dystopia set in the Eastgate Finishing School for Boys where the boys are “required to be naked at all times” and “The Instructors, all women, are expected to use the boys sexually, as such experience counts as part of the boy’s training for the Masculine Role” (1).

PB - The Feminists CY - New Work N1 -

Rpt. in Everywoman 1.3 (June 19, 1070), 5, 11 with an introduction by Varda One, “Woman as Masochist, Man as Sadist” (1)); and under the author’s name in The SCUM Manifesto and The Twig Benders. (Np: Gynarchy Poche, [2017?]), 67-78 with a note (7) on the author by Aline d’Arbrant (1952-2015). 

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Wilda Chase [pseud.]

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Ulcer Culture Y1 - 1969 A1 - [Henry] Kenneth Bulmer (1921-2005) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia that is divided between the Uppers and the workers with the workers controlled through the distribution of Joy Juice (hallucinogenic drugs), but someone has been tampering with the drugs.

PB - Macdonald Science Fiction CY - London N1 -

Rpt. as Stained Glass World. London: New English Library, 1976

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Rpt. as Stained Glass World

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L, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A View of Century 21 Y1 - 1969 A1 - Walter Orr Roberts (1915-90) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Mostly prediction but includes a technological eutopia. In “A View of The Future--A Fictional Preview” (20-27) Los Angeles has banned the internal combustion engine, highways are automated. Large buildings house both companies and their workers with 300,000 people living in a single building. Free underground public transportation. The distinction between weekdays and weekends has been abolished and everyone works four days out of the seven. Schools are largely computerized with access twenty-four hours a day seven days a week, and students work at their own pace. Medical care and finances will also be mostly computerized. 

PB - The Claremont Colleges CY - Claremont, CA U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "We All Die Naked" Y1 - 1969 A1 - James [Benjamin] Blish (1921-75) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Pollution dystopia.

JF - Three for Tomorrow PB - Meredith Press CY - New York U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Weisman Experiment Y1 - 1969 A1 - [Douglas Rankine] [Mason] (1918-2013) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia ruled by "The Meritocracy" trying to suppress an early experiment that suggested the importance of liberty and equality.

PB - Dennis Dobson CY - London U3 -

John Rankine [pseud.]

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L, O

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Wind in the Snottygobble Tree” Y1 - 1969 A1 - Jack Trevor Story (1917-91) KW - Male author AB -

Satire on a police state.

JF - New Worlds VL - Nos. 195 - 198 U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Year of the Sex Olympics" Y1 - 1969 A1 - [Thomas] Nigel Kneale (1922-2006) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopian satire focusing on the power of television, which is used to encourage apathy and keep people from producing more children in the overpopulated world by broadcasting sexual athletics to suggest to people that since they cannot perform that well, they should give up sex.

JF - The Year of the Sex Olympics and Other TV Plays PB - Ferret Fantasy CY - London U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - 1993: The World of Tomorrow Y1 - 1968 A1 - Paul Orr A1 - Violet Orr (1918-76) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Detailed socialist eutopia stressing decentralization set in the Los Angeles area. Some technological advances. Some technological advances. Sleeper wakes motif with a died-in-the-wool capitalist waking in a socialist future. 

PB - Pacific Progress Publishers CY - Altadena, CA U5 -

MiU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Agency Y1 - 1968 A1 - David Meltzer (1937-2016) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A dystopian pornographic trilogy presenting a powerful sexual underground and its political and personal connections. Followed by his The Agent. North Hollywood, CA: Essex House, 1968. Rpt. in The Agency Trilogy (New York: Masquerade Books, 1994), 107-210; and his How Many Blocks in a Pile. North Hollywood, CA: Essex House, 1968. Rpt. in The Agency Trilogy (New York: Masquerade Books, 1994), 211-322.

PB - Essex House CY - North Hollywood, CA N1 -

Rpt. in The Agency Trilogy (New York: Masquerade Books, 1994), 3-105.

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InMuB

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Alias Man Y1 - 1968 A1 - [Allan James] [Tucker] (b. 1929) KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

Britain is a satellite of Moscow, the U.S. is isolationist, and a Soviet-Bonn bloc forms and comes to control Europe. See also 1969 and 1970 Tucker.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London U3 -

David Craig [pseud.]

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DLC, NLS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace" Y1 - 1968 A1 - Richard Brautigan (1935-84) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Poem. A computer Cockaigne but with an element of irony.

JF - The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster PB - Four Seasons Foundation CY - San Francisco, CA VL - Writing 20 N1 -

Rpt. (New York: Delta, 1968): 1.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - An Alternative Future for America. Essays and Speeches Y1 - 1968 A1 - Robert Theobald (1929-99) ED - Kendall College KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Essays presenting a detailed eutopia that focuses on diversity with lifelong learning and changing life patterns. Goods will be free, everyone will have a basic guaranteed income, and most "unpleasant" jobs will be automated. The only governments will be local and international, and politics will be replaced by a system of task forces composed of people competent to deal with specific issues, with these task forces disappearing when the issue is solved. See also 1969 Theobald and Scott and 1982 Theobald. In addition, Theobald published many other books outlining his proposals. See, in particular, his Free Men and Free Markets. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1963; Beyond Despair: Directions for America's Third Century. Washington, DC: The New Republic Book Co., 1976; rev. as Beyond Despair: A Policy Guide to the Communications Era. Cabin John, MD: Seven Locks Press, 1981; An Alternative Future for America's Third Century. Chicago, IL: Swallow Press, 1976; and Reworking Success: New Communities at the Millennium. Gabriola Island, BC, Canada: New Society Publishers, 1997.

PB - Swallow CY - Chicago, IL N1 -

2nd ed. as An Alternative Future for America II. Essays and Speeches. Ed. Noel McInnis. Chicago, IL: Swallow, 1970. Parts that had been previously published were rpt. in the 1st ed. as follows: “The Problem” (17-21) originally published as “The Revolution of the ‘Powerless’.” The Los Angeles Times (September 8, 1967), Part 2, p. 5; “The Guaranteed Income” (93-131) was originally published in the Proceedings of the National Symposium on Guaranteed Income, Chamber of Commerce of the United States, December 9, 1966; “The Communications City” (132-44) was originally published in The Christian Century (March 27, 1968): 385-88; “Green Force” (145-50) was originally published as “Green Force: A Mechanism to Speed Urban Peace.” The Los Angeles Times (March 12, 1968), Part 2, p. 5; and “Education for a New Time” (151-63) was originally published in Journal (Division of Higher Education, United Church of Christ) 5.6 (March 1967): 3-7. Parts that had been previously published but not included in the 1st ed. were rpt. in the 2nd ed. as follows: “Incredible man and His Credible Future.” Reflection. A Journal of Opinion at (Yale Divinity School (November 1967): 1-5; “Women” (85-96) originally published in Dialogue on Women (Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merril, 1967), 11-17 [In the original, the piece is described as being by unidentified editors, but there is no mention of anyone else in the reprint]; “Ecology: A Dangerous Crusade” (151-56) was originally published "War on Pollution Could Backfire." The Los Angeles Times (February 8, 1970). Part G, p. 7; and “Freedom in Education” (157-81) was originally published in Journal (Council of Higher Education, United Church of Christ) (April 1969): 10-16.

Essays presenting a detailed eutopia that focuses on diversity with lifelong learning and changing life patterns. Goods will be free, everyone will have a basic guaranteed income, and most "unpleasant" jobs will be automated. The only governments will be local and international, and politics will be replaced by a system of task forces composed of people competent to deal with specific issues, with these task forces disappearing when the issue is solved. See also 1969 and 1982 Theobald. In addition, Theobald published many other books outlining his proposals. See, in particular, his Free Men and Free Markets. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1963; Beyond Despair: Directions for America's Third Century. Washington, DC: The New Republic Book Co., 1976; rev. as Beyond Despair: A Policy Guide to the Communications Era. Cabin John, MD: Seven Locks Press, 1981; An Alternative Future for America's Third Century. Chicago, IL: Swallow Press, 1976; and Reworking Success: New Communities at the Millennium. Gabriola Island, BC, Canada: New Society Publishers, 1997.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Among the Bad Baboons" Y1 - 1968 A1 - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of violence in depopulated cities and an “Ultra-welfare state” where everyone gets an “Inalienable Basic” income outside the cities. Reynolds uses this trope in a number of novels and stories. This story focuses on a couple trying to survive in New York City.

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction VL - 27.1 N1 -

Rpt. in Nightmare Age. Ed. Frederik [George] Pohl, [Jr.] (New York: Ballantine Books, 1970), 135-77.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Anthropol Y1 - 1968 A1 - Louis [Preston] Trimble (1917-88) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia of gender-role reversal with women ruling men.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York U5 -

OAdN

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born Y1 - 1968 A1 - Ayi Kwei Armah (b. 1939) KW - Ghanaian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of the contemporary Congo.

PB - Heinemann CY - London U5 -

O

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Call of the Planets Y1 - 1968 A1 - James Ernest William Patterson KW - Male author AB -

Jupiter as a eutopia. No racial prejudice. Women remain beautiful throughout life. Calm, serene inner life. Equality.

PB - A. J. Chapple CY - Bala, North Wales U5 -

O

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Camp Concentration" Y1 - 1968 A1 - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia set in a prison. A war is ongoing, and the protagonist is a conscientious objector.

JF - New Worlds Science Fiction VL - 51.173 - 176 N1 -

Repub. Garden City, NY: Doubleday. Rpt. New York: Avon, 1971; and New York: Bantam Books, 1980. U.K. ed. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1968.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Carder's Paradise Y1 - 1968 A1 - Malcolm Levene (1937-1973) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel includes two dystopias. In one, a computer dominated world, there is no work because it might upset the economy. As a result, people have too much leisure and degenerate. The second, which is the focus of the novel, is an island prison, and the two main characters are a prisoner, Carder, who wants to take over the prison, and the mentally ill prison governor.

PB - Rupert Hart-Davis CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Walker, 1969.

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DLC, NZ

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Catharsis Central Y1 - 1968 A1 - [Anthony Allert] [Thompson] (b. 1939) KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Computer dystopia. A computer has a unit that records dreams and sends back soothing messages to each individual. Everyone must eat what is best for their current state of health. Struggle for control of the machine, and its destruction frees humanity to start over.

PB - Dennis Dobson CY - London N1 -

Rpt. New York: Berkley Medallion, 1969.

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Antony Alban [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Conquest by Default" Y1 - 1968 A1 - Vernor [Steffen] Vinge (b. 1944) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Libertarian eutopia that presents a violent society as positive because no group can get large enough to hold formal power.

JF - Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact VL - 81.3 N1 -

Rpt. in Imperial Stars. Vol. 2 Republic and Empire. Ed. Jerry Pournelle with John F. Carr (New York: Baen, 1987), 252-89; in Vinge, Threats . . . and Other Promises (New York: Baen, 1988), 30-71; and in The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge (New York: Tor, 2001), 159-86 with notes by the author.

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Merril, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Curious Culture of the Planet Loretta Y1 - 1968 A1 - William J. Palmer KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Capitalist eutopia with an area set aside for social experimentation, which experiments, generally being socialist, fail. Stress on responsibility. 

PB - Vantage Press CY - New York U5 -

MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Day of the Coastwatch Y1 - 1968 A1 - Philip McCutchan (1920-96) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia of the New Socialist State. Leaving is illegal, thus the coastwatch.

PB - Harrap CY - London U5 -

DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Day of the Republic Y1 - 1968 A1 - Geoff[rey] Taylor (b. 1920) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia depicting Australia on the day it became a republic under what is essentially a fascist dictatorship. The novel is presented from the point of view of those preparing the last issue of the last independent newspaper as all opposition is being suppressed. Ends with nuclear war.

PB - Peter Davies CY - London U5 -

A, ATL, CLU, M

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Dead to the World" Y1 - 1968 A1 - H[enry] A. Hargreaves (b. 1928) ED - [Edward] John Carnell (1912-72) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopian satire. Computer and robot controlled world and the effect on a man whose identity card is accidentally marked deceased.

JF - New Writings in S-F PB - Dennis Dobson CY - London VL - 11 N1 -

Rpt. in New Writings in S-F 8. Ed. [Edward] John Carnell (New York: Bantam Books, 1971), 125-42; and in his North by 2000: A Collection of Canadian Science Fiction (Toronto, ON, Canada: Peter Martin Associates, 1975), 3-15.

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Can, InU, Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Divided House" Y1 - 1968 A1 - [John Thomas] [Phillifent] (1916-76) ED - [Edward] John Carnell (1912-72) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. A world of dreamers versus doers. The doers are in power and logic controls. The dreamers are serfs.

JF - New Writings in S-F PB - Dennis Dobson CY - London VL - 13 U3 -

 John Rackham [pseud.]

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O, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep Y1 - 1968 A1 - Philip K[indred] Dick (1928-82) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia.  Basis of the 1982 film Blade Runner directed by Ridley Scott (b. 1937) with a screenplay by Hampton Fancher (b. 1938) and David Peoples (b. 1940). The screenplay by Fancher was published Hollywood: Script City, 1981. Unrelated to 1974 Nourse. See 1995 Jeter.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City N1 -

Rpt. in Four Novels of the 1960s. [Ed. Jonathan [Allen] Lethem] (New York: Library of America, 2007), 431-608. “Notes” 828-29. Rpt. as Blade Runner (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep). New York: Ballantine Books, 1982. During his lifetime Dick refused to allow the title change. Graphic Novel version as Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 6 vols. Art Tony Parker, Colors Blond, Letters Richard Starkings of Comicraft, Cover Bill Sienkiewicz, Ed. Ian Brill [vol. 1 only] and Bryce Carlson, Design Stephanie Gonzaga. Los Angeles, CA: Boom Studios, 2009-11.

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Rpt. as Blade Runner (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep)

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Dome Y1 - 1968 A1 - [Thomas Frederick] Gonnar Jones KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a machine that can project feelings into the brain.

PB - Faber & Faber CY - London U5 -

DLC, NLS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Doomsday Men Y1 - 1968 A1 - [Henry] Kenneth Bulmer (1921-2005) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in a future U.S. where fear of nuclear war has led to the collapse of most cities and people live spread across the landscape served by machines. One city remains as a center of pleasure, but seemingly mindless violence erupts.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Rpt. New York: Curtis Books/Modern Literary Editions, nd. U.K. ed. London: Robert Hale, 1968. Shorter version in If 15.11 (November 1965): 102-59

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DLC, Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Earth is Mine Y1 - 1968 A1 - Luther Cox KW - Male author AB -

UFO story. Technologically advanced eutopia that had evolved from a former earth people. No money; take what you need. Everyone works for two months and then goes to school for a month, with everyone trying to keep up in all fields. Synthetic food. Eugenics; artificial insemination. Religious.

PB - Exposition Press CY - New York U5 -

NcU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Epilogue: Not Quite Utopia" Y1 - 1968 A1 - Stuart Chase (1888-1985). KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Brief but detailed eutopia set in 2001. One focus is that the world is completely free of new pollution and almost all the badly polluted areas of the past have been cleaned up. Use of petroleum products radically reduced and replaced with nuclear fusion power. No advertising in newspapers or on TV. No private cars in Manhattan, radical reduction in city population, and half of New York City is open space. Electric vehicles standard. Strong United Nations, which has relocated to an island in the Indian Ocean. World language as well as local languages. See also 1928 and 1975 Chase.

JF - The Most Probable World PB - Harper & Row CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Father of the Nation Y1 - 1968 A1 - Laurence Walter Clark KW - Male author AB -

England failing due to party influence and socialist policy, but it is saved by a revival of a Parliament that rids the country of big government.

PB - Veracity Ventures CY - Ricksmanworth, Eng. U1 -

Subtitle on the short title page but not on the title page Inside Story of Britain's Return to Constitutional Rule

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L, NLS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Feasibility Plan" Y1 - 1968 A1 - Earl Conrad (1912-86) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Humor on job creation during a time of automation. Pencil sharpeners, wastebasket emptiers, and clock watchers are among the jobs.

JF - The Da Vinci Machine; Tales of the Population Explosion PB - Fleet Press Corp. CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Fistful of Digits Y1 - 1968 A1 - Christopher [Glazebrook] Hodder-Williams (1926-95) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Computer-dominated authoritarian dystopia.

PB - Hodder and Stoughton CY - London U5 -

ViU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Five to Twelve Y1 - 1968 A1 - Edmund Cooper (1926-82) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Sex-role reversal dystopia brought about by the popularity of birth control. The novel focuses on a man who is constantly in conflict with the system. 

PB - Hodder & Stoughton CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1968.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Freezer" Y1 - 1968 A1 - Candice Bergen (b. 1946) ED - Stanley Richards KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which everyone is frozen and repaired at 65 so that they can be useful citizens in an authoritarian state.

JF - The Best Short Plays 1968. The Margaret Mayorga Series PB - Chilton Book Co. CY - Philadelphia, PA U5 -

NLS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Gift from Earth Y1 - 1968 A1 - Larry [Lawrence van Cott] Niven (b. 1938) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Transplant dystopia showing the power of doctors.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The God Machine. A Novel Y1 - 1968 A1 - Martin Caidin (1927-97) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Computer dystopia.

PB - E. P. Dutton CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. without the subtitle. New York: Baen, 1989.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Great Leap Backward Y1 - 1968 A1 - Robert Green (b. 1935?) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Contrast between a dystopia of automated cities and a naturalist countryside.

PB - McClelland & Stewart CY - Toronto, ON, Canada N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Robert Hale, 1968. 

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Can, DLC, MoSW, Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Guide to Survival Y1 - 1968 A1 - Salem Kirban (1925-2010) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The dystopia that will follow the Rapture (see 1 Corinthians 15:52 and 1 Thessalonians 4: 15-17) and surviving it. Antichrist and Armageddon (See Revelation 16). His Your Last Goodbye. Huntingdon Valley, PA: Salem Kirban, Inc., 1969 is similar. See also 1970, 1974 Kirban; and Kirban’s Book of Charts on Prophecy. Huntington Valley, PA: Salem Kirban, Inc., 1969. Kirban published around fifty books on these and related subjects.

PB - Tyndale House/Coverdale House/Salem Kirban, Inc. CY - Wheaton, IL/London/Huntingdon Valley, PA U5 -

MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Helmet of Hades" Y1 - 1968 A1 - [Herbert] Jack Wodhams (1931-2017) ED - [Edward] John Carnell (1912-72) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia on a planet where a drink that makes everyone blind is distilled from a plant. One man follows the old adage that in the land of the bind the one eyed man is king and blind everyone except a few acolytes and enslaves the blind. The protagonist is a man sent to the planet that had not been heard from recently and is blinded but rebels and violently overthrows the regime and frees the one man who had previously rebelled. The result is the opposite of what he expected.

JF - New Writings in S-F PB - Dennis Dobson CY - London VL - 11 U3 -

Jack Wodhams [pseud.]

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NSW, O, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - I, The Machine Y1 - 1968 A1 - Paul W[arren) Fairman (1916-77) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Machine dystopia with a single rebel.

PB - Lancer Books CY - New York U5 -

CU-Riv, Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - In Watermelon Sugar Y1 - 1968 A1 - Richard Brautigan (1935-84) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia on the Cockaigne model.

JF - Writing 21 PB - Four Seasons Foundation CY - San Francisco, CA N1 -

Rpt. New York: Delta, 1968. UK. ed. London: Jonathan Cape, 1970.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Invasion Y1 - 1968 A1 - John [Warwick] [Dalrymple-]Hay (b. 1928) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia created by the invasion of Australia by the South East Asian Republic. At the end of the novel, following the destruction of Australia, a racially mixed group (Aboriginal, Chinese, and white Australian) are living a simple existence trying to start over.

PB - Hodder and Stoughton CY - London U3 -

John Hay [pseud.]

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A, M, NZ

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Iron Man: A Story in Five Nights Y1 - 1968 A1 - Ted [Edward James] Hughes (1930-98) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Book written for children in which a giant made of iron defeats a space monster, who then circles the Earth singing. The experience unifies the world and brings peace. See also 1993 Hughes. 

PB - Faber and Faber CY - London N1 -

Rpt. without the subtitle illus. by George Adamson. London: Faber and Faber, 1971; and illus. by Andrew Davidson. London: Faber and Faber, 1985. Rpt. as The Iron Giant: A Story in Five Nights. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. Another U.S. ed. as The Iron Giant: A Story in Five Nights. Illus. Dirk Zimmer (1943-2008). New York: Harper & Row, 1988. 

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Illus. George Adamson

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Keeper Y1 - 1968 A1 - Audrey [Louise] Laski (1931-2003) KW - English author KW - Welsh author AB -

Dystopia of a religious intentional community in which a group of Puritans were left on an isolated island whose descendants return to England in 1950 and establish a community in Wales.

PB - Eyre & Spottiswoode CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. as The Keeper. A Novel. New York: W.W. Norton, 1968.

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U.S. ed. as The Keeper. A Novel

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IEdS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Killing Ground: The Canadian Civil War Y1 - 1968 A1 - [Bruce Allen] [Powe] (b. 1925) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

See the subtitle.

PB - Peter Martin Associates CY - Toronto, ON, Canada N1 -

Rpt. with a "Foreword." Toronto, ON, Canada: Peter Martin Associates, 1972; and with a brief "a Word from the Author." Markham, ON, Canada: Paperjacks, 1977.

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Ellis Portal [pseud.]

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Can, Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ladies' Day Y1 - 1968 A1 - Robert [Albert] Bloch (1917-94) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Gender-role reversal dystopia. Woman had taken over after another war. A revolt of men is put down, but a movement toward equality is beginning.

PB - Belmont Books CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Land of the Moobs Y1 - 1968 A1 - Seymour O. Kopf KW - Male author AB -

Satire in which the inhabitants of the Moon, called Moobs, are divided into Royalists and Rebels. The Rebel society is run by a Chief Bureaucrat, who is corrupt and power-hungry. War between Rebels and Royalists. "Spoilers" is a dystopia in which Communists control most of the world and many religious groups were forced to migrate to the moon.

PB - Ptd. by the South China Morning Post CY - Hong Kong U5 -

CU-Riv

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Starship from Earth Y1 - 1968 A1 - [Boyd Bradfield] [Upchurch] (1919-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eugenic dystopia and the struggle against it. Science rules. Everyone is classified according to their talents and can only marry within their caste.

PB - Weybright and Talley CY - New York U3 -

John Boyd [pseud.]

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MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Lines of Power: We, in Some Strange Power's Employ, Move on a Rigorous Line" Y1 - 1968 A1 - Samuel R[ay] Delany (b. 1942) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

Conflict between two visions of a better life, one technologically based and one off the grid. The law requires that every community above a certain very small size must be provided with electrical power whether it is wanted or not.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 34.5 (204) N1 -

Rpt. as “We, in Some Strange Power’s Employ, Move on a Rigorous Line.” In his Distant Stars (New York: Bantam Books, 1981), 293-352. Rpt. (New York: ibooks, 2004), 293-352; in his Driftglass. Ten Tales of Speculative Fiction (New York: New American Library, 1971), 139-90. Book rpt. without the subtitle. New York: Gregg Press, 1977. Book Club edition (Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, 1971), 130-84. Rpt. Illus. Michael Sorkin. in his Distant Stars (New York: Bantam Books, 1981), 293-352; rpt. illus. Michael Sorkin (New York: ibooks, 2004), 293-352; in his Driftglass (Garden City: Nelson Doubleday, 1971), 130-83; in his Driftglass/Starshards (London: Grafton, 1993), 155-222; and in his Aye and Gomorrah. Stories (New York: Vintage Books, 2003), 122-81. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Little Big Mouth: The Story of a Little Girl Who Became Prime Minister Y1 - 1968 A1 - Neil Rowe (1941-2003) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

A little girl who talks constantly and becomes known as "Little Big Mouth" but no one listened. When the Prime Minister couldn't talk, she was made PM because she was the only person who could talk constantly and only by talking constantly could politicians ensure that no one listened. She chose to say nothing, which kept the politicians from doing their usual stupid things. When the PM recovered his voice and tried to throw her out, the people rose up and demanded that she become PM; she agreed.

PB - Cockerel Print CY - Wellington, New Zealand U2 -

Illus. Brent Wong

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ATL

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lucifer Cell Y1 - 1968 A1 - [Ian Campbell] [McDougal KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia with a background of Britain as occupied by China.

PB - Hodder and Stoughton CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Atheneum, 1968.

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William Fennerton [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mercenary from Tomorrow Y1 - 1968 A1 - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future dystopia of boredom, drugs, and television wars.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -

 Rpt. New York: Ace Books, 1969 as an Ace Double with his Five Way Secret Agent (1969); and New York: Ace Books, 1975. Expanded as by Reynolds with [Alan Gould (b. 1951) as Joe Mauser: Mercenary From Tomorrow. By Reynolds and  Michael [A.] Banks [pseud.]. New York: Baen Books, 1986. Earlier, shorter version as “Mercenary.” Analog Fact--Science Fiction 69.2 (April 1962): 6-55.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ministry of Procreation Y1 - 1968 A1 - [Nevil Tronchin] [James] KW - Male author AB -

Satire on bureaucracy.

PB - Robert Hale CY - London U3 -

Nevil Tronchin-James [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Neocracy; A Plan for Social Order and Co-operative Capitalism Y1 - 1968 A1 - Frank Herman Young (b. 1895) KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. "Neocracy is co-operative capitalism utilizing representative rule of the people, by the people, for the people, in both business and government" (119). Guaranteed employment through United American Enterprises.

PB - Exposition Press CY - New York U5 -

LSE, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A New Constitution for a New Country Y1 - 1968 A1 - M[ichael] Oliver KW - Lithuanian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Detailed capitalist eutopia containing a complete constitution (49-128). A review of the book by Robert L. Meiers, M.D. was published in The Capitalist Country Newsletter in 1.2 (August 1968): [1-3], a journal edited by Oliver. The book was meant to outline the reasons for and constitution of a new country that he called Minerva that the author hoped to establish and for which he minted a coinage. He found a reef near Tonga, and in 1971 built it up with dredged sand, built a concrete platform, planted a flag, and declared the Republic of Minerva. In 1972 the King of Tonga emptied its one prison and took the prisoners to the reef, where they destroyed the platform. See Raymond Craib, “The Brief Life and Watery Death of a 70’s Libertarian Micronation.” Slate (May 21, 2022). https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/05/michael-oliver-republic-of-minerva-history-libertarian-micronations-tonga.html. A longer treatment by Craib can be found in Adventure Capitalism: A History of Libertarian Exit, from the Era of Decolonization to the Digital Age. Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2022.

PB - Published by arrangement with Fine Arts Press CY - Reno, NV N1 -

Rev. ed. Reno, NV: Published by arrangement with Fine Arts Press, 1968.

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MiU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Of Men and Monsters Y1 - 1968 A1 - [Philip] [Klass] (1920-2010) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

In the far future, after earth has been successfully invaded by huge aliens, human beings live like mice in the walls of the alien’s houses. The social system is complex, tribal based, and focuses on survival and striking back at the aliens. The status system was dual in male and female lines although there were variations between tribes. Large numbers of children always gave status. Women kept alive what little knowledge there was largely through ritual and taboo.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Here Comes Civilization: The Complete Science Fiction of William Tenn. Volume II Ed. James A. Mann and Mary C. Tabasko (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2001), 389-534 with an “Afterword” on 535-37. Part originally appeared as “The Men in the Wall.” Galaxy 22.1 (October 1963): 8-83.

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William Tenn [pseud.]

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MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Omnivore Y1 - 1968 A1 - [Piers Anthony Dillingham] [Jacob] (b. 1934) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Science fiction novel set on both an over-regulated Earth and a planet being explored. The dystopian parts are mostly background.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Faber and Faber, 1969.

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Piers Anthony [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Past Master Y1 - 1968 A1 - R[aphael] A[loysius] Lafferty (1914-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A future utopia, Astrolabe, the Golden Planet, finds many of its citizens abandoning the good life they have to live in a slum. To find the cause, the leaders bring Thomas More to find the cause and the cure. The causes are boredom and the lack of religion; the cure is the introduction of Christianity.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Garland, 1975; and in American Science Fiction: Four Classic Novels 1868-1969. Ed. Gary K. Wolfe (New York: The Library of America, 2010), 1-181 with a “Note on the Text” (730-31) and “Notes” (734-40).  U. K. ed. London: Rapp & Whiting, 1968

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DLC, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pavane Y1 - 1968 A1 - Keith [John Kingston] Roberts (1935-2000) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Alternative history. Papal domination of Europe has slowed progress and a dystopian medievalism has lasted into the 20th century.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Rpt. New York Ace Books, 1968; rpt. New York: Ace Books, 1984. Rpt. New York: Berkley Medallion, 1976. U.K. ed. London: Victor Gollancz, 1984. Abr. ed. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1968. Rpt. London: Panther, 1970. First published as a series of stories--“Pavane.” Impulse 1.1 (March 1966): 127-60; “Pavane: The Lady Anne.” Impulse 1.2 (April 1966): 4-47; rev. as “The Lady Margaret” in the rev. ed. and rpt. under that title in Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction. Ed. Leigh Ronald Grossman (Rockville, MD: Wildside Press, 2011), 637-43; with an editor’s note on 637; “Brother John.” Impulse 1.3 (May 1966): 47-81; “Pavane: Lords and Ladies.” Impulse 1.4 (June 1966): 70-101; “Pavane: Corfe Gate.” Impulse 1.5 (July 1966): 7-68; and “Pavane: The White Boat.” New Worlds Science Fiction, no. 169 ([December 1966]): 73-95.

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MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pendulum Y1 - 1968 A1 - [Sam] [Youd] (1922-2012) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

An authoritarian religious dystopia develops out of a collapsing British economy and dysfunctional government.

PB - Simon and Schuster CY - New York U3 -

John Christopher [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The People Trap" Y1 - 1968 A1 - Robert Sheckley (1928-2005) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 34.6 N1 -

Rpt. in his The People Trap and other Pitfalls, Snares, Devices and Delusions, as Well as Two Sniggles and a Contrivance (New York: Dell, 1968), 7-26. and in The Collected Short Stories of Robert Sheckley. Book Three (Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991), 7-24; in The Collected Short Stories of Robert Sheckley. Book Three (Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991), 7-24; and in Store of the Worlds: The Stories of Robert Sheckley. Ed. Alex Abramovich and Jonathan Lethem (New York: New York Review Books, 2012), 347-67 with an “Introduction” to the collection by the editors (vii-xi).

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Merril, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Proposition 31 Y1 - 1968 A1 - Robert [Henry] Rimmer (1917-2001) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A version of Rimmer's sexual eutopia. Proposition 31, found on page 255, would legalize group marriage and the novel is about one such foursome. The novel includes the design for a house that reflects the new way of living. See also 1966, 1975, 1978, 1980, 1982, and 2000 Rimmer.

PB - New American Library CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Return to the Starship Y1 - 1968 A1 - [Diane] [Detzer de Reyna] (1930-92) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a city which was designed to be a eutopia with everything provided but everyone isolated.

PB - Avalon CY - New York U3 -

By Jorge de Reyna [pseud.]

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Ring Y1 - 1968 A1 - [Piers Anthony Dillingham] [Jacob] (b. 1934) A1 - Robert E[rvien] Margroff (1930-2015) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia. Technologically enforced conformity to too rigid moral standards.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -

UK ed. London: Macdonald, 1969.

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Piers Anthony [pseud. of Jacob]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ring of Violence Y1 - 1968 A1 - Douglas R[ankine] Mason (1918-2013) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

Dystopia of violence.

PB - Robert Hale CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Rite of Passage Y1 - 1968 A1 - Alexei [Alexis Adams] Panshin (1940-2022) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel is concerned with the society that develops on a spaceship and particularly with the rite of passage to adulthood in which young people are put on a colony world to survive or perish. Can be classified as eutopian, dystopian, or a flawed utopia depending on the reader's perspective. Related stories are "What Size Are Giants." Worlds of Tomorrow 3.1 (13) (May 1965): 8-47; and "The Sons of Prometheus." Analog Science Fiction Science-Fact 78.2 (October 1966): 50-71.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1976 with "Introduction: The Story of Rite of Passage" (v-xiv) by the author; and as the Collector's Edition. Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1990 illus. Debbie Hughes and with an "Introduction" (v-viii) by Edward Bryant; and in Alternative Communities: Magazine of the Alternative Communities Movement, no. 22 (1986): 3-24. To be continued but the journal stopped publication. Part was originally published as "Door to the Worlds of Men." Worlds of If Science Fiction 13.3 (July 1963): 89-112.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Santaroga Barrier Y1 - 1968 A1 - Frank [Patrick] Herbert (1920-86) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia. An additive to food gives people an expanded awareness that allows them to create an inward looking, small town eutopia, but they are ready to kill to keep the community as it is.

PB - Berkley Books CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Rapp & Whiting, 1970. Rpt. London: New English Library, 1971. A shorter version was published in Amazing Stories 41.4 - 6 (October 1967 - February 1968): 6-51, 119-33, 147-54, 156, 158, 160; 129-40, 144; 67-123.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Shellbreak Y1 - 1968 A1 - John William Groves (1910-70) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia set in 2505. An enclosed world cut off from the outside.

PB - Robert Hale CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Six Gates from Limbo Y1 - 1968 A1 - [James Murdoch] [MacGregor] (1925-2008) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Various societies connected by gateways. The first, Limbo, is the only somewhat positive one and provides a refuge for a man as he visits the other societies, all dystopias in different ways.

PB - Michael Joseph CY - London U3 -

J. T. McIntosh [pseud.]

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L, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Spartan Planet" Y1 - 1968 A1 - A[rthur] Bertram Chandler (1912-84) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Militaristic dystopia on New Sparta that is all male. Children born in a Birth Machine. Same sex relations are the norm. See also 1984 Chandler.

JF - Fantastic Science Fiction--Fantasy VL - 17.4 - 5 N1 -

Rpt. as False Fatherland. London: Horwitz Publications, 1968. U.S. ed. as Spartan Planet. New York: Dell, 1969. 

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Rpt. as False Fatherland

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A, M, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Specter Is Haunting Texas" Y1 - 1968 A1 - Fritz [Reuter] Leiber [Jr.] (1910-92) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Texas has taken over most of the Americas from Canada to Nicaragua. Racial, ethnic, financial, and political discrimination. ". . . a man can't feel really free unless he's got a lot of underfolk to boss around" (15). African American republics exist in California and Florida. Circumluna is a satellite of scientists, hippies, and others.

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction VL - 26.6 - 27.2 N1 -

Repub. New York: Walker & Co. U.K. ed. as A Spectre Is Haunting Texas. London: Gollancz, 1969.

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U.K. ed. as A Spectre Is Haunting Texas

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MB

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Stand on Zanzibar Y1 - 1968 A1 - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A complex novel that takes place in a future overpopulation and corporate dystopia.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Rpt. New York: Orb, 2011 with a new “Foreword The Happening World” (vii-xiv) by Bruce Sterling; as the Collector's Edition. Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1987 illus. Vincent DiFate and with an “Introduction” (unpaged) by David Brin; as 300 copy ed. illus. Jacob McMurray and with an “Introduction” by Kim Stanley Robinson” (9-13 misnumbered 7 in the Table of Contents) and “Viewpoint. Childless Couples and Delinquent Children” (549-56 misnumbered 543 in the Table of Contents) by Brunner rpt. from Science and Public Policy 12.3 (June 1985): 149-52. Lakewood, CO: Centipede Press, 2009; and as New York: Tor Essentials, 2021, with the foreword “The Happening World” by Bruce Sterling from the Orb 2011 ed. (v-xii). Extracts were published in New Worlds Science Fiction 51.177 (November 1967): 34-49.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Story of Operation Atlantis Y1 - 1968 A1 - [Werner K.] [Stiefel] (1921-2006) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Outlines a libertarian eutopia. Gives credit to Ayn Rand (1905-82). For an article on Operation Atlantis, see http://shimajournal.org/issues/v10n2/e.-Simpson-Shima-v10n2.pdf

PB - Atlantis Publishing Co CY - Saugerties, NY U3 -

Warren K. Stevens [pseud.]

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Street of Dreams, Feet of Clay" Y1 - 1968 A1 - Robert Sheckley (1928-2005) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia. Includes an automated city with a mother complex.

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction VL - 26.3 N1 -

Rpt. in The Liberated Future. Ed. Robert Hoskins (Greenwich, CT: Fawcett, 1974), 139-58; in The City 2000 A.D.: Urban Life Through Science Fiction. Ed. Ralph Clem, Martin Harry Greenberg, and Joseph Olander (Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Crest, 1976), 62-78.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - They Y1 - 1968 A1 - Marya Mannes (1904-90) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A dystopia in which a computer decides on the value of each person and decides that the old are worthless, isolate them, and kills all those who have not committed suicide by sixty-five. The computer also establishes the appropriate values in the arts. They refers to the young.

PB - Doubleday & Co CY - Garden City, NY U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Time Machine That Never Got Past First Base: A Laugh--at the Future? Y1 - 1968 A1 - [March] [Laumer] (1923-2000) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Humor of boring people visiting boring futures.

PB - Opium Books CY - Kowloon, Hong Kong U2 -

Illus. Lau Shiu Fan

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Felix Severance [pseud.]

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Total Environment" Y1 - 1968 A1 - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia. An experiment called the Ultra High Density Research Establishment (UHRDE) or the Total Environment is set up by the UN and the Indian government to test whether or not extreme crowding produces telepathy. The conditions inside the experiment, which is completely cut off from the outside world except for the anonymous provision of food and electronic monitoring, become horrifying but also produce the desired results.

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction VL - 26.3 N1 -

Rpt. in World’s Best Science Fiction 1969. Ed. Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr (New York: Ace Books, 1969), 287-331; and in The City 2000 A.D.: Urban Life Through Science Fiction. Ed. Ralph Clem, Martin Harry Greenberg, and Joseph Olander (Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Crest, 1976), 109-51. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Tunc. A Novel Y1 - 1968 A1 - Lawrence [George] Durrell (1912-1990) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The background to the novel is a dystopia where one company is gaining control of the world. Tunc in Latin means “then,” “next,” or “next in succession”. Continued with somewhat less of the dystopia in Nunquam. A Novel. London: Faber and Faber. U.S. ed. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1970. Collected in The Revolt of Aphrodite. Tunc and Nunquam (London: Faber and Faber, 1974), separately paged. Nunquam means “never” in Latin.

PB - Faber and Faber CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1968. Rpt. New York: Pocket Books, 1969. Collected in The Revolt of Aphrodite. Tunc and Nunquam (London: Faber and Faber, 1974), separately paged.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Very Private Life Y1 - 1968 A1 - Michael Frayn (b. 1933) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Technology brings isolation of people from each other. The rich live inside and have connection with each other only through television, telephone systems. There are a few who have to do some work outside, which is badly polluted.

PB - Collins CY - London U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Welcome to the Monkey House" Y1 - 1968 A1 - Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (1922-2007) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Birth control through deadening sensation below the waist and reducing the population by voluntary euthanasia. A few people fight back.

JF - Playboy VL - 15 N1 -

Rpt. in his Welcome to the Monkey House. A Collection of Short Works (New York: Seymour Lawrence/Delacorte Press, 1968), 27-45. Rpt. (New York: Dell, 1970), 28-47. U.K. ed. (London: Jonathan Cape, 1969), 27-45. Rpt. (London: Panther, 1972), 38-55; in his Novels & Stories, 1963-1973. Ed. Sidney Offit (New York: Library of America, 2011), 737-55 with a Note on the Text (834-35) and "Notes" on 850; in his Complete Stories. Ed. Jerome Klinkowitz & Dan Wakefield (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2017), 863-77.

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Merril, PSt, Public

ER - TY - ABST T1 - West of the Moon Y1 - 1968 A1 - Howard Simpson KW - Male author AB -

Satire. Voyage to a number of planets. Various eutopias and dystopias, including a world of Amazons and Pluto, which is the Greek Hell.

PB - Vantage Press CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - When Rain Clouds Gather Y1 - 1968 A1 - Bessie Head (1937-86) KW - Botswanan author KW - Female author KW - South African author AB -

A novel set in Botswana that presents a village that is both described as a eutopia and is the location of an attempt to create one. As a result, the novel also indirectly discusses what might constitute utopia in the poverty of modern Africa.

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: William Heinemann, 1972. U.S. ed. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1969.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Wild in the Streets Y1 - 1968 A1 - Robert Thom (1929-79) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a teenage takeover.

PB - Pyramid CY - New York U5 -

IEN

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Will It End This Way? Y1 - 1968 A1 - Vance A[cton] Geigley (1907-96) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia from a conservative perspective.

PB - Vantage Press CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Without Apology: The Autobiography of Sir George Maudesley, Bart. Edited with Notes and a Postscript Y1 - 1968 A1 - Ewan Butler KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Britain under the Nazis. It is liberated in 1952.

PB - Cassell CY - London U5 -

NZ

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Affluence of Edwin Lollard" Y1 - 1967 A1 - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) ED - [Edward] John Carnell (1912-72) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future dystopia in which it is a crime to be poor and illiteracy is normal.

JF - New Writings in S-F PB - Dennis Dobson CY - London VL - 10 N1 -

Rpt. in his White Fang Goes Dingo and other funny s.f. stories (London: Arrow Books, 1971), 138-51.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Agent of Chaos Y1 - 1967 A1 - Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia set in the twenty-fourth century with all of the solar system inhabited. Small rebel group and another violent group that ultimately destroys the dictatorship.

PB - Belmont CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: New English Library, 1972.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Alpaca Revisited Y1 - 1967 A1 - H[aroldson] L[afayette] Hunt [Jr.] (1889-1974) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 1960 Hunt that includes a new constitution (153-95) detailing his proposal for ensuring that the wealthy will have the most power.

PB - H.L.H. Products CY - Dallas, TX U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Anarchaos Y1 - 1967 A1 - [Donald Edwin Edmond [Westlake] (1933-2008) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A dystopia of anarchism as popularly understood as a situation where the strong will kill the weak. 

PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. under the author's name London: Severn House, 2004. Ace ed. rpt. under the author's name in his Tomorrow's Crimes (New York: Mysterious Press, 1989), 115-263.

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Curt Clark [pseud.]

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "At Central" Y1 - 1967 A1 - Kit [Lilian Craig] Reed (1932-2017) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which all people stay inside watching television.

JF - Mister da V. and other Stories PB - Faber and Faber CY - London U5 -

NRU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Aye, and Gomorrah" Y1 - 1967 A1 - Samuel R[ay] Delany (b. 1942) ED - Harlan [Jay] Ellison (1934-2018) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a future in which spacers must be neutered and focuses on how this affects both the spacers and the population, some of whom are sexually attracted to them. 

JF - Dangerous Visions: 33 Original Stories PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Rpt. in his Driftglass. Ten Tales of Speculative Fiction (New York: New American Library, 1971), 111-20. Book rpt. without the subtitle. New York: Gregg Press, 1977. Book Club edition (Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, 1971), 101-11; in The Best of the Nebulas (New York: Tor/Tom Doherty Associates, 1989), 143-50, with an “Author’s Foreword” on 142; in his Driftglass/Starshards (London: Grafton, 1993), 118-30; and in his Aye and Gomorrah. Stories (New York: Vintage Books, 2003), 91-101.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Beyond Y1 - 1967 A1 - Jean Sutton (1915-2003) A1 - Jeff[erson Howard] Sutton (1913-79) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A dystopia describing a prison planet for telepaths and others with unusual psychic capacities, but the society that exiles its paranormals is vaguely described in eutopian terms.

PB - G.P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Black Commandos. A Novel Y1 - 1967 A1 - [Rev. Dr.] [Joseph Denis] [Jackson] (1929-2008) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

The novel begins with the dystopia of the Black experience in the American South and then turns to the formation of a large group of Black Commandos who, with a new weapon, defeat the U.S. government. The novel ends with the statement that there will be thirty years of Black dominance before real equality will be possible.

PB - The Cultural Institute Press CY - Atlanta, GA SN - 978-061583843 N1 -

Rpt. under the authors name as The Black Commandos: Warriors Forged in Blood. 2nd ed. Np: Julian Jackson and Commando Publishing Group, 2013, with an Introduction by Julian Jackson, the author’s son.

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Julian Moreau [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Bright New Universe Y1 - 1967 A1 - Jack [John Stewart] Williamson (1908-2006) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A combination of adventure novel regarding the successful search for extraterrestrial life, Sixties protest novel in the description of contemporary conditions, and suggestions of the utopia possible made possible by the educational technology discovered through contact.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York U5 -

PU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Brothers of Uterica Y1 - 1967 A1 - Benjamin Capps (b. 1922) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Founding and failure of an intentional community based on the La Réunion community founded in Texas by Victor Considerant (1808-93).

PB - Meredith Press CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. Dallas, TX: Southern Methodist University Press, 1988, with a "Preface" (vii-ix) by the author and an "Afterword" (311-14) by C.L. Sonnichsen.

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DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Bull on the Bench Y1 - 1967 A1 - Lowell B[lake] Mason (1893-1983) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire. After a nuclear war cattle gain the ability to speak and come to rule the world, with, for example, the U.S. becoming the United States of Moovalia, while the remaining humans lose all sense of their abilities. The world produced largely replicates the previous world except with cattle replacing humans. At the end, humans are regaining confidence and control.

PB - Arcturus Pub CY - Oak Park, IL U2 -

Illus. Aaron Sopher

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MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Chthon Y1 - 1967 A1 - [Piers Anthony Dillingham] [Jacob] (b. 1934) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia describing a prison world. A sequel is Phthor. New York: Berkeley Medallion, 1975, which continues into the next generation of the family that is central to Chthon.

PB - Ballantine CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Macdonald Science Fiction, 1972.

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Piers Anthony [pseud.]

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O, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - City of Illusions Y1 - 1967 A1 - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Aliens have taken over Earth. The novel is primarily concerned with the successful struggle against them. Cooperation.

PB - Ace CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Victor Gollancz, 1971.

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O

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Computer Takes All Y1 - 1967 A1 - [Leonard Owen] [John] (1918-95) KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

Computer dystopia.

PB - Cassell CY - London U3 -

John Bourne [pseud.]

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DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Confessions of a People Lover Y1 - 1967 A1 - Paul Ritchie (b. 1923) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Stress on health and youth leads to older people being attacked and ultimately killed. Wigs, false teeth, and all other attempts to disguise age are outlawed. Prostitution is a recognized, state-supported profession.

PB - Calder and Boyars CY - London U5 -

L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Counter-Clock World Y1 - 1967 A1 - Philip K[indred] Dick (1928-82) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The world runs backward with the dead being reborn and then getting younger until the sperm and ovary are reabsorbed into their parents' bodies. A number of subthemes are developed regarding a variety of subjects ranging from religion to black power.

PB - Berkley Medallion CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1979, with an "Introduction" by David G. Hartwell (v-x); and New York: Vintage Books, 2002. Expanded from his "Your Appointment Will Be Yesterday." Amazing Stories 40.7 (August 1966): 6-27.

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CSt, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Criminal Act" Y1 - 1967 A1 - Harry [Max] Harrison (1925-2012) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A future dystopia in which no couple is allowed to have more than two children.

JF - Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact VL - 78.5 N1 -

Rpt. in The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories. Ed. Tom Shippey (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1992), 350-62.

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Illus. Kelly Freas

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Crimson Capsule Y1 - 1967 A1 - Stanton A[rthur] Coblentz (1896-1982) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia ruled by mutants.

PB - Avalon Books CY - New York N1 -

Rev. as The Animal People. New York: Belmont Books, 1970.

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Rev. as The Animal People.

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InTv, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Day Before Forever" Y1 - 1967 A1 - [John] Keith Laumer (1925-93) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia focusing on transplants.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 33.1 N1 -

Rpt. in his The Day Before Forever and Thunderhead (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1968), 7-112; and in his Future Imperfect. Ed. Eric Flint (New York: Baen, 2003), 283-370.

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IU, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Death Is a Dream Y1 - 1967 A1 - E[dwin] C[harles] Tubb (1919-2010) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. A future world with the knowledge of previous reincarnations. Extreme laissez-faire capitalism. Selfishness.

PB - Rupert Hart-Davis CY - London U5 -

DLC, L, O

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Ersatz" Y1 - 1967 A1 - Henry Slesar (1927-2002) ED - Harlan [Jay] Ellison (1934-2018) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A brief future war dystopia in which most civilians have been killed and most things, such as food, are now made from fake materials.

JF - 396-413 with an “Introduction” (396-99) by Ellison and an “Afterword” (402-03) by the Slesar PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Eskimo Invasion Y1 - 1967 A1 - [John] Hayden Howard (1925-2014) KW - Male author AB -

Complex future novel a number of different  with dystopias.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Eutopia" Y1 - 1967 A1 - Poul [William] Anderson (1926-2001) ED - Harlan [Jay] Ellison (1934-2018) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia modeled on classical Athens complete with accepted homosexuality. But the utopia has become so planned and ordered as to become dull. The story only reveals this at the end and is concerned with a member of Eutopia visiting another country where he is liable to being killed for his homosexuality.

JF - Dangerous Visions: 33 Original Stories PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Rpt. in his Past Times (New York: Tor, 1996), 112-39, with the "Afterword" (139-41); in The Best Alternate History Stories of the 20th Century. Ed. Harry Turtledove with Martin H. Greenberg (New York: Ballantine Books, 2001), 251-68; and in The Collected Short Stories of Poul Anderson. Volume 4 Admiralty. Ed. Rick Katze (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2011), 334-47 with the "Afterword" entitled "Eutopia Afterword" (348-49).

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Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Farewell to the Bomb Y1 - 1967 A1 - A[ugustus] C[aesar] Webb (1894-1985) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia established on Earth by demons. The emphasis is on the successful attempt to overcome them. 

PB - Vantage Press CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Five Against Arlane Y1 - 1967 A1 - Tom [Thomas Edward] Purdom (1936-2024) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia under the control of one man, who has gained psychological control of almost the entire population. The novel emphasizes the successful revolt against it.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York U5 -

MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Flesh or Fantasy Y1 - 1967 A1 - Ken Hall KW - Male author AB -

Lost race pornography that set in Vietnam that includes a sexual free society presented in eutopian terms.

PB - Pad Library CY - Aquora, CA U5 -

CU-Riv

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Garbage World Y1 - 1967 A1 - Charles Platt (b. 1945) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Pleasure worlds as dystopias with one asteroid used as a garbage dump for the pleasure worlds.

PB - Berkley Books CY - New York U5 -

Merril, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Gogglers: A Political Satire Y1 - 1967 A1 - Edward Raiden KW - Male author AB -

Satire set in an imaginary country with comments on politics, race relations, and relations between the sexes.

PB - Saturn Books CY - Los Angeles, CA U5 -

MoR, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Golden Acres" Y1 - 1967 A1 - Kit [Lilian Craig] Reed (1932-2017) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian old age home. An elderly couple moves into an old age home and quickly find that all the rules and regulations mean that their lives are completely controlled.

JF - Mister da V. and other Stories PB - Faber and Faber CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Above the Human Landscape: A Social Science Fiction Anthology. Ed. Willis E. McNelly and Leon E. Stover (Pacific Palisades, CA: Goodyear Publishing Co., 1972), 51-66; and in Voyages: Scenarios for a Ship Called Earth. Ed. Rob Sauer (New York: Zero Population Growth/Ballantine Books, 1971), 170-90.

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Merril, NLS, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Happy Breed" Y1 - 1967 A1 - John T[homas] Sladek (1937-2000) ED - Harlan [Jay] Ellison (1934-2018) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a world without pain. The Therapeutic Environment Machines initially provide therapy, thus putting all therapists out of work, but gradually they come to control all aspects of life. They provided complete medical care, thus putting all doctors out of work. The only jobs were “Happiness Jobs--make-work invented by the Machines.” The Machines then regress everybody back to childhood. U.S. author who lived in the U.K. for about twenty years from 1966.

JF - Dangerous Visions: 33 Original Stories PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Hole in the Zero Y1 - 1967 A1 - M[ichael] K[ennedy] Joseph (1914-81) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Bizarre dystopia of probability gone haywire in which the author traces out a number of scenarios, mostly dystopian or fantastic, although there are also some brief utopian vignettes. "We've got utopia here . . . and in utopia, time stops, inevitably. The end of an evolutionary chain, perfect adaptation, perfect stability (83)."

PB - Gollancz CY - London N1 -

New Zealand ed. Auckland, New Zealand: Blackwood & Janet Paul, 1967. U.S. ed. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1968.

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ATL, MoU-St, NZ, VUW

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ice Y1 - 1967 A1 - [Helen Emily] [Woods] (1901-68) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia set in a new ice age. Surrealistic novel in which the unnamed narrator searches through the ice fields for a woman held captive by a man known as the Warden. The ice is also generally interpreted as a metaphor for the author’s addition to heroin. The English female author was born in France; her first six books were published as by Helen Ferguson, after which she used Anna Kavan for all her books and in her personal life and changed her name legally. She was also known as Helen Woods Edmond.

PB - Peter Owen CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Picador, 1970; London: Peter Owen, 1997; London: Peter Owen, 2006 with a foreword by Christopher Priest (unpaged); in My Madness: The Selected Writings of Anna Kavan. Ed. Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (London: Picador, 1990), 199-318; and as The Fiftieth Anniversary Edition. New York: Penguin Books, 2017, with a “Foreword” by Jonathan Lethem (vii-x) and an “Afterword” by Kate Zambreno (183-93). 

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Anna Kavan [pseud.]

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L, Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "If All Men Were Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister?" Y1 - 1967 A1 - Theodore Sturgeon (1918-1985) ED - Harlan [Jay] Ellison (1934-2018) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia based on incest, which is the one thing that people on other planets find unacceptable. See the note at 1949 Sturgeon.

JF - Dangerous Visions: 33 Original Stories PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Rpt. in his Case and the Dreamer (Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, 1974), 52-102; and in The Nail and the Oracle. Volume XI. The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon. Ed. Paul Williams (Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 2007), 137-80.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Implosion Y1 - 1967 A1 - D[ennis] F[eltham] Jones (1918?-81) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A fall in the birthrate produces dystopia.

PB - Rupert Hart-Davis CY - London U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Journal of David Q. Little Y1 - 1967 A1 - R. Daniel McMichael (d. 2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a Communist takeover of the United States.

PB - Arlington House CY - New Rochelle, NY U5 -

CoU, DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Logan's Run Y1 - 1967 A1 - William F[rancis] Nolan (1928-2021) A1 - George Clayton Johnson (1929-2015) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which everyone is killed at 21 but those who manage to win a race get to live. See also 1977 and 1980 Nolan, which focus on, Logan, the protagonist.

PB - Dial CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Logan: A Trilogy (Baltimore, MD: Maclay & Associates, 1986), 21-137. Rpt. with the same pagination New York: Dell, 1992. 

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DLC, Merril, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lord of Light Y1 - 1967 A1 - Roger [Joseph] Zelazny (1937-95) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia based on control of technology by a group ruling as the Hindu pantheon.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

UK ed. London: Faber & Faber, 1968. Rpt. London: Victor Gollancz, 2006 with an "Introduction" by George R[aymond] R[ichard] Martin (vii-xii). Chapter 2 was previously published as "Dawn" and Chapter 3 as "Death and the Executioner." The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 32.4, 6 (April, June 1967): 4-36; 4-36. 

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MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lords of the Starship Y1 - 1967 A1 - Mark S[ymington] Geston (b. 1946) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of militarism in a post-catastrophe world.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -

UK ed. London: Sphere, 1971. Rpt. in his The Books of the Wars (New York: Baen, 2009), 15-205.

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MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Man Who Cried I Am Y1 - 1967 A1 - John A[lfred] Williams (1925-2015) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

Commentary on the racial situation in the U.S. in the form of a fictionalized biography of the writer Richard Wright (1908-60) plus the fictional Central Intelligence Agency plan called the King Alfred Plan for future control of African Americans by cordoning them off from the rest of the country. Many African Americans came to believe in the reality of the plan, which mirrored some actual proposals.

PB - Little, Brown and Co. CY - Boston, MA U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Megan Terry's Home: or, Future Soap Y1 - 1967 A1 - Megan Terry (b. 1932) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia.

PB - Samuel French CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Men in the Jungle Y1 - 1967 A1 - Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of militarism.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY ER - TY - ABST T1 - Night Walk Y1 - 1967 A1 - Bob [Robert] Shaw (1931-96) KW - Male author KW - Northern Ireland author AB -

Novel set on the Planet Emm Luther, a strict Lutheran dystopia. Mostly adventure and intrigue. 

PB - Banner CY - New York N1 -

UK ed. London: Victor Gollancz. Rpt. London: Corgi, 1977; and London: VGSF, 1987.

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MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Nightmare" Y1 - 1967 A1 - George Lincoln Rockwell (1918-67) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. A takeover of the U.S. by Communists, Jews, and Blacks set in 1971. Pages 339-57 is his commentary on his fiction.

JF - White Power PB - Ragnarock Press CY - Dallas, TX N1 -

2nd ed. (Dallas, TX: Ragnarock Press, 1967), 327-39.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - One Magpie for Sorrow Y1 - 1967 A1 - Norman [Bruce] Harvey (b. 1931) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Chinese invasion dystopia. Most of the novel is concerned with the guerrilla war against the occupation.

PB - Whitcombe & Tombs CY - [Christchurch, New Zealand] N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Robert Hale, 1967.

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ATL, DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - One Million Centuries Y1 - 1967 A1 - Richard A[llen] Lupoff (1935-2020) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Three future societies, one of which is a primitive eutopia of sorts, one of which is a threatened innocent society, and one of which is developing science.

PB - Lancer Books CY - New York U5 -

Merril, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Paradise Island Y1 - 1967 A1 - Lester C. Evans AB -

Eutopia. An airplane crashes on an unknown island in the Pacific, which the survivors conclude is the lost Paradise. Elements of a religious eutopia and elements of a South Seas island eutopia with food available with minimal labor and sexual freedom.

PB - Amherst Press CY - Amherst, WI U2 -

Illus.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Phoenix. A Novel Y1 - 1967 A1 - [John Middleton] [Murry] [Jr.] (1926-2002) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia followed by its collapse and the descent into a primitive society.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Dennis Dobson, 1968. Rpt. New York: Ballantine Books, 1970. 

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Richard Cowper [pseud.]

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MoU-St, O

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Polity and Custom of the Camiroi" Y1 - 1967 A1 - R[aphael] A[loysius] Lafferty (1914-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia that is essentially anarchist based on exceptional people with many skills. Anyone can make a law, and anyone can repeal it, but some laws become sacrosanct due to their survival. President chosen by lot for one week. Everyone must participate in running the society. Severe punishment for causing problems. See also 1966 Lafferty.

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction VL - 25.5 N1 -

Rpt. in Dark Stars. Ed. Robert Silverberg (New York: Ballantine Books, 1969), 37-50; in Election Day 2084; A Science Fiction Anthology on the Politics of the Future. Ed. Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg (Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1984), 233-43; and in his The Man with the Speckled Eyes. The Collected Short Fiction Volume Four (Lakewood, CA: Centipede Press, 2017), 51-66.

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Quicksand Y1 - 1967 A1 - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Flawed utopia. Dictatorship of immortals. Sex as a drug. Neutered women act as sexual experts.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY ER - TY - ABST T1 - Report from Iron Mountain on the Possibility and Desirability of Peace Y1 - 1967 A1 - [Leonard Case] [Lewin] (1916-99) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on the problems that will arise if permanent peace should occur and some possible solutions.

PB - Dell Publishing Co. CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. under the author's name. New York: Free Press, 1996 with an "Introduction" by Victor Navasky (v-xvi), an "Afterword by the Author (119-21), and "Appendixes. The Iron Mountain Affair" (123-52) of reviews and comments on the first edition and the issue of authorship.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Riders of the Purple Wage or the Great Gavage" Y1 - 1967 A1 - Philip José Farmer (1918-2009) ED - Harlan [Jay] Ellison (1934-2018) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Background includes a future authoritarian and corrupt dystopia. Most people are apparently well off but without much focus or depth.

JF - Dangerous Visions: 33 Original Stories PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Rpt. in his The Purple Book (New York: Tom Doherty & Associates 1982), 29-143; in The Classic Philip José Farmer 1964-1973 (New York: Crown, 1984), 30-103; and in The Philip José Farmer Centennial Collection. Ed. Michael Croteau (Np: Meteor House, 2018), 363-437.  

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Riot '71 Y1 - 1967 A1 - [Peter] [Brent] (1931-84) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

An economic depression leads to blaming colored immigrants and a fascist, racist dystopia called the Nordic Union. 

PB - Hodder & Stoughton CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Walker and Co., 1967. 

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Ludovic Peters [pseud.]

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DLC, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - 'Sippi Y1 - 1967 A1 - John Oliver Killens (1916-87) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of contemporary race relations in the U.S. and the state of Mississippi in particular. The novel ends with the murder of one of the Black protagonists leading to a world-wide uprising of Black peoples.

PB - Trident Press CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. with the subtitle A Novel. New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1988.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Star-Pit” Y1 - 1967 A1 - Samuel R[ay] Delany (b. 1942) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

A very complex dystopia. Set in a future where, as the human race expanded into space, it came up against a psychological barrier that caused insanity in those who went further, except for a few who found to have psychological abnormalities that allow them to pass through. The story focuses of a man who feels excluded because he cannot pass through the barrier and deeply resents that fact. The story makes an explicit connection between white supremacy and those who can pass through the barrier, but at the end, such people are being created by manipulating them so as to develop the needed abnormality for the benefit of those in power. For a radio play first broadcast on WBAI (New York) in November 1967 and re-broadcast regularly for years, see Delany’s “Notes on The Star Pit.https://www.pseudopodium.org/repress/TheStarPit/SamuelRDelany-NotesOnTheStarPit.html

JF - Worlds of Tomorrow VL - 4.3 (22) N1 -

Rpt. in his Driftglass. Ten Tales of Speculative Fiction (New York: New American Library, 1971), 13-71. Book rpt. without the subtitle. New York: Gregg Press, 1977. Book Club edition (Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, 1971), 1-61; in his Driftglass/Starshards (London: Grafton, 1993), 17-93; and in his Aye and Gomorrah. Stories (New York: Vintage Books, 2003), 91-101.

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PSt, PU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Station HR972” Y1 - 1967 A1 - H[enry] K[enneth] Bulmer (1921-2005) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The dystopia brought about the car, with a 32-lane highway with minimum speeds of 125 to 150 miles an hour.

JF - Worlds of Tomorrow VL - 4.3 (22) N1 -

Rpt. in Nightmare Age. Ed. Frederik [George] Pohl, [Jr.] (New York: Ballantine Books, 1970), 91-103; and in Car Sinister. Ed. Robert Silverberg, Martin Harry Greenberg, and Joseph Olander (New York: Avon Books, 1979), 62-75. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Stranger from the Depths Y1 - 1967 A1 - Gerry Turner (1921-82) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A young adult novel about the discovery of an undersea technological eutopia with gender equality that predates humanity and disappeared because of a plague. This is contrasted with a dystopian community from the same time that survived. The dystopia has gender inequality, drugged citizens, and violence.

PB - Doubleday & Co CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

An abridged paperback version as published by New York: Scholastic, 1970.

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CU-Riv, Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Sun Push” Y1 - 1967 A1 - Graham M. Hall ED - Judith (Josephine Juliet Grossman) Merril (1923-1997) KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Dystopia. Story of a war in Britain in which British troops supported by the U.S. are fighting British troops supported by Russia.

JF - New Worlds SF VL - 50.170 N1 -

Rpt. in England Swings SF: Stories of Speculative Fiction. Ed. Judith Merril (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1968), 282-98, with additional material on 299-301. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Superstoe Y1 - 1967 A1 - William [Vickers] Borden (b. 1938) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Humor in which a group of brilliant men take over the U.S. and the control of the world. They bring world peace, plenty, raised intelligence, and boredom.

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Harper & Row, 1968.

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DLC, MoSW

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “There is a Crooked Man” Y1 - 1967 A1 - [Herbert] Jack Wodhams (1931-2017) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on crime in the future with criminals confounding the legal system with new crimes. 

JF - Analog Science Fiction Science Fact VL - 78.6 N1 -

Rpt. in The Best Australian Science Fiction Writing: A Fifty Year Collection. Ed. Rob Gerrand (Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Black Inc., 2004), 115-65. 

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Illus. Kelly Freas

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PPT, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Third Policeman Y1 - 1967 A1 - [Brian] [Ó Nualláin] (1911-66) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Has been called a dystopia. The author calls it a description of hell.

PB - MacGibbon & Kee CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Hart-Davis, MacGibbon, 1973; London: Flamingo, 1993; and London: HarperCollins/Flamingo, 2001. U.S. ed. New York: Walker, 1967. 

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Flann O'Brien [pseud.]

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I, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - This Business of Bomfog: A Cartoon Y1 - 1967 A1 - Madelaine [Elizabeth] Duke (1925-96) KW - Dutch author KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

Satire. Bomfog means Brotherhood-of-Man-Fatherhood-of-God, a coalition to end war and get rid of politicians. Directed particularly against armament manufacturers. Sequel to 1964 Duke.

PB - Heinemann CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1968.

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DLC, L, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Throwaway Age" Y1 - 1967 A1 - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

In a future where there is a détente between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., which are described as having different forms of state capitalism, a small group of U.S. people want to move in the direction of a better socio-economic system. The protagonist is the same as in the works in his series about the Soviet Union; see also 1973 Reynolds, “The Cold War . . . Continued” and 1975 Reynolds, Tomorrow Might Be Different.

JF - Worlds of Tomorrow VL - 4.4 (23) U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Time-Hoppers Y1 - 1967 A1 - Robert Silverberg (b. 1935) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY U5 -

MoU-St, NjP

ER - TY - ABST T1 - To Open the Sky Y1 - 1967 A1 - Robert Silverberg (b. 1935) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia. Mass hysteria, cults, and fads in the third millennium.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1984. Originally published in Galaxy Magazine as "Blue Fire." 23.5 (June 1965): 105-30; "The Warriors of Light." 24.2 (December 1965): 99-134; "Where the Changed Ones Go." [Journal title changed back to] Galaxy Science Fiction 24.3 (February 1966): 83-121; "Lazarus Comes Forth." 24.4 (April 1966): 82-113; and "Open the Sky." 24.5 (June 1966): 165-94.

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MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Tomorrow's Harvest Or Death Takes A Holiday Y1 - 1967 A1 - Albert Root KW - Male author AB -

Detailed religious eutopia on Saturn of immortal human beings who are clearly a separate creation with their own revelation. Technically advanced. No money. No government.

PB - Vantage Press CY - New York U5 -

ICarbS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Torrent of Faces Y1 - 1967 A1 - James [Benjamin] Blish (1921-75) A1 - Norman L[ouis] Knight (1895-1972) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Earth has a very large and growing population following what they call the “Age of Waste”. This does not produce the usual dystopia because the Earth can support its population if well organized. The political system is a corporate state (the authors call it Fascism), and at the beginning of the novel it is working well, but the plot is driven by a forthcoming disaster, a meteor strike, and the system struggles to deal with it. Still, at the end the system survives. Said to be “a sequel of sorts” to Knight’s “Frontier of the Unknown.” Illus. [William Elliott] Dold (1889-1957). Astounding Stories 19.5 - 6 (July - August 1937): 8-33; 122-54; and his “Crisis in Utopia.” Astounding Science-Fiction 25.5 - 6 (July - August 1940), 9-38; 126-54.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Novelization of “The Shipwrecked Hotel.” Galaxy Magazine 23.6 (August 1965): 151-85; “The Piper of Dis.” Galaxy Science Fiction 24.6 (August 1966): 56-87; and “To Love Another.” Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact 79.2 (April 1967): 8-56. 

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DLC, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Trap" Y1 - 1967 A1 - Howard [Melvin] Fast (1914-2003) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. A project to find and develop the next stage of humans creates an enclave where the project leaders create a community based on love, freedom, and freedom from guilt. Mostly nude, open sexuality, and mentally far beyond current humans. Develop telepathy. At the end the U.S. government decides they must all but killed, but it is not clear that that will be possible.

JF - The Hunter and the Trap PB - Dial CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Utonia: Social-Economic Survey of a Fictitious Country Y1 - 1967 A1 - J[ozef] G[ijsbertus] M[aria] Hilhorst ed. [written by] KW - Dutch author KW - Male author AB -

Description of a fictional country, complete with maps. Designed for teaching development planning.

PB - Mouton CY - The Hague, The Netherlands U1 -

Added title page Socio-Economic Survey of Utonia. Utontown: National Printing Office, 1962.

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AU, DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Vigilante--21st Century Y1 - 1967 A1 - Robert Moore Williams (1907-77) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future dystopia in which criminals use science to control, but the good guys fight back.

PB - Lancer CY - New York U5 -

SFF, Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The White Mountains Y1 - 1967 A1 - [Sam] [Youd] (1922-2012) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

First volume of a young adult trilogy, followed by The City of Gold and Lead. New York: Macmillan and The Pool of Fire. New York: Macmillan, 1968. The trilogy is concerned with the dystopia created by alien invaders and the successful fight against them, and the dystopia of mental and physical control occurs throughout the trilogy.

PB - Macmillan CY - New York U3 -

John Christopher [pseud.]

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Whosaw Whatsa” Y1 - 1967 A1 - [Herbert] Jack Wodhams (1931-2017) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on sex changes. 

JF - Analog Science Fiction Science Fact VL - 80.4 U2 -

Illus. Kelly Freas

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Jack Wodhams [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Why Call Them Back from Heaven? Y1 - 1967 A1 - Clifford D[onald] Simak (1904-88) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The dystopia produced by potential immortality, which is achieved by freezing and then thawing. The society is extremely safety oriented and Puritanical. People are desperate to be able to accumulate enough wealth to be well-off in the future. The world is effectively run by the Forever Center that oversees the system, but a plot is discovered to identify the wealthiest of those frozen, not thaw them, and steal their money..

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Rpt. New York: Ace Books, 1967.

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Wind Obeys Lama Toru Y1 - 1967 A1 - Tung Lee AB -

Overpopulation dystopia.

PB - Kutub-Popular CY - Bombay, India U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A World Beyond Y1 - 1967 A1 - George E[rnest] Shirley (1898-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Simple life eutopia taken over by Communists from the U.S.S.R., which produces a dystopia. In the eutopia there is no money, and the economy is based on barter. Rape results in jail for life.

PB - Vantage Press CY - New York U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Adventures in Selfhood Architecture Y1 - 1966 A1 - Leopold Solomon Moscowitz B.Arch. KW - Male author AB -

Detailed architectural eutopia with descriptions of buildings and their uses.

PB - Selfhood Architecture Press CY - Imperial Beach, CA U5 -

MoSW, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Amazon Planet" Y1 - 1966 A1 - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel is set in Reynolds's United Planets Federation with the planet Amazonia presenting itself as ruled by a caste of women warriors with men in inferior positions. This was, in fact, the premise on which Amazonia was established, and it has been maintained as a cover for the fact that it has no army, not even a police force. While enclaves of the original vision remain, gender equality and monogamy are the norm.

JF - Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact VL - 78.4 - 6 N1 -

Repub. New York: Ace Books, 1975.

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CU-Riv

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "And Madly Teach" Y1 - 1966 A1 - Lloyd Biggle Jr. (1923-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Extrapolation of the dystopian effect of technology on teaching and the response of one excellent teacher who manages to overcome the negative impact of the technology.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 30.5 N1 -

Rpt. in The Best From Fantasy and Science Fiction. Sixteenth Series. Ed. Edward L. Ferman (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1967), 25-58.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Blue World Y1 - 1966 A1 - Jack [John Holbrook] Vance (1916-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Floating islands of vegetation support a highly developed society with a caste system based on occupation, which over time has become completely rigid changing a eutopia into a dystopia. The ocean contains dangerous predators. A rebel saves the society from itself and the predators.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. San Francisco, CA/Columbia, PA: Underwood/Miller, 1979; and as vol. 16 of The Complete Works of Jack Vance. Oakland, CA: The Vance Integral Edition, 2005. First appeared in a shorter form as "The Kragen." Fantastic Stories of Imagination 13.7 (July 1964): 7-69. Rpt. in The Great SF Stories: 1964. Ed. Robert Silverberg and Martin H[arry] Greenberg (Framingham, MA: NESFA Press, 2001), 47-102; in Wild Thyme and Violets. Other Unpublished Works and Addenda. Vol. 44 of The Complete Works of Jack Vance (Oakland, CA: Vance Integral Editions, 2002), 115-202; and as The Kragen. Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2007.

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HRC, Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Colossus Y1 - 1966 A1 - D[ennis] F[eltham] Jones (1918?-81) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Computer dystopia set in the United States of North America in which large computer called Colossus is given complete control over the USNA's nuclear weapons and the U.S.S.R. does the same with their great computer called Guardian and their nuclear weapons. The two computers are linked with predictable results. See also 1974 and 1977 Jones. 

PB - Rupert Hart-Davis CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1967.

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L, Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Crack In Space Y1 - 1966 A1 - Philip K[indred] Dick (1928-82) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -

UK ed. London: Eyre Methuen, 1977. Rpt. in A Philip K. Dick Omnibus (London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1970), separately paged. The first half was originally published as "Cantata 140." The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 27.1 (158) (July 1964): 5-61; and rpt. as Cantata-140. London: Gollancz, 2003.

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Danger: Religion!" Y1 - 1966 A1 - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Parallel history presenting a religious dystopia.

JF - The Saliva Tree and Other Strange Growths PB - Faber & Faber CY - London N1 -

Rpt. (London: Sphere, 1968), 89-131; and in Mervyn Peake, J[ames] G[raham] Ballard and Brian W[ilson] Aldiss. Inner Landscape (London: Allison & Busby, 1969), 101-51. Earlier version as “Matrix.” Science Fantasy 19.55 ([October] 1962): 2-39. 

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MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Day of Absence: A Satirical Fantasy” Y1 - 1966 A1 - Douglas Turner Ward (b. 1939) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

The play takes place in one typical dystopian small Southern town in which all the Negroes disappear for one day and shows how completely the whites are dependent on them. The play was first performed November 15, 1965, at the St. Mark’s Playhouse, New York.

JF - Happy Ending and Day of Absence. Two Plays PB - Dramatists Play Service CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Devil and Democracy” Y1 - 1966 A1 - Brian [Brendon Talbot] Cleeve (1921-2003) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on the unionization of Hell. 

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 31.5 (186) U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Enlightened Ones Beyond the Icebergs Y1 - 1966 A1 - Reuben Sam Shodall (b. 1889) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Those who left when Atlantis, which is depicted as an earthly paradise where nature provided, became corrupt and relocated in the Far North. The novel includes histories of Atlantis, the first settlement in the north, and a description of the eutopian society established there, including a brief period of internal disagreement. Men appear to hold all the political positions, but women are engineers and appear to be equally educated.

PB - Exposition Press CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Fall of the Towers Y1 - 1966 A1 - Samuel R[ay] Delany (b. 1942) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia contrasted with a free, communal eutopia.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -

Contains revised versions of Captives of the Flame. New York: Ace Books, 1963; rev. as Out of the Dead City which was Delany’s original title. New York: Ace Books, 1966. U.K. ed. London: Sphere Books, 1968; Towers of Toron. New York: Ace Books, 1964. Rev. ed. London: Sphere Books, 1968; and City of a Thousand Suns. New York: Ace Books, 1965. Rev. ed. London: Sphere Books, 1969.

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Farewell, Earth's Bliss Y1 - 1966 A1 - D[avid] G[uy] Compton (1930-2023) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia with Mars as a penal colony.

PB - Hodder & Stoughton CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Tandem, 1971.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Flame Y1 - 1966 A1 - Jim Hunter (b. 1939) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Right wing dystopia brought about by a charismatic religious leader and his Christian New Vigour Movement.

PB - Faber and Faber CY - London U5 -

DLC, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Founder's Day" Y1 - 1966 A1 - [John] Keith Laumer (1925-93) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story begins in an overpopulation dystopia and ends with the founding of a new colony.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction VL - 31.1 (182) N1 -

Rpt. in his Future Imperfect. Ed. Eric Flint (New York: Baen, 2003), 188-212.

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Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - From Carthage Then I Came Y1 - 1966 A1 - Douglas R[ankine] Mason (1918-2013) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia brought about by a new ice age with everyone living in domes. At the end a new colony is about to be founded as technology provides a way to defeat the ice in defined areas.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

UK ed. London: Robert Hale, 1968. Also entitled Eight Against Utopia. New York: Paperbook Library, 1967.

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Also entitled Eight Against Utopia

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DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Giles Goat-Boy or, The Revised New Syllabus Y1 - 1966 A1 - John [Simmons] Barth (b. 1930) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Complex comic novel that includes a dystopia set in a university and ruled by a computer. Giles is a boy raised as an animal who becomes a spiritual leader at New Tammany College (the U.S.).

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Harrad Experiment Y1 - 1966 A1 - Robert [Henry] Rimmer (1917-2001) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The good life through sex, but while the emphasis is on the sex, there is a section (225-37) giving the details of a plan for reforming society and the means and stages of doing so, primarily by revamping education with some material on economics and the laws regarding marriage and divorce. Harrad is a college in which men and women are assigned as roommates with the expectation of sexual relations. The men are taught the system of birth control used in the Oneida Community under the leadership of John Humphrey Noyes (1811-86). See also 1968, 1975, 1978, 1980, 1982, and 2000 Rimmer.

PB - Sherburne Press CY - Los Angeles, CA N1 -

Rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1967. 25th anniversary ed. with Exciting New Material. New York: Prometheus Books, 1990. The additions include "The Harrad/Premar Solution" (252-75), an expanded "Annotated Bibliography" (277-90), and "Loving, Learning, Laughter & Ludamus: The Autobiography of Robert H. Rimmer" (291-324). 

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DLC, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - .... in the stars--The Great Society! Y1 - 1966 A1 - I. M. Pernow [pseud.] KW - Canadian author KW - German author KW - Male author AB -

Detailed eutopia described by a man from space who shows how it should be applied on Earth, led by the U.S. The book is dedicated to President Lyndon B[aines] Johnson (1908-73. President 1963-69), and the eutopia, although it goes much further, is loosely based on Johnson's program for the Great Society. No war, poverty, crime, or disease. Stress on education. Overpopulation defeated by rigorous birth control and eugenic policies. Deformed children and mentally retarded children not allowed to live. Limit on the number of children.

PB - Vantage Press CY - New York U3 -

I. M. Pernow [pseud.].

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Inner Circle Y1 - 1966 A1 - Jerzy Peterkiewicz (1916-2007) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Polish author AB -

A weird ritualized, overpopulation dystopia set in the far future.

PB - Macmillan CY - London U2 -

Illus. F.N. Souza

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L, O

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Invaded by Love" Y1 - 1966 A1 - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An alien creates a religion of universal love based on pills that make everyone love each other which brings civilization to a collapse.

JF - New Worlds Science Fiction VL - 50.166 N1 -

Rpt. in his One hundred and two H-Bombs and other science fiction stories (London: Roberts & Vinter, 1966), 152-75. U.S. ed. as One Hundred and Two H-Bombs (New York: Berkley, 1971), 119-43. Book repub. with different contents as White Fang Goes Dingo and other funny s.f. stories (London: Arrow Books, 1971), 82-102. Story rpt. in The Early Science Fiction Stories of Thomas M. Disch (Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1977), 173-96.

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L, Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Refuge Y1 - 1966 A1 - John Petty (1919-73) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia. The countryside has been paved over, and private homes have been replaced with huge apartment blocks.

PB - Ronald Whiting & Wheaton CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Mad Metropolis Y1 - 1966 A1 - Philip E[mpson] High (1914-2006) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Computer eutopia that is actually a dystopia.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -

UK ed. as Double Illusion. London: Dennis Dobson, 1970.

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L, O

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Make Room! Make Room!" Y1 - 1966 A1 - Harry [Max] Harrison (1925-2012) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia.

JF - Impulse VL - 1.6 - 8 N1 -

Repub. Garden City, NY: Doubleday. Rpt. with a brief "Afterword" (232-33). London: Penguin Books, 2008. 

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IU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Monitors Y1 - 1966 A1 - [John] Keith Laumer (1925-93) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An authoritarian dystopia is imposed on Earth by superior extraterrestrials. While they provide peace, they make mistakes that lead to a planet-wide revolt. But rather than forcing the aliens out, they are hired to do for Earth some of what they had imposed.

PB - Berkley Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Tor, 1984. UK ed. London: Dennis Dobson, 1968.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Moon is a Harsh Mistress Y1 - 1966 A1 - Robert A[nson] Heinlein (1907-88) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Libertarian eutopia emerges on the Moon after a struggle with an authoritarian government. Free market. New social forms, such as a wide range of forms of marriage, have developed. Slogan is TANSTAAFL--There Is No Such Thing As A Free Lunch.

PB - G.P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Tor, 1996. Rpt. as vol. 33 of The Virginia Edition of his works. Houston, TX: The Virginia Edition, 2010. A shorter version was originally published in If 15.12 - 16.4 (December 1965 - April 1966): 8-57; 42-98, 103-47, 93-159, 111-60.

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Merril, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "No Other Gods But Me" Y1 - 1966 A1 - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Religious dystopia in which adepts keep people at the level of earl agriculture with no technology.

JF - No Other Gods But Me PB - Compact Books CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in his Entry to Elsewhen (New York: DAW Books, 1972), 91-172; rpt. with a different cover in October 1972. Substantially revised from a shorter, different version published as “A Time to Rend.” Science Fantasy 7.20 (December 1956): 2-49.

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Substantially revised from a shorter, different version published as “A Time to Rend.” Science Fantasy 7.20 (December 1956): 2-49.

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L, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Of Godlike Power Y1 - 1966 A1 - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A prophet, preaching a perfect society, disrupts the current one.

PB - Belmont Books CY - New York N1 -

Also entitled Earth Unaware. New York: Belmont, 1966.

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Also entitled Earth Unaware

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CSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Origin of the Brunists Y1 - 1966 A1 - Robert [Lowell] Coover (b. 1932) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Origin, development, and collapse of a religious sect. Brunist comes from Giordano Bruno (1548-1600), a Dominican friar who was burned at the stake for heresy. See also 2014 Coover.

PB - G.P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Ballantine Books, 1967; and New York: A Richard Seaver Book/The Viking Press, 1978.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The People: No Different Flesh Y1 - 1966 A1 - Zenna [Charlson] Henderson (1917-83) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

More stories of “The People” similar to those in 1961 Henderson. 

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London N1 -

Stories originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction as follows: “The Return” (148-84) 20.3 (118) (March 1961): 5-37;  rpt. in Venture Science Fiction (British Edition), no. 1 (September 1963): 100-28; “Shadow on the Moon” (185-223) 22.3 (130) (March 1962): 94-129; “Deluge” (47-80) 25.4 (149) (October 1963): 24-54; “No Different Flesh” (9-46) 28.5 (168) (May 1965): 97-128; “Angels Unaware” (81-114) 30.3 (178) (March 1966): 5-35; and “Troubling of the Waters” (115-47) 31.3 (184) (September 1966): 100-28. U.S. ed. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1967. Rpt. New York: Avon, 1968. Collected with other related materials in The People Collection. London: Corgi, 1991; and in Ingathering: The Complete People Stories of Zenna Henderson. Ed. Mark and Priscilla Olson (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 1995), 217-422. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Post-mortem People" Y1 - 1966 A1 - Peter Tate (b. 1940) KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

Transplant dystopia in which the ability to transplant organs leads to the development of an elaborate system to profit from the death of others by claiming their bodies.

JF - New Worlds Science Fiction VL - 49.160 N1 -

Rpt. in Themes in Science Fiction; A Journey into Wonder. Ed. Leo P[atrick] Kelley (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1972), 383-97.

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Merril, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Primary Education of the Camiroi" Y1 - 1966 A1 - R[aphael] A[loysius] Lafferty (1914-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia in which everyone is expected to be an expert in everything from a very young age. The details of the educational system are given. See also 1967 Lafferty.

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction VL - 29.2 SN - 9781473213449 978-1250778536 N1 -

Rpt. in SF 12. Ed. Judith Merril (New York: Dell, 1968), 161-74; in his The Man with the Speckled Eyes. The Collected Short Fiction Volume Four (Lakewood, CA: Centipede Press, 2017), 35-50; and in The Best of R. A. Lafferty. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (London: Gollancz, 2019), 213-29, with an Introduction by Samuel R[ay] Delany (210-12). Rpt. New York: Tor, 2021.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Rat Race" Y1 - 1966 A1 - Raymond F[isher] Jones (1915-94) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia. Computer perfect society where any productive activity is illegal, which leaves no one with anything to do and many people are extremely bored. One man starts a fad for model trains and finds a way around the rules.

JF - Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact VL - 77.2 N1 -

Rpt. in Above the Human Landscape. Ed. Willis E. McNelly and Leon E. Stover (Pacific Palisades, CA: Goodyear Pub. Co., 1972), 247-60.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Return of Arthur Y1 - 1966 A1 - Martyn Skinner (1906-93) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Epic poem most of which is concerned with the dystopia of the modern age, particularly that of Communism. The work ends though with the reestablishment of the best of the past and a eutopia.

PB - Chapman and Hall CY - London N1 -

Parts originally published as Merlin or the Return of Arthur. A Satiric Epic. Part One. London: Frederick Muller, 1951; The Return of Arthur. A Poem of the Future. London: Chapman & Hall, 1955; and The Return of Arthur. A Poem of the Future. Part Two. London: Chapman & Hall, 1959. The utopia is only found in the 1966 version.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Richest Corpse in Show Business Y1 - 1966 A1 - Dan Morgan (1925-2011) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Future dystopia of organized human hunts. Some humor.

PB - Compact Books CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Saga of Lost Earths Y1 - 1966 A1 - Emil [Theodore] Petaja (1915-2000) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia as setting at the beginning. The bulk of the book is a heroic saga based on the Finnish Kalevala.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Tenth Home Y1 - 1966 A1 - F[rancis] O[swald] Bennett (1898-1976) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author AB -

Fictional home for the elderly which is both an analysis of such homes and a description of an ideal one. Presented as combining fiction and the stories of actual people in such homes. The ideal home is one that is not simply warehousing its people but responding to their individual needs and interests, and in an opening eutopian vignette involving children, animals, and the neighborhood with the home (3-8). The New Zealand author was a doctor who served as medical officer at several such homes.

PB - Blackwood & Janet Paul CY - Auckland, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Tenth Victim Y1 - 1966 A1 - Robert Sheckley (1928-2005) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of legal hunts of humans by other humans. See also 1958 and 1960 Sheckley. His Hunter/Victim. New York: New American Library, 1987 is a prequel, and his Victim Prime. New York: New American Library, 1987 is a sequel. The film Le Decima Vittima (1965) directed by Elio Petri (1929-82) with a screenplay by Tonino Guerra (1920-2012) Giorgio Salvioni (d. 1994), Ennio Flaiano (1910-72), and Petri is based on “The Seventh Victim” and this is the novelization of the film.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Mayflower, 1966. Rpt. London: Methuen, 1987. Originated as “The Seventh Victim” Galaxy Science Fiction 6.1 (April 1953): 38-51. Story rpt. in Above the Human Landscape: A Social Science Fiction Anthology. Ed. Willis E. McNelly and Leon E. Stover (Pacific Palisades, CA: Goodyear Publishing Co., 1972), 300-11; in The Collected Short Stories of Robert Sheckley. Book One (Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991), 109-22; in his The Masque of Mañana. Ed. Sharon L. Sbarsky (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2005), 61-72; and in Store of the Worlds: The Stories of Robert Sheckley. Ed. Alex Abramovich and Jonathan Lethem (New York: New York Review Books, 2012), 14-29 with an “Introduction” to the collection by the editors (vii-xi).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Tomorrow is Another World" Y1 - 1966 A1 - H[elen] M[ary] Tolcher (1928-2014) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia in which an overpopulated earth is also over-regulated.

JF - Man (Sydney, NSW, Australia) VL - 60.4 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Tomorrow Is Now--a possible voyage into man's future Y1 - 1966 A1 - Julius [K.] Vogel KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Play set in the country of Tomorrow, which is visited by a man who the inhabitants of Tomorrow think of as a barbarian. The inhabitants of Tomorrow see it as a eutopia while the visitor sees it as flawed. Children born artificially, no marriage or family life. Focus on individual achievement. This is, in effect, an introduction to 1992 Vogel, which has more details.

PB - [Author] CY - [Hollywood, CA] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Turning Into Tomorrow Y1 - 1966 A1 - Watson Thomson (d. 1969) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Essay with a focus on communal or "group" utopias.

PB - Philosophical Library CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Utopia Minus X Y1 - 1966 A1 - [Stanley Bennett] [Hough] (1917-1998) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Flawed utopia which is believed to be the Perfect World in which no change is needed faced with a space explorer returning from space after two hundred years.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -

UK ed. as The Paw of God. London: Anthony Gibbs Library 33 Ltd., 1967. Rpt. London: Tandem, 1967.

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Rex Gordon [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Watch Below Y1 - 1966 A1 - James White (1928-1999) KW - Male author KW - Northern Ireland author AB -

Two societies developing in isolation over generations are presented, one in a tanker at the bottom of the sea and the other in an alien starship approaching Earth. The potential war between Earth and the aliens is avoided through contact between those in the tanker and the other two. Both the undersea society and the alien society have eutopian elements, with the alien society the more complex one.

PB - Whiting & Wheaton CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Ballantine Books, 1966. Rpt. New York: Walker, 1969. Canadian ed. Toronto, ON, Canada: Ryerson Press, 1969.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale" Y1 - 1966 A1 - Philip K[indred] Dick (1928-82) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which false memories can be implanted.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 30.4 (179) N1 -

Rpt. The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 57.4 (341) (October 1979): 248-65; in Earth In Transit: Science Fiction and Contemporary Problems. Ed. Sheila Schwartz (New York: Dell, 1976), 191-212; in The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick. Volume 5 The Little Black Box (Los Angeles, CA/Columbia, PA: Underwood/Miller, 1987), 157-74; The paperback edition has it in The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick. Volume 2 We Can Remember It For You Wholesale (New York: Citadel Twilight, 1992), 35-52; in The Ultimate Cyberpunk. Ed. Pat Cadigan (New York: ibooks, 2002), 46-73; and in The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction. Ed. Arthur B. Evans, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., Joan Gordon, Veronica Hollinger, Rob Latham, and Carol McGuirk (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2010), 385-404 with an editors’ note on 385-86.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Wonderful World of Tomorrow: What It Will Be Like Y1 - 1966 A1 - Herbert W. Armstrong (1892-1986) A1 - Garner Ted Armstrong (1940-2003) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Tract deploring present conditions and foretelling the Second Coming of Christ and the conditions when God rules directly and church and state are unified. Supernatural force will eliminate crime and rebellion, and then people will be reeducated into God's truth. See also, 1979 Armstrong.

PB - Ambassador College Press CY - Pasadena, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "102 H-Bombs" Y1 - 1965 A1 - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of militarism in which in what is officially a "non-war" 30,000 U.S. men are killed every year. To provide more soldiers, all orphanages are taken over by the military and the age for active service is lowered to 14 (the Pentagon wants to lower it to 10). People from a briefly depicted future eutopia visit and help people to recognize the futility of war.

JF - Fantastic Stories of the Imagination VL - 14.3 N1 -

 Rpt in his one hundred and two H-Bombs and other science fiction stories (London: Roberts & Vinter, 1966), 9-38. U.S. ed. as One Hundred and Two H-Bombs (New York: Berkley, 1971), 8-38. Book repub. with different contents as White Fang Goes Dingo and other funny s.f. stories (London: Arrow Books, 1971), 7-33. Story rpt. in The Early Science Fiction Stories of Thomas M. Disch (Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1977), 130-59.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Age of the Pussyfoot" Y1 - 1965 A1 - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia with problems. In a pleasure-oriented future everyone has a personal computer that provides anything desired, at least for the wealthy. There is widespread drug use, leisure, sexual freedom, and immortality through freezing and resuscitation. While there are various conflicts that drive the plot, the ending is positive.

JF - Galaxy Magazine [Galaxy changed its name back to Galaxy Science Fiction with the 24.3 (February 1966) issue.] VL - 24.1 - 3 N1 -

Exp. under the same title New York: Trident Press, 1969. Rpt. New York: Ballantine Books, 1969.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Atrophy" Y1 - 1965 A1 - Ernest Hill (1915-2003) ED - [Edward] John Carnell (1912-72) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Machines allow humans to atrophy then the machines break down.

JF - New Writings in S-F PB - Dennis Dobson CY - London VL - 6 N1 -

U.S. ed. of the book as New Writings in SF-6. Ed. [Edward] John Carnell (1912-72) (New York: Bantam Books, 1971), 117-36.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Beyond the Sealed World Y1 - 1965 A1 - Rena [Marie] Vale (1898-1983) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A dystopia of stagnant science versus a dystopia of barbarianism.

PB - Paperback CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Bill, The Galactic Hero Y1 - 1965 A1 - Harry [Max] Harrison (1925-2012) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Militaristic dystopia. This was the first volume of a series, the other volumes of which are anti-military but not dystopias.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Rpt. Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin, 1969. First published serially in New Worlds Science Fiction 49.153 - 155 (August - October 1965): 4-60; 45-99; 4-35. Part two has the title “A Dip in the Swimming-Pool Reactor,” and part three has the title “E=mc2 . . . OR BUST.” The first version was published in Italian as “Un Eroe Gallatico.” Trans. Lella Pollini. Galassia #47 (1984). The earliest English version was published as “Starsloggers.” Galaxy Magazine 23.2 (December 1964): 7-82. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Calling Dr. Clockwork” Y1 - 1965 A1 - Ron[ald Joseph] Goulart (1933-2022) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on medical care in an automated future.

JF - Amazing Stories VL - 39.3 N1 -

Rpt. in World’s Best Science Fiction: 1966. Ed. Donald A, Wollheim and Terry Carr (New York: Ace Books, 1966), 31-41; Science Fiction Greats, no. 15 (Summer 1969), 90-98; and in the author’s Broke Down Engine and Other Troubles with Machines (New York: Macmillan/London: Collier-Macmillan, 1971), 51-62.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Caves of Mars Y1 - 1965 A1 - Emil [Theodore] Petaja (1915-2000) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which a drug that provides perfect health also makes a person amenable to control.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Code Three Y1 - 1965 A1 - Rick Raphael KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future dystopia of violence centered on superhighways.

PB - Simon and Schuster CY - New York N1 -

UK ed. London: Victor Gollancz, 1966. Rpt. London: Panther, 1968. Parts originally published as "Code Three." Analog Science Fact--Science Fiction 70.6 (February 1963): 8-57; and "Once a Cop." Analog Science Fact--Science Fiction 73.3 (May 1964): 38-66.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Coming of the Unselves Y1 - 1965 A1 - Edmund Ludlow (b. 1898) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The Unselves are minute beings from space who inhabit a person’s brain and make them speak only the truth. Even though it worked, it proved very unpopular. Businesses said that contracts agreed to under such conditions are not valid. People cannot vote under such circumstances. An honest accountant might be executed.

PB - Exposition Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Coming-of-Age Day" Y1 - 1965 A1 - A. K Jorgensson KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a new Victorian age in which information about sex is limited. Presented from the viewpoint of a growing boy as he learns about the new approach, which is to provide each person with a living organism that provides sex without contact with another human being.

JF - Science Fantasy VL - 24.76 N1 -

Rpt. in Dark Stars. Ed. Robert Silverberg (New York: Ballantine Books, 1969), 51-64; in Above the Human Landscape: A Social Science Fiction Anthology. Ed. Willis E. McNelly and Leon E. Stover (Pacific Palisades, CA: Goodyear Publishing Co., 1972), 261-71; in Future Power: A Science Fiction Anthology. Ed. Jack [Mayo] Dann and Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: Random House, 1976), 148-63 with an editors’ note (147-48); and in The Shape of Sex to Come. Ed. Douglas Hill (London: Pan Books, 1978), 52-65. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Cynia: An Original Utopia" Y1 - 1965 A1 - Gary G. Shriver KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Individualist anarchist eutopia.

PB - University of Wyoming CY - Laramie, Wyoming ER - TY - ABST T1 - Earthworks Y1 - 1965 A1 - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The setting is a future England has been devasted by an ecological disaster fueled by overpopulation that left the countryside poisoned and the cities disease-ridden.

PB - Faber & Faber CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1966. 154 pp.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Eight Billion" Y1 - 1965 A1 - Richard Wilson (1920-1987) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 29.1 SN - 9781605435930 N1 -

Rpt. separately as an ebook. Holicong, PA: Wildside Press, 2009; and in his The Story Writer and Other Stories. The Selected Stories of Richard Wilson Volume 1. Ed. John Pelan (Np: Dancing Tuatara Press/Ramble House, 2011), 154-164.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Fable IV" Y1 - 1965 A1 - Fred Uhlman (1901-85) KW - English author KW - German author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Bored young people of the future try out various possibilities for entertainment and remain bored. Everyone has a holiday of six months and is looking for excitement. No monogamy. Modern art criticized. Religion emasculated. Commit suicide.

JF - The Aylesford Review VL - 7.3 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Flying High Y1 - 1965 A1 - Dewey C. Brookins (1904-82) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A trip to an inhabited moon set in 2000 while Earth is preparing for the next world war, which appears to not happen. People on the moon far in advance of Earth. Buildings on the moon underground. Monarchy. Christianity and the religion of the moon are similar. The people from Earth are not allowed to return to Earth, and one marries the Queen. Other planets are also inhabited. 

PB - Vantage Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Fourth Reich: A Fantasy of the United Nations Y1 - 1965 A1 - Martin Hale [pseud?] AB -

Dystopian thriller set in a future Africa in which the U.N. had been taken over by followers of Hitler.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London U3 -

Martin Hale [pseud?]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The God Killers Y1 - 1965 A1 - John [Martin] Baxter (b. 1939) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian, religious, anti-science dystopia.

PB - Horwitz CY - Melbourne, VIC, Australia N1 -

Rpt. in New Worlds Science Fiction 50.163 - 164 (June - July 1966): 4-65, 74-129; and as The Off-Worlders. New York: Ace Books, 1966. Ace Double bound with Lin Carter, The Star Magicians

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Good New Days" Y1 - 1965 A1 - Fritz [Reuter] Leiber [Jr.] (1910-92) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Humorous dystopia. Robots have replaced humans for all productive work and humans are valued depending on the number of meaningless jobs they hold. There is a statue honoring a twelve-job man.

JF - Galaxy Magazine VL - 24.1 N1 -

Rpt. in The Best of Fritz Leiber (New York: Ballantine, 1974), 295-310; and in The Best of Fritz Leiber (Garden City: Nelson Doubleday, 1974), 271-84.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "I Always Do What Teddy Says" Y1 - 1965 A1 - Harry [Max] Harrison (1925-2012) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Teddy bear robots are used to socialize and educate small children. One is tampered with to allow the person to kill a political enemy, but he doesn't. According to Harrison, he had to change the ending to one he dislikes.

JF - Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine N1 -

Rpt in The Days After Tomorrow. Ed. Hans Stefan Santesson (Boston, MA: Little, Brown, 1971), 145-56; in The New Improved Sun. Ed. Thomas M[ichael] Disch (New York: Harper & Row, 1975), 157-66; and in Future Crime: An Anthology of the Shape of Crime to Come. Ed. Cynthia Manson and Charles Ardai (New York: Donald I. Fine, 1992), 137-45.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Journal from Ellipsia Y1 - 1965 A1 - Hortense Calisher (1911-2009) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Complex novel with some reminders of Edwin Abbott Abbott's Flatland (1884) but developing a non-gendered society.

PB - Little, Brown CY - Boston, MA N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Secker & Warburg, l966. Excerpt published in SF 12. Ed. Judith Merril (New York: Dell, 1968), 197-211.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Loafers of Refuge Y1 - 1965 A1 - Joseph L[ee] Green (b. 1931) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Blending of two branches of humanity on a distant planet, one stressing technology and one stressing mental control. Problems and possibilities of both but with a particularly sympathetic portrayal of the latter.

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Pan, 1967. Earlier version published in New Worlds Science Fiction as "The Colonist." 41.121 (August 1962): 4-34; "The-Old-Man-In-The-Mountain." 44.131 (June 1963): 4-30; and "Refuge." 44.132 (July 1963): 4-41.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lost Diaries of Albert Smith Y1 - 1965 A1 - Robert Muller (b. 1925) KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Dystopia in which Fascists come to power in Britain.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London N1 -

Later ed. as After all, this is England. Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin, 1967.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Man of Double Deed Y1 - 1965 A1 - Leonard [John] Daventry (1915-87) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia set in 2090 with an "Atomic Disaster" having occurred in 1990. Division between an orientation to pleasure and the existence of youth gangs killing at random. Telepathy. Polygamy is standard with the main character thought of as odd because he limited himself to two women.

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1965.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Many Thousand Gone: An American Fable Y1 - 1965 A1 - Ronald L. Fair (b. 1932) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

The novel is set in one dystopian county in Mississippi created through the machinations of a corrupt lawyer and an equally corrupt judge, killing or driving out the indigenous population, and re-establishing what amounted to slavery after the Civil War, a system that continued to the time of the novel. When the Federal government finally tries to bring change to the county, the federal marshals are thrown in jail. At this point, the Negroes revolt, burn down the town, and kill most of the tormentors while saving the white women and children. The title refers to the thousands of Negroes who had been killed previously. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Masculinist Revolt" Y1 - 1965 A1 - [Philip] [Klass] (1920-2010) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire. A pro-male revolt follows the reintroduction of the codpiece but ultimately fails.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 29.2 N1 -

Rpt. in his The Wooden Star (New York: Ballantine Books, 1968), 213-51; and in his Immodest Proposals: The Complete Science Fiction of William Tenn. Volume 1 (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2001), 213-35 with an "Afterword" (236-37).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Nobody Axed You" Y1 - 1965 A1 - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia in which violence is normal and the top-rated TV programs show people being killed.

JF - New Worlds Science Fiction VL - 48.150 N1 -

Rpt. in his Time-Jump (New York: Dell, 1973), 130-60.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Plague of Pythons Y1 - 1965 A1 - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in the classic power corrupts mode.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York N1 -

Rev. as Demon in the Skull. New York: DAW Books, 1984. A shorter version was published as "Plague of Pythons" in Galaxy Magazine 21.1 - 2 (October - December 1962): 112-58, 136-89.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Project Plowshare. Being that Most Excellent Account of Travails and Contayning Many Pretie Hystories By Him Set Foorth in Comely Colours and Most Delightfully Discoursed Upon as Beautified and Well Furnished Divers Good and Commendable in the Gesiht of Men of That Most Lamentable Wepens Fasoun Designer Lars Powderdry and What Nearly Became of Him Due to Certain Most Dreadful Forces" Y1 - 1965 A1 - Philip K[indred] Dick (1928-82) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia brought about by world disarmament combined with the continued manufacture of weapons to keep the world economy going.

JF - Worlds of Tomorrow VL - 3. 4 - 5 (16 - 17) N1 -

Rpt. as The Zap Gun. Being that Most Excellent Account of Travails and Contayning Many Pretie Hystories By Him Set Foorth in Comely Colours and Most Delightfully Discoursed Upon as Beautified and Well Furnished Divers Good and Commendable in the Gesiht of Men of That Most Lamentable Wepens Fasoun Designer Lars Powderdry and What Nearly Became of Him Due to Certain Most Dreadful Forces. New York: Pyramid, 1967. The copyright page of the book gives the title of the first publication as "Operation Plowshare", but it is as given here.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Psychedelic-40 Y1 - 1965 A1 - Louis [Henry] Charbonneau (b. 1924) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of control through drugs and pleasure. Psychedlic-40 is a drug known as PSI-40 that produces dreams of extreme sensuality, but it also allows the taker's mind to be probed or even controlled.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York N1 -

UK ed. as The Specials. London: Herbert Jenkins.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Red Dust Y1 - 1965 A1 - Bee [Beatrice Lillian] Baldwin (b. 1920) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - English author AB -

A pandemic is brought about by spores, the red dust, from Antarctica and most of the world's population dies. In New Zealand a survivor briefly establishes an authoritarian dystopia, but is finally overthrown by some survivors who are immune to the disease. The Immunes are changed by the spores both physically and morally and the possibility of a future eutopia is held out.

PB - Robert Hale/Whitcombe & Tombs CY - London/[Christchurch, New Zealand] N1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman" Y1 - 1965 A1 - Harlan [Jay] Ellison (1934-2018) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which everyone is controlled by the clock.

JF - Galaxy Magazine VL - 24.2 N1 -

Rpt. in his Alone Against Tomorrow: Stories of Alienation in Speculative Fiction (New York: Macmillan, 1971), 130-44 [The first eight stories in Alone Against Tomorrow, including this story, rpt. as All the Sounds of Fear (London: Panther, 1973), 129-43]; in Above the Human Landscape. Ed. Willis E. McNelly and Leon E. Stover (Pacific Palisades, CA: Goodyear Publ. Co., 1972), 87-96; in Science Fiction: The Future. Ed. Dick Allen. 2nd ed. (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983), 199-208; in The Best of the Nebulas (New York: Tor/Tom Doherty Associates, 1989), 63-71, with an “Author’s Foreword” on 62; in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 257-661; and in The Big Book of Science Fiction: The Ultimate Collection. Ed. Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (New York: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Vintage Books, 2016), 492-99 with an editors’ note on 491. Edition as “Repent, Harlequin!” Said the Ticktockman. The Classic Story by Harlen Ellison illustrated by Rick Berry. Designed by Arnie Farmer. Grass Valley, CA: Underwood Books, 1997 with a “Foreword Stealing Tomorrow” continued as an “Afterword Stealing Tomorrow” by Ellison (unpaged).

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Smallcreep's Day Y1 - 1965 A1 - Peter Currell Brown (b. 1936) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on the dystopia that is factory system seen through the eyes of one man who spends a day wandering around a huge factory.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Space Pioneer" Y1 - 1965 A1 - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Story of the classic conflict between those who want to settle a newly discovered planet and those who want to simply strip of its resources for a profit.

JF - Analog Fiction--Science Fact VL - 76.1 - 3 N1 -

Repub. London: Four Square/New English Library, 1966.

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CU-Riv, L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Squares of the City Y1 - 1965 A1 - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia set in a newly built, intended to be ideal, city in a South American dictatorship. The novel is modeled on a game of chess and deals with a power struggle between the dictator and his main opponent.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Starchild Y1 - 1965 A1 - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) A1 - Jack [John Stewart] Williamson (1908-2006) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 1963 Pohl and Williamson, "The Reefs of Space". In this volume the computer has tightened its grip but is threatened by unknown forces.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York N1 -

Originally published in a shorter version in Worlds of If Science Fiction 15.1 -3 (86 - 88) (January - March 1965): 6-52, 101-29, 91-128. Also published in their The Starchild Trilogy. The Reefs of Space Starchild Rogue Star (Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, 1969), 151-286, which includes the third volume, the non-utopian "Rogue Star." Worlds of If Science Fiction 18.6 - 8 (127 - 29) (June - August 1968): 10-43; 119-59; 125-58; repub. New York: Ballantine Books, 1969. U.K. ed. London: Dennis Dobson, 1969.

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Merril, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Survivor" Y1 - 1965 A1 - Walter F[rank] Moudy (1929-73) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

War replaced by the Olympic War Games in which there is real fighting between teams representing countries. The story stresses the importance of replacing war but also emphasizes that the traumas inflicted on the people fighting are real and long lasting.

JF - Amazing Stories VL - 39.5 N1 -

Rpt. in Themes in Science Fiction; A Journey into Wonder. Ed. Leo P[atrick] Kelly (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1972), 357-81.

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Merril, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Terminal” Y1 - 1965 A1 - Ron[ald Joseph] Goulart (1933-2022) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set is an automated future where the problems of old age are solved by the United States Welfare Squad that monthly randomly “collects” one hundred “old timers” and takes them to Senior Citizen Terminals. If they are not claimed within thirty days, they are terminated. The protagonist is a man who has been misidentified by the machines.

JF - Fantastic Stories of Imagination VL - 14.4 N1 -

Rpt. in the author’s Broke Down Engine and Other Troubles with Machines (New York: Macmillan/London: Collier-Macmillan, 1971), 182-192.

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch Y1 - 1965 A1 - Philip K[indred] Dick (1928-82) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia where a drug is used that can induce eutopia to hide the horrors of contemporary life.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1979; and in Four Novels of the 1960s. [Ed. Jonathan Allen Lethem] (New York: Library of America, 2007), 231-430 with "Notes" on 828.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Utopia: A Vision and an Exercise" Y1 - 1965 A1 - Dorothy Samuel KW - Female author AB -

Agrarian eutopia described as “an anarchy of self-disciplined adults living in loving cooperation. Almost no city larger than 50,000. Parks and gardens everywhere. Although most art is individual and local, there are some large buildings for concerts and similar activities, and the buildings are also used as libraries. Living a more natural life and eating better food has eliminated obesity and improved health. There is no longer a need for a medical profession, but there are healers. No money with goods distributed without charge. Privacy is valued. Only beneficial technology. Family-centered child-rearing. 

JF - Way Out VL - 21.6 U5 -

KU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A View of the Island: A Post-Atomic Fairy Tale Y1 - 1965 A1 - [Irene Dale] [Hewson] )1907-85) KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

The novel traces responses to an atomic war among some people who fled to Scotland to escape it and various religious groups from the area. The war brings life on Earth to an end, and the saved and damned separated, although damnation seems to be like the continued pettyness of contemporary life. Scottish author.

PB - Hutchinson CY - London U3 -

Jean Ross [pseud.]

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L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Visa for Avalon Y1 - 1965 A1 - [Annie Winifred] [Ellerman] (1894-1983) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The novel takes place just as England is being taken over by an authoritarian movement that is already producing a dystopia. People escape to Avalon, but it is reached in the last sentence of the book and not described.

PB - Harcourt, Brace & World CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. Ashfield, MA: Paris Press, 2004.

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Bryher [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Wasted on the Young" Y1 - 1965 A1 - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Future society with wealth for all in return for work. The young may borrow against future earnings. Story is about a young man who tries to beat the system and fails.

JF - Galaxy Magazine VL - 23.4 N1 -

Rpt. in his From This Day Forward (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1972), 63-77.

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MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Weather in the Underworld" Y1 - 1965 A1 - Colin [Lewis] Free (1925-96) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia set in UnderEarth, an underground haven designed to be a eutopia with no memories and technological control of thought and emotion. Drugs for every emotion and situation. A man whose conditioning fails is expelled to the surface where he is killed and eaten by those who had been left outside.

JF - Squire (Sydney, NSW, Australia) VL - 1.6 N1 -

Rpt. in The Pacific Book of Australian SF. Ed. John [Martin] Baxter (Sydney, NSW, Australia: Angus and Robertson, 1968), 49-57. Book rpt. as The Pacific Book of Science Fiction. Ed. John [Martin] Baxter (Sydney, NSW, Australia: Angus and Robertson, 1969), 49-57. 

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A, M, Merril, NZ

ER - TY - ABST T1 - White Lotus Y1 - 1965 A1 - John [Richard] Hersey (1914-93) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia in which the Chinese suppress whites. Recreates the history of African Americans from slavery to a non-violent civil rights movement with whites as the oppressed and the Chinese as the oppressor.

PB - Alfred A. Knopf CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - You Sane Men Y1 - 1965 A1 - Laurence M[ark] Janifer (1933-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of sadism. An insane world where pain is essential for the maintenance of civilization.

PB - Lancer CY - New York N1 -

​Rpt. as Bloodworld. New York: Lodestone, 1968.

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​Rpt. as Bloodworld.

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MoU-St, NBuU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Animal Farm: A Fable in Two Acts Y1 - 1964 A1 - Nelson [Slade] Bond (1908-2006) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Adaptation of 1945 Blair.

PB - Samuel French CY - London U5 -

L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Aristos; A Self-Portrait in Ideas Y1 - 1964 A1 - John [Robert] Fowles (1926-2005) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Mostly commentary on contemporary life, but a eutopia is suggested in the last two sections, "A New Education" (183-223) and "The Aristos" (234-39). The revised edition is a significantly different book but includes the same themes, with "A New Education" (141-83), and "The Aristos in the Individual" (212-14).

PB - Little Brown CY - Boston, MA N1 -

UK ed. London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. Rev. ed. without the subtitle. London: Jonathan Cape, 1968. Rpt. London: Pan Books, 1968. U.S. ed. Boston, MA: Little, Brown, 1970. [4th] rev. ed. without the subtitle. London: Jonathan Cape, 1980.

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L, LLL, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Big Switch Y1 - 1964 A1 - [Violet] Muriel Box (1905-91) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Gender-role reversal in which women have created a eutopia after an accidental atomic war.

PB - Macdonald CY - London U5 -

L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Burning World Y1 - 1964 A1 - J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Climate-change dystopia.

PB - Berkley Medallion/Berkley Publishing Co CY - New York N1 -

Better known in an expanded version as The Drought. London: Cape, 1965. Rpt. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968. 

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Better known in an expanded version as The Drought. London: Cape, 1965. Rpt. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968. 

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Clans of the Alphane Moon Y1 - 1964 A1 - Philip K[indred] Dick (1928-82) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A mental hospital moon is trying to achieve independence. The paranoids are the leaders, the manics are the warriors, the depressed are the realists, and the schizophrenics are the visionaries.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1979.

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TxDaU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Claret, Sandwiches and Sin Y1 - 1964 A1 - [Madelaine Elizabeth] [Duke] (1925-96) KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

Satire. Humor about the period after the next nuclear war. Technically advanced; Africa united. Political assassinations have been organized to avoid another war. See also 1967 Duke.

PB - Heinemann CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Four Square, 1966 under her real name.

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Maxim Donne [pseud.]

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DLC, L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Davy Y1 - 1964 A1 - Edgar Pangborn (1909-76) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future barbarianism but with elements of a dystopia dominated by religion.

PB - St. Martin's Press CY - New York N1 -

UK ed. London: Dennis Dobson, 1966. Expanded from "The Golden Horn." The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 22.2 (129) (February 1962): 98-129; and "A War of No Consequence." 22.3 (130) (March 1962): 51-73.

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DLC, O, PSt, WiU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Day the Machines Stopped Y1 - 1964 A1 - [Harry C.] [Crosby] [Jr.] (1925-2009) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

All electrical power disrupted. This produces authoritarian dystopias plus an attempt to rebuild civilization.

PB - Monarch Books CY - Derby, CT U3 -

Christopher Anvil [pseud.]

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MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Deathworld 2 Y1 - 1964 A1 - Harry [Max] Harrison (1925-2012) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of violence.

PB - Bantam CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in The Deathworld Trilogy (Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, 1974), 149-283. UK ed. as The Ethical Engineer. London: Victor Gollancz, 1964. Originally published in a shorter version as "The Ethical Engineer." Analog Science Fiction Science Fact 71.5 - 6 (July - August 1963): 17-40; 53-80. Other volumes of the trilogy are Deathworld. New York: Bantam Books, 1960; originally published in Astounding Science Fiction 64.5 - 65.1 (January - March 1960): 10-56, 104-41; 62-82, 129-54 [the journal became Astounding/Analog Science Fact & Fiction with the February 1960 issue]; and Deathworld 3. New York: Dell, 1968. U.K. ed. London: Faber and Faber, 1969; originally published as "The Horse Barbarians." Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact 80.6 - 81.2 (February - April 1968): 6-69; 86-137; 100-42. There are five additional Deathworld volumes that were written for the Russian market.

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UK ed. as The Ethical Engineer.

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Escape" Y1 - 1964 A1 - Marsh Haris (1936-93) ED - James Ramp KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Earth is destroyed and five people set off to a new planet, which turns out to be a eutopia inhabited entirely by homosexual men. The women from Earth die within hours.

JF - Overture in G Minor and Other Stories, Photographs and Drawings PB - Pan-Graphic CY - San Francisco, CA VL - Dorian Vignettes 4 U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Evening Fool Y1 - 1964 A1 - [Arthur L.] [Greenaway] (1927-88) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Communal eutopia established on an island in the Pacific and its problems. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction says “almost certainly the working name of UK lawyer, actor, scriptwriter and author Arthur Greenaway” with the birth year as 1927 (Wikipedia gives 1929). For various pieces of information that support both the name and the birth date, see https://bearalley.blogspot.com/2010/06/peter-van-greenaway.html.

PB - Hutchinson CY - London U3 -

Peter Van Greenaway [pseud.]

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L, NLS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Fall of Frenchy Steiner" Y1 - 1964 A1 - Hilary [Denham] Bailey (1936-2017) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia in which Germany has won World War II and England is being run down (no water, gas, electricity, etc.) under German rule.

JF - New Worlds Science Fiction VL - 48.143 N1 -

Rpt. in SF 12. Ed. Judith Merrill (New York: Dell, 1968), 94-126; in The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy By Women. Ed. A. Susan Williams and Richard Glyn Jones (New York: Penguin Books, 1996), 132-64; and in Hitler Victorious: Eleven Stories of the German Victory in World War II. Ed. Gregory [Albert] Benford and Martin H[arry] Greenberg (New York: Garland, 1986), 53-81. U.K. ed. (London: Grafton, 1988), 83-123.

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O, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Farnham's Freehold Y1 - 1964 A1 - Robert A[nson] Heinlein (1907-88) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia of future war with a libertarian enclave surviving and flourishing.

PB - G.P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Dobson Books, 1965. Rpt. as vol. 42 of The Virginia Edition of his works. Houston, TX: The Virginia Edition, 2007. Also published as ed. by Frederik [George] Pohl, [Jr.] (b. 1919) in If 14.3 - 5 (July - October 1964): 6-77, 72-130, 66-130. The third issue was originally dated September, but October 1964 was printed over September 1964.

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Merril, O, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Gas Mask" Y1 - 1964 A1 - James D. Houston ED - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) KW - Male author AB -

Overpopulation and pollution dystopia.

JF - The Ruins of Earth: An Anthology of Stories of the Immediate Future PB - G.P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York N1 -

Originally pub. in Nugget (1964).

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Man on Bridge" Y1 - 1964 A1 - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) ED - [Edward] John Carnell (1912-72) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which the unintelligent rule the intelligent, who are kept in camps where they do all the menial work.

JF - New Writings in S-F PB - Dennis Dobson CY - London VL - 1 N1 -

Repub. in his Who Can Replace a Man? (New York: New American Library, 1965), 82-98. UK ed. as Best Science Fiction Stories of Brian W. Aldiss (London: Faber & Faber, 1965), 96-115; rev. ed. (London: Faber & Faber, 1971), 56-75.

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HRC, MoU-St, O, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mandrake Y1 - 1964 A1 - Susan [Mary] Cooper (b. 1935) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia in which people are required to live in the district in which they are born; movement around the country is restricted; the main cities are re-walled; and immigration is eliminated. The country is under the control of the Ministry of Planning.

PB - Hodder & Stoughton CY - London U5 -

L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Mary Celeste Move” Y1 - 1964 A1 - Frank [Patrick] Herbert (1920-86) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A dystopia where North and South America are dominated by cars.

JF - Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact VL - 74.2 N1 -

Rpt. in Eco-Fiction. Ed. John Stadler (New York: Washington Square Press/Pocket Books, 1971), 145-52; in Car Sinister. Ed. Robert Silverberg, Martin Harry Greenberg, and Joseph Olander (New York: Avon Books, 1979), 157-64; and in The Collected Stories of Frank Herbert (New York: Tor, 2014), 392-97.

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Illus. John Schoenherr

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Moon People Y1 - 1964 A1 - Stanton A[rthur] Coblentz (1896-1982) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian society on the far side of the moon. The inhabitants are similar to apes.

PB - Avalon CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The New Encyclopaedist: Entries for the Great Book of History, First Edition, 2100 A.D." Y1 - 1964 A1 - Stephen [David] Becker (1927-99) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An entry in a future encyclopedia describing the survivors of a nuclear war who use what is left to build a eutopian future. See also his “The New Encyclopaedist--II: Entries for the Great Book of History, First Edition, 2100 A.D.” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 27.3 (160) (September 1964): 74-76; and “The New Encyclopaedist--III: Entries for the Great Book of History, First Edition, 2100 A.D.” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 27.4 (162) (November 1964): 62-64.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 26.5 (156) ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Noman Way Y1 - 1964 A1 - [James Murdoch] [MacGregor] (1925-2008) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Dystopia. Competitive sports as population control. The losers die.

PB - Brown, Watson Ltd. Digit Books CY - London U3 -

J. T. McIntosh [pseud.]

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Digit Books. L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Not a Cloud in the Sky Y1 - 1964 A1 - Josephine Lawrence (1889-1978) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A dystopia in which the elderly forced to move into rest homes at 65. At Tranquil Acres everything has been designed for what is good for them and also functions as “a center for the study of geriatrics” (41). Must move in no later than the morning of the day one turns 65. A spouse who is not yet 65 can move in or wait until they are. No one over 65 can smoke or drive. Ramps, no stairs, ground floor living except for the very wealthy. Moving sidewalks. The elderly poor and controlled even more than the others, which leads the protagonist to reflect that “money is the elderly’s best friend” (92). There is an underground railroad to help people escape to Canada. The author’s papers are held at Boston University. 

PB - Harcourt, Brace and World CY - New York U5 -

MoS, PP, WU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Nova Express Y1 - 1964 A1 - William S[eward] Burroughs (1914-97) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian imagery of an addicts’ world with the Nova Police versus the Nova Mob. Third volume of a trilogy following 1961 and 1962 Burroughs. 

PB - Grove Press CY - New York N1 -

UK ed. London: Jonathan Cape, 1966. 

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Only Lovers Left Alive Y1 - 1964 A1 - Dave [David Capadose] Wallis (1917-90) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of teenage gangs and a high suicide rate. Finally, a new clan system develops as a good society.

PB - Dutton CY - New York U5 -

DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Open Prison Y1 - 1964 A1 - James White (1928-1999) KW - Male author KW - Northern Ireland author AB -

As the title says, an entire planet is s aside as a prison with people simply dumped there to make their way as best they can with no modern technology. Much of the novel is concerned with plans to escape.

JF - New Worlds N1 -

Rpt. London: Corgi Books, 1970. U.S. ed. as The Escape Orbit. New York: Ace Books, 1965. Originally published in New Worlds (February - April 1964).

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CU-Riv, Merril, BL, NLS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Other Man: A Novel Based on His Play for Television Y1 - 1964 A1 - Giles Cooper (1918-66) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Alternative history dystopia of a National Socialist Britain.

PB - Panther CY - London U5 -

L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Out Y1 - 1964 A1 - Christine [Frances Evelyn] Brooke-Rose (1923-2012) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - French author AB -

Dystopia in which light skinned people are suppressed.

PB - Michael Joseph CY - London U5 -

InU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Pacifist" Y1 - 1964 A1 - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The world is divided between two opposing forces from the Northern and Southern hemispheres that are nearing nuclear war. The Pacifists are an underground organization trying to stop the war by threatening to kill, or killing, key players on both sides.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 26.1 N1 -

Rpt. in The War Book. Ed. James Sallis (London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1969), 79-97; rpt. (London: Panther, 1971), 67-85; and in The Best of Mack Reynolds (New York: Pocket Books, 1976), 146-65 with an author's note on 145.

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Peek at Heaven Y1 - 1964 A1 - Lucius M. Bush KW - Male author AB -

Heaven as a eutopia in which everyone stays young, blacks turn white, there is romance and sex, and children stay children permanently.

PB - Exposition Press CY - New York U5 -

TxU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Penultimate Truth Y1 - 1964 A1 - Philip K[indred] Dick (1928-82) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia in which people are kept underground in the belief that a nuclear war rages on the surface. The truth is that peace has been achieved.

PB - Belmont Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. London: Gollancz, 2005.

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O

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Placement Test" Y1 - 1964 A1 - [John] Keith Laumer (1925-93) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia in a story about a man manipulated into fighting his way through the job placement process as a way of selecting the best people for top positions.

JF - Amazing Stories VL - 38.7 N1 -

Rpt. in Thrilling Science Fiction, no. 27 (October 1972): 34-60; in SF: Inventing the Future. Ed. R. Duncan Appleford (Scarborough, ON, Canada: Bellhaven House, 1972), 58-85; and in his Future Imperfect. Ed. Eric Flint (New York: Baen, 2003), 213-41.

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Can, CU-Riv, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Proposed C-A-N-A-D-I-A-N A-M-O P-A-R-T-Y: Based on the Amo Formula Y1 - 1964 A1 - Edwin E.H. Hugli (b. 1890) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia based on a new money system. Stresses that the new money system would keep money flowing continuously, that his system would keep Canada independent of the United States and keep Canada debt free. See 1962 Hugli. See also 1933 Hugli.

PB - Author CY - Toronto, ON, Canada U5 -

Can, CaOTU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Rim of Eternity Y1 - 1964 A1 - Adrienne [Marie Kelliher] Geddes KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

Alien invaders produce a eutopian response, although a nuclear war devastates most of the world between the first visit of the aliens and their return to establish a colony next to Lake Taupo. This first settlement is destroyed by the eruption of Mount Tongariro. The emphasis is on the conflict with the aliens, but, after the aliens easily defeat a Chinese invasion of Australia and New Zealand, that conflict ultimately brings humanity, including the Chinese, together in an attempt to defeat the next wave of alien colonists. The novel ends there, so its success or failure is not known. The aliens are depicted in both a eutopian and a dystopian light. The alien society is briefly described from the alien perspective; it is completely collective with ties only to the community and, since they do not sleep, they live virtually their entire lives as part of a collective. Their complete reliance on logic and reasons produces the dystopian characteristics.

PB - Collins CY - Auckland, New Zealand U5 -

ATL, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Shining East; A Story of Life After Death Y1 - 1964 A1 - Cornelia Hinkley Hotson KW - Female author AB -

Heaven as eutopia following the teachings of Emanuel Swedenborg (1668-1772). Intended to be the first of three volumes, but there is no evidence of later volumes.

PB - Vantage Press CY - New York U5 -

OCl

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Siege of Harlem Y1 - 1964 A1 - Warren Miller (1921-66) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

After years of pleading for equal treatment, African Americans from around the country all called to Harlem and thousands of young people respond, Harlem secedes from the U.S. and becomes a separate country. Set seventy-five years later, the novel focuses on the first year and the struggle, both internal and with the U.S., to stay free as told to his grandchildren to his grandchildren. While there is little on the future state, it is clearly a much better place to be Black than in the society they left.

PB - McGraw-Hill CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Crest, 1965.

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Simulacra Y1 - 1964 A1 - Philip K[indred] Dick (1928-82) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia set in the 21st century with the President of the United States of Europe (U.S. and West Germany) an android and the government a fraud.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -

UK ed. London: Eyre Methuen, 1977.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Simulacron-3 Y1 - 1964 A1 - Daniel F[rancis] Galouye (1920-76) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia which pollsters or "certified reaction monitors" (colloquially known as "busybodies") are constantly checking on the population with the goal of eliminating risk from business, politics, and religion. An invention allows them to be replaced by electronic simulations, so it is opposed by powerful forces. Its inventor had intended it as a means of achieving a better, more orderly society, but it creates dual worlds of reality and simulcra and some people pass between the two worlds.

PB - Bantam CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. as Counterfeit World. London: Victor Gollancz, 1965. Rpt. London: Hamlyn Paperbacks, 1983.

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PSt, WU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Stars Came Down Y1 - 1964 A1 - [Joseph Laurence] [Morrissey] (1905-81) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Flawed utopia. A man returns to Earth five thousand years after he left and finds the people far advanced beyond his expectations. No governments. Extremely long-lived (600 is middle age); no children to keep control over population growth. No wild animals; all are tame. Cities abandoned; all Earth is inhabitable and people live in small groups or alone.

PB - World Distributors CY - London U3 -

Richard Saxon [pseud.]

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Leeds

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A State of Mind Y1 - 1964 A1 - [Elaine Kidner] [Dakers] (1905-1978) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia ruled by the Brotherhood after an atomic war. Forced nationalization of people to create “one big family, whose head is the State.” People, though, are not equal. The State provides all and controls everything, but “recognizes that some require more than others. . .” (11). No gods and no religious people allowed with Christians banished the Hebrides. Both voluntary and non-voluntary euthanasia, with permission required for voluntary. Suicide without permission is opposed. Criminals euthanized. “Compulsory birth-control and State-elimination prevented overpopulation” (12). 

PB - Frederick Muller CY - London U3 -

Jane Lane [pseud.]

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L, PP

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Thesis on Social Forms and Social Control in the U.S.A." Y1 - 1964 A1 - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which schizophrenia is seen as a form of social organization. The "thesis" reports on the themes from Orwell's 1949 Nineteen Eighty-four, "Freedom Is Slavery", "Ignorance Is Strength", and "War Is Peace" and adds "Life Is Death" and "Love Is Hate".

JF - Fantastic Stories of Imagination VL - 13.1 N1 -

Rpt. in his Fun With Your New Head (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1971), 177-92. UK ed. of the book as Under Compulsion (London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1968), 181-96.

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MoU-St, NLS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Time of the Great Freeze Y1 - 1964 A1 - Robert Silverberg (b. 1935) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult climate change dystopia in which, when a thaw begins, people who had been living deep in the ice, search for other communities hoping to reunify them.

PB - Holt, Rinehart and Winston CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Tongues of the Moon Y1 - 1964 A1 - Philip José Farmer (1918-2009) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Begins with an authoritarian dystopia in which a bomb implanted in everyone's brain can be detonated at any sign of disobedience. There is a successful revolt.

PB - Pyramid CY - New York N1 -

UK ed. London: Corgi, 1981. Exp. from Amazing 35.9 (September 1961): 6-; rpt. in The Most Thrilling Science Fiction Ever Told, no. 6 (November 1967): 4-.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Understanding Money, Unemployment and Inflation: Why New Zealand is a Modern Utopia Y1 - 1964 A1 - John Randolph Perkins KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Non-fiction. New Zealand as a eutopia. In addition to being a natural paradise, New Zealand has more or less accidentally defined money in terms of work, which is the basis of its existence as a eutopia.

PB - Vantage Press CY - New York U5 -

DLC, PPU, VUW

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Unearth People Y1 - 1964 A1 - Kris [Ottman] Neville (1925-1980) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of eugenic breeding where some girls are chosen to be bred from the sperm of important men from the past.

PB - Belmont Books CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Unteleported Man" Y1 - 1964 A1 - Philip K[indred] Dick (1928-82) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Various dystopias. Teleporting has become the standard means of interstellar travel, and a man who intends to travel the slow way runs into a conspiracy to stop him because the planet controlled by the people running the transportation system is being filled with slave labor. Lies, Inc. is the Listening Instructional Educational Services.

JF - Fantastic Stories of Imagination VL - 13.12 N1 -

Repub. New York: Ace Books, 1966. Rpt. in A Philip K. Dick Omnibus (London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1970), separately paged. Rpt. with gaps where manuscript pages were missing. New York: Berkley, 1983. U.K. ed. London: Methuen, 1976. Rewritten version with gaps restored by John T[homas] Sladek (1937-2000) as Lies, Inc. London: Victor Gollancz, 1984.

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Rewritten version with gaps restored by John T[homas] Sladek (1937-2000) as Lies, Inc. London: Victor Gollancz, 1984

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O

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "We Serve the State of Freedom" Y1 - 1964 A1 - [Mary Jane] [Engh] (b. 1933) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia embedded in a number of dystopias. Those who follow the Star of Freedom give and take gifts freely but are surrounded by the Star of Battle, the Star of the Market, and the Star of Beauty, all of which exchange less freely.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 27.1 (158) U3 -

Jane Beauclerk [pseud.]

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Year of the Angry Rabbit Y1 - 1964 A1 - Russell [Reading] Braddon (1921-95) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire in which Australian scientists discover a biological weapon that the Prime Minister uses to force world peace and Australian economic and political dominance of the world. 

PB - Heinemann CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 1965. Partially serialized in Australian Women's Weekly 32.21 - 23 (October 21 - November 4, 1964): 19, 55, 59-60, 62, 64, 66, 68, 92-99; 33, 38, 46, 48-49, 51, 53-58, 66, 69-72, 74; 38, 47, 51, 55, 63, 65-66, 68-71, 77.

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A, M

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "1974: An Orwellian Fantasy" Y1 - 1963 A1 - Barbara Stephens KW - Female author AB -

Short sketch of a future dystopia especially concerned with suppressing Lesbians.

JF - Ladder (San Francisco, CA) ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Another Rib" Y1 - 1963 A1 - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) A1 - [Juanita Ruth Wellons] [Coulson] (b. 1933) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

An early transgender story in which the sun has exploded and destroyed Earth and all the other planets. The only survivors are a group of sixteen men on a distant planet they had recently discovered. 

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 24.6 (145) U3 -

John John Wells [pseud.]

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Better World Y1 - 1963 A1 - Karl Streichl KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Detailed eutopia with a stress on equality, physical fitness, and education. Technologically advanced.

PB - Vantage Press CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Breakdown" Y1 - 1963 A1 - Richard Graham KW - Male author AB -

Story of the dystopia created when the computer that runs a city stops working.

JF - Science Fiction Adventures (UK) VL - 6.31 U5 -

O

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Cat's Cradle Y1 - 1963 A1 - Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (1922-2007) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian satire on the arms race, religion, science, and technology, with a catastrophic ending.

PB - Holt, Rinehart & Winston CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Dell Publishing Co., 1970. 191 pp.; and in his Novels & Stories, 1963-1973. Ed. Sidney Offit (New York: Library of America, 2011), 1-188 with a Note on the Text (833) and "Notes" on 838-41.

Dystopian satire on the arms race, religion, science, and technology, with a catastrophic ending.

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DLC, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Dark Mind" Y1 - 1963 A1 - [Derek Ivor] Colin Kapp (1928-2007) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia of corporate control and corrupt government as the background.

JF - New Worlds Science Fiction VL - 46.136 - 38 N1 -

Repub. London: Transworld, 1965. U.S. ed. as Transfinite Man. New York: Berkley, 1964.

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U.S. ed. as Transfinite Man. New York: Berkley, 1964.

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L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Day Natal Took Off. A Satire Y1 - 1963 A1 - Anthony [Ronald St. Martin] Delius (1916-89) KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

Satire on contemporary South African politics and race relations.

PB - Insight Publications CY - Cape Town, South Africa N1 -

Rpt. London: Pall Mall Press, 1963.

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O

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Day of Truce" Y1 - 1963 A1 - Clifford D[onald] Simak (1904-88) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Suburbs have become a war of strongholds versus the punks.

JF - Galaxy Magazine VL - 21.3 N1 -

Rpt. in Nightmare Age. Ed. Frederik [George] Pohl, [Jr.] (New York: Ballantine Books, 1979), 111-34; and in Grotto of the Dancing Bear and Other Stories. The Complete Short Fiction of Clifford D. Simak, Volume Four. New York: Open Road Integrated Media, 2016. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Dreaming Earth Y1 - 1963 A1 - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia and the problems that arise from a drug induced euphoria that leads people to completely drop out. But the dropouts are actually dropping in to new, empty worlds presented as simple eutopias.

PB - Pyramid CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. as The Dreaming Earth. Science Fiction. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1972.

Originally serialized as “Put Down the Earth.” New Worlds Science Fiction, nos. 107 -109 (June - August 1961): 4-47, 81-122, 77-127.

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Originally serialized as “Put Down the Earth.”

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InTI, O, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Forgotten Race Y1 - 1963 A1 - Julius P. Newton KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Most of the novel concerns a space race in the distant past and a nuclear war on Earth. One group, from a country like the Soviet Union, settles a planet called Lydia, near Mars, which remains fairly primitive. The other group, from a country like the U.S., settles Mars, and advances much further than the post-nuclear war Earth. The eutopia, briefly described, includes the following: World state. Universal language. Telepathy. Constitutional anarchism. Equality. Limit on population. Voluntary work. Teachers teach what they want and students take what they want. No laws.

PB - Brown, Watson CY - London N1 -

Rpt. New York: Arcadia House, 1967.

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HRC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Frigid Fracas" Y1 - 1963 A1 - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A truce was achieved by banning all weapons invented after 1900, but it led to TV programs showing mercenaries and constant warfare. Reynolds used the same trope with variations in his Mercenary From Tomorrow (1968), expanded as Joe Mauser: Mercenary From Tomorrow (1986); and Sweet Dreams, Sweet Princes (1986). The same protagonist appears in his The Fracas Factor. New York: Leisure Books/Norden, 1978.

JF - Analog Science Fact--Science Fiction VL - 71.1 - 2 N1 -

Rpt. as The Earth War. New York: Pyramid Books, 1963.

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Rpt. as The Earth War.

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Cu-Riv, KPT

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Full Circle Y1 - 1963 A1 - Bruce [Wallace] Ariss [Jr.] (1911-94) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

After a nuclear war the American Indians have established a peaceful eutopia based on their traditional societies. White men return and conflict begins again.

PB - Avalon Books CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Happy Planet Y1 - 1963 A1 - Joan B. Clarke (b. 1921) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Children's post-catastrophe novel. Earth, the Happy Planet, had supposedly been destroyed by a meteor with some of Earth's population established on the planet Tuan, which had no plants or animals and was heavily regimented. An expedition discovers an inhabitable world, and after various conflicts people begin to rebuild.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London N1 -

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Illus. Antony Maitland

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NZ

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Heretic Y1 - 1963 A1 - George [David] Woodman KW - Male author AB -

Scientific dystopia with a loss of emotion. 

PB - Shipyard Press CY - Whitestable, Eng. U5 -

L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - It Was the Day of the Robot Y1 - 1963 A1 - Frank Belknap Long [Jr.] (1901-94) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Computer controlled dystopia. A computer determines whether an individual can marry based on its determination of the genetic characteristics of her or his expected children. It was programmed to ensure that the correct balance of genetic types is born, and the novel focuses on a man whose expected children would upset the balance. A sexual alternative is provided by an artificial woman constructed to any desired specifications but with limited intelligence and emotional range. There is also "emotional illusion therapy" available. The novel follows the man and the woman he thinks is an android to the "ruins" outside the city where the few women are fought over and then to Venus.

PB - Belmont CY - New York N1 -

UK ed. London: Dennis Dobson, 1964.

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L, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Jack Fell Down” Y1 - 1963 A1 - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

While the novella focuses on interplanetary politics, Earth is presented as a technological eutopia that had been brought about largely by the drop in population resulting from colonization.

JF - Science Fiction Adventures (UK) VL - 6.31 N1 -

Rpt. in Crime Prevention in the 30th Century. Ed. Hans Stefan Santesson (New York: Walker and Co., 1969), 1-38.

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Let the Spacemen Beware! Y1 - 1963 A1 - Poul [William] Anderson (1926-2001) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed eutopia in that the people of an apparently eutopian planet have a homicidal instinct.

PB - Ace CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Dennis Dobson, 1963. 

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DLC, MoU-St, PSt, SFF

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Living Gem Y1 - 1963 A1 - Paul [Samuel] Charkin (1907-86) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia with a Health Police. There is a small free love sect.

PB - Brown, Watson CY - London U5 -

L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "My Own Utopia" Y1 - 1963 A1 - Elizabeth Mann Borgese (1918-2002) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - German author KW - US author AB -

All people female until forty-four and then become male presented positively.

JF - Ascent of Woman PB - George Braziller CY - New York U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A New Boss for the Slaughterhouse? The Report of the Planet Four Expedition" Y1 - 1963 A1 - Walter Gore KW - Male author AB -

The discovery of a new planet inhabited by vegetables with a highly developed civilization and in coalition with other vegetables on other planets. They believe that only vegetables can live peacefully and that all animals, which includes humans, should be exterminated.

JF - To the Keepers of the Slaughter House. Two Narrative Stories: A Fictional But Unfictitious Study Of The Elements of Violence In the Conditions of Human Existence In the Present And In the Future--Dedicated To Man’s Supreme And Unceasing Struggle To Conquer Violence Completely And for All Time PB - Mitre Press CY - London U5 -

L, NLS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - No Laughing Matter Y1 - 1963 A1 - Senator Thinkwell [pseud.] AB -

A series of essays describing a better world called Newtopia. The essays are on Greed, Thinking, Foresight, and Population and each includes a discussion with the President of Newtopia.

PB - National Purpose Associates CY - Np VL - v. 1 U3 -

Senator Thinkwell [pseud.]. 

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DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "No Truce With Kings" Y1 - 1963 A1 - Poul [William] Anderson (1926-2001) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a future North America that has broken into warring parts and with war within some of the parts.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 24.6 N1 -

Rpt. in his Time and Stars (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1964), 1-74; rpt. (New York: Macfadden-Bartell, 1965), 7-61; and in The Saturn Game. Volume Three. The Collected Stories of Poul Anderson (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2010), 51-95.

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Merril, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Nobody Starves” Y1 - 1963 A1 - Ron[ald Joseph] Goulart (1933-2022) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future where the amount of food one receives depends on your work which is determined and judged by a machine. The protagonist is a man who hopes to be promoted but is fired instead and then falls down through the various stages of the community.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 26.2 (153) N1 -

Rpt. The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction [UK] 5.7 (June 1964): 55-; and in the author’s Broke Down Engine and Other Troubles with Machines (New York: Macmillan/London: Collier-Macmillan, 1971), 111-124.

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Orphans of the Sky Y1 - 1963 A1 - Robert A[nson] Heinlein (1907-88) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Multi-generation starship turns into a dictatorship of scientists.

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London N1 -

Rpt. St. Albans, Eng.: Panther, 1975. U.S. ed. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1964. Originally published as "Universe." Astounding Science Fiction 27.3 (May 1941): 9-42 [Rpt. as Universe. [At the head of the title Adventure on a Gigantic Spaceship]. New York: Dell, 1951]; and "Common Sense." Astounding Science Fiction 28.2 (October 1941): 102-24, 126-34, 136-38, 140-42, 144-48, 150-54.

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Pan-Humanist Manifesto--A Call for Leadership and a Program of Action in a Free World" Y1 - 1963 A1 - Ralph Borsodi (1886-1977) ED - Mildred J. Loomis KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Wide-ranging eutopia that includes a proposal for something like H.G. Wells’s Samurai in A Modern Utopia (1904-05).

JF - Way Out VL - 19.1 U5 -

KU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Physician to the Universe” Y1 - 1963 A1 - Clifford D[onald] Simak (1904-88) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which being sick is a criminal offense and everyone must have a physical checkup every six months, bathe regularly, take daily exercise, and eat only healthy food.

JF - Fantastic Stories of Imagination (Chicago, IL) VL - 12.3 N1 -

Rpt. in Strange Fantasy (Flushing, NY), no. 13 (Fall 1970): 4-;; in Physician to the Universe. The Collected Stories of Clifford D. Simak Volume II (Seattle, WA: Darkside Press, 2006), 219-51; and in The Ghost of a Model T and Other Stories: The Complete Short Stories of Clifford D. Simak Volume Three (New York: Open Road, 2015), 51-98.

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Merrl, PSt, PTU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Possibility; An Essay in Utopian Vision. Foreword. Introductory. The Oedipal Personality Y1 - 1963 A1 - Barbara Gibbs (1912-93) A1 - Francis Golffing (1910-2012) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Non-fiction and largely a critique of the present and on the preliminaries to a utopia. But a eutopia is sketched that stresses diversity, variety, and equality. There is a common language added to the vernaculars. Technology. For a revised ed. see 1991 Golffing and Gibbs. See also 1962 Golffing and Gibbs and 1975 Gibbs and Golffing.

PB - The Green Knight Press CY - Amherst, MA U5 -

HRC, NN

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Programmed People" Y1 - 1963 A1 - Jack [John Michael] Sharkey (1931-92) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia. Computer perfection with controls designed to keep the population steady. A revolt succeeds.

JF - Amazing Stories VL - 37.6 - 7 N1 -

Repub. as Ultimatum in 2050 A.D. New York: Ace Books, 1965. Rpt. as The Programmed People. Medford, OR: Armchair Books & Music, 2010.

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Repub. as Ultimatum in 2050 A.D. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Rebellers Y1 - 1963 A1 - Jane Roberts [Butts] (1929-84) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation, authoritarian dystopia. The emphasis of the novel is on the revolt against it.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York U3 -

Jane Roberts [pseud.]

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MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Reefs of Space" Y1 - 1963 A1 - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) A1 - Jack [John Stewart] Williamson (1908-2006) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia in which the Plan of Man computer has essentially enslaved humankind. 1965 Pohl and Williamson, "Starchild" is a sequel.

JF - Worlds of If Science Fiction VL - 13.3 - 5 N1 -

Repub. New York: Ballantine Books, 1965. U.K. ed. London: Dennis Dobson, 1965. Also published in their The Starchild Trilogy. The Reefs of Space Starchild Rogue Star (Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, 1969), 151-286, which includes the third volume, the non-utopian “Rogue Star,” which was originally pub. in Worlds of If Science Fiction 18.6 - 8 (127 - 29) (June - August 1968): 10-43; 119-59; 125-58; and was repub. New York: Ballantine Books, 1969. U.K. ed. London: Dennis Dobson, 1969. 

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Merril, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sands of Time Y1 - 1963 A1 - [Frank James] [Pinchin] (1925-90) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Revolt against rule by computer.

PB - Brown, Watson CY - London U3 -

Peter Dagmar [pseud.]

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L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Science Politics and Tomorrow Y1 - 1963 A1 - Isdale, Joe W AB -

Eutopia. Projects a combination of Australia, Canada, Europe, New Zealand, Russia, and the United States in 1981. Automation creates a world that is largely machine-run. Stress on education and technology. Essay form.

PB - Author CY - Houston, TX U5 -

TxU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sedge Y1 - 1963 A1 - Louis J[oseph] Halle (1910-98) KW - Swiss author KW - US author AB -

Small town eutopia. Emphasis on keeping things small.

PB - Frederick A. Praeger CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Sellers of the Dream" Y1 - 1963 A1 - John [William] Jakes (1932-2023) KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of planned obsolescence in which people can get new bodies and personalities each year as well as fashions. Conflict between the two main corporations providing the changes leads to war.

JF - Galaxy Magazine VL - 21.5 N1 -

Rpt. in Spectrum IV: A Science Fiction Anthology. Ed. Kingsley Amis and Robert Conquest (London: Victor Gollancz, 1965), 86-123; and in Tomorrow, Inc. SF Stories About Big Business. Ed. Martin Harry Greenberg and Joseph D. Olander (New York: Taplinger, 1976), 80-116. 

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Sentinel Stars: A Novel of the Future Y1 - 1963 A1 - Louis [Henry] Charbonneau (b. 1924) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A rigidly stratified, authoritarian dystopia set in 2200 with East and West merged. Each person, whose name is a number, spends their life working off tax debts. A rebel escapes and discovers another society exists.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York U5 -

DLC, L, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Shield Y1 - 1963 A1 - Poul [William] Anderson (1926-2001) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Mostly adventure but includes a short presentation of a proposed new world political system based on personal invulnerability.

PB - Berkley CY - New York N1 -

UK ed. London: Dennis Dobson, 1965. 

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UC-Riv, MH, Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Spaceman on a Spree" Y1 - 1963 A1 - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of the deadening effects of an economically secure world called the Ultrawelfare State.

JF - Worlds of Tomorrow VL - 1.2 N1 -

Rpt. in The Best of Mack Reynolds (New York: Pocket Books, 1976), 276-96 with an author's note on 275.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Star Wasps Y1 - 1963 A1 - Robert Moore Williams (1907-77) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Corporate dystopia that has enslaved most of humanity and the struggle for freedom as the setting for an alien invasion story.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York U5 -

GU, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Subliminal Man" Y1 - 1963 A1 - J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which subliminal advertising makes the population continually consume.

JF - New Worlds Science Fiction VL - 42.126 N1 -

Rpt. in In his The Disaster Area (London: Jonathan Cape, 1967), 58-80; in Eco-Fiction. Ed. John Stadler (New York: Washington Square Press/Pocket Books, 1971), 158-77; in Earth In Transit: Science Fiction and Contemporary Problems. Ed. Sheila Schwartz (New York: Dell, 1976), 213-30; in Tomorrow, Inc. SF Stories About Big Business. Ed. Martin Harry Greenberg and Joseph D. Olander (New York: Taplinger, 1976), 117-34; in The Best Short Stories of J.G. Ballard (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1978), 171-88; and in his The Complete Short Stories (London: Flamingo, 2001), 412-35.

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MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Doomsday: A Narrative Story" Y1 - 1963 A1 - Walter Gore KW - Male author AB -

An authoritarian dystopia with both hot and cold war that is similar to Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-four (1949).

JF - To the Keepers of the Slaughter House. Two Narrative Stories: A Fictional But Unfictitious Study Of The Elements of Violence In the Conditions of Human Existence In the Present And In the Future--Dedicated To Man’s Supreme And Unceasing Struggle To Conquer Violence Completely And for All Time PB - Mitre Press CY - London U5 -

L, NLS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Three Sirens. A Novel Y1 - 1963 A1 - Irving Wallace (1916-90) KW - US author AB -

In the late eighteenth century, a man influenced by William Godwin's (1756-1836) An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice (1793) settles his family on a Polynesian island and, in cooperation with the local natives, establishes a sexually free and generally egalitarian community. Most of the novel is concerned with the community being discovered and visited in the twentieth century.

PB - Simon and Schuster CY - New York U5 -

DLC, L, O, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Time Shall be Neutral (A Study of the Road to Utopia) Y1 - 1963 A1 - J[ames] C[olin] Finlay (1886?-1965) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author AB -

Capitalist eutopia based on the nationalization of banking and a State Investment program. The author's other works, particularly the later ones, are quite repetitive, often simply reproducing the same words at length. The earliest and most substantial is The Theory of Gratuitous Credit: An Examination of the Principles Governing the Abolition of the Time Element From Exchange. Guildford and Esher, Eng.: Billing and Sons, 1926. It proposes what he calls gratuitous credit where the State Bank would issue credit to the level of each individuals assets.

PB - Author CY - Auckland, New Zealand U5 -

ATL, M, NcD

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "To See the Invisible Man" Y1 - 1963 A1 - Robert Silverberg (b. 1935) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

1963 Silverberg, Robert (b. 1935). “To See the Invisible Man.” Worlds of Tomorrow 1.1 (April 1963): 153-62. Rpt. in Earth In Transit: Science Fiction and Contemporary Problems. Ed. Sheila Schwartz (New York: Dell, 1976), 53-64; in The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg. Volume 5: Ringing the Changes (London: HarperCollins, 1997), 13-27; and in The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg. Volume Two: To the Dark Star: 1962-69. (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2007), 16-27 with an author’s note on 15-16. L, Merril, PSt

A society in which punishment is through public invisibility with a brand on the forehead to identify the person. The story focuses on a man who is sentenced to a during which no one will notice or respond to him.

JF - Worlds of Tomorrow VL - 1.1 N1 -

Rpt. in Earth In Transit: Science Fiction and Contemporary Problems. Ed. Sheila Schwartz (New York: Dell, 1976), 53-64; in The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg. Volume 5: Ringing the Changes (London: HarperCollins, 1997), 13-27; in The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg. Volume Two: To the Dark Star: 1962-69 (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2007), 16-27 with an author's note on 15-16; and in Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World. Ed. [Glen] David Brin and Stephen W. Potts. Sponsored by The Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination (UCSD) (New York: Tor, 2017), 352-62.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Tourmaline Y1 - 1963 A1 - [Julian] Randolph Stow (1935-2010) KW - Australian author AB -

Dystopia of a post-nuclear war Australian town.

PB - Macdonald CY - London N1 -

Rpt. St. Lucia, QLD, Australia: University of Queenslan Press, 2002. Rpt. with the subtitle A Novel. London: Martin Secker & Warburg, 1983; and London: Minerva, 1991. U.S. ed. with the subtitle A Novel. New York: Taplinger, 1983. A draft of chapter 1 was originally published as “Tourmaline.” Meanjin, no. 85 (20.2) (July 1961): 133-38.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Utopia? Never!!" Y1 - 1963 A1 - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A flawed utopia where the economy is based on a product that requires a series of deaths.

JF - Amazing Stories VL - 37.8 N1 -

Rpt. in his One hundred and two H-Bombs and other science fiction stories (London: Roberts & Vinter, 1966), 78-81. U.S. ed. as One Hundred and Two H-Bombs. New York: Berkley, 1971), 78-81. Book repub. with different contents as White Fang Goes Dingo and other funny s.f. stories (London: Arrow Books, 1971), 67-69. Story rpt. in The Early Science Fiction Stories of Thomas M. Disch (Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1977), 86-89.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A View of New World for World State Y1 - 1963 A1 - Issho Yasugi KW - Japanese author AB -

Eutopian essay with a world state developed from the United Nations. Democracy. World Law. Moral rearmament. Common property. Cooperation of capital and labor. 

PB - Author CY - Tokyo, Japan U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Walls" Y1 - 1963 A1 - [John] Keith Laumer (1925-93) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia.

JF - Amazing Stories VL - 37.3 N1 -

Rpt. in Great Science Fiction Magazine from Amazing, no. 3 (1966): 33-45; in SF: Inventing the Future. Ed. R. Duncan Appleford (Scarborough, ON, Canada: Bellhaven House, 1972), 45-57; and in his Future Imperfect. Ed. Eric Flint (New York: Baen, 2003), 159-71.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Wheel Comes a Turn; A Novel Based On Scientific Study of War of the Sexes Y1 - 1963 A1 - Charles H. Good[rich] (b. ca. 1896) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Communist dystopia ruled by a woman who attacks and destroys the U.S. Some people escape to a planet they call Peace where only girls are born until they get help from another planet, and the novel ends with the beginnings of a eutopia. 

Communist dystopia ruled by a woman who attacks and destroys the U.S. Some people escape to a planet they call Peace where only girls are born until they get help from another planet, and the novel ends with the beginnings of a eutopia. The author was born in Bohemia, now part of the Czech Republic, and brought to the U. S. as a child.

PB - Vantage Press CY - New York U3 -

Charles H. Good [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - When the Whites Went Y1 - 1963 A1 - Robert [Moyes Carruthers] Bateman (1922-73) KW - English author AB -

Dystopia followed by the suggestion of a better future. Almost all whites disappear, and, after many problems, blacks discover cooperation.

PB - Dennis Dobson CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Digit, 1964. U.S. ed. New York: Walker & Co., 1963. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A World To Be Y1 - 1963 A1 - Edward Bernard KW - Male author AB -

Detailed eutopia particularly concerned with government structure, economics, law, and education. Representation by population worldwide. Detailed descriptions of elections and of each level of government. Gives plans for various economic sectors.

PB - Vantage Press CY - New York N1 -

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Illus.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "X Marks the Pedwalk" Y1 - 1963 A1 - Fritz [Reuter] Leiber [Jr.] (1910-92) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Society divided into wheeled and pedestrians. Compare to 1928 Keller and 1951 Bradbury.

JF - Worlds of Tomorrow VL - 1.1 N1 -

Rpt. in Nightmare Age. Ed. Frederik [George] Pohl, [Jr.] (New York: Ballantine Books, 1970), 105-10; in Car Sinister. Ed. Robert Silverberg, Martin Harry Greenberg, and Joseph Olander (New York: Avon Books, 1979), 165-70; and in Microcosmic Tales: 100 Wondrous Science Fiction Short-Short Stories. Ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and Joseph D. Olander (New York: Taplinger Publishing Co., 1980); rpt. (New York: DAW Books, 1992), 282-87.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “2 B R 0 2 B” Y1 - 1962 A1 - Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (1922-2007) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which to keep population in check under the Federal Bureau of Termination someone must die for each birth and only one child in a multiple birth will be allowed to live. The title is said to represent “To Be or Not to Be”.

JF - Worlds of If Science Fiction VL - 11.6 N1 -

Rpt. in Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction. Ed. Leigh Ronald Grossman (Rockville, MD: Wildside Press, 2011), 694-96 with an editor’s note on 694; in The Big Book of Science Fiction: The Ultimate Collection. Ed. Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (New York: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Vintage Books, 2016), 447-51 with an editors’ note on 446; in Grave Predictions: Tales of Mankind’s Post-Apocalyptic, Dystopian and Disastrous Destiny. Ed. Drew Ford (Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2016), 62-70; in Novels & Stories 1950-1962 Player Piano The Sirens of Titan Mother Night Stories. Ed. Sidney Offit (New York: The Library of America, 2012), 770-77, with a Note on the Text (819-23); and in his Complete Stories. Ed. Jerome Klinkowitz & Dan Wakefield (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2017), 900-05.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The A-M-O F-O-R-M-U-L-A Y1 - 1962 A1 - Edwin E.H. Hugli (b. 1890) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Democratic socialist eutopia. Public ownership (including homes and farms), a single income for each person, Amo money (an invented medium of exchange based on production), industrial coordination, freedom and democracy, international and inter-racial harmony, and love and non-violence. See also 1933 and 1964 Hugli

PB - Edwin E.H. Hugli CY - Toronto, ON, Canada U5 -

Can, CaOTU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Another Man's Hell Y1 - 1962 A1 - W[illia]m E. Kemper Jr. KW - Male author AB -

Mildly authoritarian dystopia set in 2062. Computers do all the work.

PB - Chicago Paperback House CY - Chicago, IL U1 -

Before title on the cover "One Man's Utopia is--".

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Cage of Sand" Y1 - 1962 A1 - J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia where Florida is now. Mostly sand dunes, and people trying to live there are captured by wardens.

JF - New Worlds Science Fiction (London) VL - 40.119 N1 -

Rpt. in The Ruins of Earth: An Anthology of Stories of the Immediate Future. Ed. Thomas M[ichael] Disch (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1971), 137-59; and in his The Complete Short Stories (London: Flamingo, 2001), 355-72.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Catacombs Y1 - 1962 A1 - Helga [Susan Barbara] Harrison (b. 1923) KW - Female author KW - UK author AB -

Post catastrophe authoritarian dystopia called the Communes. There is a group practicing a crude Christianity living underground and dependent on food they steal from the Communes.

PB - Chatto & Windus CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Circuit Riders” Y1 - 1962 A1 - R. C. FitzPatrick AB -

Crime prevention in a future of complete surveillance presented positively.

JF - Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact VL - 69.2 N1 -

Rpt. in Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World. Ed. [Glen] David Brin and Stephen W. Potts. Sponsored by The Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination (UCSD) (New York: Tor, 2017), 60-71. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Clockwork Orange Y1 - 1962 A1 - [John Anthony Burgess] [Wilson] (1917-1993) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of violence, drugs, and youth gangs who speak Nadsat, an argot based on Russian. One theme that appears throughout Burgess’s works is opposition to state action, here reflected in the state’s attempts to reform the protagonist. The chapter missing from the U.S. edition and left out of the film depicts the redemption of the protagonist.

PB - Heinemann CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. with significant differences. New York: W. W. Norton, 1963; rev. New York: W.W. Norton, 1987, with “Introduction: A Clockwork Orange Resucked” (v-xi) and with an added last chapter that was in the original U.K. edition but not in the U.S. edition or in Stanley Kubrick’s film. Critical ed. based on the Heinemann ed. as A Clockwork Orange: Authoritative Text Backgrounds and Contexts Criticism. Ed. Mark Rawlinson (New York: W.W. Norton, 2011), 1-121, with “Notes on the Text” (122) and “A Glossary of Nadsat Terms” (123-27). 50th anniversary edition with a “restored text.” Ed. Andrew Biswell. New York: W.W. Norton, 2012, with an “Introduction by the editor (vii-xxiii), “Notes” (205-12), “Annotated Pages from Anthony Burgess’s 1961 Typescript (213-20, “The Clockwork Condition” 221-238), and “EPILOGUE: ‘A Malenky Govoreet about the Molodoy’ Anthony Burgess, 1987” (239-46). Rpt. illus. Ben Jones. London: The Folio Society, 2014, with an “Introduction by Irvine Welsh (xi-xix) and “A Note on the Restored Edition” (xxi-xxii), “Notes” (201-10), and “Nadsat Glossary” (211-14) by Andrew Biswell. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Cocoon" Y1 - 1962 A1 - [John] Keith Laumer (1925-93) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which people have chosen to live in machines that keep them constantly fed and entertained, but the system breaks down.

JF - Fantastic Stories of Imagination VL - 11.12 N1 -

Rpt. in his Future Imperfect. Ed. Eric Flint (New York: Baen, 2003), 172-87.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Copper Cow Y1 - 1962 A1 - Tom Chetwynd (1938-2012) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

An odd authoritarian dystopia with much fear and violence.

PB - Anthony Blond CY - London U5 -

L, NLS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Country of the Strong" Y1 - 1962 A1 - Dennis [William] Etchison (1943-2019) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eugenic dystopia in which the unfit are publicly murdered by SS (Selectival Survival) operatives.

JF - Seventeen N1 -

Rpt. in New Writings in S-F 4. Ed. [Edward] John Carnell (London: Dennis Dobson, 1965), 101-10 with a brief editor's note on 99.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Critical Mass" Y1 - 1962 A1 - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) A1 - C[yril] M[ichael] Kornbluth (1923-58) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satiric dystopia of a future U.S. obsessed with bomb shelters.

JF - Galaxy Magazine VL - 20.3 N1 -

Rpt. in their The Wonder Effect (New York: Ballantine Books, 1962), 11-46.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Deer Park" Y1 - 1962 A1 - [Mary Russell] [Standard] (b. 1926) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future that would now be characterized as with people living in Virtual Reality. In the story, told from the point of view of the man, the protagonist lives the world he created with a woman he created. He is challenged by a woman from outside his reality who completely rejects his sense of reality. 

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 22.1 (128) SN - 9781951320003 N1 -

Rpt. in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (UK) 3.6 (May 1962): 38-; and in Rediscovery: Science Fiction by Women (1958-1963). Ed. A. J. Howells, Janice Marcus, and Erica Frank (Visa, CA: Journey Press, 2019), 142-54, with an introduction by Claire Weaver on 142-43. 

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Maria Russell [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Different Drummer Y1 - 1962 A1 - William Melvin Kelley (1937-2017) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

The novel begins in the South that is a dystopia for all African Americans. One man revolts, salts his fields, kills his livestock, burns his house down, and leaves. All the other African Americans in the town follow his example. 

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Rpt. New York: Anchor Books, 1989 with a “Foreword” by David Bradley (xi-xxxii); and London: riverrun, 2018, with a “Foreword: ‘The Lost Giant of American Literature’” by Kathryn Schulz (ix-xxxiv), which was originally published in The New Yorker 93.36 (January 29, 2018): 26-31 (https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/01/29/the-lost-giant-of-american-literature); and “A Biography of William Melvin Kelley” by Jessica Kelley (his daughter) (295-302).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Drowned World Y1 - 1962 A1 - J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A Ballardian version of a climate change/global warming dystopia set in 2145 in a tropical, abandoned, and flooded London.

PB - Berkley Medallion CY - New York N1 -

U.S. ed. rpt. in The Drowned World and The Wind from Nowhere. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1965. U.K. ed. rpt. London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1983; and, with minor changes. London: The Folio Society, 2013, with an Introduction by Will Self (xi-xviii) and Illus. By James Boswell. Expanded from “The Drowned World.” Science Fiction Adventures 4.24 (January 1962).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Eleventh Commandment: A Novel of a Church and Its World Y1 - 1962 A1 - [Leonard] [Knapp] (1915-93) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia due to Roman Catholic dominance.

PB - Regency CY - Evanston, IL N1 -

Rev. ed. without the subtitle New York: Ballantine Books, 1970.

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Lester del Rey [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - [“A Fable for Tomorrow”] Y1 - 1962 A1 - Rachel Carson (1907-64) KW - Female author KW - US author JF - The New Yorker VL - 38.17 N1 -

Rpt. with the chapter title in her Silent Spring. Illus. Lois and Louis Darling (Boston, MA: Houghton, Mifflin, 1962), 1-3. Rpt. With an Introduction by Vice President Al Gore. Illus. Lois and Louis Darling (Boston, MA: Houghton, Mifflin, 1962), 1-3; and in Silent Spring and Other Writings on the Environment. Ed. Sandra Steingraber (New York: The Library of America, 2018, 9-11 with a note on the text (514-15).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Gadget Vs. Trend" Y1 - 1962 A1 - [Harry C.] [Crosby] [Jr.] (1925-2009) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Effect of a machine allowing complete privacy and inviolability. Through the device, the U.S., which had been becoming too conformist, becomes too individualist.

JF - Analog Science Fact--Science Fiction VL - 70.2 N1 -

Rpt. in Spectrum IV: A Science Fiction Anthology. Ed. Kingsley Amis and Robert Conquest (London: Victor Gollancz, 1965), 55-69; in Give Me Liberty. Ed. Martin Harry Greenberg and Mark Tier (New York: Baen, 2003), 65-83; and in Freedom! Ed. Martin Harry Greenberg and Mark Tier (New York: Baen, 2006), 55-69.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Garthians Y1 - 1962 A1 - Decima Leach KW - Female author AB -

Technologically advanced eutopia in which the basis for the good society is the correct early training of children.

PB - Arthur H. Stockwell CY - Ilfracombe, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Good Morning! This Is the Future” Y1 - 1962 A1 - Henry Slesar (1927-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Brief vignettes of three men who had had themselves frozen being awakened into a dystopia worse than what they had been trying to escape.

JF - Rogue N1 -

Rpt. in Microcosmic Tales: 100 Wondrous Science Fiction Short-Short Stories. Ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and Joseph D. Olander (New York: Taplinger Publishing Co., 1980); rpt. (New York: DAW Books, 1992), 118-23. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Great Explosion Y1 - 1962 A1 - Eric Frank Russell (1905-78) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Earth sends groups of people into space to practice their own beliefs, and three societies of the far future are described. The first is the result of a planet peopled by transported criminals. They develop into a series of isolated strongholds adept at war and opposed to labor and includes a group of nomadic Romany or Gypsies. The second, Hygeia, was settled by Naturists, is inhabited by healthy people, and is a eutopia. The third, Gands, was founded on Gandhian principles and is  an anarchist eutopia. Important slogans are F-I.W. (Freedom-I Won’t) and Myob (Mind your own business). 

PB - Dennis Dobson CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Distributed by Dodd, Mead, 1962. Rpt. New York: Avon, 1975. Part originally published as " . . . And Then There Were None." Astounding Science Fiction 47.4 (June 1951): 7-65; story rpt. in Alternative Communities: Magazine of the Alternative Communities Movement, no. 14 - 17 (1983 - 84): 2-13; 2-15; 2- 14; 2-10; in Major Ingredients: The Selected Short Stories of Eric Frank Russell. Ed. Rick Katze (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2000), 24-75; in Give Me Liberty. Ed. Martin Harry Greenberg and Mark Tier (New York: Baen, 2003), 291-381; and in Freedom! Ed. Martin Harry Greenberg and Mark Tier (New York: Baen, 2006), 233-305.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Homosexual Aid Society in the Middle of the 21st Century" Y1 - 1962 A1 - Roger Barth KW - Male author AB -

Short story about a reformed future from a homosexual perspective. An agreement had been reached that homosexuals could live anywhere but would refrain from intercourse in small towns. In cities over 10,000, they were completely free, and in "the Great City" the Homosexual Aid Society had a large area with two large towers, one for men and one for women, and provided services ranging from education to match making.

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CLU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Immortals Y1 - 1962 A1 - James E[dwin] Gunn (1923-2020) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Transplant dystopia with society controlled by doctors. 

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. with an added "Part III Elixir" (91-145). New York: Pocket Books, 2004. Parts originally published as "The Immortals." By Dr. Russell Pierce [pseud.]. Star Science Fiction #4. Ed. Frederik [George] Pohl, [Jr.] (New York: Ballantine Books, 1958), 108-57. Story rpt. as "The Immortal." In his The End of the Dreams: Three Short Novels about Space, Happiness, and Immortality (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1975), 127-77; "New Blood." By Dr. Russell Pierce [pseud.]. Astounding Science Fiction 56.2 (October 1955): 62-84; "Donor." Fantastic Stories of Imagination 9.11 (November 1960): 49-67, 120-28; Rpt. in The Most Thrilling Science Fiction Ever Told [which reprinted stories from Fantastic], no. 1 (1966): 3-30; "Not So Great an Enemy" [in the book as "Medic"]. Venture Science Fiction 1.4 (4) (July 1957): 4-44; rpt. in the UK edition of Venture Science Fiction, no. 6 (February 1964): 76-112. "Elixir" was also published separately in Analog Science Fact Science Fiction 124.5 (May 2004): 8-29.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Inaugurator. Do you think that this is An Interesting Short Story? OR Interesting Science Fiction? OR A plan that makes the European Common Market out of date before it is born? OR A pointer to prosperity and World Peace? Y1 - 1962 A1 - [Frank] Harvey King KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. New system of international trade in which there will be a single world market with all prices regulated.

PB - Holsum Pub. Co CY - Southport, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Insane Ones" Y1 - 1962 A1 - J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which all psychological intervention is illegal, being insane is a protected category, suicide is legal, and it is a crime to interfere with a suicide attempt.

JF - Amazing Stories VL - 36.1 N1 -

Rpt. in Great Science Fiction, no. 7 ([1967]): 95-105; and in his The Complete Short Stories (London: Flamingo, 2001), 289-97.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Island Y1 - 1962 A1 - Aldous [Leonard] Huxley (1894-1963) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Free love, psychedelic drugs, science, and religion bring eutopia.

PB - Harper & Row CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. London: Flamingo, 1994.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "It Could Be You" Y1 - 1962 A1 - Frank Roberts KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which a game is developed to raise consumption. A person is chosen and the one who kills that person wins.

JF - The Bulletin (Sydney, NSW, Australia) VL - 33.4281 N1 -

Rpt. in The Pacific Book of Australian SF. Ed. John [Martin] Baxter (Sydney, NSW, Australia: Angus and Robertson, 1968), 7-15. Book rpt. as The Pacific Book of Science Fiction. Ed. John [Martin] Baxter (Sydney, NSW, Australia: Angus and Robertson, 1969), 7-15.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - It Shall Be Conquered Y1 - 1962 A1 - Jo Leslee KW - Female author AB -

Detailed eutopia based on science and religion on the planet Maresdon, which cannot be seen from Earth. Telepathy. No illness.

PB - Christopher Pub. House CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Jewels of Aptor Y1 - 1962 A1 - Samuel R[ay] Delany (b. 1942) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

Post-atomic age dystopian quest novel with much fantasy. 

PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -

 Rev. ed. New York: Ace Books, 1968 which restores cut in the first edition; U.K. ed. London: Victor Gollancz, 1968. Further rev. London: Sphere Books, 1971; rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1976 with an “Introduction” by Don Hausdorff (v-xii).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "John Sze's Future" Y1 - 1962 A1 - John R. Pierce (1910-2002) ED - Groff Conklin KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A brief time-travel story in which the protagonist ends up in a future that officially rejects the hard sciences while unofficially using them. The word nuclear is obscene.

JF - Great Science Fiction by Scientists PB - Collier Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Journey Beyond Tomorrow Y1 - 1962 A1 - Robert Sheckley (1928-2005) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Machine dominated dystopia contrasted with a simple life eutopia.

PB - Signet CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Dimensions of Sheckley: The Selected Novels of Robert Sheckley. Ed. Sharon L. Sbarsky (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2002), 153-265. Abr. as "Journey of Joenes." The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 23.4 - 5 (October - November 1962): 71-128, 71-127.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Journey Into Limbo; A Novel of Intimate Adventure Y1 - 1962 A1 - [Milton] Scott Michel (1916-92) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia. A group of Christians are shipwrecked on an isolated South Atlantic island in 43 A.D. Over time they lose their religion and establish a society based on the goal of the happiest life free from guilt. People are made outcasts if not physically perfect.

PB - Liveright Pub. Corp CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lani People Y1 - 1962 A1 - J[esse] F[ranklin] Bone (1916-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A planet is inhabited by beautiful women who have been bred to perfectly please men and are only happy if completely naked. They are shipped throughout the galaxy.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Transworld, 1962.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Last Year's Grave Undug" Y1 - 1962 A1 - [Horace] Chan[dler] Davis (b. 1926) ED - Groff Conklin KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia that is the result of two fascists fighting for power in the U.S. and destroying it. .

JF - Great Science Fiction by Scientists PB - Collier Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in It Walks in Beauty: Selected Prose of Chandler Davis. Ed. Josh Lukin (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2010), 141-66.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Life for the Stars Y1 - 1962 A1 - James [Benjamin] Blish (1921-75) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel begins with a dystopia of an Earth depleted of resources with entire cities leaving Earth as physical units to roam space looking for work. The focus of the novel is a young man who is impressed into the work force of a leaving city and then traded to another city.

PB - G.P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York N1 -

UK ed. London: Faber & Faber, 1964. Also published in Analog Science Fact--Science Fiction 70.1 - 2 (September - October 1962): 6-51, 111-61. Part of a series collected in his Cities in Flight (New York: Avon, 1970), 131-234. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Man in the High Castle Y1 - 1962 A1 - Philip K[indred] Dick (1928-82) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Alternative history dystopia. Germans and Japanese had won World War II, divided up the world, and run their sections for their own benefit.

PB - G.P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1979 with an "Introduction" by Joseph Milicia (v-xxxiv); and in Four Novels of the 1960s. [Ed. Jonathan Allen Lethem] (New York: Library of America, 2007), 1-229. "Notes" 819-28.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - New Zealand: "The Small Utopia" Y1 - 1962 A1 - Kenneth [Hector] Melvin (1905-69) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

New Zealand as a eutopia. A picture book about New Zealand that explicitly contends that it is a eutopia. The epigram to the book is a poem from "'The Book of Tao': II-LXXX: Laotse translated by K.C. Lee", which is used with minor variations as chapter headings: "Let there be a small country, with small populationWhere the supply of goods is tenfold or hundredfold more than they can use: Let people value their lives and not migrate far. Though armour and weapons exist, there is no occasion to display them. Let them enjoy their food, beautify their clothing, be satisfied with their homes, delight in their customs; Needing never to move outside their own country" (5).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Old Man" Y1 - 1962 A1 - Henry Slesar (1927-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

“The Old Man” is a computer that rules a country. The human rulers know it is a computer, but no one else does, and they resent the limitations on their freedom and that all electric power goes to power the computer.

JF - The Diner’s Club Magazine VL - 1 N1 -

Rpt. in Microcosmic Tales: 100 Wondrous Science Fiction Short-Short Stories. Ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and Joseph D. Olander (New York: Taplinger Publishing Co., 1980); rpt. (New York: DAW Books, 1992), 248-52.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Perfect Planet Y1 - 1962 A1 - Evelyn E. Smith (1927-2000) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Satire. Artemis was an isolated planet that served as a health resort but was cut off during Earth’s wars. Earth has become prudish, and the people are overweight and physically weak. A man and a woman from Earth arrive on Artemis, and they find a society in which the brochures from the past are infallible, sacred texts. The people are required by law to keep at their ideal weight and wear few clothes, shocking the overdressed and overweight Earthlings. A continuing sub-theme is that the women treat the men as the “superior sex” while being in complete control. 

PB - Avalon CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Lancer, 1963.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Planet Called Terra Y1 - 1962 A1 - [Thomas W.] [Wade] KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Eutopia with no money and warehouses where all goods are freely available. The people are telepathic. Traditional gender-roles. Terra is a world on the other side of the galaxy where people from Earth are reborn with some degree of memory of their previous life or lives on Earth. A sequel is [Tom W. Wade], United Planets. By Victor Wadey [pseud.]. London: Digit, 1962. U.S. ed. New York: Arcadia House, 1967, which is set mostly on Earth with the same protagonists.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Small Armageddon Y1 - 1962 A1 - Mordecai [Marceli] Roshwald (1921-2015) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of militarism.

PB - Heinemann CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Subversive" Y1 - 1962 A1 - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of an inefficient U.S. economy with the Soviet Union ensuring that anyone with good ideas on how to improve it is eliminated.

JF - Analog Science Fact--Science Fiction VL - 70.4 N1 -

Rpt. in The Best of Mack Reynolds (New York: Pocket Books, 1976), 167-87 with a brief author's note on 166.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Ticket That Exploded Y1 - 1962 A1 - William S[eward] Burroughs (1914-97) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The second volume in a trilogy with Burroughs’s usual emphases. See 1961 and 1964 Burroughs for the other volumes in the trilogy. 

PB - Olympia CY - Paris N1 -

Rev. ed. New York: Grove Press, 1967. Part of the section “silence to say good bye” (Grove 183-202) was originally published as “‘Burning Heavens, Idiot’.” The Insect Trust Gazette, no. 1 (Summer 1964): 21-26; and the appendix (not labeled as such in Grove) was published as “The Invisible Generation.” The International Times (London), nos. 3 and 6 (November 16-27, 1966 and January 16-29, 1967): 6, 6. The sections “in a strange bed” (Grove 32-42) and “the black fruit” (Grove 85-95) were written in collaboration with Michael Portman.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Times Without Number Y1 - 1962 A1 - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopian alternative history in which England did not defeat the Spanish Armada in 1588, and England became the center on the Spanish empire after Spain was re-conquered by Muslims.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -

Originally published as “The Word Not Written.” Science Fiction Adventures 4.26 [vol. 5 on cover] (May 1962): 62-100; “Spoil of Yesterday.” Science Fiction Adventures 4.25 [vol. 5 on cover] ([March] 1962): 2-40; and “The Fullness of Time.” Science Fiction Adventures 4.27 [vol. 5 on cover] ([July] 1962): 2-41. Rev. and exp. ed. of the book New York: Ace Books, 1969; rpt. New York: Ballantine Books, 1983. UK ed. London: Elmfield Press, 1974. The original stories, never before reprinted, can be found in The Society of Time: The Original Trilogy and Other Stories. Ed. Mike [Michael Raymond Donald] Ashley (London: British Library, 2020), 13-165, with “Spoil of Yesterday” on 13-63, “The Word Not Written” on 65-114, and “The Fullness of Time” on 115-165.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Wanting Seed Y1 - 1962 A1 - [John Anthony Burgess] [Wilson] (1917-1993) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia in which homosexuality is encouraged to keep down population growth. Various methods were being used to keep population down including a fake war (called Extermination Sessions) and State condoned infanticide.

PB - Heinemann CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 1963. Rpt. New York: Ballantine Books, 1964. U.K. ed. rpt. London: Hamlyn Paperbacks, 1983 with "A Foreword" by the author comparing A Clockwork Orange and The Wanting Seed; and in his Future Imperfect: The Wanting Seed. 1985 (London: Vintage, 1994), 1-282, which reprints the 1983 foreword (ix-xii) and includes his "1985 and The Wanting Seed--An Introduction" (v-viii).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Weather Man" Y1 - 1962 A1 - Theodore L[ockard] Thomas (1920-2005) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

World control of weather has generally produced a eutopia.

JF - Analog Science Fact--Science Fiction (New York) PB - Little, Brown CY - Boston, MA VL - 69.4 N1 -

Rpt. in The Days After Tomorrow. Ed. Hans Stefan Santesson (Boston, MA: Little, Brown, 1971), 95-142. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - When Time Stood Still Y1 - 1962 A1 - Ben [Harrison] Orkow (1896-1988) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian, overpopulation dystopia.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Wind of Liberty Y1 - 1962 A1 - Henry Kenneth Bulmer (1921-2005) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia in which corporations rule. Rebels.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Wrinkle in Time Y1 - 1962 A1 - Madeleine L'Engle (1918-2007) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A young adult science fiction novel about the struggle between good and evil that depicts an authoritarian dystopia on another planet. A film with a screenplay by Jennifer Lee (b. 1971) and directed by Ava DuVerney (b. 1972) was released in 2018. On the film, see Kate Egan, The World of A Wrinkle in Time: The Making of the Movie. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Books for Young Readers/Macmillan, 2018. See also the non-utopian sequels, A Wind in the Door. New York: Crosswind, 1973; A Swiftly Tilting Planet. New York: Crosswind, 1978; and Many Waters. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1986.

PB - Ariel Books CY - [New York] N1 -

25th anniversary ed. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1987 (500 numbered copies). 50th anniversary ed. with an "Afterword" (205-22), her "Newberry Medal Acceptance Speech" (255-62), and other material. New York: Farrar, Straus Giroux, 2012. Rpt. in The Wrinkle in Time Quartet: A Wrinkle in Time A Wind in the Door A Swiftly Tilting Planet Many Waters with The Kairos Novels at the head of the title. Ed. Leonard S. Marcus (New York The Library of America, 2018), 1-151, with “The Expanding Universe, Newberry ward Acceptance Speech” (747-51), “Unpublished Essay on Time” (752-54, “Childlike Wonder and the Truths of Science Fiction” (755-63), “Dare To Be Creative! Lecture at the Library of Congress” (764-75) “Four Deleted Sections from A Wrinkle in Time” (776-99), a Note on the Text (830-32), and Notes (835-40). See also Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time. The Graphic Novel. Adapted and illus. Hope Larson. New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2012. A film tie-in edition of the book New York: Square Fish/Farrar Straus Giroux, 2017 was published with “An Appreciation” by Ava DuVernay (1-3), “Go Fish Questions for the Author” (203-06), the author’s “Newbury Acceptance Speech The Expanding Universe” (207-12), and “The L’Engle Cast of Characters” (214-15). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Zilov Bombs Y1 - 1962 A1 - D[onald] G[abriel] Barron KW - Male author AB -

Dystopian background with England controlled by the USSR and an underground movement organizing. Mostly adventure.

PB - André Deutsch CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 1963.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Acclivity: An Epic of the Universe Y1 - 1961 A1 - Robert Charles Lafferty (1880-2009) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Religious eutopia presented through a poem. Acclivity means an upward slope, and the poem begins with the present-day problems and ascends through various stages to a world of vigorous, healthy people living in a luxuriant land with no need of government. The author was an architect and engineer.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Alpha Ralpha Boulevard" Y1 - 1961 A1 - [Paul Myron Anthony] [Linebarger] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A future that rejects organized perfection in the name of freedom, such as the freedom to get sick and die, to be injured, or to be unhappy, finds that the new society has as many difficulties as the old one.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 20.6 (121) N1 -

Rpt. in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (U.K.), second series 2.11 (October 1961): 86-112; in his you will never be the same (Evanston, IL: Regency Books, 1963), 115-42; in The Best of Cordwainer Smith (Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, 1975), 259-86; in The Norton Book of Science Fiction: North American Science Fiction. Ed. Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin and Brian Attebery. Karen Joy Fowler, Consultant (New York: W.W. Norton, 1993), 49-73; and in The Rediscovery of Man: The Complete Short Science Fiction of Cordwainer Smith [pseud.]. Ed. James A. Mann (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 1993), 375-99.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Analysts" Y1 - 1961 A1 - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Most of the story concerns a “visualizer” trying to understand the purpose of a proposed building with internal staircases and corridors that end in blank walls. It turns out that if someone continues, they emerge in a future that is trying to atone for the way humans responded to discovering many peaceful, advanced civilizations, which was to attack rather than try to understand.

JF - Science Fantasy VL - 16.48 SN - 978-0-7123-5382-3 N1 -

Rpt. in The Society of Time: The Original Trilogy and Other Stories. Ed. Mike [Michael Raymond Donald] Ashley (London: British Library, 2020), 239-87.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Billenium" Y1 - 1961 A1 - J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia presenting extreme overcrowding.

JF - New Worlds Science Fiction VL - 38.112 N1 -

Rpt. in his Billenium (New York: Berkley, 1962), 7-21; in Cities of Wonder. Ed. Damon [Francis] Knight (New York: Macfadden-Bartell, 1967), 92-107; and in his Chronopolis and Other Stories (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1971), 137-51; and as “Billennium” in his The Terminal Beach (London: Victor Gollancz, 1964), 175-91; in Future Tense. Ed. Richard Curtis (New York: Dell, 1968), 50-65; in Voyages: Scenarios for a Ship Called Earth. Ed. Rob Sauer (New York: Zero Population Growth/Ballantine Books, 1971), 3-23; in The City 2000 A.D.: Urban Life Through Science Fiction. Ed. Ralph Clem, Martin Harry Greenberg, and Joseph Olander (Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Crest, 1976), 94-109; in Earth In Transit: Science Fiction and Contemporary Problems. Ed. Sheila Schwartz (New York: Dell, 1976), 136-51; in The Best Short Stories of J.G. Ballard (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1978), 125-40; in The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories. Ed. Tom Shippey (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1992), 286-301; in his The Complete Short Stories. (London: Flamingo, 2001), 267-78; and in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 113-25; 2nd ed. ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 113-25.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Black Man's Burden" Y1 - 1961 A1 - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The first volume in his Africa series about the attempt to keep an independent Africa free from the dominance of either East or West. In this volume, some people in an Africa that has advanced with the help of capitalists and Communists organize to keep Africa independent. The second volume, “Border, Breed nor Birth.” Analog Science Fact--Science Fiction 59.5 - 6 (July - August 1962): 100-52, 104-56. Repub. New York: Ace Books, 1972. Ace Double bound with his Blackman’s Burden (1972), focuses on the conflict that follows. The third volume is The Best Ye Breed. New York: Ace Books, 1978 [Although there is no indication of it, the novel contains his “Black Sheep Astray.” Astounding, John W. Campbell Memorial Anthology. Ed. Harry Harrison (New York: Random House, 1973). Rpt. (New York: Ballantine Books, 1974), 218-50 with an author’s note on 219-20. U.K. ed. (London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1974), 206-34]. It describes further conflict between North African liberation movement and all the forces opposed to it, and the liberation movement is at least temporarily defeated.

JF - Analog Science Fact--Science Fiction VL - 68.4 - 5 N1 -

Repub. as Blackman's Burden. New York: Ace Books, 1972. Ace Double bound with his Border, Breed Nor Birth (1972)

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Challenge. Plan of Action For a Better Tomorrow. A Major Novel of the Near Future Y1 - 1961 A1 - Arthur C. Mangels A1 - Albert F. Byers KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Capitalist eutopia. Complicated scheme to establish Earth's Trading Post, Inc. as the world's largest corporation to buy up US assets and lease them back, which will make everything more efficient and effectively compete with Communism. Good capitalists refuse salaries in excess of absolute need. The military is privatized and is more efficient. There is a strong religious component. Women's clubs, which can be established or joined through a coupon on the back cover flap, are instrumental in eliminating government waste. Another coupon on the front cover flap offers copies to corporations, complete with company logos on the cover, to distribute to their shareholders.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Come Out to Play Y1 - 1961 A1 - Alex[ander] Comfort (1920-2000) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on the effect of science on the world. Scientists recognize that the repression of sexuality or the sexual passions is one of the central roadblocks to human betterment and discover how to release the superego. The suggestion is clear that if such repression is overcome a much better life will be possible. 

PB - Eyre & Spottiswoode CY - London N1 -

Rpt. New York: Crown, 1975 with unpaged notes from the publisher and the author.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Cosmocracy: The Universal Monetary System Y1 - 1961 A1 - J[ohn] B[ernard] Ball (b. 1911) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

One of his many detailed eutopias focusing on changes to the monetary system. This volume lays out the basic points, all of which stem from making credit always available, which are expanded and added to in later volumes. Although there are some variations, the eutopia is fairly consistent between the first three works published in 1956 and the last published in 1990. This book and some others also include his cosmological views. In 1957 the author ran in the Canadian federal election as a candidate in Regina, Saskatchewan for the National Credit Control Party, a party of his own creation. His purpose was to publicize the monetary system he developed. See “J.B. Ball National Credit Control” within “Six Candidates Offer Final Election Message.” The Leader-Post (Regina, SK, Canada) 48.132 (June 8, 1957): 3. See also 1956 Ball Ahoy for Eternity and National Credit, The Handbook of the Universal Monetary System, and Universal Monetary System of National Credit Control, and The Universal Monetary System of National Credit Control: A Financial Revolution With Nationalized Accounting Merchandising at Cost; See also 1956 Ball, The Handbook of the Universal Monetary System and Universal Monetary System of National Credit Control. Regina, SK, Canada: J. B. Ball; 1956 Ball, The Universal Monetary System of National Credit Control: A Financial Revolution With Nationalized Accounting Merchandising at Cost. A New Democracy Based on Credit Card Currency. Regina, SK, Canada: National Credit Control of America; 1978 Ball, Permacredit. Universal Finance for Government & Industry. World Government without Trade Deficits. A Cash System of Accounting without Debt in Industry or Government or Taxes Against Industry or Credit Cards. Foremost, AB: Author; 1980 Ball, The Cosmic Laws of the Spectrum: Evolution and Government. By Barney Ballmark [pseud.]. [Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications];1982 Ball, Technomics. A Better Economy. International. By Barney Ballmark [pseud.]. [Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications]; 1986 Ball, Beyond Capitalism. Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications; and 1988 Ball, The Laws of the Micro Giants. An Odyssean Classic. Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications. Other versions include Technomics in one corporate world. By Barney Ballmark [pseud.]. [Foremost, AB: Author], [1983]; The Technomic Alliance [subtitle on the cover No Taxes on property or income, the obvious solution, total employment]. 3rd ed. By Barney Ballmark [pseud.]. Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications, 1984; Pathway to the Stars: Industrial Democracy Beyond Democracy and Christianity Plus the Photon Theory of Creation. Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications, 1986. [New ed.] as The Pathway to the Stars. The Photon theory of Creation. Poetry. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1987. Rpt. as Pathway to the Stars. Industrial Democracy Beyond Capitalism and Christianity Plus the Photon Theory of Creation. Includes Poetry Selections. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1989. Another ed. as The Pathway to the Stars. By The Hobo Poet [pseud.]. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1990 in four sections, [“Memoirs, Poetry, and Stories] (1-164),” “Industrial Capitalism--Beyond Capitalism” (165-213), “Gleaning from Prairie Art Shows” (214-29), and “Radiation Properties of Creation” (230-51); Technomics International. Perpetual Payroll Financing for Government and Industry. Rev. October 1986. [Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1986; Industrial Democracy. Beyond Capitalism and Christianity. Includes the Photon Laws of Creation. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1989; and Industrial Democracy. Beyond Capitalism. This concept of world marketing explains how nations can finance total employment, without international debt, or taxation on property and income. New Economic System. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1990. 53 pp.

PB - J. B. Ball CY - Regina, SK, Canada N1 -

2nd ed. Regina, SK, Canada: J. B. Ball, 1962. 57 pp. 3rd ed. as Cosmocracy: One Corporate World. Regina, SK, Canada: J. B. Ball. 53 pp. 2nd ed. Regina, SK, Canada: J. B. Ball, 1962. 72 pp.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Ecumen of Nations Y1 - 1961 A1 - Louis Martineau KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Detailed eutopia of world order presented as a religious book, which begins "This is God's word to the nations of the earth. These will be their boundaries, their forms of government, their future destinies, and their ways toward happiness" (11).  The nations include many different religions and many current nations united into many. Most of the book is concerned with details regarding the nine commonwealths the world will be divided into. Intended to be the first volume of three, but no more were published.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Education in the Thirtieth Century: After Automation--What?" Y1 - 1961 A1 - Howard [Augustine] Ozmon [Jr.] (1929-2014) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Mild satire on the future of education.

JF - Educational Forum VL - 25 ER - TY - ABST T1 - England under Hitler Y1 - 1961 A1 - Comer Clarke AB -

Dystopia of England under Nazi rule and the successful resistance movement.

PB - Ballantine CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. as If the Nazi's Had Come. London: World, 1962.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Escape to Berkshire. A Novel Y1 - 1961 A1 - H[ugh] C[ecil] Asterley (1902-1973) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel is set in a post-nuclear war England and the earlies beginnings of re-building.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Eupsychia—the Good Society" Y1 - 1961 A1 - Abraham H. Maslow Ph.D. KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Combines comments on utopias and a brief statement of the author's idea of Eupsychia, or a psychologically healthy culture. In such a society all basic needs will have been met, and, with all people healthy, there will be much spontaneity and creativity.

JF - Journal of Humanistic Psychology VL - 1.2 ER - TY - ABST T1 - A for Anything Y1 - 1961 A1 - Damon [Francis] Knight (1922-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A machine that can duplicate anything produces a dystopia of a rigid, stratified, slave society.

PB - New English Library, Four Square Books CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Walker & Co., 1970. Rpt. New York: Avon, 1980. Shorter version as The People Maker. Rockville, NY: Zenith Books, 1959.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Freedom" Y1 - 1961 A1 - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a future in which the Soviet Union is economically successful but remains a dictatorship. The story follows the trajectory of a man from when he completely accepts the system and eliminates dissent to when he comes to believe in the need for freedom.

JF - Analog Science Fact--Fiction VL - 66.6 N1 -

Rpt. in The Best of Mack Reynolds (New York: Pocket Books, 1976), 47-76 with a brief author's note on 46.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Gentle Dying" Y1 - 1961 A1 - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) A1 - C[yril] M[ichael] Kornbluth (1923-58) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian satire on the innocence of children. A wealthy children's book author establishes a research institute to find ways for children to avoid growing up. Successful, the children then eliminate all adults; only the author is allowed to die a natural death.

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Rpt. in their The Wonder Effect (New York: Ballantine Books, 1962), 47-54.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Harrison Bergeron" Y1 - 1961 A1 - Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (1922-2007) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian future tale in which equality is achieved by handicapping the superior.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 21.2 N1 -

Rpt. in his Welcome to the Monkey House. A Collection of Short Works (New York: Seymour Lawrence/Delacorte Press, 1968), 7-13. Rpt. (New York: Dell, 1970), 7-13. UK ed. (London: Jonathan Cape, 1969), 7-13. Rpt. (London: Panther, 1972), 19-25; in Science Fiction: The Future. Ed. Dick Allen. 2nd ed. (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983), 154-59; and in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 369-74; in Novels & Stories 1950-1962 Player Piano The Sirens of Titan Mother Night Stories. Ed. Sidney Offit (New York: The Library of America, 2012), 763-69, with a Note on the Text (819-23); and in his Complete Stories. Ed. Jerome Klinkowitz & Dan Wakefield (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2017), 857-62. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - If the South Had Won the Civil War Y1 - 1961 A1 - [Benjamin] MacKinley Kantor (1904-77) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Alternative history eutopia. Pro-Southern. The country is divided among the Confederacy, the United States, and Texas. In the 20th century the Confederate States conquers Cuba, which joins the Confederacy. Slavery abolished. Country reunified. Blacks may get the vote someday.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York N1 -

Part originally published in Look 27.24 (November 22, 1960): 29-42, 45, 49-50, 52, 54, 58, 60, 62.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Joy Makers Y1 - 1961 A1 - James [Edwin] Gunn (1923-2020) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. A company, Hedonics, Inc., that develops a system that sells happiness, becomes the sole power and gradually takes over the entire economic, political, and social systems and controls all aspects of people's lives. Power corrupts and the focus changes to those in power staying there. An underground opposition movement develops and leaves Earth. The last section shows a developing society with problems on Venus and an essentially abandoned Earth.

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Rpt. New York: Crown, 1984 with an "Introduction" by George Zebrowski (ix-xi). UK ed. London: Victor Gollancz, 1963. Sections originally published as "The Unhappy Man." Fantastic Universe 3.1 (February 1954): 4-30; "The Joy Ride" [Rpt. here as "The Naked Sky"]. Startling Stories 33.3 (Fall 1955): 10-48; and rpt. under the original title in his The End of the Dreams: Three Short Novels about Space, Happiness, and Immortality (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1975), 55-123]; and "Name Your Pleasure." Thrilling Wonder Stories 44.3 (Winter 1955): 10-53.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Judas Bomb" Y1 - 1961 A1 - Kit [Lilian Craig] Reed (1932-2017) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of biker gangs controlling all cities.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 20.4 (119) U5 -

NRU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lovers Y1 - 1961 A1 - Philip José Farmer (1918-2009) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of an overpopulated theocratic society, which appears to have Islamic roots. In North America, there is only when area, the Hudson Bay Wildlife Preserve, that is not fully built-up. There are rigid controls on all aspects of life, and a minder assigned to individuals. Everyone must wear a hood when eating. Married couples never see each other nude, and sex is considered an unpleasant duty. Uniforms indicate class with badges to indicate rank, and even access to elevators is by rank. The regime is looking for new planets to colonize with no concern for the indigenous populations. Most people are specialists, and the protagonist is a linguist who is sent to one such planet with the avowed purpose of learning about the indigenous population. But his real mission is to find and excuse for exterminating them. The dystopia provides the background to a story about interspecies love.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Ballantine Books, 1972. Rev. ed. New York: Ballantine Books, 1979; rpt. New York: Ballantine, 1980. Earlier short version under the same title in Startling Stores 27.1 (August 1952): 12-63; rpt. in The Philip José Farmer Centennial Collection. Ed. Michael Croteau (Np: Meteor House, 2018), 55-141.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Man Who Had No Brains" Y1 - 1961 A1 - Jeff[erson Howard] Sutton (1913-79) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future authoritarian dystopia based on IQ. Atomic research outlawed. Telepathy known but attacked. Story of a successful revolt.

JF - Amazing Stories VL - 35.8 - 9 N1 -

Repub. as The Atom Conspiracy. New York: Avalon Books, 1963.

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Repub. as The Atom Conspiracy.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Mantrap" Y1 - 1961 A1 - [Joyce Carstairs] [Hutchinson] (b. 1935) KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

The story includes an anarchist eutopia.

JF - New Worlds Science Fiction VL - no. 107 U3 -

Kathleen James [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Mark Gable Foundation" Y1 - 1961 A1 - Leo Szilard (1898-1964) KW - English author KW - German author KW - Hungarian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which freezing oneself in order to be able to experience the future becomes a fad and threatens to destroy civilization.

JF - The Voice of the Dolphin and Other Stories PB - Simon and Schuster CY - New York N1 -

Exp. ed. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1992), 117-30. With an Introduction by Barton J. Bernstein (3-43, 175-82) and an "Afterword" by Helen Weiss (171-72). This story was written in 1948, and a copy of that version exists among Szilard's papers at the University of California, San Diego, but there is no evidence of earlier publication.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Metatopia Y1 - 1961 A1 - F[rank] N[orman] Ball KW - Male author AB -

Odd detailed eutopia set in 2023. Equalitarian but recognizing merit. Press controlled by the universities. Planning to decrease population, provide better housing, and more green space. His Intellectual Calculus. Ipswich, Eng.: The Thames Bank Publishing Co., 1957 provides some background.

PB - Thames Bank Pub. Co. Ltd CY - Ipswich, Eng. N1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Monument" Y1 - 1961 A1 - Lloyd Biggle Jr. (1923-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Anti-Communist story showing the advantages of the capitalist mentality. An invention, which allows everyone to fly individually, transforms the world in the direction of a libertarian eutopia.

JF - Analog Science Fact--Fiction VL - 67.4 N1 -

Rpt. in Give Me Liberty. Ed. Martin Harry Greenberg and Mark Tier (New York: Baen, 2003), 5-64; and in Freedom! Ed. Martin Harry Greenberg and Mark Tier (New York: Baen, 2006), 7-54. Rev. as Monument. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1974.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Moon Moth" Y1 - 1961 A1 - Jack [John Holbrook] Vance (1916-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Primarily an adventure and mystery novel but set in a complex society in which communication is through a complex series of stringed instruments and everyone must wear a mask. Status is the main concern.

JF - Galaxy Magazine VL - 19.6 N1 -

Rpt. in his The World Between and Other Stories (New York: Ace Books, 1965), 36-74. Ace Double bound with his Monsters in Orbit. Rev. in The Moon Moth and Other Stories. vol. 17 of The Complete Works of Jack Vance (Oakland, CA: Vance Integral Editions, 2002), 203-50; and in The Jack Vance Treasury. Ed. Terry Dowling and Jonathan Strahan (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2007), 453-87.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mystery-Wisdom From Mars Y1 - 1961 A1 - Katherine Winterburn KW - Female author AB -

Detailed eutopia. Mars is advanced both technically and spiritually and most of the book is on spiritualism. Eugenics and rule by the most fit. Little need to work. Children are socialized for "brotherhood" and service, and people are not self-centered but are concerned about the community as a whole.

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MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Old Men at the Zoo Y1 - 1961 A1 - Angus [Frank Johnstone] Wilson (1913-91) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia set in 1971-73. Much of the novel is concerned with bureaucratic infighting at London Zoo, but the background includes the threat of war, even nuclear war, between England and France and Germany. The Greenbelt around London had been abolished in 1964.

PB - Viking CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Orbit Unlimited Y1 - 1961 A1 - Poul [William] Anderson (1926-2001) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian overpopulation dystopia that uses its last spaceship to send misfits and rebels to another planet. The author says that his original title for the book was A Place for Freedom, which reflects the society created, after much hardship and adventure, on the new planet.

PB - Pyramid Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1978 with a brief "Introduction" (3-4) by the author. UK ed. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1974. Parts originally published as "Robin Hood's Barn." Astounding Science Fiction 62.5 (January 1959): 54-82; "Condemned to Death." Fantastic Universe 11.6 (October 1959): 34-52; and "The Burning Bridge." Astounding Science Fiction 64.5 (January 1960): 99-121.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Other Side of the Universe Y1 - 1961 A1 - Kurt Dreifuss (1897-1991) KW - German author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. Little government, no cities, free association, and equal income. Everyone is expected to be productive.

PB - Twayne CY - New York U5 -

DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Our Castle Y1 - 1961 A1 - William McKinely Fox KW - Male author AB -

The central problem in society is self-interest, particularly manifested in marriage, which is evil, and family ties. The solution is free sexual expression without love. One religion and considerable discussion of how to achieve that. Eugenics with children raised collectively in the best conditions possible. People will live in age group communities within larger communities.

PB - Carlton Press CY - New York U5 -

ViU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Philosophical Corps Y1 - 1961 A1 - Everett B. Cole (1910-2001) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Science fiction in which a corps is established to help bring primitive planets into galactic civilization with the appropriate ethical standards. The system is designed to avert or overcome dystopias and lead them toward becoming better.

PB - Gnome Press CY - Hicksville, NY N1 -

Parts originally appeared in Astounding Science Fiction as “Philosophical Corps.” 47.1 (March 1951): 50-65; “These Shall Not Be Lost.” 50.3 (January 1953): 98-121; “Fighting Philosopher.” 53.2 (April 1954): 8-41; “The Players.” 55.2 (April 1955): 96-139; “The Millennium.” 55.3 (May 1955): 6-47; and “The Missionaries.” 57.3 (May 1956): 8-51; and in Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact as “Here, There Be Witches.” 85.2 (April 1970): 8-38. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pilgrimage: The Book of the People Y1 - 1961 A1 - Zenna [Charlson] Henderson (1917-83) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The People are extraterrestrials that crash-landed on Earth. The stories are about the adventures of their descendants as they discover their powers and each other. They form something very like a utopian community as they come together. A related story is "The Closest School." Fantastic Science Fiction Stories 9.4 (April 1960): 45-54. See also 1966, 1968, 1971, 1975, and 1980 Henderson.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Rpt. New York: Avon, 1963. Collected with other related material in The People Collection. London: Corgi, 1991; and in Ingathering: The Complete People Stories of Zenna Henderson. Ed. Mark and Priscilla Olson (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 1995), 1-215. Related stories first published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction as follows: “Ararat.” 3.6 (October 1952): 103-23; rpt. in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 57.4 (341) (October 1979): 181-200; in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (U.K. ed.) 1.2 (November 1953): 73-94; and in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (Australian ed.), no. 3 [(1955)]: 95-115. “Gilead.” 7.2 (39) (August 1954): 28-54; “Pottage.” 9.3 (52) (September 1955): 99-126; “Wilderness.” 12.1 (68) (January 1957): 3-37; “Captivity.” 14.6 (85) (June 1958): 5-45; and “Jordan.” 16.3 (94) (March 1959): 28-53. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Planetary Agent X Y1 - 1961 A1 - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The background of the novel is the United Planets, which includes many planets settled by specific religious and political groups attempting to create their eutopia. The plot concerns a modern Tom Paine (1737-1809) inciting revolution and the attempt to eliminate him.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -

Originally published as "Gun for Hire." Analog Science Fact--Fiction 66.4 (December 1960): 104-15 [rpt. as "Hatchetman." Impulse 1.4 (June 1966): 4-49]; and "Ultima Thule." Analog Science Fact--Fiction 67.1 (March 1961): 8-66.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Primal Urge Y1 - 1961 A1 - Brian [Wilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Humorous dystopia of the effects of a device that allows everyone to know the sexual desires of people vis-a-vis each other.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York N1 -

UK ed. London: Sphere, 1967. Also entitled "Minor Operation." New Worlds Science Fiction 40 - 41.119 - 21 (June - August 1962): 4-54; 67-116, 118-21; 73-127.

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Also entitled "Minor Operation." New Worlds Science Fiction 40 - 41.119 - 21 (June - August 1962): 4-54; 67-116, 118-21; 73-127.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pudoria Y1 - 1961 A1 - Tom Pease (b. 1893) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Open, free love eutopia. Money is considered indecent.

PB - Lyle Stuart CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Purple Armchair Y1 - 1961 A1 - Olga [Lynford] Hesky (1912-74) KW - Female author KW - UK author AB -

Computer conformist dystopia. Humans have lost initiative, imagination, and all aggression. An extraterrestrial who looks like a purple armchair is studying humanity for possible elimination and the decision is to eliminate.

PB - Anthony Blond CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Put Down This Earth" Y1 - 1961 A1 - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Overpopulated, authoritarian dystopia. People escape through a drug that ultimately takes them to a new world.

JF - New Worlds Science Fiction VL - nos. 107 - 109 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Rebels of the Red Planet Y1 - 1961 A1 - Charles L[ouis] Fontenay (1917-2007) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Standard authoritarian dystopia and rebellion set on Mars.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Runaway World Y1 - 1961 A1 - Stanton A[rthur] Coblentz (1896-1982) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

In the future the people of Earth are divided between two planets, Earth and Orcus, a close neighbor. Earth is inhabited by the Ants who developed a society structured as a mechanism. Orcus is inhabited by the peace loving, more balanced Antelopes. The novel, which is mostly adventure and intrigue, focuses on a man from Orcus who goes to Earth to rescue the woman he loves who has, with many other women from Orcus, been kidnapped by the Ants and his success in bring change to Earth.

PB - Avalon Books CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Sense of Obligation" Y1 - 1961 A1 - Harry [Max] Harrison (1925-2012) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An evil, authoritarian, overpopulated dystopia contrasted with a people from a scientific humanist society built around competitive games that is presented as a good society. The games included contests in chess and poetry as well as things like archery and fencing. Separate contests for men and women. While successful, it was an experiment by outsiders to remold a barbarian planet.

JF - Analog Science Fact--Fiction VL - 68.1 - 3 N1 -

Rpt. as Planet of the Damned. New York: Bantam, 1962. UK ed. as Sense of Obligation. London: Dennis Dobson, 1967.

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Rpt. as Planet of the Damned

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Silver Eggheads Y1 - 1961 A1 - Fritz [Reuter] Leiber [Jr.] (1910-92) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Automation of the publishing industry where computers write books. A female robot (colored pink) is the censor. People lose the ability to write.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York N1 -

Shorter version originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 16.1 (January 1959): 42-84.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Soft Machine Y1 - 1961 A1 - William [Seward] Burroughs (1914-97) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The present as a dystopia with stress on drugs and sex together with the perception of secretive state operations. The first volume of a trilogy followed by 1962 and 1964 Burroughs. 

PB - Olympia CY - Paris U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Stranger in a Strange Land Y1 - 1961 A1 - Robert A[nson] Heinlein (1907-88) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Communal eutopia of love, sharing, and group sex set in an authoritarian dystopia. The novel became a favorite during the Sixties.

PB - G.P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York N1 -

Uncut ed. New York: Ace/Putnam, 1991. Rpt. as vol. 8 of The Virginia Edition of his works. Houston, TX: The Virginia Edition, 2007. Collector's Edition illus. Kent Bush and with a "Preface" by Virginia Heinlein and an "Introduction" by James Gunn (both unpaged). Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1995.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Taste of Tenure" Y1 - 1961 A1 - Gordon R[upert] Dickson (1923-2001) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia. After a certain number of years everyone has tenure in their jobs and problems result. 

JF - If VL - 11 N1 -

Rpt. in his In Iron Years (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1980), 61-94. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Tunnel Ahead" Y1 - 1961 A1 - Alice Glaser (b. 1929) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia in which an arbitrarily selected group of people are gassed on a regular basis to help keep the population down.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 21.5 N1 -

Rpt. in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (UK) 3.4 (March 1962): 64-; in Voyages: Scenarios for a Ship Called Earth. Ed. Rob Sauer (New York: Zero Population Growth/Ballantine Books, 1971), 239-48; in Sci-Fi Womanthology. Comp. and ed. Forrest J. Ackerman and Pam Keesey (Rockville, MD: Sense of Wonder Press, 2003), 129-36; and in The Future is Female! 25 Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women from Pulp Pioneers to Ursula K. Le Guin. Ed. Lisa Yaszek (New York: Library of America, 2018), 340-50. Addition material, including biographies, can be found at womenSF.loa.org. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Unsleep Y1 - 1961 A1 - Diana [Pleasance Tikva Case] Gillon (b. 1915) A1 - Meir [Selig] Gillon (b. 1907-89) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia caused by no longer needing to sleep and the desperate need to fill time.

PB - Barrie & Rockliff CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Verwoerd--The End; A look-back from the Future Y1 - 1961 A1 - [Ernest George] [Alligan] (1898-1978) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

Apartheid as eutopia presented as the history of South Africa from 1960 to 1985.

PB - T.V. Broadman CY - London U3 -

Garry Allighan [pseud.]. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Voice of the Dolphins" Y1 - 1961 A1 - Leo Szilard (1898-1964) KW - English author KW - German author KW - Hungarian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A story with eutopian elements in which scientists discover how to communicate with dolphins, who are immensely more intelligent than humans. An institute is founded that uses the dolphin's ideas, which eliminates hunger, reduce population growth, and ultimately ends the possibility of nuclear war.

JF - The Voice of the Dolphins and Other Stores PB - Simon and Schuster CY - New York N1 -

Exp. ed. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1992), 47-100. With an Introduction by Barton J. Bernstein (3-43, 175-82) and an "Afterword" by Helen Weiss (171-72).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Well of the Deep Wish" Y1 - 1961 A1 - Lloyd Biggle Jr. (1923-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia where people spend twenty-three hours a day watching TV.

JF - If VL - 10.6 N1 -

Rpt. in his The Metallic Muse (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1972), 138-57.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - 30-Day Wonder Y1 - 1960 A1 - Richard Wilson (1920-1987) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Aliens bring eutopia to earth through a conscience gas.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York U5 -

GU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Alpaca Y1 - 1960 A1 - H[aroldson] L[afayette] Hunt [Jr.] (1889-1974) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Capitalist eutopia in which power is given to the wealthiest by giving extra votes depending on the amount of tax paid. See also 1967 Hunt.

PB - H.L. Hunt Press CY - Dallas, TX U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Astera: The Planet That Committed Suicide Y1 - 1960 A1 - Dr. Ray[mond] W[right] Johnson (b. 1900) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A eutopian planet fails by giving rights to its minorities. Racist.

PB - Exposition Press CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Breakthrough Y1 - 1960 A1 - John M[anners] Iggulden (1917-2010) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia focusing on a police state and the struggle between its head and a man trying to re-establish freedom, and much of the novel focuses on their relationship. The rebel ultimately wins.

PB - Chapman & Hall CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Brothers of Braemore Y1 - 1960 A1 - Peter Frederick Anson (1879-1975) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Fictional community of Roman Catholic men following the Rule of St. Benedict on a Scottish island.

PB - Campion Press CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Taplinger, 1960.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Burning" Y1 - 1960 A1 - Theodore [Rose] Cogswell (1918-87) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a collapsed civilization.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 19.1 (110) N1 -

Rpt. in Microcosmic Tales: 100 Wondrous Science Fiction Short-Short Stories. Ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and Joseph D. Olander (New York: Taplinger Publishing Co., 1980); rpt. (New York: DAW Books, 1992), 138-42.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Canticle for Leibowitz Y1 - 1960 A1 - Walter M[ichael] Miller Jr. (1923-96) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia tracing the three stages of the re-birth of civilization after a war had completely destroyed the previous civilization. The three stages are religion, which saves documents without understanding them, the re-birth of science using those saved documents, and then a new war that will destroy the new civilization. At the end the entire process is set to begin again on a new planet. See also 1997 Miller.

PB - J.B. Lippincott CY - Philadelphia, PA N1 -

Rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1961; and Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1975. UK ed. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1960. Originally published in somewhat different versions as "A Canticle for Leibowitz." The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 8.4 (April 1955): 93-111; rpt. in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 57.4 (341) (October 1979): 98-116; "And the Light Is Risen." The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 11.2 (August 1956): 3-80; and "The Last Canticle." The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 12.2 (February 1957): 3-50; rpt. The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (Australian ed.), no. 13 ([June 1958]): 1-52. See also A Canticle for Leibowitz: A Play in Three Acts. Adapted by Clark Fuller. Chicago, IL: Dramatic Publishing Co., 1962; Walter M. Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz. Revised and adapted by Richard Felnagle. Woodstock, IL: Dramatic Publishing Co., 1986; and Robert Douglas Manning, "The Abbey": dramatic screenplay based upon the original novel "A Canticle for Leibowitz" by Walter Michael Miller, Jr. (1959) Lethbridge, AL, Canada: Robert Douglas Manning, 1999 (MH).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Child Buyer: A Novel in the Form of Hearings Before the Standing Committee on Education, Welfare, & Public Morality of a certain State Senate, Investigating the conspiracy of Mr. Wissey Jones, with others, to Purchase a Male Child Y1 - 1960 A1 - John [Richard] Hersey (1914-93) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia concerned with a corporate attempt to establish a pool of pliant brain power by purchasing children when very young and conditioning them to solve complex problems. The conditioning includes complete isolation, emptying the mind of all knowledge and emotion, feeding it the data need to solve the problems, and eliminating all the senses except a limited sense of touch.

PB - Alfred A. Knopf CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1961. U.K. ed. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1961. A play was written by Paul Shyre, The Child Buyer: A Drama in Three Acts Adapted from the Novel by John Hersey. London: Samuel French, 1962. It was first performed May 3, 1962, by The Theatre Group at UCLA and had a brief run in New York in 1969-70. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Chronopolis" Y1 - 1960 A1 - J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which people had been too concerned with time, and there were clocks everywhere. It was made illegal to have a watch or a clock because timed people could be made to work faster, but with all clocks gone nothing works very well, and the city is almost abandoned. The story focuses on a boy growing up who is fascinated with clocks.

JF - New Worlds Science Fiction VL - 32.95 N1 -

Rpt. in his Billenium (New York: Berkley, 1962), 117-39; in his The Four-Dimensional Nightmare (London: Victor Gollancz, 1963), 184-208; in his Chronopolis and Other Stories (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1971), 152-74; in The Best Short Stories of J.G. Ballard (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1978), 43-66; in his The Voices of Time (London: J.M. Dent, 1984), 173-97; and in his The Complete Short Stories. (London: Flamingo, 2001), 150-68.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Conquest of Life Y1 - 1960 A1 - [Diane] [Detzer de Reyna] (1930-92) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The novel begins as a dystopia in which human males are remade as controllable and robot-like but with human intelligence and an infinite lifespan. Most are said to be purchased by women to work for them and as playthings. One woman, who had herself, been captured and held by aliens, was interested in the inner life of the man she purchased and together they topple the system. 

PB - Avalon Publishers CY - New York U3 -

Adam Lukens [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Day in the Suburbs" Y1 - 1960 A1 - Evelyn E. Smith (1927-2000) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of future violence with war among the women living in different styles of housing in the suburbs, with a truce at night so that the men know nothing about the violence.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 19.3 (112) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Drunkard's Walk" Y1 - 1960 A1 - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The background to the story includes a dystopian overpopulated, poor society contrasted with the privileged few who pass extremely stringent tests to enter the relative prosperity of university.

JF - Galaxy Magazine VL - 18.5 - 6 N1 -

Repub. New York: Ballantine Books. U.K. ed. London: Victor Gollancz, 1961. Rpt. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1966.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Facial Justice Y1 - 1960 A1 - L[eslie] P[oles] Hartley (1895-1972). KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia. Extreme egalitarianism and people are encouraged to have plastic surgery if they are too attractive.

PB - Hamish Hamilton CY - London N1 -

Rpt. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1987. U.S. ed. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1961.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Girls and Nugent Miller” Y1 - 1960 A1 - Robert Sheckley (1928-2005) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The only male survivor of an atomic war, a mild-manner pacifist, discovers some young women led an older woman who tries to kill him. He loses his pacifism.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 18.3 (106) N1 -

Rpt. in The Collected Short Fiction of Robert Sheckley. Book Three (Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991), 227-37. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Goodbye" Y1 - 1960 A1 - Burton [Nathan] Raffel (1928-2015) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Story of a Kafakesque encounter with an authoritarian dystopia.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 19.13 U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - He Owned the World Y1 - 1960 A1 - [David] [McIlwain] (1921-81) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia of immortals on Mars who revive a long dead astronaut who inherits Earth and is a tool in Mars's war with Earth.

PB - Avalon Books CY - New York N1 -

UK ed. entitled The Man Who Owned the World. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1961.

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UK ed. entitled The Man Who Owned the World.

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Charles Eric Maine [pseud.]

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L, Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Immortality for Some" Y1 - 1960 A1 - [James Murdoch] [MacGregor] (1925-2008) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia in which some are accorded Rebirth or immortality and others are not. Every person's every action is recorded so that everyone should be able to be easily located. The novel focuses on a man on the run.

JF - Astounding/Analog Science Fact & Fiction VL - 65.1 N1 -

Repub. as Flight from Rebirth. By J.T. McIntosh [pseud.]. New York: Avon, 1971. U.K. ed. London: Robert Hale, 1973.

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Repub. as Flight from Rebirth

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J. T. McIntosh [pseud.]

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CNoS, O

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Life on Mars" Y1 - 1960 A1 - Werner [Wernher Magnus Maximilian] Von Braun (1912-77) KW - German author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia on Mars based on unlimited electrical power.

JF - This Week Magazine (New York Herald Tribune) U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Notes Towards a Utopia" Y1 - 1960 A1 - Francis Golffing (1910-2012) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Short essay entitled "Why do we want to write another Utopia?" together with three rituals ("Celebrations") from the eutopia for childbirth, the movement of the child from the home to the children's community, and a girl becoming an adult. See also 1975 Gibbs and Golffing and 1991 Goffing and Gibbs.

JF - The Partisan Review VL - 27.3 N1 -

Rev. as by Golffing and Barbara Gibbs (1912-93). Stand 6 (Winter 1962): 51-58.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Omega" Y1 - 1960 A1 - Robert Sheckley (1928-2005) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a prison planet where there is a religion of evil, much violence, and one succeeds through murder. This is contrasted with a eutopian earth that is ineffectual. Includes an early version of his human hunt. See 1958 and 1966 Sheckley.

JF - Amazing Science Fiction Stories VL - 34.8 - 9 N1 -

Repub. as The Status Civilization. New York: New American Library, 1960. Rpt. New York: Dell, 1968. UK ed. London: Victor Gollancz, 1976; rpt. Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin Books, 1979.

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Repub. as The Status Civilization.

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MoU-St, NLS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Peacemakers Y1 - 1960 A1 - Curtis W[erner] Casewit (1922-2002) KW - German author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia after a nuclear war in which survivors have been invited to an island state expecting freedom, only to discover that the leader of the state had been overthrown and replaced by a totalitarian regime.

PB - Avalon Books Thomas Bouregy CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Macfadden-Bartell, 1968.

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HRC, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Planetary Legion: A Study of War and Peace, 1940-1980 Y1 - 1960 A1 - [Marion] [Matarisvan] (1920-2009) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. The novel begins with World War II, but the period after the war is transformed by the development of a world united by the Planetary Legion for Peace, a movement that leads to the eutopia. Rejects both capitalism and communism in favor of “universal cooperation”. Emphasis on those aspects of all religions that lead to peace.

PB - Veritas Foundation Publication Centre CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. Los Angeles, CA: Pantheon Press-G.E., 1967. Rev. as Planetary Legion for Peace: Story of Their War and Our Peace, 1940-2000. London: Veritas Foundation Publication Centre, 1987. Fiction with a non-fiction “Author’s Preface” (7-14). 

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Romulus Rexner [pseud.]

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L, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Politics of Ratology (a fantasy)" Y1 - 1960 A1 - Mordecai [Marceli] Roshwald (1921-2015) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on democracy. Machines replace voters and legislatures.

JF - The Nation VL - 191.8 N1 -

Rpt. in his Level 7. Ed. David Seed (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004), 191-202.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Practicable Utopia Y1 - 1960 A1 - Donald McKelvey KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The essay describes, at a very general level, what the author thinks is needed to create a cooperative “practicable utopia.” A cooperative society “is much more conducive to the desired love relationship and individual development than is the competitive society” (8). Decentralized into “administratively and economically independent areas” but with interactions among them as desired or needed as well as individuals interacting (9). Replaces all motorized transportation by “up to twenty parallel moving roads, each one moving five miles per hour faster than the next” as well as smaller local moving roads (10). No religion. No private property. Obligation to be productive in exchange for material goods. 

PB - Students for a Democratic Society CY - New York U5 -

MiU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Puritan Planet" Y1 - 1960 A1 - [Agnes] Carol[lyn] [Fries] Emshwiller (1921-2019) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Religious dystopia about a planet called Brotherhood that would allow a human to die but not a cat.

JF - Original Science Fiction Stories VL - 10.6 N1 -

Rpt. in The Collected Stories of Carol Emshwiller Vol. 1 (New York: Nonstop Press, 2011), 115-21.

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Revolution" Y1 - 1960 A1 - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story describes a Cold War in which Russia has been more successful economically than the U.S., and the U.S. supports the opposition in the hope of overthrowing the Russian government. But the opposition looks like it might be even more successful, and the U.S. is considering supporting the government.

JF - Astounding/Analog Science Fact & Fiction VL - 65.3 N1 -

Rpt. in The Best of Mack Reynolds (New York: Pocket Books, 1976), 78-113 with an author's note on 77.

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Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Sexless Dynasty Y1 - 1960 A1 - William W. Bolton M.D. (b. 1900) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia brought about by the reproductive independence of women. Sex role reversal with women considering eliminating men altogether. There is a men’s resistance movement, and the most anti-male woman falls in love.

PB - Dorrance & Co CY - Philadelphia, PA U5 -

CU-Riv, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Sight of Eden" Y1 - 1960 A1 - Howard [Melvin] Fast (1914-2003) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A eutopia of many planets of peace and plenty is discovered, but the human race is barred from entry as the only ones in the universe who are ashamed of their bodies and war on each other.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 19.4 N1 -

Rpt. in his The Edge of Tomorrow (New York: Bantam Books, 1961), 107-20; and in his Time and the Riddle (Pasadena, CA: Ward Ritchie Press, 1975), 391-403. 

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Merril, PSt, TU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Smell of Burning: A Comedy of Menace Y1 - 1960 A1 - David Campton (1924-2006) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. With a revolt taking place offstage, a couple at breakfast listen to a very off stage radio broadcast until the radio goes off the air, talk at cross purposes, and sit quietly as a town official murders a neighbor and then the wife.

PB - Samuel French CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in his A Smell of Burning and Then . . . Two Plays (New York: Dramatists Play Service, 1969), 3-20. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Socialism [Subtitle on cover Blueprint for the New Life] Y1 - 1960 A1 - John Australis [pseud.] KW - Australian author AB -

Detailed socialist eutopia aiming at providing people with the basic needs for each stage of their lives, including provision for holidays and local clubs and sports fields. Trade unions would provide some leisure facilities, particularly for women. Each person would have their own income, thus freeing women from feeling they had to marry and making divorce possible financially. Free childcare as needed. No changes in churches.

PB - Ptd. by Bira Printing CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia U3 -

John Australis [pseud.]

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M, VMU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Then . . . Y1 - 1960 A1 - David Campton (1924-2006) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Post-apocalyptic humor. Two people who have survived the destruction of most people by, as they believe, putting paper bags over their heads, meet.

PB - David Campton CY - [London] N1 -

Rp.t in his A Smell of Burning and Then . . . Two Plays (New York: Dramatists Play Service, 1969), 21-38. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Tower" Y1 - 1960 A1 - Philip [Edmund] Booth (1925-2007) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian poem about a huge tower, which comes to dominate the lives of the people and was built by an authoritarian government.

JF - Poetry VL - 96.1 U5 -

TxU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Venus Plus X Y1 - 1960 A1 - Theodore Sturgeon (1918-1985) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Hermaphrodite eutopia. Each individual is created with both sexes. Small, isolated community of 800. Technology and an emphasis on change and forward movement. 

PB - Pyramid CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1976 with an “Introduction” (v-xxi) by Paul Williams; and New York: Carroll & Graf, 1988. UK ed. London: Victor Gollancz, 1969. Also published in New Worlds Science Fiction 34.102 – 05 (January – April 1961): 4-46; 90-126; 80-122, 124-25; 84-118, 120-23 with a “Postscript” (123-24). 

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Merril, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Village of Love Y1 - 1960 A1 - Merrill Ferguson KW - West Indian author AB -

A successful intentional community established on an island in the West Indies. The community is designed for the homeless and the unemployed, and, holding everything in common, they find hope. Success breeds problems with the island's rulers and the community is destroyed.

PB - MacGibbon and Kee CY - London U5 -

NLS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Vulcan's Hammer Y1 - 1960 A1 - Philip K[indred] Dick (1928-82) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Computer dystopia in which the computer, Vulcan 3, had been designed to be completely rational and the problems that arise when it has to deal with human irrationality.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1979 with an "Introduction" (v-xi) by Fax Goodlife; and New York: Vintage Books, 2004. An earlier version was pub. in Future Science Fiction, no. 29 (1956): 4-60.

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HRC, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Vulgarians Y1 - 1960 A1 - [Robert Chesley] Osborn (1904-1994) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Art/comic book that begins with an idealized version of the early American settlers but focuses on the dystopian that has been created by greed.

PB - New York Graphic Society CY - [Greenwich, CT} U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - When the Kissing Had to Stop Y1 - 1960 A1 - [Robert Louis] Constantine [Lee-Dillon] FitzGibbon (1919-83) KW - Irish author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a collapsing Britain followed by a dystopia of a Communist takeover.

PB - Cassell CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 1960 with the author's name as Fitz Gibbon on the cover but FitzGibbon elsewhere; rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1961 with the author's name as Fitzgibbon on the cover and FitzGibbon on the title page. UK ed. rpt. London: Pan, 1962; London: Tom Stacey Reprints, 1971 with an "Introduction" by the author (i-xi); London: Granada, 1978; and London: Bellew Publishing, 1989, with a brief "Foreword" by Julian Amery and a brief "Tribute" by Louis FitzGibbon. The Granada edition is a reprint of the Tom Stacey edition, but even though the title page says "With a new Introduction by the Author," there is no Introduction.

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DLC, L, O, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Woman A Day Y1 - 1960 A1 - Philip José Farmer (1918-2009) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian, post-catastrophe, and anti-sex dystopia and the opposition to it.

PB - Beacon Books CY - New York N1 -

Galaxy Novel No. 43.. New York: Lancer Books, 1968; as Timestop! New York: Lancer Books, 1970; and under the original title New York: Berkley Books, 1980. Earlier version pub. as "Moth and Rust." Startling Stories 30.2 (June 1953): 10-99.

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 Rpt. as The Day of the Timestop and Timestop! Earlier version pub. as “Moth and Rust.” 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The World Today and Tomorrow Y1 - 1960 A1 - Panayot Tzv Popoff (1902-87) KW - Male author AB -

Detailed description of a new economic system called the Collaborative Economic system where capital, labor, the seller-producer, and the buyer are placed in institutional structures that allow them to work together. He briefly discusses associations for credit, purchases, "buyer-producers for purchases," "buyer-consumers," transformation, collective production, insurance, and professional and common unions. The pamphlet ends with two pages of organizational charts.

PB - Author CY - Chicago, IL U5 -

IU, TxU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - World Without Women Y1 - 1960 A1 - Leonard Pruyn (1898-1973) A1 - [Gunnard] [Hjerststedt] (1904-69) KW - US author AB -

Standard dystopia of a world with few women. Most women die and gang wars follow.

PB - Fawcett CY - Greenwich, CT ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The World-Timer" Y1 - 1960 A1 - Robert [Albert] Bloch (1917-94) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A parallel timeline that has solved human psycho-sexual problems and produced a eutopia. Each person goes through three stages. The first stage from age sixteen in which boys are paired with women in their thirties and girls are paired with men in their thirties and with whom they have and raise children to age six (after which the children are raised by the state). In the second stage the roles are reversed. Each of the first two stages last for ten years. In the third stage adults form relationships for as long as they choose.

JF - Fantastic Science Fiction Stories VL - 9.8 N1 -

Rpt. in The Most Thrilling Science Fiction Ever Told [1 (1966)]: 77-101; and in his Last Rites. Volume 3 of The Selected Stories of Robert Bloch (Los Angeles, CA: Underwood-Miller, 1987), 11-33. 

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "X for Exploitation" Y1 - 1960 A1 - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Earth is a colony. According to a note by Aldiss, the book is designed to show the dystopian nature of imperialism.

JF - New Worlds Science Fiction VL - 31.92 - 32.94 N1 -

Repub. as Bow Down to Nul. New York: Ace Books, 1960. UK ed. as The Interpreter. London: Brown, Watson, 1961. 

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Repub. as Bow Down to Nul and The Interpreter.

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L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Adrift at the Policy Level" Y1 - 1959 A1 - [Horace] Chan[dler] Davis (b. 1926) ED - Willis E. McNelly ED - Leon [Eugene] Stover (1929-2006) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Corporate dystopia.

JF - Above the Human Landscape: A Social Science Fiction Anthology PB - Goodyear Publishing CY - Pacific Palisades, CA N1 -

Rpt. in It Walks in Beauty: Selected Prose of Chandler Davis. Ed. Josh Lukin (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2010), 167-93. This is the author's preferred version. Originally published in a different version in Star Science Fiction Stories No. 5. Ed. Frederik [George] Pohl, [Jr.], (New York: Ballantine Books, 1959), 66-85.

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Anno Domini 2000 Y1 - 1959 A1 - Coury, Phil KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Standard anti-socialist dystopia except that it is not yet too bad, and the right person wins an election.

PB - Vantage Press CY - New York U5 -

MoU-St, NN

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Caduceus Wild" Y1 - 1959 A1 - [Joseph] Ward Moore (1903-78) A1 - Robert Bradford KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Tyranny of doctors making sure everyone is healthy.

JF - Original Science Fiction Stories VL - 9.5 - 10.2 N1 -

Rpt. New York: Pinnacle Books, 1978.

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Day at the Beach" Y1 - 1959 A1 - [Agnes] Carol[lyn] [Fries] Emshwiller (1921-2019) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Post-nuclear war dystopia presented through the eyes of a surviving housewife.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 17.2 (99) N1 -

Rpt. in SF: The Best of the Best. Ed. Judith Merril (New York: Delacourt, 1967), 274-84. U.K. ed. (London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1968), 274-84; in Beyond Armageddon: Twenty-One Sermons to the Dead. Walter M. Miller, Jr. and Martin H[arry] Greenberg (New York: Donald I. Fine, 1985), 97-107; and in The Collected Stories of Carol Emshwiller Vol. 1 (New York: Nonstop Press, 2011), 108-14. 

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Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Dodkin's Job" Y1 - 1959 A1 - Jack [John Holbrook] Vance (1916-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Conformist dystopia with computers ruling and one man discovering how to undermine the system.

JF - Astounding Science Fiction VL - 64.2 N1 -

Rpt. his Future Tense (New York: Ballantine Books, 1984), 7-46; book rpt. as Dust of Far Suns (New York: DAW Books, 1981), 37-77. Story rev. in The Moon Moth and Other Stories. Vol. 17 of The Complete Works of Jack Vance (Oakland, CA: Vance Integral Editions, 2002), 153-201.

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Merril, MoU-St, NHemH, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Eyes of Dust" Y1 - 1959 A1 - Harlan [Jay] Ellison (1934-2018) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia that expects everyone to be physically perfect. A woman with a mole on her face and a blind man are shunned, marry, and give birth to a child who has the "eyes of dust", known only as Person, who they keep hidden. When Person is discovered, he is killed.

JF - Rogue Magazine VL - 4.9 N1 -

Rpt. in I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream. Stories (New York: Pyramid Books, 1967), 65-73, with an author’s note on 64; and in his Alone Against Tomorrow: Stories of Alienation in Speculative Fiction (New York: Macmillan, 1971), 187-206.

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DLC, Merril, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - False Coin. A Novel Y1 - 1959 A1 - Harvey Swados (1920-72) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Novel set in an intentional community, called Harmony Farm, which is designed to provide artists a space to together create great art that is accessible to a mass public. The usual conflicts among individuals ensure failure.

PB - Little, Brown CY - Boston U5 -

L, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "For Sale, Reasonable" Y1 - 1959 A1 - Elizabeth Mann Borgese (1918-2002) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - German author AB -

Dystopia written as a job application by a human in an automated future.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 17.1 (98) N1 -

Rpt. in Visions From the Edge: An Anthology of Atlantic Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy. Ed. John Bell and Lesley Choyce (Porters Lake, NS, Canada: Pottersfield Press, 1981), 170-72 with an editor’s note on 169; and in The Future is Female! 25 Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women from Pulp Pioneers to Ursula K. Le Guin. Ed. Lisa Yaszek (New York: Library of America, 2018), 321-24. Addition material, including biographies, can be found at womenSF.loa.org; and as “To Whom It May Concern.” In her To Whom It May Concern (New York: George Braziller, 1960), 25-29. 

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Can, MoU-St, Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Funhouse: An Eyewitness Report of the historical search for the world's most dangerous weapon, the A-I-D. . . Y1 - 1959 A1 - Benjamin Appel (1907-77) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Two worlds are shown, the Pleasure State and the Reservation. The Reservation has no machinery invented after 1879. The Pleasure State is a computer controlled eutopia based solely on pleasure. But there is a weapon that could destroy the world, and this report is by someone from the Reservation who is about the search for it. The report sees the Reservation positively and the Pleasure State, known in the Reservation as the Funhouse, negatively.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York N1 -

Also published as The Death Master. New York: Popular Library, [1980].

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Also entitled The Death Master.

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N, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Gap in the Spectrum Y1 - 1959 A1 - Marilyn Duckworth (b. 1935) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

A woman "remembers" a eutopian country called Micald and compares it to the contemporary world, which is described in dystopian terms. The eutopian world is only briefly described but appears to be much more family oriented with various formal rites of passage. London, where she "awakes" was the name of a dystopian city she and her sister invented as children. According to Duckworth Micald is New Zealand and while better in some ways is narrow and boring.

PB - New Authors Ltd CY - London U5 -

ATL, VUW

ER - TY - ABST T1 - God Gives Us Time Y1 - 1959 A1 - Pearl Alice Freeman KW - Female author AB -

Heaven as eutopia and Hell as dystopia.

PB - Vantage Press CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Great Man's Life 1925-2000 A.C Y1 - 1959 A1 - Albert Archer Van Petten (1925-2005) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Detailed eutopia. Improved democracy based on a more egalitarian government structure. Prosperity assured by establishing a fund to guarantee a minimum income. Generally eliminates government regulations. A.C. stands for After Christ. See also 1972 and 1989 Van Petten.

PB - Utopian Publishers, Inc CY - New York U5 -

MoU, NN, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Invaders are Coming! Y1 - 1959 A1 - Alan E[dward] Nourse (1928-92) A1 - J. A. Meyer KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia of an America under the Department of Psychological Control, which wiped the brains of dissidents, who are then placed in labor camps.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -

Part originally published as "The Sign of the Tiger." Amazing Science Fiction Stories 32.5 (May 1958): 63-145.

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MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The John Franklin Letters Y1 - 1959 KW - US author AB -

Right wing eutopia that is mostly on the struggle against a Communist takeover of the U.S., but with the overthrow of the Communists at the end. The letters of the title were sent by John Franklin, who was active in the Rangers, an underground group opposed to the direction the U.S. was taking, to his uncle in Illinois. The work is racist (Blacks and Jews), opposed to the New Deal, opposed to the United Nations, against immigration, against “social engineering,” anti-Communist, and anti-Union. It supports the National Rifle Association and is very patriotic. At the end of the novel, the resistance to “world government” has won in many countries. A last note indicates that while the next President is a Negro, he is solidly right-wing.

PB - Free Enterprise Publication distributed by The Bookmailer, Inc. CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Last Division Y1 - 1959 A1 - Anthony [Ronald St. Martin] Delius (1916-89) KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

Poem. The first section briefly describes a technological eutopia and asks the question, “What happened to that curious lot/Of legislators in that Southern Land?” (5). The first Canto that follows is a satire on the stupidities of the human race and ends by focusing on South Africa and apartheid. The rest of the poem is a satire on South African politics. One of the politicians is Satan and takes all of them to Hell. 

PB - Human & Rousseau CY - Cape Town, South Africa U5 -

CaOTU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Level 7 Y1 - 1959 A1 - Mordecai [Marceli] Roshwald (1921-2015) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the U.S. government, preparing for nuclear war, builds many fallout shelters at various levels, with level one for civilians, and others for the elite, government officials, and the military. Level 7 is the deepest and designed for those who will push the buttons to send the missiles. The novel is presented as a diary by X-127, one of the button-pushers, and presents the society created. When the war comes, apparently accidentally with automated responses on both sides, the world is destroyed, and the shelters all fail.

PB - William Heinemann CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, [1960]. U.K. ed. rpt. London: New English Library, 1962; London: Allison & Busby, 1981. Chicago, IL: Lawrence Hill Books, 1989; and ed. David Seed. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004. 

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DLC, L, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Life and A Half" Y1 - 1959 A1 - [Frederik George] [Pohl] [Jr.] (1919-2013] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia.

JF - If Worlds of Science Fiction PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York VL - 8.6 N1 -

Rpt. in his The Abominable Earthman (New York: Ballantine Books, 1963), 48-54. 

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Paul Flehr [pseud.]

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MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lunatic Republic Y1 - 1959 A1 - [Edward Montague] Compton Mackenzie (1883-1972) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Satiric authoritarian dystopia on the moon, the Lunatic Republic, in which everyone does the same thing at the same time. Names are three letters and a number. The moon had been mostly destroyed by war, which is why the part we see is desolate. On Earth the novel is set after the Chinese, which dominates the Prosperity Union of Asia, defeats of Russia. There is also a Welfare State of Europe, and the U.S. dominates all of North and South America.

PB - Chatto and Windus CY - London U5 -

MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Mad MacMullochs Y1 - 1959 A1 - [Edgar Austin] [Mittelhölzer] (1909-65) KW - English author KW - Guyanese author KW - Male author AB -

The novel is set on Barbados, and while much of it concerns a love story, three of the women involved live on a plantation with white, colored, and black members living equally under a set of chosen rules.

PB - Peter Owen CY - London N1 -

Rpt. under the author’s name London: Peter Owen, 1961.

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H. Austin Woodsley [pseud.]

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PU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Masters of Evolution Y1 - 1959 A1 - Damon [Francis] Knight (1922-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Urban-rural conflict in 2064 with the two largely cut off from each other. The cities (five in the U.S.) are advanced in technology, have robot servants, synthetic food, and the like. The rural areas have rejected technology, grow their own food, raise animals, and are advanced in biology. The novel is concerned with the need for the two to interact, which leads to war and the collapse of New York City.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -

Shorter version originally published as "Natural State." Galaxy Science Fiction 7.5 (January 1954): 6-69. Story rpt. in All About the Future. Ed. Martin Greenburg (New York: Gnome Press, 1955), 215-78.

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Naked Lunch Y1 - 1959 A1 - William S[eward] Burroughs (1914-97) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

One of many dystopias by Burroughs which generally share the same characteristics: authoritarian tending toward the paranoid and concern with drugs and homosexuality. His dystopia, known as the Interzone, was based on Tangier, Morocco. 

PB - Olympia Press CY - Paris N1 -

Also pub. as Naked Lunch. New York: Grove Press, 1962. These two editions differ substantially. Grove Press ed. rpt. New York: Grove Press, 1992. UK ed. as The Naked Lunch. London: John Calder in association with Olympia Press, 1964. Something approaching a critical edition is Naked Lunch: The Restored Text. Ed. James Grauerholz and Barry Miles. New York: Grove Press, 2001. This edition corrects errors and adds “Original Introductions and Additions by the Author” (197-229) and “Burroughs Texts Annexed by the Editors” (231-89), which includes “Editors' Note” (233-47). Rpt. as 50th Anniversary Edition. New York: Grove Press, 2009 with an added “Afterword” by David L. Ulin (291-99). A bibliographic nightmare in that all the early editions differ because they are based on different versions of the text and have added differing front and back matter. Parts were originally published as by William Lee [pseud.] as “From: Naked Lunch, Book III: In Search of Yage.” Black Mountain Review, no. 7 (Autumn 1957): 144-48; “Have You Seen Pantapon Done.” Yūgen (New York), no. 3 (1958): 4-5; “Excerpt from Naked Lunch.” Chicago Review 12.1 (Spring 1958): 25-30; and “Chapter 2 of Naked Lunch.” Chicago Review 12.3 (Autumn 1958): 3-12. When further sections were stopped by the University of Chicago, Big Table was established to publish them and despite police attention published “Ten Episodes from Naked Lunch.” Big Table, no. 1 (Spring 1959): 79-137; and “In Quest of Yage.” Big Table 2 (Summer 1959): 44-64. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The New School: A Novel of the Creation of a New Society Y1 - 1959 A1 - Howard William Ray KW - Male author AB -

Series of utopian sketches beginning in contemporary Mexico and building through reincarnation to the development of a new school that develops into a community and influences the country as a whole. Vaguely religious.

PB - Exposition Press CY - New York U5 -

CtY

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Nor Custom Stale" Y1 - 1959 A1 - Joanna [Ruth] Russ (1937-2011) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia of a house, which is supposed to be immortal, that took care of all needs of its occupants for many generations and its gradual failure.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 17.3 (100) N1 -

Rpt. in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (UK) 1.5 (April 1960): 34-; and in her The Hidden Side of the Moon. Stories (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987), 124-37.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Offshore Island: A Play in Three Acts Y1 - 1959 A1 - Marghanita Laski (1915-88) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Post catastrophe dystopia following nuclear war. It focuses on a family who survived the war and shows them ten years later. 

PB - Cresset Press CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: May Fair, 1961

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ossian's Ride Y1 - 1959 A1 - [Sir] Fred Hoyle (1915-2001) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. A golden land of youth that had exploited technology fully, particularly nuclear technology. Set in Ireland.

PB - Heinemann CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Four Square, 1961; U.S. ed. New York: Berkley, 1968.

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I, L, Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pagan Passions Y1 - 1959 A1 - [Gordon] Randall [Philip David] Garrett (1927-87) A1 - Larry M[ark] Harris (1933-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The Greek Gods return and establish a Golden Age. No war, improved economic system, and greater sexual freedom. Conflict among the gods, who are in fact criminal aliens from another planet.

PB - Galaxy Publishing Co CY - New York VL - Beacon Books No. 263. Galaxy Science Fiction Novels No. 39. U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Pirates of Ersatz" Y1 - 1959 A1 - [William Fitzgerald] [Jenkins] (1896-1975) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Humor--planet called Walden whose inhabitants think they live in a eutopia but are mistaken.

JF - Astounding Science Fiction VL - 72.6 - 73.2 U3 -

Murray Leinster [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Poorhouse Fair Y1 - 1959 A1 - John [Hoyer] Updike (1932-2009) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The background of the novel is a future United States that is slowly degenerating and becoming stagnant. The novel takes place on the day the poorhouse holds its annual fair and the people in the house revolt against the director of the home.

PB - Alfred A. Knopf CY - New York N1 -

 © 1958 and published January 12, 1959. Rpt. New York: Fawcett, [1964].

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MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Providence Island: An Archaeological Tale Y1 - 1959 A1 - [Jessie] Jacquetta Hawkes (1910-90) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Eutopian elements in a primitive society which has developed psychic powers.

PB - Chatto & Windus CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Random House, 1959.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Season of the Babies" Y1 - 1959 A1 - Miriam Allen deFord (1888-1975) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia presenting a people who have all their children in one season, choose the best to be raised, and eat the others.

JF - Fantastic Universe VL - 12.2 U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Sirens of Titan Y1 - 1959 A1 - Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (1922-2007) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire. Depicts all of human history as brought about to deliver a spare part to a stranded alien spaceship on Titan. Various dystopias.

PB - Dell CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1961; and rpt. as the Collectors' Edition. Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1990 illus. Richard Powers and with an “Introduction” (vii-ix) by Vonnegut. U.K. ed. London: Victor Gollancz, 1962. Rpt. London: Gollancz, 2006 with an “Introduction” by Jasper Fforde (ix-xiii); and in Novels & Stories 1950-1962 Player Piano The Sirens of Titan Mother Night Stories. Ed. Sidney Offit (New York: The Library of America, 2012), 309-532, with a Note on the Text (819-23) and Notes (828-29). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Split Worlds: A Fabulous Story of the Future. Y1 - 1959 A1 - Tyrone C. Barr KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Post-nuclear war novel in which fourteen survivors (five women and nine men) settle a planet where they begin to create the conditions that led to the nuclear war on Earth.

PB - Brown, Watson/Digit Books CY - London N1 -

Rpt. without the subtitle London: Brown, Watson/Digit Books, 1962. Different version as The Last 14. [Long, Island, NY]: Chariot Publishers, 1960. 

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Different version as The Last 14

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CU-Riv

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Starship Troopers Y1 - 1959 A1 - Robert A[nson] Heinlein (1907-88) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia with constant war that presents the military, and particularly the infantry, positively.

PB - G.P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: New American Library, 1961; New York: Berkley, 1968; New York: Ace Books, 1987; and as vol. 3 of The Virginia Edition of his works. Decatur, GA: Meisha Merlin Publishing, 2006; and separately Houston, TX: The Virginia Edition, 2008. Also published as “Starship Soldier.” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 17.4 - 5 (101 - 102) (October - November 1959): 103-62; 51-95. Rpt. in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. British Edition 1.8 - 10 (July - September 1960): 83-128; 96-128; 92-128. 

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Also as "Starship Soldier"

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CU-Riv, L, Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Time Out of Joint Y1 - 1959 A1 - Philip K[indred] Dick (1928-82) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel presents what appears to be a classic 1950s small town eutopia centered on family life, but this has been constructed by a militaristic dystopia to fill the paranoid fantasy of a man who does much of the calculations for the war with Venus.

PB - J.B. Lippincott CY - Philadelphia, PA N1 -

Rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1979; and London: Gollancz, 2003.

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IU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Tranquility, or Else!" Y1 - 1959 A1 - Fritz [Reuter] Leiber [Jr.] (1910-92) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia. Conditioning for freedom leaves people too controlled and in need of outlets for aggression.

JF - Fantastic Science Fiction VL - 8.11 N1 -

Rpt. in his Mind Spider and Other Stories (New York: Ace Books, 1961), 1-54. Rpt. as “The Haunted Future.” A Day in the Life. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: Harper and Row, 1972), 154-99. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Wolfbane Y1 - 1959 A1 - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) A1 - C[yril] M[ichael] Kornbluth (1923-58) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia in which the Earth has been moved by extraterrestrials resulting in the remaining humans dividing into two groups. One, called Sheep by the other group, that reduces its activities to a so as to conserve energy and kills anyone who violates their norms. The other, called Wolves by the first, who are much more active and establish a community of their own. But the aliens have a use for the wolves, and they become part of a machine.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Garland, 1975. Shorter version in Galaxy Science Fiction 14.6 - 15.1 (October - November 1957): 8-52; 54-105.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "World of Heart's Desire" Y1 - 1959 A1 - Robert Sheckley (1928-2005) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

In a post-nuclear war world, the eutopia becomes normal pre-war family life, which can only be experienced as fantasy.

JF - Playboy N1 -

Rpt. as "The Store of the Worlds." In his Store of Infinity (New York: Bantam Books, 1960), 104-10; in The Collected Short Fiction of Robert Sheckley. Book Four (Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991), 111-17; and in his The Masque of Mañana. Ed. Sharon L. Sbarsky (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2005), 505-10.

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Rpt. as "The Store of the Worlds."

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "2000 A.D." Y1 - 1958 A1 - A[rthur] R[ex] D[ugard] Fairburn (1904-1957) ED - Dorothy Cannibal Editor KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on New Zealand's future. Poem.

JF - Poetry Harbinger: Introducing A.R.D. Fairburn (6 foot 3) and Denis Glover (11 stone 7) PB - Pilgrim Press CY - Auckland, New Zealand N1 -

Rpt. in his Collected Poems (Christchurch, New Zealand: Pegasus Press, 1966), 141-42; and in Voyagers: Science Fiction Poetry from New Zealand. Ed. Mark Pirie and Tim Jones (Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Interactive Press, 2009), 5-6.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - After the Rain Y1 - 1958 A1 - John [Griffin] Bowen (1924-2019) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Post-apocalyptic dystopia (flooding). A play, with significant differences from the novel, was adapted by the author was based on the novel. After the Rain: A Play in Three Acts. London: Faber and Faber, 1967. U.S. ed. New York: Random House, 1967 with production photographs. There is a note in the U.K. ed. ([9]) detailing tree objections that the Lord Chamberlain, Lord Cobbold, then censor, objected to that had to be changed in performance. First performed at the Hampstead Theatre Club on September 1, 1966 directed by Vivian Matalon. As originally performed, the play was innovative in that the audience was seated so as to be part of the play. When transferred to the Duchess Theatre and then to New York, the seating was as usual. The Library of Congress holds the Playbill 4.10 (October 1967) for the production at the John Golden Theatre in New York City, which starred Alec McCowen (1925-2017), who had also played the role in London. 

PB - Faber and Faber CY - London U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “‘All the Troubles of the World’” Y1 - 1958 A1 - Isaac Asimov (1920-92) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed dystopia about a massive computer that runs the world. The story focuses on its ability to predict crime. See also 1975 Asimov. 

JF - Super-Science Fiction VL - 2.3 N1 -

Rpt. in If This Goes On. Ed. Charles Nuetzel (Beverly Hills, CA: Book Company of America, [1965]), 88-105. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Beyond the Vanishing Point Y1 - 1958 A1 - Ray[mond King] Cummings (1887-1957) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia using the same miniaturization trope as in 1922 Cummings.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -

Some was published under the same title in Astounding Stories 5.3 (March 1931): 314-59.

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Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Big-Ball. A Novel Y1 - 1958 A1 - Frank Earl Jones KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia on Mars. Mars has large domed cities, pooled resources, and concern for others. Earth considered backward. Very poorly written.

PB - Jones Publication CY - Bloomington, IL U1 -

The cover has the subtitle First Atomic Space Ship Practical, factual, probable, human. Man’s First Attempt to Span Space

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Birthright." Y1 - 1958 A1 - Margaret [Neeley] St. Clair (1911-95) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Satire on the growing tendency to provide medical treatment in the most extreme cases. The story is about a baby needing heart surgery to survive who already needs regular insulin shots and who has significant visual problems and will be deaf at a young age.

JF - Fantastic Universe VL - 9.4 U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Case of Conscience Y1 - 1958 A1 - James [Benjamin] Blish (1921-75) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Two societies are presented, Lithia, a eutopia, and earth, a dystopia. Earth, which is called the Shelter Society because it emerged from entire cities moving underground as bomb shelters is stratified and hedonistic but with considerable alienation. Lithia is a eutopia that is entirely rational. The novel’s primary protagonist is a Jesuit who concludes that Lithia is a creation of Satan.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Faber & Faber, 1959. Rpt. New York: Walker & Co., 1969; Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin, 1963; in The Arbor House Treasury of Great Science Fiction Short Novels. Comp. Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg (New York: Arbor House, 1980), 492-547; London: Millennium, 1999; and in American Science Fiction: Five Classic Novels 1956-1958. Ed. Gary K. Wolfe (New York: Library of America, 2012), 373-553, with a “Biographical Note” (809-10), a “Note on the Text” (815-16), and “Notes” (823-29) and additional material on line at loa.org/sciencefiction. An illus. 300-copy edition has been published Lakewood, CO: Centipede Press, 2021. Originally published abridged in If 2.4 (September 1953): 4-51, 116-17.

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L, Merril, NjR, PSt, SFF, UC-Riv

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Debt of Lassor” Y1 - 1958 A1 - N[orma] K[athleen] Hemming (1928-60) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia of a future Earth where the people have accepted being completely oppressed. The story is about the colonizers struggling to get the people to recover their humanity. 

JF - Nebula Science Fiction VL - no. 33 N1 -

Rpt. in The Best Australian Science Fiction Writing: A Fifty Year Collection. Ed. Rob Gerrand (Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Black Inc., 2004), 23-37; and in Dwellers in Silence: Stories and Plays by Norma Hemming. Ed. Toby Burrows (Nedlands, WA, Australia: Hilliard Press, 2010), 64-84. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Dream of John Ball" Y1 - 1958 A1 - A[rthur] R[ex] D[ugard] Fairburn (1904-1957) A1 - Denis [James Matthews] Glover (1912-80) ED - Dorothy Cannibal Editor KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Satire but depicting a populist eutopia. John Ball (ca. 1338-81) was a priest who was involved in the in the Peasant's Revolt of 1381.

JF - Poetry Harbinger: Introducing A.R.D. Fairburn (6 foot 3) and Denis Glover (11 stone 7) PB - Pilgrim Press CY - Auckland, New Zealand U5 -

VUW

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Eastward Ho!" Y1 - 1958 A1 - [Philip] [Klass] (1920-2010) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire in which Indians have retaken the American continent.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 15.4 N1 -

Rpt. in his The Wooden Star (New York: Ballantine Books, 1968), 73-93; in Beyond Armageddon: Twenty-One Sermons to the Dead. Ed. Walter M. Miller, Jr. and Martin H. Greenberg (New York: Primus, 1985), 278-94; and in his Immodest Proposals: The Complete Science Fiction of William Tenn. Volume 1 (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2001), 187-98 with an "Afterword" (199-200).

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William Tenn [pseud.]

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MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Examination Day" Y1 - 1958 A1 - Henry Slesar (1927-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Brief dystopia. At age twelve each child takes an intelligence exam. Those with very low-level results are executed.

JF - Playboy N1 -

Rpt. in The Playboy Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy (Chicago, IL: Playboy Press, 1966), 314-19; in A Legend in his own Lunchbox: English Workshop. Ed. Peter Forrestal and Jo-Anne Reid (Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Nelson, 1970), 92-96; and in Weird Worlds, no. 4 (1980): 6-.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Forty Years On Y1 - 1958 A1 - Doreen [Dora Eileen Agnew] Wallace (1897-1989) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

After an atomic war a surviving British village creates a decent life which is, on some dimensions, better than the previous one.

PB - Collins CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Golden Age" Y1 - 1958 A1 - Lee Priestley AB -

Dystopia showing the boredom that comes with too much security and the danger to the system of thinking.

JF - Fantastic Universe VL - 10.3 U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Golden Phoenix Y1 - 1958 A1 - Mary Shaffer Carlton KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Visit to a eutopian planet named Oopana. Technically advanced, no poor, with each continent having a monarchy. Religious. Large military for fear of other planets. Each class (rich, middle, lower) based on intelligence and skill and can advance with higher education. Each class lives in a separate district with more or less elaborate housing (47) and wear different clothing (53). Deported if unwilling to work. Traditional gender roles.

PB - Vantage Press CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Good Society: The Goal of Law and of the Religion of Jesus, the Unconscious Goal of Creative Evolution, and the Coming Purposeful Goal of Life Y1 - 1958 A1 - Hugh Evander Willis (b. 1875) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Criticism of contemporary society that includes a section describing some of the institutions of a future eutopia. The author contends that it is not "another dream utopia" but a realistic set of proposals based on Christ's plan.

PB - Vantage Press CY - New York U5 -

DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Head in the Sand Y1 - 1958 A1 - Ewart C[harles] Jones KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Dystopia of England controlled by the U.S.S.R.

PB - Arthur Barker CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Illusionists" Y1 - 1958 A1 - Elder Olson (1909-92) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Two dystopias. In the dominant one a few people acting like gods run the machines that give everyone their desired illusions. In the other, Earth is controlled by a dictator who provides happiness to all who are obedient.

JF - Plays & Poems, 1948-58 PB - University of Chicago Press CY - Chicago, IL N1 -

Rev. as "A Crack in the Universe: A Play in Three Acts." First Stage: A Quarterly of New Drama 1.2 (Spring 1962): 9-33.

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Rev. as "A Crack in the Universe: A Play in Three Acts."

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Immortality, Inc Y1 - 1958 A1 - Robert Sheckley (1928-2005) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Suicide Act of 2102 in which a person joins a game as the Hunted and tries to elude professional killers. For different versions of the same theme, see 1960 and 1966 Sheckley. 

PB - Avalon CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1959; and in Dimensions of Sheckley: The Selected Novels of Robert Sheckley. Ed. Sharon L. Sbarsky (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2002), 17-151. Short version as "Time Killer." Galaxy Magazine 16.6 - 17.3 (October 1958 - February 1959): 4-46, 94-137; 104-41, 156-94. Another short version as Immortality Delivered. New York: Avalon, 1959. 

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Short versions as "Time Killer" and Immortality Delivered.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Invaders from Earth Y1 - 1958 A1 - Robert Silverberg (b. 1935) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of capitalism and public relations in which a plan is hatched to destroy a world and its people for profit.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -

Invaders from Earth was published in a shorter version as "We the Marauders." Science Fiction Quarterly 2 (February 1958): 8-70, which was rpt. in A Pair From Space (New York: Belmont Books, [1965]), 5-86.

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Published in a shorter version as "We the Marauders." 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Invisible Barriers Y1 - 1958 A1 - [Robert] [Silverberg] (b. 1935) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a world where all countries have cut themselves off from each other.

PB - Avalon Books. CY - New York U3 -

David Osborne [pseud.]

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "It Walks in Beauty" Y1 - 1958 A1 - [Horace] Chan[dler] Davis (b. 1926) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which career women are considered non-sexual, marriage is rare and disparaged, and wanting children slightly obscene.

JF - Star Science Fiction 1.1 VL - 1.1 UR - Original author's version SciFiction www.scifi.com/scifiction/ Posted September 3, 2003. No longer available onilne. N1 -

Rpt. in It Walks in Beauty: Selected Prose of Chandler Davis. Ed. Josh Lukin (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2010), 194-228.

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Joy Wagon Y1 - 1958 A1 - Arthur T[wining] Hadley [II] (1924-2015) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Humor in which a computer runs for President.

PB - Viking CY - New York U5 -

DLC, Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Last Letter" Y1 - 1958 A1 - Fritz [Reuter] Leiber [Jr.] (1910-92) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on a technologically oriented society that uses most of the technology for advertising. People live in hives overseen by a Queen Mother and every boy in the hive must marry one of the “Girls Next Door.”

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction VL - 16.2 N1 -

Rpt. in his A Pail of Air (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964), 132-44; and in The Worlds of Fritz Leiber (New York: Ace Books, 1976), 219-32. Rpt. (Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1979), 219-32. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Last of the Deliverers" Y1 - 1958 A1 - Poul [William] Anderson (1926-2001) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Conflict between Freeborn and Communist communities showing flaws in both systems. The Freeborn community appears to be a capitalist eutopia, but there is very little economic activity.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 14.2 (81) U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Living City Y1 - 1958 A1 - Frank Lloyd Wright (1869-1959) KW - US author AB -

Architectural eutopia describing Wright’s eutopias Usonia and Broadacre City. Includes both building designs and layouts for towns and cities plus an argument for the beneficial effects of his ideas. See also his The Disappearing City. New York: William Farquhar Payson, 1932; When Democracy Builds. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1945; and “Broadacre City: An Architect’s Vision.” The New York Times (March 20, 1932): 8.

PB - Horizon Press CY - New York U5 -

MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Matriarchy of Renok” Y1 - 1958 A1 - N[orma] K[athleen] Hemming (1928-60) ED - Toby Burrows KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A matriarchy that keeps men in their “proper” role as slaves is visited by a man from Earth. which leads the all-powerful Galactic Empire. The man is crass in the extreme and assumes that the women will fall for him. They don’t. 

JF - Dwellers in Silence: Stories and Plays by Norma Hemming PB - Hilliard Press CY - Nedlands, WA, Australia U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Million Cities" Y1 - 1958 A1 - [James Murdoch] [MacGregor] (1925-2008) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Overpopulation, authoritarian dystopia with the Earth completely urbanized.

JF - Satellite Science Fiction VL - 2.6 N1 -

Repub. New York: Pyramid, 1963.

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J. T. McIntosh [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Minimum Man" Y1 - 1958 A1 - Robert Sheckley (1928-2005) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The background of the story is an overpopulation dystopia desperate for suitable planets to colonize. The story is about a program to test planets by sending incompetent, accident prone explorers to test them; if they survive, anyone can.

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction VL - 16.2 N1 -

Rpt. in The Collected Short Fiction of Robert Sheckley. Book Four (Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991), 71-101; and in his The Masque of Mañana. Ed. Sharon L. Sbarsky (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2005), 463-88.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Mission to a Distant Star” Y1 - 1958 A1 - Frank Belknap Long [Jr.] (1901-94) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Aliens, called Scorpions, who appear to be completely human but with much more advanced technology arrive on Earth. Much of the novel is concerned with the difficulties in understanding each other, based in part on their own failure to understand themselves. The Scorpions, it turns out, had as flawed a history as the humans and had thoroughly suppressed it.

JF - Satellite Science Fiction VL - 2.3 N1 -

Rpt. as by Frank B[elknap] Long as Mission to a Star. New York: Avalon Books, 1964

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Rpt. as Mission to a Star

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HRC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Mysterious Stranger Y1 - 1958 A1 - Olive Gundran KW - Female author AB -

The female protagonist falls in love with a visiting man from Mars and is taken there with the intent that she will learn their secret of creating a worldwide eutopia and then return to Earth to teach it there. While secret is not revealed in the book, she learns to fly on wings she is taught to make. Martians are beautiful, never sick or in pain. Supposedly there has never been strife, but later she flies over an island where people are isolated, without wings, of can’t get along with others. No money. No classes. The laws are the Ten Commandments. 

PB - A Milestone Book/Comet Press Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Never Forever Y1 - 1958 A1 - Conyers, Bernard KW - Male author AB -

Astrological adventure story set in a generally eutopian future that has to deal with the issues raised by an elixir that will produce immortality without aging. Astrology used to choose members of the U.K. Cabinet, which includes the Ministers of Force, Economics, Education, Domesticity, the Arts, Diplomacy, Health, Justice, Commerce, Science, and Metaphysics plus the Prime Minister, each representing a sign of the zodiac. Technologically advanced. No alcohol; no tobacco..

PB - Regency Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - No Place on Earth Y1 - 1958 A1 - Louis [Henry] Charbonneau (b. 1924) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia set in 2240 in which procreation without permission is treason.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Non-Stop Y1 - 1958 A1 - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A multi-generation spacecraft that has developed an authoritarian religion and government as well as biological changes returns to earth, where the people decide to keep it in permanent orbit.

PB - Faber & Faber CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Carroll & Graf, 1989. Repub. as Starship. New York: Criterion Books, 1959. There are textual differences between the editions. 

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Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Plenitude" Y1 - 1958 A1 - [William W.] [Mohler] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is told from the point of view of a father creating a good life for himself and his family using the traditional skills of farming, fishing, and hunting after the collapse of civilization brought about by most people choosing to live in spheres that maintain their lives artificially. No real explanation for the choice people made.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 17.5 (102) N1 -

Rpt. in The Big Book of Science Fiction: The Ultimate Collection. Ed. Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (New York: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Vintage Books, 2016), 396-402 with an editors’ note on 395.

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Will Worthington [pseud.].

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PSt, Public

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Reap the Dark Tide" Y1 - 1958 A1 - C[yril] M[ichael] Kornbluth (1923-58) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Two dystopias, one at sea and one on land. The one at sea focuses on the desperate need to keep a convoy together and harvest enough to feed the thousands of people on each ship. The one on land develops into a cult of death. At the end of the story, one ship, expelled from a convoy, begins the process of starting over with land and sea connected.

JF - Vanguard Science Fiction VL - 1.1 N1 -

Rpt. as "Shark Ship." In his A Mile Beyond the Moon (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1958), 166-196; in Dark Stars. Ed. Robert Silverberg (New York: Ballantine Books, 1968), 1-35; and in Voyages: Scenarios for a Ship Called Earth. Ed. Rob Sauer (New York: Zero Population Growth/Ballantine Books, 1971), 268-305.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Rise of the Meritocracy 1870-2033: An Essay on Education and Equality Y1 - 1958 A1 - Michael [Dunlop] Young (1915-2002) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The book has been read as both a eutopia and a dystopia with the author characterizing it as the latter. Development of a class system based on I.Q.

PB - Thames and Hudson CY - London N1 -

Rpt. Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin, 1961. U.S. ed. as The Rise of the Meritocracy 1870-2033: The New Elite of Our Social Revolution. New York: Random House, 1959.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Secret of ZI Y1 - 1958 A1 - [Henry] Kenneth Bulmer (1921-2005) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia of aliens dominating earth with a revolt by the humans.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -

 Rev. ed. as The Patient Dark. London: Robert Hale, 1969.

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Rev. ed. as The Patient Dark.

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DLC, L, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Tale of Two Futures; A Novel of Life on Earth and the Planet Paliades in 1975 Y1 - 1958 A1 - William P. Heyne (1910-85) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Earth is a dystopia with class differences, gangs, and inflation. Paliades is a eutopia of religion and monogamy. Its constitution is on 154-58. Throughout the novel “human nature” tries to undermine the eutopia.

PB - Exposition Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "This Crowded Earth" Y1 - 1958 A1 - Robert [Albert] Bloch (1917-94) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia in which single people are allowed a small, one-room apartment. The decision is made to give women shots that will result in them giving birth to children who will only grow to be three feet tall. They come to be known as Yardsticks and slowly replace larger people. Complex story but the Yardsticks lose their vitality and knowledge and need the help of the few remaining full-size people to change.

JF - Amazing Science Fiction Stories VL - 38.10 N1 -

Rpt. (New York: Belmont Books, 1968), 1-109. Bound with 1968 Bloch.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Tide Went Out Y1 - 1958 A1 - [David] [McIlwain] (1921-81) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Post-apocalyptic dystopia in which atomic testing opens fissures in the earth and the oceans drain into them, causing worldwide drought, and the collapse of civilization.

PB - Hodder & Stoughton CY - London N1 -

Rpt. as Thirst! London: Sphere Books, 1977; and as The Tide Went Out. London: The British Library 2019. U.S. ed. New York: Ballantine Books, 1959. 

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Charles Eric Maine [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Tomorrow's Gift" Y1 - 1958 A1 - Edmund Cooper (1926-82) ED - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a four-class society based on I.Q. and H.Q. (Happiness Quotient). The classes are administrators, technicians, prefrontals (having failed in one of the top classes), and illiterates.

JF - Star Science Fiction Stories PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York VL - No. 4 N1 -

Rpt. in his Tomorrow's Gift (New York: Ballantine Books, 1958), 7-15. U.K. ed. (London: Brown, Watson/Digit Books, [1958]), 5-13.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Two Dooms" Y1 - 1958 A1 - C[yril] M[ichael] Kornbluth (1923-58) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A future dystopia dominated by the Japanese because U.S. atomic scientists decided not to make the bomb.

JF - Venture Science Fiction VL - 2.4 (10) N1 -

Rpt. in Venture Science Fiction (U.K.), no. 20 (April 1965): 72-112; in The Best of C.M. Kornbluth. Ed. Frederik [George] Pohl, [Jr.] (Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, 1976), 264-310; The Best of C.M. Kornbluth. Ed. Frederik [George] Pohl, [Jr.] (New York: Ballantine Books, 1977), 284-336; and in His Share of Glory: The Complete Short Science Fiction of C.M. Kornbluth. Ed. Timothy P. Szczesuil (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 1997), 274-308.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Ullward's Retreat" Y1 - 1958 A1 - Jack [John Holbrook] Vance (1916-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia.

JF - Galaxy Magazine VL - 17.2 N1 -

Rpt. in his Future Tense (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964), 47-71; book rpt. as Dust of Far Suns (New York: DAW Books, 1981), 78-103. Story rpt. in The Moon Moth and Other Stories. Vol. 17 of The Complete Works of Jack Vance (Oakland, CA: Vance Integral Editions, 2002), 91-121.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Uncertain Midnight Y1 - 1958 A1 - Edmund Cooper (1926-82) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Flawed utopia of a machine eutopia that is actually a dystopia.

PB - Hutchinson CY - London U1 -

U.S. title Deadly Image.

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L, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Wait" Y1 - 1958 A1 - Kit [Lilian Craig] Reed (1932-2017) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set in an isolated Georgia town that enforces a ritual deflowering of eighteen-year-old girls. 

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 14.4 (83) N1 -

Rpt. Illus. in Venture Science Fiction (U.K.), no. 26 (October 1965): 2-15; rpt. Venture Science Fiction (Australia), no. 26 (December 1965): 2-15. Rpt. with typographical variations as “To be Taken in a Strange Country.” In her Mister da V. And Other Stories (London: Faber and Faber, 1967), 11-31.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - World Without Men Y1 - 1958 A1 - [David] [McIlwain] (1921-81) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a society without men and the effect on it of the creation of one. The all female society is presented negatively, and it is at least initially made worse by the creation of the man. In the revised version, the women gradually adjust to the experience of heterosexual love and sex.

PB - Ace Books, with the name on the spine as Eric Maine CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Digit, 1963. Rev. as Alph. New York: Ballantine Books, 1972. Rpt. Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, 1972.

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Charles Eric Maine [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Alien Night" Y1 - 1957 A1 - Thomas N[icholas] Scortia (1926-86) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia in which immortality was available in twenty-five year increments with aliens experimenting on humans and multiple worlds. The blurb on the first page after the cover includes what could be a definition of a flawed utopia: “Utopia was no longer a beautiful dream but a horrifying reality. Perfection--pure, absolute and unchanging--was slowly mummifying the human race and the world had become a monstrous still life.”

JF - Science Fiction Adventures VL - 1.5 N1 -

Rpt. in Get Out of My Sky: Three Short Novels of Science Fiction. Ed. Leo Margulies (Greenwich, CT: Crest Book/Fawcett Publications), 1960), 129-176.

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Illus. [Robert] Engle.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "All the Worlds Tears" Y1 - 1957 A1 - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia after a catastrophe. All whites are gone. Hatred and toughness are honored, and there is no love.

JF - Nebula Science Fiction VL - no. 21 N1 -

Rpt. in his The Canopy of Time (London: Faber and Faber, 1959), 25-38.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Atlas Shrugged Y1 - 1957 A1 - Ayn Rand [pseud.] KW - Female author KW - Russian author KW - US author AB -

The novel begins in an authoritarian dystopia in which most of the world is composed of collectivist "People's States". Over the course of the novel the U.S. is transformed into an individualistic, capitalist eutopia. The recurrent positive symbol throughout the book is the dollar sign. See also 1938 Rand.

PB - Random House CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: New American Library, 1959. 35th anniversary ed. New York: Dutton, 1992. Rpt. New York: Plume, 2005. This is labeled "The Centennial Edition" on the cover and the copyright page, but it is simply a reprint of the 1992 edition. Given name of Alisa Rosenbaum was never used. A three-part film was announced. Part I was released in 2011 directed by Paul Johansson (b. 1964) a screenplay by John Aglialoro and Bryan Patrick O'Toole. Part II was released in 2012 directed by John Putch (b. 1961) with a screenplay by Duke Sandefur, Bryan Patrick O'Toole, and Duncan Scott.

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Ayn Rand [pseud.]

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MH, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - On the Beach Y1 - 1957 A1 - Nevil Shute [Norway] (1899-1960) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Most of the world has been destroyed in a nuclear war, and Australians are waiting for the radiation to reach them.

PB - William Heinemann CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Pan, 1966. Australian ed. Melbourne, VIC: Heinemann, 1957. There was a 1959 film directed by Stanley Kramer (1913-2001) and a 2000 TV remake directed by Russell Mulachy (b. 1953).

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Nevil Shute [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Build-Up" Y1 - 1957 A1 - J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia. The entire world is one city, and no one knows that the world is round.

JF - New Worlds Science Fiction VL - 19.55 N1 -

Rpt. in his Chronopolis and Other Stories (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1971), 175-93. Rpt. as “The Concentration City.” In his The Disaster Area (London: Jonathan Cape, 1967), 33-57; in The Best Short Stories of J.G. Ballard (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1978), 1-20; and in his The Complete Short Stories. (London: Flamingo, 2001), 23-38. 

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Rpt. as "The Concentration City.” 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Burning World Y1 - 1957 A1 - Algis [Algirdas Jonas] Budrys (1931-2008) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed libertarian utopia struggling with those who wanted power internally and external enemies.

JF - Infinity Science Fiction VL - 2.4 N1 -

Rpt. Medford, OR: Armchair Press, 2012 bound with Chester S. Geier (1921-90), Forever Is Too Long originally published in Fantastic Adventures (March 1947). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Citadel, Market and Altar: Emerging Society. Outline of Socionomy. The New Natural Science of Society Y1 - 1957 A1 - Spencer Heath (1876-1963) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A treatise that includes a chapter "Towards the Utopian Dream: A Hypothetical Distribution of National Income under Proprietary Public Administration" (175-89 plus a foldout table). The eutopia is based on modified free enterprise in which the people of a community are the owners of businesses and hire administrators to run them for their benefit.

PB - The Science of Society Foundation, Inc CY - Baltimore, MD U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Citizen of the Galaxy" Y1 - 1957 A1 - Robert A[nson] Heinlein (1907-88) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A future dystopia where slavery is practiced on some planets, but every spaceship is a sovereign state.

JF - Astounding Science Fiction VL - 40.1 - 4 N1 -

Repub. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1957; and as vol. 20 of The Virginia Edition of his works. Houston, TX: The Virginia Edition, 2008.

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Merril, NcD, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Community of the Future and The Future of Community Y1 - 1957 A1 - Arthur E[rnest] Morgan (1878-1975) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Description in essay form of a face-to-face community as a eutopia.

PB - Community Service, Inc CY - Yellow Springs, OH U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Constitution for the Brotherhood of Man. The United Communities Bill, and How It Came to Be Written Y1 - 1957 A1 - Anna Gtregson Loutrel (1903-1986) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Constitution for a eutopia of industrial and agricultural communities, called “The United Communities Bill” (22-30), which was drawn up at the Newllano community and  in the U.S.  Senate on April 4, 1933, when it was referred to the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry and died in committee. The female author was a member of the community.

PB - Greenwich Book Publishers CY - New York U5 -

DLC, NN

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Democracy at Ease: A New Zealand Profile Y1 - 1957 A1 - David Goldblatt KW - Male author AB -

Non-fiction but presents New Zealand throughout as a realized eutopia. Largely glittering generalities but includes some minimal recognition that not everything has worked as designed. Written from the point of view of an outsider. There is an obviously faked picture of the author with "Maori friends".

PB - Pall Mall Press CY - London U5 -

VUW

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Dio" Y1 - 1957 A1 - Damon [Francis] Knight (1922-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia in which immortality is achieved by indefinitely prolonging physical adolescence. Two classes develop, known as the players, who consume and enjoy, and the students, who are said to "remember" and do whatever planning is needed. The two classes normally have little to do with each other, but the novel is concerned with the relationship of a couple from the two classes, when the man is going through the lost experience of dying.

JF - Infinity Science Fiction VL - 2.5 N1 -

Rpt. in The Arbor House Treasury of Great Science Fiction Short Novels. Comp. Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg (New York: Arbor House, 1980), 548-81.

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Merril, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Doomsday Morning Y1 - 1957 A1 - C[atherine] L[ucille] Moore (1911-87) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

An authoritarian dystopia with the United States ruled by Comus or Communications U.S. in which  controls the media, education, and public relations. The novel focuses on the successful revolt against Comus and ends with the collapse of Comus.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Rpt. New York: Popular Library, 1987; and London: Gollancz, 2019.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Every Day is Christmas" Y1 - 1957 A1 - James E[dwin] Gunn (1923-2020) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian world in which subliminal advertising is aired twenty-four hours a day.

JF - Super Science Fiction VL - 1.2 N1 -

Rpt. in his Future Imperfect (New York: Bantam Books, 1964), 61-80.

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DLC, KU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Four Poems From the Strontium Age" Y1 - 1957 A1 - Louis [Albert] Johnson (1924-88) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

The four poems are "Before the Day of Wrath", "It's An Ill Wind . . .", "Spring", and "Haven". The first three poems describe an atomic war and its effects. The fourth poem describes the discovery by the survivors of an unaffected valley described in eutopian terms, but the poem ends with the reappearance of dystopian officialdom.

JF - New Worlds for Old. Poems PB - Aperion CY - Wellington, New Zealand N1 -

Rpt. in Voyagers: Science Fiction Poetry from New Zealand. Ed. Mark Pirie and Tim Jones (Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Interactive Press, 2009), 40-43.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Friends and Enemies” Y1 - 1957 A1 - Fritz [Reuter] Leiber [Jr.] (1910-92) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story focuses on the dystopia created by fear of science, particularly atomic physics, and speculation about alternative ways of life.

JF - Infinity Science Fiction VL - 2.2 N1 -

Rpt. in If This Goes On. Ed. Charles Nuetzel (Beverly Hills, CA: Book Company of America, [1965]), 107-25; and in The Worlds of Fritz Leiber (New York: Ace Books, 1976), . Rpt. (Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1979), 199-218. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Future Took Us Y1 - 1957 A1 - [David Storr] [Unwin] (1918-2010) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Children's dystopia. Destroyed future world dominated by religion with an underground city ruled by mathematicians trying to take over.

PB - The Bodley Head CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Puffin, 1962.

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David Severn [pseud.]

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Gates of Ivory, The Gates of Horn Y1 - 1957 A1 - Thomas McGrath (1916-1990) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia with an emphasis on a corrupt legal system following the basic precept of the society, "One nation indivisible with efficiency and punishment for all" (25 Original emphasis).

PB - Mainstream Publishers CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Green Kingdom Y1 - 1957 A1 - Rachel Maddux (1912-83) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Primitive, Arcadian eutopia with little social content. Much of the novel is concerned with the responses of and difficulties experienced by the five people who find and live in the Green Kingdom.

PB - Simon & Schuster CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. with an "Introduction" (ix-xiv) by Nancy A. Walker. Nashville: University of Tennessee Press, 1993. Rachel Maddux Series Vol. 4.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Heaven Knows Where. A Novel Y1 - 1957 A1 - D[ennis] J[oseph] Enright (1920-2002) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Humorous eutopia set on a South Seas island where the people are "born anarchists".

PB - Secker & Warburg CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Hometown" Y1 - 1957 A1 - Richard Wilson (1920-1987) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The Earth has been so damaged that most people live in sterile conditions on the moon and only visit the “Homeland” theme park that replicates a small town.

JF - 1 VL - 3 N1 -

Rpt. in Microcosmic Tales: 100 Wondrous Science Fiction Short-Short Stories. Ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and Joseph D. Olander (New York: Taplinger Publishing Co., 1980); rpt. (New York: DAW Books, 1992), 315-315. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hothouse. A Science Fiction Novel Y1 - 1957 A1 - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which humans have devolved into small, but still intelligent, creatures living in a world dominated by plants.

PB - Faber and Faber CY - London N1 -

 Rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1976, with an “Introduction” by Joseph Milicia (v-xvii). Abridged ed. as The Long Afternoon of Earth. New York: Signet/New American Library, 1962, which had originally been serialized in slightly different form in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction as “Hothouse.” 20.2 (117) (February 1961): 5-35; “Nomansland.” 20.4 (119) (April 1961): 99-129; “Undergrowth.” 21.1 (122) (July 1961): 84-130; “Timberline.” 21.3 (144) (September 1961): 99-129; and “Evergreen.” 21.6 (127) (December 1961): 82-128

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Abridged ed. as The Long Afternoon of Earth (1962) 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Land Fit for 'Eros Y1 - 1957 A1 - John [Alfred Neville] Atkins (1916-2009) A1 - J[ohn] B[arclay] Pick (1921-2015) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Primarily humor. Satire on a British movement to root out "subversives" similar to that of Senator Joseph R. McCarthy (1908-57) in the U.S. that was known as McCarthyism.

PB - Arco CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Language of Love" Y1 - 1957 A1 - Robert Sheckley (1928-2005) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The setting of the story is a future eutopian earth in which the entire landscape is carefully tended, it rains as needed in the middle of the night, and all animals are in zoos. The story is about an inarticulate young man learning the rational language of love of extinct aliens and its effects.

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction (New York) VL - 14.1 N1 -

Rpt. in The Collected Short Fiction of Robert Sheckley. Book Two (Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991), 369-80; in his The Masque of Mañana. Ed. Sharon L. Sbarsky (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2005), 375-84; and in Store of the Worlds: The Stories of Robert Sheckley. Ed. Alex Abramovich and Jonathan Lethem (New York: New York Review Books, 2012), 253-65 with an “Introduction” to the collection by the editors (vii-xi).

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "License" Y1 - 1957 A1 - Poul [William] Anderson (1926-2001) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 12.4 N1 -

Rpt. in his Seven Conquests (New York: Collier Books, 1969), 140-66. UK ed. as Conquests (London: Granada, 1981), 157-86.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Lone Star Planet" Y1 - 1957 A1 - H[enry] Beam Piper (1917-81) A1 - John J[oseph] McGuire (1917-1981) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A planet settled by Texans with an almost anarchist society. The workings of its political and legal systems are presented positively, although with satirical elements.

JF - Fantastic Universe VL - 7.3 N1 -

Rpt. as A Planet for Texans. New York: Ace Books, 1958. Ace Double bound with Andre Norton (1912-2005), Star Born; and as Lone Star Planet. New York: Ace Books, 1979 with no mention of McGuire. Bound with his Four-Day Planet, which was originally published New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1961.

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Rpt. as A Planet for Texans

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Made to Order” Y1 - 1957 A1 - Frank Belknap Long [Jr.] (1901-94) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a future where computers choose marriage partners and deny the right to marry based entirely on genetic factors. Sex outside marriage prohibited.

JF - Future Science Fiction VL - no. 32 U2 -

Illus. Murphy

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Male Strikebreaker" Y1 - 1957 A1 - Isaac Asimov (1920-92) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A society with a rigid class structure based on inherited occupations. The story focuses on a man who inherits the job of running the machinery that recycles human waste and his position as an outcast.

JF - The Original Science Fiction Stories VL - 7.4 N1 -

Rpt. as "Strikebreaker." In his Nightfall and Other Stories (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1969), 268-81.

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Rpt. as "Strikebreaker." 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mary's Country Y1 - 1957 A1 - Harold [Charles Hugh] Mead (1910-1997) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia called the Tote State. Some children bred for the Guardian class of future leaders are raised in the central nursery and then in a junior dormitory with no affection, no privacy, and no free time. There is a Cold War between the Tote State and the Democratic Union.

PB - Michael Joseph CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Master of Life and Death Y1 - 1957 A1 - Robert Silverberg (b. 1935) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York U5 -

KPT

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Mind Cage Y1 - 1957 A1 - A[lfred] E[lton] van Vogt (1912-2000) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

 The background of the novel is an authoritarian dystopia. 

PB - Simon and Schuster CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Morning After" Y1 - 1957 A1 - Robert Sheckley (1928-2005) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Earth is a flawed utopia in which no one has to work and most things like food and entertainment is provided by politicians as part of their ongoing campaigns for election or re-election. People, though, are bored and the birth rate is going down while the suicide rate is going up.

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine VL - 15.1 N1 -

Rpt. without the illus. in The Collected Short Fiction of Robert Sheckley. Book Two (Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991), 259-78. 

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Illus. Bowman

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "My Lady Green Sleeves" Y1 - 1957 A1 - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Class society based on occupation with the Civil Service, which includes Congress, at the top.

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction VL - 13.4 N1 -

Rpt. in his The Case Against Tomorrow (New York: Ballantine Books, 1957), 111-50.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The New Americanism" Y1 - 1957 A1 - Robert [Winborne] Welch [Jr.] (1899-1985) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Welch, the co-founder of The John Birch Society, calls this essay his utopia. In it he lays out a generally anti-government position.

JF - The New Americanism And Other Speeches and Essays PB - Western Islands, CY - Boston, MA U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - One Half of the World Y1 - 1957 A1 - James Barlow (1921-73) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

The novel is set in a postwar authoritarian dystopia where Britain, having lost the war, is occupied. The novel follows a British member of Internal Security as he comes to question his loyalty of the occupiers.

PB - Cassell CY - London U5 -

L, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Profession" Y1 - 1957 A1 - Isaac Asimov (1920-92) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Imprinting knowledge directly into the brain leads to an uncreative society.

JF - Astounding Science Fiction VL - 59.5 N1 -

Rpt. in his Nine Tomorrows; Tales of the Near Future (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1959), 16-74; and in Alternative Communities: Magazine of the Alternative Communities Movement, nos. 18 - 20 (1984 - 85): 2-16; 2-13; 2-12.

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MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Quest for Pajaro Y1 - 1957 A1 - Edward Maxwell [pseud.] AB -

Eutopia. A future society is destroyed in war and replaced by a world government, a universal language, and advanced technology.

PB - Heinemann CY - London U3 -

Edward Maxwell [pseud.]

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L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Remembrance Day 2010 A.D." Y1 - 1957 A1 - [John] Hugh MacLennan (1907-90) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Cold war dystopia. People had been so conditioned that they will choose to end life on Earth rather than peace, let alone defeat.

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Rpt. in his Scotchman’s Return and Other Essays (Toronto, ON, Canada: Macmillan of Canada, 1960), 78-89; and in Visions From the Edge: An Anthology of Atlantic Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy. Ed. John Bell and Lesley Choyce (Porters Lake, NS, Canada: Pottersfield Press, 1981), 162-68 with an editor’s note on 161.

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Can, Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Sandra" Y1 - 1957 A1 - George P[aul] Elliott (1918-80) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Slavery in an alternative history United States in which slaves are available in department stores and your local corner store. The male protagonist buys a female slave, guaranteed good at housework and copulation.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 13.4 (77) N1 -

Rpt.in A Treasury of Great Science Fiction. 2 vols. Ed. Anthony Boucher (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1959), 1: 370-79.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Saucer People Y1 - 1957 A1 - Ronald G. Garver (b. 1938) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia of scientists with telepathy, which is used to operate machines as well as to communicate.

PB - Meador Publishing Co CY - Boston, MA U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Sea People. A Fantasy Y1 - 1957 A1 - Julius C. Sizemore A1 - Wilkie G. Sizemore KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Vague and generally conservative eutopia stressing marriage and family life called Aquaria under the sea peopled by Americans of varied social and economic backgrounds. Telepathic. They are mutations who can live under water, but there are questions about what characteristics the future generation might have. Much of the novel focuses on the people drawn to Aquaria and why they choose it.

PB - Exposition Press CY - New York U5 -

CU-Riv, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Short Reign of Pippin IV: A Fabrication Y1 - 1957 A1 - John Steinbeck (1902-68) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Wide ranging political satire. France reestablishes the monarchy, and the king takes his position seriously so that he has to be deposed.

PB - Viking Press CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Heinemann, 1957. Viking ed. rpt. Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin Books, 1977.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Shrouded Planet Y1 - 1957 A1 - [Robert] [Silverberg] (b. 1935) A1 - [Gordon Randall Philip David] [Garrett] (1927-87) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A first contact story set in a theocracy where change is unthinkable. A sequel is “The Dawning Light.” Illus. [Henry Richard] van Dongen (1920-2010). Astounding Science Fiction 59.1 - 3 (March - May 1957): 8-55, 106-49, 96-145. Rpt. New York: Gnome, 1959. 189 pp.; and ed. Hank Stine and illus. Barclay Shaw. Virginia Beach, VA: Starblaze Editions, 1981. 125 pp. A novella set on the same planet is “All the King’s Horses.” Illus. [Henry Richard] van Dongen (1920-2010). Astounding Science Fiction 60.3 (January 1958): 84-119.

PB - Gnome Press CY - New York SN - 9780915442638 N1 -

Rpt. ed. Hank Stine and illus. Barclay Shaw. Virginia Beach, VA: Starblaze Editions, 1980.

Originated as three novellas: “The Chosen People.” Illus. [Henry Richard] van Dongen (1920-2010). Astounding Science Fiction 57.4 (June 1956): 73-96; “The Promised Land.” Illus. [Henry Richard] van Dongen (1920-2010). Astounding Science Fiction 57.6 (August 1956): 6-38; and “False Prophet.” Illus. [Henry Richard] van Dongen (1920-2010). Astounding Science Fiction 58.4 (December 1956): 8-43.

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Robert Randall [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Shubshub Race" Y1 - 1957 A1 - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire that includes a planet called Upotia, the Health planet, which has a constant pleasant climate, but this is a minor part of the story.

JF - Space, Time and Nathaniel (Presciences) PB - Faber & Faber CY - London U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Strange Evil Y1 - 1957 A1 - Jane Gaskell (b. 1941) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A eutopia that leads a fairly simple life and represents good is under attack by evil forces.

PB - Hutchinson CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1958.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "There's No Business" Y1 - 1957 A1 - [Henry] Kenneth Bulmer (1921-2005) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which all film and TV is banned.

JF - Nebula (Glasgow, Scot.) VL - no. 25 U5 -

NLS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "This Second Earth" Y1 - 1957 A1 - [John Stephen] [Glasby] (1928-2011) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia after an atomic war that obliterated most of the world's cities. A "Homo Superior" is produced by the radioactivity and must be fought by the surviving humans while they try to create the basis for a new civilization. The normal humans win, and the novel ends on a hopeful note.

PB - John Spencer & Co. Cobra Books CY - London U3 -

R. L. Bowers [pseud.]

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MH

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Through a Glass Darkly Y1 - 1957 A1 - Kathleen Norris (1880-1966) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Something like Heaven presented as a eutopia based on the ideas of Henry George (1839-97). For Henry George's explanation of the single tax, see his Progress and Poverty. An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and Of Increase of Want With Increase of Wealth. The Remedy. San Francisco, CA: W.M. Hinton, 1879. Fiftieth Anniversary Ed. New York: The Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, 1929. Contrasted to the real world in the second half of the book.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

UK ed. as Cheery. London: John Murray, 1958. Rpt. London: Kaye & Ward, 1970.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Tunesmith" Y1 - 1957 A1 - Lloyd Biggle Jr. (1923-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia where all art is in the form of commercials.

JF - If VL - 7.5 N1 -

Rpt. in his The Metallic Muse (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1972), 4-48.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Unemployed" Y1 - 1957 A1 - Doris Greenberg KW - Female author AB -

Short humorous flawed utopia that has outlawed books and all fairy tales and replaced most work with machines that run on atomic power. The fairy tale characters revolt and destroy the atomic pile along with all human life and get their world back.

JF - Fantastic VL - 6.3 U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Virgin Planet" Y1 - 1957 A1 - Poul [William] Anderson (1926-2001) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set on a planet occupied only by women where a religion had developed around the expected return of men.

JF - Venture Science Fiction VL - 1.1 N1 -

Repub. New York: Avalon, 1959. Rpt. New York: Warner Books, 1970.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Woman's World" Y1 - 1957 A1 - Robert Silverberg (b. 1935) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of women dominating men.

JF - Imagination VL - 8.3 (55) U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “World of the Future 1. A Man of the World” Y1 - 1957 A1 - Les Cole KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The first of two stories regarding the dystopia that would develop after an atomic war. In this story the “civilized” man of the future learns that survival means killing. See also 1957 [Merril].

JF - Venture Science Fiction VL - 1.1 N1 -

Rpt. Venture Science Fiction (British Edition), no. 1 (September 1963): 78-82. 

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C, Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “World of the Future 2. A Woman of the World” Y1 - 1957 A1 - [Judith (Josephine Juliet Grossman)] [Merril] (1923-97) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The second of two stories regarding the dystopia that would develop after an atomic war. In this story the “civilized” woman of the future learns that survival means finding the strongest man. See also 1957 Cole. 

JF - Venture Science Fiction VL - 1.1 N1 -

Rpt. in Venture Science Fiction (British Edition), no. 1 (September 1963): 83-89. 

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Rose Sharon [pseud.]

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C, Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "World of Women" Y1 - 1957 A1 - Harlan [Jay] Ellison (1934-2018) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia describing a world where all men had been eliminated except for a few kept for breeding purposes on a neighboring planet. One man visits in disguise to find the reason, which turns out to be an insane leader, and once she is removed, normal relations will re-emerge.

JF - Fantastic VL - 6.1 U5 -

DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - You'll See: Report from the Future Y1 - 1957 A1 - [Egon] [Lehrburger] (1904-90) KW - English author KW - German author KW - Male author AB -

Technological eutopia set in 1982 described as a projection, and the author includes an “Appendix: Some Facts” that lists developments that exist or are being developed that he uses in the text (170-76). There is phone shopping and pneumatic tube delivery with a few shops with old-fashioned personal service. Food is delivered by tube right into the refrigerator. Three types of food are available, “old-fashioned,” “short-diet” or tablet food, and “new-food,” which is primarily produced from plankton and algae. Weather control with rain announced in advance. Central London is pedestrianized with walkways lined with trees, flowers, and grass and most transport underground and helicopters landing on rooftops. Outside London roads had been built above railroads. London is ethnically and racially mixed with over half the population originating overseas. Everybody works, and there are no class distinctions. India has industrialized using nuclear power. 

PB - Rider CY - London U2 -

Illus.

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Egon Larsen [pseud.]

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L, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “2066: Election Day” Y1 - 1956 A1 - Michael [Joseph] Shaara [Jr.] (1928-88) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

In the future, the President of the United States is chosen through a battery of tests supervised by a computer. Anyone can take the tests. This has resulted in world peace and prosperity. The story is about when the computer no one is qualified.

JF - Astounding Science Fiction VL - 58.4 U2 -

Illus. [Frank Kelly] Freas (1922-2005)

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ahoy for Eternity and National Credit Y1 - 1956 A1 - J[ohn] B[ernard] Ball (b. 1911) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

One of the earliest of his many books and pamphlets that present his eutopia, a system of national credit and its positive effects which is explained in “Man and His Politics!” (64-113) through a discussion between Mr. Bruneau and Mr. Complacency. Although there are some variations, the eutopia is fairly consistent between the first three works published in 1956 and the last published in 1990. This book and some others also include his cosmological views and examples of his poetry. In 1957 the author ran in the Canadian federal election as a candidate in Regina, Saskatchewan for the National Credit Control Party, a party of his own creation. His purpose was to publicize the monetary system he developed. See “J.B. Ball National Credit Control” within “Six Candidates Offer Final Election Message.” The Leader-Post (Regina, SK, Canada) 48.132 (June 8, 1957): 3.  See also 1956 Ball, The Handbook of the Universal Monetary System and Universal Monetary System of National Credit Control. Regina, SK, Canada: J. B. Ball; 1956 Ball, The Universal Monetary System of National Credit Control: A Financial Revolution With Nationalized Accounting Merchandising at Cost. A New Democracy Based on Credit Card Currency. Regina, SK, Canada: National Credit Control of America; 1961 Ball, Cosmocracy: The Universal Monetary System. Regina, SK, Canada: J.B. Ball; 1978 Ball, Permacredit. Universal Finance for Government & Industry. World Government without Trade Deficits. A Cash System of Accounting without Debt in Industry or Government or Taxes Against Industry or Credit Cards. Foremost, AB: Author; 1980 Ball, The Cosmic Laws of the Spectrum: Evolution and Government. By Barney Ballmark [pseud.]. [Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications];1982 Ball, Technomics. A Better Economy. International. By Barney Ballmark [pseud.]. [Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications]; 1986 Ball, Beyond Capitalism. Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications; and 1988 Ball, The Laws of the Micro Giants. An Odyssean Classic. Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications. Other versions include Technomics in one corporate world. By Barney Ballmark [pseud.]. [Foremost, AB: Author], [1983]; The Technomic Alliance [subtitle on the cover No Taxes on property or income, the obvious solution, total employment]. 3rd ed. By Barney Ballmark [pseud.]. Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications, 1984; Pathway to the Stars: Industrial Democracy Beyond Democracy and Christianity Plus the Photon Theory of Creation. Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications, 1986. [New ed.] as The Pathway to the Stars. The Photon theory of Creation. Poetry. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1987. Rpt. as Pathway to the Stars. Industrial Democracy Beyond Capitalism and Christianity Plus the Photon Theory of Creation. Includes Poetry Selections. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1989. Another ed. as The Pathway to the Stars. By The Hobo Poet [pseud.]. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1990 in four sections, [“Memoirs, Poetry, and Stories”] (1-164), “Industrial Capitalism--Beyond Capitalism” (165-213), “Gleaning from Prairie Art Shows” (214-29), and “Radiation Properties of Creation” (230-51); Technomics International. Perpetual Payroll Financing for Government and Industry. Rev. October 1986. [Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1986; Industrial Democracy. Beyond Capitalism and Christianity. Includes the Photon Laws of Creation. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1989; and Industrial Democracy. Beyond Capitalism. This concept of world marketing explains how nations can finance total employment, without international debt, or taxation on property and income. New Economic System. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1990. 53 pp.

PB - Ball Publishing Co. CY - Regina, SK, Canada U5 -

Can

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Big Fix" Y1 - 1956 A1 - Richard Wilson (1920-1987) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A man is taken, through the use of a drug, to a planet that seems eutopian but is based on “recruits” such as him fighting to the death. A man is taken, through the use of a drug, to a planet that seems eutopian but is based on “recruits” such as him fighting to the death.

JF - Infinity Science Fiction VL - 1.4 SN - 9781605436425 N1 -

Rpt. in his Time Out for Tomorrow (New York: Ballantine Books, 1962), 9-30; and in The Man Without a Planet and Other Stories. The Selected Stories of Richard Wilson Volume #2. Ed. John Phelan (Np: Ramble House/Dancing Tuatara Press, 2012), 275-298.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Census Takers” Y1 - 1956 A1 - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A brief dystopia set in a future U.S. with serious population problems divided into Census Areas in which a census is taken annually. It is from the viewpoint of an Area Commander, who appears to have a set limit to the population in the area. While not stated explicitly, it is implied that those are the limit are killed.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 10.2 (57) U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Consider Her Ways" Y1 - 1956 A1 - [John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon] [Harris] (1903-69) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Future dystopia in which mothers are kept for breeding. They are grotesquely fat and stupid.

JF - Sometime, Never PB - Eyre & Spottiswoode CY - London N1 -

Rpt. (New York: Ballantine Books, 1967), 61-125; in his Consider Her Ways and Others (London: Michael Joseph, 1961), 7-87; and in his The Infinite Moment (New York: Ballantine Books, 1961), 7-65.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Consumership" Y1 - 1956 A1 - Margaret [Neeley] St. Clair (1911-95) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which children are taught to be consumers.

JF - Original Science Fiction Stories VL - 7.2 U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Country of the Kind" Y1 - 1956 A1 - Damon [Francis] Knight (1922-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia of abundance, equality, and free love. But there is an individual who is a throwback to a time when people were violent, and the story is told by him. The problem for the eutopia is how to deal with such a person, and the solution is to give him a repulsive odor to identify him while leaving him free but with no one interacting with him at all. He is also conditioned to pass out when about to commit violence against a person.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (New York) VL - 10.2 N1 -

Rpt. in Future Power: A Science Fiction Anthology. Ed. Jack [Mayo] Dann and Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: Random House, 1976), 34-50 with an editors' note (33-34); in A Science Fiction Omnibus. Ed. Brian Aldiss (London: Penguin Books, 2007), 409-22; and in Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction. Ed. Leigh Ronald Grossman (Rockville, MD: Wildside Press, 2011), 412-15 with an editor’s note on 412. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Crossroads to Nowhere Y1 - 1956 A1 - [Delbert] Raymond Stark (1919-83) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Two societies develop after a future war. One is anarchist with social pressure ("the silence") as a means of social control. Most people are settled but Wastelanders are nomadic. The other is an urban authoritarian dystopia with technology but also with shortages.

PB - Ward, Lock & Co CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Death of Grass Y1 - 1956 A1 - [Sam] [Youd] (1922-2012) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia. Violence, breakdown of communities, and the struggle to survive.

PB - Michael Joseph CY - London N1 -

Rpt. as The Death of Grass. A Novel. Penguin, 2009 with an “Introduction” by Robert Macfarlane (v-xii). U.S. edition as No Blade of Grass. A Novel. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1957. Rpt. without the subtitle. New York: Avon, 1967. A film was made under the U.S. title and directed by Cornel Wilde (Cornelius Louis Wilde 1912-89) (1970) with a screenplay by Sean Forestal and Wilde writing as Jefferson Pascal. PSt

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John Christopher [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Door Into Summer" Y1 - 1956 A1 - Robert A[nson] Heinlein (1907-88) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel is set in 1970 and 2000 and is primarily science fiction with a man who is frozen in 1970, wakes in 2000, time travels back to 1970, and returns to 2000 having resolved his 1970s problems in ways that will make his life in 2000 better. 2000 is generally presented positively and 1970 negatively but both have problems.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (New York) VL - 11.4 - 6 (65-67) N1 -

Repub. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1957. Rpt. as vol. 5 The Virginia Edition of his works. Decatur, GA: Meisha Merlin, 2006 and separately Houston, TX: The Virginia Edition, 2008.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Doubting Thomas Y1 - 1956 A1 - Winston Brebner (1924-2004) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian bureaucratic dystopia that is effectively defeated by a clown who becomes so popular that the bureaucracy is forced to support him.

PB - Rinehart CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Drivers" Y1 - 1956 A1 - Edward William Ludwig (1920-90) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia with population and aggression control through killing on highways.

JF - Worlds of If Science Fiction VL - 6.2 N1 -

Rpt. in Hallucination Orbit: Psychology in Science Fiction. Ed. Isaac Asimov, Charles G. Waugh, and Martin H. Greenberg (New York: Farrar Strauss Giroux, 1983), 235-53; and in his The 7 Shapes of Solomon Bean and 14 Other Marvelous Stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy (Los Gatos, CA: Polaris Press, 1983), 27-42.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Escape to Venus Y1 - 1956 A1 - S[tanley] Makepeace Lott (1920-1991) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Post-nuclear war dystopia of an authoritarian flawed utopia on Venus.

PB - Rich and Cowan CY - London U5 -

L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Everybody's Happy But Me" Y1 - 1956 A1 - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Drug dystopia.

JF - Imagination Science Fiction (Evanston, IL) VL - 7.1 N1 -

Rpt. as "What To Do Till the Analyst Comes." In his Alternating Currents (New York: Ballantine Books, 1956), 143-54.

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Rpt. as "What To Do Till the Analyst Comes."

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Executioner" Y1 - 1956 A1 - Algis [Algirdas Jonas] Budrys (1931-2008) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Standard authoritarian dystopia except for the judicial system which is based on a trial by ordeal. If you survive, you were innocent.

JF - Astounding Science Fiction (New York) VL - 56.5 N1 -

Rpt. in Spectrum: A Science Fiction Anthology. Ed. Kingsley Amis and Robert Conquest (London: Victor Gollancz, 1961), 84-120. U.S. ed. (New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1961), 84-120. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Further Outlook Y1 - 1956 A1 - W[illiam] Grey Walter (1910-77) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Egalitarian eutopia brought about through the development of cheap and abundant energy and a perfect form of contraception. Eugenics. This produces a society based as much on leisure as work.

PB - Gerald Duckworth CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Science Fiction Book Club, 1957. US ed. as The Curve of the Snowflake. New York: W.W. Norton, 1956.

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US ed. as The Curve of the Snowflake. New York: W.W. Norton, 1956.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Genesis of Nam: A New Earth With Its Own Blue Heaven Y1 - 1956 A1 - Goodrich, Charles KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Better world on Earth and a founding of a new and even better world in space.

PB - Dorrance & Co CY - Philadelphia, PA U5 -

DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Golden Archer; A Satirical Novel of 1975 Y1 - 1956 A1 - Gregory Mason (1889-1968) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satirical dystopia of an overly efficient U.S. state under the combined rule of church and state. The urban Catholics of the North and the rural Protestants of the South had joined forces and eliminated freedom of religion. Only New Orleans retains any freedom of worship. Efficiency is symbolized by an “Efficiency Calendar” in which each month starts on a Monday.

PB - Twayne CY - New York U5 -

CtY, Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Golden Kazoo Y1 - 1956 A1 - John Schneider (1909-64) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on American presidential elections, which are run by ad men rather than politicians. The novel follows a specific future election.

PB - Rinehart CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Gumption Island; A Fantasy of Coexistence Y1 - 1956 A1 - Felix M[uskett] Morley (1894-1982) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Conservative, capitalist eutopia founded on an island after a world-wide catastrophe caused by a "time-bomb" that temporarily separated the island in time from the rest of the U.S. with three years on the island being three days outside it. Includes a constitution.

PB - Caxton CY - Caldwell, ID U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Handbook of the Universal Monetary System of National Credit Control. An Advanced Theory of Government and Finance Y1 - 1956 A1 - J[ohn] B[ernard] Ball (b. 1911) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

This work describes the basics of National Credit Control, in which paper currency and coins are replaced by a credit card system. Any economic activity not considered in the public interest is outlawed and refused credit card privileges. Although there are some variations, the eutopia is fairly consistent between the first three works published in 1956 and the last published in 1990. This pamphlet discusses farming, which is treated as any other industry, more than his others. Taxes are not levied on farm property or commodities but on produce as it is distributed. In 1957 the author ran in the Canadian federal election as a candidate in Regina, Saskatchewan for the National Credit Control Party, a party of his own creation. His purpose was to publicize the monetary system he developed. See “J.B. Ball National Credit Control” within “Six Candidates Offer Final Election Message.” The Leader-Post (Regina, SK, Canada) 48.132 (June 8, 1957): 3. See also 1956 Ball, Ahoy for Eternity and National Credit and Universal Monetary System of National Credit Control. Regina, SK, Canada: Ball Publishing Co.; The Universal Monetary System of National Credit Control: A Financial Revolution With Nationalized Accounting Merchandising at Cost. A New Democracy Based on Credit Card Currency. Regina, SK, Canada: National Credit Control of America; 1961 Ball, Cosmocracy: The Universal Monetary System. Regina, SK, Canada: J.B. Ball; 1978 Ball, Permacredit. Universal Finance for Government & Industry. World Government without Trade Deficits. A Cash System of Accounting without Debt in Industry or Government or Taxes Against Industry or Credit Cards. Foremost, AB: Author; 1980 Ball, The Cosmic Laws of the Spectrum: Evolution and Government. By Barney Ballmark [pseud.]. [Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications];1982 Ball, Technomics. A Better Economy. International. By Barney Ballmark [pseud.]. [Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications]; 1986 Ball, Beyond Capitalism. Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications; and 1988 Ball, The Laws of the Micro Giants. An Odyssean Classic. Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications.  Other versions include Technomics in one corporate world. By Barney Ballmark [pseud.]. [Foremost, AB: Author], [1983]; The Technomic Alliance [subtitle on the cover No Taxes on property or income, the obvious solution, total employment]. 3rd ed. By Barney Ballmark [pseud.]. Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications, 1984; Pathway to the Stars: Industrial Democracy Beyond Democracy and Christianity Plus the Photon Theory of Creation. Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications, 1986. [New ed.] as The Pathway to the Stars. The Photon theory of Creation. Poetry. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1987. Rpt. as Pathway to the Stars. Industrial Democracy Beyond Capitalism and Christianity Plus the Photon Theory of Creation. Includes Poetry Selections. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1989. Another ed. as The Pathway to the Stars. By The Hobo Poet [pseud.]. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1990 in four sections, [“Memoirs, Poetry, and Stories] (1-164),” “Industrial Capitalism--Beyond Capitalism” (165-213), “Gleaning from Prairie Art Shows” (214-29), and “Radiation Properties of Creation” (230-51); Technomics International. Perpetual Payroll Financing for Government and Industry. Rev. October 1986. [Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1986; Industrial Democracy. Beyond Capitalism and Christianity. Includes the Photon Laws of Creation. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1989; and Industrial Democracy. Beyond Capitalism. This concept of world marketing explains how nations can finance total employment, without international debt, or taxation on property and income. New Economic System. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1990. 53 pp.

PB - J. B. Ball CY - Regina, SK, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Into the Tenth Millennium Y1 - 1956 A1 - [Harry] Paul Capon (1911/12-69) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Agrarian, somewhat nomadic eutopia, some of which is technically primitive (balloon transport, semaphores for communication) but is socially advanced. A catastrophe caused all metal to become useless; while this made war impossible, there was a widespread famine which produced a dramatic fall in world population. In the future population is controlled. Everyone is wealthy and self-assured. There is no government or belief in a god. Free love and one worldwide language. Initial education is with the mother (fathers are not identified) with no formal education until age forty. The author also wrote a utopian trilogy; see 1950, 1952, and 1954 Capon.

PB - William Heinemann CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "It's Cold Outside" Y1 - 1956 A1 - Richard Wilson (1920-1987) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story begins in a regimented New York City in which there is no rain because it has been diverted to where it will fill a reservoir. Any “Suggestion” of the City-State Council is, in effect, law. Children are grown in a laboratory from the egg and sperm of the parents because the Council “suggests” that parents don’t do it the old way. The focus of the story is a couples’ resistance to the entire system and their desire to escape to the outside.

JF - If Worlds of Science Fiction VL - 7.1 SN - 9781605436425 N1 -

Rpt. in Science Fantasy 8.22 (1957): 2-39; in his Those Idiots From Earth: Ten Science-Fiction Stories (New York: Ballantine Books, 1957), 115-60; and in The Man Without a Planet and Other Stories. The Selected Stories of Richard Wilson Volume #2. Ed. John Phelan (Ramble House/Dancing Tutara Press, 2012), 231-274.

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 Illus. Emsh [Edmund Alexander Emshwiller (1925-90)].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Jackpot" Y1 - 1956 A1 - Clifford D[onald] Simak (1904-88) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Explorers of space hoping to find something that will make them a lot of money find a galactic university that teaches everything, beginning with honesty and honor, which leads most of the crew to want to share the knowledge with everyone.

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction VL - 12.6 N1 -

Rpt. in Grotto of the Dancing Bear and Other Stories. The Complete Short Fiction of Clifford D. Simak, Volume Four. New York: Open Road Integrated Media, 2016. EBook. 

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Illus. [Virgil] Finlay. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The "Lomokome" Papers Y1 - 1956 A1 - Herman Wouk (b. 1915) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on the arms race in which the two countries of Lomokome and Lomadine practice "responsible war" because war is necessary for their economies and morale. Responsible war includes the regular announcement of war by a College of Judges followed by moving to a war economy, the invention but not building of new weapons, voluntary death by young men, the announcement of victory by the College of Judges, and the death of some of the leaders of the losers. Lomokome and Lomadine present themselves as very different but are quite similar. In the "Preface to the Paperback Edition," Wouk says that it was written in 1949 and that "Lomokome" is Hebrew for Utopia or Nowhere.

PB - Simon and Schuster CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Pocket Books, 1968. Also published illus. Bernard Perlin in Collier's 137.4 (February 17, 1956): 69-84. The illustrations in the book and magazine versions are completely different but the texts are identical.

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Illus. Harry Bennett.. Collier's illus. Bernard Perlin/

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Love Incorporated" Y1 - 1956 A1 - Robert Sheckley (1928-2005) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Earth, exhausted of its natural resources, is a vacation planet selling true love (by hypnotizing the women), vicarious violence, and sexual perversion.

JF - Playboy VL - 3.9 N1 -

Rpt. as "Pilgrimage to Earth." Spectrum: A Science Fiction Anthology. Ed. Kingsley Amis and Robert Conquest (London: Victor Gollancz, 1961), 209-20; U.S. ed. (New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1961), 209-20; in The Collected Short Stories of Robert Sheckley. Book Two (Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991), 7-18; and in his The Masque of Mañana. Ed. Sharon L. Sbarsky (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2005), 347-56.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Man of Family" Y1 - 1956 A1 - [Philip] [Klass] (1920-2010) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia. Must have money and the right heredity to reproduce. The more money the more allowed children and losing money requires giving up a child.

JF - The Human Angle PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. Immodest Proposals: The Complete Science Fiction of William Tenn. Volume 1 (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2001), 415-25 ("Afterword" 425).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Man Who Japed Y1 - 1956 A1 - Philip K[indred] Dick (1928-82) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian satire on a future of required happiness through Moral Reclamation (Morec), a combination of religion and advertising.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Man Who Lived Forever Y1 - 1956 A1 - R[ichard] De Witt Miller A1 - Anna Hunger. KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. The human race versus machines in which one immortal man is essential for controlling the machines. The novel is mostly adventure.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -

Ace Double bound with Jerry [Gerald Allan] Sohl, [Sr] (1913-2002). The Mars Monopoly (1956). A shorter version by Miller only was published as "The Master Shall Not Die!" Astounding Science Fiction 21.1 (March 1938): 38-55.  U.K. ed. of The Man Who Lived Forever rpt. as Year 3097. [London]: Satellite, 1958. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mankind on the Run Y1 - 1956 A1 - Gordon R[upert] Dickson (1923-2001) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Standard authoritarian dystopia with a rebel.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. as On the Run. New York: Ace Books, 1979.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Modest Proposal: A Vice-Presidential Speech in a Surrealist Future" Y1 - 1956 A1 - Peter [Robert Edwin] Viereck (1916-2006) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire. U.S. Republican Vice President stating that conformity and fun will be legally required.

JF - The Unadjusted Man: A New Hero for Americans. Reflections on the Distinction Between Conforming and Conserving PB - Beacon Press CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Naked Sun” Y1 - 1956 A1 - Isaac Asimov (1920-92) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Related to 1953 Asimov, “The Caves of Steel,” and the beginning and ending of the novel is set in few years in the future of that dystopia. Most of the novel is in a dystopia on the planet Solaria, which has eliminated almost all human contact.

JF - Astounding Science Fiction VL - 58. 2 - 4 N1 -

Repub. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1957. Rpt. Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Crest, 1971; and in his The Robot Novels: The Caves of Steel The Naked Sun (Garden City: Doubleday, 1957), 203-404. 

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Illus. [Henry Richard] Van Dongen (1920-2010). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Native Problem" Y1 - 1956 A1 - Robert Sheckley (1928-2005) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Humorous story which begins on a future earth that is a dystopia of conformity.

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction VL - 13.2 N1 -

Rpt. in The Collected Short Fiction of Robert Sheckley. Book Two (Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991), 279-99; and in his The Masque of Mañana. Ed. Sharon L. Sbarsky (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2005), 357-74; and in Store of the Worlds: The Stories of Robert Sheckley. Ed. Alex Abramovich and Jonathan Lethem (New York: New York Review Books, 2012), 145-67 with an “Introduction” to the collection by the editors (vii-xi).

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "New Arcadia" Y1 - 1956 A1 - L[yon] Sprague De Camp (1907-2000) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Three supposed utopias in conflict with each other. Two of the utopias are humans and represent a division within a colony called Nouvelle-Arcadie, settled by French-speaking Swiss pacifists. The split between the two groups was mostly based of two men each wanting power. The third utopia was a subgroup of advocates of violence settled from a pacifist planet.

JF - Future Science Fiction VL - no. 30 N1 -

Rpt. in his A Gun for Dinosaur And Other Imaginative Tales (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1963), 315-59.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ninya: A Fantasy of a strange little world Y1 - 1956 A1 - Henry A[llan] Fagan KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

A world on the back of the moon that is mostly presented as a eutopia where labor is voluntary, but everyone must work. There are three racial groups with multiple languages, but all people sign, which acts as an international language. The three groups are white, which is the society, called Zelia, that is the center of the novel, brown, and black, and there is growing strife among them.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - No Refuge Y1 - 1956 A1 - [Bertram] John Boland (1913-1976) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Flawed utopia located at the bottom of a crater in central north Greenland. Good life but authoritarian under control of doctors and scientists. Lower birth rate and higher standard of living. No disease. No marriage with children raised by the state.

PB - Michael Joseph CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Oil for the Light of the World Y1 - 1956 A1 - Frank [William] Hart (1891-1965) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A rich Texan builds a eutopian entertainment center (capitalism at its best and most humanitarian) and then helps spread his ideas throughout the United States. The eutopia becomes a subplot to a romance/adventure story.

PB - Vantage Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pursuit Through Time: A Modern Novel of Science and Imagination Y1 - 1956 A1 - [John Frederick] Burke (1922-2011) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

In the novel a man is sent back into the past to stop the creation of an authoritarian dystopia. He succeeds and, in doing, so creates the possibility of a better society in the future.

PB - Ward, Lock CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Brown, Watson, nd.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Racer" Y1 - 1956 A1 - Ib Jørgen Melchior (1917-2015) ED - Charles Nuetzel KW - Danish author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which five race drivers compete in a contest with the winner determined by finishing place combined with how many pedestrians they kill. 

JF - If This Goes On PB - Book Company of America CY - Beverly Hills, CA N1 -

Originally published in Escapade (October 1956). Rpt. in Perry Rhodan , no. 97 (June 1976): 156-70 with a note by Forrest J. Ackerman on 154-56. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Rocket to Freedom" Y1 - 1956 A1 - Aileen [Lucia] Fisher (1906-2002) A1 - Olive Rabe KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Three men escape what they see as restrictions on their freedoms in the U.S., which are in fact quite minor, and land on another planet that brainwashes its captives until they are in effect robots.

JF - Patriotic Plays and Programs PB - Plays, Inc. CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Secret People Y1 - 1956 A1 - Raymond F[isher] Jones (1915-94) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eugenic dystopia.

PB - Avalon CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. as Deviates. Boston: Beacon, 1959.

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U.S. ed. as Deviates.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Shadow of Authority Y1 - 1956 A1 - Robert [Ferns] Waller (1913-2005) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satirical bureaucratic dystopia. A National Publishing Authority is established to control the publication of literature.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Skills of Xanadu" Y1 - 1956 A1 - Theodore Sturgeon (1918-1985) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Xanadu is a eutopia at once primitive and technological, with the technology allowing a natural way of life. See the note at 1949 Sturgeon.

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction (New York) VL - 12.3 N1 -

Rpt. in his The Golden Helix (Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, 1979), 166-90; in his To Here and the Easel (London: Panther, 1975), 68-98; and in And Now the News. . . Volume 9. The Complete Short Stories of Theodore Sturgeon. Ed. Paul Williams (Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 2003), 51-79.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "There Will Be School Tomorrow" Y1 - 1956 A1 - V. E. Thiessen AB -

Robot teachers programmed to serve the best interests of the children remove their parents.

JF - Fantastic Universe VL - 6.4 U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - To Live Forever Y1 - 1956 A1 - Jack [John Holbrook] Vance (1916-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia where immortality can be earned, but anyone trying to earn immortality becomes involved in a system of oversight that controls all aspects of life. The novel concerns a man who violates the rules and, in effect, gives people back their freedom.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. as "Clarges." In Gold and Iron Clarges The Languages of Pao. Vol. 7 of The Complete Works of Jack Vance (Oakland, CA: Vance Integral Editions, 2002), 191-459. UK ed. as To Live Forever. London: Sphere, 1976.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Tomorrow and Tomorrow Y1 - 1956 A1 - [Evan] [Hunter] (1926-2005) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire of Vicarion, for vicarious, Movement, or Vikes, based on drugs, control of advertising, film, and TV with the slogan "Make-believe is better than reality". People live a vicarious life with all sex vicarious rather than real. An invention makes it possible for each member of the audience to feel the sensations of those in the film. Realists, or Ree, fight back and physical confrontation verges on civil war. At the end a compromise seems possible.

PB - Pyramid CY - New York N1 -

Also entitled Tomorrow's World. New York: Avalon, 1956. 

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Also entitled Tomorrow's World

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Hunt Collins [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Trap" Y1 - 1956 A1 - Kem[ys Deverell] Deverell] Bennett (1919-86) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Aliens appear on Earth and abduct people from various countries around the world. One returns temporarily and explains that no one else wants to return from the alien planet, which is a cockaigne-like eutopia.

JF - Saturday Evening Post VL - 229.28 N1 -

Rpt. in The Post Reader of Fantasy and Science Fiction (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1964), 173-88; Fantasy Voyages: Great Science Fiction from The Saturday Evening Post. [Rev. ed.]. Ed. Vincent Miranda (Indianapolis, IN: Curtis, 1979), 173-88 with an editor’s note on 174; and Wide-Angle Lens: Stories of Time and Space. Ed. Phyllis R. Fenner (New York: William Morrow, 1980), 147-63. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Universal Monetary System of National Credit Control: A Financial Revolution With Nationalized Accounting Merchandising at Cost. A New Democracy Based on Credit Card Currency Y1 - 1956 A1 - [John Bernard] [Ball] (b. 1911) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

This work describes the author’s proposal for National Credit Control, in which paper currency and coins are replaced by a credit card system. Any economic activity not considered in the public interest is outlawed and refused credit card privileges. This pamphlet discusses farming, which is treated as any other industry, more than his others. Taxes are not levied on farm property or commodities but on produce as it is distributed. In 1957 the author ran in the Canadian federal election as a candidate in Regina, Saskatchewan for the National Credit Control Party, a party of his own creation. His purpose was to publicize the monetary system he developed. See “J.B. Ball National Credit Control” within “Six Candidates Offer Final Election Message.” The Leader-Post (Regina, SK, Canada) 48.132 (June 8, 1957): 3. See also 1956 Ball, Ahoy for Eternity and National Credit and Universal Monetary System of National Credit Control. Regina, SK, Canada: Ball Publishing Co.; The Handbook of the Universal Monetary System of National Credit Control. An Advanced Theory of Government and Finance. Regina, SK, Canada: J. B. Ball; 1961 Ball, Cosmocracy: The Universal Monetary System. Regina, SK, Canada: J.B. Ball; 1978 Ball, Permacredit. Universal Finance for Government & Industry. World Government without Trade Deficits. A Cash System of Accounting without Debt in Industry or Government or Taxes Against Industry or Credit Cards. Foremost, AB: Author; 1980 Ball, The Cosmic Laws of the Spectrum: Evolution and Government. By Barney Ballmark [pseud.]. [Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications];1982 Ball, Technomics. A Better Economy. International. By Barney Ballmark [pseud.]. [Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications]; 1986 Ball, Beyond Capitalism. Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications; and 1988 Ball, The Laws of the Micro Giants. An Odyssean Classic. Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications. Other versions include Technomics in one corporate world. By Barney Ballmark [pseud.]. [Foremost, AB: Author], [1983]; The Technomic Alliance [subtitle on the cover No Taxes on property or income, the obvious solution, total employment]. 3rd ed. By Barney Ballmark [pseud.]. Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications, 1984; Pathway to the Stars: Industrial Democracy Beyond Democracy and Christianity Plus the Photon Theory of Creation. Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications, 1986. [New ed.] as The Pathway to the Stars. The Photon theory of Creation. Poetry. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1987. Rpt. as Pathway to the Stars. Industrial Democracy Beyond Capitalism and Christianity Plus the Photon Theory of Creation. Includes Poetry Selections. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1989. Another ed. as The Pathway to the Stars. By The Hobo Poet [pseud.]. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1990 in four sections, [“Memoirs, Poetry, and Stories] (1-164),” “Industrial Capitalism--Beyond Capitalism” (165-213), “Gleaning from Prairie Art Shows” (214-29), and “Radiation Properties of Creation” (230-51); Technomics International. Perpetual Payroll Financing for Government and Industry. Rev. October 1986. [Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1986; Industrial Democracy. Beyond Capitalism and Christianity. Includes the Photon Laws of Creation. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1989; and Industrial Democracy. Beyond Capitalism. This concept of world marketing explains how nations can finance total employment, without international debt, or taxation on property and income. New Economic System. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1990. 53 pp.

PB - National Credit Control of America CY - Regina, SK, Canada ER - TY - ABST T1 - Up Jenkins! Y1 - 1956 A1 - Ronald [Francis] Hingley (1920-2010) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Satire. England is split by a civil war into two warring states. There is a dystopia in the South, known as People's Britain, in which loyalty is based on stupidity and the educational system is based on stimulus response. The North is relatively unchanged. Subversion within the South leads to a Northern victory.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Woman's Work" Y1 - 1956 A1 - Garen Drussaï (1916-2009) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian satire focusing on door-to-door salesmen.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (New York) VL - 11.2 (63) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The World Jones Made Y1 - 1956 A1 - Philip K[indred] Dick (1928-82) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A man who can see a year into the future overthrows a government based on relativism. Both produce authoritarian dystopias.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -

An Ace Double bound with Margaret St. Clair, Agent of the Unknown (1956), an earlier version of which was published as "Vulcan's Dolls." Startling Stories 25.1 (February 1952): 10-73. Dick rpt. separately Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1979. UK ed. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1968. Rpt. London: Panther, 1970; and London: Victor Gollancz, 2003.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Worlds Without End” Y1 - 1956 A1 - Clifford D[onald] Simak (1904-88) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in a future run by a number of guilds, one of which sells long term dreams with people then waking up hundreds of years in their future. Another guild has taken control of the dreams so that the people get different dreams than the one’s they chose, dreams that the guild hopes to use to its advantage.

JF - Future Science Fiction VL - no. 31 N1 -

Rpt. in New Folks Home and Other Stories. The Complete Short Fiction of Clifford D. Simak, Volume 6. New York: Open Road Media, 2016. EBook

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Age of the Tail Y1 - 1955 A1 - H[arry] Allen [Wolfgang] Smith (1907-76) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Humor. People grow tails and this changes personal relations and social structures.

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Illus. Leo Hershfield

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Angelo's Moon Y1 - 1955 A1 - Alec [John Charles] Brown (1900-62) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of the degeneration of the human race and the failure of a utopia called Hypoltania based on science but dependent on the labor of what were called morons. Primitivia or old Britain survives.

PB - John Lane, The Bodley Head CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Another Antigone" Y1 - 1955 A1 - D. A. C Morrison AB -

A eugenic dystopia in which love, poetry, art, etc. have been abolished. Infants with "lesser intelligence" are killed. The "highly-talent" are required to mate. Those believing in souls are exiled from the Earth. A young woman, like Sophocles's (496-406 BCE) Antigone, believes that there are higher laws than those of the rulers and frees an enslaved brain.

JF - A.D. 2500: The Observer Prize Stories 1954 PB - William Heinemann CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ark of Venus Y1 - 1955 A1 - Clyde B. Clason (1903-87) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An adventure novel about the colonization of Venus, which is necessary because Earth is an overpopulation dystopia.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Atavists" Y1 - 1955 A1 - G. A. Rymer AB -

Dystopia of a degenerated world of people of low intelligence deliberately created by the intelligent leaders of the "Total Scientific World State" to serve in factories. They are not sexually active and spend all their time watching T.V. or playing sports. They are called "folksies," speak "Babytalk," and are mostly illiterate.

JF - A.D. 2500: The Observer Prize Stories 1954 PB - William Heinemann CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Autofac" Y1 - 1955 A1 - Philip K[indred] Dick (1928-82) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Automated factories and a revolt that destroyed the factory. At the end the remnants of the factory begin to rebuild it.

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction VL - 11.2 N1 -

Rpt. in his The Variable Man and Other Stories (New York: Ace Books, 1957), 182-210; in The Ruins of Earth: An Anthology of Stories of the Immediate Future. Ed. Thomas M[ichael] Disch (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1971), 57-80; in Robots, Androids, and Mechanical Oddities: The Science Fiction of Philip K. Dick. Ed. Patricia S. Warrick and Martin H[arry] Greenberg (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1984), 145-66; in The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick. Volume 4 The Days of Perky Pat (Los Angeles, CA/Columbia, PA: Underwood/Miller, 1987), 1-20, with the paperback edition having it in The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick. Volume 4. The Minority Report (New York: Citadel Twilight, 1991), 1-20; and in Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams (London: Gollancz, 2017). U. S. ed. (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017), 183-213 with an “Introduction” by Travis Beacham (181-82). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Before Dawn Y1 - 1955 A1 - Hanbury Pawle (1886-1972) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel is about the conflict between Christianity and Communism and the efforts of one man to save the world from Communism.

PB - Hutchinson CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Before the Fact” Y1 - 1955 A1 - Zenna [Charlson] Henderson (1917-83) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future eutopia of complete security, health, no government “except in a coordinating capacity” (61) in which the suicide rate is rising, and some people find boring. The story turns, though, on the idea that children’s games and rhymes anticipate the future and, in this case, suggest a dramatic change. 

JF - Universe Science Fiction VL - no. 9 SN - 978-1-61037-338-8 N1 -

Rpt. in Believing: The Other Stories of Zenna Henderson. Ed. Patricia Morgan Lang (Framingham, MA: NESFA Press, 2020), 411-17. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Birthright" Y1 - 1955 A1 - April Smith KW - Female author AB -

Eutopia of a beautiful planet that has never experienced problems, where the people work when and as they choose, where the children are raised with love to be independent. While there is a council, there is very little government.

JF - If: Worlds of Science Fiction VL - 5.5 U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Blond Kid" Y1 - 1955 A1 - Herb Sutherland KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of the revival of National Socialism as a future religion worshipping Hitler.

JF - A.D. 2500: The Observer Prize Stories 1954 PB - William Heinemann, 1955 CY - London U5 -

L, NLS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Bluebird World" Y1 - 1955 A1 - [James Murdoch] [MacGregor] (1925-2008) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Dystopia of emotion control.

JF - New Worlds Science Fiction (London) VL - 12.36 U3 -

J. T. McIntosh [pseud.]

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Bright Phoenix Y1 - 1955 A1 - Harold [Charles Hugh] Mead (1910-1997) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia with an emphasis on eugenics.

PB - Michael Joseph CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Transworld Publishers, 1960.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Chromium Fence" Y1 - 1955 A1 - Philip K[indred] Dick (1928-82) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Robot perfection and unsuccessful revolt.

JF - Imagination VL - 6.7 N1 -

Rpt. in The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick. Volume 3 The Father-Thing (Los Angeles, CA/Columbia, PA: Underwood/Miller, 1987), 291-303. The paperback edition has it in The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick. Volume 2 Second Variety (New York: Citadel Twilight, 1991), 291-303; and in The Complete Stories of Philip K. Dick Volume Three: Upon the Dull Earth [1953-1954]. Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2012), 347-61.

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Chrysalids Y1 - 1955 A1 - [John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon] [Harris] (1903-69) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Post-nuclear war future. Religious dystopia set in Canada (Labrador). Emphasis on the traditional physical form of human beings. All plants and animals that mutate are killed. Mutant humans are killed or sterilized. Telepathic mutants develop and are discovered by a telepathic eutopian civilization that has developed in New Zealand.

PB - Michael Joseph CY - London N1 -

Rpt. New York: New York Review of Books, 2008 with an “Introduction” (vii-xiii) by Christopher Priest. Some differences between editions. U.S. ed. as Re-Birth. By John Wyndham [pseud.]. New York: Ballantine, 1955. Rpt. as “Re-Birth.” In A Treasury of Great Science Fiction. 2 vols. Ed. Anthony Boucher (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1959), 1: 9-35.

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U.S. ed. as Re-Birth. New York: Ballantine, 1955. 

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John Wyndham [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Climbing Wave" Y1 - 1955 A1 - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Anarchist eutopia with a balanced and sustainable attitude toward technology and the environment. Live in small communities. Traditional gender roles. The story is about the crew of a spacecraft that returns to the Earth after hundreds of years and their response to the situation they find.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 8.2 (45) N1 -

Rpt. in Science Fantasy (U.K.) 7.19 (1956): 2-60; in If This Goes On. Ed. Charles Nuetzel (Beverly Hills, CA: Book Company of America, [1965]), 172-240; and in The Best of Marion Zimmer Bradley. Ed. Martin H[arry] Greenberg (Chicago, IL: Academy Chicago, 1985), 50-120. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Compleated Angler" Y1 - 1955 A1 - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The background to the story is an overpopulated but seemingly technological eutopian future in which the last wild fish is caught.

JF - Startling Stories VL - 33.3 N1 -

Rpt. in his Compounded Interests (Cambridge, MA: The NESFA Press, 1983), 87-93. 

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Mack Reynolds [pseud.]

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Created He Them" Y1 - 1955 A1 - Alice Eleanor Jones (1916-81) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Post-nuclear war dystopia in which those few children born normal are taken to be raised by an authoritarian state. The story is told from the point of view of an abused wife and mother.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 8.6 (49) N1 -

Rpt. in Daughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century. Ed. Justine Larbalestier (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2006), 65-75; and in The End of the World and Other Catastrophes. Ed. Mike [Michael Raymond Donald] Ashley (London: British Library, 2019), 305-17, with an editor’s note on 303.  

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Creator's Last Word" Y1 - 1955 A1 - Robert Cumming KW - Male author AB -

A brief description of a eutopia in which the Creator has eliminated everything that caused problems in earlier attempts. Bisexual and can have sex in any form for pleasure. Reproduction by parthenogenesis with people chosen by lot. Old people sent to Old Citizens World. Earth was God's first creation in which mistakes were made, and God has lost interest in earlier creations.

JF - 21st Century: The Magazine of a Creative Civilization (Sydney, NSW, Australia) VL - no. 1 U5 -

A, M

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Crooked Man" Y1 - 1955 A1 - Charles Beaumont (1929-67) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which heterosexuality is illegal and heterosexuals are hunted. An operation is then required that makes everyone homosexual.

JF - Playboy VL - 2 N1 -

Rpt. in his Hunger, and Other Stories (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1958), 139-48; rpt. (New York: Bantam Books, 1959), 106-13; in his The Fiend (Chicago, IL: Playboy Press, 1971), 61-71; and in The Playboy Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy (Chicago, IL: Playboy Press, 1966), 274-85. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Deep Freeze Y1 - 1955 A1 - [John Frederick] Burke (1922-2011) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Only women and children are left on the planet, and a feminist eutopia is established. Conflict develops as the boys grow up.

PB - Hamilton CY - London U3 -

Jonathan Burke [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Deep in the Sky. A Science Fiction Novel Y1 - 1955 A1 - Helga Nielsen KW - Danish author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia called Salomnia, with some problems, on a planet called Canta. Everyone must consult with the Board of Adaptation about appropriate work. All medical care free. No alcohol. No tipping. Technologically advanced. Another country on the planet is called Seva is in conflict with Salomnia.

PB - Exposition Press CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Finding of the Way" Y1 - 1955 A1 - [John] Hugh MacLennan (1907-90) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of mechanical thinking ruled by machines.

JF - The Montrealer VL - 29.4 U5 -

Can

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Forbidden Kingdom Y1 - 1955 A1 - Elleston Trevor (1920-95) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Children’s story where there is a high technology enclave, but the story is mostly intrigue and adventure. 

PB - Lutterworth CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Franchise (with apologies to W. S. Gilbert)" Y1 - 1955 A1 - Isaac Asimov (1920-92) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire. One individual chosen by computer to vote in any given election.

JF - If VL - 5.5 N1 -

Rpt. in his Earth Is Room Enough; science fiction tales of our own planet (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1957), 58-73; rpt. (New York: Bantam Books, 1959), 45-59; and in Election Day 2084: A Science Fiction Anthology on the Politics of the Future. Ed. Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg (Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1984), 11-24. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Freedom Charter. Adopted at The Congress of the People. Klipstown, SA, on 26 June 1955" Y1 - 1955 ED - John Suckling ED - Landeg White KW - South African author AB -

A political program that is a vision of South Africa after apartheid.

JF - After Apartheid: Renewal of the South African Economy PB - The Centre for Southern African Studies, University of York in Association with James Currey [London] and Africa World Press [Trenton, NJ] CY - Heslington, York, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Freeway" Y1 - 1955 A1 - Bryce Walton (1918-88) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future in which some criminals and any nonconformist and condemned to stay in automated cars on freeways constantly traveling.

JF - If VL - 5.4 U1 -

Illus. Ed Emsh[willer]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Girls from Planet 5 Y1 - 1955 A1 - Richard Wilson (1920-1987) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire. Women rule the US and Texas is a man's state. Men take over again because the women had done a bad job.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York U5 -

DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Gladiator-at-Law Y1 - 1955 A1 - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) A1 - C[yril] M[ichael] Kornbluth (1923-58) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Capitalist, corporate, machine dominated dystopia with the novel focusing on the struggle to bring down one large, corrupt corporation.

PB - Ballantine CY - New York N1 -

U.K. London: Victor Gollancz, 1964. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Glimpse into the Future” Y1 - 1955 A1 - J. Harley AB -

While a future technological information system is presented as eutopian in that it has radically improved people’s understanding and cultural level, a librarian is wedded to fine books. Set in England

JF - Library Review (New York) VL - 15.113 U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Golden Promise; A Novel of the Coming Era Y1 - 1955 A1 - Zuber, Stanley KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia of the Global Union, a unification of all races and nations. The equality and empowerment of women, called Fem-Mancipation, is an essential condition for the development of the eutopia. The country of Canarica is presented in which everyone is happy.

PB - Pageant Press CY - New York U5 -

DLC, Can, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Granny Won't Knit" Y1 - 1955 A1 - Theodore Sturgeon (1918-1985) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of extreme privacy. Children raised in crèches and sent to patriarchal, authoritarian families (one boy and one girl each). Some contrast to a eutopia of openness. 

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction VL - 8.2 N1 -

Rpt. in All About the Future. Ed. Martin Greenburg (New York: Gnome Press, 1955), 161-214; and in Bright Segment. Volume VIII: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon. Ed. Paul Williams (Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 2002), 115-74.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Great Beyond. A.D. 2500. A Trilogy on Progress Y1 - 1955 A1 - Leonard Melling KW - Male author AB -

Occult novel leading to a eutopia in 2500. One religion, one world government with one unified economy, and no prejudice.

PB - Torch Pub. Co CY - [Manchester, Eng.] U5 -

DLC, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Happy Clown" Y1 - 1955 A1 - Alice Eleanor Jones (1916-81) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Flawed eutopia. The eutopia is consumer oriented and misfits are lobotomized to ensure that everyone fits in.

JF - If: Worlds of Science Fiction VL - 6.1 U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hell's Pavement Y1 - 1955 A1 - Damon [Francis] Knight (1922-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Attempts to control violence through the implantation of an "analogue", a device that controls supposedly anti-social behavior. Legislation is passed to require such implants, except in the ruling class

PB - Lion Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Avon, 1980. Also entitled Analogue Men. New York: Berkley, 1962. Chapter 1 was published as "The Analogues." Astounding Science Fiction 48.5 (January 1952): 36-45. Parts are based on the story "Turncoat." Thrilling Wonder Stories 42.1 (April 1953): 10-48.

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Also entitled Analogue Men

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GU, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Hood Maker" Y1 - 1955 A1 - Philip K[indred] Dick (1928-82) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which everyone is surveilled regularly, and a hood is invented that blocks the surveillance.

JF - Imagination VL - 6.6 (43) N1 -

Rpt. in The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick Volume Two: Second Variety (Los Angeles, CA/Columbia, PA: Underwood/Miller, 1987), 237-48; in Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams (London: Gollancz, 2017). U. S. ed. (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017), 117-34 with an “Introduction” by Matthew Graham (114-16). 

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Illus. W. E. Terry

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PSt, Public

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Image of Splendor" Y1 - 1955 A1 - Lu Kella KW - Female author AB -

Gender-role reversal.

JF - Planet Stories VL - 6.11 U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Inside Straight" Y1 - 1955 A1 - Poul [William] Anderson (1926-2001) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A society with an economic system based on gambling proves a match for a society intent on conquest and leads to the abolition of war.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (New York) VL - 9.2 (51) N1 -

Rpt. in his Seven Conquests (New York: Collier, 1969), 93-116. UK ed. as Conquests (London: Granada, 1981), 105-31; and in The Collected Short Stories of Poul Anderson. Volume 4 Admiralty. Ed. Rick Katze (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2011), 128-45.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Jackson Wong's Story" Y1 - 1955 A1 - Bolsover, John KW - Male author AB -

Post-war societies working to rehabilitate the Earth and return damaged areas to livability. Two societies are sketched in. One is controlled with the goal of placing everyone in their appropriate position, with children raised by the state and machines doing most of the productive work. The other is highly organized, but children are raised in families and people do the productive work. Spiritual concerns are important in both societies because the war is thought to have resulted from a lack in this area.

JF - A.D. 2500: The Observer Prize Stories 1954 PB - William Heinemann CY - London U5 -

L, NLS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Life, Incorporated" Y1 - 1955 A1 - Alice Eleanor Jones (1916-81) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia where everyone knows their life span is visited by a thief from Earth who temporarily brings corruption.

JF - Fantastic Universe VL - 3.3 U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Little Orphan Android" Y1 - 1955 A1 - James E[dwin] Gunn (1923-2020) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which androids and robots almost completely control humans and wipe human memories for disobedience. A small group of humans begin to educate themselves so that they can regain power over their lives. One theme is consumer androids developed to keep industrial society consuming goods at the highest possible level, which is similar to 1954 Pohl, "The Midas Plague."

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction (New York) VL - 10.6 N1 -

Rpt. in his Future Imperfect (New York: Bantam Books, 1964), 17-45.

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KU, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Live in Amity" Y1 - 1955 A1 - D. A. Jourdon AB -

Authoritarian religious dystopia.

JF - Science Fiction Stories VL - 5.6 U2 -

Illus. [Frank Kelly] Freas (1922-2005)

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Long Tomorrow Y1 - 1955 A1 - Leigh [Douglass] Brackett (1915-78) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

After an atomic war the New Mennonites become powerful because they know how to survive on the land. They pass the thirtieth amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which reads "No city, no town, no community of more than one thousand people or two hundred buildings to the square mile shall be built or permitted to exist anywhere in the United States of America." Other religious groups are even more extreme than the New Mennonites. There is a small, threatened enclave that hopes to bring back the old technology.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Rpt. New York: Ballantine Books, 1974. 

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DLC, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Long Way Home" Y1 - 1955 A1 - Poul [William] Anderson (1926-2001) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Wide-ranging authoritarian dystopia with Anderson’s usual libertarian themes in opposition

JF - Astounding Science Fiction (New York) VL - 55 N1 -

Repub. London: Panther, 1975. US ed. New York: Ace Books, 1978. Abridged ed. as No World of Their Own. New York: Ace Books, 1955; and New York: Ace Books, 1955 as an Ace Double bound with Isaac Asimov's The Thousand-Year Plan. Original Title: Foundation, abridged from New York: Gnome, 1951; rpt. as The Long Way Home. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1975 with an "Introduction" (v-vi) by the author. The copyright page says that the book is a reprint of the Ace edition; Anderson's introduction says that it restores the Astounding Science Fiction version. Anderson's version is correct.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Looking Beyond Y1 - 1955 A1 - Lin Yutang (1895-1976) KW - Chinese author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Detailed conservative eutopia based on classical Greek models on an island in the mid-Pacific set in the early 21st century. Stress on traditional gender relations. Outside World War IV has ended, and the Democratic World Commonwealth tries to maintain peace.

PB - Prentice-Hall CY - New York N1 -

UK ed. as The Unexpected Island. London: William Heinemann, 1955.

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DLC, L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Love and Lunacy: A Satirical Comedy in Three Acts Y1 - 1955 A1 - Peter Philp (1920-2006) KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

The three acts take place in Atlantis in the remote past, on an island in the near future, and on Luna and Earth in the remote future. Atlantis is vaguely utopian, but, in the play, it is primarily the setting for a "peace conference" among the major powers of the time, which ends with Zeus's destruction of Atlantis. The second and third acts are dystopian, with another failed peace conference followed by an authoritarian regime on the moon. The play ends with the death of the dictator.

PB - J. Garnet Miller CY - London U5 -

O

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Man With Only One Head Y1 - 1955 A1 - [Douglas Norton] [Buttrey] (1918-1994) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel focuses on the fact that after a nuclear catastrophe only one man is fertile, but, in a twist on the usual plot, he is condemned for impregnating a woman.

PB - Rich and Cowan CY - London U3 -

Densil Neve Barr [pseud.]

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L, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Mistress of Viridis" Y1 - 1955 A1 - Margaret [Neeley] St. Clair (1911-95) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Class based authoritarian dystopia primarily as background to a science-out-of-control story.

JF - Universe Science Fiction VL - no. 10 N1 -

Repub. as The Green Queen. New York: Ace Books, 1956. Ace Double bound with Thomas Calvert McClary, Three Thousand Years (1954).

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Repub. as The Green Queen.

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Illus. Lawrence [Sterne Stevens] (1886-1960)

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Mother of Necessity" Y1 - 1955 A1 - [Symmes[ Chad[wick] Oliver (1928-1993) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. Short story describing a future city called Fullcircle that incorporates the best of all previous city designs. It gradually replaces all previous social organizations.

JF - Another Kind PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Great Science Fiction By Scientists. Ed. Groff Conklin, 1962), 243-56 with an editor's note on 242; in Above the Human Landscape: A Social Science Fiction Anthology. Ed. Willis E. McNelly and Leon E. Stover (Pacific Palisades, CA: Goodyear Publishing Co., 1972), 27-38; and in his A Star Above It and other stories. volume 1 of selected stories [Dust jacket title is A Star Above It: Selected Short Stories of Chad Oliver. Volume 1]. Ed. Priscilla Olson (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2003), 229-40.

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By Chad Oliver [pseud.]

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MiU, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Next Step in Civilization; A Star to Steer By Y1 - 1955 A1 - F[rederick] Creedy (1883-1962) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Presents a society in the Amazonian jungle in which everyone tries to become more like Christ. This produces a eutopia in which there is fundamental equality. Two day's of labor is required each week where each person has a "chore" that is productive labor. "Work" is what else they do, such as writing, art, and publishing.

JF - Truth is Enough PB - The Ryerson Press CY - Toronto, ON, Canada VL - Vol. 3 U5 -

Can, NcD

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "No Gun to the Victor" Y1 - 1955 A1 - Theodore [Rose] Cogswell (1918-87) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of conditioning and violence.

JF - Imagination VL - 6.8 N1 -

Rpt. in Science-Fiction Monthly (Melbourne, VIC, Australia), no. 9 (May 1956): 87-88, 90-92, 94-98; in his Third Eye (New York: Belmont Books, 1968), 7-17; The First Theodore R. Cogswell Megapack®: 16 Classic Science Fiction Stories. Rockville, MD: Wildside Press, 2014. ebook; and rev as “Consumer’s Report.” Voyages: Scenarios for a Ship Called Earth. Ed. Rob Sauer (New York: Zero Population Growth and Ballantine, 1971), 250-62. 

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Rev. as “Consumer’s Report.” Voyages: Scenarios for a Ship Called Earth

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GU, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Not This August Y1 - 1955 A1 - C[yril] M[ichael] Kornbluth (1923-58) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of the U.S. under a combined Chinese and Soviet Communism, which is defeated in the last pages.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Garden City, NY Doubleday_

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Panel Game" Y1 - 1955 A1 - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia with society organized around a consumption band, which reflects income. Television, which cannot be turned off and is primarily a means of reminding consumers of the products they are required to buy, is organized by these bands.

JF - New Worlds Science Fiction VL - 14.42 N1 -

Rpt. in his Space, Time and Nathaniel (presciences) (London: Faber and Faber, 1957), 187-99. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Point Ultimate Y1 - 1955 A1 - [Gerald Allan] [Sohl] [Sr.] (1913-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A future America is conquered by Communists, creating an authoritarian dystopia. Much of the novel is about the revolt against it.

PB - Rinehart & Co CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1959.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Preferred Risk Y1 - 1955 A1 - [Frederik George] [Pohl] [Jr.] (1919-2013] A1 - [Leonard] [Knapp] (1915-93) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Insurance companies control the world.

PB - Simon & Schuster CY - New York N1 -

Also published in Galaxy Science Fiction (New York) 10.3 - 6 (June - September 1955): 6-54, 104-43, 112-43, 100-43. Rpt. as by Pohl and Lester del Rey. New York: Ballantine Books, 1980.

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Edson McCann [pseud.] and Lester del Rey [pseud.]

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DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Private Volcano: A Modern Novel of Science and Imagination Y1 - 1955 A1 - Lance[lot de Giberne] Sieveking (1896-1972) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

An abundance of gold brings misery followed by prosperity and world peace.

PB - Ward, Lock CY - London U5 -

DLC, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Rafferty's Reasons" Y1 - 1955 A1 - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which people are required to do work that machines could do as well or better and are taught to do that work by the machines.

JF - Fantastic Universe (New York) VL - 4.3 N1 -

Rpt. in his Alternating Currents (New York: Ballantine Books, 1956), 83-96.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Reprieve from Paradise Y1 - 1955 A1 - H[arry] Chandler Elliott (1909-78) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set after an atomic war. Extreme overpopulation is produced by an ethos that encourages reproduction, which means that the entire economy is directed at producing food. The majority of the people, called Freemen, are bred for docility and low intelligence. An underground movement with a hidden city at the South Pole aims to re-establish intelligence, and the people of the city are intelligent, revive science and human community, and, at the end of the novel, are in a position to create a better future for the entire world.

PB - Gnome CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Right Thing" Y1 - 1955 A1 - William Andrew KW - Male author AB -

The story deals with two post-catastrophe dystopias. One is religious with women inferior; the other is non-religious and promiscuous and lives underground.

JF - A.D. 2500: The Observer Prize Stories 1954 PB - William Heinemann CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Servant Problem" Y1 - 1955 A1 - [Philip] [Klass] (1920-2010) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satiric authoritarian dystopia in which each of a series of people believe that they have absolute power because they have power over the one who is apparently more powerful.

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction (New York) VL - 10.1 N1 -

Rpt. in his The Human Angle (New York: Ballantine Books, 1956), 44-75; and in Immodest Proposals: The Complete Science Fiction of William Tenn. Volume 1 (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2001), 393-413 ("Afterword" 414).

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William Tenn [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Short History of the Future Y1 - 1955 A1 - R[eginald] C[harles] Churchill (1916-86) KW - Male author AB -

Future history of the period 1967-6601 based on the writers of dystopias.

PB - Werner Laurie CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Sign of the Times Y1 - 1955 A1 - Robert Kee (1919-2013) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Near future authoritarian dystopia focusing on the Inter-Governmental Regroupment Agency for Maladjusted Persons which decides who is maladjusted and "cures" them. Much humor.

PB - Eyre & Spottiswoode CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Solar Lottery Y1 - 1955 A1 - Philip K[indred] Dick (1928-82) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set in 2203 A.D. with power distributed and changed randomly. Corruption has developed and power is actually going to the few. Domination by industrial combines. The people are poor. Violence and fascination with death and cruelty. Rebellion.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1976. U.K. ed. London: Gollancz, 2003. The U.K. ed. World of Chance. London: Rich and Cowan, 1956 is substantially different and some experts say the changes were unauthorized while others say that Dick provided the publisher with what they asked as he had with the Ace Books edition. 

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UK ed. with unauthorized changes as World of Chance.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Spud Failure Definite" Y1 - 1955 A1 - Noel Peart KW - Male author AB -

The failure of the potato crop leads to a new Irish famine. Famines are very common and are relieved by delivering tons of canned mouse meat. Most of the story is about the bureaucratic bungling in response.

JF - A.D. 2500: The Observer Prize Stories 1954 PB - William Heinemann CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Star Bridge Y1 - 1955 A1 - Jack [John Stewart] Williamson (1908-2006) A1 - James E[dwin] Gunn (1923-2020) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia in which a company controls the earth and the rebellion against it.

PB - Gnome Press CY - New York U5 -

Merril, UC-Riv, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Star Ship" Y1 - 1955 A1 - E[dwin] C[harles] Tubb (1919-2010) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a multi-generation spaceship. All must die by age forty. Dueling is used to eliminate the unfit, for room, and so forth.

JF - New Worlds Science Fiction (London) VL - 12.34 - 36 N1 -

Repub. as The Space-Born. New York: Ace, 1956. Ace Double bound with Philip K[indred] Dick's The Man Who Japed (1956).

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Repub. as The Space-Born.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - This Fortress World Y1 - 1955 A1 - James E[dwin] Gunn (1923-2020) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Mostly adventure but includes a dystopia with a dominant religion. The society has four classes, the nobility, the church, free-traders, and mercenaries, who are hired killers.

PB - Gnome Press CY - New York N1 -

Abr. ed. New York: Ace Books, 1957.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “This Thing Called Love” Y1 - 1955 A1 - [Agnes] Carol[lyn] [Fries] Emshwiller (1921-2019) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

In a future dominated by television, people are expected to fall in love with TV stars whose programs are designed specific to cater to them. In the story, a man wants love from his wife. 

JF - Future Science Fiction VL - no. 28 U2 -

Illus. Ed Emsh[willer]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Ticket to Tranai" Y1 - 1955 A1 - Robert Sheckley (1928-2005) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A dystopia is a supposed eutopia because there are no laws. But all women are kept in stasis, taxation is by robbery, divorce is by murder, and governmental change is by assassination.

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction VL - 11.1 N1 -

Rpt. in his Citizen in Space (New York: Ballantine Books, 1955), 108-47; in The Collected Short Stories of Robert Sheckley. Book One (Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991), 241-77; and in his The Masque of Mañana. Ed. Sharon L. Sbarsky (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2005), 251-82.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Tomorrow Revealed Y1 - 1955 A1 - John [Alfred Neville] Atkins (1916-2009) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Humor about the future based on fiction. Send up of utopians, among others.

PB - Neville Spearman CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Tunnel Under the World" Y1 - 1955 A1 - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of pervasive advertising in which a town is taken over by advertisers as a test market for their ads.

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction (New York) VL - 9.4 N1 -

Rpt. in his Alternating Currents (New York: Ballantine Books, 1956), 112-43; Tomorrow, Inc. SF Stories About Big Business. Ed. Martin Harry Greenberg and Joseph D. Olander (New York: Taplinger, 1976), 36-66; in The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories. Ed. Tom Shippey (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1992), 247-77; and in A Science Fiction Omnibus. Ed. Brian Aldiss (London: Penguin Books, 2007), 242-74

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Twilight Years” Y1 - 1955 A1 - Kirk Drussaï (1919-2001) A1 - Garen Drussaï (1916-2009) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story takes place in a future where those over sixty are being killed by the young with such killings broadcast on television on a program “sponsored, as a Public Service, by the National Casket Company” (117). 

JF - If VL - 5.4 N1 -

Rpt. in The First World of If. Ed. James L. Quinn and Eva Wulff (Kingston, NY: Quinn Publishing Co., 1957): 102-. 

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Illus. Ed Emsh[willer]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Two-Handed Engine" Y1 - 1955 A1 - Henry Kuttner (1914-58) A1 - Catherine L[ucille] Moore (1911-87) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a machine-dominated society with the judicial system and police replaced by almost infallible machines.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 9.2 N1 -

Rpt. in their No Boundaries (New York: Ballantine Books, 1955), 123-49; in Criminal Justice Through Science Fiction. Ed. Joseph D. Olander and Martin Harry Greenberg (New York: New Viewpoints, 1977), 146-67, with an editors’ note on 146; and in Menace of the Machine: The Rise of AI in Classic Science Fiction. Ed. Mike [Michael Raymond Donald] Ashley (London: British Library, 2019), 267-97, with an editor’s note on 265.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Urantia® Book Y1 - 1955 KW - US author AB -

Mostly a spiritualist religious book which traces the history of the universe and then of the solar system and life within it and the development of that life. Spiritual beings oversaw human development and taught humans the life skills they needed for survival. A fall from grace of the spiritual beings is described. Then the history of humanity up to the coming of Christ is given. Paper 72 (808-20) by Melchizedek of Nebadon presents “Government on a Neighboring Planet” as a eutopia focusing on one fairly small, isolated continent. Other sections described the governmental and social structures of, among others, the Seraphim. See also William S[amuel Sadler, Jr. (1875-1963), A Study of the Master Universe: A Development of the Urantia Book. Chicago, IL: Second Society Books, 1968. 

PB - Urantia Foundation CY - Chicago, IL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Utopia 1976 Y1 - 1955 A1 - Morris L[eopold] Ernst (1888-1976) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A detailed eutopia describing the life of 1976 which, although called a utopia, is written as a prophecy and said to be attainable in only twenty years. There is much on the current situation and change is brought about both by technology, particularly atomic energy, and changes in attitude. Birth control, which he says the Roman Catholic Church will strongly support, is essential. Much more leisure.

PB - Rinehart & Co CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Utopia 239 Y1 - 1955 A1 - [Stanley Bennett] [Hough] (1917-1998) KW - English author AB -

The novel begins in the dystopia of the 1950s Cold War and the control of scientific research. During that time, people began to establish small communities called Utopia 1, 2, 3, and so forth. Utopia 239 is a future scientifically advanced flawed utopia of complete freedom, which appears dystopian to travelers from the outside world and some of its own members. The latter establish their version of a better society in New Zealand with government, law, the military, and so forth, creating another flawed utopia.

PB - Heinemann CY - London U3 -

Rex Gordon [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Vespers" Y1 - 1955 A1 - W[ystan] H[ugh] Auden (1907-73) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Contrasts an Arcadia and a Utopian.

JF - Encounter VL - 4.2 N1 -

Rpt. in his The Shield of Achilles (New York: Random House, 1955), 77-80. U.K. ed. (London: Faber and Faber, 1955), 74-77; his Selected Poems. Ed. Edward Mendelson (New York: Vintage Books, 1979), 227-229; and in The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Poems. Volume II 1940-1973. Ed. Edward Mendelson (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2022), 439-441, with a Textual Note on 968-969.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - When the Moon Died Y1 - 1955 A1 - [Ivan] [Roe] KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Flawed utopia. World Technocracy is a world government that governs through six scientific committees. The belief that it is a utopia meant that little new was approved. There is no central government. Believe only in the useful and live only in the present. Music only for babies and the "unsound". Servants for the upper classes all had genetic defects and were not educated.

PB - Ward, Lock CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Brown, Watson, [1963].

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Richard Savage [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Whooping Crane Y1 - 1955 A1 - H[elen] C. Kreisheimer (1897-1972) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of communism.

PB - Pageant Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A World of Difference: A Modern Novel of Science and Imagination Y1 - 1955 A1 - [George] Robert [Acworth] Conquest (1917-2015) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An apparent eutopia is threatened by the government's use of technology to control people psychologically.

PB - Ward, Lock CY - London N1 -

Rpt. (although specially labeled "not a reprint") without the subtitle New York: Ballantine Books, 1964.

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L, Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Year of the Comet Y1 - 1955 A1 - [Sam] [Youd] (1922-2012) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A corporate dystopia with the world divided into companies rather than nations.

PB - Michael Joseph CY - London N1 -

US ed. as Planet in Peril. New York: Avon, 1959.

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John Christopher [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “183rd Congress” Y1 - 1954 A1 - Roy H[anden] Millenson (1921-2017) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on the future of the U.S. political system. 

JF - Science Fiction Adventures VL - 2.3 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Academy": Y1 - 1954 A1 - Robert Sheckley (1928-2005) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a society organized around Sanity Meters. The Academy provides drug induced dreams as an alternative to psychosurgery.

JF - If (Buffalo, NY) VL - 4 N1 -

Rpt. in The Collected Short Stories of Robert Sheckley. Book Two (Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991), 143-64.

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Another World Y1 - 1954 A1 - James Eugène Even KW - Male author AB -

A rational, scientific, authoritarian eutopia with a world government and one language.

PB - Meador Pub. Co CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Australianism: A New Way of Life Through Co-operation Y1 - 1954 A1 - A[rthur] J[ohn] Fisher KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia brought about through the creation of cooperative communities. Rejects socialism. Home ownership essential. No taxation. Get rid of middlemen. Stress on leisure. Irrigation schemes. The author says that Australia is best placed to begin the changes needed and to lead in reforming the world.

PB - John Fisher CY - Harcourt Gardens, SA, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Big Ball of Wax; A Story of Tomorrow's Happy World Y1 - 1954 A1 - [Edward] Shepherd Mead (1914-94) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An advertising dystopia. A satire on corporate power in which an invention that can broadcast sensations directly to the brain is used to enhance sales after its use initially caused them to drop.

PB - Simon & Schuster CY - New York N1 -

UK ed. London: T.V. Boardman, 1955. Rpt. London: Mayflower Books, 1962.

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DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Big Trip Up Yonder" Y1 - 1954 A1 - Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (1922-2007) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia.

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction (New York) VL - 7.5 N1 -

Rpt. in Assignment for Tomorrow: An Anthology. Ed. Frederik Pohl (Garden City, NY: Hanover House, 1954), 123-46; in his Canary in a Cat House (Greenwich, CT: Gold Medal Books, 1962); and rev. as "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow." In his Welcome to the Monkey House. A Collection of Short Works (New York: Seymour Lawrence/Delacorte Press, 1968), 284-98. Rpt. (New York: Dell, 1970), 293-308.  Rpt. in Eco-Fiction. Ed. John Stadler (New York: Washington Square Press/Pocket Books, 1971), 119-33; in Looking Ahead: The Vision of Science Fiction. Ed. Dick Allen and Lori Allen (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975), 267-79, with an editor’s note on 267 and “Questions” on 278-79; in Novels & Stories 1950-1962 Player Piano The Sirens of Titan Mother Night Stories. Ed. Sidney Offit (New York: The Library of America, 2012), 748-62, with a Note on the Text (822) and Notes (833); and in his Complete Stories. Ed. Jerome Klinkowitz & Dan Wakefield (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2017), 884-94. PSt, Public

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As "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow." In his Welcome to the Monkey House.  Rpt. in his Complete Stories. Ed. Jerome Klinkowitz & Dan Wakefield (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2017), 884-94. PSt, Public

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Conquered Place Y1 - 1954 A1 - Robert Shafer (b. 1920) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An authoritarian dystopia in which the US is occupied by an enemy.

PB - G. P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. as The Naked and the Damned. New York: Popular, 1955.

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Rpt. as The Naked and the Damned. New York: Popular, 1955.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Crusoe Warburton Y1 - 1954 A1 - Victor Wallace Germains (b. 1888) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The first section of the novel is a Robinsonade in which a shipwrecked sailor uses the material from the ship (rather more extensive and luxurious than in the 1719 Defoe original) to create a home for himself on an isolated island. He then rescues a small group of people of a lost race who, in the classic lost race scenario, had been expelled from their island by an evil prince. Then he conquers the island they had come from, is established as a god-king, and plans to create an empire. 

PB - Coward-McCann CY - New York U5 -

InFwA, NN

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Down to Earth Y1 - 1954 A1 - [Harry] Paul Capon (1911/12-69) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Last volume of a trilogy. See 1950 and 1952 Capon. This volume focuses on the struggle to return to Earth and attempts by people on Earth to exploit the planet. The author wrote another utopian novel; see 1956 Capon.

PB - Heinemann CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "DP" Y1 - 1954 A1 - Arthur Dekker Savage KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Flaws of government-provided perfection.

JF - If: Worlds of Science Fiction VL - 4.1 U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - An Earth Gone Mad Y1 - 1954 A1 - [Roger Dee] [Aycock] (1914-2004) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of mental submission to an authoritarian cult.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York U3 -

Roger Dee [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Enterprise 2115 Y1 - 1954 A1 - [Edwin Charles] [Tubb] (1919-2010) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Computer dystopia in which civilization has become too rigid from relying too much on the computers.

PB - Merit Books CY - London N1 -

US ed. under the author's name as The Mechanical Monarch. New York: Ace Books, 1958. Ace Double bound with Charles L. Fontenay, Twice Upon a Time.

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Charles Grey [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Fabulous Journey of Hieronymous Meeker Y1 - 1954 A1 - [Willy Johns] [Meeker] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Gulliver type on an unknown planet. There is one dystopian country of humanoid plants and one dystopian country of vicious, warlike giants. Another country is a satire on the United States in the early 1950s with specific reference to Senator Joseph McCarthy (1908-57) and his anti-Communist crusade. The novel ends with an inegalitarian eutopia in which each person takes on the physical characteristics of their position in society. The society recognizes no absolutes. Its aims to practice freedom from religion, from vegetarians, from temperance, from feminism, and from progress as well as freedom of difference and freedom of laughter. Its chief ideal is increasing awareness. Includes a discussion and rejection of the concept of utopia (304-07). The beginning of the novel and the Epilogue are set on a post-World War 4 physically devastated but overpopulated Earth dominated by the American Empire. 

PB - Little, Brown CY - Boston, MA U3 -

Willy Johns [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - False Night Y1 - 1954 A1 - Algis [Algirdas Jonas] Budrys (1931-2008) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe (plague) survivalist dystopia as seen through different protagonists over a half century, with much of it concerned with conflicts among the protagonists.

PB - Lion Books CY - New York N1 -

A longer version published as Some Will Not Die, Here is Tomorrow. Evanston, IL: Regency Books, 1961. Further revised without the subtitle. Illus. Frank Kelley Freas. Norfolk, VA: Starblaze/Donning, 1978. Rpt. New York: Dell, 1979. Chapter 6 was originally published as “Ironclad.” Galaxy Science Fiction (New York) 7.6 (March 1954): 76-101.

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A longer version published as Some Will Not Die, Here is Tomorrow.

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Foster, You're Dead" Y1 - 1954 A1 - Philip K[indred] Dick (1928-82) ED - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which people are chosen for access to fallout shelters based on their ability to contribute to society.

JF - Star Science Fiction Stories PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York VL - No. 3 N1 -

Rpt. in The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick Volume Three: The Father-Thing (Los Angeles, CA/Columbia, PA: Underwood/Miller, 1987), 221-37; in The Complete Stories of Philip K. Dick Volume Three: Upon the Dull Earth [1953-1954] (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2012), 265-84; in Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams (London: Gollancz, 2017). U. S. ed. (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017), 138-62 with an “Introduction” by Kalen Egan and Travis Sentell (135-37). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Foundling on Venus” Y1 - 1954 A1 - Dorothy de Courcy A1 - John de Courcy KW - Female author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set on a Venus that is divided into four sections, one of “Negroes,” one of Asians, one a Martian prison camp, and one of people from Earth trying, and usually failing, to strike in rich from Venus’s minerals. Everyone is miserable, everything is filthy, and most people are violent and short-lived.

JF - Fantastic Universe VL - 1.5 SN - 9780712353564 N1 -

Rpt. in Born of the Sun: Adventures in Our Solar System. Ed. Mike Ashley (London: British Library, 2020), 97-107, with an introduction to Venus on 88-95.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - From a Christian Ghetto: Letters of Ghostly Wit, Written A.D. 2453 Y1 - 1954 A1 - [John] Geddes MacGregor KW - Male author KW - UK author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Authoritarian with a heavy use of drugs. It is anti-religious and anti-intellectual with a limit of twenty minutes on any single subject in universities. Christianity is considered a disease, and Christians are limited to ghettos, tortured, and always liable to punishment. Presented through the letters from a Christian professor to his student. The teacher is martyred at the end.

PB - Longmans, Green CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Frozen Foods 2000 AD” Y1 - 1954 A1 - Edwin William Williams (1908-1997) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A version of the sleeper wakes in which a man is accidentally knocked out in the 1950s and appears to awake in a 2000 quite different from that in Bellamy’s Looking Backward (1888). In the ‘50s all the frozen food businesses are going broke from undermining each other. In 2000, they have combined through what is called an Impartial Industrial Authority, as have other industries. Essentially, each industry controls everything related to the industry, such as, for example, food is only available frozen and it is available everywhere. All work industries in tandem to create a society where cities are air conditioned, “the function of government is to serve industry, not run it” (104), minimum prices are set by law, and supply and demand was equalized. For analysis and context, see Justin Nordstrom, “A Frozen Fantasy for Cold War America.” Utopian Studies 34.2 (2023): 174-192.

JF - Quick Frozen Foods ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Hail to the Chief" Y1 - 1954 A1 - Sam Sackett KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia as seen through the eyes of a man who intends to kill its head so that democracy can be reestablished.

JF - Future Science Fiction VL - 5.1 U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Half a World" Y1 - 1954 A1 - Curt Merrick KW - Male author AB -

Brief dream of a future eutopia where heterosexuals and homosexuals cooperate.

JF - ONE: The Homosexual Magazine VL - 2.10 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Invasion from the Stratosphere" Y1 - 1954 A1 - Aileen [Lucia] Fisher (1906-2002) A1 - Olive Rabe KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Brief eutopia. An invading force of aliens, who were counting on the propensity of Earth's population for fighting each other, discovers a unified Earth starting to fight Earth's problems.

JF - United Nations Plays and Programs PB - Plays, Inc. CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "It's Such a Beautiful Day" Y1 - 1954 A1 - Isaac Asimov (1920-92) ED - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future where people have cut themselves off from the natural world.

JF - Star Science Fiction Stories PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York VL - No. 3 N1 -

Rpt. in his Through a Glass, Clearly (London: New English Library, 1967), 7-27; and in Eco-Fiction. Ed. John Stadler (New York: Washington Square Press/Pocket Books, 1971), 178-201.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Kurrajong. Sit-Look-See Y1 - 1954 A1 - [William] Hardy Wilson (1881-1955) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. A new capital city of Australia designed to amalgamate the best of the Eastern and Western cultures. Sit-Look-See is the translation of the Aboriginal word Kurrajong, which is the site for his proposed city. He describes the city by referring to plates that are not in the book; a note says that they were given to the Commonwealth National Library, except for four which he kept.

PB - Author CY - Kew, Melbourne, VIC, Australia U2 -

Illus. by the author.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Laminated Woman" Y1 - 1954 A1 - Evelyn E. Smith (1927-2000) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Satire in which women regularly change their skin and hair color and body shape.

JF - Fantastic Universe VL - 2.5 U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Last of the Masters" Y1 - 1954 A1 - Philip K[indred] Dick (1928-82) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Conflict between the last of the robots that had dominated an authoritarian system and the anarchist league that overthrew them.

JF - Orbit Science Fiction VL - 1.5 N1 -

Rpt. in Robots, Androids, and Mechanical Oddities: The Science Fiction of Philip K. Dick. Ed. Patricia Warrick and Martin H[arry] Greenberg (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1984), 103-28; in The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick. Volume 3 The Father-Thing (Los Angeles, CA/Columbia, PA: Underwood/Miller, 1987), 75-99. The paperback edition has it in The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick. Volume 3 Second Variety (New York: Citadel Twilight, 1991), 75-99; in The Early Work of Philip K. Dick. Volume Two: Breakfast at Twilight & Other Stories. Series ed. Gregg Rickman ([Rockville, MD]: Prime Books, 2009), 97-131, with a note on the story on 283; in The Complete Stories of Philip K. Dick Volume Three: Upon the Dull Earth [1953-1954]. Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2012), 93-122; and illus. Blair Gauntt in AnarchoSF: Science Fiction and the Stateless Society [Cover adds Volume 1]. Ed. Dana Rich (Victor, IA: Obsolete Press, 2014), 93-124.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Long Way Back Y1 - 1954 A1 - Margot M. Bennett (1912-80) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

Future authoritarian dystopia of science in Africa whose explorers discover primitive life in Britain.

PB - The Bodley Head CY - London N1 -

US ed. New York: Coward-McCann, 1955.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lord of the Flies Y1 - 1954 A1 - William Golding (1911-93) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Children left alone on a island revert to a violent, primitive existence showing that civilization is only a veneer.

PB - Faber & Faber CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Coward-McCann, 1955. Rpt. New York: Penguin Putnam, 1999. 50th anniversary ed. New York: Berkley, 2004. Rpt. New York: Penguin Books, 2016 with a “Foreword” by Lois Lowry (xi-xv), an “Introduction” by Stephen King (xvii-xxii) rpt. from the London: Faber & Faber, 2011 edition, “On Reading and Teaching Lord of the Flies” by Jennifer Buehler (263-76), “Suggestions for Further Exploration” by Jennifer Buehler (277-93), “Introduction to the 1962 Edition” by E.M. Forster (295-300), and “Notes on Lord of the Flies from the 1959 Edition” by E[dmund] L. Epstein (301-07). Films in 1963 directed and with a screenplay by Peter Brook (b. 1925) and in 1990 directed by Harry Hook with the screenplay by Jay [Jacqueline] Presson Allen (1932-2006) writing as Sara Schiff [pseud.]. A TV takeoff on the book appeared as on “Das Bus.” The Simpsons. Season 9, Episode 14 (February 15, 1998), written by David S. Cohen in which Bart, Lisa and other children from Springfield Elementary School are stranded on an island and are forced to work together. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lovers in Mars Y1 - 1954 A1 - Lucile Palmer KW - Female author AB -

A eutopian Mars that is extremely wealthy due to very advanced technology, an elaborate eugenic program, and a limited population. The focus of the novel is on the group marriage system, which is unappealing to the young lovers from earth.

PB - Sargent House Publishers CY - Los Angeles, CA N1 -

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Messiah Y1 - 1954 A1 - Gore Vidal (1925-2012) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Religious dystopia in which the religion, which has no belief in god or an afterlife, preaches that life is not worth living. The Messiah, a mortician, says that it is good to die and gains millions of followers. The history of the movement is told by one of its first supporters.

PB - E. P. Dutton CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Ballantine Books, 1954. U.K. ed. London: William Heinemann, 1955. 256 pp. Rpt. London: Panther, 1977. Rev. ed. Boston, MA: Little, Brown, 1965. Rpt. New York: Ballantine Books, 1979; which is rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1980 with an “Introduction” by Elizabeth A. Lynn (v-xvi).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Midas Plague" Y1 - 1954 A1 - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. The development of effective fusion power means that anything can be produced cheaply and the human race goes on a production and consumption binge. Over time consumption does not keep up with production, and laws are passed to require consumption. This results in a status system in which the poor must consume at a higher rate than the rich. The story is about a poor man who solves the problem by creating robots that can both produce and consume.

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction (New York) VL - 8.1 N1 -

Rpt. in All About the Future. Ed. Martin Greenburg (New York: Gnome Press, 1955), 27-80; in Spectrum: A Science Fiction Anthology. Ed. Kingsley Amis and Robert Conquest (London: Victor Gollancz, 1961), 13-67; in American Utopias: Selected Short Fiction. Ed. Arthur O. Lewis, Jr. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971. All items separately paged. In this case the text has been reset, there are no page numbers, and the illustrations in the original are not included; and in his Midas World (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983), 5-74.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Once Upon a Space Y1 - 1954 A1 - H[erbert] J[ames] Campbell (1925-1983) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia where people degenerate. There are some rebels.

PB - Panther CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Peace" Y1 - 1954 A1 - Norman Arkawy A1 - Stanley Henig KW - Male author AB -

Brief dystopia following a war with Venus. The apparently peaceful Venusians impose a military organization, negative eugenics, and euthanasia as a means of population control.

JF - If: Worlds of Science Fiction VL - 4.2 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Peace Agent" Y1 - 1954 A1 - M. C. Pease ED - Robert W. Lowndes AB -

Dystopia. A conflict is developing between a new social form, the clan, which hires itself out to businesses with guarantees of performance and the old lower classes who are losing their jobs. In one town the conflict is being fostered by one man who runs the town and encourages attacks on the clans. In this town an independent man helps bring peace, but the same pattern is said to be common throughout the US.

JF - Science Fiction Stories PB - Columbia Publications CY - New York VL - 2nd ed. U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Peace On Earth" Y1 - 1954 A1 - Irving E[ngland] Cox Jr. (1917-2001) KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a false utopia as a mechanism of social control.

JF - Future Science Fiction VL - 5.1 U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Progeny" Y1 - 1954 A1 - Philip K[indred] Dick (1928-82) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of children raised by robots.

JF - If (Buffalo, NY) VL - 4.3 N1 -

Rpt. in his A Handful of Darkness (London: Rich and Cowan, 1955), 158-76; rpt. London: Panther, 1966), 127-43; and in The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick. Volume 2 Second Variety (Los Angeles, CA/Columbia, PA: Underwood/Miller, 1987), 93-107. The paperback edition has it in The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick. Volume 2 We Can Remember It For You Wholesale (New York: Citadel Twilight, 1992), 93-107.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Quickie" Y1 - 1954 A1 - Milton [S.] Lesser (1928-2008) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire. Future eutopia of multiple, short-term marriages.

JF - If: Worlds of Science Fiction VL - 4.2 U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Rations of Tantalus" Y1 - 1954 A1 - Margaret [Neeley] St. Clair (1911-95) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

An apparently eutopian society of near immortals that is controlled through the pills everyone takes daily, one of which controls their moods.

JF - Fantastic Universe VL - 2.1 N1 -

Rpt. as “The Rages.” In her Three Worlds of Futurity (New York: Ace, 1964), 76-113. Ace Double bound with her Message from the Eocene (1964). 

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Rite of Passage" Y1 - 1954 A1 - [Symmes[ Chad[wick] Oliver (1928-1993) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Two societies, both eutopias, although it is said that they are real and thus not utopias. One is technological and the other rejects technology and appears primitive but is in fact the more advanced.

JF - Astounding Science Fiction (New York) VL - 53 N1 -

Rpt. in his Another Kind (New York: Ballantine Books, 1955), 15-60; and in his Far From This Earth and other stories. Volume 2 of selected stories [Dust jacket title is Far From This Earth: Selected Short Stories of Chad Oliver. Volume 2]. Ed. Priscilla Olson (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2003), 249-84.

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Chad Oliver [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Sales Pitch" Y1 - 1954 A1 - Philip K[indred] Dick (1928-82) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Inescapable automated sales pitches create a dystopia.

JF - Future Science Fiction (US) VL - 5.1 N1 -

Rpt. in his The Golden Man. Ed. Mark Hurst (New York: Berkley, 1980), 254-269; in Robots, Androids, and Mechanical Oddities: The Science Fiction of Philip K. Dick. Ed. Patricia S. Warrick and Martin H[arry] Greenberg (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1984), 90-102; in The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick. Volume 3 The Father-Thing (Los Angeles, CA/Columbia, PA: Underwood/Miller, 1987), 175-87 with the paperback edition having it in The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick. Volume 3 Second Variety (New York: Citadel Twilight, 1991), 175-87; in The Early Work of Philip K. Dick. Volume Two: Breakfast at Twilight & Other Stories. Series ed. Gregg Rickman ([Rockville, MD]: Prime Books, 2009), 190-207, with a note on the story on 286; in The Complete Stories of Philip K. Dick Volume Three: Upon the Dull Earth [1953-1954]. Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2012), 211-25; and in Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams (London: Gollancz, 2017). U. S. ed. (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017), 77-95, with an “Introduction” by Tony Grisoni (74-76).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Search the Sky Y1 - 1954 A1 - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) A1 - C[yril] M[ichael] Kornbluth (1923-58) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Although humans have colonized space, they have degenerated and are in danger of dying out and few people care. One person is searching for the answer and by the end of the novel it becomes possible to rebuild a vigorous humanity.

PB - Ballantine CY - New York N1 -

UK ed. Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin, 1970. Rev. ed. New York: Baen Books, 1985. According to a note on the copyright page, this edition is substantially different from the earlier one.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Servant Problem" Y1 - 1954 A1 - T[helma] D. Hamm (1905-94) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Humorous dystopian story about a robot servant.

JF - Authentic Science Fiction Monthly VL - 1.48 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Skulking Permit" Y1 - 1954 A1 - Robert Sheckley (1928-2005) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire. An agrarian eutopia wants to be civilized so they appoint a criminal. He fails.

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction (New York) VL - 9.3 N1 -

Rpt. in his Citizen in Space (New York: Ballantine Books, 1955), 154-80; in The Collected Short Stories of Robert Sheckley. Book One (Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991), 285-310; and in his The Masque of Mañana. Ed. Sharon L. Sbarsky (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2005), 181-202.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Small Town" Y1 - 1954 A1 - Philip K[indred] Dick (1928-82) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A man creates an ideal small town for his basement train set, which becomes the reality in the town where he lives.

JF - Amazing Stories (Chicago, IL) VL - 28.2 N1 -

Rpt. in Amazing Stories 41.1 (April 1967): 130-45. Rpt. in The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick. Volume 2 Second Variety (Los Angeles, CA/Columbia, PA: Underwood/Miller, 1987), 341-53. The paperback edition has it in The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick. Volume 2 We Can Remember It For You Wholesale (New York: Citadel Twilight, 1992), 341-53.

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Souvenir" Y1 - 1954 A1 - Philip K[indred] Dick (1928-82) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of conformity.

JF - Fantastic Universe (New York) VL - 2.3 N1 -

Rpt. in The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick. Volume 2 Second Variety (Los Angeles, CA/Columbia, PA: Underwood/Miller, 1987), 355-65. The paperback edition has it in The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick. Vol. 2 We Can Remember It For You Wholesale (New York: Citadel Twilight, 1992), 355-65; and in The Early Work of Philip K. Dick. Volume One: The Variable Man & Other Stories. Series ed. Gregg Rickman ([Rockville, MD]: Prime Books, 2009), 378-92, with a note on the story on 409.

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Stand Fast Beloved City Y1 - 1954 A1 - [Martha Edith von] Almedingen (1898-1971) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Russian author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia set in a small, isolated city. A small group of people, fourteen men and fourteen women, who are known as the Centre, control everything.

PB - Hutchinson CY - London U3 -

E.M. Almedingen [pseud.]

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L, NZ

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Story of Sourwegia A Newly Discovered Continent-Island in the Pacific Y1 - 1954 A1 - Harold C[live] Kimball Sr. KW - Male author AB -

Satire set on an imaginary Pacific island. There is a description of the islanders, their custom of every wife having three husbands (connubial, domestic, and business manager), their improved sense of smell, their food, and their manufactured goods. The animals of the island are also presented.

PB - Author CY - Salt Lake City, UT U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Subsistence Level" Y1 - 1954 A1 - [Robert] [Sheckley] (1928-2005) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satirical story about the colonization of space depicted as hard work for the colonizers, but technology does almost all the work.

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction VL - 8.5 N1 -

Rpt. in The Collected Short Fiction of Robert Sheckley. Book Three (Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991), 304-18. 

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Illus. Sandy [Sanford] Kossin

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Finn O’Donnevan [pseud.].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Test" Y1 - 1954 A1 - Richard [Burton] Matheson (1926-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which older people are required to take a test that checks intellectual, physical, and psychological competence. Those who fail must die.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 7.5 (42) N1 -

Rpt. in If This Goes On. Ed. Charles Nuetzel (Beverly Hills, CA: Book Company of America, [1965]), 19-38.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "They'd Rather Be Right" Y1 - 1954 A1 - Mark [Irvin] Clifton (1906-63) A1 - [Frank Wilbert] [Ryhlick] (1915-1996) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A computer makes human beings telepathic and immortal, and the novel is concerned with the reactions of people to the new possibilities.

JF - Astounding Science Fiction VL - 53.6 - 54.3 N1 -

Repub. New York: Gnome Press, 1957. Rpt. Ed. Hank Stine. Illus. M. W. Carroll, Norfolk, VA: Starblaze Editions/Donning, 1981. Also published as The Forever Machine. New York: Galaxy, [1958]. Rpt. New York: Carroll & Graf, 1992.

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Also published as The Forever Machine

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Frank Riley [pseud. of Ryhlick]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Thirty Years to Win Y1 - 1954 A1 - Paul E[dmond] Bacas KW - Male author AB -

Detailed nationalist, pro-business eutopia of the America the Substantial Movement set in 1983. It was ". . . formed to improve the standing of the United States among the nations of the earth" (100). Much of the book is concerned first with life in 1953, then with the established of the movement and the very eclectic principles that should govern it, and then with the history of the U.S. from 1953 to 1983.

PB - Richard R. Smith CY - Rindge, NH N1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Word for Freedom" Y1 - 1954 A1 - James E[dwin] Gunn (1923-2020) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of stratification and technological control. Contrast is provided by a practical joker.

JF - If: Worlds of Science Fiction VL - 2.6 U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Work-Out Planet" Y1 - 1954 A1 - R[aymond] E[ugene] Banks (1918-96) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A future earth totally dedicated to work, learning, and culture is a dystopia.

JF - If: Worlds of Science Fiction VL - 4.1 U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "World Without War" Y1 - 1954 A1 - E.G. von Wald AB -

Dystopian world where everyone constantly fights each other.

JF - If: Worlds of Science Fiction VL - 4.1 U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Year of Consent Y1 - 1954 A1 - Kendall Foster Crossen (1910-81) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which public relations experts have taken over the government and used their position to create a population that consents to anything. The few people who still maintain their individuality are surgically cured. The novel is concerned with a man who fights back.

PB - Dell Publishing Co CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Zahatopolk" Y1 - 1954 A1 - Bertrand [Arthur William] Russell (1872-1970) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

Religious dystopia.

JF - Nightmares of Eminent Persons PB - The Bodley Head CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in The Collected Stories of Bertrand Russell. Comp and ed. Barry Feinberg (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1972), 2-110.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Against the Fall of Night Y1 - 1953 A1 - Arthur C[harles] Clarke (1917-2008) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Flawed utopia. A city that has stagnated regains contact with a rural, telepathic utopia that has also stagnated. Cross-fertilization helps both. See also 1990 Clarke and Benford, where Against the Fall of Night is rpt. as Part I (14-145) and 2004 Benford where the relationship among the three volumes is explained in an “Afterword.”

PB - Gnome Press CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. as Part I (14-145) in Clarke and Gregory [Albert] Benford (b. 1941). Beyond the Fall of Night. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1990; and New York: iBooks, 2005. Both the advertising and the back cover say that the book includes the added short story “Jupiter Five,” which was first published in If Worlds of Science Fiction (Buffalo, NY) 2.2 (May 1953): 4-28, 75 and has nothing to do with the novel, but there is no such story in the book. Exp. version of “Against the Fall of Night.” Startling Stories (Kokomo, IN) 18 (November 1948): 11-70. Rev. version entitled The City and The Stars. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1956; rpt. New York: Signet Books, 1957.  

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Another Space--Another Time Y1 - 1953 A1 - H[erbert] J[ames] Campbell (1925-1983) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia that limits scientific activity through the SS (Science Security), which oversees all scientific work and decides on its usefulness. But in the novel, the science goes wrong and opens Earth to the possibility of an alien invasion, and the SS agents are the good guys.

PB - Panther CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Big Holiday" Y1 - 1953 A1 - Fritz [Reuter] Leiber [Jr.] (1910-92) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopian holiday. There is one holiday each year lasting three days and stressing friendship, love, laziness, fun, and joy. No one can be concerned with money, success, hurry, worry, and glamour. Instituted because holidays had become profit centers and were no longer holidays.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (New York) VL - 4.1 N1 -

Rpt. in The Best of Fritz Leiber (New York: Ballantine Books, 1974), 179-202; and in The Best of Fritz Leiber (Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, 1974), 165-72.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Boy With Five Fingers” Y1 - 1953 A1 - James [Edwin] Gunn (1923-2020) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Short story set in a future where the people are all mutants brought about by past atomic wars told from the perspective of a boy who is normal by past standards, sees his future world as clearly better than the past, and is glad that their Basic Rule is that everyone has the right to be different.

JF - Startling Stories VL - 28.3 N1 -

Rpt. in Microcosmic Tales: 100 Wondrous Science Fiction Short-Short Stories. Ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and Joseph D. Olander (New York: Taplinger Publishing Co., 1980); rpt. (New York: DAW Books, 1992), 271-74. 

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llus. Alex[ander A.] Schomburg (1905-98)

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Brain Ultimate Y1 - 1953 A1 - H[erbert] J[ames] Campbell (1925-1983) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia. An interplanetary union is controlled by an Interplanetary Dictator and its rules are enforced ruthlessly. In the novel scientific advances in brain power enable contact with others in the universe and the dictatorship ends in cooperation with others.

PB - Panther CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Calibrated People” Y1 - 1953 A1 - W[illiam] T[reval] Powers (1926-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a highly structured future in which everyone becomes an adult at ten, and, at that point, if they meet its educational, physical, and psychological standards, chooses their future education and career. 

JF - Universe Science Fiction VL - no. 2 U2 -

Illus. [Michael Becker]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Captive Audience" Y1 - 1953 A1 - Ann Warren Griffith KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia in which commercials are broadcast by the products that are available for purchase and earplugs are illegal.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (New York) VL - 5.2 ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Cave and the Rock Y1 - 1953 A1 - Raoul C[ohen] Faure (b. 1909) KW - Male author AB -

Similar to George Orwell's Animal Farm (1945) but uses peaceful and warlike lizards to represent human tendencies.

PB - William Morrow CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Caves of Steel" Y1 - 1953 A1 - Isaac Asimov (1920-92) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia as background to a murder mystery solved by a robot and a human. The "caves of steel" are the cities of the future. A related novel in 1956 Asimov, “The Naked Sun.”

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction (New York) VL - 7.1 - 3 N1 -

Repub. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1954. Rpt. New York: New American Library, 1955. U.K. ed. London: T.V. Boardman, 1954; rpt. London: Panther, 1971. Also rpt. in his The Robot Novels: The Caves of Steel The Naked Sun. (Garden City: Doubleday, 1957), 1-202. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Childhood's End Y1 - 1953 A1 - Arthur C[harles] Clarke (1917-2008) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia brought about by aliens at the end of the existence of homo sapiens and the beginning of the emergence of a higher being.

PB - Ballantine CY - New York N1 -

1953 Clarke, Arthur C[harles] (1917-2008). Childhood’s End. New York: Ballantine. Exp. version of “Guardian Angel.” Famous Fantastic Mysteries (Chicago, IL) 1.4 (April 1950): 98-112, 127-29. The London: Pan, 1990 edition has a revised first chapter and a new “Foreword” (i-iv) by Clarke. DLC, HRC, L

Eutopia brought about by aliens at the end of the existence of homo sapiens and the beginning of the emergence of a higher being.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The City" Y1 - 1953 A1 - [John Stephen] [Glasby] (1928-2011) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a domed city with an upper and an underclass and strict controls on knowledge. The protagonist discovers a way out.

JF - Tales of Tomorrow VL - no 7 U3 -

Randall Conway [pseud.]

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Crisis in Utopia" Y1 - 1953 A1 - Norman L[ouis] Knight (1895-1972) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia set in an overpopulated world that has generally dealt well with that problem facing the probability of an asteroid impact.

JF - Astounding Science Fiction VL - 25.5 - 6 N1 -

Rpt. in The Crucible of Power: Three Science Fiction Novels. Comp. Martin Greenberg (London: The Bodley Head, 1953), 155-236. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dark Boundaries Y1 - 1953 A1 - [William Henry Fleming] [Bird] (1896-1971) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a world divided into Normals and Intelligentsia.

PB - Curtis Warren CY - London U3 -

Paul Lorraine [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Defenders" Y1 - 1953 A1 - Philip K[indred] Dick (1928-82) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

In a war between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, both sides retreat underground and allow their androids with artificial intelligence to conduct the war while working to send them more and more devastating weapons. An apparent anomaly leads to the discovery that the androids had been destroying the weapons and that there was no war and no devastation. In the end, the two sides agree to cooperate and hold out hope for a eutopian future.

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction VL - 5.4 N1 -

Rpt. without the illus. in Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction. Ed. Leigh Ronald Grossman (Rockville, MD: Wildside Press, 2011), 367-72 with an editor’s note on 367.

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Illus. EMSH [Edmund Alexander Emshwiller (1925-90)]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Drovers Road Y1 - 1953 A1 - Joyce [Tarleton] West (1908-85) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult novel presenting a back country New Zealand farm as a eutopia. Sequels include Cape Lost with three different descriptions of the publisher. London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1963; Auckland, New Zealand: Paul's Book Arcade, 1963; and Auckland, New Zealand: Paul's Book Arcade/London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1963; rpt. in The Drovers Road Collection (161-280); and The Golden Country. London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1965; and Hamilton, New Zealand: Janet and Blackwood Paul, 1965; rpt. in The Drovers Road Collection (283-416).

PB - J.M. Dent & Sons CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in The Drovers Road Collection (Bathgate, ND: Bethlehem Books/San Francisco, CA: Ignatius Press, 2002), 1-59 with a "Glossary" (417-18).

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Election Campaign” Y1 - 1953 A1 - William Campbell Gault (1910-95) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a post-war world where most of the population died as a result of power struggles, with the story about a small group of survivors and the reemergence of the struggle for power.

JF - Universe Science Fiction VL - no. 2 U2 -

Illus. Dan Simmons

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Fahrenheit 451 Y1 - 1953 A1 - Ray[mond Douglas] Bradbury (1920-2012) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian, anti-intellectual dystopia. Fahrenheit 451 is the burning point of paper. See 2007 Bradbury, “The Library” and 2010 Bradbury, “Long After Midnight” for related stories.

PB - Ballantine CY - New York N1 -

Serialized in Playboy 1.4 - 6 (March - May 1953): 6-9, 18, 24-25, 28, 35, 41-42, 44, 46-48, 50; 22-23, 28-329, 32-33, 36, 38, 43-44, 49; 19-20, 24, 32, 35-38,43-46, 48-50. A special 200 copy limited edition was bound in Johns-Manville Quintera (asbestos). New York: Ballantine Books, 1953. Rpt. without the asbestos binding New York: Simon & Schuster, 1967, with an “Introduction” by Bradbury (9-15); illus. Joseph Mugnaini. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1982. 40th Anniversary Edition. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993. [50th anniversary ed.] New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003 includes Bradbury’s introduction to the 1967 edition (23-30), “Burning Bright,” his Foreword to the 1993 edition (11-21), and “A New Introduction” (5-9). Collector’s Edition illus. Joseph Mugnaini with an “Introduction” by Eric S. Rabkin (3-8). Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1991. The [60th Anniversary Edition]. with the subtitle Fahrenheit 451--The temperature at which book paper catches fire and burns. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2013 has an ”Introduction” by Neil Gaiman (xi-xvi). Critical ed. in Novels & Story Cycles. Ed. Jonathan R. Eller (New York: Library of America, 2021), 231-361, with a Chronology of Bradbury’s life (843-61); a notes on the text (866-68); and textual notes (876-79), Bradbury’s “Day After Tomorrow: Why Science Fiction” (811-817), rpt. from The Nation 176 (May 2, 1953): 364-367; rpt. in The Nation, 150th anniversary edition (April 6, 2015): 101; and his “No Man Is an Island” (818-824), rpt. from his No Man Is an Island. Los Angeles, CA: National Women’s Commission of Brandeis University, 1952. An early version was published as “The Fireman.” Galaxy Science Fiction (New York) 1.5 (February 1951): 4-61; rpt. in Match to Flame: The Fictional Paths to Fahrenheit 451. Ed. Donn Albright and Jon[athan R.] Eller, Textual Ed. (Colorado Springs, CO: Gauntlet Press, 2006), 415-84; and in his A Pleasure to Burn: Fahrenheit 451 Stories (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2010), 203-71. Some other stories in this volume, many of which were originally or previously published in his Match to Flame: The Fictional Paths to Fahrenheit 451. Ed. Donn Albright and Jon[athan R.] Eller, Textual Ed. Colorado Springs, CO: Gauntlet Press, 2006, are related, some quite loosely, to Fahrenheit 451. See Tim Hamilton, Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451. The Authorized Adaptation. New York: Hill and Wang, 2009 for a graphic novel version.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Flight into Yesterday Y1 - 1953 A1 - Charles Leonard Harness (1915-2005) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An authoritarian dystopia set in Imperial America, which has an aristocracy, guilds, and an opposition movement, all with advanced technology.

PB - Bouregy and Curl CY - New York N1 -

U.K. The Paradox Men. London: Faber and Faber, 1954. U.S. ed. as The Paradox Men. New York: Ace Books, 1955. Rpt. New York: Crown, 1984. Collector’s Edition illus. Kent Bash with an “Introduction” by George Zebrowski (v-xi). Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1992. An earlier version was published as “Flight into Yesterday.” Startling Stories (Springfield, MA) 19.2 (May 1949): 9-79. 

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U.K. The Paradox Men. London: Faber and Faber, 1954.

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DLC, MoU-St, O, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Flight to Utopia" Y1 - 1953 A1 - Jan Tourneau KW - Male author AB -

Changing fashions in utopias; one generation's utopia is rejected by the next generation in favor of a new one.

JF - Science Stories VL - 1 U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Full Moon at Sweatenham. A Nightmare Y1 - 1953 A1 - J[ohn] K[eith] Stanford (1892-1971) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Humorous dystopia. A Bookmakers' government was elected because they were the only ones in all of the U.K. with money after the previous governments collapsed.

PB - Faber & Faber CY - London U2 -

Illus. V. H. Drummond

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DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Good-bye White Man; A Novel of A.D. 2711 Y1 - 1953 A1 - Frederic Vernon Bouic KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia in which the Chinese are the dominant race through their adoption of Christianity. World empire. Marriage between races is illegal.

PB - Exposition Press CY - New York U5 -

DLC, NN

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Green Millennium Y1 - 1953 A1 - Fritz [Reuter] Leiber [Jr.] (1910-92) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian satire in which the U.S. is ruled by the Federal Bureau of Loyalty, which has replaced most of the government bureaucracy, loosely cooperating, but also competing, with Fun, Inc., which controls the drug trade, gambling, and so forth. There is also a Federal Bureau of Morality.

PB - Abelard Press CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Ace Science Fiction Books, 1953; and New York: Lion Books, 1954. U.K. ed. London: Abelard-Shuman, 1959, which is rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1980 with an “Introduction” by Deborah L. Notkin (v-xi). 

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L, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Grim Tomorrow Y1 - 1953 A1 - [Kathleen] [Lindsay] (1903-73) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - South African author AB -

Future war from the perspective of a briefly described eutopia created by the survivors after the war. An author's note says that while fiction it is intended as a warning of what will happen unless people come together to oppose war.

PB - Wright & Brown CY - London U3 -

Mary Richmond [pseud.]

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NLS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Halos, Inc." Y1 - 1953 A1 - Kendall Foster Crossen (1910-81) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on advertising.

JF - Startling Stories VL - 29.3 U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Homo Inferior" Y1 - 1953 A1 - Mari Wolf (b. 1927) KW - Female author AB -

Flawed utopia. A telepathic future race and the remnant of the older race told from the point of view of a boy of the older race. The telepathic race has created a static utopia, and the boy wants the stars.

JF - If: Worlds of Science Fiction VL - 2.5 N1 -

Rpt. in Women Resurrected: Stories from Women Science Fiction Writers of the 50's. Ed, Greg Fowlkes (Np: Resurrected Press, 2010), 341-87 with an editor’s note on 342.

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Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - House of Entropy Y1 - 1953 A1 - [Herbert James] [Campbell] (1925-1983) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia in which an entire planet's population is controlled by a gigantic "brain" or computer.

PB - Panther CY - London U3 -

Roy Sheldon [pseud.]

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L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - In the Wet Y1 - 1953 A1 - Nevil Shute [Norway] (1899-1960) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Anti-socialist eutopia. Future of the British Commonwealth. In a note the author says that he tried to imagine the Commonwealth in thirty years. Following an economic crash in the 1970s, in the 1980s Britain is poor, becoming depopulated, and socialist. Australia, Canada, and New Zealand are rich, growing, and capitalist. Socialism is described as appropriate to British conditions, but conservatives had left the country in large numbers and added to the growth of the Commonwealth countries.

PB - William Heinemann CY - London U3 -

Nevil Shute [pseud.]

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A, ATL, ICU, NN

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Indigenous Revolt” Y1 - 1953 A1 - T[homas] W. Wade KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Invasion of Earth that is initially accepted and, partially as a result of mass hypnosis, seen as no threat. Then, thousands of years in the future, all previous dissidents, having been eliminated, one man, Paul 35, begins to wonder if the tales of humans being in control of the own lives might be true. In that future, people lived in sex-segregated dormitories and, as slaves, worked at jobs that benefitted the invaders. He then meets a young girl, Ida 23, who had also escaped elimination by keeping her thoughts to herself, and they identified others. Paul discovers an antidote (how is unexplained) to the drug that kept them enslaved, and they then worked out a way of administering it to others. Some then escape from the city, and then, through a series of unlikely events, they managed to force the invaders to leave Earth.

JF - Futuristic Science Stories (London) VL - no. 13 U5 -

MH (Houghton)

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Lady With a Past" Y1 - 1953 A1 - Irving E[ngland] Cox Jr. (1917-2001) KW - Male author AB -

Earth a rational eutopia based on More's Utopia.

JF - Astounding Science-Fiction VL - 5.3 U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Land of the Matriarchs" Y1 - 1953 A1 - E. Bruce Yachen KW - Male author AB -

Standard sexist gender-role reversal satire.

JF - Fantastic Adventures VL - 15.3 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Limbo" Y1 - 1953 A1 - William F[rederick] Temple (1914-89) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of National Socialists ruling Earth.

JF - Nebula (Glasgow, Scot.) VL - 1.3 U5 -

NLS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lost Valley Y1 - 1953 A1 - Hector Hawton (1901-1975) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Adventure novel with elements similar to 1933 Hilton.

PB - Hodder and Stoughton CY - London U5 -

L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Love Among the Ruins; A Romance of the Near Future. With decorations by varying eminent hands including the author's Y1 - 1953 A1 - Evelyn [Arthur St. John] Waugh (1903-66) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a dreary dingy life in the welfare state. Reformatories are the best place to live and within them the best places go to murderers followed by sex offenders.

PB - Chapman and Hall CY - London N1 -

Very slightly shorter version illustrated by Mervyn Peake published in Lilliput 32.6 (May-June 1953): 73-96.

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Illus.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "My Imaginary Journey" Y1 - 1953 A1 - A[rthur] R[ex] D[ugard] Fairburn (1904-1957) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Poem. Wide-ranging satire of the imaginary voyage and utopian genres.

PB - Recorded reading by the author UR - https://publicaddress.net/great-new-zealand-argument/my-imaginary-journey U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "My Old Venusian Home" Y1 - 1953 A1 - Kendall Foster Crossen (1910-81) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on slavery.

JF - Startling Stories VL - 28.3 N1 -

Rpt. in Startling Stories (British Edition), no. 13 ([1953]): 57-63, 66; and in Science Fiction Yearbook, no. 3 (1969): 66-71, 86.

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Nightsong" Y1 - 1953 A1 - W[illiam] T[reval] Powers (1926-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set on a dystopian Venus after it has been settled from Earth with the first settlers enslaved by it came under the control of later settlers exploiting Venus’s resources. 

JF - Universe Science Fiction VL - no. 3 U2 -

Illus. Virgil Finlay

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Null-ABC" Y1 - 1953 A1 - H[enry] Beam Piper (1917-81) A1 - John J[oseph] McGuire (1917-1981) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Future society where illiterates dominate a small group of literates.

JF - Astounding Science Fiction (New York) VL - 50.6 - 51.1 N1 -

Rpt. as Null-ABC. Holicong, PA: Wildside Press, 2006. Repub. in a different version as an Ace Double as Crisis in 2140. New York: Ace Books, 1957. Bound with an abbreviated edition of 1952 Kornbluth and Merril.

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Crisis 2140

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Occupation" Y1 - 1953 A1 - Edward William Ludwig (1920-90) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Humans are invading a planet to colonize it. The inhabitants completely confuse the invaders by destroying their weapons and refusing to fight and finally agreeing to teach them how to live together peacefully.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (New York) VL - 4.5 N1 -

Rpt. in New Worlds Science Fiction (London) 10.28 (October 1954): 61-68; and in his The 7 Shapes of Solomon Bean and 14 Other Marvelous Stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy (Los Gatos, CA: Polaris Press, 1983), 1-10. 

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PSt, SFF

ER - TY - ABST T1 - One Y1 - 1953 A1 - David Karp (1922-99) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia that is very similar to 1949 Blair in that the bulk of the book is about the destruction and reconstruction of a personality to fit the ideology. Church of State; no use of "me," "my," "mine."

PB - Vanguard CY - New York N1 -

Also entitled Escape to Nowhere. New York: Lion Books, 1955. 

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Also entitled Escape to Nowhere. New York: Lion Books, 1955. 

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DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Populism (U & I) Y1 - 1953 A1 - John Melville KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Majority rule on all questions. World government.

PB - W.P. Van Stockhum & Zoon CY - The Hague, The Netherlands U5 -

L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Potemkin Village" Y1 - 1953 A1 - [Murray] Fletcher Pratt (1897-1956) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Totalitarian dystopia.

JF - Startling Stories VL - 29.1 U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Professor Mmaa’s Lecture Y1 - 1953 A1 - Stefan Themerson (1910-88) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Polish author AB -

Satire on human relations through the depiction of relations in a termite hill and the senses of the termites as they try to understand humans through exploring a dead body and literally digesting written works. 

PB - Gaberbocchus Press CY - London N1 -

Rpt. Woodstock, NY: The Overlook Press, 1984 with the "Preface" unpaged.

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Illus. Franciszka Themerson

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L, PScU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Sam Hall" Y1 - 1953 A1 - Poul [William] Anderson (1926-2001) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia with control by computers. The story focuses on the successful attempt to regain freedom.

JF - Astounding Science Fiction VL - 51.6 N1 -

Rpt. in The Liberated Future [cover adds the subtitle Voyages into Tomorrow]. Ed. Robert Hoskins (Greenwich, CT: Fawcett, 1974), 13-51; and in The Saturn Game. Volume Three. The Collected Stories of Poul Anderson (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2010), 117-40.

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Sinister Journey" Y1 - 1953 A1 - Conrad [Michael] Richter (1890-1968) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Equality as dystopia. Dull, controlled, and boring.

JF - The Saturday Evening Post (Philadelphia, PA) VL - 226.13 N1 -

Rpt. in The Post Reader of Fantasy and Science Fiction (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1964), 83-102; in The Saturday Evening Post Stories 1953 (New York: Random House, 1953), 213-28; and in Fantasy Voyages: Great Science Fiction from The Saturday Evening Post. Ed. Vincent Miranda (Indianapolis, IN: Curtis, 1979), 83-102 with an editor’s note on 84.

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FMU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Space-Time Task Force Y1 - 1953 A1 - [Harold Ernest] [Kelly] (1899-1969) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel is primarily concerned with an invasion from space aliens. It is set on an Earth that is divided into two societies, the Primitives (humans) and one based on specialized, synthetic beings. Cooperation between the two societies defeats the aliens, and the possibility of more far-reaching cooperation in the future is suggested.

PB - Hector Kelly Ltd CY - London U3 -

Preston Yorke [pseud.]. 

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L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Syndic Y1 - 1953 A1 - C[yril] M[ichael] Kornbluth (1923-58) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Militaristic government from the U.S. is relocated in Ireland. The Western U.S. is mob controlled while the Eastern U.S. is permissive.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Also published in Science Fiction Adventures 2.1 - 2 (December 1953 - March 1954): 6-60, 82-156. Rpt. London: Sphere, 1968; and New York: Tor, 1982, with an “Introduction to THE SYNDIC, by C.M. KORNBLUTH” by Frederik Pohl (7-10) and “A Personal Note” by H.L. Gold (248-56)..

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DLC, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Temptress of Planet Delight" Y1 - 1953 A1 - Betsy [Elizabeth M.] Curtis (1918-2002) KW - Female author AB -

Bureaucratic dystopia in the process of being overthrown with the potential of becoming a eutopia. Permits required for everything; rationing for everything even though the planet produces enough for all. Eugenic experiment designed to produce the perfect bureaucrat. Anyone who forgets a permit loses their job; these people revolt with the assistance of beings of pure energy, who can choose to become material, who are never explained.

JF - Planet Stories VL - 5.12 N1 -

Rpt. with the author as B. Curtis in Planet Stories (British Edition), no. 7 (nd): 4-31.

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C, Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Threshold" Y1 - 1953 A1 - Robert Donald Locke KW - Male author AB -

Machine dystopia.

JF - Startling Stories VL - 29.3 U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Touch of Your Hand" Y1 - 1953 A1 - Theodore Sturgeon (1918-1985) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Simple, small-town eutopia. 

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction (New York) VL - 6.6 N1 -

Rpt. in his A Touch of Strange (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1958), 84-127; in his Alien Cargo (New York: Bluejay, 1984); 191-226; and in A Saucer of Loneliness. Volume VII: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon. Ed. Paul Williams (Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 2000), 15-60. 

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Merril, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Transposed Man" Y1 - 1953 A1 - Dwight V[reeland] Swain (1913-92) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia. Human beings are the flaw in robot-like perfection.

JF - Thrilling Wonder Stories VL - 43.1 N1 -

Repub. New York: Ace Books, 1955. UK ed. London: Panther, 1957.

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GU, O

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Ultimate City" Y1 - 1953 A1 - Richard [Presley] Tooker (1902-88) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Anti-utopian story. Perfection brought about by using atomic power solely for its benefits is so boring that there is a plague of suicides. Some choose to start over with a primitive life.

JF - Science Fiction Plus VL - 1.2 N1 -

Rpt. in Science Fiction Monthly (Melbourne, VIC, Australia), no. 1 ([September 1955]): 12-27.

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A, Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Unborn Tomorrow. A Last Story Y1 - 1953 A1 - Gilbert Frankau (1884-1952) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Presented as a eutopia. The world in the 50th century has become Roman Catholic and monarchical. Jews have converted and Protestants and Orthodox Christians have returned to the Roman Catholic Church. Very few separate nations remain. Monopolies. Chivalry. Hierarchy. No democracy. No trial by jury. Eugenics. Capitalist.

PB - MacDonald CY - London U5 -

L, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Unites" Y1 - 1953 A1 - [Jessie] Jacquetta Hawkes (1910-90) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dull dystopia of equality with a revolution being prepared.

JF - Fables PB - Cresset Press CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. of the book as A Woman As Great as the World and Other Fables (New York: Random House, 1953), 97-179. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The University of Utopia Y1 - 1953 A1 - Robert M. Hutchins (1899-1977) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Lectures presented at the University of Chicago in 1953 which both criticize contemporary university education in the U.S. and compare it to university education in what he calls Utopia.

PB - University of Chicago Press CY - Chicago, IL N1 -

2nd ed. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1964.

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LLL

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Utopia [upside down & backwards]" Y1 - 1953 A1 - J[ohn] S[cott] Campbell KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia is produced through thought transmission so that all people can meld together. Strong suggestion that this is a dystopia.

JF - Science-Fiction Plus VL - 1.1 N1 -

Rpt. in Science-Fiction Monthly (Melbourne, VIC, Australia), no. 1 (September 1955): 31-45.

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Watchbird" Y1 - 1953 A1 - Robert Sheckley (1928-2005) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. A machine designed to identify murderers before they act is unable to make distinctions and kills anybody or anything that contemplates killing.

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction VL - 5.5 N1 -

Rpt. in his Notions Unlimited (New York: Bantam Books, 1960), 27-46; in The Collected Short Fiction of Robert Sheckley Book Two (Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991), 221-42; and in Store of the Worlds: The Stories of Robert Sheckley. Ed. Alex Abramovich and Jonathan Lethem (New York: New York Review Books, 2012), 73-96 with an “Introduction” to the collection by the editors (vii-xi). Rpt. separately as Watchbird. Eugene, OR: Pulphouse, 1990.

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - West of the Sun Y1 - 1953 A1 - Edgar Pangborn (1909-76) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The establishment of a new society on a previously unexplored planet that has various alien societies, some at war with each other and the humans and some peaceful and helpful. Concerned with the integration of alien and human, ending the war among the aliens, and the creation of an ideal small community.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Rpt. New York: Dell, 1980.

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DLC, Merril, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "When Malan Goes": A Progressive Programme for South Africa Y1 - 1953 A1 - Jan Toekoms [pseud.] KW - South African author AB -

Mostly non-fiction. A ten-point proposal for solving South Africa's problems with a brief future vignette showing them solved. The points are The Establishment of a Democratic Republic. The Maintenance of European Supremacy for the Next Hundred Years. The Maintenance of Social Apartheid. The Abolition of the Economic Colour Bar. The Establishment of Suburbs with Freehold Rights for Non-Europeans. The Representation of Non-Europeans in Local and Central Government. Better Pay and Conditions for the Police. The Simplification of the Pass Laws with a view to their Eventual Abolition. Recognition of the Plural Nature of South African Society. The Adoption of a Rigid South African Constitution.

PB - Central News Agency CY - [Johannesburg], South Africa U3 -

Jan Toekoms [pseud.]

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IEN

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Women's World" Y1 - 1953 A1 - Ted Taine KW - Male author AB -

Amazons on another planet are at least fifteen feet tall. A strong man, even though small by the standards of the planet, woos and wins the Queen.

JF - Fantastic Adventures VL - 15.3 U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - World Out of Mind Y1 - 1953 A1 - [James Murdoch] [MacGregor] (1925-2008) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Eutopia as background to science fiction novel about an alien invasion. The entire social and political system is based on tests that are sometimes described as intelligence tests but are much more elaborate. Everyone wears a badge that shows their status based on the tests. The aliens lack emotion, which turns out to be a human strength.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Rpt. New York: Permabook, 1956. U.K. ed. with the pseudonym spelled McIntosh. London: Science Fiction Club, 1955.

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J. T. M'Intosh or McIntosh [pseud.] 

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DLC, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "You Can't Stop a Spaceman" Y1 - 1953 A1 - N[orma] K[athleen] Hemming (1928-60) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Men from another planet who had explored space return to their own planet, only to discover that thousands of years had passed, and it had become a completely organized dystopia that plans to colonize Earth.

JF - Action Monthly Magazine (Sydney, NSW, Australia) VL - no. 12 N1 -

Rpt. in Dwellers in Silence: Stories and Plays by Norma Hemming. Ed. Toby Burrows (Nedlands, WA, Australia: Hilliard Press, 2010), 155-70.

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Monash, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ah! Men! A Satirical Comedy in Three Acts Y1 - 1952 A1 - [Dagmar Vola] [Sandeen] KW - Female author AB -

Sex role reversal satire that reverts at the end.

PB - The Northwestern Press. CY - Minneapolis, MN N1 -

Rpt. Pasadena, CA: Stage Door Play Co., 1994.

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Dana Thomas [pseud.]

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NN

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Beautiful, Beautiful, Beautiful!" Y1 - 1952 A1 - Stuart Friedman (1913-93) KW - Male author AB -

Brief satire on an over-organized society.

JF - Future Science Fiction VL - 2.6 N1 -

The issue of the British edition was published as Future Science Fiction Stories, no. 7 (March 1952): 79-81 

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Beautiful People" Y1 - 1952 A1 - Charles Beaumont (1929-67) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which all people are all made beautiful. One girl resists.

JF - If Worlds of Science Fiction VL - 1.4 N1 -

Rpt. as “The Beautiful Woman.” Nebula Science Fiction (Glasgow, Scot.) 1.3 (Summer 1953): 46-62. Broadcast adapted by John Tomerlin as “Number Twelve Looks Just Like You.” Twilight Zone. Season 5, Episode 17 (January 24, 1964). 

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Best Policy" Y1 - 1952 A1 - Phyllis Sterling Smith KW - Female author AB -

Humor and satire. Martians, who cannot tell a falsehood, visit Earth, and are not believed when they offer the science of government, which they feel Earth needs more than anything else, and other advances.

JF - Startling Stories VL - 26.3 U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Big Planet" Y1 - 1952 A1 - Jack [John Holbrook] Vance (1916-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Includes chapters that describe a eutopian city where all take turns being rich, being servants to the rich, and being workers. These are chapters 11-13 in both versions. See also 1975 Vance.

JF - Startling Stories VL - 27.2 N1 -

Repub. New York: Avalon, 1957. Rpt. New York: Ace Books, 1957. U.K. ed. London: Coronet, 1977. All these versions are abbreviated from the original manuscript. Unabridged U.S. ed. San Francisco, CA/Columbia, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1978. Unabridged U.K. ed. London: VGSF, 1989. Also rpt. in The Rapparee Big Planet Vandals of the Void. vol. 4 of The Complete Works of Jack Vance (Oakland, CA: Vance Integral Editions, 2002), 157-364.

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L, Merril, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Born in Captivity Y1 - 1952 A1 - Bryan Berry (1930-55) KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia set in 2018 with the obedient having a good life through technology and the minority who are not obedient oppressed. Androids. War. At the end people are starting over.

PB - Hamilton & Co CY - London U5 -

HRC, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Bring the Jubilee" Y1 - 1952 A1 - [Joseph] Ward Moore (1903-78) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Alternative history in which the South wins the U.S. Civil War and creates a dystopia in the North.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 3.7 N1 -

 Rpt. in Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction. Ed. Leigh Ronald Grossman (Rockville, MD: Wildside Press, 2011), 441-75 with an editor’s note on 441. Repub. New York: Farrar, Straus and Young, 1953. U.K. ed. London: William Heinemann, 1955. Rpt. London: Victor Gollancz, 1987.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Category Phoenix" Y1 - 1952 A1 - [Lyle Ardetia Gifford] [Boyd] (1907-82) A1 - [William Clouser] [Boyd] (1903-83) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Class (category) based authoritarian dystopia. Privacy is outlawed.

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction (New York) VL - 4.2 U3 -

Boyd Ellanby [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - City Y1 - 1952 A1 - Clifford D[onald] Simak (1904-88) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Pastoral, pacifist dogs pass down oral legends of a possibly mythical Man. In these legends, technology has ended city life and almost everyone has moved to the country. Cities become tourist attractions but not places to live.

PB - Gnome Press CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Ace Books, [1958]; rpt. New York: Ace Books, [1967]. Stories originally published in Astounding Science-Fiction as “City.” 33.3 (May 1944): 136-57. U.K. ed. Astounding Science-Fiction (August 1944): 43-55; Rpt. in The Ghost of a Model T and Other Stories: The Complete Short Stories of Clifford D. Simak Volume Three. New York: Open Road, 2015. EBook; “Huddling Place” 33.5 (July 1944): 133-49; “Census” 34.1 (September 1944): 6-28; “Desertion” 34.3 (November 1944): 64-74; “Paradise” 37.4 (June 1946): 46-65; “Hobbies” 38.3 (November 1946): 49-77; and “Aesop” 40.4 (December 1947): 7-31; plus “The Simple Way” originally published as “The Trouble with Ants.” Fantastic Adventures 13.1 (January 1951): 48-63; rpt. Fantastic 15.6 (July 1966): 46-65. The book version includes notes on each of the eight tales. Later Simak wrote an additional story in the City series, “Epilog.” Astounding: The John W. Campbell Memorial Anthology. Ed. Harry Harrison (New York: Random House. 1973), 259-74.

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Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Cokaygne Fantasy" Y1 - 1952 A1 - A[rthur] L[eslie] Morton (1903-1987) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Poem. A brief modern cokaygne.

JF - The English Utopia PB - Lawrence & Wishart CY - London U5 -

LLL

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Conditionally Human" Y1 - 1952 A1 - Walter M[ichael] Miller Jr. (1923-96) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia. Experiments produce beings on the border between animal and human. Stresses the social effects of the experiments.

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction (New York) VL - 3.5 N1 -

Rpt. in his Conditionally Human (New York: Ballantine Books, 1962), 7-66. U.K. ed. (London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1963), 7-66. Rpt. (London: Panther, 1966), 7-60; and London: Corgi, 1982), 7-61; and The Best of Walter M. Miller, Jr (London Gollancz, 1980), 207-65; rpt. as Dark Benediction (London: Gollancz, 2007), 207-65. 

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Merril, O

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Cost of Living" Y1 - 1952 A1 - Robert Sheckley (1928-2005) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. People go into debt for consumer goods and many sign over their children's, grandchildren's, etc. earnings for their lifetime to a credit agency.

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction (New York) VL - 5.3 N1 -

Rpt. in his Untouched by Human Hands (New York: Ballantine Books, 1954), 12-23; in The Penguin World Omnibus of Science Fiction. An Anthology. Ed. , Brian W[ilson]. Aldiss and Sam Lundwall (Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin Books, 1986), 88-97; and in The Collected Short Stories of Robert Sheckley. Book One (Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991), 17-26.

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Cybernetic Controller Y1 - 1952 A1 - A[ubrey] V[incent] Clarke (1922-98) A1 - H[enry] K[enneth] Bulmer (1921-2005) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia in which everyone is placed in a particular status at birth by the "cybernetic controller" or computer and stays there for life. A successful revolt produces a society that will use the technology more intelligently.

PB - Hamilton & Co CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Dead End" Y1 - 1952 A1 - Wallace MacFarlane KW - Male author AB -

Flawed utopia that is only fit for androids or what is here called pseudo-life and the last human leaves.

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction (New York) VL - 3.4 N1 -

Rpt. in Science-Fiction Thinking Machines: Robots, Androids, Computers. Ed. Groff Conklin (New York: The Vanguard Press, 1954), 260-70.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Death of Metal Y1 - 1952 A1 - [William] Donald Suddaby (1900-64) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The disappearance of all metal brings, after a period of disruption and difficulty, a return to a simpler and better life.

PB - Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press CY - London U2 -

Illus. William Stobbs.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Defender of the Faith" Y1 - 1952 A1 - Alfred[o] [José Araña-Marini y] Coppel [Jr.] (1921-2004) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

War between the sexes.

JF - Science Fiction Quarterly VL - 2.1 N1 -

Rpt. in Science Fiction Quarterly (British Edition), no 4 (November 1952): 59-67. C,

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C, Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Demolished Man" Y1 - 1952 A1 - Alfred Bester (1913-87) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Police procedural set in a future society where telepathy is recognized, and telepaths are ranked according to ability with the most powerful telepaths holding the most important positions.

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction (New York) PB - Shasta CY - Chicago, IL VL - 3.4 - 6 N1 -

Repub. Chicago, IL: Shasta, 1953. Rpt. New York: New American Library, 1954, which is rpt. New York: Garland, 1975. U.K. ed. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1953.

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MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Devil's Advocate Y1 - 1952 A1 - [Janet Miriam] Taylor [Holland] Caldwell (1900-85) KW - Female author KW - UK author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia. The U.S. becomes weak through the adoption of the welfare policies of the New Deal and is ripe for takeover by a dictatorial system known as The Democracy. Constant wars. Extreme poverty. Surveillance. There is a underground movement known as the Minute Men, led from within The Democracy, that ultimately overthrows it.

PB - Crown CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Macfadden-Bartell, 1964; and New York: Pyramid, 1971.

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DLC, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Dumb Waiter" Y1 - 1952 A1 - Walter M[ichael] Miller Jr. (1923-96) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia in which an automated war continues long after the bombs are gone, and a computer-controlled city still enforces laws long out of date.

JF - Astounding Science Fiction VL - 49. 2 N1 -

Rpt. in Science-Fiction Thinking Machines: Robots, Androids, Computers. Ed. Groff Conklin (New York: The Vanguard Press, 1954), 323-58.

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Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Earth Our New Eden" Y1 - 1952 A1 - F[rancis] G[eorge] Rayer (1921-81) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia and revolt. Factory cities underground.

JF - Authentic Science Fiction Monthly VL - no. 20 U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Faq'" Y1 - 1952 A1 - George P[aul] Elliott (1918-80) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A lost race story which the protagonist discovers is intended to be the perfect society, but which he ultimately finds boring and longs for pain and sorrow.

JF - The Hudson Review VL - 5.1 N1 -

Rpt. in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 21.5 (126) (November 1961): 29-39. 

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Glass-sharp and Poisonous Y1 - 1952 A1 - G[arvin] R[obert] Gilbert (b. 1917) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Surreal dystopia. One focus of this short (85 page) work is a small country at war and the patriotism that can lead to killing local "aliens". Another focus is on a hospital in the country in which a patient will be killed rather than allowed to leave. The title refers to a mountain behind the hospital.

PB - Caxton Press CY - Christchurch, New Zealand U5 -

VUW

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Gunner Cade Y1 - 1952 A1 - C[yril] M[ichael] Kornbluth (1923-58) A1 - [Judith (Josephine Juliet Grossman)] [Merril] (1923-97) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Future society that has become stultified in a caste structure. Shows the difficulty of convincing people that their ideology does not reflect the true state of affairs.

PB - Simon and Schuster CY - New York N1 -

Also published in Astounding Science Fiction 49.1 - 3 (March - May 1952): 8-53; 114-60; 108-54. Rpt. in their Spaced Out: Three Novels of Tomorrow (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2008), 9-135. Abbreviated as an Ace Double bound with 1957 Piper and McGuire. New York: Ace Books, 1957. UK ed. London: Victor Gollancz, 1964.

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By Cyril Judd [pseud.]

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L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Incubation" Y1 - 1952 A1 - John D[ann] Macdonald (1916-86) ED - Kendall Foster Crossen (1910-81) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future where mechanization has gradually led to the acceptance by most people of the complete regimentation of daily life.

JF - Future Tense: New and Old Tales of Science Fiction PB - Greenberg/Ambassador Books CY - New York/Toronto, ON, Canada U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Journey into Tomorrow" Y1 - 1952 A1 - [John F.] [Watt] KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia on a Earth-like planet under an authoritarian ruler who is kidnapping Earth scientists to help it develop the science to conquer Earth.

JF - Futuristic Science Stories No. 9 PB - John Spencer and Co. CY - London VL - U3 -

Frank C. Kneller [pseud.]

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Adam Y1 - 1952 A1 - Ronald [Frederick Henry] Duncan (1914-82) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The dystopia of being the last man, but the last man finds the last woman. He chooses not to repopulate the world.

PB - Dennis Dobson CY - London U5 -

L, O

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Last Days of Shandakor” Y1 - 1952 A1 - Leigh [Douglass] Brackett (1915-78) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set on an inhabited Mars, and Shandakor is the eutopian city of Mars’s past, now in its last stages.

JF - Startling Stories VL - 25.3 N1 -

Rpt.  without the illus. in Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction. Ed. Leigh Ronald Grossman (Rockville, MD: Wildside Press, 2011), 346-52 with an editor’s note on 346. 

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Illus. Alex Schomburg

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PSt, PU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Limbo Y1 - 1952 A1 - Bernard Wolfe (1915-85) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. After a world war that has destroyed most countries, the U.S. becomes the center for men voluntarily amputating limbs to stop them from waging war. The prosthetics are very advanced and are perceived as enhancing human abilities. War resumes anyway. 

PB - Random House CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. Illus. London: Gollancz, 2016 xi + 413 pp. , with an “Introduction to Bernard Wolfe” by Harlan Ellison® (ix-xi) (Excepts had appeared in Again, Dangerous Visions. Ed Harlan Ellison. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1972; other excerpts originally appeared in the Los Angeles Times (September 23, 1974); and an “Introduction to Limbo by David Pringle (1-2) Originally published in Science Fiction: The 100 best novels: An English-Language Selection, 1949-1984. Ed. David Pringle (New York: Carroll & Graf, 1985); New York: Ace Books, [1963]; and New York: Carroll & Graf, 1987. U.K. ed. as Limbo ‘90. London: Secker & Warburg, 1953. 438 pp.

A story that became part of the novel is “Self Portrait.” Illus. Martin Schneider. Galaxy Science Fiction 3.2 (November 1951): 58-83.

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U.K. ed as Limbo '90

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Illlus.

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DLC, L, MoU-St, NcD, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Lion's Mouth" Y1 - 1952 A1 - Stephen Marlowe (1928-2008) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. After an alien invasion, children are brainwashed to become the enforcers of the alien rule. They regularly review people, including their relatives, and the story is about such a situation, but ends with some escaping and finding a better society being established in the countryside.

JF - Fantastic Adventures VL - 14.6 N1 -

Rpt. in Looking Forward: An Anthology of Science Fiction. Ed. Milton [S.] Lesser (New York: The Beechhurst Press, 1953), 195-210.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lord Lollypop: A Timely Allegory Y1 - 1952 A1 - Hope Robertson Norburn AB -

Satirical anti-communist poem.

PB - Exposition Press CY - New York U2 -

Illus. by the author.

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DLC, NcD

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Love Story" Y1 - 1952 A1 - [Kendall Foster] [Crossen] (1910-81) ED - Kendall Foster Crossen (1910-81) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire in which children in the United States discover that their parents tell them one thing and then behave differently and decide that what they are told is the truth. They then kill all the adults. The story is set many years later depicts the results.

JF - Future Tense: New and Old Tales of Science Fiction PB - Greenberg/Ambassador Books CY - New York/Toronto, ON, Canada U3 -

Christopher Monig [pseud.]

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Luckiest Man in Denv" Y1 - 1952 A1 - C[yril] M[ichael] Kornbluth (1923-58) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia. People live in huge high-rise buildings with their status determining how high they live. Constant war. The story focuses on intrigue in trying to move up the building.

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction (New York) VL - 4.3 N1 -

Rpt. in his The Mindworm (London: Joseph, 1955), 188-202; in Nightmare Age. Ed. Frederik [George] Pohl, [Jr.] (New York: Ballantine Books, 1970), 179-93; in Cities of Wonder. Ed. Damon [Francis] Knight (New York: Macfadden-Bartell, 1967), 151-63; in The Best of C.M. Kornbluth. Ed. Frederik [George] Pohl, [Jr.] (Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, 1976), 70-82; The Best of C.M. Kornbluth. Ed. Frederik [George] Pohl, [Jr.] (New York: Ballantine Books, 1977), 70-83; and in His Share of Glory: The Complete Short Science Fiction of C.M. Kornbluth. Ed. Timothy P. Szczesuil (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 1997), 108-17. Merril, MoU-St, PSt

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by Simon Eisner [pseud.]

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Merril, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - My Journeys With Astargo; A tale of past, present and future Y1 - 1952 A1 - Perl T[ravis] Barnhouse (1887-1964) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Includes an authoritarian dystopia where the state conditions people mentally and physically for the position they will hold in society. After leaving the dystopia travelers settle on another planet that they call Perfecto and found a city called Freeport where, over the years, they establish a decent society that is called a utopia. They visit other planets, return to earth, and then set off back to Perfecto.

PB - Bell Publications CY - Denver, CO U1 -

Cover subtitle as Removing the veil of time and space in the myriad worlds around us.

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MoU-St, PSt. The PSt copy contains an errata sheet (called a Glossary) and a brief letter from the author.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "No Greater Wisdom" Y1 - 1952 A1 - [Roger Phillip] [Graham] (1909-65) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Technological eutopia.

JF - Amazing Stories VL - 26.1 N1 -

Rpt. In Future Science Fiction, no. 11 (September 1953): 4-9, 85-91, 93, 95-96. 

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Rog Phillips [pseud.]

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - October Island Y1 - 1952 A1 - [William Edward March] [Campbell] (1893-1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

South Sea island eutopia. The novel is initially concerned with the unsuccessful attempts of a missionary couple from a very strict sect to convert the natives, who wear few clothes, have an open sexuality, and worship their own gods. It then focuses on the way the missionary woman is integrated into the natives' beliefs.

PB - Little, Brown CY - Boston, MA N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Victor Gollancz, 1952. The initial story on which the novel is based was published in Good Housekeeping 123.4 (October 1946): 30-31, 296-312.

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William March [pseud.]

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L, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Offshore Light Y1 - 1952 A1 - Pamela [Sydney] Frankau (1908-67) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Eutopia of a simple, fairly authoritarian, ordered life, and craftsmanship. No money. The novel is divided into sections taking place on The Island and sections taking place in The World followed by a section posing the question "The World or the Island?" and ending on The Island.

PB - William Heinemann CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: White Lion, 1977. US ed. as by Eliot Naylor [pseud.]. New York: Buell, Sloan & Pearce/Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Co., 1953.

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US ed. as by Eliot Naylor [pseud.]. 

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DLC, L, NLS, TxU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Other Half of the Planet: A Sequel to "The Other Side of the Sun" Y1 - 1952 A1 - [Harry] Paul Capon (1911/12-69) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Sequel to 1950 Capon. Authoritarian dystopia set on the other side of the planet that had not been visited in the first volume. The inhabitants of the dystopia are described as savages who hope to enslave or kill the protagonists, who ultimately escape back to the civilized side of the planet. The focus is on the struggle of the space explorers to survive. See also 1954 Capon. The author wrote another utopian novel; see 1956 Capon.

PB - William Heinemann CY - London U5 -

L, O, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Player Piano Y1 - 1952 A1 - Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (1922-2007) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which automation has eliminated the jobs and purpose in life of most laborers. Engineers and managers hold power and wealth, and there is a huge unemployed population.

PB - Charles Scribner's Sons CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, 1952; as the “Colonial Issue” London: Macmillan, 1953; New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [1966]; New York: Dell Publishing Co., 1974. 320 pp.; in Novels & Stories 1950-1962 Player Piano The Sirens of Titan Mother Night Stories. Ed. Sidney Offit (New York: The Library of America, 2012), 1-307, with a Note on the Text (819-23) and Notes (824-28); and as Utopia 14. New York: Bantam Books, 1954. 312 pp. 

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Rpt. as Utopia 14. New York: Bantam Books, 1954.

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Public Enemy" Y1 - 1952 A1 - Kendall Foster Crossen (1910-81) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. Public officials are held responsible for the effects of their actions on citizens.

JF - Dynamic Science Fiction VL - 1.1 U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Red Court: Last Seat of National Government of The United States of America Y1 - 1952 A1 - Rena M[arie] Vale (1898-1983) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of the Soviet takeover of the U.S. designed to alert Americans to the danger.

PB - Nelson Publishing Co CY - Chicago, IL U1 -

Cover subtitle--The Story of the Revolution to Come.

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Shining City" Y1 - 1952 A1 - Rena [Marie] Vale (1898-1983) KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia and generally unsuccessful revolt.

JF - Science Fiction Quarterly VL - 1.5 U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Smashed World Y1 - 1952 A1 - Henry J. Slater (1879-1963) KW - Male author AB -

Flawed utopia. An apparent future eutopia populated by reincarnated greats from the past becomes dystopian as they struggle for power.

PB - Jarrolds CY - London U5 -

L, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Smile" Y1 - 1952 A1 - Ray[mond Douglas] Bradbury (1920-2012) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia in which even the best of the culture of the past is rejected.

JF - Fantastic 1.1 N1 -

Rpt. Amazing Stories 41.5 (December 1967); 24-29; Perry Rhodan, no. 75 (July 1975): 132-; in Ackermanthology: 65 Astonishing, Rediscovered Sci-Fi Shorts. Ed. Forrest J. Ackerman (Santa Monica, CA: General Publishing, 1997), 139-43; in Match to Flame: The Fictional Paths to Fahrenheit 451. Ed. Donn Albright and Jon[athan R.] Eller, Textual Ed. (Colorado Springs, CO: Gauntlet Press, 2006), 267-72;and in Bradbury’s A Pleasure to Burn: Fahrenheit 451 Stories (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2010, 133-38. 

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DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Sound of His Horn Y1 - 1952 A1 - [John William] [Wall] (1910-89) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of the success of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) and National Socialism one hundred and two years into the Reich. Breeding humans for blood sport.

PB - Peter Davies CY - London N1 -

Rpt. New York: Ballantine Books, 1960, with an “Introduction by Kingsley Amis (5-12); in his The Sound of His Horn and The King of the Lake (Horam, East Sussex, Eng.: Tartarus Press, 1999), 1-102 with a biographical “Introduction” by an unidentified author (vii-xii); and in The Sarban Omnibus (Np: Blackmask, 2008), 117-214, with “Forward” by Kingsley Amis (119-24).

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"Sarban" [pseud.]

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L, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Space Merchants Y1 - 1952 A1 - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) A1 - C[yril] M[ichael] Kornbluth (1923-58) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Advertising, overpopulation and corporate dystopia. See also 1984 Pohl.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: William Heinemann, 1955. U.S. ed. rpt. in American Science Fiction: Four Classic Novels 1953-1956. Ed. Gary K. Wolfe (New York: The Library of America, 2012), 1-155 with “Biographical Notes” (777-79) “Notes on the text” (783-86) and “Notes” (789-99); and in Venus, Inc. (New York: Nelson Doubleday, 1985), 1-158. [21st Century ed.]. New York: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Griffin, 2011, with “Preface The Story of the Space Merchants” (v-xii). A different version, was published as “Gravy Planet.” Galaxy Science Fiction (New York) 4.3 - 5 (June - August 1952): 4-61, 108-59, 104-59. This version has some wording differences, mostly minor, throughout the text and three concluding chapters not found in the book. These three chapters are rpt. in the Library of American edition (791-99). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Star, Bright" Y1 - 1952 A1 - Mark [Irvin] Clifton (1906-63) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a society that won't accept the highly intelligent.

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction (New York) VL - 4.4 N1 -

Rpt. in The Science Fiction of Mark Clifton. Ed. Barry N. Malzberg and Martin H. Greenberg (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press/London and Amsterdam: Feffer & Simon, 1980), 18-38.

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Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Station 7 Y1 - 1952 A1 - [John William] [Jennison] (1911-80) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Part of the novel concerns a matriarchal dystopia with workers treated as if they were slaves.

PB - Curtis, Brown Limited CY - London U3 -

Gill Hunt [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Terra Australis" Y1 - 1952 A1 - Douglas [Alexander] Stewart (1913-85) ED - George Mackaness KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

A poem in which the Portuguese explorer Pedro Fernandez de Quiros (1563?-1615) meets the utopian socialist William Lane (1861-1917), Quiros seeking utopia in the West and Lane in the East.

JF - An Anthology of Australian Verse PB - Angus and Robertson CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia N1 -

Also in his Sun Orchids and Other Poems (Sydney, NSW, Australia: Angus and Robertson, 1952), 37-40. Rpt. in his Collected Poems 1936-1967 (Sydney, NSW, Australia: Angus and Robertson, 1967), 168-72.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Things of Distinction" Y1 - 1952 A1 - Kendall Foster Crossen (1910-81) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on advertising.

JF - Startling Stories VL - 25.2 N1 -

Rpt. in Future Tense: New and Old Tales of Science Fiction. Ed. Kendell Foster Crossen (New York: Greenberg/Toronto, ON, Canada: Ambassador Books, 1952), 94-147.

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Throwback" Y1 - 1952 A1 - Miriam Allen deFord (1888-1975) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia.

JF - Startling Stories VL - 27.3 N1 -

Rpt. in Future Tense: New and Old Tales of Science Fiction. Ed. Kendell Foster Crossen (New York: Greenberg/Toronto, ON, Canada: Ambassador Books, 1952), 77-93; in her Xenogenesis (New York: Ballantine Books, 1969), 105-17; and in New Eves: Science Fiction About Extraordinary Women of Today and Tomorrow. Ed. Janrae Frank, Jean Stine, and Forrest J. Ackerman (Stamford, CT: Longmeadow Press, 1994), 99-107 with an editors' note on 98.

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Uncredited illus. 

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Veronian Truth Y1 - 1952 A1 - Hollowell, Devero KW - Male author AB -

Racist tract which presents a brief golden age of a pure white society.

PB - N.p CY - N.p. ER - TY - ABST T1 - We Died in Bond Street Y1 - 1952 A1 - Julian Ward KW - Male author AB -

An attempt to establish a dictatorship is successfully resisted.

PB - Hodder & Stoughton CY - London U5 -

NLS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - We the Few Y1 - 1952 A1 - John L. Hawkinson KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of the destruction of much of civilization followed by the gradual creation of a Christian eutopia among those left.

PB - Exposition Press CY - New York U5 -

DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Whirlwind Harvest. A Phantasy Y1 - 1952 A1 - Monica F. Van Winkle KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia in which totalitarian regimes have taken over the world seen as a struggle between good and evil throughout history (God and Satan) with good winning in the end. Presented as a play with suggested music and a reading list.

PB - Academy Library Guild CY - Fresno, CA U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Whither Bharat? or, The Mission From Moonland Y1 - 1952 A1 - Jehangir F[ramjee] Kotewal KW - Indian author AB -

Political satire using an imaginary country.

PB - New Book Co CY - Bombay, India U2 -

Illus.

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Age of Longing Y1 - 1951 A1 - Arthur Koestler (1905-83) KW - Austrian author KW - English author KW - Hungarian author KW - Male author AB -

The novel is set in the mid-1950s when a successful U.S.S.R., now known as the “Commonwealth of Freedomloving People” or “Free Commonwealth,” has taken over most of Western Europe and is waiting for the right moment to take France. 

PB - The Macmillan Co. CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Age of Prophecy" Y1 - 1951 A1 - Margaret [Neeley] St. Clair (1911-95) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of opposition to science and scientists.

JF - Future Science Fiction Combined with Science Fiction Stories VL - 1.6 U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Amazons of the Asteroids" Y1 - 1951 A1 - N[orma] K[athleen] Hemming (1928-60) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Gender-role reversal satire in which Amazons riding flying are horses found in the asteroid belt. They hate men and keep them subservient.

JF - Thrills Incorporated (Sydney, NSW, Australia) VL - no. 17 N1 -

Rpt. in Dwellers in Silence: Stories and Plays by Norma Hemming. Ed. Toby Burrows (Nedlands, WA, Australia: Hilliard Press, 2010), 314-30. 

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A, M., PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Appointment for Tomorrow” Y1 - 1951 A1 - Fritz [Reuter] Leiber [Jr.] (1910-92) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a dystopian U. S. after World War III and focuses on the struggle for power between scientists and charlatans.

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction (New York) N1 -

Rpt. as “Poor Superman.” In Tomorrow the Stars. Ed. Robert Heinlein (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1952); rpt. (New York: Berkley Medallion, 1967), 198-224; and in The Best of Fritz Leiber (New York: Ballantine Books, 1974), 124-52; and in The Best of Fritz Leiber (Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, Inc., 1974), 115-41. 

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Illus. Ed. Alexander

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Beyond Bedlam" Y1 - 1951 A1 - Wyman [Woods] Guin (1915-89) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. In the future war and conflict has been eliminated through the establishment of a schizophrenic society in which every person has two personalities controlled by drugs and shifts between them on a regular schedule. The Medicorps stringently enforces the drug regimen.

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction (New York) VL - 2.5 N1 -

Rpt. in Spectrum II: A Second Science Fiction Anthology. Ed. Kingsley Amis and Robert Conquest (London: Victor Gollancz, 1962), 17-73; in his Living Way Out (New York: Avon, 1967), 155-208; and in The Arbor House Treasury of Great Science Fiction Short Novels. Comp. Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg (New York: Arbor House, 1980), 3-54.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - City in the Sea Y1 - 1951 A1 - [Arthur] Wilson Tucker (1914-2006) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. One man and women from a country of women cross a U.S that has been devastated by a nuclear war and discover the beginnings of the redevelopment of civilization.

PB - Rinehart CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. with the subtitle A compelling human story of one man and an army of women! New York: Galaxy Publishing Co, [1951]. Galaxy Science Fiction Novel No. 11.

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L, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Come Again Y1 - 1951 A1 - [Mary Rose] [Coulton] (1906-2002) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Historical novel with an Australian setting featuring a character like William Lane (1861-1917), the Australian labour leader), the Australian labour leader and founder of the New Australia and Cosme communities in Paraguay.

PB - Peter Davies CY - London U3 -

Sarah Campion [pseud.]

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ATL, A, M

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Dark Interlude" Y1 - 1951 A1 - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) A1 - Fredric [William] Brown (1906-72) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Brief description of a future eutopia where everyone is a student because all the issues of production and distribution have been solved. All races in the future have blended into one, and a man from the future who said he is one-fourth black is killed because he married a white woman.

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction (New York) VL - 1.4 N1 -

Rpt. in From These Ashes: The Complete Short SF of Fredric Brown. Ed. Ben Yalow (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2000), 423-28.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Disappearance Y1 - 1951 A1 - Philip [Gordon] Wylie (1902-71) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire. With no real explanation, the sexes disappear from each other producing two single sex societies. Both societies have problems, and the sexes reappear to each other at the end. Compare to James Patrick Kelly, “Men Are Trouble” (2004) and “The Last Judgment” (2012).

PB - Rinehart CY - New York N1 -

UK ed. London: Victor Gollancz, 1951. Rpt. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004 with an "Introduction" by Robert Silverberg (v-xi).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Escape to Paradise" Y1 - 1951 A1 - [Alan Geoffrey] [Yates] (1923-85) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

An authoritarian dystopia following atomic wars. The dystopia is enforced by the Bureau of Collective Freedom. The main characters escape the dystopia to a planet teeming with dinosaurs, which is where the story ends.

JF - Thrills Incorporated (Sydney, NSW, Australia) VL - no. 10 U3 -

Paul Valdez [pseud.]

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A, M

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Farfetched Fables" Y1 - 1951 A1 - [George] Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Six fables ranging in time from the contemporary to the far future. A number are satires on utopian aspirations, with satires on diet, genetics, and education, among other topics.

JF - Buoyant Billions, Farfetched Fables, & Shakes Versus Shav PB - Constable CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw. Collected Plays with their Prefaces (London: Max Reinhardt The Bodley Head, 1974), 7: 377-466. The first fable was originally published in German translation as “Phantastiche Fabel.” Neue Schweizer Rundschau (March 1950).  See “Preface.” The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw. Collected Plays with their Prefaces (London: Max Reinhardt The Bodley Head, 1974), 7: 381-428. Rpt. as “Farfetched Fables (1951).” In his The Complete Prefaces. Volume 3: 1930-1950. Ed. Dan H. Laurence and Daniel J. Leary (London: Allen Lane The Penguin Press, 1997), 494-531. 

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The first fable was originally published in German translation as “Phantastiche Fabel.” Neue Schweizer Rundschau (March 1950). 

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VUW

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Great Idea Y1 - 1951 A1 - Henry Hazlitt (1894-1993) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Anti-communist dystopia. Conflict between the dictatorship of Wonworld (capital Moscow; calendar A.M. = After Marx) and Freeworld. Freeworld wins the war, and democracy and free enterprise is established and begins to succeed.

PB - Appleton-Century-Crofts CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. as Time Will Run Back. London: Ernest Benn Ltd., 1952. Rev. ed. as Time Will Run Back: A Novel About the Rediscovery of Capitalism. New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House, 1966. Rpt. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1986. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Historical Note" Y1 - 1951 A1 - [William Fitzgerald] [Jenkins] (1896-1975) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on the Soviet Union. The Soviet invention of a personal flier, developed and sold in vast numbers by non-Soviet capitalists eliminates borders and undermines political control. As a result, the Soviet dystopia collapses.

JF - Astounding Science Fiction VL - 46.6 N1 -

Rpt. in Give Me Liberty. Ed. Martin Harry Greenberg and Mark Tier (New York: Baen, 2003), 141-57; and in Freedom! Ed. Martin Harry Greenberg and Mark Tier (New York: Baen, 2006), 115-28.

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Murray Leinster [pseud.]

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Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Last Story" Y1 - 1951 A1 - Alexander Samuelson KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which an overly rational society destroys fiction.

JF - Startling Stories VL - 24.1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Late Final Y1 - 1951 A1 - [Joseph Walter] [Cove] (b. 1891) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a future where the human race has relapsed into barbarianism.

PB - J.M. Dent CY - London U3 -

Lewis Gibbs [pseud.]

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NLS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Marching Morons" Y1 - 1951 A1 - C[yril] M[ichael] Kornbluth (1923-58) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. High birth rate of the lower classes produces a nation of morons.

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction VL - 2.1 N1 -

 Rpt. in his The Mindworm (London: Joseph, 1955), 219-56; in Spectrum IV: A Science Fiction Anthology. Ed. Kingsley Amis and Robert Conquest (London: Victor Gollancz, 1965), 23-54; in Looking Ahead: The Vision of Science Fiction. Ed. Dick Allen and Lori Allen (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975), 113-38, with an editor’s note on 113 and “Questions” on 138; in The Best of C.M. Kornbluth. Ed. Frederik [George] Pohl, [Jr.] (Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, 1976), 133-63; The Best of C.M. Kornbluth. Ed. Frederik [George] Pohl, [Jr.] (New York: Ballantine Books, 1977), 138-72; in The Nightmare Age. Ed. Frederik [George] Pohl, [Jr.] (New York: Ballantine Books, 1970), 47-82; in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame Volume 2A. Ed. Ben Bova (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1973), 204-32; and in His Share of Glory: The Complete Short Science Fiction of C.M. Kornbluth. Ed. Timothy P. Szczesuil (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 1997), 372-95. Merril, MoU-St, PSt

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Merril, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Mars Child" Y1 - 1951 A1 - [Cyril Michael] [Kornbluth] (1923-58) A1 - [Judith (Josephine Juliet Grossman)] [Merril] (1923-97) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Large mining corporation on Mars in conflict with a small community of settlers, which could be seen in a eutopian light.

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction VL - 2.2 - 4 N1 -

Rpt. as Outpost Mars. By Cyril Judd [pseud.]. New York: Abelard Press, 1952; and in their Spaced Out: Three Novels of Tomorrow (Framingham, MA: NESFA Press, 2008), 137-296.

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Rpt. as Outpost Mars

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Illus. Willer [Edmund Alexander Emshwiller (1925-90)]

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Cyril Judd [pseud.]

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Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Murder in Millennium VI Y1 - 1951 A1 - Curme Gray (1910-80) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. A science fiction detective story set in a matriarchy 6000 years in the future.

PB - Shasta Publishers CY - Chicago, IL U5 -

DLC, L, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Nice Girl With 5 Husbands” Y1 - 1951 A1 - Fritz [Reuter] Leiber [Jr.] (1910-92) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia set in a high-tech future that includes space travel but with the emphasis on the way people live. There is what appears to be a group marriage, everyone has multiple professions and work assignments throughout the world, children raised collectively by the family, and no modesty.

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction VL - 2.1 N1 -

Rpt. as “Nice Girl With Five Husbands.” Rpt. in his A Pail of Air (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964), 178-91; and in The Worlds of Fritz Leiber (New York: Ace Books, 1976), 95-109. Rpt. (Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1979), 95-109. 

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Rpt. as “Nice Girl With Five Husbands” 

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Illus. Phil Bard. 

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "No War Tomorrow" Y1 - 1951 A1 - Wallace [George] West (1900-80) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Venus is where Earth offloads its misfits, troublemakers, and those who want to live without rules. These people have formed a community called Wildoatia, which implies that the people are there to sow their wild oats before, if they survive, settling down on Earth. The story focuses upon a conflict between the dominant people on Venus and Earth and a means of avoiding war.

JF - Science Fiction Quarterly VL - 1.1 N1 -

Rpt. in Future Science Fiction (Sydney, NSW, Australia) 1.3 ([1954]): 35-60.

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Null-P" Y1 - 1951 A1 - [Philip] [Klass] (1920-2010) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. A post atomic war satire in which the absolute average becomes the goal and the person representing that becomes President of what remains of the United States. The human race degenerates and is replaced by intelligent dogs.

JF - Worlds Beyond VL - 1.2 N1 -

Rpt. in his The Wooden Star (New York: Ballantine Books, 1968), 57-71; in Spectrum: A Science Fiction Anthology. Ed. Kingsley Amis and Robert Conquest (London: Victor Gollancz, 1961), 121-31; and in Immodest Proposals: The Complete Science Fiction of William Tenn. Volume 1 (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2001), 201-09 with an "Afterword" (210-11).

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William Tenn [pseud.]

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MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Other Foot” Y1 - 1951 A1 - Ray[mond Douglas] Bradbury (1920-2012) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story depicts a Mars that is inhabited by all the African Americans who left the United States as a result of the violence that had been inflicted on them. A spaceship with whites on board arrives from an Earth that has been destroyed by their wars.

JF - New-Story Magazine: The Monthly Magazine for the Short Story VL - No. 1 N1 -

Rpt. in The Illustrated Man (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1951), 43-67; and (New York: Bantam Books, 1952), 27-38.

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Our Coming World Y1 - 1951 A1 - A[lfred] C[harles] Michaud (1876-1975) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Detailed eutopia located on Mars. Technologically advanced. Extreme emphasis on cleanliness. Intensive agriculture. One nation, one language, and one religion. The elderly are provided support. Chapter IV Old Age Dependents (51-63) is a critique of the current system. Eugenics 130-131.

PB - World Publication Inc CY - Philadelphia, PA U5 -

DLC, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Pedestrian" Y1 - 1951 A1 - Ray[mond Douglas] Bradbury (1920-2012) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. A pedestrian is arrested and committed to jail by automated police for walking at night rather than staying home watching television. Compare to 1928 Keller and 1963 Leiber.

JF - The Reporter (New York) VL - 5.3 N1 -

Rpt. in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (New York) 3.1 (February 1952): 89-93; in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (British Edition) 2.4 (8) (May 1954): 125-28; in his The Golden Apples of the Sun (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1953), 25-30; in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (Australian ed.), no. 1 [(1954)]: 64-68; in American Science Fiction (Sydney, NSW, Australia), no. 39 (July 1955): 32-34; in Match to Flame: The Fictional Paths to Fahrenheit 451. Ed. Donn Albright and Jon[athan R.] Eller, Textual Ed. (Colorado Springs, CO: Gauntlet Press, 2006), 253-58; in his A Pleasure to Burn: Fahrenheit 451 Stories (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2010), 121-25; in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 191-95; 2nd ed. ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 191-95; in McSweeney’s, no. 45 Hitchcock and Bradbury Fistfight in Heaven (2013): 143-48; and in The Illustrated Man The October Country and Other Stories. Ed. Jonathan R. Eller (New York: Library of America, 2022), 678-682, with a Chronology (919-936), a Note on the Text (947) and Notes (971-972). Separately published Np: Ptd. by Roy A. Squires, [1951]; and in Grave Predictions: Tales of Mankind’s Post-Apocalyptic, Dystopian and Disastrous Destiny. Ed. Drew Ford (Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2016), 25-29. Separately published Np: Ptd. by Roy A. Squires, [1951]. A dramatized version was published as The Pedestrian: A Fantasy in One Act. London: Samuel French, Inc., 1966.

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DLC, HRC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Red Sky at Night Y1 - 1951 A1 - Ronald [de Couves] Matthews (1903-67) KW - English author AB -

Communist dystopia overcome by religion with the stress on the battle.

PB - Hollis & Carter CY - London U5 -

DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Restricted Clientele" Y1 - 1951 A1 - Kendall Foster Crossen (1910-81) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Monopoly capitalist dystopia and nonviolent revolution led by scientists. There are three classes in the future, the Investors (50 with 75 permitted), who own the wealth of the Galaxy and are the government under a Chairman, the Intellectuals, and the Manuals, who are 97.6% of the population. Social mobility possible in both directions. There are opposition Liberals among the Intellectuals.

JF - Thrilling Wonder Stories (New York) VL - 37.3 U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Richardson Story Y1 - 1951 A1 - [Edward] Francis Williams (1903-70) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of the effects of subliminal manipulation of the populace.

PB - William Heinemann CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. as It Happened Tomorrow. New York: Abelard Press, 1952.

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U.S. ed. as It Happened Tomorrow. New York: Abelard Press, 1952.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Rogue Queen Y1 - 1951 A1 - L[yon] Sprague De Camp (1907-2000) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Society structured like a beehive or an ant colony with warriors, drones, and a queen. The novel concerns the arrival of humans who upset the system by introducing a supposedly neuter female to sex.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Rpt. New York: Dell, [1952]; New York: Ace Books, [1965]; New York: New American Library, 1972; and New York: Bluejay Books, 1985. Collector's Edition illus. Jill Bauman with an "Introduction" by James Gunn (3-8). Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1996.

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DLC, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Shadows Move Among Them Y1 - 1951 A1 - Edgar [Austin] Mittelhölzer (1909-65) KW - Guyanese author KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

The novel is set in a religious community in British Guiana, the Brethren of Christ the Man, which can be considered a flawed utopia. The religion is open and treats Christ as a model rather than in any sense supernatural, but the treatment of the people in the community, particularly the natives, is both liberal and very cruel.

PB - Peter Nevill CY - London U5 -

L, LLL, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Social Obligation" Y1 - 1951 A1 - Roy L. Clough, Jr. KW - Male author AB -

Anti-science dystopia.

JF - Fantastic Adventures (Chicago, IL) VL - 13.3 U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Sonnet in the Bottle Y1 - 1951 A1 - [Alethea Catherine] [Hayter] (1911-2006) KW - Egyptian author KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A lost race novel depicted a city of surviving Incas positively.

PB - Herbert Jenkins CY - London U3 -

J. C. Fennessy [pseud.].

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NLS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "This Way to Mars" Y1 - 1951 A1 - William Campbell Gault (1910-95) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Gender-role reversal.

JF - Startling Stories VL - 24.1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Tolliver’s Travels” Y1 - 1951 A1 - Frank Fenton A1 - Joseph Petracca ED - Raymond T. Healy KW - Male author AB -

Flawed utopia in which everyone must be happy or they are eliminated. Everything provided. Marriage only by permission.

JF - New Tales of Space and Time PB - Henry Holt & Co. CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1952), 45-67.  Rpt. New York: Pocket Books, 1952), 44-66. 

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Merril, O

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Tomorrow Sometimes Comes Y1 - 1951 A1 - F[rancis] G[eorge] Rayer (1921-81) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Post atomic war conflict between mutants produced by the radiation and “normal” humans. A central computer becomes the focus of the conflict. The machine was developed in his “The Peacemaker.” New Worlds: Fiction of the Future (London) 6.17 (September 1952): 51-65; and “Ephemeral This City.” New Worlds Science Fiction (London) 11.33 (March 1955): 94-118.

PB - Home & Van Thal CY - London N1 -

Parts published earlier as “Deus Ex Machina.” New Worlds: Fiction of the Future (London) 3.8 (Winter 1950): 30-40.

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L, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Tyrann" Y1 - 1951 A1 - Isaac Asimov (1920-92) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Standard authoritarian dystopia focusing on a rebellion based on a rediscovered revolutionary document, the "Constitution of the United States of America".

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction (New York) VL - 1 N1 -

Rpt. as The Stars, Like Dust. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1951 and with unauthorized cuts as The Rebellious Stars. New York: Ace Books, 1954. U.K. ed. as The Stars Like Dust. London: Panther, 1958.

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Rpt. as The Stars, Like Dust. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1951 and with unauthorized cuts as The Rebellious Stars. New York: Ace Books, 1954.

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DLC, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Venus is a Man's World" Y1 - 1951 A1 - [Philip] [Klass] (1920-2010) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire. Contrasts the frontier world of Venus where men rule with an Earth ruled by women and where men cannot be citizens. Both have problems but Venus is presented more positively.

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction (New York) VL - 2.4 N1 -

Rpt. in his The Square Root of Man (New York: Ballantine Books, 1968), 145-69; and in Immodest Proposals: The Complete Science Fiction of William Tenn. Volume 1 (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2001), 551-65 with an "Afterword" (565).

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Illus. Gene Fawcette. 

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William Tenn [pseud.]

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MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Visit to Mars Y1 - 1951 A1 - Garrett V. Albertson KW - Male author AB -

Detailed eutopia on Mars with a focus on religion and technology. Struggle between good and evil. Stress on the nuclear family. There are various worlds even more advanced than Mars.

PB - Moody Press CY - Chicago, IL U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Wrong Side of Paradise" Y1 - 1951 A1 - Raymond F[isher] Jones (1915-94) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A false paradise which appears to fill the wishes of every person.

JF - Amazing Stories VL - 25.8 U5 -

Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - 1975; A New Social System For the World of To-morrow And How Provisions Will be Made For the Aged Y1 - 1950 A1 - O[scar] D[avid] Zieman KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Detailed eutopia based on a National Service Scheme for Youth. Epigram--"The Unbelievable Happened; Everything Went Right."

PB - Gornall The Publisher CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia U5 -

A, HRC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - 2,000 Years On Y1 - 1950 A1 - [John Francis Russell] [Fearn] (1908-60) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A man is resurrected in the future, and he is told he owns the world, which is being administered by an elite. The man sides with the non-elite.

PB - Scion CY - London U5 -

O, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Bandersnatch Y1 - 1950 A1 - T[homas] E[van] Ryves (1895-1976) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia in which scientists rule. Society is highly structured with “Instigators” the ruling scientists, the “Influencers” directing everyone’s life, and the “Operatives,” or manufactured automata, that do all the work. The independent minded cannot become citizens. 

PB - The Grey Walls Press CY - London U5 -

L, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Coming Attraction" Y1 - 1950 A1 - Fritz [Reuter] Leiber [Jr.] (1910-92) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set in a post-atomic war U.S. Vicious, violent society. Women must wear masks because the face is considered too sexual.

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction (New York) VL - 1.2 N1 -

Rpt. in his A Pail of Air (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964), 173-77; in Modern Masterpieces of Science Fiction. Ed. Sam Moskowitz (Cleveland, OH: World Publishing Co., 1965), 372-88; in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame Volume One. Ed. Robert Silverberg (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1970), 364-76; in The Best of Fritz Leiber (New York: Ballantine Books, 1974), 109-23; in The Best of Fritz Leiber (Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, 1974), 101-14; in his Selected Stories. Ed. Jonathan Strahan and Charles N. Brown (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2010), 33-44; and in The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction. Ed. Arthur B. Evans, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., Joan Gordon, Veronica Hollinger, Rob Latham, and Carol McGuirk (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2010), 221-33 with an editors’ note on 221-22.

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MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Commonweal of Sitnalta: The Adventures of Phineas Smith in Another Dimension" Y1 - 1950 A1 - Mulford Q[uickert] Sibley (1912-89) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Socialist eutopia.

PB - Unpub. Ms N1 -

Unpub. Ms

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MnU, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Cybernetic Brains" Y1 - 1950 A1 - Raymond F[isher] Jones (1915-94) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Computer dystopia.

JF - Startling Stories (Chicago, IL) VL - 22.1 N1 -

Repub. New York: Avalon, 1962.

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - ". . . Divided We Fall" Y1 - 1950 A1 - Raymond F[isher] Jones (1915-94) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of conflict among different types of humanity.

JF - Amazing Stories (Chicago, IL) VL - 24.12 U5 -

CU-Riv

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Divine Right" Y1 - 1950 A1 - Betsy [Elizabeth M.] Curtis (1918-2002) KW - Female author AB -

The story shows the beginning of a dystopia with a bad king after a series of good ones and the revolt against him that leads to the possibility of a democracy.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (New York) VL - 1.3 U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Early Christians of the 21st Century Y1 - 1950 A1 - Chad Walsh (1914-91) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Nonfiction eutopia. The first part of the book is a discussion of the problems of the present. The second part presents the positive effects of a rejuvenated Christianity.

PB - Harper & Bros. CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1972.

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L, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Enemy Had It Too: A Play in Three Acts Y1 - 1950 A1 - Upton [Beall] Sinclair (1878-1968) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopian play with elements of farce. A biological agent is loosed and devastates the world. The survivors include those who degenerate into primitive tribal warfare, a few survivors who had been protected from the pandemic/plague, and a group returning from Mars, who bring Martians with them who will rejuvenate the Earth. Mars had once had a great civilization, but Martians now live in tunnels.

PB - Viking Press CY - New York U5 -

NZ

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Faster! Faster! Y1 - 1950 A1 - [David] [Groom] KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Class based dystopia located on a constantly traveling train.

PB - Eyre & Spottiswoode CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York Viking Press, 1950.

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Patrick Bair [pseud.]

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CoDU, DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Furious Evangelist: Being the Memoirs of Richard Civet during a Time of Moral Breakdown and now at last set forth and edited by Hugh Hickling Y1 - 1950 A1 - [Reginald] Hugh Hickling, ed. [written by] (1920-2007) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia stressing party politics and the dangers of a leader with too much power and no scruples about how to use it. Defeated in the end.

PB - Alvin Redman CY - London U5 -

L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hunt for Heaven Y1 - 1950 A1 - Elsie [Marion] Oakes Barber (b. 1914) KW - Female author AB -

Novel about a religious intentional community established after the Haymarket bombing in Chicago on May 4, 1886, with the usual tale of dreams unrealized.

PB - Macmillan CY - New York U5 -

DLC, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "If This Be Utopia" Y1 - 1950 A1 - Kris [Ottman] Neville (1925-1980) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia; perfection not possible.

JF - Amazing Stories (Chicago, IL) VL - 24.5 N1 -

Rpt. in Amazing Stories (Flushing, NY) 40.6 (June 1966): 61-71. Rpt. with the same pagination in Amazing Stories Quarterly Reissue (Chicago, IL) (Fall 1950). U.K. ed. Amazing Stories (London) (2nd series), no. 3 (nd): 60-69.

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Immigrant" Y1 - 1950 A1 - Leslie A. Croutch (1915-69) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Québec is briefly depicted as an authoritarian dystopia in the future. The story centers around the demand by Québec that a Canadian citizen who left Québec illegally be returned from Ontario.

JF - Light (Parry Sound, ON, Canada) VL - No. 44 N1 -

Rpt. in Years of Light: A Celebration of Leslie A. Croutch. Ed. John Robert Colombo (Toronto, ON, Canada: Hounslow Press, 1982), 5-9. 

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Can

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Land of Forgotten Women Y1 - 1950 A1 - F[rederick] A[nnesley] M[ichael] Webster (1886-1949) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopian lost race matriarchy that practices human sacrifice.

PB - Skeffington and Son CY - London U5 -

NLS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Let Freedom Ring" Y1 - 1950 A1 - Fritz [Reuter] Leiber [Jr.] (1910-92) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia that drafts men to almost certain death.

JF - Amazing Stories (Chicago, IL) VL - 24.4 N1 -

Rpt. with the same pagination in Amazing Stories Quarterly Reissue (Chicago, IL) (Fall 1950). Also rpt. in Thrilling Science Fiction (New York), no. 23 (February 1972): 4-48. U.K. ed. Amazing Stories (London) (2nd series), [no. 1] (nd): 90-134. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Little Black Bag" Y1 - 1950 A1 - C[yril] M[ichael] Kornbluth (1923-58) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A medical bag from an obviously medically eutopian future accidently appears in a contemporary slum and transforms the lives of the doctor who cared for the slum dwellers even though he had been prohibited from practicing and the people of the slum. Then the future takes the bag back.

JF - Astounding Science Fiction VL - 44.5 N1 -

Rpt. without the illus. in Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction. Ed. Leigh Ronald Grossman (Rockville, MD: Wildside Press, 2011), 415-21 with an editor’s note on 415.

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Illus. [Edd (Edward Daniel)] Cartier (2009)

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Martian Chronicles Y1 - 1950 A1 - Ray[mond Douglas] Bradbury (1920-2012) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Martians have a vaguely described eutopian society before the arrival of people from earth but are killed by the chicken pox, for which they have no immunity. The various stories recount the settlement of Mars by people from Earth who bring all Earth’s problems with them. But then there is war on Earth and settlers return. See Bradbury’s article “Where Are the Golden-Eyed Martians?” West (Los Angeles Times) (March 1972): 14-15 for his comments on the exploration of Mars. A related story that was not included in the book is “The Naming of Names.” Thrilling Wonder Stories (New York) 34.3 (August 1949): 137-44; rpt. in Great Science Fiction Stories (Flushing, NY), no. 3 (1966): 31-. A later Martian story is “The Love Affair.” In his The Love Affair A Short Story and Two Poems. Illus. Joe Mugnaini (Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1982), 1-16; rpt. as “The Love Affair: A Martian Chronicles Story.” In The Planets. Ed. Byron Preiss (New York: Bantam Books, 1985), 104-12; rpt. without the subtitle in his The Toynbee Convector. Stories (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988), 147-58; and in Mars Probe. Ed. Peter Crowther (New York: DAW Books, 2002), 13-22. A satire on The Martian Chronicles is John [Thomas] Sladek (1937-2000), “The Real Martian Chronicles.” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (New York) 118.5 & 6 (689) (May-June 2010): 86-91.

PB - Doubleday & Co. CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

There are later editions with many variants. Among the most important are the U.K. edition, which was published as The Silver Locusts. London: Rupert Hart Davis, 1951. The Martian Chronicles. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1958 has illustrations by Karel Thole and William F. Nolan’s “Biographical Sketch and Bibliography of Ray Bradbury’s Books and Stories” with notes on where the stories were later collected. “The Martian Chronicles.” Ray Bradbury: Novels and Story Cycles. Ed. Jonathan R. Eller (New York: The Library of America, 2021), 1-230 is based on the 1973 Doubleday edition and includes a chronology of Bradbury’s life (843-861), a note on the text (863-866), textual notes (873-876), and Bradbury’s “A Few Notes on The Martian Chronicles” (809-810), rpt. from Rhodomagnetic Digest (May 1950):21. Other significant editions include the following: The Martian Chronicles. Avon, CT: Limited Editions Club, 1974, with the book designed by Ernst Reichl. an introduction by Martin Gardner, and illustrations by Joseph Mugnaini. The Collector’s ed. with an introduction by Damon Knight and an illus. by Joseph Mugnaini. Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1989. The Martian Chronicles. The Fortieth Anniversary Edition. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co. 1990.

The stories that were brought together to form the first edition are: “The Million Year Picnic.” Planet Stories (New York) 3.3 (Summer 1946): 95-100; “The Off Season.” Thrilling Wonder Stories (New York) 33.2 (March 1948): 99-104; “Mars Is Heaven!” Planet Stories (New York) 3.12 (Fall 1948): 56-66; collected as “The Third Expedition” in The Martian Chronicles; rpt. as “Welcome Brothers!” Authentic Science Fiction (London), no. 29 (January 1953): 31-52; “----And the Moon Be Still as Bright.” Thrilling Wonder Stories (New York) 32.2 (June 1948): 78-91; “The Earth Men.” Thrilling Wonder Stories (New York) 32.3 (August 1948): 69-77; “The Long Years.” Maclean’s Magazine (Toronto, ON, Canada) 61.18 (September 15, 1948): 18-19, 38, 40, 42; rpt. as “Dwellers in Silence.” Planet Stories (New York) 4.2 (Spring 1949): 51-58; and in American Science Fiction (Sydney, NSW, Australia), no. 20 (December 1953): 22-29; “The Silent Towns.” Charm (New York) (March 1949): 111, 170-79; “There will come soft rains.” Colliers (New York) 125.18 (May 6, 1950): 34; rpt. in The End of the World and Other Catastrophes. Ed. Mike [Michael Raymond Donald] Ashley (London: British Library, 2019), 321-28, with an editor’s note on 319; “Impossible.” Super Science Stories (Chicago, IL) 6.1 (November 1949): 72-79, 127-29 [Listed in Table of Contents of the version to be sold in Britain and Canada but not included]; rpt. as “September 2005: The Martian” in The Big Book of Science Fiction: The Ultimate Collection. Ed. Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (New York: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Vintage Books, 2016), 165-72; with an editors’ note on 164; “The Spring Night.” The Arkham Sampler (Sauk City, WI) (Winter 1949): 32-34, collected in The Martian Chronicles as “The Summer Night;” “I’ll Not Ask for Wine.” Maclean’s Magazine (Toronto, ON, Canada) 63.1 (January 1, 1950): 20-21, 30-32; rpt. as “Ylla.” Avon Fantasy Reader (New York), no. 14 (1950): 20-29 and collected in The Martian Chronicles under that title; rpt. in Lost Mars: The Golden Age of the Red Planet. Ed. Mike [Michael Raymond Donald] Ashley (London: British Library, 2018), 165-86 with an editor’s note on 163. The U. S. ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018 has the subtitle: Stories from the Golden Age of the Red Planet; “Carnival of Madness.” Thrilling Wonder Stories (New York) 36.1 (April 1950): 95-104, collected in The Martian Chronicles as “Usher II” [“Usher II was dropped from The Silver Locusts]; “Way in the Middle of the Air.” Other Worlds Science Stories (Evanston, IL) 2.1 (July 1950): 142-53 (Bradbury made a play of this story, which was performed at the Desilu Gower Studios, Hollywood in August 1962); “In This Sign.” Imagination Stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy (Evanston, IL) 2.2 (April 1951): 56-71 and collected as “The Fire Balloons” in The Silver Locusts (117-37). “The Wilderness,” which was first published in Today (April 6, 1952) and rev. in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (New York) 3.7 (November 1952): 118-26, was first collected in The Martian Chronicles (London: The Science Fiction Book Club, 1953), 130-39), which otherwise follows The Silver Locusts. The New York: Avon, 1997 ed. replaces “Way in the Middle of the Air” with “The Wilderness.” Fortieth Anniversary Edition. New York: Doubleday, 1990.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Micro Men Y1 - 1950 A1 - [John Francis Russell] [Fearn] (1908-60) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia. A scientist invents a ray that can make people very small or very large, and it is used by others to create and control "micro men".

PB - Scion Press CY - London U3 -

Vargo Statten [pseud.]

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O

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Morning of the Day They Did It” Y1 - 1950 A1 - E[lwyn] B[rooks] White (1899-1985) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is about the complete destruction of Earth, but it includes a paragraph the describes the United States government as providing all an individual’s needs, while taking all but a very small part of their pay. It also notes in passing the disappearance of all but one bird species and other problems.

JF - The New Yorker N1 -

Rpt. in A Treasury of Great Science Fiction. 2 vols. Ed. Anthony Boucher (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1959), 322-33.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - My Dear, It's Heaven Y1 - 1950 A1 - Rowland [Denis Guy] Winn KW - Male author AB -

A group of people are much surprised by a heaven created by an infinitely compassionate God.

PB - Cassell CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Next 50 Years; A Forecast of the Triumphant Progress Of The Race In The Next Half-Century: 1950-1999 Y1 - 1950 A1 - Joseph McCabe (1867-1955) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Detailed eutopia presented as a forecast and based on the assumption of the end of war and the development of the scientific management of the economy. Religion mostly gone. Stress on education, health and recreation. Sexual freedom virtually complete. Nudity accepted. Emphasis on economic planning for the world as a whole. Frequent positive references to the experience of the Soviet Union.

PB - Haldeman-Julius Publications CY - Girard, KS U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Nutro 29. A Romance Y1 - 1950 A1 - Frank [Callan] Norris (1907-67) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Discovery of a cheap food substitute and its consequences, which include competition between countries to control it and capitalists to produce it. The central theme of the novel is that with such a food substitute available, poorly paid and otherwise exploited workers will simply quit and leave, destroying the economy. To force people back to work the food is outlawed.

PB - Rinehart & Co CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Other Side of the Sun. A Novel Y1 - 1950 A1 - [Harry] Paul Capon (1911/12-69) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Detailed eutopia based on custom. Advanced technology came slowly, and society had time to adjust. Vegetarian. No killing. First volumer in a trilogy; see also 1952 and 1954 Capon. The author also wrote another utopian novel; see 1956 Capon.

PB - William Heinemann CY - London U5 -

DLC, L, O, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Out of Tomorrow" Y1 - 1950 A1 - Vivian Shirley KW - Female author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia. Welfare through voluntary slavery. Individuality thought of as negative, considered aggressive.

JF - Other Worlds Science Fiction (Evanston, IL) VL - 2.4 (8) U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pebble in the Sky Y1 - 1950 A1 - Isaac Asimov (1920-92) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which a radioactive Earth is shunned by the other inhabited planets. There is a galactic empire that connects this book with his Foundation series. Earth is considered to be a backward, inferior planet inhabited by primitives and many Earthlings oppose the empire. Conflict ensues with a balance ultimately achieved.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Rpt. as Galaxy Science Fiction Novel # 14. New York: Galaxy Pub. Co., 1953; and New York: Bantam Books, 1957; and in his Triangle. The Currents of Space Pebble in the Sky The Stars, Like Dust (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, [1961]), 173-346. Originally written as "Grow Old With Me" but not published as intended. That version was published in his The Alternate Asimovs (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1986). 5-133 with a "Foreword" (1-4) and an "Afterword" (134-36).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Plagiarist" Y1 - 1950 A1 - Peter Phillips (1920-2012) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a future that has rejects anything that is not quantifiable. A young boy still has an imagination that keeps getting him in trouble. Some undeveloped suggestions of significant social changes.

JF - New Worlds VL - 3.7 N1 -

Rpt. without the illus. in Future Tense: New and Old Tales of Science Fiction. Ed. Kendell Foster Crossen (New York: Greenberg/Toronto, ON, Canada: Ambassador Books, 1952), 3-44.

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Illus. [Bob (Robert Allen) Clothier (1921-99)

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Prison Planet" Y1 - 1950 A1 - [Sydney J.] [Bounds] (1920-2006) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia describing various exploitations of prisoners.

JF - Futuristic Science Stories VL - no. 3 U3 -

Roger Carne [pseud.]

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O

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Raptured: A Novel of the Second Coming of the Lord Y1 - 1950 A1 - Ernest W. Angley (b. 1922) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A novel of the Rapture (see Thessalonians 4:17) and the dystopia that follows it for those not taken.

PB - Winston Press CY - Akron, OH N1 -

There are several reprints by various publishers.

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FPP

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Rebirth" Y1 - 1950 A1 - E. K. Jarvis [pseud.] AB -

Eutopia in which criminals are cured and given a new, better life. 

JF - Fantastic Adventures (British Edition) VL - no. 7 N1 -

Rpt. in the U. S. ed. 13.2 (February 1951): 84-93.

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Illus. Arnold Kohn

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E. K. Jarvis [pseud.]

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O. PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Rural District Council of Utopia Y1 - 1950 A1 - Neville Hobson M.C., J.P. KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. A short pamphlet fictionally presenting an ideal Rural District Council.

PB - Ptd. Archibold & Johnsons CY - Hull, Eng. U5 -

Nott, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Spectator Sport" Y1 - 1950 A1 - John D[ann] Macdonald (1916-86) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. The first man to travel to the future is ignored by everyone because they have all had lobotomies (been "lobed"). Everything is run down because people have access to what Aldous Huxley called "feelies" in Brave New World (1932). These allow a person the complete, tactile experience of another existence. In this society they are available temporarily until one has earned enough to be permanently attached to the system.

JF - Thrilling Wonder Stories (New York) VL - 35.3 N1 -

Rpt. in Strange Adventures in Science Fiction. Ed. Groff Conklin (London: Grayson & Grayson, [1954]), 99-105.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Summer Day's Dream: A Play in Two Acts" Y1 - 1950 A1 - J[ohn] B[oynton] Priestley (1894-1984) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The play is set in midsummer 1975 after an atomic catastrophe which has resulted in England reverting to a simple agrarian life that is presented as a eutopia.

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LLL

ER - TY - ABST T1 - On the Trail of 1960; A Utopian Novel Y1 - 1950 A1 - Ray H. Wiley (b. 1909) KW - US author AB -

Standard communal utopia following the nuclear war of 1952 and a new war initiated by those remaining from the old regimes. Change brought about by election. Money must be spent each year. Many small farms are established to end unemployment. No taxes. All those of voting age become shareholders in industry. The man who led all this is elected king.

PB - Exposition Press CY - New York U5 -

DLC, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "U-Turn" Y1 - 1950 A1 - Eric Frank Russell (1905-78) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Science fiction story with a eutopian background of a society that allows its citizens the freedom to choose death.

JF - Astounding Science Fiction (New York) VL - 45.2 N1 -

Rpt. in his Somewhere a Voice (London: Dennis Dobson, 1965), 63-76. Rpt. (Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin, 1968), 65-79.

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Vistas of Coming Glory: A Defence of the Pre-millenial and Futurist Faith Y1 - 1950 A1 - Pastor Wallace E. Jackel KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Millennium.

PB - City Service Press CY - Melbourne, VIC, Australia U5 -

A, M

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Waker Dreams" Y1 - 1950 A1 - Richard [Burton] Matheson (1926-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of people in cities kept dreaming on machines.

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction (New York) VL - 1.3 U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "World Without Men" Y1 - 1950 A1 - Robert Moore Williams (1907-77) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a world dominated by women.

JF - Amazing Stories Quarterly (New York) VL - 24.6 N1 -

Rpt. Amazing Stories Quarterly (Reissue) ([Winter 1950]): 60-85.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - America Tomorrow Y1 - 1949 A1 - Eugene L[eslie] Howard (b. 1903) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia based on public ownership that, for the first time, guarantee real and complete equality of opportunity and eliminate racism and gender inequality. No taxes. Free medical care. Improved schools. Planned cities. See also 1934 Howard. 

PB - Author CY - Muskegon, MI N1 -

Booklet that he says is the first three chapters of his Must America Learn the Hard Way. Muskegon, MI: Author, 1946, which is not recorded in any library. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Atomic Civilization Y1 - 1949 A1 - [William] Hardy Wilson (1881-1955) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

The text is primarily an argument for the combination of Eastern and Western civilizations. Plate four is a plan of Celestion, which in this case is a building that combines Eastern and Western features. Plate five shows the building from the front. Plate six shows the "Courtyard West Gate of 'Celestion'," presumably the city. 

PB - Author CY - Melbourne, VIC, Australia U2 -

Illus by the author.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Christian World State Y1 - 1949 A1 - Arthur Wood KW - Male author AB -

A world state utopia based on a reading of the Bible. Very general with people said to follow Jesus’s example. Includes some brief consideration of earlier utopias.

PB - Independent Press CY - London U5 -

KyLoS, O

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Earth Abides Y1 - 1949 A1 - George [Rippey] Stewart (1895-1980) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of catastrophe in which a pandemic kills all but a few people. The novel traces the life of one survivor who explores the U.S. and then settles in his old home near San Francisco. The novel then follows the slow growth of a small community that initially live off what was left behind but ultimately create the beginnings of a new society with the skills needed to live a simple, primitive life. The title reflects a recurring theme, that the earth will slowly adjust to the absence of human beings. Includes interracial marriage. The novel is at least in part a reworking of Jack London’s 1912 “The Scarlet Plague.”

PB - Random House CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1969; Los Altos, CA: Hermes Publications, 1974; and Boston, MA: Mariner Editions/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020, with “Introduction to Earth Abides” by Kim Stanley Robinson (xi-xix). Collector's Edition illus. Toni L. Taylor with an "Introduction" by Arthur O. Lewis (ix-xiv). Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1991.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Headlines of 1959 Y1 - 1949 KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author AB -

With world federalism the headlines would be from a world at peace. "Headlines about building and trading and learning. About new benefits from atomic energy. About new conquests of disease." "About legislation in the World Assembly . . . legal precedents established by the World Courts . . . elections and politics and programmes and parties and all the desirable processes of a society based on reason and compromise" [4].

PB - United World Federalists (New Zealand) CY - Auckland, New Zealand U5 -

ATL [Eph. A Politics 1949 EFL]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Humanoids Y1 - 1949 A1 - Jack [John Stewart] Williamson (1908-2006) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which robots, which are designed to keep the peace among humans and avoid nuclear war, allow no activity that they perceive to be potentially harmful. See also 1980 Williamson, The Humanoid Touch.

PB - Simon & Schuster CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. as the Collectors Edition. Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1987 illus. David. G. Klein and with an "Introduction" (v-xiv) by F.M. Busby. Exp. ed. as The Humanoids. The expanded edition with "Me and My Humanoids," "With Folded Hands," and a new introduction by the author. New York: Avon, 1980. Based in part on". . . And Searching Mind." Astounding Science Fiction 41 [50 on cover].1 - 3 (March - May 1948): 7-61, 111-62, 97-147; rpt. in The Collected Stories of Jack Williamson Volume Seven: With Folded Hands and Searching Mind (Royal Oak, MI: Haffner Press, 2010), 199-382. A related story is "With Folded Hands." Astounding Science Fiction 39.5 (July 1947): 6-45. Rpt. in Modern Masterpieces of Science Fiction. Ed. Sam Moskowitz (Cleveland, OH: World Publishing Co., 1965), 110-64; in his The Pandora Effect (New York: Ace Books, 1969), 77-125; and in The Collected Stories of Jack Williamson Volume Seven: With Folded Hands and Searching Mind (Royal Oak, MI: Haffner Press, 2010), 153-98. Williamson explains the evolution of the book in "Me and My Humanoids" in the expanded ed. (251-59).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "In the Days of Our Fathers" Y1 - 1949 A1 - Winona McClintic (b. 1921) KW - Female author AB -

Flawed utopia. A story set in an odd future in which the language suggests the inhabitants are animals (parents are dam and sire; food is fodder), but which has a highly structured educational system and worries about atavism. One child grows up to be proud of her hidden atavism.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy [and Science Fiction] (Concord, NH) VL - 1.1 SN - 00024-984X U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Inherit the Night Y1 - 1949 A1 - Robert Christie KW - Male author AB -

A lost village in a valley in an unnamed mountain range (probably the Andes) has become a simple eutopia of peace under the direction of a good priest. Evil enters from the outside in the form of a wealthy criminal and the eutopia is disrupted. The criminal dies while trying to leave.

PB - Farrar, Straus and Co CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Space Ship Y1 - 1949 A1 - [William Fitzgerald] [Jenkins] (1896-1975) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia. Technology that allows government to punish selected individuals at a distance leads to universal tyranny. Emphasis on a successful revolt.

PB - Frederick Fell CY - New York U3 -

Murray Leinster [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Moment of Truth Y1 - 1949 A1 - [Margaret] Storm Jameson (1891-1986) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia. Shortly after World War II the U.K. entered a new war with Germany and lost. The novel concerns the internal relations among a group of people waiting for the last plane to evacuate them to the U.S., and the dystopia is very much in the background.

PB - Macmillan CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Macmillan. 1949.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Nineteen Eighty-Four Y1 - 1949 A1 - [Eric] [Blair] (1903-1950) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Classic repressive totalitarian dystopia. The author's original title was The Last Man in Europe. A novel on Orwell writing Nineteen Eighty-Four is Dennis Glover, The Last Man in Europe. New York: Overlook Press, 2017.

PB - Secker & Warburg CY - London N1 -

Rpt. as vol. 9 of The Complete Works of George Orwell. Ed. Peter Davison. London: Secker & Warburg, 1987 with a "Textual Note (327-41). US ed. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1949. Edition With a Critical Introduction and Annotations by Bernard Crick. Oxford, Eng.: Clarendon Press, 1984 with the "Introduction" (1-154), the "Annotations to the Text" (429-49), and an "Index to Orwell's Text" (456-60). Collector's Edition illus. Frank Kelly Freas with an "Introduction" by James Gunn (iii-xiii). Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1992. Centennial edition. New York: Harcourt Brace, 2003, with a “Foreword” by Thomas Pynchon (vii-xxvi) and an “Afterword” by Erich Fromm (324-37) originally published in 1984 (New York: Signet Classics, 1961) 257-67. A dramatized version was published as George Orwell's 1984. A Play in Three Acts. Adapted by Robert Owens, Wilton E. Hall, Jr. and William A. Miles, Jr. Chicago, IL: Dramatic Publishing, Inc., 1963. A graphic novel version illustrated by Fido Nesti was published in Brazil as 1984 in 2020, as Nineteen Eighty-Four: The Graphic Novel. London: Penguin, 2020; and as 1984: The Graphic Novel. Boston, MA/New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021. See also Nineteen Eighty-Four: The Facsimile of the Extant Manuscript. Ed. Peter Davison. San Diego, CA: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich/Weston, MA: M & S Press, 1984.

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The author's original title was The Last Man in Europe. While many editions and reprints have the title in numbers, he insisted that it be spelled out.

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George Orwell [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The NRACP" Y1 - 1949 A1 - George P[aul] Elliott (1918-80) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Racist, authoritarian dystopia set in the U.S. in the near future with Colored Persons Reserves that are extermination camps. NRACP = National Relocation Authority: Colored Persons.

JF - The Hudson Review VL - 2.3 N1 -

Rpt. in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 19.3 (September 1960): 81-110; and in Human and Other Beings. Ed. Allen De Graeff (New York: Collier, 1963), 141-72.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Oasis Y1 - 1949 A1 - Mary [Theresa] McCarthy (1912-89) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Story of an intentional community named Utopia and the problems that arise from disagreements among members.

PB - Random House CY - New York N1 -

UK ed. as Source of Embarrassment. London: William Heinemann, 1950.

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UK ed. as Source of Embarrassment. London: William Heinemann, 1950.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pioneers of Space: A Trip to the Moon, Mars and Venus Y1 - 1949 A1 - Professor George Adamski (1891-1965) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Travel through the solar system. The planets are inhabited by human beings living a better life than on the earth.

PB - Leonard-Freefield CY - Los Angeles, CA U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Portal in the Picture" Y1 - 1949 A1 - Henry Kuttner (1914-58) A1 - [Catherine Lucille] [Moore] (1911-87) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Technological authoritarian dystopia set on a parallel world. Mostly adventure.

JF - Startling Stories (Springfield, MA) VL - 20.1 N1 -

Rpt. as by Lewis Padgett [pseud.] and C[atherine] L[ucille] Moore as Beyond Earth's Gates. New York: Ace, 1954. Ace Double bound with Andre Norton, Daybreak--2250 A.D., which was originally published as Star Man's Son: 2250 A.D. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1952.

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Lewis Padgett [pseud. of Kuttner ] on book publication.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Prodigy" Y1 - 1949 A1 - Theodore Sturgeon (1918-1985) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eugenic eutopia/dystopia.

JF - Astounding Science Fiction (New York) VL - 43.2 N1 -

Rpt. in his Caviar (New York: Ballantine Books, 1955), 84-95; and in The Perfect Host. Volume V: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon. Ed. Paul Williams (Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 1998), 257-62.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Root of Ampoi" Y1 - 1949 A1 - Clark Ashton Smith (1893-1961) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A fairly simple gender-role reversal. The women are eight feet tall, and the men are of normal stature.

JF - Arkham Sampler (Sauk City, WI) N1 -

Rpt. in Fantastic Stories of Imagination (Chicago, IL) 10.8 (August 1961): 31-46; and in his The End of the Story. The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith. Ed. Scott Connors and Ron Hilger (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2006), 213-24.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Tomorrow's Yesterday Y1 - 1949 A1 - A[lfred] M[ortimer] Stanley (1888-1966) KW - Male author AB -

Satire on a society that has degenerated physically but advanced mentally. Most work is done by machines. Gender-role reversal because the men are too weak. Eugenics with children raised by the state. Socialism.

PB - Dorrance & Co CY - Philadelphia, PA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Visitor from Venus Y1 - 1949 A1 - Gertrude Short (1902-68) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Venus presented as a eutopia in contrast with the dystopian Earth. On Venus people do the right thing simply because it is the right thing. Venus has a universal language and world government. Argues for a political and religious role for women, who, it is said, must save Earth.

PB - William-Frederick Press CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories By United States Women Before 1950. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler. 2nd ed. (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995), 214-43 with an editor's note on 212-13.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Watch the North Wind Rise Y1 - 1949 A1 - Robert [Von Ranke] Graves (1895-1985) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Future medieval eutopia, which is a world of witches and warlocks ruled by the White Goddess.

PB - Creative Age Press CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. Seven Days in New Crete. London: Cassell, 1949. Rpt. under the U.K. title Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1983. The U.S. edition preceded the U.K. edition by about six months.

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U.K. ed. Seven Days in New Crete. London: Cassell, 1949. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Weapon Shops of Isher Y1 - 1949 A1 - A[lfred] E[lton] van Vogt (1912-2000) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Shops with advanced science and powerful weapons make relative freedom possible. 

PB - Greenberg Publisher CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Ace Books, © 1951; Ace Double bound with Murray Leinster, Gateway to Elsewhere (1954); and in A Treasury of Great Science Fiction. 2 vols. Ed. Anthony Boucher (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1959), 1: 413-527.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - White City. A Novel Y1 - 1949 A1 - Paralee Sweeten Sutton KW - Female author AB -

New Age lost race communal eutopia located in Antarctica. In parallel to the Flood, the people were warned, instructed how to build their city, and survived a catastrophe that covered Antarctica with ice. Quite a bit on the history of the eutopia. One focus is on the correct raising of children. Thought transference, stress on reading color and vibrations.

PB - Palopress CY - Palo Alto, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ape and Essence Y1 - 1948 A1 - Aldous [Leonard] Huxley (1894-1963) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-atomic war dystopia. Barbarianism. Eugenic rules are in place due to mutations, and babies outside certain parameters are killed. Love is not allowed, and there are sexual orgies at specified times. Worship of the Devil. It was adapted for TV by John Finch and directed by David Benedictus, it aired as an episode of the Wednesday Play on BBC on May 18, 1966. Huxley wrote a dramatization that remain unpublished until 2019 when it appeared in the Aldous Huxley Annual: A Journal of Twentieth-Century Thought and Beyond, no. 19 (2019): 19-91, accompanied by James Sexton and Bernfried Nugel, “Aldous Huxley’s Unpublished Dramatization of Ape and Essence (1-12); their “Note on the Text” (13), and some pages of the manuscript (14-17).

PB - Harper CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1958; and London: Flamingo, 1994.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Beyond This Horizon Y1 - 1948 A1 - Robert A[nson] Heinlein (1907-88) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An essentially good society based on eugenic planning and with the idea of a future even better human race. The eutopia is generally libertarian with all men, and some women, always armed, thus ensuring peaceful relations. A group of men of lower quality try to gain control and fail.

PB - Fantasy Press CY - Reading, PA N1 -

Rpt. without the illustrations. New York: New American Library, 1960. Rpt. as vol. 7 of The Virginia Edition of his works. Houston, TX: The Virginia Edition, 2008. Part originally published as by Anson MacDonald [pseud.] as "Beyond This Horizon." Astounding Science Fiction (New York) 29.2 - 3 (April - May 1942): 9-50, 55-97.

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Illus. Robert Breck.

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Anson MacDonald [pseud.]. See Info notes.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Blonde Goddess Y1 - 1948 A1 - R. P. J. Richards AB -

Two eutopias are presented. The first is a Shangri-la type similar to 1933 Hilton. The second is set in the near future and presents many reforms. The book is dedicated to The Theosophical Society, The Rosicrucian Fellowship, and The Unity School of Christianity. The author says that the first part is a report of his visit to the Himalayas while out of body plus some material dictated to him through automatic writing. The second part reflects the reforms that were implemented after the protagonists have been given the truth in the first part. National debt wiped out by a one off tax followed by radically cutting spending. Eliminate all out-of-date laws.

PB - Ken-Pax Pub. Co CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Bowl of Light Y1 - 1948 A1 - Edward [J.] Liston (1900-86) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Lost race eutopia set in South America with advanced, rational people.

PB - Coward-McCann CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Coward McCann, 1950.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Carnelian Cube; A Humorous Fantasy Y1 - 1948 A1 - L[yon] Sprague De Camp (1907-2000) A1 - [Murray] Fletcher Pratt (1897-1956) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire in which the protagonist visits a series of worlds. The first is a purely rational world, followed by a world of individualism, and then a world of science with a medieval touch. All are unsatisfactory.

PB - Gnome Press CY - New York U1 -

The dust jacket adds the further subtitle An archeologist uses an ancient talisman to search for utopias.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Cities Under the Sea Y1 - 1948 A1 - E[dward] V[ivian] Timms (1895-1960) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Atlantis under the sea is a highly advanced but cruel society. Identified as a boys' book.

PB - Angus & Robertson CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia ER - TY - ABST T1 - Concluding Y1 - 1948 A1 - [Henry] [Yorke] (1905-73) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia as background. Little detail on the dystopia, but it appears to be heavily bureaucratic.

PB - Hogarth Press CY - London N1 -

Rpt. New York: Augustus M. Kelley, 1970; London: Hogarth Press, 1978; Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive Press, 2000; and New York: New Directions, 2017, with “Henry Green: Novelist of the Imagination” by Eudora Welty (v-xxi), which is rpt. from The Eye of the Story: Selected Essays & Reviews by Eudora Welty (London: Penguin Random House, 1961). 

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Henry Green [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Domesday Village Y1 - 1948 A1 - Ian [Goodhope] Colvin (1912-75) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Agrarian eutopia existing outside a deeply flawed socialist utopia that is inefficient and bureaucratic, and while it is supposed to be based on merit, it is actually an aristocracy based on heredity. The eutopia is a small town that had been missed in the reorganization and had succeeded very well using traditional methods.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Enterprise Island: "Old Joe's Way" Y1 - 1948 A1 - Hans Christian Sonne KW - Male author AB -

Fictional development of capitalism presented as a eutopia.

PB - The Business Bourse CY - New York U2 -

Illus. Wm. Linzee Prescott.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Flight out of Fancy: An account of a brief detachment, or capriole, from the charted courses of the world: containing the writer's explanation of the hazards of his departure, of the puzzling rigours of his detention, and of the fortunate circumstances of his return Y1 - 1948 AB -

Satire. Describes the State of Inadvertaby in which the people have reoriented their lives around projects, some of which are nonsensical, like a focus on understanding fish or training red heads as head measurers. Other projects, like "the germ-free delivery of absolutely tasteless milk" and "the powdered beer plant" (61) are clearly designed as satires on too much government regulation.

PB - The Bodley Head CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Giant's Strength: Drama in Three Acts Y1 - 1948 A1 - Upton [Beall] Sinclair (1878-1968) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Nuclear war dystopia with a brief eutopian vignette at the end. The play follows a family through the bombing of Hiroshima, the buildup to the war, the planted bombs exploding throughout the country, and the retaliation. They escape to a cave in South Dakota where they begin to learn to live in the new circumstances, but two members leave with very different dreams of building a new life. 

PB - Author CY - Monrovia, CA N1 -

Rpt. as A Giant's Strength: A Three Act-Drama of the Atomic Bomb. Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius Publications, 1948. U.K. ed. London: T.W. Laurie, [1948].

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Gone to Grass Y1 - 1948 A1 - [Alice Elizabeth] [Burton] (b. 1908) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Anti-socialist satire stressing the dullness of utopia.

PB - Hutchinson CY - London N1 -

US ed. as The Roaring Dove. By Susan Kerby [pseud.]. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1948.

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US ed. as The Roaring Dove. By Susan Kerby [pseud.]. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1948.

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Susan Kerby [pseud.]

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Bod, TxU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Great Judge" Y1 - 1948 A1 - A[lfred] E[lton] van Vogt (1912-2000) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia as background. 

JF - Fantasy Book VL - 1.3 N1 -

Rpt. in Authentic Science Fiction, no. 71 (July 1956): 127-32; in his Away and Beyond (New York: Avon, 1952), 69-73; (New York: Berkeley, 1959), 35-39; New ed. (New York: Berkeley, 1963); 40-45; U.K. ed. (London: Panther, 1963), 41-45; in Microcosmic Tales: 100 Wondrous Science Fiction Short-Short Stories. Ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and Joseph D. Olander (New York: Taplinger Publishing Co., 1980); rpt. (New York: DAW Books, 1992), 104-09; and in Transfinite: The Essential A.E. van Vogt. Ed. Joe Rico and Rick Katze (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2002), 329-32.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hail Bolonia! Y1 - 1948 A1 - [Digby George] [Gerahty] (1898-1981) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on attempts to modernize an agrarian eutopia. The modernization fails, and the eutopia of a happy, simple life continues.

PB - Peter Davies CY - London U3 -

Stephen Lister [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Late Night Final" Y1 - 1948 A1 - Eric Frank Russell (1905-78) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Libertarian eutopia.

JF - Astounding Science Fiction (New York) VL - 42.4 N1 -

Rpt in Major Ingredients: The Selected Short Stories of Eric Frank Russell. Ed. Rick Katze (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2000), 287-313.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Life and Times of the Shmoo Y1 - 1948 A1 - [Alfred Gerald] [Caplin] (1909-79 KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Comic strip. The Shmoo is a creature who provides all the food anyone wants, thus producing a classic Cockaigne. The strips recount the eutopia produced, the troubles this gives rise to, and the attempts of government and business to destroy the Shmoo. Other Shmoo material includes Gerald Marks and Al Capp, Shmoo Songs. New York: Bristol Music Corp., 1949 [held by the Los Angeles Public Library]; and a series of Hanna-Barbera films in 1979 (Fred and Barney Meet the Shmoo) and 1987-88 (sixteen films). See also Al Capp, The Return of the Shmoo. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1959. Rpt. as “The Shmoo: 1959.” In his The Short Life and Happy Times of the Shmoo (Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, 2002), 93-143; rpt. in Shmoo. The Complete Comic Books. Milwaukee, WI: Dark Horse Books, 2008.

PB - Simon and Schuster CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Convoy Publications, 1949. Rpt. as "The Shmoo: 1948." In his The Short Life and Happy Times of the Shmoo (Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, 2002), 1-93. All the strips rpt. in Al Capp's Shmoo: The Complete Newspaper Strips. Milwaukie, OR: Dark Horse Books, 2011. See also Al Capp's Shmoo Comics, no. 1 - 5 (July 1949 - April 1950). 5 vols. New York: Toby Press, 1949 - 50 [held by Michigan State University]. Some rpt. in Washable Jones and the Shmoos, no. 1 (June 1953) [all published. Held by Michigan State University]. Rpt. in Shmoo. The Complete Comic Books. Milwaukee, WI: Dark Horse Books, 2008.

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Al Capp [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Lottery" Y1 - 1948 A1 - Shirley Jackson (1916-65) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which each year every community chooses one person by lot to be stoned to death in the belief that this will make for a better year to come.

JF - The New Yorker VL - 24.18 SN - 9781598530728 N1 -

Rpt. in her The Lottery or The Adventures of James Harris (New York: Farrar, Straus and Co., 1949), 291-302; in ovels and Stories: The Lottery The Haunting of Hill House We Have Always Lived in the Castle Other Stories and Sketches. Ed Joyce Carol Oates (New York: The Library of America, 2010), 227-35; in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 3-10; 2nd ed. as Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 3-10; and illus. Garrett Grove. The New Yorker 96.21 (July 27, 2020): 50-53. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Man at the Crossroads Y1 - 1948 A1 - Margaret Loveseth (d. 1957) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

New Age eutopia. An isolated valley in western China called Sangla-a that was once and is being recreated as a eutopia for adepts. The protagonist is a man from Canada who is chosen to be the next leader of the community. He takes a small group to Sangla-a where they are educated by a woman who is about the become an Ascended Master. Then hundreds and finally thousands of people are brought to Sangla-a and begin the process of transforming the world.

PB - The Rosicrucian Press CY - San Jose, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "New Year's Revolution (A Satire)" Y1 - 1948 A1 - [Edythe] [Eyde] (1921-2015) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A violent heterosexual man is transported to a future gay eutopia where the few heterosexuals are thought of the ways gays were at the time.

JF - Vice Versa: America's Gayest Magazine (Los Angeles, CA) VL - 1.8 U3 -

Lisa Ben [pseud.]

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CU-A

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Penultimate Trump" Y1 - 1948 A1 - R[obert] C[hester] W[ilson] Ettinger (1918-2011) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia that resulted from people choosing to freeze themselves for later resurrection. A key is banishment for selfishness that causes harm to others.

JF - Startling Stories (Springfield, MA) VL - 17.1 U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Pillar of Fire" Y1 - 1948 A1 - Ray[mond Douglas] Bradbury (1920-2012) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia in which there is no crime or violence and a man from the past starts murdering people. Bradbury considers it a precursor to Fahrenheit 451 (1953).

JF - Planet Stories (New York) VL - 3.11 N1 -

Rpt. in A Treasury of Great Science Fiction. 2 vols. Ed. Anthony Boucher (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1959), 1: 141-69; in Match to Flame: The Fictional Paths to Fahrenheit 451. Ed. Donn Albright and Jon[athan R.] Eller, Textual Ed. (Colorado Springs, CO: Gauntlet Press, 2006), 101-38; and in The Illustrated Man The October Country and Other Stories. Ed. Jonathan R. Eller (New York: Library of America, 2022), 579-616, with a Chronology (919-936, a Note on the Text (947, with a minor correction noted on 949) and Notes (968-969).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Preliminary Draft of a World Constitution. As Proposed and Signed by Robert M. Hutchins, G[iuseppe] A[ntonio] Borgese, Mortimer J. Adler, Stringfellow Barr, Albert Guérard, Harold A. Innis, Erich Kahler, Wilber G. Katz, Charles H. McIlwain, Robert Redfield, Rexford G[uy] Tugwell Y1 - 1948 A1 - [Committee to Frame a World Constitution] KW - Male author AB -

A proposal for a constitution for a way of peacefully governing the entire world, including governmental structure and some material on the rights of citizens.

PB - University of Chicago Press CY - Chicago, IL N1 -

Rpt. in G[iuseppe] A[ntonio] Borgese (1882-1952), Foundations of a World Republic (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1953), 305-20.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Purple Twilight Y1 - 1948 A1 - [Arthur John] [Pelham-Groom] (1906-78) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Mars is inhabited by an advanced but dwindling people due to an anti-marriage ideology that saw marriage as being only to men's advantage. Telepathy.

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Pelham Groom [pseud.]. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Spurious Sun Y1 - 1948 A1 - [George Alexis Milkomanovich] [Milkomane] (1903-96) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Russian author AB -

A novel in which the world initially appears to have created a eutopia in which nations disarm and those countries with food feed those whose people are underfed, but then war ensues, including nuclear war. The war is ended by the youth of the world cooperating, and after the war they oust the old diplomats who stood in the way of long-term peace, and the novel ends on a hopeful note.

PB - T. Werner Laurie CY - London N1 -

Rpt. as Threatened People. London: Regular Publications, nd.

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Rpt. as Threatened People. London: Regular Publications, nd.

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George Borodin [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "That Only a Mother" Y1 - 1948 A1 - Judith (Josephine Juliet Grossman) Merril (1923-1997) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian background to a story about the deformities and mutations brought about by a nuclear war.

JF - Astounding Science Fiction (New York) VL - 41.4 N1 -

Rpt. in Science Fiction Hall of Fame Volume One. The Greatest Science Fiction Stories of All Time Chosen by the Members of The Science Fiction Writers of America. Ed. Robert Silverberg (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1974), 279-87; in Homecalling and Other Stories: The Complete Solo Short Science Fiction of Judith Merril. Ed. Elisabeth Carey (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2005), 11-19; in The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction. Ed. Arthur B. Evans, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., Joan Gordon, Veronica Hollinger, Rob Latham, and Carol McGuirk (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2010), 211-20 with an editors’ note on 211-12; in Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction. Ed. Leigh Ronald Grossman (Rockville, MD: Wildside Press, 2011), 433-34 with an editor’s note on 433; and in The Future is Female! 25 Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women from Pulp Pioneers to Ursula K. Le Guin. Ed. Lisa Yaszek (New York: Library of America, 2018), 88-100. Additional material, including biographies, can be found at womenSF.loa.org.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Tory Heaven; or Thunder on the Right Y1 - 1948 A1 - Marghanita Laski (1915-88) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Satire on class--"The whole population has been formally divided into the five classes that it naturally comprises" (53). Everything is provided for the highest class. No mixing among classes. Strikes illegal. Women not allowed to work.

PB - Cresset Press CY - London SN - 9781910263181 N1 -

U.S. ed. as Toasted English. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1949. Rpt. from the U.S. edition but with the original title and with a new preface by David Kynaston (v-xii). London: Persephone Books, 2018.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Walden Two Y1 - 1948 A1 - B[urrhus] F[rederick] Skinner (1904-90) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia brought about through behavioral engineering presented in the form of an intentional community, and a number of communities were established that intended to put Skinner's ideas into practice. While some are still in existence, all but one abandoned most of Skinner's specific ideas; see Hilke Kuhlmann, Living Walden Two: B.F. Skinner's Behaviorist Utopia and Experimental Communities. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2005. See also 1985 Skinner.

PB - Macmillan CY - New York N1 -

Reissued with new introduction by the author, "Walden Two Revisited" (New York: Macmillan, 1976), v-xvi. Rpt. Indianapolis, IN: Hackett, 2005. Chapter 14 is rpt. as "Instead of the Cross, the Lollipop" in The New Improved Sun: An Anthology of Utopian S-F. Ed. Thomas M[ichael] Disch (New York: Harper & Row, 1975), 145-56 with an editor's note on 144-45.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Warning From Mars Y1 - 1948 A1 - Edward Whiteside KW - Male author AB -

Mars, which had been functioning well under free enterprise, becomes a dystopia. The novel is an attack on the U.S. New Deal under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1946. President 1933-45), particularly welfare and big government.

PB - Interplanetary Publications CY - New York N1 -

The PSt copy has London: The Mitre Press stamped under the publisher's name on the title page.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Adrift in the Boneyard Y1 - 1947 A1 - Robert Lewis Taylor (1912-98) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A humorous post-catastrophe story (storm) in which only a few people survive. The story follows their struggles to find a place to live, and the end up on at a tropical island paradise, where the squabble on whether to develop it for a future tourist trade.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Rpt. New York: Avon, [1963]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Australian Dream. A Journey to Merrion. No. 393 of Y1 - 1947 A1 - D[enys] G[abriel] M[aurice] Jackson (1899-1986) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. A future Australia Roman Catholic and agricultural.

JF - The Australian Catholic Truth Society Record PB - The Australian Catholic Truth Society CY - Melbourne, VIC, Australia VL - No. 393 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Back to the Future Y1 - 1947 A1 - Meaburn [Francis] Staniland (1914-92) KW - English author AB -

Authoritarian, bureaucratic, conformist dystopia.

PB - Nicholas Vane CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Bend Sinister Y1 - 1947 A1 - Vladimir [Vladimirovich] Nabokov (1899-1977) KW - Male author KW - Russian author KW - US author AB -

Novel set in an authoritarian dystopia. In the "Introduction" Nabokov insists that the dystopian setting is incidental to the novel which is concerned with the relationship between a father and son.

PB - Henry Holt CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Time, Inc. 1964 with a new Introduction" by Nabokov. Rpt. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1974. U.K. ed. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1960. Rpt. Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin Books, 1974 with the "Introduction" (5-11); and in his Novels and Memoirs, 1941-1951 (New York: Library of America, 1996), 161-358, with the "Introduction from the 1964 ed. (163-69) and "Notes on the Text" (680-95).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Bright Morrow Y1 - 1947 A1 - Derek Neville (1911-76) KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Future conflict between democratic societies and communists, who are presented in extremely negative terms. A major theme is a man with the power to stop war and the way governments want to use him for their ends rather than for human betterment, which is his goal. He defeats the government and the communists and the novel ends with the projection of a better society.

PB - John Crowther CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Commissars Over Britain" Y1 - 1947 A1 - Philip Faulconbridge [pseud.] AB -

Communist dystopia under the guise of the United Nations enforcing international law. Considerable humor.

JF - London Tidings (London) VL - nos. 61 - 62, 64 - 74 N1 -

Repub. London: Beaufort Press Book Dept., [1948].

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Philip Faulconbridge [pseud.].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Communitas: Means of Livelihood and Ways of Life Y1 - 1947 A1 - Percival Goodman (1904-89) A1 - Paul Goodman (1911-72) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. Non-fiction presentation of ideal city planning with a number of specific proposals for ideal communities both in the text and in the appendices. Percival Goodman's "Afterword" also includes specific proposals for ideal communities and includes a fourth paradigm taken from his 1977 Goodman. 

PB - University of Chicago Press CY - Chicago, IL N1 -

2nd ed. New York: Vintage Books, 1960. There appear to be two states of this paperback reprint, one of which has 2nd ed. rev. and the subtitle Ways of Livelihood and Means of Life on the cover but not the title page. Rpt. New York: Columbia University Press, 1990 with an “Afterword: Communitas Revisited” (225-55) by Percival Goodman and the subtitle Ways of Livelihood and Means of Life on the cover but not the title page. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Consider Her Ways Y1 - 1947 A1 - Frederick Philip Grove (1879?-1948) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

The novel compares ant society favorably to human society.

PB - Macmillan of Canada CY - Toronto, ON, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Councils of the Mighty Y1 - 1947 A1 - W. H. Perrins AB -

Occult, spiritualist eutopia with the eutopia in the higher spheres above the human.

PB - The Christopher Publishing House CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Doppelgangers: An Episode of the Fourth, The Psychological, Revolution 1997 Y1 - 1947 A1 - H[enry] F[itzgerald] Heard (1889-1971) KW - Male author KW - UK author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. A eutopia supposed to be brought about by new advances in psychology turns sour and becomes an authoritarian dystopia based on the same discoveries. The novel focuses on the struggle for control between two dystopias, one on the surface of the planet that used the “bread and circuses” approach to control, and the other underground that used fear as the means of control. In the novel, the underground dystopia tries to overthrow the one on the surface, using, in what may be the first use of the phrase, psychological warfare. 

PB - Vanguard Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Dry Deluge Y1 - 1947 A1 - Kathleen [Cecilia] Nott (1905-99) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Mostly disaster but includes some dystopia.

PB - Hogarth Press CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - The End, A Projection, not a Prophecy Y1 - 1947 A1 - [Claude] [Van Zeller] (1905-1984) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia set in 2045 at the end of 100 years of peace. Armageddon (See Revelation 16) and the Second Coming of Christ.

PB - Douglas Organ CY - London N1 -

US ed. Buffalo, NY: Desmond & Stapledon, 1948.

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Hugh Venning [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Equalizer" Y1 - 1947 A1 - Jack [John Stewart] Williamson (1908-2006) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Agrarian, anarchist eutopia of abundant power. In a note in The Pandora Effect, the author says that this story is "a companion piece" to his "With Folded Hands" (see 1949 Williamson), which was "pessimistic about technology and science" (127).

JF - Astounding Science Fiction (New York) VL - 39.1 N1 -

Rpt. in his The Pandora Effect (New York: Ace Books, 1969), 127-89; and in The Collected Stories of Jack Williamson Volume Seven: With Folded Hands and Searching Mind (Royal Oak, MI: Haffner Press, 2010), 93-152.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Flight to Utopia Y1 - 1947 A1 - Carleton Matthews (b. 1906) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Detailed eutopia presented as Applied Christianity. The first part includes the Incan empire as a eutopia. The second part is set in the U.S. in 1980 and describes the eutopia, “Utopia Incorporated,” that has evolved over twenty-five years, with the primary goal of reducing labor time and increasing leisure time. No money, and labor is the medium of exchange (94). Everything is done through “seven operating subsidiaries—Food Incorporated, Housing Incorporated, Clothing Incorporated, Communications Incorporated, Transportation Incorporated, Recreation Incorporated, and Culture Incorporated” (98). The only role for government is oversight.

PB - Mount Eyre Pub. Co CY - Trenton, NJ N1 -

Both  PSt copies have Newtown, Pennsylvania blacked out and Trenton, NJ added.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Fury" Y1 - 1947 A1 - [Henry] [Kuttner] (1914-58) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Venus in the future with a degenerated human race living in safety and the successful struggle to revitalize the people.  Sequel to 1943 [Kuttner and Moore], “Clash By Night”.

JF - Astounding Science Fiction (New York) VL - 39.3 - 5 N1 -

Rpt. as by Kuttner. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1950. UK ed. London: Dennis Dobson, 1954. Reissued as Destination Infinity. Original title: Fury. New York: Avon, 1956. Rpt. Boston, MA: Garland, 1975.

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Reissued as Destination Infinity.

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Lawrence O'Donnell [pseud.] with the anonymous collaboration of Catherine Lucille Moore

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “I Have Been in the Caves” Y1 - 1947 A1 - Margaret Rogers (d. 1955) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is a response to the theories of Richard [Sharpe] Shaver (1907-75), who argued for an underground world of evil, and is presented by the author as autobiography with supporting notes by the editor of the journal, Ray[mond Arthur] Palmer (1910-77). In the author’s version, the underground world is a eutopia of people with advanced technology and psychic abilities. Prior to the publication of the story, the author had written two letters to the editor that were published in issues 20.6 (September 1946) as by Mrs. D. C. Rogers and 20.9 (December 1946) as by Margaret Rogers. The last reference to her is often reported as her writing a review of Jim Wentworth’s The Beginning, which was about her case, in Amazing Stories 22.2 (February 1948): 105. What is actually on that page is a statement by the editor of the journal about a self-published book by Rogers entitled The Beginning that he had read. No such book by either Rogers or Wentworth appears to have survived. Female author.

JF - Amazing Stories VL - 21.1 U2 -

Illus. Julius S. Krupa

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Jesting Pilot" Y1 - 1947 A1 - [Henry] [Kuttner] (1914-58) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An authoritarian dystopia set in a city that has been isolated from the outside world for 600 years to protect it from the wars of the overpopulated world. The city was designed to be a eutopia precisely fitted to the needs of its citizens, who are all hypnotized. The Controllers of the city are bred and raised to run the world until the Barrier around the city is raised. The citizens know nothing of them.

JF - Astounding Science Fiction (New York) VL - 39.3 U3 -

Lewis Padgett [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Masterless Swords: Variations on a Theme Y1 - 1947 A1 - [William] Donald Suddaby (1900-64) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Primarily dystopian but suggests the possibility of a eutopia. In the first part, "Portrait of a King" (11-88), is about Alexander the Great (356-23 BCE); the second, "The Lovely Voyage" (89-173), is about Sir Francis Drake (c1540-96). The third section, "Woman In a Red Turban" (174-251) is set in the far future and is about a woman named Cahhna who leads women in a movement for perpetual peace but is opposed by men and ultimately betrayed by women. 

PB - T. Werner Laurie CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Peace in Our Time": A Play in Two Acts and Eight Scenes Y1 - 1947 A1 - Noel [Pierce] Coward (1899-1973) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of Britain under Germany occupation.

PB - William Heinemann CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sealed Entrance. A Novel Y1 - 1947 A1 - C[onrad Lyddon] Voss-Bark (1913-2000) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia of evolved morality set in an isolated religious community in the mountains of Albania.

PB - Chapman & Hall CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Smith Unbound; A Conversation Piece Y1 - 1947 A1 - Ernest Nevin Dilworth (b. 1912) A1 - Walter Leuba (b. 1902) KW - Male author AB -

A eutopian educational system. Gives the general principles and some specifics of an ideal system of education. The first part is a satire on contemporary education. Presented as a discussion.

PB - Macmillan CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Soma Racks” Y1 - 1947 A1 - Margaret [Neeley] St. Clair (1911-95) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The first of eight Oona and Jick stories, a couple living in a high-tech future. Humor and satire with all the stories focusing on Oona, a supposedly typical, deferential housewife. In each story, something goes wrong with an aspect of the high-tech future, and, in most cases, Oona saves the day without Jick being aware of it. The others are “Super Whost.” Illus. H. W. Kiemle. Startling Stories 15.3 (July 1947): 97-102; “Aleph Sub One.” Uncredited illus. Startling Stories 16.4 (January 1948): 62-69. Rpt. in Science Fiction Yearbook, Number 5 (New York: Popular Library, 1971); and in New Eves: Science Fiction About Extraordinary Women of Today and Tomorrow. Ed. Janrae Frank, Jean Stine, and Forrest J. Ackerman (Stamford, CT: Longmeadow Press, 1994), with an editors’ note on ; “The Dobridust.” Illus. [Vincent] Napoli. Thrilling Wonder Stories 31.3 (February 1948): 41-46; “The Metal Lark.” Illus. H. W. Kiemle. Thrilling Wonder Stories 32.2 (June 1948): 71-77; “The Rotohouse.” Illus. Virgil Finlay. Thrilling Wonder Stories 32.3 (August 1948): 119-; “The Himalaychalet.” Illus. Virgil Finlay. Thrilling Wonder Stories 33.3 (February 1949): 110-14, 155; and “The Neo-Geoduck.” Illus. Virgil Finlay. Thrilling Wonder Stories 34.3 (August 1949): 129-136. Female author.

JF - Startling Stories VL - 15.1 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Story of My Village Y1 - 1947 A1 - H[enry] de Vere Stacpoole (1865-1951) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Village life as eutopia with the end of cities shown. The setting is Bonchurch, Isle of Wight, England.

PB - Hutchinson CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Teetotalitarian State Y1 - 1947 A1 - Somerset [Streuben] De Chair (1911-95) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Humor in which the coming of British socialism changes nothing.

PB - Falcon Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Is This Tomorrow: America Under Communism Y1 - 1947 AB -

Comic book depicting the dystopia when Communists take over the U.S. and the means they use to take over the country.

PB - Catechetical Guild Educational Society CY - St. Paul, MN U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Tomorrow and Tomorrow" Y1 - 1947 A1 - [Henry] [Kuttner] (1914-58) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

After a brief, aborted World War II, the GPC or Global Peace Commission rules the world and limits research to approved topics and prohibits space exploration. An underground movement wants to overthrow it in the name of an undescribed utopia.

JF - Astounding Science-Fiction (New York) VL - 38.5 - 6 N1 -

Rpt. in his Tomorrow and Tomorrow and The Fairy Chessman (New York: Gnome Press, 1951), 9-108. U.K. ed. London: World Distributors, 1963.

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Lewis Padgett [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Tomorrow and Tomorrow Y1 - 1947 A1 - [Flora Sydney Patricia] [Eldershaw] (1897-1956) A1 - [Marjorie Faith] [Barnard] (1897-1987) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia set in the 24th century that uses the device of an author writing an historical novel to explore the second quarter of the twentieth century. The dystopia is a technologically advanced socialist eutopia gone wrong through over-organization.

PB - Georgian House CY - Melbourne, VIC, Australia N1 -

Rpt. London: Phoenix Press in Association with Georgian House Melbourne, 1948. "Uncensored ed." with the original title Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow. London: Virago, 1983 with an "Introduction" (vii-xix) by Anne Chisholm. The Virago edition restores both the relatively few cuts made by the censor and the cuts made by the authors and publisher. The Garden City, NY: Dial Press, 1984 edition reprints the Virago edition.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Tomorrow's Child; A Comedy in Three Acts Y1 - 1947 A1 - John Coates KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Dystopian humor about a dull, uniform society in which everyone should be serious about Social Duty. Each apartment has speakers that cannot be turned off that issue instructions in a revoltingly cheerful voice. Set in 1965.

JF - French's Acting Editions PB - Samuel French CY - London VL - No. 113 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Twenty-One Balloons Y1 - 1947 A1 - William [Sherman] Pène Du Bois (1916-93) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Children's eutopia. Krakatoa before the volcano erupted is described as having a eutopian civilization with many nonsensical inventions and a social organization based on eating tastes.

PB - Viking CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - When Smuts Goes. A History of South Africa from 1952 to 2010, First Published in 2015 Y1 - 1947 A1 - Arthur [Mervyn] Keppel-Jones (b. 1909) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

Dystopian future history. The first stage is the establishment of a fascist system. After General Jan Christiaan Smuts (1870-1950. Prime Minister 1919-24 and 1939-48) retires, the Nationalist Party, which wants to break with Britain and ensure White dominance, wins the election, which is what actually happened. The Communist Party is outlawed; trade unions are emasculated. Native and Asian political representation are abolished, and the election law is changed to guarantee the future dominance of the Nationalist Party. Education is "reformed" to reduce English-speaking and increase Afrikaans-speaking. Anti-Semitism. Mass emigration ("the Second Great Trek"), but Blacks are prohibited from leaving. Growing racial conflict. South Africa declares war on Britain, assuming neutrality from most nations and support from others, and is defeated by combined British and American forces. The system then collapses.

PB - African Bookman CY - Capetown, South Africa N1 -

Rpt. London: Victor Gollancz, 1947. Includes a "Glossary of Afrikaans, Dutch and Bantu Words" (Gollancz 231-32)

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - White Thunder God Y1 - 1947 A1 - Pat Reid KW - US author AB -

Odd Christian eutopia set in Mexico with a history going back to the formation of the Earth. Quetzalcoatl was John the Baptist. Vegetarian without cooking, with even panthers not eating meat. Communicate with all the animals. Nudist. In contact with Venus, which is more advanced than Earth spiritually and technically with some of those advances available to the people of the eutopia. 

PB - Author CY - Los Angeles, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The World The World Wants (A Sociocratic Order) Y1 - 1947 A1 - [Octavio] Felix Pedroso (d. 1944) A1 - Elizabeth Pedroso KW - Brazilian author KW - Female author KW - Male author AB -

Detailed eutopia with one world-wide corporation, a universal language (English), one currency, and one flag. The World Corporation will own the productive resources of the world and will build a new city for its headquarters. Free education and health care.

PB - np CY - São Paulo, Brasil U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Worlds to Watch and Ward" Y1 - 1947 ED - Glenn Negley ED - J. Max Patrick AB -

Eutopia of democratic socialism and the rule of law.

JF - The Quest for Utopia; An Anthology of Imaginary Societies PB - Henry Schumann CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - The 21st Century Looks Back Y1 - 1946 A1 - Emanuel R[obert] Posnack (b. 1897) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Reformed capitalist eutopia. The reforms stress improved and open transportation and communications. There is a Global Statistical Service, a free flow of manpower and goods, no monopolies, and a Global Stabilization Fund. There will be some world government, universal health care, and expanded education. Taxation is based on land values, following Henry George (1839-97). For Henry George's explanation of the single tax, see his Progress and Poverty. An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and Of Increase of Want With Increase of Wealth. The Remedy. San Francisco, CA: W.M. Hinton, 1879. Fiftieth Anniversary Ed. New York: The Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, 1929. See also 1942 Posnack and his World Without Barriers--A Perspective View of Our Present and Future in a World of Economic and Ideological Conflict. New York: William Morrow, 1956, which is mostly a critique of Communism but includes a brief summary of his alternative and its positive results.

PB - The William-Frederick Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Balance the Universe or The Heavenly Abode Y1 - 1946 A1 - Marie G[ertrude] Holmes Joseph KW - Female author AB -

Odd religious eutopia that specifies the various occupational groups that will exist throughout the world and lays out projects that must be undertaken to "balance the universe" such as building oases in deserts. Strict birth control with a limit of three children. Lays out stages of education. There will be a World City to serve as World Capitol.

PB - Hobson Book Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Bomb That Fell on America Y1 - 1946 A1 - Hermann Hagedorn (1882-1964) KW - Male author AB -

Three part meditation on the effects of the atomic bomb on the future of America. The first two parts rehearse Hiroshima, to some extent justifying it, and the failures of Americans to be true Christians. The third part has the Lord proclaiming that America will lead the world to a eutopia of genuine Christian love.

PB - Pacific Coast Publishing CY - Santa Barbara, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Death into Life Y1 - 1946 A1 - [William] Olaf Stapledon (1886-1950) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Similar to other works by Stapledon in that it projects humanity into both the relatively near and very far future, to a time beyond humanity. This relatively short (159 pp) version follows "the spirit of man" from death during World War II to a period in which humans inhabit eight planets to the development of a "cosmic consciousness" into which humanity is absorbed. On the copyright page there is an author's note saying, "This fantasy is not a novel." 

PB - Methuen CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in his Worlds of Wonder: Three Tales of Fantasy (Los Angeles, CA: Fantasy Publishing Co., 1949), 91-251.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Epilogue Y1 - 1946 A1 - [Patrick] Beresford Egan (1905-84) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire set in post-war Britain. Includes ludicrously detailed government regulation, e.g. permission is required to laugh.

PB - The Fortune Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Future Imperfect Y1 - 1946 A1 - Bridget [Walsh] Chetwynd (1910-70) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Welsh author AB -

Humorous gender-role reversal novel in which British men are disenfranchised in 1965 with their approval.

PB - Hutchinson CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - God's Fool! Y1 - 1946 A1 - Frederick Ellsworth Wolf KW - Male author AB -

A mother and son leave the Amana Colony to experience the life of the world. They experience poverty, war, and America's rejection of God and return to Amana, which they now see as better.

PB - New Age Publications CY - Wellesley, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Golden Recovery Revealing A streamlined cooperative Economic System compiled from the best authorities of the World, both ancient and modern Y1 - 1946 A1 - Werter L[ivingston] Gross KW - Male author AB -

While much of the novel concerns the life histories of three young men, two rich whites and one poor black, who were raised together, the novel builds to a final focus on an intentional community in Southern California based on the principles of Robert Owen (1771-1858). The hero is the African-American.

PB - [Murray & Gee] CY - [Hollywood, CA] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Island Forbidden to Man Y1 - 1946 A1 - Muriel [Florence] Hine (ca. 1874-1949) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A community of women inhabit an island and forbid men to land. For a time, it appears to be a feminist eutopia, but various conflicts emerge with some of the younger women wanting to marry. The community survives as a community but with men as well as women

PB - Hodder and Stoughton CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Little Things" Y1 - 1946 A1 - Henry Kuttner (1914-58) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future society perceived as a dystopia by the hero. In fact, it is a society designed to avoid war, and thus is a eutopia, but secrecy and some authoritarianism are necessary to achieve this end.

JF - Thrilling Wonder Stories (New York) VL - 29.1 N1 -

Rpt. in his Bypass to Otherness (New York: Ballantine Books, 1961), 101-14. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Living Lies" Y1 - 1946 A1 - [John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon] [Harris] (1903-69) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Racial dystopia on Venus where there are many different skin colors.

JF - New Worlds: A Science Fiction Magazine of the Future VL - no. 2 N1 -

Rpt. in Other Worlds Science Stories 2.4 (8) (November 1950): 96-130.

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John Beynon [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Maniac's Dream: A Novel of the Atomic Bomb Y1 - 1946 A1 - F[rederick] Horace Rose (1875-1965) KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

Dystopia including a conspiracy of atheist scientists to use the atomic bomb. Much of it is set in Africa.

PB - Duckworth CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mistress Masham's Repose Y1 - 1946 A1 - T[erence] H[anbury] White (1906-64) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Young adult Gulliveriana. Gulliver brought some Lilliputians back with him, and they have settled on an island in a lake in a neglected estate. They are befriended by a young girl.

PB - G.P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York U2 -

Illus. Fritz Eichenberg.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mr. Adam Y1 - 1946 A1 - Pat [Harry Hart] Frank (1908-64) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian satire with only one fertile man left alive.

PB - J.B. Lippincott CY - Philadelphia, PA ER - TY - ABST T1 - Summer in Three Thousand. Not a prophecy--A parable Y1 - 1946 A1 - Peter Martin [Leckie] (b. 1890?) KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia and dystopia. Half the world is a eutopia and half a dystopia. In the eutopia, the people live underground in a totally artificial world; care for the world above but do not exploit it. Although there are a few natural telepaths, most people have telepathy that is brought about by grafting cells to the brain at birth. Eugenics. The dystopia, Godsowncountry, is authoritarian, religious, and capitalist.

PB - Quality Press CY - London U3 -

Peter Martin [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "To-morrow" Y1 - 1946 A1 - Virgil St. C Eldridge KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Brief poem describing a desolated future with nature beginning to reassert itself.

JF - Pertinent: The Monthly Magazine of Foto-Fiction-Fact (Sydney, NSW, Australia) VL - 4.5 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Two Trillion Immortals. Romance? Novel? Prophecy? Reality? Revelation? Y1 - 1946 A1 - Solomon Cruso (1877-1977) KW - Male author AB -

Sequel to 1940 Cruso. See also 1933 Cruso. The author says that the book is written for the white race, except Jews. Although the author suggests that a third world war is possible, he thinks that a new era is opening that will lead to a world eutopia. Some past and future history. 

PB - Hobson Book Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Visit of the Princess: A Romance of the Nineteen-sixties Y1 - 1946 A1 - R[alph] H[ale] Mottram (1883-1971) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Flawed utopia seen through a romance in what appears to be a dull, egalitarian dystopia but is also a society giving much better life chances to children.

PB - Hutchinson & Co CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - What Farrar Saw Y1 - 1946 A1 - James Hanley (1901-85) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia as a fantasy of post-war Britain with clogged highways and difficult class relations.

PB - Nicholson & Watson CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in his What Farrar Saw and Other Stories (London: André Deutsch, 1984), 1-204.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Animal Farm; A Fairy Story Y1 - 1945 A1 - [Eric] [Blair] (1903-1950) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Classic story of totalitarianism. See also 1964 Bond.

PB - Secker & Warburg CY - London N1 -

Rpt. as vol. 8 of The Complete Works of George Orwell. Ed. Peter Davision. London: Secker & Warburg, 1987 with Appendix I “Orwell’s Proposed Preface to Animal Farm” (97-108); Appendix II “Orwell’s Preface to the Ukrainian Edition of Animal Farm” (109-14); Appendix III “Orwell’s Radio Adaptation of Animal Farm” (115-95); and “Textual Note” (197-203). U.S. ed. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1946. First illustrated edition, with illustrations by Joy Batchelor and John Halas. London: Secker and Warburg, 1954. Rpt. with drawings by Quentin Blake. London: The Folio Society, 1984; and with an “Introduction” by Kim Stanley Robinson (iii-x) and one illus. by Frank Kelly Freas. Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1992. 50th Anniversary Edition with illustrations by Ralph Steadman. New York: Harcourt Brace & Co., 1995, which includes “Orwell’s Proposed Preface to Animal Farm (159-71) and “Orwell’s Preface to the Ukrainian Edition of Animal Farm (173-80). The National Theatre produced a dramatization available as George Orwell’s Animal Farm. Adapted by Peter Hall with lyrics by Adrian Mitchell and music by Richard Peaslee. London: Methuen, 1985. A film was directed by Joy Batchelor and John Halas (1955). A theatre version by Ian Wooldridge was adapted by Ivan Heng for Wild Rice (Singapore). As Animal Farm: The Graphic Novel. Illus. by Odyr [Bernardi] (b. 1967). Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 2019. Originally published in Portuguese as A Revolução dos Bichos. São Paulo, Brazil: Editora Schwarcz S.A., 2018. 

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George Orwell [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Back to Nature Y1 - 1945 A1 - R[obert] W[illiam] Alexander KW - Male author AB -

Two hundred men and two hundred women leave a future eutopia to establish a more primitive life based on marriage and the family that they believe to be better than the eutopia.

PB - Stanley Paul & Co. Ltd CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Benevolent Despot Y1 - 1945 A1 - David Lynn KW - Male author AB -

Humor presenting a benevolent despot as leading to a eutopia.

PB - Kangaroo Books CY - London U1 -

Cover adds the subtitle Comedy for Serious People.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Destiny Times Three" Y1 - 1945 A1 - Fritz [Reuter] Leiber [Jr.] (1910-92) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The future earth is split into three. One is a flawed utopia, which is supposed to be peaceful and joyful, but is stagnant; one is an authoritarian dystopia; and one is a destroyed landscape ruled by intelligent cats.

JF - Astounding Science Fiction (New York) VL - 35.1 -2 N1 -

Rpt. in Five Science Fiction Novels. Comp. Martin Greenberg (New York: Gnome Press, 1952), 110-203); as Galaxy Novel 28. New York: Galaxy Publishing Corp., 1952; and in Binary Star # 1 (New York: Dell, 1978), 7-150. The most recent reprint has an "Afterword" by Norman Spinrad (150-55).

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Devil's Altar Boy Y1 - 1945 A1 - Erdahl, Silvert AB -

Dystopian allegory in which Germany and Japan won World War II and produced a second Dark Ages.

PB - Capitol Hill Press CY - Washington, DC U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Happy Turning Y1 - 1945 A1 - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Presented as taking place in Dreamland, which is a eutopia. Primarily concerned with religion. Discussions with Jesus who attacks Christianity and Paul in particular. Says he did not die and spent the rest of his life as a carpenter.

PB - William Heinemann CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in The Last Books of H.G. Wells. The Happy Turning and Mind at the End of its Tether. Ed. G.P. Wells ([London]: H.G. Wells Society, 1982), 19-52 with an “Appendix The Writing of the Last Books” by the editor (79-80). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Heir Unapparent" Y1 - 1945 A1 - A[lfred] E[lton] van Vogt (1912-2000) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An authoritarian dystopia, which, under a fairly benevolent dictatorship, has generally established peace and prosperity. is facing various individuals who want to replace the dictator. 

JF - Astounding Science Fiction VL - 35.4 N1 -

Rpt. in his Away and Beyond (New York: Pellegrini & Cudahy, 1952), 156-86; U.K. ed. (London: Panther, 1963), 100-23.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Into the Dawn Y1 - 1945 A1 - Gaile Churchill McElhiney (1888-1978) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia for the spiritually advanced on an isolated island, which can be found only by those who have reached the right stage of consciousness. Vegetarian. Radioactivity in food and drink is believed to be invigorating.

PB - DeVorss & Co CY - Los Angeles, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lost Government; or, Do You Really Like It? A Fairy Tale for Grown-ups Y1 - 1945 A1 - Jiri Weiss (1913-2004) KW - Czech author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire. After World War II a government in exile returns, finds that the people have taken over and have no need for them, and leaves.

PB - Nicholson & Watson CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Man Who Missed the War Y1 - 1945 A1 - Dennis [Yates] Wheatley (1897-1977) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Lost race authoritarian dystopia that practices human sacrifice set in a temperate area of Antarctica with a battle rather like Armageddon (See Revelation 16) at the end.

PB - Hutchinson CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in his Worlds Far From Here (London: Hutchinson, [1954]), 334-743; and separately London: Arrow Books, 1959.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Millennium 1 Y1 - 1945 A1 - W[illiam] A[ddison] Dwiggins (1880-1956) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian play. Machines that have developed thought and reason revolt against human control. At the beginning humans live hiding in caves, but they struggle to defeat the machines and ultimately win. 

PB - Alfred A. Knopf CY - New York U1 -

Subtitle on the dust jacket A Melodrama

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Mural" Y1 - 1945 A1 - F[rancis] R[eginald] Scott (1889-1985) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

A poem depicting an apparently perfect world brought about through science, but the tone is satirical.

JF - Overture PB - Ryerson Press CY - Toronto, ON, Canada N1 -

Rpt. in his Selected Poems (Toronto, ON, Canada: Oxford University Press, 1966), 68-69.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - New Thoughts for a New World Y1 - 1945 A1 - Bert[ram Wilson] Huffman (1870-1953) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Three poems. “The Poet’s Dream Come True” [2] sees the return of a everyday, workingman Christ and the coming of the millennium. “O, Bells of Freedom” [3] is a plea for people to respond to the “Bells of Freedom” and build a eutopia. “When the Tumult Dies” [4] questions whether at war’s end people will create a “World at Peace” or more “Hatred.” T

PB - Author CY - Newton Station, BC, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pattern for a Railroad for Tomorrow: 1960 Y1 - 1945 A1 - Edward Hungerford KW - Male author AB -

U.S. rail system of the future with illustrations of trains, stations, and routes for both intercity and urban traffic, and timetables. The author calls it a Utopia.

PB - Kalmbach Publishing Co CY - Milwaukee, WI U2 -

Illus. James Carr, Daniel H. Burnham, Linn H. Westcott, A.J. Timler

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Prelude to Peace Y1 - 1945 A1 - [Frederick Rand] [Rogers] (b. 1894) KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Unification under one world leader chosen by the best educators, who, with priests, are ineligible. The leader can be removed by the priests. One language, one religion. No competition. Cooperative commonwealth with government restrictions on the choice of occupation and geographic movement. Restrictions on freedom of speech and press.

PB - North American Physical Fitness Institute Bulletin 10 CY - Cupertino, CA U3 -

Count Sussicran Etoxinod [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - That Hideous Strength, A Modern Fairy Tale for Grown Ups Y1 - 1945 A1 - C[live] S[taples] Lewis (1898-1963) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Northern Ireland author AB -

Final volume of a trilogy about the struggle between the forces of good and evil. Armageddon (see Revelation 16). Traditional marriage with the woman obedient is stressed. The other volumes of the trilogy are 1938 and 1943 Lewis. In addition, one of the major characters of the trilogy appears in 1977 Lewis. 

PB - John Lane, The Bodley Head CY - London N1 -

Rpt. New York: Scribner Classics, 1996. Abr. as The Tortured Planet. New York: Avon, 1958.

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Abr. as The Tortured Planet. New York: Avon, 1958.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Twilight Bar: An Escapade in Four Acts Y1 - 1945 A1 - Arthur Koestler (1905-83) KW - Austrian author KW - English author KW - Hungarian author KW - Male author AB -

Classic body-eutopia. According to the “Author’s Note” (6-7) it was written in 1933 in Russia and lost; he rewrote it in 1944. Both versions were “escape[s] from the pressure of reality” (7).

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Utopia 1995" Y1 - 1945 A1 - Alan Dunn (1900-74) ED - R. M. Barrows ED - Margaret Foster KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Humor on the problems of the technological future.

JF - A Bird’s-Eye View of the Postwar World PB - Consolidated Book Publishers CY - Chicago, IL U2 -

Illus. Alan Dunn

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OSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Valley of the Poor Y1 - 1945 A1 - Wertie Clarice [Blackwell] Weaver KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Science cures racial prejudice and brings eutopia.

PB - Wetzel Pub. Co CY - Los Angeles, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Wake Up New Zealand! A Clarion Call to New Zealanders to follow the brightly burning Star of Truth Y1 - 1945 KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author AB -

Pamphlet that is partially a depiction of New Zealand as a eutopia due to its social policies and partially a plea to New Zealanders to not lose what they have.

PB - The International League of the Cross CY - Auckland, New Zealand U5 -

ATL Eph A Politics ca 1945

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Waveries" Y1 - 1945 A1 - Fredric [William] Brown (1906-72) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The loss of all electrical power produces a U.S. of small town eutopias.

JF - Astounding Science Fiction (New York) VL - 34.5 N1 -

Rpt. in Above the Human Landscape: A Social Science Fiction Anthology. Ed. Willis E. McNelly and Leon E. Stover (Pacific Palisades, CA: Goodyear Publishing Co., 1972), 7-26; and in From These Ashes: The Complete Short SF of Fredric Brown. Ed. Ben Yalow (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2000), 212-29.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Anarch" Y1 - 1944 A1 - Malcolm Jameson (1891-1945) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An authoritarian, conformist dystopia is transformed into a democratic, individualist eutopia. Mostly on the dystopia and the transition.

JF - Astounding Science Fiction (New York) VL - 32.6 U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Arctic Bride" Y1 - 1944 A1 - Sterner St. Paul Meek (1894-1972) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The eutopia occupies 29 pages of a 36-page pamphlet and is one of peace, plenty, and immortality at the North Pole. The nude woman on the cover of the Utopian Publications ed. appears to have nothing to do with the contents.

JF - American Fiction N1 -

Repub. separately London: Utopian Publications, 1944.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Atlantis Rising Y1 - 1944 A1 - Daphne Vigers KW - Female author AB -

Detailed eutopia stressing cooperation and education presented through the history of Atlantis, its fall, and return.

PB - Andrew Dakers CY - London N1 -

2nd ed. London: Aquarian Press, 1952.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Black Dawn Y1 - 1944 A1 - Shaw Desmond (1877-1960) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

In the dystopia of the post-war world most countries had been destroyed, but a world confederation begins to be formed led by the Anglo-Saxon Confederation.

PB - Hutchinson & Co CY - London U5 -

NLS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Bread and Roses; An Utopian Survey and Blue-print Y1 - 1944 A1 - Ethel Edith Mannin (1900-84) KW - Female author KW - Irish author KW - UK author AB -

Detailed eutopia based on freedom, equality, and brotherhood. No central government or state. Equal distribution of goods.

PB - McDonald and Co CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Common Sense. Is It Wrong To Be Right? Is It Right to Be Wrong? Y1 - 1944 A1 - [Hugo Cyril K.] [Baruch] (b. 1907) KW - Male author AB -

Anti-capitalist essay that presents some elements of a eutopia presented through a series of negatives, such as "No nations", No money", and "No state or other authority". There will be only one law, "possession other than for personal need is a crime." 

PB - Modern Art Gallery, Ltd CY - London U3 -

Jack Bilbo [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Days after Tomorrow: A Voice from 2000 A.D Y1 - 1944 A1 - Frank R[obinson] Kerr (b. 1889) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. World federation with a powerful world Parliament. Religious. Stresses science and education.

PB - Robertson & Mullens CY - Melbourne, VIC, Australia U5 -

A, M, NN

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Fly Envious Time Y1 - 1944 A1 - Lou[ise Olga Elisabeth] King-Hall (b. 1897) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The first part describes the middle class before World War II. This is followed by two stages of the future. In 1979 an authoritarian society exists that stresses science and eugenics. Tablet food. In 1999 there is an emphasis on art, but World War III starts.

PB - Peter Davies CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Future of Man; A Study in Human Possibilities. Translated from the Original Manuscript by S.L. Salzedo Y1 - 1944 A1 - [Ernst] [Frankenstein] (b. 1881) KW - Male author AB -

An essay that is mostly about the current situation. Part describes a detailed world eutopia based on the author's understanding of ethics. Stresses the rights of individuals. Laws expire unless renewed. Focus on education. A few hours of required work. Birth control and small families.

PB - Nicholson & Watson CY - London U3 -

Frank E. Warner [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Green Isle of the Great Deep Y1 - 1944 A1 - Neil M[iller] Gunn (1891-1973) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Heaven as an authoritarian dystopia. Takeover by those attempting to achieve social perfection while God is busy meditating. Same characters as his Young Art and Old Hector. London: Faber and Faber,1942. 

PB - Faber and Faber CY - London N1 -

Rpt. [London]: Souvenir Press, 1975; and Edinburgh, Scot.: Polygon, 2006.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Heart Consumed. A Novel Y1 - 1944 A1 - [Julia Eileen Courtney] [Greenwood] KW - Female author AB -

The novel is partially set in the 21st century and discusses eugenics and training for leadership.

PB - John Lane The Bodley Head CY - London U3 -

Frances Askham [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Homes or Hovels: The Housing Problem and Its Solution Y1 - 1944 A1 - George Woodcock (1912-95) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

An anarchist approach to housing. The author rejects what he says are overly detailed utopias, but then goes on to give a detailed description of housing, which will mostly apartments/flats, an emphasis on neighborhoods, and few large cities. 

PB - Freedom Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - John Smith, Emperor Y1 - 1944 A1 - S[erapio] G[onzalez] Gallego (1883-1944) KW - Male author KW - Spanish author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian eutopia in which everything considered immoral is illegal. The examples given are "1. Divorce. 2. Indecent prints, books, or magazines. 3. Publications of a blasphemous nature or those that vilify the religious beliefs of others. 4. Moving pictures which violate public decency and tend to wrongly influence the people, together with immoral theatrical and indecent night club performances. 5. Books that glorify crime in any form" (39-40). According to the "Foreword", the eutopia is based on the "Peace Program of Pope Pius XII" (1876-1958. Pope 1939-58).

PB - Guild Press CY - St. Paul, MN U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lights Were Going Out Y1 - 1944 A1 - Arthur Guirdham (1905-92) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The dystopia that will follow peace without victory with the National Socialists gaining influence over Britain and the U.S.

PB - Quality Press CY - London U5 -

NLS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Old Man in New World Y1 - 1944 A1 - [William] Olaf Stapledon (1886-1950) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Socialist eutopia that encourages diversity and individuality as seen by an old revolutionist who is not entirely comfortable in the world the revolution created. World federation. 

PB - George Allen & Unwin CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in his Worlds of Wonder: Three Tales of Fantasy (Los Angeles, CA: Fantasy Publishing Co., 1949), 253-82; and in An Olaf Stapledon Reader. Ed. Robert Crossley (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1997), 42-60. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Outward Urge. A Novel Y1 - 1944 A1 - [Alec] Richard Lea (1907-2003) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Starts with an authoritarian dystopia with various forms of direct control and London something like a concentration camp. By the end of the novel, the worst of the dystopia is gone and, while not a eutopia, there is a good society in contrast with the recent past.

PB - Rich & Cowan CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Peace in Nobody's Time Y1 - 1944 A1 - [George Alexis Milkomanovich] [Milkomane] (1903-96) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Russian author AB -

Satire. Dictatorship with some socialist elements like the abolition of money and the introduction of labor coupons. The stress is on going to extremes to cure social ills. Nudists were required to be nude all the time, which stopped them from being nudists. Marriage was abolished, and the people demanded its reinstatement. Pornography was legalized and disappeared.

PB - Hutchinson CY - London U3 -

George Borodin [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Phantom Victory; The Fourth Reich 1945-1960 Y1 - 1944 A1 - Erwin [Christian] Lessner (1898-1959) KW - Austrian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. German officers form an underground after defeat and conquer the world.

PB - G.P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York U5 -

DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Proposed World Government Y1 - 1944 A1 - George A. Birdsall KW - Male author AB -

Proposed new world government including a detailed constitution with many of its structure based on the U.S. Constitution (85-110). National militaries will be disbanded. A world currency will be gradually adopted. “American English” will be the basis of the official world language. “Six Musts” are specified: a World Congress; a World Court; a World Police Force under Congressional control; continuing inspection to ensure disarmament; safeguards against too much power in one nation, group, or person; and the entire world must be included.

PB - The Shaw Press CY - Arlington, VA U5 -

NLS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Realities" Y1 - 1944 A1 - Leslie Rubenstein (1902?-78) ED - E[dwin] J[ones] Brady ED - Leslie Rubenstein (1902?-78) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia brought about by a planned settlement similar to garden cities. Considerable detail of acreage and layout is given, and there is a map showing part of the planned city. There is information on housing, health care, and other aspects of community life. The author also depicts fictionalized supporters and skeptics. On the Garden City movement, see The Garden City: Past, Present and Future. Ed. Stephen V. Ward. London: E & FN SPON, 1992.

JF - Dreams and Realities PB - York Press CY - Melbourne, VIC, Australia U5 -

A, M

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Renaissance" Y1 - 1944 A1 - Raymond F[isher] Jones (1915-94) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. A device that allows people to be transferred to another planet is used by the dominant powers, called the Statists, on Earth to get rid of all the scientists and independent thinkers. But some find their way back and a struggle for control begins with the possibility of a renaissance on Earth.

JF - Astounding Science-Fiction (New York) VL - 33.5 - 34.2 N1 -

Repub. as Renaissance: A Science Fiction Novel of Two Human Worlds. New York: Gnome, 1951. Rpt. as Man of Two Worlds: A Science Fiction Novel. New York: Pyramid Books, 1963. 

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Repub. as Renaissance: A Science Fiction Novel of Two Human Worlds New York : Gnome, 1951. Rpt. as Man of Two Worlds: A Science Fiction Novel. New York: Pyramid Books, 1963. 

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Riddle of the Tower Y1 - 1944 A1 - J[ohn] D[avys] Beresford (1873-1947) A1 - Esmé Wynne-Tyson (1898-1972) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Male author AB -

A number of past and future societies are presented from an anti-utopian perspective. The focus of the novel is on the horrors of communalism.

PB - Hutchinson CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - That Would Be Living: A new outlet for Capital and Character Y1 - 1944 A1 - W. J. Keith Hughes KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Describes the establishment in Britain of Delectavale, the Workers' Co-operative Society. Both communal buildings and private homes. Ultimately the author proposes a world government led by the Mundists and suggest many reforms.

JF - Invitation to Life PB - Mundist Press CY - Aldham, Essex, Eng. VL - 1. No evidence of the other planned volumes. N1 -

Aldham, Essex, Eng. Mundist Press_

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Threefold Democracy Y1 - 1944 A1 - Walter Shaw Lang KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Detailed non-fiction eutopia. Influenced by Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925), the Austrian founder of Anthroposophy. The threefold division is into a sphere of freedom, a sphere of rights, and a sphere of economics. Stress on economics, including the R-L Plan for a sinking fund. Workers should ultimately be able to own the enterprises in which they work.

PB - Wright & Jaques CY - Auckland, New Zealand U5 -

ATL, M, O, VUW

ER - TY - ABST T1 - When? A prophetical novel of the very near future Y1 - 1944 A1 - H. Ben Judah [pseud.] AB -

A eutopia based on the ideas of British Israelism. The world after the Second Coming of Christ. Abundance.

PB - H. Ben Judah. Distributed by British Israel Association of Greater Vancouver CY - Vancouver, BC, Canada U3 -

H. Ben Judah [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Worlds Beginning Y1 - 1944 A1 - Robert Ardrey KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The successful struggle to create a eutopia based on a complex new form of industry that gives workers partial ownership of the company and, it is argued, the incentive to do their best work. Set in the U.S. twenty years after World War II, which had been followed by industrial, class, and racial conflict, leading to a year called "the terror".

PB - Duell, Sloan and Pearce CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1945. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The 1946 Ms Y1 - 1943 A1 - Robin [Robert Cecil Romer] Maugham [2nd Viscount Maugham] (1916-81) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Describes the origins and development of a military dictatorship in England that becomes a fascist dystopia. On the last page the author says that the dictators do not exist and, "This story was written so that they never will exist and so that Britons never will be slaves".

PB - War Facts Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Adventures of the Young Soldier in Search of The Better World Y1 - 1943 A1 - C[yril] E[dwin] M[itchinson] Joad (1891-1953) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Alice in Wonderland fantasy discussion of plans for and problems of post-war Britain. Includes both eutopian and dystopian elements with the plans of the Labour Party presented most positively.

PB - Faber and Faber CY - London U2 -

Illus. Mervyn Peake (1911-68)

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - America's Sin Offering; The Budget Balancer Y1 - 1943 A1 - Zori, Henri KW - Male author AB -

Satire on politics and bureaucracy. SMAISM = Scions of SMA or Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. Proposes an absurd twenty-third amendment to the U.S. Constitution that requires all citizens to sacrifice a boar, specifically a White-Lipped Peccary, on a specific day each year. Contains explanations of the many regulations needed.

PB - Bruce Humphries CY - Boston, MA U1 -

Dust jacket subtitle is The Militant Phase of Bureaucracy SMAISM.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Anno Domini 1963 Y1 - 1943 A1 - Finigan, G. Lysaght KW - Male author AB -

Successful democracy with many reforms such as government paying 60% of overseas travel, extensive building of hospitals, and world-wide price stability. Based on Christianity and the family and brought about by women becoming active in politics and unions.

PB - Direct Publicity Co CY - Liverpool, Eng. U5 -

LSE

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Captain Marvel Finds Utopia" Y1 - 1943 A1 - Bill [William H.] Parker (author) A1 - C[harles] C[larence] Beck (artist) KW - Male author AB -

Captain Marvel traces a Nazi to Utopia.

JF - Whiz Comics (New York) VL - 7.39 U2 -

C[harles] C[larence] Beck (Artist)

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Cities of the Plain: A Democratic Melodrama Y1 - 1943 A1 - Alex[ander] Comfort (1920-2000) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Anti-capitalist dystopia and revolt. A one act play showing a town run for profit with no concern for the workers who, mining radium, will die to provide a profit for the owners. 

PB - Grey Walls Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Clash By Night" Y1 - 1943 A1 - [Henry] [Kuttner] (1914-58) A1 - [Catherine Lucille] [Moore] (1911-87) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Permanent war among mercenaries on Venus.

JF - Astounding Science Fiction (New York) VL - 31.1 U3 -

Lawrence O'Donnell [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Erōne Y1 - 1943 A1 - [Elfric Wells] Chalmers Kearney (1881-1966) KW - Australian author KW - UK author AB -

Detailed eutopia based on love and cooperation. Many technical advances. The national profit is distributed equally to everyone twenty or older. No public or private debt and money cannot be accumulated year to year. All services, like food, lodging, and transport, are free.

PB - Biddles Ltd CY - Guildford, Eng. N1 -

4th ed. rev. as Erone. London: The Commodore Press, 1945. 5th ed. London: The Eastern Press, 1950.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - From Earth to Mars Y1 - 1943 A1 - J[ohn] W[inton] Heming (1900-1953) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Detailed eutopia on Mars based on reason and logic, which leads to complete equality, including gender equality, a credit card system of exchange, limited work hours, and the abolition of elected officials. High technology.

PB - Currawong Publishing CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Future Revealed in the Wisdom of Chiska Ru. An Unbiased Stranger Guides the Discussion . . . Y1 - 1943 A1 - Ralph Fuller KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

A Martian visits Earth to learn about conditions there, which was, of course, at war at the time. Mars is a cooperative eutopia with a significant focus on education.

PB - Atlas Printers CY - Vancouver, BC, Canada U2 -

Illus. Shirley Fortune.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Gather, Darkness!" Y1 - 1943 A1 - Fritz [Reuter] Leiber [Jr.] (1910-92) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Religious dystopia ruled by hereditary priests who work in twos so they can spy on each other. There is a rigid class system of religious and commoners, and the majority are controlled by keeping them ignorant. Something of a response to 1941 Heinlein.

JF - Astounding Science Fiction (New York) VL - 31.3 - 5 N1 -

Repub. New York: Pellegrini & Cudahy, 1950. Rpt. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1951; New York: Berkley Medallion, [1962]; New York: Pyramid, 1969; New York: Ballantine Books, 1975; and Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1980.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Gladiators" Y1 - 1943 A1 - Walt Dennis A1 - Ernest Tucker KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. After wars had devastated the earth, the remaining population inhabited two domes of 25,000 people each with a third dome of forest. Twice a year gladiators provided entertainment by fighting to the death in the third dome as representatives of one of the inhabited domes. Most people led dull, boring lives, and the gladiators and other entertainers provided the only breaks in the monotony. The gladiators and entertainers revolt and are expelled from the domes, only to discover that the earth had recovered.

JF - Startling Stories (Chicago, IL) VL - 9.1 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Iron Standard" Y1 - 1943 A1 - [Henry] [Kuttner] (1914-58) A1 - [Catherine Lucille] [Moore] (1911-87) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia on a Venus that sees its system, thousands of years old, as perfect and allows no innovation, which benefits those in power. Men from Earth upset the system

JF - Astounding Science Fiction 32.4 (December 1943) U3 -

Lewis Padgett [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "It Happened Tomorrow” Y1 - 1943 A1 - Robert [Albert] Bloch (1917-94) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The dystopia created when machines revolt and the effect on the lives of ordinary people.

JF - Astounding Stories VL - 4.3 N1 -

Rpt. in The Devil With You! The Lost Bloch, Volume 1. Ed. David J. Schlow (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 1999), 161-206, with a “Foreword” by Bloch on 161-62. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Let's Triumvirate or Man, Government and Happiness. A Philosophy of Man and a World-Wide Government Founded Upon Laws of Nature Y1 - 1943 A1 - Oswald Francis Zahn (b. 1874) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Detailed eutopia based on Uupolach or the universal urge principle of love and happiness, which is ". . . a strong desire or urge for, a thrilling, joyous ecstasy or emotion of order, harmony, concord, betterment, pleasure, happiness, contentment, universal love, charity, kindness and gratitude" (18). Argues that there is evidence of a former eutopia on Earth. The first step to the new eutopia is "honest information", and he gives "A Code for Honest Information" (235-55). The new "Triumvirate System" will divide the world into equal parts (suggested maps are provided), with various subdivisions so that every voter (all adults) will know personally the person they vote for.

PB - Author CY - San Diego, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lost Traveller Y1 - 1943 A1 - Ruthven [Campbell] Todd (1914-78) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Surrealist fantasy of an imaginary country that is an authoritarian dystopia. At the end the protagonist turns into a bird.

PB - The Grey Walls Press CY - London N1 -

Rpt. with the Craxton drawings and "An Attempt at a Preface" (1-6) by the author. New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1968.

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Illus. John Craxton.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Mechanistic or a Human Society? Y1 - 1943 A1 - Wilfred Wellock (1879-1972) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A pamphlet that decries the dominance of machines and the machine-mentality they produce. The author calls for a simpler life based on traditional English agriculture and decentralization to the village level or a “land-based democracy” (15). Cooperation. Regionalism. In his “Introduction” to the U.S. ed. Tamplin argues for the use of machines “more on the behalf of freeing and benefiting man” (2) and says, “Our society is itself a great mechanistic structure” (3). He says he is sure Wellock would agree.

PB - [Ptd. by The Hereford Times for Wilfred Wellock, Quinton, Birmingham] CY - [Hereford, Eng.] N1 -

U.S. ed. [New York: Decentralist Press, 1945]], with an “Introduction” (2-3) by Richard T. Tamplin.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mr. Mirakel Y1 - 1943 A1 - E[dward] Phillips Oppenheim (1886-1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A small enclave during World War II that survives Earth's revolt against war. Very upper class eutopia.

PB - Hodder & Stoughton CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. Boston, MA: Little Brown, 1943

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Perelandra Y1 - 1943 A1 - C[live] S[taples] Lewis (1898-1963) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Northern Ireland author AB -

Second volume of a trilogy on the battle between good and evil. Re-enactment of the Adam and Eve myth on Venus but with no Fall. Stresses closeness to animals. The other volumes of the trilogy are 1938 and 1945 Lewis. In addition, one of the major characters of the trilogy appears in 1977 Lewis. 

PB - John Lane, The Bodley Head CY - London N1 -

Rpt. New York: Scribner Classics, 1996. Rpt. as Voyage to Venus. London: Pan, 1953. 

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 Rpt. as Voyage to Venus. London: Pan, 1953. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Social Justice Leadership Correspondence Course Y1 - 1943 A1 - Crusade for Social Justice KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author AB -

Twenty short bulletins describing a better future society and both encouraging people to become leaders and teaching techniques of leadership.

PB - Crusade for Social Justice CY - Auckland, New Zealand U1 -

Bulletin, Nos. 1-20.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “They Came to a City. A Play in Two Acts” Y1 - 1943 A1 - J[ohn] B[oynton] Priestley (1894-1984) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The eutopia that might be possible in post-war Britain as seen through the eyes of characters representative of contemporary Britain. Only some see it positively.

JF - Three Plays PB - William Heinemann CY - London N1 -

Rpt. without the subtitle in his Four Plays (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1944), 151-221. Rpt. as “They Came to a City: A Play in Two Acts.” In The Plays of J.B. Priestley. Volume III (London: William Heinemann, 1950), 139-201 with a brief note by Priestley on xi. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Voyage to Venus Y1 - 1943 A1 - Dominic[k] Healy (1896-1954?) KW - Australian author KW - Male author KW - Northern Ireland author AB -

Two eutopias. The first, briefly described, is a socialist eutopia based on state-controlled trusts that developed on Earth after World War II. No unemployment. Much technological improvement. The Confederated States of America include all of North and South America. The second eutopia is on Venus and is a technologically based cockaigne, at least as far as food is concerned, with, for example, a Delicatessen Forest. Venus is one country with one government. Everything on Venus standardized and visitors from the old Earth find it too perfect. Much of the novel is taken up with the conflicts this produces.

PB - Currawong Publishing Co CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Weapon Makers Y1 - 1943 A1 - A[lfred] E[lton] van Vogt (1912-2000) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A very early example of libertarian science fiction in that it champions the opposition to an oppressive government through the easy distribution of weapons. See also 1949 Van Vogt. 

JF - Astounding Science Fiction (New York) PB - Hadley Publishing Co CY - Providence, RI VL - 30.6 - 31.2 N1 -

Repub. Providence, RI: Hadley Publishing Co., 1947. U.K. ed. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1954. Also published as One against Eternity. New York: Ace Books, 1955. An Ace Double bound with Murray Leinster The Other Side of Here

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 Also published as One against Eternity. New York: Ace Books, 1955.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - When Adolf Came. A Novel Y1 - 1943 A1 - Martin Hawkin[s] KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which Germany wins World War II but the English fight on.

PB - Jarrold's Ltd CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Where the Stars Are Born Y1 - 1943 A1 - George [Thomas] Spaull (1876-1965) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

A young adult novel describing a eutopia with no money, no warfare, work for all, and technological advances.

PB - William Brooks & Co CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Why Was I Killed? A Dramatic Dialogue Y1 - 1943 A1 - Rex [Reginald Ernest] Warner (1905-86) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A dead soldier asks the question, which is discussed by seven people, with the soldier observing the discussion and the stages of each individual’s past that led them to take the position they do. In one chapter, “The New Order” (92-111), the soldier observes life under the Nazi regime and in a concentration camp.

PB - John Lane CY - London N1 -

 Rpt. London: Faber & Faber, 2008.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "World Beyond the Sky" Y1 - 1943 A1 - Robert Moore Williams (1907-77) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. A world that had been eutopian, having conquered disease, tamed the planet, and provided a good life for all was perceived to be weak by some who created an authoritarian, violent dystopia "correcting" the faults of the eutopia. People from Earth help to defeat the dystopia and future contact is planned.

JF - Startling Stories (Chicago, IL) VL - 9.1 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - World Without Raiment. A Fantasy Y1 - 1943 A1 - Louise Dardenelle KW - Female author AB -

Two eutopias. The first is the description of a nudist colony where people "live as nature intended" (99). The second is a new world along the lines of an earthly paradise that Nature has produced. Warmer. No clothes or paper. People live simply.

PB - Valiant Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The 21st Century Sizes Us Up Y1 - 1942 A1 - E[manuel] Robert Posnack (b. 1897) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Introduction to 1946 Posnack emphasizing the current situation from the perspective of the 21st century. The last few pages lay out what he is going to cover in the later book.

PB - Loder Appeal Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Barrier" Y1 - 1942 A1 - [William Anthony Parker] [White] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The future has established barriers to time travelers, and the period presented here is an authoritarian dystopia with limits to try to keep change from happening. The ideal is "Stasis."

JF - Astounding Science Fiction (New York) VL - 30.1 N1 -

Rpt. in Spectrum IV: A Science Fiction Anthology. Ed. Kingsley Amis and Robert Conquest (London: Victor Gollancz, 1965), 134-88; in From Mind to Mind: Tales of Communication from Analog. At head of title Analog Anthology #9. Ed. Stanley Schmidt (New York: Dial Press Davis Publications, 1984), 7-47; and in The Compleat Boucher: The Complete Short Science Fiction and Fantasy of Anthony Boucher. Ed. James A. Mann (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 1998), 165-201.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Breakdown" Y1 - 1942 A1 - Jack [John Stewart] Williamson (1908-2006) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of union domination. The author says that it is not intended to be anti-labor but "to contrast the forces of social creation and the facts of social stagnation" (People Machines, 153).

JF - Astounding Science Fiction (New York) VL - 28.5 N1 -

U.K. ed. Astounding Science Fiction 28. 5 (January 1942): 2-19. Rpt. in U.K. ed. Astounding Science Fiction 8.1 (December 1951): 2-36; in Journey to Infinity. Ed. Martin Greenberg (New York: Gnome Press, 1951), 110-44; in his People Machines (New York: Ace Books, 1971), 154-87, with an author’s note on 151-53; and in The Collected Stories of Jack Williamson Volume Seven: With Folded Hands and Searching Mind (Royal Oak, MI: Haffner Press, 2010), 19-54. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Change of Heart Y1 - 1942 A1 - Mea Allan (1909-82) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Dystopia set in post-World War II Germany in which a committed National Socialist develops a plan to become the next Führer with his infant son to follow him in that role.

PB - George G. Harrap CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Christianity and Social Order Y1 - 1942 A1 - William Temple Archbishop of York (1881-1944) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Nonfiction that lays out of the principles for a Christian democratic socialist eutopia after the war.

PB - Penguin Books CY - Harmondsworth, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "City of Glass" Y1 - 1942 A1 - Noel [Miller] Loomis (1905-69) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Far future earth with two societies at war over diminished resources. One, while authoritarian, is attempting to create a decent life; the other, in which most of the people are starving, is an authoritarian dictatorship. Free trade solves the problem. A related story is his “Iron Men.” Startling Stories (Chicago, IL) 11.3 (Winter 1945): 11-65.

JF - Startling Stories (Chicago, IL) VL - 8.1 N1 -

Repub. as The City of Glass: A Complete Science Fiction Novel. New York: Columbia Publishers, 1955.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Darkness and the Light Y1 - 1942 A1 - [William] Olaf Stapledon (1886-1950) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia and dystopia presented as two alternative future histories. The dystopia is extrapolated from the situation as it existed in 1942. In the eutopia that situation is overcome and for a time a eutopia based on villages develops. Following that, the human race goes through periods of decline and advance until a new and higher human type develops. 

PB - Methuen CY - London N1 -

Rpt. Westport, CT: Hyperion Press, 1974. Excerpts rpt. in An Olaf Stapledon Reader. Ed. Robert Crossley (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1997), 28-42.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Drives Toward War Y1 - 1942 A1 - Edward Chace Tolman (1856-1959) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Essay but includes a short conclusion called a utopia (100-12) describing the society necessary, from the point of view of a psychologist, for avoiding war. This society must not frustrate basic biological needs, encourage identification with "acceptable authority figures," and create a "supranational state" to which people will feel more loyalty than to their nation-state (102).

PB - D. Appleton-Century Co CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Grand Canyon Y1 - 1942 A1 - V[ictoria Mary] Sackville-West (1892-1962) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia and eutopia. Germany wins World War II and Japan is defeated by the U.S., but peace last only briefly until Germany and Japan attack the U.S. During the attack a few people escape to the bottom of the Grand Canyon, where they create a good, cooperative society.

PB - Michael Joseph CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. with the subtitle A Novel. New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1942.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Great Conflict Y1 - 1942 A1 - Hal [Harold Curtis] Hall KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia set in 2009. A man who had been living in a remote, isolated valley returns to find a new civilization. The US New Deal program is completed and produces a eutopia, which is made possible by extending democracy beyond the merely political.

PB - Ptd. by the Haynes Corp CY - Los Angeles, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - History of the Utopian Society of America; An Authentic Account of Its Origin and Development Up to 1942 Y1 - 1942 A1 - Newton Van Dalsem KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Detailed reform based on the right of employment that provides an income providing an appropriate standard of living. 

PB - The Utopian Society CY - Los Angeles, CA N1 -

Parts originally published as "Utopias, Past and Present." The Roman Forum 8.8 - 9 (November - December 1939): 5-10, 4-11.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - I Am the World. A Romance Y1 - 1942 A1 - Peter Vansittart (1920-2008) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Imaginary country in which a young man plans to overthrow the monarchy and become dictator. Conflict, love, and religion.

PB - Chatto & Windus CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - I, James Blunt Y1 - 1942 A1 - H[enry Canova] V[ollom] Morton (1892-1979) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which Germany wins World War II and sets about destroying Britain.

PB - Methuen CY - London N1 -

Canadian ed. Toronto, ON, Canada: Dodd, Mead, 1942.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Islandia Y1 - 1942 A1 - Austin Tappan Wright (1883-1931) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

One of the most comprehensive eutopias ever written. The eutopia focuses on family, home, and place. Islandians are country dwellers who live on one farm for generations and only temporarily move to cities. No rich or poor even though there are aristocrats and denerir, who work on the land but have absolute right in both law and custom, which is more important than law in Islandia, to their land and homes. Considerable detail on the different expressions of love, with sexual love the least important. See also 1969, 1979, and 1982 Saxton.

PB - Farrar & Rinehart CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: New American Library, 1970; New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971; and Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press/London: Duckworth Press, 2001 with an “Introduction” by John Silbersack (v-x). A selection was rpt. as “The Story of Alwina.” Elsewhere. Ed. Terri Windling and Mark Alan Arnold (New York: Ace Books, 1981), 164-86. Additional material by Wright was summarized by Basil Davenport (1905-66), An Introduction to Islandia: its history, customs, laws, language, and geography as prepared by Basil Davenport from “Islandia: History and Description” by Jean Perrier, first French Consul to Islandia, and translated by John Lang, first American Consul. With Maps drawn by John Lang. Toronto, ON, Canada: Farrar and Rinehart, 1942, which includes a bibliography, population statistics, notes on the climate, and a glossary created by Wright. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "New Order" Y1 - 1942 A1 - Edward [Falaise] Upward (1903-2009) ED - John Lehmann Editor KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Brief description of the dystopia that develops as the result of loss in a war with some suggestion of the development of resistance.

JF - The Penguin New Writing PB - Penguin Books CY - Harmondsworth, Eng. VL - No. 14 N1 -

Rpt. in his The Railway Accident and Other Stories (London: Heinemann, 1969), 220-22.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A New Social Order Y1 - 1942 A1 - Cephas [pseud.] AB -

A detailed eutopia similar to 1888 Bellamy. Nationalization of industries; all are employed by the government. Credit-card system for purchases and all credit must be spent each year. Cooperative housekeeping and cooking.

PB - Cornish Brothers CY - Birmingham, Eng. U3 -

Cephas [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - New Trade Winds for the Seven Seas Y1 - 1942 A1 - Alaric J. Roberts KW - Male author AB -

The “Dedication” (v) says that the book portrays “a practical and workable plan for stabilizing the economic structure of the entire world,” but the bulk of the book is an adventure story in which a group of friends enter a cave and go deep into the Earth where, after many trials and tribulations, the discovery a fully functioning Atlantis and Lemuria, which are described as eutopias. Only in the last pages is the plan for Earth revealed, which includes an international board that would control the exports of raw materials of all countries, an international currency to be used for trade, and international birth control. 

PB - J. F. Rowny Press CY - Santa Barbara, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Other Worlds Y1 - 1942 A1 - J[ohn] W[inton] Heming (1900-1953) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

A trip to Mercury and Venus, which are both eutopias of sorts. The people of Mercury are deaf and communicate with gestures. Mercury practices negative eugenics, killing children who show signs of disease or violence, although the practice has succeeded and is rarely needed. No disease because all germs have been eliminated. Termite-like society with a Queen for giving birth. Most children are neuter. No individuality. Bred for a particular occupation. Equal pay. On Venus the people do not wear clothes, have no noses, eat grass, and live in hollows in the banks of rivers or oceans.

PB - Currawong CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia U5 -

A, Monash, UQsld

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Overthrow” Y1 - 1942 A1 - Cleve Cartmill (1908-64) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia. Conflict among corporation.

JF - Astounding Science Fiction VL - 30.3 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pack Rat: A Metaphoric Fantasy Y1 - 1942 A1 - Francis Clement Kelley (1870-1948) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian satire on the politics of the time.

PB - Bruce Publishing Co CY - Milwaukee, WI U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The People's Plan Y1 - 1942 KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author AB -

Detailed proposals for a radically reformed New Zealand after World War 2. Christian.

PB - Observer Printing Works CY - Auckland, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The People's Plan for a New Order: Giving Twenty-four Points for Reconstruction of the Present Orthodox System of Economics Y1 - 1942 A1 - Chas. [Charles] E[dward] Phillips J.P., A.P.A.N.Z. KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Proposes the establishment of New Zealand Ltd. which would issue "negotiable, non-interest bearing debentures" that must be used within a specified period of time. New Zealand Ltd. would provide all national and local finance and hold all national and local assets and liabilities. Dividends paid to all citizens over 21 (40 in the first year), all of whom are required to work if needed. There is no evidence that this is connected with The People's Plan of the Dominion Reconstruction Conference of the same year.

PB - The Unity Press Ltd CY - Auckland, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Revolt in Arcadia Y1 - 1942 A1 - Gösta Larsson AB -

Young adult novel that ends in a cooperative commonwealth.

PB - American Publishers CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Tarnished Utopia" Y1 - 1942 A1 - Malcolm Jameson (1891-1945) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia with slavery and torture followed by a successful revolt.

JF - Startling Stories (Chicago, IL) VL - 7.2 N1 -

Repub. New York: Galaxy, 1956. Galaxy Science Fiction Novel No. 27.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Then We Shall Hear Singing; A Fantasy in C Major Y1 - 1942 A1 - [Margaret] Storm Jameson (1891-1986) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Fascist dystopia set in a country that has experienced many invasions and has a tradition of resistance. The people are not allowed to sing, and the native language is prohibited in schools. The dictator approves a program of medical experiments on the people of the country intended to eliminate resistance by removing part of the brain.

PB - Cassell CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Macmillan, 1942. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "This Precious Freedom" Y1 - 1942 A1 - Arch Oboler (1907-87) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the U.S. is invaded by a totalitarian regime.

JF - This Precious Freedom; Thirteen New Radio Plays PB - Random House CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Is This Utopia? A Plan of Life in the Post-War World. Equality of Education Equality of Opportunity No Unemployment Wages for Wives Children's Allowances Y1 - 1942 A1 - Frank R. Johnson KW - Male author AB -

Socialist eutopia for post war Britain in essay form. All adults receive a minimum income, and there is a children's allowance until sixteen. Free medical and dental care. Better housing and more open space.

PB - Ptd. by Perry Brothers Ltd., The Hotspur Press CY - Manchester, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Time Marches Off Y1 - 1942 A1 - [John] [Winton] [Heming] (1900-1953) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Humorous science fiction. Time travel into a series of future Australias set between 2050 and 4000. The first presents a scientifically advanced dictatorship where everyone has a number and individual thinking is discouraged. The rest present the struggle between men and women, with women dominant in most of them, although in one, animals are in control and everyone lives underground. Eventually most men are killed off and the men traveling from the past take advantage of the situation. Much better written than the usual Heming work. Graham Stone in Notes on Australian Science Fiction. (Sydney, NSW: Graham Stone, 2001), 28 says that it was originally written as a play.

PB - Currawong Publishing CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia N1 -

Rpt. under the author's name Sydney, NSW: Graham Stone, 1997.

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Paul de Wreder [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Try Another World; A Saga coursing its way through the six adventures of Joe Shaun which thrilled the village of Caryldale Y1 - 1942 A1 - John J[oseph] Meyer (1873-1948) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Cerebroland is a planet in contact with the Godhead. As a result, the people become good. Atro is a planet where everyone is absolutely frank, which is supposed to produce eutopia but creates a dystopia instead. The protagonist also visits the Tarcorned World, where all the nations are at war, Redonia, a world to which an entire nation immigrates to avoid the war, and Nosaer--the Mentator World, which is a eutopia. The Mentator is a "mind-machine" which imbues people with telepathy. 1935 Meyer includes the Mentator. See also 1917 Meyer.

PB - The Business Bourse CY - New York N1 -

2nd rev. ed as. The Immortal Tales of Joe Shaun: An enchanting artist makes the five immortal hopes and dreams of mankind come true. DELIGHTFUL CATNIP FOR THE MIND. A satire on the stark realities; spiced with the greatest love story ever told; and blended with bewitching fantasy on the five freedoms of the cosmos. Yonkers, NY: The Carydale Library, [1944]. Other than the title, the only differences are that in the later edition no author is given for the “Introduction” and a “Prevue” summarizing the text. A note in the 1944 edition says that some of the material had been published previously.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - An Unknown Land Y1 - 1942 A1 - Viscount [Herbert Louis] Samuel (1870-1963) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

An explorer comes to believe that Belsalem, the country described in Bacon’s New Atlantis (1627) must exist and searches for, and discovers, it. Here the basis for the utopia is a treatment that enlarges the brain, and in addition to the science and technology central to the New Atlantis, there is great stress on health and mental activity. All knowledge had been sifted for truth. Work consists mostly of overseeing machines. No money. The family is sacrosanct and birth control produces a stable population. Little government need; some administration. The book concludes with two appendices. The first is “A Note on the Changing Shape of the Skull” (215-216) that consists of abstracts from Sir Janes Frazer’s the Golden Bough. Vol. 2 The Magic Art, 297. The second is “Scientific Discoveries” (217-221) and presents more information on three points in the book, the Nature of Light, Positive and negative electricity, and the Mental Ambience.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The White Race is Supreme. Racial Education Based upon Spiritual, Scientific fact and General Observation. A White Woman’s Soul Turns Black. The White Man’s Toleration Is All to Blame Y1 - 1942 A1 - Father W[illiam] E. Riker (1873-1969) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Racist eutopia as reflected in the title. See also [194-] Riker, The Perfect Government.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Adam Link Faces a Revolt" Y1 - 1941 A1 - [Earl Andrew] [Binder] (1904-65) A1 - [Otto Oscar] [Binder] (1911-75) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia in which robots prove as intractable as humans.

JF - Amazing Stories (Chicago, IL) VL - 15.5 U3 -

Eando Binder [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - An Address--supposed to be spoken on 24 January, 1992 Y1 - 1941 A1 - Arnold Freeman KW - Male author AB -

A eutopia in essay form inspired by Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925), the Austrian founder of Anthroposophy, and which mentions his "threefold social commonwealth." The date is the 50th anniversary of the inauguration of the World-Commonwealth of Mankind. Business and education are supposed to be free from state interference, but policy is still set by Parliament. Charter of Workers' Rights--shorter working day, better working conditions, and increased rates of pay. Stress on the "production of food, clothing, houses, cigars and all the other essentials of existence" (13).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Aerodrome: A Love Story Y1 - 1941 A1 - Rex [Reginald Ernest] Warner (1905-86) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which a military leader imposes his very restrictive version of military discipline on a rapidly expanding airfield and the area around it. He plans to take over all of Britain. He argues that women should be used sexually by the airmen as long as no children are born, and no long-term attachment develops.

PB - John Lane CY - London N1 -

Rpt. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1982, with an “Introduction” by Anthony Burgess (9-12); London: Vintage books, 2008 with an “Introduction” by Michael [John] Moorcock ([ix-xx]). U.S. ed. Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott, [1946]. Rpt. with the subtitle A Novel. London: John Lane, 1944; and as New ed. with the subtitle A Novel. London: John Lane, 1946; U.S. Ed. Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott, 1946. Rpt. with the subtitle A Novel and the “Introduction” by Burgess (9-12). London: The Bodley Head, 1982. Rpt. with the original subtitle London: The Bodley Head, 1966, with an “Introduction” by Angus Wilson (9-11); U.S. ed. Boston, MA: Atlantic Monthly Press Book/Little, Brown and Co., 1966, with the “Introduction” by Angus Wilson (9-11); rpt. New York: Ballantine Books, 1969, with the “Introduction” by Angus Wilson (xi-xiii). Most of the many have the original subtitle.

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Trans. as L’Aérodrome. Roman. Trans. Ludmila Savitsky. Paris: Éditions de la Revue Fontaine, 1945.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Atlantis" Y1 - 1941 A1 - W[ystan] H[ugh] Auden (1907-73) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The struggle to reach utopia, particularly the diversions on the way.

JF - Christianity and Society VL - 6.3 N1 -

Rpt. in The Collected Poetry of W.H. Auden (New York: Random House, 1945), 20-22; in Collected Shorter Poems, 1927-1957 (New York: Random House, 1967), 202-204; Selected Poems. Ed. Edward Mendelson (New York: Vintage Books, 1979), 116-118; and in The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Poems. Volume II 1940-1973. Ed. Edward Mendelson (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2022), 232-234, with a Textual Note on 873.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The British Countryside in 1951" Y1 - 1941 A1 - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A very brief eutopia based on Germany being defeated in the war, the air coming under the control of a world authority, the establishment of world law based on a Declaration of Rights (included in the book 49-54), and the adoption of socialism. Some of the countryside has been allowed to return to its natural state and areas have been reforested. Villages have more amenities. Children from the cities will spend much time in the country. The old stately homes have been turned into country clubs and hotels. In “Future Cities” (96-97), he says that in this essay and “Uprooted People” (94-95), he was “trying to Imagine the face of the world in 1951, if civilisation wins the war” (92).

JF - Guide to the New World: A Handbook of Constructive World Revolution PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Common Enemy Y1 - 1941 A1 - J[ohn] D[avys] Beresford (1873-1947) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel begins with a world-wide disaster brought about by an object passing through the solar system that throws the Earth's orbit off, causing massive storms and world-wide shifts in land, and moving Earth closer to the sun. This ends World War II because most of Germany is flooded. In Britain, led by a man who recognizes that the disaster provides a common enemy that pulls people together, the rebuilding process slowly produces a socialist eutopia. Democracy rejected at the national level, but local democracy is being created. At the end of the novel, although the U.S. is recreating competitive capitalism, Europeans are in the process of creating similar cooperative systems.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Eden Island. A Novel Y1 - 1941 A1 - [Alethea Catherine] [Hayter] (1911-2006) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

While most of the novel is the story of the life of an heiress, there are utopian elements both in the good works she undertakes and in her creation of Eden Island, which she establishes to provide a home for a refugee orchestra and others.

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J. C. Fennessy [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Eucalyptus Y1 - 1941 A1 - [William] Hardy Wilson (1881-1955) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

A summary through autobiography of his various works presenting ideal cities. See also 1920, 1929, 1934, 1949 Wilson.

PB - Author CY - Wandin, VIC, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Frolics in Politics Y1 - 1941 A1 - John Macleod KW - Australian author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Humor. Satire on the politics of the imaginary country of Fantasia (bounded on all sides by Utopia), which is Australia.

PB - Currawong CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia U5 -

Monash

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Happiness Highway Y1 - 1941 A1 - [Edith] [Sutherland] KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia reflecting the position of the 1942 Crusade for Social Justice and 1943 The People's Plan in which Christian values are put into practice.

PB - Whitcombe and Tombs CY - Christchurch, New Zealand U3 -

"Joan" (Miss Edith Sutherland) [Cover has Joan 1Z.B.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Island in the Sky" Y1 - 1941 A1 - Manly Wade Wellman (1903-86) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia including gladiators required to fight.

JF - Thrilling Wonder Stories (New York) VL - 21.1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - The New World Order And How It Will Be Established: The World, As it was; As it is; And as it will be. An intensely interesting and thought-provoking book Y1 - 1941 A1 - J[oseph] E[dward] Paynter (1868-1960) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

British Israelism detailing the Mosaic system of representation (the decimal systems used by John Eliot and others) and the way that the Israel nations will become united. Includes a “Lecture Delivered by Request to the British Israel World Federation October 18th, 1939” (158-62) and a one page “Articles of Association Brotherhood of United Israel” (163).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Newtopia; The World We Want Y1 - 1941 A1 - Philip Whitewell Wilson KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Newtopians are average people who are mostly focused on their homes. Most of the book is on current conditions and the war in particular. The eutopian aspects of the book focus on the conditions that will allow people to lead a decent life. International unity is one such condition, and the author refers to 1939 Streit. Reformed capitalism. Christian but more generally religious.

PB - Charles Scribner's Sons CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Of Things Entire: A Fantasy Y1 - 1941 A1 - Valerie Chick KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Detailed eutopia including all the peoples of Earth who dream of a better life but not including those who are greedy or make wars. Called "the dream world that lives in the hearts of men" (9). Simplicity, love, and a natural life. Everyone does both mental and physical labor. Because everyone is motivated by the same goals, there is harmony and not conflict. World peace. Everyone has their own home; they do not live in apartments or high-rise buildings. Much of the novel presents the contrasting lives of people before and after entering the eutopia, where they are able to lead the lives really suited for them.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Read What Happened on the Island of Nogi, or Why Business is Bad Y1 - 1941 A1 - J[oseph] W[illiam] Parker KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Anti-capitalist allegory set on the island of Nogi, which was a successful, balanced economy until a capitalist arrived and destroyed the economy. ". . . the moral of this story is that the insurance companies, the food trust and other large corporations are taking away from the public billions of dollars in excess profits which they are unable to either use or lend. The result is exactly what we should expect.” (7). See also 1935 Parker. 

PB - J. W. Parker Optometrist CY - Kansas City, MO U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Samsons Y1 - 1941 A1 - Alberic A. Archambault (b. 1887) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Includes both eutopian and dystopian elements and both a statement of the importance of Jews to the American economy and stereotyped depictions of Jews. The Samsons, a secret society, organizes itself to eliminate persecution of Jews by removing all Jews to a compound in Mexico, thus destroying the U.S. economy.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sanity Island. A Novel Y1 - 1941 A1 - Adrian [Richard] Alington (1895-1958) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire. Humorous rearmament. People must laugh at themselves more and, in particular, laugh at the ridiculousness of their political leaders.

PB - Chatto and Windus CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Saturnalia in the Suburbs Y1 - 1941 A1 - John Nicholas KW - Male author AB -

Satire set in 1988 in which everyone in the suburbs takes a day for enjoyment. Poem.

PB - Heath Cranton CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Sixth Column" Y1 - 1941 A1 - [Robert Anson] [Heinlein] (1907-88) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia and the revolt against it. The United States had been invaded by an Asian army and only six people were left alive in a U.S. military research establishment. They manage to defeat the invaders. 1943 Leiber is something of a response.

JF - Astounding Science Fiction (New York) VL - 26.5 - 27.1 N1 -

Rpt. as by Robert A[nson] Heinlein. Sixth Column: A Science Fiction Novel of Strange Intrigue. New York: Gnome, 1949; and as The Day After Tomorrow. New York: New American Library, 1949. Rpt. as Sixth Column as vol. 30 of The Virginia Edition of his works. Houston, TX: The Virginia Edition, 2007; and as Sixth Column. New York Baen, 2012 with an "Introduction" by William H. Patterson (v-vii) and an "Afterword" by Tom Kratman (173-83).

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The Day After Tomorrow. New York: New American Library, 1949.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sown in the Darkness A.D. 2,000 Y1 - 1941 A1 - William Richard Twiford KW - Male author AB -

A racist, anticommunist eutopia in which there is a struggle between whites and coloreds. The whites win and enforce segregation. The Appendices (308-71) describe a new currency, a new calendar, an improved Braille alphabet, some inventions, and a number of major projects designed to keep employment high such as building new mountains which will provide electric power by creating new waterfalls.

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Illus. Louis Jambor.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Star Called Wormwood: An Investigation of the possible reasons for its Decline and Fall as described in the VIIIth chapter of The Apocalypse Y1 - 1941 A1 - [Oliver] [Stonor] KW - Male author AB -

Anti-war, anti-utopian novel set in 1839 and 2839

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London U3 -

Morchard Bishop [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Stolen Dormouse" Y1 - 1941 A1 - L[yon] Sprague De Camp (1907-2000) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future dystopia with a new feudalism based on corporations.

JF - Astounding Science Fiction (New York) VL - 27.2 - 3 N1 -

U.K. ed. Astounding Science Fiction 27.2 (April 1941): 2-41. Rpt in his Divide and Rule (Reading, PA: Fantasy Press, 1948), 139-231. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Uprooted Peoples” Y1 - 1941 A1 - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Very brief eutopia of a post-war “Britain in a federal world, completely socialist and sharing a common freedom of all mankind. . .” while there remains a clear continuity with the past, but with what he calls “nomadism” (94). “In a federated world, political forms will cease to be territorial, will be subordinated [95] to world unionism and professionalism” (94-95). In the next essay, “Future Cities” (96-97), he says that in “The British Countryside in 1951” (92-93) and this essay, he was “trying to Imagine the face of the world in 1951, if civilisation wins the war” (92).

JF - Guide to the New World: A Handbook of Constructive World Revolution PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Utopia Right Around the Corner. Non-Factual. A Story of Fiction Told As If It Were Factual Y1 - 1941 A1 - Nathan Walton KW - Male author AB -

Social scientists bring about eutopia by controlling the environment. Scientific administration. Get rid of all politicians.

PB - H.J. Kemp Co CY - Long Beach, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "What Dreams May Come..." Y1 - 1941 A1 - J[ohn] D[avys] Beresford (1873-1947) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A man in contemporary, wartime Britain dreams of the future of another world that had had a past like Earth's but is now a communal eutopia. The dreams are presented initially through the dreams of the man as a young boy. The dreams, which he could sometimes access at will even while awake, provided an escape from an unhappy home life, and much of the novel concerns the boy’s life as he matures. He is able to live there for a longer period after being injured in a World War 2 air raid and falling into a coma. Returning to the war, he is arrested for subversion for talking about his experience. In the future there have been significant physical changes in the human race. Telepathy is normal. Sexual differences are less obvious. Only thirty books are considered worth reading. Vegetarian with no cooking.

PB - Hutchinson CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Yucay: A Romance of Early Peru Y1 - 1941 A1 - Dorothea Knox Martin KW - Female author AB -

Incas as eutopia before the Spanish conquest. Most of the book follows a female character through the conquest.

PB - Suttonhouse Publishers CY - San Francisco, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - America Betrayed; Save the Nation Y1 - 1940 A1 - Albert D. Nelson KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia projecting a Japanese (cleverly disguised as Lapanese in the book) attempt to undermine the U.S. government in preparation for an invasion.

PB - Suttonhouse CY - Los Angeles, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Ceremonial” Y1 - 1940 A1 - Paul Goodman (1911-72) ED - James Laughlin (1914-97) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-revolution eutopia which has eliminated capitalism presented through a ceremony at the destruction of some of the last billboards.

JF - New Directions in Prose and Poetry 1940 PB - New Directions CY - Norfolk, CT N1 -

Rpt. in his The Facts of Life (New York: The Vanguard Press, 1945), 45-62; his Adam and His Works: Collected Stories (New York: Vintage Books, 1968); 32-45; and A Ceremonial. Stories 1936-1940. Volume II of the Collected Stories. Ed. Taylor Stoehr (Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1978), 107-21. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Coventry" Y1 - 1940 A1 - Robert A[nson] Heinlein (1907-88) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopias and a eutopia set after the revolution against the religious dystopia of Heinlein's 1940 "If This Goes On", better known as Revolt in 2100. Four societies are depicted, three of them in the area known as Coventry and the fourth the eutopian society created after the revolution that sends people to Coventry as a punishment for harming another citizen. The three dystopias are New America, a corrupt democracy; the Free State, a dictatorship; and the Angels, the remnants of the overthrown religious dystopia.

JF - Astounding Science Fiction (New York) VL - 25.5 N1 -

Rpt. in his The Past Through Tomorrow: "Future History" Stories (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1967), 471-508; and in The Future History of Robert Heinlein: Volume II. Vol. 23 of the Virginia edition of his works (Houston, TX: The Virginia Edition, 2010), 181-230.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Crimson Courage Y1 - 1940 A1 - Daniel O'Den KW - Male author AB -

Fairly standard authoritarian dystopia with a stress on the rejection of religion.

PB - Frederick Muller CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Darkness at Noon Y1 - 1940 A1 - Arthur Koestler (1905-83) KW - Austrian author KW - English author KW - Hungarian author KW - Male author AB -

A famous work describing the Show Trials in the U.S.S.R. under Joseph Stalin (1879-1953) that has been called a dystopia and has been very influential on dystopian literature. 

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: The Folio Society, 1980 with an “Introduction” (7-15) by Vladimir Bukovsky. U.S. ed. New York: Macmillan, 1941. Because the original manuscript was assumed to have been lost, all publications of the novel, including German ones, were based on this translation, but it was discovered in 2015, and a new translation by Philip Boehm based on that manuscript has been published. London: Vintage Classics, 2019. U.S. ed. New York: Scribner, 2019. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Disappearance of General Jason Y1 - 1940 A1 - Percival Christopher Wren (1885-1941) KW - Male author AB -

Lost race eutopia that rejects modern technology.

PB - John Murray CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Tom Stacey Reprints, 1973.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Elizabeth in Africa Y1 - 1940 A1 - Florence A[ntoinette] Kilpatrick (1888-1968) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Male author AB -

Humorous lost race novel with all the usual plot lines. 

PB - Herbert Jenkins CY - London U2 -

Illus. Leonard Boden.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Fast New World" Y1 - 1940 A1 - Dr. R. M Langer AB -

A short eutopia based on atomic power, which will provide free energy. People will live underground, and the natural world will be revived. Stress on transportation. A similar article solely on the technical side is the author's "The Miracle of U-235." Popular Mechanics 75.1 (January 1941): 1-5, 149-50.

JF - Collier's (New York) VL - 106.1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Final Blackout Y1 - 1940 A1 - L[a Fayette] Ron[ald] Hubbard (1911-86) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Primarily a novel of adventure and war set against the background of a collapsed Europe after the war. In addition to the dystopia that is the European continent, there is a dystopian socialist Britain that is overthrown by returning troops, which is then overthrown by the U.S. so that it can take over Britain.

JF - Astounding Science Fiction PB - Hadley Publishing Co., 1948 CY - Providence, RI VL - 25.2 - 4 N1 -

Repub. Providence, RI: Hadley Publishing Co., 1948, with a new “Preface” by the author (ix-xi). Rpt. North Hollywood, CA: Leisure Books, 1970; New York: Garland, 1975; and Los Angeles, CA: Bridge Publications, 1992, with the “Preface” (xix-xii), an “Introduction” by Algis Budrys (vii-xv) and an anonymous “About the Author L. Ron Hubbard” (191-94).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - First Port of Call Y1 - 1940 A1 - Elizabeth Garver Jordan (1867-1947) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Purgatory fictionally described from a Roman Catholic viewpoint as a place where most people are preparing themselves for heaven. It is a pleasant transition period that has similarities to the many depictions of heaven as a eutopia little different from life on Earth.

PB - D. Appleton-Century CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: John Long, 1940.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The First to Awaken Y1 - 1940 A1 - Granville Hicks (1901-82) A1 - Richard M. Bennett KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Socialist eutopia based on cooperatives. There are few large cities and most people live in small cities, each of which is a democratically run cooperative. Decentralized production and distribution with cooperation among cooperatives and regional coordination. The system is essentially the same throughout the world.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hopousia; or The Sexual and Economic Foundations of a New Society Y1 - 1940 A1 - J[ohn] D[aniel] Unwin (1895-1936) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Detailed nonfictional eutopia with the emphasis on its sexual and economic foundations, but the whole is presented as an experiment. The author argues that a good society needs very energetic people and that will require reformed sexual and economic systems. Sexually energy comes from restraint, and he proposes two types of marriage, one that is strictly monogamous and one that is not, although with the possibility of moving between the two. Economically, capitalism must be eliminated together with private ownership of land and replaced with a form of guild socialism. The word "Hopousia" is derived from the Greek for where. There is an "Introduction" (13-29) by Aldous Huxley, who argues that while the basic institutions are sound, the approach is overly simple.

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U.S. ed. New York: O. Piest, 1940. An extract was published as Our Economic Problems and Their Solution. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1944. 148 pp.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Humanism or the Human Religion Y1 - 1940 A1 - Swami Krishanand KW - Indian author KW - Male author AB -

Chapter 8 on "How to Put the Doctrine of Humanism into Practice or A Scheme of Works for the Beatification of the World" presents a eutopia. Annual meetings of an “All-world” body of citizens to consider improvements. A “Cosmic University” focusing on moral and religious training, the graduates of which will form a “Peace Army.” Encourage village political autonomy with a federal system for larger issues. World language. Enforcement of moral standards.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Idealist" Y1 - 1940 A1 - [La Fayette Ronald] [Hubbard] (1911-86) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Anti-utopian story. Idealists are doomed to failure.

JF - Astounding Science Fiction VL - 25.5 U3 -

Kurt Von Rachen [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - If This Goes On-- Y1 - 1940 A1 - Robert A[nson] Heinlein (1907-88) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An American theocracy and the revolt against it.

JF - Astounding Science-Fiction (New York) VL - 24.6 - 7 N1 -

Rpt. in his The Past Through Tomorrow: “Future History” Stories (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1967), 361-470; and as part of Revolt in 2100: The Prophets and the Triumph of Reason Over Superstition (Chicago, IL: Shasta Publisher, 1953), 21-221, with two stories that are loosely related to “If This Goes On--”, “Coventry” (222-88), which is a utopia (see 1940 Heinlein, “Coventry”) and “Misfit” (289-317), which is non-utopian and reprinted from Astounding Science-Fiction (New York) 24.3 (November 1939): 53-67. In addition, Revolt in 2100 contains “The Innocent Eye: An Introduction” by Henry Kuttner (9-12) and “Concerning Stories Never Written” by Heinlein (13-19). Book rpt. without the subtitle New York: New American Library, 1955 with Kuttner's introduction (9-10); “‘If This Goes On--’” (11-129), “Coventry” (129-170), “Misfit” (170-88), and “Concerning Stories Never Written: Postscript” (189-92); and New York: Baen Books, 1981 with Kuttner's introduction (ix-x); “‘If This Goes On--’” (1-139), “Coventry” (141-186), “Misfit” (187-208), and “Concerning Stories Never Written: Postscript” (209-13); as Revolt in 2100 & Methuselah's Children. New York: Baen, 1999. with Kuttner’s introduction (3-5), “‘If This Goes On--’” (7-174), “Coventry” (175-233), “Misfit” (235-60), and “Concerning Stories Never Written: Postscript” (261-66). U.K. ed. of Revolt in 2100. London: Gollancz, 1964 without the subtitle, Kuttner’s introduction, or “Concerning Stories Never Written”, with “‘If This Goes On--’” (9-209), “Coventry” (210-76), and “Misfit” (277-305).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - King of the Underseas Y1 - 1940 A1 - J[ohn] W[inton] Heming (1900-1953) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Utopian adventure story. A socialist city of fishmen deep in the ocean. Women have multiple husbands. Conflict with another city and exploitation based on color. The human who discovers the city and is elected king defeats the other city and establishes racial equality before returning to the surface.

PB - Currawong Publishing CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Man Y1 - 1940 A1 - Alfred Noyes (1880-1958) KW - US author AB -

The dystopia of being the last man, but the last man finds the last woman, so they think. He battles another man, and then they discover a group beginning to rebuild what they hope will be a better world.

PB - John Murray CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. as No Other Man. New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1940. Rpt. Philadelphia, PA: J.B. Lippincott, 1946.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Loss of Eden: A Cautionary Tale Y1 - 1940 A1 - Douglas [Frank Lambert] Brown (1921-64) A1 - Christopher Serpell (1910-91) KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which Germany wins World War II. New Zealand narrator.

PB - Faber and Faber CY - London N1 -

Rpt. as If Hitler Comes: A Cautionary Tale. London: Pub. for The British Publishers Guild by Faber and Faber, 1941. There are small differences between the editions.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Manna Y1 - 1940 A1 - John [Edwards] Gloag (1896-1981) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Manna (a plant that provides complete nourishment) grows wild. A reformation of social and political institutions begins and is suppressed. Manna is destroyed by governments.

PB - Cassell and Co CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Marsian Y1 - 1940 A1 - J[ohn] W[ilmer] Gilbert (b. 1865) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Detailed egalitarian, socialist eutopia that is very advanced technically. In the first part (7-83) the Marsian psychically visits a man on Earth and the focus is on Earth’s problems. The second part (85-156) shows the eutopian Mars.

PB - Fortuny's CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Messiah on the Horizon. Romance? Novel? Revelation? Prophecy? Reality? Y1 - 1940 A1 - Solomon Cruso (1877-1977) KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. A future history and theological fantasy. End of the white race with Europe split off Earth to become a new moon and no whites remaining on Earth. A better society on Earth is brought about by Orientals and Jews in which all races have embraced Judaism. Hebrew is the international language. Deeply racist. Most of the novel is concerned with the history that led to this situation. See also 1933, which this book refers back to, and 1946 Cruso. 

PB - Audubon Publishing Co CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Moscow 1979 Y1 - 1940 A1 - Erik [Maria Ritter] von Kuehnelt-Leddihn (1909-99) A1 - Christiane von Kuehnelt-Leddihn KW - Austrian author KW - Female author KW - Male author AB -

Communist dystopia successfully opposed by the Roman Catholic Church. The focus of the dystopia is Russia.

PB - Sheed & Ward CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Sheed & Ward, 1946. New and rev. ed. London: Sheed & Ward, 1946. U.S. ed. New York: Sheed & Ward, 1940. U.S. new and rev. ed. New York: Sheed & Ward, 1946. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Perfect Government: $25,000 Twenty-five Thousand Dollars Reward if Anyone Can Find a Flaw in it or Can Prove it Will Not Work Successfully Y1 - 1940 A1 - William E. Riker (1873-1969) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. Government takes over banking, insurance, and all money lending. No hoarding of money and no moving money out of the country. The government provides full employment and cares for all disabled. Racist. Government known as “THE CHRISTIAN WHITE MAN PERFECT GOVERNMENT.” Includes The Constitution of Holy City Its Laws and Principles (15-16), although it is mostly general principles rather than a formal constitution. See also [1942?] Riker, The White Race is Supreme.

PB - Father Riker of Holy City Inventor and Discoverer of the Perfect Government CY - Holy City, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Radium Bugs" Y1 - 1940 A1 - Helen [Rose] Weinbaum (1906-82) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

While a central premise of the story is straightforward science fiction, it begins in a U. S. dictatorship, which punishes any deviance by freezing. When an earthquake awakes the protagonist 300 years later, he finds himself in a telepathic, vegetarian society that only allows the telepathic to live, which can be considered a flawed utopia. 

JF - Super Science Stories VL - 1.4 U2 -

Illus. Leo[poldo Raul] Morey [y Pena] (1899-1965]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Roads Must Roll" Y1 - 1940 A1 - Robert A[nson] Heinlein (1907-88) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Society organized around moving roadways.

JF - Astounding Science-Fiction (New York) VL - 25.4 N1 -

U.K. ed. Astounding-Science Fiction 25.4 (June 1940): 9-37. Rpt in his The Past Through Tomorrow: “Future History” Stories (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1967), 30-59; and in his The Future History of Robert Heinlein: Volume 1. Vol. 22 of the Virginia edition of his works (Houston, TX: The Virginia Edition, 2010), 51-89. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Rosscommon Y1 - 1940 A1 - Charles Allen Smart (1904-67) KW - Male author AB -

Detailed description of a fictional intentional community. Egalitarian except that African Americans were not welcome and did not join. People were paid salaries with allowances for children and had to pay only for purely personal expenses. Varied work. School is important with a stress on the subjects needed in the community like agriculture, animal husbandry, “home crafts” and “shop crafts,” with science and mathematics and history and literature in addition.

PB - Random House CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Suzanna and the Elders: An American Comedy Y1 - 1940 A1 - Lawrence Langner (1890-1962) A1 - Armina Marshall [Langner] KW - Female author KW - Male author AB -

Failure of an intentional community with close resemblances to the Oneida Community, including its eugenic experiment. The failure follows initial success, with the usual internal conflicts a major factor. The "Preface" (7-14) on the history of such communities in the U.S. has errors, such as calling Brook Farm Brookfield and ascribing the establishment of New Harmony to Robert Dale Owen (1801-77) rather than to his father Robert Owen (1771-1858).

PB - Random House CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Trumpet Y1 - 1940 A1 - John F. Cramer KW - Male author AB -

Flawed utopia. Machine perfection is dystopian.

PB - Silk and Terry CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Utopia, Inc Y1 - 1940 A1 - Herman Everett Gieske KW - Male author AB -

Capitalist, scientific eutopia. Stress on battle with Communism. A capitalist endows an island to give free reign to scientists.

PB - Fortuny's CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Vision of a State of Rightness on a Spiritual Foundation. A Short Outline of Government Whereby All Men Have the Same Rights and Privileges With the Capitalistic System Abolished Y1 - 1940 A1 - Henry C[ornelius] Denturk (b. 1880) KW - Male author AB -

A communal eutopia with a "Civilian Army". No money. No international trade except for things the U.S. cannot produce. Few laws. Races live separately but can visit each other.

PB - Author CY - Huntington, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - When Loneliness Comes Y1 - 1940 A1 - Geo[rge] A[lan] Glenn KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Lost race eutopia set in the South American jungle presented as if discovered on an actual expedition by the author. Emphasis on sexual activity as essential to health and the way it can lead to physical rejuvenation with photographs of the author before and after the expedition. 

PB - Author CY - Denver, CO U2 -

Illus.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - When the Soviets Come to America Y1 - 1940 A1 - C[lement] E[verett] Puterbaugh KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia reflecting the title followed by a successful revolution.

PB - Fortuny's CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "World Without Sex" Y1 - 1940 A1 - [Edmond Moore] [Hamilton] (1904-77) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Sex role reversal dystopia in which men, who had been enslaved, revolt and restore the "natural order" through violence with the focus on a man who beats a captured woman into "loving" him (and he her) after raping her. This is presented as the positive alternative to the woman dominated dystopia.

JF - Marvel Tales (Chicago, IL) VL - 2.1 U3 -

Robert Wentworth [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Adolf in Blunderland: A Political Parody of Lewis Carroll's Famous Story Y1 - 1939 A1 - Dyrenforth, James A1 - Max Kester KW - Male author AB -

Satire on Nazi Germany.

PB - Frederick Muller CY - London N1 -

2nd ed. December 1939. 3rd ed. December 1939. 4th ed. February 1940. 5th ed. rev. March 1940.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Arrogant History of White Ben Y1 - 1939 A1 - [Winifred] [Ashton] (1888-1965) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Allegory on the rise of National Socialism. A scarecrow comes to life dedicated to eliminating all crows and leads a campaign to exterminate them.

PB - William Heinemann CY - London N1 -

Rpt. Portway, Bath, Eng.: Cedric Chivers, 1971.

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Clemence Dane [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Brave New World" Y1 - 1939 A1 - Lawrence R. Newman (1925-2011) KW - Deaf author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire in which most of the population is deaf and uses signing and the hearing are a disadvantaged minority. One focus is a group of activists among the hearing who want to force the hearing to use signs.

JF - The Deaf American VL - 22 SN - 9781563684081 N1 -

Rpt. in his I Fill This Small Space: The Writings of a Deaf Activist, Ed. David J. Kurs (Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press, 2009), 224-26.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "City of the Corporate Mind" Y1 - 1939 A1 - Nat[haniel] Schachner (1895-1955) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in a series with 1937 Schachner, "Past, Present and Future" and "City of the Rocket Horde" and 1939 Schachner, "City of the Cosmic Rays". The city in this story in designed like a human body with a brain and subordinate parts functioning under the control of the brain.

JF - Astounding Stories VL - 24.4 U2 -

Illus. W. A. Koll.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "City of the Cosmic Rays" Y1 - 1939 A1 - Nat[haniel] Schachner (1895-1955) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in a series with 1937 Schachner, “Past, Present and Future” and “City of the Rocket Horde” and 1938 Schachner, “City of the Corporate Mind”. In this story, each, entirely different individual lives in a transparent cube.

JF - Astounding Science Fiction VL - 23.5 U2 -

Illus. [Hans Waldemer] Weeso[lowski] (1894-1948)

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Cooperative Cities--A New Civilization Y1 - 1939 A1 - A. L. Giberson AB -

Eutopia of cooperatives.

PB - Giberson Mimeo CY - Seattle, WA U1 -

Cover title Co-op Cities A New Civilization.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Death Guard Y1 - 1939 A1 - Philip George Chadwick (1893-1955) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Creation of artificial life leads to a dystopia.

PB - Hutchinson CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Roc, 1992.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Enchanted Wood Y1 - 1939 A1 - Enid [Mary] Blyton (1897-1968) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Children’s fantasy with three children exploring the Enchanted Wood and discovering the Faraway Tree that leads them to many unusual places where they meet a variety of characters including some from fairy tales.  Includes Cockaigne episodes together with other adventures. Continued in her The Magic Faraway Tree. Illus. Dorothy M. Wheeler. London: George Newes, 1943; The Folk of the Faraway Tree. Illus. Dorothy M. Wheeler. London: George Newes, 1946; and Up the Faraway Tree. Illus. Dorothy M. Wheeler. London: George Newes, 1951, all of which is composed of illustrations with captions and have a similar format. The first part of Up the Faraway Tree was originally published in Enid Blyton’s Sunny Stories Magazine (1948). 

PB - George Newes CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Deanes, 2012

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Fool's Harvest Y1 - 1939 A1 - Erle [Harold] Cox (1873-1950) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Warning against invasion; "Its intention was to awaken the people of Australia to the tragic possibilities of apathy towards adequate defence measures" (Book i). Australia turned into an authoritarian dystopia by the invaders, who are identified as Cambasians. The "Prologue" to the novel, dated July 15, 1975, makes clear that after the loss of five million "white inhabitants" in the fight back, Australia was once again independent.

JF - The Argus (Melbourne, VIC, Australia) PB - Robertson & Mullen CY - Melbourne, VIC, Australia N1 -

Rpt. Melbourne, VIC, Australia Robertson & Mullen, 1939 with two chapters added to the book.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Fortress of Utopia" Y1 - 1939 A1 - Jack [John Stewart] Williamson (1908-2006) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Anti-utopian story about a failed attempt to create a utopia.

JF - Startling Stories (Chicago, IL) VL - 2.3 N1 -

Rpt. with the subtitle an incredible Science Fiction Classic novel. Brooklyn, NY: Gryphon Books, 1998; and in The Crucible of Power: The Collected Stories of Jack Williamson Volume Five (Royal Oak, MI: Haffner Press, 2006), 209-328.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Giants of Anarchy" Y1 - 1939 A1 - [Earl Andrew] [Binder] (1904-65) A1 - [Otto Oscar] [Binder] (1911-75) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Negative depiction of an anarchist society.

JF - Weird Tales (New York) VL - 34.1 U3 -

Eando Binder [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - God’s Earth. A Novel Y1 - 1939 A1 - J[oseph] Arthur Horne (b. 1881) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel starts in the depths of the Depression and shows its effects on individuals. An instrument that makes viewing the future possible reveals that a religious eutopia will develop. The utopia is based on a policy of Production for All, which is actually a system of centralized planning in which a Board of Control will determine how much of a product is needed and factories will be assigned a quota. Civil service based rather than under political control. The book includes details of a new constitution for the United States, most of which concerns with government structure and the economy. Everyone must work but are free to choose work with wages adjusted to attract workers. The title refers to the fundamental premise that the earth belongs to God, and, as such, cannot be owned by anyone, only used.

PB - Logan-Price Publishing Co CY - Cleveland, OH U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Greater Than Gods” Y1 - 1939 A1 - C[atherine] L[ucille] Moore (1911-87) ED - C. L. Moore KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story projects two dystopia futures depending on which woman a scientist marries. One ends in apathy; the other ends in a dictatorship.

JF - Astounding Science Fiction VL - 23.5 U2 -

Illus. [Charles] Schneeman (1912-72)

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Hidden Universe” Y1 - 1939 A1 - [Roger Sherman] [Hoar] (1887-1963) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia presented as a utopia. The story is set during the depression when everyone is desperate for work. Some are sent to a colony in space named “Utopia.” The colonists, who did not know where they were being sent are told that each adult will be able to choose a plot of city or country land, build a house “on easy terms,” the land cannot be taken away, wages cannot be garnished, no taxes, no relief because everyone has a job, free medical care, paid fully during illness or disability, free education to limit of abilities, church in each town. There are twelve hours of daylight and twelve hours of night; it rains only at night; and there are no seasons. Their contract was for five years, but they learn it is forever.

JF - Amazing Stories VL - 13.11 - 12 U3 -

Ralph Milne Farley [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Holy Terror Y1 - 1939 A1 - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel presents the dystopia of the contemporary world and the difficult process of creating a eutopia. The eutopia is Wells's world state, which is brought into being through something very like his "open conspiracy" (see 1928 Wells). Here Wells presents an unusual, deeply flawed man leading the human race towards a good life who also develops dictatorial tendencies, has a mental breakdown, and is murdered. 

PB - Michael Joseph CY - London N1 -

U. S. ed. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1939.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Hopkins Manuscript Y1 - 1939 A1 - R[obert] C[edric] Sherriff (1896-1975) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel concerns the run up to and results of the moon crashing into the Earth and lodging in the Atlantic Ocean with the focus on the survivors in Britain as described in a manuscript found by explorers from Abyssinia. Most of the manuscript is concerned with the disaster, but it includes the emergence of a system of mostly small towns described positively followed by the emergence of a power-hungry dictator.

PB - Gollancz CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London/New York: Scribner, 2023. 387 pp. Also entitled The Cataclysm. London: Pan, 1958.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Impromptu in Moribundia Y1 - 1939 A1 - [Anthony Walter] Patrick Hamilton (1904-62) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on the caste/class system. Moribundia is England. People always behave correctly as defined by their class, and there are physical distinctions among the classes/castes.

PB - Constable and Co CY - London N1 -

Rpt. Nottingham, Eng.: Trent Editions, 1999.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - John Innocent at Oxford Y1 - 1939 A1 - [Christopher] Richard [Sandford] Buckle (1916-2001) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Adventures in a reformed Oxford (no industry, no suburbs) that has replaced London as the center of English life.

PB - Chatto and Windus CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Lord of Tranerica" Y1 - 1939 A1 - Stanton A[rthur] Coblentz (1896-1982) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire. Hereditary dictatorship in a supposedly computer-perfect, business-based, and leisure-oriented society set in the 25th century. Robots do all the work, and there are mechanical judges that decide cases and sentences. Tranerica is North and South America combined.

JF - Dynamic Science Stories (Chicago, IL) VL - 1.1 N1 -

Repub. New York: Avalon, 1966.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Making of a New World Y1 - 1939 A1 - Abinash Chandra [Avināsa-Chandra] Lahiri KW - Indian author KW - Male author AB -

Essay. Detailed eutopia which stresses education and an economic system in which all are employed six hours a day producing for the good of society, goods are supplied free, and money, banks, interest, and rent have been abolished. Men and women are equal. Marriage is not permitted before 19 and must be based on consent. Divorce is possible.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Man Finds the Way Y1 - 1939 A1 - Philip A[loysius] Sullivan (b. 1882) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia set in 2000 that shows the development of the better world. Religion. United States of the World. National Peace Institute which educates for peace. A law establishing a United States Peace Institute was passed in 1984 and the Institute was established in 1986.

PB - Margent Press CY - New York U1 -

The dust jacket adds the subtitle A Prophetic Novel.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The New Industrial Dawn Y1 - 1939 A1 - A. T. Churchill AB -

Eutopia. Abundance through state capitalism. Meritocracy.

PB - Press of Lowman and Hanford Co CY - Seattle, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Over the Mountain Y1 - 1939 A1 - Ruthven [Campbell] Todd (1914-78) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia with some satire. The country described has spies throughout the population and concentration camps. It tortures its political prisoners, and all the secret police are recruited from among the mentally retarded.

PB - George G. Harrap & Co CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: The Falcon Press, 1946. US ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1939.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Priestess Who Rebelled" Y1 - 1939 A1 - Nelson S[lade] Bond (1908-2006) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Blatantly sexist separation of the sexes. First story in a series set in a future after the collapse of civilization. “The Judging of the Priestess.” Fantastic Adventures (Chicago, IL) 2.4 (April 1940): 42-59 is racist, particularly anti-Japanese, as well as sexist. “Magic City.” Illus. M[anuel Rey] Isip (1904-87). Astounding Science Fiction 26.6 (February 1941): 9-36. Rpt. in A Treasury of Great Science Fiction. 2 vols. Ed. Anthony Boucher (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1959), 293-321 is set in the same future but significantly later in time when men and women are equals but there remain enclaves of the old way.

JF - Amazing Stories (Chicago, IL) VL - 13.10 N1 -

Rpt. in When Women Rule. Ed. Sam Moskowitz (Walker & Co., 1972), 198-221. Rev. as “Pilgrimage.” In his The Thirty-First of February (Gnome Press, 1949), 246-72. Rpt. (Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, 1970), 246-72. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Rainbow in the Valley Y1 - 1939 A1 - James Creed Meredith (1875-1942) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

The novel is mostly a discussion of the current situation on Earth and consideration of various philosophers, which he says was the main purpose of writing the book, but it also presents Mars as a eutopia organized from the top down that was brought about by a dictator, and the discussion presents contemporary European dictators positively.

PB - Browne and Nolan The Richview Press CY - Dublin U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Sculptures of Life" Y1 - 1939 A1 - Wallace [George] West (1900-80) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The background to the story is a flawed utopia. In the future a technique for transferring the personality of a person into a newly created body allows some extremely rich people to live forever. While accumulating power and wealth for themselves, they build a high tech future that appears to be better but is entirely dependent on the whims of these few people.

JF - Astounding Science-Fiction (New York) VL - 24.4 N1 -

Rpt. in Science-Fiction Thinking Machines: Robots, Androids, Computers. Ed. Groff Conklin (New York: The Vanguard Press, 1954), 222-41.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Telepathy Is News!” Y1 - 1939 A1 - Henry Kuttner (1914-58) ED - Stephen Haffner KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in an authoritarian dystopia when telepathy becomes possible.

JF - Science Fiction VL - 1.2 N1 -

Rpt. without the illus. in The Watcher at the Door: The Early Kuttner Volume Two. Ed. Stephen Haffner (Royal Oaks, MI: Haffner Press, 2016), 83-105.

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Illus. Jack Binder

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Paul Edmonds [pseud.]. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - This Is Armageddon Y1 - 1939 A1 - Muriel Howorth KW - Female author AB -

A novel about Armageddon (See Revelation 16) as seen through the eyes of individuals on both sides. As a result, there are dystopian pictures of the evil contrasted with eutopian ones of the good.

PB - Arthur H. Stockwell CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Three Men Make a World Y1 - 1939 A1 - [Howell] [Davies] (1896-1985) KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

Includes a very English village eutopia at the end.

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London U3 -

Andrew Marvell [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Ultimate Catalyst" Y1 - 1939 A1 - Eric Temple Bell (1883-1960) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author KW - US author AB -

The background to the story is a future world that has exiled the last dictator and all his followers to Amazonia, thus creating a dystopia, where a scientist develops an elaborate technique for killing him.

JF - Thrilling Wonder Stories (New York) VL - 13.3 N1 -

Rpt. in Startling Stories 20.2 (November 1949): 84-97; and in Great Science Fiction By Scientists. Ed. Groff Conklin (New York: Collier Books, 1962), 35-59 with an editor's note on 34.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Union Now: A Proposal for a Federal Union of the Democracies of the North Atlantic Y1 - 1939 A1 - Clarence K[irshman] Streit (1896-1986) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Non-fiction but it includes an "Illustrative Constitution" (325-35) for the proposed union, which is seen as a first step to world government. A revised version is Union Now With Britain New York: Harper & Brothers, 1941. U.K. ed. London: Jonathan Cape, 1941. This includes an "Illustrative Declaration of Inter-Dependence and Union (207-11) as well as the constitution, slightly revised (215-23). A defense of world federalism, designed as similar to the U.S. Federalist Papers, is The New Federalist. By Publius Justice, Owen J. Roberts, John F. Schmidt, and [mostly] Clarence K[irshman] Streit. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1950.

PB - Harper CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Jonathan Cape, 1939.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Unknown Citizen" Y1 - 1939 A1 - W[ystan] H[ugh] Auden (1907-73) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Poem describing a bureaucratic dystopia that honors a man who is "normal in every way."

JF - The Listener (London) VL - 22.551 N1 -

Rpt. in The Collected Poetry of W.H. Auden (New York: Random House, 1945), 142-143; in Collected Shorter Poems, 1927-1957 (New York: Random House, 1967), 146-147; in Selected Poems. Ed. Edward Mendelson (New York: Vintage Books, 1979), 85-86; in The Hedgehog Review (Charlottesville, VA) 10.3 (Fall 2008): 38-39; and in The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Poems. Volume I 1927-1939. Ed. Edward Mendelson (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2022), 368-369, with a Textual Note on 767-768.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Visit to Utopia Y1 - 1939 A1 - J[ohn] Howard Whitehouse (1873-1955) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. One emphasis is on the beauty of the place. Another is on technology; for example, mining has been so improved that work underground is no longer needed. No unemployment. No war; hence no need for arms. Equal opportunity for higher education.

PB - Oxford University Press CY - Oxford, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Way Out: An Essay on the Means of Averting the Recurring Disaster Y1 - 1939 A1 - [John] [Bostock] (b. 1892) A1 - [Leslie John Jarvis] [Nye] (1891-1976) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Essay describing the book as an answer to the problem they posed in their Whither Away? A Study of Race Psychology and the Factors Leading to Australia's National Decline (1934), which focused on the falling birth rate. Their solution, a Federal Union of countries, is based on Clarence K[irshman] Streit (See 1939 Streit). In addition, they argue that people must be educated for democracy (both in improved teaching of citizenship in democracies and in the elements of democracy in non-democratic countries), the political system must be reformed so as to attract the best people, and there must be much more community involvement. See also 1972 Nye.

PB - Halstead Press CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia U3 -

A Psychologist and a Physician [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - We Band of Brothers Y1 - 1939 A1 - [George Cecil] [Foster] (1893-1975) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The dystopia created by Germany winning World War 2.

PB - Herbert Jenkins CY - London U3 -

Seaforth [pseud.]

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CU-Riv

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "When Time Stood Still" Y1 - 1939 A1 - Edwin K. Sloat KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. A community called Futura is established in the Southwest U.S. desert where youth is prolonged and everyone lives peacefully.

JF - Amazing Stories (Chicago, IL) VL - 13.7 U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Why Not Now? A British Islander's Dream Y1 - 1939 A1 - Arthur St. John (1862-1938) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. London is transformed, and the Thames is clean and a center of activity. More simple life stressing families and neighborhoods then districts or towns, countries, continents, and the world.

PB - C.W. Daniel CY - London U5 -

L, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Women's World" Y1 - 1939 A1 - David C[oxe] Cooke KW - Male author AB -

Gender-role reversal.

JF - Science Fiction (Holyoke, MA) VL - 1.5 U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Adventures of Wyndham Smith Y1 - 1938 A1 - S[ydney] Fowler Wright (1874-1965) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Machine dystopia with a few rebels. “Original Sin” is set in a future eutopia where disease has been eliminated and all children are healthy. A decision is made that all children will be born within a five-year period every twenty-five years, which works very well. But a Doctrine of Futility spreads, and it is decided to eliminate the entire human race.

PB - Herbert Jenkins CY - London U5 -

L, O

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Anthem Y1 - 1938 A1 - Ayn Rand [pseud.] KW - Female author KW - Russian author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia. Sketches of an individualist eutopia. 

PB - Cassell CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Cassell, 1953. Rev. US ed. Los Angeles, CA: Pamphleteers, 1946; rpt. New York: New American Library, 1946; and in Famous Fantastic Mysteries 14.4 (June 1953): 12-33, 113-14. Exp. 50th Anniversary ed. New York: Dutton, 1995 with an "Introduction to the 50th Anniversary American Edition" by Leonard Peikoff (v-xiii). The 50th anniversary edition uses the 1946 edition and includes Rand's marked up 1938 edition showing the extensive revisions (109-253). Graphic novel version as Anthem. The Graphic Novel. Script Charles Santino. Art Joe Staton. New York: New American Library, 2011

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Ayn Rand [pseud.]

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DLC, L, MoU-St, HRC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Armageddon; A Tale of the Anti-Christ Y1 - 1938 A1 - Eleanor De Forest KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia with the stress on struggle between good and evil. Armageddon (see Revelation 16).

PB - Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co CY - Grand Rapids, MI U4 -

Afrikaans edition as Die Laaste Wêreldbotsing. Trans. D.L. Du Tot. Stellenbosch, South Africa: Die C.S.V. Boekhandel, 1945.

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L, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - At Midnight on the 31st of March Y1 - 1938 A1 - Josephine Young Case (1907-90) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A small town is totally cut off from the outside world and creates a eutopia. The novel is in blank verse. 

PB - Houghton, Mifflin CY - Boston, MA N1 -

Rpt. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1990 with a “Foreword” by Frank Bergmann (vii-x).

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MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Dream Places" Y1 - 1938 A1 - Pat[rick Anthony] Lawlor KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Two brief eutopian visions. The first is a South Seas Island paradise, which is rejected as unrealistic in that there will be mosquitoes and sharks. The second is heaven after death.

JF - The New Zealand Railways Magazine VL - 12.12 U5 -

ATL

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Efforts of Chance Y1 - 1938 A1 - M[ontefiore] Follick (1887-1958) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

Mostly adventure but describes a model town.

PB - Serjeant's Press CY - London U5 -

L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Flight of the Dawn Stars" Y1 - 1938 A1 - Robert Moore Williams (1907-77) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Earth as a future Eden after the need for urban life is gone.

JF - Astounding Science-Fiction (New York) VL - 21.1 N1 -

Rpt. in A Treasury of Science Fiction. Ed. Groff Conklin (New York: Crown, 1948), 358-69.

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DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - General Manpower Y1 - 1938 A1 - John S. Martin KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. A man creates a company to provide a labor force for any company in the world and troops for any military need. The company includes a breeding program for future workers. Lower level leaders in the company try to use the military for world power and are defeated.

PB - Simon and Schuster CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Glorious Morning; A Play in Three Acts Y1 - 1938 A1 - Norman MacOwan (1877-1961) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Standard authoritarian dystopia in a fictional Eastern European country. Unsuccessful rebellion.

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1939 with photographs from the play. The novel is based on a play with the same title first produced at the Duchess Theatre, London, May 26, 1938. The play was published as "Glorious Morning: A Play in Three Acts." In Famous Plays 1938-1939 (London: Victor Gollancz, 1939), 337-453; and as the Acting ed. London: Samuel French Ltd., 1939.

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1939 ed. has photographs from the play.

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L, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Hidden Tribe Y1 - 1938 A1 - S[ydney] Fowler Wright (1874-1965) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Lost race authoritarian dystopia in the Sahara following the practice of Egyptian pharaohs of marrying their sisters. The community has successfully practiced a eugenic program to enhance both physique and intelligence.

PB - Robert Hale CY - London N1 -

Rpt. with the subtitle A Lost Race Fantasy. [Holicong, PA]: Borgo Press, 2009.

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Impregnable Women Y1 - 1938 A1 - Eric [Robert Russell] Linklater (b. 1899) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

A modern version of Aristophanes's Lysistrata (411 BCE)  in which women take possession of Edinburgh Castle.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in The Orkney Ed. London: Jonathan Cape, 1952; and Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1959.

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L, LLL

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Island of the Individualists" Y1 - 1938 A1 - Nat[haniel] Schachner (1895-1955) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in a series with 1937 Schachner, “Past, Present and Future” and “City of the Rocket Horde” and 1939 Schachner, “City of the Corporate Mind” and “City of the Cosmic Rays”. In this story, the protagonists land on an island of isolated individuals who spend their entire lives in contemplation.

JF - Astounding Science Fiction (New York) VL - 21.3 U2 -

Illus. [Elliott] Dold, [Jr.] (1889-1957)

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Isle of Nowhere Y1 - 1938 A1 - Burns Llewellyn Williams KW - Male author AB -

Satire and allegory with a number of themes. Problems can be corrected through the light of General Intelligence.

PB - Arthur H. Stockwell CY - London U5 -

L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Man Who Could Not Sin Y1 - 1938 A1 - Newman Watts (b. 1895) KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Eutopia with Christ on the throne in Jerusalem as the world ruler. The novel is a "sleeper awakes" story in which a militant atheist of the mid-twentieth century revives after 225 years asleep.

PB - Fleming H. Revell CY - New York N1 -

UK ed. as The Man Who Did Not Sin. London: Henry E. Walter, 1939.

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UK ed. as The Man Who Did Not Sin. London: Henry E. Walter, 1939.

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DLC, L, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Minimum Man or Time To Be Gone Y1 - 1938 A1 - [Howell] [Davies] (1896-1985) KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

Fascist dystopia. Armed police, leadership cult, fascist curriculum in schools, anti-Semitic, unions dissolved, and concentration camps ("Everyone knew of them"). Story of a small, advanced, mutant people who successfully revolt against the fascist state.

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Famous Fantastic Mysteries 8.6 (August 1947): 6-112; and without the subtitle. London: Science Fiction Book Club, 1953.

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Andrew Marvell [pseud.]

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L, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - My Life in Time Y1 - 1938 A1 - Bertha Newton KW - Female author AB -

Spiritualist novel in which the protagonist visits a golden city and tours the solar system. Quite vague.

PB - C.W. Daniel CY - London U5 -

MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Nightmare for Future Reference” Y1 - 1938 A1 - Stephen Vincent Benét (1898-1943) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian poem about the next world war and its effects.

JF - The New Yorker VL - 14.7 N1 -

Rpt. in Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction. Ed. Leigh Ronald Grossman (Rockville, MD: Wildside Press, 2011), 250.

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PSt, PU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - No Borderland Y1 - 1938 A1 - M[artha] Marlowe Morris (b. 1867) A1 - Laura B[elle] Speer (b. 1883) KW - Female author AB -

Atlantis as an agrarian, tribal, spiritualist eutopia.

PB - Mathis, Van Nort CY - Dallas, TX U5 -

DLC, NcD

ER - TY - ABST T1 - No Sting, No Honey Y1 - 1938 A1 - David [E.] Hussey KW - Male author AB -

Humor and satire including a matriarchal society organized like a bee-hive and a feminist eutopia.

PB - Arthur Barker CY - London U5 -

L, DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Out of the Silent Planet Y1 - 1938 A1 - C[live] S[taples] Lewis (1898-1963) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Northern Ireland author AB -

First volume of a trilogy on the struggle between good and evil. Presents a eutopia as a sub-theme in which the eutopia is given by God. The other volumes of the trilogy are 1943 and 1945 Lewis. In addition, one of the major characters of the trilogy appears in 1977 Lewis. The name of the indigenous inhabitants, the Hrossa, is also used by Judith Moffett in Pennterra (1987).

PB - John Lane, The Bodley Head CY - London N1 -

Rpt. with an “Introduction” (viii-xxvi) and “Notes” (175-94) by David Elloway. London: Longmans, 1966; and New York: Scribner Classics, 1996. Chapter 16 is rpt. in The Book of Mars: An Anthology of Fact and Fiction. Ed. Stuart Clark (London: London: Head of Zeus/Apollo/Bloomsbury, 2022), 90-94.

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L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Pagan City Y1 - 1938 A1 - W[illiam] N[oel] Chaplin (1892-1981) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Ancient Rome as a dystopia that continues to exist inside the earth. In an Epilogue the author says that he was trying to demonstrate what a benefit the introduction of Christianity had been.

PB - John Long CY - London U5 -

LLL, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Professor. A Novel Y1 - 1938 A1 - Rex [Reginald Ernest] Warner (1905-86) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia derived from National Socialist Germany and Fascist Italy.

PB - Boriswood CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1944; and Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin Books, [1944]. U.S. ed. as The Professor. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1939.

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MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Revolution of 1950" Y1 - 1938 A1 - Stanley G[rauman] Weinbaum (1902-35) A1 - [Roger Sherman] [Hoar] (1887-1963) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Mostly an adventure story set in a dictatorship in the US.

JF - Amazing Stories (Chicago, IL) VL - 12.5 - 6 N1 -

Rpt. as "The Revolution of 1960." In Weinbaum, The Red Peri (Reading, PA: Fantasy Press, 1952), 218-70; and under the latter title and with Farley [pseud.] as co-author in A Martian Odyssey and Other Science Fiction Stories. The Collected Short Stories of Stanley G. Weinbaum (Westport, CT: Hyperion Press, 1974), 500-52.

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Rpt. as "The Revolution of 1960." 

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Ralph Milne Farley [pseud. ]

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MoU-St, SFF

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Secret Island Y1 - 1938 A1 - Enid [Mary] Blyton (1897-1968) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Three children who believe their parents are dead and are mistreated by the aunt and uncle and a boy who has been abandoned by his grandfather un away to an island in the middle of a large lack. Seen through their eyes, it is a utopia.

PB - Basil Blackwell CY - Oxford, Eng. N1 -

Rpt. illus. Dudley Wynne. Worksop, Eng.: Award Publications Limited, 2009. 190 pp.

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O, Public

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Secret Land Y1 - 1938 A1 - Hawker, Caleb KW - Male author AB -

Primarily a boy's adventure novel, but includes a religious eutopia in a hidden valley.

PB - Blackie & Son CY - London U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Sign of the Burning Hart Y1 - 1938 A1 - David H[enry] Keller M.D. (1880-1966) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Set in a village called Arcadia in which people appear to lead contented lives.

PB - Imprimerie de la Manche CY - Saint-Lo, France N1 -

 Rpt. [Boston, MA]: National Fantasy Fan Federation, 1948.

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One page of the front matter has the subtitle A Tale of Arcadia.

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HRC, PSt, Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Socialist Melbourne Y1 - 1938 A1 - Ralph Gibson KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Socialist eutopia describing state owned factories, transport, and banks. Large stores have been nationalized and some smaller stores became cooperatives but many small, private stores continue. Freedom of religion, although churches cannot own property and there is considerable anti-religious propaganda. Democracy with immediate recall possible. Free education through university with access to university based solely on ability. Children's rights. Free medical care. There are both large state-owned and small privately-owned farms with extensive irrigation. 

PB - Communist Party (Victorian State Committee) CY - Melbourne, VIC, Australia N1 -

[2nd ed.] Melbourne, VIC, Australia: International Bookshop Pty, 1951. 43 pp.

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A, M

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Utopia" Y1 - 1938 A1 - A[rthur] R[ex] D[ugard] Fairburn (1904-1957) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Political poem depicting the current situation in dystopian terms.

JF - Dominion PB - Pegasus Press CY - Christchurch, New Zealand N1 -

Rpt. in his Collected Poems (Christchurch, New Zealand: Pegasus Press, 1966), 15-20.

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ATL

ER - TY - ABST T1 - When Woman Reigns Y1 - 1938 A1 - [Reginald William Malyon] [Gibbs] (1878-1942) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Flawed utopia based on the rule of women set in the future in the Himalayas. All ferocious animals and vermin eliminated after a detailed classification and research program, called the War of Human Supremacy. No disease. Sexual men do not work but are adopted by women as consorts. Children vote. Votes for dogs being considered. Thorough censorship. Civil Service based on detailed examinations after twenty years of study.

PB - Pen-in-Hand Pub. Co CY - Oxford, Eng. U3 -

August Anson [pseud.]

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L, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - World-Birth Y1 - 1938 A1 - Shaw Desmond (1877-1960) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Education. Cooperative system with production for use not profit.

PB - Methuen CY - London U5 -

DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Year Nine" Y1 - 1938 A1 - Cyril [Vernon] Connolly (1903-74) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Short authoritarian dystopia particularly concerned with censorship. Humor.

JF - The New Statesman and Nation (London) VL - 15.362 N1 -

Rpt. in his The Condemned Playground. Essays: 1927-1944 (London: Routledge, 1945), 154-59. Rpt. (New York: Macmillan, 1946), 154-159; (London: Hogarth Press, 1985), 154-59; and in The Selected Works of Cyril Connolly. Volume Two: The Two Natures. Ed. Matthew Connolly (London: Picador, 2002), 322-27. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Abdera and the Revolt of the Asses Y1 - 1937 A1 - [Hyman] [Jaffe] AB -

A satire on contemporary European politics focusing on Germany, which is taken over by Asses, and the role of a minority of humans, the Brehews (Hebrews).

PB - Clarion Pub. Co CY - New York U3 -

Alterego [pseud.]

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DLC, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Armada of the Air Y1 - 1937 A1 - Norman S. Bentley (b. 1867) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of the dictatorship produced as a result of disarmament.

PB - Lothrop, Lee and Shepard CY - New York U5 -

KyRE

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Be Thou Prepared, For Jesus is Coming Y1 - 1937 A1 - Forrest Loman Oilar (b. 1880) KW - Male author AB -

Fictional representation of the dystopian events leading to the Second Coming and the eutopia to follow.

PB - Meador Publishing Co CY - Boston, MA U5 -

DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Black Empire: An Imaginative Story of a Great Civilization in Modern Africa” Y1 - 1937 A1 - [George Samuel] [Schuyler] (1895-1977) ED - Robert A. Hill ED - R. Kent Rasmussen KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

Civilization in Modern Africa. Ed. Robert A. Hill and R. Kent Rasmussen (Boston, MA: Northeastern University Press, 1991), 143-258 with a “Foreword” to the volume by John A[lfred] Williams (1925-2015) (xvii-xx), an “Afterword” by the editors (259-323), “Schuyler’s story notes (ca. 1936-1937)” (325-27), and George S. Schuyler’s Pittsburgh Courier fiction, 1933-1939)” (337-44). Originally published in the Pittsburgh Courier (October 2, 1937 - April 16, 1938). No good file of the Pittsburgh Courier appears to exist, and the editors of the book publication compared the damaged, incomplete, microfilm with Schuyler’s clippings of the stories held by Syracuse University Library. Rev. ed. in George S[amuel] Schuyler, Black Empire. Ed Brooks E. Hefner (New York: Penguin Books/Penguin Random House, 2023), 169-305, with an Introduction by the editor (vii-xxii), Suggestions for Further Reading (xiii-xxv), A Note on the Text (xxvii-xxx), and Appendices including Appendix A “Original Headline Titles and Publication Dates” (310-312), Appendix C “Notes for Speculative Fiction Serials Never Executed by Schuyler” (317-323), and Appendix D “Bibliography of Schuyler’s Genre Fiction” (325-329), and Notes Black Empire (336-338) and Notes Appendix D Bibliography of Schuyler’s Genre Fiction (359). PSt

Sequel to 1936-7 Schuyler in which the Black Internationale is established in Liberia to carry out its mission of liberating Africa. After Liberia is attacked by European forces, much of the novel is on the war. Everyone is required to have a thorough physical exam, and if they are found to have an incurable disease, they are euthanized. On the other hand, they have developed permanent cures for many diseases. Model kitchens that will be established throughout Africa both prepare food for the district and are used to teach people the relationship between a good diet and health. Schuyler describes the development of the movement in “The Rise of the Black Internationale.” The Crisis 25.8 (August 1938): 255-57, 274-75, 277. Rpt. in his Black Empire Comprising The Black Internationale: Story of Black Genius Against the World and Black Empire: An Imaginative Story of a Great Civilization in Modern Africa. Ed. Robert A. Hill and R. Kent Rasmussen (Boston, MA: Northeastern University Press, 1991), 328-336; and in Rac[e]ing to the Right: Selected Essays of George S. Schuyler. Ed. Jeffrey B. Leak (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2001), 29-36. See also 1931 Schuyler. 

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Originally published in the Pittsburgh Courier (October 2, 1937 - April 16, 1938). No good file of the Pittsburgh Courier appears to exist, and the editors of the book publication compared the damaged, incomplete, microfilm with Schuyler’s clippings of the stories held by Syracuse University Library. Rev. ed. in George S[amuel] Schuyler, Black Empire. Ed Brooks E. Hefner (New York: Penguin Books/Penguin Random House, 2023), 169-305, with an Introduction by the editor (vii-xxii), Suggestions for Further Reading (xiii-xxv), A Note on the Text (xxvii-xxx), and Appendices including Appendix A “Original Headline Titles and Publication Dates” (310-312), Appendix C “Notes for Speculative Fiction Serials Never Executed by Schuyler” (317-323), and Appendix D “Bibliography of Schuyler’s Genre Fiction” (325-329), and Notes Black Empire (336-338) and Notes Appendix D Bibliography of Schuyler’s Genre Fiction (359).

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Samuel I. Brooks [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Carson of Venus Y1 - 1937 A1 - Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Mostly a war story, but it includes a satire of Hitler and National Socialism.

PB - Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. Publishers, 1939 CY - Tarzana, CA U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "City of the Rocket Horde" Y1 - 1937 A1 - Nat[haniel] Schachner (1895-1955) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in sequel to 1937 Schachner, "Past, Present and Future" in which characters from the previous story visit another dystopian city on the same planet. This city, although highly advanced technically, is more a simple authoritarian system but with a hierarchical system similar to that in the previous story. See also 1938 and 1939 Schachner, "City of the Corporate Mind" and "City of the Cosmic Rays.

JF - Astounding Stories VL - 20.4 U2 -

Illus. [Hans Waldemer] Weeso[lowski] (1894-1948)

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Dream" Y1 - 1937 A1 - Pickles, L. KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author AB -

Brief socialist eutopia.

JF - Tomorrow (Christchurch, New Zealand) VL - 3.20 U5 -

ATL

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Every Man a Millionaire: A Baloon Trip in the Mathematical Stratosphere of Social Relations Y1 - 1937 A1 - [David Eugene] [Smith] KW - Male author AB -

A mathematician brings about a rational, technological eutopia.

PB - Scripta Mathematica CY - New York U1 -

Balloon is spelled correctly on page 1.

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David Dunham [pseud.]

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NcD

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Festivity in the New Age" Y1 - 1937 A1 - Michael Goulding KW - Male author AB -

Brief National Socialist eutopia. No cut price stores. “Now the Distributive Corporation decide the prices of goods, and no one is allowed to sell under the agreed price.” No foreign goods. No long hours with stores staying open but shop assistants working in shifts. Miners’ hours reduced, pay increased. No imported coal. New housing for workers.

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O

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Forgetfulness” Y1 - 1937 A1 - [John Wood] [Campbell] [Jr.] (1910-71) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An extremely high-tech people chose to reject the technology and the violence that accompanied it and create a pastoral eutopia. Most of the story focuses on the people from another planet who plan to eliminate the eutopia to get access to the technology.

JF - Astounding Stories VL - 19.4 N1 -

Rpt. in Adventures in Time and Space: An Anthology of Modern Science-Fiction Stories. Ed. Raymond J. Healy and J. Francis McComas (New York: Random House, 1946), 20-45, which was rpt. as Famous Science-Fiction Stories: Adventures in Time and Space. Ed. Raymond J. Healy and J. Francis McComas (New York: Modern Library, 1957), 20-45; and in A New Dawn: The Complete Don A. Stuart Stories. Ed. James A. Mann (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2003), 209-32.

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Don A. Stuart [pseud.]

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Hobbit or There and Back Again Y1 - 1937 A1 - J[ohn] R[onald] R[eul] Tolkien (1897-1973) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Classic children's fantasy novel. Hobbiton-across-the-Water is an arcadia.

PB - George Allen & Unwin CY - London N1 -

2nd. ed. 1951; 3rd ed. 1966; 4th ed. 1978; [50th] anniversary ed. London: Unwin Hyman, 1987 with a “Foreword” by Christopher Tolkien (i-xvi); 75th Anniversary Edition. London: Harper Collins, 2011, with a “Preface” that is excerpts from the 50th ed. “Foreword” (v-xiv). For further information see The Annotated Hobbit. Rev. and exp. ed. annotated by Douglas A. Anderson. Illus. Boston, MA: Houghton, Mifflin Co., 2002. It includes “The Quest of Erebor” [“Gandalf’s explanation of how arranged Bilbo’s adventure”] (367-77); “On Runes” (368-69); and a bibliography that includes, among other things, an extensive list of editions of The Hobbit.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Last Act (A.D. 1995)” Y1 - 1937 A1 - F[rank] L[aurence] Lucas (1894-1967) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which the world is divided between those nations subservient to Japan (Asia to the Urals and Australasia) and Germany (Europe, Asia Minor, and Africa), with the Pan-American Union between them. The story details the dystopia as it exists in the areas controlled by Germany and ends with the human race destroyed.

JF - The Woman Clothed With the Sun and Other Stories PB - Cassell CY - London U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Love Starved World Y1 - 1937 A1 - Jacob Leon Pritcher KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia with emphases on good medical care, a healthy sex life, and eugenics.

PB - The Yale Pub. Co CY - Los Angeles, CA U5 -

DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Morwyn or the Vengeance of God Y1 - 1937 A1 - John Cowper Powys (1872-1963) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author KW - Welsh author AB -

Hell as dystopia.

PB - Cassell CY - London U5 -

MoSW

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Old Goat: A fantasia on a theme of Blackmail and Sudden Death Y1 - 1937 A1 - [Theodore] Edwin Greenwood (1895-1939) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A novel that includes a description of a proto-fascist authoritarian intentional community and the plan for a future authoritarian order. Considerable humor.

PB - William Heinemann CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. as Under the Fig Leaf. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, 1937. 

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U.S. ed. as Under the Fig Leaf. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, 1937. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Past, Present and Future" Y1 - 1937 A1 - Nat[haniel] Schachner (1895-1955) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A dystopia on a post catastrophe Earth of a hierarchical city with people living on levels appropriate to their status. First in a series of dystopias in which people from various past times experience various other dystopias. Sequels are 1937 Schachner, "City of the Rocket Horde," and 1938 and 1939 Schachner, "City of the Corporate Mind" and "City of the Cosmic Rays".

JF - Astounding Stories VL - 20.1 U2 -

Illus. [Hans Waldemer] Weeso[lowski] (1894-1948)

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Place of the Gods” Y1 - 1937 A1 - Stephen Vincent Benét (1898-1943) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

After an unexplained catastrophe called the Great Burning, a religious society has developed with strict taboos on travel to certain areas thought of as the place of the gods. Since metal is scarce and has been scavenged from most areas where travel is permitted, one man goes into the forbidden areas and discovers the ruins of the previous civilization.

JF - Saturday Evening Post VL - 219.5 N1 -

Rpt. without the illus. as “By the Waters of Babylon.” In his Thirteen O’Clock: Stories of Several Worlds (New York: Farrar & Rinehart, [1937]), 3-20; in The Pocket Book of Science Fiction. Ed. Donald A. Wollheim (New York: Pocket Books, 1943), 1-16; in The Post Reader of Fantasy and Science Fiction (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1964), 103-17; in Fantasy Voyages: Great Science Fiction from The Saturday Evening Post. Ed. Vincent Miranda (Indianapolis, IN: Curtis, 1979), 103-17 with an editor’s note on 104; and in Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction. Ed. Leigh Ronald Grossman (Rockville, MD: Wildside Press, 2011), 247-49 with an editor’s note on 247.

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Rpt. as “By the Waters of Babylon.” 

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Illus. Henry C. Pitz. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Problem Island Y1 - 1937 A1 - Francis Clement Kelley (1870-1948) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A group of children are placed on an isolated island in an experiment to see if they will invent religion. Although there are problems, they create an egalitarian, democratic eutopia, and they invent religion. At the end they become Christians.

PB - St. Anthony Guild Press CY - Paterson, NJ U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Rhubarb Tree Y1 - 1937 A1 - Kenneth [Cyril Bruce] Allott (1912-73) A1 - Stephen Tait KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire in which one focus is a fascist dystopia.

PB - The Cresset Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Selestor’s Men of Atlantis Y1 - 1937 A1 - Clara Iza [Tibbets] Von Ravn (b. 1870) KW - Female author AB -

Presented as a depiction of the history of a real Atlantis described by Selestor. Includes descriptions of government, religion, marriage customs, and education, , which was available to all boys, language, music, farming, food, metallurgy, and other topics are touched on. Much of the book is on the decline of Atlantis through a king who broke the law that the king could only marry a woman born of parents from Atlantis. 

PB - Christopher Publishing House CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Shelter in Bedlam Y1 - 1937 A1 - [Beatrice Lamberton Becker] [Warde] (1900-69) KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia with everyone living in bomb shelters with the goal of everyone living permanently underground. Re-telling to a child of the Christmas story designed for the new circumstances but with an emphasis on how language has been warped to disguise the changes brought about by the dictator. 

PB - Privately ptd CY - Np N1 -

A short passage was rpt. in The Golden Road: An Anthology of Travel. Ed. Arthur Stanley (London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1938), 283. Also, with a new appendix, entitled Peace Under Earth: Dialogues from the Year 1946 Recorded by Paul Beaujon With a Frontispiece by Denis Tegetmeier. London: Megaw, 1938. U.S. ed. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1939. 

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Peace Under Earth: Dialogues from the Year 1946 Recorded by Paul Beaujon With a Frontispiece. London: Megaw, 1938

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1938 ed. illus. Denis Tegetmeier.

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Paul Beaujon [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Some Plant Olive Trees Y1 - 1937 A1 - Emma Gelders Sterne (1894-1971) KW - Female author AB -

A French settlement in Alabama with the intention to establish a community with the aims of the French Revolution. Combines fiction and non-fiction.

PB - Dodd, Mead CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Star Begotten: A Biological Fantasia Y1 - 1937 A1 - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel focuses on the belief that cosmic rays are causing positive mutations in humans and producing more rational people who will, over time, bring about a better world. Chapter 9 includes some eutopian material including better education, world peace and world citizenship with complete freedom of movement, abundance, the world turned into a garden, and individuality. Chapter 9 is 169-85 (C&W); 186-202 (Viking); 124-33 (WUP); London Mercury 36.212 (June 1937): 166-72.

JF - London Mercury PB - Chatto & Windus CY - London VL - 35 - 36.210 - 212 N1 -

Repub. London: Chatto & Windus. U.S. ed. New York: Viking, 1937. Both U.K. and U.S. eds. published in June. Rpt. ed. John Huntington. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2006. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Star-Maker Y1 - 1937 A1 - [William] Olaf Stapledon (1886-1950) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

One of Stapledon's visions of the far, far future where the human race has been replaced by more advanced species.

PB - Methuen CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in his To the End of Time: The Best of Olaf Stapledon. Ed. Basil Davenport (New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1953), 221-412; rpt. (Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 221-412; as The Star Maker. New York: Berkley Medallion, 1961; in Last and First Men & Star Maker: Two Science-Fiction Novels (New York: Dover, 1968), 247-438; Bath, Eng.: Lythway Press, 1974; and ed. Patrick McCarthy. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2004 with a “Foreword” by Freeman Dyson (xi-xv) and an “Introduction” by the editor (xix-xxxiii). Excerpts rpt. in An Olaf Stapledon Reader. Ed. Robert Crossley (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1997), 22-28. An earlier version was discovered and published as Nebula Maker. Hayes, Middlesex, Eng.: Bran's Head Books, 1976. Rpt. in Nebula Maker & Four Encounters with illustrations by Jim Starlin (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1983), 1-124 with an "Introduction" by Arthur C. Clarke (vii-x).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Sterile Planet" Y1 - 1937 A1 - Nat[haniel] Schachner (1895-1955) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The sterile planet is Earth in 4260 because humans had ignored the prophecies of the early twentieth century and had “denuded the forests, plowed up the soil, meddled recklessly with the delicate balance of nature” (52). The story is primarily concerned with a battle between the so-called civilized and those who had been left behind when the last places with water had been captured and enclosed and a conflict between the authoritarian leader of the “civilized” and a scientist with a plan to restore Earth.

JF - Astounding Stories VL - 19.5 N1 -

Rpt. in Nature’s Warning: Classic Stories of Eco-Science Fiction. Ed. Mike Ashley (London: British Library, 2021), 113-143.

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Illus. [Elliott] Dold, [Jr.] (1889-1957)

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Stop! . . . Distracted People! Two Mirrors of the Future. Romantic Double Utopia Y1 - 1937 A1 - Ludovicus Textoris Serly KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Small town and rural eutopia after disastrous earthquakes.

PB - Bookcraft [Stamped above publisher’s name: Pub. by L.T. Serly] CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sugar in the Air: A Romance Y1 - 1937 A1 - E[rnest] C[harles] Large (1902-76) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on capitalism and big business. See his Asleep in the Afternoon. London: Jonathan Cape, 1938. Rpt. London: Hyphen Press, 2008, which is a novel about the writing of Sugar in the Air.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Hyphen Press, 2008.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Super-Woman Y1 - 1937 A1 - A. Oliver Sutter AB -

A woman produces a world eutopia in which class antagonisms and conflicts between the races and between capital and labor end.

PB - Arthur H. Stockwell, Ltd CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Swastika Night Y1 - 1937 A1 - [Katharine Penelope Cade] [Burdekin] (1896-1963) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia where there has been five hundred years of Nazi rule, and the Nazi creed has become transmuted into a religion which directly supports the current power structure of the future Germany. There is still a single Führer who rules with the blessing of Hitler and God the Thunderer over a clearly defined hierarchy that is nationalist, racist, sexist, with love only between men and women kept separate and only for breeding, and anti-Christian. Much of the book is about one of the German Knights who knows the truth of the past and works to preserve that knowledge the future. Female author.

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in the Left Book Club Edition. London: Victor Gollancz, 1940; and by Burdekin writing as Murray Constantine. London: Gollancz, 2016, with an “Introduction” by Michael Dirda (1-4); and under the author's real name Old Westbury, NY: The Feminist Press, 1985  with an “Introduction” iii-xv) by Daphne Patai; and London: Gollancz, 2016, with an “Introduction” by Michel Dirda (1-4).

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Murray Constantine [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Time is Now Ripe: Revolution Without Tears Y1 - 1937 A1 - Montague [MacGregor] Grover (1870-1943) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Communist revolution and eutopia.

PB - Robertson & Mullens CY - Melbourne, VIC, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - To-morrow's Art and Recreation Y1 - 1937 A1 - A[rthur] Romney Green (d. 1945) KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia presented in an address delivered to the Economic Reform Club in September 1937. Return to handicrafts. Minimum wage.

PB - Vanguard Press CY - London U5 -

LSE

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Unholy City Y1 - 1937 A1 - Charles G[randison] Finney (1905-84) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on the US seen as a fantastic imaginary country.

PB - The Vanguard Press CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Panther, 1965.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Unknown Dictator Y1 - 1937 A1 - L. H Ingham AB -

Beginnings of a dystopia of Fascism in Britain, but it is stopped.

PB - Arthur H. Stockwell CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Utopia and/or Bust" Y1 - 1937 A1 - Paul McCrea KW - Male author AB -

Satire. Business collapses when everyone is given gold, and no one will work.

JF - Nation's Business (Washington, DC) VL - 25 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Wednesday's Children Y1 - 1937 A1 - [Iris Guiver] [Wilkinson] (1906-39) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

A feminist novel in which a woman creates an ideal, eutopian family on an island in Auckland harbor as well as assisting poor people through her work as a fortune teller. The family is a fantasy, and she chooses to kill herself rather than give up her family and enter into a traditional marriage.

PB - Hurst & Blackett CY - London N1 -

Rpt. Auckland, New Zealand: New Women's Press, 1989; and Dunedin, New Zealand: University of Otago Press, 1993. 

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Robin Hyde [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Wild Goose Chase Y1 - 1937 A1 - Rex [Reginald Ernest] Warner (1905-86) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Three brothers separately set out on a search for the wild goose and find a town that is a dystopia with the people slaves and an extraordinarily corrupt and decadent government. The youngest of the brothers leads a successful revolution. Much on revolutionary strategy and tactics.

PB - Boriswood CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in the Uniform Edition. London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1944, 442 pp. and London: Merlin Press, 1990, with an “Introduction by Andrew Cramp (vii-xvii). xvii + 442 pp. U.S. ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1938. 454 pp.

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Trans. into Italian as La caccia all’Oca selvatica. [Torino]: Einaudi, 1953

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The World Ends Y1 - 1937 A1 - [Margaret Storm] [Jameson] (1891-1986) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Massive earthquakes have been occurring in Europe, and one destroys most of England. In the novel, only one simple, farming family and the sophisticated protagonist author from London are depicted as surviving. Overwhelmingly dystopian, but the protagonist ultimately finds happiness in the simple life on the farm. 

PB - J. M. Dent and Sons CY - London U2 -

Illus. John Farleigh

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William Lamb [pseud.]

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NLS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Young Men Are Coming! Y1 - 1937 A1 - M[atthew] P[hipps] Shiel (1865-1947) KW - Creole author KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Montserrat British West Indies author AB -

Includes a fascist attempt to take over Britain.

PB - Vanguard Press CY - New York N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Vanguard Press, 1937. 375 pp.  

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - After Us or The World as it might be Y1 - 1936 A1 - J[ohn] P[ercy] Lockhart-Mummery (1875-1957) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A rational anti-socialist eutopia written as a projection for AD 2536. Advanced technology. Eugenics. Genetically engineered food. Reason.

PB - Stanley Paul CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Amaranthers Y1 - 1936 A1 - Jack B[utler] Yeats (1871-1957) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

An odd work about Ireland. It can be read as a eutopia with problems or as a fantasy and certainly has elements of each. As a eutopia, the stress is on the friendliness of the small town and the way the people support each other. There is also, at the beginning, a brief dystopian interlude.

PB - William Heinemann CY - London U5 -

TCD

ER - TY - ABST T1 - At the Dawn of the Millennium; A Scientific and Philosophical Treatise for the Advancement of Knowledge and the Promotion of World Peace Y1 - 1936 A1 - Nicholas Nicolaides KW - Male author AB -

A eutopia set in the future that has a universal language and covers the entire world. Rural. Detached houses. Technologically advanced.

PB - City Printing Co CY - San Diego, CA U5 -

DLC, NcD

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Australano" Y1 - 1936 A1 - [Nelson] [Tremaine] (1907-71) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Future devastated by war rebuilds into two countries, one in North America and one in Australia. The former is a dictatorship; the latter is a benevolent monarchy.

JF - Astounding Stories VL - 17.5 U3 -

Warner van Lorne [pseud.]

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Bensalem and New Jerusalem Y1 - 1936 A1 - [Philip Francis] [Samuels] KW - Male author AB -

Continuation of 1627 Bacon, New Atlantis. Conservative. Christian. Political representation by trade or profession.

PB - Samuels-Bacon Pub. Co CY - Boston, MA U3 -

Samuels-Bacon [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Birds Y1 - 1936 A1 - Frank Baker KW - Male author AB -

The bulk of the book is a dystopia of an attack by “birds” that destroys contemporary civilization. The explanation of the nature of the birds in Part III, Section VII suggests that they are reflections of human failings. After being forced to flee the cities, a simple agricultural society with eutopian aspects is established and briefly described in the concluding section.

PB - Peter Davies CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Black Internationale: Story of Black Genius Against the World” Y1 - 1936 A1 - [George Samuel] [Schuyler] (1895-1977) ED - Robert A. Hill ED - R. Kent Rasmussen KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

A novella in which an African American brings together African American professionals, the Black Internationale, to liberate Africa from white colonial oppression using whatever means is available, including a level of violence comparable to that of the colonists. Schuyler stresses the exceptional quality of the people involved and makes clear that not all blacks as intelligent. 1937-8 Schuyler is a sequel. Schuyler describes the development of the movement in “The Rise of the Black Internationale.” The Crisis 25.8 (August 1938): 255-57, 274-75, 277. Rpt. in his Black Empire Comprising The Black Internationale: Story of Black Genius Against the World and Black Empire: An Imaginative Story of a Great Civilization in Modern Africa. Ed. Robert A. Hill and R. Kent Rasmussen (Boston, MA: Northeastern University Press, 1991), 328-336; and in Rac[e]ing to the Right: Selected Essays of George S. Schuyler. Ed. Jeffrey B. Leak (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2001), 29-36. See also 1931 Schuyler. 

JF - The Pittsburgh Courier N1 -

Originally published in the Pittsburgh Courier (November 21, 1936 - July 3, 1937). No good file of the Pittsburgh Courier appears to exist, and the editors of the book publication compared the damaged, incomplete, microfilm with Schuyler’s clippings of the stories held by Syracuse University Library. Rev. ed. in George S[amuel] Schuyler, Black Empire. Ed Brooks E. Hefner (New York: Penguin Books/Penguin Random House, 2023), 1-168, with an Introduction by the editor (vii-xxii), Suggestions for Further Reading (xiii-xxv), A Note on the Text (xxvii-xxx), and Appendices including Appendix A “Original Headline Titles and Publication Dates” (307-310), Appendix B “Notes for ‘The Black Internationale’” (313-316), Appendix C “Notes for Speculative Fiction Serials Never Executed by Schuyler” (317-323), and Appendix D “Bibliography of Schuyler’s Genre Fiction” (325-329), and Notes The Black Internationale (331-336) and Notes Appendix D Bibliography of Schuyler’s Genre Fiction (359).

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Samuel I. Brooks [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Blackshirt the Adventurer Y1 - 1936 A1 - [Graham Montague] [Jeffries] (1900-82) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia. Cave world (World of the Secret People) inhabited by criminals, and the criminals are slaves of the overlords.

PB - Hutchinson CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Hutchinson, 1945.

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Bruce Graeme [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Chosen Race Y1 - 1936 A1 - Edgar Albion Lyons KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Machine dystopia set in 2000 A.D. The dystopia was brought about by the inexorable process of automation that gradually threw everyone out of work. The few employed drove the unemployed out of cities and built huge walls around them. At the end the machines stop, but a small eutopia survives that had been established by a single wealthy man who made himself king, selected those who could settle, and, while providing a much better life for the people, also imposed strict rules.

PB - The Cavalier Pub. Co CY - [St. Petersburg, FL] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Collective Insecurity Y1 - 1936 A1 - Kenneth Macassey KW - Male author AB -

Dystopian satire of a future German empire.

PB - Longmans, Green & Co CY - London U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Co-op. A Novel of Living: Together Y1 - 1936 A1 - Upton [Beall] Sinclair (1878-1968) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia based on a cooperative system and consensus. 

PB - The Author CY - Pasadena, CA N1 -

UK ed. London: T. Werner Laurie, 1936

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - E Pluribus Unum; A Story of Today and of Today's Tomorrow Y1 - 1936 A1 - Quoin [pseud.] AB -

Eutopia but with the emphasis on the struggle with both Communism and Fascism before a form of socialism is established.

PB - Patriot Publishing Co CY - Los Angeles, CA U3 -

Quoin [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Emotion Solution" Y1 - 1936 A1 - Arthur K. Barnes (1909-69) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia that eliminates emotion.

JF - Wonder Stories (Springfield, MA) VL - 7.8 U5 -

SFF

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Empty World (A Romance of the Future) Y1 - 1936 A1 - D[orothy] E[mily] Stevenson (1892-1973) KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

Describes two societies after a catastrophe. One is purportedly a eutopia but is an authoritarian dystopia. The other is a simple society that has no eutopian aspirations but almost becomes a eutopia.

PB - Herbert Jenkins CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. A World in Spell. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1939.

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U.S. ed. A World in Spell. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1939.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Even a Worm Y1 - 1936 A1 - J. S. Bradford AB -

The novel is about the first stages of the dystopia that will be brought about by the revolt of the animals against their human oppressors.

PB - Arthur Barker CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Famous Fantastic Mysteries 6.5 (June 1945): 78-117.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The God and the Man: A Saga of the Uphrigees” Y1 - 1936 A1 - Isaacson, Charles D. KW - Male author AB -

Satire about the god Zoohm, who creates a eutopia where every person knows how they are to live and do so contentedly without thought. But Zhoom gets bored and asks a brother god for a troublesome human to shake things up. Initially the outsider has no impact, but then Zhoom grants the people the ability to think and act for themselves, and the human manages to start a revolution. Zhoom enjoys the result until the human tries to replace Zhoom, who kills him but quickly regrets his act and destroys Uphrigee.

JF - The Californian (Pomona, CA) VL - 3.4 U5 -

ATL, UC-B

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Greener Pastures; A Fable of Past, Present and Future Y1 - 1936 A1 - Howard Wolf KW - Male author AB -

Satire. God has illusions of grandeur and thinks He is Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945. President 1933-45).

PB - The Caxton Printers CY - Caldwell, ID U5 -

NcD

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Heritage of the Quest Y1 - 1936 A1 - Gertrude Venetta Cope KW - Female author AB -

Fantasy and allegory describing a vaguely described ideal world.

PB - Marshall Jones CY - Boston, MA U5 -

DLC, TxU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Hesperides: A Looking-Glass Fugue Y1 - 1936 A1 - John [Leslie] Palmer (1885-1944) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Art and imagination discouraged. No emotions. Eating and sleeping completely private and are considered impolite.

PB - Martin Secker & Warburg CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Home Life in A.D. 2000" Y1 - 1936 A1 - E[dmund] S[idney] P[ollock] Haynes (1877-1949) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on overzealous law making.

JF - Life, Law & Letters PB - William Heinemann CY - London U5 -

MoSW

ER - TY - ABST T1 - In the Second Year Y1 - 1936 A1 - [Margaret] Storm Jameson (1891-1986) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia set after World War I. The inability of governments to deal with post-war economic problems combined with communist agitation leads to the rise of a strong man. Labour and Training Camps are established, the former for the unemployed, the latter to punish dissidents. The novel traces three months under the regime as seen by an outsider.

PB - Cassell CY - London N1 -

Rpt. Ed. Stan Smith. Nottingham, Eng.: Trent Editions, 2004 with "Notes on the Text" (216-26).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Janice in Tomorrow-Land Y1 - 1936 A1 - [Rufus] Emory Holloway (1885-1977) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult high tech eutopia as seen through the eyes of a twelve-year-old girl.

PB - American Book Co CY - New York U2 -

Illus.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lost Civilization: A Story of Adventure in Central Australia Y1 - 1936 A1 - Val[entine Voltaire] Heslop (1894-1936) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Lost race utopia in the center of Australia. A scientifically advanced society with similarities to both ancient Egypt and the Mayans. Vegetarian. Peaceful. Use Telepathy. There is an authoritarian monarch and vestal virgins, who cannot marry. All work for the good of the community and all needs are provided. Men marry whom they choose; women not consulted. Believe in a Supreme Being. Equality except for a few nobles. Standard evil High Priest, prohibited love, adventure, some escape. 

PB - St. George Pub. Coy CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Lost Paradise" Y1 - 1936 A1 - C[atherine] L[ucille] Moore (1911-87) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A story in the author’s series about the character Northwest Smith in which he visits the far past when the inhabited moon was called Seles and in a golden age. 

JF - Weird Tales VL - 28.1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Machine Stops Y1 - 1936 A1 - [Victor] [Bayley] (1880-1972) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Disaster dystopia in which all metal disintegrates.

PB - Robert Hale CY - London U3 -

Wayland Smith [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Man Who Could Still Laugh (A Story of the Future) Y1 - 1936 A1 - [Charles Houghton] [Oldfield] (1889-1961) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on totalitarianism that sees laughter as the best defense.

PB - Bantam Books/Todd Publishing Co. CY - London N1 -

Originally published in Prague newspaper (not found) and then Candide

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Charles Houghton [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Martians Investigate This Crazy World! Y1 - 1936 A1 - Fred L. Dietz KW - Male author AB -

Primarily a criticism of contemporary society, but it also presents a cooperative system that the society will adopt in the near future.

PB - Fred L. Dietz CY - Portland, OR U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Master Plan: Government Without Taxation Y1 - 1936 A1 - Herman Van Polen KW - Male author AB -

One corporation takes over the assets of the United States and brings eutopia with much on the problems involved.

PB - Christopher Pub. Co CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "My Utopia: Address to the Cosmopolitan Club of the London School of Economics and Political Science (23rd October 1934)" Y1 - 1936 A1 - William H[enry] Beveridge, [Baron Beveridge] (1879-1963) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A world eutopia is presented based on variety. A specific eutopia located in Scotland (now known as Econ) is based on an economic system that is fundamentally capitalist but that ensures the maintenance of all basic physical and psychological needs by providing publicly for everything related to education broadly defined plus housing, transport, and the maintenance of the countryside (134-26, 138). Stress on variety (137-38) with an educational system designed to reflect the variety of human needs and interests (138-40). Both individual and collective family systems exist in Econ. The world eutopia is based on the introduction of birth control and the resultant fall in population (133). London is thus depicted as emptier and greener. Immigration anywhere in the world is open to all, but national differences remain (134, 136). 

JF - Planning under Socialism and Other Addresses PB - Longmans, Green and Co. CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A New Earth and A New Heaven Y1 - 1936 A1 - William Boyle Hill (ca. 1861-1953) KW - Australian author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Two eutopias. Hopetown is a model town for workers. Dawn City stresses eugenics. Vegetarian. No religion. No money. Health examination every three months. Standardized dress. Set in Australia.

PB - Watts & Co CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Nightmare?--Or Vision" Y1 - 1936 A1 - F. E. Hayes AB -

Brief fascist eutopia. Better roads. Improved life for farmers and workers with new housing for both.

JF - Action (London) VL - no. 35 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Nobody Talks Politics; A Satire with an Appendix on Our Political Intelligentsia Y1 - 1936 A1 - Geoffrey [Edgar Solomon] Gorer (1905-85) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which fascism is brought about by a lack of concern. Satire on the political awakening of the middle class.

PB - Michael Joseph CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Our Stranger; A Kinemato-Romance Y1 - 1936 A1 - Edgar Meredith KW - Male author AB -

Two utopias. The first is a vision of the far, far future. The second, set in the 1970s, is a communal eutopia.

PB - Grayson & Grayson CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Owl of Athene Y1 - 1936 A1 - Eden Phillpotts (1862-1960) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Story told by the owl about the gods' concern with human conflict. The gods produce conflict between humans and crabs which forces the human race to work together. A vaguely described eutopia results.

PB - Hutchinson & Co CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Paradise Found or Where the Sex Problem has been solved (A Story from South America) Y1 - 1936 A1 - C[harles] Wicksteed Armstrong F.R.G.S. (1871-ca 1963) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A eutopia describing a eugenic colony in Brazil called Eugenia. Relatively few laws. The natural position of women is child-rearing and domestic labor while that of men is combat and work. Sexual freedom for the unmarried but self-control is stressed. Voluntary euthanasia. Defective children killed. The author had previously made a proposal for such a colony; see his “A Eugenic Colony: A Proposal for South America.” The Eugenics Review (London) 25.2 (n.s. 6.2) (July 1933): 91-97. See also 1892 Armstrong, The Yorl of the Northmen; his The Only Way: A Suggestion as to the True Solution to the Problems of Over-population, Degeneration, Unemployment and the Menace of War. London: Edgar G. Dunstan, [1921?]; and his The Survival of the Unfittest. London: C. W. Daniel Co., 1927. Rev. and enl. London: C. W. Daniel Co., 1931.

PB - John Bale, Sons & Danielsson CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Prosperity In the Year 2000 A.D. Achieved by Democratic Steps As the natural result of abolishing all taxes upon business, industry, commerce and agriculture, leaving for the necessary expenses of government its natural revenue, economic rent as determined by the site value of land. As presented in a series of conversations between Justin Waterson, a retired Chicago merchant, eighty-five years of age, and his grandson, Charles Waterson, aged seventeen. A Challenge to State Socialism Y1 - 1936 A1 - Henry Ware Allen KW - Male author AB -

Detailed eutopia describing the operation of a federal world state with industry essentially self-governing. Includes the single tax on land. The idea of a single tax on land originated with Henry George (1839-97). For Henry George's explanation of the single tax, see his Progress and Poverty. An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and Of Increase of Want With Increase of Wealth. The Remedy. San Francisco, CA: W.M. Hinton, 1879. Fiftieth Anniversary Ed. New York: The Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, 1929.

PB - Christopher Pub. House CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Red Comet: A Tale of Travel in the U S S R Y1 - 1936 A1 - Geoffrey Trease (1909-98) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Children’s book that depicts the Soviet Union as a eutopia seen through the eyes of two children from the United States who are able to fly around the country. Particular emphasis on the Soviet children. An author’s note at the end says that it is based on his own travels around the country in 1935.

PB - Co-operative publishing society of foreign workers in the U.S.S.R. CY - Moscow N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1937. U.S. ed. New York: International Publishers, 1937. Both the U.K. and U.S. eds. were printed in Moscow.

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Illus. Fred Ellis

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Retreat from Armageddon Y1 - 1936 A1 - Muriel Jaeger (1894-1969) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Set in a house-party waiting for the coming of war. Each guest is asked to speak. One (a biologist) presents a eugenic eutopia; the next (an artist) presents a critique of the eugenic eutopia which stresses that it will become a dystopia.

PB - Duckworth CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Rude Awakening: A Story with a Warning" Y1 - 1936 A1 - F. A. S. Smith AB -

Brief picture of the dystopia that will be created if the Jews control the world.

JF - Action (London) VL - no. 14 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sell England? Y1 - 1936 A1 - [John Percy Vyvian] Dacre Balsdon (1901-77) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on 20th Century England set in the future when Africa is the center of civilization.

PB - Eyre and Spottiswoode CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Short History of the Future Y1 - 1936 A1 - John Langdon-Davies (1897-1971) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Twenty-four prophecies of the future, mostly fairly short term but with others extending to 4000 A.D. Both eutopian and dystopian projections.

PB - George Routledge & Sons, Ltd CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1936.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles" Y1 - 1936 A1 - [George] Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Satire describing a eugenic experiment on an isolated island using group marriage. Ends with a satire on the Day of Judgment, which Shaw presents as the point of the play.

JF - The Simpleton, The Six, and the Millionaires: Three Plays PB - Constable CY - London N1 -

Rpt. with the subtitle A Vision of Judgment. In The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw. Collected Plays with their Prefaces (London: Max Reinhardt The Bodley Head, 1973), 6: 741-846, with the “Preface” on 745-64. See his “Preface on Days of Judgment.” The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw. Collected Plays with their Prefaces (London: Max Reinhardt The Bodley Head, 1973), 6: 745-64. Rpt. with the subtitle “(The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles).” In his The Complete Prefaces. Volume 3: 1930-1950. Ed. Dan H. Laurence and Daniel J. Leary (London: Allen Lane The Penguin Press, 1997), 229-41. See also his “The Simple Truth of the Matter (A reply to the assertion of Joseph Wood Krutch in The Nation New York [140 (March 6, 1935): 286-87] that Shaw’s recent plays were merely vaudeville, quite devoid of meaning.” Malvern Festival Book, 1935). Rpt. in The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw. Collected Plays with their Prefaces (London: Max Reinhardt The Bodley Head, 1973), 6: 841-46. 

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First published in German translation as Die Insel der Überraschungen ein Spiel in zwei Akten und einem Prolog. Trans. Siegfried Trebitsch (Berlin: S. Fischer Verlag, 1935), with the first scene of the “Prologue” having been published in the Berliner Tageblatt (February 12, 1935). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Sleeper Wakes: A Christmas Eve Fantasia Y1 - 1936 A1 - Henry Gibbs KW - Male author AB -

Brief fascist eutopia. Shops full of British made goods plus some from the Empire. Only a few items from outside those areas, and those things that the British "don't bother to make." No food from outside the empire. Many workers returned to farming; they have good housing, schools, and nurseries.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Tartan Shirts Y1 - 1936 A1 - Archibald Crawford KW - Male author AB -

Satire on the various pre-World War II movements that were identified by the color of their shirts.

PB - Putnam CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - They Found Atlantis Y1 - 1936 A1 - Dennis [Yates] Wheatley (1897-1977) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Atlantis as a eutopia. The Azores are the peaks of the mountains of the submerged Atlantis. Most of the book is concerned with its discovery.

PB - Hutchinson CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. Philadelphia, PA: J.B. Lippincott, 1936. Rpt. in his Worlds Far From Here (London: Hutchinson, [1954]), 745-1120.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Virgin King. A Novel Y1 - 1936 A1 - Francis Watson (b. 1907) KW - UK author AB -

Satire on dictatorship.

PB - D. Appleton-Century Co CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Wide, White Page Y1 - 1936 A1 - Beall Cunningham KW - Male author AB -

A colony of men in Antarctica that is harmonious until the first woman arrives. The men decide to keep the harmony, and the woman leaves.

PB - Hutchinson CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Wild Harbour Y1 - 1936 A1 - Ian Macpherson (1905-44) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Dystopia. The novel is about a response to the forthcoming war in which a couple hide themselves on a remote Scottish island. At the end the war has occurred with devastating effects on the world which ultimately reach them. 

PB - Paul Harris Publishing CY - Edinburgh, Scot. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - 13 Seconds that Rocked the World, or the Mentator Y1 - 1935 A1 - John J[oseph] Meyer (1873-1948) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia created by scientists taking control and using their knowledge to improve the human race. Telepathy. In 1942 Meyer where the eutopia is "The Mentator World". See also 1917 Meyer.

PB - Rae D. Henkle CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Adam Revisits Paradise Y1 - 1935 A1 - Ralph Chaplin (1887-1961) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Adam returns to Eden and finds that he could return permanently without Eve. Adam chooses Eve and expulsion from Eden.

JF - Pilgrimage Series No. 1 PB - Author CY - Lombard, IL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Best Is Yet To Be; A Forecast of the Perfect Social State Y1 - 1935 A1 - Alfred Norman KW - Male author AB -

Non-fiction outline of a Christian democratic socialist eutopia.

PB - James Clarke CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Celestial Visitor" Y1 - 1935 A1 - [Mary Maud Dunn] [Wright] (1894-1967) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Satire on a visitor to Earth from Eutopia who is dissatisfied with contentment, and Earth provides the alternative. Eutopia has no laws and is based equality.

JF - Wonder Stories (Springfield, MA) VL - 6.10 U3 -

Lillith Lorraine [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Comrade Gulliver: An Illustrated Account of Travel into that Strange Country the United States of America Y1 - 1935 A1 - Gellert, Hugo KW - Male author AB -

Social satire. Vignettes of life in the United States presented as Gulliveriana.

PB - G.P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Depression Island Y1 - 1935 A1 - Upton [Beall] Sinclair (1878-1968) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The first part of the book is a satire on capitalism in which three men shipwrecked on an island recreate class. The second part of the book is a satire on gender relations. 

PB - Author CY - Pasadena, CA N1 -

The book originated as a few pages in his The Way Out: What Lies Ahead for America (New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1933), 25-31.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Dissolution of Governments by Greed, Crime and Wars Y1 - 1935 A1 - L. P. Lidback AB -

The pamphlet has two sections, "The United States, Land of Individual Initiative in Industry, Crime, and Graft" (5-9) and "A Government of the People, By the People, and For the People" (11-27). The first shows what is wrong in the U.S., and the second presents the eutopia, which is an adaptation of the Industrial Army from 1888 Bellamy, through the 1965 inaugural address of the U.S. President. There is an organization chart of "The Edward Bellamy System of Industrial Government" on 27.

PB - np CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Doctor Crosby's Strange Experience or a New World By 1944 Y1 - 1935 A1 - Joseph W[illiam] Parker KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Detailed socialist eutopia based on the ideas of Edward Bellamy and set in Kansas City and its environs. Private property only in personal effects. All work for the government, guaranteed lifetime income. No money. Education to 25; work 26 years; retire at 50 or, by choice, continue to work. Hours of work determined by demand and difficulty. Considerable concern with farming, which is scientifically based and uses technology extensively. See also [1941?] Parker. 

PB - The Peerage Press CY - Kansas City, MO N1 -

Some copies have Kansas City crossed out and replaced with Chicago, IL, and the press moved to Chicago at this time.

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Illus. Donald Lathrop. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Escape" Y1 - 1935 A1 - [John Wood] [Campbell] [Jr.] (1910-71) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eugenics. Initially presented as dystopian but given a positive twist at the end.

JF - Astounding Stories (New York) VL - 15.3 N1 -

Rpt. in his Cloak of Aesir (Chicago, IL: Shasta, 1952), 47-69; rpt. (New York: Lancer Books, [1972]), 47-69; and in A New Dawn: The Complete Don A. Stuart Stories. Ed. James A. Mann (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2003), 131-47.

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Don A. Stuart [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Flight of the Blue Eagle. A Fantastic Story Portraying the Social and Political Evolution of a New Economic System in the United States between the years 1934 and 1945 Y1 - 1935 A1 - Francis Joseph Bingham KW - Male author AB -

Mostly on the depression, its effects, an attempted Communist takeover of the United States, first by electoral means and then by civil war, and the successful resistance to it. The New Deal failed but laid the necessary basis for future change. The eutopia, which is presented piecemeal throughout the book includes an Industrial Army similar to that found in 1888 Bellamy and elements of Technocracy (see 1933 Loeb) and Upton Sinclair's EPIC program (see 1933 Sinclair).

PB - De Vorss & Co CY - Los Angeles, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Fraudulent Conversion. A Romance of the Gold Standard Y1 - 1935 A1 - [Matilda Angela Antonia] [Hunter] (1877-1960) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Eutopia. A wealthy man sets out to reform England and fights for reform against fascists. Gaining control of newspapers and the bank were essential to his success. He buys freedom for prisoners of dictators. Slum clearance and medical reform.

PB - Stanley Paul CY - London U3 -

George Lancing [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - God's Secret Y1 - 1935 A1 - Arthur Stanwood Pier (1874-1966) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Life without death. Last chapter describes a very general eutopia of peace and plenty.

PB - Charles Scribner's Sons CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Going West Y1 - 1935 A1 - James Bramwell (1911-1995) KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

A god creates an island (Land of Perpetual Love) and peoples it, expecting it to become eutopian. It has to be destroyed.

PB - Cobden-Sanderson CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Green Child: A Romance Y1 - 1935 A1 - Herbert [Edward] Read (1893-1968) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Two imaginary countries. The first is located in South America and is a benevolent dictatorship. The second is under England, and, in it, mental perfection is the goal of life.

PB - William Heinemann CY - London N1 -

Rpt. without the subtitle London: Grey Walls Press, 1945 with illustrations by Felix Kelley; New York: New Directions, 1935 with an introduction by Graham Green, which is rpt. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1947; and Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin, 1969.

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Grey Walls Press, ed. illus. Felix Kelley

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hespamora Y1 - 1935 A1 - James Francis Dwyer (1874-1952) KW - Australian author KW - French author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Includes a description of a dystopian community for the idle rich.

PB - Methuen & Co CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - If I Were Dictator Y1 - 1935 A1 - James Maxton (1885-1946) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

A eutopia based on a series of reforms. World disarmament, world government with national and local governments abolished, a new currency, English as the universal language, no poverty, shorter work hours in better conditions, improved education, and women economically independent. 

PB - Methuen CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - If I Were Dictator Y1 - 1935 A1 - [Charles] Vernon [Olldfield] Bartlett (1894-1983) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Benevolent dictatorship and its failures. Series of reforms. Tolerance. Eliminate the arms trade and replace the military with a League of Nations militia. Eliminate single family homes and replace them with apartment houses with facilities for interaction. Open up the countryside. 

PB - Methuen CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - If I Were Dictator Y1 - 1935 A1 - H[ugh] R[ichard] L[awrie] Sheppard (1880-1937) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Proposals for church reform, although most of the book is criticism of the current churches. The proposed reforms include cooperation among denominations, the recognition of others than the Church of England by the state, and the pooling of church endowments. 

PB - Methuen CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - If I Were Dictator. From a Speech delivered at Blackpool on May 24th 1935 Y1 - 1935 A1 - The Right Hon. Sir Herbert [Louis] Samuel (1870-1963) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Outlines the policies of Liberalism at the time. Remove trade restrictions; stabilize currencies; limit armaments; stimulate employment; reduce taxation; extend social reforms; develop industrial self-government; and enhance liberty and equality.

PB - Liberal Publication Department CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - If I Were New Zealand's Dictator Y1 - 1935 A1 - Irwin, Madeleine KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

Essay supporting Social Credit. Detailed economic and parliamentary reforms.

PB - Emeny & Co., Printers CY - Auckland, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "In Caverns Below" Y1 - 1935 A1 - Stanton A[rthur] Coblentz (1896-1982) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on the modern world, particularly world politics through a world inside the earth. Mechanically advanced authoritarian system in which war is considered good. Monopoly capitalism. Beauty consists of looking old and being fat.

JF - Wonder Stories (Springfield, MA) VL - 6.10 - 12 N1 -

Rpt. in Fantastic Stories Quarterly (New York) 1.3 (Fall 1950): 11-86; as Hidden World. New York: Avalon Books, 1957; and New York: Airmont, 1964; and as In Caverns Below. New York: Garland, 1975. 

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As Hidden World. New York: Avalon Books, 1957; and New York: Airmont, 1964

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Inner Domain" Y1 - 1935 A1 - Phil [Felix Edward] Collas (1907-89) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Technological eutopia of aborigines underground in the center of Australia. Includes descriptions of the mistreatment of the aborigines by the settlers and a projection into a future of cooperation and racial harmony.

JF - Amazing Stories VL - 10.6 N1 -

Rpt. Sydney, NSW, Australia: Graham Stone, 1989. 2nd ed. Sydney, NSW, Australia: Graham Stone, 1994.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Island of Not-Me. A True Chronicle of the Life of Geoghan Willbe on The Island of Not-Me, preceded by an Account of His Person before His Arrival upon that famous Isle Y1 - 1935 A1 - Ezra Gerson Gotthelf (1907-81) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian satire mostly directed at religion and higher education. Not-me is supposed to reject vanity, but the main characters are vain.

PB - Galleon Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Isle of Madness" Y1 - 1935 A1 - [Mary Maud Dunn] [Wright] (1894-1967) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A dystopia that literally reflects the title.

JF - Wonder Stories (Springfield, MA) VL - 7.6 U3 -

Lillith Lorraine [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - It Can't Happen Here. A Novel Y1 - 1935 A1 - [Harry] Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of Fascism in the United States. The novel focuses on a small-town New England journalist and his reactions to the rise and success of a U.S. fascist movement, its complete abrogation of the U.S. constitution, its violent suppression of anyone thought to be a less than wholehearted supportive, the establishment of concentration camps, and the beginnings of a resistance movement. The U.K. ed. London: Jonathan Cape, 1935 includes a publisher’s note saying that while the title It Can’t Happen in America was considered, it was felt that the circumstances fit the UK also. There is a theatrical version by Lewis and John C. Moffitt as It Can’t Happen Here: A New Version, by Sinclair Lewis of the Play by John C. Moffitt and Sinclair Lewis from the Lewis Novel. New York: Dramatists Play Service, 1938. Produced by the Federal Theater Project in 1936 and re-written from those scripts. A new theatrical version written by Tony Taccone (b. 1951) and Bennett S. Cohen and directed by Lisa Peterson was produced at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre in 2016 with a new production on You Tube October 13 - November 13, 2020. Also in October 2020 National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene and other theaters produced a virtual, recorded reading of the 1936 script in Yiddish, English, Spanish, Italian, Turkish and Hebrew with English subtitles. 

PB - Doubleday, Doran & Co CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. Garden City, NY: The Sun Dial Press, [1936?]; New York: Triangle Books, 1939; New York: Dell, 1961; and without the subtitle New York: New American Library, 2005, with an "Introduction" by Michael Meyer (v-xv). The UK ed. London: Jonathan Cape, 1935 includes a publisher's note saying that while the title It Can't Happen in America was considered, it was felt that the circumstances fit the UK also. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Land Under England Y1 - 1935 A1 - [John] Joseph O'Neill (1886-1953) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Lost race dystopia of a Roman civilization under England in which all but a few people are absorbed mentally into the whole. Children are taught only what they need to know for their station in life.

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1935. Rpt. with an “Introduction” by Anthony Storr (1-4). Woodstock, NY: The Overlook Press, 1981. 

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With a Foreword by A.E. [George William Russell].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Laughing Buccaneer Y1 - 1935 A1 - Will[iam] Lawson (1876-1957) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Amazons enslave men but a white man conquers and enslaves the women.

PB - Angus and Robertson CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia N1 -

Rpt. with the subtitle on the cover A Romantic Story of the South Seas. Sydney, NSW, Australia: Frank Johnson, [1942].Also published as a supplement to the Australian Women’s Weekly 6.17 (October 1, 1938): 1-24.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lift Up Your Eyes Y1 - 1935 A1 - Ambrose [Goddard Hesketh] Pratt (1874-1944) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Religious eutopia, mostly seen in the planning stages. Orphans are educated to be missionaries.

PB - Robertson & Mullens CY - Melbourne, VIC, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Machine" Y1 - 1935 A1 - [John Wood] [Campbell] [Jr.] (1910-71) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A flawed utopia. In this case the flaw is complete dependence on a machine intelligence. First story in a sequence, followed by “The Invaders.” Illus. [Elliott] Dold. Astounding Stories 15.4 (June 1935): 54-67 in which aliens invade Earth and, while settling the planet, work to reinvigorate the humans who had become so dependent of machine intelligence; and “Rebellion.” Illus. [Elliott] Dold. Astounding Stories 15.6 (August 1935): 64-85 in which humans, with their intelligence revived, expel the aliens.

JF - Astounding Stories VL - 14.6 N1 -

Rpt. in A New Dawn: The Complete Don A. Stuart Stories. Ed. James A. Mann (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2003), 53-68.

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[Elliott] Dold

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Don A. Stuart [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Man With Four Dimensional Eyes” Y1 - 1935 A1 - [Leslie Frances] [Silberberg] (1905-1991) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The man of the title is blind in our world but can see in an alternative high-tech eutopian world that he has seen since he was a child and describes he some detail.

JF - Wonder Stories VL - 7.3 U2 -

Illus. [Marco Enrico] Marchioni (1901-1987)

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Leslie F. Stone [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Martha Brown M.P.; A Girl of To-Morrow Y1 - 1935 A1 - [Annie Sophie ("Vivian")] [Cory] (1868-1952) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Gender-role reversal satire.

PB - T. Werner Laurie CY - London N1 -

Cheap ed. London: T Werner Laurie, [1936]. 

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Victoria Cross [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Midas Touch” Y1 - 1935 A1 - John Millard KW - Male author AB -

Story of a modern man with the Midas touch. His use of it for good causes serious disruption but at the end, when he loses the touch, it has resulted in peace and prosperity.

JF - Story-teller (London) VL - 57.337 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - My First Days in the White House. Dedicated to the Lazarus of Today and Tomorrow Y1 - 1935 A1 - Huey Pierce Long (1893-1935) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Presentation of what Long (1893-1935) intended to do if elected President, including major government projects, particularly his Share the Wealth program that was designed to limit and redistribute wealth and to assist agriculture, all of which will produce a much better society. About half the novel is about the details of getting his economic plan accepted, defended in court, and implemented.

PB - The Telegraph Press CY - Harrisburg, PA N1 -

Rpt. New York: Da Capo Press, 1972.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Nightmare Number Three” Y1 - 1935 A1 - Stephen Vincent Benét (1898-1943) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A revolt by machinery against humans. Animals and vegetation come to their aid.

JF - The New Yorker VL - 11.24 N1 -

Rpt. in The Complete Works of Stephen Vincent Benét. Volume One Poetry (New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1942), 452-54. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Odd John: A Story Between Jest and Earnest Y1 - 1935 A1 - [William] Olaf Stapledon (1886-1950) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Advanced human beings and the society they create. The eutopia is a small part of the work. Stapledon wrote many utopias.

PB - Methuen CY - London N1 -

Rpt. as the Collectors Edition. Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1987 illus. Wendy Snow-Lang and with a brief "Introduction" (unpaged) by Alfred Bester. U.S. ed. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1936. Rpt. as Odd John: THE Masterpiece of the Superhuman Race that May Replace Humanity Sooner than You Think! New York: Galaxy, 1936. Galaxy Science Fiction Novel No. 8. U.S. ed. rpt. with the original title in his To the End of Time: The Best of Olaf Stapledon Ed. Basil Davenport (New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1953), 413-569. Rpt. (Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1975), 413-569; as Odd John: A Story Between Jest and Ernest [sic]. New York: Berkley Medallion, 1965; and in Odd John & Sirius: Two Science Fiction Novels (New York: Dover Publications, 1972), 1-157.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Of Lunar Kingdoms; A Group of Informal Essays" Y1 - 1935 A1 - Henry Lovejoy Wilson KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A discussion of the elements of an aristocratic eutopia on the moon. Some humor, some fantasy, but mostly a general discussion of principles.

JF - Dissertation. State University of Iowa. PB - State University of Iowa CY - Ames, IA N1 -

Published without the subtitle Caldwell, ID: Caxton Printers, 1937. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "One Hundred Generations" Y1 - 1935 A1 - Philip Jacques Bartel KW - Male author AB -

Set in the same world as 1934 Bartel. Guilds based on family groups, such as Eugenics, Nutrition, Transportation, Science-Research, Construction, and Communications.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Out of the Night: A Biologist’s View of the Future Y1 - 1935 A1 - H[ermann] J[oseph] Muller (1890-1967) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

While most of the book discusses the current poor state of the human race, the end of the book moves to what humanity can become if it chooses to take control of its own destiny through science, and eugenics specifically.

PB - Vanguard CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Garland, 1984.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Perfect World" Y1 - 1935 A1 - Benson Herbert (1912-91) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

World inside a planet with perfect physical surroundings.

JF - Wonder Stories (Springfield, MA) VL - 7.5 - 7.7 N1 -

Abridged as Crisis! 1992. London: Grant Richards, 1936.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - President Randolph as I Knew Him. An account of the historic events of the 1950's and 1960's written from the personal experiences of the secretary to the President Y1 - 1935 A1 - John Francis Goldsmith KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia of a United Nations of the World with most of the novel about the rise to power of the man who brought the eutopia into being and the struggle to get it accepted. Includes a constitution modeled on the U.S. Constitution (423-48).

PB - Dorrance CY - Philadelphia, PA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Purple Plague; A Tale of Love and Revolution Y1 - 1935 A1 - [Archibald] Fenner Brockway (1888-1988) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Egalitarian eutopia on a ship where people have had to live for years as a result of the purple plague.

PB - Sampson, Low & Marston CY - London N1 -

Rewritten as Red Liner: A Novel in TV Form. London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1962.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Pygmalion's Spectacles" Y1 - 1935 A1 - Stanley G[rauman] Weinbaum (1902-35) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is standard science fiction about a new invention, but the protagonist using the invention appears to visit an earthly paradise.

JF - Wonder Stories (Springfield, MA) VL - 7.1 N1 -

Rpt. in his A Martian Odyssey and Other Science Fiction Tales (Westport, CT: Hyperion Press, 1974), 160-80.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Road of Ages Y1 - 1935 A1 - Robert Nathan (1894-1985) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Set in a future in which every country in the world except Mongolia have expelled all Jews. The novel takes places as the expelled Jews gather together and travel by land to Mongolia. During the travel, cliches form based on political ideologies and start trying to maneuver so that they will hold power when everyone reaches Mongolia.

PB - Alfred A. Knopf CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Shroud as Well as a Shirt Y1 - 1935 A1 - Shamus [James Ian Arbuthnot] Frazer (1912-66) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a near future fascist takeover in England.

PB - Chapman & Hall CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Social Integration; A Brief Fictional History of the United States during the Period 1935-1945 Y1 - 1935 A1 - Robert Frank KW - Male author AB -

Detailed eutopia based on labor unions that is presented as a series of proposals of what the United Labor Party will do once in power.

PB - Christopher Pub. House CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Soul of Man in the Age of Leisure Y1 - 1935 A1 - [Margaret] Storm Jameson (1891-1986) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Non-fiction but projects a better future society based on leisure. The pamphlet series is a Social Credit series, but this one does not mention Social Credit.

PB - Stanley Nott CY - London VL - No. 13 of Pamphlets on the New Economics. N1 -

Rpt. in The Social Credit Pamphleteer by Various Hands being Numbers 1, 4, 5, 6, 8, 12, 13, 14 and 17 of the Listed material opposite [A full list of the Pamphlets on the New Economics] (London: Stanley Nott, 1935). Items separately paged. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Speratia Y1 - 1935 A1 - [Peter Frank] [Wybraniec] (b. 1882) KW - Male author AB -

Detailed eutopia. Religion. State supervision of all aspects of life, including education. Emphasis on vocational education. Candidates for public office must pass examinations. Anti-egalitarian.

PB - Meador Pub. Co CY - Boston, MA N1 -

2nd rev. and enl. ed. with the subtitle The Land of Hope. Boston, MA: Meador Publishing Co., 1941. 393 pp. While presenting much the same message the texts are substantially different. 

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Dr. Raphael W. Leonhart [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Sun Shall Rise Y1 - 1935 A1 - Richard Heron Ward (1910-69) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Fascist dystopia.

PB - Ivor Nicholson & Watson CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Unpredictable Adventure: A Comedy of Woman's Independence Y1 - 1935 A1 - Claire Myers [Wanders] Spotswood (1896-1983) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Feminist eutopia using the allegorical form following the protagonist from Smug Harbor in the Land of Err where only Helfish (Half-truths) is spoken to Nithking (Thinking) where Reasonese is spoken. Explores questions of sexuality, marriage, divorce, and the position of women in society. Includes a section on an attempt to establish an egalitarian, simple life community called New Chimera that satirizes such attempts. Female author.

PB - Doubleday, Doran & Co CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Rpt. as by Claire Myers Spotswood Owens. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1993, with an “Afterword” (459-96), “Glossary” (497-508), and “Works Cited” (509-11) by Miriam Kalman Harris .

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - We Have Been Warned. A Novel Y1 - 1935 A1 - Naomi [Margaret] Mitchison (1897-1999) KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

The novel describes a future England in which local fascists rise up against the ruling socialists, killing individualism or interning them in camps. The socialists who can flee to Scotland with hopes of reaching the Soviet Union. Women are leaders on both sides, and much of the novel focuses on relationships among individuals within each group as well as between individuals in each group.

PB - Constable & Co CY - London N1 -

Two chapters were originally published as “Interlude (From an unpublished Novel).” The Modern Scot (St. Andrews, Scotland) 4.2 (July 1933): 100-04; and as “Chapter from an Unpublished Novel.” The New Oxford Outlook (Oxford, England) 1.3 (February 1934): 274-87. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - We, People of America And How We Ended Poverty. A True Story of the Future Y1 - 1935 A1 - Upton [Beall] Sinclair (1878-1968) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

This volume includes a history of Sinclair's run for governor and a future scenario in which the EPIC program wins support nationally. On EPIC, See also 1935 Sinclair, I, Governor of California, and his The Epic Plan for California [New York: Farrar & Rinehart], 1934, which includes, separately paged, I, Governor of California. A True Story of the Future (64 pp.), Epic Answers (32 pp.), The Lie Factory Starts (64 pp.), and Immediate Epic (35 pp.). 

PB - National EPIC League CY - Pasadena, CA N1 -

The copy at L has London: T. Werner Laurie pasted over the publishing information.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - When Yvonne Was Dictator Y1 - 1935 A1 - Elsie [Elizabeth] Kay Gresswell (1877-1944) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A woman becomes a benevolent dictator after the mass suicide of the unemployed and the failure of three parties to form a government. She ends unemployment and brings about a number of other reforms, particularly in the area of gender equality.

PB - John Heritage CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - With the Lid Off Y1 - 1935 A1 - [Mary Eliza Louise] [Cooke] (1883-1941) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A benevolent dictatorship transforms England. Nationalization with people forced to work. if necessary, eugenics, required exercise, and slum clearance. Most of the novel is on the battle for success.

PB - T. Werner Laurie CY - London U3 -

Joan Conquest [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Woman Alive Y1 - 1935 A1 - Susan Ertz (1887-1985) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

War and a disease it produced left only one woman alive. Drama of convincing her to marry and start again. Suggests that eutopia will be possible.

PB - Hodder and Stoughton CY - London N1 -

US ed. New York: D. Appleton, 1936. Also published as "One Woman Alive." The Delineator 128.3 - 5 (March - May 1936): 4, 6, 7, 42-44, 46-47; 16-19, 21, 47-50; 24-25, 56-58, 60.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Woman Triumphant: A Comedy Y1 - 1935 A1 - Hugh [Oswald] Blaker (1873-1936) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Women get the vote in 1928 and come to dominate men. The novel describes a men's liberation movement.

PB - Grant Richards CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The World As I Want It" Y1 - 1935 A1 - Clarence True Wilson (1872-1939) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia in a series of reforms. No depressions, no war, and no racism. Prohibition. Reduce cost of government. Religion but with freedom of religion. Universal primary education. Country life. 

JF - The Forum and Century (New York) VL - 93.6 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The World As I Want It" Y1 - 1935 A1 - Margaret Haig [(Thomas) Mackworth] Rhondda [Viscountess] (1883-1958) KW - Female author KW - Welsh author AB -

A eutopia in a series of reforms that bring about peace, no fear of war, and no economic or political conflict between nations. Sufficient food, good housing, and comfort for all. Work is available for all, and everyone works. Good health. No overpopulation. No barriers based on race, class, sex, marital status, etc. Education is available to all based solely on ability.

JF - The Forum and Century (New York) VL - 93.4 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The World As I Want It" Y1 - 1935 A1 - Gutzon [de la Mothe] Borglum (1867-1941) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia presented through a series of reforms. Free homeowners of debt and prohibit mortgages that might endanger home ownership. Build assembly places in the country to be used as schools during the day and gathering places for adults outside school hours. Improved physical education. Spend money to enhance culture.

JF - The Forum and Century (New York) VL - 93.2 ER - TY - ABST T1 - World D: Being a Brief Account of the Founding of Helioxenon Y1 - 1935 A1 - J[oseph] K[entigern] Heydon ed. [written by] (1884-1947). KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

There is a sphere in the center of the world that is intended to become a eutopia. The novel is about the early stages, but it is written from the perspective of a slightly later time, which suggests that the eutopia (eugenics, intelligence, peace, and harmony) is established.

PB - Sheed & Ward CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Sheed & Ward, 1935. Rpt. in ed. of 250 numbered copies [La Valette, France]: Apex, 1995.

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By Hal [Harold] P[hilip] Trevarthan [pseud.](Official Historian of the Superficies).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Art Young’s Inferno: A Journey Through Hell Six Hundred Years After Dante Y1 - 1934 A1 - Art [Arthur Henry] Young (1866-1943) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satan has lost control of Hell to U.S. capitalists. The section “It’s Good for Us” was originally entitled (Utopians and Their Critics” (50 in the Delphic Studios edition; 33-34 in the Fantagraphics edition). The third of Young’s excursions to Hell. The first was Hades Up to Date. Chicago, IL: F. J. Schulte & Co., 1892. https://archive.org/details/hadesuptodate00youn. Rpt. as Hell Up to Date: The Reckless Journey of R. Palasco Drant, Newspaper Correspondent, Through the Infernal Regions, As Reported by Himself with illustrations by Art Young. Chicago, IL: The Schulte Publishing Co., 1893. This depicts the various people condemned to Hell with short captions. The second was Through Hell with Hiprah Hunt: A Series of Pictures and Notes of Travel Illustrating the Adventures of a Modern Dante in the Infernal Regions Also Other Pictures of the Same Subterranean World by Arthur Young. New York: Zimmerman’s, 1901. Much the same as the first and includes some of the same illustrations and text. Some were previously published in Cosmopolitan Magazine, the New York Evening Journal, and Judge. The author was a well-known cartoonist and socialist.

PB - Delphic Studios CY - New York SN - 978-1683962809 N1 -

Repub. with the previously unpublished original art as Art Young’s Inferno: Original Art Edition. Seattle, WA: Fantagraphics Books, 2020, with Steven Heller, “Forever Art Young” (xi-xii), Glenn Bray, “Art Young’s Revised Inferno” (xv), and Art Young: An American” (xvii-xx). xx + 164 pp.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Black August. A Novel Y1 - 1934 A1 - Dennis [Yates] Wheatley (1897-1977) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. The depression of the thirties brings about the collapse of governments and, in Britain, the emergence of a Communist dictatorship.

PB - Hutchinson CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Blind Mouths Y1 - 1934 A1 - Thomas [Frederick] Tweed (1890-1940) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. The Federation of Danubian States rejects a Christ figure.

PB - Arthur Barker, Ltd CY - London N1 -

U. S. ed. by T[homas] F[rederick] Tweed, Destiny’s Man. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1936.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Blind: The Story of the World Tragedy Y1 - 1934 A1 - William H[enry] McMasters (1874-1968) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel is presented as a history of “the greatest tragedy that ever befell humanity” and “the reclamation and re-organization problems that developed from it” ([vii]) during which, passing through the tail of a comet in 1950 everyone on Earth became instantly blind. The blindness only last twenty-one days, and there is widespread destruction, all but around five percent of the world's population die, and the survivors are mostly starving. The focus of the novel, though, is on the recovery in which, under the leadership of MacKenzie, the general welfare of the entire population is the mantra, and a worldwide eutopia of equality emerges. Stress on the role of women in the recovery. Various racist comments regarding Blacks.

PB - Stratford Co. CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Book of Life--Le Livre de la vie Y1 - 1934 KW - Canadian author AB -

Eutopia. Government ownership. Religion. Detailed universal language.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Cankered Gold Y1 - 1934 A1 - Eugene L[eslie] Howard (b. 1903) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Non-fiction eutopia based on the elimination of capitalism as it is currently used and replacing them with a cooperative economic system (The United States Incorporated) and checks and small change only, which, he argues, will eliminate fraud and crime. Prices fixed. Free medical care. Production for use rather than profit. No taxes. See also 1949 Howard.

PB - Author CY - Muskegon, MI U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Castaway Y1 - 1934 A1 - James Gould Cozzens (1903-78) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An odd modern dystopian Robinsonade and last man tale in which a man shelters in a department store after an unidentified catastrophe but is unable to take advantage of the riches surrounding him.

PB - Random House. CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Castaways of Plenty Y1 - 1934 A1 - Willard E. Hawkins (1887-1970) A1 - Carle Whitehead KW - Male author AB -

Satire on capitalism with three men starving in the midst of plenty. On the U.S. technocracy movement, see William E. Akin, Technocracy and the American Dream: The Technocrat Movement 1900-1941. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977.

PB - Pub. by The Rocky Mountain Division of the Continental Committee on Technocracy CY - Denver, CO N1 -

Rpt. as Castaways of Plenty; A Parable of Our Times. Ed. Paul Grabbe. New York: Basic Books, 1935.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Christopher Brand; Looking Forward Y1 - 1934 A1 - [Mary Estella] [Yerex] (1867-1947) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Socialist eutopia similar to 1888 Bellamy. National ownership, no money, and everyone works. Emphasis is on the struggle for the acceptance of the scheme.

PB - Wetzel Pub. Co CY - Los Angeles, CA U3 -

Cuthbert Yerex [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Confound Their Politics Y1 - 1934 A1 - [David William] Alun Llewellyn (1903-87/88) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on contemporary politics by describing a number of imaginary countries. The main foci of criticism are nationalism, the idea that humans are economical determined, the idea that dictatorship is better than democracy, and the rejection of internationalism.

PB - George Bell & Sons CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Doctor Arnoldi Y1 - 1934 A1 - Tiffany [Ellsworth] Thayer (1902-59) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia.

PB - Julian Messner CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Eden River Y1 - 1934 A1 - Gerald [William] Bullett (1893-1958 KW - Male author AB -

A retelling of the Garden of Eden story with happier results.

PB - William Heinemann CY - London U2 -

Illus. John Farleigh (1900-65)

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Enslaved Brains" Y1 - 1934 A1 - [Earl Andrew] [Binder] (1904-65) A1 - [Otto Oscar] [Binder] (1911-75) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia controlled by scientists. Eugenic laws control breeding.

JF - Wonder Stories (Springfield, MA) VL - 6.2 - 4 N1 -

Slightly rev. in Fantastic Story Quarterly 2.1 (Winter 1951): 9-85. Repub. New York: Avalon, 1965.

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Eando Binder [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The First Workers' Government or New Times for Henry Dubb Y1 - 1934 A1 - G[ilbert] R[ichard] Mitchison (1894-1970) KW - English author KW - Male author PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Frankie in Wonderland With apologies to Lewis Carroll, the originator and pre-historian of the New Deal Y1 - 1934 A1 - [Latham R.] [Reed] KW - Male author AB -

Satire on President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) and the New Deal using Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland.

PB - E. P. Dutton CY - New York U3 -

A Tory [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Gay Hunter Y1 - 1934 A1 - J[ames] Leslie Mitchell (1901-35) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia set 20,000 years in the future after an atomic war where there is a foiled attempt to establish a fascist regime. The Scottish author frequently used the pseudonym Lewis Grassic Gibbon.

PB - William Heinemann CY - London N1 -

Rpt. Edinburgh, Scot.: Polygon, 1989. An excerpt illus. by Monica Burns is published in Shoreline of Infinity, no. 4 (Summer 2016): 89-99 with an introduction, “SF Caledonia,” by Monica Burns (84-87). Rpt. in the Edinburgh International Book Festival Special Edition of Shoreline of Infinity, no. 8½ (Summer 2017): 178-91 with an introduction, “SF Caledonia,” by Monica Burns (175-78).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - His First Million Women Y1 - 1934 A1 - George [T.] Weston (1880-1968) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Humor and satire in which all men but one die.

PB - Farrar Rinehart CY - New York N1 -

UK ed. as Comet 'Z' [Comet Zed on the dust jacket]. London: Methuen, 1934. 2nd ed. London: Methuen, 1935.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The History of Lewistonia Y1 - 1934 A1 - David Ewin Cooke KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Toy city (land between two cherry trees) developed for children. The imagined land is an island off the coast of Florida. A government was formed with a flag and a coat of arms. Stamps were issued. A newspaper was started. Colonies were established. There were wars with pirates followed by a war with Russia. Following the “Red War,” there was a period of great prosperity and building. Three Lewistonia years is equal to fifty actual years. Lead standard for money. Includes a constitution (209-19).

PB - Cooke Pub. Co CY - Point Highest U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - If I Were Dictator Y1 - 1934 A1 - Julian Huxley (1887-1975) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Detailed reform. Application of the scientific method to the problems of dictatorship. Based on scientific humanism and an experimental outlook and support for scientific research. Planned society with a Central Planning Council. Freedom of belief. Support public art. Reform marriage and divorce with trial marriage and sex education. Civic conscription for both men and women eighteen to twenty. Reorganize government. Industrial corporations such as steel, coal, building, and milk. Ownership, management, and labor equally represented on the central council of each corporation, which has significant self-government..

PB - Methuen CY - London N1 -

Excerpts published as "If I Were Dictator." Harper's Monthly Magazine 169 (October 1934): 529-39. Much expanded version New York: Harper & Brothers, 1934.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - If I Were Dictator Y1 - 1934 A1 - St. John Erskine KW - Male author AB -

Series of reforms including a redistribution of the population over the entire country. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - If I Were Dictator Y1 - 1934 A1 - Lord [Fitzroy Richard Somerset] Raglan (1885-1964) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Presented as a eutopia based on a number of reforms, including a limit on freedom of the press, various means of encouraging trade and industry while protecting workers from exploitation, compulsory sterilization of those deemed unfit, abolition of the jury system, and harsh punishment for hardened criminals

PB - Methuen CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - If I Were Dictator: The Pronouncements of the Grand Macaroni Y1 - 1934 A1 - Lord [Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett] Dunsany [18th Baron] (1878-1957) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Satire but includes a series of reforms directed at what are clearly the author's pet peeves.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - If Tomorrow Comes Y1 - 1934 A1 - Louis Aaron Reitmeister (1903-75) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Detailed eutopia described by an accidental visitor from another planet, which has no laws, but it has equality of the sexes and suburban life. Much of the text is taken up with a tour of Earth and a criticism of human institutions, particularly religion. He published an extended attack on religion in A Brief Essay about the Gods and My Friends. Great Neck, NY: The Walden Press, 1948. 57 pp.

PB - The Walden Press CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "In One Hundred Years' Time: The New Aristocracy" Y1 - 1934 A1 - The Rambler [pseud.] KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author AB -

Eutopia. Socialism. Guaranteed work. No money. Presented as a speech to a graduating class of the National University of New Zealand.

JF - Tomorrow (Christchurch, New Zealand) VL - 1.12 U3 -

The Rambler [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Intrigue on the Upper Level: A Story of Crime, Love, Adventure and Revolt in A.D. 2050 Y1 - 1934 A1 - Thomas Temple Hoyne (1875-1946) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia with a rigid class division between the employed and the unemployed. Luxury and dissipation versus homelessness. General theme of machines replacing human labor. Revolt succeeds and a better society will come, and there is a description of eutopian New City established by the current dictator.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Kingdom Within: The Relation of Personal Character to the Problems of the World Without Y1 - 1934 A1 - Charles T[homas] Webb KW - Male author AB -

Published in "A Church School Series" and designed for secondary school students. The first part of the book surveys various past expressions of utopianism, communal, literary, and Biblical. The second part is concerned with personal character. The third part develops a Christian eutopia.

PB - Macmillan CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Landslide Y1 - 1934 A1 - Monica [Mary] Curtis (1892-1956) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Political novel set in an alternative future in which nothing was done after World War I to support the peace and another brief war followed that united Europe as the Confederation of Western Powers, which continued after the war under a leader who became a dictator.

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "'Lemuel Gulliver in Distia. (Omitted from all published editions of the famous Travels')" Y1 - 1934 A1 - R. M. F[reeman] AB -

Political satire about a nude lost race. The nudity is a recent innovation.

JF - Truth Christmas Number 1934 (London) VL - 116 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "London Utopia: Democracy in Disarray" Y1 - 1934 A1 - [Adelaide Ann] [Boodle] KW - Female author AB -

Presents a utopian experiment of 1750 people in London named Cosmopolitan House or London Utopia with restaurants, gymnasium, indoor pool, library, nursery, and so forth. Various nationalities represented and one goal was to overcome national animosities.

PB - MS. University of Missouri-St. Louis CY - Birmingham, Eng. U3 -

Barbeque [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lost City of Light Y1 - 1934 A1 - F[rederick] A[nnesley] M[ichael] Webster (1886-1949) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Most of the novel is about the quest by a descendant of the Templars for a lost Christian city, during which he is captured and taken to a dystopian Chinese city that has enslaved the Christians, who are allowed, at night, to live in their own city and govern themselves. He leads them to freedom.

PB - Frederick Warne CY - London U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Manifesto: Being the Book of The Federation of Progressive Societies and Individuals Y1 - 1934 A1 - C[yril] E[dwin] M[itchinson] Joad (1891-1953) A1 - Allan Young A1 - W[illiam Edward] Arnold-Forster A1 - Francis Meynell A1 - W[illiam] Olaf Stapledon (1886-1950) A1 - Janet Chance A1 - D[ennis] N[owell] Pritt A1 - Clough Williams-Ellis A1 - G[eoffrey] M[axwell] Boumphrey A1 - Archibald Robertson A1 - J[ohn] C[arl] Flugel ED - C[yril] E[dwin] M[itchinson] Joad (1891-1953) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Male author AB -

Similar to 1912 The Great State in that the essays collectively describe a vision of a future eutopia that is, in essence, a socialist world state. See also Plan for World Order and Progress: A Constructive Review (The Federation of Progressive Societies and Individuals) 1.1 - 1.9 (April - September 1934), which published a review of the Manifesto by Aldous Huxley in 1.4 (July 1934): 7, 15.

PB - George Allen & Unwin CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mankind United. A Challenge to "Mad Ambition" and "The Money Changers" Accompanied by an Invitation To The World's "Sane" Men and Women Y1 - 1934 A1 - [Arthur H.] [Bell] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Detailed eutopia. Mankind United presents itself as a Christian organization intended to discover the causes of war, human suffering, and poverty. In the future, people will work four hours a day, four days a week, eight months of the year through a Universal Service Corporation.

PB - The International Registration Bureau (Pacific Coast Division) of North America CY - Oakland, CA VL - 2nd ed. N1 -

4th ed. [Oakland, CA]: The International Registration Bureau (Pacific Coast Division) of North America, 1938.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Me-Phi Bo-Sheth (If The Gods So Decide). An Undated Manuscript Y1 - 1934 A1 - Dr. Charles M[ephibosheth] Bradley (1864-1944) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Extremely detailed eutopia. New coinage, clock, and calendar. Highly structured with permits required for most activities. Everyone is given a stipend by the state.

PB - Chicago Printing & Pub. Co CY - Chicago, IL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Model State: Making a Utopia of California Y1 - 1934 A1 - Gilbert F. Stevenson KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Anti-capitalist non-fiction strongly influence by Upton Sinclair (1878-1968). The author is primarily concerned with monetary policy but also proposes a number of reforms designed to alleviate the effects of the depression. These include transforming the state militia into an industrial army for men 16 to 18. The last chapter, "The Altruistic Age" (109-23), describes the eutopia that the reforms will produce. Collective ownership. Everyone works their share and receives their share. 

PB - Gilbert F. Stevenson CY - Santa Monica, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Old Faithful" Y1 - 1934 A1 - Raymond Z[inke] Gallun (1911-94) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia set on Mars. Mars lacks food and water but is technologically advanced. The inhabitants of Mars are without emotion. Unless they are granted an extension based on the value of their work, they must die after a specified number of years to make room for the young. The protagonist, 774, must die because his work, the study of Earth, is considered unimportant. First in a loosely linked series. See also “The Son of Old Faithful.” Astounding Stories (New York) 15.5 (July 1935): 8-34; and “Child Of the Stars.” Astounding Stories (New York) 17.2 (April 1936): 10-43. 

JF - Astounding Stories (New York) VL - 14.4 N1 -

Rpt. in Imagination Unlimited. Ed. Everett F. Bleiler and T.E. Dikty (New York: Farrar, Straus and Young, 1952), 146-93; and in Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction. Ed. Leigh Ronald Grossman (Rockville, MD: Wildside Press, 2011), 268-75 with an editor’s note on 268. U.K. ed. (London: The Bodley Head, 1953), 138-85. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Our Wonderful World of To-Morrow: A Scientific Forecast of the Men, Women, and the World of the Future Y1 - 1934 A1 - A[rchibald] M[ontgomery] Low (1888-1956) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Predictions of a eutopian future with considerable satire. Much science and technology, but includes family life, religion, etc. One stress is on the changed society that will be brought about by real equality for women. The first chapter asks, “Can the Future Be Foretold?” and argues for a Ministry of the Future (17-19). Chapters: Men and Women, Sources of power, Air Travel, Interplanetary travel, Motors and Motoring, Radio and Television, Crooks and Detectives stressing technology and says  that education in science will eliminate criminals with children realizing that “crime in unscientific and non-technical” (113), The Future Law is primarily concerned with science and technology in law courts, The Next Wars, Doctors and Surgeons, Sports and Amusements, The Religion of Tomorrow is compatible with science, Education [No writing; no out of date subjects including drawing and divinity, use numbers rather than names for everything. “The object of all instructions in schools will not be so much to give people knowledge, but to teach him how to acquire knowledge himself” (186)]. Clothes and Food (no high heels, electrically warmed head gear, people will eat less food with most food as pills, no alcohol The Supernatural, The Family, The Weather (controlled), The Robot Age, Cities, Synthesis (“most foods, fuels, clothes and chemical . . . will be synthesized from air, water, and vegetable matter” [275]), Government (essentially replaced by science), End of It All, Summary. See also 1925 Low, The Future.

PB - Ward, Lock & Co CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Prelude to Christopher Y1 - 1934 A1 - Eleanor Dark (1901-85) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Attempt to establish a utopian colony on a Pacific island as seen from after its failure. The utopian vision of the founder is based on eugenics and the ability to produce an improved future generation.

PB - P.R. Stephensen & Co CY - Sydney, NSW. Australia N1 -

Rpt. Adelaide, SA, Australia: Rigby, 1961; and Rushcutters Bay, NSW, Australia: Halstead Press, 1999. U.K. ed. London: Collins, 1936. Another ed. Leipzig, Germany: Bernard Tauchnitz, 1937.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Proud Man Y1 - 1934 A1 - [Katharine Penelope Cade] [Burdekin] (1896-1963) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Complex satire on contemporary Britain from the point of view of a future human visiting in a dream. The future is a eutopia in which the people appear to be hermaphrodites, and there are no national governments and no class structure. Calls contemporary people sub-human.

PB - Boriswood CY - London N1 -

Rpt. New York: The Feminist Press, 1993 with a “Foreword (ix-xxiv) and an “Afterword” (319-50) by Daphne Patai.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Riptide: EPIC, Utopia and the New Era. Is This To Be Civilization's Dying Challenge to Its Destroyers? The Americanist Plan Y1 - 1934 A1 - Horace Lackey KW - Male author AB -

Eutopian essay with fictional parts. The author was a member of The Utopian Society of America (See 1934 Hathaway and 1942 Van Dalsem), and this is a defense and elaboration of its principles. Anti-Communist. Education to twenty-five; work reasonable hours for twenty years; production for consumption, not profit. EPIC is End Poverty in California, for which see 1933 and 1935 Sinclair.

PB - Author CY - Hollywood, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Somnolia Y1 - 1934 A1 - [D. Moray] [Sutor] AB -

Satire using an unknown country. In competition for worst written utopia.

PB - Kinnaird Head Press CY - Glasgow, Scot. U3 -

"Unknown Soldier" [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Strange Conquest Y1 - 1934 A1 - Walter Harvey KW - Male author AB -

Reform novel including a number of dystopias. The idea behind the novel is to find something that will unite the world. The effects of a number of scientific advances that were misused are described.

PB - Lincoln Williams CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Strange Invaders Y1 - 1934 A1 - [David William] Alun Llewellyn (1903-87/88) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

After a world war and a new ice age had devastated the world population, a tribal society in what had been the Soviet Union has created a new religion out of what had been Soviet Communism with Marx, Lenin, and Stalin as saints. The Strange Invaders are giant alien lizards.

PB - George Bell & Sons CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Thirty Years From Now Y1 - 1934 A1 - Emery, Robert C KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of Communism in Minnesota.

PB - R.C. Emery CY - St. Paul, MN U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Tomorrow Comes; A Story of Hope Y1 - 1934 A1 - Park Sumner (b. 1903) KW - Male author AB -

Cooperative commonwealth based on 1888 Bellamy. No taxes, no money. Technologically advanced. Change brought about peacefully.

PB - Artcraft Printing & Pub. Co CY - Akron, OH U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Twenty-five Centuries Late" Y1 - 1934 A1 - Philip J[acques] Bartel KW - Male author AB -

Eugenics. Solar power has brought eutopia, but human frailty remains.

JF - Wonder Stories (Springfield, MA) VL - 6.6 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Twilight" Y1 - 1934 A1 - [John Wood] [Campbell] [Jr.] (1910-71) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The dystopia of the waning of the human race. Most cities are uninhabited except by machines. Humans are becoming sterile and very few children are born.

JF - Astounding Stories VL - 14.3 N1 -

. Rpt. in A New Dawn: The Complete Don A. Stuart Stories. Ed. James A. Mann (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2003), 19-37. 

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Don A. Stuart [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Under the Label Y1 - 1934 A1 - J[ames] B[ennett] Tombleson KW - Male author AB -

The novel is about a scientific device that allows a person to read the minds of others, which being in the hands of highly moral people, is first used to reduce crime, and that takes up most of the novel. At the end, there is a short presentation of how politics and international relations are transformed with the suggestion of the eutopia to come.

PB - John Heritage CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Universalism, The New Spirit, A Reborn World, Earthly Happiness, The Ideal State!!! A Book dealing with a new social system destined to solve the present irksome problems of the world--Peace, disarmament, social improvement, international union and financial recovery Y1 - 1934 A1 - Pierre Lemieux (1889-1954) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

A eutopia of world federalism with an international police force, religious cooperation, a regulated economy with one scale of wages, and one language.

PB - Ptd. by Standard Sample Card Co CY - Montréal, QC, Canada U5 -

Can, DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Utopia Dawns Y1 - 1934 A1 - John Pratt Whitman KW - Male author AB -

Mostly a survey of past utopias, but a short original communal eutopia is included (121-33). The eutopia is said to be by John Pratt Whitman and Eleanor Whitman.

PB - Utopia Publishing Co CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Utopians Are Coming; A New Interpretation of Constitutional Americanism Y1 - 1934 A1 - Hanson Hathaway KW - Male author AB -

Utopian Society of America, Inc. New monetary system with money based on the total goods each year. "Money as a Purchasing, not a circulating medium" (16). "Production for consumption and a place or share in the productive effort for all who can and will work or signify a willingness to work" (11). See also 1934 Lackey and 1942 Van Dalsem.

PB - Cloister Press CY - Hollywood, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Victorian Family Robinson. A Novel Y1 - 1934 A1 - Beatrice [Ethel] Grimshaw (1877-1953) KW - Australian author KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

Strait-laced Victorians are shipwrecked on a South Pacific island inhabited by the descendants of British sailors previously shipwrecked there. What follows is mostly adventure and romance with the required happy ending of marriages all around.

PB - Cassell & Co CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - War Upon Women; A Topical Drama Y1 - 1934 A1 - Maboth Mosely (1906-75) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia. England with a dictator and war with an emphasis on the impact of war on women.

PB - Hutchison CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Western Farmer A.D. 1936" Y1 - 1934 A1 - R. M. F[reeman] AB -

Satire on bureaucratic involvement with farming. Poem in dialect.

JF - Truth Christmas Number 1934 (London) VL - 116 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The World As I Want It" Y1 - 1934 A1 - Norman [Mattoon] Thomas (1884-1968) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Personal essay. Socialist. "I want a fellowship of free men who have learned the secret of the shared abundance which the modern machine makes possible. I want a world rid for once and for all of poverty, economic insecurity, and the menace of war. Such a world would release unbelievable energies for the discovery of truth and the creation of beauty." 

JF - The Forum and Century (New York) PB - 235 VL - 92.4 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The World As I Want It" Y1 - 1934 A1 - Paul U[nderwood] Kellogg (1879-1958) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Essay. New Deal reforms more broadly applied guaranteeing work and earning power. Suggests that scientific advances be specifically applied to production to stabilize employment and purchasing power and avoid future depressions, establish public rather than private authority over natural resources, greater workplace democracy, protection for unions, and control of prices. 

JF - The Forum and Century (New York) VL - 92.2 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The World As I Want It" Y1 - 1934 A1 - Charles A[ustin] Beard (1874-1948) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia of a workers' republic or "a republic in which industry is carried out in ways conducive to virtue and the fruits thereof are distributed in ways calculated to favor the good life for all--that is, without the degradation of poverty and unemployment on the one side or the degradation of luxury, rivalry, and conspicuous waste on the other" (233). Decentralized industry. The U.S. is a park. 

JF - The Forum (New York) VL - 91 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The World As I Want It" Y1 - 1934 A1 - Upton [Beall] Sinclair (1878-1968) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Personal essay. Standard Sinclair--"I desire a world from which exploitation of man by man has been abolished and in which it is impossible for a man to consume wealth without having produced an equivalent amount of wealth." 

JF - The Forum and Century (New York) VL - 92.3 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The World of To-Morrow"; Being The Vision of a Common Man Y1 - 1934 A1 - Effendi [pseud.] AB -

Eutopia with a world government, no money, no competition, and full employment.

PB - Ptd. by B. Lansdown & Sons CY - Trowbridge, Eng. U3 -

Effendi [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Yin-Yang" Y1 - 1934 A1 - [William] Hardy Wilson (1881-1955) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Chinese tales. Includes an ideal city called Celestion which combines Eastern and Western influences. 

PB - Author CY - Flowerdale, TAS, Australia N1 -

Two editions, with one limited to 500 copies and the other limited to 20 copies.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Acorned Hog Y1 - 1933 A1 - Shamus [James Ian Arbuthnot] Frazer (1912-66) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satirical novel about two dystopias, a socialist that closes universities and forces the students into low-level jobs followed by a revived monarchy that turns England back into an agricultural country by destroying its industries and shipping the industries, cities, and people to the United States.

PB - Chapman & Hall CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - After Worlds Collide Y1 - 1933 A1 - Edwin Balmer (1883-1959) A1 - Philip [Gordon] Wylie (1902-71) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to their When Worlds Collide [(New York: Stokes, 1933. Originally published Illus. Joseph Franké in Blue Book Magazine (New York) 55.5 - 56.4 (September 1932 – February 1933): 6-29; 32-52; 30-52; 32-55; 50-73; 122-49]. Rpt. New York: Frederick. A. Stokes, 1933. Rpt. Chicago, IL: A. L. Burt, 1933; New York: Paperback Library, 1962. A 1951 film of When Worlds Collide was directed by Rudolph Maté (1898-1964) with a screenplay by Sydney Boehm (1908-90). When Worlds Collide shows preparations for leaving Earth prior to its collision with another planet and the successful landing on another planet. The After Worlds Collide shows the first period on that planet, the discovery of the cities of its previous inhabitants, with some suggestion that they had produced a eutopian society, and conflict with a dystopian society of “Asiatics” and Russians who had also escaped Earth and established a society based on slavery.

JF - Blue Book Magazine (New York) PB - Stokes CY - New York VL - 58.1 - 58.6 N1 -

Rpt. New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1934. Rpt. New York: Paperback Library, 1963. Separately paged with When Worlds Collide as Philip [Gordon] Wylie and Edwin Balmer, When Worlds Collide. Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott, 1961; and Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999, with an “Introduction” by John Varley (v-ix).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Amazon Island Y1 - 1933 A1 - Harold [St. Aubyn] Mercer (1882-1952) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Lost race of Amazons with androgynous servants.

PB - N.S.W. Bookstall Co., Ltd CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia U1 -

subtitle on cover A Romance of the Pacific.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - An Answer to Chaos: The Coming Economic Life or Edward Bellamy's Theory Reduced to Working Form Creating a Greater United States of America Y1 - 1933 A1 - Oliver Warren Johnson KW - Male author AB -

Extremely detailed non-fiction eutopia based on 1888 Bellamy with a similar form of state ownership. Includes a new system of government and a revised U.S. Constitution (195-235). In the "Author's Note" [9], he says that the idea behind the book is to make Bellamy's ideas workable. "A New System. The Coming Economic Life Synopsis" (21-30) provides an overview of what his plan is expected to achieve, and the book is divided into the "Preliminary Plan", which details the process of transition, and the Final or Ideal" plan.

PB - Oliver Warren Johnson CY - Geneva, OH U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Asses in Clover Y1 - 1933 A1 - Eimar [Ultan] O'Duffy (1893-1935) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on human foibles, particularly economic ones. Presents a eutopia on the moon by way of contrast. This society has established a true, low price for all products and distributes the profits to all. People shun hard work and live happily. Sequel to 1926 O'Duffy.

PB - Putnam CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Astonishing Island; Being a Veracious Record of the Experience, Undergone by Robinson Lippingtree Mackintosh from Tristan Da Cunha during an Accidental Visit to Unknown Territory in the Year of Grace MCMXXX---? Y1 - 1933 A1 - Winifred Holtby (1898-1935) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Satire on English customs.

PB - Lovat Dickson CY - London N1 -

Part originally published as "Freedom of Speech." Radio Times 38.489 (February 10, 1933): 321.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - At the request of . . The Chairman of the A to L Committee of Parliament, Parliament Buildings, Wellington, N.Z., I herewith submit my ideas concerning . . My Community Land Settlement Scheme To Give YOUTH a CHANCE Also Map of SETTLEMENT and Design for Social Hall Y1 - 1933 A1 - Marian C. Algie KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

Detailed proposal for a community of ten-acre farms with central common land and social hall. Stress on the simple life without machinery.

PB - Author CY - Wellington, New Zealand U1 -

Cover title Community Land Settlement Scheme to Give YOUTH A CHANCE.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Australia, 1999" Y1 - 1933 A1 - Helen [de Guerry] Simpson (1897-1940) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia as the third part of three stories representing the history of religion. Mrs. Emma Jordan Sopwith (a thinly disguised Aimee Semple Macpherson--1890-1944), the Antichrist, becomes world ruler through conversion and violent suppression of all opposition. All books are burnt except Mrs. Sopwith’s writings and her version of the Bible, Rome is bombed, Ireland depopulated, privacy abolished, and thought is controlled. Australia is the only holdout, although the entire population has become nomadic to avoid assault. End of the world. 

JF - The Woman on the Beast, Viewed from Three Angles PB - William Heinemann CY - London N1 -

(U.S. ed Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Avatars: A Futurist Fantasy Y1 - 1933 A1 - [George William] [Russell] (1867-1935) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Mostly fantasy but includes brief depictions of an authoritarian dystopia of state control and strong suggestions of a eutopia based on Irish mythology. The natural world and the old gods are in alliance to help the best of the human race to overcome the worst.

PB - Macmillan CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Macmillan, 1933.

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A.E. [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Banking (being a chapter from the History of the 1935 Socialist Government, written in 1970) Y1 - 1933 A1 - G[ilbert] R[ichard] Mitchison (1894-1970) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A detailed description of what the author thought the Labour Party should do regarding banking once in power, mostly on the specific actions immediately after election in 1935, with some on the long-term effects. The establishment of many municipal savings banks, the closure of superfluous banks, and the improvement in the conditions of bank workers. An “Appendix” (18-29 includes the “Emergency Powers (Financial) Act, 1935” (18-21) and the “Banking Act, 1935” (21-29). See also 1934 Mitchison.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Celestalia. A Fantasy A.D. 1975 Y1 - 1933 A1 - A. L. Pullar KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

The background to a romance describes a future history of racial conflict and mass migrations with racial conflict in Australia and racial civil war in the U.S.

PB - The Canberra Press CY - Sydney, NSW U3 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Commonwealth Code. A Method of National Management Y1 - 1933 A1 - Norbert McCauley KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

A eutopia in which all land is owned by the government and credit is created by issuing currency up to the value of all national resources. The position of Governor-General and the judiciary are taken out of party influence. An independent Public Investigator (something like an ombudsman) is established.

PB - Edgar Bragg, Printer CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Conflict of Values Y1 - 1933 A1 - J[ohn] R[otherford] Bellerby KW - Male author AB -

Sequel to and expansion of 1931 Bellerby. In this book he critiques the earlier book, looks at various conceptions of the ideal state, and concludes that there are a variety of routes to the ideal society that must be fused to achieve it.

PB - Pub. by Education Services and issued by Richard Clay & Sons CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Crowning of Technocracy Y1 - 1933 A1 - John Lardner A1 - Thomas Sugrue KW - Male author AB -

Humor. Anti-technocracy.

PB - Laboratory of Robert M. McBride & Co. CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Death Rocks the Cradle. A Strange Tale Y1 - 1933 A1 - [Stephen] [Southwold] (1887-1964) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Flawed utopia. An over-concern with health leads to an authoritarian dystopia. Those who get sick are permanently removed to a penal settlement, where all their descendants must remain. The penal settlement is itself a flawed utopia. There is no work required because technology does most of it. No buying and selling. No money. One meal per day has to be eaten communally in one of the many restaurants. A electrical fence surrounds each city. Children are named by the state, taken from their parents at birth, and raised in crèches without contact with their parents. Compulsory regular medical examinations. Lots of hospitals in penal settlements; none outside.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Dewey Outlines Utopian Schools" Y1 - 1933 A1 - John Dewey (1859-1952) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Education in Utopia. No schools as such. Children are brought together with adults and older children in groups no larger than 200. Substantial gardens and open space available. Workshops available. The purpose is to identify and nurture the abilities of the children. Rejects competition in education. For a sentence-by-sentence exposition, see William H. Schubert, Love, Justice, and Education: John Dewey and the Utopians. Charlotte, NC: IAP Information Age Publishing, 2009.

JF - New York Times N1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Glory Y1 - 1933 A1 - [Henry] Francis [Montgomery] Stuart (1902-2000) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which an airline takes over governments, which gradually cede power. War results.

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London N1 -

US ed. London: Macmillan, 1933.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - I, Governor of California and How I Ended Poverty. A True Story of the Future Y1 - 1933 A1 - Upton [Beall] Sinclair (1878-1968) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Sinclair's vision of the future after he has been elected Governor of California. His platform centered on EPIC (End Poverty in California), which included proposals for public ownership and transitional reforms, both to be achieved through election. See also his I, Candidate for Governor and How I Got Licked. Pasadena, CA: Author, [1935?]. Rpt. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994. UK ed. as How I Got Licked and Why. London: T. Werner Laurie, 1935. The book was originally serialized in 1934 in daily installments in fifty U.S. newspapers. See also 1935 Sinclair and his The Epic Plan for California [New York: Farrar & Rinehart], 1934, which includes, separately paged, I, Governor of California. A True Story of the Future (64 pp.), Epic Answers (32 pp.), The Lie Factory Starts (64 pp.), and Immediate Epic (35 pp.).

PB - Upton Sinclair CY - Los Angeles, CA N1 -

UK ed. London: T. Werner Laurie, 1933.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Island of Unreason" Y1 - 1933 A1 - Edmond [Moore] Hamilton (1904-77) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of too much reason.

JF - Wonder Stories (Mt. Morris, IL) VL - 4.12 N1 -

Rpt. in Startling Stories (Chicago, IL) 12.1 (Spring 1945): 90-97; in The History of the Science Fiction Magazine 1926-1935. Ed. Michael Ashley (Chicago: Henry Regnery, 1974), 154-71; and in The Best of Edmond Hamilton. Ed. Leigh Brackett (New York: Ballantine, 1977), 69-89. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Jim McWhirter Y1 - 1933 A1 - W[illiam] P[lenderleith] Knowles (b. 1891) KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia with the emphasis on a leader who brings it about but also includes detailed plans of the better society. Vegetarian. Technologically advanced. Everyone provided with a home, clothing, and an allowance. The author later published The Knowles Method of Breath Training. London: Institute of Breathing, [1960], and one chapter in the novel is Breath is Life" (158-64). Specifies the foods to be eaten for each of the three-month periods of pregnancy plus exercises for each period.

PB - The C.W. Daniel Co CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last of the Japs and Jews Y1 - 1933 A1 - Solomon Cruso (1877-1977) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Primarily a future war story, but it begins in 2940 when all Jews have been eliminated and whites are slaves. The world is under the control of China, India, and Turkey with the Western Hemisphere a protectorate of these three inhabited by its indigenous peoples. Includes some of the characters in his other works. See also 1940 and 1946 Cruso.

PB - H.W. Lefkowitz CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Library of the Future” Y1 - 1933 A1 - Angus Snead Macdonald (1883-1961) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopian library of the future. 

JF - Library Journal VL - 58.1 - 2 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Life in a Technocracy; What It Might Be Like Y1 - 1933 A1 - Harold Loeb (1891-1974) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Non-fiction that includes a partial description of the social, political and economic changes that would be brought about by technocracy, a system in which engineers and scientist are politically empowered. Emphasis is on the economic dimension. 

PB - Viking Press CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. “With a New Introduction by Howard P. Segal.” Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1996. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Life in the Year 2106” Y1 - 1933 A1 - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A brief but detailed eutopia.

JF - The Rotarian VL - 43 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Little Arthur's History of the Twentieth Century Y1 - 1933 A1 - Cicely [Mary] Hamilton (1875-1952) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Transition to a world state. Satire both on failed experiments and on the uniformity of the future world state. 

PB - J.M. Dent & Sons CY - London N1 -

Parts originally published in Time and Tide 14.6 - 12 (February 11 - March 19, 1933): 141-43; 174-76; 210-12; 243-45; 283-85; 314-16; 351-53. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lost Horizon Y1 - 1933 A1 - James Hilton (1900-54) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Classic lost race eutopia set in Tibet. Longevity.

PB - William Morrow & Co CY - New York N1 -

UK ed. London: Macmillan & Co., 1933. Films directed by Frank Capra (1937) and Charles Jarrott (1973).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Man from Tomorrow" Y1 - 1933 A1 - Stanton A[rthur] Coblentz (1896-1982) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A man from a scientifically advanced future is accidentally brought to the present. The descriptions he gives, and his personality suggest that the future may be dystopian. Rigid occupational categories. Eugenics.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Man Who Awoke Y1 - 1933 A1 - Laurence [Edward] Manning (1899-1972) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A series of future dystopias set thousands of years in the future with of the concerns human dependence on machines. The first chapter is a flawed utopia in that it is a successful eutopia with population growth creating a violent generational division based of a rule regarding the rights of future generations. In the concluding chapter immortality has been achieved with generally positive results. 

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York N1 -

Originally published in somewhat different versions illus. Frank R. Paul in Wonder Stories (Mt. Morris, IL) 4.10 - 5.2 (March - August 1933) as “The Man Who Awoke.” 4.10 (March): 756-67; rpt. in Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction. Ed. Leigh Ronald Grossman (Rockville, MD: Wildside Press, 2011), 179-85 with an editor’s note on 179; and in Nature’s Warning: Classic Stories of Eco-Science Fiction. Ed. Mike Ashley (London: British Library, 2021), 71-111; “Master of the Brain.” 4.11 (April): 838-49; “The City of Sleep.” 4.12 (May): 926-36; “The Individualists.” 5.1 (June): 58-69; and “The Elixir.” 5.2 (August): 150-59, 183. Except for the first chapter, which is “The Forest People” in the book, the chapters in the book have the same titles as the original stories. Rpt. as three parts in Captain Future (New York) 3.1 - 3 (Summer 1941 – Winter 1942): 111-19; 115-21, 126-27; 111-17, 128-29. Rpt. as five parts under the same titles and with the same illustrations as in Wonder Stories in Famous Science Fiction (New York) 1.3 - 2.1 (Nos. 3 - 7) (Summer 1967-Summer 1968): 80-109; 6-33, 81; 36-65; 42-70; 58-83.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Man's Mortality. A Story Y1 - 1933 A1 - Michael Arlen (1895-1956) KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Dystopia. A huge trust controls the world and has established world peace, but it has become both corrupt and is no longer willing to accept any real differences or local power. Most of the novel is concerned with the fight for individual and national liberty, but the leader of that fight comes to believe in his own importance, so there is no eutopia in prospect.

PB - William Heinemann CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Mother World" Y1 - 1933 A1 - Bruce Wallis A1 - G[eorge] C. Wallis (1871-1956) KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Eutopia. Scientifically advanced people on another planet. Women fully involved in all aspects of life. Sleep during daylight hours. Live together in work groups rather than families. Dominant and subject (smaller who do all the physical labor) races. Synthetic food. Atomic power. Limited control of gravitation. Stress on reason; rejection of emotion. No religion.

JF - Amazing Stories Quarterly VL - 6.4 U2 -

Illus. Morey [Leopoldo Morey y Pena (1889-1965)].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - My Visit to the Sun Y1 - 1933 A1 - Phoebe Marie Holmes KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The author is taken by an angel to the center of the sun where she finds the heavenly city as described in the Revelation/Apocalypse of John and is reunited with her deceased husband, who has built a home for them that waits for her to furnish. She, of course, has to return to Earth to finish the work assigned to her.

PB - Los Angeles, CA: De Vorss & Co. CY - Los Angeles, CA. N1 -

2nd ed. Santa Barbara, CA: J. F. Rowney, 1933. 135 pp.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The New Canada: An Engineer's Plans and Specifications for a New Economic Structure for Canada and Policies Relating Thereto Y1 - 1933 A1 - Edwin E.H. Hugli (b. 1890) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Extremely detailed plan for political and economic improvement. Result intended to be a eutopia. See also 1962 and 1963 Hugli.

PB - Author CY - Toronto, ON, Canada U1 -

At last something definite! at the head of the title.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The New Pleasure Y1 - 1933 A1 - John [Edwards] Gloag (1896-1981) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Most of the novel is concerned with the introduction of a substance that enhances the power of smell and its effects. The novel ends with the eutopia that is produced in which cities have been replaced by gardens, and the world is unified.

PB - George Allen & Unwin CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Paradise City Y1 - 1933 A1 - C. M. Rizk AB -

Isolated eutopia in California. Communal. Eugenics. No organized religion.

PB - [Latin Printing Co.] CY - Philadelphia, PA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Pendulum of Fate: Cosmic Glimpses of Past and Future Y1 - 1933 A1 - Robert Alexander KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Occult glimpses of other planets all of which are more advanced than Earth.

PB - C.W. Daniel CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Power Y1 - 1933 A1 - S[ydney] Fowler Wright (1874-1965) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia based on the possession of a weapon that could destroy entire areas and the story of the rise and fall of the dictatorship that the man who controlled it produced. 

PB - Jarrolds CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Prince Pax Y1 - 1933 A1 - George Sylvester Viereck (1884-1962) A1 - Paul Eldridge KW - Male author AB -

The novel starts in a very small country that has enjoyed a thousand years of peace and prosperity but has been ignored by the rest of the world. The Prince wants power over the rest of the world and gets it, but at the end, the small country, now a recognized part of the world, returns to peace and prosperity.

PB - Duckworth CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Rinehard: A Melodrama of the Nineteen-Thirties Y1 - 1933 A1 - [Thomas Frederic] [Tweed] (1890-1940) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Political novel with a touch of the supernatural but includes a reformed U.S. and peace in the world.

PB - Arthur Barker CY - London N1 -

 U.S. ed. as Gabriel Over the White House; A Novel of the Presidency. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1933. Also published under the U. S title. London: Cherry Tree Books, 1952.

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 U.S. ed. as Gabriel Over the White House; A Novel of the Presidency. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1933. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Robot Technocrat" Y1 - 1933 A1 - Nathan[iel] Schachner (1895-1955) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Set in 1954. Mostly on the dystopia of a collapsing world and the struggle for power. Suggests that technocracy is the solution.

JF - Wonder Stories (Mt. Morris, IL) VL - 4.10 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Saint on Holiday Y1 - 1933 A1 - Geoffrey Dearmer (1893-1996) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which the Ministry of Grace--consumer advocates, government critics, and others like them--gain power.

PB - William Heinemann CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Shape of Things to Come: The Ultimate Revolution Y1 - 1933 A1 - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Detailed future world state. More than half the book is concerned with the old world up to 1933 and much of the description of the future is concerned with the difficulties of the transition to the eutopia. 

PB - Hutchinson CY - London N1 -

Rpt. Ed. John Hammond. London: J.M. Dent, 1993. Chronology by John Lawton (xi-xxix) "Introduction" by Hammond (xxxi-xxxix), "Notes" (419-23), "H.G. Wells and His Critics" (425-28), "Further Reading" (429-30), and "Text Summary" (431-33); and London: Gollancz, 2011. U.S. ed. New York: Macmillan, 1933. Rpt. without the subtitle New York: Macmillan, 1945. A film was produced by Alexander Korda and directed by William Cameron Menzies as Things to Come (1936) with the screenplay by Wells; see Things to Come: A Film Story Based on the Material Contained in His History of the Future "The Shape of Things to Come". London: The Cresset Press, 1935. Serialized as "Things to Come." Evening Standard (November 18 - 30, 1935): 22-23; 22-23; 22-23; 26-27; 22-23; 17-18; 23-24; 22-23; 22-23; 19, 22; 22-23; 17-18. Illus. with drawings and stills from the film. A short version was published as "Things To Come: The Story of the Film." The New Nash's Pall Mall Magazine 96.509 (October 1935): 107-14, 116-18, 120-28. Book rpt. Things to Come. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1975 with an "Introduction" by Allan Asherman (vii-xiv), cast and credits (xv-xvi), stills (xvii-xxxii), and an "Introduction" by George Zebrowski (xxxiii-xxxix). For related material, see Leon Stover, The Prophetic Soul: A Reading of H.G. Wells's "Things to Come" Together with His Film Treatment, "Whither Mankind?" and the Postproduction Script (Both Never Before Published). Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 1987. See also Things to Come. A Critical Text of the 1935 London First Edition with an Introduction and Appendices. Ed. Leon Stover. The Annotated H.G. Wells. Volume 9. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2007.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sometime Y1 - 1933 A1 - Robert [Welch] Herrick (1868-1938) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Detailed eutopia set mostly in Africa after a new Ice Age with strong anti-capitalist and anti-colonial themes. The novel is framed by two issues: very restrictive eugenic legislation and the re-opening of North America. The eutopia described in Africa has a much lower population, in part because a couple must have a multi-generational positive eugenic record. Technology. Labor army. Abundance with all food, clothing, housing free. Few personal possessions. In the next to the last chapter, the explorers of the Americas discover flourishing native communities that have recreated their traditional cultures among the “Esquimaux” in the north, the Pueblos in the southwest, and the Aztec and Mayan civilizations in Central America. In the final chapter, the protagonist reflects on how the African eutopia should respond to the discoveries made in the Americas. 

PB - Farrar & Rinehart CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Titan and Volcan. A Story Woven into the Lives of Two Young Men; The Fate of Peter Shaw; Depicting Volcan Island and the Unsolved Mysteries of Its People Y1 - 1933 A1 - A[lexis] F[rancois] Gillet (b. 1861) KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Isolated island inhabited by small people who have independently created a complete civilization and an innovative technology. Self-sufficient. Vegetarian. Equal distribution; equal work. Simple life. Poorly written.

PB - Meador CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - To-Morrow is a New Day Y1 - 1933 A1 - T[homas] O'B[rian] Hubbard (b. 1882) KW - Male author AB -

A new religion founded to free men produces an authoritarian dystopia because an idealistic religious leader is used by capitalists.

PB - np CY - [Kyrenia, Cyprus?] N1 -

Rpt. with the subtitle A Fantasy. London: Lincoln Williams, 1934. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Tom's A-Cold Y1 - 1933 A1 - John [Henry Noyes] Collier (1901-80) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. England has reverted to a savage state as a result of war and famine and consists of marauding bands. The novel focuses on one such band, with memories of better times.

PB - Macmillan CY - London N1 -

US ed. entitled Full Circle. New York: D. Appleton, 1933.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Unborn Tomorrow Y1 - 1933 A1 - [Margaret Maud] [Brash] (1880-1965) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Anti-Communist dystopia.

PB - W. Collins & Co CY - London U3 -

John Kendall [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "War of the Sexes" Y1 - 1933 A1 - Edmond [Moore] Hamilton (1904-77) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a literal war of the sexes.

JF - Weird Tales (Chicago, IL) VL - 22.5 ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Way Out: A Practical Solution of the Financial and Unemployed Problems of To-day. The Fruit of Forty Years Study Y1 - 1933 A1 - [George] [Smith] (1874-1959) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Detailed communist eutopia set on Mars. World federalism. No money. No unemployment but all must work the equivalent of four hours a day.

PB - [Taranaki Daily News] CY - [New Plymouth, New Zealand] U3 -

A New Zealander [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Way Out: The Social Revolution in Retrospect. Viewed from A.D. 2050 Y1 - 1933 A1 - Henry Lewis KW - Male author AB -

Socialist eutopia. Central marketing system. Quota system in international trade so that imports are regulated by exports.

PB - Elliot Stock CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Way Out: What Lies Ahead for America Y1 - 1933 A1 - Upton [Beall] Sinclair (1878-1968) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A version of Sinclair's eutopia in a series of letters to a millionaire who has lost money in the depression. 

PB - Farrar & Rinehart CY - New York N1 -

2nd ed. Pasadena, CA: Upton Sinclair. U.K. ed. with the subtitle A Solution of Our Present Economic and Social Ills. London: T. Werner Laurie, 1933.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "When the Crash Comes; A Play In Three Acts and a Prologue" Y1 - 1933 A1 - [John] Beverley Nichols (1898-1983) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a Communist takeover of Britain.

JF - Failures: Three Plays PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The World of To-Morrow--A Junior Book of Forecasts Y1 - 1933 A1 - I[drisyn] O[liver] Evans (1894-1977) KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Eutopia presented as forecasts for young adults. The forecasts range from the technical, which take up most of the book, to the personal and political. The book itself was designed to be futuristic with transparent illustrations, a transparent printed cover, and taped binding.

PB - Denis Archer CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Afternoons in Utopia: Tales of the New Time Y1 - 1932 A1 - Stephen [Butler] Leacock (1869-1944) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Humor. Take-off on tales of utopia but also includes serious criticism of communism and a description of a future war in which no one is hurt.

PB - John Lane, The Bodley Head CY - London N1 -

US ed. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1932.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Allegion or New World Religion. Based upon a proposition affording a scientific fundament of thought as benevolently revolutionary as were the proposals of Copernicus and Galileo in Astronomy, or of Dr. Joseph Priestly in Chemistry Y1 - 1932 A1 - Titus K[eiper] Smith (b 1859) KW - Male author AB -

While most of the book is an exposition of the author's philosophy and religion, including some spiritualism, it also includes sections on how to eliminate poverty through a more equitable distribution of wealth and improve social relations. Ends with the suggestion that a "World Republic Club" be formed to foster these changes. See also 1895 Smith.

PB - Ptd. by William Edwin Rudge CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - America Made Young: A Plan for a More Perfect Society Y1 - 1932 A1 - Duval McCutchen KW - Male author AB -

Detailed plan for a eutopia that includes an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that is in effect an entirely new constitution. The fundamental idea is to create a University of the United States in which pupils will be paid to attend as long as they do good work. The faculty of the University becomes the effective government of the U.S.

PB - Humanities Publishing Co CY - Philadelphia, PA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Approaching Storm Y1 - 1932 A1 - Aelfrida [Catherine Wetenhall] Tillyard [(Mrs. Constance Graham](1883-1959) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia of a Communist dictatorship in Britain. See also 1930 Tillyard, Concrete: A Story of Two Hundred Years Hence.

PB - Hutchinson CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Awakening Y1 - 1932 A1 - Geo[rge] C[ecil] Foster (1893-1975) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Mostly a romance but includes a few pages describing a conservative eutopia set in 1981. Monarchies have been restored in most of the world. Low taxes. Cars abolished.

PB - Chapman and Hall CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Beyond the Rim Y1 - 1932 A1 - S[ydney] Fowler Wright (1874-1965) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Lost race religious dystopia set in Antarctica based on a group of seventeenth century English Protestants who had been shipwrecked.

PB - Jarrolds CY - London N1 -

Rpt. with the subtitle A Lost Race Fantasy. [Holicong, PA]: Borgo Press, 2010.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Brave New World Y1 - 1932 A1 - Aldous [Leonard] Huxley (1894-1963) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Classic authoritarian dystopia with drugs, behavior modification, and promiscuity. Huxley later argued that the world depicted in this novel was approaching much faster than he had expected. 

PB - Chatto & Windus CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, 1932. Rpt. New York: The Modern Library, 1946 With a special Foreword by the author (unpaged); New York: Harper & Brothers, 1950, with an “Introduction” by Charles J. Rolo (vii-xviii); [Avon, CT]: The Limited Editions Club, 1974; illus. Mara McAfee and with an “Introduction” by Ashley Montagu (v-xi); illus. Leonard Rosoman. London: The Folio Society, 1971; in Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited (New York: HarperCollins, 2004), 1-231, with a “Foreword” by Christopher Hitchins (vii-xxi); and Toronto, ON, Canada: Vintage Canada, 2007, with an “Introduction” by Margaret Atwood (v-xiv); and illus. Finn Dean. London: The Folio Society, 2013, with an “Introduction by Ursula K. Le Guin (ix-xiv), which was rpt. as Huxley’s Bad Trip.” In her Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books 2000-2016 (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer, 2016), 127-32.  Also, Brave New World. A Graphic Novel. Adapted and illus. by Fred Fordham. New York: HarperCollins, 2022.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Cities of Ardathia” Y1 - 1932 A1 - [Henry George ] [Weiss] (1898?-1946) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A dystopia in which the machines which humans created come to control them. Only loosely related to 1927 Weiss. 

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Illus. Morey

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Francis Flagg, [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Consternation in Mars: Dispatches of Faynt Dams Ex Mock M.P. Y1 - 1932 A1 - William Noble (ed.) [written by] KW - Male author AB -

Dispatches to Mars about the situation on Earth. Earth is moving toward another world war. Little on Mars.

PB - Noble Brothers CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Cosmopolis Y1 - 1932 A1 - Rupert Croft-Cooke (1903-1979) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A supposedly perfect school, called the Institut Utopia, starts the movement toward eutopia but fails. The novel is mostly about the personal dynamics among the people.

PB - Jarrolds CY - London N1 -

U. S. ed. New York, L. MacVeagh, Dial Press, Inc., 1933. 323 pp. Rev. as The White Mountain. London: Falcon Press, 1949 325 pp. with a note that the original 1932 issue was withdrawn within a week of being issued. Rpt. London: White Lion Publishers, 1975. There are no obvious differences between the two editions. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Egoland. Recorded by Emily Loweman. Transmitted through her Father by Camille Flammarion Y1 - 1932 A1 - Emily Loweman KW - Female author AB -

Purports to be a report back after death by [Nicolas] Camille Flammarion (1842-1925) describing a remarkably uninteresting heaven as eutopia.

PB - Rider & Co CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Hidden Kingdom Y1 - 1932 A1 - M[arianne] Lynn (Hamilton-Lewis) Hamilton (1886-1976) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Mostly adventure but includes an isolated authoritarian dystopia, called Ordsborough, established by one man in the N.W. of Australia for his own benefit. The novel follows the conventions of the lost race novel, with a beautiful woman held captive and finally rescued. Although the title page is as her, the book is presented as if it were written in 1915, compiled by Louis Zaring, and edited by Hamilton with testimonies attesting to its accuracy. 

PB - N. Wentworth-Evans CY - [Melbourne, VIC, Australia] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - If I Were Dictator of Australia Y1 - 1932 A1 - Richard Proctor KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

A brief (seven page) but detailed eutopia including reformed religion, government by experts rather than elected legislators, nationalization of banks, universal disarmament using the money spent on the military to convince other countries to follow Australia's lead, the elimination of unemployment, and a six-hour workday six days a week, old-age pensions, the establishment of cooperatives, and other reforms. The pamphlet is a series of statements of what the author would do if he had the power to dictate to the churches, schools, and so forth.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Interworld: A Novel Y1 - 1932 A1 - John W. Whitham (1868-1952) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Much of the novel is adventure, romance, and social commentary, but it also includes a eutopia on Mars. Earth is backward, but the rest of the universe communicates among the planets. The Martian eutopia has advanced technology that allows individual flight. Egalitarian. One government (231). One language (231). No police or military (231). The main function of government is to ensure that the little work needed to be done is equitably distributed (234).

PB - Film Row Press CY - Seattle, WA U5 -

MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Isle of Men Y1 - 1932 A1 - Volk, Gordon KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Mostly romance and adventure but includes a well-ordered, balanced eutopia on a Pacific island. Everyone in the community contributes.

PB - Skeffington & Son CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - It Could Never Happen or the Second American Revolution Y1 - 1932 A1 - Shaemas O'Sheel (1886-1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Presented as The Veterans’ Revolution of 1932, By General Elmer Hicks formerly Commander-in-Chief, U.S.A. Ed. Teiresias MacHenry for the Modern Historical Society Press, Washington, D.C. 1982. There is a “Publishers’ Advertisement” (7-12) deploring the government’s response to the 1932 Bonus Expeditionary Force march on Washington and warning that a revolution could result. The book is the history of that revolution and the establishment of a benevolent dictatorship. An “Appendix” (172-91) includes the actual justification by the President for using the military against the marchers and excerpted statements from politicians and the press to the actual events of 1932.

PB - Coventry House CY - New York U5 -

DLC, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Jewish Utopia Y1 - 1932 A1 - Michael Higger, Ph.D. KW - Male author AB -

Eutopian essay. God will be directly involved in this eutopia which is presented with the passages from Jewish texts that are the basis for the eutopia. An anti-Semitic diatribe attacking the text is Robert H. Williams, The Ultimate World Order--As Pictured in "The Jewish Utopia". Santa Ana, CA: Williams Publications, 1957 (HRC).

PB - The Lord Baltimore Press CY - Baltimore, MD ER - TY - ABST T1 - Last Men in London Y1 - 1932 A1 - W[illiam] Olaf Stapledon (1886-1950) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Loosely related to 1930 Stapledon, Last and First Men, but, even though it begins with a message from the last humans of two thousand million years in the future, the book is more restricted in scope. The people of this future have both evolved and re-designed themselves to live on Neptune. Children spend their first thousand years in a children's club, which they run, and which includes basic education. The second thousand years is spent on a separate continent, the Land of the Young. There are 96 sub-sexes. Telepathic. More leisure than work with each person specializing. Most of the book is then concerned with the modern world before, during, and after World War I. It then ends back on Neptune and with an "Epilogue" by Stapledon.

PB - Methuen CY - London N1 -

2nd ed. London: Methuen, 1934. There do not appear to be any differences in the editions. First ed. rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1976 with an "Introduction" by Curtis C. Smith and Harvey J. Satty (v-xiv). Excerpts rpt. in An Olaf Stapledon Reader. Ed. Robert Crossley (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1997), 11-14.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Last Woman" Y1 - 1932 A1 - Thomas S. Gardner (1908-1963) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Last woman and the man who came to love her killed in a world of macho men.

JF - Wonder Stories (Mt. Morris, IL) VL - 3.1 N1 -

Rpt. in When Women Rule. Ed. Sam[uel] Moskowitz (New York: Walker, 1972), 131-48.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Liberalism and the Revolutionary Spirit. Address to the Liberal Summer School at Oxford, July 1932” Y1 - 1932 A1 - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. World state and the Open Conspiracy (see 1928 Wells), called the X Society and elaborated in the footnote. 

JF - Forward View The Young Liberal’s’ Paper VL - 7.67 N1 -

Rpt. in his After Democracy: Addresses and Papers on the Present World Situation (London: Watts & Co., 1932), 1-28. A badly cut version appeared in The Ladies’ Home Journal (August 1932): 393. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Martian Emperor-President. A Romance Y1 - 1932 A1 - Andrew J. Bailey KW - Male author AB -

Mostly rather unlikely science and romance but includes a few pages that indicate the moral superiority of the Martians which gave rise to the mostly implied utopia they have created.

PB - Printed for Private Distribution [The Press of Powis, Walsall, William James Ray, Proprietor] CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Mechanocracy" Y1 - 1932 A1 - Miles J[ohn] Breuer M.D. (1889-1947) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Machine dystopia that insists upon standardization and eliminates all who do not conform. The story is about the attempt to destroy Democratia.

JF - Amazing Stories (Dunnellen, NJ) VL - 7.1 N1 -

Rpt. in his The Man With a Strange Head and Other Early Science Fiction Stories. Ed. Michael R. Page (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008), 312-38.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Melting Pot Y1 - 1932 A1 - S. S Dyson AB -

The solution for the depression is farm colonies.

PB - Dover Printing & Pub CY - Dover, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mind Products Limited. A Melodrama in Three Acts and an Epilogue Y1 - 1932 A1 - Charles [St. Lawrence] Duff (1894-1966) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Play. Satire on capitalism and science. Chemicals are used to control human behavior. Gets out of hand and civilization collapses. The scientist wants a completely controlled world and personal power and the capitalist wants money.

PB - The Servire Press CY - The Hague, The Netherlands U5 -

WVaU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A New Day Dawns. A Brief History of the Altruistic Era (1930 to 2162 A.D.) A.E. 200. Writing for Jane Bradshaw Historical Section, The National Library Service. Washington, D.C. A Diagnosis and a Possible Prognosis of the Ills of Our Present Social Order Y1 - 1932 A1 - Charles Elton Blanchard M.D. (1868-1945) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Detailed eutopia emphasizing science and medicine in particular. National Health Service. The unfit are sterilized. Land publicly owned. Women economically independent. Revised constitution with unicameral legislature and fixed five-year terms for Congress and the President. The Supreme Court cannot declare a law unconstitutional. In his Our Unfinished Revolution. Youngstown, OH: Medical Success Press, 1933, which is a critique of the current social order, he calls his eutopia as described in A New Day Dawns an industrial democracy. See also his Our Altruistic Individualism: A Critical Study of the Social Order. Youngstown, OH: Medical Success Press, 1930. 

PB - Medical Success Press CY - Youngstown, OH U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The New Gods Lead Y1 - 1932 A1 - S[ydney] Fowler Wright (1874-1965) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A collection of stories, mostly linked by a concern with science, and eugenics in particular, from a dystopian point of view. “Justice” is concerned with a relaxation of penalties for killing old people in automobile accidents. “This Night” and “P.N. 40” are concerned with the manipulation of the laws so that rich, old men could have access to the most beautiful, young women. “Brain” describes a scientists’ government that eliminates democracy. “Proof” is concerned with the elimination of the unfit, and the problems that develop. “Original Sin” is set in a future eutopia where disease has been eliminated and all children are healthy. A decision is made that all children will be born within a five-year period every twenty-five years, which works very well. But a Doctrine of Futility spreads, and it is decided to eliminate the entire human race. 

PB - Jarrolds CY - London N1 -

Enlarged as The Throne of Saturn. Sauk City, IA: Arkham House, 1949, with the addition of two stories, “The Temperature of Gehenna Sue”, originally published in The Witchfinder (London: Books of To-Day, [1946]), 135-48; and rpt. in S. Fowler Wright’s Short Stories (Ludlow, Eng.: FWB, 1996), 170-79; and “Original Sin” [see 1938 Wright], which was written in 1936 and originally published in The Witchfinder (London: Books of To-Day, [1946]), 166-76, rpt. in Avon Fantasy Reader, no. 13 (1950): 68-73; and in S. Fowler Wright’s Short Stories (Ludlow, Eng.: FWB, 1996), 180-87. Parts were originally published as “Justice.” Nash’s Pall Mall Magazine 86.451 (December 1930): 26-29, 102, 104; rpt. in S. Fowler Wright’s Short Stories (Ludlow, Eng.: FWB, 1996), 24-36; “P.N. 40--and Love.” Britannia and Eve 1.4 (August 1929): 45-48, 160-163; rpt. in S. Fowler Wright’s Short Stories (Ludlow, Eng.: FWB, 1996), 96-120 [also pub. as “Love in the Year 93 E.E.” Red Book (1929): 66-69, 116, 119, 122, 124-25; rpt. in Fantasy Book 1.4 (May 1982): 73-80]; “The Rat.” Weird Tales 13.3 (March 1929): 337-50; rpt. as “Where the Rat Bites.” Fantasy: A Magazine of Thrilling Science-Fiction (UK), no. 3 (1939): 33-44; and under the original title in S. Fowler Wright’s Short Stories (Ludlow, Eng.: FWB, 1996), 133-52; and “Automata” Weird Tales 14.3 (September 1929): 337-44; rpt. Avon Fantasy Reader, no. 2 (1947): 97-107; in S. Fowler Wright’s Short Stories (Ludlow, Eng.: FWB, 1996), 121-32; and in Menace of the Machine: The Rise of AI in Classic Science Fiction. Ed. Mike [Michael Raymond Donald] Ashley (London: British Library, 2019), 117-132, with an editor’s note on 115-16. In The New Gods Lead, the Table of Contents is divided into “Where the New Gods Lead” and “Also”. The first group includes “Justice,” “This Night,” “Brain,” “Appeal,” “Proof”; “P.N. 40,” and “Automata.” The second group includes “The Rat,” “Rule,” and “Choice”. There is no such division in The Throne of Saturn. “This Night” is rpt. in S. Fowler Wright’s Short Stories (Ludlow, Eng.: FWB, 1996), 37-49; “Brain” is rpt. in S. Fowler Wright’s Short Stories (Ludlow, Eng.: FWB, 1996), 50-74; “Appeal” is rpt. in S. Fowler Wright’s Short Stories (Ludlow, Eng.: FWB, 1996), 75-85; “Proof” is rpt. in Magazine of Horror 3.2 (14) (Winter 1966/67): 29-39; and in S. Fowler Wright’s Short Stories (Ludlow, Eng.: FWB, 1996), 86-95’ “Rule” is rpt. in S. Fowler Wright’s Short Stories (Ludlow, Eng.: FWB, 1996), 153-64; and “Choice”, which was originally published in Eve 36.473 (1929) is rpt. in S. Fowler Wright’s Short Stories (Ludlow, Eng.: FWB, 1996), 165-69.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The New Group of World Workers Y1 - 1932 A1 - [Alice Ann] [Bailey] (1880-1949) KW - Female author KW - UK author KW - US author AB -

The earliest of many works based on a group like the Samurai in 1905 Wells that will lead the world to eutopia. See also her The Next Three Years (1934-1935-1936). New York: Lucis Pub. Co., 1934 [Pub. in the U.K. as The New Group of World Servers]; and The Functions of the New Group of Servers. London: Edson, 1935, which focus on this group.

PB - Author CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Park Y1 - 1932 A1 - John Gray (1866-1934) KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Roman Catholic, pastoral flawed utopia of blacks in England speaking Latin with whites living in overpopulated, dystopian caverns. Hierarchical with a nobility. Islands used as mental asylums and prisons.

PB - Pub. for the Author by Sheed & Ward and ptd. by Rene Hague & Eric Gill CY - London U2 -

Illus.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Passionate Calvary: Being an Introduction to the Conquest of England by the forces of the Unknown and more particularly to William Bundle, Grocer, founder of the Peckham Guild of Thought, and King of England Y1 - 1932 A1 - Kaye Anthony AB -

Humorous eutopia of Eden reinstated in England.

PB - Hurst & Blackett CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pigeon Irish Y1 - 1932 A1 - [Henry] Francis [Montgomery] Stuart (1902-2000) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Set in the future. Includes an undeveloped plan to establish colonies to keep Irish traditions.

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Macmillan, 1932.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Planet of Youth" Y1 - 1932 A1 - Stanton A[rthur] Coblentz (1896-1982) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia set on Venus where people stay young due to higher radioactivity, which is thought to enhance health. Men try to steal the secret for earth but fail. Positive effect is only temporary, and people begin to die and abandon Venus. In the end, people work to improve the Earth.

JF - Wonder Stories (Mt. Morris, IL) VL - 4.5 N1 -

Rpt. in Tales of Wonder and Super-Science (London), no. 5 (October 1938): 4-32. Repub. Los Angeles, CA: Fantasy Pub. Co., 1952. Rpt. as Youth Madness. American Fiction #8. London: Utopian Publications, [1945]. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Politics" Y1 - 1932 A1 - [William Fitzgerald] [Jenkins] (1896-1975) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An anti-pacifist and anti-politician story in which the U.S. navy defeats an attacking enemy while the politicians want them to surrender.

JF - Amazing Stories (Dunnellen, NJ) VL - 7.3 N1 -

Rpt. in Future Tense. Ed. Richard Curtis (New York: Dell, 1968), 138-67.

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Murray Leinster [pseud.]

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Merril, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Progress in Arcadia" Y1 - 1932 A1 - Cyril Hume (1900-66) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on a Classical Greek competition to create a perfect city.

JF - Myself and the Young Bowman PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Prohibiting Poverty. Being Suggestions for a Method of Obtaining Economic Security Y1 - 1932 A1 - Prestonia Mann Martin (1861-1945) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. Essay describing The National Livelihood Plan which will require everyone to spend the ages 18-26 in an industrial army similar to that in 1888 Bellamy. The author was editor of the American Fabian and ran a socialist summer camp called the Summer Brook Farm; see Herbert Ernest Cushman, "Summer Brook Farm." Outlook 57 (November 13, 1897): 665-66.

PB - Rollins Press CY - Winter Park, FL N1 -

Many eds. with 9th ed. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1934.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Rosma Y1 - 1932 A1 - Garrett Baxter KW - Male author AB -

Individualist eutopia. Individuals work for themselves, become wealthy, and cooperate to some extent. Democracy. Contrasted with a plutocracy with a centralized government. See also 1930 Baxter.

PB - Economic Press CY - [Norfolk, VA] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Scene Is Changed Y1 - 1932 A1 - [Eric Honeywood] [Partridge] (1894-1979) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

A future tale in which a high percentage of males die. The women are not competent, and reconstruction and rebuilding take place under male leadership. Something like a eutopia is produced. There are female and male co-Prime Ministers and, generally, a better balance between the genders politically. 

PB - John Heritage CY - London U3 -

James Ray [pseud.]

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In French as Changement de décor ("The Scene Is changed"). Trans. K. Marais. Paris: Éditions de la "Nouvelle revue critique", 1934.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - So a Leader Came Y1 - 1932 A1 - Frederick Palmer (1873-1958) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The dystopia of the present day requires a strong leader for the period of transition. Most of the novel is about the development of the leader, the struggle for power, and his success. The ending suggests that a better society results.

PB - Ray Long & Richard R. Smith CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Spacetime Inn Y1 - 1932 A1 - Lionel [Erskine Nimmo] Britton (1887-1971) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Play set outside of time with two cockney men who have won the “sweep” together with Shakespeare, Bernard Shaw, Dr. Johnson, Karl Marx, Napoleon, Queen Victoria, the Queen of Sheba, and Eve. Napoleon and the two queens are presented as having extremely narrow views of the world. The others are somewhat caricatured, but there is serious debate, particularly between Shaw and Marx with occasional involvement by Shakespeare and Johnson, over whether and/or how to improve the lot of men like the two cockneys. Eve presents a eutopia of the simple enjoyment of life.

PB - G. P. Putnam CY - London & New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Storm Bradley--Australian. A Story of Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow Y1 - 1932 A1 - Fred Davison (1874-1942) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia based on private enterprise and a state bank.

PB - Australian Authors Pub. Co CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia N1 -

2nd ed. Sydney, NSW, Australia: Australian Authors Pub. Co., 1932. A note inside the cover signed by the author says that there are some additions and amendments to the 2nd ed.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Temple of Sähr Y1 - 1932 A1 - [William Talbot] [Pearson] (1907-1991) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Lost race authoritarian dystopia led by a European scientist in the middle of Australia.

PB - Cecil Palmer CY - London N1 -

Australian ed. Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Lothian Pub. Co., 1932. Rpt. Sydney, NSW, Australia: Graham Stone, 1994.

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William Pengreep [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Ten Year Plan: A Dream of 1940 Y1 - 1932 A1 - Stanley Freese KW - Male author AB -

A eutopia of decentralization and improved town planning with thin, string cities so that people can get into the country easily with efficient express and local rail lines.

PB - Cecil Palmer CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Three Go Back Y1 - 1932 A1 - J[ames] Leslie Mitchell (1901-35) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Mostly adventure in which three people are suddenly transported back in time to a remnant of Atlantis, which is described in Golden Age terms, but which is in conflict with Neanderthalers, who destroy them. 

PB - Jarrolds CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. Indianapolis, IN: The Bobbs-Merril Co., 1932. Rpt. cut and bowdlerized as Three Go Back. A Complete Science Fiction Novel. A Powerful Story Mixed With Science and Sex. Galaxy Science Fiction Novel No. 15. New York: Galaxy Publishing Corp., [1953]. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Time Conqueror" Y1 - 1932 A1 - L[loyd] A[rthur] Eshbach (1910-2003) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A giant computer-like brain based on a human brain can perceive the future. It creates a technological eutopia, which is only briefly described, and foresees an invasion by aliens and their defeat by natural forces and a far future return to primitivism.

JF - Wonder Stories VL - 4.2 N1 -

Rpt. as "Tyrant of Time." In his Tyrant of Time (Reading, PA: Fantasy Press, 1955), 11-80.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - To-Morrow's Yesterday Y1 - 1932 A1 - John [Edwards] Gloag (1896-1981) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Mostly destructive barbarianism with a takeover by beings evolved from cats, who argue that humans are controlled by sex. Describes the present as leading inevitably to war.

PB - George Allen & Unwin CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in his First One and Twenty (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1946), 13-120.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - United States of the World Y1 - 1932 A1 - Yurevits, Jacob KW - Male author AB -

World peace through world federation.

PB - Otto Karklin CY - Buffalo, NY U1 -

Sub-title on the cover World Peace and Its Realization.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Utopia By Thermometer" Y1 - 1932 A1 - Travis Hoke KW - Male author AB -

A global warming eutopia that argues that storms will cease, the world will everywhere become a garden so that everyone will be well fed, work hours will be reduced, and technology will bring the world closer together.

JF - The North American Review (Boston, MA) VL - 234.2 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Voice Across The Years" Y1 - 1932 A1 - [Inga Marie Stephens] [Pratt] (1906-70) A1 - [Murray] Fletcher Pratt (1897-1956) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Male author AB -

Mostly interplanetary adventure but describes a scientifically advanced alien civilization. Eugenics--children are tested and sterilized or killed if they have criminal tendencies. Rigid class system run by scientists. Young adults are tested by having to survive in a wilderness where killing is the norm. Cities are all in very tall buildings generally built on unproductive land. Education through sleep teaching.

JF - Amazing Stories Quarterly (Dunnellen, NJ) VL - 5.1 N1 -

Rpt. as Alien Planet. New York: Avalon, 1962; and New York: Ace Books, 1962.

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I.M. Stephens [pseud. of Inga Marie Stephens Pratt

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "What I Would Do With the World. A Talk broadcast in September, 1931" Y1 - 1932 A1 - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Non-fiction outlining a better future world in which he poses the question of what would he do if he had the power to bring about change? There would be a world state that would abolish war, an integrated world economy with a single currency and a world-controlled credit system, and a reorganized educational system, including much expanded adult education. 

JF - After Democracy: Addresses and Papers on the Present World Situation PB - Watts & Co. CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - While England Slept. A Novel Y1 - 1932 A1 - Rowland James (b. 1885) KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. A mysterious gas blots memory and makes everyone young. This necessitates starting over to build a new society based on religion and a return to the land. At the end of the novel, it is suggested that England will reindustrialize but without the problems experienced before.

PB - John Bale, Sons & Danielsson CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The World is Red" Y1 - 1932 A1 - F[rederick] Britten Austin (1885-1941) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The final chapter of a novel that fictionally describes the great revolutions from ancient Egypt to the “World Republic” of 2036, which is the dystopia that results from the success of Communism.

JF - The Red Flag PB - Eyre and Spottiswoode CY - London N1 -

U. S. ed. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, [1934]), 371-400.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The World of Our Grandchildren. A Talk broadcast to U.S.A., November 1930" Y1 - 1932 A1 - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Non-fiction but outlining a better future world. Socialism seen as a system of community buying that building beautiful, functional towns and community health services that would ensure healthy people.

JF - After Democracy: Addresses and Papers on the Present World Situation PB - Watts & Co. CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Year of Regeneration: An Improbable Fiction Y1 - 1932 A1 - James Cooper Lawrence (1890-1932) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Fascist eutopia presented as if a book entitled The Year of Regeneration by Calvin Quincy Cabot (New York, 1983), purporting to be a summary of a text and selected notes deposited in 1933 by the "Master of the Sons of Liberty" to be made available in 1983.

PB - Harper & Brothers CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Academy of Souls Y1 - 1931 A1 - John O'Hara Cosgrave (1866-1947) KW - Australian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Mostly a criticism of modern culture, but it includes a scientific, engineers' eutopia on Mars. Scientists have demonstrated the truths of religion.

PB - Farrar & Rinehart CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Altrurian Farms Y1 - 1931 A1 - Hilliard Wilkins KW - Male author AB -

Detailed eutopia. A community in South America that had developed into a thriving complex of communities. Cooperative housekeeping.

PB - Employment Extension Society CY - Washington, DC U1 -

Cover adds For Those Who Would Render Unemployment Unnecessary.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Beyond Hell Y1 - 1931 A1 - Stephen McKenna (b. 1888) KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia within a eutopia. Set slightly in the future in a world with an effective international organization and world court. Sunday Island is an island of permanently transported convicts. The scheme is presented as if the "settlers" will be able to live a full and free life within the confines of the island, but it is initially an authoritarian dictatorship ruled by the Governor of the island. English as the only language. Each "settler" spends half of each day in physical labor in exchange for food and housing. Weekly medical inspection. Successful revolution followed by the struggle to establish a decent system.

PB - Chapman & Hall CY - London N1 -

US ed. New York: Dodd Mead, 1932.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Birth of a New Republic" Y1 - 1931 A1 - Miles J[ohn] Breuer M.D. (1889-1947) A1 - Jack [John Stewart] Williamson (1908-2006) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Story of the battle for the independence of the moon. Earth is controlled by corporations, such as metals and transport, which are sovereign states. War among them.

JF - Amazing Stories Quarterly (Dunnellen, NJ) VL - 4.1 N1 -

Rpt. in The Metal Man and Others: The Collected Stories of Jack Williamson Volume One (Royal Oak, MI: Hafner Press, 1999), 239-425.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Black No More: Being An Account of the Strange and Wonderful Workings of Science in the Land of the Free, A.D. 1933-1940 Y1 - 1931 A1 - George S[amuel] Schuyler (1895-1977) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

Satire. The personal and social effects of a process to whiten black skins. See also 1936-37 and 1937-38 Schuyler. A musical, based loosely on the novel, directed by Scott Elliott, written by John Ridley, lyrics and music by Tariq Trotter; music by Anthony Tidd, James Poyser and Daryl Waters; and choreographed by Bill T. Jones, was performed at the Pershing Square Signature Center, New York City, in February 2022. His “Our Greatest Gift to America.” Ebony and Topaz: A Collectanea, Ed. Charles Spurgeon Johnson (New York: Opportunity, Journal of Negro Life: National Urban League, 1927). Rpt. in Anthology of American Negro Literature. Ed. V. F. Calverton (New York: The Modern Library, 1929), 405-12 resonates with this book in that the gift is flattering whites. See also the author’s autobiography, Black and Conservative: The Autobiography of George S. Schuyler. New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House Publishers, 1966; and Rac[e]ing to the Right: Selected Essays of George S. Schuyler. Ed. Jeffrey B. Leak. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2001. 

PB - The Macauley Co. CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Negro Universities Press, 1969; College Park, MD: McGrath Publishing Co., 1969; Boston, MA: Northeastern University Press, 1989; without the subtitle. London: The X Press, 1998; as Black No More. A Novel. New York: The Modern Library, 1999 with an “Introduction” by Ishmael Reed (ix-xiii); with the subtitle in Harlem Renaissance: Four Novels of the 1930s. Not Without Laughter Langston Hughes Black No More George Schuyler The Conjure Man Dies Rudolph Fisher Black Thunder Arna Bontemps. Ed. Rafia Zafar (New York: The Library of America, 2011), 219-372; and with the subtitle New York: Penguin Books, 2018, with an “Introduction” by Danzy Senna (ix-xix)An excerpt was rpt. in Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora. Ed. Sheree R. Thomas (New York: Warner Books, 2000), 35-50; and in Norton Anthology of African-American Literature. Ed. Henry, Louis Gates, Jr. and Valerie Smith. 2 vols. 3rd. ed. (New York: W.W. Norton, 2014), 1: 122-37. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Blue Barbarians" Y1 - 1931 A1 - Stanton A[rthur] Coblentz (1896-1982) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire. Capitalist culture on Venus where the people are either at war or in extreme competition.

JF - Amazing Stories Quarterly (Dunnellen, NJ) VL - 4.3 N1 -

Repub. New York: Avalon, 1958.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Calling Things By their Proper Names" Y1 - 1931 A1 - Edmund Lester S. J. (1866-1934) KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Labelled Advt. Ten proposals that will be the basis of the Utopia State. For example, separate education for women and the establishment of industries to employ the unemployed.

JF - The Tablet (London) VL - 157 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Citizen of the Future" Y1 - 1931 A1 - Sir Josiah [Charles] Stamp [1st Baron Stamp] (1880-1941) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Essentially better educated people will create a eutopia which has gotten over democracy.

JF - Criticism and Other Address PB - Ernest Benn CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Coming of the Amazons: A Satiristic Speculation on the Scientific Future of Civilization Y1 - 1931 A1 - Owen [McMahon] Johnson (1878-1952) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Gender-role reversal satire. Promiscuity. Class based on occupation.

PB - Longmans, Green and Co CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Conquest of Gola" Y1 - 1931 A1 - [Leslie Frances] [Silberberg] (1905-1991) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia with dystopian elements. Described at the beginning in purely eutopian terms but becomes an atypical gender-role reversal story with the women having primarily mental powers and the men from another planet having only physical and technological powers. The women expel the invaders, and their men remain subversive.

JF - Wonder Stories (Mt. Morris, IL) VL - 2.11 N1 -

Rpt. in New Eves: Science Fiction About the Extraordinary Women of Today and Tomorrow. Ed. Janrae Frank, Jean Stine, and Forrest J. Ackerman (Stamford, CT: Longmeadow Press, 1994), 31-42 with an editors’ note on 30; in Daughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century. Ed. Justine Larbalestier (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2006), 36-49; in The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction. Ed. Arthur B. Evans, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., Joan Gordon, Veronica Hollinger, Rob Latham, and Carol McGuirk (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2010), 96-109 with an editors’ note on 96-97; in The Big Book of Science Fiction: The Ultimate Collection. Ed. Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (New York: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Vintage Books, 2016), 99-107 with an editors’ note on 98; in The Future is Female! 25 Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women from Pulp Pioneers to Ursula K. Le Guin. Ed. Lisa Yaszek (New York: Library of America, 2018), 24-43; and in “The Conquest of Gola” and Other Stories by Leslie F. Stone. Ed. Batya Weinbaum (Beau Bassim, Mauritius: JustFiction! Edition//International Book Market Service/Omniscriptum Publishing Group, 2021), 214-233-, with an editor’s note on 211-214. 978-6200496324. Additional material, including biographies, can be found at womenSF.loa.org.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Contributive Society Y1 - 1931 A1 - J[ohn] R[otherford] Bellerby KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Describes a society in which all members contribute to the best of their ability. He expands and comments on the ideas here in his 1933 The Conflict of ValuesThere he says that this book emphasized the economic aspects of the ideal society.

PB - Education Services CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Cure for Unemployment Y1 - 1931 A1 - Liam O'Flaherty (1896-1984) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Satire. Cutting unemployment by hiring men out to be pets in place of dogs.

JF - Blue Moon Booklets no. 8. PB - E. Lahr CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Dream or a Vision?" Y1 - 1931 A1 - J. H. Beck AB -

Eutopia. The Catholic Agricultural Organization, a cooperative system run by the dominant church, saves English agriculture and restores balance to the economy. Set in 1981.

JF - Month (UK) VL - 158 ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Emperor of Hallelujah Island Y1 - 1931 A1 - George Goodchild (1888-1969) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Island of slaves recruited from among murderers.

PB - Houghton Mifflin Co CY - Boston, MA U5 -

OCU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Emperors of Space" Y1 - 1931 A1 - Jerome Gross A1 - Richard Penny KW - Male author AB -

Yellow wave fiction describing a future dystopia ruled by Orientals.

JF - Wonder Stories (Mt. Morris, IL) VL - 3.6 U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Exiles of the Moon” Y1 - 1931 A1 - Nathan[iel] Schachner (1895-1955) A1 - A[rthur] L[eo] Zagat (1865-1949) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of two classes: aristocrats and enslaved workers.

JF - Wonder Stories (Mt. Morris, IL) VL - 3.4 - 6 U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Faith Y1 - 1931 A1 - Martha Cabanné Kayser (b. 1871) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Much of the novel is concerned with the problems of the contemporary world, but it ends with the beginnings of a eutopia based on religion and moral values from a generally conservative perspective. The eutopia is being brought about through the successful establishment of a community on an island off Naples, Italy where a school is educating young people in the appropriate morals and spirituality. See also 1922 Kayser. 

PB - Meador Publishing Co CY - Boston, MA N1 -

A rev. ed. entitled Heaven Is Here. New York: Author, 1938 is reported to have been published, but no copies can be located. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Future of the Human Race" Y1 - 1931 A1 - W[illiam] R[alph] Inge (1860-1954) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia of England about 3,000 A.D. A simple life lived in villages and small towns. Eugenic controls. No war. No tariffs. Most nations are essentially self-supporting. Little central government. No lawyers.

PB - Royal Institution of Great Britain CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Gas War of 1940. A Novel. Being an account of the world catastrophe as set down by Raymond Denning, the first Dictator of Great Britain Y1 - 1931 A1 - [Stephen] [Southwold] (1887-1964) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Most of the novel focuses on a war of all nations using advanced weapons that leads to the destruction of human civilization. The Prologue (9-27) describes the emergence of the dictator of the subtitle.

PB - Eric Partridge at the Scholaris Press CY - London N1 -

Rpt. as Valiant Clay. By Eric Bell [pseud.]. London: Collins, 1934.

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Rpt. as Valiant Clay. By Eric Bell [pseud.]. London: Collins, 1934.

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"Miles" [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Grand Mysterious Secret Marriage Temple Y1 - 1931 A1 - H. George Schuette (1850-1935) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eugenic eutopia. Heredity and eugenics taught in schools. Two different marriage certificates, one permitting children for the eugenically fit and one prohibiting children for the eugenically unfit. Tax bachelors. Married men paid more than unmarried and retained over unmarried men in times of economic downturn. Only men between 55 and 70 to fight in wars, which would produce fewer wars.

PB - Np CY - Manitowoc, WI U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Hothouse World" Y1 - 1931 A1 - Fred[erick John] MacIsaac (1886-1940) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set 100 years in the future after a new ice age in which relatively few people survive under a dome. Similar to 1899 Wells When the Sleeper Wakes in that the man who awakes has ended up owning all the property. Struggle for power. In the end contact is made with other survivors, and it is suggested that the dystopia is overcome.

JF - Argosy (New York) VL - 219.1 - 6 N1 -

Rpt. in Fantastic Novels 4.4 (November 1950): 12-92; and New York: Avalon Books, 1965.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hunger and Love Y1 - 1931 A1 - Lionel [Erskine Nimmo] Britton (1887-1971) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel is mostly concerned with the trials and tribulations of its main protagonist, an intelligent but poor man, and is an attack on the dystopian of the contemporary capitalist order. But the novel also suggests, without going into detail, that a literal unification of the human race is necessary to being about a better life. As Bertrand Russel puts it in his “Introduction,” "It may be that the complete organic unification of the human race, which Mr. Britton regards as the ideal, is the only way in which a scientific civilisation can survive. It is, at any rate, practically certain that it cannot survive while the anarchism of private profit” [x]. The author says that the theory developed in Hunger and Love is presented in his plays Brain: A Play of the Whole Earth. London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1930 and Animal Ideas: A Dramatic Symphony of the Human in the Universe. London: Putman, 1935. 134 pp.

PB - Putnam CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1931, with an “Introduction” by Bertrand Russell (vii-x). 623 pp.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "If the General Strike Had Succeeded (Being Extracts from an Imaginary Newspaper June 1930)" Y1 - 1931 A1 - Rev. Fr. Ronald [Arbuthnott] Knox (1888-1957) ED - J[ohn] C[ollings] Squire KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire suggesting the negative effects of the power of labor.

JF - If It Had Happened Otherwise: Lapses into Imaginary History PB - Longmans, Green and Co. CY - London N1 -

Book rpt. without the subtitle (London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1972), 277-89.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lost Children Y1 - 1931 A1 - H[enry] Herman Chilton (1863-1945) KW - Belgian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Although it all turns out to be a dream, the novel describes the eutopia formed where the children were taken by the Pied Piper of Hamelin. Simple life. Arcadian. Crafts.

PB - Hutchinson CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Migrants of the Stars: Being an Account of the Discovery of the Marvelous Land of Niames, and of the Secret of its Inhabitants Y1 - 1931 A1 - A. H. Barzevi, ed. [written by] A1 - Marc F. Keller, ed. [written by] KW - Male author AB -

A number of eutopias and dystopias, with one an isolated eutopia on earth with advanced technology and telepathy, a second eutopia on a planet called Niames that actually surrounds the Earth, and the rest discovered on a tour of the universe showing a variety of different cultures, all of which are inhabited through the transmigration of souls. Considerable satire.

PB - The Classic Press CY - New York U5 -

MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - No Traveller Returns Y1 - 1931 A1 - John [Henry Noyes] Collier (1901-80) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future dystopia brought about by science; people selected for their scientific ability. All animals are destroyed. All culture eliminated.

PB - White Owl Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Our Glorious Future. A Novel in Two Parts. The Miracle Child. The Battle of the Spirits Y1 - 1931 A1 - [John] [Hettinger] KW - Male author AB -

The spiritual world contacts the human race, spiritualism is proven a science, and the afterlife is demonstrated. A eutopia of world peace results.

PB - C.W. Daniel CY - London U3 -

Johnhett [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Our World in Fifty Years' Time" Y1 - 1931 A1 - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Non-fiction outlining a better future world. Although Wells says people might be worse off in fifty years, the world can be made a better place with the right education, all working short hours, and cooperation of the most prosperous countries. 

JF - After Democracy: Addresses and Papers on the Present World Situation PB - Watts & Co. CY - London N1 -

Originally published in John o' London's Weekly (October 1931).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Outward Ho! Y1 - 1931 A1 - James Leakey KW - Male author AB -

Proposes a major colonization scheme to be carried out by towns and villages with each establishing a garden city in a colony. Australia, Canada, and New Zealand only. On the Garden City movement, see The Garden City: Past, Present and Future. Ed. Stephen V. Ward. London: E & FN SPON, 1992.

PB - Williams & Norgate CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Richest Man on Earth Y1 - 1931 A1 - [Charles] Test Dalton (1877-1945) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Reformed capitalist eutopia, known as the Plateau Republic, founded in Africa by an American. The basic idea is a voluntary limits on profit that the publisher of the book had developed where “managers of industrial enterprises and all those engaged in trade should state in advance a fee (so much per year) with which they will content themselves and prorate all surplus profits to the buyer in accordance with the amount of his purchases” (5-6). Labor unions are permitted. Workers receive a base pay sufficient to support a family and give college education to children. Single tax on land is the only and is used to pay government expenses. The author refers to Henry George (1839-97) but rejects the specifics of George’s single tax. A strong colonialist mentality pervades the book. Although the eutopia is brought about by a single, rich man, references are made throughout the book to Arthur Twining Hadley (1856-1930), an economist and President of Yale University as supporting the basic theory.

PB - Lowe Shearon CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Service First" Y1 - 1931 A1 - David H[enry] Keller M.D. (1880-1966) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Airplanes adapted for living provide cheap homes for all and produce eutopia.

JF - Amazing Stories VL - 4.1 N1 -

Rpt. in his The Threat of the Robot and Other Nightmarish Stories with an introduction by Gene Christie (Normal, IL: Black Dog Books, 2012), 98-116.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Seven Niches: A Legend Y1 - 1931 A1 - Egerton [Arthur Crossman] Clarke (1899-1944) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. A poem about an imaginary city, called Tombelaine, which typifies Christendom.

PB - Cecil Palmer CY - London U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - On the Shores of the Infinite Y1 - 1931 A1 - Mrs. G. Stuart KW - Female author AB -

Theosophical novel that tours the solar system and the afterlife with depictions of higher beings. 

PB - :Simpkin Marshall/Jarrold & Sons. CY - London/Norwich VL - 312 pp. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Strange Hunger Y1 - 1931 A1 - Michael Hervey (1915-79) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A rich man and some scientists decide to establish a eutopia on an isolated island to counter the drift to war. It is established and manages to stop the next war.

PB - Hamilton & Co CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "They Should Be Slaves" Y1 - 1931 A1 - R[onald] A[llison] K[ells] Mason (1874-1964) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Ten Year Plan to help workers by making them slaves on the principle that property owners will take care of their property but, since no one owns workers, no one takes care of them.

PB - Hocken Library, Dunedin, New Zealand CY - Ms. U5 -

DU-H

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Time Stream" Y1 - 1931 A1 - [Eric Temple] [Bell] (1883-1960) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author KW - US author AB -

Mostly an adventure story, but it includes a future eutopian world based on reason and individual freedom. A eugenic sub-theme is concerned with the conflict between reason and love.

JF - Wonder Stories VL - 3.7 - 10 N1 -

Rpt. as The Time Stream. By John Taine [pseud]. [Providence, RI: Buffalo Book Co. and G.H.E., 1946; and New York: Garland, 1975. Slightly rev. rpt. New York: Dover, [1971].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - True Riches Y1 - 1931 A1 - Adrian R. Apple KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A Christian eutopia where money has been eliminated and replaced with certificates indicating merit and everyone of merit is guaranteed abundance.

PB - Adrian R. Apple CY - Glendale, CA U2 -

Illus. by the author.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Utopia" Y1 - 1931 A1 - Edmund Lester S. J. (1866-1934) KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Labelled Advt. The Roman Catholic Church the basis for eutopia.

JF - The Tablet (London) VL - 157 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Woman's Utopia Y1 - 1931 A1 - [Mrs.] [Ellen Warner (Olney)] [Kirk] (1842-1928) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. The introduction summarizes Gerhart Hauptmann's (1862-1946) The Island of the Great Mother or The Miracle of Île des Dames. A Story from the Utopian Archipelago. Trans. Willa and Edwin Muir. New York: B.W. Huebach and The Viking Press, 1925. Originally published as Die Insel der Grossen Mutter (1924). The first chapter then follows with a critique of utopias created by men. This is followed by her eutopia. Two houses in Parliament, men's and women's. Ability and intelligence rewarded. Best salaries for the worst work such as mining.

PB - Ernest Benn CY - London U3 -

A Daughter of Eve [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - 1957 Y1 - 1930 A1 - [Andrew James Fraser] [Blair] (1872-1935) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

A rebellion in India brought about by the dereliction of duty to the Empire by a socialist government in Britain, which is described in the standard terms as a dystopia.

PB - William Blackwood and Son CY - Edinburgh, Scot. U3 -

Hamish Blair [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - After Y1 - 1930 A1 - M[ary Helena] Saltoun KW - Female author AB -

Hell as dystopia.

PB - Duckworth CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Anna Perenna Y1 - 1930 A1 - Alan Sims KW - Male author AB -

Satire set one hundred years in the future attacking capitalists and workers as well as all governments and religion.

PB - Chatto & Windus CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Ape Cycle" Y1 - 1930 A1 - Clare Winger Harris (1891-1968) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A dystopia is created when apes are trained to be servants and come to find their servitude unacceptable

JF - Science Wonder Quarterly VL - 1.3 N1 -

Rpt. in her Away From the Here and Now: Stories in Pseudo-Science (Philadelphia, PA: Dorrance & Co., 1947), 296-365. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Bamboa Y1 - 1930 A1 - Garrett Baxter KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia in which workers take over. Individualism, democracy, and minimal cooperation with restraint on monopolies. See also 1932 Baxter.

PB - Economic Press CY - [Norfolk, VA] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Boys of Ben Eadar: A School Story of 1950 Y1 - 1930 A1 - Rev. M[ichael] H[enry] Gaffney O.P. (b. 1895) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Boys adventure story set in a technologically improved future without social changes.

PB - The Talbot Press CY - Dublin, Ireland U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Brain: A Play of the Whole Earth Y1 - 1930 A1 - Lionel [Erskine Nimmo] Britton (1887-1971) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. A giant brain built in the Sahara comes to control the entire world followed by a catastrophe when a Dark Star that the Brain cannot control destroys the Earth. The play opens with a discussion, between the Librarian of the British Museum, a conservative, and a professor of philosophy, who is more open to alternatives, of a manuscript, obviously Britton’s Hunger and Love (1931), and why it will be difficult to get it published.

PB - G. P. Putnam's Sons CY - London & New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Chronos or the Future of the Family. Y1 - 1930 A1 - [Maurice] Eden Paul M.D. (1865-1944) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Mostly an argument that the family as then known was coming to an end for economic and sexual reasons. Also argues that from the point-of-view of child-rearing, large families are better than small ones because children should interact with other children rather than adults. Suggests that in the future related and unrelated adults with and without children of their own but with a talent for parenthood raising a group of children, again related and unrelated, in large homes. Refers positively to two existing examples, the Beacon Hill School founded in 1927 by Dora and Bertrand Russell, which closed in 1947, and the Caldecott Community, which still exists.

PB - Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner CY - London U5 -

Hathi, MH

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The City of the Living Dead" Y1 - 1930 A1 - Laurence [Edward] Manning (1899-1972) A1 - [Murray] Fletcher Pratt (1897-1956) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Everyone spends their time dreaming in machines and the human race degenerates.

JF - Science Wonder Stories VL - 1.12 N1 -

Rpt. in Startling Stories 4.1 (July 1940): 94-104; and Avon Fantasy Reader, no. 2 (1947): 108-30.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Concrete: A Story of Two Hundred Years Hence Y1 - 1930 A1 - Aelfrida [Catherine Wetenhall] Tillyard [(Mrs. Constance Graham](1883-1959) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia of reason and communism. People are euthanized if they fail a physical. Kissing children is illegal because it is unhygienic. People are bored. See also 1932 Tillyard, The Approaching Storm.

PB - Hutchinson CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Creatures of the Light" Y1 - 1930 A1 - Sophie Wenzel Ellis (1893-1984) KW - Female author AB -

The focus of the story is the struggle between good and evil, but the setting is an attempt to create perfect human beings and shows that apparent perfection is undesirable.

JF - Astounding Stories of Super-Science (New York) VL - 1.2 N1 -

Rpt. in Sci-Fi Womanthology. Comp. and ed. Forrest J. Ackerman and Pam Keesey (Rockville, MD: Sense of Wonder Press, 2003), 169-202; and in The Feminine Future: Early Science Fiction by Women Writers. Ed. Mike [Michael Raymond Donald] Ashley (Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2015), 176-212 with an editor’s note on 176. PUP

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Drink Up, Gentlemen Y1 - 1930 A1 - J[ohn Cameron Audrieu] B[ingham Michael] Morton (1893-1979) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire describing a near future mildly repressive and puritanical dystopia.

PB - Chapman & Hall CY - London U5 -

ICL

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren" Y1 - 1930 A1 - John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Essay that argues that within a hundred years the fundamental economic problems could be solved, and a society based on leisure created. Speculates on what such a society would look like. Three-hour workday fifteen hours per week will suffice.

JF - The Nation and Athenaeum (London) VL - 48.2 - 3 N1 -

Rpt. in his Essays in Persuasion (London: Macmillan, 1931), 358-73; and in Revisiting Keynes: Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren. Ed. Lorenzo Pecchi and Gustavo Piga (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2008), 17-26.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The End of the World" Y1 - 1930 A1 - Helen Sutherland KW - Female author AB -

The story depicts the world as it faces the period after a plague kills most men with few men born afterwards until the last man dies. Women successfully fulfil all the roles that men had held, but they will all gradually die. 

JF - Truth N1 -

Rpt. in The End of the World and Other Catastrophes. Ed. Mike [Michael Raymond Donald] Ashley (London: British Library, 2019), 31-35, with an editor’s note on 29. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Eternal Man Revives Y1 - 1930 A1 - D[rury] D. Sharp (1880-1960) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia. Overpopulation. No animal life left. Sequel to his "The Eternal Man." Science Wonder Stories (Mt. Morris, IL) 1.3 (August 1929): 230-33.

JF - Wonder Stories Quarterly (Mt. Morris, IL) VL - 1.4 U5 -

DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Graphopolis--A Utopia for Literature" Y1 - 1930 A1 - Albert [Joseph] Guérard (b. 1914). KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A eutopia for artists that specifically rejects the technological utopia, saying "Poetry is the eternal protest against the mechanising trends towards Utopia" (256).

JF - The Nineteenth Century and After. A Monthly Review (London) VL - 108 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Here Is Thy Victory Y1 - 1930 A1 - Iris Barry (1895-1969) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Involuntary immortality and its generally bad effects, which are reversed when death returns.

PB - Elkin Mathews & Marrot CY - London U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The High School Library of the Future” Y1 - 1930 A1 - Aniela Poray KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Satire on the library of the future where knowledge is provided chemically and the librarians choose what students should know.

JF - Wilson Library Bulletin VL - 4 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "If I Were Dictator: Ten Commandments of Social Reconstruction. Change Fundamentally or Perish. The Basic Industries Going" Y1 - 1930 A1 - James Leatham (1865-1945) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Essay, primarily concerned with agriculture, which would be completely controlled. Nationalized railways, limited driving, reduced hours of work, no investment abroad, nationalization of land, reforestation, electrification, no military recruitment so that men could work productively, and slum clearance.

JF - The Gateway: A Journal of Life and Literature (Turiff, Scot.) VL - 18.209 N1 -

Rpt. with only the first subtitle Turriff, Aberdeenshire, Scot: The Deveron Press, [1930].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Into the 28th Century" Y1 - 1930 A1 - [Mary Maud Dunn] [Wright] (1894-1967) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Vague golden age eutopia.

JF - Science Wonder Quarterly (Mt. Morris, IL) VL - 1.2 U3 -

Lillith Lorraine [pseud.]

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SFF

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future Y1 - 1930 A1 - [William] Olaf Stapledon (1886-1950) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

One of Stapledon’s visions of the far, far future where the human race has been replaced by more advanced species. It begins with an Introduction by One of the Last Men and then moves initially to World War I and after and the relatively near future. It then traces humanity through millions of years with both eutopian and dystopian periods to the end where a eutopian cosmic consciousness is developing and humans as such will disappear. Loosely related is 1932 Stapledon, Last Men in London.

PB - Methuen CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. as by W[illiam] Olaf Stapledon. New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, 1931. Rpt. in his To the End of Time: The Best of Olaf Stapledon with editorial cuts and “Foreword to the Original American Edition” (3). Ed. Basil Davenport (New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1953), 1-220; rpt. (Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1975), 1-220; and in Last and First Men & Star Maker: Two Science-Fiction Novels (New York: Dover, 1968), 1-246, which includes “Foreword to the Original American Edition” (3) and “Preface to the English Edition (9). Excerpts rpt. in An Olaf Stapledon Reader. Ed. Robert Crossley (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1997), 3-11; and in The Way to the End Times: Classic Tales of the Apocalypse. Ed. Robert Silverberg (New York: Three Rooms Press, 2016), 436-52, with an “Editor’s Introduction” on 434-35. Chapter IX: Earth and Mars in rpt. in The Book of Mars: An Anthology of Fact and Fiction. Ed. Stuart Clark (London: London: Head of Zeus/Apollo/Bloomsbury, 2022), 57-70.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lost Garden Y1 - 1930 A1 - Geo[rge] Cecil Foster (1893-1975) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Golden Ages at various times and places beginning with Atlantis and ending in the contemporary world. None are quite as “golden” as the myth suggests.

PB - Chapman & Hall CY - London U5 -

MoU-St, O

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Man with a Scarred Hand” Y1 - 1930 A1 - Henry Kitchell Webster (1875-1932) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel includes some material on a successful anarchist and atheist intentional community but most of it is adventure with elements of mystery and detection.

JF - The American Magazine VL - 110 U5 -

OSt, PU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Modern Prometheus" Y1 - 1930 A1 - Cyril G[eoffrey] Wates (1884-1946) KW - Male author AB -

1930 Wates, Cyril G[eoffrey] (1884-1946). “A Modern Prometheus.” Amazing Stories Quarterly (Jamaica, NY) 3.4 (Fall 1930): 436-91, 574. CU-Riv

Among other things, the story describes a eutopia that began to emerge in the 1950s called the Age of Social Enlightenment. Based initially on “The Law of the Triangle”--“Healthy and congenial occupation with an adequate income for all. Equal opportunities to all and to each the full reward of his accomplishment. Unfair privileges at the expense of others, to none” (445 Emphasis in the original). Stresses gradual change. People neglected the physical sciences for the social sciences, which caused future problems; the renaissance of the physical sciences solved the problems and an even better interplanetary eutopia developed.

JF - Amazing Stories Quarterly (Jamaica, NY) VL - 3.4 U5 -

CU-Riv

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Narrative of Jasper Weeple: Being an Account of His Strange Journey to the Land of Midanglia and of all that happened to him in that country Y1 - 1930 A1 - James [Runciman] Sutherland (1900-96) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Eutopia with a benevolent monarchy. All people are paid equally. Education by apprenticeship. No marriage, religion, or technology. There is then a revolution by power hungry capitalists.

PB - Eric Partridge CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pantopia Y1 - 1930 A1 - [James Thomas] [Harris] (1855/6-1931) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia located on a contemporary isolated island. Natural aristocracy of talent/performance combined with essential equality. Communal economics. Eugenics. See also 1924 Harris, “The Temple of the Forgotten Dead,” which is said to be the basis for Pantopia.

PB - The Panurge Press CY - New York U3 -

Frank Harris [pseud.]

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IEN, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Paradise and Iron" Y1 - 1930 A1 - Miles J[ohn] Breuer [M.D.] (1889-1947) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia of an idyllic island in which all work is done by automatic machinery with minimal human supervision, but the machines are beginning to act on their own, endangering the people and producing a dystopia. The people fight back, and at the end they defeat the machines and accept that they will have to work.

JF - Amazing Stories Quarterly (Jamaica, NY) VL - 3.3 N1 -

Rpt. in his The Man With the Strange Head and Other Early Science Fiction Stories (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008), 44-256.

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Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The People of the Blue Mountains Y1 - 1930 A1 - H[elena] P[etrovna] Blavatsky (1831-91) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Indian author KW - Russian author AB -

An odd book that is often cataloged as an ethnography, but it presented as an account of an obviously fictional trip into an earthly paradise in the mountains of India. Lost race eutopia used as an excuse to teach Theosophy. 

PB - Theosophical Press CY - Wheaton, IL U5 -

MoU-St, NLS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Possibilities Y1 - 1930 A1 - Gezá Schinagel AB -

Eutopia. Reason. Abundance based on unlimited power. Education becomes the main goal in life. Stress on health and extremely advanced medically.

PB - Meador Publ. Co CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Problem in Communication" Y1 - 1930 A1 - Miles J[ohn] Breuer M.D. (1889-1947) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An apparently eutopian Science Community with a new religion in which science replaces God is closed off from the outside world with only the truly faithful allowed to come and go because the leader intends a coup in the U.S.

JF - Astounding Stories of Super-Science (New York) VL - 3.3 N1 -

Rpt. in his The Man With a Strange Head and Other Early Science Fiction Stories. Ed. Michael R. Page (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008), 257-84.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Seventh Bowl Y1 - 1930 A1 - [Stephen] [Southwold] (1887-1964) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of immortality.

PB - Eric Partridge CY - London U3 -

By "Miles" [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Storm Against the Wall Y1 - 1930 A1 - Laurence Meynell (1899-1988) KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of the Proletarian State of Britain, those who fight against it, and, at the end, the reestablishment of the monarchy.

PB - Hutchinson CY - London N1 -

US ed. Philadelphia, PA: J.B. Lippincott, 1931.

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MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Storm Over Europe. A Novel Y1 - 1930 A1 - Douglas [Francis] Jerrold (1893-1964) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

History of a Cisalpania, a small country between Hungary and Russia, from monarchy to liberalism to socialism and back to monarchy.

PB - Ernest Benn CY - London U5 -

L, NLS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Terrania; or, The Feminization of the World Y1 - 1930 A1 - Columbus Bradford (1901-38) KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia ruled by women where men are admitted to citizenship if they agree to vote only for women. During a war women had struck against matrimony until the war was ended. With the war over and women in power, all weapons are destroyed throughout the world.

PB - Christopher Pub. House CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "This Monkey Business" Y1 - 1930 A1 - R[onald] A[llison] K[ells] Mason (1874-1964) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Scientist blackmailed into developing a means of breeding "monkmen" or men like monkeys, who are ideal workers. The scientist then develops a means of turning men into monkeys, administers it to his blackmailer, and frees the monkmen.

PB - Hocken Library, Dunedin, New Zealand CY - Ms. U5 -

DU-Ho

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ultimo: An imaginative narration of life under the earth with projections by John Vassos and text by Ruth Vassos Y1 - 1930 A1 - John Vassos (1898-1985) A1 - Ruth Vassos (1896?-1965) KW - Female author KW - Italian author KW - Male author KW - Romanian author KW - UK author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia. A new ice age forces people to develop a new society underground where the heat of the earth's core is balanced by the ice above. Almost all travel stops, and there is no communication among cities. Industry, which is mostly for the production of food, is separate from housing. The little work needed is distributed equally. No money. Population kept balanced. No marriage. No crime. Unrest results from the monotony of life and rules become necessary.

PB - E. P. Dutton CY - New York U2 -

Heavily illustrated.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Valley of the Great Ray Y1 - 1930 A1 - Pansy E[llen] Black (1890-1957) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Lost race story where no one grows old. Set in Australia.

PB - Stellar Publishing Corporation CY - New York VL - Science Fiction Series No. 11. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Vampires of Venus" Y1 - 1930 A1 - Anthony Pelcher (1897-1981) KW - Male author AB -

Mostly adventure but very briefly describes a eutopia on Venus based on eugenics and gender equality.

JF - Astounding Stories (New York) VL - 2.1 U5 -

CU-Riv

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Via the Hewitt Ray" Y1 - 1930 A1 - M[argaret] F. Rupert KW - Female author AB -

World with women dominant and men kept for breeding.

JF - Science Wonder Quarterly (Mt. Morris, IL) VL - 1.3 N1 -

Rpt. in Fantastic Story Magazine (Kokomo, IN) 2.3 (Summer 1951): 95-114; and in The Feminine Future: Early Science Fiction by Women Writers. Ed. Mike [Michael Raymond Donald] Ashley (Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2015), 103-40 with and editor’s not on 103.

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Merril, PUP, SFF

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Vision of the Future in Vocational Education" Y1 - 1930 A1 - David [Samuel] Snedden (1868-1951) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Projects a eutopian education in 1960 with a stress on vocational education. Education compulsory until eighteen. Vocational education is compulsory for entering work, and this education starts at eighteen. 

JF - School and Society (New York) VL - 32.834 N1 -

Rpt. as three chapters (XV. “Some Backgrounds of the Great American Developments of Vocational Education from 1935-1960;” XVI. “The Period of Critical Evaluations and Reconstructions of Vocational Education;” and XVII. “The 1960 Programs of Vocational Education in the United States”) in his American High Schools and Vocational Schools in 1960 (New York: Bureau of Publications, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1931), 95-119. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Voyage to Purilla Y1 - 1930 A1 - [Elmer Leopold] [Reitzenstein] (1892-1967) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on romantic films showing a planet based on such films.

PB - Cosmopolitan Book Corp CY - New York U3 -

Elmer Rice [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Waste--The Future of Prosperity” Y1 - 1930 A1 - Kenneth [Duva] Burke (1897-1993) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on conspicuous consumption including such outlandish ideas for the time as bottled water. See 2007 Shouse for a commentary and a new satire. For Burke’s own reflections on the essay, see his “Recipe for Prosperity: ‘Borrow, Buy, Waste, Want’.” The Nation (New York) 183.10 (September 8, 1956): 191-93; and 1971 Burke.

JF - Whither, Whither, or After Sex, What? A Symposium to End Symposiums PB - The Macaulay Co. CY - New York N1 -

A shorter version rpt. in The New Republic (New York) 63 (July 16, 1930): 228-31; and in The New Republic Anthology 1915 : 1935. Ed. Groff Conklin (New York: Dodge Publishing Co., 1936), 330-37. A condensed version was published in The Reader’s Digest (Chappaqua, NY) 17.102 (October 1930): 481-83. 

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Illus. Bill Gropper

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PSt, which holds Burke's papers.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "After 12,000 Years" Y1 - 1929 A1 - Stanton A[rthur] Coblentz (1896-1982) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A future divided into three nations and four species. Includes both eutopian and dystopian elements.

JF - Amazing Stories Quarterly (New York) VL - 2.2 N1 -

Repub. Los Angeles, CA: Fantasy Pub. Co., 1950.

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - At the End of the World: A Vision Y1 - 1929 A1 - [Henry] [Gilbert] (1868-1937) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

End of the world and last man novel which includes a eutopia. The world experiences the return of the ice age, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, etc. During the period humanity becomes both personally and socially more integrated and less egotistical and creates a world state, known as the Perfect State. Reproduction is limited; work is social and fulfilling; cultural, national, racial, and religious differences disappear or lose importance; and there is high-quality education for all. But conditions continued to worsen, and most people come to lead a simple, primitive life. Emphasis on the search for God, who appears at the end.

PB - Elkin Mathews & Marrot, Ltd CY - London U3 -

Ernest Guest [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Autocracy of Mr. Parham: His Remarkable Adventures in this Changing World" Y1 - 1929 A1 - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a Fascist dictatorship in Britain.

JF - Nash's Pall Mall Magazine VL - 84-85 N1 -

Repub. without the subtitle London: William Heinemann, 1930. US ed. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, 1930.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Barton's Island" Y1 - 1929 A1 - [Harold Vincent] [Schoepflin] (1893-1968) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The U.S. is a dictatorship with the poor, dressed in grey, kept from education, decent housing, and so forth. A scientist develops a means of changing minds and brings about the beginnings of improvement.

JF - Amazing Stories (Jamaica, NY) VL - 5.5 N1 -

Rpt. in Amazing Stories Quarterly (New York) 7.2 (Fall 1934): 6-27.

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Harl Vincent [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Between Worlds Y1 - 1929 A1 - Garret Smith (1876?-1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Begins on a Venus that is a eutopia based on long tradition and a rejection of coercion.

PB - Stellar Publishing Co CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Beyond the Selvas. A Vision of a Republic That Might Have Been--and Still May Be Y1 - 1929 A1 - Frederick T. Fuller KW - Male author AB -

Christian Socialist eutopia located off a branch of the Amazon River.

PB - Np CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Brain of the Planet Y1 - 1929 A1 - [Mary Maud Dunn] [Wright] (1894-1967) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A eutopian world state is achieved as a result of a machine that broadcast positive images of social solidarity directly to human brains. As a result, capitalism disappeared, followed by national boundaries. Inventions flourished replacing much physical labor. Men and women were able to marry for love.

PB - Stellar Publishing Co CY - New York VL - Science Fiction Series No. 5. U3 -

Lillith Lorraine [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Capitalist Utopia; A Message for Workers, Politicians, and Employers Y1 - 1929 A1 - W[illiam] Margrie (1877-1960) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Capitalist eutopia. One company takes over the government; affiliated firms are designed to create wealth. Efficiency. Eugenics.

PB - Watts & Co CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Children’s Country Y1 - 1929 A1 - Katharine [Penelope Cade] Burdekin (1896-1963) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Children’s story in which two Earth children visit and have adventures in The Children’s Country, where children, none of whom will ever grow up to be a man of a woman, rule.

PB - William Morrow & Co. CY - New York U1 -

Osborne, DLC, BL

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Illus. Beth Krebs Morris [Identified only on the dust jacket]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dawn Y1 - 1929 A1 - S[ydney] Fowler Wright (1874-1965) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Sequel to 1927 Wright, Deluge, that details the experiences of a number of people following the events of the Deluge as they try to first simply survive and then build the beginnings of decent life, which is where the novel ends.

PB - Cosmopolitan Book Co. CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: George G. Harrap & Co., 1930. Rpt. as Dawn: A Novel of Global Warming. Rockville, Maryland: Wildside Press/The Borgo Press, 2009; and as Deluge; a Romance, and Dawn. New York: Arno Press, 1975, which reprints the New York Cosmopolitan Press editions separately paged. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Dawn of a New Civilization Y1 - 1929 A1 - [William] Hardy Wilson (1881-1955) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Follows the life and wanderings of an architect, very like those of the author, searching for beauty and meaning. Ends with the design of a city and new buildings that combine the attributes of Eastern and western culture. 

PB - Cecil Palmer CY - London U2 -

Illus. by the author.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Decadence: An Excerpt from "A History of the Triumph and Decay of England," dateable 1949. With a Preface by A Conservative Y1 - 1929 A1 - L. Macaulay KW - Male author AB -

Great Britain is in terminal decline because it has not adopted free trade, and the book combines a future history showing that decline with arguments for free trade and against its oponents.

PB - Watts & Co CY - London U5 -

L, NLS, NN

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Elenchus Brown, The Story of an Experimental Utopia Y1 - 1929 A1 - Bertha Louisa Bowhay KW - Female author AB -

Satire on the failure of an intentional community.

PB - H.R. Allenson CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Fifty Years Hence" Y1 - 1929 A1 - [Hugh] [MacDiarmid] (1892-1978) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

A commentary, mostly positive, on Scottish nationalism but with a sense that it has been made acceptable. For example, while eighty percent of literature produced in Scotland was in “new standard Gaelic, which was approved by the Scottish Academy of Letters in 1969” (1), but older Gaelic literature, mostly by poets, is still published. See also his Albyn or Scotland in the Future. By C. M. Grieve [pseud.]. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co./New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1927, a volume in the To-day and Tomorrow series, which deplores current conditions and has little on the future.

JF - The Scots Independent N1 -

Rpt. as Scotland in 1980. By C.M. Grieve [pseud.]. Montrose, Scotland: Gillechriosd Mac a Ghreidir, 1929. 4 pp. The first, and apparently only, in an intended series Scotland To-morrow.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Goat: Cardiff A.D. 1935" Y1 - 1929 A1 - Naomi [Margaret] Mitchison (1897-1999) KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

Near future tale in which each year one of the rich is chosen by lot to be executed. Background of extreme poverty.

JF - Barbarian Stories PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London U5 -

LLL, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Halcyon or The Future of Monogamy Y1 - 1929 A1 - Vera Brittain (1893-1970) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Presented as part of a book from the mid-21st century. Chapter I "Morals in the Post-Victorian Era, 1900-1930 (9-28); Chapter II "The Period of Sexual Reform, 1930-1975" (29-52); Chapter III "Scientific Progress, 1950-2000, and Its Relation to the Moral Revolution" (53-78); Chapter IV "The Triumph of Voluntary Monogamy, 2000-2030" (79-92).

PB - Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "How We Made Utopia" Y1 - 1929 A1 - Will[iam James] Durant (1885-1981) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Story of a community that agrees to the basic program for establishing a eutopia. The proposals include a program of eugenic education; radically improved education, including Schools of Public Administration to train those wanting to be public officials; municipalization of utilities and services; inexpensive housing; and, to pay for it all, a reformed tax system and contributions from the rich. All the proposals are rejected by the politicians.

JF - The Mansions of Philosophy: A Survey of Human Life and Destiny PB - Garden City Publishing Co. CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Book rpt. as The Pleasures of Philosophy: A Survey of Human Life and Destiny (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1953), 319-32. Story rpt. with no indication of an earlier publication in The Thinker (New York) 4.2 (September 1931): 18-28. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The King of Cosmopoland. A Farce in One Act Y1 - 1929 A1 - Margaret Brown KW - Female author AB -

Humor using an imaginary country after a revolution.

JF - Repertory Farces. No. 10 PB - Gowans & Gray CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Last Man" Y1 - 1929 A1 - Wallace G[eorge] West (1900-80) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Sexless women rule a dull and dying world.

JF - Amazing Stories (New York) VL - 3.11 N1 -

Rpt. in Amazing Stories 40.5 (April 1966): 64-87; and in When Women Rule. Ed. Sam[uel] Moskowitz (New York: Walker, 1972), 104-30.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Letter of the Twenty-Fourth Century" Y1 - 1929 A1 - [Leslie Frances] [Silberberg] (1905-1991) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Brief depiction of a future eutopia based on a rural world-wide democracy.

JF - Amazing Stories (Jamaica, NY) VL - 4.9 N1 -

Rpt. in Sci-Fi Womanthology. Comp, and ed. Forrest J. Ackerman and Pam Keesey (Rockville, MD: Sense of Wonder Press, 2003), 9-13; and in “The Conquest of Gola” and Other Stories by Leslie F. Stone. Ed. Batya Weinbaum (Beau Bassim, Mauritius: JustFiction! Edition//International Book Market Service/Omniscriptum Publishing Group, 2021), 23-28 with an editor’s note on 23.

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Leslie F. Stone [pseud.]

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Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Light In the Sky Y1 - 1929 A1 - Herbert Clock (1890-1979) A1 - Eric Boetzel KW - Male author AB -

Lost race novel that is more of a eutopia than many. Descendants of the Aztecs who are advanced scientifically live in caverns under Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean. They do not die and use both a spoken language and telepathy. The people live well, and there is a project designed to end war everywhere. As in most lost race novels, a struggle takes place and the protagonist and the princess escape while the society is destroyed.

PB - Coward-McCann CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Arno Press, 1978.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Men With Wings" Y1 - 1929 A1 - [Leslie Frances] [Silberberg] (1905-1991) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The first of two stories about winged people in South America that were created by an English scientist and have evolved into a substantial, well-established civilization, conflicts with the outside world, and, finally, acceptance and integration. In comparison to the men, the women are small and weak. The second story is “Women With Wings.” Illus. [Ed] Leonard. Air Wonder Stories 1.11 (May 1930): 984-1003. Rpt. in “The Conquest of Gola” and Other Stories by Leslie F. Stone. Ed. Batya Weinbaum (Beau Bassim, Mauritius: JustFiction! Edition//International Book Market Service/Omniscriptum Publishing Group, 2021), 131-210. In it, the political geography of the world has changed substantially, primarily through consolidation, and the world is ruled by the representatives (all men) of the ten most powerful nations. “Color was of no consequence” (986). Universal language (987). Use the sun and radium for energy (988). The issue faced by the culture is that a high percentage of women are dying in childbirth. Contact is made with Venus where an amphibious race has evolved, also with wings, in which the women are dominant, and the men are weak and small. The solution for Earth is interbreeding which is successful.

JF - Air Wonder Stories VL - 1.1 N1 -

Rpt. without the illus. in Femspec 11.1 (2010): 86-155, with an editor’s note on 86-87; and in “The Conquest of Gola” and Other Stories by Leslie F. Stone. Ed. Batya Weinbaum (Beau Bassim, Mauritius: JustFiction! Edition//International Book Market Service/Omniscriptum Publishing Group, 2021), 32-139, with an editor’s note on 29-31 that covers this and “Women With Wings” below.

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 Illus. [Frank R.] Paul (1884-1953)

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Leslie F. Stone [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Mernos" Y1 - 1929 A1 - [L.C.?] [Kellenberger] AB -

Mernos is a small, inhabited planet in the asteroid belt visited by an astronomer from Earth, who decides to stay there. The Mernosians are far in advance of Earth technologically, communicate telepathically, and live to be about 300. They worship Zerno, the creator of the universe, who is all good. World-wide government. No money: everything provided. Most work is done by electricity, but “Everyone has an allotted task” (1011). Henry James is the name of the person telling the story.

JF - Amazing Stories (New York) VL - 3.11 U2 -

Illus. [Frank R.] Paul (1884-1963)

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Henry James [pseud.].

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Metropolis of Tomorrow Y1 - 1929 A1 - Hugh Ferriss (1889-1962) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Architectural utopia. The book is illustrated by drawings of contemporary and proposed buildings. Includes a final section--"An Imaginary Metropolis"--that describes an ideal city. No people mentioned.

PB - Ives Washburn CY - New York U2 -

Illus.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Moon Woman: A Tale of the Future" Y1 - 1929 A1 - [Minna] [Odell] (c.1857-1940) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia set in 3014. Earth is technologically and socially advanced with the help of the inhabitants of the moon. World government. Food in liquid form.

JF - Amazing Stories (Jamaica, NY) VL - 4.8 U3 -

Minna Irving [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Nephelococcygia or Letters from Paradise Y1 - 1929 A1 - Herbert Millingchamp Vaughan (1870-1948) KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

Heaven as a eutopia with an even, monastic life. Inhabited by famous people.

PB - W. Spurrell and Son CY - Carmarthen, Wales U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Out of the Void" Y1 - 1929 A1 - [Leslie Frances] [Silberberg] (1905-1991) ED - Leslie F. Stone [pseud.] KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Mostly adventure and romance, but a flawed high-tech utopia is present that is vegetarian, telepathic, can communicate with animals, has painless euthanasia for both humans and animals, and has an island with no government set aside for higher education where men and women are free to go to study and teach. But the society is also hierarchical with slavery and has treated one group as not even able to be slaves. The ending indicates that some of this will change.

JF - Amazing Stories VL - 4.5 - 4.6 U3 -

Leslie F. Stone [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Philosophic Tales of the "Arabian Nights." The Three Voyages of Omar and Micromegas Y1 - 1929 A1 - Emil St. Cyr M.D. (b. 1865) KW - Male author AB -

Includes a eutopia on Saturn (81-127) where a highly advanced race with great mental powers have built gorgeous cities. Perfect memory both individually and as a race. Technologically advanced. Television has been sufficiently advanced to be able to view the entire city, thus eliminating crime, with privacy rewarded for good citizenship. This system is no longer needed because the people have evolved to the point that crime is unthinkable.

PB - Author's Art Press CY - Chicago, IL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Prince of Atlantis Y1 - 1929 A1 - Lillian Elizabeth Roy (1868-1932) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Atlantis as a eutopia with classical trappings but democratic and egalitarian. Includes an Appendix (344-51) presenting material that the author contends relates to Atlantis and the Atlanteans.

PB - Educational Press CY - New York U2 -

Maps by A.C. Aalholm.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Rebel Passion Y1 - 1929 A1 - Katharine [Penelope Cade] Burdekin (1896-1963) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Traces history through the past and the then present to a religious, medieval, Christian eutopia in about 3150 (US 254-305). Women priests who serve women; the male priests serve men. No divorce. Everyone works. Some machinery including a “flying boat,” electricity that powers lights and radio. There has been no history in Europe since the passing of the machine age. If a country is happy, it has none.” Throughout it is suggested that the main character is not wholly male but a mix of male and female.

PB - Thornton Butterworth CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. as by Kay Burdekin [pseud.]. New York: Morrow, 1929. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Robinson the Great; A Political Fantasia on the Problems of To-day and the Solutions of To-morrow. Extracted from the works of Solomon Slack, LL.D. Y1 - 1929 A1 - [John Ramsay Bryce] [Muir] (1872-1941) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia calling for freeing Parliament from party rule, more Parliamentary power, and the re-organization of government. Describes the good society that results.

PB - Christophers CY - London U3 -

An Impenitent Politician [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Should a Child Have More Than One Mother? A Psychologist's Nation of a Better Way to Grow Up" Y1 - 1929 A1 - John B[roadus] Watson (1878-1958) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Detailed eutopia. The author says, "Let us build a Utopia where we can dream of a different kind of family life" (32) and describes a society in which all children are raised collectively.

JF - Liberty: A Weekly for Everybody (New York) VL - 6.25 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Squareheads; the Story of a Socialized State. A Futuristic Novel Y1 - 1929 A1 - William Salisbury (b. 1875) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Anti-socialist dystopia. Squareheads are symbols of conformity--must speak in phrases of four syllables and in sentences of equal metric value. Official thought. Eugenics. Some hypocrisy.

PB - Independent Pub. Co CY - New Rochelle, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Thirteen O'Clock; A Play in Three Acts Y1 - 1929 A1 - [Eric] Anthony Thorne (1904-73) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The setting of the play is "a super-city of the future" which is in fact a dreary place where little works right. Conflict over its future makes it worse.

JF - Contemporary British Dramatists PB - Ernest Benn CY - London VL - 71 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Time-Journey of Dr. Barton: An Engineering and Sociological Forecast based on Present Possibilities With Illustrations by Sir Edwin Luytens. Professor A.E. Richardson. Ethelwyn Baker. Jean Campbell. Albert Daenins. Mervyn Wilson. and The Editor Y1 - 1929 A1 - John [Lawrence] Hodgson, ed. [written by] (1881-1936) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A leisure based eutopia set in 3927. Reason, eugenics, free love. Mostly technical. See also his 1929 "The War of the Rockets."  See also his 1929 “The War of the Rockets.”

PB - John Hodgson CY - Eggington, Beds., Eng. N1 -

Also published as a serial with the author given as John L. Hodgson in The Star Review (England) 2.4 - 12 (April - December 1929): 188-93, 279-84, 330-39, 398-405, 448-55, 510-20, 595-98, 634-51, 720-35 (NN). His The Great God Waste [subtitle on first title page A Study of certain phases of the present world-wide tendency--as exemplified by Capitalist, Communist, and Fascist practices--to impoverish and robotise the Individual]. Eggington, Beds., Eng.: John Hodgson, 1933 (L) reprints parts of The Time Journey (5-7 and 82-100) and the whole of “The War of the Rockets” (122-27) plus some other pieces.

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 Illus. by Sir Edwin Luytens, Professor A.E. Richardson, Ethelwyn Baker, Jean Campbell, Albert Daenins, Mervyn Wilson, and The Editor.  

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Utopia College: A Prospectus" Y1 - 1929 A1 - Addison Hibbard (1887-1945) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopian university stressing independent, interdisciplinary study and a focus on intelligence rather than character.

JF - Outlook and Independent (New York) VL - 151 ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Vision of Education; Being an Imaginary Verbatim Report of the First Interplanetary Conference Y1 - 1929 A1 - J[ohn] H[enry] Burns KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Includes statements of a number of educational theories, some of which are focused on the individual and others on the good of the society. Includes a short Preface (7-11) by Aldous Huxley (1894-1963). See Jerome Meckier, “A Neglected Huxley ‘Preface’: His Earliest Synopsis of Brave New World.” Twentieth Century Literature 25.1 (Spring 1979): 1-20. 

PB - Williams & Norgate CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The War of the Rockets" Y1 - 1929 A1 - John [Lawrence] Hodgson (1881-1936) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Brief dystopia describing how "the Resourceless Ones" are controlled by their economic and political masters, who create an arms race that brings about a devastating war. The survivors create a eutopia based on a world government with a World Council and a World Police. 

JF - The Star Review (England) VL - 2.1 N1 -

Rpt. in his The Great God Waste [subtitle on first title page A Study of certain phases of the present world-wide tendency--as exemplified by Capitalist, Communist, and Fascist practices--to impoverish and robotise the Individual] (Eggington, Beds., Eng.: John Hodgson, 1933), 122-27. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "When Social Regulation Is Complete" Y1 - 1929 A1 - Stephen [Butler] Leacock (1869-1944) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on regulation.

JF - The Iron Man and the Tin Woman and Other Futurities PB - John Lane The Bodley Head CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - When the Sun Went Out Y1 - 1929 A1 - [Leslie Frances] [Silberberg] (1905-1991) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The sun is dying, and the human population has declined in numbers, intelligence, and physique from relying on the machines and production of the past, machines that are also dying. The most intelligent of the remaining population build great caves far underground to which the remaining population of the Earth retreated after the sun died. The decline was from a scientific world eutopia.

PB - Stellar Publishing Co., 1929 CY - New York VL - Science Fiction Series No. 4. U3 -

Leslie F. Stone [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "White Collars" Y1 - 1929 A1 - David H[enry] Keller M.D. (1880-1966) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the educational system produces too many professional people for the positions available, rather like India today, and they, refusing to take readily available blue-collar jobs, live in ghettos and starve. A bill is passed forcing them to work at the well-paying blue-collar jobs, and they all, but one family, adjust rapidly. The story has a sexist ending in that a young plumber kidnaps the daughter of the family trying to leave. She has turned him down many times but is instantly convinced to marry him on seeing the nice kitchen she, a lawyer, will have.

JF - Amazing Stories Quarterly (New York) VL - 1.3 N1 -

Rpt. in his The Threat of the Robot and Other Nightmarish Stories with an introduction by Gene Christie (Normal, IL:. Black Dog Books, 2012), 66-77.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Woman Dominant Y1 - 1929 A1 - E[velyn] Charles H. Vivian (1882-1947) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Gender-role reversal satire.

PB - Ward, Lock CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The World Below Y1 - 1929 A1 - S[ydney] Fowler Wright (1874-1965) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Part I repeats 1924 Wright. The Amphibians. The rest, entitled “The World Below”, presents “The Dwellers”, an advanced humanity who rule the world. The Dwellers are free of disease and injury. As they age, the body remains strong, but the mind begins to lose vitality and longs for death, which it ultimately wills to happen. Very few women were being born and the end of the race was possible. A non-utopian authorized sequel is Brian [Michael] Stableford, The World Beyond Being a Sequel to S. Fowler Wright’s Classic Science Fiction Novel, The World Below. [Rockville, MD]: The Borgo Press, 2009; 2nd ed. [Holicong, PA]: The Borgo Press/Wildside Press, 2013. 

PB - W. Collins Sons CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Books for Today, 1929. U.S. ed. New York: Longman, Green, 1930. and Westport, CT: Hyperion Press, 1976. These eds. include both 1924 Wright, The Amphibians and The World Below. The World Below is rpt. separately Chicago, IL: Shasta Publishers, 1949; Shasta ed. rpt. with the subtitle A pulse-pumping, mind-prodding, sequel to THE AMPHIBIANS , . . just as haunting as that masterpiece of Earth’s far-distant future as Galaxy Science Fiction Novel, No. 5. New York: World Editions, [1949]. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The World in 2030 A.D Y1 - 1929 A1 - [Frederick Edwin] [Smith] [1st Earl of Birkenhead] (1872-1930) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Presented as a prediction. Technology will have improved life greatly. Little change in politics or economics. Women intellectually inferior to men.

PB - Hodder & Stoughton CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The World, the Flesh and the Devil: An Inquiry into the Future of the Three Enemies of the Rational Soul Y1 - 1929 A1 - J[ohn] D[esmond] Bernal (1901-71) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

The book is presented as speculative prediction that focuses on space travel, the physical modification of humans, and the psychological changes these will bring about (and the resistance to them based in human psychology), but the section on human modification includes a brief non-fictional eutopia in the Stapledonian mode. After a life of 60 to 120 years of living, people will be surgically modified and provided with mechanical extensions of their senses and re-educated. In addition, people will develop mental connections to others that will ultimately produce a group mind, and this entity will be essentially immortal. 

PB - Kegan Paul & Co CY - London N1 -

The book was originally announced under the title “Possibilities” and published in the “To-Day and To-Morrow” series. 2nd ed. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1969. U.K. ed. London: Jonathan Cape, 1970.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "2014 A.D." Y1 - 1928 A1 - E. Carlson Holmes KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author AB -

Mostly future war with vastly improved technology. The war had been brought about by overpopulation, and at the end of a very destructive war a compromise is achieved through which empty areas of the world are opened to settlement through technology and peace and plenty reign.

JF - The Weekly Press (Christchurch, New Zealand) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Astro Bubbles Y1 - 1928 A1 - Marlo Field AB -

Detailed eutopia. Worlds connected in a string at the poles. Earth one of the spiritually lowest due to the development of science. Spiritually higher world connected at the South Pole. Highly refined people. Eat only fruit. Equality.

PB - The Four Seas Co CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Biological Experiment" Y1 - 1928 A1 - David H[enry] Keller M.D. (1880-1966) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Far in the future "companionate marriage" without children is standard, a license is required before a child is permitted, and then children are born artificially and raised by trained nurses rather than mothers and fathers.

JF - Amazing Stories (New York) VL - 3.3 N1 -

Rpt. in his The Threat of the Robot and Other Nightmarish Stories with an introduction by Gene Christie (Normal, IL: Black Dog Books, 2012), 149-66.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Blessing of Azar. A Tale of Dreams and Truth Y1 - 1928 A1 - E[dith] V[irginia] Gazella KW - Female author AB -

Founding of a eutopia by a group of wealthy friends, one of whom contributes thirty million dollars in gold. The novel starts with vague plans, veers into adventure and romance, and ends back with the plans and their fulfillment through commerce. The very end shows a eutopian Cuba with very little detail, but service is honored.

PB - The Christopher Publishing House CY - Boston, MA N1 -

Also published Passaic, NJ: George Dixon Press, 1928. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - But Soft--we are observed! Y1 - 1928 A1 - [Joseph] Hilaire [Pierre René] Belloc (1870-1953) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on a conflict between the major political parties of the future: the Communists and the Anarchists.

PB - Arrowsmith CY - London N1 -

US ed. as Shadowed! New York: Harper & Brothers, 1929.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Challenge; A Story of Conspiracy and the Coming Crash Y1 - 1928 A1 - Eustace Dudley, B.A. KW - Male author AB -

A socialist revolution brings problems, but Catholicism saves the day.

PB - Longmans, Green and Co CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Childermass. Section I Y1 - 1928 A1 - [Percy] Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia after death in Purgatory, which is depicted as a completely unstable wasteland where everything and everyone may change without warning. The protagonists find their way to the "camp", which is at least stable, but ruled by "The Bailiff", who is in conflict with Hyperides and his followers. The novel continues with the same characters in The Human Age Book Two Monstre Gai Book Three Malign Fiesta. London: Methuen, 1955. An additional planned volume, The Trial of Man, was never published.

PB - Chatto and Windus CY - London N1 -

Rpt. as The Human Age Book One Childermass. London: Methuen, 1956. U.S. ed. New York: Covici-Friede, 1928.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Coming Country. A Pre-Vision Y1 - 1928 A1 - Sir Francis [Edward] Younghusband (1863-1942) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Rebirth of England through religion leads to a eutopia called Ourownland. Stress on love and the family.

PB - John Murray CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Common Round Y1 - 1928 A1 - Dolores Charlotte Frederica Harding KW - Female author AB -

Spiritualism in which an advanced planet, Icar, is described.

PB - Hurst & Blackett CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dark Princess. A Romance Y1 - 1928 A1 - W[illiam] E[dward] Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

The novel begins with an excellent African-American medical student being denied the right to continue because, as a black, he is not permitted to do the required section on obstetrics. He flees the country and meets other colored people who hope to create a united body to work for their betterment. For personal reasons, he rejects their overtures and returns to the U.S., where he becomes an up-and-coming politician married to a wealthy, well-connected woman. After numerous setbacks, he reconnects with the other colored peoples who have a plan for a better future that will be developed over the coming fifteen years. There is, though, a disagreement, which, not resolved with in novel, between those who believe in violence as a means and those who reject it. 

PB - Harcourt, Brace and Co. CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. Millwood, NY: Kraus Thompson, 1974, with an “Introduction” by Herbert Aptheker (5-29); Jackson: Banner Books University Press of Mississippi, 1995; and as a volume in The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007 with an "Introduction" by Homi K. Bhabha (xxv-xxxi).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The End of the Marriage Vow Y1 - 1928 A1 - J[ohn] H[enry] Symons (1873-1951) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

All worlds are stages of evolution; earth is on the low end of the scale. At the next stage men and women are free and equal. No procreation and no marriage, but love exists. This life is preparation for the next stage; failure leads to low status in the next stage.

PB - Hutchinson CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Few Things Altered or Abolished" Y1 - 1928 A1 - Edna Ferber (1887-1968) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Critical of the idea of utopia. She would change marriage but unsure how, abolish automobiles, ensure work for all, require gardens and trees with all homes, require open wood-burning fireplaces, and other very miscellaneous changes. In a series of articles describing the world the authors would like to live in. 

JF - The Nation (New York) VL - 126.3282 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Greed's Grip Broken or the Right to Live Y1 - 1928 A1 - Joseph W[eber] Savage (b. 1861) KW - Male author AB -

The United States has fallen completely into the hands of the plutocrats, who plan to abolish the republic. War. Monopolists defeated. Stress is on the conflict, but in the final chapter, a eutopia is outlined. Nationalization of railroads, telegraph, telephone, and public utilities. Worker representation on the boards of companies; sharing of profit with the citizenry. Child labor eliminated. Required voting. Amendments to the Constitution go to referenda in each state. Possible limitation on the right of suffrage. Universal education.

PB - The Avondale Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Heart of the Moon Y1 - 1928 A1 - Francis D[urham] Grierson (1888-1972) KW - Irish author KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Scientific dystopia in the interior of the moon. Society is generally good and could be thought of as a flawed utopia, but science is misused by the powerful.

PB - Alston Rivers CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Hicks Inventions with a Kick. The Perambulating House” Y1 - 1928 A1 - [Ernest Clement] [Fezandié] (1856-1959) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

One of a series of satire on technology on technology gone wrong, in this case a house that can move of its own volition. The other stories in the series are “Hicks’ Inventions with a Kick: The Automatic Self-Serving Dining Table” By Henry Hugh Simmons [pseud.]. Illus. [Frank R.] Paul (1884-1963) Amazing Stories 2.1 (April 1927): 52-57, 99; “Hicks’ Inventions with a Kick: The Automatic Apartment.” By Henry Hugh Simmons [pseud.]. Illus. [Frank R.] Paul (1884-1963) Amazing Stories 2.5 (August 1927): 493-97, 512, 514; and “Hicks’ Inventions with a Kick: The Electro-Hydraulic Bank Protector.” Henry Hugh Simmons [pseud.]. Illus. [Frank R.] Paul (1884-1963). Amazing Stories 2.9 (Dec 1927): 860-69. 

JF - Amazing Stories (New York) VL - 3.5 N1 -

Rpt. as “The Perambulating House.” New Horizons: Yesterday’s Portraits of Tomorrow. The Last Science Fiction Anthology Edited by August Derleth With Introduction and Biographical Notes by Joseph Wrzor (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1998), 143-66. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hyperborea: Two Fantastic Travel Essays. On Man and Hyperborean--The Conspiracy of Tailors--Some Pictures and Hyperborean Landscape Y1 - 1928 A1 - Norman Lindsay (1879-1969) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Classic pleasure-oriented utopia. Sexually oriented.

PB - Fanfrolico Press CY - London VL - 725 copy ed. U2 -

Illus. by the author.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Little Husbands" Y1 - 1928 A1 - David H[enry] Keller M.D. (1880-1966) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Minor gender-role reversal story. Seventy-foot-tall Amazons with normal sized husbands.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Mountain of Gold Y1 - 1928 A1 - E[velyn] or E[dgar] Winch KW - Male author AB -

Lost tribe. Arcadia. No life taken even through hunting and fishing. The eutopia is a small part of an adventure tale set in South America.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Mr. Lorimer and Me" Y1 - 1928 A1 - [Harry] Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satiric comments on utopian visions. In a series of articles describing the world the authors would like to live in. See also Stuart Chase, Edna Ferber, Charles J. Finger, H[enry] L[ouis] Mencken, and Upton [Beall] Sinclair.

JF - The Nation (New York) VL - 127.3290 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "My Private Utopia" Y1 - 1928 A1 - Upton [Beall] Sinclair (1878-1968) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Comments on the experiment at Helicon Hall. Socialism. Sinclair. On Helicon Hall, see Lawrence Kaplan, "A Utopia During the Progressive Era: The Helicon Home Colony 1906-1907." American Studies 25.2 (Fall 1984): 59-73. In a series of articles describing the world the authors would like to live in. See also Stuart Chase, Edna Ferber, Charles J. Finger, Sinclair Lewis, and H[enry] L[ouis] Mencken.

JF - The Nation (New York) VL - 127.3288 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Nor Shall My Sword Sleep Y1 - 1928 A1 - Stella Callaghan KW - Female author AB -

Presents a successful struggle to establish an intentional community on an estate. A physically good city for the poor and fair treatment for employers.

PB - Skeffington & Son CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Open Conspiracy; Blue Prints for a World Revolution Y1 - 1928 A1 - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Program to bring about the Wellsian eutopia. Here Wells stresses the need for some form of world political control, economic unity, and a limit on population growth. 

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1928. Serialized without the subtitle in T.P.'s Weekly 9 - 10 (April 7 - July 7, 1928): 853-54, 856; 891-92; 7-8; 26, 39-40; 75-76; 112, 120; 53-54; 156; 188, 190; 220, 222; 249-51; 280-84; 321, 323; 351-52. Rev. ed. The Open Conspiracy; Blue Prints for a World Revolution. A Second Version of this faith of a modern man made more explicit and plain. London: Hogarth Press, 1930. U.S. ed. of rev. ed. entitled What Are We To Do With Our Lives? Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, 1931. Rpt. as The Open Conspiracy and Other Writings. London: Waterlow & Sons, 1933 [In addition to The Open Conspiracy, the volume contains, separately paged, First and Last Things and Russia in the Shadows]; rpt. as What Are We To Do With Our Lives? No. 55 of The Thinker's Library. London: Watts & Co., 1935 [This ed. includes a page on the movement with an address to which to apply for membership. Annual subscription of 5 shillings brings the monthly bulletin]; and with the subtitle H.G. Wells on World Revolution. Ed. W[alter] Warren Wagar with a "Critical Introduction" by Wagar (1-44) and the corrected text using the 1933 Waterlow & Sons ed. (45-136). Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2002. See pp. 11-12 of the Wagar ed. for a description of the variations in the various editions. The Wagar text does not include the "Preface" (7-9) or the "Marginal Note" (154-56) from the 1928 ed.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Political Utopia" Y1 - 1928 A1 - Frederic Clemson Howe (1867-1940) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia based on a natural aristocracy and the single tax. Cooperative system designed to eliminate economic privilege. Public ownership of all transportation, gas and electricity, and the telephone and telegraph. No protective tariffs. The idea of a single tax on land originated with Henry George (1839-97). For Henry George's explanation of the single tax, see his Progress and Poverty. An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and Of Increase of Want With Increase of Wealth. The Remedy. San Francisco, CA: W.M. Hinton, 1879. Fiftieth Anniversary Ed. New York: The Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, 1929.

JF - The Nation (New York) VL - 127 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Redemption Island Y1 - 1928 A1 - Charles M[aynard] Hale (b. 1889) A1 - Evan John [Simpson] (1901-53) KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Novel about an island prison or reformatory with a system designed to reform or redeem people, who are not known as prisoners but as "Probationers on Redemption Island". The novel traces the experience of one woman's experience serving her sentence on the island. Canadian setting.

PB - William Morrow & Company/J. M. Dent CY - New York/London N1 -

New York William Morrow & Company/London J.M. Dent.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Revolt of the Pedestrians" Y1 - 1928 A1 - David H[enry] Keller M.D. (1880-1966) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Pedestrians outlawed, but a small group survives and successfully revolt. Compare to 1951 Bradbury and 1963 Leiber.

JF - Amazing Stories (New York) VL - 2.11 N1 -

Rpt. in Beyond Time and Space. Ed. August Derleth (New York: Pellegrini and Cudahy, 1950), 347-76; and in his The Threat of the Robot and other Nightmarish Futures with an introduction by Gene Christie (Normal, IL: Black Dog Books, 2012), 13-36. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Spacious Adventures of the Man in the Street Y1 - 1928 A1 - Eimar [Ultan] O'Duffy (1893-1935) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Part eutopia and part satire. Eutopia with little government, no money, and sexual freedom. The usual traveler compares the better society unfavorably to earth, and while in a few instances that comparison is accurate, in most cases it is not.

PB - Macmillan CY - London N1 -

Rpt. Victoria, TX: Dalkey Archive Press, 2018. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Stenographers' Hands" Y1 - 1928 A1 - David H[enry] Keller M.D. (1880-1966) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a successful eugenic experiment by a corporation to produce stenographers who do not make mistakes.

JF - Amazing Stories Quarterly (New York) VL - 1.4 N1 -

Rpt. in Avon Fantasy Reader (New York), no. 2 (1947): 7-26; and in his The Threat of the Robot and Other Nightmarish Stories with an introduction by Gene Christie (Normal, IL: Black Dog Books, 2012), 117-34. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Sunken World" Y1 - 1928 A1 - Stanton A[rthur] Coblentz (1896-1982) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Atlantis as a eutopia. Athenian democracy limited in size to 600,000 residents. Common property except for personal property. Free housing. All posts gained by defeating rivals in debate. Education by the wise. Laws approved by 100 citizens and then put to a referendum within thirty days.

JF - Amazing Stories Quarterly (New York) VL - 1.3 N1 -

Rpt. Amazing Stories Quarterly (Dunnellen, NJ) 7.2 (Fall 1934): 28-108. Repub. Illus. Charles E. McCurdy. Los Angeles, CA: Fantasy Pub. Co., 1948. 2nd ed. Illus. Charles E. McCurdy. Los Angeles, CA: Fantasy Pub. Co., 1950. U.K. ed. of 1st ed. Illus. Charles E. McCurdy. London: Fantasy Books, [1948]. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Through the Visograph Y1 - 1928 A1 - J[ohn] W[alter] Chancellor (1876-1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The visograph allows the viewer to see far into the past. A despotic world is found on Earth and a eutopian but non-human world on another planet.

PB - Christopher Pub. Co CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Time Will Come" Y1 - 1928 A1 - Will MacMahon KW - Male author AB -

Gender-role reversal satire.

JF - Weird Tales (Chicago, IL) VL - 11.4 U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Utopia--Made to Suit" Y1 - 1928 A1 - Charles J[oseph Frederick] Finger (1867-1941) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A world where all family members would each be able to develop individually. Anti-urban. Separate space for the young. Each member would have a separate apartment while the family unit was maintained. Freedom of expression. In a series of articles describing the world the authors would like to live in. 

JF - The Nation (New York) VL - 126 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Very Private Utopia" Y1 - 1928 A1 - Stuart Chase (1888-1985). KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

First in a series of articles describing the world the authors would like to live in.  Proposes a series of reforms that would, among other things, enhance health, improve beauty by segregating industrial from living areas, ensure economic security, and make life-enhancing work possible. Stresses the importance of leisure. Not the same as 1975 Chase. 

JF - The Nation VL - 126.3280 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Vision of Utopia" Y1 - 1928 A1 - Philip [Armand Hamilton] Gibbs (1877-1962) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The book is written in the predictive mode, but it includes these few pages of an explicit eutopia. Medical research has abolished disease and the elimination of slums means that there are no more "unfit". People live longer in garden cities. Men and women are equal in all ways. No servants. Synthetic food. No poverty. Peace. No racial discrimination, and there is a general blending of types. No crime. On the Garden City movement, see The Garden City: Past, Present and Future. Ed. Stephen V. Ward. London: E & FN SPON, 1992.

JF - The Day After To-Morrow: What Is Going to Happen to the World? PB - Hutchinson CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1928), 168-71.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Visitor from the Twentieth Century" Y1 - 1928 A1 - Donitz, Harold KW - Male author AB -

Technological eutopia set in the late 21st century.

JF - Amazing Stories (New York) VL - 3.2 U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - What I Know! Reflections by a Philosophic Punter. With an extraordinary dream of 'The Cosmic Mystery Cup' run at Randwick Y1 - 1928 A1 - [Rev.] [Wyndham Selfe] [Heathcote] (1862-1955) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire describing a horse race among religions, plus the Agnosticism, Idealism, Materialism, and Pragmatism, but there is no winner. Includes an argument against betting on races.

PB - Cornstalk Pub. Co CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia U3 -

A Philosophic Punter [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "What Is This Talk About Utopia?" Y1 - 1928 A1 - H[enry] L[ouis] Mencken (1880-1956) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on utopias and utopianism but concludes that Maryland is as close as it gets. In a series of articles describing the world the authors would like to live in. 

JF - The Nation 126.3284 (June 13, 1928): U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Almost Perfect State Y1 - 1927 A1 - Don[ald Robert Perry] Marquis (1878-1937) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Newspaper articles and essays from utopia. Considerable satire.

PB - Doubleday, Page CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: William Heinemann, 1927. Originally published in “The Sun Dial” in the New York Evening Post and “The Lantern” in the New York Tribune

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Coming Hour(?) Y1 - 1927 A1 - Felix J[ohn] Blakemore, O.B.E., F.S.S., F.G.I. (1872-1948) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Although there is very advanced technology and pollution has been eliminated, the novel presents a standard anti-socialist dystopia. Tablet food, which is extremely unpopular and not used by the leaders, became necessary because equalizing income required eliminating expensive imports. The people then vote to abolish state control. 

PB - Sands CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Confession of the Kibbo Kift: A Declaration and General Exposition of the Work of the Kindred Y1 - 1927 A1 - John [Gordon] Hargrave (1894-1982) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Very detailed eutopia based on something like the Samurai in 1905 Wells, here called The Kindred of the Kibbo Kift; Kibbo Kift, the Woodcraft Kindred; or just The Kindred. Economically based on the “Just Price.” Traditional gender roles. See also 1924 and 1925 Hargrave. 

PB - Duckworth CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Deluge Y1 - 1927 A1 - S[ydney] Fowler Wright (1874-1965) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

For an unexplained reason, the oceans of the world flood all low-lying land and destroys contemporary civilization. The survivors discover that their reliance of technology and industry has deprived them of the skills need to survive. Those who do survive struggle to create a better life based on community and traditional skills and practices. 1929 Wright is a sequel. 

PB - Fowler Wright CY - London N1 -

Rpt. Ed. Michael Stableford. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2003 with the editor’s “Introduction” (xi-lviii, 307-318), notes on the text (318-22), and a “Bibliography” (323-29). U.S. ed. New York: Cosmopolitan Press, 1928. Serialized in the Sunday Express (June - July 1931). Rpt. as Deluge: A Novel of Global Warming. Rockville, Maryland: Wildside Press/The Borgo Press, 2010; and as Deluge; a Romance, and Dawn. New York: Arno Press, 1975, which reprints the New York Cosmopolitan Press editions separately paged. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Exile Y1 - 1927 A1 - Mary Johnston (1870-1936) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The novel begins with Eldorado Island, where English settlers are shipwrecked in the eighteenth century and establish a flourishing community, which grows with additions from visiting ships and the birth of children. Presented as a eutopia of simplicity. But on the mainland war and a dictatorship develop and Eldorado Island is used as a place of exile for dissidents. The novel follows the latest exile's experience on the island, the coming of another war, and its ending with a worldwide spiritual awakening that suggests that a eutopia will follow.

PB - Little, Brown CY - Boston N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Thornton Butterworth, 1927.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Fairy Tales of Socialism Y1 - 1927 A1 - Cumberland Clark (1862-1941) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Three stories ("The Fairy Tale of Socialism" (27-42); "If Bolshevism Comes" (63-78); and "Bill's Dream" (189-206) present socialist societies and the terrible conditions in them. Lawlessness, boredom, hunger, etc.

PB - Wass, Pritchard CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hymen or The Future of Marriage Y1 - 1927 A1 - Norman Haire (1892-1952) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Stress on the need for happy marriages with concern that they should be sexually fulfilling. Sex education. Early sexual relations desirable. Early marriage and, although lifelong, monogamous marriage is the ideal, there is easy divorce. Eugenics. State support of children. Birth control.

PB - Kegan Paul, Trench and Trubner CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Ideal Island Y1 - 1927 A1 - C[harles] V[ictor] A[lexander] Peel (1869-1931) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Mostly an adventure story but includes the establishment of a communal experiment on an isolated island and a presentation of the social and economic ideals motivating it.

PB - Old Royalty Book Publishers CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Ideal State. The greatest poem of all the ages.--Critic Y1 - 1927 A1 - John Allen Mette (b. 1864) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Poem. Racist, socialist eutopia. No profits, interest, rent, dividends, religion, or lawyers.

PB - Southern Printing and Pub. Co CY - Charleston, SC U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Light from Sealonia Y1 - 1927 A1 - Arthur W. Barker KW - Male author AB -

Mostly romance and adventure but includes a lost race eutopia at the North Pole with a racist theme. “The Nodolians are not our equals, and their tainted blood would soon contaminate your racial purity, for history proves that they are not assimilable” (83).

PB - The Four Seas Co CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Machine Man of Ardathia” Y1 - 1927 A1 - [Henry George ] [Weiss] (1898?-1946) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A visitor from thousands of years in the future describes what, is in his eyes, a eutopia in which people are born and spend their lives within a capsule in which they are integrated into machinery. See also the very loosely related 1932 Weiss. 

JF - Amazing Stories VL - 2.8 U2 -

Illus.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Man Who Would Save the World Y1 - 1927 A1 - [William Arthur] [Dunkerley] (1852-1941) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel is mostly about a one-man campaign to transform the world by bringing it to Christianity. It concludes with a brief worldwide eutopia in which the great estates are turned to productive use, disbanded soldiers and sailors are settled on land, scientific farming is introduced, and labor and capital are brought into harmony. There is worldwide disarmament with an international police force under the League of Nations, and a universal language is taught as a second language in all countries.

PB - Longmans, Green and Co CY - London N1 -

New ed. with the subtitle The Supreme Adventure of Col. Carthew. V.C. London: Longman, Green & Co., 1930.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Messiah. A Problem Y1 - 1927 A1 - Rev. William Murray KW - Male author AB -

A fake messiah on the radio convinces people to give up competition and stress quality.

PB - Arthur H. Stockwell CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Millennium Y1 - 1927 A1 - J[ames] G[ranville] Legge (1861-1940) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on bureaucracy. Over enforcement of a scheme for health improvement; for example, too tight shoes are illegal.

PB - Basil Blackwell CY - Oxford, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The New Life and Future Mating Y1 - 1927 A1 - Henry Olerich (1851-1927) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An elaboration of various points made in 1893, 1915, 1919, and 1923 Olerich. This short book stresses a world court, disarmament, and pacifism (all political candidates must be pacifists), with war only being able to be declared after a referendum. Eugenics is an important theme.

PB - Olerich Pub. Co CY - Omaha, NB U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Red Octopus": An Allegory in the Form of a Novel Y1 - 1927 A1 - Johanna Brandt (1876-1964) KW - Female author KW - German author KW - South African author AB -

An anti-Semitic novel showing Jews taking over the world, but they are defeated by Christians. This novel was by The Paraclete or Coming World Mother. Pretoria, South Africa, 1936 that was said to be a eutopia, but no evidence copies exist outside South Africa. See also 1918 Brandt. 

PB - Hermes Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Red Pen Y1 - 1927 A1 - A[lan] P[atrick] Herbert (1890-1971) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on socialism. The Red Pen is The General Federation of Poets and Writers which wants the nationalization of writing.

PB - BBC CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Right Off the Map. A Novel Y1 - 1927 A1 - C[harles] E[dward] Montague (1867-1928) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Although most of the novel is on war, it is partially set in a recreated British industrial feudalism presented as a dystopia.

PB - Chatto and Windus CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page, 1927.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Story of a Great Experiment. How England Produced the First Superman Y1 - 1927 A1 - W[illiam] Margrie (1877-1960) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eugenics--select the best for work then bring the best women around with concerts and other entertainment and let nature take its course--"A living wage all round is the best form of practical eugenics" (116). Women's role is to be mothers of a healthy race, and they are not allowed to vote.

PB - Watts CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Things as They Ought to Be" Y1 - 1927 A1 - R[obert] L[ittell] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Short satirical sketch of a mostly dull utopia set in 2027. The sketch ends with "You may welcome such a Utopia, but would you find it interesting."

JF - The New Republic (New York) VL - 49.636 ER - TY - ABST T1 - To-Morrow; A Romance of the Future Y1 - 1927 A1 - Alfred Ollivant (1874-1927) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Arcadia. Simple life but with ten years required labor service from age 18.

PB - Alston Rivers CY - London N1 -

US ed. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1927.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Venus" Y1 - 1927 A1 - Rachel Crothers (1878-1958) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

See the brief synopsis in Colette Lindroth and James Lincoln. Rachel Crothers: A Research and Production Sourcebook (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1995), 58-59, which refers to two people having returned from the advanced civilization of Venus.

JF - Unpublished play ER - TY - ABST T1 - When Parliaments Fail: A Synthetic View from the Gallery Y1 - 1927 A1 - A Sympathiser [pseud.] KW - Indian author AB -

Discusses Parliaments in England, France, Germany, and Italy and the utopian Parliaments envisaged in each country. 

PB - Thacker, Spink & Co CY - Calcutta, India UR - https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.100251 U3 -

A Sympathiser [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A World of Index Numbers" Y1 - 1927 A1 - Will McMorrow KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia set in 2053 in which those living in the air dominate those on the ground.

JF - Argosy-All-Story Weekly (New York) VL - 191.3 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "3000 A.D." Y1 - 1926 A1 - I. S. KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author AB -

Short, humorous story on the impact of telepathy.

JF - Otago University Review (Dundedin, New Zealand) VL - 39 ER - TY - ABST T1 - And a New Earth: A Romance Y1 - 1926 A1 - C[harles] E[rnest] Jacomb (b. 1888) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Disaster followed by the creation of a Christian eutopia created by one wealthy man on Easter Island.

PB - George Routledge CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Blue Shirts Y1 - 1926 A1 - J. J .J. [pseud.] AB -

Anti-socialist. Socialists gain power and establish a dictatorship. A revolt against the dictatorship is successful.

PB - Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, & Co CY - London U3 -

J.J.J. [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Candle in the Hills Y1 - 1926 A1 - I[sabell] F[rancis] Grant (1887-1983) KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

Dystopia of a Communist Britain and a successful revolt against it inspired by a woman.

PB - Hodder and Stoughton CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Children of the Morning Y1 - 1926 A1 - W[alter] L[ionel] George (1882-1926) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Similar to 1954 Golding in that the novel presents children shipwrecked on an isolated island, but here the children are marooned for a much longer time. The children grow up, a dictator emerges in part of the island, and there are struggles over various issues.

PB - Chapman & Hall CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1927. Originally published in The American Weekly, a Sunday supplement to U.S. newspapers in 1926. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - City of Desire Y1 - 1926 A1 - Juanita Savage KW - Female author KW - UK author AB -

Lost race novel set in a Mayan city where a young woman finds a handsome, white, English-speaking king, and, after the usual adventures, they fall in love and everything ends happily. 

PB - Geoffrey Bles CY - London N1 -

U. S. ed. New York: Lincoln Mac Veagh/The Dial Press, 1930; and Chicago: A. L. Burt Company Publishers, 1930.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Devil's Henchman Y1 - 1926 A1 - John Oldrey KW - Male author AB -

Lost race novel that depicts a conflict between good and evil through eutopian and dystopian groups in the mountains of Afghanistan. Both groups originated in ancient Egypt as followers of Set (evil) and Isis (good). The followers of Isis have established a eutopia; the followers of Set have enslaved the area they control and are planning to take over the world.

PB - Methuen CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Dream City" Y1 - 1926 A1 - Humbert Wolfe (1885-1940) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A short poem describing an idyllic city based on London.

JF - Humbert Wolfe PB - Ernest Benn CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in The Argosy (UK) 5.36 (May 1929): viii. Set to music by Gustav Holst (1874-1934); see Twelve Humbert Wolfe Songs (Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, Eng.: Galliard Ltd., 1970), 31-35.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dymer Y1 - 1926 A1 - [Clive] [Staples] [Lewis] (1898-1963) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Northern Ireland author AB -

Book length poem in which the hero is born in a dystopian city, where religion is prohibited, marriage partners are chosen by the state, and all aspects of daily life are regulated by the state. Dymer is the rebel who is, although conditioned by the state, inspired by a spring day to leave the city.

PB - John Dent CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1926. Rpt. London: J.M. Dent/New York: Macmillan, 1950. Later reprints under the author's name.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Emperor of the If Y1 - 1926 A1 - Guy [Herbert de Boisragon] Dent (1892-1954) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. A man invents a means of changing history with the idea of forcing people to face greater challenges in order to improve the race. Instead, they degenerate. He then uses the same means to visit the future, which he finds to be in continuous war. The novel ends with the suggestion that a better, more Christian future is still possible.

PB - William Heinemann CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Human Hive: Its Life and Law Y1 - 1926 A1 - A[rthur] H[eygate] Mackmurdo (1851-1942) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

An extremely detailed non-fiction eutopia based on what the author calls “the law of personal and social evolution” (x). Humans are social animals that naturally form associations and communities. Stresses the importance of the traditional family. Emphasis on Christianity. Much detail on the economic system, which is based on the production of food. Representative government. Details on education. Free press. The author reiterates and develops aspects of his eutopia in Money and Food: Discoveries by a Group of Scientists. Introduction by A. H. Mackmurdo, M.I.S. London: C. W. Daniel, 1939. 91 pp.; and in The New Social Order: Its Mechanism [cover adds By A Group of Scientists and lists Mackmurdo as the editor]. London: C. W. Daniel [1941]. 24 pp. 

PB - Watts & Co. CY - London U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "If I Were Dictator" Y1 - 1926 A1 - John Maurice Clark (1884-1963) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Essay proposing the establishment of industrial councils in each industry composed of employers, workers, consumers, and others with related interests. They would operate under the principles laid out in “An Economic Constitution for the State” (170-89), which proposes limited economic regulation. The councils would take over some of the regulatory functions of the state. This chapter in the second edition published during the Depression and New Deal is vague and general with no specific proposals and a call for more research, and in the “Preface to the Second Edition,” the author says that the chapter, “picturing an imaginary democratic dictator, came close to being abandoned, but a brief fresh treatment was finally retained, with mention of such matter from the earlier version as might still be pertinent” (ix).

JF - Social Control of Business PB - University of Chicago Press, 1926) CY - Chicago, IL N1 -

1926 Clark, John Maurice (1884-1963). “If I Were Dictator.” In his Social Control of Business (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1926), 461-73. The 2nd ed. (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1939), 520-25 is completely different and has the title as “If I Were Dictator”. PSt

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - King Goshawk and the Birds Y1 - 1926 A1 - Eimar [Ultan] O'Duffy (1893-1935) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Fantasy set in a future dystopian world in which a monopolist who already controls much of the world's food supply tries to buy all the songbirds. Most governments in the world had introduced harsh laws designed to eliminate all temptations. Ireland is presented as particularly oppressive. 

PB - Macmillan CY - London N1 -

Rpt. Victoria, TX: Dalkey Archive Press, 2017. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lamentations of a New Jeremiah. Translated out of the original tongues: and with the former translations diligently compared and revised. Appointed to be Read Surreptitiously in Churches Y1 - 1926 A1 - Herbert Vivian (1865-1940) KW - Male author AB -

Satire on England using the form of a jeremiad.

PB - Allen and Unwin CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Brentano’s, 1926?.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lucullus The Food of the Future Y1 - 1926 A1 - Olga Hartley A1 - Mrs. C. F. [Hilda] Leyel (1880-1957) KW - Female author AB -

Future history ending in a eutopia. Considerable satire presented through a speech by a scholar in the far future. First vegetarians win the day; then Neo-Vegetarians, who won't eat plants; then scientists create chemical food. A backlash against science occurs when Glasgow is destroyed during an experiment and then all science is regulated and begins to develop things that are useful. General decentralization occurs and people return to eating meat.

PB - Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Man's World Y1 - 1926 A1 - Charlotte [Franken] Haldane (1894-1969) KW - Female author AB -

Satire. The novel presents a future devoted to the improvement of the white race through eugenics. On the whole, the society is presented positively, but there is a strong satiric thread throughout. In her Women's Utopias in British and American Utopian Fiction Nan Bowman Albinski calls this an ambiguous eutopia and simply a eutopia (79-80). I initially called it a eugenic dystopia, but I have concluded that dystopia is too strong a label.

PB - Chatto and Windus CY - London N1 -

US ed. New York: George H. Doran, 1927.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Message to Thee Y1 - 1926 KW - South African author AB -

Authoritarian eutopia with new regulations for all aspects of life. Middle class. Aliens return home. Censorship. No rights without prior training. No alcohol. Controlled birth rate.

PB - [Radford, Alington] CY - [Johannesburg, South Africa] U1 -

At the head of the title To all classes of all nations.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Midas or The United States and the Future Y1 - 1926 A1 - C[yril] H[erbert Emmanuel] Bretherton (1878/9-1939) KW - Male author AB -

A combination of predictions, mostly wrong, some of which were intended to have a eutopian flavor. The entire North America continent (Canada and the U.S.) is to become one country, the U.S. will eliminate immigration entirely, and politics will disappear

PB - Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Orphans of Space; A Tale of Downfall Y1 - 1926 A1 - Reginald Glossop (1880-1955) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Communism and the "Yellow Peril" sweep over the West with divine intervention saving the day.

PB - G. MacDonald CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Plato's American Republic. Done out of the original by Douglas Woodruff Y1 - 1926 A1 - Douglas Woodruff (1892-1978) KW - Male author AB -

Satire set in Athens in 1925 with Socrates and some of his interlocutors from the Republic discussing contemporary America.

PB - Kegan Paul, Trench and Trubner CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Posterity; A Novel Y1 - 1926 A1 - Diane Boswell (1899-1995) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Good life brought about by a reduction in the birth rate, which becomes a required limit. This leads to a mixed result, some good, some bad. Good living conditions but strict rule.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Question Mark Y1 - 1926 A1 - M[uriel] Jaeger (1894-1969) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The author notes that however attractive she finds the utopias of her day, the people in them do not seem real. Ursula K. Le Guin made a similar point in her “Science Fiction and Mrs. Brown” (1976), The author depicts a deeply flawed utopia in which everyone is well off, but there is a divide between intellectuals, who tend to be overly rational and non-intellectuals (known as normals), who are driven by emotion. The novel stresses how they have grown more and more apart, with marriage mostly within the group, but with the family depicted in the novel a dysfunctional mixed marriage. Religion is a popular hobby for the normals. Much boredom that leads to hero worship and temporary enthusiasms among the normals. Euthanasia is common. Eugenic themes.

PB - Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press CY - London SN - 9780712352987 N1 -

US ed. New York: Macmillan, 1926. 249 pp. Rpt. London: British Library, [2019], with an “Introduction” by Dr. Mo Moulton (7-15). 205 pp.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ragnarok Y1 - 1926 A1 - Shaw Desmond (1877-1960) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Most of the novel focuses on a coming world war with the end describing the dystopia created.

PB - Duckworth CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Return of Don Quixote Y1 - 1926 A1 - G[ilbert] K[eith] Chesterton (1874-1936) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia presented in a play at a country-house weekend. Return to the medieval ideals of craftsmanship, nobility, and usufruct.

PB - Dodd, Mead CY - New York N1 -

UK ed. London: Chatto and Windus, 1927. Rpt. in The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton. Ed. Donald Barr (San Francisco, CA: St. Ignatius Press, 1999), 8: 45-251.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sibylla or The Revival of Prophecy Y1 - 1926 A1 - C[ecil] A[lex] Mace (1894-1971) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Presented in eutopian terms but can be read in dystopian ones because the stress is on the scientific management and deliberate manipulation of the population to produce desired results. Stresses the need to manipulate workers and children should be educated to meet the needs of the state.

PB - Kegan Paul, Trench and Trubner CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Utopia Lost" Y1 - 1926 A1 - William Walsh KW - Male author AB -

An authoritarian dystopia on another planet in which the "intelligentsia" daily judge the mental health of all its citizens and locks up those who fail. As a result virtually the entire population is locked up. By contrast a eutopia is present in which all property is collectively owned and distributed as needed and government and education are concerned with human happiness.

JF - Catholic World (U.S.) VL - 122 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Veiled Feminists of Atlantis" Y1 - 1926 A1 - Booth Tarkington (1869-1946) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Women achieve equality after they stop wearing their “feminine” veils. Some women then return to the veil, which reintroduces inequality but with women dominant. Conflict follows and brings about the destruction of Atlantis.

JF - The Forum (New York) VL - 75 N1 -

Rpt. in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 34.2 (February 1968): 121-28; in When Women Rule. Ed. Sam[uel] Moskowitz (New York: Walker, 1972), 95-103; and in More Voices from the Radium Age. Ed. Joshua Glenn (Cambridge, MA/London: The MIT Press, 2023), 207-218.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Doctor Hackensaw's Secrets. No. 35 [bis]. A Journey to the Year 3000" Y1 - 1925 A1 - [Ernest] Clement Fezandié (1865-1959) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Technological eutopia. Humor.

JF - Science and Invention (New York) VL - 12.9 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Easy Millions. A Story of Adventure and the Discovery of How to Make and Keep Everybody Rich Y1 - 1925 A1 - Frank Rosewater (1856-1934) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

As in most of Rosewater's works, eutopia can be achieved by all income being spent each year. Cooperative system. 

PB - Frank Rosewater CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Formula For a Utopia" Y1 - 1925 A1 - [Nicholas] Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Brief poem describing the characteristic boys and girls should have. See also 1909, 1913, 1914, 1920, and 1925 Lindsay, “The Woman Called ‘Beauty’”.

JF - The Little Magazine VL - 3rd imprint N1 -

Rpt. in The Poetry of Vachel Lindsay complete & with Lindsay's drawings. Ed Dennis Camp. 2 vols. (Peoria, IL: Spoon River Poetry Press, 1984), 1: 132.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Future Y1 - 1925 A1 - A[rchibald] M[ontgomery] Low (1888-1956) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Detailed predictions of a eutopian future. There is considerable satire throughout the book, and the illustrations are mostly satirical. Much of the eutopia is technological, but there is gender equality, and material on amusement and sport and clothing, with men and women wearing Identical clothes, and other topics. The captioned illustrations include the frontispiece A Station showing that “All the main offices and thoroughfares will be built like arcades, glass roofed, electrically lit and heated. Moving pavements will enable pedestrians to step straight on to their suburban trains.” Between 32 and 33 is a detailed depiction of a car that is also an airplane. Between 66 and 67 shows and motor race in Australia being watched in a theatre in London. Between 76 and 77 is a depiction of underground travel with television or cinema, connections to Typing Department or Restaurant, and telephones to the entire world. Between 88 and 89 is a detailed depiction of a street in the suburbs. Between 108 and 109 is “A Family Snapshot in A.D. 3000” with a husband and wife two children and a dog, all dressed identically, including the dog. Between 130 and 131 is a depiction of future warfare. Between 168 and 169 is a picture of “A Quiet Lunch at Home.” See also 1934 Low, Our Wonderful World of To-Morrow: A Scientific Forecast of the Men, Women, and the World of the Future.

PB - George Routledge & Sons CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. Illus. New York: International Publishers, 1925. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Gazetted for Matrimony" Y1 - 1925 A1 - [Robert Coutts] [Armour] (1874-1958?) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Humor. Eugenics--between 2000 and 2150 marriage was prohibited to the unfit and required of the fit. A man required to marry is unhappy with the choices available and runs away, where he meets a woman who had also run away after rejecting her choices. The illustrations depict a far from fit man and an attractive woman, but the illustrations do not fit the story.

JF - Yellow Magazine (London) VL - 17.108 U3 -

Coutts Brisbane [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Hazard at Hansard: The Speech from the Throne, Ottawa, Fourth August 2014 Y1 - 1925 A1 - Hamilton Craig KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. A cut in government expenditures results in a return to a simpler but better life.

PB - Arthur H. Stockwell CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Latin Blood Y1 - 1925 A1 - [David Graham] [Fischer] KW - Male author AB -

The novel presents two islands -- an authoritarian dystopia and a capitalist eutopia with a good government -- and relations among them. The dystopia is destroyed in a natural disaster.

PB - Authors Pub. Corp CY - Hollywood, CA U3 -

? [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Looking Forward Y1 - 1925 A1 - Arthur Williams KW - Male author AB -

Detailed cooperative, democratic eutopia with a new world constitution with five national governments and an international government. All property to be under the control of the governments.

PB - Author CY - Los Angeles, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lysistrata: Or, Woman's Future and Future Woman With a Foreword by Norman Haire, Ch.M., M.B. Y1 - 1925 A1 - Anthony M[ario] Ludovici (1882-1971) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Most of the short book is about the current position from a conservative viewpoint. The last chapters “Woman’s Future” (66-90) and “Future Woman” (91-125) project as the better future women staying home, caring for the husbands, and raising children.

PB - K. Paul, Trench, Trubner CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1925. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Mighty Heart; A Survey of England As It Is and A Vision of What It Might Be Y1 - 1925 A1 - W[illiam] Margrie (1877-1960) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Largely a plea for new, strong leadership. Includes a vision of cooperation between the classes and a cleaned up, purer Britain. Reason replacing religion.

PB - Watts & Co CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Murderers' Island Y1 - 1925 A1 - [Hilda C.] [Adshead] (1901?-85?) KW - Female author KW - UK author AB -

Romance but includes both a eutopia and a dystopia. The eutopia is a reformed future world. The emphasis in the novel is on the legal system, but hints of more general reform abound. The dystopia is a self-governing island to which convicted murderers are sent.

PB - Methuen CY - London U3 -

Yate Tregarron [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Neutopia Y1 - 1925 A1 - E[mmeline] Richardson (b. 1867) KW - Female author AB -

Lost race socialist eutopia. Revolution had been brought about by women. Eugenics; hygienic life. If health standards are not met, health workers are punished. Mostly vegetarian. Free education. Stress on development and self-control. Training to be parents. Telepathy. Food, housing free. Solar power. Individual flight through a counter-gravity device. Main government departments are ones of Health and Education, Labour and Land, and Law and Economics. Changes are suggested and voted on by the people; if accepted, put into place for ten years and then resubmitted.

PB - Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The People on Other Planets Y1 - 1925 A1 - Richard A. Fox KW - Male author AB -

Spiritual journeys to other planets in the form of fifty-five short dated entries in a diary together with one undated chapter entitled Mind Power that is in effect an introduction. Everyone has the power to use their minds to replace machinery if they live right (vegetarian) and keep their minds free of "injustice, hatred, vengeance, and sensuality" (2). In the Preface the author says that his descriptions reflect actual occurrences (viii).

PB - The Walter Southworth Co. Distributors CY - Benton Harbor, MI U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Quo Vadimus? Some Glimpses of the Future Y1 - 1925 A1 - E[dmund] E[dward] Fournier d'Albe (1868-1933) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia presented as mostly fairly conservative predictions with some more wide-ranging, long-term projections at the end. Topics covered include transport and communications, privacy, clothing, housing, automation, children, education, labor, and government.

PB - Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Rule of the Beasts Y1 - 1925 A1 - V[iolet] T[orlesse Holland] Murray (b. 1874) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

After a catastrophe, animals bring about a eutopia among themselves and the remaining humans with an emphasis on the spiritual.

PB - Stanley Paul & Co CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Sacred Giraffe; Being the Second Volume of the Posthumous Works of Julio Arceval Y1 - 1925 A1 - Salvador de Madariaga [y Rojo] ed. [written by] (1886-1978) KW - Male author KW - Spanish author AB -

The novel begins in a future society where women dominate but men are beginning to gain some recognition as being more than decorative. The novel is then concerned with how this state of affairs came about and how Europe and the white race disappeared.

PB - Harper and Brothers CY - New York N1 -

UK ed. London: Martin Hopkinson, 1925. Also published as La jirafa sagredo, o El buho de plata. Novela cuasi una fantasia, dedicada en prueba de gratitud a A.J.C. Pues con ella está en dueda esta libro en más de una manera, por Julio Arceval. Madrid, Spain: Mundo Editorial Latino, [1925].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Shamballah" Y1 - 1925 A1 - Bliss Carman (1861-1929) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Poem about a Golden Age city written in 1922.

JF - Far Horizons PB - McLelland & Stewart CY - Toronto, ON, Canada U5 -

Can

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Silent Voice Y1 - 1925 A1 - Berenice V. Dell KW - Female author AB -

Gender-role reversal in the far future City of New Thought initially presented as a feminist eutopia. But it is a dystopia because there is no religion, and women have given up their true place. Some young escape to True America, which is a eutopia because it is religious and Aryan. Both countries are technologically advanced.

PB - The Four Seas Co CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ten Years Hence? Y1 - 1925 A1 - Hannah Coron KW - Female author AB -

The novel satirizes the pacifist tendencies of the Labour Party and predicts war and the easy defeat of Britain if it gains power. Right thinking men establish a secret air force and are able to win when the predictions come true.

PB - J.M. Ouseley & Son, Ltd CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Through the Needle's Eye; A narrative of the restoration of the Davidic Kingdom of Israel in Palestine with Jesus Christ as King. Based Upon The Bride of Christ By Emry Davis Y1 - 1925 A1 - Frank Willoughby KW - Male author AB -

Millennial eutopia stressing equality and honesty set at the beginning of the 21st century. Climate restored. Rejects the Rapture (see 1 Thessalonians 4: 15-17). See 1923 Davis, The Bride of Christ.

PB - The Palestine Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Ultimate Island: A Strange Adventure Y1 - 1925 A1 - L[ancelot] de Giberne Sieveking (1896-1972) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Mostly adventure but includes a flawed utopia, an almost inaccessible island that provides a relaxed life of equality, including gender equality, and freedom. The flaw is that in order to maintain the population at the correct point, childbirth is rigidly controlled, and eugenically imperfect children are killed, as is anyone who tries to leave.

PB - George Routledge & Sons, Ltd CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: International Publishers, 1925.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Volonor Y1 - 1925 A1 - Glen B[rian] Winship (1887-1966) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian free love colony in which women have no status and cannot own property.

PB - Thomas Seltzer CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Wairoa in 1975 (More or Less Prophetical)" Y1 - 1925 A1 - Thomas Lambert (1854-1944) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. A man awakes in 1975 from a long trance and discovers much technological improvement, prosperity, and general reform. Harnessing of rivers for power and electricity widely used in industry and transport. Includes illustrations of the outer and inner harbours, the Wairoa River harbour, the botanical gardens, and the Elysium in 1975. The Elysium was a fashionable suburb built on about 60 acres of reclaimed land. Much beautification had taken place. Maori lands had become the private property of Maori and were generally worked as market gardens. Maori College to train girls in domestic arts and nursing. Maori boys were taught agriculture, although even after graduation overseers ensured that they worked as expected and their earnings were set aside for them. Intermarriage and marriage to half castes prohibited.

JF - The Story of Old Wairoa and the East Coast District, North Island New Zealand or, Past, Present, and Future. A Record of Over Fifty Years' Progress PB - Coulls Somerville Wilkie CY - Dunedin, New Zealand U1 -

1859 1975 at the head of the title

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A War on Poverty Y1 - 1925 A1 - [Edward Alexander] [Partridge] KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Detailed eutopia, particularly in the chapter "Things As They Might Be" (109-56). Cooperative commonwealth. Designed for Western Canada (British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and part of Ontario), the area to be called COALSAMAO and created as a separate country. It will have a unicameral legislature of 25 members elected annually. Something like 1888 Bellamy's Industrial Army in that local control is in Camps of 3500-7000 people organized to carry out work. The book is mostly quotations.

PB - [Wallingford Press] CY - [Winnipeg, MB, Canada] U1 -

Subtitle on the cover The one war that can end war

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “White Man’s Madness” Y1 - 1925 A1 - Lenore E[dith Johnstone] Chaney (1881-1972) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Lost race story in which the protagonist is a white man searching for the storied riches of the Incas. He accidentally discovers a peaceful, sheep-tending pre-Incan Aryan community that worships the sun and uses gold for their dishes and jewels as decoration. 

JF - Weird Tales VL - 5.1 U2 -

Illus. Andrew Brosnatch

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Woman Called 'Beauty' and Her Seven Dragons A Poem for Those Who Desire an Aesthetic Utopia" Y1 - 1925 A1 - [Nicholas] Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Poem with fairly vague suggestions of a eutopia of art that will set humanity free to be fully human.  See also 1909, 1913, 1914, 1920, and 1925 Lindsay, “Formula For a Utopia”.

JF - The Little Magazine VL - 3rd imprint N1 -

Rpt. in The Poetry of Vachel Lindsay complete & with Lindsay's drawings. Ed Dennis Camp. 2 vols. (Peoria, IL: Spoon River Poetry Press, 1984), 1: 125-27. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Young Winkle Y1 - 1925 A1 - John [Gordon] Hargrave (1894-1982) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel describes the founding of a secret society aimed at boys and intended to bring them closer to nature, much like the Kibbo Kift that the author founded. Based loosely on Kim (serially 1900-1901/Book 1901) by Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936). See also 1924 and 1927 Hargrave.

PB - Duckworth CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Amphibians. A Romance of 500,000 Years Hence Y1 - 1924 A1 - S[ydney] Fowler Wright (1874-1965) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Set 300,000 years in the future and mostly dystopian. The Amphibians are one of the species in that future. They are small, furred, sexless creatures who communicate telepathically and mostly live peacefully. And there are other species of both plants and animals that are extremely violent. The Dwellers, the dominant species, live underground. The novel is concerned with a conflict between the Amphibians and the Dwellers, and how it is settled. 

PB - Merton Press CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Merton Press, 1925. 2nd ed. London: Merton Press, 1926. Also included in Wright, The World Below (London: Collins, 1929), 3-186; U.S. ed. (New York: Longmans, Green, 1930), 1-203; rpt. (Chicago, IL: Shasta Publishers, 1949), 1-203. Rpt. without the subtitle on the book but with the subtitle A Suspenseful, Haunting Masterpiece of Earth's Far-Distant Future as Galaxy Science Fiction Novel, No. 4. New York: World Editions, 1949.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "And So It Came To Pass" Y1 - 1924 A1 - Leonard Flemming (1880-1946). KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

Dystopia. Blacks take over, eliminate all pure whites, and mixed-race work for blacks under an apartheid system. Blacks then start warring among themselves, and the human race comes to an end. Introduced by General the Right Honorable J.C. Smuts (1870-1950), who was Prime Minister of South Africa (1919-1924 and 1939-48).

JF - A Crop of Chaff PB - The Natal Witness CY - Pietermaritsburg, South Africa N1 -

2nd ed. (Pietermaritsburg, South Africa: The Natal Witness, 1924), 26-31. May have been published earlier in a South African newspaper.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Beloved Shipmates Y1 - 1924 A1 - Rear-Admiral Robert N[eale] Lawson KW - Male author AB -

Mostly adventure and romance with some humor but includes the founding of an island egalitarian eutopia. Note the charts inside the front and back covers. Continued in his Happy Anchorage. London: Grant Richards, 1925, which continues the adventures.

PB - Grant Richards CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Eliza Fanshawe, K.C. (A Story of 2000 A.D.)” Y1 - 1924 A1 - E[dmund] S[idney] P[ollock] Haynes (1877-1949) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Brief sex-role reversal story.

JF - Fritto Misto PB - Cayme Press CY - Kensington, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - England at the Flood Tide Y1 - 1924 A1 - Kenneth Ingram (1882-1965) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Natural aristocracy with checks on the power of the people. Guild system. Women economically independent but to a large extent men and women are separate.

PB - Damian Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - God's Holy Kingdom of United Israel. A Remarkable Book. A Bible Study for all Thinking People. The Kingdom of Melchezedek--The Construction by Him of the Great Pyramid, God's Witness, or 'The Bible in Stone'--The Discontinuance of the Kingdom of Melchezedek and the Covenant with Abraham--The Kingdom Transferred to Israel; the Two Houses of Israel, the Two Witnesses of Jehovah--Anglo Saxons the House of Israel--The Coming Union of Israel and Judah--The Sealing of the 144,000 out of the Twelve Tribes of Israel and their Administration of Affairs in 'The New Earth'--The New Heaven and the New Earth, and the New Covenant with United and Restored Israel. The Book of the Hour. Every Student of the Bible should read and study it Y1 - 1924 A1 - J[oseph] E[dward] Paynter (1868-1960) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia of the saints.

PB - United Israel Publishing Department CY - Regina, SK, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Green Machine Y1 - 1924 A1 - [Francis Ambrose] Ridley (1897-1994) KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Gigantic rational ants on Mars. Before meeting the ants, the protagonist has run into various Martian monsters. The human population of Mars had been conquered by the ants and enslaved, after which they degenerated into monkeys. The ants were socialist with their position in society determined at birth. No word for "I", only for "we" or the plural "you". No war; no religion.

PB - Noel Douglas CY - London U3 -

F. H. Ridley [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Harbottle; A Modern Pilgrim’s Progress from This World to That Which Is To Come Y1 - 1924 A1 - John [Gordon] Hargrave (1894-1982) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Allegory based loosely on John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress (1678) in which a better future is briefly described. The English author was the founder of the Kibbo Kift and later became involved in the Social Credit movement. See also 1925 and 1927 Hargrave.

PB - Duckworth CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott, 1924

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Heaven" Y1 - 1924 A1 - Basil [William Benjamin] King (1859-1928) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Heaven as eutopia.

JF - Cosmopolitan (New York) VL - 77.6 N1 -

Rpt. in his The Spreading Dawn: Stories of the Great Transition (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1927), 123-57; and in Mind, Inc. (Camden, NJ) 3.3 (September 1930): 62-. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Idealism and the Ideal State" Y1 - 1924 A1 - Hugh W[heeler] Sanford (1880-1961) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia of eugenics--keep the "inefficient" from breeding--and a reformed capitalism. No unions and no collective bargaining. No minimum wage. Elected representatives are not delegates reflecting the opinion of their district but are expected to vote to support the "ideal state".

JF - The Business of Life PB - Oxford University Press American Branch CY - New York VL - 2 vols. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "In the Near Future" Y1 - 1924 A1 - Joseph Ivers Lawrence KW - Male author AB -

Dystopian satire of an over-regulated society.

JF - Argosy--All-Story Weekly (New York) VL - 108.1 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last of My Race. A Dream of the Future Y1 - 1924 A1 - J[ohn] Lionel Tayler M.R.C.S. (1874-1930) KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

In the very far future Homo sapiens, now known as Homo Ignorans, has long disappeared and been replaced by what was then called Homo sapiens, who was then replaced by Homo Sapiens Varius, a species far above the human race, who was then replaced by Sapiens minimus, who is close to pure intelligence.

PB - J.W. Ruddock & Sons/Simpkin Marshall Hamilton Kent CY - Lincoln, Eng./London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Lost Car" Y1 - 1924 A1 - James J. Hayden KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Detailed eutopia of New Hellas (later just Hellas), a society of four million square miles in the Southern Hemisphere descended from classical Greece, which has chosen to remain isolated until the rest of the world becomes peaceful The story includes both a description of the eutopia by an outsider and a history of the eutopia by a resident. No poverty because land cannot be privately owned, and everyone works. Taxation based on the use of the land, which covers all costs. A brief vignette at the end set in 3003 AD shows contact between the Hellenes and future, peaceful humanity with wings but no legs.

JF - Odds and Ends (Miscellaneous Writings) PB - Privately ptd. [Plimpton Press] CY - ([Norwood, MA] N1 -

In his "Note The Lost Car" (xvii-xxi) the author says that the story was originally published in "over a dozen installments" in the "Journal", previously the Sewanee Banner (presumably Sewanee, OH). No such paper appears to survive.

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Bert Hay [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Man Who Mastered Time Y1 - 1924 A1 - Ray[mond King] Cummings (1887-1957) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Third of the Golden Atom stories (see 1922 Cummings). Six thousand years in the future there is a class-based dystopia.

JF - Argosy-All-Story Weekly (New York) VL - 161.4 - 162.2 N1 -

Rpt. Chicago, IL: A.C. McClurg, 1924; and in Fantastic Novels Magazine (New York) 3.6 (March 1950): 10-94.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Melody from Mars Y1 - 1924 A1 - [Violet Lilian] [Perkins] A1 - [Archer Leslie] [Hood] KW - Female author AB -

An odd future tale of spiritually advanced people, which includes the description of a eutopia called the Electric City. Not much detail.

PB - Authors' International Pub. Co CY - New York U3 -

Lilian Leslie [pseud.]

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CU-Riv, DLC, MH, NN

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Message from "Mars" including The "Martians" Plan for World Peace and Permanent Prosperity via a New Monetary System Y1 - 1924 A1 - [Samuel] [Bottomley] (b. 1858) KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Monetary reform establishes a non-fluctuating currency. The author also wrote The Second Message from "Mars": The Gold Standard, its Relation to Business, Labor and World Peace. Providence, RI: The Martian Publishing Co., 1925 (PSt); and The Third Message from "Mars": World Reformation By Monetary Revolution. Providence, RI: The Martian Publishing Co., 1926.

PB - The Martian Pub. Co CY - Providence, RI U3 -

The American Society of Martians [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Modern Lilliput: A History of the recent re-discovery of the Lilliput Archipelago, and what has been happening there Y1 - 1924 A1 - David Alec Wilson (1864-1933) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

A history of Lilliput after Lemuel Gulliver of 1726 Swift left up to the late nineteenth century and the events that resulted from its rediscovery.

PB - C.W. Daniel CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Negrolana Y1 - 1924 A1 - [Henry Franklin] [Triplett] (1854-1928) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Paternalistic eutopia. Land founded for freed slaves by wealthy slave owners. Single tax. Very strict. Stress on a good, broad education. The idea of a single tax on land originated with Henry George (1839-97). For Henry George's explanation of the single tax, see his Progress and Poverty. An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and Of Increase of Want With Increase of Wealth. The Remedy. San Francisco, CA: W.M. Hinton, 1879. Fiftieth Anniversary Ed. New York: The Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, 1929.

PB - Christopher Publishing House CY - Boston, MA U3 -

Dr. Frank [pseud.]

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DLC, NcD

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Paul's School of Statesmanship Y1 - 1924 A1 - William H[ope] Harvey (1851-1936) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. Monetary reform results in money being tied to the amount of goods. As a result, it can be constantly in circulation rather than saved.

PB - Mundus Pub. Co CY - Chicago, IL U5 -

MoU-St, NcD, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The People's Corporation Y1 - 1924 A1 - King C[amp] Gillette (1855-1932) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Non-fictional explanation of his ideas for eutopia. The People's Corporation is the only employer, owner, and seller. "All property and wealth in individual or corporate ownership shall be acquired by purchase. . ." (219). See also 1894 Gillette and 1910 Gillette Gillette and his The Ballot Box. Brookline, MA: Author, 1897. https://ia800503.us.archive.org/23/items/ballotbox00gill/ballotbox00gill.pdf.

PB - Boni and Liveright CY - New York U5 -

ICN

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Supercity: A Planned Physical Equipment for City Life Y1 - 1924 A1 - Robert R[uss] Kern KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Very detailed description of an ideal city and the way it will improve peoples’ lives. 

PB - Np [Ptd. Binghamton, NY: Vail-Ballou, Inc.] CY - Washington, DC U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Symbolic Island Y1 - 1924 A1 - Kenneth Ingram (1882-1965) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. A group is temporarily marooned on an isolated island. After an over-organized beginning, many of the people manage to create a relaxed society. Much satire.

PB - The Damian Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Temple of the Forgotten Dead" Y1 - 1924 A1 - [James Thomas] [Harris] (1855/6-1931) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

This story is said to be the basis for his 1930 Pantopia. In the story, a storyteller tells two stories. The eutopian one, which gives the story its title, describes an isolated island which has developed a religion with gods representing each virtue and bases its society on self-development and duty to others. It is also technologically advanced. 

JF - Undream'd of Shores PB - Brentano's CY - New York N1 -

The manuscript is at Princeton University.

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Frank Harris [pseud.]

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Utopia Interpreted" Y1 - 1924 A1 - Sarah N[orcliffe] Cleghorn (1876-1959) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Traces the history of the world up to a future eutopia. Four "interpretations" of the future are presented--a new ice age, a modern Franciscan movement among women, technological change, and the new nomads. Written as if from July 1995.

JF - Atlantic Monthly (Boston, MA) VL - 134.1 - 2 ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Valley of the Eyes Unseen Y1 - 1924 A1 - Gilbert [Henry] Collins (b. 1890) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Lost race eutopia with a classical Greek culture.

PB - Robert M. McBride and Co CY - New York U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Venus Y1 - 1924 A1 - Rena Oldfield Pettersen KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. Telepathy in an idyllic society about two thousand years in advance of Earth. Much romance and the picture of Venus comes out through the interactions of two Venusians with people on Earth during a visit to Earth.

PB - Dorrance & Co CY - Philadelphia, PA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A World I’d Have” Y1 - 1924 A1 - J[onathan] E. Hoag (1831-1927) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Something of an Arcadia, a paean to nature. And near the end he writes, “Let sturdy yeomen man their ploughs/Till not a mouth for bread need crave.” 

JF - The Troy Times U5 -

RPB

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The World’s May Day: A Celebration Y1 - 1924 A1 - J[ohn] H[enry] Bingham KW - Male author AB -

Children’s play with an ambassador from Mars, which only sends “children as ambassadors because they tell the truth to each other” (3). In the play the ambassador begins to understand that Earth’s problem is primarily the division among countries and brings everyone together.

PB - The Co-operative Union Ltd. CY - Manchester, Eng. U5 -

BL, BOD

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Battle of London Y1 - 1923 A1 - [Harry Collinson] [Owen] (1881-1956) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Anti-Communist dystopia. Mostly on the revolution and the fight to defeat it. The Liberty League of England, which the author compares to the Fascist Party in Italy, which meets his approval, saves the day.

PB - Herbert Jenkins CY - London U3 -

Hugh Addison [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Bride of Christ. A Message from Jerusalem to the True and Faithful Subjects of Jesus Christ throughout the World Y1 - 1923 A1 - Emry Davis KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Religious eutopia (primarily for Baptists) in which Jerusalem is restored to its former state but is now for Christians. Detailed reforms, including abolishing interest, dividends, rent, and high salaries and fees. Uniform wage of five dollars a day. Provides a constitution consisting of the Old Testament, the New Testament, and new rules and regulations. Racist. See his Introductory Edition to The Bride of Christ and a Message from Jerusalem. Jerusalem, (Palestine) and New York: The Palestine Press, nd. (CtY), where he argues that Anglo-Saxons, and Baptists in particular, are the ten lost tribes and blood descendants of Israel but specifically rejects the argument that the British Empire is the new Israel.

PB - The Palestine Press CY - Jerusalem U5 -

CtY, MH

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Collapse of Homo Sapiens Y1 - 1923 A1 - P[eter] Anderson Graham (1856-1925) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. A man is projected two centuries into the future and discovers a world without any trace of human civilization, with humans, now much smaller, living isolated lives in forests hunting each other for food. On a second visit he discovers a remnant of a primitive civilization and learns the history of the collapse.

PB - G.P. Putnam's Sons CY - London U5 -

L, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Day of Judgment and the Celestial Missionaries of Life Y1 - 1923 A1 - Louis Pauer KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Socialist eutopia introduced to Earth by visitors from space. People from Earth then carry the message to other planets. 

PB - Author CY - [Cleveland, OH] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Doctor Hackensaw's Secrets. No. 23. What Hackensaw Found on the Moon" Y1 - 1923 A1 - [Ernest] Clement Fezandié (1865-1959) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Advanced beings on the moon who change shapes and sexes at will. Humor.

JF - Science and Invention (New York) VL - 11.7 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Dream" Y1 - 1923 A1 - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The present seen as a dystopia from the perspective of a eutopia 2000 years in the future. Although there is little of the eutopia, it is presented as having overcome the economic and social problems of Wells's time and is reminiscent of his 1923 Men Like Gods. The dystopia reads like one of Wells's novels describing the problems of the poor prior to World War I. One emphasis is on the ignorance of sexual relations in the past contrasted to the free and open sexual relations of the future.

JF - Nash's and Pall Mall Magazine VL - 72-73 N1 -

Repub. London: Jonathan Cape, 1924. Rpt. London: The Hogarth Press, 1987, with an "Introduction" by Brian Aldiss [3-7]. US ed. New York: Macmillan, 1924. Rpt. in The Works of H.G. Wells Atlantic Edition. Volume XXVIII Men Like Gods and The Dream (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927), 329-654. Except for later critical editions, The Atlantic Edition is generally considered the best text of Wells's works.

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Illus. Herbert Morton Stoops

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Eurekanian Paternalism. For an economic expedition to explore and exploit Eurekania, the New State in the Realm of Utopia. With Aims and Plans of Providence, final and immediate, for the Development of the Latent Qualities and Resources inherent in Society under Advanced Organization, Production and Distribution through the Administration, eventually, of a Non-Politic, Quasi-Public Economic Institution, which shall be promoted, in the early stages of its development, by a Foundation Society and other Subsidiary Organizations Y1 - 1923 A1 - Louis Pauer KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Odd version of a cooperative eutopia that combines considerable public control and privately owned corporations with limits on profit. 

PB - Np CY - Cleveland, OH U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Golden Age or The Depth of Time Y1 - 1923 A1 - Fred M. Clough KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia 1000 years in the future. Science. Reason. Easy travel in the solar system; other planets being inhabited by people from Earth. Rural life with 2-10 acres per home to grow food, which is then liquefied because food is only consumed in liquid form.

PB - The Roxburgh Pub. Co CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Golgotha & Co." Y1 - 1923 A1 - Robert [Malise Bowyer] Nichols (1893-1944) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which plutocrats try to use Christianity to help them control the proletariat. It backfires when people take Christianity seriously.

JF - Fantastica; Being the Smile of the Sphinx and Other Tales of Imagination PB - Chatto and Windus CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. (New York: Macmillan, 1923), 129-375 with a brief "Foreword" by John Masefield (xi-xii) and without Romances of Idea.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Gopher Prairie--A.D. 2000" Y1 - 1923 A1 - David [Samuel] Snedden (1868-1951) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Educational eutopia with a stress on culture. 

JF - School and Society (New York) VL - 18.452 U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Harilek: A Romance of Modern Central Asia Y1 - 1923 A1 - [Martin Louis Alan] [Gompertz] (1886-1951) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Lost Nordic race influenced by Classical Greece in Central Asia. Mostly adventure and romance, but the society is morally better than contemporary society.  The continuation, Wrexham’s Romance being a continuation of “Harilek”. By Ganpat [pseud.].  London : Hodder & Stoughton, 1935, has more on the society. 

PB - William Blackwood and Sons CY - Edinburgh, Scot. N1 -

U.S. ed. Boston, MA: Houghton, Mifflin, 1923. Rpt. in Adventures in Sakaeland Comprising Harilek and Wrexham's Romance (New York: Arno Press, 1978), separately paged.

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Ganpat [pseud.]

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L, Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Idealia: A Utopia Dream; or, Resthaven Y1 - 1923 A1 - [Mrs.] [Harriet Alfarata (Chapman)] [Thompson] (d. 1922) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Arcadia. Simple life in one large family in one large house with extensive grounds.

PB - [Ptd. by J.B. Lyon Co.] CY - [Albany, NY] U5 -

DLC, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Millionaire; A Tale of the Old World and the New Y1 - 1923 A1 - Duncan Campbell KW - Male author AB -

Nationalization of land and a limit on income brings a eutopia.

PB - Heath Cranton CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lavender Dragon Y1 - 1923 A1 - Eden Phillpotts (1862-1960) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A delightful satire with a rational, vegetarian dragon and a rather dull knight. The dragon creates a eutopia by picking up unhappy people and children from the area and bringing them to an isolated area where they create a eutopia of equality without money. Includes a reflection, by the dragon, on the positive and negative aspects of human hope and dreaming.

PB - Grant Richards CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Medical Utopia” Y1 - 1923 A1 - Dr. J. Walter Carr (b. 1862) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Brief report on Dr. J. Walter Carr’s (b. 1862) oration at the Medical Society of London. The oration probably had the title “From Cradle to Crematorium” and depicts a dystopia in which a socialist government functioning as a “medical autocracy” sets the rules governing health care in ways that severely restrict freedom. He concluded that it would be better to be free than healthy. At the time Carr was a consulting physician at the Royal Free Hospital.

JF - The Hospital and Health Review  VL - 2.21 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Memories of the Future; Being Memoirs of the years 1915-1972. Written in the year of Grace, 1988, by Opal, Lady Porstock Y1 - 1923 A1 - Ronald A[rbuthnott] Knox (ed.) [written by] (1888-1957) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Utopian satire on Britain from 1915 to the end of the Great War of 1972. Significant technological improvements like moving sidewalks.

PB - Methuen CY - London N1 -

An extract appeared in The Book of the Queen's Doll House. Ed. E.V. Lucas. 2 vols. (London: Methuen, [1924]), 2: 202-09.

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Opal, Lady Porstock [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Modest Proposal to the Public of Eutopia. Being both a humble tribute to one of the Immortals and a tentative contribution towards a remedy for our present distresses Y1 - 1923 A1 - A. B. Rytoun AB -

Satire with utopian elements describing the establishment a voluntary fund designed to reduce government debt by giving money, shares, and so forth to the fund. Contributions to the fund eliminated the debt and reduced taxes and, as a result, prosperity was returning.

PB - C. North, The Blackheath Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mr. Podd Y1 - 1923 A1 - Freeman Tilden (1883-1980) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An intentional community founded on an island is a failure. Satire on the Peace Ship, which Henry Ford (1863-1947) sponsored to sail to Stockholm, Sweden during World War I in a failed attempt to negotiate an Armistice.

PB - Macmillan CY - New York U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - My Wondrous Dream Y1 - 1923 A1 - Frank P. Ball KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Rigid control of blacks by whites presented as a eutopia.

PB - Frank P. Ball CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The New Capitalism Y1 - 1923 A1 - S[imon] A[lexander Baldus KW - Male author AB -

Non-fiction plan for a new capitalist order, with pp. 1-242 on “The Established Order” and pp. 243-489 on “The New Order,” which is based on capitalists stopping being greedy and will require no fundamental structural changes.

PB - The O'Donnell Co CY - Chicago, IL U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Our All - American Almanac and Prophetic Messenger” Y1 - 1923 A1 - Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Selections from January, April, July, and September from an almanac that describing events taking place in a future that becomes more and more restrictive and puritanical. Happy New Year changed to Virtuous New York; dancing abolished; the Society for the Suppression of Imagination in Children censors children’s stories; women’s clothing regulated in the name of modesty; dancing outlawed; compulsory church attendance; co-education abolished; and more.

JF - Vanity Fair VL - 20.1 SN - 9781800171671 N1 -

Rpt. as by Nancy Boyd in Distressing Dialogues. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1924), 29-37. Rpt. under the author’s real name in her Poems and Satires. Ed. Tristram Fane Saunders (Manchester, Eng.: Manchester, Eng.: Carcarnet, 2021), 165-69

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Nancy Boyd [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Seraph Wings Y1 - 1923 A1 - Colonel Arthur [Alfred] Lynch (1861-1934) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Mostly adventure but includes a eutopia of devolution.

PB - John Long, Ltd CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Story of the World a Thousand Years Hence. An Interesting Scientific Forecast of the Important Progressive Changes That Will Likely Take Place On Our Earth During the Next Thousand Years Y1 - 1923 A1 - Professor Henry Olerich (1851-1927) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Detailed eutopia presented as a forecast. A third version of 1893 Olerich. In this volume he stresses the improved status of women that will be brought about if his ideas are adopted. Initial education through play and everyone is both a student and teacher for life; for his educational theories, see his Viola Olerich, the Famous Baby Scholar. Chicago, IL: Laird and Lee, 1900. Marriage and divorce are entirely up to the couple, who are educated about both sex and eugenics. On these issues, see 1927 Olerich, The New Life and Future Mating. Racial and national prejudice will die out. 

PB - Olerich Pub. Co CY - Omaha, NB U1 -

Subtitle on the cover is A Portrayal of Ideal Life

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Under the Desert Stars Y1 - 1923 A1 - Frank Koester (1876-1927) KW - German author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Chapter 10 describes a eutopian Mars that is scientifically advanced, particularly in radio technology. Radio had replaced the entire written language; schools, churches, and all other meetings had been superseded. Used waterpower. Each person is responsible for some work. On returning to Earth the protagonists discover that thousands of years have passed and that much of the world is primitive. Africa and Asia dominate. All a dream.

PB - Washington Square CY - New York U5 -

CU-Riv

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Utopian Conversation" Y1 - 1923 A1 - Richard Marsden KW - Male author AB -

Short eutopia modeled on 1890 Morris.

JF - Germinal Monthly Illustrated (London) VL - 1.1 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Utopian Essays. 1. The Flowers of Democracy. 2. For "Sports" Only. 3. The Powers That Be Y1 - 1923 A1 - Veiby, John KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Series of essays on aspects of a eutopian society. Anti-press; anti-religious. Proposes establishing social experiments. See also 1917 Veiby and his Jingo. South Bend, IN: John Veiby, 1927 which is an argument for a national religion. 

PB - John Veiby CY - South Bend, IN U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Utopian Jurisprudence Y1 - 1923 A1 - A Lawyer [pseud.] AB -

Sets out forty quite general essential principles on which to build a eutopia grouped under the headings Economics, Politics, Theology, and Reason. The author says that the key point is that "The way of progress is the mean way between two extremes" (213).

PB - Arthur H. Stockwell CY - London U3 -

A Lawyer [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Voice from Mars; Adventure and Romance Y1 - 1923 A1 - Reginald Broomhead KW - Male author AB -

Mostly adventure and romance but includes a vaguely described eutopia on Mars. Mars is physically like Earth with many of the same plants and animals.

PB - Arthur H. Stockwell CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Welcome Island Story and Laws Y1 - 1923 A1 - Wilhelm [C.] Griesser KW - Male author AB -

Detailed eutopia of reformed capitalism. The first part is the story of the conflict between two societies, one fun-loving, the other Puritanical, up to the establishment of a new society on an island. The reforms include prohibiting combinations of capital, labor, dealers, producers, or manufacturers. There is a minimum wage, which is lower for women, and there is a limit to the workday of twelve hours. Traditional gender roles. Radicals will be deported.

PB - Tucker-Kenworthy CY - Chicago, IL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - When Gubbins Ruled Y1 - 1923 A1 - Joscelyne, Cyril KW - Male author AB -

Anti-labor humor. A workman becomes Prime Minister and does poorly.

PB - Fortune & Merriman CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - When Woman Rules! A Tale of the First Women's Government Y1 - 1923 A1 - A Well-Known Member of Parliament [pseud.] AB -

Satire on women in government; they are so given to gossip and scandal that they cannot govern.

PB - John Long CY - London U3 -

A Well-Known Member of Parliament [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - 1943 Y1 - 1922 A1 - Mr. X [pseud.] AB -

Satire in which all the reformers of the 1920s succeed after they come together and form the American Reform League, known as Puritans. For example, the society is generally vegetarian (meat is legal, but frowned upon), teetotal, hair and clothes styles are regulated, the speed limit is ten miles an hour, and there is no tobacco, tea, or coffee.

PB - Dorrance CY - New York U3 -

Mr. X [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Aerial Flight to the Realm of Peace Y1 - 1922 A1 - Martha [Cabanné] Kayser (b. 1871) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The eutopia is based on religion, and there is only one throughout the world. Equality. Arbitration. Early education is the key. Each nation has distinctive dress. Marriage--men cannot marry before eighteen, women before sixteen; most marry by twenty-two. See also 1931 Kayser. 

PB - Lincoln Press & Pub. Co CY - St. Louis, MO U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Against the Red Sky. Silhouettes of Revolution Y1 - 1922 A1 - H[erbert] R. Barbor KW - Male author AB -

Story of a future successful revolution bringing about a better society. Almost nothing specific about the eutopia except that it is Communist but with much private enterprise.

PB - C.W. Daniel CY - London N1 -

2nd ed. London: Noel Douglass, 1925.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Bladed Barrier Y1 - 1922 A1 - Joseph Bushnell Ames (1878-1928) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Typical lost race dystopia, in this case led by an evil Chinaman.

PB - The Century Co. CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Arno Press, 1978. Originally published by Street & Smith (1922-1923).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Captain Youth: A Romantic Comedy for All Socialist Children Y1 - 1922 A1 - Ralph [Winston] Fox (1900-1936) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A play in three short acts describing the horrors of the capitalists system from the point-of-view of two children who are desperate to escape the system, their escape with the help of Captain Youth, and their return to lead a successful revolution, with the ending suggesting the eutopia to come.

PB - C. W. Daniel CY - London VL - No. 19 of Plays for the People’s Theatre U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dalleszona and the Seventh Treasure Y1 - 1922 A1 - Allen Kendrick Wright (1861-1948) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. Pure democracy. Compulsory education. Each person receives a living wage but must work for it.

PB - The Roxburgh Pub. Co. CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Doctor Hackensaw's Secrets. No. 11. Journey to the Year 2025" Y1 - 1922 A1 - [Ernest] Clement Fezandié (1865-1959) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Technological eutopia. Humor.

JF - Science and Invention (New York) VL - 10.8 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Girl in the Golden Atom Y1 - 1922 A1 - Ray[mond King] Cummings (1887-1957) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Gulliveriana with the world in an atom. Monarchy with advisers (half men and half women). No money. See also 1924 and 1958 Cummings.

PB - Methuen CY - London N1 -

Textual differences in U.S. ed. New York: Harper, 1923. Rpt. Westport, CT: Hyperion Press, 1974; and Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005. Part originally published as “The Girl in the Golden Atom.” All-Story Weekly (New York) 95.1 (March 15, 1919): 1-29. This was rpt. in Famous Fantastic Mysteries (New York) 1.1 (September-October 1939): 75-99; Super Science and Fantastic Stories 1.20 (October 1945): 4-29; Fantastic Novels Magazine 5.1 (June 1951): 40-69; and Famous Science Fiction 1.1 (Winter 1966/67): 11-60. Part was also originally published as “The People of the Golden Atom.” All-Story Weekly (New York) 106.2 - 107.3 (January 24 - February 28, 1920): 161-81, 173-89, 583-602; 127-41, 296-316, 373-89, 445-60. This was rpt. in Fantastic Novels (New York) 1.2 (September 1940): 6-117; and in Under the Moons of Mars: A History and Anthology of “The Scientific Romance” in the Munsey Magazines, 1912-1920. Ed. Sam[uel] Moskowitz (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970), 175-219. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Ideal Community: A Rational Solution of Economic Problems Y1 - 1922 A1 - K. Van Gelder KW - Australian author AB -

Proposes an experimental community as a means of bringing about the needed better society through evolution rather than revolution. The proposed community is intended to be as self-sufficient as possible. Financed as a joint stock company to be initially subscribed by intending members. Will purchase 10,000 acres of irrigated land. Details are given on the economic structure of the community, the administration, education, and how to realize the scheme, and a brief description is given of life in the community (29-34). There are communal kitchens, factories are isolated from the city, transport allows farmers to live in the city, and entertainment is provided through a theatre and a cinema. An appendix gives details of successful schemes such as garden cities (35-47).

PB - Publicity Press Ltd CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - An Ideal World Y1 - 1922 A1 - Nobuya Hamada M.C. KW - Japanese author KW - Male author AB -

Essay presenting a eutopia. Free trade, no crime, controlled population, international language, international constitution, international banking corporation, and harmony between capital and labor. Disease prevention and environmental protection. Stress on dedication and the leadership of the few best.

PB - Carl Heymanns Verlag CY - Berlin, Germany N1 -

There is no indication in the book that this is a translation, but, although no German or Japanese version has been found, it probably is.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Interpreters Y1 - 1922 A1 - [George William] [Russell] (1867-1935) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopian setting but with little detail. Discussion among those who have been arrested during an attempted revolution against a dictatorship. The revolution is still in process during the discussion but fails. The discussion focuses on the spiritual basis of various political theories and, in particular, whether capitalism or socialism, the individual or the collective, provides the best basis for the good society.

PB - Macmillan CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Macmillan, 1923.

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A.E. [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lost Chord: A Description of the Future Society Y1 - 1922 A1 - Carl M. Ofsthun (b. 1885?) KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Cooperative commonwealth and workers' control.

PB - np CY - Chicago, IL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Men Like Gods: An Original Romance" Y1 - 1922 A1 - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A world composed entirely of the Samurai of 1905 Wells.

JF - The Westminster Gazette VL - nos. 9175 - 9210 N1 -

U.S. serialization illus. George W. Bellows. Hearst's International 42.5 - 43.6 (November 1922 - June 1023): 9-15, 136-39; 42-48, 128-31; 32-38, 124-25, 110; 42-48, 151-53;38-43, 149-53; 56-61, 154-55; 89-92, 130, 132-34; 83-84, 146-48. Repub. without the subtitle. London: Cassell, 1923. Rpt. in The Works of H.G. Wells Atlantic Edition. Volume XXVIII Men Like Gods and The Dream (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927), 1-328. Except for later critical editions, The Atlantic Edition is generally considered the best text of Wells's works.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "New New Zealand" Y1 - 1922 A1 - A[lfred] Ernest Mander (b. 1892) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia of Guild Socialism specifically adapted to the conditions of New Zealand.

PB - Clarté CY - Wellington, New Zealand U1 -

Cover adds A little book for those who EARN their livelihood.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A New Utopia Called A League-for-A Living Y1 - 1922 AB -

A detailed proposal to provide everyone with the basic necessities of life; everyone will work productively from 18 to 33 and live simply during that period, thereby providing sufficient goods for everyone for the rest of their lives.

PB - League-For-A-Living Committee CY - New York U1 -

"It Would Bring Much Happiness Into the World." at the head of the title.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Perfect World: A Romance of Strange People and Strange Places Y1 - 1922 A1 - Ella M[arie] Scrymsour[-Nicol] (1888-1962) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A complex novel that includes both a dystopia and a eutopia. The dystopia is in the center of the Earth and is inhabited by the descendants of Jews condemned by God to be swallowed by the Earth. The protagonists from the surface escape the dystopia, and, while the Earth is destroyed, they escape in a "airship", which takes them directly to a eutopian Jupiter. Jupiter had a separate Adam and Eve, but without the Fall and has developed a good society that, while hierarchical, is based on pro rata sharing.

PB - Eveleigh Nash & Grayson Ltd. CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1922.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Planet Mars and Its Inhabitants. A Psychic Revelation. Being a Comprehensive Outline of the Planet's Physical Features, Which Includes Its Geographic, Topographic and Meterologic Aspects; a History of Its People and the Plan of Their Utopian, Industrial and Economic System; of their Knowledge concerning our Theories of Relativity, Constitution of Matter, Interatomic and Cosmic Energy, Electricity, Hyperspace, Neutralization of Gravity; including a History of the Spiritual Progress of the People of Mars and Christ's Visit to their Planet Ten Thousand Years Ago Y1 - 1922 A1 - [James Scott] [Marshall] ED - J. L. Kennon KW - Male author KW - South African author KW - US author AB -

Detailed communal eutopia on Mars. No government. No profit. Cooperation. Homeschooling for basic education. Scientific determination of vocation. No divorce because each person finds their true mate. Spiritualism. Some on life on other planets.

PB - N.p CY - N.p. N1 -

Rpt. as The Planet Mars and Its Inhabitants. By Eros Urides (A Martian) [pseud.]. N.p.: N.p., 1956.

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Rpt. as The Planet Mars and Its Inhabitants. By Eros Urides (A Martian) [pseud.]. N.p.: N.p., 1956.

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By Iros Urides (a Martian) [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Superman Y1 - 1922 A1 - Frank Willoughby KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Begins in what is the dystopia of contemporary life and most of the novel is concerned with the struggles against the dystopia. Ends with the Second Coming of Christ and the establishment of a eutopia of peace and plenty under the rule of Christ and the Apostles.

PB - Authors & Publishers CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Theodore Savage: A Story of the Past or the Future Y1 - 1922 A1 - Cicely [Mary] Hamilton (1875-1952) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Presents a picture of a destroyed civilization that manages to create a new, more primitive lifestyle that is initially violent becomes more settled over time. Science is rejected, and the human race slowly rebuilds a healthy hunting, fishing, and farming life structured around tribes. This is depicted as more in tune with our capacities than the civilization that it replaced. The revised volume is slightly more positive than the original.

PB - Leonard Parsons CY - London N1 -

Rpt. Boston, MA: HiLo Books, 2013 with an introduction “A Cargo Cult in Reverse” by Gary Paynter (13-17); and without the subtitle Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2022, with “Introduction: The Wars of the Air and the Laboratory’: Theodore Savage at 100” by Susan R. Grayzel (xiii-xxi). Rev. ed. entitled Lest Ye Die. London: Jonathan Cape, 1928. U.S. ed. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1928.

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Rev. ed. entitled Lest Ye Die. London: Jonathan Cape, 1928. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Three Worlds Y1 - 1922 A1 - Isabel Griffiths KW - Female author AB -

Heaven presented as a eutopia on Jupiter. Little detail. Abundant food. Hell or purgatory is on Mars.

PB - Arthur H. Stockwell CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Towards a New Social Order Y1 - 1922 A1 - Johan August Schvan KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Single tax. Absolute freedom of exchange. No monopolies. Many reforms. The idea of a single tax on land originated with Henry George (1839-97). For his explanation of the single tax, see his Progress and Poverty. An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and Of Increase of Want With Increase of Wealth. The Remedy. San Francisco, CA: W.M. Hinton, 1879. Fiftieth Anniversary Ed. New York: The Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, 1929.

PB - George Allen and Unwin CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Worlds Within Worlds" Y1 - 1922 A1 - Philip M[elancthon] Fisher Jr. (1891-1973) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of assigned marriage.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Yezad; A Romance of the Unknown Y1 - 1922 A1 - George [Henry] Babcock (1863-1942) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A few pages of a scientific Martian eutopia, which had been settled from a planet highly advanced in science. Martians can renew body parts. No central government: local self-rule through bodies based on education. No printed laws but custom sets standards. Citizenship depends on passing exams.

PB - Cooperative Pub. Co. CY - Bridgeport, CT U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Back to Methuselah; A Metabiological Pentateuch Y1 - 1921 A1 - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Satire. Traces the history of humankind from prior to Adam to the distant future. Some people become long-lived, initially living for 300 years. In 3000 this divides the world into the long-lived, who live in the British Isles, and the short-lived, who inhabit the rest of the world. In 31920, there are no more short-lived, and the long-lived live hundreds of years.

PB - Brentano's CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Constable, 1921. The U.S. ed. is marginally the first ed. Rev. and rpt. for the Standard Edition. London: Constable, 1931. Rpt. further rev. New York: Oxford University Press, 1947, which includes “Postscript After Twenty Years” (257-71); rpt. in The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw: Collected Plays With Their Prefaces (London: Max Reinhardt The Bodley Head, 1972), 5: 685-703; and The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw: Collected Plays With Their Prefaces (London: Max Reinhardt The Bodley Head, 1972), 5: 251-713, which also includes “A Glimpse of the Domesticity of Franklyn Barnabas (632-84), which was first published in the Collected Edition: Volume 6 Short Stories, Scraps and Shavings (London: Constable, 1932), 141-85; “Birmingham as a Home of Dramatic Art (Curtain speech after first performance of Birmingham Repertory Theatre production on 12 October, Birmingham Gazette 13 October 1923)” (703-04); “The Serial Play (Interview drafted by Shaw, The Observer, London, 21 October 1923)” (704-07); “Bernard Shaw Piqued (Written statement, presented as interview, Daily Express, London, 22 February 1924” (707-09); and “Letters to the Editor of The Times” (709-13). See Shaw’s “Preface: The Infidel Half Century” (London: Constable, 1931), vii-lxxxvi; and The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw: Collected Plays With Their Prefaces (London: Max Reinhardt The Bodley Head, 1972), 5: 255-339. Rpt. rev. in his The Complete Prefaces. Volume 2: 1914-1929. Ed. Dan H. Laurence and Daniel J. Leary (London: Allen Lane The Penguin Press, 1995), 373-430. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Blind Spot" Y1 - 1921 A1 - Austin [Javen] Hall (1880-1933) A1 - Homer Eon Flint (born Flindt, 1892-1924) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A greatly advanced race both spiritually and technically. A non-utopian sequel was published as “The Spot of Life.” Argosy Weekly (New York) 231.6 - 232.4 (August 13 - September 10, 1932) : 3-22; 55-75, 108-23, 123-41, 122-41. Rpt. New York: Ace Books, [1965]. Both with Hall listed as the sole author. 

JF - Argosy-Allstory Weekly (New York) VL - 134.1 - 6 N1 -

Rpt. in Fantastic Novels 1.1 (July 1940): 3-141; Philadelphia, PA: Prime Press, 1951; and London: Greenhill Books, 1987. A six part serial reprint was announced but only three parts were published in Famous Fantastic Mysteries (New York) 1.6 - 2.2 (March - May/June 1940): 6-40; 34-63; 46-74. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Canadian Money and Progress Y1 - 1921 A1 - W[illiam] C[harles] Paynter (1866-1934) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Proposal for a new monetary system that would have no interest or credit and no debt. Says that the medium of exchange should be “As elastic and plentiful as the goods and services to be exchanged.” Based on the Harmony Co-operative Industrial Association” founded in Saskatchewan in 1895 that issued script within the community and lasted for five years. Proposes the same for Canada as legal tender. This would be a “scientific money, owned and controlled by the Sovereign People as plentiful as the commodities or services to be exchanged, we would lay the foundation for uniform and permanent commercial progress that would grow and expand without any setback, to the limit of the labour power to be obtained” (11). Would be issued by a central bank. Stresses its compatibility with Christianity. Most of the changes among additions are added quotations from other people.

PB - Np CY - [Tantallon, SK, Canada] N1 -

2nd ed. [Tantallon, SK, Canada]: Np., 1924. 27 pp. Rpt. as The Trumpet Call of Canadian Money and Progress. An Ideal Handbook of Monetary Reform. 3rd ed. [Tantallon, SK: Canada]: Np, 1931. 61 pp. 4th ed. as The Trumpet Call of Canadian Money and Progress. An Ideal Handbook of Monetary Reform. Illus. covers. [Tantallon, SK: Canada]: Np, 1932. 71 pp.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Council of Seven Y1 - 1921 A1 - J[ohn] C[ollis] Snaith (1876-1936) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

An authoritarian dystopia in which a group of newspaper editors bias and falsify the news in order to enrich themselves and control the world. Against them is the "Council of Seven" or the "Society of the Friends of Peace" who use murder to fight them. Mostly intrigue.

PB - D. Appleton CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Day of Faith Y1 - 1921 A1 - Arthur Somers Roche (1883-1935) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Anti-utopian novel. A eutopia where everyone is honest, and there are no police or jails proves weak and collapses.

PB - Little, Brown CY - Boston, MA U2 -

Frontispiece by M. Leone Bracker

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Devolutionist" Y1 - 1921 A1 - Homer Eon Flint (born Flindt, 1892-1924) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Earth scientists visit other planets using a form of telepathy and an argument emerges on the advantages of power in the hands of an elite or in the hands of the people. A loose sequel is “The Emancipatrix.” Argosy-All Story Weekly 136.5 (September 3, 1921): 631-80; rpt. in his The Devolutionist and The Emancipatrix (New York: Ace Books, [1965]), 96-191 in which the same argument takes place on another planet.

JF - Argosy-All Story Weekly (New York) VL - 135.5 N1 -

Rpt. in his The Devolutionist and The Emancipatrix (New York: Ace Books, [1965]), 5-95.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Fly-By-Nights Y1 - 1921 A1 - Major-General Charles Ross (1864-1930) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Anti-Communist, anti-alien dystopia, but at the end hope is held out that people the eutopia can reemerge.

PB - John Murray CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Great Image Y1 - 1921 A1 - [Charles Beresford] [Painter] (1878-1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Conflict between capitalists and socialists set one hundred years in the future. The world is decimated but gradually rebuilds.

PB - Odhams Press CY - London U3 -

Pan [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - How the King Reigned in Ariel. "Behold, a King shall reign in Righteousness" Y1 - 1921 A1 - Richard Hayes McCartney KW - Male author AB -

A detailed eutopia depicting the world with Christ returned. No enmity among animals, no child labor, pleasant work, no class conflict, and a restored Temple. 

PB - The Book Stall CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Industrial Public. A Plan of Social Reconstruction in Line with Evolution Y1 - 1921 A1 - Horace N. Fowler (b. 1848) A1 - Samuel T. Fowler (b. 1821) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. Common ownership of property frees women from the marriage bond and dependence on men. Vegetarian. There is a "Constitution" with comments on pp. 210-24. This is followed by the "Covenant" that members would sign on pp. 224-35.

PB - H.N. Fowler Co CY - Los Angeles, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Island of Eugenia; The Phantasy of a Foolish Philosopher" Y1 - 1921 A1 - William McDougall (1871-1938) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Presented as a dialogue between a practical man and a scientist. Eugenics. Children will be brought up to be devoted to saving the world. The island would be closed regarding marriage and education, but otherwise open to outsiders. After the initial establishment, it would recruit new members mostly from their own children. Early marriage encouraged. The state will be politically independent but economically dependent on the outside world; uses the analogy of a university. Appeals to a millionaire to help establish it. T

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - John Sagur Y1 - 1921 A1 - Nedram [pseud.] AB -

A benevolent dictatorship based on the control of all electrical power brings about a world state and a peaceful world. An aristocracy of merit is imposed. A fold-out between 150 and 151 shows the structure of the dictatorship, from which the Master chooses his successor. Birth control and its positive effects (243-244). Eugenics: “lunatics and the feeble minded” could be destroyed (the word used in the text) if their parents requested, with “every possible precaution taken against misuse of power by the “Medical Council” (245-246), “Tainted persons” were not allowed to breed (246).

PB - Heath Cranton CY - London U3 -

Nedram [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Lolly-pop Land. A Poem" Y1 - 1921 A1 - Minna B. Noyes KW - Female author AB -

A children's cockaigne. The Brownies' Book was a periodical for African-American children founded in 1920 by W[illiam] E[dward] B[urghardt] Du Bois (1868-1963).

JF - The Brownies' Book VL - 2.4 (16) N1 -

Rpt. in facsimile in The Best of the Brownies' Book. Ed. Dianne Johnson Feelings (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996), 316-17.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Message from Space" Y1 - 1921 A1 - George Goodchild (1888-1969) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Young adult adventure tale that includes two eutopias. The first is a lost race in the middle South America; the second is on Mars. The South American eutopia is a society like ancient Greece whose highest value is happiness. The Martian eutopia is based on reason.

JF - The Children's Newspaper VL - nos. 106 - 31 N1 -

Rpt. London: Jarrolds, [1931]. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A New Constitution for a New America Y1 - 1921 A1 - William Macdonald (1863-1938) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Precisely what the title says. Includes explanations for the changes.

PB - B.W. Huebsch CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The New Race of Devils Y1 - 1921 A1 - [Anna O'Meara de Vic] [Beamish] (b. 1883) KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia in which Germany creates supermen.

PB - Anglo-Eastern Pub. Co CY - London U3 -

John Bernard [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Race Awakened Y1 - 1921 A1 - Edmund H. Burke KW - Male author AB -

An egalitarian socialist eutopia with world peace set in 1968. It was achieved by educated blacks and women getting the vote.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Revolution: A Novel Y1 - 1921 A1 - J[ohn] D[avys] Beresford (1873-1947) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia depicting a revolution as it effects one parish as seen primarily through the eyes of a man who tries to see both sides. A labour dictatorship emerges that plans to establish a socialist system, but the people reject equality and common property. The counter-revolution succeeds but simply replaces one dictatorship with another. At the end the protagonist is at the beginning of a campaign to bring the country back together.

PB - W. Collins & Sons CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. as Revolution: A Story of the Near Future in England. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1921. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Secret Power Y1 - 1921 A1 - [Mary "Minnie"] [MacKay] (1855-1924) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Most of the novel is romance with a somewhat demented scientist who develops a weapon that he hopes will stop war. Embedded in the novel is a brief description of the “Golden City,” where people much advanced beyond normal humans live.

PB - Methuen CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. without the subtitle Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Seeds of Enchantment: Being Some Attempt to Narrate the Peculiar Discoveries of Doctor Cyprian Beamish, M.D., Glasgow; Commandant René de Gys, Annamite Army, and the Honourable Richard Assheton Smith, in the Golden Land of Indo-China Y1 - 1921 A1 - Gilbert Frankau (1884-1952) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Lost race novel that describes two societies. The first is a warrior society (authoritarian but fair); the second is socialist eutopia shown to be based on drug-taking and deeply flawed and parts of the novel reads like an anti-socialist tract.

PB - Hutchinson CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921. Rpt. as a volume of The Definitive Edition of Gilbert Frankau's Novels and Short Stories. London: Macdonald, [1945].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Starting Point Y1 - 1921 A1 - Hiram W[allace] Hayes (b. 1858) KW - Male author AB -

Most of the novel is about labor and other conflicts, but the ending suggests that Christianity will bring about a eutopia of human harmony.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Tax-Wise Men of Aristopia: A Letter to the Chancellor of the Exchequer” Y1 - 1921 A1 - Henry Arthur Jones (1851-1929) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on current education. The Aristopians tax the use of abstract words such as “equality” and “liberty” that the user cannot precisely define.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Whitherward? Hell or Eutopia Y1 - 1921 A1 - Victor [Verasis] Branford (1863-1930) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A collection of essays presenting a eutopia of regionalism and decentralization. The two page "What To Do" summarizes the eutopia. See also 1917 Branford and Geddes.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The World in 1931 Y1 - 1921 A1 - Stewart E. Bruce KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia of a cooperative, profit-sharing commonwealth. Interest is illegal. Labor certificates replace money. Uniform cars to emphasize equality. Stresses that there is no unemployment, and there are no drones.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Writing on the Wall In Three Parts Past, Present and Future Y1 - 1921 A1 - [Hilda (Glynn)] [Howard] (1887-1966) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - Welsh author AB -

Dystopia. Chinese immigration and Japanese invasion lead to their domination of Canada.

PB - Sun Pub. Co. CY - Vancouver, BC, Canada N1 -

Rpt. without the subtitle Toronto, ON, Canada: University of Toronto Press, 1974.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Anona of the Moundbuilders: A Story of Many Thousand of Years Ago Y1 - 1920 A1 - J[ames] Clarence Marple A1 - Albert Nelson Dennis KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Simple, primitive, agrarian eutopia. The Moundbuilders are “tall, symmetrical, fair-skinned.” Attacked by “black savages” from south of the Gulf of Mexico. The Princess Anona builds a less primitive social order as part of the process of defeating the enemy.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Beyond" Y1 - 1920 A1 - [John Macmillan] [Brown] (1846-1935) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

An unpublished sequel to 1901 and 1903 Brown. 185 pages. Set after World War I. One of the protagonists of Limanora discovers records of the Limanoran's researches into extraterrestrial life. Similar to Riallaro in that it is structured as a visit to many different societies. Includes many eutopias and dystopias. Emphasis on religion. Those beings who have managed to eliminate religion, particularly organized religion, are more likely to have achieved a eutopia.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Constitution for the Socialist Commonwealth of Great Britain Y1 - 1920 A1 - Sidney Webb (1859-1947) A1 - Beatrice Webb (1858-1943) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Male author AB -

Just what the title says. Most of the book focuses on the political organization of a socialist state, but there are chapters on voluntary associations concerning the Co-operative Movement, other consumers’ associations, adult education, and the press, among other issues, and work, which is primarily about the nature and organization of vocations, with both obligatory and voluntary associations based on vocation, and the development of professional ethics, among other issues. The final chapter is on the transition from capitalism to socialism.

PB - Longmans CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: London School of Economics and Political Science/Cambridge University Press, 1975.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Cow Pasture Road Y1 - 1920 A1 - [William] Hardy Wilson (1881-1955) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

An ideal city called Celestium. Includes plates showing the location of Celestium and its layout. 

PB - Art in Australia CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia N1 -

There were versions of 25 copies that specified that 20 were for sale in Australia and 600 copies with 500 for sale in Australia with the same publishing details.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Darkwater: Voices from within the Veil Y1 - 1920 A1 - W[illiam] E[dward] Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) ED - W. E. B. Du Bois KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

cken Books, 1969; and as a volume in The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007, with an “Introduction” by Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham (xxv-xxxix). U.K. ed. London: Constable, 1920. Du Bois called it the second of his volume of essays between The Souls of Black Folk (1903) and Dusk of Dawn (1940). PSt

Eutopia. A collection of essays, poems, and short stories that culminates in a eutopia in the story “The Comet” (253-73), which is rpt. in Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora. Ed. Sheree R. Thomas (New York: Warner Books, 2000), 5-18; in Grave Predictions: Tales of Mankind’s Post-Apocalyptic, Dystopian and Disastrous Destiny. Ed. Drew [Andrew] Ford (Mineola, NY: Dover, 2016), 10-24; in Black Sci-Fi Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Stories (London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2021), 24-31; and in Voices from the Radium Age. Ed Joshua Glenn (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2022), 141-180; and the poem “A Hymn to the Peoples” (275-76) in both of which the importance of racial differences disappears.

PB - Harcourt, Brace and Howe CY - New York N1 -

“The Comet” (253-73) is rpt. in Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora. Ed. Sheree R. Thomas (New York: Warner Books, 2000), 5-18; in Grave Predictions: Tales of Mankind’s Post-Apocalyptic, Dystopian and Disastrous Destiny. Ed. Drew [Andrew] Ford (Mineola, NY: Dover, 2016), 10-24; in Black Sci-Fi Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Stories (London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2021), 24-31; and in Voices from the Radium Age. Ed Joshua Glenn (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2022), 141-180.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dead Men's Shoes or The One Hundred Per Cent Inheritance Tax Y1 - 1920 A1 - [John W.] [Hultberg] (1872-1951) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author KW - US author AB -

Collection of stories/essays reflecting various reforms. "Dead Men's Shoes or The One Hundred Per Cent Inheritance Tax. The Pro and Con Of It" (11-104) is concerned with the way that inheritance continues the power and influence of "dead men". "Putting a Meter on Your Windpipe" (105-12) and "Old Man Noah's Shoes" (113-26) are attacks on monopolies. The first concerns the control of breathable air; in the second Noah claims ownership of the world after the flood. "Happy Days in the Moon" (127-42) and "Old Satan Turns a Trick" (143-61) describe capitalist dystopias. "Democracy Come True" (162-245) is a cooperative eutopia set in Chicago in 2000.

PB - Dent Publishing Co CY - San Francisco, CA U3 -

Val de Mar [pseud.].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Democracy--False or True? A Prologue and Dream Y1 - 1920 A1 - Sir William Blake Richmond (1842-1921) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Detailed eutopia entitled "A Dream of England" (72-172). Democratic socialism. Decentralization (home rule for each county). Science. There are still classes, and there is continuing stress on the working class needing the right leaders and avoiding agitators.

PB - Cecil Palmer CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dennison Grant: A Novel of To-day Y1 - 1920 A1 - Robert [James Campbell] Stead (1880-1959) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Mostly family history and romance, but it includes a land settlement scheme that will bring about a better society.

PB - The Musson Book Co CY - Toronto, ON, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Doomed. A Startling Message to the People of Our Day, interwoven in an Antediluvian Romance of Two Old Worlds and Two Young Lovers, by Queen Metel and Prince Loab of Atlo, Re-incarnated in its Editors, Marian and Franklin Mayoe. By the Atlon Calendar, the Year 14,909; by Our Calendar the Year 1920 Y1 - 1920 A1 - [Frank] [Rosewater] (1856-1934) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Atlism, in which everyone must spend their entire income to promote production, brings eutopia. 

PB - Frank Rosewater, Publisher CY - New York U2 -

Illus. R. Emmett Owen.

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Queen Metel and Prince Loab of Atlo, Re-incarnated in its Editors, Marian and Franklin Mayoe [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Dream City Y1 - 1920 A1 - Unitas [pseud.] AB -

Christian socialist eutopia initially established as an intentional community, but it grew in numbers and prestige until it was possible to form a national government.

PB - Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Company CY - London U3 -

Unitas [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Fall of Atlantis" Y1 - 1920 A1 - G[ranville] Stanley Hall (1844-1924) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Begins with a brief description of the year 2000 in which there is high technology, but a loss of religious belief has produced something like a dystopia. This is followed by the description of the end of the eutopia of Atlantis through the failure of the people, particularly professional people. Satire on medicine, law, education, religion, and women.

JF - Recreations of a Psychologist PB - D. Appleton & Co. CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Golden Book of Springfield. Being the review of a book that will appear in the autumn of the year 2018, and an extended description of Springfield, Illinois, in that year Y1 - 1920 A1 - [Nicholas] Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia set in 2081 in Springfield, Illinois with a world-renowned University of Springfield at its core. Much on mysticism but some on the social system. Racial intermarriage. Drugs. A world government that is not presented entirely positively. Refers to 1919 Cram. See also 1909, 1913, 1914, and 1925 (2) Lindsay.

PB - Macmillan CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. Chicago: Charles H. Kerr, 1999 with an "Introduction" by Ron Sakolsky (xi-cxvii). See "The Golden Book of Springfield Containing a Brief Prospectus of a Book With Wings That Will Appear in Various Forms in Springfield, November, A.D. 2018." The Little Magazine 2nd imprint (1920) and 3rd imprint (1925): Both 109-24.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Gullible's Travels in Little-Brit Y1 - 1920 A1 - William Hodgson Burnett KW - Male author AB -

Satire on British politics and manners.

PB - Westall & Co CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Hermit of Chimaso Island" Y1 - 1920 A1 - Dr. C[harles] E[llsworth] Linton (1865-1930) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Sketchy technological eutopia.

JF - The Earthomotor and Other Stories PB - Statesman Pub. Co. CY - Salem, OR U1 -

Title on the spine is Earthmotor.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Moonward" Y1 - 1920 A1 - Mary Keyt Isham (1871-1947) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A trip to the moon in 1935 to escape an overpopulated, polluted, violent, dystopian Earth.

JF - Moonward and Other Orientations PB - np CY - (Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A New Robinson Crusoe. A New Version of His Life and Adventures With an Explanatory Note Y1 - 1920 A1 - [Henry] Gilson Gardner (1869-1935) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Purports to be a volume co-authored by Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) and Alexander Selkirk (1676-1721), generally considered to be the original of Robinson Crusoe. Presents the history of Crusoe’s island in economic terms, stressing the system of competition and exchange that results from trade with other islands. Ends with a revolution with the intention of establishing common ownership of land.

PB - Harcourt, Brace and Howe CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Reductio ad Absurdum" Y1 - 1920 A1 - Mary Keyt Isham (1871-1947) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Anti-socialist satire. No traffic laws because they interfered with freedom. No requirements for drivers because such requirements curtailed the freedom of "defectives".

JF - Moonward and Other Orientations PB - np CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Revelation of John Langdon. As Recorded by Him Y1 - 1920 AB -

Limited eutopian and dystopian elements, but mostly a story directed against organized religion, a struggle based on the replacement of supernaturalism with reason.

PB - The Truth Seeker Co CY - New York U3 -

Langdon, John [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Secret of Life: A Story of the Heavens Y1 - 1920 A1 - [Walter] [Richards] (b. 1864) KW - Male author AB -

Spiritualism. The solar system is in various stages of development, and there are other emerging planets in other solar systems. The eutopia is found on the tenth planet of the solar system and a detailed description of Heaven. There is a collection of manuscripts held privately that includes a substantial number of additional unpublished titles in a similar vein.

PB - Arthur H. Stockwell CY - London U3 -

The "Lesser Spirit" [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sweet Rocket Y1 - 1920 A1 - Mary Johnston (1870-1936) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Sweet Rocket is an estate/farm in Virginia that is in effect a religious, agrarian eutopia.

PB - Harper & Brothers CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Constable & Co., 1920.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Termitodoxa, or Biology and Society” Y1 - 1920 A1 - William Morton Wheeler (1865-1937) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

While the purpose of the essay is the illumination of the way a termite colony functions, it is done so through a letter from “Wee-Wee 43rd Neotenic King of the 8429th Dynasty of the Bellicose Termites” who describes the eutopia that is the colony with some disparaging comments on human society.

JF - Scientific Monthly VL - 10.2 N1 -

Rpt. in his Foibles of Insects and Men (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1928), 207-17; and Essays in Philosophical Biology. Selected by Professor G. W. Parker (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1939), 71-88. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Three Weeks Inside the Earth" Y1 - 1920 A1 - Dr. C[harles] E[llsworth] Linton (1865-1930) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Sketchy eutopia inside the earth with telepathy and advanced technology. No sin.

JF - The Earthomotor and Other Stories PB - Statesman Publ. Co. CY - Salem, OR U1 -

Title on the spine is Earthmotor.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - West Wind Drift Y1 - 1920 A1 - George Barr [Greaves Richard] McCutcheon (1866-1928) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia that evolves from a shipwreck on an isolated island. Many problems and internal conflicts, but eventually harmony is achieved, and the people are able to lead a comfortable life.

PB - Dodd Mead CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: A.L. Burt, 1920.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The White Dawn Y1 - 1920 A1 - [Ingeborg] Belle Hagen Winslow (1872-1956) KW - Female author AB -

Religious dystopia set inside the Earth where people descended from a Jew who cursed and spat on Christ were condemned to live without souls. The novel is set in Norway as it transitioned from the ancient gods to Christianity.

PB - Augsburg Publishing House CY - Minneapolis, MN U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The White Pope, Called "The Light Out of the East" Y1 - 1920 A1 - S[amuel] R[utherford] Crockett (1860-1914) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

A new Pope, rejected by his own church for his radical ideas, transforms Jerusalem and then the entire world into a eutopia. Peace and prosperity reign.

PB - Books Limited CY - Liverpool, Eng. N1 -

U.S. ed. as The Light Out of the East. New York: George H. Doran, 1920.

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U.S. ed. as The Light Out of the East. New York: George H. Doran, 1920.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Anymoon. With a Foreword by Harold Cox Y1 - 1919 A1 - Horace [William] Bleackley (1868-1931) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Anti-socialist, anti-egalitarian, anti-feminist dystopia

PB - John Lane, The Bodley Head/The John Lane Co. CY - London/New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Aristokia Y1 - 1919 A1 - A[lphonso] Washington Pezet (b. 1889) KW - Male author AB -

Humor set in an imaginary country. Contrasts an over-technological society (motorized shoes, food tablets) with a better, less mechanized society, which is then overthrown.

PB - The Century Co. CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Castle in the Air or The Might Be Land Y1 - 1919 A1 - Clara Gilbert Cole (1868-1956) KW - Female author AB -

Communist eutopia. "No buying and selling; only giving, taking and making" (2). Education mostly through play outdoors among flowers and gardens. Everyone works. No Parliament. No money.

PB - The Dreadnought Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Cause and Cure of the High Cost of Living. Reconstruction Program for Political, Social and Industrial Democracy Y1 - 1919 A1 - Henry Olerich (1851-1927) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A pamphlet describing a system of cooperative industrialism. See also 1893, 1915, 1923, and 1927 Olerich.

PB - Author CY - Omaha, NB U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Christmas 1969; The Kind of World in Which I Should Like It to Dawn" Y1 - 1919 A1 - W[alter] L[ionel] George (1882-1926) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. World community of nations; all nations republics. Nationalized industries. Technology. Rights of children. Education. No fashion.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Christmas House-Party in 1969 (Being extracts from the Diary of Samuel Pepys the Second)" Y1 - 1919 A1 - [John] Twells Brex (1874-1920) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on women in political and economic control.

JF - Pears' Christmas Annual (London) ER - TY - ABST T1 - City of Endless Night Y1 - 1919 A1 - Milo [Milton] Hastings (1884-1957) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. A remarkably accurate picture of a future fascist society in Berlin. The society is completely authoritarian, completely racist, and completely sexist. There is a tremendous emphasis on eugenics with marriages arranged by the state. Berlin is completely underground, and there is a constant war with free democracies outside. One emphasis in the work is the status of women, who are primarily used for breeding. In the end Berlin is defeated.

PB - Dodd, Mead CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. with an introduction “Milo Hastings: Prophet of Totalitarianism” by Sam Moskowitz (unpaged). Westport, CT: Hyperion Press, 1974. Originally published as "Children of 'Kultur'." True Story Magazine 1.1 - 7 (May - November 1919): 21-[26,] 83; 33-38, 88, 90, 92-94; 33-39, 90-92; 33-39, 80, 82-83; [September - October not seen;] 39-44, 81-82, 84-85, 97-92.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A City Without a Church Y1 - 1919 A1 - John Colwyn KW - Male author AB -

The revolution of 1938 leads, after a period without religion, to a realization of the need for religion.

PB - A.H. Stockwell CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Crucible Island; A Romance, An Adventure and an Experiment Y1 - 1919 A1 - Condé B[enoist] Pallen (1858-1929) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Anti-socialist dystopia showing weaknesses of a seemingly good society. The society had been established as an island prison for subversives but allowed to rule themselves and the initial depiction of the society implies that it is an entirely successfully socialist eutopia, but this is a centralized, state socialist system and those holding power use their position for their own advantage. 

PB - Manhattanville Press CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Harding & More, 1920.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Dark Cottage" Y1 - 1919 A1 - Mary Cholmondeley (1859-1925) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Eutopia in which a man who had been a relatively enlightened industrialist wakes up fifty years after being injured in World War I and is led to see how unenlightened he had actually been. Examples given are that he introduced electricity to his own estate but not, although easily able to do so, to his works, built houses for his workers but in an extremely unhealthy, swampy area because it was convenient to his factories, which were polluting the atmosphere, opposed women's suffrage, and generally opposed any legislation that would have improved the education, health, or working conditions of the lower classes. The eutopia, though, is still class based and the upper classes still have servants.

JF - Pears's Christmas Annual (London) N1 -

Rpt. in her The Romance of His Life and Other Romances (London: John Murray, 1921), 55-82. U.S. ed. (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1921), 55-82.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "England in 1919; Being an Extract From a School History of the Period published in 1969" Y1 - 1919 A1 - G[ilbert] K[eith] Chesterton (1874-1936) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

1919 seen as a dystopia called the period of the Plutocracy.

JF - Pear's Christmas Annual (London) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Fall: Being a True Account of What Happened in Paradise, for the Benefit of All Scandal-Mongers, With a New Interpretation of Sacred History, Vindicating Snakes and Apples Y1 - 1919 A1 - George Seibel (1872-1958) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia brought about by conquering the physical universe, such as controlling gravity and changing anything into gold. Men and women separated. Scientific control of procreation. No private property. No gods. Entire planet moved from Earth to Venus to assist the younger Venusians to civilization. Two malcontents, Adam and Eve, are left behind.

PB - The Lessing Co. CY - Pittsburgh, PA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Fifty Years of Peace 1919-1969" Y1 - 1919 A1 - [Henry] Powell Spring (1891-1950) KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia resulting from a nine-year peace conference. Christian, rational, and scientific. Disarmament in favor of the United Nations. World union and international democracy. Esperanto. 

JF - Trinity Review (University of Toronto, ON, Canada) VL - 31.4 N1 -

Repub. as "Utopia or Common Sense." In his The Peace Aims of Humanity (Winter Park, FL: The Orange Press, 1943), 177-91. Published as a pamphlet Winter Park, FL: Cultural World Center Assoc., 1945.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Further East Than Asia." A Romantic Adventure Y1 - 1919 A1 - Ward Muir (1878-1927) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Oriental tale of romance and adventure in which an apparently eutopian island of long life, produced by radium, is discovered. But the apparent eutopia is deeply flawed. Racist.

PB - Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Co. CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Heads of Cerberus" Y1 - 1919 A1 - [Gertrude Barrows] [Bennett] (1884-1948?). KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia set in a parallel Philadelphia in 2118. There is a corrupt government with many petty rules.

JF - Thrill Book (New York) VL - 2.4 - 3.2 N1 -

Repub. illus. Ric Binkley. Reading, PA: Polaris Press, 1952 with an "Introduction" by Lloyd Arthur Eshbach (13-16). Rpt. New York: Arno Press, 1978;  New York: Carroll & Graf, 1984 with an "Introduction" by Robert Weinberg ([15-18]); and New York: The Modern Library, 2019 with an Introduction by Naomi Alderman (vii-xi).

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Repub. illus. Ric Binkley.

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Francis Stevens [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "If Germany had won" Y1 - 1919 A1 - Stephen [Butler] Leacock (1869-1944) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Humor. The farcical dystopia created in the U.S. after Germany won World War I.

JF - The Hohenzollerns in America and other impossibilities PB - John Lane, the Bodley Head CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. as The Hohenzollerns in America With the Bolsheviks in Berlin and Other Impossibilities (New York: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1919), 127-33.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Land of Whereisit Y1 - 1919 A1 - Henry E[rnest] Boote (1868-1949). KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopian allegory in which God teaches lessons to the leaders of a country who are only concerned with maintaining their power and benefiting themselves.

PB - Judd Publishing Co CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Londoner's Dream on Returning from Petrograd" Y1 - 1919 A1 - John Cournos (1881-1966). KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Russian author KW - US author AB -

Anti-communist dystopia. The author was born in Russia and lived in the US from age ten, except for 1912-30, which he spent in England. The author contends that this is factual rather than fictional.

JF - The Nineteenth Century and After VL - 85 N1 -

Repub. as London Under the Bolsheviks: A Londoner's Dream on Returning from Petrograd. London: Russian Liberation Committee. No 4 of Russian Liberation Committee Publications, 1919.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Mind Machine" Y1 - 1919 A1 - Michael Williams KW - Male author AB -

Generally considered the first work to describe the dystopia brought about by a rogue artificial intelligence. 

JF - All-Story Weekly VL - 95.2 N1 -

Rpt. in Menace of the Machine: The Rise of AI in Classic Science Fiction. Ed. Mike [Michael Raymond Donald] Ashley (London: British Library, 2019), 75-113, with an editor’s note on 73. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A New Heaven Y1 - 1919 A1 - G[eorge] Warren Russell (1854/5-1937) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Heaven as a eutopia. Technically as well as spiritually advanced. The ability to determine a person's talent and a good educational system makes for eutopia. Intense mental activity. No money. 

PB - Methuen & Co. Ltd CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - New Town, A Proposal in Agricultural, Industrial, Educational, Civic and Social Reconstruction Y1 - 1919 A1 - W[illiam] R[avenscroft] Hughes, M.A. (b. 1880), ed. for The New Town Council KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Non-fiction presenting a detailed cooperative eutopia. Specifically, it proposes to establish a new country town, and a slip dated June 1921 tipped into the CtY copy says that “The proposals contained in this book are being put into operation at Welwyn Garden City. . . . .” Discusses industry, which must “enrich the lives of all associated with it. . .” (45), agriculture, education, which will include learning handicrafts and vocational skills in school workshops and adult education, and homes, which will include grouped cooperative homes, professional household services, and social life.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - New Zealand in 1980: A Glimpse Forward Y1 - 1919 A1 - Cha[rle]s August Wilson (1883-1962) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Brief socialist eutopia in which the society is highly advanced technically. Equality for women. Solar heat and light. Stress on reason. No tariffs. Government is always meeting--a People’s Council half men and half women. One representative for each thousand people. Science used for human betterment.

PB - Walsh Print CY - Auckland, New Zealand N1 -

Another version with the author's name as Charles A[ugustus] Wilson, F.R.A.I. was published as England in 1980: A Glimpse Forward. London: The Angus Press, 1936.

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Another version with the author's name as Charles A[ugustus] Wilson, F.R.A.I. was published as England in 1980: A Glimpse Forward. London: The Angus Press, 1936.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Our Temporary Civilization" Y1 - 1919 A1 - James Edmond (1859-1933) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Satire. The first section is a fairly straightforward description of the depletion of resources. The second part begins with the age of "Coal, Iron and Hurry" and projects that depletion into the very far future (the last date is 2744 followed by periods where dates are not knowable. The gradual degeneration of humanity. 

JF - The Lone Hand (Sydney, NSW, Australia) CY - Sydney VL - ns 9.3 - 4 (os 23.143-44) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Out of the Silence: A Romance" Y1 - 1919 A1 - Erle [Harold] Cox (1873-1950) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Flawed utopia. A past society had a highly developed, but authoritarian civilization with exceptional art and science . Explicitly racist and with a focus on eugenics, although the author of the Postscript in the Capricorn edition argues that the book is a warning against such thinking rather than supporting it. The argument is, essentially, that Cox is presenting the Eugenic Utopia as it would develop, which later became the goal of Nazi Germany, but that Cox intended it to be read as a dystopia. No direct evidence is presented, but it is a plausible interpretation. Survivors who had been put in suspended animation are discovered, which is initially perceived positively, but they are found to have no concern at all for humans, who they consider to be the lower beings.

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Rpt. Melbourne, VIC: Edward A. Vidler, [1925]; Sydney, NSW: Angus & Robertson, 1981; and Mt. Waverley, VIC, Australia: Aurealis Books/Chimaera Publications, 2010, with an “Introduction” by Van Ikin (ii-iv). U.K. edition London: John Hamilton, [1927]. U.S. edition New York: Rae D. Henkle, 1928. 4th edition Melbourne, VIC: Robertson & Mullens, 1932. 1947 edition by the same publisher, labeled a reprint, is, in fact, substantially revised, cut by 15% and with an added Prologue (vii-xxii). This edition reprinted Westport, CT: Hyperion Press, 1976. The edition published [Appleton, WI]: Capricorn Publishing, 2006 restores cuts and includes the “Prologue” from the 1947 edition (228-236), which makes this the first complete edition. It also includes “A Note on the Text” ([iii] and “Book Wrangler’s Postscript” The Intellectual Sources of Erle Cox’s Out of the Silence” by John Costello (237-[248]) A daily comic strip version by Hix [Reginald E. Hicks] was published in The Argus (August 4 - December 21, 1934), generally on page 2. Radio serial version on 2CH Sydney March 11 - June 10, 1940, and 3BD Melbourne April 7 - September 2, 1943.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The People of the Ruins; A Story of the Future" Y1 - 1919 A1 - Edward [Richard Buxton] Shanks (1892-1953) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A general strike followed by a revolution, fifty years of world war, and one hundred years of famine and disease produce a loss of technology and arts and craft and a resurgence of religion. Return to a more primitive life.

JF - The County Gentleman & Land and Water (London) VL - nos. 2997 - 3014 N1 -

Repub. with the subtitle A Story of the English Revolution and After. London: W. Collins Sons, 1920. U.S. ed. New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1920.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Plus Ultra" Y1 - 1919 A1 - Edward Lucas White (1866-1934) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Detailed eutopia stratified upon the basis of intelligence and contributions to society. Highly technological.

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Hand written manuscript at The Johns Hopkins University. Typescript at the Maryland Historical Society Library. Summary in A. Langley Searles, "'Plus Ultra': An Unknown Science-Fiction Utopia." Fantasy Commentator 4.2 - 5.2 (Winter 1979-80 - Winter 1984): 51-59; 162-69, 176-77; 240-42; 44-49; 100-05.

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PSt holds a copy of the typescript, some clippings made by White, Searle's notes for his summary, and the Fantasy Commentator.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Prophecy; The Human Community or The True Social Order Y1 - 1919 A1 - L[ouis] H[erman] Koepsel KW - Male author AB -

Detailed theocratic eutopia. An entire community meets to discuss world problems and establishes a committee to propose solutions to the problems. A new constitution is written. The entire community meets every seven days. Each person can have as much land as can be worked but must work six days a week. There are strict laws regarding morality, such as outlawing too tight clothes.

PB - Human Community CY - San Francisco, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Psychic Trio or Nations Reconciled Y1 - 1919 A1 - Charles Edmund DeLand (1854-1935) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The end of the book tells of the development of a reformed world order that will bring peace and prosperity to the entire world.

PB - Richard G. Badger The Gorham Press CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Queen of Life" Y1 - 1919 A1 - Homer Eon Flint (born Flindt, 1892-1924) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia. An apparently eutopian Venus continues conflict between men and women.

JF - Argosy-All Story Weekly (New York) VL - 100.3 N1 -

Rpt. in his The Lord of Death and The Queen of Life (New York: Ace Books, [1965]), 78-143. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Romance of Two Centuries. A Tale of the Year 2025 Y1 - 1919 A1 - Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie (1871-1940) KW - Scottish author KW - US author AB -

Sleeper wakes story. A controlled eutopia stressing efficiency and equality with extremely detailed regulations. Includes as an appendix an "International Calendar of Heroes" with each month dedicated to different types of heroes (368-69).

PB - The Platonist Press CY - Alpine, NJ U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Somewhere in Christendom Y1 - 1919 A1 - Evelyn [Jane] Sharp (1869-1955) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The novel describes a small country between two regularly warring large countries that establishes an egalitarian, Christian cooperative eutopia.

PB - George Allen & Unwin CY - London U5 -

L, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Story of the City of Works; A Community of Peace and Plenty Where Every Man is His Own Policeman. A New Order of Government. Anti-Socialistic. Free Street Cars and Telephones. No Middleman. No Capitalist Class. All Profit Accrues to Labor. Farm and City Life Conjoined Y1 - 1919 A1 - Fairfield, Frederick Pease KW - Male author AB -

A company town as eutopia. Every person is constantly under the surveillance of specially appointed people to ensure good behavior.

PB - [Author] CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Story of the Lost Planet or the Wonderful Submarine Y1 - 1919 A1 - Dominic[k] Healy (1896-1954?) KW - Australian author KW - Male author KW - Northern Ireland author AB -

There is a very brief description of a socialist eutopian society on a planet near Canopus, but the bulk of the 41 pages is concerned with the stupidities of the human race destroying itself and the Earth. Set in the future, there are a number of war-mongering dystopian societies briefly described.

PB - The Worker Trade Union Print CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia U5 -

A, M

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Universal Panacea in a Nick of Time. Intellectual Determination of Unity and Perfection The Only Complete Explanation of the Golden Rule First Proclamation of the Goldless Rule Ennobling Free-Will-Less Truth Enthroning Health and Justice. At the head of the title The True, The Beautiful, The Good "Man Know Thyself" and Final Era Science of Government Y1 - 1919 A1 - Nelson Dwight Sickels (b. 1859) KW - Male author AB -

Extremely detailed description of how to live and organize society but rambling and repetitive. Millennial.

PB - Sickels & Lindquist/Ptd. Rogers & Hall CY - Los Angeles, CA/Chicago, IL N1 -

All copies examined have Lindquist and Los Angeles crossed out and Chicago written in as location of the publisher.

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ICN

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Utopia" Y1 - 1919 A1 - Henry C[ottrell] Rowland (1874-1933) KW - Male author AB -

Playground for dull, prohibition-ridden US. Assumes that post-war America will continue prohibition and will become very pure and dull. Therefore, the author proposes ". . . to provide a gorgeous and well-ordered playground [in Haiti] where practically no form of physical or mental delight would be tabooed, but, on the contrary, furnished by the management on a magnificent scale. . . ." The only prohibition is violence.

JF - The Popular Magazine (New York) VL - 53 U5 -

DLC, L, MH

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Walled Towns Y1 - 1919 A1 - Ralph Adams Cram (1863-1942) KW - Male author AB -

Medieval eutopia--Although the author said he was not intending to write a eutopia, this essay presents a eutopia that is rural, with a guild system, crafts, a limit on profit, and a maximum of thirty hours work per week in mills. Closeness of church and state. Anti-democratic. Emphasis on the human scale and small communities. The author sees it as a prediction based on an interpretation of the past.

PB - Marshall Jones Co CY - Boston, MA N1 -

Rpt. Seattle, WA: Entropy Conservationists, [1987].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Beyond the Horizon Y1 - 1918 A1 - Fred B[rown] Morrill (1858-1949) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. System of voluntary cooperatives with no government and no weapons of destruction. Animals are no longer afraid of humans. No private property.

PB - Neale Publ. Co CY - New York U5 -

DLC, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Calno, The Super-Man. A Fictional Study of the Antichrist Y1 - 1918 A1 - Lewis Erwin Finney KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia stressing the antichrist.

PB - Ozark Pub. Co CY - Dallas, TX U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The City of the Second Life Y1 - 1918 A1 - Edwin H. Byington KW - Male author AB -

When a person dies on Earth, they appear on a distant planet where each person must re-live each year of their previous life in a house that reflects their moral character during that year. Details on the way the houses reflect the person during that year and the position of children and those killed in war.

PB - The Pilgrim Press CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Coöperative Commonwealth." Y1 - 1918 A1 - William Graham Sumner (1840-1910) ED - Albert Galloway Keller Editor KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A critique of intentional communities and cooperation in the form of a future newspaper.

JF - The Forgotten Man and Other Essays PB - Yale University Press/Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press CY - New Haven, CT/London U5 -

L, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Democracy Made Safe Y1 - 1918 A1 - Paul Harris Drake (b. 1889) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia will be brought about by abolishing money and capitalism.

PB - LeRoy Phillips CY - Boston, MA N1 -

Rpt. Boston, MA: The Four Seas Co., 1920

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Hathi, MH

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Earthians: From Cave Man in One Thousand to the Cave Man in Ten Thousand Y1 - 1918 A1 - [Simon] [Wardwell] KW - Male author AB -

Poem with a brief introduction. Recounts the history of the human race comparing it, unfavorably, with that of Mars, which has a limited population. See also his 1918 "Worms of The Earth".

PB - np CY - Np U3 -

By The Interplanetary Traveler A. Martian [pseud.]

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Trans. Benjaminus Glorianus [pseud.]

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CU-Riv

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Excerpts from the Crater of Gold; A Mysterious Manuscript Y1 - 1918 A1 - J. Calvin Mitchell KW - Male author AB -

Includes a description of the future United States where the people vote on a completely new Constitution on a regular basis. If no party wins a majority, the old Constitution remains in effect. A second volume was planned but apparently not published.

PB - Crater of Gold Publishing Co CY - Chicago, IL U2 -

Illus.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Fair Inez: A Romance of Australia Y1 - 1918 A1 - Douglas [Brooke Wheelton] Sladen (1856-1947) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Conservative eutopia set in 2000 A.D. Technological changes have produced few social changes. Argues that colonies produce better people. The novel ends with a new king, who had lived and worked in Australia and his Australian wife planning to change the monarchy into a more open and democratic institution.

PB - Hutchinson & Co CY - London N1 -

2nd ed. London: Hutchinson & Co., [1918].

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A, M, NZ

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Friend Island" Y1 - 1918 A1 - [Gertrude Barrows] [Bennett] (1884-1948?). KW - Female author AB -

Gender-role reversal satire.

JF - All-Story Weekly (New York) VL - 88.2 N1 -

Rpt. in Fantastic Novels Magazine 4.3 (September 1950): 110-16; in Under the Moons of Mars: A History and Anthology of "The Scientific Romance" in the Munsey Magazines, 1912-1920. Ed. Sam[uel] Moskowitz (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970), 125-36; and in New Eves: Science Fiction About Extraordinary Women of Today and Tomorrow. Ed. Janrae Frank, Jean Stine, and Forrest J. Ackerman (Stamford, CT: Longmeadow Press, 1994), 5-15 with an editors' note on 4; and in The Feminine Future: Early Science Fiction by Women Writers. Ed. Mike [Michael Raymond Donald] Ashley (Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2015), 152-63 with an editor’s note on 163.

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Francis Stevens [pseud.]

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DLC, Merril, PU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Kingdom of Content Y1 - 1918 A1 - [Charles Beresford] [Painter] (1878-1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Rule by trusts followed by revolution and war. A small group survive and create an Eden.

PB - Mills & Boon CY - London U3 -

Pan [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Meccania. The Super-State Y1 - 1918 A1 - Owen Gregory [pseud?] AB -

Authoritarian dystopia focusing on Germany (Meccania) written as if by a visitor from China. Every aspect of life is organized down to the smallest detail, the way one spends time must be reported weekly to the Time Department, and "The foundation of Meccanian law is that the private individual has no rights against the State" (42).

PB - Methuen & Co. CY - London U3 -

Gregory, Owen [pseud?]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mildred Carver, U.S.A. Y1 - 1918 A1 - Martha Bensley Bruère (1879-1953) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. Universal service produces an egalitarian system. Each person must serve a period of time in some labor for the country, which turns them into patriots as well as producing public works. The focus is on two very wealthy people and the way they become truly useful citizens by serving their required time, interacting with people from varied backgrounds, and doing useful work.

JF - Ladies Home Journal (Des Moines, IA) VL - 35-36 N1 -

Rpt. as Mildred Carver, U.S.A. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1919. Selections rpt. in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories by United States Women, 1836-1919. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler (London: Pandora Press, 1984), 218-32 with an editor’s note on 216-17; and different selections rpt. in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories By United States Women Before 1950. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler. 2nd ed. (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995), 195-211. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Millennium: A Prophetic Message to the Native Tribes of South Africa Y1 - 1918 A1 - Johanna Brandt (1876-1964) KW - Female author KW - German author KW - South African author AB -

Short version of a longer work. Brief description of the apocalypse, the Second Coming, and the millennium. Patronizing pamphlet directed at the Black majority telling them to not take advantage of the coming troubles to wreck revenge on the white minority. See also 1927 Brandt.

PB - [Rustica Press] CY - [Wynberg, South Africa] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The New Moon: A Romance of Reconstruction Y1 - 1918 A1 - [George] Oliver Onions (1873-1961) KW - Male author AB -

Postwar England has almost returned to a barbarian state. Stress on romance, but the rebuilding of a better society is also presented.

PB - Hodder and Stoughton CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Planeteer” Y1 - 1918 A1 - Homer Eon Flint (born Flindt, 1892-1924) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Earth is moved to near Jupiter to use Jupiter’s resources to replace Earth’s Depleted resources with, in the longer term, but only suggested, the creation of a eutopia. A sequel is “The King of Conserve Island.” All-Story Weekly 89.3 (October 12, 1918): 411-69 in which a group of people have chosen to isolate themselves on Earth with no contact with the changes brought about in the first story. It is suggested that they create a generally good society but, in the future, choose to contact the others.

JF - All-Story Weekly VL - 81.4 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Professor in Erin Y1 - 1918 A1 - L. [Charlotte Elizabeth] (known as "Lal" and Lilly) McManus (ca. 1850-1941) KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

Parallel history of Ireland as a eutopia developed from original Irish roots and based on the assumption that the Irish defeated the English at the Battle of Kinsale in 1602. As a result, Ireland becomes a eutopia with a monarchy. Much of the novel is mystery and romance

PB - M.H. Gill and Son CY - Dublin, Ireland N1 -

Originally serialized in Sinn Finn

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Tower Y1 - 1918 A1 - [Warwick Herbert] [Draper] (b. 1873) KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia brought about by a religious revival. Reform of the church followed by a return to a simpler life and craftsmanship, but also technologically advanced for the time period. Heavily influenced by William Morris (1834-96).

PB - Headley Bros CY - London N1 -

2nd ed. entitled The New Britain. London: Headley Bros. Publishers, 1919.

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Watchman [pseud.]

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DLC, NN

ER - TY - ABST T1 - What Not; A Prophetic Comedy Y1 - 1918 A1 - [Emilie] Rose Macauley (1881-1958) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Satire on bureaucracy. A Ministry of Brains is established concerned, among other things, to implement a eugenic policy to produce the most intelligent children. Rational social policy is in conflict with human needs and differences, and the rational social policy fails.

PB - Constable and Co. CY - London N1 -

Rpt. from a copy of the first edition. Bath, Eng.: Handheld Press, 2019, with an “Introduction” by Sarah Lonsdale (vii-xxx) and “Notes” by Kate Macdonald (187-95) including a note on 194-95 showing what was put in place of the original text. Rpt. without the subtitle from a copy of the second edition Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2022, with an “Introduction: Sordid Novels and Preposterous Masculine Fictions” by Matthew De Abaitua (xvii-xxviii) with no mention of the missing material beyond Macauley’s original vague note on xxix.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Women and the New Social State Y1 - 1918 A1 - John de Kay (1874-1938) KW - Male author KW - Swiss author AB -

Non-fiction. Socialist eutopia with traditional roles for women. Stress on the importance of a strong League of Nations.

PB - C.-A. Junger CY - Basle, Switzerland U4 -

No indication that it is a translation.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Worms of the Earth"Publisht on Mars by Interplanetary Association Year of Reason 7654321 Publisht on Earth by Interplanetary Association Year of Reason 1 Y1 - 1918 A1 - [Simon] [Wardwell] KW - Male author AB -

Poem describing the reality of the backward, dystopian Earth from the point of view of a vaguely described technologically and morally advanced Mars. 

PB - np CY - Np U3 -

 The Interplanetary Traveler A. Martian [pseud.]. Author of "The Earthians"

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - 1920: Dips into the Near Future Y1 - 1917 A1 - Lucian [pseud.] AB -

Satire on the possible effects of the attitude that World War I will be of long duration. For example, there will be involuntary euthanasia for the old in order to preserve the food supply. All of life subordinated to the continuing war effort.

PB - Headley Bros. CY - London N1 -

First published as a series of articles without any general title and without the pseudonym in The Nation as follows: "The Aged Service Act: 1920." 22.1 (October 6, 1917): 10-11; "Reprisals in 1920." 22.3 (October 20, 1917): 89-91; "The Laboratory of War-Truth: 1920." 22.4 (October 27, 1917): 118-19; "D.O.R.A. in 1920." 22.5 (November 3, 1917): 155-57; "The Military Service (Females) Act: 1920." 22.6 (November 10, 1917): 185-87; "War-Bondage: 1920." 22.7 (November 17, 1917): 239-41; "War Aims: 1920." 22.8 (November 24, 1917): 266-67; "The New Jerusalem: 1920." 22.11 (December 15, 1917): 377-79.

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Lucian [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - 20,000 Trails Under the Universe with the Cerebroscope. A Tale of Wonderful Adventures. A Protest Against the Principle of Death in Nature. The Gods, Nature and Man on Trial in God's Country Y1 - 1917 A1 - John J[oseph] Meyer (1873-1948) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Humanity in touch with Heaven. Most of the book is taken up with criticisms of contemporary life. There is some fairly standard "domestic heaven" and a few pages (134-37) describing the eutopia produced on Earth. Nationalism has ended; the Universal Truth Church has replaced all denominations; and most enterprises are publicly owned.

PB - Privately Ptd CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Australia A.D. 2000 or the Great Referendum Y1 - 1917 A1 - Sydney Glanville Fielding (1856-1930) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which Australia rejects Christianity.

PB - Wm. Andrews Ptg. Co CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "By the World Forgot": A Double Romance of the East and the West Y1 - 1917 A1 - Cyrus Townsend Brady (1861-1920) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Primarily romance but includes a lost race on an island in the South Pacific. There are eutopian aspects to the society on the island, like abundance without much labor, but the race is degenerating (except for one beautiful girl).

PB - A.C. McClurg CY - Chicago, IL U5 -

FTS, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Coming Polity: A Study in Reconstruction Y1 - 1917 A1 - Victor [Verasis] Branford (1863-1930) A1 - Patrick Geddes (1854-1932) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

First volume of a series concerned with post-war reconstruction. Most of the book is concerned with history, showing how the world has reached its current situation. The last chapter, “Summary and Conclusion--Regional Eutopias”, makes a distinction between Utopia and Dystopia and briefly develops a eutopia based on regionalism. That chapter and other material is dropped in the 2nd ed. This material is replaced with a section called “Practice,” which has three chapters, “The Renewing of Christendom,” “The Post-Germanic University,” and “From the Old State to the New,” with the last chapter proposing ideas similar to the “Summary” in the 1st ed. See also 1921 Branford.

PB - Williams and Norgate CY - London N1 -

New & enl. ed. London: Williams & Norgate, 1919.

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The name of the series, The Making of the Future, is at the head of the title.

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CtY, LLL

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Eldorado of Socialism, Communism and Anarchism; or a Trip to the Planet Jupiter Y1 - 1917 A1 - Rev. John Hugh Reynaert KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia of Christian socialism.

PB - [Reporter-Star Pub. Co.] CY - [Orlando, FL] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Federation of the World Y1 - 1917 A1 - Charles Conroy KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Short essay that includes some utopian sections on the advantages of world federalism.

PB - Author CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Her Invisible Spirit Mate: A Scientific Novel and Psychological Lessons on How to Make the World More Beautiful Y1 - 1917 A1 - Rev. Mrs. Charles Wilder Glass (b. 1874) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Spiritualist novel in which other planets are depicted as higher spiritually and better than Earth and an improved Earth is predicted after the war.

PB - Author CY - Los Angeles, CA U5 -

NN

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Katharist Book of Perfection Y1 - 1917 A1 - George Bessonet KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia in the form of a religious book that says that perfection is possible, but that perfection differs for adult and child, for men and women, and for “for each race and sub-race,” from which it follows that race mixing is to be avoided. Twelve “Laws of Perfection” are listed and most of the book elaborates on them.

PB - Katharist Publishing Society CY - Chicago, IL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Limit" Y1 - 1917 A1 - [Robert Coutts] [Armour] (1874-1958?) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Satire. Gender-role reversal set in 2676. Having returned to a set of villages, London is presented in eutopian terms.

JF - Red Magazine (London) VL - 34.204 U3 -

Reid Whitly [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Messiah of the Cylinder" Y1 - 1917 A1 - [Avigdor Rousseau] [Emanuel] (1879-1960) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Scientific dystopia. A leader uses science and religion to take control of the world. A successful revolt frees people, and the ending suggests that a better world is being created.

JF - Everybody's Magazine VL - 36 - 37 N1 -

Rpt. illus. Joseph Clement Coll. Chicago, IL: A .C. McClurg & Co., 1917; and illus. Joseph Clement Coll. Westport, CT: Hyperion Press, 1974, with an unpaged introduction, “A Neglected Masterpiece,” by Lester Del Rey, who characterizes it as an “anti-utopia (or dystopia,” written in opposition to H. G. Wells. U.K. ed. without the illus. as The Apostle of the Cylinder. London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1918]. A few libraries catalog the U.K. ed. as [1919?]. 

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Victor Rousseau [pseud.]

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L, O, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pleiades Club: Telegraphers’ Paradise on Planet Mars Y1 - 1917 A1 - Jeff W. Hayes (1853-1917) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The spirits of past telegraphers meet on Mars on the occasion of Abraham Lincoln’s birthday, Lincoln presiding, the Fourth of July, when the discuss the future of the telegraph, which includes radically improved conditions for the workers (a five hour workday twenty days a month, three free meals a day, retirement at thirty with a pension for five years, and generally being treated decently by management), followed by a number of chapters which are devoted to telegraphers’ tall tales and comments on current affairs on Earth.

PB - Multnomah Printing Co. CY - Portland, OR U5 -

Hathi

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Pretty Pass. A 30th Century Idyl" Y1 - 1917 A1 - [Robert Coutts] [Armour] (1874-1958?) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Satire of gender-role reversal. Weak men are given a harsh physical regime so that they can be good mates. Men who fail are workers.

JF - The Red Magazine (London) VL - 33.197 U3 -

Coutts Brisbane [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Social Problem Solved, Without Either Socialism or Capitalism. The Coming Golden Age. An Outgrowth of Remedying Rather Than Abandoning Our Industrial System Y1 - 1917 A1 - Frank Rosewater (1856-1934) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia will be achieved by following the author's monetary principles, which here he calls Proprietarism, which is a system in which everyone is their own proprietor and that requires that money be circulated. 

PB - Author CY - New York U1 -

The book has been cataloged as The Coming Golden Age, which reflects the title on the spine.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Unprecedented Invasion of Altruria Y1 - 1917 A1 - Don C[arlos] Seitz (1862-1935) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Laissez faire eutopia.

PB - Rustic Press CY - Cos Cobb, VT N1 -

Supposed to have been reprinted from the New York Evening Post (April 7, 1917) but not found there.

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MnU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Utopia" Y1 - 1917 A1 - Eve [pseud.] AB -

A brief description of a eutopian hospital for the wounded of the First World War. It would be in a village in Sussex near the Downs and a river. It would be designed to attract the men out of the wards into the countryside. No telephones or girls so that the men could really rest.

JF - The Gazette of the 3rd London General Hospital VL - 3.1 U3 -

Eve [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Utopian Way Y1 - 1917 A1 - Veiby, John KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia based on religion and decentralization, with the county the basic unit of government. See also 1923 Veiby and his Jingo. South Bend, IN: John Veiby, 1927 which is an argument for a national religion. 

PB - Author CY - South Bend, IN U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Among the Immortals In the Land of Desire. A Glimpse of the Beyond Y1 - 1916 A1 - Mary A[nn] Fisher (b. 1839) KW - Female author AB -

Mostly romance, but there is a description of paradise as a eutopia that includes a discussion of the social institutions of paradise. Young people who die can fulfill the potential they had but were unable to realize in life, and they can study with the greats of the past. Those who have not married in life can marry in heaven, those who die before their spouses can also marry, and women can have children. There are banks, publishers, and most of the activities of life are available in heaven.

PB - Shakespeare Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - And It Came to Pass Y1 - 1916 A1 - [Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger] [Gull] (1874-1923) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Essentially a religious novel, but a brief section (234-42) describes the conservative post-World War I eutopia brought about by the development of a "United Council of Empire" that brought the countries of the British Empire together. This eliminated liberal education, which was replaced by vocational education and common sense. Trade unionism eliminated. Piece-work and short contracts replaced union contracts; this produced prosperity for all. Feudalism reinstated.

PB - Jarrold & Sons CY - London U3 -

Guy Thorne [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Beyond Thirty” Y1 - 1916 A1 - Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The work is set two hundred years in the future in which the U.S. stayed out of World War 1 and European had destroyed itself and returned to a barbarian state while the Americas had developed into a technological eutopia. Although no one from the Americas had passed the 30th meridian East of the 175th meridian West until a group of Americans did accidentally. After fighting the barbarians and being rescued by the Chinese, the world will in future be open again.

JF - All Around Magazine VL - 11.4 N1 -

Rpt. Fantasy Press, 1955; in Beyond Thirty and The Man-Eater (1957), Lincoln, NB: Bison Books, 2001; and as The Lost Continent. Original title Beyond Thirty. New York: Ace Books, 1963. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Birth of Universal Brotherhood Y1 - 1916 A1 - Anna Ratner Shapiro KW - Female author AB -

A few pages of a eutopia at the end. Christianity, education. Some spiritualism.

PB - Barton Publishing Co CY - Kansas City, MO U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Building a Socialist City" Y1 - 1916 A1 - A[lice] Constance Austin (1862-1955) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Detailed eutopia showing what the Llano Community was supposed to become.

JF - The Western Comrade (Llano, CA) VL - 4.6 - 12, 5.2 U1 -

Title changes to “The Socialist City” with 4.9 (January 1917).

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CtY

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Courtship Superlative" Y1 - 1916 A1 - C. MacLean Savage AB -

Mostly adventure and romance but set in a eugenically oriented future.

JF - All-Story (New York) VL - 62.1 - 4 U5 -

DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Dawn of White Australasia (Being the Remarkable Adventures of Peter Ecoores Van Bu)" Y1 - 1916 A1 - George Forbes KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Includes a section (172-83 in the book) on two islands, one of men and one of women. Both islands follow the rules set down by the "wise ones" (men) who live of a mountain on the female island, sleep naked on the ground, and eat no meat, fish, or live vegetables. The men spend three months each year with the women on the women's island and the men provide their wives with all the necessities of life. Unmarried women did all the work on the women's island.

JF - Daily Telegraph (Sydney, NSW, Australia) VL - no. 11726 - 11751 N1 -

Rpt. as Adventures in Southern Seas, a Tale of the Sixteenth Century. Sydney, NSW, Australia: The Australasian Pub. Co., 1920. U.K. ed. London: Harrap, 1920.

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Rpt. as Adventures in Southern Seas, a Tale of the Sixteenth Century. Sydney, NSW, Australia: The Australasian Pub. Co., 1920.

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A, ATL, Monash

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Five Generations Hence Y1 - 1916 A1 - Mrs. Lillian B. Jones (1880-1965) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Eutopia. Mostly on race relations in the U. S. but includes a vision of a future Africa that is civilized and prosperous. The eutopia is brought about by African-Americans returning to Africa.

PB - Ptd. by Dotson-Jones Company CY - Fort Worth, TX N1 -

Rpt. ed. and annotated by the editor with notes on 96-102 in Recovering Five Generations Hence: The Life and Writings of Lillian Jones Horace. Ed. Karen Kossie-Chernyshev (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2013), 1-96. Selections rpt. in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories By United States Women Before 1950. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler. 2nd ed. (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995), 176-88 with an editor’s note on 175-76. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "How They Were Denobled" Y1 - 1916 A1 - [Charlotte Perkins] [Gilman] (1860-1935) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Satire on the "servant question" in which twenty-five members of the nobility find themselves in a castle without servants.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Hundredth Wave. A Novel Written to Accomplish Two Strongly Interlinked Purposes Y1 - 1916 A1 - Grantly Standerson KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The Society of Progress works throughout human history to build a religious eutopia that does not contradict science. It is particularly opposed to Mormonism, and Salt Lake City is destroyed in an earthquake. The first of the “Two Strongly Interlinked Purposes” is “to arouse spiritually thousands of devout, honest, followers of a false religion [Mormonism] to the real degradation of their religion, and the other as high a purpose as ever can move a human being” [the search for Truth] (5).

PB - Charles H. Kerr & Co. CY - Chicago, IL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "If the Germans Came" Y1 - 1916 A1 - [Mary] [Carbery] KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

Satirical dystopia. The first letter describes the general lack of welcome that the Governor received, except from Sinn Fein, which had supported the German invasion and now expected to be rewarded. On the principle "once a traitor, always a traitor" all Sinn Fein members and their families are immediately shipped to Germany and given small holdings or enrolled in the German Army. To clear the slums, all the patients in a large mental hospital are gassed and cremated, the slum dwellers moved into the hospital, and the slums torn down. The second letter includes such reforms as requiring all the Irish to rise early.

JF - Irish Times N1 -

Rev. as The Germans in Cork: Being the Letters of His Excellency The Baron von Kartoffel (Military Governor of Cork in the Year 1918) and Others. Dublin, Ireland: The Talbot Press/London: T. Fisher Unwin, [1917].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "June 6, 2016" Y1 - 1916 A1 - George Allan England (1877-1936) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A love story set in a technological eutopia that has greater gender equality but with many of the same issues remaining.

JF - Colliers (New York) VL - 57.6 N1 -

Rpt. in When Women Rule. Ed. Sam[uel] Moskowitz (New York: Walker, 1972), 72-94.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Meleager; A Fantasy Y1 - 1916 A1 - H[erbert] M[illingchamp] Vaughan (1870-1948) KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

Dystopia. Eugenics--defective children are killed. Hygiene. Class system (King, The Hierarchy, The Nobility, The Mercantile Class, The Populace, and Indentured servants or slaves). Women have no political rights.

PB - Martin Secker CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Peaceful Revolution Y1 - 1916 A1 - Gentle Joseph [pseud.] AB -

Eutopia. State controlled economic system with thorough integration of women into an egalitarian society. Equal vote based on equal education.

PB - Ernest J. Adams CY - Bath, Eng. U3 -

Joseph Gentle [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - State Socialism After the War; An Exposition of Complete State Socialism. What It Is: How It Would Work Y1 - 1916 A1 - Thomas J. Hughes (b. 1865) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. Detailed exposition of how a system of complete governmental ownership of property, except personal effects, would work.

PB - George W. Jacobs and Company CY - Philadelphia, PA N1 -

Later ed. subtitled A Retrospect of Reconstruction After the War. Rev. ed. Dayton, OH: New Era Pub. Co., 1919. 2nd rev. ed. adds Embracing a Greater Democracy, and Founded on the Teaching of Christ to 1919 subtitle. London: John Bale, Sons & Danielsson, 1924. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Surplus Woman" Y1 - 1916 A1 - [Charlotte Perkins] [Gilman] (1860-1935) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A solution to what the women who are left without families, widowed, or without men to marry as a result of all the men killed in the war. The proposal is, like so many of Gilman's, is for women to go into business, with the difference here that they do into business together in a Women's Economic Alliance to provide services for a town and housing for the women. See also her "Women After the War." The Forerunner (New York) 7.7 (July 1916): 173-77. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Through Gates of Pearl: A Vision of the Heaven-Life Y1 - 1916 A1 - Augusta Albertson KW - Female author AB -

Heaven as eutopia as experienced by those who achieve it. Presented partially through the different gates by which it is entered, such as the children's gate, the martyr's gate, the gate of gentle service, etc. and partially through descriptions of the heaven entered.

PB - Fleming H. Revell CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The United States of the World; An Utopian Essay Towards a Better Ordering of the Affairs of Men Y1 - 1916 A1 - Trygaeus [pseud.] AB -

Eutopia. Eugenics. World government. Stress on the means of avoiding war.

PB - George Routledge & Sons CY - London U3 -

Trygaeus [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Vision of the Future Y1 - 1916 A1 - Richard Marvin Chapman KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia of a future society based on science and eugenics.

PB - The Cosmopolitan Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "With Her in Ourland" Y1 - 1916 A1 - [Charlotte Perkins] [Gilman] (1860-1935) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Continuation of 1915 Gilman in which one of the couples tours and comments on world conditions and then more specifically on the U.S. The woman from Herland concludes that she could not have a child in the U.S. She wants to return to Herland and hopes for a boy. 

JF - The Forerunner (New York) VL - 7 N1 -

Serial rpt. in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Utopian Novels: "Moving the Mountain," "Herland," and "With Her in Ourland". Ed. Minna Doskow (Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999), 270-387. First book publication as With Her in Ourland. Sequel to Herland. Ed. Mary Jo Deegan and Michael R. Hill (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997), 59-193. Excerpts published in The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Reader. Ed. Ann J. Lane (New York: Pantheon Books, 1980), 200-08; and in Carol Farley Kessler, Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Her Progress Toward Utopia With Selected Writings (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995), 242-52.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Women of the Future Y1 - 1916 A1 - Meta Stern Lilienthal (1876-1948) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Pamphlet describing the better society that socialism will bring about emphasizing the changed position of women. With everyone a worker, everyone will be able to work at what most interests them and change work as their interests change, women will not be limited to the home, and most domestic work will be done collectively. Everyone will have a good education and the right training for their work. No children working. There will be no male sex privilege. Marriage will be based on love and divorce will be easy. High quality child-care readily available.

PB - The Rand School of Social Science CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "1925": The Story of a Fatal Peace Y1 - 1915 A1 - [Richard Horatio] Edgar Wallace (1875-1932) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Description of the dystopia that will come about if Germany is not completely subjugated after the war. Since Germany was not disarmed at the end of the war, it increased the armaments of its navy and plans to attack England and then America. The novel ends with the beginning of the invasion.

PB - George Newnes CY - London N1 -

Rpt. as separately paged four-page supplements to The War of the Nations (London) 7.78 - 86 (February 19 - April 15, 1916) (AR, L). The War of the Nations was the author’s history of World War I, which was issued weekly. At the head of all installments is the following: “One of the most successful books of the War is Mr. Edgar Wallace’s ‘“1925’”: the Story of a Fatal Peace.’ The purpose Mr. Wallace, who is the author of ‘The War of the Nations,’ had in view in writing ‘1925’ was to bring home to readers the inevitable consequence of ending the war in any other way than by the complete defeat of Germany and the destruction of Prussian militarism. There are many people who are not alive to the certain terrible sequel of an unfortunate peace. The story is one of the most powerful and enthralling that Mr. Wallace has ever written. It will be continued in ‘The War of the Nations’ from week to week.”

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Air Trust Y1 - 1915 A1 - George Allan England (1877-1936) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. A trust gains control of the air and enslaves humankind, but it is overthrown. For a work using a similar idea, see 1897 Mills, “The Aerial Brickyard.”

PB - Phil Wagner CY - St. Louis, MO N1 -

Rpt. Westport, CT: Hyperion Press, 1976. Originally published in The National Rip-Saw (January - October 1915) as “The Story of the Air Trust.”

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Constitution for the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth Y1 - 1915 AB -

An extremely detailed utopia based on the need for “an Industrial and Economic world-wide Constitution” (1). Proposes the gradual nationalization through purchase of industries as they grow “into a trust, monopoly or combine” (2) that will “own all the means of production and distribution” and “guarantee State employment State employment to all. . . (3). Same income to men and women paid in time vouchers with all goods priced on the time taken to produce them. Includes a description of a Parliament with a House of Industries and a People’s Chamber, a system of Boards of Management. Support for widows and children, free medical care, free education. Details on taxation. These details followed by a substantial section on Christ’s teachings (12-27).

PB - Johnston, Fear & Kingham, Printers CY - Melbourne, Vic, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Drop in Infinity Y1 - 1915 A1 - Gerald Grogan (1884-1918) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Colonization of a new world with the novel all on the early stages of development, but it ends with something like a eutopia of a simple, fairly primitive life.

PB - John Lane The Bodley Head/John Lane Co./Bell & Cockburn CY - London/New York/Toronto, ON, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Fall of a Nation. A Sequel to the Birth of a Nation Y1 - 1915 A1 - Thomas [Frederick] Dixon [Jr.] (1864-1946) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the United States is defeated by Germany and internal subversion. The purpose the novel is to argue for military preparedness.

PB - D. Appleton and Co. CY - New York N1 -

Originally published in The National Sunday Magazine (1915 - 1916), which was published with Sunday newspapers throughout the U.S. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Herland" Y1 - 1915 A1 - [Charlotte Perkins] [Gilman] (1860-1935) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Feminist eutopia on an island inhabited only by women and girl children. Stress on sisterhood. Parthenogenesis. Deep concern for the physical and mental health of the children and educating them appropriately. No poverty. No punishment, which has been replaced by treatment. There are strong environmental themes, but animals have been generally eliminated. The novel is told from the point of view of one of three men who discover Herland and marry three Herland women. See also the sequel 1916 Gilman. 

JF - The Forerunner (New York) VL - 6 N1 -

First book publication New York: Pantheon Books, 1979. Serial rpt. in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Utopian Novels: "Moving the Mountain," "Herland," and "With Her in Ourland". Ed. Minna Doskow (Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999), 150-269. Excerpts published in The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Reader. Ed. Ann J. Lane (New York: Pantheon Books, 1980), 189-99; and in Carol Farley Kessler, Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Her Progress Toward Utopia With Selected Writings (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995), 229-41.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Ideal Army" Y1 - 1915 A1 - Strozzi [pseud.] AB -

Poem describing an ideal army without many rules, optional parades, automatic leave, packs held aloft by balloons, and so forth.

JF - The Gasper VL - no. 7 U3 -

Strozzi [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "John Jones's Dollar" Y1 - 1915 A1 - Harry Stephen Keeler (1890-1967) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Scientific eutopia. Democratic Socialist. Some humor.

JF - The Black Cat (Boston, MA) VL - 20.11 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - King of Kulturia Y1 - 1915 A1 - W[illiam] Hugh Higginbottom (1881-1937) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

An anti-German satire describing an attempt to control artistic production. The Greek gods are awakened, wreak havoc, and are put back to sleep.

PB - The Walter Scott Company CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Mania of the Nations on the Planet Mars and Its Terrific Consequences. A Combination of Fun and Wisdom Y1 - 1915 A1 - [James Howard] [Calisch] (1863-1926) KW - Dutch author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on human foibles using Mars. Religion. Focus on religion and nationalism. 

PB - The Denker Publishers CY - New York U3 -

A. Calmadenker [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Mark of the Beast" Y1 - 1915 A1 - Sydney Watson KW - Male author AB -

The rise of Antichrist and the dystopia produced, ending in Armageddon (See Revelation 16) and the return of Christ. See also his In the Twinkling of an Eye. London: William Nicholson & Sons, [1916]. Rpt. Edinburgh, Scot.: B. McCall Barbour, 1971, which shows the advent of the Antichrist.

PB - W. Nicholson CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. Los Angeles, CA: The Biola Book Room, Bible Institute of Los Angeles, 1918. Rpt. New York: Fleming H. Revell, [1933].

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Millionaire Socialist or the Cure for Poverty Y1 - 1915 A1 - [Joseph R.] [Renner] KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Short didactic novel describing a successful socialist colony. Its success forces Britain and then the rest of the world to adopt socialism.

PB - Watkins, Tyler & Tolan CY - Wellington, New Zealand U3 -

Poneke [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Modern Gulliver's Travels: A Voyage to Babyland" Y1 - 1915 A1 - John R[ussell] Corydell (1848-1924) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A crusty, puritanical descendent of Gulliver visits a eutopia where children are taught about their bodies from an early age.

JF - Physical Culture (New York) VL - 34.4 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Modern Paradise. An Outline or Story of how Some of the Cultured People will probably live, work and Organize in the Near Future Y1 - 1915 A1 - Henry Olerich (1851-1927) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Another version of 1893 Olerich which has a considerable amount on the technology, the factory that the community will run, and the labor checks and how they are used. Heavily illustrated. The short version is mostly on the generation by wind and water, storage, and use of electricity. 

PB - Equality Pub. Co CY - Omaha, NB N1 -

Rpt. [Charleston, SC]: NABU Press, 2010. A short version (28 pp) was published as Modern Paradise: The Model Home.--Solutions of the Social Problem. Future Greatness of Electricity.--Proposed Experiment in Social Science.--An Earthly Eden and How to Attain It.--A Unique Power Plant. Wonderful System of Education. Elegantly Illustrated [Subtitle on the cover--Grandest Dwelling Place on Earth. Elegantly Illustrated]. Omaha, NB: Author, [1915].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The New Northland Y1 - 1915 A1 - L[ouis] P[ope] Gratacap (1851-1917) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Lost race dystopia. Most of the book is represented on an added title page as Krocker Land: A Romance of Discovery. By Alfred Erickson, Prof. Hlmath Bjornsen, Antoine Goritz, [and] Spruce Hopkins. The Narrative of Alfred Erickson. Edited by Azaziel Link. This is the story of an exploratory trip in the North and the discovery of the luxurious Valley of Rasselas in Krocker Land, with its capitol city of Radiumopolis. Krocker Land has a large population described as Eskimos or Mongolians who are dominated by a population of small, highly intelligent scientists with large heads.

PB - Thomas Benton CY - New York U2 -

With 16 Designs by Albert Operti.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Paradise Found or The Superman Found Out in Three Acts Y1 - 1915 A1 - Allen Upward (1863-1926) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopian satire in which two hundred years in the future, George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) awakes in a world based on a misreading of his ideas. The British Empire has collapsed, and England is under a corrupt Indian Empire. Canada is part of the U.S. Australia is controlled by Aborigines. South African natives are cannibals. In England, doctors are in power, and the entire system is corrupt.

PB - Houghton Mifflin CY - Boston, MA U1 -

Jacket title as reported by Cambridge University Library--The adventures of Bernard Shaw in a Shavian world. George Locke lists an acting edition, probably never published, with the title Paradise Found or The Superman Found OutA Joke at Everybody's Expense in Three Acts. By Saint George [pseud.].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Reign of the Prince of Peace Y1 - 1915 A1 - Richard Hayes McCartney KW - Male author AB -

160 page poem describing the eutopia brought about by the millennium and the Second Coming. See also 1921 McCartney.

PB - Charles C. Cook CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Romance in Starland: A Scientific Novel Y1 - 1915 A1 - Rev. Mrs. Charles Wilder Glass (b. 1874) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Includes a visit to planets, including eutopias on Venus, Saturn, and Jupiter. On Venus there is no war or sin. Simple life. Women are unable to give birth to more than two children. Saturn is home to "angelic missionaries". On Jupiter there is no need for money and people communicate telepathically.

PB - New Herald Publishing Co CY - Los Angeles, CA N1 -

Bound separately paged in her Romance in Starland and Other Stories. [Los Angeles, CA: Author, 192?].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Uncle Sam Banker 1910-1940. Published by the Author Y1 - 1915 A1 - James A[rthur] Fulton KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia in which a new public banking system brings general prosperity. Includes a "Summary of Legislative and Administrative Policies Outlined" (285-86) keyed to the text.

PB - Hutchinson & Broadbent CY - McKeesport, PA U1 -

The cover adds the subtitle A Bit of History and gives the author's full name.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Upsidonia Y1 - 1915 A1 - [Arthur Hammond] [Marshall] (1866-1934) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire of reversal in the tradition of 1872 Butler. In this case the reversal concerns wealth, which is considered undesirable. Those of high status life poorly and those of low status live in luxury.

PB - Stanley Paul CY - London U3 -

Archibald Marshall [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Virgin’s Treasure: A Romance of the Tropics Y1 - 1915 A1 - [Amelia] Louise Gerard (1878-1979) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The novel is mostly romance and adventure but ends in a religious allegory in which a man struggles past the Tomb of Buried Hopes, the Tomb of Dead Desires, and the Plain of Despair and gets temporarily lost in the Mountains of Self-Abasement before winning through.

PB - Mills & Boon CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Mills & Boon, [1919?].  245 pp.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The White Man's Burden, A Satirical Forecast Y1 - 1915 A1 - [Roger Sherman] [Tracy] (1841-1926) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Set in 5027 with Africa a completely Black and Christian eutopia. All the races have advanced except the Caucasian, which continues its old, dystopian ways and initiates a race war, which it loses.

PB - Gorham Press CY - Boston, MA N1 -

Rpt. Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, 1972.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Windmills: A Book of Fables Y1 - 1915 A1 - Gilbert Cannan (1884-1955) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Two utopias--the first starts as a Robinsonade in "Samways Island" but concludes as a eutopia stressing world peace as "Ultimus." The second, "Gynecologia," is a typical gender-role reversal story. Much heavy-handed satire in both.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Wireless Messages from Other Worlds Y1 - 1915 A1 - Eva (Love-Light) Harrison KW - Female author AB -

Spiritualism with other planets more advanced than Earth.

PB - L.N. Fowler CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - 2010 Y1 - 1914 A1 - [Frederic] [Carrel] (1869-1945) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Mechanical improvement of brains leads to eutopia. Stress is on the struggle to get the brains accepted.

PB - T. Werner Laurie CY - London U3 -

The Author of "The Adventures of John Johns" [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "An Argument" Y1 - 1914 A1 - [Nicholas] Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The argument is between "The Voice of the Man Impatient with Visions and Utopias" and "The Rhymer's Reply: Incense and Splendor" and is presented as two poems under those titles. The former takes an anti-utopian position, and the latter replies with the hope for a coming eutopia. See also 1909, 1913, 1920, and 1925 (2) Lindsay.

JF - The Congo and Other Poems PB - Macmillan Co. CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in The Poetry of Vachel Lindsay complete & with Lindsay’s drawings. Ed Dennis Camp. 2 vols. (Peoria, IL: Spoon River Poetry Press, 1984), 1: 194-95. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Darkness and Dawn Y1 - 1914 A1 - George Allan England (1877-1936) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Much of the novel is a post-catastrophe dystopia with a young couple apparently alone struggling to survive, then in conflict with other survivors, but the novel ends depicting the beginnings of a new egalitarian, peaceful eutopian society.

PB - Small, Maynard CY - Boston, MA N1 -

Rpt. Westport, CT: Hyperion Press, 1974 with unpaged “The Fantastic in Fiction” by the author, originally published as “Facts About Fantasy.” The Story World (July 1923). Originally serialized as “Darkness and Dawn.” The Cavalier 10. 4 (January 1912): 621-34; The Cavalier and the Scrap Book 11.1 - 3 (January 6 - 20, 1912): 169-85, 321-39, 521-33; “Beyond the Great Oblivion.” The Cavalier 24.1 - 25.2 (January 4 - February 8, 1913): 1-34, 215-32, 434-52, 645-65; 115-34, 272-92; and “The Afterglow.” Cavalier 29.4 - 30.3 (June 14 - July 5, 1913): 577-607; 71-100, 250-78, 495-519. All three were rpt. in Famous Fantastic Mysteries 2.3 (August 1940: 6-78; 3.2 (June 1941): 6-105; 3.5 (December 1941): 6-94.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Dawn of Hope Y1 - 1914 A1 - Jas [James] Aggers KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author AB -

Mostly concerned with the problems of workers in contemporary New Zealand but includes a dream of Joshua Narrowgrove, a minister who has supported the wealthy and opposed socialism. The vision includes a brief description of a socialist eutopia. A sequelParson Narrowgroove, Socialist, was announced but apparently not published.

PB - The Worker Print CY - Wellington, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Elixir of Life or 2905 A.D. A Novel of the Far Future Y1 - 1914 A1 - Herbert Gubbins (1887-1950) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Contemplative, technological eutopia set a thousand years in the future. Described as an ". . . age of calm reflection and freedom from every form of physical exertion. . ." (73). Telepathy. Tablet food. Life-long clothes. Emphasis on electricity and solar energy (manufactured in concentrated form). International law. Accurate news. Trusts and syndicates control all the technology.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Equality Isle" Y1 - 1914 A1 - J. Brant AB -

Satire on women's rights in which two women and a man are shipwrecked together and the women end of fighting over him.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Equitania; or, The Land of Equity Y1 - 1914 A1 - Dr. W[alter] O. Henry (b. 1858) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Detailed eutopia. Equitania was founded by groups of Buddhists from India, Christians from the U.S., Muslims from Turkey, and Jews from England. Democracy. Freedom of religion. Traditional sex roles, but there is sex education. All natural resources and utilities owned by the government. Men earn enough to be able to comfortably support a family. Includes a constitution. The eutopia includes a lot on appropriate gender relations, the reasons for and dangers of prostitution, venereal disease, etc., mostly from the male viewpoint, and much on medical care. 

PB - Ptd. by Klopp & Bartlett CY - Omaha, NB N1 -

Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Felicians Y1 - 1914 A1 - Isaac Carlson KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Advanced society on Mars. Scientifically far ahead of Earth. No nationalism; one language. Birth in laboratories. All children raised by the state. All food made in laboratories. Music and dance are important.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Flying Inn Y1 - 1914 A1 - G[ilbert] K[eith] Chesterton (1874-1936) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Humor--Europe is part of the Moslem Empire, as it is spelled in the book. Effect of the closing of the pubs on the British.

PB - Methuen CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton. Ed. Iain T. Benson (San Francisco, CA: St. Ignatius Press, 2004), 7: 421-665. The songs found throughout the text were originally published in The New Witness as follows: “A Song Against Grocers.” 1.2 (November 14, 1912): 47; “The Song of the English.” 1.4 (November 28, 1912): 111; “A Song of Songs.” 1.7 (December 19, 1912): 207; “The Song of the Good Rich Man.” 1.9 (January 2, 1913): 271; “A Song of Strange Drinks.” 1.12 (January 23, 1913): 367; “Song of the Happy Vegetarians.” 1.13 (January 30, 1913): 398; “Song of the Temperance Hotel.” 1.14 (February 6, 1913): 436; “The Song of the Strange Ascetic.” 1.16 (February 20, 1913): 495; “The Song of the Second Deluge.” 1.17 (February 27, 1913): 527; “A Song of Dietetic Logic.” 2.45 (September 11, 1913): 591; “A Song of Temperance Reform.” 2.47 (September 25, 1913): 658; “The Song of the Alternative Explanations of the Curvature of the English Country Road.” 2.51 (October 23, 1913): 785; and “Song of the Dog named Quoodle.” 3.56 (November 27, 1913): 111. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Food": A Tragedy of the Future Y1 - 1914 A1 - William C[hurchill] de Mille (1878-1955) KW - Male author AB -

Farce. Food trust has so run up the price of food that there is a death penalty for killing a hen and even the rich eat little.

PB - Samuel French CY - New York U1 -

Staged in 1912 as Fifty Years From Now.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Forest Maiden Y1 - 1914 A1 - [Robert Ames] [Bennet] (1870-1954) KW - Male author AB -

A hunter discovers a Garden of Eden in British Columbia set up by a madman.

PB - Browne & Howell CY - Chicago, IL U3 -

Lee Robinet [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - On Heaven Y1 - 1914 A1 - [Joseph Leopold Ford Hermann Madox] [Hueffer] (1873-1939) KW - Male author AB -

Poem ascribed "To V[iolet] H[unt] who asked for a working Heaven." Heaven for lovers.

JF - Poetry: A Magazine of Verse VL - 4.3 N1 -

Rpt in Ford Madox Ford, On Heaven and Poems Written on Active Service (London: John Lane, The Bodley Head/New York: John Lane, 1918), 79-110. Rpt. in The Bodley Head Ford Madox Ford. 5 vols. (London: The Bodley Head, 1962), 1: 359-72.

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Ford Madox Ford [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Humanity and the Mysterious Knight Y1 - 1914 A1 - Mack Stauffer KW - Male author AB -

Political novel set in a future of extremes of poverty and wealth. Battle between labor and capital. Capital does better in the battle.

PB - Roxburgh Publishing Company CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "In 1999"; A Problem Play of the Future Y1 - 1914 A1 - William C[hurchill] de Mille (1878-1955) KW - Male author AB -

Gender-role reversal satire.

PB - Samuel French CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Man Who Rocked the Earth" Y1 - 1914 A1 - Arthur [Cheney] Train (1875-1945) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Mostly war and political intrigue, but at the beginning of the novel war has produced a world-wide dystopia with nations collapsing and significant sections of the world destroyed. The inventor of a new power threatens world destruction if peace does not come. After much adventure, the final chapter describes a world at peace under a Law of Humanity with an international police force. All weapons abolished.

JF - Saturday Evening Post VL - 187.20 - 22 N1 -

Repub. as by Train and Robert Williams Wood (1868-1955). Illus. Walter L. Greene and Woods. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1915. Rpt. New York: Arno Press, 1974. 

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Illus. Harry Raleigh. Rpt, Illus. Walter L. Greene and Robert William Woods (1868-1955). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Marriage of Souls: A Metaphysical Novel Y1 - 1914 A1 - Veni Cooper-Mathieson (b. 1867). KW - Female author AB -

Allegorical novel. Presents a future eutopian Australia based on religion.

PB - The Truth-Seeker Pub. Co. CY - Perth, WA, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Millennium: A Comedy of the Year 2000 Y1 - 1914 A1 - Upton [Beall] Sinclair (1878-1968) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eleven survivors of a catastrophe that kills everyone else in the world initially replicate the capitalist dystopia that is the U.S. in 2000, but most of the people come to reject that and by the end a socialist eutopia is suggested but not developed.

PB - Haldeman-Julius Co., 1924 CY - Girard, KS VL - 3 vols. Little Blue Book 590-592. N1 -

UK ed. London: T. Werner Laurie, 1929. Rpt. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2000 with an introduction by Carl Jensen (vii-xxvi). Originally published in The Appeal to Reason (1914).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Nature City: The Ideal Commonwealth Y1 - 1914 A1 - James W. Bucklin, LL.B. KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Democratic and single tax eutopia. The idea of a single tax on land originated with Henry George (1839-97). For Henry George's explanation of the single tax, see his Progress and Poverty. An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and Of Increase of Want With Increase of Wealth. The Remedy. San Francisco, CA: W.M. Hinton, 1879. Fiftieth Anniversary Ed. New York: The Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, 1929. Includes brief comments on Plato, More, Bacon, Campanella, Bellamy, and Gronlund.

PB - Author CY - Grand Junction, CO U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Once in a Blue Moon" Y1 - 1914 A1 - [Eimar Ultan] [O'Duffy] (1893-1935) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

A slight satire on the relations between Britain (Buljohn) and Ireland (Iernia) in which the former oppresses the later until cajoled into changing his ways.

JF - The National Student. A Magazine of Student Life. Conducted by the Students of University College, Dublin VL - 4.6 (16) U3 -

Colin Clout [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Paradise Found Y1 - 1914 A1 - M. A. Neff AB -

A series of worlds, including two eutopias, are described. In the first eutopia, called Paradise, the people live a very long life, have learned how to fly using an artificial apparatus attached to each individual, and live in trees, usually in communities. Everyone has to be married. An abundance of food and drink is available at all times, and the weather is always warm and pleasant. The second eutopia, Square Land, where everyone gets a "square deal" is described in more detail. Work six hours a day three days a week. Everyone is given a lot on which to build a small house. Details given of the electoral system.

PB - Author CY - Cincinnati, OH U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Perhaps: A Tale of Tomorrow Y1 - 1914 A1 - [Henry] Norman Davey (1888-1949) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A humorous novel describing the secession of the Isle of Wight from the U.K. 

PB - Methuen CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Practical Socialism! Demonstrated by Domestic Cooperation. A Sequel to Eureka! Y1 - 1914 A1 - Dr. Ridgway H. Lamb KW - Male author AB -

Sequel to 1913 Ridgway. Community now to be founded in Palmyra, New Jersey. Later will move to a tropical island. Suggests running a summer hotel and, later, a winter hotel. In this book, Lamb identifies himself as living in Palmyra, NJ. Part 5 is called "A Model Community for Practical People."

PB - Excelsior Press CY - Singapore U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Social Harmonism: Human Rights Under Functional Government Y1 - 1914 A1 - Holmes W[hittier] Merton KW - Male author AB -

Detailed eutopia in essay form. Gender equality. Equality of opportunity. System of functional or vocational political representation. There are Departments of Science, Industry, Wealth, Arts, Letters, Culture, Marriage, Familism, Home, Commerce, Rulership, and Religion.

PB - Author/L.N. Fowler CY - New York/London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Votes for Men" Y1 - 1914 A1 - Percy Atkinson KW - Male author AB -

Gender-role reversal satire in which any single man asked by a woman to marry her must do so or go to jail.

JF - All Story Cavalier Weekly VL - 34.3 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The War of the Worlds: A Tale of the Year 2,000 A.D. Y1 - 1914 A1 - Frederick Robinson KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia and dystopia. This short novel focuses on the antics of one man who becomes fabulously wealthy, is rejected by the woman he wants, and in vengeance brings about a war with the U.S. attacked by the nations of the Earth and Mars. While the US, which has grown to include all of North and Central America, wins, New York City is destroyed. Early in the book, the world is depicted in eutopian terms both politically and technologically with New York City free of crime as a result of eugenic advances. All other nations are depicted as advanced and the only reason for their cooperation against the U.S. is that it is even more advanced. In a note To the Reader the author says that the book originated as a scenario he wrote in connection with a stage spectacle he was preparing.

PB - [Author] CY - [Chicago, IL] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Work for All. A Co-operative Commonwealth based on Ruskin's Teaching Y1 - 1914 A1 - Albert Ernest Taber KW - Male author AB -

Cottage industry. Single tax. Little government. The first part is organized as a Platonic dialogue among past social reformers. Then the eutopia is shown by John Ruskin (1819-1900) to visitors from the past. The idea of a single tax on land originated with Henry George (1839-97). For Henry George's explanation of the single tax, see his Progress and Poverty. An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and Of Increase of Want With Increase of Wealth. The Remedy. San Francisco, CA: W.M. Hinton, 1879. Fiftieth Anniversary Ed. New York: The Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, 1929.

PB - Arthur Wigley CY - Leeds, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Allanforth Commune: The Triumph of Socialism Y1 - 1913 A1 - Findlay Watt KW - Male author AB -

A successful socialist intentional community in Scotland established by a rich man.

PB - National Labour Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The American Emperor. A Novel Y1 - 1913 A1 - William Salisbury (b. 1875) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An ambitious American financier creates a dystopia with himself as sole ruler.

PB - The Tabard Inn Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Angel Island Y1 - 1913 A1 - Inez Haynes Gillmore (1873-1970) KW - Brazilian author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Isolated island with shipwrecked men showing the range of male attitudes toward innocent winged-women. The men capture some of the women and cut their wings off and clip them every six months so that they cannot grow back. Girl children are born with wings, and the men plan to cut theirs off when they reach adulthood. The women revolt and win. A boy with wings is born.

PB - Phillips Pub. Co. CY - New York N1 -

1913 Gillmore, Inez Haynes (1873-1970). Angel Island. Illus. John Rae. New York: Phillips Pub. Co. Rpt. New York: Holt, 1914; in Famous Fantastic Mysteries 10.3 (February 1949): 10-90; New York: Arno Press, 1978; and New York: New American Library, 1988. U.K. ed. London: G. Bell and Sons, 1914.

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Famous Fantastic Mysteries version illus. Lawrence Sterne Stevens (1886-1960) 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Announcement. “A Twentieth Century Visit to Utopia” and “A Fantasy. Abstract of One Chapter from Part I of Utopia” Y1 - 1913 A1 - Oscar Morrill Heath KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An announcement that a book entitled “A Twentieth Century Visit to Utopia” in the near future together with a synopsis of its three sections, “Utopia,” “Neutralia,” and “Atlantis” together with an excerpt from “Utopia” (302-303). “The most striking features of Utopia are its school system and its unique eugenic process of courtship and marriage. The most interesting feature of Neutralia is that the inhabitants are all sex-less. The climax of interest is in Atlantis, where the women hold two-thirds of the executive, legislative, and judicial powers and the men one-third” (300). The author says that the first part was published “about four years ago,” but I have been unable to find it. Most of the book, which is dedicated to “Hygienic Motherhood,” is composed of stories that comment on sex relations through the ages and on Neptune. In the Preface “The Apology of an Iconoclast” he proposes that the wealthy buy the land and build “model tenement houses. Throughout he contends that motherhood is women’s sole purpose and men’s sole purpose is to support them, which is what they do in Atlantis.

JF - Composts of Tradition: A Book of Short Stories dealing with Traditional Sex and Domestic Situations PB - O. M. Morrill and Co. CY - Chicago, IL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Bee Wise" Y1 - 1913 A1 - [Charlotte Perkins] [Gilman] (1860-1935) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A group of women establish two communities, Beewise and Herways, which provide an economic base for transforming lives. 

JF - The Forerunner VL - 4.7 N1 -

Rpt. in The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Stories. Ed. Robert Shulman (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1995), 226-34; and in Carol Farley Kessler, Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Her Progress Toward Utopia with Selected Writings (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995), 211-19.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Between Eras: From Capitalism to Democracy. A Cycle of Conversations and Discourses with Occasional Side-Lights upon the Speakers Y1 - 1913 A1 - Albion W[oodbury] Small (1854-1926) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A fictional discussion people centering on a strike. Includes attacks on and defenses of capitalism with arguments about how to produce a better society. See George Mariz, “Towards a Socio-Historical Understanding of the Clerical-Utopian Novel.” Utopian Studies 14.1 (2003): 65-67. 

PB - Inter-collegiate Press CY - Kansas City, MO U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Brain City. A Fantasy Y1 - 1913 A1 - Marmaduke A. Prickett KW - Male author AB -

Allegory on reason and science using an ideal rational city.

PB - Museum Arts & Letters Assoc CY - London U1 -

Phantasy on the cover.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Coming Day: A Story of Inevitable Social and Industrial Progress Y1 - 1913 A1 - William T. Burkitt KW - Male author AB -

Emphasis on the evolution to eutopia through the union movement with one union, reform, and control of the product of labor the means.

PB - Drane's CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Court of Infant Relations" Y1 - 1913 A1 - [Charlotte Perkins] [Gilman] (1860-1935) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The Court of Infant Relations is an institution established in a future eutopia to protect the rights of children and ensure that parents are adequately trained in childcare. 

JF - The Forerunner VL - 4.1 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Eureka! The Embryo of An Ideal Society Y1 - 1913 A1 - Dr. Ridgway H. Lamb KW - Male author AB -

Proposes a cooperative colony to be founded by members of the Society of Friends (Quakers) in the southern Philippines to be called Palmyra. Spiritualism.

PB - Excelsior Press CY - Singapore U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Gay Rebellion Y1 - 1913 A1 - Robert W[illiam] Chambers (1865-1933) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on women's rights. Includes a women's community that tries to throw off male domination through the use of eugenics.

PB - D. Appleton CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Arno Press, 1975. 298 pp.

Parts published earlier in Hampton’s Magazine--“Amourette.” 26.5 (May 1911): 530-47; “A Matter of Eugenics.” 26.6 (June 1911): 675-86; “Pro Bono Publico: Further Developments in the Eugenist Suffragette Campaign.” 27.1 (July 1911): 19-30; “Lords of Creation.” 27.2 (August 1911): 131-43; and “A Daughter of the Revolution.” 27.3 (September 1911): 330-40 with 337-38 misnumbered as 339-336. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Goslings Y1 - 1913 A1 - J[ohn] D[avys] Beresford (1873-1947) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel describes the results of a plague that mostly affects men but not women. One focus is on a group of women who organize a generally successful community based on the principle that everyone earned a right through labor to a share in what could be produced. After contact is made with parts of the world less affected by the plague, the outlines are given of a future eutopia based on greater gender equality.

PB - William Heinemann CY - London N1 -

Rpt. Boston, MA/Brooklyn, NY: HiLo Books, 2013 with an “An Un-Cozy Atmosphere. Introduction” by Astra Taylor (13-17); and Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2022, with the introduction by Astra Taylor retitled “Introduction: Out of the Wreckage (xiii-xx). xx + 318 pp. U.S. ed. as A World of Women. New York: Macauley Co., 1913. Rpt. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2022, with the introduction by Astra Taylor retitled “Introduction: Out of the Wreckage (xiii-xx). xx + 318 pp.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "'Jesus is Here!'" Y1 - 1913 A1 - Charles M[onroe] Sheldon (1857-1946) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 1896-97 Sheldon with many of the same characters and set fifteen years after the events of that novel. In this novel, Jesus returns to earth and faces the same issues as the people did in In His Steps. But in this novel the issues are expanded to broader economic and political issues with an indication at the end the revitalized Christianity will bring about a worldwide eutopia.

JF - The Christian Herald (New York) PB - George H. Doran CY - New York VL - 36.43 - 37.6 N1 -

Rpt. as “Jesus is Here!” Continuing the Narrative of In His Steps (What Would Jesus Do?). New York: George H. Doran, 1914. U.K. ed. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1914. Rpt. Topeka, KS: Capper's Books, 1984. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Kingdom of Gold. Dedicated to "Whomsoever", November 1888. Rejected by the Builders of Books For a Quarter of a Century Y1 - 1913 A1 - Benjamin Fowler Carpenter KW - Male author AB -

The novel describes an attempt to establish a eutopia in which the richest will rule on an isolated island and ultimately the world. Much romance and intrigue. Fails.

PB - The Christopher House CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Laborers' Catechism: The Open Road to the New Utopia Y1 - 1913 A1 - Thomas Jefferson Sandford KW - Male author AB -

Literally a catechism with questions and answers. Proposes various reforms in the financial and political systems that produce a eutopia and provides apparently fictional examples of the results of specific reforms. A new voting system is designed to include all the proposed voting reforms of the time. New system of taxation at 2% per year on personal and real property.

PB - The Society for the True Republic CY - St. Paul, MN N1 -

2nd ed. The Laborers' Catechism: or The Wide Way to a New Republic. New York: The Society for the True Republic, 1914; 3rd ed 1916; 4th ed. 1928 New York with the 2nd ed. title.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Days; or, Time of the End! Nearness of "The Great and Dreadful Day." Tribulations to Come! Armageddon--A Descent on Palestine--The Dominions to the Rescue--Russia and Turkey to be Overthrown--"Babylon" and "The Beast"--Germany and Japan's Action. The Millennium! Christ's Coming--His Kingdom on Earth--Conversion of the Jews--"My Servant David" of England--His Reign at Jerusalem Y1 - 1913 A1 - J[ohn] Liddell Kelly (1850-1925) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Eutopia of British Israelism with the Second Coming of Christ being a member of the British Royal Family. 1928 will be the end of the current age and the beginning of the Reign of Righteousness.

PB - Ptd. for the Author by The Wanganui Chronicle CY - Wanganui, New Zealand N1 -

Rpt. in Heine and the Apocalypse. some poetry and prose by John Liddel Kelly. an edition prepared by F[rank] W[illiam] Nielsen Wright (Te Aro, Wellington, New Zealand: Cultural and Political Booklets, 1997), 55-103 with "An Afternote on Kelly's The Last Days by F[rank] W[illiam] Nielsen Wright" (104-111).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Little Wicket Gate. An Experience ex nihilo Y1 - 1913 A1 - Petworth, Algernon KW - Male author AB -

A eutopia with problems, primarily population pressure. Religion. Equality of the sexes. Marriage for life. Three-and-a-half-hours workday. No money. No prisons. Stress on self-expression.

PB - A.C. Fifield CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Looking Forward: A Study in Social Justice Looking to Co-operation as Offering the Solution of Difficulties Y1 - 1913 A1 - Isaac Roberts KW - Male author AB -

Cooperative eutopia presented through the reports of various conferences from the present until the establishment of the eutopia. Equal suffrage for women is the first step. Cooperation is seen as an expression of Christianity.

PB - Roberts & Co. CY - Philadelphia, PA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Looking Forward. The Strange Experience of the Rev. Fergus McCheyne Y1 - 1913 A1 - Rev. Hugh Pedley B.A., D.D. (1852-1923) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

The United Church of Canada, which was created in 1925, has brought about eutopia by becoming deeply involved in the community and leading on both practical and moral issues. 

PB - William Briggs CY - Toronto, ON, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Love of Meltha Laone; or, Beyond the Sun Y1 - 1913 A1 - David Leroy Stump KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

This is a much-expanded ed. of 1896 Stump at the end of which the protagonist's interest in Meltha Laone is mentioned but not developed. Detailed eutopia set on a planet on the opposite side of the sun. No money. Technology. “Everybody has all of everything they need and can use and consume. . .” (33). Stress on the family. No pets. Refers to a related work entitled A Romance of Two Planets that appears to be lost.

PB - Roxburgh Publishing Company CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Man Who Would Not Be King. Being the Adventures of one Fenimore Slavington, who was neither born great nor achieved greatness, but had greatness thrust upon him much to his own discomfort and the discomfort of many others Y1 - 1913 A1 - Sidney Dark (1874-1947) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Socialist dystopia brought about by too great a desire for efficiency, exemplified for the author by Sidney Webb (1859-1947). He prefers the approach of Robert Blatchford (see 1906-7 Blatchford) and says, "I believe that the real business of man is to live--to throw stones into pools and watch the ripples, to dream, to loaf, to love, to play the fool, to begin and never to end, to read poetry (if he cannot write it), to grow roses" (viii-ix).

PB - John Lane The Bodley Head CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Methods from Mars Y1 - 1913 A1 - L. A. Mawson AB -

Detailed eutopia on Mars, which had gone through a history like Earth's. World government. No cities, and Mars is one large garden with all available land put to use. No organized religion. Scientific planning. Technology. Only one class. No large families. Efficient transportation system. Eugenics with imperfect children killed. Compulsory service system. No money. Marriage is a personal agreement to contract to produce children.

PB - Arthur H. Stockwell CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - My Monks of Vagabondia Y1 - 1913 A1 - Andress [Small] Floyd (1873-1933 KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A series of stories about an intentional community called the Self Master Colony that works with people who are down-and-out. The stories are called "Fact-stories selected from the old files of Self master magazine" ([13]), and the magazine has many such stories including some not included in the book. The colony was established in Union Township, Union County, New Jersey in 1908 and lasted until 1938.

PB - [Author] CY - [Union, NJ] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pages for Young Socialists With Prefaces by H. M. Hyndman and J. Keir Hardie and Illustrations by Walter Crane Y1 - 1913 A1 - F[rederick] J[ames] Gould (1855-1938) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The book is a collection of essays and stories designed to describe socialism to children. Three of the stories. “The Stickleback” (74-78), “Red Tunic,” and “Thrift” (101-105) include brief descriptions of what a socialist eutopia would be like. In addition, there are essays on “Robert Owen” (183-87) and “William Morris” (194-97).

PB - National Labour Press CY - Manchester and London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Paradise on Earth Y1 - 1913 A1 - Jeff W. Hayes (1853-1917) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Portland, Oregon as a eutopia in 1999. Many technological advances. The status of women has improved, they vote, are elected to public office, are judges, and serve in all public positions, with half the police force women. Women may keep their name hyphenated with her husband's. No longer any need for prisons. Improved health with doctors public employees. Lawyers salaried. No horses. Indians disappearing. No alcohol. One universal language. Cremation.

JF - Paradise on Earth PB - F.W. Baltes and Company CY - Portland, OR N1 -

Book also entitled Portland, Oregon A.D. 1999 and Other Sketches. Portland, OR: F.W. Baltes and Company, 1913.

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Book also entitled Portland, Oregon A.D. 1999 and Other Sketches. Portland, OR: F.W. Baltes and Company, 1913.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Reintribement. Or, Proposals for a New Departure for the Human Race Y1 - 1913 A1 - Marshall H[enry] Hudson KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Detailed communal eutopia, described as a new tribe, including a provisional constitution. His The Standard of Reform: A Social-Economic Tale. By Multiplex [pseud.]. London: William Reeves, 1902 (DU-Ho) is a non-utopian exploration of social issues.

PB - Wright & Jaques CY - Auckland, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Shelter Island or The Power of God. A Novel. A Story of Truth Y1 - 1913 A1 - Ben H[iram] Pelton (b. 1854) KW - Male author AB -

Christian Science eutopia.

PB - The Pelton Pub. Co. CY - Denver, CO U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Soul of the City Receives the Gift of the Holy Spirit Y1 - 1913 A1 - [Nicholas] Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopian broadside with short poems and illustrations, each illustation depicting "the censers of angels" swinging over a Springfield, Illinois landmark. The eutopia suggests a socialist Illinois. See also 1909, 1914, 1920, and 1925 (2) Lindsay

PB - Author CY - Springfield, IL N1 -

Rpt. in his A Letter About My Four Programmes for Committees in Correspondence (Springfield, IL: Jefferson Printing Co., [1917]), 15-32. Also rpt. in his The Little Magazine both 2nd (1920) and 3rd (1925) imprints (49-64); and in The Poetry of Vachel Lindsay complete & with Lindsay's drawings. Ed Dennis Camp. 2 vols. (Peoria, IL: Spoon River Poetry Press, 1984), 1: 197-212.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Space: A Mirage Y1 - 1913 A1 - A[ndrew] W[illiam] Kerr (b. 1844). KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Detailed eutopia stressing religion, the simple life, and the family. Anti-democratic and has a constitutional monarchy. Equality rejected. Property is held privately but seen as in trust. Set on a planet near Sirius called Eretha.

PB - R. Grant and Son CY - Edinburgh, Scot. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Tales of a Traveller: Land Aversion in Acirema (How America Would Look To a Rational People.)" Y1 - 1913 AB -

Satire on American institutions from the perspective of the single tax. The entire issue of the journal is devoted to the single tax. For Henry George's explanation of the single tax, see his Progress and Poverty. An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and Of Increase of Want With Increase of Wealth. The Remedy. San Francisco, CA: W.M. Hinton, 1879. Fiftieth Anniversary Ed. New York: The Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, 1929.

JF - Everyman (London) VL - 9.7-8 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “What will Posterity Say of Us? An Address Delivered in the Darwin Hall, on October 1st, 1912” Y1 - 1913 A1 - The Hermit of Prague [pseud.] AB -

The lecture is given by a visitor from another planet who says that human beings have evolved similarly on thousands of worlds. From his description, Earth is very early in the process in that in all cases social evolution ultimately produces an egalitarian, cooperative society. The key step is getting over the stage where people believe in invisible beings.

JF - Bedrock: A Quarterly Review of Scientific Thought (London) VL - 1.3 U3 -

The Hermit of Prague [pseud].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - When William Came: A Story of London Under the Hohenzollerns Y1 - 1913 A1 - H[ector] H[ugh] Munro (Saki) (1870-1916) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of life in England after a German conquest.

PB - John Lane CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Viking, 1913. U.K. ed. rpt. London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1914; and Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin, 1941; in England Invaded: A Collection of Fantasy Fiction. Ed. Michael Moorcock (London: W.H. Allen, 1977), 79-245; and in The Battle of Dorking George Tomkyns Chesney & When William Came Saki. (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1997), 49-182. An excerpt was rpt. in The Great War with Germany, 1890-1914: Fictions and Fantasies of the War-to-come. Ed. I.F. Clarke (Liverpool, Eng.: Liverpool University Press, 1997), 368-77.

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By Saki [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The World Set Free; A Story of Mankind" Y1 - 1913 A1 - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Effect of abundant, cheap energy. Tremendous dislocation followed, in time, by a world-wide eutopia.

JF - The English Review VL - 16 - 17 N1 -

Three excerpts were published in Century Magazine--“A Trap to Catch the Sun” 87 (January 1914): 331-34; “The Last War in the World” 87 (February 1914): 566-85; and “The World Set Free” 87 (March 1914): 696-711. Repub. as The World Set Free: A Story of Mankind. London: Macmillan, 1914. Rpt. as The World Set Free. London: The Hogarth Press, 1988, with an  “Introduction” by Brian Aldiss [1-7]; and as The Last War. A World Set Free. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001. U.S. ed. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1914. Rpt. The World Set Free: A Story of Mankind Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2022, with an “Introduction: A Crash Louder Than Thunder” by Sarah Cole (xv-xiv), a “Preface” by Wells from 1921 (xxv-xxvii), and an “Afterword: Shall We Play the Game” by Joshua Glenn (243-252), originally published as “War and Peace Games: H. G. Wells’s battle against kriegspiel.” Cabinet Magazine, no. 45 (Spring 2012). https://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/45/glenn.php. Rpt. in The Works of H.G. Wells Atlantic Edition. Volume XXI The World Set Free and Other War Papers (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1926), 1-249. Except for later critical editions, The Atlantic Edition is generally considered the best text of Wells’s works.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - 1960 (A Retrospect) Y1 - 1912 A1 - James [Scott] Marshall A1 - Margaret Scott Marshall KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - South African author KW - US author AB -

Apartheid as a utopia with problems, but those problems are not related to the racial separation.

PB - J.F. Rowny Press CY - Los Angeles, CA N1 -

Also entitled World of Tomorrow. 3rd ed. Chico, CA: Author, 1954. First published in the Natal Advertiser (South Africa) (1912).

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Also entitled World of Tomorrow. 3rd ed. Chico, CA: Author, 1954. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "As Easy as A.B.C.; A Tale of 2150 A.D." Y1 - 1912 A1 - [Joseph] Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The future is presented with both eutopian and dystopian elements depending on one's perspective. The world is controlled by the Aerial Board of Control. People have rejected democracy and returned to an agricultural economy. A reduced birth rate means that the world population falling. See also 1909 Kipling, which is, in effect, Part I.

JF - London Magazine VL - 28 N1 -

Rpt. as As Easy as A. B. C. London: A.P. Watt & Son, 1912. On the first page of the text, “Part II” is added after the title. Repub. without the subtitle in his A Diversity of Creatures (London: Macmillan, 1917), 1-44; book rpt. ed. Paul Driver (Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin Books, 1987), 29-57. Rpt. as “As Easy as A.B.C. (1912)”. In The Mandalay Edition of the Works of Rudyard Kipling. A Diversity of Creatures Letters of Travel 1892-1913 (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1925), 3-40 [The two volumes are separately paged in the reprint]. Rpt. as “As Easy as ABC.” The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories. Ed. Tom Shippey (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1992), 33-58; and with the original title in Dystopia Utopia Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Tales (London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2016), 165-83. Rpt. from A Diversity of Creatures in With the Night Mail A Story of 2000 A.D. and “As Easy as A.B.C.” (Boston, MA and Brooklyn, NY: HiLo Books, 2012), 91-139 with “Thoughts About an Airship. Introduction” by Matthew De Abaitua (11-17) and “Down With The People. Afterword” by Bruce Sterling (140-44). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - As It Is In Heaven Y1 - 1912 A1 - Alfred Clark KW - Male author AB -

Domestic heaven written for children.

PB - Sampson Low, Marston CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Attraction of the Compass: A Romance of the North, Based Upon Facts of a Personal Experience Y1 - 1912 A1 - H[oward] L[ewis] Dodge (1867-1946) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Lost race eutopia emphasizing trial marriage.

PB - Dove & Courtney CY - Long Beach, CA N1 -

2nd ed. with an additional chapter as Attraction of the Compass: or the Blonde Eskimo: A Romance of the North, Based Upon Facts of a Personal Experience. Long Beach, CA: Seaside Printing Co., 1916. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Bush Y1 - 1912 A1 - Bernard [Patrick] O'Dowd (1866-1933) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Poem. The section on pages 66-69 describes Australia as the potential eutopia that all utopias have dreamed of, but the point is explicitly made that work still needs to be done to fulfill its promise. “She is Eutopia, she is Hy-Brasil” (62). 

PB - Thomas C. Lothian CY - Melbourne, VIC, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Child of the Dawn Y1 - 1912 A1 - Arthur Christopher Benson (1862-1925) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Heaven as a eutopia. No sex. No property. Reincarnation. Each person enters heaven with the understanding with which they left life, and work in heaven involves helping other souls to advance. There are souls who try to stop others advancing. Hell is described as a meaningless round of pleasure that becomes less and less satisfying.

PB - Smith, Elder and Company CY - London N1 -

U.S.. ed. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1912. Rpt. Indian Hills, CO: Falcon’s Wing Press, 1957. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Child of the Future: When the Stains are Washed Away” Y1 - 1912 A1 - Margaret McMillan (1860-1931) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

A brief eutopia depicting healthy young girls in a future where children are fed right, get good health care, and learn how to correctly care for themselves. The author includes one-paragraph exhortation to the Labour Party saying that it needs to learn what needs to be done to produce the eutopia.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Civil War of 1915 Y1 - 1912 A1 - J[ohn] Twells Brex (1874-1920) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Anti-socialist dystopia.

PB - C. Arthur Pearson CY - London N1 -

Originally serialized in The Sporting Times.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Crock of Gold Y1 - 1912 A1 - James Stephens (1882/4-1950) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Fantasy in which traditional Irish folklore interacts with the contemporary world. Contrast between fulfilled desire, represented by the god Pan (imported by Leprechauns whose gold had been stolen) and happiness (represented by the god Angus Óg). Ends with the suggestion that a eutopia will be created.

PB - Macmillan CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Macmillan, 1912. With twelve illustrations in colour and decorative headings and tailpieces by Thomas Mackenzie. New York: Macmillan, 1926. Rpt. without the color illustrations. Dublin, Ireland: Gill & Macmillan, 1995.

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1916 ed. illus. Thomas Mackenzie.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Day That Changed the World Y1 - 1912 A1 - [Edward Harold] [Begbie] (1871-1929) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Through what may or may not be a miracle, people change their behavior so they behave as good Christians should, which at least begins the process toward eutopia.

PB - Hodder and Stoughton CY - London U3 -

The Man Who Was Warned [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Derelict Empire Y1 - 1912 A1 - [Henry Crossley] [Irwin] KW - Male author AB -

An anti-socialist dystopia is the cause of the neglect of empire through abolishing the House of Lords, giving women the vote, giving Ireland Home Rule, and establishing a pension system, among other things.

PB - William Blackwood and Sons CY - Edinburgh, Scot. U3 -

Mark Time [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Downfall of Grabbum: An Ulster Fable Y1 - 1912 A1 - [Adela Elizabeth] [Orpen] (1855-1928) KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

Some satire, but the novel ends with a eutopia of peace and harmony brought about by forensic phrenology or reading the bumps on the heads of individuals.

PB - R. Carswell & Son CY - Belfast, Northern Ireland U3 -

An Ulster Clergyman [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dr. Blair: or, Irish Protestants under Home Rule Y1 - 1912 A1 - Rev. P. P. O'Sullivan (1874-1918) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Set in 2010 and depicts the crisis of religion due to falling attendance. The Roman Catholic Church conspires to get control of Ireland and is expelled. Spiritualism. Revival of religion followed by a eutopia of non-denominationalism, prosperity, and technological advances.

PB - Ptd. by R. Carswell CY - Belfast, Northern Ireland U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Election Petition Y1 - 1912 A1 - J. Cargill AB -

Satire set in 1950. Women had won the franchise and disenfranchised men. Sympathy had begun to return to men, and there is a legal case brought after an election in which a woman supported by men was elected.

PB - Samuel French CY - London VL - French's Acting edition 2423 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Flight to Freedom" Y1 - 1912 A1 - [Chancey Corey] [Brainerd] (1874-1922) A1 - [Edith Rathbone Jacobs] [Brainerd] (885-1922) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Two couples escape to the countryside where they create a new Eden.

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E. J. Rath [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Forecast" Y1 - 1912 A1 - Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1858-1919) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eutopian poem. World peace, eugenics, knowledge.

JF - The Englishman and Other Poems PB - Gay and Hancock CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Freed" Y1 - 1912 A1 - [Charlotte Perkins] [Gilman] (1860-1935) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia brought about by the loss of memory of the past and the disappearance of legal records and most books, except in the sciences. Humanity then recreates itself, establishes a world language and frees women to become full participants in the creation of knowledge. Women chose to limit the number of children to the number that could be supported. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - From Those in White Y1 - 1912 A1 - [Maud Lalita] [Johnson] KW - Female author AB -

Brief eutopia focusing on marriage and motherhood and emphasizing the continuing independence of partners. No private property. Simple life. Calls Utopia the land of realization.

PB - np CY - Laguna Beach, CA U3 -

Lalita [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Garden of Adam Y1 - 1912 A1 - Alf[red] Brunton Aitken KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Includes a brief socialist eutopia for Britain and the Empire (219-20).

PB - John Ouseley Ltd CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Great Analysis: A Plea for a Rational World-Order Y1 - 1912 A1 - [William] [Archer] (1856-1924) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Begins with an analysis of contemporary society by showing the effects on Yorkshire of a disaster that cuts it off from the rest of the world and illustrates how a better society could be built. The key is population control. This is then extended to the world.

PB - Methuen CY - London N1 -

[2nd ed.] under the author's name London: Williams & Norgate, 1931.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Great State: Essays in Construction Y1 - 1912 ED - [Francis Evelyn] [Warwick] (1861-1938) ED - G[eorge] R[obert] S[tirling] Taylor ED - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Male author AB -

Essays by different authors describing aspects of a future eutopia. While they were written for this volume, they do not all agree with each other.

PB - Harper and Bros CY - London N1 -

US ed. as Socialism and the Great State: Essays in Construction. New York: Harper & Bros., 1912. Includes H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, "The Past and the Great State" (1-46), also published as "Socialism." Harper's Magazine 124.740 - 741 (January - February 1912): 197-204, 403-09; and as "The Great State." In his An Englishman Looks at the World: Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters (London: Cassell and Co., 1914), 95-131; rpt. in The Works of H.G. Wells Atlantic Edition. Volume XVIII The Passionate Friends A Novel and Three Essays (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926), 405-44. [Wells published many other utopias; see the Author Index for a list]; The Countess of Warwick (Frances Evelyn Warwick), "The Great State and the Country-side" (47-66), also published in The Fortnightly Review, ns 91 (March 1, 1912): 427-36; L[eo] G[eorge] Chiozza Money, "Work in the Great State" (67-119); Ray Lankester, "The Making of New Knowledge" (121-39); C[harles] J[ohn] Bond, "Health and Healing in the Great State" (141-80); E[dmund] S[idney] P[ollock] Haynes, "Law and the Great State" (181-94); Cecil Chesterton, "Democracy and the Great State" (195-218); Cicely [Mary] Hamilton, "Women in the Great State" (219-47); Roger Fry, "The Artist in the Great State" (249-72); G[eorge] R[obert] S[tirling] Taylor, "The Present Development of the Great State" (273-99); Conrad Noel, "A Picture of the Church in the Great State" (301-23), which, as fiction, is separately listed in this bibliography; Herbert Trench, "The Growth of the Great State" (325-56); and Hugh P. Vowles, "The Tradition of the Great State" (357-78).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Heaven's Gate Opened. A Spirit's Message. A Series of Addresses given through the mediumship of E.M. Eldridge giving a brief description of the spheres beyond the earth Y1 - 1912 A1 - E. M. Eldridge AB -

Eutopia. Evolution through higher and higher spheres. Describes homes and occupations. Includes Hell as a dystopia.

PB - Clarke & Satchell CY - Leicester, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Her Memories" Y1 - 1912 A1 - [Charlotte Perkins] [Gilman] (1860-1935) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A eutopia in which a large apartment block in New York City is designed to include cooperative housekeeping, pre-school and early schooling, and places for public activities and entertainment. 

JF - The Forerunner VL - 3.8 N1 -

Rpt. in Carol Farley Kessler's Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Her Progress Toward Utopia With Selected Writings (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995), 174-81.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - An Individualist's Utopia Y1 - 1912 A1 - J[oseph] H[iam] Levy (1838-1913) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eugenics, technology, and the simple life. The eutopia is brought about by people choosing to have fewer children.

PB - Lawrence Nelson CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lady Ermyntrude and the Plumber; A Love Tale of MCMXX Y1 - 1912 A1 - Percy [Arthur Perceval] Fendall (1850-1917) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - French author KW - Male author AB -

The Great Compulsory Work Act requires that everyone work. For example, the monarch is paid by the job for ceremonial duties, and the Queen takes in paying guests. No House of Lords. Illegal to give credit.

PB - S. Swift CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: S. Swift, 1919

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Life--the Jade Y1 - 1912 A1 - Martin H[enry] Potter (1871-1955) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia brought about by the discovery of a substance that granted immortality. Set between its discovery in 1921 and the rediscovery of the need to love and bear children in 2021.

PB - Everett & Co. CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lover’s Baedeker and Guide to Arcady Y1 - 1912 A1 - Carolyn Wells (1862-1942) KW - Female author AB -

Humorous eutopia describing the joys and pitfalls of love. Arkady, the capital and chief city of Arcadia, is “the Mecca of all Lovers” (1). In Dan Cupid’s Heartware shop, broken hearts can be repaired while you wait (54). 

PB - Frederick A. Stokes Co. CY - New York U2 -

Illus. A.D. Blashfield. Maps. George W. Hood. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Myriam and the Mystic Brotherhood Y1 - 1912 A1 - Maude Lesseuer Howard KW - Female author AB -

Occult novel in which a group of spiritually advanced people are invited to assist governments and help create a eutopia of peace and prosperity. Not much detail on the eutopia.

PB - John Wurtele Lovell CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. Elkhart, IN: Occult Publishing Co., 1915.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The New Gulliver" Y1 - 1912 A1 - Barry [Eric Odell] Pain (1864-1928) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Two class-society in which the lower class is bred as slaves to the upper class. The upper class is sexless, long-lived, and lives underground. Stress on moderation and safety. High technology. Live on pills and water.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Night Land: A Love Tale Y1 - 1912 A1 - William Hope Hodgson (1875-1918) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Far future dystopia after the death of the sun. Generally classified as a horror novel. The remaining people live inside large, fortified redoubts that are surrounded by various horrors. The novel describes the adventures of a young man who rescues a young woman from a failing redoubt.

PB - Eveleigh Nash CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Ostrich for the Defense Y1 - 1912 A1 - William H. Hile (1869-1943) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Mostly adventure but includes a lost race eutopia depicting a cooperative system based on the principles of the Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers for cooperation and other well-known cooperative schemes.

PB - Geo. H. Ellis Co CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Philip Dru: Administrator. A Story of Tomorrow 1920-1935 Y1 - 1912 A1 - [Edward Mandell] [House] (1858-1938) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia after a civil war in the U.S. between the corrupt plutocracy and those supporting the citizenry as a whole. The U.S. system is reformed under the leadership of a man who takes the title "Administrator of the Republic". Reforms include votes for women, a graduated income tax, national rather than state and local laws, radical reduction in the number of judges, and elimination of the ability of the Supreme Court to pass on the constitutionality of laws, among other things. Includes a new national constitution.

PB - B.W. Huebsch CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. Appleton, WI: Robert Welch University Press, 1998 with a "Foreword" (i-xi) by William Norman Grigg, "Publisher's Appendices" (251-75), and an "Index" (276-82). The added material presents the book as seriously undermining the U.S. political system.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Picture of the Church in the Great State" Y1 - 1912 A1 - Rev. Conrad [le Despenser Roden] Noel (1869-1942) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Fiction set about 2000. The Church of England will encompass most Christian groups in England and will be more democratic. The church has been disestablished, but there is a movement to have it re-established. New saints include Thomas More (1478-1535), who was actually canonized twenty years later by the Roman Catholic Church, and John Ball (c. 1338-81), the English Lollard priest involved in the Peasant's Revolt of 1381 (See 1886-87 Morris). The church stresses a balanced life, including a healthy sex life. There is a description of a cathedral, which includes chapels for different groups within the faith, including a Chapel of Our Lady of Health and a Chapel of Santa Claus, for children.

JF - The Great State: Essays in Construction PB - Harper and Bros. CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. as Socialism and the Great State: Essays in Construction. New York: Harper & Bros., 1912.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Program of Radical Democracy" Y1 - 1912 A1 - J[ames] Mckeen Cattell (1860-1940) ED - J. McKeen Cattell KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Essay outlining the basis for a eutopia with, among other provisions, universal suffrage, including children; the abolition of limitation on the powers of both national and state governments; progressive income tax on individuals and corporations; conversion of the army into local police and the navy into a mercantile marine; international arbitration; free medical care; pensions; and the eight-hour workday and minimum wage.

JF - The Popular Science Monthly (New York) VL - 80 U5 -

Hathi

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Prophet. A Novel Y1 - 1912 A1 - [H.E.] [Newman] AB -

A standard anti-socialist dystopia is overcome through a religious revival. World federation.

PB - Broadway Pub. Co. CY - New York U3 -

N [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Red Hand of Ulster Y1 - 1912 A1 - [James Owen] [Hannay] (1865-1950) KW - Male author AB -

Humor. Stress on conflict with Britain. Ulster wants independence but not "Home Rule". Britain wants to get rid of the Irish.

PB - Smith, Elder & Co. CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Hodder & Stoughton/George H. Doran, 1912. Rpt. Shannon, Ireland: Irish University Press, 1972.

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George A. Birmingham [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Rejected Planet: An Irishman's Story of a World Without a Woman" Y1 - 1912 A1 - John Fleming Wilson (1877-1922) KW - Male author AB -

Satire in which a man creates a new supposedly ideal planet with no women after he is rejected by the woman he loves. When she accepts him, he rejects the planet.

JF - Pearson's Magazine VL - 33 N1 -

Rpt. in Worlds Apart: An Anthology in Facsimile [Cover subtitle An Anthology of Interplanetary Fiction]. Ed. George Locke (London: Cornmarket Reprints, 1972), 28-34.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Rosaleen O'Hara: A Romance of Ireland Y1 - 1912 A1 - Joseph Hocking (1860-1932) KW - Male author AB -

Home rule will be temporarily Rome, rule but the real Ireland will emerge.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ruth's Marriage in Mars: A Scientific Novel Y1 - 1912 A1 - Rev. Mrs. Charles Wilder Glass (b. 1874) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Spiritualist novel in which Mars is depicted as a place where true love flourishes. The novel also describes various dystopian regions.

PB - Author CY - Los Angeles, CA N1 -

Bound separately paged in her Romance in Starland and Other Stories. [Los Angeles, CA: Author, 192?].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Scarlet Plague" Y1 - 1912 A1 - Jack [John Griffith] London (1876-1916) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe (pandemic/plague) dystopia in which the oldest survivor, who had been a Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley, is still trying to tell his uncomprehending grandchildren of the wonders of the past. Resonates with 1949 Stewart.

JF - The London Magazine N1 -

Rpt. illus. Gordon Grant. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1915; illus. Alexander Leydenfrost (1888-1961) in Famous Fantastic Mysteries 10.3 (February 1949): 92-118; and in Curious Fragments: Jack London’s Fantasy Fiction. Ed. Dale L. Walker (Post Washington, NY: National University Publications/Kennkat [sic] Press, 1975), 156-97 with an editor's note on 155-56; and in The Science Fiction of Jack London: An Anthology. Ed. Richard Gid Powers (Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1975), separately paged.

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Macmillan ed. illus. Gordon Grant (1875-1962)

Famous Fantastic Mysteries version illus. Alexander Leydenfrost (1888-1961)

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Spectres of Night and Morning Light Y1 - 1912 A1 - J[oseph] E[dward] Paynter (1868-1960) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

While mostly a love and mystery story wrapped up in discussions about religion and spiritualism, the novel also includes the hollow earth, which is the abode of angels, and a description of the Garden of Wisdom that followed upon Eden.

PB - Every Where Publishing Co. CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Strange Land" Y1 - 1912 A1 - [Charlotte Perkins] [Gilman] (1860-1935) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia about a country with the goal of making all people better and the country more beautiful. They reject capitalism.

JF - The Forerunner VL - 3.8 N1 -

Rpt. in Carol Farley Kessler's Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Her Progress Toward Utopia With Selected Writings (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995), 182-85; and rpt. abbreviated as "A Certain Land." Woman's Journal (February 8, 1913): 42.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Superwoman" Y1 - 1912 A1 - Miriam Michelson (1870-1942) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A typical, wealthy American male chauvinist ends up on an unknown island inhabited by Amazonian women and effeminate men, although, in this case, the women are presented positively. The editor compares the story to Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "Herland" (1915).

JF - Smart Set. A Magazine of Cleverness VL - 37.4 UR - 978-0-8143-4608-2 N1 -

Rpt. in The Superwoman and Other Writings. Ed. Lori Harrison-Kahan (Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 2019), 55-135, with an “Introduction: Miriam Michelson, Frontier Feminist” by the editor (1-54).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Thaumát-Oahspe Y1 - 1912 A1 - J. Nelson Jones AB -

Although there is some original material, the book is mostly a summary of 1882 Oahspe by John Ballou Newbrough (1828?-91), whose picture is the frontispiece. Oahspe is a eutopia presented as a religious text and was the basis of Faithism, which now has believers in many countries.

PB - J.C. Stephens Pty. Ltd CY - Melbourne, VIC, Australia N1 -

The cover says, "Partly reprinted from Articles that appeared in the Melbourne, VIC, Australia 'Harbinger of Light'."

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Trip to the North Pole and Beyond to Civilization Y1 - 1912 A1 - Dewitt F. Lewis ED - E. Z. Ernst KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Almost all property owned by the Industrial Exchange Association in order to eliminate wasteful competition. Little government.

PB - Industrial Exchange CY - Linwood, KS U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Under Home Rule. A Novel Y1 - 1912 A1 - William Palmer KW - Male author AB -

Anti-Irish, but particularly anti-Roman Catholic, dystopia describing the horrors of Home Rule. Stresses the need to expel the Roman Catholic Church from Ireland and ends, that having been done, with Ireland now a "happy and prosperous" part of the U.K. (168).

PB - Baines & Scarsbrook CY - London U1 -

Cover adds Home Rule Means Roman Ascendancy. Home Rule Means Civil War. Home Rule Will Break the Empire.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Utopia Achieved: A Novel of the Future Y1 - 1912 A1 - Herman Hine Brinsmade KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia set in 1960. Many reforms, particularly in diet, which is primarily vegetarian. The Federal Bureau of Health provides education, ensures that food is pure, and offers free medical care with a stress on prevention. Advances in technology. Five-hour workday. Single tax ensures prosperity. The idea of a single tax on land originated with Henry George (1839-1897). For Henry George's explanation of the single tax, see his Progress and Poverty. An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and Of Increase of Want With Increase of Wealth. The Remedy. San Francisco, CA: W.M. Hinton, 1879. Fiftieth Anniversary Ed. New York: The Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, 1929.

PB - Broadway Pub. Co. CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971.

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Cover by Maurer [probably Alfred Henry Maurer (1868-1932).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - What Auckland Might Be Or; A Tribute From France Y1 - 1912 A1 - Mrs. S. V Irwin KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

Redesign of Auckland to be like Paris.

PB - J. Buelens & Co CY - [Auckland, New Zealand] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - When Dreams Come True Y1 - 1912 A1 - Ritter Brown KW - Male author AB -

Lost race Incan eutopia in the last chapter.

PB - Desmond FitzGerald CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - 5000 A.D. A Review and an Excursion. Read Before ye Sette of Odd Volumes at Oddenino's Imperial Restaurant on Jan. 24th, 1911 Y1 - 1911 A1 - Ralph [Sidney Albert] Straus (1892-1950) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Pages 39-56 presents a eutopia based on the samurai of 1905 Wells. Pages 9-39 gives a survey of previous literature on utopias.

PB - Privately ptd. CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Answer Y1 - 1911 A1 - William James Chidley (1860-1916) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Natural food (fruit and nuts), no hot drinks, nudity. Has an odd notion of coitus, which should take place when the penis is not erect. No alcohol, tobacco, or opium. If we live his way, we will produce a eutopia. No war, no quarrels. Proposes gardens be set aside for young lovers in the Spring and early Summer. The poor, weak, criminal, and stupid "should be fed, sheltered, and treated with kindness and consideration" (195). "Class distinctions, money-making, ambition, violence, warfare and pride" are "a weakness or perversion" (195). The author was regularly imprisoned or incarcerated in mental hospitals for advocating his beliefs. 

PB - Sydney D. Smith CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia N1 -

2nd ed. Sydney, NSW, Australia: Sydney D. Smith, 1914. Rpt. in Bill Hornadge, Chidley’s Answer to the Sex Problem (Dubbo, NSW, Australia: Review Publications, 1971), 54-90. See also Chidley’s The Answer, or the World As Joy, An Essay in Philosophy (Sydney, NSW, Australia: Sydney D. Smith, 1915), 155-205, which is reportedly an edition from between the first two.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Athonia or, The Original Four Hundred Y1 - 1911 A1 - H. George Schuette (1850-1935) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An odd novel in that a series of eutopias is presented, all of which fail. Four hundred people (200 men and 200 women) of ancient Athens discover America (Yucatan is suggested) and try a number of different social experiments. Initially they try equality without laws to regulate behavior; then they institute a number of laws; and then they institute inequality between men and woman. Ultimately most of the people choose to hunt and fish rather than establish a great civilization.

PB - The Lakeside Company CY - Manitowoc, WI U2 -

Illus.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Centaur Y1 - 1911 A1 - Algernon [Henry] Blackwood (1869-1951) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel is mostly adventure but includes, although without much detail, a eutopia of the Simple Life in contact with nature.

PB - Macmillan CY - London N1 -

Rpt. Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin Books, 1938.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Centaurians. A Novel Y1 - 1911 A1 - [Lottie F.] [Ambrose] KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Lost race flawed utopia located near the North Pole. There are four societies in the area, with one, the Centaurians, the focus of this aspect of the novel. The Centaurians are advanced technologically and see themselves as having achieved perfection and no longer love or hate. The novel contains the standard love story with the man from outside falling in love with a woman who is considered almost divine and is known as the Priestess of the Sun and is wedded to the Sun. Although she is supposed no longer to be able to experience love, she does, but not him.

PB - Broadway Publishing Co. CY - New York U3 -

[L.D.] Biagi [pseud.].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Columbus of Space Y1 - 1911 A1 - Garrett P[utnam] Serviss (1851-1929) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Science fiction novel about an extended stay on Venus. Mostly adventure, but Venus is inhabited by two peoples, one of which is generally good and the other of which is evil.

PB - D. Appleton CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. Westport, CT: Hyperion, 1974.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Dawn of All Y1 - 1911 A1 - Robert Hugh Benson (1871-1914) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia of the Roman Catholic Church completely dominant in sixty years. Democracy and equality eliminated. Socialism illegal. Monarchy re-established. Heretics are handed over to the state and executed. See 1907 Benson for an alternative dystopian future.

PB - Hutchinson CY - London N1 -

US ed. St. Louis, MO: B. Herder, 1911.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Day After To-morrow Y1 - 1911 A1 - [Minnie Warren] [Jones] (b. 1968) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Romance but with a vaguely utopian background. America is a monarchy. Part is located in Australia.

PB - F.V. White & Co., Ltd CY - London U3 -

Cora Minnett [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Electric Gun: A Tale of Love and Socialism Y1 - 1911 A1 - Harold Johnston (b. 1865) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Most of the novel is a standard anti-socialist dystopia, with good ideas but an incompetent, corrupt administration. The novel ends with a brief description of the much better society created after the collapse of the socialist regime.

PB - Websdale, Shoosmith CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Fifteenth Episode. The Wand of Sa'aba" Y1 - 1911 A1 - Frank Morton (1869-1923) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Includes a brief description of a technological eutopia of peace and plenty that pre-dated earliest known times by ten million years. See also 1909 Morton and 1911 Morton, “The Seventeenth Episode."

JF - The Yacht of Dreams PB - Andrew Melrose CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Fool and His Inheritance" Y1 - 1911 A1 - James Edmond (1859-1933) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Satire using global warming and the last man theme. See also 1919 Edmond.

JF - The Lone Hand (Sydney, NSW, Australia) VL - 9.53 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Great Lock-Out: What Happened when the Spooks took charge of the Printing Trade" Y1 - 1911 A1 - C[larence] [Michael] J[ames] Dennis (1876-1938) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Anti-capitalist humor in which the dead are put to work, but dead labor leaders organize them into a successful union.

JF - The Lone Hand (Sydney, NSW, Australia) VL - 8.47 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Horroboos Y1 - 1911 A1 - Morrison I[saac] Swift (1856-1946) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Anti-capitalist satire. See also 1893 and 1903 Swift, his Vicarious Philanthropy. [New York: np, 18?], and his The Evil Religion Does. Boston, MA: The Liberty Press, 1917.

PB - The Liberty Press CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Kalomera; The Story of a Remarkable Community Y1 - 1911 A1 - W[illiam] J[ohn] Saunders (1873-1928) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Communist eutopia in which each town manages its own affairs under the supervision of the central government. Each town also provides some national service like producing goods for the national stores and working on construction projects. All people equal. Gender roles are fairly traditional but the head of state and the heads of all departments that concern both sexes rotate. Separate gender authority in those areas where only men or women work. Religion that teaches morality.

PB - Elliot Stock CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Kantsaywhere" Y1 - 1911 A1 - Francis Galton (1822-1911) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eugenic eutopia.

JF - University College, London, Galton Papers 138/6 N1 -

The work, which was significantly cut by Galton’s relatives after his death, is described and most of what remains is published in Karl Pearson, “Francis Galton’s Utopia.” The Life and Letters of Francis Galton. 4 vols. (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1930), 3A: 411-425. Pearson published the corrected manuscript without indicating the changes made in the original draft. Pearson changed the paragraphing found in the original. A critical edition was published with the permission of University College as “The Eugenic College of Kantsaywhere. Critical Edition.” Ed. Lyman Tower Sargent. Utopian Studies 12.2 (2001): 191-209.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Laws of Leflo Y1 - 1911 A1 - [Beatrice May Butt] [Allhusen] (1853-1918) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Leflo is a lost colony in Africa that has been isolated for over a century. The community was established with very strict laws that were to be followed to the letter. The result was a peaceful community, but the negative effects outweighed the positive. An example is that at eighteen girls must choose to marry or not. They are provided for by the community whatever their choice, but if they choose not to they wear distinctive dress and can never marry. Much of the novel is romance.

PB - John Ouseley CY - London U3 -

The Author of Miss Molly [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Man in Asbestos: An Allegory of the Future" Y1 - 1911 A1 - Stephen [Butler] Leacock (1869-1944) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Humor on utopias.

JF - Nonsense Novels PB - John Lane, The Bodley Head CY - London N1 -

Canadian ed. (Montreal, QC: Publishers' Press, 1911), 207-31. Rpt. (Toronto, ON: McClelland and Stewart, 1963), 138-53.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Military Socialism Y1 - 1911 A1 - [Jacob W.] [Horner] KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian eutopia organized along military lines. For example, "Every man who attains the rank of major-general, through whatever channel, is by virtue of his rank, a member of parliament" (34). Racist, sexist.

PB - Author CY - Indianapolis, IN U3 -

Dr. Walter Sensney [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Moving the Mountain" Y1 - 1911 A1 - Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Detailed feminist eutopia. "'Moving the Mountain' is a short distance Utopia, a baby Utopia, a little one that can grow. It involves no other change than a change of mind, the mere awakening of people, especially the women, to existing possibilities. It indicates what people might do, real people, now living, in thirty years--if they would" (6). No poverty, no pollution, no racial problems, no gender conflict, and little disease. A two-hour workday is required, but most work four.

JF - The Forerunner VL - 2.1 - 12 N1 -

Repub. New York: Charlton Company, 1911. Serial rpt. in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Utopian Novels: "Moving the Mountain," "Herland," and "With Her in Ourland". Ed. Minna Doskow (Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999), 37-149. This ed. compares The Forerunner version with the Clarion version and includes the brief "Preface" from the Clarion version that was not in The Forerunner (37). Excerpt published in The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Reader. Ed. Ann J. Lane (New York: Pantheon Books, 1980), 178-88; and in Carol Farley Kessler, Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Her Progress Toward Utopia With Selected Writings (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995), 159-73.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Mud Pies: A Fable for Australians" Y1 - 1911 A1 - Arthur H[enry] Adams (1872-1936) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Play depicting a racist dystopia both in the treatment of other racial groups by white Australians and, when they gain power, the treatment of white Australians by the others with the focus on the latter. This is the result of the failure of Australians to cooperate.

JF - The Lone Hand (Sydney, NSW, Australia) VL - 9.51 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The New Order: Social Revolution of Free Groups Y1 - 1911 A1 - W[illiam] Allen Macdonald A1 - Helen Meredith Macdonald KW - Female author KW - Male author AB -

Outlines of an anarchist eutopia in which everyone respects everyone else’s freedom and individuality. The pamphlet identifies the most fundamental social problem as the dominance of money. The solution is that every individual should produce their own food on one-third of an acre of land, thus implying vegetarianism, and also producing for each other’s needs. Although there is no money, there is a medium of exchange which is said to simply be account books where resources, labor, and exchange of goods are recorded. People keep the resources they hold on entering the group, although this will gradually disappear over time. Each person or family would have their own housing depending on their needs.

PB - Questell Press CY - London U5 -

L spelling the author’s middle name Allan, RPB

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Nut Cracker and Other Human Ape Fables Y1 - 1911 A1 - Charles Elton Blanchard (1868-1945) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The book combines a critique of capitalism and the outlines of his eutopia through essays and stories. The expanded edition includes more of the eutopia, which is further developed in 1932 Blanchard.

PB - Broadway Publishing Co. CY - New York N1 -

Exp. ed. with the added subtitle A Study in Socialism. Youngstown, OH: Now and Here Press, 1916.

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Exp. ed. with the added subtitle A Study in Socialism. Youngstown, OH: Now and Here Press, 1916.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - One Hundred Years Hence. Being Some Extracts from "The Hourly Mail" of A D 2000 Y1 - 1911 A1 - Walter Emanuel (1869-1915) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire, much of it through the advertisements in the newspaper.

PB - Eveleigh Nash CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Our Sister Republic: A Single Tax Story Y1 - 1911 AB -

Humorous attack on the income tax and an argument for the single tax. For Henry George's explanation of the single tax, see his Progress and Poverty. An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and Of Increase of Want With Increase of Wealth. The Remedy. San Francisco, CA: W.M. Hinton, 1879. Fiftieth Anniversary Ed. New York: The Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, 1929.

PB - Cochrane Pub. Co. CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Pilgrim Ship Y1 - 1911 A1 - James Black KW - Male author AB -

Christian allegory in which various lands are visited, such as the land of delusion, lotus land, and so forth.

PB - The Christian Herald, Bible House CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Quest of the Silver Fleece. A Novel Y1 - 1911 A1 - W[illiam] E[dward] Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

Most of the novel concerns the mistreatment of African-Americans in the South, but the protagonists, particularly a feisty woman, outwit their main opponents. The ending of the book describes the beginnings of the development of project that will include a school, a home for orphan girls, and an entire community providing a better life for its inhabitants. Silver fleece refers a patch of outstanding cotton; see the chapter “Of the Quest of the Golden Fleece” in his The Souls of Black Folks. .

PB - A. C. McClurg CY - Chicago, IL N1 -

Rpt. Illus. H. S. De Lay. New York; Negro Universities Press, 1969; Boston, MA: Northeastern University Press, 1989, with a “Foreword to the 1989 Edition” (1-11) by Arnold Rampersand; Illus. H. S. De Lay. Philadelphia, PA: Pine St. Books. 2004; and as a volume in The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007, with an “Introduction” by William L. Andrews (xxv-xxvii). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Ralph 124C 41+ ["One two foresee for one"]" Y1 - 1911 A1 - Hugo Gernsback (1887-1964) KW - Luxemburg author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Technological eutopia.

JF - Modern Electrics (New York) VL - 4.1 - 12 N1 -

Rpt. with the subtitle A Romance of the Year 2660. New York: Stratford Co., 1925, with a “Preface” by Hugo Gernsback (3-5); and in Amazing Stories Quarterly 2.1 (Winter 1929): 4-53; 2nd ed. New York: Frederick Fell, 1950, with a different “Preface” by Hugo Gernsback. Rpt. illus. Paul. Merril. New York: Fawcett, 1958 with an unpaged “A Preview of Tomorrow” by Fletcher Pratt; and Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000, with an “Introduction” by Jack Williamson (vii-xi), the two Gernsback prefaces (xiii-xix), and a “List of Specially Named Inventions and Technological Devices” (295-300).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Reign of the Saints Y1 - 1911 A1 - [Ernest George] [Henham] (1870-1948) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Anti-socialist, racist, sexist dystopia and a failed attempt to re-establish a true English life. Britain becomes part of the Japanese Empire.

PB - Alston Rivers CY - London U3 -

John Trevena [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Road to Avalon Y1 - 1911 A1 - Coningsby [William] Dawson (1883-1959) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Allegory in a medieval setting with various fantastic countries. Avalon, which is reached in the last chapters, is the goal.

PB - Hodder & Stoughton CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Savage Strain" Y1 - 1911 A1 - William H. Greene KW - Male author AB -

A flawed utopia set in 2410 in which the people have forgotten how to fight.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Servantless House. A Domestic Version of the Near Future" Y1 - 1911 A1 - E. S. Valentine AB -

Satire. Technological solutions to the "servant problem", which was a staple of literature and comment at the time.

JF - The Strand Magazine VL - 61.242 ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Seven Sons of Ballyhack Y1 - 1911 A1 - Thomas Sawyer Spivey (1857-1938) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Mostly fantasy and adventure, but the last chapter includes twenty points of the "Essentials to National Government" (307-10) outlining the elements of what is needed to create a eutopia. The points include few, simple laws; no war; no personal weapons; no secrecy; limited taxation; the arts; particularly music; and others primarily concerned with limiting governmental power.

PB - Cosmopolitan Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Seventeenth Episode. A Voyage in the Vague" Y1 - 1911 A1 - Frank Morton (1869-1923) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Anarchist eutopia on Mars, which is much more advanced than Earth. Each person has her or his own home. Long life, tolerance. Jupiter holds an emerging new race just gaining intelligence. Saturn, although not described, has a race far beyond that of Mars. 

JF - The Yacht of Dreams PB - Andrew Melrose CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Shanghaied Socialists: A Romance Y1 - 1911 A1 - Captain Will J. Ward KW - Male author AB -

Anti-socialist novel in which the British government is taken over by socialists, which produces chaos, industrial breakdown, and violence. A socialist colony is established by capitalists to prove that socialism is unworkable, which it succeeds in doing. 

PB - The Maritime Review, Ltd CY - Cardiff, Wales U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Simple Life Limited Y1 - 1911 A1 - [Joseph Leopold Ford Hermann Madox] [Hueffer] (1873-1939) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire directed against an experimental community of people trying to live the simple life.

PB - John Lane, The Bodley Head CY - London U3 -

Daniel Chaucer [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Spirit Messages with an Introductory Essay on Spiritual Vitality Y1 - 1911 A1 - Hiram Corson (1828-1911) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The work is mostly composed of messages from well-known writers of the past (Longfellow, Tennyson, Whitman), friends of the family, and family members. But buried in the messages are descriptions of the afterlife, which is a standard "domestic heaven".

PB - Austin Pub. Co CY - Rochester, NY N1 -

New ed. Boston, MA: Christopher Publishing House, 1919.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - To Mars via the Moon: An Astronomical Story Y1 - 1911 A1 - Mark Wicks KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

About half the book is a story of the flight to the moon and then to Mars with considerable detail on the landscape of the moon and the controversy over the "canals" on Mars. Mars is a eutopia with advanced technology, separate buildings with plenty of open space. Vegetarian. Gender equality. World government. All of Mars is publicly owned and must be used for the good of the entire community. Six-hour workday. No Crime. Those who die on earth are reincarnated on Mars. Those who die on Mars are reincarnated on another planet.

PB - Seeley & Company CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. Philadelphia, PA: J.B. Lippincott, 1911. Rpt. New York: Arno Press, 1975.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Transformation. Photographic Studies by X.O. Howe Y1 - 1911 A1 - John Herman Wishar KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Christian Science among a small group shipwrecked on a South Sea Island.

PB - The Reynard Press CY - San Francisco, CA U2 -

Photographic Studies by X.O. Howe.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "When the New Zealander Comes" Y1 - 1911 A1 - Professor Blyde Muddersnook, P.O.Z.A.S. [pseud.] AB -

Humor of a depopulated Britain.

JF - The Strand Magazine VL - 42.249 N1 -

Rpt. in England Invaded: A Collection of Fantasy Fiction. Ed. Michael Moorcock (London: W.H. Allen, 1977), 25-35.

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Professor Blyde Muddersnook, P.O.Z.A.S. [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Astria The Ice Maiden Y1 - 1910 A1 - Ernest Mansfield KW - Male author AB -

Lost race technological eutopia in which people live 1400 years (50 active followed by 50 in “repose”). Each person generally has three husbands or wives, and love is a central fact of life.

PB - Lonsdale Press CY - London UR - http://www.churchside1.plus.com/EMastria1910/index.htm ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Building of Thelema Y1 - 1910 A1 - C[harles] R[obert] Ashbee (1863-1942) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Fantasy with utopian elements. Thelema is the reconstructed city of the dreamers of all times and the protagonist sees it from a variety of perspectives.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Courtship Under Contract: The Science of Selection: A Tale of Woman's Emancipation Y1 - 1910 A1 - James Henry Lovell Eager KW - Male author AB -

Proposal for a trial marriage without sexual relations. The couple lives together but with separate bedrooms.

PB - The Health-Culture Co./L.N. Fowler CY - New York/Passaic, NJ/London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Five Bakers of Dubhampool: A Peep into the Future With Full Freedom Given to the Imagination Y1 - 1910 A1 - Arthur A. Clift KW - Male author AB -

Christian and socialist eutopia.

PB - A. A. Clift CY - Shirley, Southampton, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Gulliver Redivivus" Y1 - 1910 A1 - Algernon Cecil (1879-1953) KW - Male author AB -

Satire. Lemuel Gulliver from 1726 Swift had visited an island called Callimago during his voyages and married a woman of the island. In this work a descendant of theirs visits England or Isotaria and Ireland or the Isles of Saints and describes their oddities.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Judgment Day: A Story of the Seven Years of Great Tribulation Y1 - 1910 A1 - Joshua H[ill] Foster (1861-1947) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Fictional interpretation of Revelations including the Rapture (see 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 and 1 Corinthians 15:51-52) and the dystopia that follows up to the battle at Armageddon.

PB - Baptist World Publishing Co. CY - Louisville, KY U5 -

Hathi

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Man From Mars or Service, for Service's Sake Y1 - 1910 A1 - Henry Henry Wallace (Dunraven) Dowding (1867?-1938) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Detailed Christian eutopia on Mars. No large cities. No military. Stress on the home. Martians are both rational and artistic. Many completely equipped school buildings. "On the planet Mars education starts with a principle called Service" (251). Individual talents developed. Universal language. Includes extracts from a constitution.

PB - Cochrane Publishing Company CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Mayor of New York: A Romance of Days to Come Y1 - 1910 A1 - L[ouis] P[ope] Gratacap (1851-1917) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A dystopia of corrupt upper classes and irreligious lower classes. Revolution. There is a religious revival, and the Pope comes to the U.S. See also 1903 Gratacap.

PB - G.W. Dillingham CY - New York U5 -

FTaSU, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Mirage of the Many Y1 - 1910 A1 - William Thomas Walsh (1891-1949) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Socialism as dystopia.

PB - Henry Holt CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Newæra. A Socialist Romance, with a Chapter on Vaccination Y1 - 1910 A1 - Edward G[eisler] Herbert (1869-1938) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Socialist intentional community founded with careful selection of members fails due to an inefficient bureaucracy and malice on the part of elected leaders toward the founders. Suggests that socialism is impossible, and the chapter on vaccination is an argument that experiments like Newæra (New Era) can vaccinate a country against the sickness that is socialism.

PB - P.S. King & Son CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - An Original Comic Opera, in Three Acts, entitled, The Superior Sex Y1 - 1910 A1 - H. D Banning AB -

Sex role reversal set in 2005 A.D. but with the traditional order re-established at the end.

PB - A. Abbott CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - Outland Y1 - 1910 A1 - [Mary Hunter] [Austin] (1868-1934) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Tale of a hidden hunter gatherer society, called the Outliers, with a simple, balanced life.

PB - John Murray CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Boni and Liveright, 1919. 

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Gordon Stairs [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Prospectus of New Zealand Limited (Limited as to Area Only) A Company not incorporated under the Companies Act of 1908 Y1 - 1910 A1 - [Wynford Ormsby] [Beere] (1874?-1964) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

One-page eutopia in the form of a company prospectus that is designed to express the ideas of Edward Bellamy (1850-1898), author of Looking Backward: 2000-1887 (1888).

PB - Edward Bellamy Society (N.Z.) CY - Wellington, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Raid of Dover: A Romance of the Reign of Woman: A.D. 1940 Y1 - 1910 A1 - [Douglas Morey} [Ford] (1851-1916) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Anti-socialist and anti-democratic dystopia. When women got the vote, the votes of the uneducated led to the election of the Labour Party, the triumph of socialism, and the weakening of the British Empire. The "Author's Note" says that it is partially a sequel to 1906 Ford.

PB - King, Sell & Olding CY - London N1 -

Originally published serially.

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By The Author of "A Time of Terror," "The Devil's Peepshow," & c.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Roadtown Y1 - 1910 A1 - Edgar [Stephen] Chambless (1870-1936) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A cooperative eutopia built as a long, road-like city written as a serious proposal with a considerable amount on how it will be constructed and operate. Cooperative housework and cooking. Cottage industry in which each house has a work room and machines can be purchased or rented. The illustration on the cover shows the structure of the city.

PB - Roadtown Press CY - New York U2 -

The illustration on the cover shows the structure of the city.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Startling Statements or the Downfall of the Great Republic: Facts and Figures for the People Y1 - 1910 A1 - Ralston J. Markoe (1854-1927) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. Mostly criticism of contemporary conditions, but the last section (237-95) is a detailed authoritarian eutopia (said to have been written in 1897) stressing efficiency, training, and administrative responsibility with little or no popular participation in government. All “citizens” (but only men) must join the army or navy, and the national games and the national music have a military character

PB - Np CY - St. Paul, MN U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The United Kingdom, Ltd. A Prospectus addressed to the Man in the Street Y1 - 1910 A1 - F[rederick] W[illiam] Hayes (1848-1918) KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia presented, as the title says, a prospectus for a form of “national cooperation” that will gradually grow until the government owns the land and its resources and operates most businesses. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Voice in the Rice Y1 - 1910 A1 - Gouverneur Morris [IV] (1876-1953) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A hidden country that maintains the culture of an idealized antebellum South, including slavery.

PB - Dodd, Mead CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Waste of War Y1 - 1910 A1 - W. G. Bennett AB -

Poem that describes the eutopia possible if the costs of war were devoted to peace. Good clothing, universal education, help for the poor, aged, and ill, the arts science, and labor all rewarded, Christianity. 

PB - Wisbech Local Peace Association CY - Wisbech, Eng U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - World Corporation Y1 - 1910 A1 - King Camp Gillette (1855-1932) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Non-fiction eutopia. Proposes forming a cooperative to absorb the world's economy and put it on a sound financial basis. See also 1894 and 1924 Gillette Gillette and his The Ballot Box. Brookline, MA: Author, 1897. https://ia800503.us.archive.org/23/items/ballotbox00gill/ballotbox00gill.pdf.  

PB - New England News Company CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - After the Cataclysm. A Romance of the Age to Come Y1 - 1909 A1 - H[enry] Percy Blanchard (1862-1939) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Post-catastrophe religious eutopia that, it is suggested, is the period of the millennium, and it takes place 33 years in the future, which is the traditional age of Christ at the time of the crucifixion. The catastrophe changed the Earth's alignment and its weather patterns producing permanent Spring and natural abundance. No one has to work but everyone helps as needed. Little social organization and people are naturally good. There is a contradiction in that while there appears to be no industry, there are airplanes. The last sentences quote Matthew 22:30 that there is "no marriage or giving in marriage" in heaven (The actual passage is a bit different and says "For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the Angels of God in heaven" KJV.)

PB - Cochrane Publishing Company CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Visions From the Edge: An Anthology of Atlantic Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy. Ed. John Bell and Lesley Choyce (Porters Lake, NS, Canada: Pottersfield Press, 1981), 46-102 with an editor's note on 45.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - An Amazing Revolution and After Y1 - 1909 AB -

Evolution to a cooperative eutopia with a stress on the way people were convinced to change. Cooperatives are formed, old age pensions established, railways nationalized, highways built, public provision of legal assistance provided in every town, temperance succeeds, education improves, the state church is disestablished, the House of Lords is occupied by men who have contributed to the Commonwealth, the land law is reformed, and there is universal free trade, home rule, and financial reform. The author calls the system sane socialism.

PB - George Allen & Sons CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Angel of the Earthquake Y1 - 1909 A1 - Frank Morton (1869-1923) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Set in Wellington, New Zealand in 1960. Mostly on the destruction by an earthquake but includes a eutopia based on individualism and personal morality, although with an elite group of vigilantes with a strong leader. The churches are gone, and there is a strong anti-religious thread. No votes for women. No party politics. See also 1911 Morton (2).

PB - Atlas Press CY - Melbourne, VIC, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Appeal to the Artist [To Professor Patrick Geddes.]" Y1 - 1909 A1 - Rachel Annand Taylor (1876-1960) KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

Poem reflecting the ideas of Patrick Geddes (1854-1932) and depicting a eutopia of regionalism.

JF - Rose and Vine PB - Elkin Mathews CY - London N1 -

2nd ed. (London: Elkin Mathews, 1910), 162-67. Rpt. without the subtitle in Victor Branford, Whitherward? Hell or Eutopia (London: Williams and Norgate, 1921), xi-xiii.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Atalanta; or, Twelve Months in the Evening Star Y1 - 1909 A1 - Charles Napier Richards KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Venus presented initially in dystopian and then in eutopian terms. Men from Earth visit Venus which is inhabited by humans with a monarchy, and the novel then follows the difficulties of the men from Earth almost like a standard "lost race" novel where there is a struggle between good and bad Venusians. The Earth men bring Christianity to Venus and all ends well.

PB - H. & C. Treacher CY - Brighton, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Beatrice the Sixteenth Y1 - 1909 A1 - [Thomas] [Baty] (1869-1954) KW - English author KW - Transgender author AB -

While the novel is largely taken up with palace intrigue and conflicts with neighbors, there are eutopian elements in its presentation of an aristocratic society based on slavery and servants (both well treated of course) that is almost entirely female.

PB - George Bell & Sons CY - London U3 -

Irene Clyde [pseud.]. The pseudonym has been described as the “transgender personal of the author.” 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Captain Tatham of Tatham Island Y1 - 1909 A1 - [Richard Horatio] Edgar Wallace (1875-1932) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Mostly an adventure novel but includes a vague plan for turning an isolated island into a eutopia. Some discussion of alternative ideas.

PB - Gale & Polden CY - London N1 -

Rpt. with an added first chapter “The Genesis of the History” as The Island of Galloping Gold. London: George Newnes, Ltd., 1916, which was rpt. as Eve’s Island. London: George Newnes, Ltd., 1926. 

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Cover title reads Minutes of Evidence Taken Before the Commission on the Rebellion and Cession of Tatham Island, together with One Map. Presented to the Parliament of the Tatham Island Republic by the Command of the President. 

Rpt. with an added first chapter as The Island of Galloping Gold. London: George Newnes, Ltd., 1916; which was rpt. as Eve’s Island. London: George Newnes, Ltd., 1926. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Coming Conflict of Nations; or, The Japanese American War. A Narrative Y1 - 1909 A1 - Ernest Hugh Fitzpatrick (1863-1933) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

While most of the novel is on the war, the last two chapters (273-306) following the “Anglo-Saxon” victory describe the way the world becomes unified, first through the confederation of the English-speaking nations and then with the development in an International Parliament and free trade.

PB - H.W. Rokker CY - Springfield, IL U5 -

Hathi

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Comrades; A Story of Social Adventure in California Y1 - 1909 A1 - Thomas [Frederick] Dixon [Jr.] (1864-1946) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Standard failure of an intentional community, with the founding of a community where no one will do the dirty work followed by infighting and collapse. Middle volume of an anti-socialist trilogy, with the other two being mostly concerned with romance and personal conflicts between the wealthy and reformers. The first volume is The One Woman: A Story of Modern Utopia. Illus. B[enjamin] West Clinedinst (1859-1931). New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1903; and the third volume is The Root of Evil. A Novel. Illus. George Wright [probably George Hand Wright (1872-1951)]. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1911. Also pub. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1911, illus. George Wright; and Toronto, ON, Canada: Musson Book Co., 1911, illus. W[illiam] Sherman Potts (1876-1930), but they are the same illus., and the book says printed in New York.

PB - Grosset & Dunlap CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Doubleday Page, [1909]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Divine Seal Y1 - 1909 A1 - Emma Louise Orcutt KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Mostly a lost race adventure set in a future after 2100. Includes, at the beginning, a brief picture of the eutopian future stressing both technology and politics. Atlantis has been discovered, Atlantean records show a rich continent near the North Pole, and an expedition is mounted to find it. Alaska is now warm. The American Republic includes most of North America and has four capitals, including Yu-kon-il-i-a in Alaska. No one can vote who cannot pass a test on the principles of republican government. No one can be elected to office without a certificate of good character. The expedition includes "several professors from Indian and negro colleges" (4). Women hold office. Technologically advanced. The expedition quickly discovers people of the lost country, some of whom are highly civilized and one of whom is evil. The novel then becomes a typical lost race adventure.

PB - C.M. Clark CY - Boston, MA U5 -

CU-Riv, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Dream of Debs: A Story of Industrial Revolt" Y1 - 1909 A1 - Jack [John Griffith] London (1876-1916) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A successful general strike will bring about a better world. See also 1907 London, 1908 London “A Curious Fragment”, and 1908 London, "Goliah".

JF - The International Socialist Review (Chicago, IL) VL - 9.7 - 8 N1 -

Rpt. Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Co., 1914; in his The Strength of the Strong (New York: Macmillan, 1914), 134-76; in The International Socialist Review 17.7 (January 1917): 389-95, 432-34; in The Bodley Head Jack London. Ed. Arthur Calder Marshall. 3 vols. (London: The Bodley Head, 1963-65), 1: 225-46; in The Science Fiction of Jack London: An Anthology. Ed. Richard Gid Powers (Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1975), separately paged; and in The Complete Short Stories of Jack London. Ed. Earle Labor, Robert C. Leitz, III, and I. Milo Shepard. 3 vols. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1993), 2: 1261-78.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Fate of Iciodorum: Being The Story of a City Made Rich By Taxation Y1 - 1909 A1 - David Starr Jordon (1851-1931) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on protectionism.

PB - Henry Holt and Co CY - New York U5 -

ICRL

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Finding of Mercia Y1 - 1909 A1 - [Harold Northway]] [Robbins] (1874-1973) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Detailed eutopia inhabited by Puritans. Austere, devoted Christians. No money. State ownership. Mercia equals Mercy Land.

PB - Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner CY - London U3 -

Cassius-Minor [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Free Prince and The New World's Laws and A Vision of the Outer World Y1 - 1909 A1 - G[eorge] H[arris] Freeman KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Detailed egalitarian eutopia based on equal access to property, particularly land. Part fiction; part non-fiction. The part entitled "A Vision of the Outer World" (31-51) describes eutopias on other planets, including one earthly paradise, a world of immortals, and one where the people achieved world peace after centuries of conflict.

PB - J. Ingleson Print CY - Melbourne, VIC, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Future in London” Y1 - 1909 A1 - [Joseph Leopold] Ford [Hermann] Madox Hueffer (1873-1939) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Divided into Futures Probable and Futures Utopian. People will move to the suburbs with good transportation into London. This will lessen traffic and radically reduce pollution. Poor quality housing will be removed, and many parks will be created. The changes will improve human health. Says there is nothing utopian about his proposals.

JF - In W.W. Hutchings. London Town Past and Present With a Chapter on the Future in London by Ford Madox Hueffer. Profusely Illustrated from Old Prints and from Photographs and Drawings PB - Cassell and Co. CY - London VL - 2 vols U3 -

Ford Madox Ford [pseud.]

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Hathi

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Glimpse into the Future" Y1 - 1909 AB -

Technological utopia.  War still exists. Communication with the other planets.

JF - Popular Electricity and the World's Advance (Chicago, IL) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Golden-Faced People. A Story of Chinese Conquest of America" Y1 - 1909 A1 - [Nicholas] Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Satire on U.S. race relations seen through the eyes of a white American subservient to the Chinese. See also 1913, 1914, 1920, and 1925 (2) Lindsay.

JF - War Bulletin, no. 1 (July 19, 1909): Reprint no. 3 N1 -

Rpt. in The Crisis (November 1914): 36-42; and in The Prose of Vachel Lindsay complete & with Lindsay’s drawings. Ed. Dennis Camp (Peoria, IL: Spoon River Poetry Press, 1988), 1: 85-93.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Great Red Dragon or the Flaming Red Devil Y1 - 1909 A1 - [Cyrus Reed] [Teed] (1838-1908) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Japan and China overrun the earth but ultimately Christianity and astrology win. See also his The Cellular Cosmogony or The Earth a Concave Sphere. Estero, FL: Guiding Star Pub. House, 1905. A community based on Teed's ideas was established in Florida.

PB - Guiding Star Pub. House CY - Estero, FL U3 -

Lord Chester [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - In the Grip of the Trusts Y1 - 1909 A1 - J. C. Haig AB -

Dystopia showing the bad effects of protective tariffs that support monopolies.

PB - Methuen & Co. CY - London U1 -

Cover adds the subtitle A Story of 1914.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - John Bull: Socialist Y1 - 1909 A1 - Everett, Frances AB -

Standard anti-socialist dystopia. Financial problems so that pensioners are barely kept alive. Stresses the problems of majority rule such as restrictions on women because men were the majority. Failures by the state lead to it becoming more ruthless. Revolt and a return to capitalism.

PB - Swan Sonnenschein & Co. CY - London N1 -

Rpt. as by Edward Prince as Wake Up, England! Being the Amazing Story of John Bull--Socialist. Westminster, Eng.: St. Stephen's Press, 1910. 

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Rpt. as by Edward Prince as Wake Up, England! Being the Amazing Story of John Bull--Socialist. Westminster, Eng.: St. Stephen's Press, 1910. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Land of the Blow (After the method of Swift, who followed Lucian, and was himself followed by Voltaire and many others.)" Y1 - 1909 A1 - Ambrose [Gwinett] Bierce (1842-1914?) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Gulliveriana. The protagonist visits a number of countries which provide the basis for wide-ranging satire, particularly on religion, capitalism, and politics.

JF - Collected Works PB - Neale Publishing Co. CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. (New York: Gordian Press, 1966), 89-196; and in The Fall of the Republic and Other Political Satires. Ed. S.T. Joshi and David E. Schultz (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2000), 32-74. According to Joshi and Schultz "The Land of the Blow" is composed of a number of short stories previously published as follows: "Sons of the Fair Star." San Francisco Examiner (June 10, 1888): 11; "An Interview with Gnarmag-zote" (published as "The Golampians." San Francisco Examiner (November 24, 1889): 11; "The Tamtonians: Some Account of Politics in the Uncanny Islands." San Francisco Examiner (November 11, 1888): 9; "Marooned on Ug." San Francisco Examiner (February 20), 1898): 18; "The War with Wug." San Francisco Examiner (September 11, 1898), 20; "The Dog in Ganewag." New York American (May 12, 1904): 14; "A Conflagration in Gharagarod." Cosmopolitan (New York) (February 1906): 457-58; "An Execution in Batrugia." from "A Letter from Btrugumian." New York American (April 30, 1903): 16; "Small Contributions." Cosmopolitan (New York) (May 1907): 96-97; "The Jumjum of Gokeetle-guk" (published as "Trustland: A Tale of a Traveller"). San Francisco Examiner (November 19, 1899): 15; and "The Kingdom of Tortirra." San Francisco Examiner (April 22, 1888): 12.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Persecution Y1 - 1909 A1 - S[idney] N[ewman] Sedgwick (1872-1941) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A successful Chinese invasion of Europe is possible due to a falling away from God. A religious revival brings the overthrow of the Chinese.

PB - Grant Richards CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lunarian Professor and His Remarkable Revelations Concerning the Earth, the Moon and Mars. Together with an Account of the Cruise of the Sally Ann Y1 - 1909 A1 - James B[radun] Alexander (1831-1914) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Presents a variety of pictures of the future. In the main eutopia a reformed government for the United States is shown, which puts more power in the House of Representatives. Strict control of population. People have an instinct to work for the community and to respect others. In one the single tax system is tried and fails. The idea of a single tax on land originated with Henry George (1839-97). For Henry George's explanation of the single tax, see his Progress and Poverty. An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and Of Increase of Want With Increase of Wealth. The Remedy. San Francisco, CA: W.M. Hinton, 1879. Fiftieth Anniversary Ed. New York: The Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, 1929.

PB - Np CY - Minneapolis, MN U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Machine Stops" Y1 - 1909 A1 - E[dward] M[organ] Forster (1879-1970) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Classic dystopia in which people become dependent on a machine.

JF - Oxford and Cambridge Review VL - 8 N1 -

Repub. in his The Eternal Moment and Other Stories (London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1928), 1-61.

Rpt. in Cities of Wonder. Ed. Damon Knight (New York: Macfadden-Bartell, 1967), 164-95; in Science Fiction: The Future. Ed. Dick Allen. 2nd ed. (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983), 173-98; in his The Machine Stops and Other Stories. Ed. Rod Mengham. Vol. 7 of The Abinger Edition of E.M. Forster (London: André Deutsch, 1997), 87-118, with editor’s notes 187-88; in The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction. Ed. Arthur B. Evans, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., Joan Gordon, Veronica Hollinger, Rob Latham, and Carol McGuirk (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2010), 50-78 with an editors’ note on 50; illus Chris Bird in AnarchoSF: Science Fiction and the Stateless Society [Cover adds Volume 1]. Ed. Dana Rich (Victor, IA: Obsolete Press, 2014), 127-59; in Menace of the Machine: The Rise of AI in Classic Science Fiction. Ed. Mike [Michael Raymond Donald] Ashley (London: British Library, 2019), 135-74, with an editor’s note on 133; and in Voices from the Radium Age. Ed Joshua Glenn (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2022), 35-80.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Morgan Rockefeller's Will; A Romance of 1991-2 Y1 - 1909 A1 - Francis H. Clarke KW - US author AB -

The Rockefeller estate (accumulated for five generations) is donated to the government and is controlled by a paternal brotherhood for the good of the people.

PB - Clarke-Cree Publishing Company CY - Portland, OR U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The New Columbia or the Re-United States Y1 - 1909 A1 - [George Hamilton] [Phelps] (b. 1854) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. Public ownership; no private monopolies. Deport all who won't work. United States and Canada united. Get rid of all current money and use labor checks instead. Land cannot be held for speculative purposes, and no rent can be charged.

PB - New Columbia Publishing Company CY - Findley, OH U3 -

By Patrick Quinn Tangent [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The New Regime, A.D. 2202 Y1 - 1909 A1 - John Ira Brant (1872-1959) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia brought about by ending competition. Basically, uses the model of 1888 Bellamy.

PB - Cochrane Publishing Company CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Paradise Found and the Society of New Epoch (An Ergocracy) Y1 - 1909 A1 - J. A. Cole M.D. KW - US author AB -

A detailed eutopia describing a successful community in South America with a stress on cooperation and eugenics. Ergocracy refers to cooperative industrialism.

PB - [Author] CY - [Sacramento, CA] U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Peacemakers (A Tale of Love) Y1 - 1909 A1 - Hiram W[allace] Hayes (b. 1858) KW - Male author AB -

Christian utopia. Peace brought about through love. Reciproca is a school based on Christian principles. See also 1921 Hayes.

PB - Reid CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Pills of Joy" Y1 - 1909 A1 - Burnett Gray A1 - H[ugh] C[leland] McKay (1878-1962) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Chemical pleasure brings dystopia because everyone who takes the pills becomes totally addicted to pleasure. The story ends with the destruction of the machine that produces the pills and the death of the inventor from a mob trying to get more pills.

JF - The Lone Hand (Sydney, NSW, Australia) VL - 4.23 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Press Cuttings: A Topical Sketch compiled from the editorial and correspondence columns of the Daily Papers, as performed by the Civic and Dramatic Guild at the Royal Court Theatre, London, on the 9th July 1909 Y1 - 1909 A1 - [George] Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on women's suffrage, the military, and politics and politicians set three years in the future.

PB - Archibald Constable & Co. CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Translations and Tomfooleries. Vol. 18 of The Works of Bernard Shaw (London: Constable & Co., 1930), 129-68; and The Bodley Head Collected Plays With Their Prefaces. Volume III (London: Max Reinhardt The Bodlery Head, 1971), 837-95, which includes “Banned Play. Censor’s Objection to ‘Press Cuttings’” (886-95). Originally published in German translation as “Zeitungsausschnitte.” März (Berlin) (July 1909). 

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Originally published in German translation as “Zeitungsausschnitte.” März (Berlin) (July 1909).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Real Man Y1 - 1909 A1 - Henry Byatt (1855?-1934) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A farce that redoes the material in 1907 Byatt as a group of anarchists whose leader comes to rule Britain. 

PB - John Long CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Reciprocity (Social and Economic) In the Thirtieth Century The Coming Co-operative Age. A Forecast of the World's Future Y1 - 1909 A1 - [Thomas] [Kirwan] (1829-1911) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Detailed socialist eutopia brought about by election. Use of eminent domain with restitution. Strong emphasis on vocational or practical education. All religions are dead. Women sit on juries where women are on trial, but juries are not mixed. Must have high physical, mental, and moral qualifications to be allowed to marry; examined by physicians of one's own sex.

PB - Cochrane Publishing Company CY - New York U1 -

For Thinking People at the head of the title.

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William Wonder [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Reconstructing Eden: "Steve" Crabtree's scheme to eliminate temptation and abolish evil Y1 - 1909 A1 - Howard Louis Conrad KW - Male author AB -

Humor--presents a eutopia based on eliminating temptation and then criticizes it.

PB - New Eden Pub. Co. CY - Columbus, OH U2 -

Illus. W. A. Ireland. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Red England: A Tale of the Socialist Terror Y1 - 1909 AB -

Anti-socialist dystopia. A successful socialist revolution turns into terror by insisting on complete efficiency.

PB - John Milne CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Redemption Y1 - 1909 A1 - E[phraim] Peterson KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Proposal for an intentional community with a constitution. City on about 2500 acres plus 5000 acres of agricultural land. All land and property are held in common. No money. No lawyers. Christian but without ministers.

PB - Author CY - Independence, MO U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Rescue of Victoria The Beautiful Nihilist Y1 - 1909 A1 - T[homas] P[atrick] Deegan KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

A romantic adventure story that includes a proposal on how the rich could help the poor through the establishment of a "Millionaires' Sodality", by which the rich will establish a fund designed to eradicate poverty. The volume ends with the statement that there will be a sequel, but none appears to have been published.

PB - H. Hearne & Co CY - Melbourne, VIC, Australia U1 -

A Romantic Story at the head of the title on the cover.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Shanghaied Through Space or A Trip To Mars and Other Psychic Experiences Y1 - 1909 A1 - W. Bronson Taylor KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia on Mars, which is technically and socially advanced. Food produced industrially. No divorce.

PB - W. Bronson Taylor CY - Middle Grove, NY ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Soul of the World Y1 - 1909 A1 - Estella Bachman KW - Female author AB -

Single tax eutopia and theosophy. The idea of a single tax on land originated with Henry George (1839-97). For Henry George's explanation of the single tax, see his Progress and Poverty. An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and Of Increase of Want With Increase of Wealth. The Remedy. San Francisco, CA: W.M. Hinton, 1879. Fiftieth Anniversary Ed. New York: The Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, 1929.

PB - Equitist Publishing House CY - Pasadena, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Thro' Space Y1 - 1909 A1 - [Clinton A.] [Patten] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

All planets are inhabited. Venus is a eutopia, but there is little detail.

PB - New England Druggist Publishing Co. CY - Boston, MA U3 -

James Rock [pseud.].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - To the Poles by Airship or Around the World Endways Y1 - 1909 A1 - Allen Kendrick Wright (1861-1948) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Mostly a rather odd book about flying around the world but includes a fairly vague eutopia after Armageddon (See Revelation 16) that stresses religion and scientific development.

PB - Baumgardt Publishing Co CY - Los Angeles, CA N1 -

2nd ed. Los Angeles, CA: Baumgardt Publishing Co., 1910.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Unknown To-morrow: How the Rich Fared at the Hands of the Poor Together with a full account of the Social Revolution in England Y1 - 1909 A1 - William [Tufnell] Le Queux (1864-1927) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Standard anti-socialist dystopia. Marriage and divorce made easy; children are the property of the state. Churches secularized. Ultimately the system fails.

PB - F.V. White & Co CY - London N1 -

Originally published as “The Red Rage: How the Rich fared at the Hands of the Poor; together with a full account of the Social Revolution in England.” Black & White (London) 38 (July 3 - October 9, 1909): 16-19; 62-65; 100-101; 138-39; 178-79; 218-19; 258-59; 292-93; 328-29; 364-65; 400-01; 436-37; 474-76; 508-09; 544. 

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“The Red Rage: How the Rich fared at the Hands of the Poor; together with a full account of the Social Revolution in England.” Black & White (London) 38 (July 3 - October 9, 1909).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Utopian Snapshots Y1 - 1909 A1 - A[rthur] J[ames] Kappele (1876-1944) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Personal reflections on life that the author clearly sees as expressing a eutopia.

PB - Ptd. for the Booksellers by Evans & Hastings CY - Vancouver, BC, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Vision of New Clairvaux or Ethical Reconstruction Through combination of Agriculture and Handicraft, under Conditions which exercise Emotion, Sentiment and Imagination, with loyalty to a supreme Ideal Y1 - 1909 A1 - Edward Pearson Pressey (b. 1869) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Intentional community modeled on the vision of Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153), founder of the Cistercian monastery of Clairvaux. It is called "an ethical experiment station" (19), and stresses the advantages of country life, handicrafts, and small industries. The author, a Unitarian minister, founded such a community in Montague, Massachusetts in the 1890s.

PB - Sherman, French and Company CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Votes for Men: A Dialogue" Y1 - 1909 A1 - Mary Cholmondeley (1859-1925) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Satire in which the female Prime Minister argues that men do not want the vote despite huge demonstrations and all the other activities of the women's suffrage movement.

JF - Cornhill Magazine VL - ns 27 N1 -

Rpt. in her The Romance of His Life and Other Romances (London: Murray, 1921), 200-15. U.S. ed. (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1921), 200-15. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "What Diantha Did" Y1 - 1909 A1 - [Charlotte Perkins] [Gilman] (1860-1935) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The initial development of a eutopia in which a woman creates a for-profit housekeeping business which gradually expands to a complete housing system with professionals doing the cooking, cleaning, and so forth. 

JF - The Forerunner VL - 1.1 - 14 N1 -

Rpt. New York: Charlton, 1910. Rpt. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005. Excerpts published in The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Reader. Ed. Ann J. Lane (New York: Pantheon Books, 1980), 123-40; and in Carol Farley Kessler’s Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Her Progress Toward Utopia With Selected Writings (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995), 137-46.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - When the Women Reign. 1930 Y1 - 1909 A1 - Jesse Wilson AB -

Begins with the reform of the British system set twenty-five  years in the future: temperance, old age pensions, railroads nationalized, disestablishment of the church, reform of education, House of Lords abolished, redistribution of land and money, and reduction of work to six hours a day six days a week for all men. Votes for women turned out of office all those who had achieved this eutopia. Women were corrupted by power and wealth. Presents all the standard anti-feminist arguments. In the end all women are voted out of office.

PB - Arthur H. Stockwell CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Where Men Have Walked; A Story of the Lucayos Y1 - 1909 A1 - H. Henry Rhodes KW - Male author AB -

Lost race novel with a cooperative egalitarian eutopia.

PB - C. M. Clark Publishing Co. CY - Boston, MA U5 -

DLC, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - White Australia; or, The Empty North Y1 - 1909 A1 - [George] Randolph Bedford (1868-1941) ED - Richard Fotheringham KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Racist dystopia about the collaboration between China and Japan to invade Australia, supported by one traitorous Australian. Most of the play is about the actual invasion, which is initially successful, as seen through the eyes of various white Australians and two loyal Aboriginals. The Australians ultimately repulse the invasion by using an airship developed by an Australian engineer.

PB - Playlab CY - South Brisbane, Qld, Australia U1 -

“White Australia: the White Man's Land; or, For Australia: A Drama in Four Acts.”

Alt. title “White Australia or the Empty North, or The White Man's Land.”

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Zarlah, the Martian Y1 - 1909 A1 - R[obert] Norman Grisewood (1876-1923) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. Technologically and ethically advanced civilization on Mars. World government, universal language. Much romance and adventure.

PB - R. F. Fenno CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ: The Philosophical and Practical Basis of Religion in the Aquarian Age of the World. Transcribed from the Akashic Records Y1 - 1908 A1 - [Levi H.] [Dowling] (1844-1911) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

New Age eutopia in the form of a Holy Book that rewrites the Bible and has Jesus also in India Tibet, Persia, Assyria, Greece, and Egypt. The Aquarian Christine Church Universal, Inc. (ACCU) is based on its teachings. 

PB - C.F. Cazenove CY - London N1 -

There are many editions with slight variations in the title. A recent edition has the title as The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ: The Philosophical and Practical Basis of the Aquarian Age of the World and of the Church Universal. Transcribed from the book of God’s Remembrances known as The Akashic Records. New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher, 2009. It is based on London: L.N. Fowler/Los Angeles, CA: E.S. Dowling, 1911, which has a map as a frontispiece that is not in the reprint. The “Introduction” to the 1988 ed. by Eva S. Dowling, Ph.D. Scribe to the Messenger (3-13) gives the title as The Aquarian Age Gospel of Jesus, the Christ of the Piscean Age.

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There are many editions with slight variations in the title. The “Introduction” to the 1988 ed. by Eva S. Dowling, Ph.D. Scribe to the Messenger (3-13) gives the title as The Aquarian Age Gospel of Jesus, the Christ of the Piscean Age.

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Levi [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Aunt Mary's Pie Plant" Y1 - 1908 A1 - Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Women establish businesses and turn a small town into a eutopia.

JF - Woman's Home Companion VL - 35 N1 -

Rpt. in Carol Farley Kessler, Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Her Progress Toward Utopia with Selected Writings (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995), 117-28.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Australia 1960" Y1 - 1908 A1 - Kevin Ryan (Sub-Senior) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Very brief eutopian description of a future Australia following on the same author's "Australia, 1909" (103-104), which proposes setting up factories to tin rabbits, abolishing all the state legislatures, eliminating pay for legislators, and damming all rivers. The result is shown in the eutopian fragment, which describes a flourishing irrigated, agriculture country and a thriving Sydney.

JF - Our Alma Mater (St. Ignatius' College, Riverview, NSW, Australia) VL - no. 36 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Captain of Industry Y1 - 1908 A1 - Enoch Johnson KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Most of the novel is on the industrial strife that precedes the reform that produces the eutopia, which is based on the workers participating in the profits of the company, earning more as it does and less as it does.

PB - C.M. Clark Publishing Co CY - Boston, MA U5 -

DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Commonwealth Crisis" Y1 - 1908 A1 - [Frank Ignatius] [Fox] (1874-1960) KW - Australian author KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

The Japanese invade Australia and establish a dystopia in the North. Set in 1922, the Japanese have been defeated and Australia has recovered, although Japan still occupies a small part of the North. The story ends by calling for white settlement of the North and says that a white Christian Australia is essential for the survival of Christian civilization.

JF - The Lone Hand (Sydney, NSW, Australia) VL - 3.18 - 5.28 N1 -

Rpt. as The Australian Crisis. Melbourne, VIC, Australia: George Robertson & Co., 1909.

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Charles H.​ Kirmess [pseud.]. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Conservative Utopia" Y1 - 1908 A1 - R. F. P. AB -

Poem, possibly satirical, presenting a conservative position.

JF - The Eagle (St. John's College, Cambridge, Eng.) VL - 29 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Coup D'Etat of 1961" Y1 - 1908 A1 - Henry Dwight Sedgwick [III] (1861-1957) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of rampant capitalism that results in an effective monarchy in the U.S.

JF - The New American Type and Other Essays PB - Houghton, Mifflin CY - Boston, MA N1 -

Rpt. American Utopias. Selected Short Fiction. Ed. Arthur O. Lewis, Jr. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971. All items separately paged. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Curious Fragment" Y1 - 1908 A1 - Jack [John Griffith] London (1876-1916) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Depicts an extreme capitalist system in which workers are slaves. For example, teaching a worker to read is a serious offence, as it was regarding slaves in many states in the U.S. South prior to the Civil War. See also 1907 London, 1908 London, "Goliah", and 1909 London.

JF - Town Topics N1 -

Rpt. in his When God Laughs and Other Stories (New York: Macmillan, 1911), 257-75; in Curious Fragments: Jack London’s Fantasy Fiction. Ed. Dale L. Walker (Post Washington, NY: National University Publications/Kennkat [sic] Press, 1975), 79-86 with an editor's note on 79;  in The Science Fiction of Jack London: An Anthology. Ed. Richard Gid Powers (Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1975), separately paged; and in The Complete Short Stories of Jack London. Ed. Earle Labor, Robert C. Leitz, III, and I. Milo Shepard. 3 vols. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1993), 2: 1279-86.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Eve and the Evangelist; A Romance of A.D. 2108 Y1 - 1908 A1 - Harry E. Rice KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The Brotherhood of Man rules North America. Christianity. Free education through university. Blacks are in the process of relocating to Liberia. All laws passed by initiative and referendum. Technologically advanced with flight; a submarine tube between Britain and the continent; an electric typewriter that could be connected to another on another continent; trains that reach 300 mph, and other such advances.

PB - The Roxburgh Publishing Company CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Geyserland; Empiricisms in Social Reform. Being Data and Observations Recorded By the Late Mark Stubble, M.D., Ph.D. [A Tentative Edition] Y1 - 1908 A1 - Richard Hatfield, ed. [written by] (b. 1853) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. No money. All property common. Eugenics with no marriage or families. Stress on prudential restraint. Elders or a Council of Doctors administers the island; there is also a representative government. Jobs are rotated. Occupation and status revealed by dress. Much of the text is composed of lectures to the reader.

PB - Ptd. for Richard Hatfield CY - Washington, DC U3 -

The Late Mark Stubble, M.D., Ph.D.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Goliah" Y1 - 1908 A1 - Jack [John Griffith] London (1876-1916) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Socialist eutopia in which all labor is gradually abolished. It is brought about by a man with a powerful weapon who forces individuals and countries to accept his dictates. See also 1907 London, 1908 London “A Curious Fragment”, and 1909 London.

JF - The Red Magazine VL - 2.7 N1 -

Rpt. in The Bookman (New York) 30.6 (February 1910): 620-32; in his Revolution and Other Essays (London: William Heinemann, 1910), 73-116; as Goliah: A Utopian Essay. Berkeley, CA: Thorp Springs Press, [1973]; in Curious Fragments: Jack London’s Fantasy Fiction. Ed. Dale L. Walker (Post Washington, NY: National University Publications/Kennkat [sic] Press, 1975), 87-108 with an editor's note on 87; in The Science Fiction of Jack London: An Anthology. Ed. Richard Gid Powers (Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1975), separately paged; and in The Complete Short Stories of Jack London. Ed. Earle Labor, Robert C. Leitz, III and I. Milo Shepard. 3 vols. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1993), 2: 1201-21. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - How England Was Saved; History of the Years 1910-1925 Y1 - 1908 A1 - Agricola [pseud.] AB -

The eutopia that is possible through a series of reforms, particularly in land use and the application of science to agriculture. Argues that to bring about change, it is necessary for them to be considered outside the realm of party politics. As a result, party politics is only allowed four days a month, and government is essentially by a non-political ministry. The Board of Agriculture was reconstituted as the Agricultural Department with a statistical department, a research bureau, and other bureaus studying conditions in England and throughout the world. Experimental Farming Stations were established in every county. Farming as a business. Intensive farming. Heavy use of artificial fertilizer. Written as from 1930.

PB - Swan Sonnenschein & Co CY - London U3 -

Agricola [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - How the Vote Was Won. Produced for the First Time at the Royalty Theatre, London, April 13, 1909 Y1 - 1908 A1 - Cicely [Mary] Hamilton (1875-1952) A1 - [Christabel] [Marshall] (ca. 1875-1960) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Successful general strike of all women who do not have the means to support themselves. Those who are refused support by their male relatives (most of them) go on relief.

PB - Edith Craig CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. as How the Vote Was Won. A Play on One Act. Chicago, IL: Dramatic Publishing Company, 1910. Rpt. in How the Vote Was Won and Other Suffragette Plays (London: Methuen, 1985), 23-33, with production notes by Carole Hayman (19-21); and in The Methuen Drama Book of Suffrage Plays. Ed. Naomi Paxton (London: Methuen, 2013), 1-28. The play is best known in this version, but it originated as “How the Vote Was Won (Some Short Extracts from Prof. Dryasdust’s Political History of the Twentieth Century published in the Year 2007 A.D.).” By Cicely [Mary] Hamilton. Woman’s Franchise, no. 20 (November 14, 1907): 227-28, which was published separately as How the Vote Was Won (Some short Extracts from Prof. Dryasdust’s ‘Political History of the Twentieth Century,’ published in the year 2008 A.D.). [London]: Women’s Writers’ Suffrage League, [1908]. 

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"Some Short Extracts from Prof. Dryasdust's Political History of the 20th Century."

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Christopher St. John [pseud. of Marshall]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Generation: A Story of the Future Y1 - 1908 A1 - James [Herman] Elroy Flecker (1884-1915) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia produced by trying to achieve eutopia. People stopped producing children in order to live better. Horrors of the last generation.

PB - New Age Press CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in his Collected Prose (London: G. Bell and Sons, 1920), 1-32; rpt. (London: William Heinemann, 1922), 1-32; and in The Way to the End Times: Classic Tales of the Apocalypse. Ed. Robert Silverberg (New York: Three Rooms Press, 2016), 46-64, with an “Editor’s Introduction” on 44-45. Expanded version of a story first published in his privately printed The Best Man. Eights Weeks, 1906. Oxford: np, 1906), 9-13. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Legions of the Dawn. A Novel Y1 - 1908 A1 - [G. H.] [Davis] KW - UK author AB -

Gender-role reversal set in a hidden area of Africa with some satire but presented somewhat more positively than most such fiction in that one of the men chooses to stay.

PB - T. Fisher Unwin CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Political Future Fiction: Speculative and Counter-Factual Politics in Edwardian Fiction. Ed. Kate Macdonald. Volume 2 Fictions of a Feminist Future. Ed. Kate Macdonald (London: Chatto & Windus, 2013), 1-67 with “Commentary on the Texts” (267-74, 285) and “Editorial Notes” (287-96). 

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Allan Reeth [pseud.].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Liberators; A Story of Future American Politics Y1 - 1908 A1 - Isaac N. Stevens (1858-1920) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia based on the nationalization of utilities and railroads. The attention of the book focuses on one individual who fights throughout the entire time for these changes, including battles in the streets and almost class war. The ultimate conversion of one of the capitalists due to the love of his daughter for this man is the key to getting the railroad bill passed.

PB - B.W. Dodge & Company CY - New York U2 -

Illus. Nella Fountain Binkley.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Light of Centuries: The Forecast of a Practical Millennium. Peace Progress Prosperity Will Perfect Present Order. Dangers and Fallacies of both Socialism and Capitalism Exposed Y1 - 1908 A1 - Frank Rosewater (1856-1934) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

1908 Rosewater, Frank (1856-1934). Light of Centuries: The Forecast of a Practical Millennium. Peace Progress Prosperity Will Perfect Present Order. Dangers and Fallacies of both Socialism and Capitalism Exposed. Chicago, IL: Century Publishing Co. NN

Proposes what he calls “Centrism,” a two-money system, one used by buyers the other by sellers, which is given when receiving money. The system will require that money be spent. No usury. See also 1894, 1908 Rosewater, The Making of a Millennium, 1917, 1920, and 1924 Rosewater.

PB - Century Publishing Co. CY - Chicago, IL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Lord of Lands Y1 - 1908 A1 - [Percival] Ramsey Benson KW - Male author AB -

Formation of an intentional community for a group of poor people from a city with the usual trials and tribulations.

PB - Henry Holt & Co CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Making of a Millennium; The Story of a Millennial Realm and Its Laws Y1 - 1908 A1 - Frank Rosewater (1856-1934) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia named Temploria with a new monetary system. See also 1894, 1908 Rosewater, Light of Centuries, 1917, 1920, and 1924 Rosewater.

PB - Century Publishing Company CY - Omaha, NB U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Man's Machine-Made Millennium" Y1 - 1908 A1 - Hudson Maxim (1853-1927) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Technological eutopia based on the discovery of a method of producing unlimited power. Every want will be filled by pressing a button, except for human companionship and sympathy. No one will need to work except as recreation. No disease. Cities will be replaced by one immense building.

JF - Cosmopolitan Magazine VL - 45.6 U2 -

Illus. William R. Leigh.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Mystery of the North Pole Y1 - 1908 A1 - Mrs. C. A. Scrymsour Nichol (1830-1916) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Christian eutopia at the North Pole.

PB - Francis Griffiths CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Nutopia; or, Nineteen-Twenty One Y1 - 1908 A1 - Edward Omen [pseud?] AB -

Eutopia. Women rule and improve Britain. All advancement by merit through government exams. Workers get shares in companies until they own them.

PB - Henry J. Drane CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Pilgrim's Progress in Other Worlds; Recounting the Wonderful Adventures of Ulysum Storries and His Discovery of the Lost Star "Eden" Y1 - 1908 A1 - [Marie Antoinette Parish Hough] Martin (1840-1915) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Spiritualism. Immature, crude Earthman travels around the planets. Most planets advanced spiritually and socially beyond Earth. The advance is largely due to the improved status of women.

PB - Mayhew Publishing Company CY - Boston, MA U5 -

DLC, HRC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Planetary Journeys and Earthly Sketches Y1 - 1908 A1 - George Raffalovich (1880-1958) KW - French author KW - Male author KW - UK author KW - US author AB -

Four connected stories. "A Trip to Another Planet" is about a vaguely described eutopia with no prejudice, a single language, no politics or religion, no marriage and few women or children. "On the Loose" renews contact with the visitors from another planet and is mostly a critique of the Earth. In "The Hardy Annual" another planet is visited that is inhabited by the Greek Empedocles, his descendants, and beings he has created. "The Windmillers" describes the society of that planet, which stresses science and mutual respect. The other stories, two of which were also published in New Age, are not utopian.

PB - Arnold Fairbairns CY - London N1 -

New ed. as On the Loose (London: Publishing Office of the Equinox, [1910]), 1-52. Collection of stories, the first four of which were originally published in New Age--“A Trip to a Planet” (1-16) in no. 692 (ns 2.7) (December 14, 1907): 132-33; “On the Loose” (17-30) in no. 695 (ns 2.10) (January 4, 1908): 192-93; “The Hardy Annual” (31-41) in no. 698 (ns 2.13) (January 25, 1908): 252-53); and “The Windmillers” (42-52) as “The Wind-Millers” no. 702 (ns 2.17) (February 22, 1908) 331-32. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Princess Steel" Y1 - 1908 A1 - W[illiam] E[dward] B[urghardt] Du Bois (1858-1963) ED - adrienne maree brown (b. 1978) ED - Britt Rusert KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

Fantastic story that is a critique of capitalism, trust building, and the exploitation of African Americans and Africans. 

JF - PMLA VL - 130.3 ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Prodigal City Y1 - 1908 A1 - Tristam Coutts KW - Male author AB -

Anti-socialist novel depicting a model town and its failure.

PB - Greening & Co. CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Realm of Light Y1 - 1908 A1 - [John] [Stevens] KW - Male author AB -

An isolated socialist eutopia in Africa. Class system based on merit with everyone starting as workers. Socialism possible due to religion.

PB - Reid Publishing Company CY - Boston, MA U3 -

Frank Hatfield [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Rev. John Smith Died--and Went to Jupiter via Hell Y1 - 1908 AB -

A good minister appears to die and first visits Hell, where Satanita, the Queen of Hell, shows him around while expounding Christian doctrine and noting that if ministers advocated change rather than saying that the established system had to be accepted, Hell would not be so crowded. He then moves on the Jupiter, which is a eutopia. There is no greed, money, competition, or alcohol. Science and commonsense are emphasized. No churches. 

PB - The Juno Society CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Singular Republic Y1 - 1908 A1 - W[illiam] H[enry] Koebel (1872-1923) ED - W[illiam] H[enry] Koebel (1872-1923) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The failure of an attempt to establish a utopian community called Neuvonie in South America.

PB - Francis Griffiths CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Smoky God or A Voyage to the Inner World Y1 - 1908 A1 - Willis George Emerson (1856-1918) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A lost race eutopia of giants who live 600 to 800 years in the center of the earth. The basis is a cloud of electricity ("the smoky god") that drives an advanced technology. Also, the vegetation is luxurious, and there is a thriving agricultural economy.

PB - Forbes & Co. CY - Chicago, IL N1 -

Rpt. New York: Fieldcrest Publishing Co., 1964; and Mundelin, IL: Palmer Publications, 1965; rpt. Pomeroy, WA: Health Research, [1965].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Soldier of the Future Y1 - 1908 A1 - W[illiam] J[ames] Dawson (1854-1928) KW - Male author AB -

The protagonist, a minister, dreams of the Second Coming of Christ. Most of the novel is on the problem of poverty, but it ends with the reformation of a few men, the Second Coming, and the beginnings of a new non-denominational Christianity.

PB - Hodder and Stoughton CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: F.H. Revell, [1908].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Strange Land Y1 - 1908 A1 - [Jane] [Barlow] (1857-1917) KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

Fantasy and eutopia depicting an isolated island somewhere in Southeast Asia. There are no animals, birds, or insects. Plants do not die a lingering death but simply disappear in an instant. Something of an Arcadia physically but with a degree of technology such as gas and electricity. The protagonist is an accomplished musician, and the advanced people of the island fear music because it always precedes the disappearance/death of someone.

PB - Hutchinson & Co CY - London U3 -

Felix Ryark [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Suffrage Island" Y1 - 1908 A1 - Wardle, Jane KW - Female author AB -

Anti-feminist satire.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Toronto in 1928 Y1 - 1908 A1 - Frederick Nelson KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

A fictional forecast describing Toronto as a modern city. Regularly notes fire and safety improvements. The University of Toronto had expanded significantly and absorbed much of the area around it for academic buildings, faculty housing, sports grounds, and student residences (mostly in boarding houses). Immigrants and the poorest Canadians had created a slum, similar to those found in other modern cities. There were also Chinese and Jewish sections of the city.

PB - National Business Methods & Publishing Co CY - Toronto, ON, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Trip to Hades. Being the substance of a Lecture delivered Y1 - 1908 A1 - H. M. Fitzgerald KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author AB -

Satire in which Hades is a socialist eutopia, and Heaven is undergoing a revolution.

PB - Ptd. and Pub. for the Editor of "Commonweal" by the New Zealand Times CY - Wellington, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Triumph of Socialism and How It Succeeded Y1 - 1908 A1 - John D[awson] Mayne (1828-1917) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Anti-socialist dystopia. The socialists win the 1912 election, establish a republic and nationalize industry while raising parliamentary pay. This proves to be a disaster. Cuts in the military leads Germany to invade, but the socialists are overthrown, and Germany is defeated by a reinvigorated Britain.

PB - Swan Sonnenschein CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Voyage in the Motive Ship Pelican to the North Pole. Captain Solomon, Commander Y1 - 1908 A1 - E. D. Eldridge KW - US author AB -

The motive ship is a form of airplane which flew from the U.S. to the North Pole, where there is a eutopian city. Technologically advanced. Stress on the beauty and grandeur of the city. People live to an average age of 133 with some living to over 200; this is based on moderation. Much adventure.

PB - Record Publishing Co CY - Stockton, CA U2 -

The "motive ship" is depicted on the cover and first page. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - When the Saints are Gone Y1 - 1908 A1 - Constancia Serjeant KW - Female author AB -

The novel begins with a critique of the Anglican church and its neglect of the poor, even among its own clergy, while the church hierarchy lives in luxury. All the saved are "raptured" from the world (see 1 Thessalonians 4: 15-17), and a dystopia is created by the Antichrist. Christ returns on the last pages.

PB - John Long CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - When Things Were Doing Y1 - 1908 A1 - C[harles] A[llen] Steere KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Socialist eutopia. Much of the novel is concerned with the initial revolution, which is simple and bloodless because almost all the workers are already socialists. Rapid transformation of the United States as a result of new technology, which is described in detail, and hard work.

PB - Charles H. Kerr and Company CY - Chicago, IL N1 -

Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Woman's Aye and Nay Y1 - 1908 A1 - [Adelina Georgina] [Kingscote] (d. 1908) KW - Female author AB -

Satire in which votes for women are a disaster.

PB - John Long CY - London U3 -

Lucas Cleeve [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Altrurian Era" Y1 - 1907 A1 - Albert Bancroft Firmin KW - Male author AB -

Series of standard reforms of the time such as monopolies taken over by the government, referendum, recall, and initiative. Set in 2007.

JF - Altruria VL - 1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Behold the Days to Come: A Fancy in Christian Politics Y1 - 1907 A1 - James [Granville] Adderley (1861-1942) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia of Christian Socialism that depicts a Garden City. On the Garden City movement, see The Garden City: Past, Present and Future. Ed. Stephen V. Ward. London: E & FN SPON, 1992.

PB - Methuen CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Celestia Y1 - 1907 A1 - Rev. D. Lull AB -

Mostly romance but presents the foundations for a eutopia based on religion and education.

PB - Reliance Trading Company CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Demetrian Y1 - 1907 A1 - [Edmond] [Kelly] (1851-1909) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Romance and adventure set in a collectivist eutopia with problems in 2004. All land owned by the state. No city versus country division; people changed residences from time to time and do physical as well as mental labor. Classical Greek culture plus Christianity. Political parties organized around principles with the main parties being the conservatives who support the current system and the radicals who want to reestablish private property. Eugenics. The novel focuses on the love between a man and a woman who had been “selected” to marry someone chosen by the Cult of Demeter, the consequences of which brought about violence and almost a revolution. The author also wrote Twentieth Century Socialism: What It Is Not, What It Is, and How It May Come. Ed. Florence Kelly. New York: Longman, Green, 1910. In the section “What Socialism Is” (202-411) describes in detail the utopia that socialism could become including a lengthy discussion of the Farm Colonies (263-277) that play an important role in Demetrian. The author was a lawyer who spent most of his life in Europe and was, at his death, Lecturer on Municipal Government at Columbia University. Shortly before his death, he was planning to join Upton Sinclair’s (1878-1968) Helicon Hall community in New Jersey. The Penn State copy includes a photocopy of an excerpt from the chapter on Kelly in James Gilbert, “Edmond Kelly and the Socialism of Order.” Designing the Industrial State: The Intellectual Pursuit of Collectivism in American, 1880-1940 (Chicago, IL: Quadrangle Books, 1972), 125-158, 301-303.

PB - Brentano's CY - New York N1 -

UK ed. entitled The Woman Who Vowed. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1908.

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UK ed. entitled The Woman Who Vowed. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1908.

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Ellison Harding [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Dust which is God; An Undimensional Adventure Y1 - 1907 A1 - Ralph [Sidney Albert] Straus (1892-1950) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia of evolution and religion. A man is shown the First, Second, and Third Worlds, which are stages of human evolution, with the First World the beginning of consciousness, the Second World the contemporary world, and the Third World the eutopia to which evolution is tending. In the Third World friction has been overcome and humanity has evolved wings.

PB - Samurai Press CY - [Norwich, Eng.] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Elixir of Life Y1 - 1907 A1 - William [Arthur] Satchell (1861-1942) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Various themes, but one is building a good society on an isolated island after a shipwreck. Stress on the need for authority.

PB - Chapman & Hall CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - An Episode in Flatland: or How a Plane Folk Discovered the Third Dimension. To Which Is Added A Outline of the History of UNÆA Y1 - 1907 A1 - C[harles] H[oward] Hinton (1853-1907) KW - English author KW - US author AB -

Satire on contemporary England set in Flatland (See 1884 Abbott) or Astria, as it is called here, which is divided between the savage Scythians and the civilized Unæans, who are the focus of the novel.

PB - Swan Sonnenschein CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Every-day Life in a Socialist State" Y1 - 1907 A1 - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia as described in the title stressing education, the home and family, and work.

JF - Christian Commonwealth VL - 28 N1 -

Rpt. in "Notes of the Week." New Age 2.5 (November 30, 1907): 84.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Extracts from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven Taken from His Own Ms" Y1 - 1907 A1 - [Samuel Langhorne] [Clemens] (1835-1910) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on heaven as eutopia.

JF - Harper's Monthly Magazine (New York) VL - 116.691 - 92 N1 -

Rpt. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1909; and Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1996. Rpt. as “Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven.” In The Speculative Fiction of Mark Twain (Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2018), 123-74. Editions with additional materials can be found in his Report from Paradise. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1952, which includes “Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven” (1-83), “Letter from the Recording Angel” (84-94), “Report from Paradise Introduction” by Dixon Wecter (ix-xxv), and drawings by Charles Locke; and Ray Browne, ed. Mark Twain’s Quarrel with Heaven: “Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven” and Other Sketches. New Haven, CT: College and University Press, 1970, which includes an “Introduction” by Browne (11-37), “Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven” (39-110), which is based on the manuscript in the Twain papers at the University of California, Berkeley, “The Late Reverend Sam Jones’s Reception in Heaven” (111-16), with the note “Not published--forbidden by Mrs. Clemens.--S.L.C., “Mental Telegraphy” (117-19), and two brief appendices. This version rpt. as “Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven” in The Science Fiction of Mark Twain. Ed. David Ketterer (Hartford, CT: Archon Books, 1984), 14-58; book rpt. as Mark Twain, Tales of Wonder. Ed. David Ketterer (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003), 14-58.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Flight of Icarus Y1 - 1907 A1 - Henry Byatt (1855?-1934) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

An apostate Jew with magical powers rules the world. See also 1909 Byatt. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Hidden Country" Y1 - 1907 A1 - [Janet] Syrett (1865-1943) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A story for children about the Kingdom of Progressia, which is based on rationality, equality, and freedom but has no fantasy, color, trees, grass, birds, and so forth. Children have no toys. The King and Queen live in a house the same as everyone else and must hold down regular jobs like everyone else. The Fairy Morgana creates a fairy tale setting in the center of the city that only believers can see. Conflict arises between those who can see it and those who can't, and they divide into two cities.

JF - Our Jabberwock (London) VL - 4.22 - 27 U3 -

Netta Syrett [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Immortal Light Y1 - 1907 A1 - John Mastin F.S.A. Scot. F.L.S., F.C.S., F.R.A.S., F.R.M.S., R.B.A. (1865-1932) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The life of reincarnated souls in an underground eutopia. Well developed people both physically and mentally. Water provides all the nourishment needed. Advanced technology, particularly in the use of glass and electricity. Egalitarian. See also 1906 Mastin.

PB - Cassell CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London Charles Griffin & Co., [ca 1910]. The rpt. has the publisher as stated on the title page but Selfridge on the spine. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Industrial Republic; A Study of the America of Ten Years Hence Y1 - 1907 A1 - Upton [Beall] Sinclair (1878-1968) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Socialist eutopia brought about by the vote rather than revolution. Industries nationalized. Permanent employment. No servants. Simpler life; no luxuries. No private schools. Cooperative farms. Includes a description of the Helicon Home Colony in Englewood, NJ, where the author lived while writing the book. 

PB - Doubleday, Page & Company CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: William Heinemann, 1907.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Iron Heel Y1 - 1907 A1 - Jack [John Griffith] London (1876-1916) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Primarily an anti-capitalist dystopia stressing the struggle against capitalism and the defeat of the revolution. The text, which is written as an account of the struggle by a participant, is accompanied by a "Foreword" and footnotes purporting to have been written seven centuries in the future in 419 B.O.M. (Brotherhood of Man) when a eutopia had finally been established. See also 1908 London “A Curious Fragment”, 1908 London “Goliah”, and 1909 London.

PB - Macmillan CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: The Regent Press, [1913]; New York: Sagamore Press, 1957; London: Arco, 1966; London: Journeyman Press, 1974; Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, [1980], with an introduction by H. Bruce Franklin (i-vi); Edinburgh, Scot.: Rebel, Inc., 1999; ed. Jonathan Auerbach. New York: Penguin Books, 2006; and in his Novels and Social Writings (New York: Library of America, 1982), 315-553. The Iron Heel Chapter 23” was rpt. in The Radical Jack London: Writings on War and Revolution. Ed. Jonah Raskin (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2008), 192-206. Most sources give 1908 as the date of publication, but the copy at the British Library is clearly dated 1907 on both the title and copyright pages. This is considered to be a copy filed for copyright with the first published edition being 1908.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Knight of the Holy Ghost Y1 - 1907 A1 - Edith Searle Grossmann (1863-1931) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Describes the establishment in Australia of a communal settlement of women and, a little later, an associated Brotherhood of Men. Successful reaction against women's rights. Strong prohibition message. See also her In Revolt. London & Sydney: Eden, Remington & Co., 1893 (ATL, L), to which this is a sequel of sorts.

PB - Watts & Co CY - London N1 -

Rpt. as Hermione: A Knight of the Holy Ghost [A Novel of the Woman Movement at the head of the title]. London: Watts & Co., 1908. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Light of Mars: An Extraordinary Communication Y1 - 1907 A1 - Will[iam] Ford KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

A conversation with a man from Mars, who lectures the man from Earth on the failings of Earth and describes a eutopian Mars. Earth is primarily faulted for its religious superstitions, its class system, and the way it chooses its leaders. Mars stresses reason/knowledge, has no money and no competition, is egalitarian (including economic, gender, and racial equality), is spiritually advanced and can communicate with the dead, and has evolved past war. Politically it is described as scientific anarchism and has evolved past socialism, although socialism is described as better than the Earth's competitive capitalism.

PB - Ptd. for the Proprietor by the Co-operative Printing Works CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia U1 -

Cover adds The Dawn of a New Civilization in Harmony With the Seven Laws of Nature.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Limit of Wealth Y1 - 1907 A1 - Alfred L. Hutchinson KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia in which a limit on wealth is the solution to all social problems. Stresses morality.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lord of the World Y1 - 1907 A1 - Robert Hugh Benson (1871-1914) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Armageddon (See Revelation 16) after split between secular humanism and the Roman Catholic Church. See 1911 Benson for an alternative future.

PB - Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd CY - London N1 -

Rpt. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1908; New York: Arno Press, 1975; South Bend, IN: St. Augustine's Press, 2001; and in British Future Fiction. Ed. I.F. Clarke. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2001), 8: 101-481, with a brief note by the editor (97-99).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Love Hath Wings. Time: 2007" Y1 - 1907 A1 - Henry Fletcher (1856-1932) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eugenic marriage laws enforced by the Sydney Marriage Bureau of the Co-operative Commonwealth in conflict with love. Hygienic clothes for all. Notes that for all the control of marriage, most people had false teeth and had to wear glasses.

JF - The Lone Hand (Sydney, NSW, Australia) VL - 1.1 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Major Barbara" Y1 - 1907 A1 - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

While the play's focus is elsewhere, Act III, Scene ii includes a factory town eutopia called Percivale St. Andrews, which includes excellent facilities and a pension system.

JF - John Bull's Other Island and Major Barbara: also How he Lied to Her Husband PB - Archibald Constable CY - London N1 -

Rev. in The Works of Bernard Shaw (London: Constable, 1930), 11: 249-350, with his Preface “First Aid to Critics” (205-47). Rpt. in The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw. Collected Plays With Their Prefaces (London: Max Reinhardt The Bodley Head, 1971), 3: 67-200 with the “Preface” with its 1933 “Postscript” (15-63); as Major Barbara: Definitive Text. Ed. Nicholas Grene. London: Methuen, 2008 with the “Preface” (133-67). The “Preface” is rpt. in his The Complete Prefaces Volume 1: 1889-1913. Ed. Dan H. Laurence and Daniel J. Leary (London: Allen Lane The Penguin Press, 1993), 245-77.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Marriage Lease; The Story of a Social Experiment Y1 - 1907 A1 - [Francis] Frank Frankfort Thomas Moore (1855-1931) KW - Irish author KW - Male author KW - Northern Ireland author AB -

Flawed utopia with considerable satire. A wealthy man decides to establish a eutopia and purchases a small, mostly abandoned island called Azalea and populates it with selected people, with the willingness to work the major qualification. It was very successful, but a proposal was adopted for a limited-term marriage contract, and this was a failure.

PB - Hutchinson CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. as A Trial Marriage. New York: Empire Book Co., [1907].

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U.S. ed. as A Trial Marriage. New York: Empire Book Co., [1907].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Master Beast; Being a True Account of the Ruthless Tyranny Inflicted on the British People by Socialism A.D. 1888-2020 Y1 - 1907 A1 - Horace W[ykeham] Newte (1870-1949) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Anti-socialist dystopia.

PB - Rebman Ltd CY - London N1 -

Repub. as The Red Rosette. London: Holden & Hardingham, [1913]. 2nd ed. as The Red Fury: Britain Under Bolshevism. London: Holden & Hardingham, Ltd., [1919].

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Repub. as The Red Rosette. London: Holden & Hardingham, [1913]. 2nd ed. as The Red Fury: Britain Under Bolshevism. London: Holden & Hardingham, Ltd., [1919].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Maud Muller's Ministry or The Claims of Christian Socialism Y1 - 1907 A1 - Rev. James Lawrenson Smiley KW - Male author AB -

Presents part of the process of the transition to 1888 Bellamy's future and the arguments for it.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Message Y1 - 1907 A1 - A[lec] J[ohn] Dawson (1872-1951) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Germany successfully invades Britain. In a fairly short period of time and with the help of people from the colonies, Britain is converted to Christian duty and the simple life, defeats the Germans in Britain, and then defeats Germany everywhere in the world. The text is written from the perspective of the future eutopia of Christian duty and simplicity. An Imperial State and Imperial Parliament are formed, and the British Empire and the United States form an economic and military alliance.

PB - E. Grant Richards CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. Boston, MA: Dana, Estes. [1907]. Excerpt rpt. in The Great War with Germany, 1890-1914: Fictions and Fantasies of the War-to-come. Ed. I.F. Clarke (Liverpool, Eng.: Liverpool University Press, 1997), 339-56.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "My Utopia" Y1 - 1907 A1 - Cecil [Edward] Chesterton (1879-1918) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A non-fiction description of his eutopia stressing socialism, nationality, religion, festivity, the family, and a fairly conservative gender equality.

JF - The New Age: A Weekly Review of Politics, Literature, and Art VL - 692 (ns 2.7) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Proposals for a Voluntary Nobility Y1 - 1907 AB -

Development of the idea of the samurai from 1904-05 Wells.

PB - Samurai Press CY - Norwich, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Soldiers of the Common Good. Part II, The Soldiers in a Melbourne Bank Parlour Y1 - 1907 KW - Australian author AB -

Christian eutopia. Lists Part I. The Soldiers in the Market Place and Part III. The Soldiers in the City Council Chambers (preparing for the press) and says to contact a Mr. H. Bell, Deakin St., Malvern.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Through the Eye of the Needle; A Romance with an Introduction Y1 - 1907 A1 - William Dean Howells (1837-1920) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 1894 Howells describing an altruistic Arcadian eutopia. The "Introduction" critiques the picture of the U.S. presented in the first volume by the man from Altruria and suggests that the depiction of Altruria in this volume presents a flawed utopia.

PB - Harper and Bros. CY - New York N1 -

Part I had been originally published as the last six (except for part of “Letter IX”) of “Letters of An Altrurian Traveller.” The Cosmopolitan 16 - 17 (April - September 1894): 697-704 with the subtitle “How People live in a Plutocratic City”; 46-58 with the subtitle “Plutocratic Housing”; 221-28 with the subtitle “Dinner, Very Informally”; 352-59 with the subtitle “The Selling and Giving of Dinners”; 495-99 with the subtitle “An Altruistic Plutocrat”; and 610-18 with the subtitle “A Plutocratic Triumph.” The first two letters 16 (November - December 1893): 110-16, 218-32 were first rpt. in Letters of an Altrurian Traveller (1893-94). Ed. Clara M. Kirk and Rudolf Kirk. Gainesville, FL: Scholars’ Fascimiles & Reprints, 1961, which includes all the letters. Letters III, IV, V and part of IX became essays in his Impressions and Experiences. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1896. Critical ed. as The Altrurian Romances. Introduction and Notes to the Text by Clara and Rudolf Kirk. Text Established by Scott Bennett (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1968), 265-442. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Tyranny Y1 - 1907 A1 - James Blyth (1864-1933) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. A tyrant rules Britain and war with Germany leads to a mass uprising.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Utopia" Y1 - 1907 A1 - E[dith] Nesbit (1858-1924) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A short poem that compares contemporary life to the possibility of eutopia. See also 1906 Nesbit.

JF - The New Age: An Independent Review of Politics, Literature, and Art VL - no. 662 (ns 1.2) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - What Might Have Been; The Story of a Social War Y1 - 1907 A1 - [Ernest Bramah] [Smith] (1868-1942) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Anti-socialist dystopia. Street names were changed to codes in the name of efficiency. The upper classes revolt, restore capitalism, and everybody is better off.

PB - John Murray CY - London N1 -

Rpt. Reading, Eng.: Handheld Press, 2017, with an “Introduction. The History of a Novel” by Jeremy Hawhorn (vii-xxiii), “Notes” (330-32), and “Works by Ernest Brahman” (329-34). An abridged ed. entitled The Secret of the League; The Story of a Social War. London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, [1909] omitted the “Preface” and Chapter III, rearranges the order of other chapters, and makes other internal changes. U.S. ed. of the abridged ed. Atlanta, GA: Specular Press, 1995 with an “Introduction” by Dennis Jencke (i-iv) and a “Glossary” [287-91). L, NLS

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - When Theodore is King. Extracts Taken From a Complete Account of the New Declaration of the Change From the United States of America To the United Kingdom of America and the Establishing of Theodore on the Throne Y1 - 1907 A1 - [Wayland] [Spaulding] (1850-1918) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Detailed egalitarian eutopia. Class conflict followed by a peaceful revolution and the establishment of a monarchy that creates economic and racial equality. The wives and daughters of the rich supported the changes and that is what tipped the balance in support of a peaceful revolution.

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Viter Strikeshoulder [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Woman's Utopia" Y1 - 1907 A1 - Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A feminist eutopia with Gilman writing "Now is the time for practical utopias" (Kessler 135). The eutopia was brought about through a new religion with a social conscience and, even more, by women no longer being treated as inferiors and becoming involved in politics and the work force. Radical improvement of the environment. Cooperative housekeeping. 

JF - The Times Magazine VL - 1 N1 -

To be continued but not. An additional chapter can be found in the Gilman Collection at Radcliffe College (Cambridge, MA). Rpt., including the first publication of the additional chapter, in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories By United States Women Before 1950. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler. 2nd ed. (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995), 133-74 with an editor's note on 131-32.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A.D. 2006. A Romance of Australia" Y1 - 1906 A1 - Louis de Faix [pseud.] AB -

Britain has degenerated and Australia is flourishing under a combination of private enterprise and state socialism. Racist. Foreigners are restricted.

JF - The British-Australasian (London) VL - 25.54 - 77 U3 -

Louis de Faix [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - An Anglo-American Alliance. A Serio-Comic Romance and Forecast of the Future Y1 - 1906 A1 - Gregory Casparian (1856-1942) KW - Armenian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia that includes a wide variety of reforms. Odd, in that the main character begins as a woman and becomes a man. Co-education had been abandoned. Women's Clubs are a vehicle to bring about reform but vote to not be involved in politics. Central Africa colonized by the poor and homeless from Britain and the U.S. An American penal colony is established on an island in the Philippines. See https://gizmodo.com/the-first-lesbian-science-fiction-novel-published-in-1-5847805.

PB - Mayflower Presses CY - Floral Park, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - As It Is In Heaven Y1 - 1906 A1 - Mary Sparkes Wheeler (1835-1919). KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Heaven as eutopia.

PB - Universal Book and Bible House CY - Philadelphia, PA N1 -

Also published as by One of the Redeemed [pseud.] (Mary Sparks Wheeler). Illus. Philadelphia, PA: P.W. Ziegler Co., 1906.

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Also published as by One of the Redeemed [pseud.] (Mary Sparks Wheeler)

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Balmanno; The City of Our Quest and Its Social Problems Y1 - 1906 AB -

Christian city eutopia combining urban and rural, different classes living near each other. Factories are away from the city. Established through a wealthy man deciding to use his estate to establish a suburban eutopia. Profit sharing.

PB - Alexander Gardner CY - Paisley, Scot. N1 -

Some copies have Paisley, Scot.: Alexander Gardner /London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Bishop of Cottontown: A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills Y1 - 1906 A1 - John Trotwood Moore (1858-1929) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A southern preacher becomes concerned with labor conditions, and, while most of the novel is about the problems, the last chapter (633-44) has him building a cotton mill owned by the workers and transforming the town into a eutopia with no child labor, a library and school, and every mill worker having a home. Since the author was an apologist for the South and blatantly racist, the good society only applied to white Americans.

PB - The John C. Winston Co. CY - Philadelphia, PA U2 -

Illus. The Kinneys

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Burden of Troisilia" Y1 - 1906 A1 - T. Evan Jacob KW - Male author AB -

Anti-labor satire. Labor takes over, establishes a government, and raises taxes.

JF - Westminster Review VL - 165 ER - TY - ABST T1 - The City That Lieth Four-Square or Things Above Y1 - 1906 A1 - Kummer, Alfred KW - Male author AB -

Heaven as eutopia. Purports to be non-fiction.

PB - Mayhew Publishing Co CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Decimon Hûŷdas: A Romance of Mars. A Story of actual experiences in Ento (Mars) many centuries ago given to the Psychic Sara Weiss and by her transcribed under the editorial direction of Spirit Carl De L'Ester Y1 - 1906 A1 - Sara Weiss (d. 1904) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Story of life on Mars related to 1903 Weiss.

PB - Austin Publishing Co CY - Rochester, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Discriminators Y1 - 1906 A1 - [J. Hugh] [Davies] (Probable author) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Reform tract in the form of a novel, much of which concerns wreck of a Welsh ship on the Australian coast and a young woman held captive by Aborigines. This takes up the first half of the novel; the second half is largely speeches. Imperial cooperation. Industrial homes for the unemployed. Preferential trade, which refers to protecting workers and industries from cheap foreign labor and limiting imports. Penal reform. Dedicated to Right Hon. Richard J. Seddon, P.C. LL.D., Prime Minister of New Zealand.

PB - R.A. Thompson & Co CY - Melbourne, VIC, Australia U3 -

Ancient Briton [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Further Surprising Adventures of Lemuel Gulliver (First a Surgeon and then Captain of several Ships) in Topsy-Turvy Isle Y1 - 1906 A1 - [Elliott E.] [Mills] (1881-1956) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on contemporary English politics and manners.

PB - Alden & Co CY - Oxford, Eng. N1 -

Another copy has the publisher as Oxford, Eng.: Alden & Co., Ltd., Bocardo Press/London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Ltd.

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Vivian Grey [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Great Weather Syndicate Y1 - 1906 A1 - [George Chetwynd Griffith] [Jones] (1857-1906) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Weather is controlled initially for political purposes, but it is then controlled to improve life. 

PB - F.V. White CY - London U3 -

George Griffith [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hortense: A Study of the Future. A Romance Y1 - 1906 A1 - Lancelot Lance [pseud.] AB -

The novel begins with the discovery of a simple, pastoral community founded on an isolated island after a shipwreck. The novel continues by following the adventures of some of the members of the community and the man who discovered it after they leave the island; much of it is a love story. Most of the novel takes place in Australia with some reference to New Zealand.

PB - Sands & McDougall CY - Melbourne, VIC, Australia U3 -

Lancelot Lance [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Land of Nison Y1 - 1906 A1 - [Charles Percy] [Sanger] (1871-1930) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Nison means no sin and generally the language is simply the reversal of letters. Rule of wisdom. Few institutions. Women are considered to be inferior to men.

PB - C.W. Daniel CY - London U3 -

C. Regnas [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Looking Forward; The Phenomenal Progress of Electricity in 1912 Y1 - 1906 A1 - H[arry] W. Hillman (b. 1870) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia by 1912 through cooperation and electricity. Based on 1888 Bellamy.

PB - Valley View Publishing Company CY - Northampton, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Made in His Image Y1 - 1906 A1 - [Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger] [Gull] (1874-1923) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The establishment of slavery in England and how Christianity overcomes it.

PB - Hutchinson and Company CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. Philadelphia, PA: George W. Jacobs & Co., 1906.

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Guy Thorne [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Missing Empire: A Tale of the “Kittatinnies” Y1 - 1906 A1 - A[lphonso] M[oser] Gher (b. 1858) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Begins with a vision of a peaceful world ruled by a queen who is fair to everyone. Her followers spread throughout the world bringing at least temporary peace. The stress of the book is on motherhood and home life.

PB - Np CY - Carlisle, PA VL - 2nd ed. All known copies says 2nd ed. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Plan of Laughing Land. A Money Back Book Y1 - 1906 A1 - W. Costley AB -

Detailed socialist eutopia. All children are taught political economy. No waste of any sort and land not used for another purpose is planted with trees that produce nuts that can be eaten or fed to animals. A tree is planted every time a child is born, and the child is taught to care for it. Details on housing and affiliated public facilities. Details on agriculture. Every child is taught practical work, with traditional gender divisions, and everyone does some such work. Money in the form of labor checks and goods cost the amount of labor put into them.

PB - World Press CY - Oakland, CA N1 -

Rev. ed. Oakland, CA: B.W. Costley, [1921?] which has an additional subtitle on the cover--The Science of Political Economy in a Nut Shell. Looking Forward

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Robinson Crusoe's Return Y1 - 1906 A1 - Barry [Eric Odell] Pain (1864-1928) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on Crusoe's return to modern England.

PB - Hodder & Stoughton CY - London N1 -

Rpt. New York: Arno Press, 1976.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Scarlet Empire Y1 - 1906 A1 - David M[aclean] Parry (1852-1915) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia set in Atlantis practicing precise equality, to the extent of limiting the number of words spoken each day. A full quarter of the population are inspectors to ensure that the rules are obeyed. Satire attacking socialism and labor unions.

PB - The Bobbs-Merrill Company CY - Indianapolis, IN N1 -

Rpt. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [1911]; New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971; and Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2001.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Sorcery Shop; an Impossible Romance" Y1 - 1906 A1 - Robert Blatchford (1851-1943) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Anarchist eutopia.

JF - The Clarion VL - nos. 779 - 98 N1 -

Repub. London: The Clarion Press, 1907.  Serial rpt. in British Socialist Fiction 1884-1914. Ed. Deborah Mutch. 5 vols. (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2013), 4: 3-104.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Sorry-Present and the Expelled Little Boy" Y1 - 1906 A1 - E[dith] Nesbit (1858-1924) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Written for children but a good satire on the Wellsian future by a friend of H.G. Wells (1866-1946).

JF - The Strand Magazine VL - 31.182 N1 -

Rpt. in her The Story of the Amulet. Illus. H.R. Millar (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906), 288-318; and (Harmondsworth, Eng.: Puffin Books, 1959), 217-38; rev. ed. (Harmondsworth, Eng.: Puffin Books, 1996), 224-47. The first Puffin Books ed. has the story copyright of 1901, but The Strand Magazine publication is clearly the first publication. The general title of The Strand Magazine version is “The Amulet: A Story for Children” and appears in 29.173 - 31.184 (May 1905 - April 1906). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Star of the Morning; A Chronicle of Karyl the Great and the Revolt of 1920-22 Y1 - 1906 AB -

Almost entirely a romance of the revolt of 1920-22 in which Karyl, a woman, becomes ruler. But at the end a list of thirty reforms is given (213-22). These include the reform of Parliament, reformed education, including equality for women in higher education, a tax on bachelors, high taxes on the rich, and regulation of wages. The Truth About Man. London: Hutchinson, 1905 is By A Spinster [pseud.] Illustrated by facts from her own personal history.

PB - Thomas Burleigh CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in British Future Fiction. Ed. I.F. Clarke. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2001), 5: 7-252, with a brief note by the editor (1-5).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Stolen Planet: A Scientific Romance Y1 - 1906 A1 - John Mastin R.B.A., F.R.M.S. (1865-1932) KW - Male author AB -

Young adult novel. The chapter describing Venus, "The Star of Love" (215-30), presents a eutopia without the Fall. See also 1907 Mastin.

PB - Philip Wellby CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Superannuation Department A.D. 1945" Y1 - 1906 A1 - E[dward] F[rederic] Benson (1867-1940) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on the balance between individuals and the collective good. Everyone over 65 has to regularly demonstrate their usefulness to society with the testimony of witnesses--usefulness, beauty, moral improvement, and happiness are central but other answers are acceptable. Death for those who fail.

JF - Windsor Magazine VL - 23.133 N1 -

Rpt. in his Desirable Residences and Other Stories. Selected by Jack Adrian (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1991), 197-207.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Time of Terror. The Story of a Great Revenge (A.D., 1910) Y1 - 1906 A1 - [Douglas Morey} [Ford] (1851-1916) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia set in 1910. Terror as the poor are manipulated by agitators. Attacks on law and lawyers but with a strong suggestion that the legal system is corrupt. Anti-socialist; anti-women's rights. The novel ends with the defeat of the terrorists and the recognition that England must reform. See also 1910 Ford.

PB - Greening & Company CY - London N1 -

2nd ed. A Time of Terror. The Story of a Great Revenge (A.D. 1912). London: Hurst and Blackett, 1912 under the author's name as D[ouglas] Morey Ford. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Trust Trusted Y1 - 1906 A1 - W. T. F. Smith M.D. KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Detailed eutopia brought about by all property being owned by a single combine in which everyone is a shareholder. The combine takes over from the government. Very strict immigration. Religion.

PB - Primo Press CY - San Francisco, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Valhalla. A Novel Y1 - 1906 A1 - George Long KW - Male author AB -

Mostly romance and adventure after earthquakes and floods devastate the planet, followed by violence and disease. But some survive, initially said to be just two, but others are found and then it is discovered that New Zealand survived intact with two million survivors. The spirits of the dead take a direct hand in assisting the survivors, but something of a better world does emerge.

PB - Henry J. Drane CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Week. The Invasion of New Zealand" Y1 - 1906 AB -

Satire on future war stories, New Zealand's military, and New Zealand society in general. Inspired by the serialization of William [Tufnell] Le Queux's (1864-1927) Invasion of England in 1910 (1906).

JF - The Star (Christchurch, New Zealand) VL - no. 8686, 8692, 8698 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Arcadian Adelaide Y1 - 1905 A1 - Thistle [M.C.] Anderson (Mrs. Herbert Fisher). (b. 1879?) KW - Australian author KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

Satire on Adelaide and its inhabitants. In the “Foreword” the author writes, “Adelaide has crushed my youthful ambitions, and, possibly, narrowed my ideas--and you, her people, have done your best (by force of example), and other methods) to root out any broad or human sentiment that was in me” ([5]), but in an undated “Preface to the II., III., IV., V., VI., and VII Editions” on the next page she says she had no malicious intent. There is no evidence of such editions. See also her 1905 The Arcadians.  Mrs. F. Ellis responded in A Scratch from an Adelaide Cat in vindication of Adelaide and its people. Adelaide, SA, Australia: G. Hassell & Co., 1905 (M). 

PB - Modern Printing Co CY - Adelaide, SA, Australia N1 -

Rpt. Adelaide, SA, Australia: Wakefield Press, 1985.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Arcadians. Sequel to Arcadian Adelaide Y1 - 1905 A1 - Thistle [M.C.] Anderson (Mrs. Herbert Fisher). (b. 1879?) KW - Australian author KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

Sequel to her 1905 Arcadian Adelaide in which she adds additional individuals and responds to critics.

PB - Modern Printing Co CY - Adelaide, SA, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - As It May Be; A Story of the Future Y1 - 1905 A1 - Bessie Story Rogers KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia of great technological advances, including control of the weather, personal airplanes, and no illness and no death. Religious but no churches (praise God every day and everywhere) (pp. 68-73). Vegetarian and all animals tame. Set in 2905. 

PB - Richard G. Badger, The Gorham Press CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Ashes of the Beacon. An Historical Monograph Written in 4930" Y1 - 1905 A1 - Ambrose [Gwinett] Bierce (1842-1914?) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on the United States from the point of view of a future society with a weak understanding of U.S. history. Self-government considered a contradiction in terms. Satire on politics, the legal system as a whole and the jury system in particular, women, religion, labor relations, and other subjects.

JF - New York American N1 -

Rpt. in the San Francisco Examiner (February 26, 1905): 44; in The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce. Volume 1 (New York: Neale Pub. Co., 1909), 17-86. Rpt. (New York: Gordian Press, 1966), 1: 17-86; and in The Fall of the Republic and Other Political Satires. Ed. S.T. Joshi and David E. Schultz (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2000), 3-31. The version in The Collected Works incorporates “The Jury in Ancient America: An Historical Sketch Written in the Year of Grace 3687. Translated by Ambrose Bierce.” Cosmopolitan 39.4 (August 1905): 384-88; and “Insurance in Ancient America: Translated from the Work of a Future Historian.” Cosmopolitan Magazine 41.5 (September 1906): 555-57. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Backwards and Forwards Y1 - 1905 A1 - Summer Spring [pseud.] AB -

Detailed anti-socialist dystopia. The novel is divided into two parts, "Backwards" and "Forwards". The former is about the success of socialism; the latter part is about the resurgence of individualism.

PB - Henry J. Glaisher CY - London U3 -

Spring, Summer [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Colonial King Y1 - 1905 A1 - [James] Hume Nisbet (1848-1921) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Chapter 21, "The Future Monarch of Democrata" (243-56), and the Epilogue, "The Kingdom of Democrata. The Building of Octavinia" (310-20), contain a eutopia for a democratic kingdom in the U.S. led by a benevolent monarch. State church. See also 1893, 1895 and 1902 Nisbet. 

PB - F.V. White CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Decline and Fall of the British Empire. A brief account of those cases which resulted in the destruction of our late Ally, together with a comparison between the British and Roman Empires. Appointed for use in the National Schools of Japan--Tokio, 2005-- Y1 - 1905 A1 - [Elliott E.] [Mills] (1881-1956) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The British Empire fell in 1995 and the colonies are now all colonies of other empires. Brought about by British leaders becoming talkers rather than actors, the shift from country to city, the rejection of sea power, "the growth of refinement and luxury", the decline in taste in literature and drama, the decline in physical health, "the decline of intellectual and religious life", high taxes and exorbitant municipal spending, and the inability to defend themselves or the empire. Compared throughout to the decline and fall of Rome as described by Edward Gibbon in The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-88).

PB - Alden & Co., Ltd., Bocardo Press/Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co, Ltd. CY - Oxford, Eng./London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Edinindia; A Tale of Adventure Y1 - 1905 A1 - J[ohn] P. Armour (1852-1902) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia based on a model of health stressing moderation. Few laws, no lawyers. Arbitration is used to settle disputes.

PB - G.W. Dillingham CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - An Equal Opportunity: A Plea for Individualism Y1 - 1905 A1 - W[illiam] Dennis Marks (1849-1915) KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia of equality of opportunity based on athletics and intelligence.

PB - Patterson and White CY - Philadelphia, PA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Fulfilment Y1 - 1905 A1 - Edith Allonby (1875-1905) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The novel is divided into three roughly equal parts, “Earth,” “Hell,” and “Heaven” and describes the experiences of a woman as she lived and after she died with Hell a dystopia and Heaven a eutopia. The book was posthumously published after she committed suicide, and it was revised in ways she had explicitly rejected. 

PB - Greening & Co. CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - The God of this World: A Story for the Times Y1 - 1905 A1 - [John] [Bagot] (1844-1925) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel is mostly on a revolution against a religion that worshipped Mammon, but it ends with the creation of a eutopia with elements of anarchism, socialism, religion, and the single tax.

PB - Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner CY - London U3 -

John B. Middleton [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Greater Heaven or From Pulpit to Paradise: A Christmas Eve Story Y1 - 1905 A1 - William Cooper (b. 1852) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Poem that presents a heaven that welcomes all people of all religions and is a place of joy and companionship shown in a dream of a dour Scots Presbyterian minister who then changes his preaching from threats to hopes.

PB - Ptd. by Geddis & Blomfield CY - Auckland, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hopetown. An industrial town, as it is, and as it might be Y1 - 1905 A1 - H. Brockhouse AB -

Detailed eutopia set in 1954. Houses and the land are public property, and farms, which are 3500 acres, are run by the municipality. There are municipal stores and delivery services are operated nationally. Makes the point that some problems continue.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Hundred Years Hence; The Expectations of an Optimist Y1 - 1905 A1 - T. Baron Russell AB -

Eutopia presented as a series of predictions with much on technological developments based, as the author says, on “tendencies of existing movement” (v). Assumes moral improvement and better education. Population growth is seen as the central problem and will produce housing problems and limit travel.

PB - T. Fisher Unwin CY - London N1 -

US ed. Chicago, IL: A.C. McClurg & Co., 1906.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - An Ideal City for an Ideal People Y1 - 1905 A1 - E[phraim] Peterson KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia of Christian socialism including a proposal for an intentional community.

PB - [Author] CY - [Independence, MO] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "In the Days of the Comet" Y1 - 1905 A1 - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Something in the tail of a comet changes all human beings, freeing them from greed, power, and all baser passions. In response, all housing is rebuilt, private property disappears, and human relations are established on a firmer basis. Most of the novel is concerned with the problems of the old society. There is a significant focus on love and sex both in initial descriptions of the bad old world and in contrasts between it and the new world that develops after the passing of the comet.

JF - Cosmopolitan Magazine VL - 40 - 41 N1 -

Repub. London: Macmillan and Co., 1906. Also published in The Daily Chronicle, nos. 13,725 - 13,756 (February 20 - March 29, 1906). All installments appear on page 8 except No. 13,746 (March 16): 10. Rpt. in The Works of H.G. Wells Atlantic Edition. Volume X In the Days of the Comet and Seventeen Short Stories (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1925), 9-319. The Atlantic Edition is generally considered the best text of Wells’s works. Also rpt. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001. The first two sections of Chapter 6 “The Change” are rpt. in The New Improved Sun: An Anthology of Utopian S-F. Ed. Thomas M[ichael] Disch (New York: Harper & Row, 1975), 202-08 with an editor’s note on 201. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - It Beats the Shakers or A New Tune Y1 - 1905 A1 - Anna D. Evans KW - Female author AB -

Satire. The men are on Earth and the women are on Venus. Women come to Earth on a guarantee of good treatment, are not treated well, and leave.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Japanese Utopia Y1 - 1905 A1 - Leonard A[rthur] Magnus (1879-1924) KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

No government and experts exercise minimal authority. Education. High health standards. Women inferior.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Land of Unreason. A Satire Y1 - 1905 A1 - Dean Gulliver [pseud.] AB -

Satire on British life using the imaginary country approach.

PB - Simpkin, Marshall & Co CY - London U3 -

Dean Gulliver [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Laputa Revisited by Gulliver Redivivus in 1905 Y1 - 1905 A1 - [Theophilus Bulkeley] [Hyslop] [M.D.] (1863-1933) KW - Male author AB -

Standard satire. Laputa, the floating island from 1726 Swift, has degenerated, every institution is poorly managed, and contradictions in behavior are common.

JF - 1905 PB - Hirschfeld Brothers CY - London N1 -

3rd ed. London: Hirschfeld Brothers, 1906. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Life in a Thousand Worlds Y1 - 1905 A1 - Rev. W[illiam] S[huler] Harris (1865-1956) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Brief pictures of various worlds. Many of the worlds visited are only briefly described with only a few of the characteristics of the inhabitants indicated. Anti-capitalist, particularly concerned with the evils of monopolies and depicting a number of worlds with monopolies. Various worlds are eutopias based on socialist principles, a rigidly enforced moral system, a national health system, or technology. There is repeated stress on the need for non-combustible building materials. Concerned with the religious practices of the planets described. Sexual purity is important. The concluding chapter describes Heaven.

PB - Pub. By G. Holzapfel CY - Cleona, PA N1 -

Sold by subscription only. Harrisburg, PA: The Minter Company, 1905; Illus. Sold by subscription only. Boston, MA: James B. Earle & Co., 1906; and New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971, which reprints the Minter Company edition. All the versions are identical except for the title page. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - London's Transformation; A Suggestive Sketch of Days to Come" Y1 - 1905 A1 - Tems Dyvirta [pseud.] AB -

England and the United States, which becomes a monarchy, are at war. The U.S. invades England. The British aided by Canada and the other colonies invade the U.S. Peace is brought by the Emperor's daughter marrying the King.

JF - Knowledge and Scientific News VL - ns. 2 - 5 (os. 12 - 15) N1 -

Repub. London: King, Sell & Olding, 1906.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Machines, not Men, A.D. 2005" Y1 - 1905 A1 - W. Edward Lush KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

A future war story which suggests that the way to end the horrors of war and bring peace is to have robotic machines replace all humans in fighting.

JF - New Zealand Illustrated Magazine VL - 3 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mark Meredith: A Tale of Socialism Y1 - 1905 A1 - C[harles] H[enry] Chomley (1868-1943?) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Anti-socialist novel, probably written specifically against William Lane (1861-1917), the founder of New Australia. See 1888 and 1892 Lane for his utopias. 

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Advertisement using a satirized utopian Mars.

PB - Arlington Chemical Co. CY - Yonkers, NY U1 -

caption title.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Other Worlds; A Story Concerning the Wealth Earned by American Citizens and Showing How It Can Be Secured to Them Instead of to the Trusts Y1 - 1905 A1 - Lena Jane Fry KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Socialist eutopia with housing and food at cost. Well-equipped facilities for children. Six-hour day for nurses.

PB - Author CY - Chicago, IL U2 -

Illus.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Paradise of Poets" Y1 - 1905 A1 - Andrew Lang (1844-1912) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Satire. A description of the Heaven of poets and their life there.

JF - Adventures Among Books PB - Longmans, Green, and Co. CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Patmos Y1 - 1905 A1 - [Kate Evelyn] [Isitt] (1876-1955) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

Primarily a temperance novel but includes (298-304) a brief vision of a future eutopia in this life and in heaven brought about by the general acceptance of Christianity, which includes prohibition.

PB - Gordon and Gotch CY - London N1 -

2nd ed. London: Gordon and Gotch , 1905.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Purple and White; A Romance Y1 - 1905 A1 - Henry Byatt (1855?-1934) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Future tale of peace and prosperity under one man rule.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Revolution: The Foreword of a Proposed World Movement to Solve the Labor and other Social Problems of Our Strenuous Times Y1 - 1905 A1 - [William T.] [Love] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Mostly a critique of contemporary society but includes a eutopia based on cooperation and a Model City. Workers will own all industries. No private ownership of farmland. He says that he will build a manufacturing city near Niagara Falls and purchased land on which to build the city, land which became the notoriously polluted Love Canal site. He says that more details will be given in three forthcoming books: Sargasso: A Tale of Anarchists, Shipwreck, Mystery and the Development of a New Civilization on an Island supposed to have been discovered in the Sargasso Sea--the Great Dead Sea of the Atlantic Ocean; The Rejuvenation of Pittsburgh; and The Way: Through Revolution to a New Civilization--the Millennium of Prophecy. None of them were published.

PB - The Aragain Co CY - San Francisco, CA U1 -

The cover adds the subtitle Which Shall It Be? Industry, Peace, Truth, or Fraud, Discord, Violence.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Spirit of Co-operation. Written by "Truth" Y1 - 1905 A1 - Truth [pseud.] AB -

The Spirit of Co-operation presented as a Christ figure struggling with Competition, Creed, and Sect. It is crucified and resurrected and a cooperative eutopia will be achieved. The booklet also includes a detailed description of cooperation, a cooperative code, a brief set of questions to ask businesspeople, and the outline of a People's University.

PB - The Co-operative Association of America CY - Lewiston, ME U3 -

"Truth" [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Sultana's Dream" Y1 - 1905 A1 - Mrs. R[okeya] S[akhawat] Hossan [Hossain] (1880-1932) KW - Female author KW - Indian author AB -

“Sultana’s Dream” is a dream of Ladyland, which is a country of women brought about through education for women. Her Padmarag (Bengali 1924/English 2005) is mostly concerned with the conditions of women in India, but central to the novel is a community of women established by one woman to provide refuge for women, education for girls, and care for sick and poor women. The Essential Rokeya: Selected Works of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1880-1932). Ed. Mohammed Quayum. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2013 translates and reprints other stories and essays by Hossain, including some essays on women’s rights.

JF - The Indian Ladies' Magazine (Madras, India) VL - 5.3 N1 -

Rpt. as by Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (all the reprints use this name) in her Sultana’s Dream and Selections from The Secluded Ones. Ed. and trans. Roushan Jahan (New York: The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 1988), 7-18; in The Lifted Veil: The Book of Fantastic Literature by Women 1800--World War II. Ed. A. Susan Williams (New York: Carroll & Graf, 1992), 350-60; in her Sultana’s Dream and Padmarag: Two Feminist Utopias. Trans. Barnita Bagchi. New Delhi, India: Penguin Books India, 2005 [Pamarag was first published in Bengali. Calcutta, India: Author, 1924]; updated ed. New York: Penguin Books, 2022, with an “Introduction” Tanya Agathocleous (vii-xxviii), two essays by Hossain: “God Gives, Man Robs” (203-205), first published in The Mussalman (December 7, 1927), and “Educational Ideals for the Modern India Girls” (205-210), first published in The Mussalman (March 5, 1931), a Glossary (211-212), and ”Suggestions for Further Reading” (213-218); in The Dreaming Sex: Early Tales of Scientific Imagination by Women. Ed. Mike [Michael Raymond Donald] Ashley (London: Peter Owen, 2010): 144-55 with an editor’s note on 143; The Essential Rokeya: Selected Works of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1880-1932). Ed. Mohammed Quayum (Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2013), 159-68, which reprints what Quayum identifies as the first book publication (Calcutta, India: S. K. Lahiri, 1908), and includes a chronology of her life (xii-xiv) and a biographical essay (xv-xxxii); in The Big Book of Science Fiction: The Ultimate Collection. Ed. Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (New York: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Vintage Books, 2016), 10-16 with an editors’ note on 9; in Dystopia Utopia Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Tales (London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2016), 140-47; in The Utopia Reader. Ed. Gregory Claeys and Lyman Tower Sargent (New York: New York University Press, 2017), 385-94; in Science Fiction in Colonial India, 1835-1905: Five Tales of Speculative Fiction and Resistance. Ed. Mary Ellis Gibson (London: Anthem Press, 2019), 149-59, with an editor’s introduction on 133-48; and in Voices from the Radium Age. Ed Joshua Glenn (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2022), 1-16. Only the Vandermeers and Claeys and Sargent reproduce the original text as published.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Theatre of the Future" Y1 - 1905 A1 - G[eorge] Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Satire set in 1910. The theatre had become a thing entirely for the rich, who were paid to attend. A man who had been out of London for years starts a successful reform.

JF - Grand Magazine VL - no. 1 N1 -

Rpt. in Ayot St. Lawrence Edition of the Collected Works of Bernard Shaw VI Short Stories, Scraps and Shavings (New York: Wm. H. Wise & Co., 1932), 55-82.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Titan, Son of Saturn. The Coming World Emperor Y1 - 1905 A1 - Joseph Birkbeck Burroughs, M.D. (1854-1921) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Religious eutopia. The first twenty-eight chapters (twenty-nine in the 10th ed.) is on Armageddon (See Revelation 16), but Chapter XXIX (XXX in the 10th ed.) is on “The Kingdom of God” where the Saints rule. In the 10th ed., there are four appendices (409-52) in which the author gives supporting evidence.

PB - The Emeth Publishers CY - Oberlin, OH N1 -

10th and later eds. rev. with the added subtitle A Story of the Other Christ. Oberlin, OH: The Emeth Publishers, 1914. The manuscript is at Oberlin College.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The War of the Sexes Y1 - 1905 A1 - F[lorence] E[thel] [Mills] Young (1875-1945) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - South African author AB -

Humor about the last man. A partial eutopia has been created by the women.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "When I Was King" Y1 - 1905 A1 - Henry Lawson (1867-1922) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Poem written from the perspective of a king who got rid of the slums and built good houses, gave land to the farmers, and worked with his people. At the end he gives in to requests that he don the royal regalia and is corrupted.

JF - The Bulletin (Sydney, NSW, Australia) VL - 26 N1 -

Rpt. in his When I Was King and Other Verses (Sydney, NSW, Australia: Angus and Robertson, 1905), 1-9; and in his A Fantasy of Man. Vol. 2 of Complete Works. Ed. Leonard Cronin (Sydney, NSW, Australia: Lansdowne, 1984), 217.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "With the Night Mail" Y1 - 1905 A1 - [Joseph] Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Introduction to 1912 Kipling, which develops this story.

JF - McClure's Magazine VL - 26.1 N1 -

Rpt. as “With the Night Mail. From ‘The Windsor Magazine,’ October, A.D. 2147.” Windsor Magazine 23.1 (December 1905): 52-66; with the subtitle “A Story of 2,000 A.D. (Together with extracts from the magazine in which it appeared).” In his Actions and Reactions (New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1909), 117-81. Rpt. in With the Night Mail A Story of 2000 A.D. and “As Easy as A.B.C.” (Boston, MA and Brooklyn, NY: HiLo Books, 2012), 19-89 with “Thoughts About an Airship. Introduction” by Matthew De Abaitua (11-17) and “Down With The People. Afterword” by Bruce Sterling (140-44).U.K. ed. (London: Macmillan, 1909), 111-169, which was rpt. as Vol. 4144 of Collection of British Authors. Tauchnitz ed. (Leipzig, Germany: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1909), 117-65. An ed. illus. and ptd. on right hand pages only, was published as With the Night Mail. A Story of 2000 A.D. (Together with Extracts from the Contemporary Magazine in Which It Appeared). London: Macmillan, 1909. U.S. ed. New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1909. Also rpt. as “With the Night Mail. A Story of 2000 A.D. (Together with extracts from the magazine in which it appeared (1905).” In The Mandalay Edition of the Works of Rudyard Kipling. Traffics and Discoveries Actions and Reactions (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1925), 103-59 [The two volumes are separately paged in the reprint].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The World Above; A Duologue Y1 - 1905 A1 - Martha Foote Crow (1854-1924) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Play about a mechanical dystopian world underground and search by two lovers for a way out.

PB - Blue Skys Press CY - Chicago, IL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A World Without a Child: A Story for Women and for Men Y1 - 1905 A1 - [John] Coulson Kernahan (1858-1943) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a world concerned only with variety and pleasure. No children born. Death of religion.

PB - Hodder and Stoughton CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Adventures of Joseph C. Waddle” Y1 - 1904 AB -

This is installment six of the adventures and includes a map of an Ideal Deaf and Dumb Garden City by Joseph Chamberlain Waddle.

JF - The British Deaf Times VL - 1.6 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Opening of the First of the Seven Seals and the Constitution and Marriage Statutes of the Most Ancient Appagejans 650,000 Years Ago Y1 - 1904 A1 - J[ohn] P[eter] Anderson KW - Male author AB -

Detailed rather eccentric eutopia. Includes a new constitution for the U.S. (380-92) and a commentary on it (392-721) plus a set of rules for pure marriages (197-290). Racial separation. Mostly from the perspective of Emanuel Swedenborg (1668-1772). The "First Part" (5-346) is on religion but includes material on sexual relations; The "Second Part" (347-728) is primarily on politics and presents a democratic socialist eutopia. 

PB - Statesman Publishing Co CY - Salem, OR U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Army of the Dream" Y1 - 1904 A1 - [Joseph] Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Britain has willingly/happily adopted militarism. Set in the 1920s. Presented positively. Those who do not volunteer cannot vote.

JF - Traffics and Discoveries PB - Macmillan CY - London N1 -

Rpt. (Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin, 1987), 202-41 with notes on 334-37. Also rpt. as “The Army of a Dream (1904).” In The Mandalay Edition of the Works of Rudyard Kipling. Traffics and Discoveries Actions and Reactions (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1925), 237-88 [The two volumes are separately paged in the reprint]. Originally published in the Morning Post (July 15 - 18, 1904). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Beulah; or A Parable of Social Regeneration Y1 - 1904 A1 - Capt. Nathan Davis KW - Male author AB -

Christian socialism. Formation of a movement and community based on Christian socialism, the growth and spread of the movement, and the establishment of more communities, called unitary homes. Detailed constitution as part of the “FAITH AND STATUTES OF THE BEULAH CHURCH”. Includes visits to the Amana and Zoar communities, both German religious communities in the U.S.

PB - Press of Hudson-Kimberly Pub. Company CY - Kansas City, MO U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Born Again Y1 - 1904 A1 - Alfred [W.] Lawson (1869-1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. Technology, religion. The novel begins with the discovery of a survivor of an ancient civilization called the Sagemen, which was highly advanced intellectually, morally, and technologically. Their fundamental principle was "Selfishness is the root of all evil; eradicate selfishness from all human beings and the earth will be heaven" (62. Original emphasis). The latter part of the novel describes attempts to convince the world to follow their teachings. Lawson founded a religion and a community in Des Moines, IA and followers still exist. During the 1930s Lawson published a newspaper, The Benefactor, in Detroit that had some Polish issues. 

PB - Wox, Conrad Co CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. Detroit, MI: Humanity, [1931?]; and Detroit, MI: Humanity Benefactor Foundation, nd.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Cast Away at the Pole” Y1 - 1904 A1 - William Wallace Cook (1867-1933) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Lost race story that includes a dystopia (initially seen as a eutopia by one of the characters) in which intelligence rules/enslaves strength.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Coloured Conquest Y1 - 1904 A1 - [Thomas Richard] [Roydhouse] (1862-1943) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

Dystopia of a world conquest by "Black, Brown and Yellow races", which takes place between 1904 and 1913. Japan is the dominant country. Much on the war and the novel acts as a plea for a better armed "white" world. The novel is described as written by the last "free" white. Nine-tenths of white men will never see a woman; the other one-tenth will be bred with the most beautiful white women and live in what are called "Fair Lady Colonies". The boys born will be slaves; the girls will become concubines for the dominant races. All whites not selected for breeding will be slaves working twelve-hour days and fed a rice diet.

PB - N.S.W. Bookstall Co CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia N1 -

2nd ed. Sydney, NSW, Australia: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., 1904

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"Rata" [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Dream of Paradise Y1 - 1904 A1 - William Little (1839-1916) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Poem of Heaven as a eutopia.

PB - James Curtis CY - Ballarat, VIC, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Dwellers in Vale Sunrise. How They Got Together and Lived Happy Ever After. A Sequel to "The Natural Man"; Being an Account of the Tribes of Him Y1 - 1904 A1 - J[ohn] W[illia]m Lloyd (1857-1940) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia of the simple life in community. See 1902 Lloyd The Natural Man for a novel about one man living in tune with nature who inspires the establishment of a community. See also 1900 Lloyd "The Story of Zendos." 

PB - The Ariel Press CY - Westwood, MA N1 -

Part was published anonymously as Two Letters Telling How They Lived in Vale Sunrise. Where a Colony of Comrades of the Co-operative Fellowship Being Free Socialists Dwell Most Happily. Westwood, MA: The Ariel Press, [1904]. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The First American King Y1 - 1904 A1 - George Gordon Hastings KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. US in 1975 with a king and the concentration of capital into a few hands. Technologically advanced. A new republic is suggested to replace the monarchy and overthrow the current economic system.

PB - Smart Set Publishing Co CY - New York N1 -

New ed. London/New York: Smart Set Publishing Co., 1905.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Fourth Conquest of England; A Sequel to "Treason" Y1 - 1904 A1 - Allen Upward (1863-1926) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia based on the revival of the Roman Catholic Church. Science and technology rejected. Pope concluded that the Antipodes do not exist. Treason is probably his High Treason. London: The Primrose Press, [1903], which also has Romance of Politics at the head of the title and is an anti-Roman Catholic work. A note says, "The publications of the Primrose Press are copyright in all civilised countries, but not in the United States, Haiti, Domingo, Liberia, and other Negro Republics" (ii).

PB - The Tyndale Press. (W.S. Martin & Co., Ltd.) CY - London U1 -

At the head of the title--Romance of Politics. Cover adds before the title page sub-title A Narrative of the Re-union of the Churches of England and Rome, followed by the restoration of the Stuarts and the setting up of the Holy Inquisition in England.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest Y1 - 1904 A1 - W[illiam] H[enry] Hudson (1841-1922) KW - Argentinian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A love story set in the tropical  forest  of  South America , with, for a time, the forest providing its Adam and Eve with an idyllic existence. The author was born in Argentina and immigrated to England in 1874.

PB - Duckworth CY - London N1 -

Rpt. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1916 with a “Foreword” by John Galsworthy (vii-xvi). Rpt. with illus. by Keith Henderson. London: Duckworth, 1926. Rpt. with illus. by Edward A. Wilson and an “Introduction” by William Beere (vii-x). New York: Limited Editions Club, 1935; with illus. by E. McKnight Kauffer New York: Random House, 1944; London: Guild Books, 1950; London: Collins, 1957 with an “Introduction” by H. E. Bates (11-16); New York: AMS Press, 1968 with A Note on Hudson’s Romances” by Edward Garnett (v-ix); and New York: Dover, 1989; with Paintings and Drawings by Horacio Butler. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1959. Also rpt. without the subtitle Mount Vernon, VA: Peter Pauper Press, 1943; with the subtitle With illustrations reproducing drawings for early editions and photographs of contemporary scenes together with an introductory biographical sketch of the author and anecdotal captions by Edwin Way Teale. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1949; with the subtitle on the cover but not the title page London: Robin Clark, 1990; and without the subtitle ed. Ian Duncan. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1998.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Harris-Ingram Experiment Y1 - 1904 A1 - Charles E[dward] Bolton M.A. (1841-1901) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. Successful cooperative scheme for a steel mill with a stress on the need for labor and capital to work together.  See also his “A Model Village of Homes.” In his A Model Village of Homes and Other Papers (Boston, MA: L.C. Page & Co., 1901), 11-32. Rpt. from his “A Suburban Model Village.” The American Monthly Review of Reviews 20.5 (November 1899): 573-76. NN

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Light Ahead for the Negroes Y1 - 1904 A1 - E[dward] A[ustin] Johnson (1860-1944) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

Set in 2006 in an improved but still segregated South, which is presented as a much better situation for African-Americans. Very paternalistic attitudes by whites, so much so that there may be an element of satire. Unions opened to Negroes, and, in separate meetings, to women; the unions train the men, and Schools of Domestic Science were opened to professionally train the women. The first part of the work is a description of the situation of the black at the beginning of the twentieth century (21-98). The economy has been partially nationalized. Blacks and whites “naturally” associate with their own people. Southern cotton plantations bought, broken up, and re-sold to African-Americans at low prices at which time they are given assistance and training. Technologically advanced with electric cars that run on dedicated elevated tracks. In Adam vs. Ape-Man and Ethiopia. Illus. New York: Ptd. by J. J. Little and Ives Co., 1931, he argues that American Negroes are descended from Ethiopians, which were the first civilization in Africa.

PB - Grafton Press CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: AMS Press, 1975; and in Black Sci-Fi Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Stories (London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2021), 335-77.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Medical Union Number Six Y1 - 1904 A1 - William Harvey King (b. 1861) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Anti-union tract. Unionization, specifically of doctors, thirty years in the future. Doctors work six hours only and only on a narrowly defined part of the body; they must allow the patient to die rather than break these rules. Medical education is no longer required, and no medical journals exist. Independence prohibited. In response to a campaign against it, the union releases diseases that kill sixty million people and destroys the economy. Killing a scab is not a crime.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Modern Exodus: A Novel Y1 - 1904 A1 - Violet Guttenberg KW - Female author AB -

An anti-Semitic Prime Minister decides to expel all the Jews in the country, but before the law can take effect, all the Jews move to Palestine. The first part of the novel is concerned with the decision to expel, the second part with the successes and failures in Palestine, and the third part deals with the economic collapse of Britain after the exodus and the decision by the same Prime Minister to welcome the Jews back, and many choose to return.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Modern Utopia. A Sociological Holiday" Y1 - 1904 A1 - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Classic world state eutopia.

JF - The Fortnightly Review VL - ns 76 - 77 (os 82 - 83) N1 -

Repub. as A Modern Utopia. London: Chapman and Hall, 1905. Rpt. in The Works of H.G. Wells Atlantic Edition. Volume IX A Modern Utopia and Other Discussions (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925), 1-331. Except for later critical editions, The Atlantic Edition is generally considered the best text of Wells's works. Also rpt. ed. Krishan Kumar. London: Everyman, 1994; and ed. Gregory Claeys and Patrick Parrinder. London: Penguin Books, 2005, with an "Introduction" by Francis Wheen (xiii-xxviii), a "Note on the Text" by Gregory Claeys and Patrick Parrinder (xxix-xxxviii), and "Notes" by Gregory Claeys and Andy Sawyer (267-81); and in The First Men in the Moon A Modern Utopia (Ware, Eng.: Wordsworth Classics, 2017), 195-415, with an “Introduction” by David Stuart Davies (11-25). U.S. ed. New York: Scribner's, 1905. Rpt. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1967.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mr. Oseba's Last Discovery Y1 - 1904 A1 - Geo[rge] W[illiam] Bell (1838-1907) KW - Australian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Two eutopias are presented. One is a fictionalized account of New Zealand (Zelania in the text; Zealandia in the Table of Contents) as a eutopia, which comprises the bulk of the book. Mr. Oseba is an inhabitant of the center of the earth, a highly advanced technological eutopia. The theory of John Cleves Symmes (1780-1829) that the earth is hollow and can be entered at the poles is used to characterize the center of the earth. The eutopia in the center of the earth is called Cavitorus, with one nation called Shadowas. The main city is Eurania. Terribly written.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Napoleon of Notting Hill Y1 - 1904 A1 - G[ilbert] K[eith] Chesterton (1874-1936) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia in an odd combination of humor and a return to the medieval ideal of independent villages in London.

PB - John Lane: The Bodley Head CY - London N1 -

Rpt. New York: John Lane, 1909; Beaconsfield, Eng.: Darwen Finlayson, 1964; in The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton. Ed. Denis J. Conlon (San Francisco, CA: St. Ignatius Press, 1991), 6: 215-379; New York: Dover, 1991; Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1994; and Cambridge, MA/London: The MIT Press, 2023, with “Introduction: Dystopias Are Problems Plus Time” (xv-xxiv) by Madeline Ashby.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Old Mountain Hermit Y1 - 1904 A1 - James F. Raymond (b. 1826) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An odd novel which begins with the discovery of ancient ruins, in which Adam and Eve, the serpent, and Cain are all buried. Tablets discovered in the ruins retrace the history of Paradise. A eutopia 500 years in the future is presented in which direct democracy has resulted in fewer laws, people are much better educated, much government has simply disappeared, better knowledge resulting in better health means fewer doctors, and there are no clergy. The novel ends with a tour of the inhabited planets. Much adventure. Much spiritualism.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Prince of the People: A Romance of Modern Royalty Y1 - 1904 A1 - Major Philip [Christian William] Trevor (1836-1932) KW - Male author AB -

Abolition of party government brings a better society. The country is called Arcadia.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Red Leaguers Y1 - 1904 A1 - [John William] Bullock (1865-1935) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

The Irish gain independence but prove incapable of governing.

PB - Methuen CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: McClure Phillips, 1904.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Setting Sun. An Ante-Dated Picture for a People Y1 - 1904 A1 - X [pseud.] AB -

Satire depicting the future failure of Britain and the loss of empire brought about by weak leadership and corruption.

PB - Skeffington and Son CY - London U3 -

X [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Sky Blue: A Tale of the Iron Horse and of the Coming of Civilization Y1 - 1904 A1 - Olin J. Ross KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. World united into a great new civilization by the railroad, which destroys slavery, helps bring prohibition, and frees women. Eugenics. Disease ended. 

PB - Author CY - Columbus, OH U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Song of To-morrow" Y1 - 1904 A1 - George D[avis] Herron (1862-1925) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Poem suggesting the eutopia to come after the revolution. Slightly over half of the poem is on problems of the present. See also the author's The Day of Judgment. Chicago, IL: Charles H. Kerr, 1904.

JF - The Comrade (New York) VL - 3.4 ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Storm of London: A Social Rhapsody Y1 - 1904 A1 - [Mme.] [Fernande] [Blaze de Bury] (d. 1931) KW - Female author KW - French author KW - Scottish author AB -

Humorous eutopia. Reform through the disappearance of clothes and of anything that could be used as covering, including paper. People are unable to recognize each other. Stress on class. Only occurs in England and the novel is centered on upper class London. Not being able to tell police from non-police, the streets become self-policing, and government collapses. Much employment (manufacturing and shops) disappears, and shops are initially turned into great dining halls. Since there is no paper, most money is gone, and an economy in which everyone does some useful labor develops. No eroticism; morally better. Reunification of churches. Technological advances using electricity. 

PB - John Long CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. Boston, MA: Herbert B. Turner, 1905. Both eds. have H. Dicksberry on the cover.

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F. Dickberry [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Story of Loveland" Y1 - 1904 A1 - Lady Florence [Caroline] Dixie (1855-1905) KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

Egalitarian eutopia stressing gender equality. Everyone works. Dual gender high offices. Vegetarian. Telepathy. Federation of states ruled by similar laws. Land administered by the state. "Discipline brigades" to ensure conformity. Capital of Heartease. "Loveland's people are comrades and are ruled by justice; hence there can be no class or sex privilege, and, in those respects, all are equal" (421). "A Wanderer's Dream." Agnostic Journal and Eclectic Review 53.23 (December 5, 1903): 355-56 serves as an introduction to the story.

JF - Agnostic Journal and Eclectic Review VL - 54.4 - 7 N1 -

Rpt. in her Izra; A Child of Solitude (London: John Long, [1906]), 421-41.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Struggle for Existence Y1 - 1904 A1 - Walter Thomas Mills M.A. (1856-1942) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A treatise but pages 383-585, constituting fifteen chapters of a section entitled "Current Problems of Public Interest and Socialism", are a combined criticism of the current situation and a presentation of socialism as a desirable alternative. Discusses most basic social institutions. See also 1894 Mills.

PB - International School of Social Economy CY - Chicago, IL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Unpardonable War Y1 - 1904 A1 - James Barnes (1866-1936) KW - Male author AB -

The People’s Party wins a national election in the United States, and its policies and the people it puts in power and send as representatives to other countries create a dystopia that is only ended by war.

PB - Macmillan CY - New York U2 -

Illus.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Angels' Diary; and, Celestion Study of Man Y1 - 1903 A1 - [Mrs.] [J. A. Seeds Samson] [Lender] [Probable author] KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The first part of the book is a visit to Paradise, both before and after death, with brief visits to other planets. 

PB - Merchants Publishing Co. CY - Denver, CO U5 -

Hathi

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Case of The. Fox, Being his Prophecies Under Hypnotism of the Period Ending A.D. 1950. A Political Utopia Y1 - 1903 A1 - William F[ord Robinson] Stanley (1829-1909) KW - Male author AB -

Political eutopia with the emphasis on administrative and structural changes. Paris is the capitol of the English-speaking United States of Europe. Women can vote but cannot run for national office. Some eugenic legislation. Limited welfare system, and the unemployed are taxed to force them to work.

PB - Truslove and Hanson CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Celestial Hand: A Sensational Story Y1 - 1903 A1 - Joyce Vincent KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

The novel is mostly on a war with the "non-Aryan" races but includes a brief description of a eutopia of a regenerated world after the Aryans win (255-56). Occult themes.

PB - J.C. MacCartie CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Certainty of a Future Life in Mars; Being the Posthumous Papers of Bradford Torrey Dodd Y1 - 1903 A1 - L[ouis] P[ope] Gratacap ed. [written by] (1851-1917) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Socialist eutopia. Spirit world but become flesh and blood. Simple life. No sex. See also 1910 Gratacap. 

PB - Irving Press CY - [New York] N1 -

Also published New York: Brentano's, 1903.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Christopolis: Life and Amenities in a Land of Garden Cities Y1 - 1903 AB -

Socialist, Christian eutopia based on the ideas of Ebenezer Howard (1850-1928) who advocated the development of suburban living through garden cities. On the Garden City movement, see The Garden City: Past, Present and Future. Ed. Stephen V. Ward. London: E & FN SPON, 1992.

PB - S. W. Partridge CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - D'Mars Affinity: Romance of Love's Final Test in Time and Tide Y1 - 1903 A1 - J[ames] M[oses] Bloomer (1844?-1923) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Mostly romance and spiritualism but includes a cooperative eutopia.

PB - J.S. Ogilvie Publishing Co CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The End of the World" Y1 - 1903 A1 - Simon Newcomb (1835-1909) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A complacent eutopia with an easily enforced international law, little news, and one language is unable to respond to a potential catastrophe. See also 1900 Newcomb.

JF - McClure's Magazine VL - 21.1 N1 -

Rpt. in The London Magazine 15 (August 1905): 143-152; The Battle of the Monsters and Other Stories: An Anthology of American Science Fiction. Ed. David G. Hartwell and L[loyd] W. Currey (Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1976), 181-95; in Visions From the Edge: An Anthology of Atlantic Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy. Ed. John Bell and Lesley Choyce (Porters Lake, NS, Canada: Pottersfield Press, 1981), 34-44 with an editor’s note on 33; and The End of the World and Other Catastrophes. Ed. Mike [Michael Raymond Donald] Ashley (London: British Library, 2019), 151-68, with an editor’s note on 149.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Extraordinary Islanders: Being an Authentic Account of the Cruise of the 'Asphodel' as Related by Her Owner Y1 - 1903 A1 - Aston Forrest [pseud?] AB -

Gulliver type with three countries: Rectina (reason), Scrumpolen (art), Melanoon (oratory, religion, no hypocrisy).

PB - R.A. Everett CY - London U3 -

Forrest, Aston [pseud?]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Food of the Gods" Y1 - 1903 A1 - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

New food produces giants who are also of superior intelligence. Conflict with the "little people" follows. The giants decide to allow the little people to live but expect them to die out. Little detailed utopianism but includes a section on how the giant children should be educated and brief glimpses of possible ways of improving life for the little people.

JF - Pearson's Magazine VL - 16 - 17 N1 -

U.S. serialization in Cosmopolitan 36 - 37 (November 1903 - August 1904): 33-50, 227-40, 299-313, 395-411, 525-38, 643-56; 29-4o, 193-200, 283-90, 461-69. Repub. with the subtitle And How It Came to Earth. London: Macmillan, 1904. Rpt. London Gollancz, 2010, with an “Introduction” by Adam Roberts (v-viii). U.S ed. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1904; rpt. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1924. Rpt. in The Works of H.G. Wells Atlantic Edition. Volume V The Food of the Gods The Sea Lady (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925), 1-306. The Atlantic Edition is generally considered the best text of Wells's works.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Future Is Ours" Y1 - 1903 A1 - John Addington Symonds (1840-93) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Brief poem suggesting the eutopia to come after the revolution. Little detail.

JF - The Comrade (New York) VL - 2.6 N1 -

Almost certainly published earlier.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Gates of Afree A.D. 1928: A Romance of the New Empire Y1 - 1903 A1 - Henri Van Laun (1820-96) KW - Dutch author KW - English author KW - French author KW - Male author AB -

The novel, with characters and incidents the author describes in the Preface as symbols of the forces at work in South Africa, suggests the eutopia based on technology and a form of socialism that is possible in South Africa as long as it is part of the British Empire. Racist.

PB - W.H. White & Son CY - Edinburgh, Scot. U1 -

New Original Tale at the head of the title on the cover.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Gulliver Joe Y1 - 1903 A1 - [Cecil Eldred] [Hughes] (1875-1941) A1 - [Edward Harold] [Begbie] (1871-1929) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Gulliverian satire on Joseph Chamberlain (1836-1914), who was Secretary of State for Colonies at the time.

PB - Isbister CY - London U3 -

Jonathan Quick, Dean of St. Rattrick's [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Gulliver's Last Voyage" Y1 - 1903 AB -

Utopian satire describing the characteristics of the people of the seven Internecine Islands in the Antipacific Ocean.

JF - The Monthly Review VL - 12.34 N1 -

Rpt. London: The Monthly Review, 1903.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Henry Ashton; A thrilling Story of How the Famous Co-operative Commonwealth was established in Zanland Y1 - 1903 A1 - R[obert] A[ddison] Dague (b. 1841) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia of Christian socialism. Much of the book is an adventure story and romance, but it ends with the successful establishment of a socialist community on an island of a million inhabitants. See his Ten Reasons Why I Am a Socialist. 3rd ed. Milwaukee, WI: The Milwaukee Leader, [1933?] (WHi only).

PB - Author CY - Alameda, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - His Pseudoic Majesty or The Knights of the Fleece Y1 - 1903 A1 - William Augustus Smith KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on American emulation of Europe with a king and court established in the United States.

PB - Liberty Pub. Co CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Ideal City Y1 - 1903 A1 - Cosimo Noto M.D. (b. 1871?) KW - Italian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Socialist eutopia set in New Orleans with a major emphasis on health and medical care. U.S. and Europe united.

PB - Author CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "In Our Midst. The Letters of Callicrates to Dione, Queen of the Xanthians, concerning England and the English, Anno Domini 1902" Y1 - 1903 A1 - [William Thomas] [Stead] (1849-1912) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on Britain in a series of letters back to an African matriarchy. 

JF - Review of Reviews Annual N1 -

Repub. as by William T[homas] Stead, ed. [written by]. The Despised Sex: The Letters of Callicrates to Dione, Queen of the Xanthians, concerning England and the English, Anno Domini 1902. London: Grant Richards, 1903.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Journeys to the Planet Mars; or, Our Mission to Ento Y1 - 1903 A1 - Sara Weiss (d. 1904) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Spiritualism. Mars is mostly a better, more spiritually advanced society, but there are some people susceptible to the temptations of power. See also 1906 Weiss.

PB - The Bradford Press CY - New York N1 -

Later published as Journeys to the Planet Mars or Our Mission to Ento (Mars). Being a record of visits made to Ento (Mars) by Sara Weiss, Psychic, under the guidance of a Spirit Band, for the purpose of conveying to the Entoans, a knowledge of the Continuity of Life. Transcribed Automatically by Sara Weiss under the editorial direction of (Spirit) Carl De L’Ester. Rochester, NY: The Austin Publishing Co., 1905; and Eighteen Visits to Mars. Ed. Winthrop Allen Rember. New York: Vantage Press, 1956. Chapter 2 “Special Features” rpt. in rpt. in The Book of Mars: An Anthology of Fact and Fiction. Ed. Stuart Clark (London: London: Head of Zeus/Apollo/Bloomsbury, 2022), 28-39.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Limanora. The Island of Progress Y1 - 1903 A1 - [John Macmillan] [Brown] (1846-1935) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Detailed eutopia divided into two books, "The Outer or Material Civilisation" and "The Inner Life of a Self-Selected People". Both technically and spiritually advanced, with spiritual advancement more important than technical. The Limanorans can fly due to a combination of technical advances and re-modeling of their bodies. Concerned with overcoming the physicality of the body. Education lasts fifty plus years. See also 1901 and 1920s Brown.

PB - G.P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York N1 -

2nd ed. London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1931. No differences between editions.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Monarch Billionaire Y1 - 1903 A1 - Morrison I[saac] Swift (1856-1946) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Conflict between capitalists and idealists. The latter barely win, and this success leads to a cooperative eutopia where owners and workers work together for the benefit of all. Gradually all businesses go to the people. See also 1893 and 1911 Swift, his Vicarious Philanthropy. [New York: np, 18?], and his The Evil Religion Does. Boston, MA: The Liberty Press, 1917. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Morganeering Or, The Triumph of the Trust. A Fragment of a Satirical Burlesque on the Worship of Wealth Y1 - 1903 A1 - Professor [Alexander William] Bickerton (1842-1929) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Mostly a dystopia of one man controlling all the world’s wealth. Laissez faire catechisms are taught. Includes a federation of intentional communities and a broad egalitarianism.

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A fragment was published earlier as Morganeering Or, The Triumph of the Trust. A Fragment of a Satirical Burlesque on the Worship of Wealth. [Christchurch, New Zealand: Wainoni Publishing Co., 1901?]. Critical ed. ed. Lyman Tower Sargent. Dunedin, New Zealand: Otago Studies in English. English and Linguistics, University of Otago, 2021. According to Bickerton, this was based on an even earlier election leaflet, which has apparently been lost. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Myora or The Land of Eternal Sunshine. In Three Parts Y1 - 1903 A1 - Robert E. Hanvey KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia on Mars, known as Myora, with three races living in harmony. One race does agricultural work, one does mechanical work, and the third are semi-intelligent canines. Most of the novel is on the trip to Mars and the airship in which the trip is made.

PB - The Gimlin Press CY - Chicago, IL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The New Epoch As Developed by the Manufacture of Power Y1 - 1903 A1 - George S[hattuck] Morison (1842-1903) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Non-fiction eutopia. Much of the book is prediction, but collectively the predictions amount to a global eutopia where the availability of inexpensive power eliminates ignorance, superstition, poverty, many languages, and many governments, and brings about significant changes in the rest.

PB - Houghton Mifflin CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Our Animated Flat” Y1 - 1903 A1 - [Edith Cecil] [Maturin] (b. ca. 1865) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Indian author AB -

Satire on technological improvements to domestic life. 

JF - Strand Magazine VL - 26.151 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Our Story of Atlantis. Written down for the Hermetic Brotherhood Y1 - 1903 A1 - W[illiam] P. Phelon M.D. (1834-1902) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Atlantis as eutopia including details about the island, which in this version is in the Caribbean, its institutions, and its people.

PB - Hermetic Book Concern CY - San Francisco, CA N1 -

A later ed. adds to the subtitle and The Future Rulers of America. Together with an Introduction, Biography, Prologue, Notes and Epilogue By R. Swinburne Clymer, M.D. Quakertown, PA: The Philosophical Publishing Co., 1937.

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A later ed. adds to the subtitle and The Future Rulers of America. Together with an Introduction, Biography, Prologue, Notes and Epilogue By R. Swinburne Clymer, M.D. Quakertown, PA: The Philosophical Publishing Co., 1937.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Prince Hagen; A Phantasy Y1 - 1903 A1 - Upton [Beall] Sinclair (1878-1968) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Prince Hagen is the heir of the Nibelungs as described by Richard Wagner (1813-83) in his operas. On becoming King of the Nibelungs, he comes to control the world’s economy and deliberately destroys the financial basis of the world. Revolt.

PB - L.C. Page & Co CY - Boston, MA N1 -

Rpt. Chicago, IL: Charles H. Kerr, 1910. Rpt. without the subtitle in his Plays of Protest: The Naturewoman, The Machine, The Second-Story Man, Prince Hagen (New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1912), 155-226, with a Preface by Sinclair on i-vi; and New York: Arno Press, 1978. U.K. ed. London: Chatto & Windus, 1904. Also published as Prince Hagen; A Drama in Four Acts. Privately Ptd. [1921] (First performed 1909); and as Prince Hagen. Little Blue Book No. 633. Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius Co. [1924].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Quest of the Simple Life Y1 - 1903 A1 - W[illiam] J[ames] Dawson (1854-1928) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The first part of the book is taken up with the author’s complaints about city life, while recognizing its advantages. The second part is about his search for a way of living in the countryside, the discovery of a cottage, and his life there with his wife and children. The book ends, though, with a chapter, “The city of the Future” (257-278) in which he discusses how the modern city could be transformed to keep the advantages of city life without the accompanying disadvantages. His solution is a core city with many parks surrounded by towns with all the basic amenities but all, equally, part of the core city.

PB - Hodder & Stoughton CY - London N1 -

US ed. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1907.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Round Trip to the Year 2000 or a Flight Through Time" Y1 - 1903 A1 - William Wallace Cook (1867-1933) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire and dystopia. Trusts, such as the Air Trust which sells air for breathing (Compare to 1915 England) , women who are too assertive for the protagonist, men and women dressing alike, thought control, and robots that revolt. A sequel is “Castaways of the Year 2000.” The Argosy (New York) 70.3 - 71.3 (October 1912 - February 1913): 582-98, 871-91; 152-70, 405-24, 673-88, in which some from 2000 return to 1900 and then go back to 2000 to rescue the rest..

JF - The Argosy (New York) VL - 42.4- 43.4 N1 -

Rpt. without the subtitle. New York: Street & Smith, 1903. The Adventure Library No. 4. Rpt. New York: Street and Smith, 1925. The Adventure Library No. 120, which is rpt. Westport, CT: Hyperion Press, 1974 with an unpaged introduction "A Cook's Tour of Tomorrow" by Sam[uel] Moskowitz, who is unaware of the 1903 Street and Smith edition.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Southern Cross. A Novel Y1 - 1903 A1 - Hew Stirling KW - Male author AB -

Borderline in that the utopian elements are minimal, with the most sustained a description of the clearing of slums throughout England and their replacement with decent housing for workers.

PB - Swan Sonnenschein CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Thousand Years Hence or Startling Events in the Year A.D. 3000. A Trip to Mars. Incidents by the Way Y1 - 1903 A1 - Ira S. Bunker KW - US author AB -

Eutopia of Christian Science and technological advances.

PB - Author CY - Portland, OR U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Travels of John Wryland; being an account of His Journey to Tibet, of His Founding a Kingdom on the Island of Palti, and of His War Against the Ne-ar-Bians Y1 - 1903 A1 - [Henry J.] [O'Neill] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on paternalistic government.

PB - International News Company CY - London U3 -

John Wryland [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Walda; A Novel Y1 - 1903 A1 - Mary Holland Kinkaid (1861-1948) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Novel of a very conservative German religious intentional community with problems. The community is trying to achieve a good life following the dictates of their religion, but these dictates are so narrow that a dystopia is produced.

PB - Harper Brothers CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Wind Trust: A Possible Prophecy With an Introduction by Edward Everett Hale Y1 - 1903 A1 - John Snyder KW - Male author AB -

Satirical anti-trust story. A man obtains ownership of the wind and requires everyone using the wind to pay royalties to his company, which makes the stockholders immensely rich. The trust then demands a royalty for breathing, which, in the name of the sacredness of private property, a court approves. In the end a revolution forces the end of the trust.

PB - James H. West Company CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "2002": Childlife One Hundred Years From Now Y1 - 1902 A1 - Laura Dayton Fessenden (b. 1924) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Children's book describing a future technological eutopia.

PB - Jamieson-Higgins CY - Chicago, IL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Atalantis. A Novel Y1 - 1902 A1 - Lowell Howard Morrow (1870-1951) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An experiment designed to build a eutopia in the ocean. Initially it appears to have succeeded in that the island of twenty-five acres was built in 1894 (and is sixty-five years old) with fifteen acres for buildings and the rest parks and gardens, with more gardens on the roofs of buildings. The idea was to have a country outside the control of any national jurisdiction. Equality. Low taxes. Very few laws. Freedom of religion. Free love. Gambling is legal, even encouraged. Became a center of corruption.

PB - Eastern Publishing Co CY - Boston, MA N1 -

Based on a note and sketch "The New Atalantis." Harper's Weekly 38.1957 (June 23, 1894): 596 describing a proposal to build an "ocean-hotel". Reproduced in the "Preface".

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Constitution of Carnegia" Y1 - 1902 A1 - James Raymond Perry (1863-1953) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. At the age of sixty all property is given to the state and support is provided for life with people working as and at what they choose. No military because it is too expensive.

JF - North American Review VL - 175 N1 -

Rpt. Current Literature 33 (September 1902): 269-71.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Day of Prosperity; A Vision of the Century to Come Y1 - 1902 A1 - Paul Devinne KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Christian socialist eutopia. Generally, gender equality. Men and women elected by the same sex for most public offices. Something close to unisex dress (no fashion). Everyone lives in hotels, which are managed by women.

PB - G.W. Dillingham CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971. UK ed. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1903. Rpt. London: Greening, 1903.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Dorlan's Plan. (Sequel to 'Unfettered'.) A Dissertation on the Race Problem" Y1 - 1902 A1 - Sutton E[lbert] Griggs (1872-1933) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Dorlan Warthall is an extremely wealthy African American who intends to use his wealth to help African Americans and the eutopia is presented as a fictionalized proposal for solving racial problems in the United States, which will be achieved by establishing an organization that will encourage and develop education, ownership of land, political rights, and better housing, among other things. Unfettered provides the background that makes the proposal possible. See also 1899 Griggs. Griggs wrote other works, both fiction and nonfiction, discussing the plight of African Americans. His fiction includes Overshadowed. A Novel. Nashville, TN: The Orion Pub. Co., 1901. Rpt. New York: AMS Press, 1973 which documents the mistreatment of Negroes by Anglo-Saxons in the U. S., The Hindered Hand: or, The Reign of the Repressionist. Nashville, TN: The Orion Pub. Co., 1905. The 3rd ed. rev. Illus. Robert E. Bell. Nashville, TN: The Orion Pub. Co., 1905; rpt. New York: AMS Press, 1969 which includes a positive description of the colonization of Africa by freed slaves; and Pointing the Way. Nashville, TN: The Orion Publishing Co., 1908. The novel includes a depiction of the treatment of Negroes, the beginnings of a movement joining both blacks and whites, and the argument before the U.S. Supreme Court for the enfranchisement of blacks. The nonfiction includes The One Great Question: A Study of Southern Conditions at Close Range. Philadelphia, PA/Nashville, TN: The Orion Publishing Co., 1907 (58 pp.); Wisdom’s Call. Nashville, TN: The Orion Publishing Co., 1911; How to Rise. Memphis, TN: National Public Welfare League, [1915] (72 pp.); Light on Racial Issues. Memphis, TN: National Public Welfare League, [1921] (62 pp.); According to Law. Memphis, TN: National Public Welfare League, 1916; The Reconstruction of a Race. Memphis, TN: National Public Welfare League, 1917 (62 pp.); Life’s Demands or According to Law. Memphis, TN: National Public Welfare League, [1916] (122 pp.); rev. Memphis, TN: National Public Welfare League, 1917 (170 pp.); The Guide to Racial Greatness or the Science of Collective Efficiency. Memphis, TN: National Public Welfare League, 1923; Kingdom Builders’ Manual. Companion Book to Guide to Racial Greatness. Memphis, TN: National Public Welfare League, 1924.

JF - Unfettered. A Novel PB - Orion Publishing Co. CY - Nashville, TN N1 -

Rpt. New York: AMS Press, 1971. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Dream of Freedom: Romance of South America Y1 - 1902 A1 - [James] Hume Nisbet (1848-1921) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

A novel describing the intentional community of New Sparta (160-318) in Paraguay, which is obviously based on William Lane (1861-1917) and the New Australia experiment. The settlers are described as Practical Communists following the ideals of William Morris (1834-96), which does not fit the actual New Australia. See 1888 and 1892 Lane for his utopias. See also 1893, 1895 and 1905 Nisbet. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Dream of the Twenty-First Century" Y1 - 1902 A1 - Winnifred Harper Cooley (1874-1967) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. Government ownership of basic resources and utilities brought about by women's votes. Compulsory education through twenty-two. Initiative and referendum. Everyone works an average five hour day. No trusts. Civil service. Rational religion based on the moral teachings of Jesus. Marriage universal and two children is the norm. See the author’s The New Womankind. New York: Broadway Publishers, 1904. 

JF - Arena (Boston, MA) VL - 28.5 N1 -

Rpt. in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories by United States Women, 1836-1919. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler (London: Pandora Press, 1984), 207-11 with an editor’s note on 205-06; and in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories By United States Women Before 1950. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler. 2nd ed. (Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 1995), 126-30. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Isola or The Disinherited. A Drama" Y1 - 1902 A1 - Lady Florence [Caroline] Dixie (1855-1905) KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

Play with much adventure and romance primarily designed to critique the treatment of women by both church and state. Said to have been written many years ago (a "First Preface" is dated 1877). Ends with a brief presentation of the eutopia of peace and plenty that results.

JF - Young Oxford VL - 3.36 - 4.41 N1 -

Rpt. as Isola; or, the Disinherited. A Revolt for Woman and all the disinherited. With Remarks thereon by George Jacob Holyoake, Esq. London: The Leadenhall Press. [1903].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Lake of Gold: A Narrative of the Anglo-American Conquest of Europe" Y1 - 1902 A1 - [George Chetwynd Griffith] [Jones] (1857-1906) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Power of money used for good--free trade, trusts abolished, no strikes or lockouts, arbitration, and no war.

JF - Argosy VL - 41.1 - 42.4 N1 -

Repub. as by George Griffith [pseud.]. London: F.V. White, 1903.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Natural Man: A Romance of the Golden Age Y1 - 1902 A1 - J[ohn] William Lloyd (1857-1940) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia which begins with an individual living in tune with nature on a farm called Vale Sunrise. The final chapter moves from individual to a community (who call themselves Simplicists). This community, which has "no codes, no laws, no rigid customs, no officers", can be seen as transitional to 1904 Lloyd. See also 1900 Lloyd.

PB - Benedict Prieth CY - Newark, NJ U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The New Republic Y1 - 1902 A1 - James Leddy KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Labor strife followed by sporadic riots and then by a convention that drew up a Memorial of Grievances, which was presented to Congress. As a result, Congress passed an amendment to the Constitution that gave Congress the power to abolish trusts and monopolies. This happens and everyone lives happily ever after, with some people still exceptionally rich.

PB - Abbey Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - No Rates and Taxes; A Romance of Five Worlds Y1 - 1902 A1 - Thomas [Andrew] Pinkerton (1850-1914) KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Satire. Proposes that a city should own the land on which it is built, with rents paid to the city providing support for the poor and other public expenses. All the rich moved to where there were no rates or taxes and took to petty theft. Men have degenerated and women are dominant. Science had made muscles unnecessary. Three year marriage contracts. Live for the present--The ". . . chief aim of female government was jubilation, cheerfulness, joyousness" (82).

PB - J.W. Arrowsmith CY - Bristol, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Of One Blood. Or, the Hidden Self" Y1 - 1902 A1 - Pauline [Elizabeth] Hopkins (1859-1930) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Lost race novel with the first part focusing on passing as white and includes (Chapters XIV - XVIII) a eutopian hidden city in Ethiopia which continues the high traditions of African civilization.

JF - Colored American Magazine VL - 6.1 - 11 N1 -

Rpt. in The Magazine Novels of Pauline Hopkins (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988), 439-621; as One Blood. London: X Press, 1996 [This edition says that the serial started in March 1901, but the serial that started in March 1901 is one of Hopkin’s many nonfiction serials]; under the original title, Naperville, IL: Poisoned Pen Press/Sourcebooks, 2021, with “Introduction to the Novel: Occult Blood,” by Nisi Shawl (xi-xiii), a note “About the Author” (181-182),”Suggested Discussion Questions for Classroom Use” (183-186), and “Suggested Further Readings of Fiction (187-191); in Black Sci-Fi Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Stories (London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2021), 240-323; separately as Of One Blood, or the Hidden Self. London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2021), 21-221, with “A New Introduction” by Patty Nicole Johnson (14-17), Further Reading (18-19), “Extract from Hagar’s Daughter” by Hopkins (223-241); and as of One Blood. Cambridge, MA/London: The MIT Press, 2023, with “Introduction: The Afritopian Cryptopolis” (xv-xxxv) by Minister Faust where he rejects the word Afrofuturism.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Perfecting the Earth: A Piece of Possible History Y1 - 1902 A1 - C[harles] W[illiam] Wooldridge B.S., M.D. (1847-1908) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The US Army is used to revitalize the West through massive public works projects and, in doing so, creates a cooperative eutopia that spreads to the rest of the country. Gives very detailed descriptions of and plans for the specific projects, including the use of irrigation in the deserts of Southern California. See also 1898 Wooldridge.

PB - Utopia Publishing Company CY - Cleveland, OH N1 -

Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Trial of Man; An Allegorical Romance Y1 - 1902 A1 - [Charles Edward] [Lawrence] ​(1870-1940) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Essentially the Biblical story of Eden and its aftermath told regarding a new planet with a new Adam and Eve (Martin and Lucy) facing the same problems.

PB - John Murray CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The University and Australian Literature. A Centenary Retrospect" Y1 - 1902 A1 - C[hristopher John] Brennan (1870-1932) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia with an emphasis on art presented as if written in 1952.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Vision of Nehemiah Sintram Y1 - 1902 A1 - J. Wilkie KW - UK author AB -

Dystopian satire showing the evil effects of worshiping money in a world ruled by Satan.

PB - Elliot Stock CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Wee Lassie; or, A Unique Republic Y1 - 1902 A1 - Mrs. May Anders Hawkins KW - Female author AB -

Reform tract in the form of a novel. The focus of reform is the establishment of a democratically run school for poor children who pay for their education through labor.

PB - Presbyterian Committee of Publication CY - Richmond, VA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Where the Needle Points Y1 - 1902 A1 - Harry T. [Henry Taylor] Finley (1866-1940) KW - Male author AB -

Lost race novel about the discovery of a warm area at the North Pole. The civilization found is in some ways very advanced. Chemically prepared food; full meal in a small ball. Also eat fruit. Roman-like clothing. Not religious. Use only one name. Socially and politically hierarchical.

PB - The Abbey Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Adventures of John McCue. Socialist Y1 - 1901 AB -

Socialist eutopia presented in two parts, the first being a poem, "The Kingdom of Bling-Blang Blung" (3-37), with the second in prose "The Second Adventure" (39-64). The first part is a satire on contemporary politics. The second part describes the socialist eutopia. No army, police, or tax gatherers. People are healthy, cultured, and happy. Work and homes rotated.

PB - J. Quiggan CY - New York VL - Socialist Library Vol. II, No. 1, February 15, 1902 N1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - An Affair in the South Seas: A Story of Romantic Adventure Y1 - 1901 A1 - Leigh H[adley] Irvine (1863-1942) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Colony called Atollia in the South Seas based on the structure of the U.S. government. Good relations with the indigenous inhabitants, including intermarriage. The establishment of agriculture and democracy result in a conservative eutopia with no very rich or very poor. Stress on limitations on state power.

PB - T. Fisher Unwin/San Francisco, CA: Payot, Upham, & Co. [Typography by the T.C. Russell Company, San Francisco]. CY - London/San Francisco, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Back to the Soil or From Tenement House to Farm Colony. A Circular Solution to an Angular Problem Y1 - 1901 A1 - Bradley Gilman (1857-1932) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia brought about by the establishment of farm colonies that have similarities to those proposed in 1890 Booth. The book begins by describing the conditions of the poor living in cities, and then turns to the establishment of what the author calls “Circle City,” with detailed plans for how it should be laid out and of the housing. It must be near a city, have good agricultural land and water. Includes a chapter on education including the type of teachers needed. There is an “Introduction” by Edward Everett Hale (ix-xiii). 

PB - L .C. Page & Co CY - Boston, MA U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Beyond the Black Ocean Y1 - 1901 A1 - Rev. T[homas] McGrady (1863-1907) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Most of the novel is a critique of capitalism and the struggle to change the system, but a socialist eutopia is presented at the end with freedom of religion, very little work, and the opportunity for lifelong education.

PB - Standard Publishing Co CY - Terre Haute, IN N1 -

Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971. Also published as Beyond the Black Ocean: A Socialist Story. Chicago, IL: Charles H. Kerr, 1901. Library of Progress No. 36.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Cash Is King Y1 - 1901 A1 - William A. Reid KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia set in Boston, Massachusetts. The novel focuses on the trials and tribulations imposed on the hero by an industrial leader to prove his worth. He does so and is allowed to know of the plan of the Syndicate of Syndicates to impose their rule on the United States by controlling the production of all goods and services and establishing their leader as King George I. They do so, and the result is entirely positive because their goal is the good of all, while making a profit.

PB - Henry J. Drane CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Donoghues of Dunno Weir" Y1 - 1901 A1 - Francis Galton (1822-1911) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eugenic eutopia.

JF - Utopian Studies VL - 12.2 N1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Earth's Empress and Victoria: A Romance of two queenly souls and of a revolt in Africa against a benign government Y1 - 1901 A1 - Carmen Reed KW - Female author AB -

Eutopia called Athanasia based on the ideas of John Ruskin (1819-1900). Old race. Highly moral. Scientifically advanced. Platonic evaluation of the right place for each person. Prevent disease and crime. No lawyers. Few property disputes.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Erewhon Revisited twenty years later, both by the original discoverer and his son Y1 - 1901 A1 - [Samuel [Butler] (1835-1902) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Continuation of 1872 Butler stressing religion. 

PB - G. Richards CY - London N1 -

Rpt. as volume 16 of The Shrewsbury Edition of the Works of Samuel Butler. 20 vols. Ed. Henry Festing Jones and A[ugustus] T[heodore] Bartholomew. London: Jonathan Cape/New York: E.P. Dutton, 1923-26. Rpt. New York: AMS Press, 1968.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Eutopia. A Text-book on the Divine Economy, As Taught in the Bible. Otherwise Land Resumption. Common Property versus Private Property. The Gospel of Work, Divine and Human. Land and Labour. Rent and Wages. Justice and Equal Opportunity for All. Health Happiness and Holiness. A Catechism for the People Y1 - 1901 A1 - Rev. S[amuel] W[hitfield] Thackeray M.A., LL.D KW - Male author AB -

Detailed religious eutopia with community ownership of all land. Written as a catechism with 175 questions and answers.

PB - S.W. Thackeray CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The First Years of the Redeemed After Death: A New Unfolding in Theology and in the Christian Life and Destiny Here and Hereafter. With Some Connected Enquiries Y1 - 1901 A1 - William Clarke Ulyat A.M. KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Heaven as eutopia. Paradise is the first stage after death; those who do well there move on to higher heavens.

PB - Abbey Press CY - New York U2 -

Frontispiece portrait of the author.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Glance Ahead; Being a Christmas Tale of A.D. 3568" Y1 - 1901 A1 - J[ohn] K[endrick] Bangs (1862-1922) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire. The entire Western Hemisphere is the United States; Europe and Asia are now combined; all African Americans have returned to Africa, which is united, and Africans are now mercenaries for the rest of the world. Technological advances. Immortality; no births. All businesses are controlled by the government and make huge profits.

JF - Over the Plum-Pudding PB - Harper & Brothers CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Ancestral Voices: Anthology of Early Science Fiction. Ed. Douglas Menville and R[obert] Reginald [pseud.] [Michael Roy Burgess] (New York: Arno Press, 1974), with each story using its original pagination.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Great White Way: A Record of an Unusual Voyage of Discovery, and some Romantic Love Affairs amid Strange Surroundings. The Whole Recounted by one Nicholas Chase, Promoter of the Expedition, whose Reports have been Arranged for Publication by Albert Bigelow Paine Y1 - 1901 A1 - Albert Bigelow Paine (1861-1937) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The last chapter describes a eutopia at the South Pole. Telepathy. No technology and opposed to technological development. Few laws, no money.

PB - J.F. Taylor CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Arno Press, 1975

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Greatest Thing in the World" Y1 - 1901 A1 - [William Gilbert] Van Tassel Sutphen (1861-1945) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Humor set in 1999. Golf has so swept the U.S. that in 1950 the presidencies of the country and the U.S. Golfing Association have been combined under the latter title. In 1952 Congress passed the Compulsory Golf Bill for all citizens, both men and women, between eighteen and forty-five. Most people played golf full time and could earn a living and pension doing so. Huge technical advances in clubs and balls. Ends with golfing being overthrown in a revolution.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Hope of England Y1 - 1901 A1 - Z. Henry Lewis KW - Male author AB -

Detailed eutopia. Stress on social questions. particularly relations between men and women. Everyone works with a free choice of occupation. Most professions also do manual labor for exercise.

PB - Swan Sonnenschein CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "In The World Celestial" Y1 - 1901 A1 - T[homas] A[ugustus] Bland M.D. (b. 1830) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia set in heaven. The stage of Heaven where the novel takes place is preparatory for higher heavens, but those who move on sometimes come back to visit. The city was founded by Zoroaster, was once led by Jesus, and is now led by a legislative council elected by all adults for a five year term. While non-Caucasians participate as equals in the world congress from their different nations, "they are not in any way the peers of those of the Caucasians" (74). Entertainment is mostly lectures by illustrious people of the past. . The author says that he is telling the story as told to him by a friend and that it is a true story. See also the author’s The People’s Party Shot and Shell. Chicago, IL: Charles H. Kerr, 1892. Vol. 4 of the Library of Progress.

PB - Alliance Publishing Co./Plymouth Publishing Co. CY - New York/Chicago, IL N1 -

2nd ed. Chicago, IL: T.A. Bland, 1902, with and introduction by Rev. H. W. Thomas, D.D., President of The Worlds Liberal Congress of Religions. 3rd ed. Chicago, IL: T.A. Bland & Co., 1904.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Inoculation Day" Y1 - 1901 A1 - Eden Phillpotts (1862-1960) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which there is an inoculation for character and to eliminate emotions.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Intermere Y1 - 1901 A1 - William Alexander Taylor (1837-1912) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A technological, property-owning eutopia set in a re-surfaced Atlantis. Pure democracy. Labor honored. Simple life. Communicate by thought.

PB - XX. Century Publishing Company CY - Columbus, OH N1 -

Rpt. Mokelumne Hill, CA: Health Research, 1969; and New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Island of Justice Y1 - 1901 A1 - [Charles] [Carter] KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

A detailed eutopia. No very rich or poor. The legal system is designed to treat the accused with utter fairness with all names suppressed until conviction. There is a special court for Cruelty, for which punishment is severe. If found innocent of cruelty, the accused will be sent to a court that deals with restitution. There is also an Insanity Court. Shops sell only one type of goods, and only high-quality goods stocked. Prices are set by the government to ensure 

PB - Gordon & Gotch CY - Melbourne, VIC, Australia VL - Australian ed. There is no evidence of there ever being a non-Australian edition. U3 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Man from Mars Y1 - 1901 A1 - Carra DePuy [Hess] Henley (1869-1905) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The dead go to Mars, which is an Arcadian eutopia. Very ethereal with little social content. Temples to learning. Many inventions.

PB - Ptd. by B.R. Baumgardt CY - Los Angeles, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mark Chester: or A Mill and A Million. A Tale of Southern California Y1 - 1901 A1 - Carlyle Petersilea (1844-1903) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A poverty-stricken young man proves worthy of divine intervention and is told where to find a large gold deposit. He uses some of the money to establish a city called Millennial to house the homeless. He also built a large Spiritual Temple there. Spiritualists in the area then built more cities to help the poor.

PB - Benner of Light Publishing Co CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A New Century Girl: A Dream of the Housewife's Guild" Y1 - 1901 A1 - Mary J. Wright KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

Housekeeping as a profession, which produces a better life for all women.

JF - New Zealand Illustrated Magazine VL - 4 N1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A New Religion. (For Circulation among Adults only) Y1 - 1901 A1 - C[harles] P[ynson] W[ilmot] Longdill (1866-1933) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

The first important, and second overall, of the author's pamphlets that collectively develop a utopia based on an improved banking and currency system, improved land laws, "discipline of the sexual instincts," federation of the world with Jerusalem as its capital, and a new religion and Bible. See also his Thoughts for Thinking People about Strikes, Coin, Poverty, and Fortune-Making. Auckland, New Zealand: D.J. Wright, Printer, [1899?]; The Law of Sexual Activity. By the Author of “A New Religion.” Gisborne, New Zealand: Ptd. for The New Kingdom Society, 1901; Longdill’s Solution of the Social Problem. Auckland, New Zealand: Wilson & Horton, Printers, 1909; A Perfect System of Banking. . (First Principles of) [At head of the title What All the Worlds A’seeking]. Feilding, New Zealand: Feilding Star Print, 1910; 2nd exp. ed. 1910; Model Rules and Regulations for A Perfect Co-Operative People’s Bank, Limited, or State Guaranteed Co-Operative People’s Bank, In which is embodied the first principles of a Perfect Banking System, As taught by the Compiler, C.P.W. Longdill, Author of “A Perfect System of Banking, Etc. Auckland, New Zealand: Wilson & Horton, Printers, 1911; What Is Money? The Primary Problem in Monetary Science Solved At Last. Auckland, New Zealand: Wilson & Horton, 1912; Man and God Are One Or Christ’s Teaching Made Plain Being an Introduction to The Book of Life For the Meaning Thereof Search the Scriptures. By “The Spirit of Truth” [pseud.]. Auckland, New Zealand: C.P.W. Longdill, 1912; 2nd ed. as Man and God Are One Or Christ’s Teaching Made Plain (Second Edition) Being an Introduction to The Book of Life For the Meaning Thereof Search the Scriptures. By “The Spirit of Truth” [pseud.]. Auckland, New Zealand: C.P.W. Longdill, 1916; The Book of Life. By “The Spirit of Truth” [pseud.]. Auckland, New Zealand: Author, 1916; The Federation of the World With Which Is Embodied The Secret of Sound Finance. By The Spirit of Truth [pseud.]. The only Government worthy of the name is one which embraces ALL MANKIND. Auckland, New Zealand: United World Publishing Institute, 1919; Taxation & Sound Finance (A New, Equitable and Scientific System of Taxation). Auckland, New Zealand: United World Publishing Institute, 1921; [All ATL]; and Fallacies of the Douglas Social Credit Proposals: Being a Criticism of Mr. Barclay Smith’s (Editor of the New Era) A.B.C. of Social Credits. [Gisborne, New Zealand]: Gisborne Publishing Co., [1933]. On Longdill, see Lyman Tower Sargent, “Sexual Morality, a New Religion, a State Bank, and World Federation: C.P.W. Longdill’s Proposals for New Zealand.” NZSA Bulletin of New Zealand Studies: The Journal of the New Zealand Studies Association. Issue Number 2. Ed. Ian Conrich (2010): 211-28. 

PB - Ptd. by Albert Spencer CY - Auckland, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Occults in Council or The Great Learning Y1 - 1901 A1 - Sir William [pseud.] AB -

Very odd volume which tells the story of the Occult on a number of planets and their communications with each other, with settlements of Occult at both the North and South Poles of Earth, both of which are described in eutopian terms. The Occult on Mars are at a higher level than those on Earth.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Progressives Abroad Y1 - 1901 A1 - Colonel William Kelly KW - Male author AB -

Detailed eutopia. Free medical care, with the salary of doctors dependent on their success. Every youth above fourteen must be proficient at arms. Women have the vote and can be elected to office. Many reforms, including the strict control of smoking.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Prophet of the Kingdom Y1 - 1901 A1 - Henry S[amuel] Frisbie KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia based on the single tax. Henry George (1839-1897) is referred to as "the prophet George". For Henry George's explanation of the single tax, see his Progress and Poverty. An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and Of Increase of Want With Increase of Wealth. The Remedy. San Francisco, CA: W.M. Hinton, 1879. Fiftieth Anniversary Ed. New York: The Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, 1929.

PB - The Neale Publishing Company CY - Washington, DC U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Purple Cloud Y1 - 1901 A1 - M[atthew] P[hipps] Shiel (1865-1947) KW - Creole author KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Montserrat British West Indies author AB -

Last man dystopia set only a few years in the future.

PB - Chatto & Windus CY - London N1 -

Rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1977 with an "Introduction" by David G. Hartwell (v-xviii). Rev. ed. London: Victor Gollancz, 1929. U.S. ed. New York: Vanguard Press, 1930; rpt. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000 with an "Introduction to the Bison Books Edition" by John Clute (v-xii). Originally published serially illus. J. J. Cameron. The Royal Magazine 5 - 6 (January- June 1901): 276-, 358-, 437-, 508-; 37-, 139-112. The Vanguard Press ed. is rpt. abridged illus. Lawrence [Sterne Stevens] (1886-1960). Famous Fantastic Mysteries 10.5 (June 1949): 10-; and with additional material for The Reynolds Morse Foundation, 1979. The 1901 ed. is an expanded version of the serial. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Queen of Appalachia Y1 - 1901 A1 - Joe [Joseph] H. Borders (b. 1858) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia of an Arcadian monarchy combined with advanced technology. Mostly adventure.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Riallaro. The Archipelago of Exiles Y1 - 1901 A1 - [John Macmillan] [Brown] (1846-1935) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Gulliveriana. The greatest amount of space is devoted to Aleofane ("gem of truth") which has a complex language and code of conduct clearly designed to disguise the truth. Tirralaria is egalitarian, has no law or government, and has constant strife and poverty. A set of islands, collectively known as Loonarie, where people are sent who are dominated by one fixed idea includes Meddla, the Isle of Philanthropy or, more accurately, the Isles of Busybodies; Wotnekst or Godlaw, which has laws about everything; Foolgar, or the Land of Lofty Lineage; Awdyoo, or the Isle of Journalism; Jabberoo, composed of talkers; Vulpia, or diplomats, Witlingen, or jokers; Simiola, or copycats; Polaria, or contradictors; and many others. See also 1903 and 1920s Brown.

PB - G. P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York N1 -

2nd ed. London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1931. Extract rpt. in Monsters in the Garden: An Anthology of Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy. Ed. Elizabeth Knox and David Larsen (Wellington, New Zealand: Victoria University of Wellington Press, 2020), 31-53. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Romance of Races or The Genesis of Nations Y1 - 1901 A1 - Charles M. Carter KW - Male author AB -

Various eutopias. The first comes about as a result of a shipwreck that leaves a group stranded in Antarctica where they create a moneyless Christian republic. The others are advanced prehistoric civilizations.

PB - The Neale Publishing Co CY - Washington, DC U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Secret History of Eddypus, the World Empire" Y1 - 1901 A1 - [Samuel Langhorne] [Clemens] (1835-1910) ED - John S. Tuckey KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on Christian Science written in 1901-1902. The author projects the domination of the United States by Christian Science at various places in his Christian Science: With Notes Containing Corrections to Date. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1907. Rpt. without the subtitle Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1993. U.K. ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. A critical ed. in What Is Man? Ed. Paul Bender (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973), 215-397, 553-77, 651-705.

JF - Mark Twain's Fables of Man PB - University of California Press CY - Berkeley N1 -

Rpt. in The Science Fiction of Mark Twain. Ed. David Ketterer (Hartford, CT: Archon Books, 1984), 176-223; book rpt. as Mark Twain, Tales of Wonder. Ed. David Ketterer (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003), 176-223.

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Mark Twain [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Thyra; A Romance of the Polar Pit Y1 - 1901 A1 - Robert Ames Bennet (1870-1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Mostly lost race and adventure but includes a brief description of an artistic, communal eutopia at the North Pole based on Norse Mythology.

PB - Henry Holt CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. Pomeroy, WA: Health Research, 1974; and New York: Arno Press, 1978. UK ed. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1901.

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Illus. E.L. Blumental.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Trip to Mars: An 'Awful Venture,' A Curious Message. Being a copy of a circular addressed to the inhabitants of this world, by Mr. H.V. Mundo, the late visitor to the planet Mars. Reprinted from the Wellington A1 and New Zealand Tit-Bits" Y1 - 1901 A1 - J[ohn] M. T[orrens] KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Detailed eutopia in which people are naturally good.

JF - A Trip to Mars: An "Awful Venture," A Curious Message. Being a copy of a circular addressed to the inhabitants of this world, by Mr. H.V. Mundo, the late visitor to the planet Mars PB - Wilson and Horton CY - Auckland, New Zealand VL - Cover says 2nd ed. N1 -

The 1st ed. of the book was entitled A Song of Auckland and does not include "A Trip to Mars." The 3rd ed. of the book is entitled A Visit to Mars: How I Got There: How Long I Stayed: What I Saw: How I Got Back by Albert Robertson [pseud.] (Sydney, NSW, Australia: Robert Dey, Son and Co., 192?), 5-25. The 3rd edition varies only in that it is redesigned as if told to children with some questions from the children.

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Mr. H.V. Mundo, the late visitor to the planet Mars

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Two Thousand Years of Celestial Life. Introduction to Science and Key of Life; Manifestations of Divine Law. [Received Through Psychic Telegraphy]. Autobiography of Clytina; Born in Athens, 147 B.C. Passed to Celestial Life, 131 B.C. Y1 - 1901 A1 - [Henry Clay] [Hodges], comp. [written by] KW - Male author AB -

Spiritualism. Mars is technically and spiritually advanced, although it is said to have passed beyond the scientific age. Jupiter is even more spiritually advanced than Mars.

PB - Astro Publishing. Co CY - Detroit, MI U3 -

Clytina [pseud.]

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MiU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Under Which Master or the Story of the Long Strike at Coverdale: A Romance of Labor Y1 - 1901 A1 - W[illia]m V[icars] Lawrance KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. A strike that disables a city is finally defeated.

PB - Abbey Press CY - New York U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The University Library of the Future. A Vox Populi (With many apologies to Mr. Anstey)” Y1 - 1901 AB -

Brief dystopian satire on the organization of the University of Cambridge Library.

JF - Cambridge Review VL - 23 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Visitors from Mars; A Narrative Y1 - 1901 A1 - Charles Cole KW - Male author AB -

Mars as eutopia. Vegetarian with no cooking at all. Free love and gender equality.

PB - Ptd. by Beattie & Hofmann CY - Portland, OR U5 -

DLC, HRC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Will There Be Servants in 2000 A.D.” Y1 - 1901 A1 - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

No because housing will have so improved that they will no longer to needed.

JF - Anticipations of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress Upon Human Life and Thought PB - Chapman and Hall CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1902), 118-22. Rpt. in Current Literature 32.4 (April 1902): 426-27. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Woman of Mars. Dedicated to My Mother Y1 - 1901 A1 - Mary Ann Moore-Bentley (Mrs. H.H. Ling) (1865-ca. 1955/9) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

A detailed eutopia set on Mars. Mars is similar to Earth with cities, oceans, and lush vegetation. The focus is on education. Most of the novel concerns Martians visiting Earth to help Earth improve, and after many trials and tribulations the ending is hopeful.

PB - Edwards, Dunlop & Co CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia U1 -

The first page of the text gives the title as A Woman of Mars, or Australia's Enfranchised Woman.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The World's Last Wonder" Y1 - 1901 AB -

Satire, mostly on space travel, but refers to Cyrus Teed, author of The Great Red Dragon or the Flaming Red Devil. Estero, Florida: Guiding Star Pub. House, 1909 and founder of the Koreshan Unity, a U.S. intentional community.

JF - Tocsin (Melbourne, VIC, Australia) VL - 3.177 - 90 U5 -

M

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Bill of Human Rights and Propositions Relative to the Reformation of the World; Issued by the Royal Order of Divine Truth Forces Y1 - 1900 AB -

Eutopia. Labor credit system and a planned economy. Anti-Semitic. Includes membership and affiliation forms.

PB - National Headquarters Royal Order of D[ivine] T[ruth] F[orces] CY - [Maine] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "City of Tagaste" Y1 - 1900 A1 - [Elbert] [Hubbard] (1856-1915) ED - Harriet Robarge KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian satire on contemporary America. Tagaste is city that abandons crafts for mass production and loses its soul, while polluting nature and destroying its workers. See also his 1900 "A Dream and a Prophecy," which suggests the eutopia that can be created.

JF - So Here Then Are the Preachments Entitled the City of Tagaste, and A Dream and A Prophecy PB - The Roycrofters at the Roycroft Shop CY - East Aurora, NY VL - 940 copy ed. N1 -

A 50 copy ed. on Imperial Japan Vellum was illus. Etla Hubbs (East Aurora, NY: The Roycrofters at the Roycroft Shop, 1900), 3-9. Rpt. (East Aurora, NY: Roycrofters, 1909), 3-9.

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Illus. Harriet Robarge. A 50 copy ed. on Imperial Japan Vellum was illus. Etla Hubbs.

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Fra Elbertus [pseud.]

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HRC, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The City Problem Y1 - 1900 A1 - Albert A. Hoskin KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia based on abolishing both city and rural life with an even distribution of population.

PB - John B. Alden CY - New York U5 -

MoU, NjP

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Coming Era Or Leeds Beatified With Apology to G. H. [sic]. Wells for the Use of His Time Machine. Christmas 1900 Y1 - 1900 A1 - A Disciple [pseud.] AB -

Future of Leeds as a eutopia. Mostly technology. Decimal coinage. Degrees for women and by 1925 headships of colleges open to women. Better pollution control. The author adds a cycle attachment to Wells's time machine so as to be able to move around freely in the future.

PB - Ptd. and Pub. by Unwin Brothers CY - London U3 -

A Disciple [pseud.]

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Leeds Public, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Dream and a Prophecy" Y1 - 1900 A1 - [Elbert] [Hubbard] (1856-1915) ED - Harriet Robarge KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Follows from the dystopia of his 1900 "A City of Tagaste" and suggests the eutopia that can be created by returning to the countryside and the craft tradition.

JF - So Here Then Are the Preachments Entitled the City of Tagaste, and A Dream and A Prophecy PB - The Roycrofters at the Roycroft Shop CY - East Aurora, NY VL - 940 copy ed. N1 -

A 50 copy ed. on Imperial Japan Vellum was illus Etla Hubbs (East Aurora, NY: The Roycrofters at the Roycroft Shop, 1900), 13-21. Rpt. (East Aurora, NY: Roycrofters, 1909), 13-21.

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Illus. Harriet Robarge. A 50 copy ed. on Imperial Japan Vellum was illus. Etla Hubbs.

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Fra Elbertus [pseud.]

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HRC, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Dream of a Warringtonian Y1 - 1900 A1 - Arthur Bennett (1862-1931) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Warrington described as a future eutopia. Clean and improved both architecturally and morally. Much control by local government. See also 1892 Hythloday Junior. Bennett also wrote a utopia advocating a world federation; see 1892 Bennett.

PB - Sunrise Publishing Company CY - Warrington, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Eurasia Y1 - 1900 A1 - Chris Evans KW - Male author AB -

Detailed reform with an overall stress on fairness and equality. Equal representation of men and women in government. Easy recall from most offices. Elaborate protections within the legal system to ensure speed and fairness. Harsh punishment for crimes; jail or death with castration for some crimes. Technology. Most industries nationalized. Stress on health. Few relations with other countries.

PB - James H. Barry CY - San Francisco, CA U5 -

MoU-St, NNC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Fall of Utopia Y1 - 1900 A1 - Charles J. Bayne KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A eutopia, seemingly More's, collapses due to indiscriminate immigration and selfishness, particularly desire for individual wealth.

PB - Eastern Publishing Company CY - Boston, MA U5 -

CSmH, HRC, W3,416

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The First Men in the Moon" Y1 - 1900 A1 - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Classic dystopia of breeding for service to society. On October 19, 2010, BBC Four broadcast a made-for-television version written by Mark Gatniss (b. 1966) and directed by Damon Thomas.

JF - The Strand Magazine VL - 20 - 22 N1 -

The Strand Magazine sections from July and August 1901 have been rpt. in Moonrise: The Golden Age of Lunar Adventures. Ed. Mike [Michael Raymond Donald] Ashley (London: British Library, 2018), 107-49 with and editor’s not on 105-06. A different version was published in The Cosmopolitan (New York) 30.1 - 6 (November 1900 - April 1901): 65-80, 194-206, 310-23, 415-29, 521-34, 643-56. First collected--Indianapolis, IN: Bowen-Merrill, 1901; and, with minor textual differences, London: George Newnes, 1901. Rpt. London Gollancz, 2013, with an “Introduction” by Lisa Tuttle (ix-xi). Rpt. in The Works of H.G. Wells Atlantic Edition. Volume VI The First Men in the Moon and Some More Human Stories (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1925), 1-267. Except for later critical editions, The Atlantic Edition is generally considered the best text of Wells’s works. Also rpt. in Amazing Stories 1.9 – 11 (December 1926 – February 1927): 774-91, 914-39, 1014-38; with illus. Bob Eggleton. Norfolk, VA: Donning Co., 1989; London: Everyman, 1993; as The First Men in the Moon: A Critical Text of the 1901 London First Edition, with an Introduction and Appendices. Ed. Leon Stover. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 1998; New York: Modern Library, 2002, with an “Introduction” by Ursula K. Le Guin (xi-xviii) that has been rpt. in her Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books 2000-2016 (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer, 2016), 173-78, and “Commentary” by T. S. Eliot (223-26) that had been originally published as “Journalists of Yesterday and Today.” The New English Weekly 16.16 (February 8, 1940): 237-38 [The Modern Library edition says the original title was “Wells as Journalist]; and Darko Suvin (227-240) that had originally been published as “Wells as the Turning Point of the SF Tradition.” Minnesota Review, ns 4.4 (1975): 106-15, and a “Reading Group Guide” (241-42); ed. Patrick Parrinder. London: Penguin Books, 2005, with an “Introduction” by China Miéville (xiii-xxviii), a “Note on the Text” by Patrick Parrinder (xxxi-xxxvii), and “Notes” by Steven McLean (205-13); and in The First Men in the Moon A Modern Utopia (Ware, Eng.: Wordsworth Classics, 2017), 27-193, with an “Introduction” by David Stuart Davies (11-25). An alternative beginning and an alternative ending were published as “An Unpublished Prologue to The First Men in the Moon.” with an “Introduction” by Charles Blair. The Wellsian, no. 37 (2014): 15-17; and “Terrestrial: An Unpublished Version of the Ending of The First Men in the Moon” with an “Introduction” by Simon J. James. The Wellsian, no. 37 (2014): 18-30.

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Illus. Claude A. Shepperson

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L, Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - God's . . . . . Suggestions. God's Appeal to Humanity. God's Appeal to Theologians. God's World Suggestions. God Authorises the Millennium Y1 - 1900 A1 - [Francis Thomas (Frank)] [Moore] (1867-1940) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

The first of many books, pamphlets, and leaflets in which the author claims that God has appointed him to proclaim God's policies for the world, and he comes to see himself as the Second Messiah. He proposes a eutopia based on a state bank, the issuance of paper money, more governmental activity, administrative science, spiritualism, and the British empire. He presents New Zealand as the New Palestine. See also his The New Palestine and the New Idealist. “Idealism,” God’s Ideal Church founded by His Ideal Son 1900 Years Ago. [At the head of the title The Plan of the Ages Fulfilled The Third Dispensation The Fulness of Time]. By The Ideal Physician [pseud.]. Pahiatua, New Zealand: Alex Baillie & Co., 1900; The Millennium. The Christian World’s long looked for Grand Culmination of Theologic, Philosophic, Social, Political, and Economic Knowledge transcending the ignorance of and superstition of the past. By The Inspired Author of the Following Books, Pamphlets, Essays, Etc., Etc. [pseud.]. [Lists twenty items] Concise reprints of most of the above works are reproduced in this, the 20th volume the author has published. The Passing from the Second to the Third Dispensation in the Plan of the Ages. The Church of Rome. The Coming Church of Great Britain and the Second MessiahThe Millennium. The Christian World’s long looked for Grand Culmination for Theologic, Philosophic, Social, Political, and Economic Knowledge transcending the ignorance and superstition of the past. By The Inspired Author of the Following Books, Pamphlets, Essays, Etc., Etc. [Lists nineteen followed by Etc., Etc., Etc.] Concise reprints of most of the above works are reproduced in this, the 20th volume the author has published. The Passing from the Second to the Third Dispensation in the Plan of the Ages. The Church of Rome The Coming Church of Great Britain and The Second Messiah. [cover title and how it is cataloged at ATL The Second Messiah’s Plans and Schemes for the Millennium]. Johnsonville, New Zealand: Ptd. by the New Zealand Times, [1913] (M); The Way to Wealth or Products Realisation Scheme. Supplement to The New Zealand Times, Tuesday June 18th, 1901; Essays on Burning Political Questions. State Banking and Paper Money. By the President of the New Zealand State Currency Association. Wellington, New Zealand: Printed by the New Zealand Times, Co., 1910 (VUW); Armageddon and A Soldier in Khaki. By The Captain of the Day [pseud.]. Wellington, New Zealand: Ptd. By the New Zealand Times Co., 1918 (VUW only); The Millennium: Christ’s Way of Salvation for All Races of Mankind. Auckland, New Zealand: Printed by the Queen City Press, [1933] in which he says that the appointed time has come; Jesus Christ’s Scheme of Finance. Auckland, New Zealand: Wright & Jaques, Printer, [c1930]; New Zealand’s Centennial Wonder Book. God’s Own System of Credit, Currency and Banking. The Free Distribution of the World’s Wealth for the World’s People. Auckland, New Zealand: Printed by Wright & Jaques, [1940]; State Banking and State Distribution of God’s Gifts to Mankind. Auckland, New Zealand: Printed by Wright & Jaques, [1940]; The World’s Money Fakers. Auckland, New Zealand: Wright & Jaques, [1940]; and The Divine Goodness of Almighty God and the Satanic Consequences of Human Greed. Auckland, New Zealand: Wright & Jaques, [c1940]. (All but the one noted are at ATL).

PB - Ptd. by the New Zealand Times CY - Wellington, New Zealand U3 -

The Ideal Physician [pseud.]

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ATL

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Great Bread Trust Y1 - 1900 A1 - W[illiam] H[enry] Wright KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which men gain control of wheat and then the world.

PB - Abbey Press CY - New York U5 -

DLC, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Great Good Place" Y1 - 1900 A1 - Henry James (1843-1916) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A man with extreme stress from overwork dreams of a eutopia of rest similar to a monastery.

JF - Scribner's Magazine VL - 27 N1 -

Rpt. in The Novels and Tales Of Henry James. New York Edition.  vol. 16 (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909), 222-63; The Short Stories of Henry James. Ed. Clifton Fadiman (New York: The Modern Library, 1945), 385-422, with "A Note on The Great Good Place" (413-15);  The Complete Tales of Henry James. 11 1900-1903. Ed Leon Edel (London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1964), 13-42; and in his Complete Stories 1898-1900 (New York: Library of America, 1996), 152-77, with a Note on the Text (940) and Notes (943) by Denis Donoghue..

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hallie Marshall: A True Daughter of the South Y1 - 1900 A1 - Frank Purdy Williams (b. 1848) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A reformed South presented as a eutopia that still has a form of slavery with overseers chosen by the slaves and families not split up. Schools set in parks that serve as playgrounds. Women are truly "feminine" and do not work outside the home. The North is compared unfavorably with the South.

PB - Abbey Press CY - New York U5 -

W3,5986

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hermaphro-Deity: The Mystery of Divine Genius Y1 - 1900 A1 - Eliza Barton Lyman KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. A novel describing a celibate, vegetarian intentional community placed in Benares, California, which suggest the connection to Eastern religions. The California community is a eutopia and expanding rapidly. Much on the doctrine. In her The coming woman: or, The royal road to physical perfection. A series of medical lectures (1880), the female author is described as a lecturer and teacher of anatomy, physiology, and hygiene.

PB - Saginaw Printing and Publishing Co CY - Saginaw, MI U5 -

DLC, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - His Wisdom, The Defender Y1 - 1900 A1 - Simon Newcomb (1835-1909) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. The inventor of an airship controls the world, forms one world nation, and abolishes war, armies, and navies. He acts as arbitrator in disputes and allows freedom to develop. Most of the novel is concerned with events before the briefly described eutopia. See also 1903 Newcomb.

PB - Harper and Bros CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Arno Press, 1974.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - I Wish Y1 - 1900 A1 - Claudius Lambert KW - Male author AB -

A plea or prayer to the “Master of the Universe” that a eutopia be made possible on Earth. No war. No greed or hate. No ostentation. His Then. Albany, NY: Albany Printing Co., [19--], a single small sheet, is a poem, hoping for a better postwar world.

PB - Albany Printing Co. CY - Albany, NY U5 -

RPB

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Imaginary Interview With the New Year" Y1 - 1900 A1 - J[ohn M.] T[orrens] KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopian poem with an emphasis on technology.

JF - A Song of Auckland and Other Verses PB - Author CY - Auckland, New Zealand U5 -

ATL

ER - TY - ABST T1 - In Oudemon; Reminiscences of an Unknown People by an Occasional Traveler Y1 - 1900 A1 - Henry S[hipman] Drayton, ed. [written by] (1840-1923) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An egalitarian, anarchist eutopia in an isolated valley in South America.

PB - The Grafton Press CY - New York U5 -

DLC, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Introductory to a New Model for Concourse, Called Utopia, where life Is Eternal--Death Excluded Y1 - 1900 A1 - G. W. Pike AB -

The brief text reads like early New Age material in which a utopia of eternal life is said to be possible, but it ends with a proposal for a Home for selected people over sixty five sponsored by the Mental Science College of Phoenix.

PB - Adams Printing Co CY - Phoenix, AZ U5 -

AzU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Kite Trust (A Romance of Wealth) Y1 - 1900 A1 - Lebbeus Harding Rogers (1847-1932) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A trust initially started by children who are only interested in making kites becomes world-wide and gradually comes to control the entire U. S. economy. As the children age and become aware of economic and social conditions, and one of them is elected President, they establish a eutopia based on equality. 

PB - Kite Trust Publishing Company CY - New York U5 -

MoU-St, PSt, W3,4640

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Man. A Novel Y1 - 1900 A1 - N[athan] Monroe McLaughlin KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Set in 1926 when the U.S. has expanded to fifty states, and it is depicted in eutopian terms. African-Americans are presented as uneducated servants. In this case the last man is the last survivor of the Northern army in the U.S. Civil War, and the novel is primarily his life story. The novel includes one chapter (186-94) describing a colony established for ex-soldiers.

PB - The Neale Company CY - Washington, DC U5 -

PSt, W3,3534

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Let There Be Light; The Story of a Workingmen's Club, Its Search for the Causes of Poverty and Social Inequality, Its Discussions, and Its Plan for the Amelioration of Existing Evils Y1 - 1900 A1 - David Lubin (1849-1919) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Religious belief and practice will bring about a eutopia based on equality and justice. The novel follows the trajectory of a workingman's club over eight months, reporting the talks given at the club.

PB - G. P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Letters from New America; or an Attempt at Practical Socialism Y1 - 1900 A1 - Clark Edmund Persinger (b. 1873) KW - Male author AB -

Detailed socialist eutopia. Everyone is employed by the government and all property is public. Advancement is through the civil service and complaints about service limits such advancement. Slums removed and good and varied housing built. Cities are all mid-size to combine the advantages of city and country living. Churches are not regulated, and there is a free press as well as government sponsored newspapers. Public education from kindergarten through college and then three years of technical training. Stress on individual variety and the need to keep the system flexible to take this into account.

PB - Charles H. Kerr & Company CY - Chicago, IL U5 -

NN, ODW, OrU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Life-Theory and Socialism: Essays Y1 - 1900 A1 - O. C Ironside AB -

State socialist eutopia.

PB - Milner & Co CY - London U5 -

NSW

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Monarch of Millions; or, The Rise and Fall of the American Empire Y1 - 1900 A1 - [John] Grosvenor Wilson (1866-1948) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An emperor controls America through wealth, and there is a nobility based entirely on wealth. Political offices are sold to the highest bidder. Much romance in that a poor young man dedicated to the overthrow of the emperor falls in love with the emperor's daughter and she with him. Some advanced technology: a portable telephone and outdoor air conditioning are mentioned.

PB - The Neely Company CY - New York U5 -

DLC, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - My Afterdream: A Sequel to the Late Mr. Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward Y1 - 1900 A1 - Julian West [pseud.] AB -

Anti-Bellamy satire. The sophisticated technology is not nearly as sophisticated as Bellamy suggested; for example, the pneumatic delivery tubes are all above ground and pedestrians must dodge under and over them. The hours of work for so-called arduous tasks, which generally are not difficult, are so low that most work cannot get done. In fact, nothing that Bellamy described actually worked the way it was supposed to. But it was all a bad dream and West woke up back in the Boston of the nineteenth century.

PB - T. Fisher Unwin CY - London U3 -

West, Julian [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Nineteenth Century; A Dialogue in Utopia Y1 - 1900 A1 - [Henry] Havelock Ellis (1859-1939) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Discussion of the nineteenth century, presented largely in negative terms, from the vantage point of a future eutopia, which is a united world, although nations still maintain their cultures, with one language and one medium of exchange. Communities exist to benefit their members rather than the reverse, which was the nineteenth century norm. The future is concerned with the art of living rather than commerce. Stress on beauty.

PB - Grant Richards CY - London N1 -

US ed. subtitled An Utopian Retrospect. Boston, MA: Small, Maynard, 1900.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Philoland Y1 - 1900 A1 - Gilbert Lane Harney (1851-1925) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Detailed eutopia at the center of the earth. Perfected humans descended from the first Christians. No disease (147) or old age (152). Cooperative economic system. Technology. 

PB - F. Tennyson Neely CY - New York U5 -

DLC, Hathi, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Poliopolis and Polioland: A Trip to the North Pole Y1 - 1900 A1 - J[ames] M. Chaney KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Mostly on astronomy and mechanical contrivances but describes a country at the North Pole that could be called a dystopia. The upper house of the legislature is based on wealth and the president is the person paying the most taxes and the entire tendency of policy is to enrich the wealthy and impoverish the poor.

PB - Author CY - Kansas City, MO U5 -

W3,985

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Queen of the World or, Under the Tyranny Y1 - 1900 A1 - [Standish James] [O'Grady] (1846-1928) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia set in 2174. The rulers are singularly brutal and grasping, keeping most of the world poor for their benefit. The successful revolt takes up most of the novel.

PB - Lawrence and Bullen CY - London U3 -

Luke Netterville [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Reinstern Y1 - 1900 A1 - Eloise O. Richberg KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Detailed eutopia with an emphasis on parenthood and education. Spiritualism. Reinstern means "pure star" and is a planet whose people are at a “higher plane of existence” than those on Earth (11). 

PB - The Editor Publishing Co CY - Cincinnati, OH U2 -

Illus.

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Hathi, IU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Solaris Farm; A Story of the Twentieth Century Y1 - 1900 A1 - Milan C. Edson (1839-1921) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Detailed picture of the development of a communal system. The farm should have at least five thousand acres and be incorporated as a joint stock company, and the there is much detail on farming methods. Two hundred and fifty couples to form the community. The cooperative farm provides a radical improvement of rural life through better living conditions, less strenuous work, and intellectual stimulation through a wide variety of clubs. Stresses the need to produce the best children and raise them to be healthy, well-educated adults. Mothers are not required to work on the farm, but many do because the work is light and enjoyable. Spiritualist and the dead are consulted about the plans for the farm. 

PB - Author CY - Washington, DC N1 -

Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Story of Zendos" Y1 - 1900 A1 - J[ohn] W[illia]m Lloyd (1857-1940) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of slavery. See also 1902 and 1904 Lloyd.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Struggle for Empire: A Story of the Year 2236 Y1 - 1900 A1 - Robert William Cole (1869-1937) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The Anglo-Saxon race had absorbed the world with England and Germany dividing it up and the United States reunited with England. London is the capital of the solar system. New power sources and been discovered. The sciences and engineering are considered the only worthwhile subjects of study because they are ". . . the only subjects that gave an adequate return for the labour spent on them" (7). The study of the humanities has been abolished. Two classes--intellectuals and menials. Riots followed by a future war, with most of the novel on the war.

PB - Elliot Stock CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Political Future Fiction: Speculative and Counter-Factual Politics in Edwardian Fiction. Ed. Kate Macdonald. Volume 1 The Empire of the Future. Ed. Richard Bleiler (London: Chatto & Windus, 2013), 133-97, with Bleiler’s “Introduction to Cole’s The Struggle for Empire (107-31), “Contemporary Essays by Robert Cole and Others” (207-39), and “Editorial Notes” (245-49). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sweepers of the Sea: The Story of a Strange Navy Y1 - 1900 A1 - Claude H. Wetmore (1862-1944) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Adventure novel that ends with a chapter, “Ten Years After the Great Naval Engagement” (330-49) describing Incaland, which has won its independence and established itself as a modern country described in eutopian terms.

PB - Bobbs-Merril Co. CY - Indianapolis, IN U2 -

Illus. G.A. Coffin

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Toil and Self Y1 - 1900 A1 - [Edward A.] [Caswell] KW - Male author AB -

Series of good and bad future societies. Selfishness is the law of life.

PB - Rand, McNally and Company CY - Chicago, IL U3 -

Myself and Another [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “What May Happen in the Next Hundred Years” Y1 - 1900 A1 - John Elfreth Watkins Jr. (b. 1875) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A list of twenty-eight “prophecies,” all presented as entirely positive. No pollution with electricity produced by water-power and hot and cold air provided to homes. No mosquitoes and flies and wild animals only in zoos. People will get more exercise from an early age, and everyone will be expected to walk ten miles a day. Education through university will be free to all. Poor students will be provided with food, clothing, and housing. Medical care is provided free through schools.

JF - The Ladies’ Home Journal VL - 18.1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Within an Ace of the End of the World” Y1 - 1900 A1 - Robert Barr (1850-1912) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The dystopia produced when capitalists draw nitrogen from the atmosphere to produce food. See the discussion in Steve Asselin, “Apocalypse Inc. Incorporating the Environment into the Boom/Bust Cycle in Fin-de-Siècle Science Fiction.” CR: The New Centennial Review 19.1 (Spring 2019): 181-203. The author was born in Scotland, raised in Canada from age four, lived briefly in the U.S., and moved to England in 1881. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Woman of Yesterday Y1 - 1900 A1 - Caroline A[twater] Mason (1853-1939) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The novel follows the life of a Christian woman who wants to be a missionary in India but whose plans are regularly derailed. An underlying theme is what it means to be a good Christian, and a small part is a description of a religious community that fails.

PB - Doubleday, Page CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1901.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Y1 - 1900 A1 - L[yman] Frank Baum (1856-1919) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Classic U.S. children’s book that was followed by thirteen others, including The Marvellous Land of Oz: being an account of the further adventures of the Scarecrow and Tim Woodman and also the strange experiences of the Highly Magnified Woggle-Bug, Jack Pumpkinhead, the Animated Saw-Horse and the Gump: the story being A Sequel to the Wizard of Oz. Illus. John R. Neill with end papers from life poses by the famous comedians, Montgomery and Stone. Chicago, IL: The Reilly & Britton Co., 1904; Ozma of Oz: A Record of her Adventures with Dorothy Gale of Kansas, the Yellow Hen, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, Tik-Tok, the Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger; Besides Other Good People too Numerous to Mention Faithfully Recorded Herein. Illus. John R. Neill. Chicago, IL: The Reilly & Britton Co., 1907; Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz. Illus. John R. Neill. Chicago, IL: The Reilly & Britton Co., 1908; The Road to Oz. Illus. John R. Neill. Chicago, IL: The Reilly & Britton Co., 1909; The Emerald City of Oz. Illus. John R. Neill. Chicago, IL: The Reilly & Britton Co., 1910; The Patchwork Girl of Oz. Illus. John R. Neill. Chicago, IL: The Reilly & Britton Co., 1913; Tik-Tok of Oz. Illus. John R. Neill. Chicago, IL: The Reilly & Britton Co., 1914; The Scarecrow of Oz. Illus. John R. Neill. Chicago, IL: The Reilly & Lee Co., 1915; Rinkitink in Oz. Illus. John R. Neill. Chicago, IL: The Reilly & Lee Co., 1916; The Lost Princess of Oz. Illus. John R. Neill. Chicago, IL: The Reilly & Lee Co., 1917; The Tin Woodman of Oz: A Faithful Story of the Astonishing Adventure Undertaken by the Tin Woodman, Assisted by Woot the Wanderer, the Scarecrow of Oz and Polychrome, the Rainbow’s Daughter. Illus. John R. Neill. Chicago, IL: The Reilly & Lee Co., 1918; The Magic of Oz: A Faithful Record of the Remarkable Adventures of Dorothy and Trot and the Wizard of Oz, together with the Cowardly Lion, the Hungry Tiger and Cap'n Bill, in their successful search for a Magical and Beautiful Birthday Present for Princess Ozma of Oz. Illus. John R. Neill. Chicago, IL: The Rand McNally Co., 1919; and Glinda of Oz: in which are related the Exciting Experiences of Princess Ozma of Oz, and Dorothy, in their hazardous journey to the home of the Flatheads, and to the Magic Isle of the Skeezers, and how they were rescued from dire peril by the sorcery of Glinda the Good. Illus. John R. Neill. Mattituck, NY: Ameron House, 1920. The first book is borderline as a utopia, but it has been treated as such; see Edward Wagenknecht, Utopia Americana. Seattle: University of Washington Bookstore, 1929; S.J. Sackett, “The Utopia of Oz.” Georgia Review 14 (Fall 1960): 275-91; and Andrew Karp, “Utopian Tension in L. Frank Baum’s Oz.” Utopian Studies 9.2 (1998): 103-21. Later volumes, beginning with The Emerald City of Oz, are  primarily adventure novels but have utopian elements and Ozma of Oz has elements of a Cockaigne, such as a Lunch Box Tree and a Dinner Pail Tree. After Baum’s death, Ruth Plumly Thompson (1891-1976) was hired to write sequels. She wrote twenty-one additional Oz books between 1921 and 1976, although the first, The Royal Book of Oz, was credited to Baum. Other Oz novels were published and illustrated by both illustrators with Denslow publishing Denslow’s Scarecrow and Tin-Man (1904) and a comic strip “Scarecrow and Tin-Man” and Neill publishing The Wonder City of Oz (1940), The Scalawagons of Oz (1941), and Lucky Bucky of Oz (1942). A film based loosely on the novel is The Wiz (1978) directed by Sidney Lumet (1924-2011) with the screenplay by Joel Schumacher (1939-2020) based on the play The Wiz by William F[erdinand] Brown (1928-2019) that ran for 1600 performances on Broadway. For other adaptations, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptations_of_The_Wizard_of_Oz.

PB - G.M. Hill CY - Chicago, IL N1 -

Rpt. as The Wonderful Wizard of Oz with Pictures by W[illiam] W[inslow] Denslow. Ed. Susan Wolstenholme Oxford, Eng.: 1997), 1-263, with an “Introduction” (ix-xliii), “Note on the Text” (xliv-xlvi), “Select Bibliography” (xlvii-l), “A Chronology of L. Frank Baum” (li-lv), and “Explanatory Notes” (265-74); and in The Wonderful World of Oz. The Wizard of Ox The Emerald City of Oz Glinda of Oz. Ed. Jack Zipes (London: Penguin Books, 1998), 1-105 with an “Introduction” (ix-xxix), “Suggestions for Further Reading” (xxxi-xxxvii), “A Note on the Texts and he Illustrators” (xxxix-xli), and “Explanatory Notes” (359-77). For a critical ed., see The Annotated Wizard of Oz. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz By L. Frank Baum. Ed. Michael Patrick Hearn. Illus. W.W. Denslow. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1973; Centennial ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 2000, with a “Preface” by Martin Gardner (xi-xii).  

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The World a Department Store. A Story of Life Under a Coöperative System Y1 - 1900 A1 - Bradford Peck (1853-1935) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. The Cooperative Association of America converts the nation to a cooperative system in twenty-five years.

PB - Bradford Peck CY - Lewiston, ME N1 -

Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971. U.K. ed. London: Gay and Bird, [1900].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Andree at the North Pole Y1 - 1899 A1 - [Julius Warren] [Lewis] (1833-1920) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel is based on Salomon August Andrée (1854-1897) [the accent is not used in the novel], the leader of an actual attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon in 1897. The balloonists disappeared, which is how the novel ends, and the remains were only discovered in 1930. In the novel, which is mostly adventure and intrigue, the balloonists reach Polaria, a technologically advanced eutopia located in a huge (500,000 square miles) basin that exists at the North Pole and disappear on their return flight.

PB - G.W. Dillingham CY - New York N1 -

Most originally published in 1898 in the New York Evening World.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Arqtiq; A Study of the Marvels at the North Pole Y1 - 1899 A1 - Mrs. Anna Adolph KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Lost race eutopia at the North Pole of an idealized people of gigantic size. Gender equality. Technologically advanced.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Barbarian" Y1 - 1899 A1 - [Edward] Bedloe Bedloe Mendum (b. 1875) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A satire on contemporary life through the imaginary country of Vulgaria.

JF - The Barbarian and Other Stories PB - F. Tennyson Neely CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Caramella; A Story of the Lotus Eaters Up to Date Y1 - 1899 A1 - George Procter Hawtrey (1847-1910) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire using the South Seas Island style of eutopia. Ends with the "Preface" (424-26). Beautiful people, tranquility; little or no work needed; constant good weather; people do what they want. Army for show only and recruited only from foreigners in their early teens who serve for three years and then return to their home country; rifles made of wood. Mostly romance and some adventure.

PB - J.W. Arrowsmith/Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Co. CY - Bristol, Eng./London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The City of Thought Y1 - 1899 A1 - Hiram Henry Wilson KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Brief eutopia that outlines six requirements for an ideal city and identifies an area that meets those requirements. The author is described as the "Author of 'Thought,' and 'Compiler of The New Bible'."

PB - Author CY - Sandy Hill, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Depopulation: A Romance of the Unlikely Y1 - 1899 A1 - Henry Wright (1852-ca. 1940) KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Mostly an economic novel depicting trusts controlling the economy followed by the trusts being taken over by government, and a eutopia is foreshadowed but not presented in detail. The tool used by the working class, which led to the capitulation of the trusts, was to refuse to have children to provide future workers.

PB - George Allen CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Late Victorian Utopias: A Prospectus. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 6 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2009), 6: 123-99. Editor's notes, 121, 202-03.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Ely’s Automatic Housemaid” Y1 - 1899 A1 - Elizabeth W[hitfield Croom] Bellamy (1837-1900) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Satire on the servant problem.

JF - The Black Cat PB - Dover Publications CY - Mineola, NY VL - no. 51 N1 -

Rpt in The Feminine Future: Early Science Fiction by Women Writers. Ed. Mike [Michael Raymond Donald] Ashley (Dover Publications, 2015), 44-52 with an editor’s note on 43-44; and in Menace of the Machine: The Rise of AI in Classic Science Fiction. Ed. Mike [Michael Raymond Donald] Ashley (London: British Library, 2019), 61-72, with an editor’s note on 59. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The End of the Ages; with Forecasts of the approaching Political, Social and Religious Reconstruction of America and the World Y1 - 1899 A1 - William Fishbough (1814-81) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia based on the grand harmonies of love. There will be a UNIVERSAL AND HARMONIOUS REPUBLIC with an International Congress, but there will also be a highly structured series of governments down to the local. Representation based on occupation. The slogan is UNIVERSAL COOPERATION FOR THE UNIVERSAL GOOD.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Explorations in the Sit-Tee Desert: Being a Comic Account of the Supposed Discovery of the Ruins of the London Stock Exchange Some 2000 Years hence Y1 - 1899 A1 - Francis Carruthers Gould (1844-1925) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire supposedly written on April 1, 3999 describing the discovery of the ruins of the stock exchange near the river Thamisis, which was the site of Bab-y-london.

PB - Unwin Brothers, Printers CY - London and Chilworth U1 -

The cover title is Explorations in the Sit-Tee Desert and Discovery of the Great Temple of the Bull and Bear.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Godhood of Man. His Religious, Political and Economic Development and the Sources of Social Inequality Y1 - 1899 A1 - [Nicholas] [Michels] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. Mostly religion but also shows the human race in harmony with nature.

PB - Author CY - Chicago, IL U3 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Great Awakening: The Story of the Twenty-second Century Y1 - 1899 A1 - Albert Adams Merrill (1875-1952) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. A colony, called the Money Republic, founded in Africa spreads around the world. It is based on the equal division of wealth among all who work.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Great Calamity on Robinson's Island" Y1 - 1899 A1 - Michael Flürscheim (1844-1912) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - German author KW - Male author AB -

Establishment of a commercial exchange bank and the concomitant ability to trade without money brings eutopia. See also 1896 Flürsheim and the two other 1899 Flürscheims.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "How the House of Commons became a Cycling School" Y1 - 1899 A1 - T[homas] H[ay] S[treet] Escott (1844-1924) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire. The House of Commons is accepted as completely useless and votes itself out of existence.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "How the 'House of Lords Question' Was Settled. A Tale of the Terrace or, Mrs. Ponsonby-Jones's Revenge" Y1 - 1899 A1 - T[homas] H[ay] S[treet] Escott (1844-1924) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire. Because women visitors are distracting the Peers from the business of Parliament, the Prime Minister gets a bill passed prohibiting them from the terrace. Women vote in a majority in favor of abolishing the House of Lords. A compromise is reached in which women elect women representatives to a female house and the entire House of Lords becomes the Privy Council.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Imperium in Imperio Y1 - 1899 A1 - Sutton E[lbert] Griggs (1872-1933) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Black state in Texas called Imperium in Imperio with a government parallel to the U. S. government, although with some structural differences. Mostly on the problems of African-Americans and conflict among them over the use of violence, but there is some on the new government. This has long been considered the first utopia by an African-American author, and within a narrow definition of utopia, it still is. See also 1902 Griggs. Griggs wrote other works, both fiction and nonfiction, discussing the plight of African Americans. His fiction includes Overshadowed. A Novel. Nashville, TN: The Orion Pub. Co., 1901. Rpt. New York: AMS Press, 1973 which documents the mistreatment of Negroes by Anglo-Saxons in the U. S., The Hindered Hand: or, The Reign of the Repressionist. Nashville, TN: The Orion Pub. Co., 1905. The 3rd ed. rev. Illus. Robert E. Bell. Nashville, TN: The Orion Pub. Co., 1905; rpt. New York: AMS Press, 1969 which includes a positive description of the colonization of Africa by freed slaves; and Pointing the Way. Nashville, TN: The Orion Publishing Co., 1908. The novel includes a depiction of the treatment of Negroes, the beginnings of a movement joining both blacks and whites, and the argument before the U.S. Supreme Court for the enfranchisement of blacks. The nonfiction includes The One Great Question: A Study of Southern Conditions at Close Range. Philadelphia, PA/Nashville, TN: The Orion Publishing Co., 1907 (58 pp.); Wisdom’s Call. Nashville, TN: The Orion Publishing Co., 1911; How to Rise. Memphis, TN: National Public Welfare League, [1915] (72 pp.); Light on Racial Issues. Memphis, TN: National Public Welfare League, [1921] (62 pp.); According to Law. Memphis, TN: National Public Welfare League, 1916; The Reconstruction of a Race. Memphis, TN: National Public Welfare League, 1917 (62 pp.); Life’s Demands or According to Law. Memphis, TN: National Public Welfare League, [1916] (122 pp.); rev. Memphis, TN: National Public Welfare League, 1917 (170 pp.); The Guide to Racial Greatness or the Science of Collective Efficiency. Memphis, TN: National Public Welfare League, 1923; Kingdom Builders’ Manual. Companion Book to Guide to Racial Greatness. Memphis, TN: National Public Welfare League, 1924. 

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Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1969, with a “Preface by Hugh M. Gloster (iii-viii); with the subtitle, A Study of the Negro Race Problem. New York: Arno Press, 1969; and with a “Preface” by A.J. Verdelle (vii-xiii), an “Introduction” by Cornel West (xv-xvii), “Chronology of the Precocious Sutton E. Griggs” (xix-xx), and a “Reading Group Guide” ([179-81]). New York: The Modern Library, 2003; and in Black Sci-Fi Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Stories (London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2021), 157-232

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Impression Club. A Novel Y1 - 1899 A1 - John Henton Carter, Commodore Rollingpin KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Religious novel showing how lives can be transformed through religious belief, temperance, and the influence of women. The focus is on a group of individuals, but the novel suggests the eutopia that is in the process of being created.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - In a State of Nature Y1 - 1899 A1 - Alfred Clark KW - Male author AB -

Primitive lost race dystopia with an English sect that believes in not doing anything to interfere with nature. They don't bathe, cook food, use money, or have a government.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Island Impossible Y1 - 1899 A1 - Harriet Morgan KW - Female author AB -

Children's eutopia with elements of fantasy. A group of children go to live on an island that they organize as they choose, with some adult direction.

PB - Little, Brown & Co. CY - Boston, MA U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Jacob's Dream" Y1 - 1899 A1 - [Charles Grant Blairfindie] [Allen] (1848-99) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Jamaican author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a future in which corporations control the food supply and cut off England. 

JF - Cosmopolitan: A Monthly Illustrated Magazine VL - 26.3 N1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Light of Reason. Showing The First Step The Nation Should Take Toward A Social Order Based On Justice Y1 - 1899 A1 - A[braham] B[enjamin] Franklin KW - Male author AB -

Socialist eutopia with land and all natural resources owned collectively. Much discussion of the need to go off the gold standard. The work is structured as a book within a book with the fictional elements at the beginning and end.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Looking Ahead: Twentieth Century Happenings Y1 - 1899 A1 - H[enry] Pereira Mendes (1852-1937) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Struggle among all religions for control of holy places with arguments for each religion and a decision by a council giving them to the Jews. In the buildup to the conclusion an Anglo-Saxon Confederation of the British Empire and Canada and the U.S. is formed with a federal constitution based on that of the U.S. Also, a document was drawn up by Christians and Jews that established the basis for the eutopia to come. 

PB - F. Tennyson Neely CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Looking Forward; A Dream of the United States of the Americas in 1999 Y1 - 1899 A1 - Arthur Bird KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia stressing patriotism and the manifest destiny of the United States. The U.S. governs the entire Western Hemisphere, which is now known as the United States of the Americas and controls the Philippines. English is the universal language. The national capital moves to Mexico but is still known as Washington. The Papacy has moved to Rio de Janeiro. Technologically advanced. Racist with all Blacks transferred to Venezuela. Highly moral tone with, for example, cursing outlawed. Kissing prohibited as dangerous to health.

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Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Looking Through the Mists; or, Every Hearth Knoweth Its Own Sorrow Y1 - 1899 A1 - L. Norton Thomson KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Mostly romance but includes a scheme to help the poor build a town and industries.

PB - F. Tennyson Neely CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Mathematics of Labor Y1 - 1899 A1 - Adhemer Brady AB -

Includes a eutopia of five thousand people that incorporates his detailed laws of economics, which are based on money representing labor. Money issued annually. Equality. Free travel. Land free but homes owned. Machinery used to reduce labor time.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Nequa or The Problem of the Ages Y1 - 1899 A1 - [Alcanoan O.] [Grigsby] (1837?-1925) A1 - [Mary Prather] [Lowe] (1858-1902) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Standard communal eutopia. Country called Altruria in the interior of the world near the North Pole. Equitable exchange, democracy, education, communal houses. Gender equality.

PB - Equity Publishing Company CY - Topeka, KS VL - Vol. 1 of The Equity Library. N1 -

Rpt. called 3rd ed. Np.: Green Snake Press, 2015, with an “Epilogue” (313-45) by Mark Esping. Originally serialized in Equity (Topeka, KS) (1899 - September 1901).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - New Orleans in 1950, Being a Story of the Carnival City, From the Pen of a Descendant of Herodotus, Possessing the Gift of Prescience Y1 - 1899 A1 - J. H. Whyte AB -

Eutopia based on technology and municipal socialism. Mexico, many South and Central American states, and Canada are all part of the U.S. and Spain is applying to join. Great stress on technology, like the phono-typewriter (like email). The Nicaragua canal had been built; air travel is standard both between and within cities. Municipal ownership of utilities results in no taxes.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The No-Din': Romance, History and Science of the Pre-Historic Races of America and Other Lands With Illustrations Y1 - 1899 A1 - E[rastus] S. Curry (1837-1906) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Mostly adventure set in America in the time of the Biblical patriarchs. The world is dominated by the descendants of Cain. A small group of people establish a vaguely described eutopia that survives innumerable attacks. See also the author’s The Pre-Historic Races of America and Other Lands as Disclosed through Indian Traditions Comprehending also the Origin of Matter and the Formation of the World the Periodic Changes of the Earth the Glacial Periods and Astronomy Solving the Chronological Problems, Etc., Etc. In Five Volumes. Fully Illustrated. Volume I [only vol. published]. Christy, MO: Published by the Author, 1903. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Paul Rees: A Story of the Coming Reformation Y1 - 1899 A1 - Augustinus [pseud.] AB -

England declines due to laws passed against Roman Catholics but at the end the Roman Catholic Church is formally instituted as the established church. 1898 Augustinus and 1898 “In the Next World”: A Sequel to the Story “Two Brothers.” 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Prince Timoteo Y1 - 1899 A1 - David Skaats Foster (1852-1926) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on lost race fiction. In the novel the lost race is found on top of a mesa in the middle of a lake in Tuscany, which they settled in the fifteenth century.

PB - F. Tennyson Neely CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Probable Tales Y1 - 1899 A1 - W[illiam] Stebbing ed. [written by] (1832-1926) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Series of mostly satirical short stories describing countries with one unusual custom.

PB - Longmans, Green CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Pure Causeway Y1 - 1899 A1 - Evelyn Harvey Roberts KW - Male author AB -

The first part of the book “The Travail of the Ages” (7-184) is on the travails of Christians in the contemporary world and discussion about the problems of being a true Christian in the modern world. Part II, “The Servant of JHVH” (185-263) is a eutopia describing the establishment of a city at Jerusalem that provides the basis for living a truly Christian life, which should involve an entire community. Limited hours of work. “You see, when all the people work, not for money-profit but simply for the needed things, and when we all co-operate in the making of them, there is enough made in much less time than you would think” (191-92). Arduous or particularly unpleasant work having even shorter hours, and such work is shared by everyone in the community. Each house is sufficiently isolated to ensure privacy. As much done in the open air as possible, including eating. People can “eat at home, in the ordinary lifeless way,” if they choose (196). No restricting clothes. People generally eat their two meals a day together with breakfast at home. Everyone must serve a year as a novice before being allowed to join. Stress on education from birth with everyone educated in productive work. The book is dedicated to Prof. George D. Herron (1862-1925), who was Professor of Applied Christianity at Iowa (now Grinnell) College and a leader of the Kingdom Movement, a particularly radical part of the Social Gospel Movement; see 1904 Herron.

PB - Charles H. Kerr CY - Chicago, IL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Son of Africa. A Romamce Y1 - 1899 A1 - Anna [Dunphy] Brémont comtesse de (1864-1922) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Mostly an adventure novel, but it includes a short section in which the immortal Queen of Sheba prophecies a New Jerusalem to be founded in South Africa by Jews and Christians (96-111). Extremely unusual for the time, the novel depicts an interracial marriage positively.

PB - Greening CY - London N1 -

Rpt. as Was It a Sin? London: Hutchinson, 1906.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Story of The Days To Come" Y1 - 1899 A1 - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia controlled by trusts and the Labour Company. No family life.

JF - Tales of Space and Time PB - Harper & Bros. CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. (New York: Doubleday & McClure, 1899), 165-324. Rpt. in Amazing Stories 3.1-2 (April - May 1928): 6-25, 134-47; and in The Complete Short Stories of H.G. Wells. Ed. John Hammond (London: J.M. Dent, 1998), 333-98. Originally published as a linked series of stories in the Pall Mall Magazine in 1899 as follows: "The Cure for Love. A Story of the Days to Come (Anno Domini 2090.)" 18 (June): 186-99; "The Vacant Country. A Story of the Days to Come (Anno Domini 2090.)" 18 (July): 309-23; "The Ways of the City. A Story of the Days to Come. (Anno Domini 2090-2095.)" 18 (August): 491-505; "Underneath. A Story of the Days to Come. (Anno Domini 2098.)" 19 (September): 81-94; and "The Magnanimity of the Man of Pleasure. A Story of the Days to Come. (Anno Domini 2097.)" 19 (October): 222-34 [L(NL)]. In the 1900 version, the last story is changed significantly, and the title is changed to "Bindon Intervenes."

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Strange Discovery Y1 - 1899 A1 - Charles Romyn Dake (1849-99) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Continuation of Edgar Allan Poe's Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (New York: Harper & Bros., 1838). Eutopia near the South Pole controlled by "properly educated feeling" rather than reason. Lost race of Romans, with a monarchy and servants but also with liberty under a constitution.

PB - H. Ingalls Kimball CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1975.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Strange Story" Y1 - 1899 A1 - Michael Flürscheim (1844-1912) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - German author KW - Male author AB -

Establishment of a commercial exchange bank and the concomitant ability to trade without money brings eutopia. See also 1896 Flürsheim and the two other 1899 Flürscheims.

JF - The Commercial Exchange Gazette. The Official Organ of the New Zealand Exchange Co., Ltd. (New Zealand) VL - 1.6 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Tom Cannell's Holiday: A Queensland Tale of Love, Logic, and the Land Tax Y1 - 1899 A1 - James Wilkinson (1854-1915) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Fictional exposition of the tax on land values proposed by Henry George (1839-97) that suggests the eutopia it could produce. For Henry George's explanation of the single tax, see his Progress and Poverty. An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and Of Increase of Want With Increase of Wealth. The Remedy. San Francisco, CA: W.M. Hinton, 1879. Fiftieth Anniversary Ed. New York: The Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, 1929.

PB - Railroad Times Office CY - Ipswich, QLD, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Trembling of Borealis Y1 - 1899 A1 - Paul D'Argenteuil [pseud.] AB -

Dystopian satire showing the US as a plutocracy depicting stereotyped characters and the various machinations used to control or manipulate the poor. One theme is the attempted seduction of the beautiful daughter of a poor man. Includes a short list of mostly standard populist reforms (296-97) that will end the plutocracy and bring about a better society and which Congress is forced to pass. The reforms are on the conservative end of the populist spectrum and include taking the vote away from African Americans, who are depicted as illiterate and unintelligent, limiting the right to vote of immigrants, and “restricting emigration.”

PB - F. Tennyson Neely CY - New York/London U2 -

Illus.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Trip to Paradoxia" Y1 - 1899 A1 - T[homas] H[ay] S[treet] Escott (1844-1924) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire. Paradoxia has completely dysfunctional social arrangements, but its inhabitants believe everything is working well.

JF - A Trip to Paradoxia and Other Humours of the Hour. Being Contemporary Pictures of Social Fact and Political Fiction PB - Greening & Co. CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Uncle Sam in Business Y1 - 1899 A1 - Daniel Bond KW - Male author AB -

Populist eutopia established when the people were given the initiative and referendum as tools to bring about change directly. A Cooperative Commonwealth is established, and the government becomes a business paying the highest prices for products.

PB - Charles H. Kerr CY - Chicago, IL VL - Unity Library No. 92 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - When the Sleeper Wakes Y1 - 1899 A1 - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Archetypal Wells dystopia in which class divisions have worsened. Rural life has disappeared and been replaced with great class-stratified cities. Religion, and everything else, has to be profit-making. 

PB - Harper & Bros CY - New York N1 -

Originally pub. in The Graphic 59 (January 7 - May 6, 1899): 9-11, 41-43, 73-75, 105-07, 137-39, 169-71, 201-03, 233-35, 265-67, 297-99, 329-31, 361-63, 393-95, 433-35, 465-67, 497-99, 529-31, 561-63. Rpt. in Harper's Weekly 43.2194 - 2211 (January 7 - May 6, 1899): 11-13; 39-40; 65-69; 93-95; 117-19; 141-42; 165-67; 191-93; 215-17; 239-41; 263-65; 287-88; 311-13; 339-41; 376-77; 399-401; 427-28; 451-53. Rpt. as "The Sleeper Awakes" in The Works of H.G. Wells Atlantic Edition. Volume II The Island of Doctor Moreau The Sleeper Awakes (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1924), 173-480. Except for later critical editions, The Atlantic Edition is generally considered the best text of Wells's works. Also rpt. in Amazing Stories Quarterly 1.1 (Winter 1928): 55-126, 136; ed. John Lawton. London: Everyman, 1994. Later ed. entitled The Sleeper Wakes. London: Thomas Nelson, 1910. Rpt. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000; ed. Patrick Parrinder. London: Penguin Books, 2005, with an "Introduction" by Patrick Parrinder (xiii-xxvii), a "Note on the Text" by Patrick Parrinder (xxix-xxxvi), and "Notes" by Andy Sawyer (235-52); and ed. John Sutherland. Peterborough, ON, Canada: Broadview Editions, 2019, with an “Introduction” by Sutherland (9-41), “A Note on the Text” (43-46), “Appendix A: Contemporary Reviews” (61-65), “Appendix B: Two Prefaces and an ‘Afterword’” (267-71), “Appendix C: Illustrations by Henri Lanos” (273-76), “Appendix C: Utopian Quarrels [Brief excerpts from Hudson, A Crystal Age; Morris, News From Nowhere; and Bellamy, Looking Backward]” (277-88), “Appendix D: Film Versions of When the Sleeper Wakes (289-90), and “Works Cited and Select Bibliography” (291-92). Esperanto ed. as La Dormanto Vekigás. Tradukita De A. Frank. London: Esperanto Pub. Co., 1929.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Wise or Otherwise. How to Solve the Social Problem, and Reorganise Society on such a basis that class Distinction would cease to exist, and the Total Abolition of the Competitive System Y1 - 1899 A1 - Paul Ferris KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. New Constitution, the first clause of which is to nationalise land. Abolish the military. No money. Stress on education. The bulk of the pamphlet consists of a legislative debate on the constitution, with members named Compassion, Imitation, Cautiousness, Calculation, Spirituality, Hope, and so forth.

PB - P. Offer, Printer CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia U1 -

Cover title is Wise or Otherwise: Great Joy in Crania.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Wonderful Story of a Shipwreck and Its Consequences" Y1 - 1899 A1 - Michael Flürscheim (1844-1912) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - German author KW - Male author AB -

Establishment of a commercial exchange bank and the concomitant ability to trade without money brings eutopia. 

JF - The Commercial Exchange Gazette. The Official Organ of the New Zealand Exchange Co., Ltd. (New Zealand) VL - 1.7 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Wreck of the "Erthshire" or, The Economics of Coral Island Y1 - 1899 A1 - [Richard Arthur] [Hould] (1839-1920) A1 - [Frederick M.] [King] KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Brief single tax eutopia. A shipwreck strands two men on an isolated island; the first to arrive claims all the land and rents a part to the other in exchange for a daily supply of coconuts. Years later they are found and discover that the world had all accepted the single tax and peace and prosperity reign. The idea of a single tax on land originated with Henry George (1839-97). For Henry George's explanation of the single tax, see his Progress and Poverty. An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and Of Increase of Want With Increase of Wealth. The Remedy. San Francisco, CA: W.M. Hinton, 1879. Fiftieth Anniversary Ed. New York: The Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, 1929.

PB - Published by the National Single Tax League. Printed by Isaac Dunshea CY - Auckland, New Zealand N1 -

Serialized in The Liberator (Auckland), no. 83 - 87 (December 19, 1906 - April 1907): 3-4, 3-4, 3-4, 3-4, 3-4.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Wreck of the South Pole" Y1 - 1899 A1 - Charles Curtz Hahn (1858-1934) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Detailed eutopia located in a temperate area around the South Pole. Stress on purity in both men and women. "Mind power" allows a person to project themselves and to speak and act at a distance. The people call themselves theosophists or adepts in the occult sciences. Servants and lower classes do the work and fish by hypnotizing the fish. Hunters are licensed and required to work set hours to provide game for those assigned to them; they hunt by hypnosis. Class status determined by "mind power". Travel by astral projection; mail sent by astral projection. Weather made. Police prevent crime by reading minds, and those inclined to crime are treated by having thoughts projected into their minds rather than being punished.

JF - The Wreck of the South Pole or the Great Dissembler And Other Strange Tales PB - Street and Smith CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Zerelda. A Story of Love and Death Y1 - 1899 A1 - Louise F. Suddick (1856-1943) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

An unusual heaven as a eutopia, but there are higher heavens. The inhabitants come from a variety of planets. Those who die young become adults. Marriage can occur in heaven, and marriage partners will find each other. In this one there is a city with parks, trees, and fountains and without dust, smoke, or unpleasant noises. People work, but even physical labor is not tiring. No harsh weather but some seasonal change. A second city is inhabited by people from many planets and has architecture reflecting those planets. No poor. Those who lived selfish lives are servants as a way of overcoming their past. Female author.

PB - F. Tennyson Neely CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Anglo-Saxons Onward! A Romance of the Future Y1 - 1898 A1 - Benj[amin] Rush Davenport KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Mostly adventure and romance in a setting of patriotism and racism reflecting manifest destiny. Commerce and Christianity are the keys to a better future. His Blood Will Tell: The Strange Story of a Son of Ham. Illus. J.H. Donahey. Cleveland, OH: Caxton Book Co., 1902 is an even more explicitly white supremacist novel.

PB - Hubbell Pub Co CY - Cleveland, OH U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Armageddon. A Tale of Love, War, and Invention Y1 - 1898 A1 - Stanley Waterloo (1846-1913) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. The world is constantly on the edge of war and the United States and Great Britain form an alliance against some European states, there is a brief battle, which the Anglo-Saxon alliance wins. The Alliance sets terms for peace and the construction of a very powerful weapon ensures that there will be peace. Strongly nationalist and racist.

PB - Rand, McNally CY - Chicago, IL N1 -

Rpt. without the subtitle and with an "Introduction" by Richard Gid Powers (v-xviii). Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1976.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Awakening of Noahville Y1 - 1898 A1 - Franklin H. North KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A satire, similar in some ways to 1889 Clemens, in which two Yankees visit a lost kingdom in North America that is still in the middle ages. Heavily illustrated.

PB - New York Publishing Co. CY - New York U2 -

Illus. Walt. McDougall.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Belfast in the Year 2000 Y1 - 1898 A1 - Frank [Francis] McGibben (1833/34-1906) KW - Male author KW - Northern Ireland author AB -

Eutopia inspired by 1888 Bellamy.

PB - Belfast News Letter CY - Belfast, Northern Ireland N1 -

Rpt. ed. Tom Donaldson [Belfast, Northern Ireland]: Donaldson Archive, [2000].

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Buried Mystery Y1 - 1898 A1 - Clement A[lfred] Mendham (1859-1941) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Lost race novel that depicts a eutopian country in the interior of South America. The only limit on freedom is that no new ideas may be propagated because the people are happy as they are. All things taken from a public storehouse. Marriage by lot at age 20. Love enters and most of the novel concerns issues that arise from this "new idea." The eutopia is destroyed in an earthquake.

PB - Digby, Long & Co. CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Can a Man Live Forever? Y1 - 1898 A1 - J. Emile Hix AB -

Answers the question yes. Use only distilled water. Replace blood with a substitute. The result is a eutopia of eternal life.

PB - Western News Company CY - Chicago, IL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The City Beyond: A Story of One Who Dwells in the Next Planet” Y1 - 1898 A1 - Agnes L. Pratt KW - Female author AB -

A very detailed first heaven (there are higher ones) as a eutopia

JF - Godey’s Magazine (New York) VL - 136 - 137.817 - 18 ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Co-opolitan; A Story of the Co-operative Commonwealth of Idaho Y1 - 1898 A1 - [Francis H.] [Clarke] AB -

Detailed eutopia that is the result of a successful cooperative movement. Idaho is chosen as an appropriate state with a small enough population that cooperators would be able to take over the state politically within a short time after establishing cooperative communities there. The city of Co-opolis is established as the movement's center. The novel describes the success of cooperation in Idaho and its spread throughout the rest of the country.

PB - Charles H. Kerr CY - Chicago, IL U3 -

Zebina Forbush [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Corner in Lightning” Y1 - 1898 A1 - [George Chetwynd Griffith] [Jones] (1857-1906) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The dystopia when capitalists try to control lightning to produce electricity. The author changed his legal name from Jones to Griffith in 1894. See the discussion in Steve Asselin, “Apocalypse Inc. Incorporating the Environment into the Boom/Bust Cycle in Fin-de-Siècle Science Fiction.” CR: The New Centennial Review 19.1 (Spring 2019): 181-203.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Doctor Jones' Picnic Y1 - 1898 A1 - S[amuel] E. Chapman M.D. (1847-1930) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel is primarily concerned with a voyage to the North Pole in an aluminum balloon, but there are discussions of the improvements in society and in medicine in particular.

PB - Whitaker & Ray Co. CY - San Francisco, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Gloria Mundi” Y1 - 1898 A1 - Harold Frederic (1856-1898) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A romance and a depiction of English life but including a brief description of a community that can be thought of as utopian and a presentation of the emancipation of women. The American author was the London correspondent for The New York Times from 1884 until his death.

JF - The Cosmopolitan: A Monthly Illustrated Magazine VL - 24.3 - 26.1 N1 -

Repub. Chicago: Herbert S. Stone, 1898. U.K. ed. London: William Heinemann, 1898. Rpt. ed. Larry Bromley as The Harold Frederic Edition. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1986, with a “History of the Text” (345-70), “Textual Introduction” (371-87), and “Textual Apparatus” (387-481).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Golden Gleams from the Heavenly Light Y1 - 1898 A1 - Samuel Bowles (Spirit) (1826-78) A1 - Mrs. Carolinn E[dna] S[kinner] Twing (Medium) (b. 1844) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Domestic Heaven. See also 1880 Twing, 1881 Twing, Samuel Bowles, Spirit and Mrs. Carolinn E[dna] S[kinner] Twing, Medium. Visiting in Heaven. Springfield, MA: Star Publishing Co., 1909, which consists primarily of Bowles’s interviews with other spirits, and is only very marginally utopian, and her Henry Drummond in Spirit Life. Springfield, MA: Star Publishing Co., [1902] (MoU-St).

PB - Star Publishing Co CY - Springfield, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Hellsville, U.S.A." Y1 - 1898 A1 - [George Chetwynd Griffith] [Jones] (1857-1906) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Economic reform in the United States beginning with anti-trust legislation followed by something close to civil war of rich against poor with the rich enlisting the Irish and black against white. After the war was won, the problem of what to do with the losers led to the worst and most useless people put on a reservation called Hellsville. While the U.S. becomes a eutopia, Hellsville is a dystopia is destroyed by meteors. 

JF - Pearson's Weekly VL - no. 420 N1 -

Rpt. in his Gambles With Destiny. By George Griffith [pseud.]. (London: F.V. White, 1899), 3-88.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "In the Next World" A Sequel to the Story "Two Brothers" Y1 - 1898 AB -

Sequel to 1898 Augustinus following one brother to Heaven and the other to Hell and tracing their lives there in alternating chapters. Heaven is bliss, and Hell is eternal pain and regret. See also 1899 Augustinus.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Intra Muros or Within the Walls A Dream of Heaven Y1 - 1898 A1 - Rebecca Ruter Springer (1832-1904) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Heaven as a eutopia of perfection where the author says she lived with her family members who had died. 

PB - David C. Cook, Publishing Co CY - Elgin, IL N1 -

[2nd ed?] with a "Supplemental Chapter" and bound with David C. Cook "Jesus the Resurrection Now Or, Our Loved Ones Given Back to Us Here." Elgin, IL: David C. Cook, nd. Rpt. As Within Heaven's Gates. New Kensington, PA: Whitaker House, 1984. Rpt. as Intra Muros or Within the Walls A Dream of Heaven. London: Arthur F. Bird, 1914 including a “Supplemental Chapter” (137-48) responding to comments and “Jesus the Resurrection Now; Or, Our Loved Ones given back to us here” (149-65) by David C. Cook. 165 pp. Rpt. London: Arthur F. Bird, 1922. Rpt. with one illus., but without the “Supplementary Chapter” or the Cook as Intra Muros: My Dream of Heaven. Forest Grove, OR: Book Searchers, nd. [

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ionia; Land of Wise Men and Fair Women Y1 - 1898 A1 - Craig, Alexander KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Detailed eutopia. All land owned by the municipality. Mixture of public and private ownership of other property. Little government and laws are few and simple. No alcohol, and temperance is a major theme of the novel. Population kept low. Small family farms with no hired farm laborers. Eugenics.

PB - E.A. Weeks CY - Chicago, IL N1 -

Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Keepers of the People Y1 - 1898 A1 - Edgar Jepson (1863-1938) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel focuses on the way an Englishman establishes a dynasty in an Asia country by first defeating its enemies and then establishing Western agriculture and ways of life.

PB - C. Arthur Pearson CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Kingdom of Heaven is at Hand." A Text Book of the Better Civilization Within Reach, Which Is Identical with the Kingdom of Heaven as it Was Proclaimed by Jesus of Nazareth Y1 - 1898 A1 - C[harles] W[illiam] Wooldridge M.D. (1847-1908) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Detailed utopia. Religious version of the cooperative commonwealth. Working four hours a day between 21 and 50 means that most of a person's life is under their own control, and the social system is designed to assist in the best use of that time. Direct democracy through the initiative, referendum, and recall. Municipal ownership of utilities. See also 1902 Wooldridge.

PB - Charles H. Kerr CY - Chicago, IL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last War or The Triumph of the English Tongue. A Story of the Twenty-Sixth Century, Compiled from the Official Notes of Newman, Reporter to the President of the United America Y1 - 1898 A1 - S[amuel] W. Odell (1864-1948) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia of a united Europe, the Americas, and the rest of the English-speaking world dominated by white Anglo-Saxons that have followed the lead of the U.S., which, after the voluntary, supported migration of blacks to Africa, has established a reformed capitalism. Limit on wealth; corporations replaced by large cooperative industries; and everyone is a property-holder with a homestead. Temperance. Eugenic laws and the examination of morals make marriage more difficult, but divorce is easier. The causes of crime have been eliminated. The text, though, is mostly on the preparations for war with a new Holy Empire led by the Czar-pope of the Russian Empire, which the Anglo Saxons win.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Legal Revolution of 1902 Y1 - 1898 A1 - [Bert J.] [Wellman] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Populist eutopia. The revolution takes place through calling a constitutional convention to amend the U. S. Constitution, with details given on the amendments. Direct election of the President, Vice-President, and Senate. Graduated income tax. Future amendments possible by a direct vote of the people. Proportional representation. All property held by an individual over $500,000 to revert to the government. Concern to create uniform laws across the country. Nationalization of agriculture with huge irrigated, technologically sophisticated farms.

PB - Charles H. Kerr CY - Chicago, IL N1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Mission of Machinery” Y1 - 1898 A1 - Henry Matthews Williams KW - Male author AB -

An essay that argues that machinery as used by capitalism is producing a dystopia, but that under public ownership will produce the standard socialist eutopia, which is briefly described.

JF - The Arena VL - 19.99 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Modern Cooperative Colony (A Whimsey)" Y1 - 1898 A1 - J[ames] W[illiam] Sullivan (b. 1848) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Detailed description of an intentional community outside New York City with an easy commute by train to jobs in the city. No fences or telegraph poles. Separate houses built by individuals, so no uniformity. The people formed different cooperatives to undertake different activities, including building a town hall and running the school. No government; no police. Some satire on journalism.

JF - So The World Goes PB - Charles H. Kerr CY - Chicago, IL U1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mr. Jonnemacher's Machine. The Port to which we drifted Y1 - 1898 A1 - [Walter Doty] [Reynolds] (b. 1860) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which machines put people out of work and only benefit the wealthy. Corrupt political system. Revolution. The book is written as if from a future eutopia, which is only alluded to in the preface and in the last chapter. In the eutopia machinery is used for the benefit of all under an honest political system.

PB - Knickerbocker Book Company CY - Philadelphia, PA U3 -

Lord Prime, Esq.  Librarian to the State Library of Pennsylvania, A.D. MMXVI [pseud.].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The [My on cover] Sovereign Guide; A Tale of Eden Y1 - 1898 A1 - William Amos Miller KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Short description of a eutopia inside the Earth called Eden, which is related to the Biblical Eden but is not identical to it. Perpetual summer with one rainy season. Language of thirty-six sounds. Hereditary monarchies, each with twelve counselors. National disputes settled by arbitration. Few laws. No capital punishment. Vegetarian. Christianity the only religion. No denominational differences. No fasting or penance but feast and enjoy.” Radical separation of church and state with no state law affecting the church and no church law affecting the state. Labor is compulsory for men between twenty and seventy-five; married woman cannot work outside the home if their husband is able to work. 

PB - Geo. Rice & Sons CY - Los Angeles, CA U2 -

Picture of the author as a frontispiece. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mysteries of Destiny Island; or Champlain Valley and Settlers and Future Y1 - 1898 A1 - Alld, D. KW - US author AB -

The book is divided into four parts, with the third and fourth (45-82) describing the U. S. as a technologically advanced religious eutopia. Concerned with the dangers of “foreign” culture and religion. Set in the Champlain Valley of northeastern New York and western Vermont. Brief synopsis on page 2.

PB - Np CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The New Gulliver Y1 - 1898 A1 - Wendell Phillips Garrison (1840-1907) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An American linguist is shipwrecked on the island of 1726 Swift's Houyhnhnms. After Gulliver had left, a large number of small, unintelligent animals without speech but shaped like the Houyhnhnms flooded the country and were only driven out with the help of the Yahoos. As a result, the belief in a Supreme Houyhnhnm became common, and this led to controversies and divisions. The Yahoos survive much as before. During a discussion of evolution, which is completely rejected by the religious Houyhnhnm, a disaster strikes and the island sinks.

PB - The Marion Press CY - Jamaica, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "One Afternoon: A Department Store Romance" Y1 - 1898 A1 - Isaac Anderson KW - Male author AB -

Satire on department stores set in the future. Everything, including marriages and divorces, is available.

JF - The Yellow Book VL - 2.1 N1 -

Rpt. in The Railroad Trainmens’ Journal 15.2 (February 1898): 157-58.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Platform of The New Time” Y1 - 1898 AB -

Proposals for the development of a world-wide democracy, including “Direct Legislation by Majority Vote; a true and Practical Democracy; Public Ownership and Operation of Natural Monopolies; the first move for a perfect system of co-operation, production and distribution; a Scientific Money System; based on the Credit and Faith of the Government (The People); and a foreign policy designed to complete the overthrow of monarchical governments and to hasten the coming of an International Democracy.”

JF - The New Time. A Magazine of Social Progress/New Occasions VL - 2.7/6.7 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Practical City. A Future City Romance; or A Study in Environment Y1 - 1898 A1 - [Warren S.] [Rehm] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Detailed authoritarian eutopia is presented in a small, 810-acre city in a square bordered on three sides with farmlands and a stream on the fourth. Land bought and sold by the city rather than individuals. Citizens vote on many issues with a two-thirds majority required for most decisions. Both men and women vote, although a certificate of education is required to be able to vote and to marry.

PB - Lancaster County Magazine CY - Lancaster, PA U3 -

Omen Nemo [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Rev. Annabel Lee. A Tale of To-morrow Y1 - 1898 A1 - Robert [Williams] Buchanan (1841-1901) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

A scientific eutopia set in the middle of the twenty-first century without religion needs a religious revival to overcome too great a dependence on reason. Eugenics policy, which prohibited marriage between those deemed unfit, is referred to favorably and quoted in Harry Campbell, “An Essay on the Marriage of the Unfit.” The Lancet 2.3915 (September 10, 1898):680. Euthanasia is practiced, mostly for the old but can also be applied to the disabled. 

PB - C. Arthur Pearson CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Rev. Josiah Hilton. The Apostle of the New Age Y1 - 1898 A1 - Farnell, George KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A novel about the needed transition between the present and the future of 1888 and 1897 Bellamy through an economy based on labor notes. Most of the novel concerns the conversion of the title character from supporting capitalism to opposing it.

PB - Journal of Commerce Company, Printers and Publishers CY - Providence, RI U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Revolt of the Horses Y1 - 1898 A1 - Walter Copland Perry (1814-1911) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Novel based on 1726 Swift. The Houyhnhnms lead a revolt of the horses in Great Britain and establish a Houyhnhnm state. The Yahoos are only adept at killing each other.

PB - Grant Richards CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Rise and Fall of the United States; A Leaf from History. A.D. 2060 Y1 - 1898 A1 - A Diplomat [pseud.] AB -

Political tract about the future collapse of the United States after a revolution against the over-centralized, corrupt plutocracy, which had brought poverty.

PB - F. Tennyson Neely CY - New York U3 -

A Diplomat [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Seal of Heaven Y1 - 1898 A1 - H. W. Fry AB -

Depiction of the millennium. See also 1897 Fry.

PB - Marshall Brothers CY - London U1 -

or Millennial Era on the cover.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Sketches of the Future" Y1 - 1898 A1 - Harold E[dward] Gorst (1868-1950) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on women in power, including "The Foreign Secretary's Baby", where the birth of a child causes international problems (3-13); "The Lord Chancellor's Husband" (17-29), where marital problems cause national problems; "The New Childhood", which describes the power of the "Children's Union" (31-42); and "The Pole of Heredity" (45-54), in which babies mature immediately and parents become infants. See also 1897 Gorst.

JF - Sketches of the Future PB - John Macqueen CY - London N1 -

Some of the material in the volume was originally published in The Westminster Gazette, a daily newspaper; Chapman’s Magazine of Fiction, which published a story that is not part of “Sketches of the Future”; and The Weekly Sun

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Socialist Parable” Y1 - 1898 A1 - Herbert N. Casson KW - Male author AB -

A happy, agricultural, cooperative socialist village is briefly convinced by a warped man that capitalism is best.

JF - The New Time. A Magazine of Social Progress VL - 2.2 [6.2 of New Occasions] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Society of the Future Y1 - 1898 A1 - Leonard Dalton Abbott (1878-1953) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Essay that, while mostly concerned with and critical of contemporary conditions, also describes a socialist utopia that has eliminated poverty and child labor and radically reduced the hours of work.

PB - J.A. Wayland CY - Girard, KS VL - No 7 of Wayland’s One-Hoss Philosophy (October 1898) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - To-Morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform Y1 - 1898 A1 - E[benezer] Howard (1850-1928) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Essay describing a suburban eutopia combining town and country. Basis for the Garden City Movement. On the movement, see The Garden City: Past, Present and Future. Ed. Stephen V. Ward. London: E & FN SPON, 1992.

PB - Swan Sonnenschein CY - London N1 -

Rpt. of this edition with commentary by Peter Hall, Dennis Hardy, and Colin Ward. London: Routledge, 2003. Better known as Garden Cities of To-Morrow (Being the Second Edition of "To-Morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform"). London: Swan Sonnenschein, 1902.  As Garden Cities of To-Morrow. Ed., with a Preface (9-28) by F[rederic] J. Osborn [and] With an Introductory Essay [“The Garden City Idea and Modern Planning”] (29-40) by Lewis Mumford. Cambridge, MA: The M.I.T. Press, 1965. With the exception of the 2003 edition, later editions are all under the title of the 2nd edition.

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Garden Cities of To-Morrow (Being the Second Edition of "To-Morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform"). London: Swan Sonnenschein, 1902.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Travels of Chan Ching Chong: An Autobiography” Y1 - 1898 KW - Male author KW - Singaporean author AB -

The story traces the travels from an early age of a child who was swept away on a river and rescued by seamen. At each island that he visited, one focus was on the position of women. On one island, they dominated and mistreated the men. On others, there was considerable equality. The journal (1897-1907), a quarterly, was noted for its opposition to patriarchy and its support for women’s equality. Almost certainly a Singaporean male author, likely the journal’s editor Lim Boon Keng (1869-1957).

JF - The Straits Chinese Magazine (Singapore) VL - 2 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Treasure of the Ice: A Romance Y1 - 1898 A1 - Eugene Shade Bisbee (1864-1933) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A lost race novel depicting a classical Greek civilization near Antarctica as a eutopia. Mostly the type of adventure usual to lost race novels where conflict within the discovered society puts the discoverers at risk, and they must escape.

PB - F. Tennyson Neely CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Two Brothers: A Story of the Twentieth Century Y1 - 1898 A1 - Augustinus [pseud.] AB -

The struggle between the Roman Catholic Church and materialism, with Wales becoming Roman Catholic, followed by Armageddon (See Revelation 16) and the Second Coming. See also 1898 “In the Next World”: A Sequel to the Story “Two Brothers” and 1899 Augustinus.

PB - Ptd. by Chapple and Kemp CY - Cardiff, Wales U3 -

Augustinus [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Vicious Virtuoso Y1 - 1898 A1 - Louis Lombard (1861-1927) KW - French author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A romance and adventure novel that includes a story of an ancient Egyptian race that was greatly advanced both spiritually and scientifically and produced a society in which all lived well. Everyone had equal food and clothing. No money. No religion, no political factions, and no patriotism. Higher education only for the elite and women excluded because it made them "less fit to bear and nourish children" (111). Euthanasia encouraged. Eugenics. Divorce easy with remarriage within a year required. The eutopia is destroyed by organized religion.

PB - F. Tennyson Neely CY - London/New York N1 -

Rpt. Boston, MA: Dana Estes, 1909

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Waiting for the Signal. A Novel Y1 - 1898 A1 - Henry O. Morris KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Mostly the story of a successful peaceful revolution in the U.S. against the "arrogant and vicious plutocracy" (v), but Chapter XL, "The Dawn of a New Day," presents a brief picture of the eutopia created. A constitutional convention is convened, which includes many of the well-known reformers of the time. The convention first drafts and adopts a new "Declaration of Independence" (335-36) and then a new Constitution (337-53). The constitution, which follows the basic structural outlines of the previous one, includes the Bill of Rights and previous amendments.

PB - The Schulte Publishing Company CY - Chicago, IL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The War of the Wenuses. Translated from the Artesian of H.G. Pozzuoli By C. L. Graves and E. V. Lucas Y1 - 1898 A1 - C[harles] L[arcom] Graves (1856-1944) A1 - E[dward] V[errall] Lucas (1868-1938) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Satire. Invasion by women from Venus. Parody of H.G. Wells's The War of the Worlds (London: William Heinemann, 1898) with minimal utopian elements.

PB - J.W. Arrowsmith CY - Bristol, Eng. VL - Vol. 78 of Arrowsmith's Bristol Library. N1 -

Rpt. New York: Arno Press, 1975; and London: Routledge/Thoemmes Press, 1998.

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H.G. Pozzuoli [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Warstock: A Tale of To-morrow Y1 - 1898 A1 - [William Oliver] [Greener] (1862-1935) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Mostly adventure and future war but is concerned with patent rights and shows how inventions can both improve life and give power for good to inventors. Argument that improved patent rights will inspire inventors to greater efforts. The first invention is wireless telegraphy, which allows instant communication. A "white" republic called Cristalla is established in Africa in which inventors will be the only aristocrats. A new weapon makes Cristalla invincible, and it defeats Europe and brings world peace.

PB - W.W. Greener CY - London U3 -

Wirt Gerrare [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - When All Men Starve: Showing Home England Hazarded Her Naval Supremacy, and the Horrors Which Followed the Interruption of Her Food Supply Y1 - 1898 A1 - Charles [Henry Alfred] Gleig (1862-1945) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

As a result of the government’s poor policies, England loses its influence in Africa, is blockaded by European governments, the government falls, and a rebellion ensues followed by looting and killing.

PB - John Lane The Bodley Head CY - London UR - https://archive.org/details/whenallmenstarv00gleigoog/page/n8 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The White Women” Y1 - 1898 A1 - Mary E[lizabeth] Coleridge (1861-1907) ED - [Henry] [Newbolt], ed. KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Amazons presented in eutopian terms. Said to be “From a legend of Malay, told by Hugh Clifford (78). 

JF - Poems PB - Elkin Matthews CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in The Collected Poems of Mary Coleridge. Ed. Theresa Whistler (London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1954), 212-13. The “Preface” to the 1908 ed. says that this poem and eleven others were first published “in a volume by several authors called ‘The Garland’,” which is probably The Garland of New Poetry by Various Authors. London: Elkin Mathews, 1899, which contains twelve poems by the author but not this one. The 1954 edition places the poem as 1900 without explanation. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - With Gyves of Gold. A Novel Y1 - 1898 A1 - Henry Athey A1 - A. Herbert Bowers KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. Much discussion of what the eutopia will look like and ends with a description of the Christian eutopia in operation. Believe in the nearness of the millennium. Spiritualism. Anti-egalitarian. Cooperation. With trusts/monopolies gone, business flourishes, wages rise, slums are cleared, and education improved. All other nations followed the lead of the U.S. Women's proper sphere is the home.

PB - G.W. Dillingham CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Aerial Brickfield” Y1 - 1897 A1 - John Mills KW - Male author AB -

The dystopia created when a capitalist begins to sell air. For a work using a similar idea, see 1915 England, The Air Trust. See the discussion in Steve Asselin, “Apocalypse Inc. Incorporating the Environment into the Boom/Bust Cycle in Fin-de-Siècle Science Fiction.” CR: The New Centennial Review 19.1 (Spring 2019): 181-203.

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Illus. Warwick Goble

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Brand of Hell; Or, Life in Babylon Y1 - 1897 A1 - H. W. Fry AB -

The coming of the Antichrist. See also 1898 Fry.

PB - George Stoneman CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Colonizing in a Great City Y1 - 1897 A1 - [G. B] [De Bernardi] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Mutual aid checks improve society. The book is fiction describing the beginning of the system. . See also 1890 De Bernardi and his The Equitable Industrial Association of America. A Beneficent Co-operative Association for the Employment of Idle Labor Through Mutual Exchange. Sedalia, MO: J.C. Parmerlee, 1888 (NN).

PB - Labor Exchange Publications CY - Independence, MO U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Dawn of Civilisation; or, England in the Nineteenth Century Y1 - 1897 A1 - J[ames] C[armichael] Spence KW - Male author AB -

Future eutopia where all arbitrary laws and taxes have been abolished. See also his non-utopian Freedom--Our Birthright: A Protest Against Taxes. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Eng.: Ptd. by Lambert & Co., 1887.

PB - Watts & Co CY - London N1 -

The cover says that the chapter on marriage had been issued as an official publication of the Legitimation League. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Day of Resis Y1 - 1897 A1 - Lillian Frances Mentor KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Lost Egyptian race eutopia in Africa. All the people are tall, well-formed, and appear to be no older than middle aged. This is made possible by controlling what people eat and limiting work hours. Everyone above twenty-five is a teacher and everyone learns a wide variety of trades. All goods are free for the asking. At eighteen couples are assigned marriage partners after a detailed mental and physical examination. Animals larger and better formed than usual. Lots of gold, onyx, and jewels. On the Day of Resis, the only national holiday, all who have reached the age of sixty-five are put to death. Much of the novel is a standard lost race novel with adventure and the escape of the outsiders. 

PB - G.W. Dillingham CY - New York U2 -

Illus. Harry L.V. Parkhurt

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Equality Y1 - 1897 A1 - Edward Bellamy (1850-98) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Expansion and modification of the ideas found in his 1888 Looking Backward. The most significant changes are in women’s position, which is now clearly equal to men, and in the political system, which is international and much more democratic, including, in many circumstances direct votes by the people. Considerably more on the nineteenth century and on the revolution. After publishing Looking Backward Bellamy became a social reformer and was involved with two journals, The Nationalist (1889-91) and The New Nation (1891-94), which he edited and published, and wrote many essays defending or elaborating his position; some of these have been collected in his Edward Bellamy Speaks Again! Articles--Public Addresses--Letters. Chicago, IL: The Peerage Press, 1937. 2nd ed. Chicago, IL: The Peerage Press, 1938; and Talks On Nationalism. Chicago, IL: The Peerage Press, 1938. 1889 Bellamy, “With Eyes Shut,” and 1891 and 1895 Bellamy are set in the same eutopia. Utopias not directly connected to Looking Backward are 1886 Bellamy and 1889 Bellamy, “To Whom This May Come.”

PB - D. Appleton CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Gregg Press, 1968; New York: Greenwood Press, 1969; and New York: AMS Press, 1970. Chapter 23 was often reprinted as The Parable of the Water Tank.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Faithful City. A Romance Y1 - 1897 A1 - Herbert Morrah KW - Male author AB -

Adventure story with utopian elements. The faithful city was created and led by one man.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Future Power; or, the Great Revolution of 190- Y1 - 1897 A1 - Z. S. Hendow [pseud?] AB -

Fairly standard socialist eutopia sketched in. Women not financially dependent on husbands but only work in the home. The novel is mostly on the revolution.

PB - The Roxburghe Press CY - Westminster, Eng. N1 -

Rpt. in Late Victorian Utopias: A Prospectus. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 6 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2009), 6: 83-120. Editor's notes, 81, 202.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Great Seven--The Greater Nine; A Story for the People Y1 - 1897 A1 - Jno. [John] H[eber] Flood, Jr. KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Struggle against monopolies is successful, and this brings about a better society with much of the novel on the dystopia created by the monopolies.

PB - W.B. Conkey CY - Chicago, IL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Henry Cadavere: A Study of Life and Work Y1 - 1897 A1 - H[enry] W[entworth] Bellsmith (1849-1926) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia presented through the story of a successful socialist intentional community. Emphasis on the period before the actual establishment of the community but includes statements about it after a year and after five years. Includes the "Constitution of the National Union of Co-operative Labor" (92-100). Separate households. A "matrons' guild" will be assigned "education of the young, the conduct of the supply and provision store, health medicine and amusement" (93).

PB - Commonwealth Company CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Illusion of a Jubilee Committee-Man entitled "My Record or The Rusty Clock Tower of Christchurch" Y1 - 1897 A1 - Professor F. G. M. Wise [pseud?] KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author AB -

A dream of a future Christchurch with the emphasis on technological change and the improvements it brings.

PB - Irons, Clarke and Vaughan CY - Christchurch, New Zealand U3 -

Professor, F. G. M. Wise [pseud?]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - In Brighter Climes, Or Life in Socioland. A Realistic Novel Y1 - 1897 A1 - Albert Chavannes (1836-1903) KW - Male author KW - Swiss author KW - US author AB -

Continuation of 1892 Chavannes. This novel traces the experience of a young couple from the U.S. fleeing unemployment, settling in Socioland, and gradually becoming integrated into its society. There are no rich and poor and all must work; there are few laws and both men and women vote directly on legislation; much land and most manufacturing owned in common; and local townships mostly control their own affairs within the general egalitarian structure. See also his The Concentration of Wealth: A Study of its Causes, Results and Remedies. New York: True Nationalist Pub. Co., 1893. He wrote and mostly self-published many works on economic issues and health. 

PB - Chavannes and Company CY - Knoxville, East Tennessee VL - New Thought Library, No. 1 (May 1897) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "In the Deep of Time" Y1 - 1897 A1 - George Parsons Lathrop (1851-98) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A man is put to sleep for three hundred years and awakens in a technological eutopia in communication with Mars, which is in advance of earth. World federalism without democracy. No one lived in cities except by government draft. If a person is exceptional, the government chooses who they will marry. "Degenerates," on the other hand, were kept in asylums and not allowed to marry. The author's note says that the story is based on conversations with the inventor Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931), and Edison provided notes to Lathrop, who wrote the story. Thirty-three pages of Edison’s notes for the story can be found in the Thomas A. Edison Papers at Rutgers University (http://edison.rutgers.edu/index.htm).

JF - English Illustrated Magazine VL - 16 - 17.162 - 163 N1 -

Rpt. in Worlds Apart: An Anthology in Facsimile [Cover subtitle An Anthology of Interplanetary Fiction]. Ed. George Locke (London: Cornmarket, 1972), 47-72.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - In the New Capital Y1 - 1897 A1 - John Galbraith (1846-1914) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

A future eutopia in Ottawa. Canada is independent but with close ties to Britain. Christian. Social equality. Cooperation. Single tax on land. For Henry George's explanation of the single tax, see his Progress and Poverty. An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and Of Increase of Want With Increase of Wealth. The Remedy. San Francisco, CA: W.M. Hinton, 1879. Fiftieth Anniversary Ed. New York: The Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, 1929.

PB - Toronto News CY - Toronto, ON, Canada N1 -

Rpt. ed. R. Douglas Francis with the subtitle A Nineteenth-century View of Ottawa in the Twenty-first Century. [Manotick, ON, Canada]: Penumbra Press, 2000.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Inequality" Y1 - 1897 A1 - Bellward Enemy [pseud.] AB -

Satire on 1888 Bellamy.

JF - The Yellow Book VL - 1.13 U3 -

Enemy, Bellward [pseud.]. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Ivory Queen: A Story of Strange Adventure Y1 - 1897 A1 - John Pendleton (1848-1926?) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Lost race novel. Mostly adventure but ends with a eutopia in Africa which is a successful agricultural society in an isolated valley under a white king descended from early Egyptian settlers. Odd novel for the period in that it includes successful cross-dressing and, together with some fairly standard racism, a successful interracial marriage.

PB - Osgood, McIlvaine & Co CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - John Harvey. A Tale of the Twentieth Century Y1 - 1897 A1 - [James M.] [Galloway] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Socialist eutopia created within the United States by a wealthy man. Includes a diagram of the proposed city. People are required to work, and the community is required to provide work. Becomes national.

PB - Charles H. Kerr CY - Chicago, IL N1 -

2nd ed. as Lock and Key. New York: G.W. Dillingham, 1899.

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2nd ed. as Lock and Key. New York: G.W. Dillingham, 1899.

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Anon Moore [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Loma; A Citizen of Venus Y1 - 1897 A1 - William Windsor (b. 1857?) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia set on Venus and based on phrenology. Women and men are more nearly equal than they were at the time. Free love with the emphasis on love rather than sex.

PB - Windsor and Lewis CY - St. Paul, MN U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lost Tribes And The Land of Nod. An Original Natural Gas Story Y1 - 1897 A1 - Artemus P. Kerr (1851-1901) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Lost race eutopia in which people rarely ate anything but fruits and vegetables, and men and women wear similar clothing. Simple furniture. Ten large households. Little work needed; men fished, and women did spun and wove. Gold common. The visitor from the outside (brought by a tornado) establishes a school to teach English and then various technologies that introduce complexity and conflict.

PB - Press of the Indiana Newspaper Union CY - Indianapolis, IN U2 -

Illus. H.A. Huey

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Marooned On Australia: Being the Narrative of Diedrich Buys of His Discoveries and Exploits "In Terra Australis Incognita" About the Year 1630 Y1 - 1897 A1 - Ernest Favenc (1846?-1908) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Lost race novel that includes a short eutopian section describing an arcadia in a valley in the Australian desert (31-52). Simple religion. Racist.

PB - Blackie and Sons CY - London N1 -

New ed. London: Blackie and Sons, 1905.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Motor Car. A Drama of To-morrow" Y1 - 1897 AB -

Satire set in a future in which cars have destroyed London and everyone has moved out. Uses the trope of a New Zealander visiting the ruins.

JF - Evening Post (New Zealand) VL - 53.37 UR - http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/. N1 -

Rpt. from the London Referee (not located).

ER - TY - ABST T1 - New Era. Presenting the Plans for the New Era Union To Help Develop and Utilize the Best Resources of this Country. Also to Employ the Best Skill There is Available to Realize the Highest Degree of Prosperity for All Who Will Help To Attain It. Based on Practical and Successful Business Methods Y1 - 1897 A1 - [Charles Willard] [Caryl] (1858-1926) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Detailed eutopia. The New Era Union will provide capital so that workers can buy their own mines and so forth with the Union making a profit. Includes illustrations and detailed plans of the city.

PB - Author CY - Denver, CO N1 -

Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971. There is also, in the New York Public Library, a typescript by Caryl entitled "THE NEW ERA A PLAY INTRODUCING THE PLANS FOR A GRAND NEW ERA MODEL CITY TO BE THE MOST COMPLETE, WONDERFUL AND GRAND PERMANENT EXPOSITION AND EMPORIUM FOR THE ENTIRE WORLD IN ADDITION TO BEING THE GRANDEST AND MOST PERFECT EDUCATIONAL, AMUSEMENT, INDUSTRIAL AND RESIDENCE MODEL CITY OF THIS WORLD. ALSO REPRESENTING THE PLANS FOR AN ORGANIZATION TO BE CALLED 'THE NEW ERA UNION' THAT WILL UNITE UNDER THE MOST PERFECT SYSTEM POSSIBLE ALL HUMAN BEINGS IN THIS ENTIRE WORLD IN THE COURSE OF TIME WHO DESIRE THAT THEIR FELLOW MAN AS WELL AS THEMSELVES SHALL ENJOY THE MOST PERFECT PEACE, HAPPINESS AND PROSPERITY That is Possible Here on Earth Under the Laws of JUSTICE AND RECIPROCITY and who are willing TO DO ALL IN THEIR POWER TO ATTAIN THE SAME." © 1896. The "Introduction" to the book purports to reprint a lengthy article from the Rocky Mountain News of September 3, 1897, that discusses the project and the play, but September 3 is said to be Good Friday, which was April 18 in 1897, this is fiction.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A New Industrial Era of Wealth and Prosperity or Social and Other Problems Solved Y1 - 1897 A1 - Eon [pseud.] KW - Australian author AB -

Eutopia based on cooperatives. An appendix (47-49) includes the structure of a proposed Victorian Association of Rural Industries.

PB - E.W. Cole CY - Melbourne, VIC, Australia U1 -

At the head of the title Everybody. Everywhere.

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“Eon” [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Passing of Niagara" Y1 - 1897 A1 - Rebecca [Blaine] Harding Davis (1831-1910) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Satire on the technological utopia. The United States becomes entirely practical, focused on making money and producing consumption goods. Niagara Falls is eliminated; the tides are fenced off to produce electricity; the churches all taken over and turned into commercial colleges; veterans benefits abolished; libraries and art galleries sold; horses, dogs, birds, trees, and flowers eliminated; and food made into pills. It was so unsatisfying that everyone left the country.

JF - The Independent VL - 49.2556 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Perfection City Y1 - 1897 A1 - Mrs. [Adela Elizabeth] Orpen (1855-1928) KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

Novel about a rural U.S. intentional community. The novel traces the history of the community from its eutopian hopes to the collapses brought about by personal conflicts.

PB - Hutchinson CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: D. Appleton, 1897.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Posterity; Its Verdicts and Its Methods or Democracy A.D. 2100 Y1 - 1897 A1 - [Alex] [Newton] KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Authoritarian eutopia based on eugenics--"We assist with evolution, which consists partly in the selection and rejection of the unfit" (13). Citizenship is restricted to the mentally, morally, and physically best. Education stresses vocational training.

PB - Williams and Norgate CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Prehistoric Music. A Lecture Delivered by Professor Boremall Before the Members of the Society of Antediluvian Art, July, 2897” Y1 - 1897 A1 - Edward A[lgernon] Baughan (1865-1938) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire presenting the music of the Victorian era from the perspective of a future eutopia. There is little about the future, but it is stated that peace prevails because disputes are settled by arbitration. Music in the future is a central part of moral teaching.

JF - Monthly Musical Record (London) VL - 27.320 ER - TY - ABST T1 - President John Smith; The Story of a Peaceful Revolution Y1 - 1897 A1 - Frederick Upham Adams (1859-1921) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Socialist eutopia including direct democracy with a new constitution for the U.S. (237-46), which specifies that the legislative power rests with the people and that the people directly elect the Cabinet rather than have it appointed by the President. The cover of the Library of Progress edition has "The right of a citizen of the United States to demand and obtain work at wages sufficient to support himself and his family shall never be abridged. It shall be the duty of the government to guarantee employment to all who demand it" (on 147 of the Unity Library edition).  See also his non-utopian economic novel. The Kidnapped Millionaires; A Tale of Wall Street and the Tropics. Boston, MA: Lothrop Pub. Co., 1901.

PB - Charles H. Kerr CY - Chicago, IL VL - No. 64 of the Unity Library (December 1896) N1 -

Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971. Another ed. adds (Written in 1920) to the title. No. 24 of the Library of Progress (August 1897). Chicago, IL: Charles H. Kerr, 1897

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Raid of the "Detrimental": Being the True History of the Great Disappearance of 1862; Related By Several of Those Implicated And Others; And Now First Set Forth Y1 - 1897 A1 - [William Ulick O’Connor] [Cuffe], The Earl of Desart (1845-1937) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Mostly adventure and satire set on a South Seas island with particular satire on gender relations.

PB - C. Arthur Pearson CY - London U5 -

L, NLS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Rapara or the Rights of the Individual in the State Y1 - 1897 A1 - Archibald Forsyth (1826-1908) KW - Australian author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Extremely detailed eutopia based on what the author calls "Equalistic Individualism" in which natural resources belong to the community and produced wealth belongs to those producing it. Land nationalization. History of a country generally accepted as New Zealand, with changes.

PB - T. Fisher Unwin CY - London N1 -

Australian ed. lists the publisher as Sydney, NSW, Australia: William Dymock/London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1897. The cover of the Australia ed. has Right rather than Rights, but with Rights on the title page.

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A, ATL, M, PSt, VUW

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Star of the Sea: A Historical Novel Y1 - 1897 A1 - N. Ter Gregor [pseud?] KW - UK author AB -

Complex time travel novel in which the protagonists travel from Persia in the sixth century BCE to the past, the moon, Victorian Britain, and an undated eutopia that combines religion and technology.

PB - John Heywood CY - Manchester/London U2 -

Illus.

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N. Ter Gregor [pseud?]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - That Tree of Eden: A Study in the Real Decadence Y1 - 1897 A1 - Nicholas Christian KW - Male author AB -

Satire on a utopian experiment.

PB - Hutchinson CY - London U5 -

L, NLS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Trip to Venus Y1 - 1897 A1 - John Munro (1849-1930) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Arcadian, small-town eutopia on Venus. Abundance.

PB - Jarrold and Sons CY - London N1 -

The first chapter is entitled “A Message from Mars” and was originally published under that title as by J[ohn] Munro, C.E. in Cassell's Family Magazine 21 (March 1895): 292-98.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Vision Out West" Y1 - 1897 A1 - Barcroft [Henry Thomas] Boake (1866-92) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Poem describing a eutopia of a future tamed Australia.

JF - Where the Dead Men Lie and Other Poems PB - Angus and Robertson CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia N1 -

2nd ed. (London: Angus and Robertson, 1913), 19-25. Rpt. in Australian Science Fiction. Ed. Van Ikin (St. Lucia, QLD, Australia: Queensland University Press, 1982), 40-44; Book rpt. (Chicago, IL: Academy Publishers, 1984), 40-44; and in W[illiam] F. Refshauge, Barcroft Boake. Collected Works, Edited, with a Life (North Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2007), 227-30 with an editor's note on 287.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Visit to Topos, and How the Science of Heredity is Practised There Y1 - 1897 A1 - William Little (1839-1916) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Eugenic eutopia. Pre-natal teaching. Presentation from a newspaper from Topos, including a father's lengthy speech at his daughter's wedding. See also 1904 Little.

PB - Berry, Anderson & Co CY - Ballarat, VIC, Australia U5 -

A, ATL, M, NN

ER - TY - ABST T1 - What Christ Saw. . .: Sequel to If Christ Came to Congress Y1 - 1897 A1 - Congressman Milford W[riarson] Howard (1862-1937) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Most of the book is about the dystopia of contemporary conditions. It ends with the battle of Armageddon and one page of the eutopia that followed. See his If Christ Came to Congress. Washington, DC: [Howard Publishing Co.], 1894 which includes a one paragraph vision of the better society that would follow if Congress followed Christ’s teachings.

PB - Author CY - Washington, DC U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Without Bloodshed; A Probability of the Twentieth Century Y1 - 1897 A1 - Harold E[dward] Gorst (1868-1950) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on English manners. Rich Americans take over all English property through political maneuvering. Intentional community in England. Gorst published a review of his own book in The Quilldriver, no. 1 (October 1897). The journal was the inhouse journal of the publisher and does not appear to be available. See also 1898 Gorst.

PB - The Roxburghe Press CY - Westminster, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Yermah the Dorado Y1 - 1897 A1 - Frona Eunice Wait (1859-1946) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Lost race novel describing a scientifically advanced colony of Atlantis located in what is now San Francisco. It is destroyed by an earthquake.

PB - William Doxey CY - San Francisco, CA N1 -

Rev. as by Frona Eunice Wait Colburn with the subtitle The Story of a Lost Race. New York: Alice Harriman Co., 1912. U.K. ed. of rev. ed. London: B.F. Stevens and Brown, 1913.

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Rev. as by Frona Eunice Wait Colburn with the subtitle The Story of a Lost Race. New York: Alice Harriman Co., 1912.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Zelma, The Mystic: or, White Magic, Versus Black Y1 - 1897 A1 - Alwyn M. Thurber KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel includes an Ideal city and has a letter supposedly from 1907 describing the first steps to it.

PB - Author's Publishing Co CY - Chicago, IL N1 -

3rd ed. Illus. W.L. Wells and L. Braunhold. Chicago, IL: The Alliance Publishing Co. 1897. © by C.M. Loomis.

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3rd ed. Illus. W.L. Wells and L. Braunhold. Chicago, IL: The Alliance Publishing Co. 1897.

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NN, W3,5464

ER - TY - ABST T1 - 1900; or, The Last President Y1 - 1896 A1 - Ingersoll Lockwood (1841-1918) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the election of William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925) as President causes the collapse of the American system.

PB - The American News Company CY - New York U5 -

DLC, W3,3378

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A.D. 2345" Y1 - 1896 A1 - Geo[rge] E[edes] Boxall KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia modeled on 1888 Bellamy and set in Australia. Socialism. Stresses education and hygiene. Marriage considered a part of hygiene, and girls are given education regarding sex and birth. People still smoke. Guild system. Municipalization.

JF - Weekly Times & Echo (London) VL - nos. 2568 - 2583 U5 -

L(NL)

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Angel Isafrel: A Story of Prohibition in New Zealand Y1 - 1896 A1 - G[eorge] M[cCullagh] Reed (1831/32?-1898) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Mostly a tale of the struggle for prohibition, which is achieved through a referendum. The last chapter (93-100) describes the eutopia that was produced. Violent crime virtually disappeared, as did most other crimes. Family life improved radically, earnings previously spent on drink provided better conditions for families and was also invested in cooperatives. Businesses encouraged investment of the extra money in exchange for part of the profits and guaranteed employment. Men became more economically independent. Mental and physical health improved significantly.

PB - Upton & Co CY - Auckland, New Zealand N1 -

2nd ed. without the subtitle London: Gordon and Gotch, 1905.

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ATL, NZ, VUW

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Artabanzanus: The Demon of the Great Lake. An Allegorical Romance of Tasmania. Arranged from the Diary of the late Oliver Ubertus Y1 - 1896 A1 - William M[oore] Ferrar KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Allegory presenting both a eutopia and a dystopia. The eutopia is the city of Eternity. The dystopia is Hell and the bulk of the book concerns Hell.

PB - Elliot Stock CY - London U5 -

A, M

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Banker Hypnotized: A Fiction. Sequel to “The Banker’s Dream. A Fiction. Sequel to “The Banker’s Dream.” An Argument for the Free Coinage of Silver Y1 - 1896 A1 - Thomas H. Proctor (b. 1842) KW - Male author AB -

The protagonist from 1895 Proctor is hypnotized and experiences the eutopia that is possible if power is taken from the capitalists and their bought politicians and restored to the people. Public utilities owned by the government. Labor well paid. Government replaces banks and is the source of all loans and the recipient of all interest.

PB - Progressive Book Publishing CY - Vineland, NJ U5 -

ICU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Beyond the Ether Y1 - 1896 A1 - W. Cairns Johnston KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Balloon journey to a eutopian Mars (all jewels and luxury for departed spirits from earth) and to Jupiter which is heaven. Side trip to a Hell-like asteroid.

PB - Author CY - Andover, ME U5 -

W3,3021a

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Beyond the Verge. Home of Ten Lost Tribes of Israel Y1 - 1896 A1 - De Witt C[harles] Chipman (1824-1910) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The ten lost tribes of Israel reside in a paradise in the center of the earth. Technologically advanced using knowledge of science and, particularly, of electricity. All live over 400 years. Chemists create most foods not grown; no animal food used.

PB - James H. Earle CY - Boston, MA U2 -

Illus.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Christmas Mystery Y1 - 1896 A1 - Charles O[scar] Boring (1846-1922) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Short eutopia in which a reformed and revived religion based on The Forward Movement (which was part of the Social Gospel Movement) has brought about the eutopia. Set in 1949. No denominations (5-6). Church provides free food and lodging for all who need it (23-24) as well as a library and reading rooms and space for art, education, and physical culture (25). No saloons (9).

PB - The Forward Movement Publishing Co CY - Chicago, IL U5 -

W3,602

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The City of Gold; A Tale of Sport, Travel and Adventure in the Heart of the Dark Continent Y1 - 1896 A1 - Edward Markwick (1851-1925) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Lost race eutopia. Matriarchy. Both men and women work at a variety of jobs. Community cares for children from age one. Telepathy.

PB - Tower Publishing Company CY - London N1 -

2nd ed. London: W. Thacker, 1898.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "City of Refuge" Y1 - 1896 A1 - Walter Besant (1836-1901) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Much of the setting of the novel is an intentional community in the United States where a man from England is hiding from his past and the authorities. The community is, as the title suggests, presented, not entirely favorably, as a refuge from the world. The people wear unattractive clothing, work, eat, and meditate. No books allowed.

JF - The Pall Mall Magazine VL - 8 - 10 N1 -

Rpt. in 3 vols. London: Chatto & Windus, 1896

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Hathi

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Daybreak: A Romance of an Old World Y1 - 1896 A1 - James Cowan (1870-1943) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Christian, egalitarian, anarchist, suburban eutopia set on Mars, which had gone through a history directly parallel to that of Earth. Garden-like cities. Science. No private property. Gender equality. Christ had revealed himself on Mars, and the Martians took him seriously. Much adventure. Improved nature and even horses are born tame.

PB - George H. Richmond CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971. 2nd ed. New York: George H. Richmond, 1896.

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Illus. Walter C. Greenough.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - From World to World. A Novel Y1 - 1896 A1 - D[avid] L[eroy] Stump KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Detailed eutopia. Cooperative system. No money. Farming, manufacturing and distribution, and childcare discussed in detail. A sequel, A Romance of Two Planets. A Sequel to From World to World was scheduled to have been published in May 1897 by World to World Publishing. It either was not published or no copies survive. See also 1913 Stump.

PB - World to World Publishing Company CY - Asbury, MO U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Heaven on Earth Y1 - 1896 A1 - Gerald Thorne KW - Male author AB -

Intentional community based on Christian socialism.

PB - Lovell Brothers CY - New York U5 -

MoU-St, NcD

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Hilda's Home: A Story of Woman's Emancipation" Y1 - 1896 A1 - Graul, Rosa KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia of a successful communal home. Mothers are free to choose the fathers of their children. Women are taught the skills needed for motherhood. The "Publisher's Preface" to the book describes the author as "a poor, hardworking, unlettered woman" (ii).  See Joan E. Passet, “Reading ‘Hilda’s Home’: Gender, Print Culture, and the Dissemination of Utopian Thought in Late-Nineteenth-Century America.” Libraries and Culture 40.3 (Summer 2005): 307-23. 

JF - Lucifer, the Light Bearer VL - ns 13.3 - 3rd ser. 1.48 (whole nos. 613 - 87) [except ns 13.24 - 26] N1 -

Rpt. rev. Chicago, IL: Moses Harman, 1899. Selections rpt. in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories by United States Women, 1836-1919. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler (London: Pandora Press, 1984), 194-204 with an editor’s note on 192-93. Different selections rpt. in Daring to Dream: Utopian Fiction By United States Woman Before 1950. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler. 2nd ed. (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995), 111-24. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "In a Strange Land" Y1 - 1896 A1 - Joannes Alethomythos [pseud.] KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author AB -

Satire comparing a people discovered on an isolated island to the people of New Zealand in which the foolish practices of the island people, generally identical to those of New Zealand, are satirized.

JF - Evening Post (Wellington, New Zealand) VL - 62.65 UR - http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d& cl=search& d=EP18960808.2.3. U3 -

Alethomythos, Joannes [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "In His Steps. 'What Would Jesus Do?'" Y1 - 1896 A1 - Charles M[onroe] Sheldon (1857-1946) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

World changed by each person asking the question in the title before acting. See also 1913-14 Sheldon. Non-utopian sequels by Sheldon are In His Steps To-day: WHAT WOULD JESUS DO In Solving the Problems of Present Political, Economic and Social Life? New York: Fleming H. Revell, 1921; and In His Steps Today. Elgin, IL: David C. Cook, [1928]. 

JF - Advance VL - 32.1617 - 33.1647 N1 -

Rpt. Chicago, IL: Advance Publishing Company, [1897]; and New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [1935]. An ed. that reproduced most of the Advance series was published ed. John W. Ripley. Topeka, KS: Shawnee County Historical Society, 1967. A comic book version is Al Hartley, In His Steps. Old Tappan, NJ: Fleming H. Revell, 1977. Spire Christian Comics. A graphic novel version is Martin Powell. In His Steps. Based on the Novel by Charles M. Sheldon. New York: Marvel Comics, 1994.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Industrial Army Y1 - 1896 A1 - Fayette Stratton Giles (1842-97) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Detailed exposition of 1888 Bellamy's Industrial Army.

PB - Baker and Taylor CY - New York U5 -

DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - It Might Be: A Story of the Future Progress of the Sciences, The Wonderful Advancement in the Methods of Government and the Happy State of the People Y1 - 1896 A1 - H[erbert] E. Swan KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Technological eutopia. Machine-governed eutopia. Government buys and sells goods and guarantees quality. Restricted immigration.

PB - H.E. Swan CY - Stafford, KS U5 -

W3,5334

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Killboylan Bank; or, Every Man His Own Banker. Being an Account of How Killboylan Characters Concerned Themselves About Co-operative Credit Y1 - 1896 A1 - E[dward] M[elville] Lynch KW - Male author AB -

A fictional account of the establishment of an agricultural bank set in an Irish village. There is a brief section at the end describing the positive results of the reform.

PB - Kegan Paul CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Light of Eden or A Historical Narrative of the Barbarian Age. A Scientific Discovery Y1 - 1896 A1 - [Swan] [Burg] KW - Male author AB -

Detailed single tax eutopia called Eden. Government guarantees full employment. For Henry George's explanation of the single tax, see his Progress and Poverty. An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and Of Increase of Want With Increase of Wealth. The Remedy. San Francisco, CA: W.M. Hinton, 1879. Fiftieth Anniversary Ed. New York: The Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, 1929.

PB - S. Burg CY - Seattle, WA U5 -

DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Man or Dollar, Which? A Novel Y1 - 1896 A1 - A Newspaper Man [pseud.] AB -

Standard socialist eutopia, which was brought about by a general strike. Eugenics.

PB - Charles H. Kerr CY - Chicago, IL VL - Unity Library No. 55 U3 -

A Newspaper Man [pseud.]

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DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A New Eden Y1 - 1896 A1 - Andrew Acworth KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia and a flawed utopia set in 2096. The human race has degenerated mentally and lost the science and technology of the past. There is a small island established in 1896 that has no government but has laws handed down by custom that everyone obeys. It is presented as dull, and the people are without emotion. Work only from 20-40. Technologically advanced.

PB - Ward and Lock CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Late Victorian Utopias: A Prospectus. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 6 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2009), 6: 3-79. Editor's notes, 1, 201-02.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - An Outland Journey Y1 - 1896 A1 - Walter Leon Sawyer (1862-1915) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Children’s book that tells the story of a boy who visits a fairyland that is a satire on capitalism. All the fairies must work constantly.

PB - Copeland and Day CY - Boston, MA U2 -

Illus.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Prophetic Romance; Mars to Earth Y1 - 1896 A1 - [John] [McCoy] (1857-1924) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia brought about by votes for women. Rule by those especially trained for job but elected. All laws must be approved by the people (102-103). Essentially socialist. Paternalistic. Technologically advanced. Eugenics. Stress of health, and children are taught correct “eating, sleeping, drinking, exercising, and in toil, mental and physical, constant regard is had to getting the most and best out of life” (212).

PB - Arena Publishing Company CY - Boston, MA U3 -

By The Lord Commissioner [pseud.]

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MoU-St, W3,3489

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Real History of Money Island Y1 - 1896 A1 - Michael Flürscheim (1844-1912) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - German author KW - Male author AB -

Monetary reform brings eutopia. Written in response to Ten Men of Money Island (1884) by Seymour F. Norton. See also 1899 Flürsheim (3).

PB - Brotherhood Publishing Company CY - London N1 -

[2nd ed.] London: "Clarion" Office/Manchester: Labour Press/Glasgow: "Labour Leader", 1897. The second ed. responds to criticisms and includes a "Preface to Second Edition" (xi-xii) explaining the additions and noting that he has taken practical steps to implement his ideas. It also includes "Appendix. Invitation to Become Members of a Co-operative Exchange Bank. A Fresh Outlet for Trade" (75-80). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Sixteenth Amendment Y1 - 1896 A1 - [Stephen Henry] [Emmens] KW - Male author KW - UK author KW - US author AB -

Founding of the Legion of Labor which is similar to 1888 Bellamy’s Industrial Army. Under this system everyone will be able to exchange their “labor for a sufficiency of food, clothing, shelter and enjoyment” (83). There will still be private property. Plans to clear slums by moving the people to rural areas. The entire amendment is given on 221-29.

PB - G. W. Dillingham CY - New York VL - Dillingham's American Library No. 13 U3 -

Plain Citizen [pseud.]

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DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Time Is Coming Y1 - 1896 A1 - W[illiam] B[revoort] Bolmer (1845-97) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel focuses on the struggle for a reformed Christianity that is mostly a critique of the Christianity as it existed at the time. A religious revival led by the returned prophet Elijah aims at the fusion of Judaism and Christianity and a Jewish state in Palestine. There have been technological advances, but these are incidental to the novel. Within the novel, reform is defeated but hope is held out for the future.

PB - G.W. Dillingham CY - New York U5 -

PSt, W3,588

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Utopia in a Nutshell” Y1 - 1896 A1 - [William Dwight Porter] [Bliss] (1856-1926) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Brief Christian socialist eutopia set in Boston in 1946. Municipalization of most services, which are all free and paid for from the profits of the city-owned electric company. Six-hour workday five days a week. No work on Sunday with clergy working regular jobs. The author was a well-known Christian socialist minister, initially Congregational, then Episcopalian.

JF - American Fabian VL - 2.4 U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Visit to Blestland Y1 - 1896 A1 - W. H. Galier KW - Australian author AB -

Eutopia. Mostly romance. Cooperative system. Republican form of government. No religion. Work guaranteed by the state. Limit on the return on capital invested in business.

PB - George Robertson & Co. CY - Melbourne, VIC, Australia N1 -

UK ed. London: Gay and Bird, 1896.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Wanderer in the Spirit Lands Y1 - 1896 A1 - [A.] [Farnese] AB -

The story of a sinner who dies and then experiences a number of different spirit realms in his search for salvation. His first experience is mildly dystopian and quite dark and cold. He next experiences what he calls the Land of Dawn because the light is like that, which is mildly eutopian, and where he reunites with his father and the woman he loved but mistreated in life. He then visits Hell, after which he works on Earth to help sinners there, is then advanced to the Morning Land, and finally to the Land of Bright Day.

PB - W.J. Sinkins CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. Chicago, IL: The Progressive Thinker Publishing House, 1901.

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Franchezzo [pseud. A Spirit]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Woman of To-Morrow: A Tale of the Twentieth Century Y1 - 1896 A1 - Hon. [Alice] Coralie Glyn (1866-1928) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Eutopia of greater gender equality in 100 years presented from the point of view of a modest, repressed, middle-aged spinster from the 1890s. There are still rich and poor. Some satire on both the 1890s and the 1990s.

PB - Women's Printing Society CY - London VL - 2nd ed. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Abolition of Money" Y1 - 1895 A1 - I[srael] Zangwill (1864-1926) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on the topic of the title. While workers do well through a system of barter, artists, writers, preachers, and the like do badly so eutopian for one group and dystopian for another, with the latter the focus of the story. 

JF - The Idler: An Illustrated Monthly VL - 6 U2 -

Illus. Max Cowper and Herbert Johnson

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Altruria Y1 - 1895 A1 - Titus K[eiper] Smith (b 1859) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A Christian intentional community based on cooperation spreads around United States, creating a eutopia. Federal system. Annual elections. Referenda on all important issues. Technologically advanced. Those doing lighter work receive lower pay. See also 1932 Smith.

PB - Altruria Publishing Company CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Aristopia: A Romance-History of the New World Y1 - 1895 A1 - Castello N[ewton] Holford (1845-1905) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia describing an alternative settlement of the Americas. The author says that it is based on More’s Utopia (88-92), but there are few similarities. The eutopia is based on Ralph Morton, one of the settlers of Jamestown, discovering a large gold deposit. Hiding his discovery from other settlers, he purchased land around the deposit and establishes a new colony that he names Mortonia (later changed to Aristopia) and appoints himself Governor for Life. He is presented as a benevolent dictator. Concerned to keep people from enriching themselves at the expense of others. Therefore, except for Morton, there is no private ownership of land, but land could be leased for a period of time determined by Morton. All buying and selling through public bodies and stores. Abolished primogeniture; limited inheritance. All roads and bridges public property. Laws proposed by an elected Congress but had to be approved by Morton. Widows over 30 could vote; women over 20 could vote for school officials. Reforming of criminals. Compulsory public education. Ultimately Aristopia comes to incorporate the rest of the U.S. and Canada.

PB - Arena Publishing Company CY - Boston, MA N1 -

Available as an audiobook at https://librivox.org/search?title=Aristopia%3A+A+Romance-History+of+the+New+World&author=HOLFORD&reader=&keywords=&genre_id=0&status=all&project_type=either&recorded_language=&sort_order=catalog_date&search_page=1&search_form=advanced. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Banker’s Dream. A Fiction. An Argument for the Free Coinage of Silver Y1 - 1895 A1 - Thomas H. Proctor (b. 1842) KW - Male author AB -

Capitalist dystopia.

PB - Progressive Book Publishing Co. CY - Vineland, NJ N1 -

Rpt. New York: Arno Press, 1975.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Better World Y1 - 1895 A1 - E. B. Southwick KW - US author AB -

Extraordinarily detailed eutopia in which the goal of life is happiness for all. The society was founded by women. Women are smarter than men and are generally the leaders, but men and women look and dress alike and are equally strong.

PB - Truth Seeker Publishing Company CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Brief History of Altruria. Narrative of Sir Robert Horton" Y1 - 1895 A1 - [John Brisben?] [Walker] (1847-1931) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An incomplete history of a eutopia introduced in 1895 Walker.  Most of the story is concerned with the dystopian capitalist system that preceded the eutopia, which is led by intelligent, moral men who are dedicated to the interest of the society as a whole. Industry efficiently organized for use rather than profit.

JF - The Cosmopolitan: A Monthly Illustrated Magazine VL - 20.2-5 U1 -

The last two installments were published under the title “A Brief History of an Ideal Republic.” By Sir Robert Horton

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Christmas in the Year 2000" Y1 - 1895 A1 - Edward Bellamy (1850-98) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Picture of a future Christmas as an addition to 1888 Bellamy Looking Backward, the book for which he is best known. After publishing Looking Backward Bellamy became a social reformer and was involved with two journals, The Nationalist (1889-91) and The New Nation (1891-94), which he edited and published, and wrote many essays defending or elaborating his position; some of these have been collected in his Edward Bellamy Speaks Again! Articles--Public Addresses--Letters. Chicago, IL: The Peerage Press, 1937. 2nd ed. Chicago, IL: The Peerage Press, 1938; and Talks On Nationalism. Chicago, IL: The Peerage Press, 1938. 1897 Bellamy is a sequel to Looking Backward and 1889 Bellamy, “With Eyes Shut,” and 1891 and 1895 Bellamy are set in the same eutopia. Utopias not directly connected to Looking Backward are 1886 Bellamy and 1889 Bellamy, “To Whom This May Come.”

JF - Ladies Home Journal VL - 12.2 ER - TY - ABST T1 - The City of Endeavor: A Religious Novel devoted to the interests of Good Citizenship in the City of Brooklyn Y1 - 1895 A1 - Harold McGill Davis KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Christian Endeavorists, a movement in which people strive to be good Christians, takes hold in Brooklyn, and transforms the city. Stress on prohibition.

PB - Collins & Day CY - Brooklyn, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Coming Revolution Y1 - 1895 A1 - Henry L[aurens] Call (1867-1917) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The book is primarily a critique of the existing system with one chapter presenting “The New Republic” (206-19) in which there will be no extremely rich or inheritance, which will result in the establishment of an equality of opportunity, no monopoly in land, government banking, publicly owned transportation and utilities, no speculation or trusts, and democratic government

PB - Arena Publishing Co. CY - Boston, MA N1 -

Rpt. New York: Lovell Brothers, 1896.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Crankadom Y1 - 1895 A1 - Maud Daws KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The novel describes a community established by self-described cranks, who create a eutopia in a fertile, isolated valley. The people re practicing Christians with no conflicts between Protestants and Catholics. Recruited the best “crank” teachers from around the U.S. and created an excellent educational system with a school in each district that boarded students. 

PB - Jacob North & Co., Printers CY - Lincoln, NB U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Discovery of Altruria. Narrative of Sir Robert Horton" Y1 - 1895 A1 - [John Brisben?] [Walker] (1847-1931) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Isolated eutopia established in 1641 in central Africa and called Virland. This story serves as the introduction to 1895-1896 Walker, which elaborates on the eutopia. Here there is mention of a rich country with many villages and two cities, advanced technology, and moral leaders.

JF - The Cosmopolitan: A Monthly Illustrated Magazine VL - 20.1 U3 -

Sir Robert Horton [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Dream of the Future; or Home Rule for Ladies. A Comic Opera in One Act and Four Scenes Y1 - 1895 A1 - J. R[edfearn] Williamson A1 - Fred Walters KW - Male author AB -

Gender-role reversal satire.

PB - Green & Sons CY - Blackburn, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Equalities of Para-Para, Written from the Dictation of George Rambler, M.D., F.R.G.S Y1 - 1895 A1 - Paul Haedicke (1852-1903) KW - German author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Anti-union satire describing a country in which everyone is made equal in all things by disfiguring the favored. For example, everyone is bald. Exactly the same amount of food and water to everyone at the same time each day. No personal possessions or private life. Life led publicly at all times, including having sex in public.

PB - The Schuldt-Gathmann Company CY - Chicago, IL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Etidorhpa or The End of the Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey as Communicated in Manuscript to Llewellyn Drury Who Promised to Print the Same, But Finally Evaded the Responsibility Which was Assumed by John Uri Lloyd Y1 - 1895 A1 - John Uri Lloyd (1849-1936) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Occult novel of a trip through the underworld. Etidorhpa is Aphrodite spelled backwards. Borderline but included by both Arthur O. Lewis, Utopian Literature in The Pennsylvania State University Libraries: A Selected Bibliography (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Libraries, 1984) 113; and Glenn Negley, Utopian Literature: A Bibliography with A Supplementary Listing of Works Influential in Utopian Thought (Lawrence: Regents Press of Kansas, 1978), 85-86. According to Negley some editions have Etidorpha.

PB - Pub. by John Uri Lloyd CY - Cincinnati, OH N1 -

2nd ed. Cincinnati, OH: Robert Clarke Co., 1896. 11th ed. rev. and enl. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1901. Rpt. as part of the series Inspired Novels, no. A-3 (Summer 1962) Mundelin, IL: Palmer Publications, 1962, and Albuquerque, NM: Sun Publishing Co., 1976. This ed. rpt. New York: Pocket Books, 1978. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Few Years Hence" Y1 - 1895 A1 - [Lucy M.] [Jones] KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

Set in 1922 and 1923 showing the effect of women gaining the vote. On the whole presented negatively, suggesting that women are not suited for political life, but the reforms put through by women are generally presented positively, particularly dress reform and temperance.

JF - A Secret of the Sea and Other Colonial Stories PB - Simpson & Williams CY - Christchurch, New Zealand U3 -

Lux [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Forty Years With the Damned; or, Life Inside the Earth Y1 - 1895 A1 - Charles Aikin KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A eutopia inside the Earth discovered by a man and a woman escaping from slavery. In the eutopia, which had been established by Christ, everyone helps everyone else, but “It is a law of nature and the will of God that the black man serve the white; yet with us it is no servitude, neither is required of us if no one cares not to do it, there is no compulsion” (110). No politics, no commerce, and no death. There is, though, in addition, a brief depiction of Death, Sin, and the damned on their way to the Inferno.

PB - [Regan Printing House] CY - [Evanston, IL] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Four Girls at Cottage City Y1 - 1895 A1 - Emma D[unham] Kelley-Hawkins (1863-1938) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Mostly a sentimental novel, but includes a chapter, “The Dream that Saved a Soul,” that recounts a visit to a eutopian afterlife based on Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’s popular Gates novels (see 1883 Phelps). 

PB - Continental Printing Co. CY - Providence, RI N1 -

Rpt. Boston, MA: James H. Earle, Publishing, 1898 which is rpt. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988, with an “Introduction” by Deborah E. McDowell (xxvii-xxxviii). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Garden of Eden, U.S.A.: A Very Possible Story Y1 - 1895 A1 - W[illiam] H[enry] Bishop KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia with an emphasis on equality, particularly between men and women in North Carolina built by a wealthy man. Everyone one must work, but much work is mechanized. The author believes his Eden is possible, and there is an Appendix entitled "Why Not an Eden?" (357-69). A love story runs throughout the novel. No tobacco, no alcohol.

PB - Charles H. Kerr CY - Chicago, IL VL - Library of Progress No. 15 (May 1895) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Government by the People Y1 - 1895 A1 - [Lewis Henry] [Berens] (?-1914) A1 - [Ignatius] [Singer] (ca. 1853-1926) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Non-fiction presentation of a detailed scheme for a new political system stressing administration over politics and how to bring it about. Includes chapters on the civil service; the national assembly, which has no speaker or prime minister, and its committees; "The Chamber of Experts", which has educational qualifications for membership; local government; the constitution; rights of minorities; and social ethics. 

PB - Bliss, Sands and Foster CY - London U3 -

The Authors of The Story of My Dictatorship [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Great Secret. A Tale of To-morrow Y1 - 1895 A1 - [James] Hume Nisbet (1848-1921) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Begins as a novel of adventure with a conflict between anarchists set on destruction and the passengers and crew of a ship. The anarchists kill all the others and most of the anarchists come to a bad end. Three of the dead pass through the River Styx to a spirit world of almost static perfection where all the perfected spirits of the past together with a few immortals live in their own civilizations, which have been stripped of their imperfections. Two of the anarchists are reformed and become the center of a good society on an isolated island, which is only briefly described.  See also 1893, 1902 and 1905 Nisbet. 

PB - F.V. White CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Great Social Boycott; or, Society Readjusted and the Causes Leading to its Establishment. This is a small Picture Gallery and your portrait hangs in it Y1 - 1895 A1 - A. B. Wilkes KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. A world without vice in 1905 brought about by women refusing to have anything to do with men who were in any way touched by vice. Complete gender equality: both men and women are bound by the same law of chastity.

PB - Author CY - Brownwood, TX U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Guesses at Futurity" Y1 - 1895 A1 - Francis Masey AB -

One of a series of one-page satirical sketches. See 1894-95 Jane for the rest of the series.

JF - Pall Mall Magazine VL - 6 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hedged With Divinities Y1 - 1895 A1 - Edward Tregear (1846-1931) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

All men die but one, who has been put into a trance by Maori elders. The women generally make a mess of things. When the man awakes, he is made king, whereupon he organizes the women, who only needed a man to direct them, and the road to recovery begins. But he is required to marry one hundred women and runs away for true love with a woman who won't share him with others.

PB - R. Coupland Harding CY - Wellington, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - An Ideal Republic or Way Out of the Fog Y1 - 1895 A1 - Corwin Phelps KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Reformed capitalism with a limit on wealth.

PB - W.L. Reynolds CY - Chicago, IL VL - No. 10 of American Politics, February 1896 ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Inhabitants of Mars. Their Manners and Advancement in Civilization and Their Opinion of Us Y1 - 1895 A1 - Professor W[illis] Mitchell KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia of physical perfection, telepathy, and advanced technology. All food is manufactured, predigested, and delivered to homes in electric wagons. Can choose the gender of their children.  The author was a revivalist and a member of New England Evangelical Association, and much of the novel expresses his religious views through the Martian interpretation of Christianity.

PB - C.E. Spofford & Co CY - Malden, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Magazine Causerie" Y1 - 1895 A1 - L .F. Austin AB -

A spoof of H.G. Wells's 1895 "The Time Machine" set in the year 150,000. English spoken as spelt. Ghosts everywhere. Bored; sleep 20 hours per day; no knowledge of history. Women dominate men.

JF - Illustrated London News U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Marmaduke, Emperor of Europe. Being a Record of Some Strange Adventures in the Remarkable Career of a Political and Social Reformer Who Was Famous at the Commencement of the Twentieth Century Y1 - 1895 A1 - [Frank Attfield] [Fawkes] KW - Male author AB -

In Chapter II there is a vision of a future eutopia in which capitalists help each other and cooperate with labor, prisons are industries, and agricultural workers are not oppressed. The only negative is a war with "Orientals". By the end of the book the vision has been realized.

PB - Edmund Durrant/Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent CY - Chelmsford, Eng./London U3 -

X [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Marshall Duke of Denver or The Labor Revolution of 1920. A Novel Y1 - 1895 A1 - [Ernest Hugh] [Fitzpatrick] (1863-1933) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia includes some reforms but mostly on the revolution to achieve the better society. Graduated income tax; tax on imported luxury items; free trade; government ownership of railroads and telegraph; municipal ownership of street railroads (201). All money replaced by script based on real estate (190-91). Standing army and a large navy. Capital punishment for murder a federal law.

PB - Donohue and Henneberry Company CY - Chicago, IL U3 -

Hugo Barnaby [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Memorable Voyages of Rebel and Victory Y1 - 1895 A1 - Rev. A[lbert] B[arnes] King (1828-1914) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Bunyanesque Christian allegory with ships battling and visiting various countries.

PB - James H. Earle CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mercia, The Astronomer Royal: A Romance Y1 - 1895 A1 - A[melia] Garland Mears (ca. 1842-1920) KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

Eutopia focusing on a better life for women in 2002. Advanced technology. Population controlled voluntarily.

PB - Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Company CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Milltillionaire Y1 - 1895 A1 - [Albert Waldo] [Howard] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Rational, scientific, statist eutopia established by a wealthy man. From 24 to 40 everyone must provide a minimum amount of labor.

PB - np CY - [Boston, MA] N1 -

Another ed. has subtitle or, Age of Bardization. Boston, MA: Author, 1898. Rpt. American Utopias. Selected Short Fiction. Ed. Arthur O. Lewis, Jr. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971. All items separately paged.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Monomaniacs. A Fable in Finance Y1 - 1895 A1 - Henry [Albert] Seymour (1861-1938) KW - Male author AB -

Satire on capitalism set in Lunarland.

JF - Liberty: A Journal of Anarchist Communism (London) VL - 2.24 N1 -

Rpt. London: William Reeves, 1895. 8 pp. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Newest Woman: The Destined Monarch of the World Y1 - 1895 A1 - Millie Finkelstein KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Anti-feminist satire set in 1950 showing the dangers of women taking on men's roles.

PB - Pat Finn CY - Melbourne, VIC, Australia VL - Special shilling ed. U1 -

Cover subtitle is The New Theatrical, Sporting, and Sensational Australian Story.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Opening of the Chamber" Y1 - 1895 A1 - Robert W[illiam] Chambers (1865-1933) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

After a series of conflicts and war with Germany, the United States has created a eutopian life, but the government begins to encourage suicide. No explanation is given.

JF - The King in Yellow PB - F. Tennyson Neely CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in The World's Shortest Stories: An Anthology. Ed. Richard G. Hubler (New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1961), 71-74.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Our Industrial Utopia and Its Unhappy Citizens Y1 - 1895 A1 - David Hilton Wheeler (1829-1902) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Essay arguing that the United States is currently a eutopia although more free competition would make things even better.

PB - A.C. McClurg and Company CY - Chicago, IL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The People of the Moon. A Novel Y1 - 1895 A1 - [Edward] Tremlett Carter (1866-1903) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A complex multi-genre novel set in a hollow moon combining adventure, fantasy, romance, and science fiction, which is the emphasis of the novel. Some on the lives of the people.

PB - "The Electrician” Printing and Publishing Co. and Simpkin Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, and Co. CY - London U2 -

Illus. A. d’Aguilcourt

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Problem of Civilization Solved Y1 - 1895 A1 - Mary Elizabeth [Clyens] Lease (1850-1933) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia but also racist. Tropical emigration by whites--". . . fifty million white families as planters on estates of 200 acres each, with three families of Negroes or Orientals as tillers of the soil" (17).

PB - Laird and Lee CY - Chicago, IL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Repairer of Reputations” Y1 - 1895 A1 - Robert W[illiam] Chambers (1865-1933) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story begins with a detailed description of a eutopia set in 1920. The eutopia was brought about following the almost successful invasion of the U.S. by Germany. The country is prosperous, the cities are being systematically improved, as are the fine arts and the national park system. Religious toleration has been established. Voluntary euthanasia has been instituted. Elements of racism in that racial and ethnic problems have been solved by limiting immigration, expelling all foreign-born Jews, establishing a separate Negro state, and recruiting Indians into separate squadrons in the military. The story then shifts to the protagonist’s belief that he is the descendent of American royalty and that he is fated to rule.

JF - The King in Yellow PB - F. Tennyson Neely CY - New York N1 -

Also, in Neely’s Prismatic Library (New York: F. Tennyson Neely, 1895), 9-54. Rpt. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1902), 1-44; and in Dystopia Utopia Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Tales (London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2016), 78-98. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Root of the Matter: Being a Series of Dialogues on Social Questions Y1 - 1895 A1 - H[enry] H[yde] Champion (1859-1928) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Fiction in which one person describes socialism.

PB - E.W. Cole CY - Melbourne, VIC, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Secret of Mankind With Some Singular Hints Gathered in the Elsewheres or After-Life, From Certain Eminent Personages As Also Some Brief Account of the Planet Mercury and Of Its Institutions Y1 - 1895 A1 - [Willis] [Brewer] (1844-1912) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The eutopia is on Mercury. Life is centered on the parish and in the parish on the communal hall, which is always open. Each hall has a library, museum, etc., and education takes place there through contact with educated people. Disputes are adjudicated there, contracts and marriages announced, plays performed, etc. Everyone works at a variety jobs. There are no taxes, no holidays, and estates vest in the parish on death. Only about 50% of the people marry. Marriage is seen as a partnership of equals and divorce is easy and frequent.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The State of Medicine in the Year 1945" Y1 - 1895 A1 - Albert Abrams (1863-1924) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire. Capsule food has eliminated most disease. The number of physicians limited by law. Prevention of illness was the responsibility of one group of doctors; another group consulted in cases of severe illness; another castrated those guilty of crimes (no capital punishment); and another practiced euthanasia when the illness was incurable. Novels included ads.

JF - Transactions of the Antiseptic Club Reported by Albert Abrams, A Member of the San Francisco Medical Profession PB - E.B. Treat/E.C. Treat/J.Q. Adams & Co./N.D. McDonald/John P. Hobart/Johnson and Emigh CY - New-York/Chicago, IL/Boston, MA/New Orleans, LA/Cincinnati, OH/San Francisco, CA N1 -

Rpt. (New York: E.B. Treat, 1902), 179-205.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Story of Strange Sights" Y1 - 1895 A1 - Ethel Turner (1870-1958) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Satire. Future in which many of the social fads of the time have been implemented, but with children raised by the state and everyone better off.

JF - Australian Town and Country Journal (Sydney, NSW, Australia) VL - 51 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Time Machine: An Invention Y1 - 1895 A1 - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Gradual development of two classes, the Eloi and the Morlocks, who are the final stages of the bourgeoisie and the proletariat, respectively. An authorized sequel is 1995 Barnes. There are many unauthorized sequels.

PB - William Heinemann CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in The Works of H.G. Wells Atlantic Edition. Volume I The Time Machine The Wonderful Visit and Other Stories (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1924), 1-118. Except for later critical editions, The Atlantic Edition is generally considered the best text of Wells’s works. Also rpt. in Amazing Stories 2.2 (May 1927): 148-78; in Famous Fantastic Mysteries 11.6 (August 1950): 10-53; in Two Complete Science-Adventure Books 1.4 (Winter 1951): 2-44; in Three Prophetic Novels of H.G. Wells. Ed. E.F. Bleiler (New York: Dover Publications, 1960), 263-335 [Follows the 1895 Heinemann ed. except for including an episode from the National Review serial left out of book versions (325-27); as The Definitive Time Machine: A Critical Edition of H.G. Wells’s Scientific Romance With Introduction and Notes by Harry M. Geduld. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987; Ed. Michael Moorcock. London: Everyman, 1993; Rev. Centennial ed. ed. John Lawton. London: Everyman, 1995; as The Time Machine: An Invention. A Critical Text of the 1895 London First Edition, with an Introduction and Appendices. Ed. Leon Stover. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 1996; Ed. Nicholas Ruddick. Peterborough, ON, Canada: Broadview Press, 2001; Ed. Patrick Parrinder. London: Penguin Books, 2005, with an “Introduction” by Marina Warner (xiii-xxviii), a “Note on the Text” by Patrick Parrinder (xxxi-xxxiv), and “Notes” by Steven McLean (97-104); and in London: Gollancz, 2010, with an “Introduction” by Gwyneth Jones (vii-xi). Illustrated by Ale + Ale [Alessandro Lecis and Alessandra Panzeri]. Beverly, MA: Rockport Publishers/Quarto Group, 2019. See also, “The Missing Pages from the Immortal Science Fiction Novel by H.G. Wells. The Time Machine XIII. The Further Vision.” Satellite Science Fiction 2.6 (August 1958): 98-109]; Collectors Edition. Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1964 illus. Joe Mugnaini and with an “Introduction” (v-xi) by George Zebrowski; the title page says that the introduction is by Brian W. Aldiss, but it is signed by Zebrowski. Differing text in New York: Henry Holt, 1895 [by three weeks, this is technically the first edition]. The Time Machine began life as “The Chronic Argonauts.” Science Schools Journal 2.11 - 13 (April - June 1888): 312-20, 336-41, 367-71. Serialized versions that differed from each other and from the first book version appeared as a series without a common title in the National Observer as follows: “Time Travelling: Possibility or Paradox?” 11.278 (March 17, 1894): 446-47; “The Time Machine.” 11.279 (March 24, 1894): 472-73; “A.D. 12,203: A Glimpse of the Future.” 11.280 (March 31, 1894): 499-500; “The Refinement of Humanity.” 11.283 (April 21, 1894): 581-82; “The Sunset of Mankind.” 11.284 (April 28, 1894): 606-08; “In the Underworld.” 12.287 (May 19, 1894): 14-15; and “The Time Traveller Returns.” 12.292 (June 23, 1894): 145-47; and as “The Time Machine.” New Review 12.68 - 72 (January - May 1895): 98-112, 207, 221, 329-43, 453-72, 577-88. Much of The National Observer version and some of the New Review version can be found in H.G. Wells: Early Writings in Science and Science Fiction. Ed. Robert M. Philmus and David Y. Hughes (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975), 57-104. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Uncle Sam's" Cabins. A Story of American Life Looking Forward a Century Y1 - 1895 A1 - Benjamin Rush Davenport KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel begins in 1994 in a dystopia in which the military is used to control the poor and the poor are then enslaved. The U.S. produces very little that can be exported; an import tax supports the government and makes imported goods expensive. The U.S. has adopted primogeniture, and estates go to the eldest son. The solution, in about 2014, is to abolish serfdom, re-establish the original U.S. Constitution, and become a free trade nation.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Utopia"; The Story of a Strange Experience Y1 - 1895 A1 - Frederic Condé Williams (ed.) [written by] (1844-1917) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

An isolated island Arcadia. Nudity, no formal marriage. Children are raised by the community.

PB - Metcalfe and Company CY - Cambridge, Eng. VL - The Cambridge Christmas Annual 1895 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Who Wrote It? A Cabinet Meeting" Y1 - 1895 A1 - [Charlotte Perkins] [Gilman] (1860-1935) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Part of a series emulating various writers. This example, modeled on Edward Bellamy, shows the leaders of a future eutopian society deciding how to make their society better. The President and many members of the Cabinet are women. 

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Gilman's note on the story can be found in The Impress (January 12, 1895): 3; and in The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Stories. Ed. Robert Shulman (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1995), 329-30.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Wife Manufactured to Order” Y1 - 1895 A1 - Alice W. Fuller KW - Female author AB -

Satire on marriage. 

JF - The Arena (Boston, MA) VL - 13.68 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Yellow Wave: A Romance of the Asiatic Invasion of Australia Y1 - 1895 A1 - James Alexander Kenneth Mackay (1859-1935) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Anti-Chinese dystopia. Satire on contemporary Australia.

PB - Richard Bentley CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in an “Australian” edition. London: Richard Bentley, 1897; rpt. with an “Introduction” (xi-xxxiv, 312-17). Ed. Andrew Enstice and Janeen Webb. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2003 with textual notes (317-45). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - '2894'; or, The Fossil Man (A Mid-Winter Night's Dream) Y1 - 1894 A1 - Walter Browne KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Gender-role reversal. Technology.

PB - G.W. Dillingham CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - '96; A Romance of Utopia, Presenting a Solution to the Labor Problem, A New God and A New Religion Y1 - 1894 A1 - Frank Rosewater (1856-1934) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia and eutopia. Three imaginary countries are presented: Lukka, a capitalist dystopia in which commerce is worshipped; Utopia, a communal system based on the labor theory of value; and a transformed United States of the period 1896-1930 also based on the labor theory of value and the success of the Free Labor Party. See also 1908 (2), 1917, 1920, and 1925 Rosewater.

PB - The Utopia Company CY - Omaha, NB N1 -

Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971. Also entitled Utopia; A Romance of Today Presenting a Solution to the Labor Problem, A New God and A New Religion. New York: F.T. Neely, 1897.

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Also entitled Utopia; A Romance of Today Presenting a Solution to the Labor Problem, A New God and A New Religion. New York: F.T. Neely, 1897.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A.D. 1900--Application for Leave to Give a Dinner" Y1 - 1894 A1 - [Herbert] [George] [Wells] (1866-1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on contemporary manners projected slightly into the future.

JF - Pall Mall Gazette VL - no. 9221 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Beyond the Ice: Being a Story of the Newly Discovered Region Round the North Pole. Edited from Dr. Frank Farleigh's Diary Y1 - 1894 A1 - G[eorge] Read Murphy (ed.) [written by] (1856-1925) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Detailed Christian, socialist, technological, eugenic eutopia at the North Pole. Egalitarian with systems in place to encourage high quality work. A description of a model prison farm is included (115/Claeys 114-15) and a model farm (174-81/Claeys 165-72). About half the novel deals with conflict with another country and war. 

PB - Sampson Low, Marston & Co. and M.L. Hutchinson CY - London and Melbourne, VIC, Australia N1 -

Rpt. in Late Victorian Utopias: A Prospectus. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 6 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2009), 5: 3-300. Editor's notes, 1, 301-02.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The City at the End of Things” Y1 - 1894 A1 - Archibald Lampman (1861-99) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopian poem about a city that was once vibrant but is now mostly a machine without humans. 

JF - The Atlantic Monthly (Boston, MA) VL - 73.3 N1 -

Rpt. in A Victorian Anthology 1837-1895. Selections Illustrating the Editor’s Critical Review of British Poetry in the Reign of Victoria. Ed. Edmund Clarence Stedman (Cambridge, MA: Riverside Press, 1895), 2: 661-62; in his Alcyone (Ottawa, ON, Canada: James Ogilvy, 1899), 5-8 (12 copy edition); and as The City at the End of Things. Ottawa, ON, Canada: The Golden Dog, 1973. Mss. with various titles dated 1892 are held by Public Archives of Canada and the University of Toronto Library. A note in the Golden Dog edition says that the reprints included errors. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Coming Terror; or, The Australian Revolution. A Romance of the Twentieth Century Y1 - 1894 A1 - S[amuel] A[lbert] Rosa (1866-1940) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Socialist eutopia. Nationalization. Cheap money, free land, no interest, no lawyers, universal suffrage. Four hour workday; pension at 45. About half the text concerns the problems of the transition to socialism.

PB - Author CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia N1 -

Rpt. as Oliver Spence, The Australian Caesar, or The Coming Terror. Sydney, NSW, Australia: Author, 1895. Except for a one page "To the Reader" in the first edition calling for peaceful rather than violent change, the texts are identical.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Co-operative State Farm Scheme: A Means for Providing Remunerative Employment for All Surplus Labour; A Home for the Aged, Infirm, and Needy; Ways and Means for Teaching Trades, or Such Other Technical Education To Our Rising Generation As Will Enable Them To Earn Their Own Maintenance; and Totally Abolishing Poor Rates. In Three Parts Y1 - 1894 A1 - W. H. Clarke KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author AB -

The author outlines two schemes. First, he proposes to establish four farms in different parts of the country where new immigrants can be taken to avoid being fleeced and to learn to farm by working for six to twelve months. Second, he proposes that six blocks of 20,000 to 25,000 acres each be set aside for state cooperative farms where able bodied unemployed, orphans from age ten, and former prostitutes will be able to work. The children will learn for two years and then work in "flower culture" for two years to pay back their education. At fourteen boys become state apprentices to learn skills; girls at fourteen are taught domestic skills. Includes costs of the scheme.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Curse and Its Cure in Two Volumes Y1 - 1894 A1 - Dr. T[homas] P[ennington] Lucas (1843-1917) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

A religious dystopia followed by a religious eutopia. Volume I, set in 2000, describes a Brisbane that has essentially disappeared and ends with a description of Hell. Volume II, set in 2200, describes a Brisbane revived and ends with a description of Heaven. Land and mineral wealth nationalized, and “rational” dress adopted, but the key change is the return to religion. Eight-hour workday. See also 1889 Lucas.

PB - J.H. Reynolds CY - Brisbane, QLD, Australia ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dashed Against the Rocks: A Romance of the Coming Age Y1 - 1894 A1 - William [Wilberforce] J[uvenal] Colville (1862-1917) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Spiritualism including a briefly described eutopia on Mars. The chief representatives of the twelve districts of Mars are twelve married couples who legislated with no strife. Martians cooperate for the good of all. Mars is scientifically advanced, and it is also religious in that they have knowledge of God.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Devil's Pronoun" Y1 - 1894 A1 - Frances Forbes Robertson (1866-1956) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

An egalitarian eutopia with people living a simple life where the language has no possessive pronoun. Satan introduces possessive pronouns and destroys the eutopia.

JF - The Devil's Pronoun and Other Phantasies PB - Reeves & Turner CY - London U2 -

With Five Designs by E[ric] F[orbes] R[obertson] (1865-1935).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The English Revolution of the Twentieth Century; A Prospective History Y1 - 1894 A1 - Henry Lazarus, ed. [written by] (1855-1922) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Mostly criticism of contemporary society from the perspective of a future eutopia. The Salvation Army, while remaining a religious body, is remodeled into a real army and leads the essentially peaceful revolution. But after the revolution, slum landlords and others who had preyed upon the poor were turned over to those they had preyed upon, who killed them. Government replaced, although the king is kept. Slum clearance. Much on the period of transition and details of reforms in the economy, politics, education, law, and social relations.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - From Earth's Center. A Polar Gateway Message Y1 - 1894 A1 - S. Byron Welcome (1861-1948) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Decentralized capitalist eutopia with a tax of land values. The President is chosen by Congress.

PB - Charles H. Kerr CY - Chicago, IL N1 -

Rpt. Chicago, IL: Charles H. Kerr, 1895.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Guesses at Futurity" Y1 - 1894 A1 - Fred[erick] T[homas] Jane (1865-1916) KW - English author AB -

A series of one-page satirical sketches.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Human Drift Y1 - 1894 A1 - King Camp Gillette (1855-1932) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia brought about by founding a gigantic corporation which gradually absorbs the whole world economy. The book includes a number of plates showing the city and buildings. See also 1910 and 1924 Gillette and his The Ballot Box. Brookline, MA: Author, 1897. https://ia800503.us.archive.org/23/items/ballotbox00gill/ballotbox00gill.pdf. The author invented the safety razor.

PB - New Era Publishing Company CY - Boston, MA N1 -

A second issue with minor revisions (see page xxi in Roemer’s introduction to the Scholars’ Facsimiles and Reprints edition). Twentieth Century Library (January 1895). New York: The Humboldt Publishing Co., 1895. Rpt. as The Human Drift (1894). Delmar, NY: Scholars’ Facsimiles and Reprints, 1976, with an Introduction by Kenneth M. Roemer (iii-xxiii).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Hygenic Country” Y1 - 1894 A1 - [Herbert] [George] [Wells] (1866-1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on reforms in hygiene and diet through an island called Hygeia where anything that might cause disease has been destroyed and the water purified. The people eat only brown bread, stewed fruit, and new milk.

JF - Lika Joko VL - no. 9 U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Ideal City Y1 - 1894 A1 - Rev. Canon [Samuel Augustus] Barnett (1844-1913) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia that the author argues is possible. Stress on variety but no very rich or poor. Religion, education, health. Outlines how England could become such a eutopia, with Bristol the specific city being considered. See also Samuel [Augustus] Barnett and Henrietta Barnett, Practicable Socialism: Essays on Social Reform. London: Longmans, Green, 1888. Rpt. in 1894 and 1915.

PB - Arrowsmith CY - Bristol, Eng. N1 -

Rpt. in The Ideal City. Ed. Helen E. Meller (Leicester, Eng.: Leicester University Press, 1979), 55-66 with a "Note to The Ideal City (47-53).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - If Christ Came to Chicago! A Plea for the Union of All Who Love in the Service of All Who Suffer Y1 - 1894 A1 - William T[homas] Stead (1849-1912) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Religious, cooperative eutopia in one chapter entitled "In the Twentieth Century." For a response, see 1894 Hale, “If Jesus Came to Boston.” For non-utopian works using the same trope, see M[ilford] W[riarson] Howard. If Christ Came to Congress. Washington, DC: Author, 1894; Howard, What Christ Saw: Sequel to "If Christ Came to Congress". [Washington, DC]: Author, 1897; and Richard Marsh, A Second Coming. London: John Lane: The Bodley Head, 1900.

PB - Review of Reviews CY - London N1 -

New ed. as If Christ Came to Chicago! What Would Jesues Do with The Precursor of “In His Steps.” at the head of the title. London: “Review of Reviews” Office, 1899. U.S. ed. Chicago, IL: Laird & Lee, 1894.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "If Jesus Came to Boston" Y1 - 1894 A1 - Edward Everett Hale (1822-1909) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A response to 1894 Stead, If Christ Came to Chicago! in which Hale presents a Boston so much better than the reality in supporting immigrants and the poor, that it can only be called a eutopia based on charity and welfare. See also M.W. Howard's If Christ Came to Congress.  Washington ,  DC : Author, 1894; Howard, What Christ Saw: Sequel to “If Christ Came to Congress”. [Washington, DC]: Author, 1897; and Richard Marsh's A Second Coming. London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1900, which present contemporary reactions to a supposed Second Coming.

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Also published as a book. Boston, MA: J. Stilman Smith & Co., 1894. Rpt. Boston, MA: Lamson, Wolffe, 1895.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - In the China Sea Y1 - 1894 A1 - Seward W[ashington] Hopkins (1864-1919) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia and dystopia. Island of Talmooch in the China Sea. In the past it had been a eutopia with an elected monarch, peace and prosperity with no great differences of income, and low taxes. Naturally moral. The Chinese take over and create a dystopia. The Chinese are then overthrown.

PB - Robert Bonner's Sons CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. as A Chase for Love; or, In the China Sea. New York: Street & Smith, 1894.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Island of Opera” Y1 - 1894 A1 - [Herbert] [George] [Wells] (1866-1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on opera in which sailors come across the Island of Opera in the Archipelago of Music.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ivanda or the Pilgrim's Quest: A Tale Y1 - 1894 A1 - [Sir] Captain Claude [Arthur] Bray (b. 1858) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia or flawed utopia. A lost community in Tibet that was intended to be a utopian religious community is more dystopian as a result of some evil men with power in the community. Mostly adventure and romance.

PB - Frederick Warne CY - London U1 -

Cover title is Ivanda: A Tale of Thibet.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Journey in Other Worlds: A Romance of the Future Y1 - 1894 A1 - John Jacob Astor [IV] (1864-1912) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. Set in 2000 AD. The novel is mostly concerned with a journey to Jupiter and Saturn. Jupiter is essentially a prehistoric planet inhabited by dinosaurs. Saturn is inhabited by the spirits of the Earth's dead, who are waiting for the Second Coming. The eutopia on earth is one in which electricity does all the work. Canada and South America have joined the U.S.

PB - D. Appleton CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Journey to Mars. The Wonderful World: Its Beauty and Splendor; Its Mighty Races and Kingdoms; Its Final Doom Y1 - 1894 A1 - Gustavus W[illiam] Pope M.D. (1828-1902) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia but much of the novel is an adventure story. There is a linear city that is 2,000 miles long and 20 miles wide with a population of twenty-five million and eleven other slightly smaller linear cities. Universal language. One religion. Highly advanced technically and artistically. Monarchy with some living in luxury. There is differential wealth but no poverty. Three peoples with red, yellow, or blue skin color who are all equal. Pluto was once inhabited, and a few Plutonians survive on Mars.

PB - G.W. Dillingham CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. Westport, CT: Hyperion Press, 1974.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Labor As Money: A Story With a Purpose. Presenting a Practical, Automatic Currency of Stationary Value, Contracting and Relaxing According to the Demands of the Country for Exchange Y1 - 1894 A1 - John O[tho] Yeiser (1866-1928) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Economic novel that includes a proposal for Labor Certificates replacing U.S. currency that is expected to lead to a eutopia. The Appendix (202-12) includes the proposed legislation.

PB - Arena Publishing Co CY - Boston, MA N1 -

Versions of the same argument were made in Automated Elastic Currency. Omaha, NB: National Magazine Association, 1915; Exp. as My Country! My Congress! Omaha, NB: National Magazine Association, 1917. 69 pp.; and Debts of Today and Hell To Pay. Illus. Maps. Omaha, NB: National Magazine Association, 1918. 88 pp. An extract had been published in Successful Farming (Des Moines, IA) (February - March 1915). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Land of the Changing Sun Y1 - 1894 A1 - Will[iam] N[athaniel Harben (1858-1919) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Lost race novel set inside the Earth. On the whole the society is presented positively and can be considered a technological utopia. The exception to the positive presentation is that dissidents are banished to a barren waste and almost certain death. At the end a natural disaster threatens to destroy the society, and the people choose to become Christians, divide their wealth equally, and return to the surface.

PB - Merriam Company CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1975.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Land of the Hereafter" Y1 - 1894 AB -

A means of freezing people for a specified number of years replaces other forms of punishment. A man is sentenced for a crime of passion and wakes up in a future eutopia in which educated apes do all the work.

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Rpt. as part of the serial by [George Locke], “Cheap Century Return.” By Ethan Barlass [pseud.] (London: Ferret Fantasy, [2004]), unpaged. The serial ran in Ferret Fantasy book catalogs between 2003 and 2008. In a 2013 email to me Locke told me that Barlass was a pseudonym he used.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lords of Misrule; A Tale of Gods and of Men Y1 - 1894 A1 - William C[urtis] Pomeroy KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A series of future dystopias. The excesses of capitalism are replaced by the excesses of state socialism, which collapses into simple rule by violence. Suggests that the United States in the 1890s was a eutopia.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Man and His Soul: An Occult Romance of Washington Life Y1 - 1894 A1 - T[heron] C[lark] Crawford, K.C. KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Detailed eutopia. Stress on training for public life. On the Island of Nolos it is possible to see the ideal organization of life. Chapter XVII (166-71), “Picturing Ideal Possibilities of Our Future National Life,” describes the city of Washington. Chapter XVIII (172-83), “The Life of the Nation After Ideal Conditions Are Reached,” describes the noble profession of politics and the education provided for those planning on entering this profession, which includes travel to other countries, free mass education, including physical training, that is compulsory for the poor, with the children fed at need, every public building open 24 hours and usable as shelter by the poor, and the technological advances that provides free light and heat and food in liquid form but with exquisite taste at cost. Municipalities like companies with only property-owners having a say. Chapter XXII (213-22), “Showing the Future Government of Affairs in the United States,” describes, among other things, a Cabinet in which the highest post is that of Secretary of the Public Welfare, followed by the Secretary of the Liberal Arts. Other cabinet officers are the secretaries of Labor, Commerce, and Spiritual Development. In Chapter XXVIII (223-34) “The ideal President holds a conversation with the real President of the United States.”

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Neuroomia: A New Continent. A Manuscript delivered by the Deep Y1 - 1894 A1 - G[eorge] McIver (1859-1948) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia set at the South Pole. Much adventure. Private property in all but land. Limit on wealth. A system of arbitration, a state medical system, and state employment for all who need it. Mars is inhabited and in advance of Earth and is described in the chapter "Visions of Another World" (264-80). The eutopia is only about half the novel.

PB - Swan Sonnenschein CY - London N1 -

Also published Melbourne, VIC, Australia: George Robertson & Co., 1894.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The New Arcadia: An Australian Story Y1 - 1894 A1 - Horace [Finn] Tucker (1849-1911) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Story of a successful intentional community based on representative democracy that, after many trials and tribulations, produced a good life for its members. Tucker founded village settlements in Australia in the early 1890s. See The Tucker Village Settlements of Victoria. Handbook for the Information of Contributors and Intending Settlers containing--A Brief History of the Movement; An Account of Its Aims, Methods, and Progress; and Particulars As to Settlers. Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Walker, May & Co., 1892.

PB - Swan Sonnenschein CY - London N1 -

Also published Melbourne, VIC, Australia: George Robertson and Co., 1894.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - New Zealand's Great Want. Organisation of Labour Y1 - 1894 KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author AB -

Part I--The Need (2-24) describes the conditions of labour in New Zealand at the time, including homelessness and poverty. Part II---The Remedy (25-38) includes a proposal for a cooperative farm scheme with state support. There are two parts outlined, one for those who can contribute £100 each and one for those who cannot. The former is essentially independent from the state, while the second is funded and controlled by the state to provide employment for the unemployed and transition to independence. The author says it was written in 1891.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “No Mean City” Y1 - 1894 A1 - Henry Demarest Lloyd (1847-1903) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The White City from the World’s Fair Columbian: Exposition in Chicago in 1893 is recreated and in response Chicago eliminated pollution and more generally rebuilt its infrastructure to be compatible with the beauty of the White City. Many people moved out of Chicago and, since they had to return to the city to work, the electricity-based transportation system was radically improved on moved out of sight. Municipally owned utilities. Improved housing for workers. Improved personal relations. More gender equality, including the franchise. No child labor. The remaining problem, a large body of unemployed, was solved by building No Mean City based on the principles of the reformed Chicago. Its great success led to no one living in the old Chicago, which was replaced by a great park full of museums, universities, places of worship, theatres, libraries, and so forth.

JF - In his Mazzini, and Other Essays PB - G. P. Putnam’s Sons CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Henry Demarest Lloyd’s Critiques of American Capitalism, 1881-1903. Ed. Alun Munslow and Owen R. Ashton (Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1995), 133-46.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Off the Face of the Earth: A Story of Possibilities Y1 - 1894 A1 - Lester Bodine KW - Male author AB -

A short visit to Hell is followed by a longer visit to the outskirts of Heaven, where souls are judged.

PB - [Festner Printing Co.] CY - [Omaha, NB] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "One Thousand Dollars a Day" Y1 - 1894 A1 - Adeline Knapp (1860-1909) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Satire on egalitarianism. When every man and woman in the U.S. over eighteen is given one thousand dollars a day, they all quit working. Disaster followed by the voluntary establishment of a labor exchange. Finally, even the bankers and capitalists decided to work.

JF - One Thousand Dollars a Day. Studies in Practical Economics PB - Arena CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Outlaws of the Air" Y1 - 1894 A1 - [George Chetwynd Griffith] [Jones] (1857-1906) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Mostly adventure and future war, but two chapters describe eutopias that stress personal freedom in an explicitly capitalist setting. The first is a simple, escapist, South Seas Island eutopia without the usual implication of sexual freedom. The second includes all the islands of the South Seas and is a new, independent company set up by the good capitalists who have wrested control of the air from the bad anarchists.

JF - Short Stories (London) VL - 11.297 - 325 N1 -

Rpt. as by George Griffith [pseud.]. London: Tower Publishing Company, 1895. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Preparing for the Twentieth Century. Being the Fifth Edition (Revised) of "Towards Fraternal Organisation" Y1 - 1894 A1 - J. Bruce Wallace KW - Male author AB -

Non-fiction cooperative eutopia. See also, The Exchange Circle of the Co-operative Brotherhood Trust Limited. By-Laws and Forms Passed by the Committee of the C.B.T. and a Practical Explanation of Them by J. Bruce Wallace. London: Brotherhood Trust, [1894].

PB - Brotherhood Trust CY - London N1 -

Rpt. as Preparing for the Twentieth Century. 2nd. ed. London: Brotherhood Press, 1897; 2nd ed. London: The Co-operative Brotherhood Trust, Ltd.; and “Clarion” Office, 1897. Also, Preparing for the Twentieth Century. 2nd ed. May 1897. London: The Co-operative Brotherhood Trust, 1897. Rpt. Serially in Tocsin (Melbourne, VIC, Australia), nos. 27 - 33 (March 31 - May 12, 1898): 2, 2, 3, 2, 3, 3, 3 (M). The only editions of Towards Fraternal Organisation that I have found (Towards Fraternal Organisation: An Explanation of the Brotherhood Trust. 2nd ed. rev. and 3rd ed. rev. London: Brotherhood Trust, [1894]) are not as explicitly utopian. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Product-Sharing Village Y1 - 1894 A1 - Walter Thomas Mills M.A. (1856-1942) KW - US author AB -

Mostly on the contemporary situation but includes a proposal for the collective ownership of a village (land, houses, machinery) and the sharing by the workers of the products their labor. Christian. Six-hour day would leave leisure time for education for both men and women. Women enfranchised and all public policy questions put to a direct vote. Initiative and referendum available. Traditional families. See also 1904 Mills.

PB - Civic Letters Co CY - Chicago, IL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Prospectus of Socialism; or, A Glimpse of the Millenium, Showing Its Plan and Working Arrangements and How It May Be Brought About Y1 - 1894 A1 - William Thomson KW - Male author AB -

Detailed description of a socialist eutopia including chapters on housing, the distribution of goods, the organization of trade and commerce, the organization of agriculture, training, religious freedom, government, law and order, and amusements and recreation.

PB - Ptd. by W. Reeves CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Regeneration of Two" Y1 - 1894 A1 - [Mary Chavelita] [Dunne] (1859-1945) KW - Australian author KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

The focus of the story is a woman who is dissatisfied with her own life and the hypocrisies of life in contemporary Norway, but the middle section describes the successful community she creates on her estate where she helps others who are rejected by the hypocrites.

JF - Discords PB - John Lane/Roberts Bros. CY - London/Boston, MA N1 -

Rpt. as Keynotes and Discords (London: Virago, 1983), 163-253 [The two books are separately paged in the reprint]. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Rest Y1 - 1894 A1 - William W. Wheeler KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia based on 1888 Bellamy. Adam and Eve appear in Springfield, Massachusetts, Bellamy's hometown, having paid their full penalty. Mental control of the physical world.

PB - Arena Publishing Co CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Revolt of the----: A Page from the domestic history of the Twentieth Century" Y1 - 1894 A1 - Robert Barr (1850-1912) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Gender-role reversal satire.

JF - The Idler Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly VL - 5.4 N1 -

Rpt. in When Women Rule. Ed. Sam[uel] Moskowitz (New York: Walker, 1972), 62-71.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Second Discovery of America" Y1 - 1894 A1 - M. G. Weaver AB -

Cooperative, decentralized eutopia.

JF - Progressive Thought and Dawn of Equity (Olathe, KS) VL - 2.7 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sophos or Kidnapping the Kings. A Fin de Siecle Vision Y1 - 1894 A1 - Albert Alberg KW - Male author AB -

Socialists kidnap most of the worlds monarchs and isolate them on an island, called New Atlantica with its harbor Altruria, where they are required to live and work like normal human beings. On the whole, the young ones see the situation in eutopian terms.

PB - Bow-Knot Publishing CY - Chicago, IL VL - Vol. 1.1 of the White Star Series (June 1894) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Splendid Paupers. A Tale of the Coming Plutocracy Y1 - 1894 A1 - [William Thomas] [Stead] (1849-1912) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. A future Britain in which wealthy Chinese now dominate and the formerly wealthy have had to give up their estates. 

JF - Review of Reviews PB - Review of Reviews CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - Talmud; A Strange Narrative of Central Australia. Founded on Natural Facts Y1 - 1894 A1 - Ivan Dexter [pseud?] AB -

Underground lost race eutopia/dystopia of whites in central Australia, who had slowly been driven there over centuries before Australia was a separate continent. Communal with no money, food shared with a communal kitchen, and two to three hours of pleasurable work daily. Traditional gender roles. Education by repetition. Perceived by the outside protagonist to be a cruel dystopia. This part of the novel can be found in issues 27. 4185, 4187, 4189, 4191, 4193 (March 2 - 30, 1895).

JF - Tuapeka Times (New Zealand) VL - 26 - 27. For issue numbers, see Full Text U3 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Toddle Island. Being the Diary of Lord Bottsford Y1 - 1894 A1 - [James Dennis] [Hird] (1850-1920) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on British life, politics, and society that presents them as both remarkably inconsistent and extremely silly. The one positive feature of Toddle Island is a cooperative laundry, and, at the end of the novel, a larger cooperative system is being established.

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Lord Bottsford [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Traveler from Altruria Y1 - 1894 A1 - William Dean Howells (1837-1920) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

This and its sequel (see 1907 Howells) depict first the troubles of the contemporary United States and then an arcadia. Simpler life. Cities gradually disappear. Home and family central to Altrurian life. No money. Christian. Altruria equals altruism.

PB - Harper and Bros. CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. ed. David W. Levy. Boston, MA: Bedford Books of St. Martin’s Press, 1996. Parts, in a different version, were first published as “A Traveller from Altruria.” The Cosmopolitan: a Monthly Illustrated Magazine 14 - 15 (November 1892 - October 1893): 52-58, 251-56, 341-47, 495-500, 633-40, 697-705; 39-46, 249-56, 305-10, 449-56, 635-40, 738-49. This version rpt. in Letters of an Altrurian Traveller (1893-94). Ed. Clara M. Kirk and Rudolf Kirk. Gainesville, FL: Scholars’ Facsimiles & Reprints, 1961. Critical ed. as The Altrurian Romances. Introduction and Notes to the Text by Clara and Rudolf Kirk. Text established by Scott Bennett (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1968), 5-179. An extract from the first story was published in Edward Bellamy’s The New Nation (Boston, MA) 2.48 (November 26, 1892): 701-02.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Trouble of Living Alone Y1 - 1894 A1 - F[rederick] B. Hofman KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Lost race eutopia. The novel begins with the hero spending five years in a Robinson Crusoe situation before being discovered by a community of fifty English-speaking people who are the descendants of three couples who had survived another shipwreck. They live a simple, Christian life that combines individuality (separate homes and gardens) and community of goods administered by people who have been popularly elected. They then visit another eutopia with a simple government, with all government business conducted in public, and modest and moral people. This system ultimately becomes world-wide assisted by means of rapid communication.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Utopia" Y1 - 1894 A1 - S[amuel] C[ooper] C[ope], Probable author (1865?-1928) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Poem. Satire on reform, specifically aimed at Parliamentary action on farming, unemployment, banking, and women's rights.

JF - Otago Witness VL - no. 2118 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Who Wrote It? Five Girls" Y1 - 1894 A1 - [Charlotte Perkins] [Gilman] (1860-1935) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Part of a series emulating various writers. This example, modeled on Louisa May Alcott, shows the establishment of a successful cooperative housekeeping arrangement. 

JF - The Impress (San Francisco) N1 -

Rpt. in The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Stories. Ed. Robert Shulman (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1995), 82-86. Gilman's note on the story can be found in The Impress (December 8, 1894): 5; and in The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Stories. Ed. Robert Shulman (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1995), 327.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Why Not? or Lawyer Truman’s Story Y1 - 1894 A1 - Dr. W[illiam] W. Totheroh KW - Male author AB -

The novel depicts the transformation of a small town into a small city following the arrival of people displaced by the Chicago fire of 1871 and the emergence of one of its churches into an engine for social reform. Some members and others connected to the church create a “Settlement” in a working-class area that provides housing, classes for children through adults, recreation, entertainment, and so forth. The Settlement is connected to a university and students living in it. Unusual in that denominations are rejected, taxing church property is proposed, and missionaries to the cities in the area are preferred over sending people on foreign missions.

PB - W. Ward & Co. CY - Chicago, IL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Women's Conquest of New-York. Being an account of The Rise and Progress of the Women's Rights Movement; of the Grant of Female Suffrage; of the Formation of the Area League; of the Capture by the Women Voters of the Government of New York by the Election as Mayoress of Bridget O'Dowd; and the Season of Female Despotism which thereafter ensued, and which was ended by an appeal to Primitive Natural Law Y1 - 1894 A1 - [Thomas Allibone] [Janvier] (1849-1913) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire. Anti-women's rights. Anti-suffrage, Anti-Irish.

PB - Harper & Brothers CY - New York U3 -

A Member of the Committee of Safety of 1908 [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The World's Last Crisis. An Authentic Record of the Greatest Crisis in the World's History now approaching consummation. A Letter to her Majesty Queen Victoria, of Great Britain and Ireland, and Empress of India. The World's Last Battle. War! Russia and England. Revelations concerning The Jews. A Final Warning Y1 - 1894 A1 - Omega [pseud.] AB -

Armageddon (See Revelation 16) and the Second Coming of Christ, mostly told through Biblical passages.

PB - Marshall Brothers CY - London U3 -

Omega [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Young West; A Sequel to Edward Bellamy's Celebrated Novel, "Looking Backward" Y1 - 1894 A1 - Solomon Schindler (1842-1915) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Education in Bellamy's world but including considerable detail in addition to that on education.

PB - Arena Publishing Company CY - Boston, MA N1 -

Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - 1895 Under Home Rule Y1 - 1893 AB -

Anti-Irish satire. Abortive home rule.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "After the Revolution" Y1 - 1893 A1 - William Wallace (1843-1921) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Satire on socialist revolution.

JF - After the Revolution and other Holiday Fantasies PB - William Hodge & Co. CY - Glasgow, Scot. N1 -

Originally published in the Glasgow Herald (a daily newspaper).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Angel of the Revolution" Y1 - 1893 A1 - [George Chetwynd Griffith] [Jones] (1857-1906) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Mostly on war but includes a detailed depiction of a world with complete disarmament. See also 1893-94 Jones.

JF - Pearson's Weekly VL - 3-4.131-69 N1 -

A synopsis preview was published no. 130 (January 14, 1893): 413. Rev. for book published London: Tower Publishing Co., 1894; and Westport, CT: Hyperion Press, 1974. Part of the original serial but not included in the book was “The Fall of Berlin”; rpt. in The Raid of “Le Vengeur” and Other Stories (London: Ferret Fantasy, 1974), 59-63. 

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George Griffith [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - An Apocalypse of Life Y1 - 1893 A1 - W[alter] T[homas] Cheney (b. 1859) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Spiritual eutopia that will come after death experienced by a spirit who returns to Earth to teach Christ’s message, which is spelled out in a long chapter (165-231) with detailed references to the Bible and other notes. Little detail on the life after death, but there is a stress on intelligence and spirituality. There is no material eating or drinking, and there is a universal language of thought.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - At the Threshold Y1 - 1893 A1 - [Nina] [Picton] KW - Female author AB -

Christian allegory of a soul’s progress after death through various realms occupied by people with different experiences in life, all of whom can still be saved because there is no predestination, and salvation depends entirely on the individual. Ends with the last judgement and the soul entering the final realm with the other saved. 

PB - Cassell Publishing Co. CY - New York U3 -

Laura Dearborn [pseud.]

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Hathi

ER - TY - ABST T1 - August Episodes: Studies in Sociability and Science. Verses by "The Master of the Revels" Y1 - 1893 A1 - Helen Shipton (1857-1945) A1 - A. C. S[hipton] KW - Female author AB -

An odd book set in an imaginary country called Vinland that has similarities to an out-of-term Oxbridge college that includes both men and women, although the latter are not yet in residence. Life is a round of meetings, lectures, and decorous parties presented as ideal.

PB - A.D. Innes & Co. CY - London U2 -

Illus. W[illiam] Smith and F.H. Oldfield

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Battle of Yarra Y1 - 1893 A1 - An Old Colonist [pseud.] KW - Australian author AB -

Mostly future war tale, but it is written as if from a future, federated Australia that is strong and powerful as a result of losing a battle with the Russians. When Britain won the war, Australians realized that they had to unite.

PB - McCarron, Bird & Co., Printers CY - Melbourne, VIC., Australia U3 -

An Old Colonist [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Beginning. A Romance of Chicago As It Might Be Y1 - 1893 AB -

Better public education and estate taxes bring eutopia to Chicago. Higher education for all children; the best stay and go into the professions.

PB - Charles H. Kerr CY - Chicago, IL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Building of the City Beautiful Y1 - 1893 A1 - [Cincinnatus Hiner] [Miller] (1837-1913) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Christian rural or small town eutopia. 

PB - Stone and Kimball CY - Cambridge, MA N1 -

3rd ed. Chicago, IL: Stone and Kimball, 1894. Rev. Trenton, NJ: Albert Brandt, 1905. A note in the 1905 ed. says that three small, partial eds. were published in 1894 and the plates melted. The first ed. was actually published December 10, 1893.

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Joaquin Miller [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “By Act of Parliament, 6 and 7 Edward 15th, Anno Domini 2041” Y1 - 1893 A1 - Helen Hoppner Coode KW - Female author AB -

Starts looking back from 3091 which is a pollution free, safe, disease-free London, where ugly old buildings like the Houses of Parliament have been torn down and replaced by elegant homes. Advanced technology in the homes of the wealthy, but with the comment from the undefined future that it is now in all homes. This was brought about by selecting people to die depending on the food available after the ten-year census, but the story shows the problems, including violations of randomness. The focus is on a young woman from a wealthy family who was one of those selected. Very little social change.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Cityless and Countryless World: An Outline of Practical Co-operative Individualism Y1 - 1893 A1 - Henry Olerich (1851-1927) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. Detailed description of a complete society without traditional city-country divisions or families. Everyone lives in large apartment blocks holding about a thousand people where everyone has their own unit and with a common kitchen, nurseries, and other cooperative amenities. While these buildings cover the landscape and are connected by an elaborate system of roads and railroads, there is enough land between them that everyone has immediate access to green space. Each building is a productive unit and trade among the buildings ensures that each building has all it needs. The book includes a number of charts laying out the organization of the communities. See also 1915, 1923 and 1927 Olerich.

PB - Gilmore and Olerich CY - Holstein, IA N1 -

Rpt. Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Conversations Between the Rabbi of the Boarding House and a Company of Intelligent Ladies and Gentlemen. Being a Series of Conversational Discussions, Pro and Con of the Labor Problem, Monopolies and Trusts, Mission of Machinery, Tariff, Fads in Schools, Official Incompetency, Posthumous Benefices, Newspapers, Patent Laws, the Coming Millennium, Sabbath Observance, the Silver Question, Single Tax, Paternalism, Etc. Etc. Y1 - 1893 A1 - Hon. H[arry] H. Young KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

In the discussion, which is mostly critical, a picture of a better society emerges.The idea of a single tax on land, which is opposed here, originated with Henry George (1839-97). ). For Henry George's explanation of the single tax, see his Progress and Poverty. An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and Of Increase of Want With Increase of Wealth. The Remedy. San Francisco, CA: W.M. Hinton, 1879. Fiftieth Anniversary Ed. New York: The Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, 1929. 

PB - D. Ramaley & Son CY - St. Paul, MN U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Daughters of Cain in the Land of Nod: A Satirical Romance Y1 - 1893 A1 - Mrs. A. M. Freeman KW - Female author AB -

A lost race gender-role reversal novel that is more complicated than most. Anti-religious and feminist.

PB - Donohue, Henneberry & Co CY - Chicago, IL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Earth Revisited Y1 - 1893 A1 - Byron A[lden] Brooks (1845-1911) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia set in 1992. Technology, cooperation, and no idleness. Four-hour workday. Moral training. Air travel. Cooperative bank. Cooperative housekeeping with groups of homes employing housekeepers together. The New York area now called Columbia and Manhattan is all offices with the people living in Westchester County.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Either, Or Y1 - 1893 A1 - Rudolph Leonhart (b. 1832) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on the US with a cooperative eutopia at the end. Considerable emphasis on the evil of trusts. Politically Congress only proposes laws that must be approved by the people. Economically interest is held to three per cent, only high-quality goods are produced, people mostly buy local production, and everyone has good, well-paid jobs. Education required until eighteen, and after that people must pass exams to continue and be admitted to the professions.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "England's Downfall" or, The Last Great Revolution Y1 - 1893 A1 - An Ex-Revolutionist [pseud.] AB -

Anti-socialist dystopia set in 1930.

PB - Digby, Long and Company CY - London U3 -

An Ex-Revolutionist [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Fear of It" Y1 - 1893 A1 - Robert Barr (1850-1912) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Story describing a religious community that believes so deeply in heaven that it welcomes death. Simple, austere life.

JF - The Idler Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly VL - 3.4 N1 -

Rpt. in his The Face and the Mask (London: Hutchinson, 1894), 30-40. U.S. ed. (New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1895), 25-33.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Great Revolution of 1905; or, The Story of the Phalanx, With an Introductory Account of Civilisation in Great Britain at the Close of the Nineteenth Century Y1 - 1893 A1 - Frederick W[illiam] Hayes (1848-1918) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Detailed socialist eutopia describing the development to eutopia with considerable material on the political steps involved. The "Introduction" (Forder v-lxviii/Claeys 169-200/State Industrialism v-lxviii) is a critique of contemporary capitalism or individualism, which is then compared to the preferred collectivism or state industrialism. 

PB - Robert Forder CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Late Victorian Utopias: A Prospectus. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 6 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2009), 4: 165-420. Editor’s notes, 163, 422-30. Rpt. London: Clarion Newspaper Co., 1894. Also published as State Industrialism: The Story of the Phalanx. With an Account of Civilisation in Great Britain at the Close of the Nineteenth Century. London: William Reeves, 1901. Bellamy Library No. 34. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "I Love To Dream of an Ideal City" Y1 - 1893 A1 - Albert Kimsey Owen (1847-1916) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dream of the Topolobampo community (founded 1886) in Mexico written near the end of the struggle to keep it going. Owen, who was the founder of the community, left it in 1893 and never returned. For more detail, see his Integral Co-operation: Its Practical Application. New York: John W. Lovell, 1885. Rpt. Philadelphia, PA: Porcupine Press, 1975 with an introduction entitled "Cooperation and New City Planning" (unpaged) by Robert S. Fogarty and including a number of charts showing the layout of the proposed city.

JF - The New City (New York) VL - 1.25 Supplement N1 -

Rev. ed. as A Dream of an Ideal City. London: Murdoch, [1897].

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Rev. ed. as A Dream of an Ideal City. London: Murdoch, [1897].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "In Those Days--or, Life in the Twentieth Century" Y1 - 1893 A1 - [William Edward] [Graham] (1867-1941) A1 - [Austin Douglas] [Graham] (1869-1941) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia set in 1995 based on cooperation and the single tax. Their The Land and the People: Two Chapters from an Unpublished Social Novel. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Co-operative Printing Co., 1891 [Rpt. in Utopian Brisbane, and all other known Writings of 'Austin South'. Comp. and ed. Bill [William James] Metcalf and Daryll Bellingham (Nathan, Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Australian School of Environmental Studies, Griffith University, 2003), unpaged] includes some of the same material as the novel but focuses particularly on the theories of Henry George and his single tax. For Henry George's explanation of the single tax, see his Progress and Poverty. An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and Of Increase of Want With Increase of Wealth. The Remedy. San Francisco, CA: W.M. Hinton, 1879. Fiftieth Anniversary Ed. New York: The Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, 1929.

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Rpt. in Utopian Brisbane, and all other known Writings of 'Austin South'. Comp. and ed. Bill [William James] Metcalf and Daryll Bellingham (Nathan, Brisbane, QLD.: Australian School of Environmental Studies, Griffith University, 2003), unpaged. After publication, Metcalf discovered that Austin South was two brothers, Austin Douglas Graham and William Edward Graham.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ireland a Nation! The Diary of an Irish Cabinet Minister: Being the History of the First (and Only) Irish National Administration, 1894. Printed from the Ms. Of the Right Hon. Phineas O'Flannagan, Late Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Y1 - 1893 A1 - [Francis (Frank) Frankfort] [Moore] (1855-1931) KW - Irish author KW - Male author KW - Northern Ireland author AB -

Anti-Irish satire

PB - Olley & Co CY - Belfast, Ireland U1 -

Ireland a Nation! is at the head of the title page, and some libraries have cataloged it under the title The Diary of an Irish Cabinet Minister.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ireland a Nation! The Viceroy Muldoon: His Court and Courtship. Including the True Record of His Excellency’s Encounter With the Right Honourable Timothy Moriarty, Prime Minister, in the Lower Castle Yard, Dublin, A.D. 1895. By Bernard O’Hea, Late Yeoman Usher of the Green Rod and Registrar of the Most Emeral Order of the Shamrock and Sunburst (Now Extinct) Y1 - 1893 A1 - [Francis (Frank) Frankfort] [Moore] (1855-1931) KW - Irish author KW - Male author KW - Northern Ireland author AB -

Anti-Home Rule satire. 

PB - Olley & Co. CY - Belfast N1 -

Some copies indicate London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, 1893

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Ireland a Nation! is at the head of the title page, and some libraries have cataloged it under the title The Viceroy Muldoon.

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Bernard O’Hea, Late Yeoman Usher of the Green Rod and Registrar of the Most Emeral Order of the Shamrock and Sunburst (Now Extinct) [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Irish Rebellion of 1898. A Chapter in Future History, from The Supplement to the Imperial History of England, A.D. 1900 Y1 - 1893 A1 - Rev. Alexander Donovan KW - Male author AB -

Standard anti-Home Rule satire.

PB - Hodges Figgis/Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent CY - Dublin, Ireland/London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Island of Progress" Y1 - 1893 A1 - M[ary Eliza] Bramston (1841-1912) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Satire set five hundred years in the future about a future based entirely on science. Equality, but gender roles are unchanged with men working outside the home and women in it, but without servants, science, eugenics, and technology. The physical condition of the race is the highest good. Arranged marriages based on physical characteristics and character. Highly refined. Placid--a phlegmatic mind is best; having an imagination is bad (245-246). Criminals used in scientific experiments (242). Involuntary euthanasia where Extinguishers “extinguish anyone whose existence is hurtful to the progress of the Race” (242). 

JF - The Wild Lass of Estmere and Other Stories PB - Seeley and Co. CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Isle of Feminine Y1 - 1893 A1 - Charles E[lliot] Niswonger KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Gender-role reversal. Anti-feminist imaginary voyage.

PB - Press of Brown Printing Co. CY - Little Rock, AR N1 -

Later ed. under the author's full name New York: G.W. Dillingham, 1894.

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L, W3,3971

ER - TY - ABST T1 - James Ingleton: The History of a Social State A.D. 2000 Y1 - 1893 A1 - Mr. Dick [pseud.] AB -

Revolt against a standard socialist dystopia designed to reintroduce individualism. The monarchy is restored. Pensions are paid at 65, and the out of work are provided with work.

PB - James Blackwood CY - London U3 -

Mr. Dick [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "John Smith" Y1 - 1893 A1 - [Ambrose Gwinett] [Bierce] (1842-1914?) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Utopian satire. The future has a very inaccurate version of the past. Refers to the current Smithocratic form of government, but it is never clarified beyond being a monarchy. Democracy is considered an odd aspect of the past together with women being free.

JF - Fun VL - 17 N1 -

Rpt. as "John Smith, Liberator (From a Newspaper of the Far Future)." The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce. Volume 1 (New York: Neale Pub. Co., 1909), 215-22. Rpt. (New York: Gordian Press, 1966), 1: 215-22; and in The Fall of the Republic and Other Political Satires. Ed. S.T. Joshi and David E. Schultz (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2000), 88-90.

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Rpt. as "John Smith, Liberator (From a Newspaper of the Far Future)." 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "June, 1993" Y1 - 1893 A1 - Julian Hawthorne (1846-1934) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire and eutopia. The satire focuses on the "sleeper awakes" form that was so popular at the time. The eutopia is based on advanced technology that allows people to live at a distance from their work. This results in everyone living on a plot of land of about ten acres, with the disappearance of most cities. Both industry and cultural institutions are grouped into eight locations, four and four, throughout the country.

JF - The Cosmopolitan: a Monthly Illustrated Magazine VL - 14.4 N1 -

Rpt. in Scientific Romance: An International Anthology of Pioneering Science Fiction. Ed. Brian M[ichael] Stableford (Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2017), 187-97.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Ke Whonkus People: A Story of the North Pole Country Y1 - 1893 A1 - John O. Greene KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Mostly an adventure novel but includes a lost race eutopia at the North Pole. Religious freedom. Criminals cured. Need approval for marriage; must be mentally and physically fit, of good character, and have adequate financial resources. Phonetic language.  Free, compulsory education with free textbooks. Says that mass education will eliminate superstition.

PB - Vincent Publishing Co. CY - Indianapolis, IN U5 -

PSt, W3,2262

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A League of Justice or Is It Right To Rob Robbers? Y1 - 1893 A1 - Morrison I[saac] Swift (1856-1946) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. A league of men who take from the rich and give to the poor gradually transform society. Start a free newspaper (first monthly, then weekly, then daily) in all the major languages of the world. Attack lawyers, abolish political parties, improve education, and bring about a revolution. See also 1903 and 1911 Swift, his Vicarious Philanthropy. [New York: np, 18?], and his The Evil Religion Does. Boston, MA: The Liberty Press, 1917.

PB - The Commonwealth Society CY - Boston, MA U5 -

L, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Leeward Land. An Account of a Visit to the United States of America in 1992" Y1 - 1893 A1 - Felix L[eopold] Oswald (1845-1906) KW - Male author AB -

Technological eutopia with lots of inventions. Cable station in the middle of the Atlantic. Little pollution. Sewage no longer dumped. Balloons for rapid transportation and deliveries. Animal breeding, including fish. Physical exercise, including for women. Prohibition. All buildings absolutely fireproof. Race mixing considered bad. Abolishing study of dead languages has radically improved education. Electric ads. Poor sent to the country farm after the fifth request for support.

JF - San Francisco Chronicle N1 -

There appears to be no chapter 13, which should have been in the December 16, 1893 issue. While the December 30 issue says to be continued, it does not continue in 1894.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Looking Within. The Misleading Tendencies of "Looking Backward" Made Manifest Y1 - 1893 A1 - J[ohn] W. Roberts (1824-1900) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Anti-utopia written against 1888 Bellamy. Life in Bellamy's Boston shown in an unfavorable light, with inequality, alcoholism, and violence common. People shirk work whenever possible.

PB - A.S. Barnes CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971.

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MoU-St, PSt, W3,4568

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Man of the Year Million. A Scientific Forecast" Y1 - 1893 A1 - [Herbert] [George] [Wells] (1866-1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on far future forecasting; people will have larger brains and larger hands and use their hands for locomotion. The rest of the body has shriveled. Punch took it seriously and spoofed it in "1,000,000 A.D." Punch 105 (November 25, 1893): 250.

JF - Pall Mall Gazette 57.8931 VL - 57.8931 N1 -

Rpt. in the Pall Mall Budget, no. 1312 (November 16, 1893): 1796-97; in "Of a Book Unwritten." In his Certain Personal Matters. A Collection of Material, Mainly Autobiographical (London: Lawrence & Bullen, 1898), 161-71; and in English Illustrated Magazine 26 (January 1902): 381-84.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mary Anne Carew: Wife, Mother, Spirit, Angel Y1 - 1893 A1 - Carlyle Petersilea (1844-1903) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Domestic heaven. Spiritualism. Reflects the ideas of Emanuel Swedenborg (1668-1772).

PB - Colby and Rich CY - Boston, MA N1 -

U.K. ed. London: James Burns, Progressive Library, 1893.

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O, W3,4204

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Message from the Stars" Y1 - 1893 A1 - Fred H[arvey] Brown KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Religious, technological eutopia. Stress on intelligence; after death the spirit joins only those of the same level of intelligence. Women will soon rule earth due to their superiority.

JF - One Dollar's Worth PB - Np CY - [Chicago, IL] U2 -

Illus. H. Mayer

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HRC, W3,707

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Monarch of Utopia Y1 - 1893 A1 - [Fred W.] Jones A1 - H. B. Bridge KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on manners.

PB - Book & Co CY - Wellington, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - National Life and Character. A Forecast Y1 - 1893 A1 - Charles H[enry] Pearson (1830-94) KW - Australian author KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Forecast of a coming dystopia. Anti-socialist and racist. The higher (white) races are limited to the temperate zone. Family declining. General decay in character.

PB - Macmillan CY - London N1 -

2nd ed. London: Macmillan, 1894. Rpt. London: Macmillan, 1913.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Open Secret Y1 - 1893 A1 - A Priest [pseud.] AB -

Spiritualism. Martians with highly refined bodies. No marriage or birth, but there is love and sex, but without lust. The spiritual body is created during life and only those who through their moral goodness have created a refined spiritual body pass on the life after death.

PB - Arena Publishing Co CY - Boston, MA U2 -

Illus.

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A Priest [pseud.]

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CU-Riv, HRC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - An Original Comic Opera in Two Acts Entitled Utopia (Limited); or, The Flowers of Progress Y1 - 1893 A1 - W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert (1836-1911) A1 - Arthur [Seymour] Sullivan (1842-1900) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on utopia.  See David Eden, ed. Utopia Limited. A Centenary Review of the Year 1893. Ed. for the Sir Arthur Sullivan Society. Coventry, Eng.: The Sir Arthur Sullivan Society, 1993. O

PB - Chappell & Co CY - London N1 -

Rpt. as Utopia Limited or The Flowers of Progress. London: Cassell & Co., 1911. For additional textual material, see John Wolfson, Final Curtain: The Last Gilbert and Sullivan Operas Including the unpublished rehearsal librettos and twenty unpublished Gilbert lyrics. London: Chappell & Company in Association with André Deutsch, 1976. 

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Rpt. as Utopia Limited or The Flowers of Progress. London: Cassell & Co., 1911. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Phantom’s Pilgrimage or Home Ruin Y1 - 1893 A1 - [Isabella Augusta] [Persse, Lady Gregory] (1852-1932) KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

The dystopia created by home rule for Ireland.

PB - W. Ridgeway CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Platonia; A Tale of Other Worlds Y1 - 1893 A1 - Henry L'Estrange [pseud?] AB -

An unknown, small planet nearer than Mars. Its capital is Campanella, after Tommaso Campanella (1568-1639) the author of La Città del Sole/The City of the Sun (1611). Private enterprise but protected by the state. Stress on gradual reform.

PB - J.W. Arrowsmith CY - Bristol, Eng. U3 -

Henry L'Estrange [pseud?]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Prophet of the People Y1 - 1893 A1 - John Christie (b. 1847) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Economic novel in which the basic ideas of socialism are presented. The final paragraph says it came about, but the eutopia is not presented.

PB - City Printing Co. & N.Z. Field CY - Wellington, New Zealand U5 -

ATL, VUW

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Reveries of World-History; From Earth's Nebulous Origin to Its Final Ruin or The Romance of a Star Y1 - 1893 A1 - T[homas] Mullett Ellis (1850-1919) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Technological eutopia (131-40) in the last chapter, "The Future" (131-56) plus a universal language and a world government.

PB - Swan Sonnenschein & Co CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Revolt of the Brutes. A Fantasy of the Chicago Fair Y1 - 1893 A1 - Hyland C[lare] Kirk (1846-1917) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The "brutes" [animals] meet in Chicago at the time of the Columbian Exposition to decide whether or not to destroy humankind in retaliation for its treatment of animals. It decides to and appear to be succeeding, but it turns out to be a dream.

PB - Charles T. Dillingham CY - New York U2 -

Heavily illus.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Salome Shepard, Reformer Y1 - 1893 A1 - Helen M[aria] Winslow (1851-1938) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Factory reform led by a wealthy young women transforms a town into a Christian Socialist eutopia. She starts by recognizing the union, builds a boarding house with for the young, unmarried workers, builds better houses for the married workers, establishes activities, classes, and entertainment intended to both provide education and training and alternatives to the taverns. She also established a profit-sharing system so that the workers benefited from the mill’s success.

PB - Arena Publishing Co CY - Boston, MA U5 -

PSt, W3,6027

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Shadows Before or a Century Onward Y1 - 1893 A1 - Fayette Stratton Giles (1842-97) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia presented as a prediction. Capitalist with free trade among all “civilized nations, all of which are republics. Servants. No religion. Doctors paid to prevent disease, and they are not paid when their patients are sick. Technologically advanced.

JF - No. 57 of The Twentieth Century Library PB - Humboldt Publishing Company CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Story of My Dictatorship" Y1 - 1893 A1 - [Lewis Henry] [Berens] (?-1914) A1 - [Ignatius] [Singer] (ca. 1853-1926) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Single Tax eutopia set in London. See also 1895 Berens and Singer. For Henry George's explanation of the single tax, see his Progress and Poverty. An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and Of Increase of Want With Increase of Wealth. The Remedy. San Francisco, CA: W.M. Hinton, 1879. Fiftieth Anniversary Ed. New York: The Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, 1929.

JF - Weekly Times & Echo (London) VL - nos. 2418 - 2433 N1 -

The first version appeared serially in Our Commonwealth (Adelaide, SA, Australia), a newspaper edited by Singer to publicize land nationalization and the single tax, in 1887 and 1888, but the most complete holdings are missing two issues in the middle of the serial. The first part of the series is entitled "When I Was Governor of This Country" and appeared in 2.2 (December 1887): 428-29. A later part appeared as "When I Was Governor of South Australia" in 2.5 (March 1888): 452. This part refers to a previous part and indicates that it is to be continued, but the newspaper appears to have ended with that issue. Rpt. with a "Preface" by William Lloyd Garrison. New York: Sterling Pub. Co. Sterling Library No. 4, May 1, 1894; with the subtitle Dedicated (Without Permission) to the National Association. Auckland, New Zealand: Ptd. by F.W. Harradence, 1894; London: Bliss, Sands & Foster, 1894 with 2nd ed. on the cover; and Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Cole's Book Arcade, 1894, also described as 2nd ed. There is a Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Cole's Book Arcade edition of 1895 described as the 3rd ed., and there are copies of the 3rd ed. that gives the publication information as Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Cole's Book Arcade/London: Bliss, Sands & Foster, 1895; Rev. ed. Glasgow/Bradford/London: Land Values Publishing Department, [1907], with “Introductory by William Lloyd Garrison from the Preface to the American Edition” (5); New and unabr. ed. London: Land Values Publishing Department, [1910] has the subtitle The Taxation of Land Values Clearly Explained. Rpt. Cincinnati, OH: Joseph Fels Fund of America, 1913 and again in 1931. An edition with the subtitle An Account of an Eventful Experience Abridged From the Record Made by L.H. Berens and I. Singer. London: Henry George Foundation, 1934. Another edition is entitled Dictator--Democrat. Abridged and adapted from The Story of My Dictatorship By Lewis H. Berens and Ignatius Singer. Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Henry George Foundation, Australia, 1945. As can be seen, the publishing history of this book is complex and not yet settled.

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An edition is entitled Dictator--Democrat. Abridged and adapted from The Story of My Dictatorship By Lewis H. Berens and Ignatius Singer. Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Henry George Foundation, Australia, 1945.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Strike at Shane's. A Prize Story of Indiana Y1 - 1893 A1 - [James S.] [Shelton] KW - Male author AB -

Children's story. The animals on a farm go on strike to get better treatment and in winning produce a eutopian farm.

PB - American Humane Education Society CY - Boston, MA N1 -

Rpt. as “The Strike at Shane’s; or, The Animals on Strike.” [Table of Contents reads “The Animals on Strike. Written for The American Humane Education Society”]. In The Animals on Strike and Other Tales. Ed. Edith Carrington. No. 4 of Animal Life Readers (London: George Bell and Sons, 1895), 1-83.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sub-Coelum: A Sky-Built Human World Y1 - 1893 A1 - A[ddison] P[eale] Russell KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. Emphasis on self-control and moderation to the extent that the people don't even snore. "To gain the mastery over themselves, by studying and practicing moderation, self-control, and humanity, was the prime of all personal and organized effort" (10).

PB - Houghton, Mifflin and Co. CY - Boston, MA U5 -

PSt, W3,4720

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Syren of the Skies" Y1 - 1893 A1 - [George Chetwynd Griffith] [Jones] (1857-1906) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Sequel to 1893 Jones, set a hundred years after the conclusion of that novel. Peace has existed throughout the period and social and technological changes have brought about a world-wide eutopia. The bulk of the novel is concerned with the re-start of conflict and its defeat, followed by a catastrophe that wipes out human civilization.

JF - Pearson's Weekly VL - no. 180 - 211 N1 -

An introduction was published as “A Flight into the Future. An Introduction to the Sequel to ‘The Angel of the Revolution”, no. 179 (December 23, 1893): 361-62. Revised for book publication as Olga Romanoff or The Syren of the Skies: A Sequel to “The Angel of the Revolution”. London: Tower Publishing Co., 1894. Rpt. Westport, CT: Hyperion Press, 1974.

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Revised for book publication as Olga Romanoff or The Syren of the Skies: A Sequel to “The Angel of the Revolution”. London: Tower Publishing Co., 1894. Rpt. Westport, CT: Hyperion Press, 1974.

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George Griffith [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Two and Two Make Four. Being the Review of Review Annual, 1893 Y1 - 1893 A1 - William T[homas] Stead (1849-1912) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Most of the novel is made up of reflections on current conditions with strong spiritualist elements plus adventure and romance. At the end a wealthy “modern woman” has used her wealth to create an ideal society on and around her estate, although, of course, without changing the class structure.

PB - “Review of Reviews” Office CY - London U2 -

Illus.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Unveiling a Parallel: A Romance Y1 - 1893 A1 - [Alice Ilgenfritz] [Jones] (1846-1906) A1 - [Ella] [Merchant] (1846-1906) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia stressing equality between men and women.

PB - Arena Publishing Company CY - Boston, MA N1 -

Rpt. ed. Carol A. Kolmerten. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1991. Selections rpt. in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories by United States Women, 1836-1919. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler (London: Pandora Press, 1984), 157-75 with an editor’s note on 155-56. Chapter 3 “The Aurora’s Annual” rpt. with Merchant’s name misspelled as Marchant (her husband was Lorenzo Stoddard Merchant) in The Book of Mars: An Anthology of Fact and Fiction. Ed. Stuart Clark (London: London: Head of Zeus/Apollo/Bloomsbury, 2022), 18-27.

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Two Women of the West [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Valdmer the Viking: A Romance of the Eleventh Century by Sea and Land Y1 - 1893 A1 - [James] Hume Nisbet (1848-1921) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Vikings discover a lost race with a social system in which positions are assigned by lot at birth. The eutopia is a small part of an adventure story. See also 1895, 1902 and 1905 Nisbet.

PB - Hutchinson & Co CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - ["A Vision"] Y1 - 1893 A1 - B[enjamin] O[range] Flower (1858-1918) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Short sketch which contrasts the horrors of present poverty, which is the focus of the book, with a brief vision of a eutopian future with a much-improved Boston with large apartment blocks that have many social amenities and large halls with a gymnasium, restaurants with “plain food at reasonable prices” (220), free reading rooms and lecture halls, a free night school, beautiful homes for orphans set in parks with excellent education, including learning a trade. All special privileges and laws favoring the upper classes have been abolished. 

JF - Civilization's Inferno, or, Studies in the Social Cellar PB - Arena Publishing Co. CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - What's the World Coming To? A Novel of the Twenty-First Century, Founded on the Fads, Facts, and Fiction of the Nineteenth Y1 - 1893 A1 - W[illiam] Graham Moffat (1866-1951) A1 - John White KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Society within the world of 1888 Bellamy with all the fads of the late nineteenth century practiced; considerable satire. The technology of Bellamy's novel has been improved. News is reported by telephone (essentially radio).

PB - Elliot Stock CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Witch of the Nineteenth Century Y1 - 1893 A1 - W[illiam] P. Phelon M.D. (1834-1902) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Mostly spiritualism, but the novel contains a brief description of an underground eutopia that will be created by those advanced spiritually. It is also technologically advanced.

PB - The Hermetic Publishing Co. CY - Chicago, IL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Woman Free Y1 - 1893 A1 - [Elizabeth Clarke] [Wolstenholme-Elmy] (1833-1918) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A poem with the title of the book (1-32) followed by notes on the poem (33-222). Much of the poem is on the trials and tribulations of the current position of women, but parts of it project into a future of free, enabled women. Little detail.

PB - Women's Emancipation Union CY - Congleton, Eng. U3 -

Ellis Ethelmer [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Yonland" Y1 - 1893 A1 - G. G. D. AB -

Satire--Yonland has all positions open to the best. Jobs are temporarily distributed on the basis of sex, with men occupying low-status positions like Prime Minister. An attempt is made to distribute jobs by class.

JF - The Eagle (St. John's College, Cambridge, Eng.) VL - 17 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Advancing Kingdom or The Wonders of Foretold History Y1 - 1892 A1 - Rev. F[rances] E[mory] Tower A.M. (1836-1916) KW - Male author AB -

A large volume with eighteen illustrations, all but one in color, tracing the history of the human race from its creation to the millennium. In discussing conditions leading up to the millennium, both socialism and the Nationalism of Looking Backward (1888) are presented positively. All but the last five chapters were initially presented as a series of Sunday evening lectures.

PB - American Publishing Co. CY - Hartford, CT U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ai. A Social Vision Y1 - 1892 A1 - Charles [S.] Daniel KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The beginnings of a eutopia set in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in which the better society is brought about through cooperation, Christianity, and brotherhood with a stress on the need to recognize interdependence. The hero is a layman who becomes a Roman Catholic Bishop and leads a community to reform itself with the assistance of a number of wealthy people and people of other faiths. The need to stop the worst people from having children is mentioned. Chapter XVI is labelled "Suppressed" and consists entirely of an *, and Chapter XXIII is a page of nonsense words.

PB - Miller Publication Company CY - Philadelphia, PA N1 -

Rpt. Boston, MA: Arena, 1893; and New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Alien Thread" Y1 - 1892 A1 - Charles H. Palmer KW - Male author AB -

Future tale in which a Marriage Bureau arranges marriages. Potential for problems described even though there is the required happy ending.

JF - Munsey's Magazine VL - 8.3 N1 -

Rpt. as "Citizen 504." Argosy 23.3 (December 1896): 443-48.

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Rpt. as "Citizen 504." Argosy 23.3 (December 1896): 443-48.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Al-Modad; or, Life Scenes Beyond the Polar Circumflex. A Religio-Scientific Solution of the Problems of Present and Future Life Y1 - 1892 A1 - [M. Louise] [Moore] KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Includes a detailed cooperative eutopia with an emphasis on education. No government, no money. Large cooperative homes with art and music studies and so forth and lots of parks. One society forgot religion and degenerated.

PB - M.L. Moore and M. Beauchamp CY - Shell Bank, Cameron Parish, LA U3 -

An Untrammeled Free-Thinker [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The American Peasant; A Timely Allegory Y1 - 1892 A1 - T[homas] H[enry] Tibbles (1840-1928) A1 - [Elia Wilkinson] [Peattie] (1862-1935) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia set in a temperate continent in the Arctic. Christian. Few laws because equality is more important than laws, but women are not yet considered capable of full citizenship. United States as a dystopia.

PB - F.J. Schulte & Co CY - Chicago, IL VL - No. 20A (September 1892) of The Ariel Library N1 -

Also published Indianapolis, IN: Vincent Brothers Publishing Company, 1892. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - As It Is To Be Y1 - 1892 A1 - Cora Linn [Morrison] Daniels (b. 1852) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Heaven as eutopia described by a soul in Heaven to an individual on Earth. The beings in Heaven are spiritual and can experience whatever they will to experience. They do not have bodies in the way people on Earth do.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Coming Day Y1 - 1892 A1 - A[lexander] O'B[rien] KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

As Armageddon (See Revelation 16) approaches, the saved are taken from Earth. Violence, Jews are slaughtered, and those who could fled to Palestine. At the end of the violence the Second Coming occurs and the saved and the damned separated.

PB - Bible & Tract Depot CY - Nelson, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Doom of London” Y1 - 1892 A1 - Robert Barr (1850-1912) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The dystopia created in London when the combination of fog and smoke cut off oxygen at ground level and millions die, with the suggestion that the reduction in population plus advanced technology have produced a better life fifty years later.

JF - The Idler: An Illustrated Monthly VL - 2 N1 -

Rpt. in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 7.1 (38) (July 1954): 25-34 with an editor’s note on 34; and in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (Australian ed.) 6 ([February 1956]): 23-33. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Doom of the County Council of London Y1 - 1892 AB -

Dystopia. The London County Council uses the people of London to dominate the House of Commons. The House of Lords stands out against the LCC and the LCC is finally defeated.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Dream Child Y1 - 1892 A1 - Florence [Chance] Huntley KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Heaven as eutopia.

PB - Arena Publishing Co CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Dream of an Englishman Y1 - 1892 A1 - Arthur Bennett (1862-1931) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. World federation developed from Britain. Three stages--United Kingdom and Ireland form a federation; the empire is added; and then the entire world joins. Based on self-interest. . See also his letter to the editor, “Federation Made Easy.” Imperial Federation 8 (1893): 320-21. Bennett also wrote a utopia set in his hometown in the future; see 1900 Bennett.

PB - Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Company CY - London N1 -

Rpt. Warrington, England: "Sunrise" Pub. Co., 1893.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dreams of the Dead Y1 - 1892 A1 - Edward Stanton Huntington (1841-95) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Complex spiritualist novel that includes both heaven and hell as eutopian and dystopia. Strongly influenced by Emanuel Swedenborg (1668-1772). Includes criticisms of Theosophy and Christian Science.

PB - Lee & Shepard CY - Boston, MA U3 -

Edward Stanton [pseud.]

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Hathi

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Earthquake; A Story of To-Day Y1 - 1892 A1 - Lucius A. Stockwell KW - Male author AB -

Mostly a condemnation of capitalism from a populist perspective, but it includes a short description of desirable reforms and the procedures for achieving them.

PB - Nonconformist Publishing Company CY - Indianapolis, IN U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Fifty Years Hence; or, What May Be in 1943: A Prophecy supposed to Be Based on Scientific Deductions by an Improved Graphical Method Y1 - 1892 A1 - Robert Grimshaw (1850-1941) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. Detailed description of the Electrical Age. Universal language. Single world-wide currency. Tree planting is compulsory. Trial by jury has been abolished. Bathing is essentially compulsory under the health laws.

PB - Practical Publishing Company CY - New York U5 -

W3,2288

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "From Darkest England, 1890 to Christian England, 1980" Y1 - 1892 A1 - Mrs. Septimus [Maria Emma] Buss KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Christian eutopia similar to 1888 Bellamy. Cooperative housekeeping. Temperance. Gender equality. Cremation. Land publicly held.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Future Commonwealth, or What Samuel Balcom Saw in Socioland Y1 - 1892 A1 - Albert Chavannes (1836-1903) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia in Africa based on the ideas of Herbert Spencer (1820-1963). No taxes. Government ownership of land. Beginning at fourteen, all young people must serve a six-year apprenticeship, which can be served in a wide variety of occupations. All businesses coordinated by an overall Business Office independent of the government and the judiciary. See also 1897 Chavannes and his The Concentration of Wealth: A Study of its Causes, Results and Remedies. New York: True Nationalist Pub. Co., 1893. Chavannes wrote and mostly self-published many works on economic issues and health. 

PB - True Nationalist Publishing Company CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Germ Growers. An Australian Story of Adventure and Mystery Y1 - 1892 A1 - [Robert] [Potter] (1831-1908) KW - Australian author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia with a hidden valley motif. Supernatural elements. Early example of aliens landing on Earth.

PB - Melville, Mullen & Slade/Hutchinson & Co. CY - Melbourne, VIC, Australia/London N1 -

Also published with the subtitle The Strange Adventures of Robert Easterley and John Wilbraham. Ed. Robert Potter. London: Hutchinson, 1892.

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Robert Easterley and John Wilbraham [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Goddess of Atvatabar; Being the History of the Discovery of the Interior World and Conquest of Atvatabar Y1 - 1892 A1 - William R[ichard] Bradshaw (1851-1927) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Lost race novel set inside the earth describing a flawed utopia that has a living goddess and a religion based on the “. . . worship of the human soul under a thousand forms. . . .” (84). Problems arise when the living goddess and the main protagonist from the surface fall in love.

PB - J.F. Douthitt CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Arno Press, 1975.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Golden Bottle; or, The Story of Ephraim Benezet of Kansas Y1 - 1892 A1 - Ignatius [Loyola] Donnelly (1831-1901) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The "Preface" says that the book ". . . is intended to explain and defend, in the thin disguise of a story, some of the new ideas put forth by the People's Party. . . ." A man obtains a bottle that can produce gold. After a great struggle with vested interests, he is able to establish a eutopia on the basis of cooperation, free medical care, owner-occupied homes, cheap governmentally owned transportation, and the eight-hour day.

PB - D.D. Merrill Company CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. Upper Saddle River, NJ: The Gregg Press, 1968.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Golf in the Year 2000; or, What We Are Coming To Y1 - 1892 A1 - [J.] [McCullough] AB -

Satire in which the women work and the men play golf.

PB - T. Fisher Unwin CY - London N1 -

Rpt. under the author's name. Nashville, TN: Rutledge Hill Press, 1998.

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J.A.C.K. [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Great Boo-Boo: A Tale of Fun and Fancy, Replete with Love, Wit, Sentiment and Satire. A Novel Y1 - 1892 A1 - Henry S. Wilcox (1855-1924) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A mildly pornographic lost race dystopian novel that includes lesbianism and homoeroticism in which, in the King Monop’s island, a license is required to speak.

PB - J. B. Swinburne CY - Des Moines, IA N1 -

Rpt. without A Novel as part of the title. [Vancleave, MS]: Ramble House, 2019

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Great Strike" Y1 - 1892 A1 - M. L. C. AB -

In 1920 the Equal Rights Union calls a strike against men. This short piece is the story of the first day of the successful strike told from the point of view of a man who is loosely sympathetic but resents the inconveniences. The few male members of the union were exempt from the strike.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "He Visits an Adamless Eden" Y1 - 1892 A1 - Arthur [William] A'Beckett (1844-1909) ED - His "Alter ego" [pseud.] KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on women's franchise.

JF - The Member for Wrottenborough: Passages from His Life in Parliament PB - Sampson Low, Marston, and Co., CY - London N1 -

Probably originally published in a weekly newspaper.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Impending Judgments on the Earth; or "Who May Abide the Day of His Coming" Y1 - 1892 A1 - Dr. Beverley O[liver] Kinnear KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Millennium. British Israelism. Chapter XVI (182-89) is a brief description of the millennium, whose inhabitants are “All Israel, or the whole British race. . .” (186). Includes an “Introduction” by James B. Bell, M.D., Boston (xi-xix).

PB - James Huggins CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. has tipped over publisher London: Funk & Wagnalls, 1892.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "In the Depths of the Dark Continent; or, The Vengeance of Van Vincent" Y1 - 1892 A1 - [Cornelius] [Shea] (1863-1920) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Mostly adventure but includes two flawed utopias. The first is a “Paradise of Women”, but the women live in an all-female community simply because there are too many women in the larger community. The second is called “the African Utopia” which was established on the site of an earlier community founded by an extinct people and rediscovered by Egyptians in sixteenth century. It had grown to over two thousand people because no one ever left and now all modern languages are spoken there. No money. All worked and anyone who refused was fed to lions. Annual elections. 

JF - Brave and Bold VL - no. 109 N1 -

Rpt. as “In the Depths of the Dark Continent; or, The Vengeance of Van Vincent.” By the Author of “The Wreck of the ‘Glaucus’” [pseud.]. Brave and Bold, no. 109 (January 21, 1905). Entire issue. 32 pp. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "In the Year Ten Thousand" Y1 - 1892 A1 - William [Nathaniel] Harben (1858-1919) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Sketch of a much-advanced people. Vegetarian. World unity without government. Thought communication. Common language.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Island of Fantasy; A Romance Y1 - 1892 A1 - Fergus[on Wright] Hume (1859-1932) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Greek Arcadian eutopia founded on an island by an Englishman. The entire social structure is based on early Greek forms.

PB - Griffith Farran and Company CY - London VL - 3 vols. N1 -

One vol. ed. New York: Lovell, Gestefeld & Co., 1892. Rpt. New York: Fenno, 1905. New ed. London: Griffith Farran and Company, [1893]. Abridged ed. London: Holden & Hardingham, [1914].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Looking Ahead! A Tale of Adventure (Not by the Author of "Looking Backward") Y1 - 1892 A1 - [Alfred] [Morris] (1859-1932) KW - Male author AB -

Anti-socialist novel depicting the failure of a socialist revolution and the beginning of a new feudal system.

PB - Henry & Co CY - London N1 -

2nd ed. corr. and rev. with a brief "Preface to the Second Edition". London: Henry & Co., [1892]

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Illus. W.G.R. Browne.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Looking Forward" Y1 - 1892 A1 - J. O. Andrew AB -

Dystopian satire. An inventor creates an instrument for looking into the future on fifty years in the future Birmingham, Alabama is the national capital and Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) is President for life. Women have gained power and taken the vote away from men. Men stay at home and care for the children, but, over time, there are fewer children. The race problem has been eliminated through the ability to change skin color and straighten hair, thus eliminating all non-whites. Education is through technology, with knowledge passed electronically from the brain of the teacher to the brains of the pupils. Crime has been almost eliminated by having magistrates read everyone's brain regularly, and the few crimes of passion are treated in hospitals. Almost all domestic chores like cooking and dish washing have been fully automated with food delivery by aircraft. The women mess up, the country is run down, and men take back power and women return to the home. But the men mess up as badly.

JF - Belford's Monthly and Democratic Review VL - 8.47 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Looking Upwards; or, Nothing New. In Two Parts.--Part I. The Up Grade: From Henry George Past Edward Bellamy on to Higher Intelligences Y1 - 1892 A1 - [Arthur William] [Sanford] (1859-1932) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia brought about through the nationalization of land and industry.

PB - H. Brett CY - Auckland, New Zealand U3 -

Robinson Crusoe [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lost Island Y1 - 1892 A1 - Edward J. Austen A1 - Louise V[escelius] Sheldon KW - Female author KW - Male author AB -

Satire in which a ship is wrecked on an unknown island that turns out to be owned by one of the sailors. He imposes a capitalist system until the others build a raft and leave him behind. On the single tax, see Henry George, Progress and Poverty. An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and Of Increase of Want With Increase of Wealth. The Remedy. San Francisco, CA: W.M. Hinton, 1879. Fiftieth Anniversary Ed. New York: The Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, 1929. 

PB - Fels Fund of America CY - Cincinnati, OH N1 -

Rpt. illus. in The Cosmopolitan 14.3 (January 1893): 365-84. Rpt. without the author’s names as The Lost Island with a Conclusion by William Lloyd Garrison as The Sterling Weekly 2.3 (February 13, 1897): entire issue with “Concluding Chapter” (31-35). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Maiden of Mars Y1 - 1892 A1 - General F. M. Clarke KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Telepathy. Abundance. Technologically advanced. Spiritualism and adepts.

PB - Charles H. Sergel and Company CY - Chicago, IL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Mars!” Y1 - 1892 AB -

Satire on life in England through contact with a man from Mars through the telepathophone. Focus on economics, politics, and religion. There is very little on Mars, but it has no royalty, they blow up builders who produce bad work, and it is noted that in England such people are elected to Parliament.

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Illus. F. Carruthers Gould (1844-1925).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Marvellous Melbourne" Y1 - 1892 A1 - George Harold Willoughby KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Poem describing the Melbourne of the time as a dystopia that had once been eutopian.

JF - Marvellous Melbourne and Other Poems PB - Crabb and Yelland CY - Melbourne, Vic, Australia U5 -

NSW

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Melbourne Riots and How Harry Holdfast and His Friends Emancipated the Workers. A Realistic Novel Y1 - 1892 A1 - David A[ndrew] Andrade (1859-1928) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

A cooperative agricultural scheme, labor notes, and the gradual successful establishment of a cooperative village. The book includes commentary on utopian literature and communal experiments and includes ads for the author’s bookstore, circulating library, and vegetarian restaurant, all at the same address in Melbourne. See also the author’s Money: A Study of the Currency Question, Especially in its Relations to the Principles of Equity, Utility, and Liberty. Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Co-operative Publishing Co., 1887, which begins with the statement “Money has a twofold function: exchange and robbery (1) and ends with a plea for labour notes or some other means of exchange that will help workers (9).

PB - Andrade & Co. CY - Melbourne, VIC, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Messages from Mars by the Aid of the Telescope Plant Y1 - 1892 A1 - Robert D[yer] Braine (1861-1943) KW - Male author AB -

Science and technology bring eutopia. The Elixir of Life has been discovered. Government by the most intelligent. Crime is considered an illness. No money. No work except by volunteers as needed.

PB - J.S. Ogilvie CY - New York VL - The Peerless Series, No. 62 (August 1892). N1 -

Rpt. Chicago: M.A. Donohue & Co, [1895?].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Moonblight" Y1 - 1892 A1 - Dan[iel Carter] Beard (1850-1941) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia and how to bring it about. A man can see the true character of people, and he reforms a small mining area called Moonblight based on real equality of opportunity. He abolishes the company store and allows private enterprise in the area. All the rent from land goes to public works. Temperance. The sale of liquor cancels a lease. Structured so that the village will control the area after the current owner's death.

JF - Moonblight and Six Feet of Romance PB - Charles L. Webster CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. (Trenton, NJ: A. Brandt, 1904), 17-197, which was rpt. (New York: AMS Press, 1976), 17-197.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Nineteen Hundred? A Forecast and a Story Y1 - 1892 A1 - [Mary Ann] [Hearn] (1834-1909 KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Establishment of a successful religious intentional community.

PB - James Clarke CY - London U3 -

Marianne Farningham [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Olombia or The New Political Economy. Grand Transformation of the United States, England and the World! The only Practical Solution of the Land, Money, Barter, Labor, Capital, and all other Questions of the Day. By Dr. William H. von Swartwout, Founder & President, of New Columbia United States of the World, or The Olombia Commonwealth. New Order of Builders and University; New York, London, Paris, Rome, Egypt, Palestine, Etc. (Inaugurated, September 29th, 1879) Y1 - 1892 A1 - Dr. William H. Von Swartwout (1836-1902) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia brought about by abolishing money. This can be done by simply changing the name of the country. Rejects competition and the whole money-based system. Proposes a six-hour workday, five days of work a week, twenty days of work a month, ten months of work a year, and twenty-nine total years of work (ages 21-49). Von Swartwout published a number of repetitive pamphlets and newspapers--see his Declaration of Principles and Proclamations of Emancipation by the President of the New Columbia United State of the World, Columbia University, Etc. (Founded New York, September 29th, 1879,) Being a Practical Solution of the Land, Money, Labor and Capital, and All Other Questions of the Day. Given in London, England, November 9th, 1886; December 24th, 1886, and August 7th, 1887. Illustrated. [in pencil on two copies at L--2nd rev. ed. 1892-3]. London & New York: Columbia University Press, 1887 [also published as Truthology with followed by the title as above]; The World’s Crisis and the Only Way Out. The Olombia Commonwealth Jubilee Proclamation and Declaration of Independence No. 2. New York: New Columbia University Press, 1890; Olombia or Utopia Made Practical by Dr. William H. Von Swartwout, Founder and President of The Olombia Commonwealth, New Order of Builders and University, Author of “The New Political Economy,” Etc., Solution of the Financial Problem. [Abbreviated and condensed from The New Political Economy]. New York and London: New Columbia University Press, 1893; The Olombia Commonwealth Hercules. Devoted to the Agitation of the Olombia Commonwealth Campaign; or to the Propaganda of a New Political Economy for the New Millennial Era of Justice, Liberty, Peace and Plenty with Free Land, Free Habitation, Free Material, Free Production, Free Transit, and a Free Use of all the Products of the Earth (New York and London) 1.1 (1894); Olombia Manifesto or Solution of the Social and Financial Problem. Addressed to the Congress and People of the U.S.A. and of the Whole World. New York: New Columbia University Press, 1894; An Open Letter to the Committee of Constitutional Convention at Albany, State of New York. [New York: New Columbia Press], 1894 (All L). See the book by his daughter--Janet Von Swartwout, Heads or The City of the Gods: A Narrative of Olombia in the Wilderness. New York: Olombia Pub. Co., 1895 describing the temporary establishment of Olombia Colony. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pantocracy or The Reign of Justice Y1 - 1892 A1 - James Seldon Cowdon KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Detailed reform proposed through a third political party. The reforms include the gradual elimination of the currency system, the end of credit, equal pay, guaranteed regular vacations, equal rights, a labor army, a changed federal governmental structure with each department designated to carry out specific improvements and test others to see if they will work, elimination of the military, and elected bureaucrats. The goal is a United States of the Earth.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The People's Program; The Twentieth Century is Theirs. A Romance of the Expectations of the Present Generation Y1 - 1892 A1 - Henry L[exington] Everett KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. A detailed labor colony scheme for the unemployed.

PB - Workmen's Publishing Company CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Philip Meyer’s Scheme: A Story of Trades Unionism Y1 - 1892 A1 - Archibald McCowan KW - Male author AB -

While not a utopia itself, the novel is about how active trade unions will be able to bring about Bellamy’s Nationalism. See also his Christ, the Socialist. By the Author of Philip Meyer’s Scheme [pseud.]. Boston, MA: Arena Publishing Co., 1894.

PB - J.S. Ogilvie CY - New York U3 -

Luke A. Hedd [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Royal Democrat: A Sensational Irish Novel Y1 - 1892 A1 - Alice L[etitia] Milligan (1866-1953). KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

Set in 1892-1948. The future King, who does not want to be King, is shipwrecked and settles into life on the West Coast of Ireland. He becomes involved in independence activities, which, when successful, leads to a future eutopia of Ireland which is free but closely tied to Great Britain.

PB - Simpkin Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co./M.H. Gill & Son CY - London/Dublin, Ireland U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sam Williams: A Tale of the Old South Y1 - 1892 A1 - W. S. Harrison AB -

Eutopia a thousand years after the Civil War. Slavery has been abolished and many whites are proud of their black ancestors. Technically advanced. No poverty. People are both larger and more refined.

PB - M.E. Church, South CY - Nashville, TN U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - San Salvador Y1 - 1892 A1 - Mary Agnes Tincker (1831-1907) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Very small, Christian, aristocratic eutopia in a hidden valley. Garden-like. Stress on personal character, and morals.

PB - Houghton Mifflin CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Sex Revolution Y1 - 1892 A1 - Lois [Nichols] Waisbrooker (1826-1909) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Written in response to George Noyes Miller’s The Strike of a Sex (1890) in which women go on strike for “ownership over our person,” specifically control of maternity, with the action taking place after the successful revolution. Even though the strike was successful, men still make war, and the women say that if men go to war, the women will go with them. The ending suggests the possible that the better society brought about by the strike can be made even better, but it is all a dream. There is no mention of Miller’s After the Strike of a Sex (1891), which mostly describes the Oneida Community as eutopian. Her Nothing Like It: Or, Steps to the Kingdom. Boston, MA: Rich & Colby, 1875; rpt. New York: Murray Hill Publishing, 1875. 336 pp. has a dream sequence (234-37) that depicts the situation of women as chained by the state unless chosen by a man and chained to him plus some free women who are despised by all but desired by the men. And her The Wherefore Investigating Company. Topeka, KS: Independent Pub. Co., 1894. 313 pp. is an economic novel on the problems of the time that presents the control of land as the central economic problem.

PB - Purdy CY - Chicago, IL SN - 0-86571-050-3 N1 -

2nd ed. Topeka, KS: Independent Publishing, Co., 1894. Rpt. Philadelphia, PA: New Society Publishers, 1985, with an “Introduction: Women in the Lead: Waisbrooker’s Way to Peace” (1-52) by Pam McAllister. Selections rpt. in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories by United States Women, 1836-1919. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler (London: Pandora Press, 1984), 178-91 with an editor’s note on 176-77. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Soulless Saints: A Strange Revelation Y1 - 1892 A1 - Bailey Kay Leach KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Satire using an imaginary country called Konko. The satire is based on religion but is extended to "society", politics, economics, and most other human institutions.

PB - American Publishing Co CY - Chicago, IL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Tableau; or, Heaven as a Republic Y1 - 1892 A1 - John George Schwahn KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An allegory with one chapter (212-31) that details the eutopia achieved when reason and humanity final win over Christianity and ignorance. Everyone working and the use of steam and electricity to run machines ensures much leisure time.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - That Island; A Political Romance Y1 - 1892 A1 - [Samuel] [Crocker] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia which begins with the contemporary United States as a dystopia and then details the reforms necessary to bring about eutopia, which include nationalization of the railroads, the eight-hour workday, and a graduated land tax.

PB - Press of the Sidney F. Woody Printing Company CY - Kansas City, MO U3 -

Theodore Oceanic Islet [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Triumph of Woman's Rights. A Prophetic Vision Y1 - 1892 A1 - Tom [Thomas] Bracken (1843-98) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Anti-women's rights satire. Women are described as pro-Bellamy and anti-Christian.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Village Commune: A Labour Poem. Leaflets for the People. No. IV. For God and Home, Humanity, and Fatherland Y1 - 1892 A1 - [Robert Michael] [Cochrane] (1862-1933) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Poem in which the second part (10-16) describes a future communal eutopia.

PB - Queensland Social-Democratic Federation CY - Brisbane, QLD, Australia N1 -

Extracts were published in The Worker (Brisbane, QLD, Australia) 3.70 (September 3, 1892): 3; and the Bulletin (December24, 1892), 21.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Warrington: As It Might Be" Y1 - 1892 A1 - Hythloday Junior [pseud.] AB -

The city of Warrington as a eutopia thirty years in the future. Brought about by municipal ownership of utilities and then industries. Cleaned up. Technology. See also 1900 Bennett.

JF - Warrington: As It Was, As It Is, and As It Might Be PB - "Sunrise" Publishing Co. CY - Warrington, Eng. N1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - What We Are Coming To Y1 - 1892 A1 - Miles L'Estrange [pseud.] AB -

Dystopia presented as a fictional series of predictions. The author deplores almost all the changes, but those giving women a more active roles in life particularly bother him.

PB - David Douglas CY - Edinburgh, Scot. U3 -

L’Estrange, Miles [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Workingman's Paradise: An Australian Labour Novel Y1 - 1892 A1 - [William] [Lane] (1861-1917) KW - Australian author KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Consistently treated as an early Australian utopia, probably because of its title, which is clearly ironic, but the novel does not fit any definition of utopia. Could be seen as describing Australia as a dystopia. The last page of the text (reproduced in the 1980 ed. on [78]) has an ad for a sequel that was never published, In New Australia: Being Nellie Lawton's Diary of a Happier Life. By John Miller [pseud.] which will present the eutopia to be found in the New Australia Co-operative Settlement Association. See 1888 Lane.

PB - Edwards, Dunlop & Co CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia N1 -

Rpt. Sydney, NSW, Australia: Sydney University Press, 1980, with an "Introduction" by Michael Wilding ([9]-[79]). Another edition with title on the cover as The Workingman's Paradise: An Historical Novel. Sydney, NSW, Australia: Cosme Publicity Co., 1948.

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By John Miller [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The World Grown Young: Being a Brief Record of Reforms Carried Out From 1894-1914 By the Late Mr. Philip Adams Millionaire and Philanthropist Y1 - 1892 A1 - William Herbert [pseud.] AB -

Eutopia established within twenty years through the efforts of one man, a Mr. Adams, an inventor who so improves the railroads as to radically enhance the British economy. He then sets about to reform the political and social systems as well as rationalizing the economy. Most of the standard reforms of the day, such as universal conscription, free marriage and divorce, health care, and more sense in the legislature, are included. Travel eliminates ignorance and hatred.

PB - W.H. Allen CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Late Victorian Utopias: A Prospectus. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 6 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2009), 4: 3-161. Editor's notes, 1: 421-22.

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William Herbert [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Yorl of the Northmen; or, the Fate of the English Race; Being the Romance of a Monarchical Utopia Y1 - 1892 A1 - [Charles Wicksteed] [Armstrong] (1871-ca 1963) KW - Brazilian author KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Spanish author AB -

Feudal eutopia brought about through eugenics. Cottage industries but a few factories are allowed under strict health regulations. Traditional gender roles. See also 1936 Armstrong, Paradise Found; his The Only Way: A Suggestion as to the True Solution to the Problems of Over-population, Degeneration, Unemployment and the Menace of War. London: Edgar G. Dunstan, [1921?]; his “A Eugenic Colony: A Proposal for South America.” The Eugenics Review 25.2 (ns. 6.2) (July 1933): 91-97; his The Only Way: A Suggestion as to the True Solution to the Problems of Over-population, Degeneration, Unemployment and the Menace of War. London: Edgar G. Dunstan, [1921?]; and his The Survival of the Unfittest. London: C. W. Daniel Co., 1927. Rev. and enl. London: C. W. Daniel Co., 1931.

PB - Reeves and Turner CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Late Victorian Utopias: A Prospectus. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 6 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2009), 3: 317-389. Editor's notes, 315, 399-400.

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Charles Strongi'th'arm [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - '89 Y1 - 1891 A1 - [Albion Winegar] [Tourgée] (1838-1905) ED - Edgar Henry [pseud.] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel follows one young man as he grows up, experiences the U.S. Civil War and its aftermath. and then turns to creating a new nation in the South, including Texas, that peacefully separates from the North and creates a society of white domination that is depicted as a eutopia. Much of the novel concerns the tactics used.

PB - Cassell & Co. CY - New York U3 -

Edgar Henry [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - An Account of an Extraordinary Living Hidden City in Central Africa and Gatherings from South Africa Y1 - 1891 A1 - William [Henry] Middleton (1825-1911) KW - Male author AB -

Mostly non-fiction but includes a section entitled "A Living Hidden City in South Africa" that describes a democratic lost race. Population control. A form of gender equality has been achieved through separation. Free love.

PB - King, Sell, and Railton CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A.D. 2000. (Inscribed to the author of 'Looking Backward')" Y1 - 1891 AB -

Poem inspired by 1888 Bellamy presenting a eutopia in very general terms.

JF - The Nationalization News VL - 1.12 N1 -

Rpt. from the South London Record.

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Ishmael [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - After the Strike of a Sex; or, Zugassent's Discovery with the Oneida Community, and the Perfectionists of Oneida and Wallingford Y1 - 1891 A1 - [George Noyes] [Miller] (1845-1904) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 1890 Miller which begins with a series of testimonies to the positive effects of the form of birth control practiced at the Oneida Community (1-36). That method is coitus reservatus, which requires the man to avoid ejaculation. That is followed by "The Oneida Community. A Dialogue By Henry J. Seymour, one of the original members" (37-80); and "The Perfectionists of Oneida and Wallingford" (81-107).

PB - William Reeves CY - London N1 -

Rpt. Boston, MA: Arena, [1895]; and as Zugassent's Discovery, or, After the Sex Struck. Chicago, IL: Alice B. Stockham & Co., 1895. Included in The Strike of a Sex and Zugassent’s Discovery, or After the Sex Struck (With Author’s Preface). New and revised ed. Chicago, IL: Stockham Pub. Co., 1905. The Strike is pp. 1-91. Zugassent’s Discovery or After the Sex Struck (93-119) is the first part of After. Rpt. New York: Arno Press, 1974. Stockham was Dr. Alice Bunker Stockham, a sex reformer. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Agnostic Island Y1 - 1891 A1 - F[rederick] J[ames] Gould (1855-1938) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Agnostic eutopia stressing education and religious toleration. Considerable satire on religion and missionaries in particular.

PB - Watts CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Arcadian Life Y1 - 1891 A1 - S[ydney] S[avory] Buckman, F.G.S. (1860-1929) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on rural life as an imaginary country.

PB - Chapman & Hall CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - As It Is In Heaven Y1 - 1891 A1 - Lucy Larcom (1824-93) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Heaven as eutopia.

PB - Houghton, Mifflin and Co CY - Boston, MA U5 -

CoU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ben-Beor. A Story of the Anti-Messiah. In Two Divisions. Part I.--Lunar Intaglios. The Man in the Moon. A Counterpoint of Wallace's "Ben Hur." Part II.--Historical Phantasmagoria. The Wandering Gentile, A Companion Romance to Sue's "Wandering Jew" Y1 - 1891 A1 - H[erman] M[ilton] Bien (1831-95) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The first part (3-67) describes the prophet Elijah on a civilized moon where people go through various stages in preparation for salvation.

PB - Press of the Isaac Friedenwald Co CY - Baltimore, MD N1 -

2nd rev. & imp. ed. Baltimore, MD: Press of the Friedenwald Co., 1892.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Better Days: or, a Millionaire of To-morrow Y1 - 1891 A1 - Thomas Fitch (1839-1923) A1 - Anna M[ariska] Fitch (1840-1904) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia brought about by the transformation of a city by one rich man. He creates a community of ideal apartment buildings within New York City with some cooperative housekeeping. He then reforms Arizona with better marriage laws and children born to those not married under the rules can be taken by the state as are any children born into extreme poverty. Women paid equally for equal work.

PB - Better Days Publishing Company CY - San Francisco, CA N1 -

New rev. ed. Chicago: F.J. Schulte and Company, 1892.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Beyond the Bourn. Reports of a Traveller Returned from "The Undiscovered Country" Y1 - 1891 A1 - Amos K[idder] Fiske (1842-1921) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia of perfected human beings after death. There seems to be no government, and the society operates on the basis of voluntary cooperation. Economic goods are distributed according to work. No jealousies and no desires which upset their reason.

PB - Fords, Howard and Hulbert CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Brethren of Mt. Atlas: Being the First Part of an African Theosophical Story Y1 - 1891 A1 - Hugh E[dward] M[illington] Stutfield F.R.G.S. (1858-1929) KW - Male author AB -

The novel is a theosophical adventure story that involves the discovery of a eutopian community in northern Africa led by adepts.

PB - Longmans, Green, & Co CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Christ That Is To Be. A Latter-Day Romance Y1 - 1891 A1 - Joseph Compton Rickett (1847-1919) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

After a revolution, England returns to small, agricultural communities and a craft guild system. The Second Coming is ignored and rejected.

PB - Chapman & Hall CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Crystal Button or, Adventures of Paul Prognosis in the Forty-Ninth Century Y1 - 1891 A1 - Chauncey Thomas (1822-98) ED - George Houghton KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia based on scientific advances and a eugenic policy that eliminated the unfit. Focus on mechanical and material developments. By the time of the novel, there is little change and custom is the rule in most things. The crystal button of the title is a symbol that the followers of the man who started the process of reform wear, and there is an emphasis on how the eutopia was achieved. In Houghton’s “Editor’s Preface”, he says that it was written between 1872 and 1878 and published as the result of the popularity of Bellamy’s Looking Backward (viii). 

PB - Houghton, Mifflin CY - Boston, MA N1 -

Rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1975 with an "Introduction by Ormond Seavey" (v-xiii).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Farming in the Future. (By A Contemplative Cockatoo)" Y1 - 1891 A1 - George Phipps Williams (1847-1909) A1 - W[illiam] P[ember] Reeves (1857-1932) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on 1889 Vogel focusing, as the title says, on farming and Vogel’s depiction of extremely fertile land that is currently unproductive. 

JF - Double Harness: Poems in Partnership PB - Pub. by the "Lyttelton Times" Publishing Co. CY - Christchurch, New Zealand U3 -

A Contemplative Cockatoo [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - History of a World of Immortals Without a God: Translated from an Unpublished Manuscript in the Library of a Continental University Y1 - 1891 A1 - [James William] [Barlow] (1826-1913) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia set on Venus (known as Hesperia). Life is cyclical in that people grow old, grow young, and then grow old again, and society is based on this fact. No reproduction. No death from natural causes.

PB - William McGee CY - Dublin, Ireland N1 -

Later ed. under the author's name entitled The Immortals' Great Quest: Translated from an Unpublished Manuscript in the Library of a Continental University. London: Smith, Elder, 1909. 

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Later ed. under the author's name entitled The Immortals' Great Quest

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Antares Skorpios [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Home Rule (A Farce)" Y1 - 1891 A1 - J. J. Kelly AB -

Brief satire on the amount of Home Rule offered by William Ewart Gladstone (1809-98; Prime Minister four times between 1868 and 1892).

JF - Irish Varieties. I.--Life and Adventures of Charley Crofts--Anecdotes and Escapades (Cork in ’98). 2.--The Haps and Mishaps of an Irish Landlord. 3.--Major Dismal’s Runaway Duel. 4.--The Friar of Dunraven’s Musical Tribulations, With an Exercise for the French Horn (Mrs. McGrath). 5.--A Lesson To Lovers. 6. Home Rule (A Farce) PB - A.B. Harrison & Co./Anglo-American Publishing Co./Hansard Publishing Union CY - Dublin, Ireland/New York/London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Human Republic Y1 - 1891 A1 - [Henry Robert] Heather Bigg (1853-1911) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia depicted in the interior of the human body with the emphasis on interdependence and equality.

PB - David Stott CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Independence; A Retrospect. From the "Reminiscences, Home and Colonial" of Charles Ashwold Bland Y1 - 1891 A1 - Charles Ashwold Bland [pseud?] KW - Australian author AB -

Depicts the abortive independence of Australia, but the federation of the Australian states was a success.

PB - Harrison and Sons CY - London U3 -

Bland, Charles Ashwold [pseud.?]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Ingathering; A Fiction of Social Economy Y1 - 1891 AB -

Eutopia with a stress on individuals living in large households that are almost feudal but with all positions elected. Clothing simplified.

PB - Waterlow and Sons CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Labor Town. An Address Delivered by Frederic Jones to the Presidents and Secretaries of New South Wales Trades Unions at the Temperance Hall, Sydney, September 15th, 1891, Mr. P.J. Brennan in the Chair Y1 - 1891 A1 - Frederic Jones KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Proposal for a socialist town of 5000 acres five miles from Sydney, including a map showing the precise location. The government is asked to lease the land to Labor Town for 99 years. The author proposes establishing a bank and building a tramline to connect with the already established lines. Most of the pamphlet consists of practical details of the proposed town.

PB - Printed by Higgs & Townsend CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia VL - Cover says 2nd ed. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Laws & Habits of People Who Live in Other Worlds Y1 - 1891 A1 - Carlenent [pseud.] AB -

Eutopia on another planet that can be contacted from Earth through spiritualism. Much technological improvement. Temperance was the key reform. Marriage with children only allowed between healthy people. Those unhealthy or deformed could marry but were prohibited from having children. Blacks cannot marry whites. Improved, free health care; better, free education; and no poverty. Phrenology is considered a science. 

PB - Hector Ross CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia N1 -

Another volume was planned, but there is no evidence it was published.

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Carlenent [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Looking Beyond. A Sequel to "Looking Backward" by Edward Bellamy, and An Answer To "Looking Further Forward," by Richard Michaelis Y1 - 1891 A1 - L[udwig] A. Geissler KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Pro-1888 Bellamy eutopia which follows on from Michaelis's 1890 sequel to Bellamy. In this book, the future Boston depicted by Michaelis is a nightmare and Julian West wakes up in the future Boston of Bellamy rather than that of Michaelis. In this future the demoted Professor deserved demotion, and all is fine.

PB - L. Graham and Son CY - New Orleans, LA N1 -

UK ed. London: William Reeves, 1891. U.K. ed rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lost Colony Y1 - 1891 A1 - James F. Raymond (b. 1826) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Much of the novel is concerned with family life in the American South before the Civil War and about events during the war, but about halfway through the focus sporadically shifts to an isolated island that is settled by a set of well-provisioned castaways, who had been deliberately marooned for opposing the Confederacy. The castaways were three men, including one stereotyped black man, who did the cooking and carried the provisions but is described as a friend. They sail to another island that has not had contact with the outside world since the early seventeenth century, speaks the English of that period, and has created a largely egalitarian eutopia. At twenty-one, a man gets a tract of land. Upon marriage, a house is built. Six-hour workday for men; no outside labor for women. No money. No alcohol. No crime. All change is prohibited, but the arrival of the outsiders poses problems.

PB - T.B. Peterson & Brothers CY - Philadelphia, PA U5 -

CU-Riv, DLC, MnU, W3,4446

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Man from Mars; His Morals, Politics and Religion Y1 - 1891 A1 - [William] [Simpson] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia with Christianity and socialism combined, and church and state are one because moral and material questions cannot be separated. All land owned by the state. Three-hour workday. Absolute gender equality. Marriage is regulated by the health department, and everyone is required to have a periodic health exam, with the results made public.

PB - Bacon & Co CY - San Francisco, CA N1 -

[2nd ed.] San Francisco, CA: The Clemens Publishing Co., 1893. 3rd ed. under the author's real name with the added subtitle Revised & Enlarged by an Extended Preface and a Chapter on Woman's Suffrage. San Francisco, CA: Press of E.D. Beattie, 1900.

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Thomas Blot [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Manless World Y1 - 1891 A1 - Agnes Bond Yourell (b. 1864) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The dystopia that develops when men lose sexual desire.

PB - G.W. Dillingham CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Meda. A Tale of the Future Y1 - 1891 A1 - Folingsby, Kenneth KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. A sleeper awakes in three thousand years and finds a future world of fantastic intelligence. The human race has passed beyond the need to eat. Class system based on intelligence. Monarchy because every society needs a central focus.

PB - Ptd. [by Aird & Coghill] for Private Circulation CY - [Glasgow, Scot.] N1 -

Rpt. London: H.F. Mitchell, 1892.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - My Vacation; or, The Millennium Y1 - 1891 A1 - J[ohn] L. Fitzporter KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia set on Venus which the protagonist visits traveling in his astral body. Vegetarian. Detailed reform stressing heath, practical education, and improved detached housing with numerous gardens located separately from both the business and manufacturing areas.

PB - Np CY - St. Louis, MO U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Nation That Shall Be” Y1 - 1891 A1 - Rev. Oliver Huckel (1864-1940) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Poem describing the eutopia that will be brought about by Nationalism.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Nationalism. Or a System of Organic Unity, Individual Equality and Industrial Association, In Place of Our Present State of International [overstamped on cover Industrial] War and Wasting Competition Y1 - 1891 A1 - Sumner F[ranklin] Claflin Esq. (b. 1862) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Mostly an essay but includes a few pages of an 1888 Bellamy style eutopia entitled "Looking Backward From 1940" (28-31), and the author says that he was inspired to write by Bellamy's book. Ends with a poem "In the Land of Is-To-Be".

PB - Pub. by the Author CY - Manchester, NH N1 -

Part originally published in The Manchester [New Hampshire] Telegram.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A New Aristocracy Y1 - 1891 A1 - [Alice Elinor] [Bartlett] (1848-1920 KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Mostly on the struggles of a poor family, but regularly refers to the eutopia they hope to achieve. An industrial community and a movement for the alleviation of poverty are created.

PB - Bartlett Publishing Co CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: F. Tennyson Neely, 1897.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Peculiar People Y1 - 1891 A1 - Samuel Phelps Leland (1839-1910) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Written against communalism, including Robert Owen (1771-1858) and his followers and the experiment at New Harmony. Presents an intentional community as it fails.

PB - Aust and Clark CY - Cleveland, OH U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Reign of Selfishness. A Story of Concentrated Wealth Y1 - 1891 A1 - [Samuel] [Walker] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian, capitalist dystopia in which those in power can simply order the police to do their bidding. 

PB - M. K. Pelletreau CY - New York UR - https://archive.org/details/reignofselfishne00walk/page/n8 N1 -

Also entitled Dry Bread; or, The Reign of Selfishness. A Novel for Men. 2nd ed. New York: G.W. Dillingham, 1899. iv + 448 pp. https://archive.org/details/drybreadorreigno00walk/page/n6.

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Also entitled Dry Bread; or, The Reign of Selfishness. A Novel for Men. 2nd ed. New York: G.W. Dillingham, 1899.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Rice Mills of Port Mystery Y1 - 1891 A1 - B[enjamin] F[ranklin] Heuston (1859-1907) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia designed as an argument in favor of free trade. The first three chapters are on the physical glories of the Northwestern U.S. The next chapters are future history in which the Northwest is developed, and there are significant technological advances. An inventor of genius discovers how to create organic matter from inorganic matter; hence, the rice mills. Having a monopoly, the man became immensely rich, and the Northwest developed rapidly, but the man died young. His will gives his shipping interests to the men who worked the ships, the rice mill in trust to the State of Washington, and his other property to the city. But the whole thing was a fraud designed to hide free trade with other countries, which is what had actually enriched him.

PB - Charles H. Kerr CY - Chicago, IL VL - Unity Library No. 8. N1 -

2nd ed. Chicago, IL: Charles H. Kerr, 1892.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Six Thousand Years Hence Y1 - 1891 A1 - Milton W[orth] Ramsey (?1848-1906) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The protagonist visits the sun, finds various vaguely described eutopias, and then returns to earth six thousand years later and finds a society with a large population functioning well. Technology. Careful job placement. 

PB - Press of Alfred Roper CY - Minneapolis, MN U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Soul of Man Under Socialism" Y1 - 1891 A1 - Oscar [Fingal O'Flahertie Wills] Wilde (1854-1900) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Essay and notes toward a utopia. The essay is a critique of both contemporary life under capitalism and authoritarian socialism, but throughout the essay Wilde projects an anarcho-socialism or at least a socialism with very little government that leads to individualism and creativity.

JF - The Fortnightly Review VL - 55 (ns 49) N1 -

Repub. London: Chiswick Press, 1895. U.S. ed. Boston, MA: John W. Luce, 1900. Rpt. New York: Oriole Chapbooks/Oriole Editions, [1978?]; and in The Soul of Man and Prison Writings. Ed. Isobel Murray (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1990), 1-27 with Explanatory Notes on 198-206. Critical ed. as “The Soul of Man.” The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde. Ed. Ian Small. Volume 4 Criticism: Historical Criticism, Intentions, The Soul of Man. Ed. Josephine M. Guy (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 2007), 231-68, with “The Textual Condition of The Soul of Man” (lxviii-lxxx), “A Note of the Text” (xci-xciv), and a “Commentary” (551-84).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Strange Voyage. A Revision of The Key of Industrial Cooperative Government. An Interesting and Instructive Description of Life on Planet Venus Y1 - 1891 A1 - [Henry Francis] [Allen] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia of industrial cooperation. Technologically advanced with engines that can use their own exhaust to produce more power. No money. Dedicated to the Farmers Alliance and Industrial Union. The author says that in 1874 he published a poem in a Boston newspaper entitled "My Vision", which he describes as ". . . a typical forecast of the Equitable Industrial Era, as actually seen in a dream" (226). See 1886 also Allen.

PB - The Monitor Publishing Company CY - St. Louis, MO U3 -

Pruning Knife [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Tales of a Great-Grandmother" Y1 - 1891 A1 - Ruth Ellis Freeman KW - Female author AB -

Eutopia set in 1888 Bellamy's world contrasted with an old woman's memories of the period before the eutopia was established. The single greatest emphasis is on the enhanced leisure, with a long vacation every few years, short vacations throughout the year, and free time daily. This allows people the opportunity to be creative (literature is stressed) and spend time in their gardens and doing other things they enjoy. A particular emphasis is on the way cooperative housekeeping frees women from onerous, unpaid labor to follow their desired pursuits.

JF - The New Nation VL - 1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Tramp in Society Y1 - 1891 A1 - Robert H. Cowdrey KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Chapter XV “The City of Freeland” is a description of an industrial town and farm community run for the benefit of the workers. Land is free, and this is the key. Security in the land comes from improving it. No women or children in factory work. “Their natural protectors are able to support them and would feel disgraced if they had to ask their children to assist them in earning a living.” Employers and workers both benefit. Farmers supply the city; as a result, they are not under the heel of the railroads. “Here the farmer is the suburban resident of the city. His well-paved roads are but extensions of the city streets.” No saloons. Stress on the power of public opinion. Gets rid of the middleman. In the last chapter of the book, the Freeland model has extended to the entire country. Also includes “The Sequel to Robinson Crusoe.” Rpt. in The Nationalization News: The Journal of the Nationalization of Labour Society. Established to promote the System proposed in “LOOKING BACKWARD” 3.28 [January 1893: 1-3]) in which Crusoe exploits others through his ownership of the land, which produces a dystopia. Crusoe sees the light and free access to land produces a eutopia. The utopia Ten Men of Money Island (1884) by Seymour F. Norton (b. 1841) is a sequel, and according to Michael Flürscheim (1844-1912), he wrote his utopia The Real History of Money Island (1896) in response to the inadequacies of Norton.

PB - Francis J. Schulte & Co CY - Chicago, IL VL - Ariel Library 2.5 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Universal Republic! 1992. A History of the Past, Present, and Future of the United States Y1 - 1891 A1 - [Edwin Ruthwin] [Harris] (b. 1857) KW - Male author AB -

The section, "A Prospective; or, A Sly Glance into the Future of the United States" (163-223), shows a United States, now called the Universal Republic, extending from the North Pole to Panama. The economic and political center of the country has moved West of the Mississippi, and St. Louis is the capitol. All Blacks have left the country and moved to South America.

PB - Continental Printing Co CY - St. Louis, MO U1 -

1492. 1776. at the head of the title.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Universal Strike of 1899 Y1 - 1891 A1 - William Oakhurst KW - Male author AB -

Mostly on the strike but includes a brief eutopia at the end that makes it clear that while everything is better, more still needs to be done.

PB - Wm. Reeves CY - London N1 -

Rpt. as The Universal Strike (A Forecast of twenty years ago now in the course of fulfillment). London: Odham's Ltd., [1911].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Valley Council; or, Leaves From the Journal of Thomas Bateman of Canbelego Station, N.S.W. Y1 - 1891 A1 - Percy Clarke, ed. [written by] KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian state socialism as a dystopia. Everyone tales turns as servant and master. There are daily changes in the President or Presidentess. When one of a married couple is high ranked the other is low ranked. Meals from the central kitchen. Houses changed at the state’s direction. Vegetarian. State can separate couples if it chooses. Children considered to belong to the state. No animals.

PB - Sampson Low, Marston & Co CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Vetulia: or, Going to the Bottom of Things Y1 - 1891 A1 - William Wye Smith (1827-1917) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Utopia based on long life, which is presented negatively, but other aspects of society are presented positively.

PB - Dudley & Burns CY - Toronto, ON, Canada N1 -

Part first published as "Vetulia." New Dominion Monthly (August 1875): 65-73. A note in the book says expanded in Advertiser (London, ON, Canada) (1880), but a search of this daily newspaper failed to find it. Rev. for book publication.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Vril Staff Y1 - 1891 A1 - X. Y. Z. [pseud.] AB -

Eutopia. A man invents something like Vril from 1871 Bulwer-Lytton and forces world change, including European disarmament and a degree of European unification.

PB - David Stott CY - London U3 -

X. Y. Z. [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - What Will Mrs. Grundy Say? or, A Calamity on Two Legs. (A Book for Men.) Y1 - 1891 A1 - Michael Rustoff [pseud?] AB -

Satire. Technically advanced civilization. Suicide at defined age. Calamity on two legs refers to women. Eugenics with a license required to marry. Very little privacy.

PB - Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. and Henry Glaisher CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Late Victorian Utopias: A Prospectus. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 6 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2009), 3: 221-313. Editor's notes, 219, 395-99.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Woman in the Year 2000" Y1 - 1891 A1 - Edward Bellamy (1850-98) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A restatement and expansion of Bellamy’s discussion of women in his 1888 Looking Backward. In 1897 Bellamy, he modifies his presentation of this position. After publishing Looking Backward Bellamy became a social reformer and was involved with two journals, The Nationalist (1889-91) and The New Nation (1891-94), which he edited and published, and wrote many essays defending or elaborating his position; some of these have been collected in his Edward Bellamy Speaks Again! Articles--Public Addresses--Letters. Chicago, IL: The Peerage Press, 1937. 2nd ed. Chicago, IL: The Peerage Press, 1938; and Talks On Nationalism. Chicago, IL: The Peerage Press, 1938. 1897 Bellamy is a sequel to Looking Backward and 1889 Bellamy, “With Eyes Shut,” and 1891 and 1895 Bellamy are set in the same eutopia. Utopias not directly connected to Looking Backward are 1886 Bellamy and 1889 Bellamy, “To Whom This May Come.”

JF - Ladies Home Journal VL - 8.3 ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Year of Miracle; A Tale of the Year One Thousand Nine Hundred Y1 - 1891 A1 - Fergus[on Wright] Hume (1859-1932) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A plague is deliberately introduced into the world and decimates the population. But after the plague passes, there is a very brief depiction of the better world that has become possible based on the reduced population and the elimination of the poor, who were most affected by the plague. 

PB - George Routledge and Sons CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A.D. 2000 Y1 - 1890 A1 - Lieut. Alvarado M[ortimer] Fuller, U.S. Army (1851-1924) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A sleeper wakes in 2000 and finds significant economic and political reform and major improvements in technology but little social change. The face of the United States has been changed by the sinking of the middle west and the formation of a central sea in its place and by the acquisition of all lands south to Panama and north to the Arctic. There is a 20% limit on profit, but the employer is allowed to set wages (no unions), which has raised wages. The government is largely financed out of excess profit. No one can hold more than 640 acres (1 square mile), and no foreigners may hold land at all. The government owns all the utilities and the railroad system. The profit on these activities also helps finance the government. No political parties. Juries abolished. The author says that he chose the title and theme in November 1887, before Bellamy's Looking Backward was published.

PB - Laird and Lee CY - Chicago, IL N1 -

Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971. Another ed. with a different illus. Chicago, IL: Laird and Lee, 1892. Rpt. with a different illus. as Back to Life (A.D. 2000). A Thrilling Novel. No. 43 of Standard Library. Chicago, IL: Laird & Lee, [1911].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A.D. 2050. Electrical Development at Atlantis Y1 - 1890 A1 - [John] [Bachelder] (1817-1906) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The society of 1888 Bellamy is not working smoothly so some emigrate and form a much-reformed capitalist eutopia. Government provides businesses with power and materials and receives all profit over 10%. Most people own shares in the companies where they work. Government price control.

PB - The Bancroft Company CY - San Francisco, CA U3 -

A Former Resident of "The Hub" [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Angel and the Idiot; A Story of the Next Century Y1 - 1890 AB -

Near future eutopia of technological improvement and greater equality set one hundred years in the future.

PB - David Stott CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Architecture Under Nationalism" Y1 - 1890 A1 - J[ohn] P[ickering Putnam (1847-1917) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Part essay on architecture and sanitation; part description of future architecture, including an argument for cooperative living in apartment buildings. The author was born as John Amory Putnam but later took his father's name. He was a Boston architect, best known for pioneering apartment buildings, some of which still stand. See his "The Apartment House." The American Architect and Builders News 27.732 (January 4, 1890): 3-5.

JF - The American Architect and Builders News VL - 29.759, 760, 764, 766, 768, 770; 30.772 N1 -

Rpt. without the letters  Boston ,  MA : The Nationalist Educational Association, 1890.  

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Aurophone Y1 - 1890 A1 - Cyrus Cole KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Communication with a scientifically advanced Saturn, which has demonstrated the existence of immortality. The initial result is peace and prosperity, with slavery abolished and temperance enforced through the death penalty, but with the social structure and division between the rich and poor unchanged. Later robots (called dummies) are invented and do all the work. The robots revolt, and after the revolt is defeated, it is decided that everyone must work. An industrial army straight out of 1888 Bellamy is established.

PB - Charles H. Kerr & Co CY - Chicago, IL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Brother": Splendor and Woe Y1 - 1890 A1 - Isaac Broome (1835-1922) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Most of the novel is concerned with the dystopia of the nineteenth century, which brings about a collapse of world civilization. But this dystopia is framed by a future eutopia, which was brought into being by a small group of survivors in New Zealand, members of a small, isolated, egalitarian community. Forced from New Zealand by the growing threat of volcanoes, they settled in what had been New York and founded an egalitarian eutopia based on the teachings of Henry George (1839-97) and Edward Bellamy (1850-98). For Henry George's explanation of the single tax, see his Progress and Poverty. An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and Of Increase of Want With Increase of Wealth. The Remedy. San Francisco, CA: W.M. Hinton, 1879. Fiftieth Anniversary Ed. New York: The Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, 1929.

PB - J.A. Craig CY - Paterson, NJ U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Caesar's Column: A Story of the Twentieth Century Y1 - 1890 A1 - [Ignatius Loyola] [Donnelly] (1831-1901) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Largely a social catastrophe novel but includes a populist eutopia at the end. 

PB - F.J. Schulte and Company CY - Chicago, IL N1 -

Rpt. Boston, MA: Arena, 1894; Chicago, IL: J. Regan & Co., “Free Speech” Publishers, nd, with the name given as Edmund Boisgilbert, M.D. (Ignatius Donnelly) and many errors Chicago, IL: M.A. Donohue & Co., [1918? is given by most libraries although Rideout suggests 1901 and some libraries give 1913], with the name given as Edmund Boisgilbert, M.D. (Ignatius Donnelly); ed. Walter B. Rideout. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1960; New York: AMS Press, 1981; and ed. Nicholas Ruddick. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2003, with an “Introduction” by the editor (xv-lv).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Coming Republic" Y1 - 1890 A1 - Edwin Harrow KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

A very brief description of a republic of "the English-speaking race" which all other countries will ultimately choose to join. Federal system. There will be a "floating palace" so that the head of the republic can visit all the members.

JF - New Zealand As I Have Found It; or, the Harro-ing Experiences of a Settler at the Lake, Auckland, N.Z PB - Kelly and Baulf CY - Auckland, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Common-Sense Country Y1 - 1890 A1 - L[ouisa] S[arah] Bevington (1845-95) KW - Female author AB -

Anarchist socialist eutopia. See also her “The Secret of the Bees.” Liberty: A Journal of Anarchist Communism (London) 1.4 (April 1894): 31 where the bees have the good life through the use of “common sense.”

PB - James Tochatti. "Liberty" Press. Liberty Pamphlets CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Concealed for Thirty Years Being the Narrative of Edward Grey Y1 - 1890 A1 - Edward Grey [pseud.] AB -

Lost race eutopia based on religiously enforced complete equality facing the problem of a sudden disparity in wealth caused by the discovery of silver.

PB - Remington CY - London U3 -

Grey, Edward [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Conditions of Peace Y1 - 1890 A1 - Elder F[rederick] W[illiam] Evans (1808-93) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Six-page pamphlet in which Evans outlines the basis for eutopia, including the franchise for women, vegetarianism, and Christian community. See also 1888 Evans and 1890 Evans The Universal Republic.

PB - [Shaker Community] CY - Mt. Lebanon, NY ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Cosmopolitan Railway. Compacting and Fusing Together All the World's Continents Y1 - 1890 A1 - William Gilpin (1813-94) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Non-fiction describing a railroad around the world that the author believes will transform the world.

PB - The History Company CY - San Francisco, CA U5 -

ICU, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Danger of Anarchy in the Twentieth Century” Y1 - 1890 AB -

A report from the future of 1888 Bellamy’s Looking Backward, in which the asylums are full of thousands of cases of “atavism” or people who believe that the supposed utopia is deeply flawed. Congress has not met for thirty years and, at that point, voted to not meet for fifty years.

JF - The Open Court VL - 4.140 ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Decline and Fall of the British Empire; or, the Witches Cavern Y1 - 1890 A1 - H[enry] C[rocker] M[arrriott] W[atson] (1835-1901) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Socialism and a lack of both religion and authority cause the collapse of Britain. Britain failed to educate its people so that democracy could function correctly. Climatic changes brought about by the movement of the Gulf Stream away from Britain and the resulting colder weather led to mass immigration and the collapse of commerce. The class structure in Britain divides people. The protagonist visits Britain in 2990 and the Britain of the nineteenth century in a dream. Australia in 2989 is prosperous and healthy with religion and authority as seen in a tour of Australia taken in what is called an electric car but runs on a schedule and has a guard. The poor in Australia are given assistance as a right. 

PB - Trischler & Co. CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Late Victorian Utopias: A Prospectus. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 6 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2009), 3: 59-217. Editor's notes, 57-58, 392-95. U.S. eds. as The Decline and Fall of the British Empire. By An English Premier [pseud.]. Minerva Series. No. 36. November, 1890. New York: Minerva, 1890; and The Witch's Cavern, A Realistic and Thrilling Picture of London Society. By One Who Knows [pseud.]. New York: Minerva, 1890.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Doll’s House--T’other Side” Y1 - 1890 A1 - [Ellen Battelle] [Dietrick] (1847-95) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Women take over from men with positive results, but, ultimately, they begin to feel sorry for the men in their inferior roles.

JF - Women’s Penny Paper VL - 2.73 - 74 U3 -

By A Female Besant of the Year 8090 A.D. [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Dorothy’s Experience" Y1 - 1890 A1 - Adeline Trafton (1842?-1920?) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Social Gospel novel that includes a woman establishing a place for homeless young women to live. 

JF - Christian Union PB - Lee and Shepard Publishers CY - Boston, MA VL - 42.1 - 8 N1 -

Rpt. Boston, MA: Lee and Shepard Publishers, 1890

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Dr. Leetes Letter to Julian West" Y1 - 1890 A1 - Solomon Schindler (1842-1915) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Pro-1888 Bellamy eutopia. Julian West, the protagonist in Looking Backward, has become an unthinking and uninformed critic of the future Boston and starts a newspaper modeled on papers of the late nineteenth century to express his views. The letter explains why the newspaper failed so completely.

JF - The Nationalist VL - 3.2 U5 -

Hathi, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Dream of a Modest Prophet Y1 - 1890 A1 - M[ortimer] D[ormer] Leggett (1821-96) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia set on Mars which is like Earth with a parallel history but more three thousand years more advanced. Religion is a way of life. World language. 

PB - J.B. Lippincott CY - Philadelphia, PA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Elixir of Life: or, Robert’s Pilgrimage: An Allegory Y1 - 1890 A1 - [Mrs.] [H. M.] [Stowe] KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Fairly standard journey by a pilgrim in search of salvation visiting many cities based on religions, beginning with Pontifico and then many different Protestant denominations and the usual vices until arriving at the eutopian City of the King. In the city the Pilgrim advances through many mansions until he reaches the highest and Truth. The female author wrote other books on Christian Science.

PB - Np CY - Chicago, IL N1 -

Rpt. as The Progress of the Pilgrim. By Eleve [pseud.]. Chicago, IL: Eleve Publishing Co., 1891 124 pp.

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Eleve [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "An English Tax-Day, June 15, 1927" Y1 - 1890 A1 - [Auberon Edward William Molyneux] [Herbert] (1838-1906) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Individualist eutopia. Taxes are freely given not imposed.

JF - The Free Life VL - 1 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Erudia, the Foreign Missionary to Our World; or, The Dream of Orphanos Y1 - 1890 A1 - William Allen (b. 1834) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel is mostly a critique of contemporary life from a Christian viewpoint noting the need for temperance, education, faith, and the Sabbath. Illustrates the reality of Heaven and Hell. It ends with a brief eutopia that is brought about by filling all these needs.

PB - Ptd. for the Author by the Publishing House of the M.E. Church, South CY - Nashville, TN ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Farming in the Year 2000, A.D." Y1 - 1890 A1 - Edward Berwick KW - Male author AB -

Filling a gap in 1888 Bellamy. Discussion between Julian West and Dr. Leete. Vegetarian. Agriculture the most popular profession. City refuse used for fertilizer. Electricity runs all the machines.

JF - Overland Monthly VL - 2nd ser. 15.90 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Girl of the Future” Y1 - 1890 A1 - [Charles Grant Blairfindie] [Allen] (1848-99) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Jamaican author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A satirical essay that criticizes the current marriage system as marriage for the man and prostitution for the woman as well as the new education for women that cultivated their brains but neglected their bodies and, specifically, ignored sex. He then suggests the eutopia that would be possible if women were fully emancipated and given the sort of education that would prepare them for motherhood, mentally and physically. 

JF - Universal Review VL - 7.25 U5 -

Hathi

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Gloriana; or, The Revolution of 1900 Y1 - 1890 A1 - Lady Florence [Caroline] Dixie (1855-1905) KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

The novel is concerned with the struggle for women's rights and includes a few pages (345-50) of a future eutopia in 1999 at the end. London countrified. Righteous government. Federated republic with an Imperial Assembly. No poverty.

PB - Henry and Company CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Standard Publishing Co., 1892 (CaSt). There is a brief "An American Introduction" (xiii-xiv) to the U.S. ed. by George Noyes Miller, author of The Strike of a Sex (1890). Repub. under the title The New Woman, or The Revolution of 1900. New York: Holland Publishing Co., 1896. The New Woman does not contain the "Preface" (vii-x) or "Maremma's Dream. Introduction to Gloriana; or, A Dream of the Revolution of 1900" (1-4).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The God of Civilization. A Romance Y1 - 1890 A1 - Mrs. M. A. [Weeks] Pittock KW - Female author AB -

Mostly a romantic adventure tale but includes a description of a South Seas island eutopia where the people are naturally good.

PB - Eureka Pub. Co CY - Chicago, IL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - God's Kingdom on Earth. Just Laws. Organised Work. The Religion of Jesus. Social Science Tract.--No 9 Y1 - 1890 A1 - R[ichard] Proctor KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Pamphlet describing the eutopia that can be brought about through Christian socialism. See also 1932 Proctor. The author also wrote works in Biblical form advocating Christian socialism. See his The Epistle of Richard. A Late Addition to the English Bible. By the Author of the “New Evangel” [pseud.]. West Maitland, NSW, Australia: E. Tipper, Printer, 1893. 7 pp.; and The Second Epistle of Richard. By the Author of the “New Evangel” [pseud.]. West Maitland, NSW, Australia: E. Tipper, Printer, 1894. 8 pp. Other related works are his The New Evangel, According to Richard Proctor, Christian Socialist. Maitland, NSW, Australia: T. Dimmock, 1891; A New Religion [Sydney, NSW, Australia: Ptd. by Kingston Press], 1922; Reform or Revolution Which? Melbourne, VIC, Australia: The Ruskin Press, [1926?]; and The New Evangel Way. Melbourne, VIC, Australia: The Ruskin Press, [1930].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "God's Own Country" Y1 - 1890 A1 - Thomas Bracken (1843-98) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

New Zealand as a eutopia. Origin of the word Godzone to describe New Zealand.

JF - Lays and Lyrics. God's Own Country and Other Poems PB - Brown, Thomson & Co. CY - Wellington, New Zealand N1 -

Rpt. in Ballads of Thomas Bracken (Palmerston North, New Zealand: The Dunmore Press, 1975), 13-17. Said to have been originally published in the Yea Chronicle [Yea, Australia 1890] and rpt. in the New Zealand Herald (May 28, 1892): 9, although the Herald says it was written especially for it.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Golden Lake or the Marvellous History of a Journey Through the Great Lone Land of Australia Y1 - 1890 A1 - Carlton [William Lanyon] Dawe (1865-1945) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Typical lost race dystopia in which intrepid explorers discover a lost race, complete with the required beautiful blond woman, who they rescue and who marries one of the explorers.

PB - Trischler and Co. CY - London N1 -

Colonial Ed. Melbourne, Vic, Australia: E. A. Petherick, 1891. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Gulliver in Mammonland: Being a Suppressed Chapter of Gulliver’s Travels Y1 - 1890 A1 - Richard Chandler, ed. [written by] KW - Male author AB -

Satire set on the Isle of Mammon where the inhabitants are described as mechanical beings driven by greed. Newspapers the Schemer’s Guardian and the Users Diurnal. Book The Whole Art of Diddling. Magazine The Gospel of Greed. The Great National Temple is the Stock Exchange. The “editor” says it is a fake in that the paper bears the watermark 1890.

PB - H. Grube CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Hero of the Twentieth Century" Y1 - 1890 A1 - John Henry Barnabas KW - Male author AB -

Love story set in 1888 Bellamy's future.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Humanitarian Government Y1 - 1890 A1 - Victoria C[alifornia] Woodhull Martin (1838-1927) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia that proposes a government of philosophers, control of the press, and other reforms. Some material on eugenics. A related text is Victoria Woodhull (Mrs. John Biddulph Martin). Humanitarian Money. The Unsolved Riddle. London: Np, 1892. 26 pp. See 1870 Woodhull.

PB - Np CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Blades, 1893. 68 pp.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Ideal Newspaper" Y1 - 1890 AB -

Brief satire on the problems of running the Daily Utopian.

JF - Tuapeka Times (New Zealand) 23.1719 VL - 23.1719 N1 -

Reprinted from the San Francisco Chronicle.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - In Darkest England and The Way Out Y1 - 1890 A1 - General [William] Booth (1829-1912) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Mostly a reform scheme centered on the Salvation Army but includes the transformation of society through a series of city, farm, and overseas colonies. The city colonies were designed to get the poor off the streets. A factory in the city helped train them to work, and the city colony sent people to the farm colony which consisted of a cooperative farm and industrial and agricultural villages. These were then expected to send people to the overseas colonies. Some such schemes were established; see and Norman H Murdoch, “Anglo-American Salvation Army Farm Colonies, 1890-1910.” Communal Societies 3 (Fall 1983): 111-21; and Clark C. Spence, The Salvation Army Farm Colonies. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1985. For an attack on the Salvation Army, see 1890 Pope Booth.

PB - International Headquarters of the Salvation Army CY - London N1 -

6th ed. London: Charles Knight & Co., Ltd. 1970.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - In Globe Democrat "A Strike in 2000. Results of Nationalism not seen by Edward Bellamy. Problems in Social Economy. What Would Happen in a State Unseconded by Individual Enterprise--Universal Mediocrity" Y1 - 1890 A1 - M. Maurice M.D. AB -

The Sons of Individualism call a strike which brings about the downfall of the Nationalism of 1888 Bellamy.

JF - Weekly Press (Christchurch, New Zealand) N1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "In the Year '26" Y1 - 1890 A1 - Pauline Carsten Curtis KW - Female author AB -

The future of 1888 Bellamy's world in which competition and capitalism are re-established because Bellamy's future Boston was dystopian rather than eutopian. The change back has produced a capitalist eutopia.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "In the Year Ten Thousand" Y1 - 1890 A1 - Edgar Fawcett (1847-1904) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Technological utopia in a dialogue between two men of Manattia (formerly New York) on scientific and other advances far in the future. For example, on a hot day, people fly to the Arctic for a one-day break.

JF - Arena VL - no. 3 N1 -

Rpt. in Scientific Romance: An International Anthology of Pioneering Science Fiction. Ed. Brian M[ichael] Stableford (Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2017), 156-63.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Journalist’s Confession, Boston, A.D., 2001” Y1 - 1890 A1 - Julian West [pseud.] AB -

A criticism of the future of 1888 Bellamy in which Julian West reports that serious social criticism is repressed and unavailable and that neither books nor newspapers reach beyond a local area.

JF - The Open Court VL - 4.137 U3 -

Julian West [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Jubilee Day" Y1 - 1890 A1 - Thomas Bracken (1843-98) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Poem. Future New Zealand as a eutopian part of the British Empire.

JF - Musings in Maoriland PB - Arthur T. Keirle CY - Dunedin, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - King Squash of Toadyland Y1 - 1890 A1 - An Envoy Extraordinary [pseud.] AB -

Satire on contemporary Britain. Problems include the Town of Gin. There is a revolution in which the House of Lords is reformed by eliminating party politics and the King is deposed.

PB - Field & Tuer The Leadenhall Press E.C./Simpkin Marshall & Co./Hamilton, Adams & Co./Scribner & Welford CY - London/New York U3 -

An Envoy Extraordinary [pseud.].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Lady Gwen, or, The Days That Are To Be" Y1 - 1890 A1 - A Welsh Nationalist [pseud.] KW - Welsh author AB -

Detailed eutopia of Wales in 2000 inspired by 1889 Vogel. Wales is an independent member of the Imperial Empire with a young woman as Prime Minister. A reformed Calvinism played a significant part in bringing about the change.

JF - Cymru Fyad VL - 3.3 - 4.2 U3 -

A Welsh Nationalist [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Last Sinner" Y1 - 1890 A1 - H. Elton Smith KW - Male author AB -

Anti-utopian story set some time into the future of 1888 Bellamy when Nationalism has become authoritarian. A throwback to capitalism rallies opposition, which leads to war.

JF - Overland Monthly VL - 2nd ser. 15.90 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Leap into the Future; or, How Things Will Be. A Romance of the Year 2000 Y1 - 1890 A1 - Donald McMartin KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia although much is a criticism of the past. Standard support of 1888 Bellamy using Bellamy's setting and characters, with his Julian West the protagonist. Technologically advanced with food from chemicals. Cemeteries have been abolished, the bodies disinterred and cremated, and the land turned into parks. Judges write the few laws needed. No lawyers. No appeal from the court's decision. Young men and women work in separate jobs because women working with men lose their femininity. Seen as still improving.

PB - Weed, Parsons & Co., Printers CY - Albany, NY U1 -

[Cover adds (A Sequel to Looking Backward)].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Life in the Stone Age: The History of Atharael, Chief Priest of a Band of Al-Aryans; An Outline History of Man. Written Through the Mediumship of U.G. Figley Y1 - 1890 A1 - U.G. Figley (b. 1864) KW - US author AB -

Lost race and spiritualist novel that includes a brief description of a eutopian future based on cooperation and democracy that will ultimately be followed by renewed war.

PB - U.G. Figley CY - Defiance, OH U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Life in Utopia; Being a Faithful and Accurate Description of the Institutions that Regulate Labour, Art, Science, Agriculture, Education, Habitation, Matrimony, Law, Government, and Religion in this Delightful Region of Human Imagination Y1 - 1890 A1 - John [Aloys] Petzler (1814?-1898) KW - English author KW - German author KW - Male author AB -

Fairly standard socialist eutopia. See also 1870 and 1876 Petzler, his Die sociale Baukunst; oder Gründe und Mittel für den Umsturz und Wiederaufbau der gesellschaftlichen Verhältnisse, besonders wie solche sich in neuester Zeit in England, dem grossen Musterstaat der modernen Civilisation, ausgebildet haben. 2 vols. Hottingen-Zürich, Switzerland: Verlag der Schweizerischen Volksbuchhandlung, 1879, 1880; and his Grosse Jubiläumsfeier und imposanter Triumphzug in Erinnerung des hundertjährigen Bestehens der social-demokratischen Staatsseinrichtung in Britannien. Nürnberg, Germany: Selbstverlag des Berfassers, 1897 (L). 

PB - Authors' Cooperative Publishing Company CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Looking Backward; and What I Saw Y1 - 1890 A1 - W. W. Satterlee KW - US author AB -

Written against 1888-Bellamy and Henry George, the theorist of the single tax. The protagonist is R.E. Former and other names are similar. Proposes standard reforms of the times. For Henry George's explanation of the single tax, see his Progress and Poverty. An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and Of Increase of Want With Increase of Wealth. The Remedy. San Francisco, CA: W.M. Hinton, 1879. Fiftieth Anniversary Ed. New York: The Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, 1929.

PB - [Harrison and Smith] CY - [Minneapolis, MN] VL - 2nd ed. N1 -

Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Looking Forward" Y1 - 1890 AB -

Satire on the power of unions.

JF - Liberty (Boston, MA) VL - 7.13 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Looking Further Backward. Being a Series of Lectures Delivered to the Freshman Class at Shawmut College, by Professor Won Lung Li (Successor of Professor Julian West), Mandarin of the Second Rank of the Golden Dragon and Chief of the Historical Section of the Colleges in the North-Eastern Division of the Chinese Province of North America. Now, For the First Time, Collected, Edited and Condensed Y1 - 1890 A1 - Arthur Dudley Vinton (1852-1906) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Anti-1888 Bellamy dystopia. The title indicates the situation; the future described by Bellamy proved weak militarily, and the Chinese successfully invaded.

PB - Albany Book Company CY - Albany, NY N1 -

Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Looking Further Forward; An Answer to Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy Y1 - 1890 A1 - Richard Michaelis (1839-1909) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Anti-1888 Bellamy. The author shows Julian West starting his teaching job and being confronted by the Professor he replaced, who is now a janitor because he did not follow the party line. The “real” future Boston is corrupt, class-ridden, and authoritarian. The final chapter, dropped in some reprints, depicts the murder of West, the professor and Dr. Leete and the abduction of Edith Leete, who had refused to marry the leader of the radical opposition. But in this version it had all been a dream, and West wakes up in nineteenth century Boston. 1891 Geissler is a response.

PB - Rand McNally CY - Chicago, IL N1 -

Rpt. Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971; and Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Library Digital Collections, 1996 with Looking Further Forward [1890] on the cover. Also published as Looking Forward. Chicago, IL: Rand McNally, 1890; and A Sequel to Looking Backward or "Looking Further Forward." London: William Reeves, [1891]. This ed. drops the final chapter of the first ed. An Australian ed. was published as A Social Tangle. Being a Sequel and Reply to Bellamy's "Looking Backward". Melbourne, VIC, Australia: E.W. Cole, [1891]. In German as Ein Blick in die Zukunft, Ein Antewort auf Ein Ruckblick von Edward Bellamy. Chicago, IL: Rand McNally, 1890.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Looking Rearward” Y1 - 1890 AB -

Satire on 1888 Bellamy in which all names have been abolished and replaced with a number that is tattooed on the forehead and the forearm.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Marvelous Isles of the Western Sea Y1 - 1890 A1 - [E.E.] [Crandall] AB -

Pure, simple Christianity informing an advanced, democratic eutopia. Story of conflict over monetary policy arguing that paper money should be replaced with gold or silver. Those supporting the need for this policy win, and this is what produces the eutopia.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Miss Worden's Hero. A Novel Y1 - 1890 A1 - H[enry] B[arnard] Salisbury KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Standard socialist eutopia with stress on the revolution. The eutopia is described as similar to 1888 Bellamy. Money is in the form of a card which indicates the amount in units of hours, and change is given in coins that represent minutes and seconds. Machinery replaces most menial labor. Everyone is polite. Lots of gardens. It is said that there is no government, but that is not explained.

PB - G.W. Dillingham CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. under the author's original and preferred title as The Birth of Freedom; A Socialist Novel. New York: Humboldt Pub. Co., 1890. 3rd. ed. New York: Humboldt Pub. Co., 1890. Also published as "The Birth of Freedom." The Nationalist 3.4 - 8/9 (November 1890 - March/April 1891): 217-42, 296-324, 380-97, 439-61, 511-57.

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Rpt. under the author's original and preferred title as The Birth of Freedom; A Socialist Novel. New York: Humboldt Pub. Co., 1890. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Modern Monk Y1 - 1890 A1 - The Author of "Confessions of an Actress," "Serpent Sin," Etc. [pseud.] AB -

Anti-religious science fiction erotica. Satire on religion by presenting a presumed eutopian religious community, with a male leader and attractive female followers.

PB - np CY - Np U3 -

The Author of "Confessions of an Actress," "Serpent Sin," Etc. [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Morgante the Lesser: His Notorious Life and Wonderful Deeds. Arranged and Narrated for the First Time Y1 - 1890 A1 - [Edward] [Martyn] (1859-1923) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Satire, including one on a trip to Hell.

PB - Swan Sonnenschein CY - London U3 -

Sirius [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The New Utopia" Y1 - 1890 A1 - Jerome K[lapka] Jerome (1859-1927) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire. Equality achieved by limiting those better than the average.

JF - Treasure Trove VL - 1.2 N1 -

Rpt. in his Diary of a Pilgrimage (And Six Essays). Illus. G. G. Frazar (Bristol, Eng.: J. W. Arrowsmith, [1891]), 261-79. U.S. ed. Illus. G. G. Frazar (New York: Henry Holt and Co, 1891), 337-60; and in the Tuapeka Times (New Zealand) 24.1802 (June 10, 1891): 5. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The New Utopia; or, Progress and Prosperity. An Exposure of the Evils Produced by Unwise Legislation, and A Suggestion of the Means Whereby They May Be Remedied Y1 - 1890 A1 - Alexander W. Johnston, M.A. KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Mostly an essay but includes a section describing how the eutopian New South Wales will look after the adoption of his system, which then spreads around the world. No tariffs. Free rail transport. Free post and telegraph. Federated Australia with a State Bank. Single tax on land. The idea of a single tax on land originated with Henry George (1839-97). For Henry George's explanation of the single tax, see his Progress and Poverty. An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and Of Increase of Want With Increase of Wealth. The Remedy. San Francisco, CA: W.M. Hinton, 1879. Fiftieth Anniversary Ed. New York: The Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, 1929.

PB - Turner and Henderson CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "News from Nowhere; or, An Epoch of Rest. Being Some Chapters from a Utopian Romance" Y1 - 1890 A1 - William Morris (1834-1896) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Agrarian socialist eutopia. See also 1884, 1886-87 1887, and 1889 Morris. 

JF - The Commonweal VL - 6.209 - 247 N1 -

Rpt. Boston, MA: Roberts Bros., 1890. The first U.K. ed. was London: Reeves & Turner, 1891 and was extensively revised. Rpt. London: Kelmscott Press, 1892 1892 with a facsimile ed. of the Kelmscott Press was published by London: Thames & Hudson/V&A, 2017, with an “introduction” by Rowan Williams, the former Archbishop of Canterbury (vi-xi); in The Collected Works of William Morris With Introductions By His Daughter May Morris. Volume XVI New From Nowhere A Dream of John Ball A King's Lesson. 24 vols. (London: Longmans Green and Co., 1912), 16: 1-211; ed. James Redmond. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1970; ed. Krishan Kumar. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1995; ; and ed. David Leopold. Oxford, Eng: Oxford University Press, 2003. Chapters II-III rpt. in Dystopia Utopia Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Tales (London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2016), 292-302. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Number Five reads the story of her dream.” Y1 - 1890 A1 - Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-94) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A satire on egalitarianism.

JF - Atlantic Monthly VL - 65 ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Old Order and the New: From Individualism to Collectivism Y1 - 1890 A1 - J[ohn] Morrison Davidson (1843-1916) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Mostly an analysis of contemporary society followed by a chapter on various reform schemes. The last chapter, "Freedom" (160-74), is a socialist eutopia.

PB - William Reeves CY - London N1 -

4th ed. London: William Reeves, [1892].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - One of "Berrian's" Novels Y1 - 1890 A1 - Mrs. C[harles] H. Stone KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

"This story, in part, takes the conditions in 'Looking Backward' as its setting, and it will be remembered that 'Berrian' was the novelist of that future time" (vi). Love story set in 1997 that sets out some of the personal problems that were faced in achieving the eutopia. The three mentioned are a woman who wanted to trade on her beauty rather than work, the need for "psychic" treatment for atavism, and a temporarily successful conspiracy against the emerging eutopia.

PB - Welch, Fracker Company CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Plunge into Space Y1 - 1890 A1 - Robert Cromie (1856-1907) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Mars technically and aesthetically advanced. Older culture, less passion, and less government.

PB - Frederick Warne and Co CY - London N1 -

2nd ed. with a brief "Preface" (5) by Jules Verne. London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1891. Rpt. Westport, CT: Hyperion, 1976.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pope Booth: The Salvation Army, A.D. 1950 Y1 - 1890 AB -

Dystopia with the Salvation Army dominant. Pope Booth refers to General William Booth (1829-1912), the founder of the Salvation Army. For Booth's utopia, see 1890 Booth.

PB - [W. Lucas] CY - [London] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Saved by Nationalism” Y1 - 1890 A1 - H[enry] B[arnard] Salisbury KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story of a village under capitalism in which a few end up wealthy and the rest become poorer and poorer. This is contrasted, in a final section, with the same village under Nationalism twenty years later when it has been revitalized.

JF - The Nationalist VL - 3.3 U5 -

Hathi

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Scottish Home Rule--A Retrospect" Y1 - 1890 A1 - Alexander Dunbar KW - Male author AB -

A letter written as if from Melbourne, VIC, Australia February 11, 1920. The MPs representing Scotland at the time William Ewart Gladstone (1809-98; Prime Minister four times between 1868 and 1892) was in power were English and ignorant of Scotland. As a result, they supported Home Rule, which passed. Poor quality Scottish MPs were elected to the new Scottish Parliament, which quickly degenerated into corruption and demagoguery and impoverished Scotland. Home Rule has been withdrawn and some Scottish will return from Australia.

JF - Blackwood's Magazine VL - 147 ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Song of Scent-em-lovely. (An Imitation) Y1 - 1890 A1 - S[elina] J[ulia] Hancock KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

A poem describing the environs of Dunedin, New Zealand in eutopian terms. It begins with the description of a river in the Kaikorai Valley with healthy, happy working people and continues with other areas, rich and poor, and ends with a dystopian vision of the city. "Stink-um-awful" is compared to the river "Scent-em-lovely." The next page is an ad for land for sale in Roslyn, which has been described as ". . . the pleasantest of suburbs--/The Belgravia of Dunedin,/Where the mansions of the wealthy,/Reared amid the glow of roses./Sheltered by their groves of blue gum,/Sun themselves in luxury" (7). The author also wrote a temperance story The Two Processions: A Dream of Bye-Law 2. Dunedin: Evening Star Job Printing Works, 1894. 12 pp.

PB - Humffray, Printer CY - Dunedin, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Strange Dream Y1 - 1890 A1 - S. M. Burroughs AB -

Eutopia in which England is transformed by the single tax. The dream begins with a picture of the country before the introduction of the single tax showing the workers supporting the idle rich. This is followed by a depiction of the eutopia produced, with free travel, free education, full employment, and so forth. “It was the Liberal programme and the Single Tax that did it” (13). For Henry George's explanation of the single tax, see his Progress and Poverty. An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and Of Increase of Want With Increase of Wealth. The Remedy. San Francisco, CA: W.M. Hinton, 1879. Fiftieth Anniversary Ed. New York: The Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, 1929.

PB - Green, McAllan & Feilden. CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Strike of a Sex. A Novel Y1 - 1890 A1 - [George Noyes] [Miller] (1845-1904) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Women go on strike for “ownership over our person,” specifically control of maternity. See also 1891 Miller. A novel set after the successful strike is 1892 Waisbrooker. 

PB - G.W. Dillingham CY - New York N1 -

Later editions were published under the author's name with (Member of the Oneida Community) after the name. U.K. ed. London: W.H. Reynolds, 1891. Rpt. London: William Reeves, [1895]. Bellamy Library No. 12. Included in The Strike of a Sex and Zugassent’s Discovery, or After the Sex Struck (With Author’s Preface). New and revised ed. Chicago, IL: Stockham Pub. Co., 1905. The Strike is pp. 1-91. Zugassent’s Discovery or After the Sex Struck (93-119) is the first part of After. Rpt. New York: Arno Press, 1974. Stockham was Dr. Alice Bunker Stockham, a sex reformer. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sub Sole or Under the Sun. Missionary Adventures in the Great Sahara. By the Right Reverend Artegall Smith, D.D. With an Introduction by the Rev. Philip Norton Y1 - 1890 A1 - [Rev.] [Philip] [Norton] KW - Male author AB -

Lost race. The eutopia consists of two chapters (129-52) describing an isolated community of science and technology in Africa in which the Wandering Jew is converted to Christianity. The community is a remnant of the Ten Lost Tribes and holds the Ark of the Covenant. The community has something like Bacon's Salomon's House. Food and cloth are produced chemically from sand and gravel. Anti-Roman Catholic.

PB - James Nisbet and Co./Eben[enze]r Baylis and Son CY - London/Worcester, Eng. U3 -

Right Reverend Aretgall Smith D.D. [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Sunlight Lay Across My Bed" Y1 - 1890 A1 - Olive [Emilie Albertina] Schreiner (1855-1920) KW - Female author KW - South African author AB -

Hell is depicted as a seeming eutopia but revealed as a dystopia where everyone tries to injure everyone else. Some description of Heaven.

JF - The New Review VL - 2.11 - 12 N1 -

Rpt in her Dreams (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1891), 133-82.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Talking Image of URUR Y1 - 1890 A1 - Franz Hartmann [M.D.] (1838-1912) KW - German author KW - Male author AB -

A critique of religious movements based on reason and science using an imaginary country and from the point of view of Theosophy. See also 1887 Hartmann. 

PB - John W. Lovell Co CY - New York N1 -

Originally serialized without most of the final chapter in Lucifer: A Theosophical Monthly 3.16 - 18 (December 15, 1888 - February 1889): 292-300; 365-71; 457-71 with an editor's note on 472.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Three Thousand Dollars a Year. Moving Forward; or, How We Got There. The Complete Liberation of All the People. Abridged from the Advance Sheets of a History of Industrial and Governmental Reforms in the United States, To Be Published in the Year 2001 Y1 - 1890 A1 - [Frederick U.] [Worley] KW - US author AB -

Cooperative eutopia brought about peacefully through education. Public laundries, public kitchens, public heating and cooling, and high taxation, to which the public had agreed in order to produce the better life. After a few years the taxes were abolished. The banks, railroads, telegraph, and mines, followed by all industries, are nationalized. Racial equality. A new constitution is adopted.

PB - [J.P. Wright, printer] CY - Washington, DC U3 -

Benefice [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Trials and Triumphs of Labor. The Needle's Eye of Legal Tender Money Y1 - 1890 A1 - G. B De Bernardi KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Labor exchanges help create eutopia, and De Bernardi established some such exchanges. At such exchanges the unemployed could deposit surplus goods and get certificates of deposit or “labor checks” which could be used to purchase goods or services. On these exchanges, see H. Roger Grant, “Portrait of a Workers’ Utopia: The Labor Exchange and the Freedom, Kansas, Community.” Kansas Historical Quarterly 43.1 (1977): 56-66; and Grant, “Utopia Without Colony: The Labor Exchange Movement.” Communal Societies 1 (Autumn 1981): 43-54. See also 1897 De Bernardi and his The Equitable Industrial Association of America. A Beneficent Co-operative Association for the Employment of Idle Labor Through Mutual Exchange. Sedalia, MO: J.C. Parmerlee, 1888 (NN).

PB - Capitol Parlor Print CY - Marshall, MO N1 -

Later ed. has the subtitle The Text Book of the Labor Exchange. Independence, MO: Labor Exchange Publication, 1894.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Triumph of Freedom: A prospective History of the Social Revolution in Victoria" Y1 - 1890 A1 - J[ohn] A[rthur] Andrews (1865-1903) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Anarchist eutopia. See his What Is Communism? Ed. Bob Jones. Prahran, VIC, Australia: Backyard Press, [1984?].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Universal Republic: A Shaker Pronunciamento Y1 - 1890 A1 - Elder F[rederick] W[illiam] Evans (1808-93) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia based on the teachings of the Shakers and Thomas Paine (1737-1809). Each child born is due education until its legal age, at which point it is given its portion of land, sufficient to support a family. Childbearing will be controlled by the women. Also suggests a higher order of celibacy and community of goods. See also 1888 Evans and 1890 Evans The Conditions of Peace. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The University of Utopia. An Address Delivered at the Commencement of the Ohio State University June 25, 1890 by Albert H. Tuttle of the University of Virginia Y1 - 1890 A1 - Albert H[enry] Tuttle (b. 1844) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Mostly a consideration of education in More’s Utopia as a way of critiquing contemporary higher education in the U.S. Co-education. Physical exercise. 

PB - Hahn & Adair CY - Columbus, OH U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - What is Communism? A Narrative of the Relief Community. Common Property, United Labor, and Equal Rights to All, Will Immediately Displace all the Poverty, Vice and Crime of Society, and Secure to Eyerybody [sic]. The Greatest Plenty Purity and Peace Y1 - 1890 A1 - Alcander Longley (1832-1918) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. Founding and development of an intentional community. Although Longley did establish such communities, this is fiction presented as non-fiction.

PB - Altruist Community CY - St. Louis, MO N1 -

Rpt. New York: AMS Press, 1976

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Willmoth, The Wanderer; or, The Man From Saturn. This Story gives the Life and Adventures of a Man who Lived for Millions of Years, and Explored three planets--Saturn, Venus and Earth. Although it is the Author's first effort, it will be found to Amuse, Instruct and Please the Reader from the first to the last Page in the Book. Very Respectfully Yours, The Author Y1 - 1890 A1 - C[harles] C[urtis] Dail (1851-1902) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A tour of Saturn followed by tours of Venus and Earth. Saturn is composed of many different countries, the first of which is a eutopia based largely on the ability to read intentions. The major crime is to think evil. Vegetarian. Stress on education. Polygamy because women outnumber men twenty to one. Venus is primitive. The tour of Earth follows its evolution from primitive times to the present. A sequel that purports to be the memoirs of Willmoth is The Stone Giant: A Story of the Mammoth Cave. New York: F. Tennyson Neely, 1898 (HRC).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Wreck of a World With a Preface by Sir John Brown, C.E., J.P. Knight of the Order of Maximilian of Mexico, etc., etc., etc. Y1 - 1890 A1 - [Reginald Colebrook] [Reade] (1853-1891) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel starts in what is presented in the first chapter as a flawed utopia that is technologically advanced but beginning to lose its moral center. There is a Pan-Britannic Confederation with all members having a President and Congress and the nobility gradually disappearing. But much of the novel is concerned with a revolt of the machines against the human race, which is almost eliminated. After a long conflict, humans win but are temporarily limited to one island where a small group begins to create a good society that is compared to More's Utopia. No money. Goods freely exchanged. Sequel to his A Mexican Mystery. London: Digby and Long, 1888 in which a train is given consciousness and turns into a monster.

PB - Digby and Long CY - London N1 -

Long's Albion Library, Vol. II. This ed. rpt. in British Future Fiction. Ed. I.F. Clarke. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2001), 3: 5-163, with a brief note by the editor (1-3). The English Catalogue lists the 1st ed. as February 1890, but, due to ads in the book dated 1889, I.F. Clarke's Tale of the Future and some other bibliographies give the publication date as 1889.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Yea Fifteen Years Hence. A Vision" Y1 - 1890 A1 - The Prophet [pseud.] KW - Australian author AB -

Letter to the editor describing the author's vision of the town of Yea as a bustling, well planned town in the near future.

JF - Yea Chronicle (Yea, VIC, Australia) VL - no. 246 U3 -

The Prophet [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - 2,001 Anno Domini. A Sequel” Y1 - 1889 A1 - Sir Volius Juggle [pseud.] AB -

Satire on 1889 Vogel in which the United States, which has rejected votes for women, defeats Great Britain and controls North America. While Vogel extolled Irish Home Rule, the Irish are defeated by the Emperor’s armies.

JF - Observer and Free Lance (Auckland, New Zealand) VL - 9.567 - 571 U3 -

Juggle, Sir Volius [pseud.].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Anno Domini 2000; or, Woman's Destiny Y1 - 1889 A1 - Sir Julius Vogel K.C.M.G. (1835-99) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Detailed eutopia. Sexual equality. Includes a chapter on the eutopian results of Home Rule for Ireland (233-48). Satires on the novel include 1889 Juggle, Sir Volius and 1891 Williams, George Phipps and W[illiam] P[ember] Reeves. “Farming in the Future.”

PB - Hutchinson CY - London N1 -

Colonial ed., which is technically the 1st ed., has a picture of the author and different binding. 3rd and cheaper ed. London: Hutchinson, 1890 and Sydney, Australia: Edwards, Dunlop & Co., 1890. 331 pp. 4th and cheaper ed. London: Hutchinson, 1890 has different cover, different ads in the back. Rpt. Auckland: Exisle Publishing, 2000. 184 pp.; which is rpt. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2002.

It was adapted for radio by Dennis McEldowney and broadcast on New Zealand radio 3YC Christchurch May 9, 1962.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Arcadia in Futuris. Dedicated to the Women of New Zealand" Y1 - 1889 A1 - Charles Patrick KW - Male author AB -

A eutopia set in 2004 in which much larger, healthier people live in an Arcadian world. The process toward the eutopia begins with women in New Zealand getting the vote, which in fact they gained in 1893. A sub-plot that is not resolved is the isolation of China from the rest of the world and a plan to invade it.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Beneath Your Very Boots: Being a Few Striking Episodes from the Life of Anthony Merlwood Haltoun, Esq. Y1 - 1889 A1 - C[harles] J[ohn Cutcliffe Wright] Hyne (1866-1944) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Society in the earth under Britain. There are eutopian elements to the society in that, for example, everyone dresses uniformly, lives comfortably in good housing, and has excellent medical care. The dystopian elements are stronger in that absolute power is held by a fake god who kills opponents without trial, and all homes are apparently bugged by the god.

PB - Digby and Long CY - London N1 -

2md ed. London: Digby and Long, 1889.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The City Beautiful" Y1 - 1889 A1 - Oliver Bell Bunce (1828-90) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia of a simple life with no personal or social display.

JF - The Story of Happinolande and Other Legends PB - D. Appleton CY - New York U5 -

PSt, W3,775

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Coming Event Y1 - 1889 A1 - A Parachutist [pseud.] AB -

An independent Ireland as a eutopia. While Ireland is not mentioned directly it is pictured on the cover.

PB - J. Broadbent & Co CY - Huddersfield, Eng. U3 -

A Parachutist [pseud.]

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L, O

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Y1 - 1889 A1 - [Samuel Langhorne] [Clemens] (1835-1910) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire presenting a failed attempt to build a democratic, technological society in the time of King Arthur. Satire particularly aimed at government, technological innovations, and the Church.

PB - Charles L. Webster CY - New York N1 -

Critical ed. ed. Bernard L. Stein. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979. Rpt. with partial illus. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1997 with an “Introduction (vii-xxv) and “Explanatory Notes” (358-60) by M. Thomas Inge. An excerpt was published as “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court.” Century Magazine (New York) 39.1 (November 1889): 74-83. U.K. ed. as A Yankee in King Arthur's Court. London: Chatto & Windus, 1889. 

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U.K. ed. as A Yankee in King Arthur's Court. London: Chatto & Windus, 1889. 

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Illus. Dan Beard

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Mark Twain [pseud.]

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L, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Discovered Country Y1 - 1889 A1 - [Carlyle] [Petersilea] (1844-1903) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Heaven as eutopia. Birds, animals, and plants are immortal. Everyone looks young. People find their true soul mates in heaven. Jupiter is inhabited and is the better society Earth will one day become. No need for government or buying and selling.

PB - Ernst von Himmel Publishing Company CY - Boston, MA N1 -

Rpt. under the author's name Boston, MA: Colby & Rich, 1892.

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Ernst von Himmel [pseud.]

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MoU-St, PSt, W3,4203

ER - TY - ABST T1 - An Experiment in Marriage. A Romance Y1 - 1889 A1 - Charles J[oseph] Bellamy (1852-1910) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia presented as a successful experiment in socialism and free love, although there is very little sex outside marriage and no marriage before age 22. Easy divorce. Women are financially independent, and children are raised communally with parents free to spend time with them. Both men and women work four hours a day. Land and houses owned by the state. Married women are allotted houses. Single people of both sexes live in what they call phalansteries or buildings where each person has a private room, and there are extensive communal facilities. See also 1884 Bellamy, The Way Out. Suggestions for Social Reform.

PB - Albany Publishing Company CY - Albany, NY N1 -

Rpt. Delmar, NY: Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, 1977 with an "Introduction" by Joel Nydahl (v-xxviii).

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L, PSt, W3,453

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Fair Californian Y1 - 1889 A1 - [Helen Burrell] [D’Apery] (1842-1915) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A lost race of immortals has overcome all mortal passions. No children. Science and the occult are their concerns. No animals in the Sacred City of Seven. As with most lost race novels the eutopia hides a dystopia. 

PB - Minerva CY - New York U3 -

Olive Harper [pseud.]

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W3,1396

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Feminine Iconoclast" Y1 - 1889 A1 - Mary H[anford] Ford (b.1856) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Fictional commentary on the position of women in 1888 Bellamy. The protagonist complains about how male Nationalists treat women as weaker than men and needing care even though she is supporting herself and her brother and living a vigorous, healthy life. Bellamy expanded his presentation of the treatment of women in “Woman in the Year 2000” (1891) and significantly modified it in Equality (1897). 

JF - The Nationalist VL - 1.7 N1 -

Rpt. in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories by United States Women, 1836-1919. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler (London: Pandora Press, 1984), 149-54 with an editor’s note on 148; and in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories By United States Women Before 1950. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler. 2nd ed. (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995), 105-10 with an editor’s note on 104-05 and the author’s name as Mary H[anaford] Ford.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Gobi or Shamo; A Story of Three Songs Y1 - 1889 A1 - G[eorge] G[ilbert] A[imé] Murray (1866-1957) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Lost race novel with a eutopian Athenian society.

PB - Longmans, Green and Company CY - London N1 -

Rpt. New York: Arno Press, 1978.

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Merril, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - God's Reign on Earth, or Social Science and Christian Government Y1 - 1889 A1 - Blackwell, William KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. God will set up a Court of Arbitration to which people can appeal from local law. People choose their own arbitrator. God will make decisions by people drawing lots when they cannot resolve disputes. There is a divine plan for reviving trade.

PB - Author CY - Dunedin, New Zealand U5 -

DU-Ho

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Graftons; or, Looking Forward. A Story of Pioneer Life Y1 - 1889 A1 - J[ohn] R[ankin] Rogers (1838-1901) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The bulk of the novel is concerned with the problems currently faced by farmers followed by the campaign to bring about change, but it ends with a brief description of a populist eutopia. A central issue is the usury that regularly put farmers into permanent debt. This will be made illegal although old debts will have to be paid (201-02). 

JF - The Kansas Commoner (Newton, KS) PB - Milton George CY - Chicago, IL VL - 2.37 - 3.13 N1 -

Rpt. as The Graftons; or, Looking Forward. A Story of Pioneer Life. By S.L. Rogers [pseud.]. Chicago, IL: Milton George, 1893. Rev. ed. under the author’s real name as Looking Forward; or, The Story of an American Farm. Illus. [Tacoma, WA]: Spike Publishing Co., 1898. 

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S.L. Rogers [pseud.]

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MoU-St, PSt, W3,4639

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Great War Syndicate Y1 - 1889 A1 - Frank R[ichard] Stockton (1834-1902) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future war story that ends with the suggestion of a eutopia of peace and prosperity. As a war between the U.S. and Britain threatens, a war the U.S. will lose, a syndicate of rich capitalists agrees a contract with the U.S. to conduct the war, which they win by using new technology. Most of the book is about the war and the technology used.

PB - P.F. Collier CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1899. Rpt. in The Novels and Stories of Frank R. Stockton. Volume 6 The Great Syndicate, Etc. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1900), 3-128; and separately Upper Saddle River, NJ: Literature House, 1970.

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HRC, L, MoU-St, PSt, W3,5239

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hiero-salem: The Vision of Peace. A Fiction Founded On Ideals Which Are Grounded In the Real, That Is Greater Than All the Greatest of All Human Great Ideals Y1 - 1889 A1 - E[veleen] L[aura] Mason (1838-1914) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Spiritualist novel mostly stressing the conflict between our higher and lower natures with some reflections on the better life that is possible. One section of the novel was expanded and published as An Episode in the Doings of the Dualized. Brookline, MA: Author, 1898. The “dualized” are “self-harmonized natures”, with both female and male characteristics. See also her Who Builds? A Romance: Completed in the Month of Addar (which is the last half of February and the first half of March). The “Protecting Deity of Addar--the Seven Great Gods.” The cosmogonic myth of Addar--“The return to the cultivation of the Earth after the cataclysm.” Dedicated to Brother Builders of the 32 o and 33 o of Ancient Scottish Rites and To Builders Yet More Ancient the World Throughout. Illus. Brookline, MA: Author, 1903; Mad? Which? Neither? Illus. Boston, MA: [G.H. Ellis], 1904; The Discovery of Discoveries, Climaxingly collated in the Month of Una and her lion (1908) inclusive of August: and fulfilling “The Message of Ishtar.” Dedicated to Reverers of Self-Poised Mothers of Self-Poised Men of Whatever Race or Era. Illus. Brookline, MA: Author, 1909, which was published as by Eveleen Laura Mason (Mrs. Auguste Francke Hermann Mason). 

PB - J.G. Cupples CY - Boston, MA N1 -

[2nd ed.] Boston, MA: J.G. Cupples, [1900]. The 2nd ed. differs only in including “Purpose of ‘Hierosalem’” (unpaged), a letter to the editor of the Woman’s Tribune (Washington, DC) dated March 21, 1900, that the author wrote in response to a review of this book and her earlier The Doings of the Dualized. In the letter she refers to Hierosalem, but on the cover and title page and in the “Preface” (v), it is Hiero-salem. Selections rpt. in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories by United States Women, 1836-1919. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler (London: Pandora Press, 1984), 140-47 with an editor’s note on 138-39.

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MoU-St, NN, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “How Shall We Live Then?” Y1 - 1889 A1 - William Morris (1834-1896) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Some details of what he sees as basic to the good life in the future that fit well with his 1890 News From Nowhere. Stress on maintaining a strong and healthy body. Includes a long list of occupations. See also 1884, 1886-87, 1887, 1888, and 1890 Morris.

JF - International Review of Social History VL - 16, Part 2 N1 -

There is a copy of the manuscript at http://www.iisg.nl/archives/morris/live15.php

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - John Wilholm’s Class Meeting; or, The Forward Movement: Christlike Christianity Y1 - 1889 A1 - Dr. T[homas] P[ennington] Lucas (1843-1917) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

The novel is about how one group of Methodists come to themselves lead more Christian lives and their influence on the area where they live. While most of the book is on the developments within the group, it ends with a brief presentation of the eutopia that is coming into being with pubs closed and jails no longer full. The book is dedicated to Rev. Hugh Price Hughes (1847-1902), the founder of The Methodist Times and the Forward Movement in the Methodist Church, a movement to make the church more socially relevant. See also 1894 Lucas.

PB - T. Barrett CY - London U5 -

NSW

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Koradine. A Prophetic Story; Also, Creative Life, A special letter to young girls Y1 - 1889 A1 - Alice B[unker] Stockham M.D. (1833-1912) A1 - Lida Hood Talbot KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The book was designed to show the ideal growth and education of a girl from childhood to womanhood, including her sexual education. The novel, in letters from the girl Koradine, includes a description of an intentional community putting its ideals into practice. See the discussion in Beryl Satter, Each Mind a Kingdom: American Women, Sexual Purity, and the New Thought Movement (Berkeley: University of California Press, 138-45). 

PB - Alice B. Stockham & Co. CY - Chicago, IL N1 -

Rpt. as Koradine Letters. A Girl’s Own Story. Chicago, IL: Alice B. Stockham & Co., 1893 without Creative Life. Some copies have one title on the cover and the other on the title page. Creative Life has been excised from all copies that I have been able to examine, but it was published separately Chicago, IL: Alice B. Stockham Co, 1896. It was then reprinted new, rev., and enl. ed. Illus. Bertha L. Corbett. Chicago, IL: The Progress Co., 1904 and partly concerns basic information on reproduction with illustrations of the uterus and the “mammary gland,” and partly on suitable activities for women, including occupations and exercise, with illustrations of the appropriate clothes. It is available at https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007683219

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Hathi, NN

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Ladies Triumph" Y1 - 1889 A1 - George Phipps Williams (1847-1909) A1 - W[illiam] P[ember] Reeves (1857-1932) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Satiric poem on the success of women getting the vote.

JF - Colonial Couplets: Being Poems in Partnership PB - Simpson and Williams CY - Christchurch, New Zealand U5 -

ATL

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Lady of the Bush. The Dream of an English Traveller” Y1 - 1889 A1 - David Christie Murray (1847-1907) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Australia in the future as a metropolitan eutopia. The eutopia is in the last paragraph only with the rest a vision of the Australian bush.

JF - Adelaide Advertiser (Adelaide, SA, Australia) N1 -

Also in the Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser (Grafton, NSW, Australia). The Adelaide paper says that it was written for the Advertiser. The Grafton paper says it was originally published in the Daily Telegraph.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last American: A Fragment From the Journal of Khan-Li Prince of Dimph-yoo-chur and Admiral in the Persian Navy Y1 - 1889 A1 - J[ohn] A[mes] Mitchell ] (1845-1918), ed. [written by] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which a future expedition from Persia visits a devastated New York and Washington, DC. Much misinterpretation of what they find. In DC, they discover the three last Americans alive, and when one of the Persians tries to kiss the woman, a fight breaks out, and many Persians and all the Americans are killed. 

PB - Frederick A. Stokes & Brother CY - New York N1 -

Extract rpt. with illus. in The End of the World and Other Catastrophes. Ed. Mike [Michael Raymond Donald] Ashley (London: British Library, 2019), 111-48, with an editor’s note on 109. Rpt. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1893. Exp. as Edition Deluxe. Illus. in Color by F. W. Read. With Decorative Designs by Albert D. Blashfield and illus. by the Author. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1902. 151 pp. Rpt. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Literature House, 1970. U. K. ed. London: Gay and Bird, [1894]. 

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Illus

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MoU-St, O, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lesbia Newman Y1 - 1889 A1 - Henry Robert S[amuel] Dalton (1835-1902?) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Rights for women with training so they can exercise them effectively. Roman Catholic church allows priestesses.

PB - George Redway CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in British Future Fiction. Ed. I.F. Clarke. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2001), 4: 371-702, with a brief note by the editor (367-69).

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L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Looking Forward A D 1976" Y1 - 1889 A1 - C. Howard Wilson KW - Male author AB -

Anti-capitalist dystopia.

JF - Belford's Magazine VL - 4.19 U5 -

DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lost Inca; A Tale of Discovery in the Vale of the Inti-Mayu Y1 - 1889 A1 - [Alfred] [Sears] (1826-1911) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Lost Incan society with advanced technology presented as a eutopia.

PB - Cassell CY - New York U3 -

Inca-Pancho-Ozollo [pseud.]

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MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Marvelous Melbourne Twenty Years Hence." Silting Up of Hobson's Bay. Destruction of the Port. The Plague and Fire of Melbourne. Geelong the Capital of Victoria. [Reprinted from the Kew Mercury and Hawthorn Advertiser] Y1 - 1889 KW - Australian author AB -

Presented as a newspaper article "From the Twentieth Century, a daily paper published at Geelong, January 1st, 1909" reporting the decline of Melbourne and the rise of Geelong. Melbourne was badly damaged by fire and never recovered. This material is on pages 1-6; pages 7-16 are a detailed critique of the port and piers at Melbourne and the "Sanitary State of the City in 1889".

PB - W. Mott and Co CY - Kew, VIC, Australia U5 -

M

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Melbourne and Mars; My Mysterious Life on Two Planets. Extracts from the Diary of a Melbourne Merchant Y1 - 1889 A1 - Joseph Fraser, ed. [written by] (d. 1890) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Detailed eutopia based on abundance. No money. All goods free at a depot, but people must work, thus paying for the goods with labor. Free electricity does almost all the work. No private property except personal belongings. No crime. Altruistic democratic socialism. Not egalitarian; class based on occupation. Gender equality.

PB - Pater & Knapton CY - Melbourne, VIC, Australia SN - 978-0-987625397 N1 -

Rpt. Melbourne, VIC, Australia: E.W. Cole, [c1891]; and Parkville, VIC, Australia: Grattan Street Press, 2020, with an “Introduction” by Alexandra Roginski and Zachary Kenda (ix-xxi).

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A, ATL, HRC, M, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Metzerott, Shoemaker Y1 - 1889 A1 - [Katharine Pearson] [Woods] (1853-1929) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A Christian socialist experiment that produces a small eutopia that has to struggle with problems and internal conflicts but survives. The title character is a secular man who is instrumental in founding the community and is converted near the end of the novel.

PB - Crowell CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Cassell & Co., 1890. 

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MoU-St, O, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Mossback Correspondence Together With Mr. Mossback's Views on Certain Practical Subjects, with a Short Account of His Visit to Utopia Y1 - 1889 A1 - Francis E[dward] Clark (1851-1927) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Religious eutopia. Church carriages pick up people; no other vehicles allowed on Sundays. The wisest men are chosen as candidates for political office. ". . . in utopia it is the custom to put the best construction upon every action" (176). 

PB - D. Lothrop CY - Boston, MA U5 -

DLC, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mr. Stranger's Sealed Packet Y1 - 1889 A1 - Hugh MacColl (1837-1908) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Eutopia set on Mars. Mostly adventure. Technologically based abundance. For example, food is manufactured from basic elements. Equality. Socialism. All dress the same, except for different clothes for men and women. The people are described as having European features except for being "a delicate pale blue" (73).

PB - Chatto and Windus CY - London U5 -

L, LLL

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Nationalism Y1 - 1889 A1 - Crawford S. Griffin KW - Male author AB -

Non-fiction eutopia based on 1884 Gronlund and 1888 Bellamy.

PB - C.S. Griffin CY - Boston, MA U5 -

DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - New Amazonia; a Foretaste of the Future Y1 - 1889 A1 - Mrs. George [Elizabeth Burgoyne] Corbett (b. 1846) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Feminist eutopia in a society of the far future in Ireland. After war and revolution women’s position worsened, and they colonized Ireland, founding New Amazonia. All government posts held by women, and for the most important posts they can never have been married. The story is about a woman and a man who re projected into the future, the woman experiencing the future as eutopia and the man unable to adjust to it. Detailed regulation of the economy, a national dress with no fashion changes. Stress on physical education and diet to ten, and then everyone learned a trade for four years. All earnings from the next five years taken by the state to reimburse it for educating and maintaining the individual. Advanced technology. It turns out to have been the woman’s dream. The “Prologue” (1-8) says that it was inspired by a feature in the Nineteenth Century opposing women’s suffrage. A humorous comment is L[inda] Timmel Duchamp, “Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett.” Missing Links and Secret Histories: A Selection of Wikipedia Entries from Across the Known Multiverse. Ed. L[inda] Timmel Duchamp (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2013), 184-200. 

PB - Tower Pub. Co CY - London N1 -

Rpt. Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2014 with an “Introduction: A Foretaste of the Future, a Caution from the Past” by Alexis Lothian (1-23). 

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L, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Oneiros or Some Questions of the Day Y1 - 1889 A1 - Christopher Yelverton [pseud?]. AB -

Eutopia describing an authoritarian system for the benefit of the lower classes that results in a good society.

PB - Kegan Paul, Trench and Company CY - London U3 -

Yelverton, Christopher [pseud?]. 

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ICU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Oo: Adventures in Orbello Land Y1 - 1889 A1 - Charles Lotin Hildreth (1858?-96) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Children's lost race adventure novel in which a Roman eutopia is discovered.

PB - Belford, Clarke CY - New York N1 -

Also published as The Mysterious City of Oo: Adventures in Orbello Land. Chicago, IL: Belford, Clarke, 1889. Rpt. New York: American Publishers, 1889; and Chicago, IL: W.B. Conkey, 1889; New ed. New York: F. Warne, 1893.

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Also published as The Mysterious City of Oo: Adventures in Orbello Land. Chicago, IL: Belford, Clarke, 1889. 

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DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Secret of the Lamas Y1 - 1889 AB -

The central part of the novel concerns a lamasery in Tibet with knowledge far in advance of the outside world. For the Lamas, the Lamasery could be considered eutopian, but the final test for initiation into the most advanced status creates a dystopian world for those who fail in that they become automatons.

PB - Cassell & Co. CY - London U5 -

L, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Social Revolution Achieved. What Then?" Y1 - 1889 AB -

Anti-socialist dystopia.

JF - The Leisure Hour (UK) VL - 38 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Society of the Future" Y1 - 1889 A1 - William Morris (1834-1896) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Essay with a eutopia similar to his 1890 News From Nowhere. See also 1884, 1886-87, and 1887, and 1890 Morris. 

JF - The Commonweal VL - 5.168 - 70 N1 -

Rpt. in May Morris, William Morris Artist Writer Socialist. Volume the Second Morris as a Socialist With an Account of William Morris As I Knew Him By Bernard Shaw (Oxford, Eng.: Basil Blackwell, 1936), 453-68. Rpt. (New York: Russell & Russell, 1966), 453-68; and in his How I Became a Socialist. Ed. Owen Holland (London: Verso, 2020), 142-55, with editorial notes on 206-09.

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ExU, L, L(NL), PU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Speaking of Ellen Y1 - 1889 A1 - [Linn Boyd] [Porter] (1851-1916) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A pro-1888 Bellamy eutopia brought about by activist women with most of the novel focusing on industrial strife. The last chapter in the first version is entitled "Looking Backward."

PB - G.W. Dillingham CY - New York N1 -

Rev. ed. under the author's real name as Riverfall. Illus. Louis F. Grant. New York: G.W. Dillingham, 1903. U.K. ed. Illus. Louis F. Grant. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1903.

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Rev. ed. under the author's real name as Riverfall. Illus. Louis F. Grant. New York: G.W. Dillingham, 1903. U.K. ed. Illus. Louis F. Grant. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1903.

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Rev. ed. illus. Louis F. Grant.

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Albert Ross [pseud.]

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L, MoU-St, PSt, W3,4325

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Story of Happinolande" Y1 - 1889 A1 - Oliver Bell Bunce (1828-90) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Anti-egalitarian satire. When a freak of nature provides an abundance of gold and it is distributed equally, no one will work, and a generally good system collapses. When another freak of nature covers the gold, people must work and abundance returns.

JF - The Story of Happinolande and Other Legends PB - D. Appleton CY - New York U5 -

PSt, W3,775

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "To Whom This May Come" Y1 - 1889 A1 - Edward Bellamy (1850-98) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia in which the ability to read minds brings self-knowledge and empathy. Bellamy is best known for his 1888 Looking Backward. After publishing Looking Backward Bellamy became a social reformer and was involved with two journals, The Nationalist (1889-91) and The New Nation (1891-94), which he edited and published, and wrote many essays defending or elaborating his position; some of these have been collected in his Edward Bellamy Speaks Again! Articles--Public Addresses--Letters. Chicago, IL: The Peerage Press, 1937. 2nd ed. Chicago, IL: The Peerage Press, 1938; and Talks On Nationalism. Chicago, IL: The Peerage Press, 1938. 1897 Bellamy is a sequel to Looking Backward and 1889 Bellamy, “With Eyes Shut,” and 1891 and 1895 Bellamy are set in the same eutopia. A utopia not directly connected to Looking Backward is 1886 Bellamy.

JF - Harper's New Monthly Magazine VL - 78 N1 -

Rpt. in his The Blindman’s World and Other Stories (Boston, MA: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1898), 389-415; his The Religion of Solidarity Santa Barbara, CA: Concord Grove Press, 1984), 44-59; in American Utopias: Selected Short Fiction. Ed. Arthur O. Lewis, Jr. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971 (All items separately paged); and in Apparitions of Things to Come: Tales of Mystery & Imagination. Ed. Franklin Rosemont (Chicago, IL: Charles H. Kerr Co., 1990), 118-33.

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MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Twentieth Century. A Prophecy of the Coming Age Y1 - 1889 A1 - D. Herbert Heywood KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Something of a ghost. All that exists is a prospectus for a book that appears never to have been published. The prospectus indicates it would have been a utopia.

PB - F.B. Heywood CY - Boston, MA U5 -

DLC, W3,2658

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Two Lunatics. A Remarkable Story Y1 - 1889 A1 - [Charles] [De Medici] KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia set near the South Pole that rejects equality in favor of equity. Genius, talent, and skill of all sorts are encouraged.

PB - Oxford Publishing Company CY - New York U3 -

One of Them [pseud.]

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CSmH

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “With the Eyes Shut" Y1 - 1889 A1 - Edward Bellamy (1850-98) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A story that elaborates on the radio/phonograph that is important in 1888 Bellamy, Looking Backward. Here it is ubiquitous and portable. After publishing Looking Backward Bellamy became a social reformer and was involved with two journals, The Nationalist (1889-91) and The New Nation (1891-94), which he edited and published, and wrote many essays defending or elaborating his position; some of these have been collected in his Edward Bellamy Speaks Again! Articles--Public Addresses--Letters. Chicago, IL: The Peerage Press, 1937. 2nd ed. Chicago, IL: The Peerage Press, 1938; and Talks On Nationalism. Chicago, IL: The Peerage Press, 1938. 1897 Bellamy is a sequel to Looking Backward and 1891 and 1895 Bellamy are set in the same eutopia. A utopia not directly connected to Looking Backward is 1889 Bellamy, “To Whom This May Come.”

JF - Harper’s New Monthly Magazine VL - 79.473 ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Wonderful Dream of What May Happen in the Twentieth Century Y1 - 1889 A1 - Rev. Christopher Gaustad (1838-1927) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Technological eutopia.

PB - Author CY - Halcombe, New Zealand N1 -

The original text appears to be lost. A reprint of part of the text can be found in "Wonders Foretold--Remarkable Prophecies--A Work of 1888." The Manawatu Evening Standard (New Zealand) (November 20, 1937): 9. An article briefly describing the contents of the book is "Manuwatu Seer Foresaw all but the Moscow Moon." The Auckland Star (New Zealand) (November 1, 1957): 9.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - California 350 Years Ago. Manuelo's Narrative. Translated from the Portuguese Y1 - 1888 A1 - [Cornelius] [Cole] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Mostly an adventure story, but much of the novel is set among noble savages clearly living the good life.

PB - Samuel Carson & Co./C.T. Dillingham CY - San Francisco, CA/New York U3 -

A Pioneer [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Dawn of the Twentieth Century. 1st January 1901 Y1 - 1888 AB -

Monarchist eutopia. The book consists of a newspaper article and a series of reports from British government officials describing the state of the world at the beginning of 1901. Queen Victoria has stepped down and is now the Queen Dowager. Britain and the Empire are in excellent condition. Europe is cooperating. The British colonies have, at their request, become more closely integrated within the British system. India is now the Confederation of the Indian Empire and includes Siam (now Thailand) and the entire Malay Peninsula while remaining part of the British Empire. Includes plans to send the English poor to the colonies.

PB - Field & Tuer/Simpkin, Marshall CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "For the Ahkoond" Y1 - 1888 A1 - A[mbrose Gwinett] B[ierce] (1842-1914?) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire set in 4591 when the protagonist explores the remnant of the United States, which has been depopulated, with a monarchy remaining on the West Coast.

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Rpt. in The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce. Volume 1 (New York: Neale Pub. Co., 1909), 197-214. Rpt. (New York: Gordian Press, 1966), 1: 197-214; in The Fall of the Republic and Other Political Satires. Ed. S.T. Joshi and David E. Schultz (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2000), 94-100; and in Scientific Romance: An International Anthology of Pioneering Science Fiction. Ed. Brian M[ichael] Stableford (Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2017), 172-79.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Glimpses of the Future: Suggestions as to the Drift of Things (To Be Read Now and Judged in the Year 2000) Y1 - 1888 A1 - David Goodman Croly (1829-89) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Predictions, although often fudged with an assertion that science will determine or it is unknowable, that add up to a generally better future. Many topics are covered.

PB - G. P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York N1 -

Much originally published as parts of a regular column of predictions in the Record and Guide (New York) and revised here.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Great Irish "Wake" Y1 - 1888 A1 - One Who Was There [pseud.] AB -

Anti-Home Rule and anti-Irish satire that ends with a peaceful and prosperous Ireland part of England.

PB - Clement-Smith CY - London U3 -

One Who Was There [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - How She Did It or Comfort on $150 a Year Y1 - 1888 A1 - Mary Cruger (1834-1908) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Novel that the author says is based on her experience creating a personal eutopia by building her own house, which is shown in the frontispiece, and living frugally. The book includes house designs, recipes, the cost of groceries, and other practical matters. Female author.

PB - D. Appleton and Co. CY - New York U2 -

Illus.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - How They Lived in Hampton: A Study of Practical Christianity Applied in the Manufacture of Woollens Y1 - 1888 A1 - Edward Everett Hale (1822-1909) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia based on the cooperation of capital, management, and labor. Management and labor get a salary, and capital gets a basic return, and each get one third of the profit.

PB - J. Stilman Smith & Co CY - Boston, MA N1 -

Rpt. in Sybaris and Other Homes To Which is Added How They Lived in Hampton. Vol. 9 of The Works of Edward Everett Hale (Boston, MA: Little Brown, and Co., 1900), 211-470; and rpt. without the subtitle New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971. An early, short version was published with one illustration to the first installment as “Back to Back. A Story of Today.” Harper’s New Monthly Magazine 55.330 - 56.331 (November - December 1877): 873-84; 34-42; and rpt. as Back to Back; A Story of Today. Vol. 48 of Harper’s Half Hour Series. New York: Harper & Bros., 1878. A British ed. reversed the original title to Practical Christianity Applied in the Manufacture of Woollens; or, How They Lived in Hampton. London: Cassell & Co., 1892. 

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An early, short version was published with one illustration to the first installment as “Back to Back. A Story of Today.” Harper’s New Monthly Magazine 55.330 - 56.331 (November - December 1877): 873-84; 34-42.

A British ed. reversed the original title to Practical Christianity Applied in the Manufacture of Woollens; or, How They Lived in Hampton. London: Cassell & Co., 1892. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "In Trust for the People" Insuring a Reduction of Hours, Rents, and Prices Y1 - 1888 A1 - Dana Mansfield AB -

Detailed eutopia brought about through a land trust, which would own all real estate, railroads, and telegraph. Cooperatives running businesses.

PB - Rand Avery Co CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Inner House Y1 - 1888 A1 - Walter Besant (1836-1901) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Overregulated and over-protective society based on science achieving near-immortality. Anti-socialist. People are generally bored, unwilling to take risks. Food is the only pleasure. No family ties. No children born to keep population in balance. The one child born (to replace someone killed by lightning) grows up romanticizing the past. Some follow her in leaving the society to reestablish that past.

PB - J.W. Arrowsmith/Simpkin, Marshall CY - Bristol, Eng./London N1 -

Rpt. London: Greenhill Books, 1986, with an “Afterword” by Brian Stableford (199).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ireland's Dream: A Romance of the Future. Dedicated, without permission, to Mr. Gladstone Y1 - 1888 A1 - Capt. E[dmund] D[avid] Lyon (1825-91) KW - Male author AB -

Home rule produces a dystopia. Ireland is bankrupt, and it is effectively ruled by the Land League, which requires obedience to its decrees. Protestants are not allowed. No criticism of priests or the Church permitted. Corrupt politicians. Northern Ireland is a strong and successful as a Protestant country affiliated with Britain.

PB - Swan Sonnenschein CY - London VL - 2 vols. N1 -

Rpt. 2 vols in 1. London: Swan Sonnenschein, Lowry, 1888.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Island: or, An Adventure of a Person of Quality Y1 - 1888 A1 - Richard Whiteing (1840-1928) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A South Seas Island eutopia that depicts a romanticized Pitcairn Island with a series of laws designed to establish and protect a simple life. Mostly romance and adventure.

PB - Longmans, Green CY - London N1 -

The 2nd ed. London: Grant Richards, 1889 has two added chapters and minor revisions throughout.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Kophetua the Thirteenth" Y1 - 1888 A1 - Julian [Stafford] Corbett (1854-1929) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Mostly romance but includes a eutopia, primarily in volume 1, called Oneira that had been established in Africa during the Renaissance. Based on reason. Tax system similar to that in 1656 Harrington results in wealth and the elimination of all taxes. Some satire on politics when there are no real issues. There is a dystopian enclave created deliberately to provide a place for those incapable of living a good Christian life. This is eliminated by the end of the novel.

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Rpt. 2 vols. London: Macmillan & Co., 1889. One vol. ed. London: Macmillan, 1889.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Looking Backward: 2000-1887 Y1 - 1888 A1 - Edward Bellamy (1850-98) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The classic American eutopia in which both business and labor were nationalized. Quite a few works have been published responding to or elaborating on Looking Backward. After publishing Looking Backward Bellamy became a social reformer and was involved with two journals, The Nationalist (1889-91) and The New Nation (1891-94), which he edited and published, and wrote many essays defending or elaborating his position; some of these have been collected in his Edward Bellamy Speaks Again! Articles--Public Addresses--Letters. Chicago, IL: The Peerage Press, 1937. 2nd ed. Chicago, IL: The Peerage Press, 1938; and Talks On Nationalism. Chicago, IL: The Peerage Press, 1938. 1897 Bellamy is a sequel to Looking Backward and 1889 Bellamy, “With Eyes Shut,” and 1891 and 1895 Bellamy are set in the same eutopia. He also wrote two utopias not directly connected to Looking Backward; see 1886 Bellamy and 1889 Bellamy, “To Whom This May Come.”

PB - Ticknor and Company CY - Boston, MA N1 -

Canadian ed. Toronto, ON, Canada: William Bryce, [1888]. 2nd ed. Boston, MA: Houghton, Mifflin, 1889. Rpt. as Looking Backward--If Socialism Comes 2000-1887. London: W. Foulsham, [1930]; and under the original title Vancouver, BC, Canada: The Totem Press, 1934. Critical editions include ed. John L. Thomas. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1967, with an “Introduction” (1-89); ed. Alex MacDonald. Peterborough, ON, Canada: Broadview Press, 2003, with an “Introduction” (1-42) and appendices that include material by Bellamy and others; and ed. Matthew Beaumont. London: Oxford University Press, 2007, with an “Introduction” (vii-xxxvi) and “Explanatory Notes” (198-220), which includes notes on the changes from the first to the second edition. Chapters I-IX of the 1888 ed. rpt. in Dystopia Utopia Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Tales (London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2016), 21-56. It was adapted as a play by C. Bernard Jackson that was first performed in April 1974 in Los Angeles, CA.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Margaret Dunmore: or A Socialist Home Y1 - 1888 A1 - J[ane] H[ume] Clapperton (1832-1914) KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

Eutopia presented as the story of a successful intentional community established by a wealthy woman. Particularly concerned with the education of children. The story of the community is told mostly through the histories of its members. See also her Scientific Meliorism and the Evolution of Happiness. London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1885; and her A Vision of the Future Based on The Application of Ethical Principles. London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1904, both of which develop her arguments at length. 

PB - Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey & Co CY - London N1 -

2nd ed. London: Swan Sonnenschein, [1894].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Next Centenary of Australia" Y1 - 1888 AB -

Eutopia. "In 1988 Australia will be a Federal Republic, peopled by fifty millions of English-speaking men" (112) who will have become a separate type, recognizably Australian (112). Assumes that the Aborigines will have died out. Assumes that New Zealand will be part of Australia and that the Philippines and everything between it and the Australian continent will be controlled and cultivated by Australians. Australia will be strong enough to be threatened by no other country. Australians will be lovers of luxury, art, and wine and will need servants because the women will not work. Compares Australians favorably to Americans.

JF - The Spectator (London) VL - 61.3109 ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Seventh Dream Y1 - 1888 A1 - [Mrs.] [Desmond] [Humphreys] (1860-1938) KW - Australian author KW - Female author KW - UK author AB -

Dreams that describe a city of the future inhabited by people who only speak the truth. Perfect health. Simple lives.

PB - F.V. White & Co CY - London N1 -

Rpt. bound with two other novels as The Seventh Dream (London: Hurst and Blackett, 1905), 1-84.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Shaker Reconstruction of the American Government Y1 - 1888 A1 - Elder F[rederick] W[illiam] Evans (1808-93) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. Appears to be a reprint of a letter to the editor of the Hudson Daily Register (Hudson, NY)  that first criticizes the policies supported by the New York Tribune and then proposes a revision of the U.S. Constitution based on Shaker teachings. Women will be full citizens. A class of celibate men and women, in separate houses (Senate women; House of Representatives men) will be the legislators. No individual or corporate land ownership with land becoming government owned on the death of the current owner and then distributed to the people. No private or religious education. No alcohol. See also 1890 Evans (2).

PB - Office Register and Gazette CY - Hudson, NY N1 -

Appears to be a reprint of a letter to the editor of the Hudson Daily Register (Hudson, NY).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Son of a Star; A Romance of the Second Century Y1 - 1888 A1 - Benjamin Ward Richardson (1828-96) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Most of the novel is an adventure story set around Roman Britain and the relations between Rome and Palestine. Noviomagus or the state of the New Magicians is an enclave in Roman Britain that produces a eutopia by reversing the usual patterns. For example, every person holds an office except for one, who is designated the "Regular Citizen". The general commanding all the military is chosen for his peacefulness. The Treasurer must be able to write but not be able to read, which kept him from reading texts in political economy. See also 1876 Richardson.

PB - Longmans, Green CY - London VL - 3 vols. N1 -

Also published in an abr. one volume ed. New York: Longmans, Green, 1888; and London: Longmans, Green, 1889. The eutopia, "The Noviomagians", is found in volume II, Chapter 5 (66-96) and, in the one volume edition, Chapter XXI (187-202). The utopia was published separately as At Noviomagus: A Tribute of Affection to the Late Sir Benjamin Ward Richardson Fifteen Years Lord High President of the Noviomagians, 1881-1896. London: Chiswick Press, 1897.

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At Noviomagus: A Tribute of Affection to the Late Sir Benjamin Ward Richardson Fifteen Years Lord High President of the Noviomagians, 1881-1896. London: Chiswick Press, 1897.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder" Y1 - 1888 A1 - [James] [De Mille] (1833-80) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Lost race dystopia of reversal with satirical elements. The people seek death and separate from those they love. Poverty is preferred to wealth and has higher status, and those who anonymously give away money are punished when caught. Those who govern are despised. Stress on serving others rather than advancing oneself, The protagonist's name is Adam More.

JF - Harpers Weekly VL - 32.1620 - 1638 N1 -

Repub. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1888. Serial version rpt. ed. Daniel Burgoyne. Peterborough, ON, Canada: Broadview Editions, 2011 with extensive appendices. Repub. New York: Arno Press, 1975. U.K. ed. London: Chatto & Windus, 1888. Another ed. New York: Harper & Brothers/London: Chatto & Windus, 1888. Canadian ed. Toronto, ON: Macmillan Co. of Canada, 1910. The first ed. under the author’s name was the 3rd impression New York: Harper & Brothers, 1900. Rpt without the illus. Toronto, ON: McClelland and Stewart, 1969 with an “Introduction” by R.E. Watters (vii-xviii); ed. Malcolm Parks. [Ottawa, ON]: Carleton University Press, 1986 with the illus.; and Toronto, ON: Bakka Books Stone Fox Publishing, 2001. Extracts published as “The Kosekin.” The Oxford Anthology of Canadian Literature. Ed. Robert Weaver and William Toye (Toronto, ON, Canada: Oxford University Press, 1973), 99-105. Canadian Broadcasting Co. Audio Adaptation by Crawford Killian, 1972. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Strange People Y1 - 1888 A1 - John M. Batchelor KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Hidden race of people who use their minds to control themselves and their environment. Anarchist. No money. Anti-religious. See also his A Strange Conflict. New York: J.S. Ogilvie, 1888 [CU-Riv], which is set just before the eutopia and provides some background to it.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Thoth: A Romance Y1 - 1888 A1 - [Joseph Shield] [Nicholson] (1850-1927) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Society intended by its founders to be a eutopia is a dystopia. Rule by reason alone with mixed result. Genetics produces a class system based on inbred talents and physical characteristics. Scientifically advanced. Most people are happy, but the founder hated women and upper class women are treated very badly. Plan to kill everyone else in the world.

PB - William Blackwood and Sons CY - Edinburgh, Scot. N1 -

2nd ed. Edinburgh, Scot.: William Blackwood & Sons, 1889 contains as an appendix a previously unpublished version of the first chapter as it had been originally written in 1876. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Three Dreams of Home Rule, viz.: I.—The Dream of Tim Flanagan of Poolaphoula, II.—The Dream of Father Tynn of Ballybullpost, and III.—The Author's Dream Y1 - 1888 A1 - William C[harles] Bonaparte-Wyse (1826-92) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Ballads. Humor opposing home rule for Ireland presenting a peasant who believes home rule will produce a Cockaigne, a priest who believes it will lead to complete control by the Roman Catholic Church, and the author who believes it will lead to civil strife.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Treasure of Montezuma Y1 - 1888 A1 - Rudolph Leonhart, A.M. (b. 1832) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Country called Friedenstahl in an isolated valley in Mexico. Capital is Montezuma. Well-watered, unlike much of Mexico. Better society brought about by a man of wealth. Much of the novel is concerned with the efforts of his relatives from outside to undermine his activities so that they could get control of his money. At the end all the property goes to the people of Friendenstahl, with the land to be held in common.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Voyage of Will Rogers to the South Pole Y1 - 1888 A1 - Christopher Spotswood ed. [written by] (1813/14-90) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Lost race at a warm South Pole. People lead a simple, good life with few rules and almost no government. No money. Idleness is considered a crime but not directly punished.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Week in the Future" Y1 - 1888 A1 - Catherine Helen Spence (1825-1910) KW - Australian author KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

ence, C[atherine] H[elen] (1825-1910). “A Week in the Future.” The Centennial Magazine: An Australian Monthly 1 (December - July): 388-93; 468-79; 552-63; 657-65; 731-40; 828-32; 899-908 [A, ATL, PSt]. Rpt. ed. Lesley Durrell Ljungdahl. Sydney, NSW, Australia: Hale & Iremonger, 1987, which is heavily illustrated with material from the period  of the first publication; and Mt. Waverley, VIC, Australia: Aurealis Books/Chimaera Publications, 2010, with an “Introduction” by Lucy Sussex (ii-iv). The manuscript of the book is at the State Library of South Australia. A, ATL, PSt

Eutopia set in London in 1988. Everyone lives in “Associated homes” and works a six-hour day mostly in cooperatives. Population limited, primarily through birth control. No pollution. Strict control on both immigration and emigration. Eugenics with feeble-minded children killed at birth and “criminal lunatics” euthanized (36-37, 115). Women work equally with men in all occupations. Ireland now part of the United Commonwealth of Great Britain and Ireland, but all four component units have some independent political institutions. Based in part on the writings of Jane Hume Clapperton, particularly her Scientific Meliorism and the Evolution of Happiness. London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1885. See also 1888 Clapperton. See also 1879 and 1884 Spence. 

JF - The Centennial Magazine: An Australian Monthly VL - 1 N1 -

Rpt. ed. Lesley Durrell Ljungdahl. Sydney, NSW, Australia: Hale & Iremonger, 1987, which is heavily illustrated with material from the period of the first publication; and Mt. Waverley, VIC, Australia: Aurealis Books/Chimaera Publications, 2010, with an "Introduction" by Lucy Sussex (ii-iv). The manuscript of the book is at the State Library of South Australia.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - When Age Grows Young Y1 - 1888 A1 - Hyland Clare Kirk (1846-1917) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Chapter 27 (271-81) includes a description of a small-town eutopia.

PB - C.T. Dillingham CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Arno Press, 1979.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "White or Yellow? A Story of the Race-war of A.D. 1908" Y1 - 1888 A1 - [William] [Lane] (1861-1917) KW - Australian author KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Racist dystopia. Heroic Australian whites fight the Chinese, whose immigration has produced the dystopia. See also 1892 Lane.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Young Seigneur; or, Nation-Making Y1 - 1888 A1 - [William Douw] [Lighthall] (1857-1954) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Mostly concerned with English-French relations in Canada and the building of both Canada as a nation and a Canadian national identity. Includes a short (126-33) plan for "The Ideal State" based on improved education that will produce better people, a fairer distribution of wealth, and the control of vice through censorship and the improvement of dress and manners.

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Wilfrid Châteauclair [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - An Adventure Among the Rosicrucians Y1 - 1887 A1 - [Franz] [Hartmann] [M.D.] (1838-1912) KW - German author KW - Male author AB -

A Rosicrucian eutopia in the Swiss alps. See also 1890 Hartmann.

PB - Occult Publishing Co CY - Boston, MA N1 -

2nd ed. as With the Adepts: An Adventure Among the Rosicrucians. London: Theosophical Publishing Co., [1910]. Rpt. Berwick, ME: Ibis Press, 2003 with an “Introduction” by R.A. Gilbert (ix-xx).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Bellona's Husband: A Romance Y1 - 1887 A1 - [William James] [Roe] (1843-1915) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Wide ranging satire set on Mars.

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Hudor Genone [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Capture of London Y1 - 1887 A1 - James Peddie [pseud?] AB -

Dystopia. A Channel Tunnel is the route for the invasion of Britain by France and Russia. Britain becomes a republic, which is overthrown at the end. Attack on Gladstone and his party. William Ewart Gladstone (1809-98) was Prime Minister four times between 1868 and 1892.

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James Peddie [pseud?]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Crystal Age Y1 - 1887 A1 - [William Henry] [Hudson] (1841-1922) KW - Argentinian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Future Arcadian society organized in large families. Detailed picture of the society. Appears eutopian but is not from the viewpoint of the protagonist.

PB - T. Fisher Unwin CY - London N1 -

[2nd ed.]. London: T. Fisher Unwin. 1906. 2nd ed. rpt. in British Future Fiction. Ed. I.F. Clarke. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2001), 2: 375-696, with a brief note by the editor (371-73). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Divided Republic: An Allegory of the Future" Y1 - 1887 A1 - Lillie Devereux [Umstead] Blake (1833-1913) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

All women leave the United States to set up an independent republic. Events in the U.S. and in the women's territory are presented. Reconciliation between men and women when men capitulate and promise to reform.

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Rpt. in her A Daring Experiment and Other Stories (New York: Lovell, Coryell & Co., 1892), 346-60; in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories By United States Women Before 1950. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler. 2nd ed. (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995), 95-103 with an editor's note on 94-95; and in The Feminine Future: Early Science Fiction by Women Writers. Ed. Mike [Michael Raymond Donald] Ashley (Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2015), 93-102 with an editor’s not on 93

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Dream of the Days to Be Y1 - 1887 A1 - [John Mark S.] [Hunter] KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia of the simple life. Everyone works. Craft guilds. Stress on education. Collective evening meal.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Gospel of Reason, Bible of Truth, Justice and Correctness, and the Monarch of Literature. The Key to Solve All the Perplexed Social Problems. The only Infallible Guide to True Humanity, Genuine Enlightenment and the Highest Civilization. Containing: A True Definition of Social Science and Irrefutable Principles and Doctrines of all Rights, Duties and Universal Reform. Designed to Effect an Absolute Remedy of Our Great Wrongs and Evils, secure a Durable Peace Among all Nations, Restore Harmony and Contentment Among all Classes, bring Lasting Love and Joy to Every Family, and Lead every Man to the Acme of Happiness Y1 - 1887 A1 - Joseph Wieser KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

No. 1 includes “The Constitution of the Communion of Mankind” (13-60). Among other things, he says that women will be equal in the organization. Everyone to be better educated. Marriage to be universal and obligatory, and that he will “introduce one government in the world, one universal language, one uniform standard of money, and uniformity of all other means of communication; abolish all standing armies and wars among nations” (15). No. 2 is mostly on religion. No. 3 calls of farmers to join. No. 4 calls on women to join. In no. 2 the author describes himself as the Founder and President of the Communion of Mankind. Other works include his The Universal League of Justice. Its Principle, Platform, Teaching, Purpose and Aim. Chapter 1. To be published in successive chapters. Price of each Chapter, Ten Cents. San Francisco, CA: Np, August 1887; and a broadside entitled Proclamation by the Prince of Rebels [San Francisco, CA: Author, [1880], where he calls himself “Fool of Fools, Crank of Cranks, Maniac of Maniacs!”

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Harmony in Deep Mourning” Y1 - 1887 A1 - [William Ulick O’Connor] [Cuffe], The Earl of Desart (1845-1937) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire. Technological utopia. Marriages on short term license, the shortest being three months.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “How We Live and How We Might Live” Y1 - 1887 A1 - William Morris (1834-1896) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Morris sums up his position as “First, a healthy body; second, an active mind in sympathy with the past, and the future; thirdly, occupation fit for a healthy body and an active mind; and fourthly, a beautiful world to live in” (Book 76). See also 1884, 1886-87, 1889, 1890 Morris.

JF - Commonweal VL - 3.73 - 77 N1 -

Rpt. in his How I Became a Socialist. Ed. Owen Holland (London: Verso, 2020), 56-77, with editorial notes on 184-86

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Island of Anarchy. A Fragment of History in the 20th Century Y1 - 1887 A1 - E[lizabeth] W[aterhouse] (1834-1918) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

An island of transported revolutionaries, mostly anarchists, is presented in mostly dystopian terms because there is conflict among them. Some are then converted to Christianity and the situation improves.

PB - Miss Langley, Lovejoy's Library CY - Reading, Eng. N1 -

Rpt. Reading, Eng.: Two Rivers, 1997.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Lady and the Lords” Y1 - 1887 A1 - [William Ulick O’Connor] [Cuffe], The Earl of Desart (1845-1937) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on women getting the vote.

JF - Love and Pride on an Iceberg and Other Tales PB - Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey & Co. CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Letters from the Planets" Y1 - 1887 A1 - [Wladjslaw Somerville] [Lach-Szyrma] (1841-1915) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The October 1887 story depicts Venus as an Athenian democracy. See also 1874 and 1883 Lach-Szyrma.

JF - Cassell's Family Magazine VL - 13 N1 -

The stories from April and October are rpt. as “Letters from Mars.” in Lost Mars: The Golden Age of the Red Planet. Ed. Mike [Michael Raymond Donald] Ashley (London: British Library, 2018), 53-72 with an editor’s not on 51-52. The U. S. ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018 has the subtitle: Stories from the Golden Age of the Red PlanetSeries continued as "The Portals of the King of Day. A Journey To the Regions of the Sun." 14 (January 1888): 96-98; "Our Second Voyage to Mars." 15 (February 1889): 166-70; "Letters from the Planets--Canal Life on Mars." 16 (February 1890): 285-87; "A Trip to Jupiter's Moonlet." 18 (December 1891): 55-56; and "Corresponding With the Planets." 19 (June 1893): 403-05. Entire series rpt. in Worlds Apart: An Anthology in Facsimile [Cover subtitle An Anthology of Interplanetary Fiction]. Ed. George Locke (London: Cornmarket Reprints, 1972), 1-26.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Man Abroad: A Yarn of Some Other Century Y1 - 1887 KW - US author AB -

Mostly satire, but there is a description a community based on the principles, somewhat modified, of Henry George (1839-97), the theorist of the single tax. The modification is that while there is a tax on land no rent is paid to the government which put severe restrictions on what government could do.

PB - G.W. Dillingham CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1976.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Our Own Pompeii: A Romance of Tomorrow Y1 - 1887 A1 - [Samuel Middleton] [Fox] (1856-1941) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on British high society focusing on a pleasure city on the Riviera.

PB - William Blackwood and Sons CY - Edinburgh, Scot. VL - 2 Vols. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Republic of the Future; or, Socialism A Reality Y1 - 1887 A1 - Anna Bowman Dodd (1858-1929) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Anti-utopian, anti-socialist, and anti-feminist. Presents a socialist utopia as inevitably dull, boring, and extremely limited. Food requirements are determined by the Hygiene Board and provided from a central, national location. Advanced technology does all the work because the people will not work. Empowering women means that women dress like men and are ashamed of beauty but are more active than the men. Motherhood abolished; if children are born, they are raised by the state. To further equality, there is a law against learning. No religion.

PB - Cassell and Company CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Literature House/Gregg Press, 1970.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Strephon and Phyllis in 1920” Y1 - 1887 A1 - [William Ulick O’Connor] [Cuffe], The Earl of Desart (1845-1937) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire of sex role reversal.

JF - Love and Pride on an Iceberg and Other Tales PB - Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey & Co. CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Tables Turned; or Nupkins Awakened. A Socialist Interlude Y1 - 1887 A1 - William Morris (1834-1896) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Play describing revolution and (briefly) the resulting eutopia which is presented at greater length in 1890 Morris. See also 1884, 1886-87, 1889, and 1890 Morris.

PB - Office of "The Commonweal" CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in May Morris, William Morris Artist Writer Socialist. Volume the Second Morris as a Socialist With an Account of William Morris As I Knew Him By Bernard Shaw (Oxford, Eng.: Basil Blackwell, 1936), 528-67. Rpt. (New York: Russell & Russell, 1966), 528-67; and ed. Pamela Bracken Wiens. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1994. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Three Dreams in a Desert" Y1 - 1887 A1 - Olive [Emilie Albertina] Schreiner (1855-1920) KW - Female author KW - South African author AB -

A very brief conclusion to a series of dreams depicting women's struggle for equality is set in a future of gender equality.

JF - The Fortnightly Review VL - 48 N1 -

Rpt. in her Dreams (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1891), 67-85.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Among the Têtchas of Central Asia Y1 - 1886 AB -

Lost race satire on a matriarchal society. The founder of the society wrote 1800 folio volumes on the rights of women, which were designed to be an introduction to her major treatise. Men take their wife's surname with the suffix "ee". Technologically advanced.

PB - Southern Publishing Company CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Atla: A Story of the Lost Island Y1 - 1886 A1 - Mrs. J. Gregory Smith KW - Female author AB -

Atlantis as a eutopia. Much romance and adventure. Atla is a child from the North who is born as her mother dies as the result of a shipwreck on the shores of Atlantis.

PB - Harper & Brothers CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Bietigheim" Y1 - 1886 AB -

A story of a World War ends with a picture of a proposed radically reformed Europe, successful United States of Europe, and a reformed United States of America in two pages of eutopia.

PB - Funk & Wagnalls CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Blindman's World" Y1 - 1886 A1 - Edward Bellamy (1850-98) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia on Mars based on foreknowledge about one’s own life, which brings serenity and good relations with others. Only Earth does not have this ability. Bellamy is best known for his 1888 Looking Backward. After publishing Looking Backward Bellamy became a social reformer and was involved with two journals, The Nationalist (1889-91) and The New Nation (1891-94), which he edited and published, and wrote many essays defending or elaborating his position; some of these have been collected in his Edward Bellamy Speaks Again! Articles--Public Addresses--Letters. Chicago, IL: The Peerage Press, 1937. 2nd ed. Chicago, IL: The Peerage Press, 1938; and Talks On Nationalism. Chicago, IL: The Peerage Press, 1938. 1897 Bellamy is a sequel to Looking Backward and 1889 Bellamy, “With Eyes Shut,” and 1891 and 1895 Bellamy are set in the same eutopia. A utopia not directly connected to Looking Backward is 1889 Bellamy, “To Whom This May Come.”

JF - Atlantic Monthly (Boston, MA) VL - 58.349 N1 -

Rpt. in his The Blindman's World and Other Stories (Boston, MA: Houghton, Mifflin, 1898), 1-29; in his Apparitions of Things to Come: Tales of Mystery & Imagination. Ed. Franklin Rosemont (Chicago: Charles H. Kerr Co., 1990), 29-45; and as "The Blind Man's World." In his The Religion of Solidarity (Santa Barbara, CA: Concord Grove Press, 1984), 27-43.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Brotherhood of Rest Y1 - 1886 A1 - E[lizabeth] W[aterhouse] (1834-1918) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A community where the overworked can go for a complete rest. Modeled on retreats.

PB - E. Langley, Lovejoy's Library CY - Reading, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Centre of the British Empire Y1 - 1886 A1 - Henry Wentworth Monk (1827-96) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. British-Israelism or the belief that the British are direct descendants of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel. Palestine as the capital of the British Empire. Suggests that the United States would join such a confederation. Advocates “. . . the immediate confederation of the English speaking peoples everywhere, with a view to the ultimate confederation of all nations and the abolition of warfare. . . .” United Nations of the world to follow. Home rule within the confederation for all nations. The author lived in Ottawa and came to believe himself to be the Messiah; there are quite a few such people in the history of utopianism. He published many tracts and pamphlets that are not utopian individually but accumulate to a vision of a better society. These include Electors of Ottawa. Ottawa, ON, Canada: Author, 1887 (6th January, 1887); [Campaign tract proposing himself as the most qualified candidate. Suggests that the Queen call a convention of European powers that will agree to cut armies five to ten percent per year for some years. This would produce immigration of able-bodied men to Canada and other British colonies as well as to the U.S.]; The Peace of the World and the Welfare of Canada. Ottawa, ON, Canada: Author, 1887. (10 February 1887) [Political campaign literature. Cut European armies by 10% and send the men to the colonies]; How To Do It; or, Canada to the Front! That The Foremost Colony of the Foremost Empire in the World may now Prove Worthy of an Honourable Position among the Nations of the Earth. Ottawa, ON, Canada: Author, 1890 (1st May 1890) [Tithe and then purchase Palestine. Construct a modern harbor in Palestine and railroads and roads to connect the world to Palestine]; “A Noise” and “A Shaking” or, Two Indispensable Agents for Effecting the Highest Advancement of the Whole Human Family. Ottawa, ON, Canada: Author, 1890. (14th June, 1890) [Universal government. Urges the clergy to act]; The People and the Policy; or, Ourselves, and What Is Expected of Us. Ottawa, ON, Canada: Ptd. by C.W. Mitchell, Free Press Office, 1890. (27th March, 1890) [Britain (and the U.S. because it is mostly composed of British people) are the predicted Ephraim (See Genesis 48:19).and should join together to abolish war by establishing a Supreme International Tribunal. Christians should stop being hypocrites and practice their beliefs. Christians should support him, and those not supporting him will be punished in the Second Coming. He argues that he is the predicted “man-child” of Revelation xii, 5]; “Awake, Awake”. Ottawa, ON, Canada: Author, 1893 (16 November 1893) [This is the only one of his works to be consistently catalogued as a utopia, although for no obvious reason. A plea to the comparatively poor to support him]; “Thy Light Is Come”. Ottawa, ON, Canada: Author, 1893 (26 January 1893) [This is the best statement of his personal position. Believes that he is identified in Revelation as the one who will “overcome” and introduce the Kingdom of God on earth. He had learned how to read the symbolic language of Revelation; he tried to teach others but was rejected. John Ruskin (1819-1900) paid for the publication of his Interpretation of Revelation in Edinburgh, paid for his period of living in Jerusalem, and paid for his passage to Canada]; The Great Modern Problem. (How to afford permanent peace and security for “all nations”.) about to be very effectually solved by the means of “A Nation Born at Once” A worthy capital for the whole world being thus provided, where every nation upon the earth may be fairly represented, in A Permanent International Tribunal, or Supreme Authority. Recognized and supported by the combined powers of the whole world; that the nations may thus be left without excuse for warfare thenceforth. Ottawa, ON, Canada: Author, 1896 (12 February 1896) [Purchase Palestine and make it the world capitol]. [All at Can]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Cromwell the Third: or The Jubilee of Liberty. A Letter Written by Julius Boanerges to His Son Y1 - 1886 A1 - John Parnell KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian eutopia/dystopia set in A.D. 1951. Inhabited world in the center of the earth. Socialist revolution with good and bad results. There is a strong man named Tertius Cromwell. Money abolished. All royals, the clergy, and the English army imprisoned in "lunatic asylums for life." Ireland had disappeared in an earthquake in 1892 and later most of the United States is destroyed in another earthquake. Adam and all his descendants have returned causing over-population.

PB - Author CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Dream of John Ball" Y1 - 1886 A1 - William Morris (1834-1896) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

John Ball (ca. 1338-81) was a priest who was involved in the in the Peasant's Revolt of 1381, and his dream is of the success of the revolt. See 1958 Fairburn for another eutopia focusing on Ball. See also 1884, 1887, 1889, and 1890 Morris. 

JF - The Commonweal VL - 2 - 3.44 - 54 N1 -

First published in book form as A Dream of John Ball and A King’s Lesson (Reprinted from the ‘Commonweal’). London: Reeves and Turner, 1888. Rpt. in The Collected Works of William Morris With Introductions By His Daughter May Morris. Volume XVI New From Nowhere A Dream of John Ball A King’s Lesson. 24 vols. (London: Longmans Green and Co., 1912), 16: 213-88. L, L(NL)

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Falsivir's Travels. The Remarkable Adventures of John Falsivir Seaman at the North Pole and in the Interior of the Earth With a Description of the Wonderful People and the Things Discovered There Y1 - 1886 A1 - Thomas Lee, ed. [written by] KW - Male author AB -

Mostly adventure, but some eutopia; for example, everyone charged with a crime is provided free defense.

PB - Published for the Proprietor CY - [London] U3 -

John Falsivir [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Federation of the World Inevitable Before the Year 2000. And the progress of the world during the next hundred years from now enormous, astounding, and greater than that of all the previous centuries put together. The human race, after many ages of fitful, painful, and weary struggling, is now fast ripening to a united, beautiful, and majestic flower, the crowning blossom of earth" Y1 - 1886 A1 - E[dward] W[illiam] Cole (1832-1918) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia presented as predictions. Much on inventions. English will be the universal language. Complete manhood suffrage.

JF - Cole’s Fun Doctor: The Funniest Book in the World PB - George Routledge & Sons/E.W. Cole Book Arcade CY - London/Melbourne, VIC, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Fortnight in Heaven; An Unconventional Romance Y1 - 1886 A1 - [James Howard] [Bridge] (1858-1939) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia set on Jupiter, which is identical with earth except that the people are giants. Appears to be a good system, but flaws are revealed. For example, socialism, good on the surface, is corrupt.

PB - Henry Holt and Company CY - New York N1 -

UK ed. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1886.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Great Irish Rebellion of 1886, Retold by a Landlord Y1 - 1886 AB -

Anti-Irish satire. A brief attempt at independence is put down by Britain.

PB - Harrison and Sons CY - London N1 -

There were at least four identical editions published in 1886. 

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A Landlord [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - In the Light of the Twentieth Century Y1 - 1886 A1 - [Edward Heneage] [Dering] (1827-92) KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia. Women's rights have made their lives worse. No religion; it has been replaced with social science meetings. Workers are moved about the country from time to time to keep them from organizing. Charity is illegal.

PB - John Hodges CY - London U3 -

Innominatus [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - In the Year One (A.D. 1888) of Home Rule de jure: A Drive in the West of Ireland. Is It Possible? Is It Probable? Y1 - 1886 AB -

Anti-home rule dystopia.

PB - W.H. Allen/William McGee CY - London/Dublin, Ireland U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Inquirendo Island Y1 - 1886 A1 - [William James] [Roe] (1843-1915) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on science and the certainties of mathematics presented through the device of presenting an island that worships the god Mathematics.

PB - G. P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York N1 -

3rd ed. Chicago, IL: Charles H. Kerr and Co., 1892.

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Hudor Genone [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - John Bull's Divorce Suit Y1 - 1886 AB -

A satire on Gladstone's Home Rule Bill. William Ewart Gladstone (1809-98) was Prime Minister of Great Britain four times between 1868 and 1892.

PB - Richard Amer CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Key of Industrial Co-operative Government Y1 - 1886 A1 - [Henry Francis] [Allen] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. Detailed exposition of a cooperative system. See also 1891 Allen.

PB - The Author CY - St. Louis, MO U3 -

Pruning Knife [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Locksley Hall Sixty Years After" Y1 - 1886 A1 - Alfred Tennyson (1809-92) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

One section of the poem (lines 155-74 in the Ricks edition) has the future of 1842 Tennyson facing overpopulation and the renewal of war.

JF - Locksley Hall Sixty Years After Etc. PB - Macmillan CY - London N1 -

Rpt. "Locksley Hall Sixty Years After."  Critical ed. in The Poems of Tennyson in three volumes. Second Edition Incorporating the Trinity College Manuscript. Ed. Christopher Ricks (London: Longman 1987), III: 148-59, with an introductory note (148-49) and textual notes as footnotes; and in Tennyson’s Poetry. 2nd ed. Ed. Robert W. Hill, Jr. (New York: W.W. Norton, 1999), 551-61. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Newry Bridge or Ireland in 1887 Y1 - 1886 AB -

Standard anti-home rule dystopia.

PB - William Blackwood and Sons CY - Edinburgh, Scot. N1 -

Rpt. from the St. James Gazette, a daily newspaper. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Next 'Ninety-Three or Crown, Commune and Colony. Told in a Citizen's Diary Y1 - 1886 A1 - W. A. Watlock AB -

Anti-socialist dystopia.

PB - The Leadenhall Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Notes from Another World Y1 - 1886 A1 - Lord Granville [Armyne] Gordon (1856-1907) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A loosely connected stories sent back to a living person from one recently deceased and getting used to living in the underworld, which has heavenly and hellish subdivisions. Strongly influenced by Brave fra Helvede/Letters From Hell (1866) by the Danish author Valdemar Adolph Thisted (1815-1887), which was translated into English in 1866 and 1884.

PB - Remington & Co Publishers CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Opening and Proceedings of the Irish Parliament: Two Visions Y1 - 1886 A1 - [G. H.] [Moore] AB -

The first vision "Vision I. Ireland's New Parliament, 1887. (By the Dark Seer)" (3-12) is the standard attack on the Irish, and their inability to govern themselves (neither eutopian nor dystopian). The second vision "Vision II. The Irish Legislative Body, 1894. (By the Bright Seer)" (13-22) depicts the Irish eutopia brought about by Home Rule. Ireland remains linked to Britain but rules itself. Land is locally owned, and agriculture is good. There is good social order and little crime and the population is growing. There is no religious conflict.

PB - Reeves & Turner CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Quintura; Its Singular People and Remarkable Customs Y1 - 1886 A1 - Joseph Carne-Ross, ed. [written by] (1844-1911) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Flawed utopia. Rational, egalitarian eutopia that has gone too far and rejected emotion. Stress on technology, health, and cleanliness. Hospitalization for drunkenness and illiteracy; police are also physicians. Intellectual women, who are all narrow-hipped, rejected child-bearing; men show an atavistic tendency to prefer unintellectual women, imported from outside, who will bear children.

PB - John and Robert Maxwell CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Late Victorian Utopias: A Prospectus. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 6 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2009), 3: 3-55. Editor's notes, 1, 391.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Reached at Last: A Romance of Nineteenth Century Science Chivalrous Endurance and Perseverance With a Sequel Y1 - 1886 A1 - R. H. Cutter AB -

A simple, Christian, lost race eutopia in the North (called a utopia in the book). No real government; the people simply follow the moral laws of the Bible. The novel is mostly adventure; some of it, but not all, is designed as a boy's adventure book.

PB - Griffith, Farran, Okeden & Welsh CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Romance of Two Worlds Y1 - 1886 A1 - [Mary "Minnie"] [MacKay] (1855-1924) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

While the novel is mostly romance and spiritualism, it includes a tour of the solar system. Earth is the only planet where people doubt God. On Saturn people can talk with spirits, sickness and old age do not exist, and death is simply going to sleep. Venus is one great garden, and everyone is inspired by Nature and Art. Jupiter is an electrical civilization with everything done by electricity and part of the book is about Christ as an electrical being. "The Electric Creed" is on pages 229-44.

PB - Richard Bentley CY - London VL - 2 vols. N1 -

Rpt. New York: Garland, 1976; and Alhambra, CA: Borden Publishing Co., 1986. New and rev. ed. London: Methuen, 1896 has an Appendix of letters received commenting on the book (326-38) and a Postscript (358-59) commenting on the discovery of what she calls the Röntgen Ray (X-Ray).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Siege of Bodike: A Prophecy of Ireland's Future Y1 - 1886 A1 - Edward Lester (1831-1905) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

An anti-Home Rule tale of the future, but one that is sympathetic to Ireland's problems. The "Severance of Union Act" is passed and then repealed. The new regime established gives considerable power to localities, with each having a local board to "regulate tariffs, rents, and all technical and local matters" (137). More police. Absentee landlords heavily taxed. Money invested in improving agriculture, industry, and infrastructure. Education is improved, and a Roman Catholic university of quality is established, so that clergy will be better educated. Censorship is imposed as a means of improving education. Royalty visits regularly.

PB - John Heywood CY - London and Manchester U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Utopia" Y1 - 1886 A1 - John M. Harvey KW - Male author AB -

Poem describing a lovers eutopia. Some background of the dystopian outer world.

JF - Progress: A Monthly Magazine VL - 6 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Voices from Many Hill Tops, Echoes from Many Valleys, or the Experiences of Spirits Eon and Eona, In Earth Life and Spirit Spheres, In Ages Past, In the Long, Long Ago, And their Many Incarnations in Earth Life, And On Other Worlds, Given Through the Sun Angels' Order of Light Y1 - 1886 A1 - [John B.] [Fayette] (1850?-1927) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Mostly set in the past, but includes a number of eutopias on various planets. For example, one is a primitive Eden called Harmona. Spiritualism.

PB - Press Springfield Printing Company CY - Springfield, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Was it only a Dream?" Y1 - 1886 A1 - An Old Pauper [pseud.] KW - Australian author AB -

Letter to the editor describing an agrarian eutopia and comparing it to the contemporary world.

JF - Our Commonwealth (Adelaide, SA, Australia) VL - 1.32 U1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - After London; or, Wild England In Two Parts. Part I.--The Relapse into Barbarism. Part II.--Wild England Y1 - 1885 A1 - [John] Richard Jefferies (1848-87) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

aeturn to barbarianism is initially dystopian, with slavery, ignorance, and continuing warfare, but a strong leader brings unity and the possibility of eutopia.

PB - Cassell and Company CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Cassell and Company, 1886; London: Duckworth, 1905; New York: Arno Press, 1975; Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1980; and ed. Mark Frost (Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh University Press, 2017 with an “Introduction” (vii-l), Jefferies “The Great Snow (fragment 1876)” (194-98), and Jefferies, “[‘Alone in London’] (Untitled fragment, undated MS, British Library, Add. MSS 58817), which was originally published in the Richard Jefferies Society Journal 1 (1992): 2-3 (199-201). Part II, Chapters XXII-XXIX rpt. in Dystopia Utopia Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Tales (London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2016), 148-58. Part II, Chapters XXII-XXIX rpt. in Dystopia Utopia Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Tales (London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2016), 148-58. Most reprints have the title as After London; or, Wild England.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Co-operation of Land, Labour, and Capital Y1 - 1885 A1 - W[illiam] L[ee] Rees (1836-1912) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia brought about through cooperation and the joint stock principle. Argues for the unity of interests of producers, consumers, and capitalists. The system produces general affluence, cheaper food and other commodities, and morals improve as poverty disappears. Growth in population. See also his From Poverty to Plenty; or, The Labour Question Solved. London: Wyman & Sons, 1888 (ATL), which is a study of the problem of poverty, an analysis of alternative solutions, and a suggestion that cooperation will be the best of these. 

PB - Upton & Co CY - Auckland, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Fall of the Great Republic Y1 - 1885 A1 - [Abner] [Hitchcock] (1851-1936) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Standard anti-socialist dystopia set in the U.S. The importation of socialist ideas was a central problem, but this was made worse by Irish immigration. The U.S. collapses followed by defeat in a war with Europe. An Appendix (207-26) presents documents intended to show the reality of the danger to the U.S.

PB - Roberts Brothers CY - Boston, MA U3 -

Sir Henry Standish Coverdale (Intendant for the Board of European Administration in the Province of New York) [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Fool Killer Y1 - 1885 A1 - [Edward D.] [Coxe] KW - Male author AB -

Detailed eutopia stressing cleanliness, honesty, high technology, and workers and capitalists working together.

PB - American Publishers' Association CY - Chicago, IL U3 -

A. Fugitive [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Great Bread Riots and What Came of Fair Trade Y1 - 1885 A1 - [John] S[aint] L[oe] Strachey (1860-1927) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia brought about by protective tariffs.

PB - J.W. Arrowsmith CY - Bristol, Eng. N1 -

Serialized in The Daily Mail (1885). Rpt. with minor revisions and with the author's name as J. St. Loe Strachey as The Great Bread Riots: A Political Romance. London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1903.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Great Statesman. A Few Leaves From the History of Antipodea Anno Domini 3000 Y1 - 1885 A1 - [Joseph Broadbent] [Holmes] KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Detailed conservative eutopia brought about by a single leader. No votes for women. English the world language and Christianity the world religion. Australia inhabited only by Anglo-Saxons.

PB - Edward Lee, Steam Machine Printer CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia U3 -

Can C, N.S.W. [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Modern Daedalus Y1 - 1885 A1 - Tom [Thomas] Greer (1846/7-1904) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

An Irishman builds an airplane and wins independence for Ireland. There is only the vaguest suggestion of a eutopia beyond independence.

PB - Griffith Farran, Okedean & Welsh CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Griffith Farran, Okedean & Welsh/New York: E.P. Dutton, [1887]; and New York: Arno Press, 1975.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The New Democracy; A Fragment of Caucusian History Y1 - 1885 AB -

Lost race on an island called Caucusia. Gender equality, which is presented positively. Generally negative commentary on democracy. The Queen is a puppet operated by machinery; the upper house (the nobility) has no power; the lower house is controlled by an authoritarian party.

PB - Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A New Moral World, and a New State of Society Y1 - 1885 A1 - James Casey KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia founded on the ideas of Robert Owen (1771-1858). Money abolished. Industrial colleges are the basis of the new society.

PB - Author CY - Providence, RI U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The New Utopia, or England in 1985. A Lecture delivered in the Town Hall, Birmingham, on Sunday February 8th, 1885 Y1 - 1885 A1 - Rev. W[illiam] Tuckwell (1829-1919) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Village society with trained farmers and all land owned by the state and rented to farmers based on their qualifications.

PB - Birmingham Sunday Lecture Society CY - Birmingham, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Nineteen Hundred and Thirty-Five; or 'When There's a Will, There's a Way'" Y1 - 1885 A1 - Debenham, L AB -

Satire with a woman Prime Minister and women police, barristers, and professors. The men revolt. The story suggests that there should be gender equality except in politics.

JF - Drama for the Drawing Room PB - London Literary Society CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Perseverance Island or the Robinson Crusoe of the Nineteenth Century Y1 - 1885 A1 - Douglas Frazar (1836-96) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A Robinsonade in which the shipwrecked hero uses all the scientific advancements of the nineteenth century to produce a one man industrial island.

PB - Lee and Shepard CY - Boston, MA N1 -

Rpt. London: Blackie & Son, 1902.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Radical Nightmare or, England Forty Years Hence Y1 - 1885 A1 - An Ex M.P. [pseud.] AB -

Anti-socialist dystopia. Corruption. Many police needed to enforce the law. People are dull, physically weak, and poor and everything is dirty.

PB - Field and Tuer CY - London U3 -

An Ex M.P. [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Rational Communism. The Present and the Future Republic of North America Y1 - 1885 A1 - [Alonzo] [Van Deusen] KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. All works of strictly public character owned by the government. Small communities. Very detailed.

PB - The Social Science Publishing Company CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. Np: General Books, 2009.

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A Capitalist [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Things which I Saw in a Dream Y1 - 1885 AB -

Temperance tract in fictional form. A eutopia becomes a dystopia due to drink The people appoint a committee, headed by a distiller, to solve the problem, but things only get worse. The city is divided by a large wall with the population choosing whether to live with or without alcohol. The city with prohibition becomes again the peaceful, prosperous place it had once been. The city with alcohol completely disintegrates and the starving inhabitants beg to be allowed back.

PB - The Biddeford Journal Office CY - Biddeford, ME U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - An Agnostic's Progress from the Known to the Unknown Y1 - 1884 A1 - [Catherine Helen] [Spence] (1825-1910) KW - Australian author KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

Allegory which gives the impression of being a standard religious allegory, but it is written from the point of view of an agnostic. The City of Superstition, which believers call the City of Faith while disputing with those who believe differently, is home to the religion of Fear. The other city visited is Vanity Fair. Ends in the Land of Beulah, a eutopia of rest just before death, although it was all a dream. See also 1879 and 1889-90 Spence.

PB - Williams and Norgate CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Appendix to Sociology or The Scientific Reconstruction of Society, government and Property. Upon Principles of The individuality or separateness of ownership, the equality or equalness in quantity and perpetuity or entailment of the private ownership of life, manhood, government, the Homestead and the whole product of labor, by organizing all nations into states and townships of Self-Governed Homestead Democracies, Self-employed in farming and mechanism combined, giving all the liberty and happiness to be found on earth Y1 - 1884 A1 - Lewis Masquerier (b. 1802) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia as outlined in the title. A note (28-29) traces the evolution of Masquerier's thought and says that he was influenced by George Henry Evans (1805-56). See also 1847 and 1877 Masquerier and his Premium Remedy for Hireling Slavery; Classified Principles and Elements of Rights and Wrongs; Diagrams of Township and Village, and Revolutionary Hymns. New York: Ptd. by J.A. Lant, 1877 (DLC). 

PB - Lewis Masquerier CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in his Sociology. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1970.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ballymuckbeg. A Tale of Eighty Years Hence Y1 - 1884 A1 - [Edwin] [Hamilton] (1849-1910) KW - Male author AB -

Satire. Under Home Rule Ireland has divided into two parts at a canal dug between Dublin and Galway. Above the canal retains the name Ireland; below it is Mud Island. Dublin is also divided into Dublin and Ballymuckbeg. England and Mud Island are at war. No English are allowed in Ballymuckbeg without surrendering all their property. English is forbidden except for begging.

PB - Griffith, Farran & Co./William McGee CY - London/Dublin, Ireland N1 -

2nd ed. London: Griffith, Farran & Co./Dublin, Ireland: William McGee, 1885. Another ed. London: Griffin & Farran, 1892 is recorded in Stephen J. Brown, SJ. Ireland in Fiction: A Guide to Irish Novels, Tales, Romances, and Folk-lore (Dublin: Maunsel and Co., 1919), 128, where it is credited to Hamilton, but it cannot be found.

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W. Ridley Thacker [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Bertha: A Romance of Easter-tide Y1 - 1884 A1 - W[illiam Wilberforce] J[uvenal] Colville (1862-1917) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A novel of spiritualism that includes a chapter (292-302) describing a proposed spiritualist intentional community planned for Texas. It will be democratic and cooperative.

PB - J. Burns CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Bohemian Society Y1 - 1884 A1 - Lydia [Brown] Leavitt KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Begins with a simple, isolated, religious, small-town eutopia, which is ruined by contact with the modern world.

PB - Times Printing and Publishing Co CY - Brockville, ON, Canada N1 -

Rpt. Toronto, ON, Canada: Hunter, Rose, 1885.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Child of the Phalanstery" Y1 - 1884 A1 - [Charles Grant Blairfindie] [Allen] (1848-99) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Jamaican author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire directed at Charles Fourier (1772-1837). Presents a Fourierist phalanx in dystopian terms.

JF - Belgravia VL - 54 N1 -

Rpt. in The New York Times (August 24, 1884): 10; in his Strange Stories (London: Chatto and Windus, 1884), 301-20; in his Twelve Tales, with a Headpiece, a Tailpiece, and An Intermezzo: Being Selected Stories (London: Grant Richards, 1899), 45-64; in his The Backslider (New York/London: Lewis Scribner, 1901), 313-42; and in Scientific Romance: An International Anthology of Pioneering Science Fiction. Ed. Brian M[ichael] Stableford (Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2017), 92-107. 

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J. Arbuthnot Wilson [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Conquest: A Story of the Present, and Future, Real and Ideal. This Story Delineates in Part the Greatest Conception of the Age, and is the Most Important Work of Fiction Since "Uncle Tom's Cabin" Y1 - 1884 A1 - O[rson] H[arold] Truman KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Religious transformation and political organization achieve eutopia. Temperance. Enfranchisement of women. Wages sufficient for a decent life. One language. See also his The Seventh Angel’s Blast and Christian Government. A Lecture. Fairfield, NB: Author, 1903.

PB - O.H. Truman CY - Monticello, IA N1 -

[Rev. ed.] without the second subtitle. La Crosse, KS: O.H. Truman, [1909].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Coöperative Commonwealth in its Outlines. An Exposition of Modern Socialism Y1 - 1884 A1 - Laurence Gronlund (1846-99) KW - Danish author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Detailed essay picturing a functioning cooperative society. Related works by Gronlund include Our Destiny: The Influence of Socialism on Morals and Religion. An Essay in Ethics. London: Swan Sonnenschein, 1891; originally published in The Nationalist (Boston, MA) 2.4 - 3.2 (March - September 1890): 2.4 - 8 [2. 4 - 6 (March - May) are separately paged as 1-65]; 2.7 - 3.2 (June - September): 239-62, 304-28; 55-72, 123-44. The New Economy: A Peaceable Solution of the Social Problem. Chicago: Herbert S. Stone, 1898; and “Socializing a State.” In Three in One: A Trinity of Arguments on Socialism (Chicago: The Social Democracy, [1898?]), 3-22

PB - Lee and Shepard/Charles T. Dillingham CY - Boston, MA/New York N1 -

Rpt. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 1965 with an “Introduction” (vii-xxvi) by Stow Persons and Gronlund’s “Introduction to the Revised Edition, 1890” (3-4). Rev. and enl. ed. Boston, MA: Lee and Shepard, 1890. Authorized U.K. ed. as The Coöperative Commonwealth: An Exposition of Modern Socialism. London: Swan Sonnenschein, 1886. 1890 ed. rpt. as The Coöperative Commonwealth: An Exposition of Modern Socialism. 3rd ed. Ed. George Bernard Shaw. London: William Reeves, [1897]. Gronlund repudiated this edition. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Darkness and Dawn; The Peaceful Birth of a New Age Y1 - 1884 AB -

Eutopia. Christian cooperative commonwealth. All work but there is no night work, no child labor, and factories are concerned with the health of their workers. Homes provided for everyone. No class system.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Detroit of the Future Y1 - 1884 A1 - Lyman E. Stowe KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Poem describing a eutopian Detroit of the future. There is an article on the book, Harry Massie, “Prophetic book envisions Detroit as Utopia in 2100.” Ann Arbor News (October 8, 1989): A9.

JF - Poetical Drifts of Thought or, Problems of Progress. Treating Upon the Mistakes of the Church--The Mistakes of the Atheist Infidel and Materialist--God Not the Maker of the Universe--Progress the Evidence of a Merciful, But Not All Powerful, God. Reconciliation of Science and Christianity. The Formation of a Solar System--Evolution--Human Progress--Possibilities of the Future--Including Spicy Explanatory Matter in Prose. Embellished with Nearly 200 Illustrations. Together With a Number of Fine Poems On Popular Subjects Including Sketches of the City of the Straits--Past, Present and Future PB - Lyman E. Stowe, Publisher CY - Detroit, MI U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - England in 1910 Y1 - 1884 AB -

Eutopia with considerable satire. Short history of a transformed society. Technologically advanced, no paupers, and no compulsory education. Home Rule in Ireland. Cremation. Limit on wealth; work for all. Every country must support its own poor, so there is much less immigration.

PB - Willing and Company CY - London N1 -

Also published as Glasgow in 1910. Glasgow, Scot.: Macrone and Company, 1884.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Factory As It Might Be" Y1 - 1884 A1 - William Morris (1834-1896) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Depiction of an ideal factory with a garden tended by the workers, simple but beautiful buildings, and the workers doing useful work using the best machines and thus working shorter hours. The factory will also be a center of education for both its workers and any children in the area interested in its work. ​See also 1886-87, 1887, 1889, and 1890 Morris. 

JF - Justice VL - 1.18, 20, 24 N1 -

Rpt. in May Morris, William Morris Artist Writer Socialist. Volume the Second Morris as a Socialist With an Account of William Morris As I Knew Him By Bernard Shaw (Oxford, Eng.: Basil Blackwell, 1936), 130-40; rpt. (New York: Russell & Russell, 1966), 130-40); in his Political Writings: Contributions to Justice and Commonweal 1883-1890. Ed. Nicholas Salmon (Bristol, Eng.: Thoemmes Press, 1994), 32-35; 39-46; in A Factory As It Might Be with Colin Ward, The Factory We Never Had (Nottingham, Eng.: Mushroom Bookshop, 1994), 5-20; and in Utopia [Ed. Ross Bradshaw] (Nottingham, Eng.: Five Leaves, 2012), 34-43 with Colin Ward’s “The Factory We Never Had” on pp. 44-49. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions Y1 - 1884 A1 - [Edwin Abbott] [Abbott] (1838-1926) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Primarily an exercise in geometry using an imaginary country, but the novel includes commentaries, some satirical, on art, eugenics, religion, class, the position of women, and other contemporary issues. For a 21st century use of the idea, see Steve Tomasula, VAS: An Opera in Flatland. Barrytown, NY: Station Hill Press, 2002. A humorous comment is Anne Toole. “Secrets of Flatland.” Missing Links and Secret Histories: A Selection of Wikipedia Entries from Across the Known Multuiverse. Ed. L[inda] Timmel Duchamp (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2013), 172-77. Others who have written sequels to Flatland include Dionys Burger, Sphereland: A Fantasy About Curved Space and an Expanded Universe. Trans. Cornelie J. Reinboldt. New York: Thomas J. Crowell, 1965 (Originally published in Dutch in 1957); Rudy [Rudolf von Bitter] Rucker (b. 1946), “Message Found in a Copy of Flatland.” The 57th Franz Kafka (New York: Ace Books, 1983), 224-34; and Rucker, The Sex Sphere. New York: Ace Science Fiction Books, 1983; A[lexander] K[eewatin] Dewdney, The Planiverse: Computer Contact with a Two-Dimensional World. New York: Poseidon Press, 1984; and Ian Stewart, Flatterland: Like Flatland, Only More So. Cambridge, MA: Perseus Publishing, 2001. See also 1907 Hinton and 1965 Calisher.

PB - Seeley & Co CY - London N1 -

2nd and rev. ed. London: Seeley & Co., 1884. Rpt. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1991; and illus. Frank Mayo. Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1995, with an “Introduction” by Gregory Benford (ix-xxvii). See also The Annotated Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions. With Introduction and Notes by Ian Stewart. Cambridge, MA: Perseus Publishing, 2002. Other recent eds. are ed. Rosemary Jann. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 2006; and ed. William F. Lindgren and Thomas F. Banchoff with Notes and Commentary. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press/Washington, DC: The Mathematical Association of America, 2010.

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A. Square [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - History of the Decline and Fall of the British Empire Y1 - 1884 A1 - [Charles John] [Stone] (1837-1886) KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Miscellaneous causes of decline of Britain. Hints at a current eutopia.

PB - Field & Tuer, Ye Leadenhalle Press; Simpkin, Marshall & Co.; Hamilton, Adams & Co CY - London VL - Ye Leadenhalle Presse Pamphlet No. 1 U3 -

Edwarda Gibbon, M.A., F.R.S.L., Etc. [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The King's Men. A Tale of Tomorrow Y1 - 1884 A1 - Robert Grant (1852-1940) A1 - John Boyle O'Reilly (1844-1890) A1 - John T[yler] Wheelwright (1856-1925) A1 - Fredric Jesup Stimson (1855-1943) KW - Irish author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the English monarchy has been overthrown and moved to the U.S. and the aristocracy has been dispossessed. This leads to a Britain dominated by demagogues. Political struggle results in a return to a more balanced system. Mostly romance and political intrigue.

PB - Charles Scribner's Sons CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Arno Press, 1975.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Life and Labor in the Spirit World. Being a Description of the Localities, Employments, Surroundings, and Conditions in the Spheres. By Members of the Spirit-Band of Miss M. T. Shelhamer, Medium of the Banner of Light Public Free Circle Y1 - 1884 A1 - [Mary Theresa] [Longley] (1853-1928) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Detailed eutopia of the spirit life which is presented as the writings from the spirit world of Ann Frances Kinsey (1856-77). Uses the language of Andrew Jackson Davis; see 1847, 1874 and 1878 Davis. Stresses gender equality, education, peace and beauty.

PB - Colby and Rich CY - Boston, MA N1 -

There is a later printing, sometimes cataloged as a second edition, with Second Thousand on the title page and the publication date of 1885, but it is otherwise identical.

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Members of the Spirit-Band of Miss M[ary] T[heresa] Shelhamer, Medium of the Banner of Light Public Free Circle [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Little of the Future of the North of Auckland" Y1 - 1884 A1 - [Edwin] [Fairburn] (1827-1911) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Description of the future of the area North of Auckland as a eutopia based on developing its agricultural potential. See also 1867 Fairburn. There is also a non-utopian The Ships of the Future. Being an Epilogue to The Ships of Tarshish. By "Mohoao" [pseud.]. Auckland, New Zealand: Np, [1889] (ATL).

JF - Prologue Written in 1884 PB - H. Brett, General Steam Print CY - Auckland, New Zealand U3 -

Mohoao [pseud.].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Palingenesia; or, The Earth's New Birth Y1 - 1884 A1 - [Rev.] [Gideon Jasper Richard] [Ouseley] (1875-1906) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

An extremely detailed eutopian picture of the City Four Square from Revelation 21:16. The text is represented as having been seen in three separate visions and parts in dreams and visions while apparently asleep.

PB - Hay Nisbet CY - Glasgow, Scot. VL - 2 vols. N1 -

The second volume has Palengenesia Diagrams on the cover and is composed of numerous fold-out plates and diagrams and, at the end, a few pages of designs for an altar and its furnishings. The first volume includes a list of the pages to which the material in the second volume refers.

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The second volume has Palengenesia Diagrams on the cover and is composed of numerous fold-out plates and diagrams and, at the end, a few pages of designs for an altar and its furnishings. The first volume includes a list of the pages to which the material in the second volume refers.

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Theosopho and Ellora [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Recognition of Friends in Heaven. Published at the Direction of the Cathedral Union, November 24th, 1884 Y1 - 1884 A1 - T. Gluyas Pascoe KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Eight page pamphlet in which two pages vaguely describe a classic "domestic" heaven where one is surrounded by friends and family.

PB - Whitcombe & Tombs CY - [Christchurch, New Zealand] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Simiocracy; A Fragment from Future History Y1 - 1884 A1 - [Arthur Montagu] [Brookfield] (1853-1940) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire in which monkeys take over England, partially as a result of failures in education and partially due to political failures.

PB - William Blackwood and Sons CY - Edinburgh, Scot. U3 -

The Author of 'Post Mortem'. [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Socialist Revolution of 1888 Y1 - 1884 A1 - [Charles] [Fairfield] KW - Male author AB -

Anti-socialist dystopia with a satirical strain that indicates weaknesses in capitalism (called individualism).

PB - Harrison and Sons CY - London U3 -

An Eye-Witness [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ten Men of Money Island, or The Primer of Finance Y1 - 1884 A1 - Seymour F[rancis] Norton (b. 1841) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia brought about through tax reform. Possibly the most widely circulated Populist pamphlet presented as a sequel to Robert H. Cowdrey's A Tramp in Society. Chicago, IL: F.J. Schulte, 1891.  See the “Preface” to 1896 Flürscheim, where he says that over 500,000 copies of the  U.S.  ed. of Ten Men of Money Island had been sold. Flürscheim’s book was a response to Norton.

PB - Sentinel Pub. Co. CY - Chicago, IL N1 -

Rev. ed. Chicago, IL: Sentinel Pub. Co., 1891. Rpt. Chicago, IL: F.J. Schulte, [1891]; and Chicago, IL: The Schulte Pub. Co., 1895. Ariel Library Series, no. 5, June 1895 with an Appendix by Henry Seymour of the Free Currency Propaganda that criticizes Norton. Also published Girard, KS: Appeal Publishing Co., 1902; and, without the subtitle and not marked rev. ed. but with the “Appendix” (145-61) by Henry Seymour. London: William Reeves, [1895]. Bellamy Library No. 27. Parts were originally supposedly published in The Chicago Sentinel (1879) (Not found), and the first pamphlet ed. was supposedly published in 1884 (Not found), and it was serialized in the New York World that year.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Utopia; or, The History of an Extinct Planet Y1 - 1884 A1 - Alfred Denton Cridge (1860-1922) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia. Small communities of 100-300 families that own the industries of the town. National clearing house where all accounts are balanced every six months. Detailed constitution. Ends negatively in that the planet's ecology is destroyed.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Way Out. Suggestions for Social Reform Y1 - 1884 A1 - Charles J[oseph] Bellamy (1852-1910) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Reform tract that uses the utopian form. Limit on profit. More equal income distribution. All need to work. Eight hour work week. Limited inheritance. No monopolies. Free legal system. No individual property in land. Free, compulsory education as part of the process of improving the political system. Improved health care. See also his 1889 An Experiment in Marriage

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A World Divided. A Tale of Two Hemispheres. By An Observer in Mars, A.D. 2000” Y1 - 1884 KW - Australian author AB -

Satire starting with the Fenians, who succeed in splitting the world into two halves, intending that England and Ireland will be on separate halves, but they end up together. All Irish driven out of the U.S. Australia is split in two. The two halves of the world crash back together and destroy each other.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Aleriel; or, A Voyage to Other Worlds. A Tale Y1 - 1883 A1 - Rev. W[ladjslaw] S[omerville] Lach-Szyrma (1841-1915) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Continuation of his 1874 A Voice From Another World. See also his 1887 "Letters from the Planets." Includes a voyage around the solar system with visits to Mars and Venus (both eutopias), Earth, the Moon, Jupiter, Saturn, and some of the moons of the latter two. The eutopias are both based on religion. He describes the eutopia on Venus as one of the perfection of "a future state" (i. e. heaven) and the one on Mars as "a more practical Utopia, implying the tendencies of human progress, and suggesting improvements for human society as it now exists" (viii).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Battle of Coney Island; or Free Trade Overthrown. A Scrap of History Written in 1900 Y1 - 1883 A1 - [William Elliot Smith] [Baker] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Protection had guaranteed high employment and good wages, which led to a better educated and better housed, fed, and clothed work force. Free trade was adopted by Congress and produced a depression, unemployment, and hunger. Protection is re-established, but the U.S. was weak militarily and was attacked by Yucatan, who landed on Coney Island. The American people responded, fought back, won, and thus guaranteed the eutopia possible through protection.

PB - J. A. Wagenseller CY - Philadelphia, PA U3 -

An Eye Witness [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Battle of Moy or How Ireland Gained Her Independence 1892-1894 Y1 - 1883 AB -

Successful Irish revolution with a new government established modeled on the United States. Freedom of religion. All foreign owned land is taken over. According to Raymond Lincoln Kilgour, Lee and Shepard: Publishers for the People. Hamden, CT: Shoe String Press, 1965), 209, it was intended as a satire.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Battle of Newry: or, The Result of Thirty Years' Liberal Legislation Y1 - 1883 A1 - Ulidia [pseud.] AB -

Anti-Irish satire but with a bit more content than most that makes it at least borderline utopian. The House of Lords of Britain is abolished, and the land of the peers is confiscated. Most of the peers accept an invitation to settle in the U.S. The abolition of the House of Lords makes Home Rule in Ireland possible. Under Home Rule land is confiscated and civil war erupts. The King leads the Orange Army, which quickly defeats the Irish, and the House of Lords is re-established and everything is put right.

PB - Hodges, Figgis, and Co./Simpkin, Marshall and Co. CY - Dublin, Ireland/London N1 -

2nd ed. Dublin, Ireland: Hodges, Figgis, and Co./London: Simpkin, Marshall and Co. 1883.

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Ulidia [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Beyond the Gates Y1 - 1883 A1 - Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844-1911) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Heaven as a eutopia in line with the Swedish thinker Emanuel Swedenborg (1668-1772) and the American spiritualist Andrew Jackson Davis (1826-1910), who published descriptions of what he called the Summer Land in a number of books between 1847 and 1878. The Gates Ajar presents a heaven in which one is reunited with relatives and gives a glimpse of a more fulfilling life for the female protagonist. Between the Gates is the eutopia of the series in that it is explicitly a criticism of the current social order as it affects women and shows a Heaven in which women can lead fulfilling lives. The third volume, Beyond the Gates, focuses on a domineering man who is reformed in heaven. The Gates Ajar provoked considerable controversy. Attacks include J.S.W. Antidote to “The Gates Ajar”. London: Aylesbury, 1870. 2nd ed. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1871. U.S. ed. New York: G.W. Carleton, 1872; “The Gates Ajar” Critically Examined. By A Dean [pseud.]. London: Hatchards, 1871; “The Gates Ajar” Criticised and Corrected. By An Englishwoman [pseud.]. London: Geo. John Stevenson, 1872; E[dgar] Stanway Jackson, Faith or Fancy? An Examination of “The Gates Ajar”. London: Elliott Stock, 1871; Charlotte Elizabeth Tidy, The Door Was Shut: An Answer to “Gates Ajar”. London: William Macintosh, 1873; and Watching at the Gates. A Reply to “The Gates Ajar”. London: S.W. Partridge, [1871]. A defense is What Shall We Say About “The Gates Ajar”. Some Thoughts Suggested by the proposed “Antidote”. London: Elliott, [1871]. In her “Introduction.” Three Spiritualist Novels by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. The Gates Ajar (1868) Beyond the Gates (1883) and The Gates Between (1887) (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000), Nina Baym rejects the label utopian for the novels because “they lack the Utopian thrust toward realizable social reform” and places them in the context of spiritualism (viii). Carol Farley Kessler calls Beyond the Gates a utopia in “A Heavenly Utopia--Heaven for Women.” Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (Boston, MA: Twayne Publishers, 1982), 20-42. So does Lori Duin Kelly in her “Phelps’ Religious Writings: Household Saints in a Feminist Utopia.” The Life and Works of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Victorian Feminist Writer (Troy, NY: Whitson Publishing Co., 1983), 25-47.

PB - Houghton, Mifflin CY - Boston, MA N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Chatto & Windus, 1883. Selections of Beyond the Gates rpt. in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories by United States Women, 1836-1919. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler (London: Pandora Press, 1984), 111-16 with an editor’s note on 104-06. The three volumes were published together as Three Spiritualist Novels by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. The Gates Ajar (1868) Beyond the Gates (1883) and The Gates Between (1887) (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000), with an “Introduction” by Nina Baym (vii-xxiii). The Gates Ajar is on 1-138, Beyond the Gates on 139-232, and The Gates Between on 233-340.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Buffalo Public Library in 1983” Y1 - 1883 A1 - Charles A[mmi] Cutter (1837-1903) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A description of a eutopian library of the future in a wealthy Buffalo benefitting from electricity produced at Niagara Falls. The library is the center of the educational system and connected with libraries around the country.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Diothas; or, A Far Look Ahead Y1 - 1883 A1 - [John] [Macnie] (1836-1909) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. The "Preface to the Second Edition" says it is a forecast. A pre-1888 Bellamy book set in the 96th century with a great emphasis on custom. Unlike Bellamy this eutopia includes a violent revolution in its past. Stress on morality. Religion rationalized, and the Roman Catholic Church has disappeared.

PB - G. P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971. [2nd ed.]. entitled Looking Forward; or, The Diothas. New York: [cover says London]: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1890; and entitled A Far Look Ahead; or The Diothas. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1890. Both by Ismar Thiusen [pseud.].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Dominion in 1983 Y1 - 1883 A1 - Ralph Centennius [pseud.] KW - Canadian author AB -

Canada as a eutopia in 1983. Fifteen provinces with a population of 93 million. No taxes. Only fifteen, unpaid Members of Parliament. Private charity. Technically advanced. The North has been settled by Caucasians. The U.S. has been defeated.

PB - Toker and Company CY - Peterborough, ON, Canada U3 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Drolleries of a Happy Island, or, Merry Utopia Y1 - 1883 A1 - [Charles Heber] [Clark] (1847-1915) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Arcadia. Eutopia of simplicity that is disturbed by outside influences. 

PB - Ward, Lock CY - London N1 -

Rpt. beginning with a new page number and the title "Merry Utopia or The Drolleries of a Happy Island." [Table of Contents reads "The Drolleries of a Happy Island"]. In A Desperate Adventure and Other Stories. By Max Adeler [pseud.]. (London: Ward, Lock, [1886]), 1-176.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Few Hours in a Far-Off Age Y1 - 1883 A1 - Mrs. H[enrietta] A[ugusta] Dugdale (ca. 1826-1918) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Much of the novel is a criticism of the past, but it includes a detailed feminist eutopia. Stress on intelligence. Politically involved women brought about far-reaching changes. Strong family ties. Parents required to spend time each day teaching their children. Animals are well treated, and no leather is used. Advanced technology. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "In the Wrong Paradise: An Occidental Apologue" Y1 - 1883 A1 - Andrew Lang (1844-1912) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Satire in which a man is accidentally sent to the "wrong paradise". Travel through various heavens, including Native American Indian, Ancient Greek, Agnostic, and Islamic paradises plus a visit to hell. The "main occupation" of the Agnostics is "to read the poetry of George Eliot and the philosophy of Mr. J.S. Mill" (47).

JF - The Fortnightly Review VL - 40 N1 -

Rpt. in The Living Age 160 (ns 45) (1884): 46-51; and in his In the Wrong Paradise and Other Stories (London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1886), 109-35. New ed. (London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 189-), 111-35.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - King Bertie, A.D. 1900 Y1 - 1883 A1 - [Samuel Orchart] [Beeton] (1831-77) A1 - [George Rose] [Emerson] A1 - [Mr.] [Doughty] KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on British politics set slightly in the future plus a catalog of reforms that brings Britain from penury to wealth and peace. Introduction of paper currency. Channel tunnel. Constitutional reform with a limited monarchy. Nationalization and reclamation of the land allows Britain and Ireland to feed themselves. Immigration ends. Land given to people who will settle on it and use it. The Catholic Church gives up temporal power. Home rule for Ireland. Poem of thirty-four cantos.

PB - The Crown Pub Co. CY - London U2 -

Illus.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Last Voyage of Lemuel Gulliver" Y1 - 1883 AB -

Satire on contemporary England in a journey to the Isle of Moralia.

JF - The World ER - TY - ABST T1 - The New Republic. Founded on the Natural and Inalienable Rights of Man, and Containing the Outlines of Such a Government As the Patriot Fathers Contemplated and Formulated in the Declaration of Independence, When Struggling for Liberty Y1 - 1883 A1 - E. J. Schellhous M.D. KW - US author AB -

Essay including a detailed description of a revised political system that will bring about a better world. Stress on popular government, votes for women, publicly owned utilities, and limitations on corporations.

PB - Bacon and Company CY - San Francisco, CA N1 -

Also published New York: John W. Lovell & Co., 1883.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Politics and Life in Mars: A Story of a Neighbouring Planet Y1 - 1883 A1 - [Edgar Luderne] [Welch] (1856/7-1926) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia and satire on contemporary England; the main country on Mars is Ourownland, and many obvious parallels to England are pointed out. But Mars is republican; women are equal; there is a limit on personal property; and there are cooperatives owned by the workers.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Society Sketches. A Visit to the Infernal Regions” Y1 - 1883 A1 - Our Very Special, Special Correspondent [pseud.] AB -

Satire, particularly focused on the Christchurch area, in a series of short sketches in which a printer finds a paper from 1000 years in the future that reports on the visit of a reporter to Tartarus, which has undergone numerous changes. During his visit there is a revolution.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Adventures of Halek: An Autobiographical Fragment Y1 - 1882 A1 - John H[enry] Nicholson (1838-1923) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Allegorical oriental tale set in a variety of eutopian and dystopian settings. A sequel was published as Almoni. Companion Volume to Halek. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Edwards, Dunlop & Co., 1904. This continues the hero’s wanderings, but he finds true love at the end of the novel.

PB - Griffith and Farran/ E. P. Dutton CY - London/New York: N1 -

2nd ed. as Halek. A Romance. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: A. J. Ross & Co., 1896. 3rd ed. as Halek. A Romance. Companion to "Almoni". Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Edwards, Dunlop, and Co., 1904.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Conscientia: or, Latter-Day Pilgrims Y1 - 1882 A1 - W[illiam] Alexander Smith KW - Male author AB -

Allegory. The main character is Ernest Endeavour. Trip through the usual landscape with a standard set of characters. Conscientia is the goal and a eutopia. Even the air entering is heated to eliminate contaminants like "germs of Materialistic thought." The inhabitants of Conscientia include Common Sense, Industry, Solidity, True Genius, etc.

PB - Alexander Gardner CY - Paisley, Scot. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Dawn of the Twentieth Century. A Novel, Social and Political Y1 - 1882 AB -

Conservative eutopia with Ireland better off from having better English proprietors.

PB - Remington and Co CY - London VL - 3 vols. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Garrison in Heaven. A Dream Y1 - 1882 A1 - William Denton (1823-83) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison (1805-79) goes to Heaven. He discovers that everyone he respects is in Hell, and admission to Heaven is based on the preference of the clergy on earth. He decides to empty Hell and reform Heaven.

PB - Mrs. E.M.F. Denton, Publisher CY - Wellesley, MA N1 -

Rpt. Wellesley, MA: Denton Publishing Co., 1884. U.K. ed. Liverpool, Eng.: J.J. Morse, 1890.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Little Pilgrim: In the Unseen. (For Easter)” Y1 - 1882 A1 - [Margaret] [Oliphant] (1828-97) KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

Experiences after death in the first level of heaven where those arriving are introduced to their beautiful surroundings.

JF - Macmillan’s Magazine VL - 46.271 N1 -

Rpt. with “The Little Pilgrim Goes Up Higher.” In The Little Pilgrim. Reprinted from Macmillan’s Magazine. Boston, MA: Roberts Brothers, 1882.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Monster Municipality; or, Gog and Magog Reformed. A Dream Y1 - 1882 A1 - [Edgar Luderne] [Welch] (1856/7-1926) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Anti-democratic diatribe in the form of a dystopia which was brought about by rigging the electoral system so that a clear majority of radicals were elected. See also 1883 Welch.

PB - Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington CY - London U3 -

"Grip" [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Oahspe. A New Bible in the Words of Jehovih and His Angel Embassadors. A Sacred History of the Dominions of the Higher and Lower Heavens of the Earth For the Past Twenty-four Thousand Years, Together with a Synopsis of the Cosmogony of the Universe; The Creation of the Planets; The Creation of Man; The Unseen Worlds; The Labor and Glory of Gods and Goddesses in the Etherean Heavens; With the New Commandments of Jehovih to Man of the Present Day. With Revelations From the Second Resurrection, Formed in Words in the Thirty-third Year of the Kosmon Era Y1 - 1882 A1 - [John Ballou] [Newbrough] (1828?-91) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Includes a detailed eutopia presented as a holy book. Stress on education. Vegetarian. Celibacy or monogamy. Rotation of office. No constitution or by-laws. The book is the basis of Faithism, which now has believers in many countries. 

PB - Oahspe Publishing Association CY - New York N1 -

2nd ed. Boston, MA: Oahpse Publishing Association, 1891, with a “Preface to Second Edition” (iv-vi), and an index, but drops the commentary. Later ed. as Oahspe. The Kosmon Revelations in the Words of Jehovih and His Angel Embassadors. A Sacred History of the Dominions of the Higher and Lower Heavens of the Earth for the Past Twenty-four Thousand Years, Being From the Submersion of the Continent of Pan in the Pacific Ocean, commonly called the Flood or Deluge, to the Kosmon Era. Also a Brief History of the Preceding Forty-five Thousand Years. Together With a Synopsis of the Cosmogony of the Universe; The Creation of the Planets; The Creation of Man; The Unseen Worlds; The Labor and Glory of Gods and Goddesses in the Etherean Heavens; With the New Commandments of Jehovih to Man of the Present Day. With Revelations From the Second Resurrection, Formed in Words in the Thirty-third Year of the Kosmon Era. Los Angeles, CA: Kosmon Press, 1935.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Our Utopia: Its Rise and all. A Farce (in two acts) Y1 - 1882 A1 - Kate Hope KW - Female author AB -

Farce on aestheticism as a means of producing the utopian home.

PB - Simpkin, Marshall & Co./W.J. Blacket CY - London/Newbury, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pantaletta: A Romance of Sheheland Y1 - 1882 KW - US author AB -

Satire of gender relations set in the Republic of Petticotia, where the gender roles are reversed. A manly man from the outside undermines the system and marries the President.

PB - The American News Company CY - New York U1 -

Added subtitle on the cover An American Satire.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Revolt of Man Y1 - 1882 A1 - [Sir] [Walter] [Besant] (1836-1901) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Gender-role reversal. Women had taken political power, abolished the House of Commons, replaced the House of Lords with the House of Peeresses, abolished the monarchy, and introduced a theocracy based on rule by the ideal Perfect Woman. Men were uneducated, did most of the work while caring for their families, and generally had the attitudes traditionally assigned to women. A manly man and true love leads to the overthrow of the system, and women welcome the restoration of the right order of things.

PB - William Blackwood & Sons CY - Edinburgh, Scotland N1 -

New ed. London: Chatto and Windus, 1896. 9th ed (1890) rpt. in British Future Fiction. Ed. I.F. Clarke. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2001), 4: 7-366, with a brief note by the editor (1-5)U.S. ed. New York: Henry Holt, 1882. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Seizure of the Channel Tunnel: A Tale of the Twentieth Century” Y1 - 1882 A1 - F. A. AB -

The dystopia brought about by the defeat of Britain by France as a result of building a channel tunnel. Ireland becomes an independent republic. Gibraltar becomes a French protectorate, and Dover and the Channel Islands become part of France.

JF - Time: A Monthly Miscellany of Interesting and Amusing Literature VL - 7.37 ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Thousand Years Hence, Being Personal Experiences as Narrated by Nunsowe Green, Esq., F.R.A.S., F.S.S., Ex V.-P.S.S.U.D.S. (Ex Vice-President of the Shoreditch and Spitalfields Universal Discussion Society) Y1 - 1882 A1 - Nunsowe Green [pseud.] AB -

Eutopia. Overpopulated to the extent that the oceans have been filled in and ground transportation is not possible. Equality for women except that the state intervenes to ensure suitable marriages. Many technical advances. The Mormon church is the largest in the U.S. and expanding elsewhere.

PB - Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Late Victorian Utopias: A Prospectus. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 6 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2009), 2: 95-311. Editor's notes, 93, 314-19.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - 1931; A Glance at the Twentieth Century Y1 - 1881 A1 - Henry Hartshorne KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia written as a projection stressing technology, general enlightenment, and democratization. Congress meets alternatively between Washington, DC and St. Louis with San Francisco to be added. Canada has joined the US as three states, and gradually the U.S. will incorporate the entire Western Hemisphere. Pollution controls. No capital punishment. No racial problems.

PB - E. Claxton & Co CY - Philadelphia, PA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Arimas Y1 - 1881 A1 - H. Peckwater A.M. AB -

Satire but describes the group of islands that make up Arimas as a simple, agricultural country that is eutopian in its simplicity.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Boston Daily Globe Thursday Morning, January 1, 1981” Y1 - 1881 AB -

Mostly satirical stories depicting the future in one hundred years. There are comments on page 4 of the January 2 issue.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Contrasts in Spirit Life; and Recent Experiences of Samuel Bowles, Late Editor of the Springfield (Mass.) Republican in the First Five Spheres. Also a Thrilling Account of the Late President Garfield's Reception in The Spirit World. Written Through the Hand of Carrie E.S. Twing Y1 - 1881 A1 - [Carolinn] Carrie E[dna] S[kinner] Twing (b. 1844) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Domestic heaven. The five spheres are the stages that the spirit goes through after death if it is capable of becoming more and more refined. There are separate heavens for Chinese and Negroes. The spirit world also contains hospitals for sick souls. See also 1880 Twing, 1898 Bowles and Twing, Samuel Bowles, Spirit and Mrs. Carolinn E[dna] S[kinner] Twing, Medium. Visiting in Heaven. Springfield, MA: Star Publishing Co., 1909, which consists primarily of Bowles’s interviews with other spirits, and is only very marginally utopian, and her Henry Drummond in Spirit Life. Springfield, MA: Star Publishing Co., [1902] (MoU-St).

PB - Star Publishing Co CY - Springfield, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Decline and Fall of the British Empire. Being a History of England Between the Years 1840-1981. Written for the Use of Junior Classes in Schools by Lang-Tung, Professor of History of the Imperial University of Pekin and Tutor to Their Imperial Highnesses the Princes Sing and Hang. Translated into the English Language by YEA, Pekin, 2381 A.D. Y1 - 1881 A1 - Lang-Tung [pseud.] AB -

Satire--a degenerated England is now barbarian. Attacks on Ireland, women's rights, a republicanism.

PB - F.V. White CY - London U3 -

Lang-Tung [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Extracts from "The Decline and Fall of the British Empire." (To be) Published at Moscow A.D. 2080. Translated from the Russian by A. Dreamer Y1 - 1881 A1 - Ghostoff Gibbonowski [pseud.] AB -

Dystopia. The growth of democracy undermined Great Britain, and it lost a war with Russia. The best British institutions did not get established in the colonies. In particular the failure to establish equivalents of the House of Lords, which could limit the move to extreme democracy, was important. The establishment of manhood suffrage and payment to legislators helped bring down the system. Comparisons are made to the successful aristocratic system of Russia. Tasmania is now a flourishing colony of Russia.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Fixed Period" Y1 - 1881 A1 - [Anthony] [Trollope] (1815-82) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A society is established with a voluntary fixed period for life, which is intended to produce a eutopia but problems arise as the first people reach that age. Set on an island near New Zealand.

JF - Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine VL - 130 - 131 N1 -

Repub. with deletions restored. 2 vols. London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1882. Rpt. ed. R[obert] H. Super. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1990; and ed. David Skilton. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1993. The Robert H. Super ed. rpt. illus. Elisa Trimby. London: Folio Society, 1997.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Great Romance Y1 - 1881 A1 - [Henry] [Honor] KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia set in 2143. The focus in the eutopia is on the ability to read thoughts and its effect on behavior. Women are less able to control their thoughts than men. Crime becomes impossible. Marry young. Scientifically advanced. Much of both volumes is taken up with interplanetary travel; there is considerable material on the supposed flora and fauna of Venus including a brief description of a humanoid couple whose simple life could be considered eutopian. It is clear that a third volume was planned, but there is no evidence that it was published. In a number of articles, Alessio argues that it influenced Edward Bellamy’s popular U.S. eutopia Looking Backward (1888). Although these are remarkable volumes for their time and place, influence is doubtful.

PB - Printed at the Daily Times CY - Dunedin VL - 2 Vols. N1 -

Vol. 1 rpt. ed. Dominic Alessio. Science-Fiction Studies 20.3 (November 1993): 311-40; and Kotare: New Zealand Notes and Queries 1.1 (October 1998): 62-101. Vol. 2 rpt. ed. Dominic Alessio. Kotare: New Zealand Notes and Queries 2.1 (May 1999): 48-79. Rpt. together ed. Dominic Alessio. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008. Extract rpt. in Monsters in the Garden: An Anthology of Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy. Ed. Elizabeth Knox and David Larsen (Wellington, New Zealand: Victoria University of Wellington Press, 2020), 53-60. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hibernia's House: The Irish Commons. Assembled at Dublin. Extraordinary Debate. Amusing Scenes in the House. A Forecast Y1 - 1881 AB -

A standard anti-Irish satire set in 1990.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Housekeeping Hereafter" Y1 - 1881 A1 - J[ohn] V[an der Zee] Sears (1835-1926) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Technological eutopia applied to the home. Sears was at the Brook Farm Community and wrote about his time there. See his My Friends at Brook Farm. New York: Desmond FitzGerald, Inc., 1912. Rpt. New York: AMS Press, 1975.

JF - The Atlantic Monthly (Boston, MA) VL - 48.287 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ireland's War! Parnell Victorious. £10,000 Reward. Disappearance of the Prince of Wales Y1 - 1881 AB -

Standard anti-Irish satire.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Land Ho!! A Conversation of 1933, on the results of the adoption of the system of "Nationalizing the Land of New Zealand," adopted in 1883 Y1 - 1881 A1 - [Alexander] [Joyce] (1840/41-1927) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia based on Land Nationalization. Very detailed on the working of the system. See also his Land Ho! A Pamphlet Advocating the Re-purchase and Settlement of the Large Freehold Blocks.  Christchurch ,  New Zealand : Simpson & Williams, 1889 ( ATL, DU-Ho, VUW).

PB - F.L. Davis CY - Lyttelton, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Peculiar People; or, Reality in Romance Y1 - 1881 A1 - William S[tevens] Balch (1806-87) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Christian eutopia in the Middle East of people who actually practice Christ's teaching. No rich or poor, no fashion, no idleness. Simple religious services. No theological controversies.

PB - Henry A. Sumner & Company CY - Chicago, IL N1 -

2nd ed. rev. Chicago, IL: Henry A. Sumner & Company, 1882.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Queen Tresoria and Her People Y1 - 1881 A1 - A. W. W. AB -

Britain under the Queen (Victoria) is a eutopia that is prosperous and strong. After the Queen retires to Scotland, Britain begins to come apart and becomes poorer and quarrelsome. The Germans undercut British goods by copying British business, and the Irish want Home Rule.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Three Hundred Years Hence; or, A Voice from Posterity Y1 - 1881 A1 - William Delisle Hay (b. 1853) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Racist, socialist, sexist, technologically advanced society presented as a eutopia. Huge population growth. The oriental and Negro races have been exterminated. People live in and on the seas and in the air. Women have symbolic power but no actual power, and are described as mentally inferior.

PB - Newman and Co CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in British Future Fiction. Ed. I.F. Clarke. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2001), 2: 7-370, with a brief note by the editor (1-5).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Walk Abroad (A Relation of Things Heard and Seen.) 1866" Y1 - 1881 A1 - James Thomson (1834-82) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

A dystopia in which the protagonist takes a trip around the solar system and sees extreme poverty everywhere and then returns to Earth to find the same situation.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Across the Zodiac; The Story of a Wrecked Record Y1 - 1880 A1 - Percy Greg (1836-89) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia set on Mars. The society has some characteristics of the eutopias of the time (world government, one language, highly developed technology), but its lack of religion, the extreme inferiority of women, and the narrowness of intellectual outlook makes it a dystopia.

PB - Trübner & Co CY - London VL - 2 vols. N1 -

Rpt. in one volume Westport, CT: Hyperion Press, 1974. Chapter III: The Untravelled Deep is rpt. in The Book of Mars: An Anthology of Fact and Fiction. Ed. Stuart Clark (London: London: Head of Zeus/Apollo/Bloomsbury, 2022), 257-269.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Angel of the Prairies; A Dream of the Future Y1 - 1880 A1 - Parley Parker Pratt [Jr.] (1837-97) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Tract presenting a future Mormon eutopia.

PB - Deseret News Printing and Publishing Establishment CY - Salt Lake City, UT U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Century Hence" Y1 - 1880 A1 - W[illiam] M[cClary] Paxton (1819-1916) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia mostly based on technology. Weather controlled by individuals; flora and fauna of all the world wherever they are wanted; manned flight but individuals also have wings. The area from Egypt to China, including Australasia, is in ruins because people had abandoned all areas of "ignorance, vice and oppression" (11). St. Louis is the capitol of the U.S., which stretches from Panama to the North Pole

JF - A Century Hence and Other Poems PB - Ramsey, Millett & Hudson CY - Kansas City, MO U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Decline and Fall of the American Republic. Confessions of a Repentant Politician. A Story of Fifty Years Hence. Time, A.D. 1930 Y1 - 1880 A1 - John McElroy (1846-1929) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Political tract in favor of the Republican Party set in a dystopia created by Democratic policies.

PB - Toledo Blade CY - Toledo, OH U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Doom of the Great City; Being The Narrative of a Survivor, Written A.D. 1942 Y1 - 1880 A1 - William Delisle Hay (b. 1853) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Catastrophe due to the dystopia that is contemporary London. Brief New Zealand eutopia of 1942 at the beginning.

PB - Newman & Co CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in British Future Fiction. Ed. I.F. Clarke. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2001), 8: 17-68, with a note by the editor (1-16).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Experiences of Samuel Bowles, Late Editor of the Springfield (Mass.) Republican in Spirit Life; or, Life As He Now Sees It From a Spiritual Standpoint. Written Through the Mediumship of ----------. Westfield, N.Y. Y1 - 1880 A1 - [Carolinn] Carrie E[dna] S[kinner] Twing (b. 1844) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Heaven as eutopia but little changed. See also 1881 Twing, 1898 Bowles and Twing, Samuel Bowles, Spirit and Mrs. Carolinn E[dna] S[kinner] Twing, Medium. Visiting in Heaven. Springfield, MA: Star Publishing Co., 1909, which consists primarily of Bowles’s interviews with other spirits, and is only very marginally utopian, and her Henry Drummond in Spirit Life. Springfield, MA: Star Publishing Co., [1902] (MoU-St).

PB - Star Pub. Co CY - Springfield, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Famous Victory Y1 - 1880 AB -

Future eutopia based in large part on the nationalization of railways. No political parties, no taxes.

PB - E.M. Kingdon/Hamilton Adams & Co. CY - Sherborne, Eng./London ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Federation of the British Empire, or, From London to New Zealand in a Week Y1 - 1880 A1 - A Wellington Resident [pseud.] KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author AB -

A detailed, non-fiction description of a federation of Britain, Ireland, and all the other British colonies. Suggests that both British and colonial laws will have to be reformed in favor of the most advanced, which will often be the latter.

PB - Greville & Dryden CY - Wellington, New Zealand U3 -

A Wellington Resident [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Fifteen Months in The Moon; Giving a Full Description of Its Inhabitants; Their Appearance; Customs; Laws; Modes of Locomotion; Animals; Plants, & c Y1 - 1880 A1 - G. H. Ryan AB -

Almost innocent eutopia but with technology. Constant laughter, good humor. No written laws because good sense means they are not necessary. No police except in areas where offenders are sent.

PB - Ptd. Goode Bros. and pub. G.H. Ryan CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Fortunate Island With an Account of Those Who Composed and Discomposed Its Inhabitants Y1 - 1880 AB -

Humorous South Seas Island utopia.

JF - Beeton's Christmas Annual, 21st Season PB - Ward, Lock and Co CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Hy-Brasil” Y1 - 1880 A1 - [Thomas] Henry Kendall (1841-82) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

The Earthly Paradise. 

JF - Songs from the Mountains PB - William Maddock/Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia/London N1 -

Rpt. in The Poems of Henry Kendall (Sydney, NSW, Australis: Angus & Robertson, 1920), 163-64; in Selected Poems of Henry Kendall. Chosen by his son Frederick C. Kendall (Sydney, NSW, Australia: Angus and Robertson, 1930), 46-48; in Selected Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical and Critical Introduction by T. Inglis Moore (Sydney, NSW, Australia: Angus and Robertson, 1957), 199-200; in Australian Poets: Henry Kendal. Selected and Introduced by T. Inglis Moore (Sydney, NSW, Australia: Angus and Robertson, 1963), 62-63; and in Leaves from Australian Forests: Poetical Works of Henry Kendall (Hawthorn, Vic, Australia: Lloyd O’Neil, 1970), 146-48. A critical ed. is The Poetical Works of Henry Kendall. Ed. T. T. Reed (Adelaide, SA, Australia: Libraries Board of South Australia, 1966), 241-42. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Island of Shams; or, The Nation of Featherheads. Being an Account of A curious People Who Are Supposed to Have Inhabited an Island Lying Near the Continent of Atalantis. Transcribed for the first time from an ancient Irish MS Y1 - 1880 AB -

The Featherheads are the Irish, who have empty heads and no backbones and are proud of it. Their national symbol is the "sham rock." Contrasted with the Island of Plums, or England, and its inhabitants, who are forthright, intelligent, and sturdy.

PB - Simpkin, Marshall, and Co CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Last Days of the Republic Y1 - 1880 A1 - P[ierton] W. Dooner (1844-1907?) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Yellow war dystopia in which China conquers the United States.

PB - Alta California Publishing Company CY - San Francisco, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mars Revealed; or, Seven Days in the Spirit World: Containing an account of the spirit's trip to Mars, and his return to earth. What he saw and heard on Mars. With Vivid and Thrilling Descriptions of Its Majestic Scenery; Its Mountains, Its Mines; Its Valleys, Rivers, Lakes, and Seas; Its People, Temples of Learning, Worship, Religion, Music, Manners, Customs, Laws; Its Highly Cultivated and Productive Lands, Together With Its Beautiful Parks, and Its Delightful Paradise. Being a work full of diamonds of thought, and of absorbing interest. A thrilling poem, in beautiful prose Y1 - 1880 A1 - [Henry A.] [Gaston] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. Spiritualism. Children taught politeness and grace and obedience to their elders. Useful knowledge is emphasized.

PB - Pub. for the writer, by A.L. Bancroft and Company CY - San Francisco, CA U3 -

A Spirit Yet in the Flesh [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mizora: A Prophecy. A Mss. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch Being a true and faithful account of her Journey to the Interior of the Earth, with a careful description of the Country and its Inhabitants, their Customs, Manners and Government. Written by Herself Y1 - 1880 A1 - [Mary E. (Bradley)] [Lane] (1844-1929?) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Feminist eutopia in which science had solved all problems and there is no need for menial work. Men had become extinct. Teachers paid more than any other public position and education was free. No religion. Eugenics had eliminated anyone dark complected.

PB - G.W. Dillingham CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. as Mizora: A Prophecy. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1975; as Mizora: A World of Women. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999; and as Mizora: A Prophecy. Ed. Jean Pfaelzer. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2000. Selections rpt. in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories by United States Women, 1836-1919. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler (London: Pandora Press, 1984), 119-37 with an editor’s note on 117-18. Originally published as “Narrative of Vera Zarovitch” [subtitle beginning with Being is identical to that of the book]. Cincinnati Commercial (November 6, 12, 20, 27, December 4, 11, 18, 25, 1880, January 1, 15 [mis-dated the 14th], 22, 29, February 5, 1881): 3 cols. 5-7, 3 cols. 4-6, [November 20 and 27 and December 4 missing], Extra Sheet 3 cols. 1-4, [December 18 missing], Extra Sheet 3 cols. 1-4, Extra Sheet 3 col. 7, Extra sheet 2 cols. 3-4, Extra sheet 2 cols. 3-4, Extra Sheet 3 cols. 4-6, Extra Sheet 3 cols. 3-4, Extra Sheet 2 cols. 3-4 [ICN].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Revi-Lona; A Romance of Love in a Marvelous Land Y1 - 1880 A1 - Frank Cowan (1844-1905) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Communal eutopia at the South Pole without love or kinship where big women ruled little men. No one could speak but had developed a variety of means of communication with flags and gestures and through smell and taste. The eutopia is thousands of years old. It is inadvertently destroyed by a large man encroaching from outside who the women instantly preferred to the men of the country. Much rather heavy-handed satire.

PB - [Tribune Press] CY - [Greensburgh, PA] N1 -

Rpt. New York: Arno Press, 1978.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Thunderer London “For the Year 1981” (no. 1) Y1 - 1880 AB -

Satire. There is a House of Peeresses and a House of Ladies. Mentions a balloon crash.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Times No. 61275 London, for the Year 1980 Y1 - 1880 AB -

Satire. A fake copy of The Times with ads and articles.

PB - Ptd. and pub. Edward Head CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - At the Back of the Moon; or, Observations of Lunar Phases Y1 - 1879 A1 - [Minot Judson] [Savage] (1841-1918) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Fairly simple satire on the United States using a society on the back of the moon as the foil.

PB - Lee and Shepard/Charles T. Dillingham CY - Boston, MA/New York U3 -

A Lunar Wray [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The City of Progress and Signs of the Times Y1 - 1879 AB -

Religious allegory depicting stages of social change. Reforms presented, but they are superseded as The City of Progress becomes the City of Rest.

PB - Alfred Holness CY - London N1 -

Also pub. London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co., 1879. Rpt. London: Alfred Holness, 1890.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Erchomenon; or, The Republic of Materialism Y1 - 1879 A1 - [Henry Crocker Marriott] [Watson] (1835-1901) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia/dystopia six hundred years in the future in which everyone lives in cities, there is a religion of humanity based on Auguste Comte (1798-1857), and children are raised by women other than their natural mother. The protagonist, from the past and a Christian, sees the society as a dystopia and at the end of the book is introduced to a "Christian Village", where the old, better ways are practiced. It all turns out to be a dream.

PB - Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Late Victorian Utopias: A Prospectus. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 6 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2009), 1: 275-347. Editor's notes, 273, 355-56.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Glance into the Future; or, The World in the Twenty-Ninth Century” Y1 - 1879 A1 - E[lizabeth] T. Corbett (b. 1830) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Technological eutopia combined with satire on technology’s ability to create a utopia.

JF - Godey’s Lady’s Book and Magazine (Philadelphia, PA) VL - 98.585 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Good Spirit of Space; Or, an Unappreciated Genius” Y1 - 1879 A1 - J[ames] F. Sullivan KW - Male author AB -

Satirical poem on an overpopulation dystopia.

JF - Hood’s Comic Annual for 1879. Thirty Pages of Illustrations By Eminent Artists Engraved By the Brothers Dalziel PB - Pub. by the Proprietors at the Fun Office CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Hair Trunk or The Ideal Commonwealth: An Extravaganza Y1 - 1879 A1 - Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94) ED - Roger G. Swearingen KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Satire on utopian projections.

PB - Humming Earth CY - Kilkerran, Scot. N1 -

First publication of an unfinished novel. MS at the Huntington Library, San Marino, CA HM 2411.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Handfasted Y1 - 1879 A1 - Catherine Helen Spence (1825-1910) KW - Australian author KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

Feminist eutopia focusing on trial marriage set in the US. The Commonwealth of Columba existing in an isolated valley has developed "handfasting" or trial marriage. The word handfasted comes from Walter Scott's novel The Monastery, where it was a promise of fidelity for a year and a day. In Columba it can be extended to two or three years and marriage cannot take place without it. Generally an egalitarian society. See also 1884 and 1888-89 Spence.

PB - Penguin Books of Australia CY - Ringwood, VIC, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hope Mills; or, Between Friend and Sweetheart Y1 - 1879 A1 - Amanda M[innie] Douglas (1837-1916) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A eutopia brought about through cooperative factories.

PB - Lee and Shepard CY - Boston, MA N1 -

Rpt. Boston, MA: Lee and Shepard/New York: Charles T. Dillingham, 1880. 2nd ed. Boston, MA: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1907.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Last African Explorer” Y1 - 1879 A1 - Eustace Hinton Jones KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on African exploration in which a man walks from London to Central Africa and comes across a eutopia. Government ministers are paid to think; other government officials are paid to propagandize and not think; murderers become army officers with those guilty of violent assaults forming the ranks; thieves are placed in the financial ministry or made tax collectors. Since no debt is recoverable by law, all transactions are in cash.

JF - Hood’s Comic Annual for 1879. Thirty Pages of Illustrations By Eminent Artists Engraved By the Brothers Dalziel PB - Pub. by the Proprietors at the Fun Office CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Life in the Future Y1 - 1879 A1 - H. R K. AB -

Rapture (see see 1 Corinthians 15:52 and 1 Thessalonians 4: 15-17) in which the saved are lifted off earth preliminary to the Second Coming. Shows the punishment of those not raptured and, briefly, the life of those who are.

PB - G. Morrish CY - London VL - 2nd ed. N1 -

There is no record of a first edition.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The New Inferno” Y1 - 1879 A1 - James Y[oung] Geddes (1850-1913) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Satire on Hell in which the protagonist of Geddes “The New Jerusalem” gets bored with Heaven and decides to visit Hell, which has been greatly modernized and has become business-like.

JF - The New Jerusalem and Other Verses PB - Ptd. by James P. Matthew CY - Dundee, Scot. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The New Jerusalem” Y1 - 1879 A1 - James Y[oung] Geddes (1850-1913) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Heaven as a eutopia.

JF - The New Jerusalem and Other Verses PB - Ptd. by James P. Matthew CY - Dundee, Scot. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Spirit World: Its Inhabitants, Nature, and Philosophy Y1 - 1879 A1 - Eugene Crowell, M.D. (1817-94) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Heaven as eutopia presented as non-fiction. There are different heavens for different countries, a heaven for Native American Indians, and, within the U.S. heaven, a separate one for African Americans. There is also a hierarchy of heavens and people move up the hierarchy as they progress, and it is noted that the color of African Americans becomes lighter as they progress. Details are given of the cities and the housing including the furniture, but the higher heavens are more rural than urban. Robert Dale Owen (1801-77), the son of Robert Owen (1771-1858), is represented as communicating with the protagonist through a medium and, though he is in a lower heaven, he visits higher heavens and reports on them. The eighteenth heaven manufactures goods for the others.

PB - Colby & Rich CY - Boston, MA N1 -

2nd ed. Boston, MA: Colby & Rich, 1880.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Democracy By Telephone or Parliament a Year Hence Y1 - 1878 AB -

Satire. Experiment in having people directly in touch with Parliament is tried and fails.

PB - George Taylor CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Great Commune Y1 - 1878 A1 - Frederic Gregory Forsyth (1856-1925) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Essay proposing how the world should respond to the threat of socialism. A “universal order” needs to be formed based on chivalry. It will be male, armed, and hierarchical, with titles of nobility. Workers, who will be thrown out of work by machinery, should be stopped from breeding by taxing children, and no married man should be employed by any government or the order. Racist. Develops ideas put forth in his The Great Republic. Portland, [ME]: Author, 1878. 16 pp. There is emphasis is on government, with limits on citizenship and censorship of all publications. Important to have an order of nobility.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mental Travels in Imagined Lands Y1 - 1878 A1 - Henry Wright (1852-ca. 1940) KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Travels through Labourland, Fortuneland, and Nomunniburgh (the eutopia). The key to Nomunniburgh is the lack of money. All basic goods and services are provided in exchange for work from the populace. Education is the basis for all political advancement. Sex and morality education are provided. Only good literature is available.

PB - Trübner & Co CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Late Victorian Utopias: A Prospectus. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 6 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2009), 2: 3-91. Editor's notes, 1, 313-14.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Monks of Thelema. A Novel Y1 - 1878 A1 - [Walter] [Besant] 1836-1901 A1 - [James] [Rice] (1836-1901) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Mostly romance but presents a eutopian abbey based very loosely on the Abbey of Thélème of François Rabelais (1483?-c.1533). The inmates of this Abbey are attractive young men and women whose "vows are of permission to marry, to be rich, if the Lord will, and to live at liberty" (I: 2). Throughout the book much humor is directed at social reform, the communal movement, and attempts at "higher thought".

JF - The World VL - 8-9 N1 -

Vol. 2 has the subtitle An Invention. New ed. London: Chatto and Windus, 1890. 

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The Authors of 'The Golden Butterfly.' Etc. [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mr. Ghim's Dream Y1 - 1878 KW - US author AB -

A eutopia based on a huge construction project, the building of first one and then a fleet of large ocean-going ships that have none of the problems of the ships of the late nineteenth century. The project provides jobs and revives the economy.

PB - G.W. Carleton CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Positivism on an Island: The New Paul and Virginia" Y1 - 1878 A1 - W[illiam] [Hurrell] Mallock (1849-1923) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on Charles Darwin (1809-82) and Auguste Comte (1798-1857) in a vein similar to the author's 1877 The New Republic.

JF - The Contemporary Review VL - 32.1 N1 -

Rpt. as The New Paul and Virginia or Positivism on an Island. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode. Rpt. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1970.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Views of Our Heavenly Home. A Sequel to A Stellar Key to the Summerland Y1 - 1878 A1 - Andrew Jackson Davis (1826-1910) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Heaven as eutopia. See also 1847 and 1874 Davis; “Traveling and Society in the Summer Land.” In his A Stellar Key to the Summer Land (Boston, MA: William White & Co./New York: Banner of Light Branch Office, 1867), 163-83; his “Social Centers in the Summer-Land,” “Winter-Land and Summer-Land” and “Language and Life in the Summer-Land.” In his Morning Lectures. Twenty Discourse, Delivered before the Friends of Progress in the City of New York, in the Winter and Spring of 1863 (New York: C.M. Plumb, 1865), 266-87 and 349-404. Earth is the Winter Land; and his The Grand Harmonia [Each volume has a different subtitle]. 5 vols. Boston, MA: Bela Marsh, 1852-56; and 5 vols.  New York : A.J. Davis, 1864-80. There were at least five editions. 

PB - Colby & Rich CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Age of Science; A Newspaper of the Twentieth Century Y1 - 1877 A1 - [Frances Power] [Cobbe] (1822-1904) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

Satirical dystopia of science gone too far. The Age of Science is the name of the paper and the date given is January 1, 1977. Medicine is particularly powerful, and Parliament is composed entirely of medical people who act in their own interest. People are executed for such heresies against science as homeopathy, religion, and not getting vaccinated. There are so few servants that people must recruit them with excellent offers.The author published an essay along similar lines as “The Scientific Spirit of the Age” The Contemporary Review 54 (July 1888): 126-39. Rpt. in her The Scientific Spirit of the Age and Other Pleas and Discussions (Boston, MA: Geo. H. Ellis, 1888), 3-34. The author anonymously published a story on the nineteenth century as seen from the far future; see “The Nineteenth Century.” Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country 69.412 (April 1864): 481-94. There is very little on the future.

PB - Ward, Lock, and Tyler CY - London U3 -

By Merlin Nostradamus [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Aliunde; or Love Ventures Y1 - 1877 A1 - Harry Julian [pseud?] KW - US author AB -

Classic South Seas island eutopia with beautiful women and friendly natives plus some political satire.

PB - Charles P. Somerby CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. as by Harry Julian [pseud.] as Love Ventures. A Novel With an Affidavit New York : The Truth Seeker Co., 1888.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Commune in 1880. Downfall of a Republic. Y1 - 1877 A1 - A. Spectator [pseud.] AB -

Anti-radical, anti-labor dystopia showing the negative effects of labor winning.

PB - The American News Co. CY - New York U1 -

1877 1890 at the head of the title

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A. Spectator [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Diagram of Coming Events, and the Millennium Y1 - 1877 A1 - F. M E. KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author AB -

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PB - Ptd. by John Henry Field CY - Auckland, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Future Australian Race Y1 - 1877 A1 - Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke (1846-81) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satiric essay describing a twentieth-century Australia, which will include all of the area to the North including Singapore and to the East including New Zealand. North of the middle of Australia will be an empire. South of it will be a republic with the capital in New Zealand, which the author considers to be the real Australia. In five hundred years the Australian race will be extinct.

PB - A.H. Massina and Co CY - Melbourne, VIC, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Manatitlans; or a Record of Recent Scientific Explorations in the Andean La Plata, S.A. Y1 - 1877 A1 - [Elton Romeo] [Smilie] (1818-89) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A particularly tedious and poorly written lost race novel focusing on pre-Christian settlers from Europe and Asia in the mountains of South America. The eutopian aspects focus on the Manititlan's education in purity and goodness. Continued in his Investigations and Experience of M. Shawtinbach, at Saar Soong, Sumatra. A Ret or Sequel to “The Manatitlans. San Francisco, CA: Joseph Winterburn & Co., 1879. W3, 4996.

PB - Ptd. at the Riverside Press CY - Cambridge, MA N1 -

Also published Buenos Ayres, Argentina: Calla Derécho, 1877.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A New Pilgrim's Progress Purported to be Given By John Bunyan, Through an Impressional Medium Y1 - 1877 A1 - Alfred Deakin (1856-1919) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Standard religious allegory including a number of eutopian and dystopian regions. After leaving the dystopias brought on by the passions, the pilgrim makes his way along the road of Progress to the City of Reason, which could be positive or negative, depending on the person. As the city grew and spread it had slowly eliminated the negative aspects and the dystopian areas faded.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The New Republic; or, Culture, Faith and Philosophy in an English Country House Y1 - 1877 A1 - W[illiam] [Hurrell] Mallock (1849-1923) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Conservative eutopia constructed over a country weekend. Much discussion, but little detail. The people involved have been identified as Matthew Arnold (1822-88), John Ruskin (1819-1900), Walter Pater (1839-94), Benjamin Jowett (1817-93), Herbert Spencer (1820-1902), John Tyndall (1820-93), William Kingdon Clifford (1845-79), Mary Montgomerie Singleton, later Lady Currie, who wrote as Violet Fane (1843-1905), and Mallock.

PB - Chatto and Windus CY - London VL - 2 vols. N1 -

2nd ed. 2 vols. London: Chatto and Windus, 1877. 3rd ed. 2 vols. London: Chatto and Windus, 1877. New [4th] ed. London: Chatto and Windus, 1878. Rpt. ed. J. Max Patrick. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1950, with an "introduction" by the editor (xi-xxxvi); and Leicester, Eng.: Leicester University Press, 1975, with "Introduction" by James Lucas (7-37). Parts originally published in Belgravia 29 - 31 (June - December 1876), 514-43; 48-73, 133-51, 343-60, 434-49; 46-65; 189-209.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The New Utopia" Y1 - 1877 A1 - [Augusta Theodosia] [Drane (Mother Francis Raphael, O.S.D.)] (1823-94). KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A eutopia created on an estate, a eutopian monastery built, and labor reform. The emphasis is on religion, temperance, and hard work. Some Australian content.

JF - Irish Monthly VL - 5 N1 -

Rpt. in the New Zealand Tablet 5.238 - 257 (November 23, 1877 - April 5, 1878): 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 11, 3, 5, 5, 5, 5, 3, 3, 3, 5, 5, 7, 5, 5, 5. Repub. in book form under the author's name. London: Catholic Truth Society, 1898. Also rpt. with no author given as The Australian Duke; or, The New Utopia. Np: np., nd.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sociology; or, The Reconstruction of Society, Government, and Property, Upon the Principles of the Equality, the Perpetuity, and the Individuality of the Private Ownership of Life, Person, Government, Homestead and the Whole Product of Labor, by Organizing All Nations into Townships of Self-Governing Homestead Democracies--Self-Employed in Farming and Mechanism, Giving All the Liberty and Happiness to be Found on Earth Y1 - 1877 A1 - Lewis Masquerier (b. 1802) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. Equality of the sexes. All land held in trust by the government. Atheist. Includes a model constitution. See also 1847 and 1884 Masquerier and his Premium Remedy for Hireling Slavery; Classified Principles and Elements of Rights and Wrongs; Diagrams of Township and Village, and Revolutionary Hymns. New York: Ptd. by J.A. Lant, 1877 (DLC).  

PB - The Author CY - New York N1 -

Largely published originally in the Boston Investigator. Rpt. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1970 including a separately published Appendix, which had originally been published as Appendix to Sociology, or, The Scientific Reconstruction of Society, government, and Property. New York: Lewis Masquerier, 1884. The original publication includes, among other miscellaneous separately paged material, including, with no title page or publication data, Introductory. Era of Civilization” (12 pp), which repeats the utopian material in the main text; and his poem The Sataniad, or Contest of the Gods, for the Dominion in Heaven and Earth; and in which Is shown that his Godship, Satan, has been much calumniated, particularly by Milton, though the most potent, wise and benevolent of the Gods. By Theo Philomath [pseud.]. In Six Books. Book I [All published]. New York: Ptd. at His Majesty’s Royal Press, 1845 (26 pp). Rpt. under the author’s name Boston, MA: Author, 1877 with a two page Book II

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - What May Happen in the Next 90 Days. The Disruption of the United States Or the Origin of the Second Civil War Y1 - 1877 AB -

Concerned with the 1876 presidential election in the U.S. between Rutherford B. Hayes (1822-93) and Samuel Tilden (1814-86) and predicts a civil war if the election is stolen from Tilden, as it in fact was, followed by an authoritarian dystopia.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - 1975; A Tradition Y1 - 1876 A1 - My Great Grandson [pseud.] AB -

Mostly a moral tale of 1875, but it implies the eutopia that will be possible through a Christian education.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Adventures in New Guinea: The Narrative of Louis Trégance, A French Sailor: Nine Years in Captivity Among the Orangwöks, a Tribe in the Interior of New Guinea Y1 - 1876 A1 - H[enry] C[rocker] M[arrriott] W[atson] (1835-1901) ED - Henry Crocker, ed. [pseud.] KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Typical lost race dystopia. See also 1879 and 1890 Watson.

PB - Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington CY - London U3 -

Ed. Henry Crocker [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Beulah Land" Y1 - 1876 A1 - Edgar P. Stites (1836-1921) A1 - John R. Sweney (1837-99) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Heaven as a eutopia. Beulah Land is from Isaiah 62:4.

UR - http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/b/e/beulah2.htm. ER - TY - ABST T1 - Coralia; A Plaint of Futurity Y1 - 1876 A1 - [Ellis James] [Davis] (1850-1905) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

While the novel focuses on an unhappy immortal who attempts to find solace in life, Coralia is called "the land of happiness" (11), and, while it is beneath the sea, it is a sort of heaven. "Here life was not as what we know it, but a serene existence without insignificant and unworthy objects such as those of earth" (49). The novel ends with the unhappy immortal united with God.

PB - Samuel Tinsley CY - London U3 -

The Author of "Pyrna, A Commune; or, Under the Ice" [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Eden of Labor; or, The Christian Utopia Y1 - 1876 A1 - T[homas] Wharton Collens (1812-79) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Two societies are depicted, a Christian eutopia that recognizes that labor is the key to the production of wealth and where labor is fairly compensated and Nodland, which is a dystopia reflective of the current reality of selfish capitalism.

PB - Henry Carey Baird & Co. CY - Philadelphia, PA N1 -

Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971.

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Illus. with one lithograph by F. Bourquin. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hygeia: A City of Health Y1 - 1876 A1 - Benjamin Ward Richardson (1828-96) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Very detailed eutopia in an address to the Health Department of the Social Science Congress describing the healthy city of the future. Pollution controls on fires. Roof gardens. No carpets. No one smokes or drinks alcohol and everyone exercises. Factories out of town. Public laundries under state supervision; public street cleaning. Burial without embalming or a casket. Low houses. Railroads and sewage underground; roads all paved. No rooms underground. Publicly supervised slaughter houses. Model hospital. The author was a scientist and a leader of the temperance movement as well as a sanitation campaigner. The author says that he is suggesting only what is now easily possible. See also 1888 Richardson.

PB - Macmillan and Co CY - London N1 -

Rpt. New York: Garland, 1985 bound with Robert Pemberton's The Happy Colony (1854).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - In Front of the World. A Novel Y1 - 1876 A1 - [Ellis James] [Davis] (1850-1905) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A messianic figure attempts to bring about human unity, writes a new Bible, and creates a new religion through a group with telepathy.

PB - Charing Cross Publishing Co. CY - London VL - 3 Vols. U3 -

The Author of "Pyrna, A Commune; or, Under the Ice" [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Robinson Crusoe's Money; or, The Remarkable Financial Fortunes and Misfortunes of a Remote Island Community Y1 - 1876 A1 - David A[mes] Wells (1828-98) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An argument against the policy of printing more currency as a solution to economic problems presented as the history of an imaginary island that tries the policy and suffers the consequences. On the greenback movement, as the movement against paper money was called in the U.S., see Irwin Unger, The Greenback Era: A Social and Political History of American Finance, 1865-1879. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1964.

PB - Harper and Brothers CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1892; New York: Harper and Brothers, 1896; and New York: Peter Smith, 1931. The 1896 ed. rpt. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1969.

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Illus. Thomas Nast.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Social Architecture; or, Reasons and Means for the Demolition and Reconstruction of the Social Edifice Y1 - 1876 A1 - [John Aloys] [Petzler] (1814?-1898) KW - English author KW - German author KW - Male author AB -

Non-fiction eutopia. The author summarizes the book as follows: "The guiding principles upon which this social demolition and reconstruction is to proceed, are chiefly the following:--1. Abolition of money, inheritance, and private property. 2. Restriction of the isolated household, and development of the associated home. 3. Freedom of sexual unions. 4 Compulsory and equal sharing of all physical labour. 5. Economical arrangements for the prevention of waste. 6. Organization of labour. 7. Equal division of the means of existence and enjoyment. 8. Universal diffusion of education, sciences, and arts" (80). Includes 1870 Petzler as an Appendix (423-39). See also his Die sociale Baukunst; oder Gründe und Mittel für den Umsturz und Wiederaufbau der gesellschaftlichen Verhältnisse, besonders wie solche sich in neuester Zeit in England, dem grossen Musterstaat der modernen Civilisation, ausgebildet haben. 2 vols. Hottingen-Zürich, Switzerland: Verlag der Schweizerischen Volksbuchhandlung, 1879, 1880; and his Grosse Jubiläumsfeier und imposanter Triumphzug in Erinnerung des hundertjährigen Bestehens der social-demokratischen Staatsseinrichtung in Britannien. Nürnberg, Germany: Selbstverlag des Berfassers, 1897 (L). In the "Preface" to the book Petzler says that he shared imprisonment in France with Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809-65), the mutualist and anarchist theorist. After his release he was expelled to England. 

PB - Samuel Tinsley CY - London U3 -

An Exile from France [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Angelic Revelations Concerning the Origin, Ultimation, and Destiny of the Human Spirit: Illustrated by the Experiences in Earth and Spirit Life of Teresa Jacoby, Now Known as the Angel Purity Y1 - 1875 A1 - [William] [Oxley] ? KW - Male author AB -

Spiritualism. Primarily concerned with the life of the human soul before embodiment. Borderline but some utopian aspects.

PB - T. Gaskell, J. Ledsham/W. Harrison CY - Manchester, Eng./London VL - 5 vols. ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Curious Republic of Gondour" Y1 - 1875 A1 - [Samuel Langhorne] [Clemens] (1835-1910) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire (?) proposing additional votes based on education and wealth because universal suffrage resulted in giving power and office to "the ignorant and non-tax-paying classes". Every person has one vote, but extra votes are given for each level of education up to nine for a university education and for different amounts of property. Property votes could be lost if the property is lost; education votes are permanent, except in the case of insanity. Education is free. Women could vote and be elected to office.

JF - Atlantic Monthly (Boston, MA) VL - 36.216 N1 -

Rpt. in America Utopias: Selected Short Fiction. Ed. Arthur O. Lewis, Jr. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971. All items separately paged.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Etymonia Y1 - 1875 AB -

Eutopia on an isolated island in the North Sea founded by an "exact geometrician". Physically the country is laid out in a strict, orderly pattern designed to provide easy access and equality. Technologically advanced. All people work at agriculture and at an appropriate trade. In exchange for this labor, they are provided with all their needs. Free love but with strict control of the size of the population. Stress on order and routine. Etymonia appears to be Ireland in that the old name for the island means Green and the size and shape of the island roughly correspond to Ireland.

PB - Samuel Tinsley CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Late Victorian Utopias: A Prospectus. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 6 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2009), 1: 149-272. Editor’s notes, 147, 355. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Europa's Fate: or The Coming Struggle. A History Lesson in New Zealand, A.D. 2076 Y1 - 1875 AB -

Future war in Europe. Struggle with Communists. Britain moves imperial capitol to New Zealand, which has been enlarged through volcanic activity and earthquakes. Europe destroyed. Canada joins the United States.

PB - Griffith and Farran/I. Arrowsmith CY - London/Bristol, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - In the Future: A Sketch in Ten Chapters Y1 - 1875 AB -

Flawed utopia. London has broad, straight, clean streets, no pollution, and good housing, but it is gradually revealed that this is the result of authoritarianism under a foreign king after a war and revolution. The eutopia is a very dull place. Women are in two castes, outdwellers who are free and indwellers who are veiled; men prefer the latter. All religion has been abolished, and this is the main theme of the novel, which depicts the struggles of believers to live in the kingdom and escape from it. Ireland and Russia are Christian and not part of the kingdom. Anti-Semitic.

PB - Ptd. by G.S. Jealous CY - Hampstead, Eng. N1 -

Rpt. New York: Arno Press, 1975; and in Late Victorian Utopias: A Prospectus. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 6 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2009), 1: 67-146. Editor’s notes, 65, 349-54. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Official Correspondence between the Honorable the First Minister of Duffy and His Exalted Majesty Night Blooming Ceres, the Monarch of the Moon, Emperor of the Starry Isles, etc., etc., relative to the construction of the Imperial, Lunar Governmental Railway, also the Reports of the Chief Engineer, and the Draft Treaty in Relation to Same, with the Speech from the Throne. Printed in compliance with a Resolution of the House of the Gallery, dated March 31st, 1875 Y1 - 1875 KW - Canadian author AB -

While this is a satire on government involvement with railroads, the moon is presented as something of a utopia. People of the moon do not wear clothes. Mentions a spring of natural soda water and a stream of pure brandy. Gems given to children for playthings. Government oversees manufacturing of new ideas.

PB - Citizen Printing & Publishing Co CY - Ottawa, ON, Canada U1 -

At the head of the title House of the Gallery: 2nd Session, 3rd Parliament.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pyrna: A Commune; or, Under the Ice Y1 - 1875 A1 - [Ellis James] [Davis] (1850-1905) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia called the Universal Community of Free Brethren located inside a glacier in Switzerland. While the institutions of the society are presented positively, there is a general sense that the people are too unemotional. Pyrna means "The Beautiful Home". Emphasis on the educational system. Gender equality. Highly refined. The people "looked upon eating as a disagreeable necessity. . ." (125/Claeys 57).

PB - Bickers and Son CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Late Victorian Utopias: A Prospectus. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 6 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2009), 1: 3-64. Editor's notes 1, 349.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Skyward and Earthward Y1 - 1875 A1 - [George Theodosius Boughton] [Kyngdon] (1821-1916) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Voyages by balloon to various locations beginning with an inhabited moon, which is presented as a satire on Earth customs. They then visit Mars that is a simple eutopia with friendly people, tame birds, and a diet of fruit. No government or laws. No disease or old age. After their return to Earth, the novel is one of adventure and romance.

PB - Samuel Tinsley CY - London U3 -

Arthur Penrice [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Visit of Elidorus to the Fairy Kingdom Beneath the Bay” Y1 - 1875 A1 - R[obert] Rice Davies KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

The fairy kingdom is described as a eutopia with good food and health and without crime, deceit, or any of the problems of humans.

JF - The Cambrian Sketch-Book. Tales, Scenes, and Legends of Wild Wales PB - Simpkin, Marshall/The Cambrian Welsh and English Book Publishing Co. CY - London/Swansea, Wales U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Wasted Faculties" Y1 - 1875 A1 - [Dupuy, Charles Meredith] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Essay proposing the route to what he calls “this most wonderful Utopia, as some believe it to be” (6) based on full employment at good pay that will allow everyone to consume more. This will require regular investment, which requires a constant low interest rate. He ends by saying that “This is no Utopia. It is the channel toward which mankind is surely drifting” (6).

JF - Penn Monthly VL - 6 N1 -

Rpt. separately paged as by Chas. [Charles] M. Dupuy. Wasted Faculties. Reprinted from Penn Monthly for November, 1875. [Philadelphia, PA: Np, 1875?] 7 pp. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Annals of the Twenty-ninth Century; or, The Autobiography of the Tenth President of the World-Republic Y1 - 1874 A1 - [Andrew] [Blair] (1849-85) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Mostly science but a beautiful eutopia of reason is vaguely described.

PB - Samuel Tinsley CY - London VL - 3 vols N1 -

An excerpt illus. by Monica Burns is published in Shoreline of Infinity, no. 6 (Winter 2016/17): 94-101 with an introduction, “SF Caledonia,” by Monica Burns (88-93). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The City of Dreadful Night" Y1 - 1874 A1 - [James] [Thomson} (1834-82) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Poem. Dystopia describing a city and its inhabitants. Borderline horror. Includes the City of Melancholy and its Queen Melancholy and the River of Suicides. Sometimes classified as horror. 

JF - The National Reformer VL - ns 23.12, 15, 17, 20 N1 -

Rpt. in his The City of Dreadful Night and Other Poems (London: Reeves and Turner, 1880), 1-55; in his The City of Dreadful Night and Other Poems (Portland, ME: Thomas B. Mosher, 1892), 1-73; in his The City of Dreadful Night and Other Poems (Portland, ME: Thomas B. Mosher, 1903), 1-57; and in his The City of Dreadful Night and Other Poems (London: Methuen & Co., 1932), 17-71, with an "Introduction" by Edmund Blunden (5-14) and a frontispiece by James McBey.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Diakka, and Their Earthly Victims; Being an Explanation of Much That Is False and Repulsive in Spiritualism Y1 - 1874 A1 - Andrew Jackson Davis (1826-1910) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Diakka is "a Garden of Eden . . . where the morally deficient and the affectionally unclean enter upon a strange probationary life" (7). See also 1847 and 1878 Davis; “Traveling and Society in the Summer Land.” In his A Stellar Key to the Summer Land (Boston, MA: William White & Co./New York: Banner of Light Branch Office, 1867), 163-83; his “Social Centers in the Summer-Land,” “Winter-Land and Summer-Land” and “Language and Life in the Summer-Land.” In his Morning Lectures. Twenty Discourse, Delivered before the Friends of Progress in the City of New York, in the Winter and Spring of 1863 (New York: C.M. Plumb, 1865), 266-87 and 349-404. Earth is the Winter Land; and his The Grand Harmonia [Each volume has a different subtitle]. 5 vols. Boston, MA: Bela Marsh, 1852-56; and 5 vols. New York: A.J. Davis, 1864-80. There were at least five editions. 

PB - A.J. Davis & Co. CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Dream within a Dream" Y1 - 1874 A1 - Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844-1911) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A dream of an egalitarian marriage ceremony.

JF - Independent (New York) VL - 26 N1 -

All but a small part of the text rpt. in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories by United States Women, 1836-1919. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler (London: Pandora Press, 1984), 107-11 with an editor’s note on 104-06. Complete text rpt. in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories By United States Women Before 1950. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler. 2nd ed. (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995), 63-67 with an editor’s note on 61-63.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The King of No-Land Y1 - 1874 A1 - B[enjamin] L[eopold] Farjeon (1833-1903) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A king who would prefer not to be a king abdicates to a democracy and finds an idyllic life in the country. Invited back by the people, he creates a better society.

JF - Tinsley’s Magazine N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1875.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Inca; or, The Story of Tupac Amâru Y1 - 1874 AB -

The last chapter is an Incan socialist eutopia. Idleness is punished as a crime. All land is divided with a third belonging to the people, a third to the nobility, and a third to the Inca. Mines belong to the state. All men must bear arms and participate in the national games. Compulsory education for boys to 14; no girl is allowed to attend school past 7, but they are taught at home and examined every nine days.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Papa's Own Girl Y1 - 1874 A1 - Marie [Stevens Case] Howland (1836-1921) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. The two titles reflect the two main themes of the novel. Papa’s Own Girl reflects the desire of one of the main characters that his daughter grow up as a strong, independent woman, and she does. The Familistere is the name of the community in Guise, France, founded by Jean Baptiste André Godin (1817-88), which is the basis of the intentional community that is the other focus of the novel.

PB - John P. Jewett CY - New York N1 -

2nd ed. New York: John P. Jewett, [1885]. Later ed. entitled The Familistere. A Novel. 3rd ed. Boston, MA: Christopher Publishing House, 1918. Rpt. Philadelphia, PA: Porcupine Press, 1975 with an Introduction entitled “The Familistere: Radical Reform Through Cooperative Enterprise” (unpaged) by Robert S. Fogarty. Selections rpt. in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories by United States Women, 1836-1919. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler (London: Pandora Press, 1984), 98-103 with an editor’s note on 95-97; and different selections rpt. in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories By United States Women Before 1950. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler. 2nd ed. (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995), 71-93.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Queen Krinaleen's Plagues; or, How a Simple People Were Destroyed. A Discourse in the Twenty-Second Century Y1 - 1874 A1 - [J. L.] [Collins] KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of the fall of America due to women's fashions.

PB - American News Co CY - New York U3 -

Jonquil [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Tales in Political Economy Y1 - 1874 A1 - Millicent Garrett Fawcett (1847-1929) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

An island becomes a eutopia through free trade and the free market. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Transmigration Y1 - 1874 A1 - [Edward John] Mortimer Collins (1827-76) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Volume two is set in a eutopia on Mars. The eutopia is a paradise caused in large part by a gas in the air that prolongs life and generally provides health and a good feeling. No money. The various planets are places where souls spend their lives after death or between reincarnations. Most of the volume consists of interactions among people from the past, mostly classical Greece.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Voice From Another World Y1 - 1874 A1 - W[ladislaw] S[omerville] L[ach]-S[zyrma] (1841-1915) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A Christian eutopia stressing science, art and religion. Little or no political, economic, or social material. Written in 1865. See also 1883 and 1887 Lach-Szyrma.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Another World; or, Fragments from the Star City of Montalluyah Y1 - 1873 A1 - [Benjamin] [Lumley] (1811-75) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia based on the correct cultivation of character.

PB - Samuel Tinsley CY - London U3 -

Hermes [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Berrytown" Y1 - 1873 A1 - Rebecca [Blaine] Harding Davis (1831-1910) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Berrytown is described as a eutopia in which all contemporary reforms are being tried. The story has relatively little to do with these reforms but explores the role of women both traditionally and in the eutopia.

JF - Lippincott's Magazine (Philadelphia, PA) VL - 11-12 N1 -

Rpt. as "Kitty's Choice, a Story of Berrytown." In her Kitty's Choice, a Story of Berrytown (Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott, 1874), 3-48.

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"Kitty’s Choice, a Story of Berrytown.” In her Kitty’s Choice, a Story of Berrytown (Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott, 1874), 3-48.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - By and By; An Historical Romance of the Future Y1 - 1873 A1 - Edward Maitland (1824-97) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Mostly adventure but includes a future technological eutopia as well as a description of a lower heaven as eutopia. Much discussion of the need for religion to recognize science. Stresses individualism. Racist, sexist, and imperialist. In the “Preface to New Edition” (iii-vi) the author says that the book was conceived and mostly written before The Coming Race and Erewhon and differs from them in outlining “a condition of things easily imaginable as resulting from the natural development of existing tendencies in knowledge and thought” and in indicating “the necessary future development of society” (iii). The author lived in New South Wales, Australia from 1849 to 1858 and some of the novel deals with the future of Australia.

PB - Richard Bentley and Son CY - London VL - 3 vols. N1 -

Rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1977. New ed. London: Richard Bentley, 1875.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Colymbia Y1 - 1873 A1 - [Robert Ellis] [Dudgeon] (1820-1904) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

A mixture of satire and reform in a society located under water. Given the mixture, it is difficult to be sure what parts the author means seriously. The author was a friend of Samuel Butler, and the book was his response to Erewhon

PB - Trübner and Company CY - London N1 -

Extract illus. Mark Toner. Shoreline of Infinity, no. 9 (Autumn 2017): 91-99, with an introduction “SF Caledonia” by Monica Burns (85-90), with a photograph of Dudgeon on 87. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Cuttings from "The Times" of 1900 Y1 - 1873 A1 - J. N. AB -

Dystopian satire on unions and the lower classes in power.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Fifth Voyage of Captain Lemuel Gulliver, Sometime of Nottinghamshire" Y1 - 1873 A1 - [Edward John] Mortimer Collins (1827-76) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire. In Amazonia men are slaves and even dogs are considered superior to men. Women had left England after men had concluded that men were superior to women. Common stores. No money.

JF - Squire Silchester's Whim PB - Henry S. King and Co. CY - London VL - 3 vols. U1 -

Running head "Gulliver in Amazonia"

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Franklin Bacon's Republic: Diary of an Inventor" Y1 - 1873 A1 - [Eustace Clare Grenville] [Murray] (1824-81) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on the founding of an island community that the inventor hopes will be a eutopia but is in constant conflict.

JF - Cornhill's Magazine VL - 27 ER - TY - ABST T1 - In the Clouds; A Glimpse of Utopia. A Fairy Extravaganza Y1 - 1873 A1 - Gilbert [Arthur] A'Beckett (1837-91) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire both on the idea of utopia and on specific reform movements, including women's rights. A military that does not fight. No votes for anyone. Government that does nothing. Only Shakespeare in the theatre. No newspapers. There is a well of the water of truth, and anyone exposed to it can no longer live in Utopia.

PB - Samuel French CY - London N1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Jack Tubbs, or The Happy Isle" Y1 - 1873 A1 - John Francis Maguire, M.P. (1815-72) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Young adult eutopia about a boy who can communicate with animals. Much adventure.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Millennium: An Epic Poem Y1 - 1873 A1 - Edward Francis Hughes (1814-79) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Long poem describing all the stages of the millennium.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Narrative of the Travels and Adventures of Paul Aermont Among the Planets Y1 - 1873 A1 - [Benjamin F.] [Field] (1806-87) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A variety of societies are depicted. These include one religious eutopia and a number of physically ideal eutopias. The religious eutopia is based on the idea that our next life will be based on our actions in this life, and all actions in this life will be known in the next one. Therefore, everyone behaves well and the result is a eutopia.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The San Rafael Phalanstery" Y1 - 1873 A1 - Noah Brooks (1830-1903) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on a community intended to be a eutopia, the problems it encountered, and its success, which led to boredom and closure.

JF - Scribner's Monthly Magazine (New York) VL - 5.4 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Vision of Communism. A Grotesque" Y1 - 1873 A1 - [Bertha] [Thomas] KW - Female author AB -

Anti-Communist story.

JF - Cornhill's Magazine VL - 28 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Baron Grimbosh, Doctor of Philosophy and sometime Governor of Barataria. A Record of his Experience, Written by Himself in Exile, and Published by Authority Y1 - 1872 A1 - [Charles] [Mackay] KW - Male author AB -

Satire on utopian projections.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The British Federal Empire. A Speech Delivered in a Certain Year of the Twentieth Century, in a Certain City of the Empire Y1 - 1872 A1 - An Octogenarian [pseud.] AB -

The eutopia brought about by an improved British Empire with federal institutions.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The City of Rum" Y1 - 1872 A1 - Mr. Onyx [pseud.] ED - A Friend [pseud.] AB -

Satire on the problems of improving London's drainage and water supply.

JF - The City of Rum and Other Sketches by Mr. Onyx PB - Longmans, Green, and Co. CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Coming Man; or, Fifty Years Hence Y1 - 1872 A1 - Vida Varrie KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Sex-role reversal satire with strong minded women and effeminate men. Presented as a three-act play.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Crums of Thought from Harmonial Tablets, Served Up in the Author's Own Sauce and Dedicated To All Candidates for Aurelia, By an Impressional Medium Y1 - 1872 A1 - R[obert] F[luke] C[unningham] KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author AB -

Detailed egalitarian eutopia. Spiritualist. Much discussion of "Harmonial" life and thought, which is defined as "perfect unity--a happy oneness and accord in all its parts" (3). Cunningham was promoting a proposed communal settlement. See his The Articles of Association, Rules, Regulations, Manners and Customs of the Aurelia Co-operative Land and Labour Association. Thames: Printed by Hopcraft, M’Cullough and Co., [1873?] (VUW); and Prospectus of The Aurelia Co-operative Land and Labour Association. [Thames, 1873?] (VUW).

PB - To be Had of Terry, Bookseller CY - Melbourne, VIC, Australia U3 -

An Impressional Medium

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Dream of a Free-Trade Paradise. A Laissez Faire Tale" Y1 - 1872 A1 - Cyrus Elder KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on free trade set in the country of Laissez Faire where the rule is to do what is easiest. Thus, no children, no buildings, few crops, little production. The rest of the book is made up of short essays and stories that make the same point without using the utopian form.

JF - Dream of a Free Trade Paradise, and Other Sketches PB - Pub. for the Industrial League by Henry Carey Baird, Industrial Publisher CY - Philadelphia, PA N1 -

Rpt. in American Utopias: Selected Short Fiction. Ed. Arthur O. Lewis, Jr. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971. All items separately paged.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - An entirely new feature of a thrilling new novel! Entitled, the Social War of the Year 1900; or, The Conspirators and Lovers! A Lesson for Saints and Sinners Y1 - 1872 A1 - S[imon] M[ohler] Landis (1829-1902) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Emphasis is on conspiracy and revolt, but an authoritarian constitution is provided.

PB - Landis Publishing Society CY - Philadelphia, PA N1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Erewhon; or, Over the Range Y1 - 1872 A1 - [Samuel [Butler] (1835-1902) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The classic utopian satire. 

PB - Trübner CY - London N1 -

2nd ed. rev. and corr. London: Trübner, 1872. New rev. ed. London: Grant Richards, 1901. Rpt. as vol. 2 of The Shrewsbury Edition of the Works of Samuel Butler. 20 vols. Ed. Henry Festing Jones and A[ugustus] T[heodore] Bartholomew. London: Jonathan Cape/New York: E.P. Dutton, 1923-26. Rpt. New York: AMS Press, 1968. Rev. ed. London: De La Mare Press, 1906. New and rev. ed. London: Fifield, 1910. Rpt. with woodcuts by Robert Gibbings and with an Introduction and illustrations by H. Charles Tomlinson. New York: Chesire House, 1931; with wood-engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton. Montgomeryshire: The Gregynog Press, 1932; with an Introduction by Aldous Huxley and illustrations by Rockwell Kent. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1934 [Huxley’s introduction is rpt. in Aldous Huxley Annual: A Journal of Twentieth-Century Thought and Beyond 2 (2003): 49-54; with illustrations by Graham Byfield. [London]: Distributed by Heron Books, [1969]; without the subtitle, with an “Introduction” by Peter Mudford (7-24), a “List of Passages Butler added to the text of the 1872 edition” (261), and “Notes” (263-70). 150th Anniversary Edition. New York: Erewhon, 2022, with “Looking Backward to Local Utopia: An Introduction” by Octavia Cade (1-29) also includes the Prefaces to the 1st, 2nd, and revised eds. (xi-xv). Critical ed. ed. Hans-Peter Breuer and Daniel F. Howard. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1981, which reprints the 1872 edition and includes the later revisions in an appendix. Chapters XXIII-XXV of the 1872 ed. rpt. in Dystopia Utopia Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Tales (London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2016), 57-72. Two parts were originally published as “Darwin Among the Machines.” Signed Cellarius. Press (Christchurch, New Zealand) 3.192 (June 13, 1863): 1-2; and “Lucubratio Ebria.” Press (Christchurch, New Zealand) 8.847 (July 29, 1865): 2. These two parts are available in The Notebooks of Samuel Butler. Ed. Henry Festing Jones (London: A. C. Fifield, 1912), 42-53. Rpt. (London: Hogarth Press, 1985), 42-53; and in A First Year in Canterbury Settlement and Other Early Essays. Ed. R[ichard] A[lexander] Streatfield (London: A.C. Fifield, 1914), 179-94. U.S. ed. (New York: E.P. Dutton, 1915), 179-94. Rpt. as vol. 1 of The Shrewsbury Edition of the Works of Samuel Butler. 20 vols. Ed. Henry Festing Jones and A[ugustus] T[heodore] Bartholomew (London: Jonathan Cape/New York: E.P. Dutton, 1923-26), 208-20. Rpt. New York: AMS Press, 1968. Butler also published the related article [“Darwin on the Origin of the Species. A Dialogue”]. Press (Christchurch, New Zealand) 3.93 (December 20, 1862): 2. This is also available, together with correspondence that followed, in A First Year in Canterbury Settlement and Other Early Essays. Ed. [Richard] A[lexander] Streatfield (London: A.C. Fifield, 1914), 149-78. U.S. ed. (New York: E.P. Dutton, 1915), 149-78. Rpt. as vol. 1 of The Shrewsbury Edition of the Works of Samuel Butler. 20 vols. Ed. Henry Festing Jones and A[ugustus] T[heodore] Bartholomew (London: Jonathan Cape/New York: E.P. Dutton, 1923-26), 184-207. Rpt. New York: AMS Press, 1968. The origin of the chapter “The Book of the Machines” is “The Mechanical Creation.” The Reasoner: A Political and Secular Review (London), no. 833 (July 1, 1865): 30-31, which is rpt. in A First Year in Canterbury Settlement and Other Early Essays. Vol. 1 of The Shrewsbury Edition of the Works of Samuel Butler. 20 vols. Ed. Henry Festing Jones and A[ugustus] T[heodore] Bartholomew (London: Jonathan Cape/New York: E.P. Dutton, 1923-26), 231-37. Rpt. New York: AMS Press, 1968. Not in the Streatfield ed. An interesting oddity is the translation into Esperanto--Erevono. Trans. by Alec Venture. London: Alec Venture, 1978. The DU-Ho copy of the Esperanto translation includes a lengthy errata sheet. Three chapters were published separately as Book of the Machines. Illus. Corydon Bell. [Cleveland, OH]: Bonnar-Vawter Fanform Company, 1940.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Experiences of the A.C." Y1 - 1872 A1 - Bayard Taylor (1825-78) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on a utopian experiment called the Arcadian Club. The focus is on the individuals and their idiosyncrasies and hypocrisies.

JF - Beauty and the Beast: and Tales of Home PB - Putnam & Sons CY - New York N1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Glimpses of the Future" Y1 - 1872 AB -

Dystopia of a near future economic collapse brought about by paying workers too much.

JF - Blackwood's Magazine VL - 112 ER - TY - ABST T1 - An Hour With the Angels or A Dream of the Spirit Life Y1 - 1872 A1 - A[lden] Brigham KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Domestic heaven influenced by Emanuel Swedenborg (1668-1772). Heaven has class distinctions based on one's behavior during life. Stress on mercy rather than punishment. Change is the norm in Heaven.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "'If I Were Dictator'" Y1 - 1872 AB -

Satire in which a sea captain is made dictator of England with absolute powers for six months. Includes proposals for, among other things, gradually eliminating the national debt, reducing expenditures, reducing the number of government employees, reforming the military, reforming the trade in food and drink, and establishing an Anglo-Saxon Confederation among Great Britain, the U.S., Canada, Australasia, and South Africa.

JF - St. Paul's Magazine VL - 11 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "John Mardon, Mariner: His Strange Adventures in El Dorado" Y1 - 1872 A1 - The Author of "St. Abe." [pseud.] AB -

Poem of mostly dystopian adventures in El Dorado, which teems with dangerous animals and natives.

JF - St. Paul's Magazine VL - 11 U3 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Kennaquhair: Narrative of Utopian Travel Y1 - 1872 A1 - [Henry B.] [Lee] KW - Male author AB -

The author visits Utopia, which is peopled with the heroes and heroines of the fictions of the past, and who die when their popularity in fiction has passed. He meets characters from Dickens.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Martyrdom of Man Y1 - 1872 A1 - [William] Winwood Reade (1838-75) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Includes a section given the title in the Table of Contents of "The Future of the Human Race" (502-15) that includes a few pages of future projection that is a generalized eutopia (512-15).

PB - Trübner & Co CY - London N1 -

15th ed. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1896.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Mrs. Strongitharm's Report" Y1 - 1872 A1 - Bayard Taylor (1825-78) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on the enfranchisement of women, who get the vote in one state and do nothing with it.

JF - Beauty and the Beast: and Tales of Home PB - Putnam & Sons CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. (New York: Garrett Press, 1969), 307-40.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Nineteen Hundred and Seventy-two" Y1 - 1872 A1 - Jean Ingelow (1820-97) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Children's technological eutopia.

JF - The Little Wonder Horn PB - Henry S. King CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in the Tuapeka Times (New Zealand) 4.221 (April 25, 1872): 9. Repub. in Vol. 4, The Snowflake and the Water-lily and 1972 of her The Fourth Wonder of The Little Wonder Box. 6 vols. (London: Griffith, Farran, Okeden, & Welsh, 1887), 222-52. Rpt. in The Oxford Book of Children’s Short Stories. Ed. Jan Mark (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1993), 134-45.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ranolf and Amohia: A South-Sea Day-Dream Y1 - 1872 A1 - Alfred Domett (1811-87) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Very long poem that is in part a romantic Aotearoa/New Zealand and South Seas eutopia presenting the Maori as both Noble Savage and just savage.

PB - Smith, Elder & Co CY - London N1 -

2nd ed. rev. with the subtitle A Dream of Two Lives. 2 vols. London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1883.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Ultrawa" Y1 - 1872 A1 - Authwise, Eugene KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Hidden village of forty families. No formal government but informally led by the eldest man and woman.

JF - The Overland Monthly (San Francisco, CA) VL - 9 - 11 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "What John Smith Saw in the Moon: A Christmas Story for Parties Who were Children Twenty years ago" Y1 - 1872 A1 - Fred H[arvey] Brown KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia with satirical elements. Technologically advanced. No money.

JF - The Workingman's Advocate (Chicago, IL) VL - 9.8 N1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Zaphnath Paaneah, or, The Irish Parliament in 1876. Respice, Aspice, Prospice Y1 - 1872 AB -

Typical depiction of the Irish unable to rule themselves.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Coming Race Y1 - 1871 A1 - [Edward] [Bulwer-Lytton] (1803-73) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Classic utopia in the center of the earth. Highly rational winged people illustrating the strengths and weaknesses of reason. Each individual holds the power, called vril, of destroying any other individual and, as a result, all get along well. Some sex role reversal. 

PB - William Blackwood CY - Edinburgh, Scot. N1 -

Rpt. as by The Right Hon. Lord Lytton. London: George Routledge and Sons, [1874]. Canadian ed. as The Coming Race; or, The New Utopia. Toronto, ON, Canada: Adam, Stevenson, 1871. US ed. as The Coming Race; or, The New Utopia. Reprinted from the English Edition. New-York: Francis B. Felt & Co., 1871. Also published as Vril. The Power of the Coming Race. Blauvelt, NY: Rudolf Steiner Publications, 1972; as The Coming Race. Quakertown, PA: Philosophical Publishing Co., 1973 with notes and commentary connecting it to New Age thought by Emerson M. Clymer; Santa Barbara, CA: Woodbridge Press Pub. Co., 1979; Stroud, Eng.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 1995, with a “Biographical Introduction” by Julian Wolfreys; in British Future Fiction. Ed. I.F. Clarke. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2001), 1: 143-36; Peterborough, ON, Canada: Broadview Press, 2002 with an "Introduction" by Brian W. Aldiss (5-11); ed. David Seed. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2005; and ed. Peter W. Sinnema. Peterborough, ON, Canada: Broadview Editions, 2008, with extensive appendices.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain" Y1 - 1871 A1 - John Ruskin (1819-1900) ED - E[dward] T[yas] Cook ED - Alexander Wedderburn KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Includes throughout the series, but particularly in Letters LVII and LVIII, a proposal for the Guild of St. George, which will provide land for workers. Other works of Ruskin have been included in lists of utopias, particularly Unto This Last”: Four Essays on the First Principles of Political Economy. London: Smith, Elder, 1862, originally published as “‘Unto This Last.’--I. The Roots of Honour;” “‘Unto This Last.’--II. The Veins of Wealth; “‘Unto This Last.’--III. Qui Judicatis Terram; and “‘Unto This Last.’--IV. Ad Valorem.” Cornhill Magazine 2.8-11 (August - November 1860): 155-66, 278-86, 407-18, 543-64. There is a utopianism in much of Ruskin’s thought, and various intentional communities were founded on the basis of Ruskin’s ideas but without his participation.

JF - The Works of John Ruskin PB - George Allen CY - London VL - 39 vols. N1 -

Fors Clavigera is in vols. 27 - 29 (1907). Vol. 27 contains letters 1-36; Vol. 28 contains letters 37-72; and Vol. 28 contains letters 73-96. The letters were originally published separately and collected into volumes as follows: 1-12 (1871) Vol. 1; 13-24 (1872) Vol. 2; 25-36 (1873) Vol. 3; 37-48 (1874) Vol. 4; 49-60 (1875) Vol. 5; 61-72 (1876) Vol. 6; 73-84 (1877) Vol. 7; 85-96 (1878-84) Vol. 8 described as new series]; 85-87 (1878); 88-89 (1880); 90-93 (1884); 94-96 (1884); 85-90 issued as ns 1-6; 91-96 as ns 7-12. New ed. 4 vols. London: George Allen, Sunnyside, Orpington, 1896. Second Small. ed. 4 vols. London: George Allen, Sunnyside, Orpington, 1899-190?. Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain. Ed. Dinah Birch. The Whitehouse Edition of John Ruskin. Edinburgh, Scot.: Edinburgh University Press, 2000 is an edited selection from the letters.

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Near the beginning there is a brief dream of "'the island of the immortals, where there is neither death nor disease. Herein enter no evil passions or designs; but love, sweet and angelic, reigns supreme!'" (6). This is followed by notes on various imaginary utopian islands and the doings of alchemists. This is then followed by a visit to Atlantis, which is home to the Rosicrucian brethren. The island is operated by technology, some of which is used to avoid discovery. The island has no crime, death, disease or accident.

PB - np CY - Np ER - TY - ABST T1 - Kingcraft & Priestcraft in 1971; or, a Review of a Curious Old MS. Written by my Great-Grandfather. An Essay, Delivered before the Sunday Free Discussion Society, at the Masonic Hall, on New Year's Evening, 1871 Y1 - 1871 A1 - J. D. AB -

Considerable progress has been made through science in the hundred years between 1871 and 1971, but the author says that perfection will never be reached. Australia is now a republic. Albion (England) is one of the few monarchies left, and the current king, Albert the Third, is a "democrat, deist, and philanthropist." World confederation has eliminated war. The pamphlet is mostly an attack on religion. In the future there is no clerical dress; the major belief systems are Deism and Catholicism; there is no religious education; the Pope is directly elected; and priests marry.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Next Generation Y1 - 1871 A1 - John Francis Maguire, M.P. (1815-72) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Satire largely on women in politics set 1891 and 1892 with women serving in Parliament. London reformed London and presented as middle class.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Other Life Y1 - 1871 A1 - William H[enry] Holcombe, M.D. (1825-93) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Heaven as eutopia. Designed to popularize the ideas of Emanuel Swedenborg (1668-1772). See also 1869 Holcombe and 1870 Holcombe (2). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Story of the Four Little Children Who Went Around the World" Y1 - 1871 A1 - Edward Lear (1812-88) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Mostly standard Lear nonsense, but many of the places the children visit have elements of a cockaigne, particularly concerned with food.

JF - Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany, and Alphabets PB - Robert John Bush CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in his Nonsense Books with all the original illustrations (Boston, MA: Little, Brown, 1921), 98-114; and in his The Complete Nonsense Book Containing all the Original Pictures and Verses, together with New Material. Ed. [Constance], Lady Strachey, 18th ed. (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1961), 149-65.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Travels and Adventures of as Philosopher in the Famous Empire of Hulee. From an Old MS., A.D. 2070" Y1 - 1871 AB -

Anti-socialist satire. Eugenics. All the officers of the state are from medicine, and they interbreed to produce more. The state takes all money. Technology. The country is an absolutely level plain.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Universal Equality, or, Jonathan Baxter's Peep into the Future Y1 - 1871 A1 - Julia Agnes Fraser (1841-1915) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Parody written partially in an Irish brogue in which a man visits the future France, Scotland, Ireland, America, and England in all of which he discovers that his ideal of universal equality produces a negative rather than a positive result.

PB - John Menzies and Co CY - Edinburgh, Scot. ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Very Latest News, Communicated Through the Medium of Mr. J. Smith, Printer, &c. Edited for Contemporary Readers Y1 - 1871 A1 - Algernon Reginald Hillearn Mortimer Esq. (ed.) [written by] [pseud.] AB -

Satire. New Zealand newspaper from 2871, The Hourly News, and New Otago Literary Chronicle. Phonetic spelling. Ads for J.S. Mill Chapel, trips to the moon, robotic housemaid, a woman barrister, and a play performed by machines, among others. The king is a robot. Includes a report from Hell. Planets are inhabited.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Wicked World: An Allegory" Y1 - 1871 A1 - W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert (1836-1911) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Humor. The eutopia of the fairies makes contact with the real world.

JF - Tom Hood's Comic Annual for 1871 PB - Published at the Fun Office CY - London N1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "1970" A Vision of The Coming Age Y1 - 1870 A1 - John Collins (1814-1902) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopian poem describing a dream of the millennium in which Christianity is the world religion, and Christian morality is the rule. God has decreed that there will be no more damage by fires, floods, and storms and animals are no longer dangerous. No alcohol, tobacco, or theater. No disease. No hotels; all homes are open to anyone. No lawyers. No stock market. Technology has brought the world, and even the planets, close together. Environmental renewal.

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Non-fiction eutopia. Twenty page pamphlet giving a series of detailed proposals for the stages from the current situation to what he calls the "Communistic State". Includes all of the areas included in the title. See also 1876 Petzler, which reprints this text and 1890 Petzler. See also his Die sociale Baukunst; oder Gründe und Mittel für den Umsturz und Wiederaufbau der gesellschaftlichen Verhältnisse, besonders wie solche sich in neuester Zeit in England, dem grossen Musterstaat der modernen Civilisation, ausgebildet haben. 2 vols. Hottingen-Zürich, Switzerland: Verlag der Schweizerischen Volksbuchhandlung, 1879, 1880; and his Grosse Jubiläumsfeier und imposanter Triumphzug in Erinnerung des hundertjährigen Bestehens der social-demokratischen Staatsseinrichtung in Britannien. Nürnberg, Germany: Selbstverlag des Berfassers, 1897 (L). 

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Rpt. as an Appendix to his Social Architecture; or, Reasons and Means for the Demolition and Reconstruction of the Social Edifice. By An Exile from France [pseud.] (London: Samuel Tinsley, 1976), 423-39.

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Allegory on British-French relations using imaginary countries. See also 1896 Ferrar.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - In Both Worlds Y1 - 1870 A1 - William H[enry] Holcombe, M.D. (1825-93) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel is cast as an autobiography of Lazarus, who, when he dies, goes to the World of Spirits between earth and heaven that is a staging ground that everyone goes to before being assigned to heaven or hell. It is presented as a eutopia even though those spirits who will go to hell are there. There he meets his family, including his brother who died young and who has grown and married. They have all built magnificent homes. See also 1869 Holcombe, 1870 Holcombe, Our Children in Heaven, and 1871 Holcombe.

PB - J.B. Lippincott CY - Philadelphia, PA N1 -

2nd ed. as Lazarus of Bethany: The Story of His Life in Both Worlds. Melbourne, VIC, Australia: George Robertson, 1872.

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Lazarus of Bethany: The Story of His Life in Both Worlds. 2nd ed. Melbourne, VIC, Australia: George Robertson, 1872.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Man From the Moon Y1 - 1870 AB -

Eutopia. Advanced civilization on the moon. Scientific, anti-religious. Vegetarian. Very long life the result of a scientifically correct diet. Irregular passions shorten life. Any needs not provided by nature are chemically produced. No money. No crime because no property. Women are generally slightly inferior to men and have stopped having children.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Man's Rights; or, How Would You Like It? Comprising Dreams Y1 - 1870 A1 - Annie Denton Cridge (1825-75) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Gender-role reversal satire.

PB - William Denton CY - Boston, MA N1 -

Rpt. in Woodhull & Claflin’s Weekly (New York) 1.17 - 25, 2.1 (whole no. 27) (September 3 - November 5, November 19, 1870): 1-2, 1-2, 1-2, 1-2, 1-2, 1-2, 2-3, 2-3, 2-3; 3-4. Selections rpt. without Comprising Dreams in the title in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories by United States Women, 1836-1919. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler (London: Pandora Press, 1984), 75-94 with an editor’s note on 74. Complete text rpt. in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories By United States Women Before 1950. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler. 2nd ed. (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995), 5-60.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Misopseudes: or the Year 2075. A Marvellous Vision Y1 - 1870 AB -

Anti-religious, anti-communist, anti-Semitic. The future is better because none of these exist.

PB - W.H. Williams CY - Melbourne, VIC, Australia N1 -

2nd ed. rev. as Misopseudes: A Vision "Auspicium melioris aevi" and Extracts from Letters. Np: Np, 1873.

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A, M, VUW

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Moslem in Cambridge. A Liberal and Advanced Journal of Universal Scope, Views and Tendencies, Adapted to the Tastes of all Nations Y1 - 1870 A1 - [Gerald Stanley] [Davies] ed. [written by] (1845-1927) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on a future Cambridge University that is no longer just Christian, admits women, has abolished tests, and is completely cosmopolitan.

JF - The Moslem in Cambridge. A Liberal and Advanced Journal of Universal Scope, Views and Tendencies, Adapted to the Tastes of all Nations [An Undergraduate magazine] VL - Three numbers dated 1890-91 but from 1870-71 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Our Children in Heaven Y1 - 1870 A1 - William H[enry] Holcombe, M.D. (1825-93) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Includes descriptions of the actual life in heaven reflecting the ideas of Emanuel Swedenborg (1668-1772). Mostly essay. See also 1869 Holcombe, 1870 Holcombe In Both Worlds, and 1871 Holcombe. 

PB - J.B. Lippincott CY - Philadelphia, PA N1 -

U.K. ed. London: James Speiers, 1870. Also published in phonography but no copy found.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Page of American History. Constitution of the United States of the World. An Address by Victoria C. Woodhull. Delivered in Lincoln Hall, Washington, U.S.A., in 1870. The First Suggestion of its kind made in America, and commented on widely by the Press Y1 - 1870 A1 - Victoria C[alifornia] Woodhull (1838-1927) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia presented through a detailed constitution, which the title suggests is to be world-wide but the details of which are limited to the U.S. The basic governmental structure is similar to that in effect in the U.S. at the time. The Constitution is egalitarian, with the only division of the population is that between adults, those eighteen and over, and minors. All over eighteen can vote with minor residence requirements. See also 1890 Martin and Victoria C. Woodhull, A Speech on The Garden of Eden; or, Paradise Lost and Found, delivered at Cooper Institute, New York City, December 30, 1875. New York: Woodhull & Claflin, 1876. A statement of the equality of the sexes. A completely different version was published in her Victoria C. Woodhull’s Life Sketches. Np: np, nd.  Their The Garden of Eden; or, The Paradise Lost and Found is a commentary on Genesis and Revelations on women with a brief comparison to the Vedas

PB - Norman, Sawyer CY - Cheltenham, Eng. N1 -

Rpt. in The Victoria Woodhull Reader. Ed. Madeleine B. Stern. Weston, MA: M S Press, 1974. [Items are separately paged]. Rpt. slightly rev. as A New Constitution for the United States of the World Proposed for the Consideration of the Constructors of Our Future Government. New York: Woodhull, Claflin & Co., 1872. Rpt. in We, the Other People: Alternative Declarations of Independence By Labor Groups, Farmers, Woman’s Rights Advocates, Socialists, and Blacks, 1829-1975. Ed. Philip S. Foner (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1976), 177-201 with an editor’s introduction (177-80). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Paradise of Birds: An Extravaganza in Modern Dress Y1 - 1870 A1 - William John Courthope (1842-1919) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Humans kill off most animals and then killed or drove away the birds. As a result, bugs destroy all the crops and starvation threatens. An expedition discovers the Paradise of the Birds at the North Pole and negotiates for their return. See also 1869 Courthope.

PB - William Blackwood and Sons CY - Edinburgh, Scot. N1 -

2nd ed. without the subtitle. Edinburgh, Scot.: William Blackwood and Sons, 1873. 1st illus. ed. London: Hatchards, 1889. Another ed. London: Macmillan, 1895.

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1st illus. ed. London: Hatchards, 1889. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Railway in Utopia" Y1 - 1870 A1 - [Joseph E.] [Tuttle] KW - Male author AB -

Short sketch about an ideal railroad run on religious principles with the primary emphasis being on Sunday observance.

JF - Hours at Home (New York) VL - 10.4 ER - TY - ABST T1 - State Contentment: An Allegory Y1 - 1870 A1 - Desborough, Robert KW - Male author AB -

Dream of an egalitarian community in Australia. Common property. Racially mixed. No money. Everyone works and mental workers also do work that requires little thought. Eugenics; imperfect children killed at birth. Only the married can vote, and women both vote and hold office. Homes and factories are in different areas. No celibacy.

PB - The Newsagents' & Publishing Co. CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Ten Times One Is Ten; A Story in Eight Chapters" Y1 - 1870 A1 - [Edward Everett] [Hale] (1822-1909) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Christian eutopia brought about by the each one teach one method.

JF - Old and New (Boston, MA) VL - 1.1 - 3, 5 - 6 N1 -

Repub. as Ten Times One Is Ten: The Possible Reformation. A Story in Nine Chapters. By Colonel Frederic Ingham [pseud.]. Boston, MA: Roberts Brothers, 1871. Rpt. Boston, MA: Roberts Brothers, 1885; and in Ten Times One Is Ten and Other Stories. Vol. 3 of The Works of Edward Everett Hale (Boston, MA: Little Brown, and Co., 1899), 3-110.

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Col. Frederic Ingham [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Brick Moon. From the Papers of Captain Frederic Ingham" Y1 - 1869 A1 - [Edward Everett] [Hale] (1822-1909) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Most of the story is taken up with the attempt to launch a satellite (made of bricks). After the accidental, but successful, launch with people inside, it becomes impossible to bring it back. The story ends with the people in the new moon creating a eutopia for themselves based on complete equality. The people on earth conclude that close ties among a small group may be the best way to live.

JF - Atlantic Monthly (Boston, MA) VL - 24.144 - 46, 25.148 N1 -

Rpt. in his His Level Best. and Other Stories (Boston, MA: Roberts Brothers, 1872), 30-124; in The Brick Moon and Other Stories. Vol. 4 of The Works of Edward Everett Hale (Boston, MA: Little Brown, and Co., 1899), 3-99; and New York: The Spiral Press for members of the Imprint Society, Barre, Massachusetts, 1971. 

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Captain Frederic Ingham [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Four-Leaved Shamrock; or Erin's Glory" Y1 - 1869 A1 - [John] [Holloway] KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Includes a description of the future greatness of Ireland. Chapter VII "More About the Four-Leaved Shamrock" (Journal 176-78; Book 147-61) is about the traditional utopia of the Irish gods.

JF - Young Englishman's Journal and Illustrated Magazine for the Youth of England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales VL - 4.91 - 99 N1 -

Rpt. as Kathleen, or The Four-Leaved Shamrock. London: Charles H. Clarke, 1871. Rpt. London: Charles H. Clarke, 1872.

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Rpt. as Kathleen, or The Four-Leaved Shamrock. London: Charles H. Clarke, 1871. Rpt. London: Charles H. Clarke, 1872.

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The Author of Wat Tyler [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ludibria Lunae; or, The Wars of Women and the Gods. An Allegorical Burlesque Y1 - 1869 A1 - William John Courthope (1842-1919) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Epic poem. Satire on women's rights following Aristophanes. Presented as beginning in a eutopia which has no rights for women. Women plan to travel to the moon, discover that it is inhabited by the old gods and goddesses, who they challenge. Women are defeated by love and vanity. See also 1879 Courthope.

PB - Smith, Elder and Co CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Model Town; or, The Right and Progressive Organization of Industry for the Production of Material and Moral Wealth Y1 - 1869 A1 - [Edward Barnard] [Bassett] KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia of a Christian cooperative community with private property. Emphasis on education.

PB - Ptd. for the Author CY - Cambridge, MA U3 -

Beta [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Mr. Oscar Preen in Japan and Laputa Y1 - 1869 AB -

A satire which shows the impact of Gulliver's voyage on Laputa. Discusses the role of women and, on the whole, women are considered valuable but difficult. A small number of women are similar to men and should be treated as such.

JF - Tinsley's Magazine VL - 5.2 - 6 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "My Visit to Utopia" Y1 - 1869 A1 - Elizabeth T. Corbett (b. 1830) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Marital relations in Utopia.

JF - Harper's New Monthly Magazine VL - 38 N1 -

Rpt. in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories by United States Women, 1836-1919. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler (London: Pandora Press, 1984), 66-72 with an editor’s note on 65.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Peter Pipers Letters. Peter's Vision" Y1 - 1869 A1 - Old Peter Piper [pseud.] KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author AB -

Dystopia brought about by the land in Otago being broken up into small landholdings.

JF - Tuapeka Times (New Zealand) VL - 2.83 UR - http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast U3 -

Piper, Old Peter [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Princess of the Moon: A Confederate Fairy Story Y1 - 1869 A1 - [Cora Semmes] [Ives] KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A pro-Confederacy anti-Union novel set on the Moon, which has never known war. Much fantasy and fairy story is an accurate description, but the kingdom on the moon is described in eutopian terms.

PB - Np/Ptd. by the Sun Book & Job Office CY - Warrenton, VA./Baltimore, MD N1 -

Rpt. Louisville KY: Lost Cause Press, 1970.

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A Lady of Warrenton, VA [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Sexes Here and Hereafter Y1 - 1869 A1 - William H[enry] Holcombe, M.D. (1825-93) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Presents the teachings of Emanuel Swedenborg (1668-1772), mostly in essay form. See also 1870, 1871, and 1872 Holcombe.

PB - J.B. Lippincott CY - Philadelphia, PA N1 -

U.K. ed. London: James Speirs, 1869. Also with subtitle Printed in Phonography. London: Fred. Pitman/Bath, Eng.: Isaac Pitman, 1871.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Utopia" Y1 - 1869 A1 - C[harles] W[arren] Stoddard (1843-1909) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Poem describing an idyllic life on a South Pacific island that appears to be inhabited solely by the poet and his man Friday.

JF - Overland Monthly (San Francisco, CA) VL - 2.6 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Utopia, or, Story of a Town As It Should Be, and Probably Will Be, When the Conditions Are All Righted. Put any person in right conditions, and he will do right as certainly as any other of God's creatures Y1 - 1869 A1 - [William] [Gould] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia of a small village in mid-Illinois written by a broom maker. Democratic, egalitarian, no money, free love. Includes a description of the town and the large building at its center that is the focus of village life with dining and meeting rooms, a library, a music room with an organ, a post office, a telegraph office, a printing office, and a museum. There are also rooms on separate floors where men and women can retreat either on their own or "with a chosen friend" (6). There is a dormitory for children who do not have formal schooling but are educated through their life in Utopia. The people lead balanced, temperate lives.

PB - Illinois State Journal Steam Press CY - Springfield U3 -

An Old Reformer [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - After Death: or, Disembodiment of Man. The Location, Topography, and Scenery of the Spiritual Universe; Its Inhabitants, Their Customs, Habits, Modes of Existence; Sex After Death; Marriage in the World of Souls; the Sin Against the Holy Ghost, Its Fearful Penalties, Etc. Y1 - 1868 A1 - [Paschal Beverly] [Randolph] (1825-75) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

Detailed description of the racially separate heavens with the white heaven the highest but with the souls in heaven evolving from their situation at death to higher states. African American author who is thought to have established the first U.S. Rosicrucian order. On Randolph, see John Patrick Deveney, Paschal Beverly Randolph: A Nineteenth-Century Black America Spiritualist, Rosicrucian, and Sex Magician. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997 with a “Foreword” by Franklin Rosemont (xiii-xx).

PB - Ptd. for the author CY - Boston, MA N1 -

2nd ed. corr. and enl. Boston, MA: Author, 1868; 3rd ed. as After Death: the Disembodiment of Man. Boston, MA, 1869; 5th ed. [published before the 4th ed.] Boston, MA: Randolph Publishing Co., 1870, with a “Preface” by Freeman B. Dowd. Rpt. under the author’s name as After Death: The Disembodiment of Man. The World of Spirits, Its Location, Extent, Appearance; The Route Thither; Inhabitants; Customs; Societies; Also Sex and Its Uses There, Etc. Etc.; With Much Matter Pertinent to the Question of Human Immortality. 4th ed. rev., corr., and enl. Boston, MA: Colby & Rich, 1873; rpt. Toledo, OH: Randolph and Co., 1886; rpt. Mokelumne Hill, CA: Health Research, 1961. 

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Under the author’s name as After Death: The Disembodiment of Man. The World of Spirits, Its Location, Extent, Appearance; The Route Thither; Inhabitants; Customs; Societies; Also Sex and Its Uses There, Etc. Etc.; With Much Matter Pertinent to the Question of Human Immortality. 4th ed. rev., corr., and enl. Toledo, OH: Randolph and Co., 1886.

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Author of Pre-Adamite Man [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "My Visit to Sybaris" and "A Week in Sybaris" Y1 - 1868 A1 - [Edward Everett] [Hale] (1822-1909) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A quiet eutopia of gentle, good-humored people. Includes a variety of miscellaneous reforms.

JF - Atlantic Monthly (Boston, MA) VL - 20 - 21 N1 -

Rpt. as “My Visit to Sybaris. From Rev. Frederic Ingham’s Papers.”  In his Sybaris and Other Homes (Boston, MA: Fields, Osgood & Co., 1869), 1-87;  in Sybaris and Other Homes To Which is Added How They Lived in Hampton. Vol. 9 of The Works of Edward Everett Hale (Boston, MA: Little Brown, and Co., 1900), 3-101; and in Sybaris and Other Homes (New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971), 1-87. 

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Rev. Frederic Ingham [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Philosophers of Foufouville Y1 - 1868 A1 - Radical Freelance Esq. [pseud.] KW - US author AB -

Satire on Charles Fourier (1772-1837) and his proposals for a phalanstery.

PB - G.W. Carleton CY - New York U3 -

Freelance, Radical, Esq. [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Spirit of Seventy-Six; or, The Coming Woman, A Prophetic Drama" Y1 - 1868 A1 - [Ariana Randolph Wormeley] [Curtis] (1833-1922) A1 - [Daniel Sargent] [Curtis] (1825-1908) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Humorous gender-role reversal satire in which the women have forcefully replaced men, burned all books written by men, and after only a few years cannot even remember the previous order, although the men can. The usual man from outside and a young woman fall in love, an out-of-date emotion.

JF - The Spirit of Seventy-Six; or, The Coming Woman, A Prophetic Drama, Followed by A Change of Base. And Doctor Mondschein PB - Little, Brown CY - Boston, MA N1 -

The book went through over twenty editions with the same pagination. Rpt. in On to Victory: Propaganda Plays of the Woman Suffrage Movement. Ed. Bettina Friedl (Boston, MA: Northeastern University Press, 1987), 55-82 with editor's notes on 15-18.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Travels by Sea and Land of Alethitheras Y1 - 1868 A1 - [Laughton] [Osborn] (1809-78) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Wide-ranging satire using made-up names for real places.

PB - Moorhead, Simpson & Bond CY - New York N1 -

Another ed. with "A Key to the Names of Persons, Places Etc., in the Travels of Alethitheras" (383-90). New York: James Miller, 1868.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Two Thousand Years Hence Y1 - 1868 A1 - Henry [Nelson] O'Neil, A.R.A. (1817-80) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Picture of nineteenth century Britain from the point of view of a future in which Britain has been destroyed by a volcanic eruption and climatic changes. There is a world state centered in the Antipodes with one religion and English is the only language. Anti-democratic.

PB - Chapman and Hall CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Eight Castles in Spain" Y1 - 1867 A1 - R[obert] B[arry] Coffin (1826-86) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A series of daydreams and conversations about utopia, including "My Children's Utopia" (Harper's 465-67; book 26-31) and "Utopia Found" (Harper's 588-89; book 42-46). "My Children's Utopia" gives the visions of utopia of three children; "Utopia Found" is family life.

JF - Harper's New Monthly Magazine VL - 35.207 - 209 N1 -

Rpt. as "Castles in the Air." In his Castles in the Air, and Other Phantasies. By Barry Gray [pseud.] (New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1871), 3-46.

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Barry Gray [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Great Republic: A Poem of the Sun Y1 - 1867 A1 - Thomas L[ake] Harris (1823-1906) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Spiritualism with vaguely described paradises in a 261 page poem.  See 1854 Harris; his The New Republic: A Discourse of the Prospects, Dangers, Duties and Safeties of the Times. Santa Rosa, CA: Fountain Grove Press, 1891; and his Brotherhood of the New Life. Its Fact, Law, Method and Purpose. Letters from Thomas Lake Harris, with passing reference to recent criticisms. 1.2 of the Fountaingrove Library. Santa Rosa, CA: Fountaingrove Press, T.L. Harris, Publisher, 1891.

PB - Brotherhood of the New Life CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The History of the English Revolution of 1867 Y1 - 1867 A1 - [Frederick] [Gale] ED - Wykehamicus Friedrich Esq. [pseud.] KW - Male author AB -

Satire. Britain collapses because a reform bill passed in 1867 abolished the monarchy, the House of Lords, and the standing army and established universal suffrage.

PB - P.S. King CY - London U1 -

At the head of the title Anno Domini 3867.

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By Lord Macaulay's New Zealander [pseud.].

Ed. Wykehamicus Friedrich, Esq. [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Rise and Progress of the Kingdoms of Light & Darkness. Or, the Reign of Kings Alpha and Abado Y1 - 1867 A1 - Lorenzo D[ow] Blackson (b. 1817) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

Christian allegory reflecting the battle between good and evil on earth and in the Celestial Country from the creation onwards into a future where good wins. 

PB - J. Nicholas, Printer CY - Philadelphia, PA N1 -

Rpt. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Gregg Press, 1968.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Ships of Tarshish: A Sequel to Sue's "The Wandering Jew" Y1 - 1867 A1 - [Edwin] [Fairburn] (1827-1911) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Mostly romance and adventure, but the last chapter (103-04) describes the actions of a man who becomes rich by inventing a new form of battleship and saving England from invasion. He also who improves education and distributes land. It is suggested that a eutopia follows. See 1884 Fairburn. There is also a non-utopian The Ships of the Future. Being an Epilogue to The Ships of Tarshish. By “Mohoao” [pseud.]. Auckland, New Zealand: Np, [1889] (ATL).

PB - Hall & Co CY - London U3 -

By Mohoao [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Tree of Life; or, Human Degeneracy: Its Nature and Remedy, as Based on the Elevating Principle of Orthopathy. In Two Parts Y1 - 1867 A1 - Isaac Jennings, M.D. KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Most of the book is on spiritual and physical degeneracy and the failures of both medicine and religion, but there are a few pages, mostly in the final chapter, describing a regenerated Oberlin, OH, which he calls a theo-democracy.

PB - Miller, Wood & Co. CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Two Angels, Or, Love-Led; a Story of Either Paradise; In Six Cantos Y1 - 1867 A1 - Thomas Clarke KW - Male author AB -

Poem. Canto III is description of heaven as eutopia where people lead fairly normal but purified lives.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Women's Millennium" Y1 - 1867 A1 - [Charles Heber] [Clark] (1847-1915) KW - Male author AB -

Quite standard gender-role reversal story. n his note Ketterer says that this appears to be the first such story.

JF - Daily Evening Bulletin (Philadelphia, PA) VL - 21.15 N1 -

Rpt. in Science-Fiction Studies 15.1 (44) (March 1988): 83-86 "Introduced by David Ketterer" (82-83)

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By John Quill [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - De Histori ov Magnus Maha'rba and the Blak Dragun Y1 - 1866 A1 - [Nathan] [Brown] (1807-86) KW - Male author AB -

Fantasy history of the development of the U.S. with the U.S. presented in eutopian terms.

PB - Printed for de Filolojikal Gemána CY - Nû-York N1 -

In standard English as The History of Magnus Maharba and the Black Dragon. By Kristofur Kadmus [pseud.]. From the Original Manuscripts. New-York: Ptd. for the Proprietor, 1867.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Good, Rapturous Scenes. A New Way of Enjoyment! The Quintessent Value of Everything! All You Want" Y1 - 1866 A1 - Calvin Blanchard (1808-1868) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Free love eutopia. See also 1858, 1862, 1864, the note there, 1865, and Blanchard, “The Great Transformation. Human Nature Completely Unchained! Love in Earnest. Virtue and Vice Obsolete! Pleasure Without Measure. Everybody Perfectly Happy. The Crowning Triumph of Art.”

JF - Titus Petronius Arbiter, The Satyricon; or, Trebly Voluptuous PB - Calvin Blanchard CY - New York N1 -

Also separately paged (twice but with textual differences) in Life Among the Nymphs: A New Excursion through the Empire of Venus. New York: Calvin Blanchard, 1867.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Great Transformation. Human Nature Completely Unchained! Love in Earnest. Virtue and Vice Obsolete! Pleasure Without Measure. Everybody Perfectly Happy. The Crowning Triumph of Art" Y1 - 1866 A1 - Calvin Blanchard (1808-1868) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

While the book is presented as an autobiography, this section is a typical Blanchard eutopia. See also 1858, 1862, 1864 1865, and 1866 Blanchard, “Good, Rapturous Scenes. A New Way of Enjoyment!”

JF - Secret History of a Votary of Pleasure. His Own Confessions PB - Calvin Blanchard CY - New York N1 -

Also pub. bound in Life Among the Nymphs: A New Excursion through the Empire of Venus. New York: Calvin Blanchard, 1867 but without separate publishing information.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Journey to the Sun Y1 - 1866 A1 - "Heliomanes" [pseud.] AB -

Utopian satire. For example, it is the tradition to elect the man whose hat is biggest and legislative decisions are made by the throw of the dice, which they say is as accurate as voting. Universal suffrage, including children, but votes are allocated based on weight.

JF - A Journey to the Sun PB - James Cornish CY - London U3 -

"Heliomanes" [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Monk of the Mountains; or, A Description of the Joys of Paradise: Being the Life and Wonderful Experiences of an Aged Hermit, Who Was Taken by His Deceased Friend to the First Heaven, and There Shown the Beauties and Happiness of the Spirit Land; With the Destiny and Condition of the Nations of the Earth for One Hundred Years to Come Y1 - 1866 A1 - The Hermit Himself [pseud.] KW - US author AB -

Mostly a standard domestic heaven. Children grow to maturity while in heaven. Sabbath in heaven. Includes a projection of a future world society. The capital of the United States is in the Midwest. The Republic of Africa is a white republic in the middle of Africa; most manual labor by Blacks. England collapsed. U.S. and Canada technologically developed. The U.S. attacks England and demands Irish independence with England paying Ireland a large reparation. In 75 years Ireland is prosperous and England is poor due to a lack of intelligent Irish immigrants and the lack of income from colonies.

PB - Downey and Brouse CY - Indianapolis, IN U3 -

The Hermit Himself [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - St. Martin’s Summer Y1 - 1866 A1 - Anne M[aria] H[ampton] Brewster (1819-92) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Some utopian elements. See Etta M. Madden, “Anne Hampton Brewster’s St. Martin’s Summer and Utopian Literary Discourses.” Utopian Studies 28.2 (2017): 305-26. 

PB - Ticknor & Fields CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Yesterday, To-Day, and For Ever: A Poem, in Twelve Books Y1 - 1866 A1 - Edward H[enry] Bickersteth (1825-1906) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Christianity in a long poem. Cantos II "The Paradise of the Blessed Dead", X "The Millennial Sabbath", and XII "The Many Mansions" present Christian eutopias. The poem looks at the damned and the saved and the Second Coming of Christ.

PB - Rivington's CY - London N1 -

There were at least twenty-three editions. U.S. ed. New York: Robert Carter & Brothers, 1875.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Crisis Chapter on Government Y1 - 1865 A1 - Calvin Blanchard (1808-1868) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A pamphlet that includes a proposed constitution that has articles abolishing all constraints, appropriating sufficient money to raise all children born in the U.S., providing money for mothers during their lying in, and excluding all supernaturalism.

PB - [Calvin Blanchard] CY - [New York] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Dragon of the Enchanted Valley: A Plain Sandwich of Facts in Odd Fancies for the Young of America. In Two Parts, with an Appendix. Part I. The Dragon in the Valley. Part II. The Conflict Y1 - 1865 A1 - Rev. O.C Dickerson KW - Male author AB -

Temperance fiction that includes in the second part the establishment of communities of the Brothers of Sobriety that lead the fight against alcohol and are shown as examples of the eutopia temperance will bring.

PB - Franklin Printing Office CY - Jacksonville, IL ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Glimpse of Utopia" Y1 - 1865 AB -

The laws of the first five books of the Bible (the Pentateuch) as depicting a eutopia with "Good law, honestly administered, and honestly obeyed" (346) and a stress on duties rather than rights. For example, there is slavery for crimes against property where the thief cannot pay restitution and capital punishment for murder.

JF - The Eclectic and Congregational Review (UK) VL - ns 9 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Archimago Y1 - 1864 A1 - [Francis] [Carr] (1834-94) KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Satire. Britain destroyed. The narrator is a member of a New Zealand tribe the Smeythies from around Taranaki. The novel begins with the narrator sitting on London Bridge surveying the ruins of London, the same image as the famous "Macauley's New Zealander" of 1840; see David Skilton, “Contemplating the Ruins of London: Macaulay’s New Zealander and Others.” Literary London: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Representation of London 2.1 (March 2004). http://www.literarylondon.org/london-journa/march2004/skilton.html. The Thames has recovered from its past pollution, but the city is rubble, as is Europe "from the Caspian Sea to the Galway Coast," mentioning that both St. Paul's in London and St. Peter's in Rome are ruins. But the novel goes on to satirize life in London as if little had happened, and much of the book is based upon communication with the spirit world.

PB - Ward & Lock CY - London/Newcastle-on-Tyne N1 -

The English Catalogue gives the subtitle as “: or, The New Zealander on the Ruins of London" and the publisher as London: Saunders & Otley, 1864.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Art of Real Pleasure: That New Pleasure, for which An Imperial Reward Was Offered Y1 - 1864 A1 - [Calvin] [Blanchard] (1808-1868) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. Pleasure oriented society with a government whose "sole business" is to "satisfy all human desires." Currency represents useful production. No freedom to pollute or live in poverty. Blanchard was an advocate of free love and free thought and published many pamphlets advocating free love and science and opposing religion. See also 1858, 1862, 1865 and 1866 (2) Blanchard. Blanchard had a book store on Nassau Street in New York City which was noted for selling both radical and sexual publications. He was also a printer and publisher.

PB - Calvin Blanchard CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971, with an "Introduction" (i-x) by Arthur O. Lewis. Also, separately paged, bound in Life Among the Nymphs: A New Excursion through the Empire of Venus. New York: Calvin Blanchard, 1867.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The History of a Voyage to the Moon; with an Account of the Adventurers' Sub-Sequent Discoveries. An Exhumed Narrative Supposed to Have Been Ejected from a Lunar Volcano Y1 - 1864 A1 - [H.] [Cowen] ED - Chrysostom Trueman [pseud.] AB -

Eutopia with a simple language, private property, and no corruption. Emphasis on moderation.

PB - Lockwood CY - London U3 -

Howard, Stephen [pseud.] and Carl Geister [pseud.]. Ed. Chrysostom Trueman [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Night at the Club: or, Christchurch in 1963" Y1 - 1864 A1 - [Sarah] [Raven] ED - [Rev.] [George] [Cotterill] KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

Satire on evolution, technology (mechanical waiters and the like), marriage, sport, and government (there is only one man in Christchurch who is not a government officer).

JF - Literary Foundlings: Verse and Prose, Collected in Canterbury, N.Z. PB - Printed at the "Times" Office CY - Christchurch, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Positive Community: Glimpses of the Regenerated Future of the Human Race. A Sermon, Preached at Modern Times, Long Island, on Saturday, 24th Gutenberg, 75, (5th September 1, 1863) Being the Sixth Anniversary of the Death (Transformation) of Auguste Comte, Founder of the Religion of Humanity Y1 - 1864 A1 - Henry Edger KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A Positivist sermon beginning with some utopian elements addressed to his "Beloved Disciples". The future society will be organized with governments regulating industry and labor and capital together.

JF - Modern Times Tracts, No. 3 PB - Ptd. For the Positive Typographical Fund, Year of the Great Modern Crisis CY - Modern Times, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sense & Sensation; or, The Seven Sisters of Thule. A New and Original Morality, in a Prologue and Seven Scenes Y1 - 1864 A1 - Tom Taylor KW - Male author AB -

Satire using an imaginary country to attack the usual human foibles.

PB - Thomas Hailes Lacey CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Republic of North America Y1 - 1863 A1 - Modtibolt [pseud.] AB -

Detailed eutopia in essay form emphasizing the administrative structure of government from national to local with details on the telegraph, newspapers (personal, family, district, county, state, and national), railways, libraries, etc. etc.

PB - John Slater's Book and Job Printing Establishment CY - Detroit, MI U3 -

Modtibolt [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - An Eye-Opener! A Real Liberty Song. Air, Down with Humbug Y1 - 1862 A1 - Calvin Blanchard (1808-1868) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A version of Blanchard's eutopia. Non-fiction outlining the future glories of wealth, and freedom, particularly sexual freedom, with machines doing most of the work. See also 1858, 1864, 1865, and 1868 (2) Blanchard.

PB - Calvin Blanchard CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Times No. 55,567, Thursday, May 1, 1962 Y1 - 1862 AB -

Satire. Monarchy in the U.S. House of Peeresses and a House of Ladies in London.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for Land-Babies" Y1 - 1862 A1 - Rev. Professor Charles Kingsley (1819-75) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Famous children's book that includes the presentation of a cockaigne-like utopia (the Doasyoulike) which is punished for living without care. The Water Babies slowly devolve back into apes. In addition, St. Brendan's Island is described, and Laputa from Gulliver's Travels and other utopias are briefly mentioned. A strong anti-Irish prejudice is present in the two main utopias.

JF - Macmillan's Magazine VL - 6.34 - 7.41 N1 -

Rev. illus. Joseph Noel Paton (1821-1901). London: Macmillan, 1863. Rpt. illus. Linley Sambourne. London: Macmillan, 1886; and illus. W[illiam] Heath Robinson (1872-1944). London: Constable, 1915. U.S. ed. illus. Jessie Willcox Smith (1863-1935). New York: Dodd and Mead, 1916. Critical eds. include The Water-Babies. Ed. Brian Alderson. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1995 with an “Introduction” by the editor (ix-xxxvi), “Textual Variants” (185-95), “The Iconography of The Water-Babies (197-200), and “Explanatory Notes) (201-30) [This ed. reprints the 1863 ed.]; The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby. Ed. Richard D. Beards. New York: Penguin Books, 2008 with an “Introduction” by the editor (ix-xxiii) and “Explanatory notes (191-98) [This ed. reprints the 1863 ed. with illus. from various editions]; The Water-Babies. Ed. Richard Kelly. Peterborough, ON, Canada: Broadview Editions, 2008 with an “Introduction” by the editor (9-38) [This ed. reprints the 1863 ed. with the illus. from the 1886 ed. and the 1863 illus. It also includes some other nineteenth century children’s literature, reviews of The Water-Babies, and some of Kingsley’s essays.]; The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby. Ed. Brian Alderson with an Introduction by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst (vii-xlix), “Textual Variants” (182-89), Kingsley, “The Wonders of the Shore” (190-201), and “Explanatory Notes” comp. by Alderson and rev. by Douglas-Fairhurst (203-35), [This ed. reprints the 1863 edition with its illustrations]. The book was advertized as the 150th anniversary ed., but this does not appear in the book.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The New Koran of the Pacifican Friendhood: Text-book of Turkish Reformers, In the Teaching and Example of Their Esteemed Master Jaido Morata Y1 - 1861 A1 - [John] [Vickers] (b. 1836) KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Detailed conservative religious eutopia in the form of a holy book that includes "The Book of Labours," "The Book of Questions," "The Book of Counsels," and "The Book of Duties". Stress on the unity of all peoples. See also his The Book of Bander: A Scripture-Form Story of Past and Present Times, by The Author of “The New Koran” [pseud.]. London: Williams & Norgate, 1891.

PB - George Manwaring CY - London N1 -

Later ed. entitled The New Koran; or, Federan Monitor In the Teaching and Example of Our Esteemed Master, Jaido Morata [pseud.]. London: E.T. Whitefield, 1874.

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Later ed. entitled The New Koran; or, Federan Monitor In the Teaching and Example of Our Esteemed Master, Jaido Morata [pseud.]. London: E.T. Whitefield, 1874.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Theres Nae Place Like Otago Yet" Y1 - 1861 A1 - John Barr of Craigielee (1809-89) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

New Zealand as eutopia.

JF - Poems and Songs PB - W.P. Nimmo CY - Edinburgh, Scot. N1 -

Rpt. in An Anthology of New Zealand Verse. Ed. Robert Chapman and Jonathan Bennett (London: Oxford University Press, 1956), 1-2.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Constitution or Organic Basis of the Pantarchy Y1 - 1860 A1 - [Stephen Pearl] [Andrews] (1812-86) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Detailed constitution of the new spiritual government of the world. Andrews was involved in a variety of radical movements, including cooperative housekeeping, the Modern Times community, and marriage reform. See also his The True Constitution of Government in the Sovereignty of the Individual as the Final Development of Protestantism, Democracy and Socialism (1851). Rpt. as vol. 1 of his Science of Society. Boston, MA: Sarah E. Holmes, 1888; rpt. Weston, MA: M & S Press, 1970.

PB - Baker and Godwin CY - New York U3 -

By Andrusius, Pantarch [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Excelsior; or, The Heir Apparent. Showing the Adventures of a Promising and Wealthy Young Man, and His Devoted Friends; and Presenting Entwined with the varying story, the Key to a Diamond United States, or a Vitally Consolidated Republic, A Perfect Union, Otherwise Kingdom of Heaven. Likewise Giving, in Picturesque Dramatic Dialogue, the Notorious Actions and Secret Lives of Two Celebrated Dictators of Party and Leaders in Political Conventions. The Whole Embodied in A Thrilling and Exquisite Poetical Romance Y1 - 1860 A1 - Alex[ander] Lookup [pseud?] KW - US author AB -

Mostly on current evils but includes a eutopia based on universal suffrage and everyone becoming their own landlord by buying property through rent in installments. Marriage at sixteen. Loaded with generalities and terribly written. See also 1860 Lookup, The Road Made Plain and 1860 Lookup, Soldier of the People. Two other works that are related but not specifically utopian appear to complete Lookup’s publications--Italy free, or Our hero abroad, representing the enlightened battle of the age, beginning at Rome and ending in a triumphal entry into Paris. New-York: Kennedy, 1859; and The granddaughter of the Caesars, or, The hag of the earth and the syren of the waters: containing, besides, a pathetic story of greed's victims and difficulty's brokers. New York: Kennedy, 1860. Excelsior, Soldier of the People, and The granddaughter of the Caesar’s are included, separately paged, in his Popular Romances for the Times. I. Excelsior; or, An interesting young man and his friends. II. The soldier of the people; or, The enlightened captain and liberator. III. The granddaughter of the Caesars; or, Hag of the earth and syren of the waters. New York: Kennedy, 1860.

PB - Kennedy CY - New-York U3 -

Lookup, Alexander [pseud?]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Happy Islands; or, Paradise Restored Y1 - 1860 A1 - Rev. W[arren] F[elt] Evans (1817-89) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Christian allegory.

PB - H.V. Degan & Son CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Road Made Plain to Fortune for the Million: or, The Popular Pioneer to Universal Prosperity Y1 - 1860 A1 - Alex[ander] Lookup [pseud?] ED - Thos. Ward M.D. KW - US author AB -

"Politics is divulged in the light of God as the craft of the Devil, and the opposite of a useful science." Change is brought about by refusing to pay rents. Loaded with generalities and terribly written. See also 1860 Lookup, Excelsior and 1860 Lookup, Soldier of the People. Two other works that are related but not specifically utopian appear to complete Lookup’s publications--Italy free, or Our hero abroad, representing the enlightened battle of the age, beginning at Rome and ending in a triumphal entry into Paris. New-York: Kennedy, 1859; and The granddaughter of the Caesars, or, The hag of the earth and the syren of the waters: containing, besides, a pathetic story of greed's victims and difficulty's brokers. New York: Kennedy, 1860. Excelsior, Soldier of the People, and The granddaughter of the Caesar’s are included, separately paged, in his Popular Romances for the Times. I. Excelsior; or, An interesting young man and his friends. II. The soldier of the people; or, The enlightened captain and liberator. III. The granddaughter of the Caesars; or, Hag of the earth and syren of the waters. New York: Kennedy, 1860.

PB - Kennedy CY - New York U3 -

Alexander Lookup  [pseud?]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Soldier of the People; or, The World's Deliverer. A Romance Y1 - 1860 A1 - Alex[ander] Lookup [pseud?] KW - US author AB -

Presented in millennial terms but contains the same elements of a eutopia as the other Lookup books. All the land belongs to God and cannot be taxed. Loaded with generalities and terribly written. See also 1860 Lookup, Excelsior and 1860 Lookup, The Road Made Plain. Two other works that are related but not specifically utopian appear to complete Lookup’s publications--Italy free, or Our hero abroad, representing the enlightened battle of the age, beginning at Rome and ending in a triumphal entry into Paris. New-York: Kennedy, 1859; and The granddaughter of the Caesars, or, The hag of the earth and the syren of the waters: containing, besides, a pathetic story of greed's victims and difficulty's brokers. New York: Kennedy, 1860. Excelsior, Soldier of the People, and The granddaughter of the Caesar’s are included, separately paged, in his Popular Romances for the Times. I. Excelsior; or, An interesting young man and his friends. II. The soldier of the people; or, The enlightened captain and liberator. III. The granddaughter of the Caesars; or, Hag of the earth and syren of the waters. New York: Kennedy, 1860.

PB - Kennedy CY - New-York U3 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - An Act for the Reform and Regulation of Female Apparel, and to Amend and Refrenate the Customs relating to Crinoline and other Artificial Superfluities and the Profusion thereof, with the Powers, Provisions, Clauses, Regulations and Directions, Fines, Forfeitures and Penalties, to be observed, applied, practised and put into execution for securing the proper observance of the same. [Session 1859] Y1 - 1859 A1 - Jeremiah Rounce A1 - Alfred Bar KW - Male author AB -

Satire. Detailed provisions for controlling women's dress. The Australian edition specifies that it is for New South Wales. Women will no longer be allowed to choose their own clothes; husbands or parents must provide a certificate approving specific purchases. Husbands and parents can purchase clothes for their wives and children without a certificate as long as they conform to the act. No bustles or similar artificial constructions or undergarments allowed. Specific pattern and color restrictions for women over forty. Women under sixteen and over forty cannot wear heels over three inches, with other detailed restrictions regarding shoes and boots. Further restrictions apply to bonnets.

PB - William Coney CY - London U1 -

At the head of the title Anno Vicesimo Secundo & Vicesimo Tertio. Victoriæ Reginæ. Cap. CCXXXVIII.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Air Battle: A Vision of the Future Y1 - 1859 A1 - Herrmann Lang KW - Male author AB -

Mostly adventure and war in a far future where countries in Africa and South America dominate and whites are slaves. After a war finally brings the three dominant countries together, white slavery is ended in the name of Christianity and the world is unified. Advanced technology. Some anti-Semitic elements.

PB - William Penny CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Cornmarket Reprints, 1972 with an "Introduction" by Charles H. Gibbs-Smith (unpaged).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Blake: or the Huts of America Y1 - 1859 A1 - Martin R[obison] Delany (1812-85) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

Much of the book is on the situation in Africa, Cuba, and North America, there are insurrections, failed and successful, by slaves and the published part of the novel ends with the results of the successful insurrection and the outlines of a nation of blacks, which the author had argued for in his other works. Given the trajectory at the end of the novel, the lost chapters may have made the utopia more explicit. 

PB - Beacon Press CY - Boston, MA N1 -

Originally published in part as “Blake: Or the Huts of America. A Tale of the Mississippi Valley, the Southern United States, and Cuba.” The Anglo-African Magazine 1.1 - 7 (January - July 1859): 20-29 [Chapters 28-30], 37-43 [Chapters 1-5], 69-79 [Chapters 6-9], 104-114 [Chapters 10-12], 129-39 [Chapters 13-16], 160-72 [Chapters 17-20], 192-203 [Chapters 21-23] and then with all but the last chapters, which are lost, in The Weekly Anglo-American (November 1861 - May 1862). For a critical edition, see Blake or, The Huts of America. A Corrected Edition. Ed. Jerome McGann: Harvard University Press, 2017, with the editor’s “Introduction” (ix-xxxii) and an “Editor’s Note” (xxxiii-xxxviii). Rpt. in Black Sci-Fi Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Stories (London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2021), 48-143.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Dream of The Day that must come Y1 - 1859 A1 - [Mrs.] [Anne Judith] [Penny] (1825?-93) KW - Female author AB -

The Last Judgement of a near future irreligious and decadent dystopia.

PB - Wertheim, Macintosh, and Hunt CY - London U3 -

Edited by the Author of "Morning Clouds" [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Far Future” Y1 - 1859 A1 - [Thomas Henry] [Kendall] (1841-82) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Australia as a future eutopia. Ends with the note “I hope the above will not be considered disloyal. It is but reasonable to imagine that Australia will in the far future become an independent nation — that imagination springing as it does from a native-born Australian's brain.” 

JF - The Australian Home Companion and Band of Hope N1 -

Rpt. in The Poems of Henry Kendall (Sydney, NSW, Australis: Angus & Robertson, 1920), 243-44. Rpt. in Selected Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical and Critical Introduction by T. Inglis Moore (Sydney, NSW, Australia: Angus and Robertson, 1957), 190. A critical ed. is The Poetical Works of Henry Kendall. Ed. T. T. Reed (Adelaide, SA, Australia: Libraries Board of South Australia, 1966), 155-56.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean Y1 - 1858 A1 - R[obert] M[ichael] Ballantyne (1825-94) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Children’s Robinsonade that closely follows the structure of Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe (1718) but with three boys who are shipwrecked on an idyllic island.

PB - T. Nelson & Sons CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: James Nisbet, 1863; and London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1883. Critical ed. Ed. J. S. Bratton. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1990 with an “Introduction” by the editor (vii-xxvii).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Day After To-Morrow; or, Fata Morgana: Containing the Opinions of Mr. Serjeant Mallet, M.P. for Boldborough, on the Future State of the British Nation and of the Human Race Y1 - 1858 A1 - William De Tyne, ed. [written by] [pseud?] KW - Male author AB -

Similar to 1877 Mallock with a semi-fictional discussion during a country house vacation of the near future better world possible through modest reforms.

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De Tyne, William, ed. [written by] [pseud?]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Future Life; or, Scenes in Another World Y1 - 1858 A1 - George Wood (1799-1870) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Heaven but presented as a eutopia of art and beauty. "Michael Angelo" has built a new St. Peter's, and the people enjoy a new oratorio by Handel, ably assisted by Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. Discussion of a wide variety of subjects with various saints and illustrious people of the past. One of the characters is Peter Schlemihl from 1848 Wood.

PB - Derby and Jackson CY - New York N1 -

After Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's The Gates Ajar. Boston, MA: Fields, Osgood, 1868 proved popular, the book was rpt. as The Gates Wide Open or Scenes in Another World. Boston, MA: Lee and Shepard, 1869. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hell on Earth! Murder, Rape, Robbery, Swindling, and Forgery Covertly Organized! Cannibalism Made Dainty! An Expose of the Infernal Machinations and Horrible Atrocities of Whited Sepulcherism; Together With A Plan for Its Final Overthrow Y1 - 1858 A1 - [Calvin] [Blanchard] (1808-1868) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Current reality as dystopia presented through a meeting of and speeches from the followers of Satan, including many priests, congratulating themselves on their control of religion, education, and law. There is also a feast of human meat and blood. There is a statement that they are doomed because change is coming through science, and the booklet ends with a play entitled "Scientific Redemption" where science has replaced religion. See also 1862, 1864, 1865, 1866 (2) Blanchard.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Provisional Constitution and Ordinances for the People of the United States Y1 - 1858 A1 - [John] [Brown] (1800-59) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Proposed constitution for the United States which would eliminate slavery. It was adopted in a convention of a small group of abolitionists. See also 1988 Bisson.

PB - [William Howard Day, Printer] CY - [St. Catharines, ON, Canada] N1 -

Rpt. Weston, MA: M & S Press, 1969 with a "Preface" by Boyd B. Stutler (3-10) excerpted from the Lincoln Herald (Lincoln, TN) 50.4-51.1 (December 1948-February 1949): 17-25.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Imaginary History of the Next Thirty Years Y1 - 1857 AB -

A future tale that has some utopian elements such as public education and miscellaneous reforms, particularly to Parliament. U.S. slaves are freed but encouraged to emigrate.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Labour's Utopia" Y1 - 1857 A1 - [William Thomas] [Thornton] (1813-80) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Poem depicting a eutopia of abundance and leisure in which people work at things they enjoy doing.

JF - Modern Manicheism, Labour's Utopia, and Other Poems PB - John W. Parker and Son CY - London N1 -

Published shortened under the author's name in his On Labour; Its Wrongful Claims and Rightful Dues. Its Actual Present and Possible Future (London: Macmillan, 1869), 434-39. 2nd ed. with a few pages of text added (London: Macmillan, 1870), 460-68.

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"A Poet hidden / In the light of thought / Singing hymns unbidden, / Till the world is wrought / To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not" [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Means Without Living Y1 - 1857 KW - US author AB -

Satire on utopian proposals regarding the simple life.

PB - Weeks, Jordan & Co CY - Boston, MA U1 -

New Experiments at the head of the title.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Thorndale or The Conflict of Opinions Y1 - 1857 A1 - William [Henry] Smith (1808-72) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The eutopia is spread throughout the book. It is a fairly conservative one aiming at improved community and family life. As it appears it is critiqued by those, generally more conservative, who believe it impossible. The author’s Gravenhurst, or Thoughts on Good and Evil. Edinburgh, Scot.: William Blackwood and Sons, 1862. 2nd ed. with the additional subtitle Knowing and Feeling. A Contribution to Psychology with a Memoir of the Author by his wife (3-121) and “Contributions by William Smith to Blackwood’s Magazine” (122-25). Edinburgh, Scot.: William Blackwood and Son, 1875 supplements the positions taken. Gravenhurst (127-329) and Knowing and Feeling (331-442).

PB - William Blackwood and Sons CY - Edinburgh, Scot. N1 -

2nd ed. Edinburgh, Scot.: William Blackwood and Sons, 1858. U.S. ed. Boston, MA: Ticknor and Fields, 1859.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Age of Progress; or, A Panorama of Time. In Four Visions Y1 - 1856 A1 - David A[lbert] Moore (b.1814) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The four visions include a general view of the new world; a vision of Mexico, which is the new home of emancipated slaves from the US; Hell in which the Demons explain to Satan how the eutopia has come to pass; and Heaven. The new society was brought about through education and Christianity. There is a limit on income. Includes a detailed world constitution.

PB - Sheldon, Blakeman and Company CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Charades on Unpopular Subjects. No. 5" Y1 - 1856 A1 - [Sarah] [Raven] KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

Poem with some New Zealand as eutopia.

JF - The Lyttelton Times N1 -

Rpt. with “Railway” in the Table of Contents in The Book of Canterbury Rhymes [Ed. William Pember Reeves and J. Ward] (Christchurch, New Zealand: Ward and Reeves, Printer, 1866), 39-41. 2nd ed. as Canterbury Rhymes: With Notes and an Appendix. Ed. W[illiam] P[ember] Reeves (Christchurch, New Zealand: Ptd by the ‘Lyttelton Times’ Co. Ltd., 1883), 26-28.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Esperanza. My Journey Thither and What I Found There" Y1 - 1856 A1 - [Thomas Low] [Nichols] (1815-1901) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia detailing a communal system based on spiritualism, privacy, vegetarianism, and free love with little sex. Details of the way the community was both influenced by and departed from Charles Fourier (1772-1837). Nichols founded a community in the U.S. Due to his opposition to the Civil War, he moved to London in 1861. See also “Promise of the Future.” In his Woman in All Ages and Nations; a complete and authentic history of the manners and customs, character and condition of the female sex, in civilized and savage countries, from the earliest ages to the present time. New-York: H. Long and Brother, 1849), 204-38.

JF - Nichol’s Monthly: A Magazine of Social Science and Progressive Literature (Cincinnati, OH) VL - ns 2 – 3 N1 -

Rpt. Cincinnati, OH: Valentine Nicholson, 1860.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The New Age of Gold or the Life and Adventures of Robert Dexter Romaine. Written By Himself Y1 - 1856 A1 - [George] [Payson] KW - Male author AB -

A couple are shipwrecked on an isolated island. They lead an idyllic life, but they are concerned about the education of their children and decide they need to leave. The discovery of gold also brings dissatisfaction. They return to the U.S. where the woman and their children die and the man sets off to re-discover the island.

PB - Phillips, Sampson and Co CY - Boston, MA U1 -

The title on the spine is Life and Adventures of Robert Romaine

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Ode to New Zealand. A Growl in a Sou'-Wester" Y1 - 1856 A1 - [Rev.] J[ohn] R[aven] (1821-86) A1 - Dr. J[ohn] T[homas] R[ouse] (1832-84) ED - [William Pember] [Reeves] ED - [J.] [Ward] KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Poem that refers to New Zealand as the "Eden of the Southern Sea" with many examples of its eutopian nature and then shifts to a description of the winds, the poor placement of the cities, and so forth.

JF - The Book of Canterbury Rhymes PB - Ward and Reeves, Printer CY - Christchurch, New Zealand N1 -

2nd ed. as Canterbury Rhymes: With Notes and an Appendix. Ed. W[illiam] P[ember] Reeves (Christchurch, New Zealand: Ptd by the 'Lyttelton Times' Co. Ltd., 1883), 66-68. In the 2nd ed. Reeves identifies the author as Rouse, but two separate copies of the first edition identify the author as Raven. Originally published in a Christchurch newspaper (probably the Lyttelton Times) in November 1856.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Prue and I Y1 - 1856 A1 - George William Curtis (1824-92) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Seven stories from the point of view of a generally contented but poor man, most of which reflect on utopian themes, wishes and dreams of adventure, riches, and so forth, but they always return to his simple happiness with his wife Prue and their children.

PB - Dix, Edwards CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. as Prue & I. Illus. Albert Edward Sterner. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1892; Illus. H[arry] C. Edwards. New York : T.Y. Crowell & Co., 1899 with an Introduction by M.A. DeWole Howe (xi-xxi); and London: J.M. Dent/New York: E.P. Dutton, 1910.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Races of Mankind; With Travels in Grubland Y1 - 1856 A1 - [Allen W.] [Gazlay] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on the United States, called Grubland, that ends with the outline of an alternative eutopian organization stressing the need to educate for freedom noting that the old need education almost as much as the young.

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Cephas Broadluck [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Caen-Stone Dreams; or, The Harmony Between Individual and National Interests Y1 - 1855 A1 - David P[utnam] Holton KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The author dreams of a eutopia which describes a future U.S., focusing on New York and the Midwest, in which complex buildings have been erected to meet the needs of working people. Throughout the author stresses temperance and has much on advanced railway technology.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - ["Description of a Community Plan"] Y1 - 1855 A1 - Thomas Atkins KW - Male author AB -

Educational eutopia based on the ideas of Robert Owen.

JF - Robert Owen's Address, Delivered At the Meeting in St. Martin's Hall, Lonc [sic.] Acre, London, On the 1st. of January, 1855 PB - Effingham Wilson, J. Clayton and Son, Holyoake CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - Heliondé; or, Adventures in the Sun Y1 - 1855 A1 - [Sydney] [Whiting] (d. 1875) KW - Male author AB -

Religious eutopia. Money replaced by good sayings, the worth of which are judged by the shopkeeper. Language is "composed of groups of musical notes; and rhythm imparts all the variety of meaning" (36)

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Inauguration of the Millennium May 14th 1855. Being the report of two public meetings with an introduction Y1 - 1855 A1 - Robert Owen (1771-1858) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author KW - Welsh author AB -

Speeches by Owen describing the Millennium State. See also 1813, 1830, 1839, 1841, 1843, 1844, 1846, and 1855 Owen, Part VII

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Love Among the Ruins" Y1 - 1855 A1 - Robert Browning (1812-89) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Poem set in the ruins of a city in which the rural life and love are the eutopia.

JF - Men and Women PB - Chapman and Hall CY - London VL - 2 vols. N1 -

Rpt. In Men and Women. Ed. Paul Turner (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1972), 5-8, 312; Men and Women and Other Poems. Ed. J.W. Harper (London: J.M. Dent/Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Littlefield, 1975), 1-3, 231; in The Complete Works of Robert Browning With Variant Readings & Annotations. Ed. Roman A. King, Jr. 5 vols. (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press and Baylor University, Waco, TX, 1981), 5: 163-66, 360; The Poetical Works of Robert Browning. Volume 5 Men and Women. Ed. Ian Jack and Robert Inglesfield (Oxford, Eng.: Clarendon Press, 1995), 3-8; and Robert Browning. Ed. Adam Roberts (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997), 157-59.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lucy Boston; or, Woman's Rights and Spiritualism: Illustrating the Follies and Delusions of the Nineteenth Century Y1 - 1855 A1 - Fred Folio AB -

Satire on women's rights and spiritualism.

PB - Alden and Beardsley/J.C. Derby CY - Auburn, NY/New York U1 -

A Book for the Times at the head of the title.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Man of 1855 and the Man of 1955. A Dialogue Written for and Spoken at an Exhibition at Gould’s Academy, Bethel” Y1 - 1855 A1 - Melville C. Day KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A brief satiric sleeper wakes tale in which when women got the vote and political power, they forced bachelors to marry within thirty days. Women wear pants and smoke cigars. African Americans relocated to England with the English relocated to the Sahara which has been made fertile by constantly spraying it with water from the Mediterranean. Steam powered airplanes. Tunnel between Portland and London. Even skeletons can be revived and Noah lectures on his experiences.

JF - The Portland Transcript and Eclectic (Portland, ME) VL - 19.37 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Olympus Y1 - 1855 A1 - [Charles F.] [Howard] KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia of reason and intellect among immortal spirits that primarily serves as an excuse for the discussion of a number of different topics.

PB - Simpkin, Marshall, and Co CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Part VII. of The New Existence of Man Upon the Earth. Including an Outline of the Principles and Government of the Millennial World. With an Appendix containing Correspondence and Spiritual Communication Y1 - 1855 A1 - Robert Owen (1771-1858) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author KW - Welsh author AB -

Owenite eutopia. See also 1813, 1830, 1839, 1841, 1843, 1844, 1846, and 1855 Owen, The Inauguration of the Millenium

PB - Effingham Wilson, J. Clayton and Son, and Holyoake CY - London N1 -

Part had been published as The Universal Permanent Government, Constitution and Code of Laws, Based on the Unchanging Laws of Nature, for the World, in Which there is but One Real Interest for all its Population, Wherever Situated and also for Each State or Nation Separately, Until They Shall Have Acquired the Knowledge and Wisdom to Unite in Federative Union. [Great Britain]: np, 1848.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Perpetual Peace to the Machine by the Universal Millennium, or The Sovereign Bankocracy, and the Grand Social Ledger of Mankind Y1 - 1855 A1 - Baron Joseph Corvaja (1785-1860) KW - Italian author KW - Male author AB -

A series of letters to Robert Owen (1771-1858) that presents a eutopia in which reform of the savings banks will make more money available to the community.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Scenes in the Spirit World; or, Life in the Spheres Y1 - 1855 A1 - Hudson Tuttle (1836-1910) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Heaven as eutopia. Spiritualism. Descriptions of both those who find happiness there and those still too attached to earth. Also describes Hell as dystopia.

PB - Partridge and Brittan CY - New York N1 -

Exp. ed. as Life in Two Spheres. Philadelphia, PA: Carter Pub. Co., 1892. [Rev. ed. on cover] as Life in Two Spheres, or Scenes in the Summerland. Sunderland, Eng.: Thomas Olman Todd, 1895. No obvious differences between the two revised texts.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Voyage to the Fortunate Isles: An Allegory of Life Y1 - 1855 KW - Female author AB -

A series of allegories using the model of the fortunate isles with each followed by questions and answers to bring home their meaning. Designed for children. 

PB - Joseph Masters CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Avon" Y1 - 1854 A1 - Henry Jacobs KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Poem depicting New Zealand as a eutopia.

JF - The Lyttelton Times N1 -

Rpt. in An Anthology of New Zealand Verse. Ed. Robert Chapman and Jonathan Bennett (London: Oxford University Press, 1956), 1.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Emigrants. An Allegory: or, Christians vs. The World Y1 - 1854 A1 - Rev. Wesley Cochran, A.M. (1814-1888) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Christian allegory of people immigrating from the country of Sin.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Encantadas” Y1 - 1854 A1 - [Herman] [Melville] (1819-1891) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

See Jonathan Beecher, Variations on a Dystopian Theme: Melville’s ‘Encantadas’.” Utopian Studies 11.2 (2000): 88-95, who says “The Encantadas” “presents an image of nature as a wasteland utterly inhospitable to human purposes, of human beings as either predators of victims, and of existence as so painful that endurance is the sole virtue” (90).

JF - Putnam’s Monthly Magazine VL - 3.15 - 17 N1 -

Rpt. in The Piazza Tales (New York: Dix & Edwards/London: Sampson Low, Son & Co., 1856), 287-400; separately in a limited edition of 550 copies. Burlingame, CA: William P. Wreden, 1940; and in The Writings of Herman Melville. The Northwestern-Newberry Library Edition. Volume 9. The Piazza Tales Other Prose Pieces 1839-1860. Ed. Harrison Hayford (Evanston, IL/Chicago, IL: Northwestern University Press and the Newberry Library, 1987), 125-173, with “Notes on ‘The Encantadas’” (600-617.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Epic of the Starry Heaven Y1 - 1854 A1 - Thomas L[ake] Harris (1823-1906) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Spiritualism. Various vaguely described eutopias in the solar system, including an Eden, a material paradise, and "The City of God's Love".  A poem supposed to have been spoken by Harris over fourteen days while in a trance. See also 1867 Harris; his The New Republic: A Discourse of the Prospects, Dangers, Duties and Safeties of the Times. Santa Rosa, CA: Fountain Grove Press, 1891; and his Brotherhood of the New Life. Its Fact, Law, Method and Purpose. Letters from Thomas Lake Harris, with passing reference to recent criticisms. 1.2 of the Fountaingrove Library. Santa Rosa, CA: Fountaingrove Press, T.L. Harris, Publisher, 1891.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Happy Colony. Dedicated to the Workmen of Great Britain Y1 - 1854 A1 - Robert Pemberton (1788-1879) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A eutopia designed to be established in New Zealand and based on a reformed educational system. It was never established. There are two fold out designs showing the layout of the proposed colony and of the colleges.

PB - Saunders and Otley CY - London N1 -

Rpt. New York: Garland, 1985 bound with Benjamin Ward Richardson's Hygeia: A City of Health (1876).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Book of Judgment, Showing the plan and Policy of two important Institutions to be established in this country. And the right principle and the true policy for Institutions in general Y1 - 1853 A1 - Ethan S. Wilson KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Very detailed, highly structured eutopia. A city will be built between Saratoga Springs and Glen Falls, NY, and the book includes a chart of the city with a list of the buildings and their locations. Salaried lawyers and doctors. Doctors control access to alcohol and tobacco. Sabbath to be kept. Details of a civilian militia. Mutual fire insurance available from the author must be purchased. Schools must be built in every community. All religious denominations must agree. Cremation for both spiritual and environmental reasons. The author believes he is God.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Charles Hopewell; or, Society As It Is, and As It Should Be Y1 - 1853 A1 - John Patterson KW - Male author AB -

Cooperative and women's rights eutopia. Includes reformed (Bloomer) dress. The main female character started a school where she taught a course in physiology for women. The school was attacked by the locals, and she was forced to close it. Most of the book is concerned with an exposition of ideas and opposition to them, both from conservatives and other radicals.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Coming Struggle Among the Nations of the Earth: or, The Political Events of the Next Fifteen Years Described in Accordance with Prophecies in Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Apocalypse. Showing Also The Important Position Britain Will Occupy During, and At the End of, the Awful Conflict Y1 - 1853 A1 - [David] [Pae] KW - Male author AB -

Standard dystopian future with the Biblical prophecies tied directly to contemporary European politics. The pamphlet caused considerable controversy, and there are a number of refutations and responses to them by Pae. There are two Canadian editions (Toronto, ON, Canada: T. MacLear, 1853 and 1854) by John Thomas (1805-71), the founder of the Christadelphians, in which he claims that Pae plagiarized his Elpis Israel: A Book for the Times: Being an Exposition of the Kingdom of God; With Reference to the Time of the End, and the Age to Come. London: Author, 1849 with numerous later editions published by the Christadelphians into the 21st century.

PB - Houlston & Stoneman/Thomas Grant/W.R. M’Phun/George Herbert/W.M’Comb CY - London/Edinburgh, Scot./Glasgow, Scot./Dublin, Ireland/Belfast, Northern Ireland U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Few Things Worth Knowing About the Heretofore Unexplored Country of Theopolis Y1 - 1853 AB -

Detailed eutopia stressing church reform. Utopia Christiana is the name of one country.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Great Southern Revolution: A Chapter in the History of the United States of South Africa. 1894-1934 Y1 - 1853 A1 - Jaapie Ahmet de Villers Smith KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

Dystopia. Law passed disenfranchising all "coloureds"; law passed excluding English from schools; law passed requiring "coloureds" to have surgery to enhance their intelligence; law passed excluding all "coloureds" from school after age ten to force them onto the labour market. Coloureds became more attractive. Law passed that all students matriculated in university get the vote and coloureds enrolled. By 1930 a majority of voters are coloured. Discriminatory laws repealed except that brain enhancement was prohibited to whites because they had used their intellectual superiority poorly in the past.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Liberia; or Mr. Peyton's Experiments Y1 - 1853 A1 - Mrs. Sarah J[osepha Buell] Hale, ed. [written by] (1788-1879) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The novel concerns the activities of a Virginian who wants to improve the lives of slaves. His first two schemes fail, but he discovers the American Colonization Society, which was founded in 1816 to send emancipated slaves to Africa and decides to work with it. The novel continues with the settlement of Liberia, the initial problems there, and its emergence as a eutopia. The book concludes with letters sent from Liberia and documents regarding Liberia and related activities, including excerpts from a Declaration of Independence and Constitution. .

PB - Harper & Brothers CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Gregg Press, 1968.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Blithedale Romance Y1 - 1852 A1 - Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-64) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The classic novel based on the U.S. intentional community Brook Farm.

PB - Ticknor, Reed and Fields CY - Boston, MA N1 -

Critical ed. in The Centenary Edition of the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Ed. Fredson Bowers (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1964), 3: 1-298. This ed. rpt. as The Blithedale Romance: An Authoritative Text Backgrounds and Sources Criticism. Ed. Seymour Gross and Rosalie Murphy (New York: W.W. Norton, 1978), 1-228 with essays related to the novel; without the textual apparatus, ed. William E. Cain (Boston, MA: Bedford Books of St. Martin’s Press, 1996), 37-218 with material providing a context for the novel; Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin Books, 1983; and Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010 with an “Introduction” by Robert S. Levine (ix-xxix).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Freedom and Independence for the Golden Lands of Australia; The Right of the Colonies, and The Interest of Britain and of the World Y1 - 1852 A1 - John Dunmore Lang, D.D., A.M. (1799-1878) KW - Australian author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Non-fiction argument for Australian independence, but in the process the author discusses an at least partially eutopian future for the South Pacific. Specifically, he discusses opportunities for advancement for young men who would not be able to advance in Britain or in a colony and the room provided for more British poor to become self-sufficient. Freedom and independence will also lead to a more educated, moral, and Christian citizenry. In addition, he argues that Australia will provide raw materials for British industry and an increased outlet for its goods, and that both will be enhanced by freedom and independence. According to him, New Zealand would be bound to join the federation. See also his The Coming Event, or, The United Provinces of Australia: Two Lectures Delivered in the City Theatre and School of Arts, Sydney. Sydney, NSW, Australia: Ptd. and sold by D.L. Welch, [1850] (A, L).

PB - Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans CY - London N1 -

2nd ed., greatly enlarged and improved. Sydney, NSW, Australia: Ptd. by F. Cunningham, 1857. Later ed. as The Coming Event! or Freedom and Independence for the Seven United Provinces of Australia. Sydney, NSW, Australia: John L. Sherriff, 1870. U.K. ed. London: Sampson, Low, Son, and Marston, 1870.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Geral-Milco; or The Narrative of a Residence in a Brazilian Valley of the Sierra-Paricis With Map and Illustrations Y1 - 1852 A1 - A. R. Middletoun Payne KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A detailed eutopia in the mountains of Brazil that was established by Aztecs and Incas fleeing the Spanish conquest and generally based on what was known of these civilizations at the time; somewhat romanticized.

PB - Charles B. Norton CY - New York N1 -

Later ed. without the author's name entitled Rambles in Brazil, or, A Peep at the Aztecs. By One Who Has Seen Them [pseud.]. 2nd ed. New York: C.B. Norton, 1854.

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Rambles in Brazil, or, A Peep at the Aztecs. By One Who Has Seen Them [pseud.]. 2nd ed. New York: C.B. Norton, 1854.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - How I Came to be Governor of the Island of Cacona: With a Particular Account of My Administration of the Affairs of that Island. Respectfully Dedicated To My Fellow Labourers in the Colonial Vineyard Y1 - 1852 A1 - [William Henry] [Fleet] KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on colonial politics using an imaginary country but specifically referring to Canada in the 1830s.

PB - H. Ramsey CY - Montréal, QC, Canada N1 -

Originally published in four parts (Part 1, pp. 1-48; Part 2, pp. 49-112; Part 3, pp. 113-60; Part 4, pp. 161-220). Rpt. as one vol. by the same publisher, 1853; and San Francisco, CA: Arion, 1989.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Island Home: or the Young Cast-aways Y1 - 1852 A1 - [James F.] [Bowman] (1826-82) ED - Christopher Romaunt Esq. [pseud] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An adventure novel for boys in which a group of young castaways face many trials and tribulations before meeting and assisting some friendly natives and leaving their isolated island to live with them.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Life and Adventures of Capt. Jacob D. Armstrong Y1 - 1852 A1 - [Nathaniel Cook] [Meeker] [supposed author] (1817-79) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. A ship wrecks on the island of Nede, which is inhabited by simple people (with no secondary sexual characteristics), who live a happy life of idleness in complete equality. Vegetarian; work to grow food. Perpetual Spring. No snakes. No religion. An elaborate funeral ritual is described. The discovery of iron leads the shipwrecked sailors to introduce the dystopian modern world of work, money, theft, law, government, newspapers, and alcohol.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Reel in a Bottle, for Jack in the Doldrums; being The Adventures of Two of the King's Seaman in A Voyage to the Celestial Country. Edited from the Manuscripts of an Old Salt Y1 - 1852 A1 - [George Barrell] [Cheever] (1807-90) ED - Rev. Henry T. Cheever KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Standard Christian allegory using various imaginary countries en route to the eutopia of Heaven.

PB - Charles Scribner CY - New York N1 -

3rd ed. under the author’s name as A Voyage to the Celestial Country, Being the Reel in a Bottle, from the Manuscripts of an Old Salt; An Allegory. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1853. Later ed. under the author’s name as The Log-Book of a Voyage to the Celestial Country. A Christian Allegory of the Sea. New York: A.C. Armstrong and Son, 1885. U.K. ed. as Incidents and Memories of the Christian Life; Under the Similitude of a Voyage to the Celestial Land. Glasgow, Scot.: William Collins, [1852].

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The Log-Book of a Voyage to the Celestial Country. A Christian Allegory of the Sea

Incidents and Memories of the Christian Life; Under the Similitude of a Voyage to the Celestial Land

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Visit to the Moon" Y1 - 1852 A1 - Jocundus Steelnib [pseud.] AB -

Eutopia with no money and no lawyers. People are presented as still having faults and problems.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Gulliver Joi: His Three Voyages; Being an Account of His Marvelous Adventures in Kailoo, Hydrogenia and Ejario Y1 - 1851 A1 - Elbert Perce (ed.) [written by] (1831-69) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Gulliveriana. Kailoo is an Earth-like planet that travels very rapidly around its sun, and the people are also speeded up with lives that are correspondingly short, except for the royal family, which lives longer, to the equivalent of thirty. The Earth is Kailoo's moon. In Hydrogenia air is used like water on Earth, and water is a stimulant like alcohol. The people are much larger than humans. In Ejario women are stronger, more active, and braver than men.

PB - Charles Scribner CY - New York U1 -

The pictorial cover gives the title as Gulliver Joi; His Three Voyages in Kailoo, Hydrogenia and Ejario.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hints From Utopian Schools. No. II. Unfolding Further Details of Their System Y1 - 1851 AB -

Rules for a Christian education. See also 1850 Hints From Utopian Schools. Being Two Addresses Delivered by the Warden of a New Collegiate School in that Happy Land.

PB - John Henry Parker CY - Oxford, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Island of Life: An Allegory Y1 - 1851 A1 - [Frederic] [Gardiner] (1822-89) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Christian allegory.

PB - James Munroe CY - Boston, MA U3 -

A Clergyman [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Peer Y1 - 1851 AB -

Future dystopia in which machinery releases labor, causing widespread unemployment, social upheaval, and the abolition of the aristocracy and the monarchy.

PB - Thomas Cautley Newby CY - London VL - 3 vols. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Plan of a Proposed New Colony To Be Called Britannia Y1 - 1851 A1 - [Henry Godfrey] [Gouland] (1801-77) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

A detailed proposal for an independent settlement on the South Island not under the authority of the New Zealand government.

PB - Printed by I. Shrimpton CY - Lyttelton, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Popery in AD 1900 Y1 - 1851 A1 - [John] [Macgregor] KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia brought about by the success of the Papacy in England in 1900.

PB - Seeley CY - London U3 -

One J.M. [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Rambles in Chili, and Life Among the Auracanian Indians, in 1836 Y1 - 1851 A1 - [George] [Prince] (1817-1907) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The Indians are described in eutopian terms as Noble Savages.

PB - D.J. Starrett CY - Thomaston, ME N1 -

Originally serialized in the Lincoln Miscellany (Thomaston, ME).

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“Will the Rover” [pseud.].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Vision of Our Country in the Year Nineteen Hundred" Y1 - 1851 A1 - Miss J[ane] A. E[llis] KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia set at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio. The U.S. includes all North and South America. Population growth through immigration and the country is well-settled. Churches everywhere but without denominational differences. More and better education, particularly at the post-secondary level. Equality. Invention and significant advances in the sciences. No prejudice. A congress of nations settles disputes among countries. Female author.

JF - The Western Literary Magazine and Journal of Education, Science, Arts, and Morals (Columbus, OH) VL - 1 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Voice from Australia; or An Inquiry into the Probability of New Holland Being Connected with the Prophecies Relating to the New Jerusalem and the Spiritual Temple Y1 - 1851 A1 - Hannah Villiers Boyd KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

The author argues that Australia is the New Jerusalem. Mostly Biblical exegesis but includes some fairly vague discussion of the future of Australia as a better society.

PB - Ptd. by Robert Barr CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia N1 -

2nd rev. ed. London: Partridge & Co., 1856.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Britain Redeemed and Canada Preserved Y1 - 1850 A1 - F. A. Wilson, K.L.H., G.S. A1 - Alfred B[ate] Richards Esq. (1820-76) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Non-fiction describing Canada incorporated within England and producing a eutopia for both.

PB - Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Future of Victoria Y1 - 1850 A1 - [James] [Oakes] [Presumed author] KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Victoria is presented as a future eutopia in which Christianity has produced a prosperous, well-educated, good population. Discusses commerce; the beauty of the city and its architecture, education, particularly religious education; agriculture; manufacturing; culture; and government, among other topics. The greatest obstacles, a poorly raised and educated younger generation and lack of religion, can be overcome by teaching children obedience and respect for their parents and God.

PB - James Smith CY - Melbourne, VIC, Australia U3 -

Acorn [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hints From Utopian Schools on Prefects. Being Two Addresses Delivered by the Warden of a New Collegiate School in that Happy Land Y1 - 1850 AB -

Two addresses by the head of a school in Utopia on the duties of Prefects. Based on religion and under religious direction. See also 1851 Hints From Utopian Schools. No. IIUnfolding Further Details of Their System.

PB - John Henry Parker CY - Oxford, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Melbourne as it is and as it Ought to be" Y1 - 1850 KW - Australian author AB -

Suggestions toward an ideal Melbourne based on the author's understanding of the way all good cities are laid out. Large open space near the center; wide streets, particularly around public buildings; river with quays and public and private buildings; and trees along boulevards circling the town. Mostly a criticism of Melbourne as it is.

JF - The Australasian VL - 1.1 N1 -

Rev. ed. Geelong, VIC. Australia: J. Harrison, Printer, [1850].

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Social Sketch, or, Everything in Common" Y1 - 1850 A1 - John Leech (1817-64) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire by means of a colored frontispiece showing the conflicts arising from common ownership.

JF - Punch's Pocket Book for 1850, Containing Ruled Pages for Cash Accounts and Memoranda for Every Day of the Year; An Almanack; and a Variety of Useful Business Informations. The Illustrations by John Leech, Richard Doyle, and H.K. Browne PB - Punch Office CY - London U2 -

Illus. by John Leech.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Times newspaper as it may be in 1950 No. 333,379 Thursday January 6, 1950 Y1 - 1850 AB -

Satire. The U.S. is an absolute monarchy. In England there is a House of Peeresses and a House of Ladies.

PB - Np CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Voyages, Adventures, and Miraculous Escapes of Raphael Scott, Being a Full and Authentic Account of His Villainous Betrayal and Abduction (By His Uncle, Who had been Appointed His Guardian) on Board the Merchant Ship Gazelle, of Philadelphia, Which Vessel, After Being at Sea Twenty Days, Was Plundered by a Piratical Craft Commanded by a Widely Known and Much Dreaded Buccaneer Chief, Miles! Together With a Complete History of a Romantic Nation of Pirates!! Now Residing on a Beautiful Island, Called The Isle of Happiness, Situated South of Cuba. Also, a Correct Statement of the Long Imprisonment and Deplorable Sufferings of Miss Edda Cramer, a Young Lady of Extraordinary Personal Beauty, Who Was for Seven Months Missing From New York City, and of Whose Fate Nothing Could Be Learned, Until She Was Nobly Rescued By the Hero of this Truly Interesting Work. To Which Is Added, Some Startling Passages in the Life of Charles Scattergood, a Young Man Likewise Found Among the Pirates, By Whom He Was Picked Up in the Middle of the Ocean, Where He Had Drifted in an Open Boat, In Which He Had Been Placed by a Cold-Hearted, Unfeeling Brother Y1 - 1850 A1 - Raphael Scott [pseud.] AB -

Includes a brief depiction of a pirate’s eutopia on an island in the Caribbean with the stress on their law to protect young girls.

PB - E.E. Barclay CY - Philadelphia, PA U2 -

Illus.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Aurifodina; or, Adventures in the Gold Region Y1 - 1849 A1 - [George Washington] [Peck] (1817-59) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. City of gold in the mountains of California inhabited by Caucasians where gold is treated as a common stone and for pots and pans and is used as building material. Religious. Hereditary monarchy. Common law. Everyone gets along.

PB - Baker and Scribner CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. as Aurifodina or Adventures in the Gold Region a fantastical ’49er novel written by Cantell A. Bigly [G.W. Peck]. San Francisco, CA: The Book Club of California, 1974.

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Cantell A. Bigly [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Kaloolah, or Journeyings to the Djébel Kumri: An Autobiography of Jonathan Romer Y1 - 1849 A1 - W[illiam] S[tarbuck] Mayo M.D. (ed.) [written by] (1812-1895) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Chapter 48 (456-468) describes a eutopian city (Killoam) in Africa that is particularly concerned with health and cleanliness. Quadrangular houses of two stories with a central courtyard with a fountain and roof gardens. Streets are swept and washed daily (459). Elaborate sewage system (460-461). Food going to market inspected to ensure quality (461). Bathing is required at least once a month, and free municipals baths are provided (462) although there is a small charge for heated water. No overcrowded housing (462).

PB - George P. Putnam CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: George Routledge & Co., 1851. Rpt. as Kaloolah: The Adventures Of Jonathan Romer. The Framazudga Edition. Illus. Fredericks. New York: G.P. Putnam’s, 1887.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - King Dobbs: Sketches in Ultra-marine Y1 - 1849 A1 - James Hannay KW - Male author AB -

Wide-ranging satire on English manners and customs, with a section on the imaginary island of Somniata, which is settled by the officers and crew of a ship and the slaves they had rescued from another ship.

PB - J. & D.A. Darling CY - London N1 -

New ed. London: Routledge, 1856.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mardi: and A Voyage Thither Y1 - 1849 A1 - Herman Melville (1819-1891) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Mardi is the most complex of Melville's early novels and includes some elements of the South Seas island eutopia, fantasy, and political satire using thinly disguised imaginary countries.

PB - Harper & Brothers CY - New York VL - 2 vols. N1 -

U.K. ed. 3 vols. London: Richard Bentley, 1849. Rpt. ed. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker and G. Thomas Tanselle. Vol. 3 of The Writings of Herman Melville. Evanston and Chicago, IL: Northwestern University Press and The Newberry Library, 1970.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Mellonta Tauta" Y1 - 1849 A1 - Edgar Allan Poe (1809-49) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on a future which is technologically advanced but with individualism and democracy gone.

JF - Godey's Lady's (Philadelphia, PA) VL - 38 N1 -

Rpt. in Amazing Stories Science Fiction 8.7 (November 1933): 124-32; in Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe: Tales and Sketches 1843-1849. Ed. Thomas Olive Mabbott with the assistance of Eleanor D. Kewer and Maureen C. Mabbott (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1978), 1291-1305 with editorial notes on 1305-09; and in Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction. Ed. Leigh Ronald Grossman (Rockville, MD: Wildside Press, 2011), 69-72 with an editor’s note on 69.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - National Evils and Practical Remedies, with the Plan of a Model Town. Illustrated by Two Engravings. Accompanied by an Examination of Some Important Moral and Political Problems Y1 - 1849 A1 - James S[ilk] Buckingham (1786-1855) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia proposes a communal experiment and gives detailed plans for it, including, at the front, a fold out depiction of the town and, at the end, a fold out a schematic design of it.

PB - Peter Jackson, Late Fisher, Son and Co CY - London U2 -

There is a fold out depiction of the town and, at the end, a fold out a schematic design of it. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Dream of Reform Y1 - 1848 A1 - Henry J[ohn] Forrest (1823-1899) KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Eutopia. A dream of a reformed society is described; the country is called Philotopia. Many of the reforms of the time, like the eight-hour workday, greatly improved hygiene, significant sanitary reform, a limit on wealth, and the elimination of monopolies, have been adopted. The basis of the changed society is education. Gender-roles and the class system have changed little, but the lower classes are better educated and better paid.

PB - John Chapman CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 8: 389-490.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The First and Last Days of Alcohol the Great, in the Empire of Nationolia; or, Manxman's Records of the Temperance Revolution Y1 - 1848 A1 - J[ohn] Cowen, N.I.M. KW - Male author AB -

Allegory that follows the history of Alcohol the Great from birth to domination, the successful revolution, the counterrevolution by Alcohol's followers, and his successful overthrow. The ending suggests that lapses of vigilance and apathy means that the struggle is ongoing.

PB - B.T. Albro CY - Providence, RI U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - France and England: A Vision of the Future Y1 - 1848 AB -

Detailed eutopia of a unified Europe. Ascribed to Marie Louis Alphonse de Lamartine de Prat and purported to be a translation from the French. The translator's "Preface" indicates that a first edition was published anonymously in 1843. There is no evidence that this book was originally published in France or written in French by Lamartine or anyone else, and there is no evidence of an earlier English edition. Thus, it can be tentatively labeled as the first edition of an anonymous English work of 1848.

PB - H.G. Clarke CY - London VL - 6th ed./Probably the 1st ed. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Island of Liberty; or, Equality and Community Y1 - 1848 A1 - The Author of "Theodore" [pseud.] AB -

Novel presenting the development and failure of a communal experiment. A commune founded on the basis of liberty fails until law and order are introduced.

PB - Joseph Masters CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 8: 121-258.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Peter Schlemihl in America Y1 - 1848 A1 - [George] [Wood] (1799-1870) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Mostly social commentary with a lot of material on religion, but also includes fictional Fourierist communities and discussion of Fourierism.

PB - Carey and Hart CY - Philadelphia, PA N1 -

Some was originally published as by Peter Schemil [pseud.]. “Lights and Shadows of Fashionable Life.” The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine 27.2 - 28.2 (February - August 1846): 128-38, 215-27, 319-35, 425-36, 485-501; 15-24, 115-32; and with some of the same characters as “On Oratorios in New York” by Frank Williamson [pseud.]. The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine 30.6 (December 1847): 527-35.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Sequel to the 'Vision of Bangor in the Twentieth Century'" Y1 - 1848 A1 - [Jane Sophia] [Appleton] (1816-84) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia written in response to 1848 Kent. Women are no longer dependent on men. Whether to marry or not is a free choice. Women have equal rights and opportunities. Women participate fully in the intellectual life of the community.

JF - Voices from the Kenduskeag PB - David Bugbee CY - Bangor, ME N1 -

Rpt. in American Utopias: Selected Short Fiction. Ed. Arthur O. Lewis, Jr. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971. All items separately paged; and in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories by United States Women, 1836-1919. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler (London: Pandora Press, 1984), 49-64 with an editor’s note on 49.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Triumph of Woman: A Christmas Story Y1 - 1848 A1 - Charles Rowcroft (1798-1856) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A man from a vaguely described ideal planet without women visits earth and experiences both the reasons for the prohibition of women on his planet and their attractiveness. An earth woman's attraction proves too strong for him, and he settles on earth.

PB - Parry & Company CY - London N1 -

Rpt., with The Triumph of Woman as the running head, as Trials and Triumphs, or Tales for All Seasons. Illus. London: Thomas Holmes, nd; and in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 8: 259-387.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Vision of Bangor, in the Twentieth Century" Y1 - 1848 A1 - [Edward] [Kent] (1802-77) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia presented as recording a dream of Bangor in 1978. Some satire. South America now part of the U.S., which has fifty-six states. No slavery. Temperance, traditional gender-roles. No writing. See also 1848 Appleton, which responds to Kent's treatment of women.

JF - Voices from the Kenduskeag PB - David Bugbee CY - Bangor, ME N1 -

Rpt. in American Utopias: Selected Short Fiction. Ed. Arthur O. Lewis, Jr. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971. All items separately paged. Also rpt. in Otherworldly Maine. Ed. Noreen Doyle (Camden, ME: Down East, 2008), 124-34.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Crater; or, Vulcan's Peak. A Tale of the Pacific Y1 - 1847 A1 - [James Fenimore] [Cooper] (1789-1851) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Mostly a dull adventure story that includes a conservative eutopia stressing a natural aristocracy.

PB - Burgess, Stringer and Company CY - New York VL - 2 vols. N1 -

Rpt. Chicago, IL: Belford, Clarke & Co., [1880]; and as The Crater or Vulcan’s Peak. In The Works of James Fenimore Cooper. Otsego Edition. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, [1905]; and Ed. Thomas Philbrick. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1962. U.K. ed. as Mark’s Reef; or, The Crater. A Tale of the Pacific. 3 vols. London: Richard Bentley, 1847.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "'Oo-a-deen': or, the Mysteries of the Interior Unveiled' Y1 - 1847 KW - Australian author AB -

Lost race eutopia located in the center of Australia. Oodeen, as it is written in the text, means Place of Perfect Rest. The people settled there about a thousand years ago. Stress on simplicity; closness to nature, with most animals tame. Patriarchal system.

JF - Corio Chronicle and Western Districts Advertiser (Geelong, VIC, Australia) VL - 1.8 - 10 N1 -

Rpt. in Australian Science Fiction. Ed. Van Ikin. (St. Lucia, QLD, Australia: University of Queensland Press, 1982), 7-27. Book rpt. (Chicago, IL: Academy Publishers, 1984), 7-27.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Principles of Nature, Her Divine Revelations, and A Voice to Mankind. In Three Parts. Part First. Any theory, hypothesis, philosophy, sect, creed, morality will bloom with an or institution that fears investigation, openly manifests its own error. Part Second. Reason is a flower of the spirit, and its fragrance is liberty and knowledge. Part Third. When distributive justice pervades the social world, virtue and morality will bloom with an immortal beauty; while the Sun of Righteousness will arise in the horizon of universal industry, and shed its genial rays over all the fields of peace, plenty, and human happiness! Y1 - 1847 A1 - Andrew Jackson Davis (1826-1910) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Includes a detailed eutopia based on cooperation at the end of an exposition of Davis's theology and world view. See also 1874 and 1878 Davis.

PB - Published by S.S. Lyon and Wm. Fishbough CY - New York N1 -

32nd ed. Boston, MA: William White & Co., 1871.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Scientific Division and Nomenclature of the Earth, and Particularly the Territory of the United States into States, Counties, Townships, Farms and Lots; for Promoting the Equality, Individuality and Inalienableness of Man's Rights to Sovereignty, Life, Labor and Domain, While at the Same Time it Constitutes a Scientific Geography of the Earth: Also a Constitution for Nebrashevil [Nebraska] or Any Other State: For the Consideration of National Reformers and Other Statesmen Y1 - 1847 A1 - Lewis Masquerier (b. 1802) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. The bulk of this brief pamphlet is concerned with nomenclature and the division of the world into equal areas, but it includes a short constitution that specifies, among other things, that each individual be given a plot of land and a plan for settlement. See also 1877 and 1884 Masquerier and his Premium Remedy for Hireling Slavery; Classified Principles and Elements of Rights and Wrongs; Diagrams of Township and Village, and Revolutionary Hymns. New York: Ptd. by J.A. Lant, 1877 (DLC). . 

PB - Office of "Young America" CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sixty Years Hence Y1 - 1847 A1 - [Charles Frederick] [Henningsen] (1815-77) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Largely a satire on the manners and customs of the near future but includes a dystopian element--a despotic government and its overthrow.

PB - T.C. Newby CY - London VL - 3 vols. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Social Re-organization" Y1 - 1847 A1 - John Orvis (1816-97) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Most of the material is a critique of the present, but it also details aspects of the eutopia that Association would produce.

JF - The Harbinger VL - 4.4, 6, 8-9, 11-12, 16-17, 21, 24, 5.6 ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Chronicles of Clovernook; With Some Account of The Hermit of Bellyfulle Y1 - 1846 A1 - Douglas [William] Jerrold (1803-57) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Humor. Describes a eutopia of simplicity and no government or laws. Life is based on morality and kindness. Has an element of the Cockaigne with food and wine in abundance.

PB - Punch Office CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in his A Man Made of Money and The Chronicles of Clovernook. Vol. 6 of The Writings of Douglas Jerrold. Collected Edition (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1853), 229-344; and in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 8: 1-91.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dolores: A Novel of South America Y1 - 1846 A1 - [Paul] Harro-Harring (1798-1870) KW - German author KW - Male author AB -

An eclectic novel giving the author's viewpoint on a wide range of subjects and including the outlines of an egalitarian eutopia.

PB - Author/Libreria Hernandez/Marrener, Lockwood CY - New York/Montevideo, Uruguay/New York VL - 4 parts N1 -

Part I was published as New York: Author/Montevideo, Uruguay: Libreria Hernandez. Parts II - IV were published as Dolores: A Novel. New York: Marrener, Lockwood, [1846]. All parts say, “Complete in One Volume”.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Henry Russell; or, The Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Y1 - 1846 KW - US author AB -

Future eutopia that begins in an intentional community based loosely on the ideas of the utopian socialist Charles Fourier (1772-1837) and ends by being established worldwide.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Ireland. The Narrative of Malcom McGregor" Y1 - 1846 A1 - Malcolm McGregor [pseud.] AB -

Satire on Irish politics and society in dystopian terms.

JF - Northern Star and National Trades' Journal VL - 9 - 10.469-71, 473, 475, 477-80, 483, 484 U3 -

McGregor, Malcolm [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Life and Adventures of Miss Robinson Crusoe" Y1 - 1846 AB -

Satire on contemporary life in England.

JF - Punch or the London Charivari VL - 11.260 - 74 U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Narrative of a Four Month's Residence Among the Natives of a Valley of the Marquesas Islands; or, A Peep at Polynesian Life Y1 - 1846 A1 - Herman Melville (1819-1891) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia set on an island in the South Pacific where Melville was held captive. It depicts the happy, seemingly innocent natives, who are also cannibals, and thus resonates with both Michel Montaigne's (1533-92) "De Cannibales" (1580) and Jean-Jacques Rousseau's (1712-78) argument against civilized behavior. Melville's Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas (1847) was presented as a sequel, but it has little that can be called utopian. See also his 1849 Melville.

PB - John Murray CY - London N1 -

Rpt. as Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life. During a Four Months’ Residence in a Valley of the Marquesas With Notices of the French Occupation of Tahiti and the Provisional Cession of the Sandwich Islands to Lord Paulet. 2 vols. New York: Wiley and Putnam/London: John Murray, 1846; Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life. During a Four Months’ Residence in a Valley of the Marquesas; The Revised Edition, With a Sequel. 2 vols. in 1. New York: Wiley and Putnam/London: John Murray, 1846; Typee; or, A Narrative of a Four Month’s Residence Among the Natives of a Valley of the Marquesas Islands; or, A Peep at Polynesian Life. London: John Murray, 1847; Typee: A Romance of the South Seas. With an Introduction by Raymond Weaver and Illustrations by Miguel Covarrubias. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1935; Typee: A Peep at Polynesan Life During a Four Months’ Residence in a Valley of the Marquesas. [Luke, MD]: West Virginia Pulp and Paper Co., 1962; Typee, a Peep at Polynesian Life. Ed. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker and G. Thomas Tanselle. Vol. 1 of The Writings of Herman Melville. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1968; and Typee: Complete Text with Introduction Historical Contexts Critical Essays. Ed. Geoffrey Sanborn. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 2004. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Reasons for Each Law of the New Constitution Proposed to be Introduced First into The State of New York, Afterwards into Each State of the Union, and then from the Universal and Unchanging Truth of the Principles and Innumerable Advantages in Practice to all Other Nations. And, Also, A Contrast Between the Old and New Systems of Society Y1 - 1846 A1 - Robert Owen (1771-1858) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author KW - Welsh author AB -

Constitution for a union of intentional communities. See also 1813, 1830, 1839, 1841, 1843, 1844, and 1855 (2) Owen. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Taranaki Song. Written by Mr. J. Hursthouse and sung at the Farmers' Club by Mr. Newland" Y1 - 1846 A1 - John Hursthouse (1811-60) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

The Taranaki region of New Zealand in eutopian terms.

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Eutopia of restored religion.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Book of Platonopolis: or, The Perfect Commonwealth. A Romance of the Future" Y1 - 1845 A1 - [John Goodwyn] [Barmby] (1820-81) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Clearly intended to be a communal eutopia, but the only section published is very general and is mostly about architecture. There will be many of what he calls communitarians. See also his "Marriage in the New Common World." The Communist Journal and Advocate of the Communist Church, no. 1 (July 1846): 9-11, which presents the details of marriage and divorce in his ideal community.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Christian Commonwealth Y1 - 1845 A1 - John Minter Morgan (1782-1854) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Proposal for a community to assist the poor with details on how they will be improved economically, morally, and religiously. Includes a plate depicting a "Self-Supporting Institution" accompanied by an explanation and description. See also 1826 and 1834 Morgan.

PB - Chapman and Hall CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Owenite Socialism: Pamphlets and Correspondence. 10 vols. Ed. Gregory Claeys (London: Routledge, 2005), 8: 330-400. Exp. ed. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1849 with Extinction of Pauperism on the cover and with an additional plate but without the appendices. Bound with Colonie chrétienne. Traduit de l’Anglais. No translator given. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1849 (43-90); and Extinction du Pauperisme by Louis Napoleon Bonaparte. Reimprimée comme offrant des suggestions précieuses pour un état de transition dans le progrès de la société vers la réalisation d’une colonie chrétienne. No information given on prior publication (Separately paged as 1-27). And trans. from the French as Extinction of Pauperism. And Published, as Offering Some Valuable Suggestions for a Transition State in the Progress of Society Towards the Realisation of a Christian Commonwealth. No translator given (Separately paged as 1-23).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Margaret: A Tale of the Real and the Ideal, Blight and Bloom; Including Sketches of a Place Not Before Described, Called Mons Christi Y1 - 1845 A1 - [Sylvester] [Judd] (1813-53) KW - US author AB -

Small town Christian eutopia. Margaret grows up an educated child of nature, meets a good Christian, and is transformed. Christianity and love are capable of producing eutopia, but they also had much wealth. Temperance.

PB - Jordan and Wiley CY - Boston, MA N1 -

Rev. ed. 2 vols. Boston, MA: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1851; rpt. Boston, MA: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1857. Rpt. in a one vol. ed. without the second subtitle. Boston, MA: Roberts Brothers, 1871; rpt. Boston, MA: Roberts Brothers, 1891; and Upper Saddle River, NJ: The Gregg Press, 1968. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Monster Mine (Written especially for the South Australian Odd Fellows' Magazine, Vol. 103, No. 5)" Y1 - 1845 A1 - PGM [pseud.] KW - Australian author AB -

Technological eutopia one hundred years in the future brought about by the riches of a copper mine. Little social change.

JF - The South Australian Odd Fellows'; Magazine [Each issue has the title Odd Fellows' Magazine, but the first page of the volume has the full title] VL - 2.9 N1 -

Rpt. in Australian Science Fiction. Ed. Van Ikin (St. Lucia, QLD, Australia: University of Queensland Press, 1982), 4-6. Book rpt. (Chicago, IL: Academy Publishers, 1984), 4-6.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "One Hundred Years Hence. 1945" Y1 - 1845 AB -

Mormon millennium with Christ ruling directly.

JF - The Millennial Star (Liverpool, Eng.) N1 -

Rpt. as “One Hundred Years Hence--1945.” Dialogue 4.1 (1969): 127-31; and as “A Glimpse of the Millennium.” LDS2: Latter-Day Science Fiction. Ed. Benjamin Urrutia (Ludlow, MA: Parables, 1985), 48-52.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Republic of Orissá; A Page from the Annals of the Twentieth Century” Y1 - 1845 A1 - Shoshee Chunder Dutt (1824-85) KW - Indian author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in the dystopia of colonial India with the government passing a law that supports slavery, which leads to a revolt in which the British are defeated but then ignore what they had agreed to do.

JF - The Bengal Hurkaru and India Gazette SN - 978-78-308863-8, 9781842330494 UR - https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.91713/mode/2up N1 -

Rpt. in Bengaliana: A Dish of Rice and Curry, and Other Indigestible Ingredients (Calcutta, India: Thacker, Spink, and Co., [1878]), 347-56. https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.91713/mode/2up; in Selections from ‘Bengaliana’. Ed. Alex Tickell (Manchester, Eng: Trent Editions, 2005), 149-59, with a Glossary on 164-38; and in Science Fiction in Colonial India, 1835-1905: Five Tales of Speculative Fiction and Resistance. Ed. Mary Ellis Gibson (London: Anthem Press, 2019), 133-41, with an editor’s introduction on 126-32. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Book of the New Moral World, on Government and Laws. Part Sixth Y1 - 1844 A1 - Robert Owen (1771-1858) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author KW - Welsh author AB -

Owen's The Book of the New Moral World was published in seven parts between 1836 and 1844, each with a separate, different title page. The first five parts lay down and explain his principles, and the seventh part argues that his system will be adopted. This sixth part is the only explicitly utopian part in that it gives a detailed constitution and legal system for the Owenite eutopia, which differs from the text under the same title in 1830 Owen. See also 1813, 1830, 1839, 1841, 1843, 1846, and 1855 (2) Owen. 

PB - J. Watson CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Selected Works of Robert Owen. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 4 vols. (London: William Pickering, 1993), 3: 299-359.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Emigration to the Tropical World, for the Melioration of all Classes of People of all Nations Y1 - 1844 A1 - John A[dolphus] Etzler (1791?-1846?) KW - German author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

One of Etzler's pictures of eutopia through technology, in this case to be realized in Venezuela where, he says, he has obtained a grant of land. Here Etzler gives an address in London. Etzler also published a four page Synopsis of Etzler's Plan of Emigration to Venezuela. Newcastle, Eng.: W.W. Leighton, Printer, 1844; rpt. in The Collected Works of John Adolphus Etzler. Delmar, NY: Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, 1977 that summarizes the proposal. On the technology, see also his The New World or Mechanical System, To Perform the Labours of Man and Beast by Inanimate Powers, That Cost Nothing, for Producing and Preparing the Substance of Life. With Plates. Philadelphia, PA: C.F. Stollmeyer, 1841. Rpt. in The Collected Works of John Adophus Etzler. Delmar, NY: Scholars’ Facsimiles & Reprints, 1977; and Description of the Naval Automation, Invented by J.A. Etzler and Patented in American and Europe. Philadelphia, PA: Ptd. by Gihon and Fairchild, [1841/42?]. Rpt. in The Collected Works of John Adophus Etzler. Delmar, NY: Scholars’ Facsimiles & Reprints, 1977. See also 1833 Etzler and 1843 Etzler and 1844 Etzler Two Visions of J[ohn] A[dolphus] Etzler.

PB - The Concordium CY - Surrey, Eng. N1 -

Rpt. in The Collected Works of John Adolphus Etzler. Delmar, NY: Scholars’ Facsimiles & Reprints, 1977. Items separately paged

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - My First and Last Book. A Book for the Crisis and A Crisis for the Book Y1 - 1844 A1 - A Plain Man, A native of Massachusetts KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

All humans belong to one universal brotherhood. Marriage for life between one man and one woman. Sex only for reproduction. Extended childhood under parents' care. “The child then becomes a member of the common brotherhood or community, where through the whole there is impartial, social sympathy and equal love, and in which there is a perfect supply of all the wants of every member, and all the means essential to a perfect developement [sic] of character” (15). Common property. If people life correctly, they will have no need of doctors. Good food, fruit and vegetables being the best, clean air, regular exercise; mentions no corsets for women. No need for clergy. Lays out a new calendar (48-51).

PB - Np CY - [Massachusetts?] ER - TY - ABST T1 - A New State of Society: A Diologue [sic.] between Theophilus and Amida Y1 - 1844 AB -

Eutopia in a dialogue presenting new communities as the solution to social problems.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Quaker City; or, The Monks of Monk Hall. A Romance of Philadelphia Life, Mystery, and Crime Y1 - 1844 A1 - George Lippard (1822-1854) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Mostly a sensational novel as reflected in the title, that, in the “Preface to this Edition,” the author says describes “all the phases of a corrupt social system, as manifested in the city of Philadelphia. There is a brief dystopia, “The Last Says of the Quaker City” (372-93), and a brief eutopia, “The Temple of Ravoni” (525-37). On these utopian dimensions, see Nathaniel Williams, “George Lippard’s Fragile Utopian Future and 1840s American Economic Turmoil.” Utopian Studies 24.2 (2013): 166-83.

PB - G.B. Zieber & Co. CY - Philadelphia, PA N1 -

Rpt. as The Quaker City; or, The Monks of Monk Hall. A Romance of Philadelphia Life, Mystery, and Crime. With Illustrations, and the Author’s Portrait and Autograph. Philadelphia, PA: Leary, Stuart, & Co., [1876], with the author’s “Preface to this Edition” (1-2). Rpt. as The Monks of Monk Hall. New York: Odyssey Press 1970 with an “Introduction by Leslie Fiedler (vii-xxxii). Rpt. ed. David S. Reynolds (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1995 with an “Introduction” by Reynolds (vii-xliv).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Two Visions of J[ohn] A[dolphus] Etzler, (Author of the Paradise Within the Reach of All Men, By Powers of Nature and Machinery, and Other Writings Connected Therewith.) A Revelation of Futurity Y1 - 1844 A1 - J[ohn] A[dolphus] Etzler (1791?-1846?) KW - German author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

One of Etzler's pictures of eutopia through technology. These "visions" are very general and include considerable complaint about having been ignored. At the end he says that whether or not he gains support he will emigrate "to found a paradise in the tropical world". On the technology, see also his The New World or Mechanical System, To Perform the Labours of Man and Beast by Inanimate Powers, That Cost Nothing, for Producing and Preparing the Substance of Life. With Plates. Philadelphia, PA: C.F. Stollmeyer, 1841. Rpt. in The Collected Works of John Adophus Etzler. Delmar, NY: Scholars’ Facsimiles & Reprints, 1977; and Description of the Naval Automation, Invented by J.A. Etzler and Patented in American and Europe. Philadelphia, PA: Ptd. by Gihon and Fairchild, [1841/42?]. Rpt. in The Collected Works of John Adophus Etzler. Delmar, NY: Scholars’ Facsimiles & Reprints, 1977. See also 1833 and 1843 Etzler and 1844 Etzler Emigration to the Tropical World.

PB - The Concordium CY - Surrey, Eng. N1 -

Rpt. in The Collected Works of John Adolphus Etzler. Delmar, NY: Scholars’ Facsimiles & Reprints, 1977. Items separately paged.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dialogue on Etzler's Paradise Between Messrs. Clear, Flat, Dunce, and Grudge. By The Author of "Paradise within Reach of All Men, without Labour, by Powers of Nature and Machinery".-- Mechanical System, To Perform the Labours of Man and Beast by Inanimate Powers."--and the Invention of the Naval Automaton, Etc., Etc. Y1 - 1843 A1 - [John Adolphus] [Etzler] (1791?-1846?) KW - German author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

One of Etzler's pictures of eutopia through technology. Clear defends Etzler from attacks by the others.  On the technology, see also his The New World or Mechanical System, To Perform the Labours of Man and Beast by Inanimate Powers, That Cost Nothing, for Producing and Preparing the Substance of Life. With Plates. Philadelphia, PA: C.F. Stollmeyer, 1841. Rpt. in The Collected Works of John Adophus Etzler. Delmar, NY: Scholars’ Facsimiles & Reprints, 1977; and Description of the Naval Automation, Invented by J.A. Etzler and Patented in American and Europe. Philadelphia, PA: Ptd. by Gihon and Fairchild, [1841/42?]. Rpt. in The Collected Works of John Adophus Etzler. Delmar, NY: Scholars’ Facsimiles & Reprints, 1977. See also 1833 and 1844 (2) Etzler.

PB - James B. O'Brien CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in The Collected Works of John Adolphus Etzler. Delmar, NY: Scholars’ Facsimiles & Reprints, 1977. Items separately paged.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Rules and Regulations of a Community" Y1 - 1843 A1 - Robert Owen (1771-1858) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author KW - Welsh author AB -

Detailed proposals for a series of communities to be established in Ireland. Based on lectures given in Dublin in 1823. See also 1813, 1830, 1839, 1841, 1844, 1846, and 1855 (2) Owen. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Vision: A Fragment" Y1 - 1843 A1 - [John Logan] [Campbell] (1817-1912) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

A short vision of Auckland, New Zealand in the future. Some eutopian; some dystopian.

JF - Southern Cross, New Zealand Guardian, Auckland, Thames, and Bay of Plenty Advertizer VL - 1.33 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Amazonian Republic Recently Discovered in the Interior of Peru. By Ex-Midshipman Timothy Savage, B.C. Member of the Philosophical Society of Baltimore and of the Antiquarian Academy of Staten Island Y1 - 1842 A1 - Timothy Savage [pseud?] KW - US author AB -

Primarily a utopian satire. A developed country with the government the same as the United States. Effeminate men. Some material on a new religion.

PB - Samuel Colman CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. as The Amazonian Republic (1842). A Facsimile Reproduction With an Introduction by Joel Nydahl (v-xvi). Delmar, NY: Scholars’ Facsimiles and Reprints, 1976.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Locksley Hall" Y1 - 1842 A1 - Alfred Tennyson (1809-92) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

One section of the poem (lines 119-30 in the Ricks edition) depicts a future world war followed by a world federation and universal law. See also 1886 Tennyson, “Locksley Hall Sixty Years Later”.

JF - Poems PB - Edward Moxon CY - London VL - 2 vols. N1 -

U.S. ed. Boston, MA: William D. Ticknor, 1842), 2: 92-111. Rpt. in The Poems of Tennyson. Ed. Christopher Ricks (London: Longmans, 1969), 2: 688-99. Critical ed. in The Poems of Tennyson in three volumes. Second Edition Incorporating the Trinity College Manuscript. Ed. Christopher Ricks (London: Longman 1987), II: 120-30, with an introductory note (118-20) and textual notes as footnotes.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Scheme of Universal Brotherhood; or the Christian System of Mutual Assistance. Proposing A System of Society, Natural In Its Construction, Easy In Its Application, Interfering With No Sect In Religion, Or Party In Politics, And Insuring the Happiness and Innocence of All Mankind. Compiled from the Works of Celebrated Authors Y1 - 1842 AB -

Eutopia with extraordinary detail on all aspects of life, including such things as descriptions of horses, dress, and amusements. Women are physically and mentally inferior. No marriage. Sexual freedom.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Voyage from Utopia to Several Unknown Regions of the World. By Yarbfj. Translated from the American Y1 - 1842 A1 - John Francis Bray (1809-97) ED - M. F. Lloyd-Prichard KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on contemporary nations. 

PB - Lawrence and Wishart CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 7: 349-486. Claeys re-transcribed the text from the original manuscript.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Century Hence or, A Romance of 1941 Y1 - 1841 A1 - George Tucker (1775-1861) ED - Donald R. Noble KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel is mildly dystopian and emphasizes the effects of overpopulation stressing problems related to food production, unemployment, and the quality of life. In New York City, people live on sampans. In England, there is no uncultivated land left, and in Asia the situation is worse. There are various proposals to reduce population growth, including birth control and delaying marriage with a tax on those who marry young. Also depicts the advancement of women in Europe, where they are physicians and preachers, but not in the U.S., which has not changed. Some on international relations. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Development of the Principles and Plans on which to Establish Self-Supporting Home Colonies; as a Most Secure and Profitable Investment for Capital, and an Effectual Means Permanently to Remove the Causes of Ignorance, Poverty, and Crime. And Most Materially to Benefit All Classes of Society by Giving a Right Attention to the Now Greatly Misdirected Powers of the Human Faculties and of Physical and Moral Science Y1 - 1841 A1 - Robert Owen (1771-1858) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author KW - Welsh author AB -

Detailed description of the transition to the Owenite eutopia through the establishment of communities designed to become self-supporting. Each community planned for 2000 to 2500 permanent residents on 2000 to 3000 acres. Includes descriptions of the buildings and gardens and the "General Rules and Regulations" for the community (396-401 in Claeys). See also 1813, 1830, 1839, 1843, 1844, 1846, and 1855 (2). 

PB - Home Colonization Society CY - London N1 -

2nd ed. London: Home Colonization Society, 1841; rpt. in Selected Works of Robert Owen. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 4 vols. (London: William Pickering, 1993), 2: 337-407.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Future Is Better Than the Past" Y1 - 1841 AB -

Poem describing an Eden-like future.

JF - The Dial (Boston, MA) VL - 2.1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Marriage, or a Vision of Socialism" Y1 - 1841 A1 - R [pseud.] AB -

Satire on the supposed practices of socialism. No marriage bonds. Women offer themselves and negotiate a temporary arrangement.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A New Society" Y1 - 1841 A1 - [Betsey Guppy] [Chamberlain] (1797-1886) KW - Female author KW - Native American author AB -

A short dream of proposals for a future egalitarian society presented through resolutions from the “Annual Meeting of the Society for the promotion of Industry, Virtue and Knowledge” of 1860. .

JF - The Lowell Offering; A Repository of Original Articles, Written Exclusively By Females Employed in the Mills (Lowell, MA) VL - 1 N1 -

Rpt. in The Lowell Offering: Writings by New England Mill Women (1840-1845). Ed. Benita Eisler (Philadelphia, PA: J.B. Lippincott, 1977), 208-10.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Orphan of Novogorod: An Illyrian Tale Y1 - 1841 A1 - [Louis Antony] [Donatti] (1781-1852) KW - Male author KW - Slovenian author KW - UK author AB -

Detailed eutopia describing an isolated Christian community. Discusses the clergy, health, and education, among other things. Small part of an adventure tale.

PB - Black and Armstrong CY - London U3 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Assassins. A Fragment of a Romance" Y1 - 1840 A1 - Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) ED - Mrs. [Mary Wollstonecraft] Shelley (1797-1851) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The Wandering Jew discovers an isolated Christian sect that is a eutopia of innocence and purity founded on love.

JF - Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments PB - E. Moxon CY - London VL - 2 vols. N1 -

Rpt. in The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Ed. Roger Ingram and Walter E. Peck. 10 vols. (London: Published For The Julian Editions by Ernest Benn, 1929), 6: 155-71; in Shelley’s Prose or The Trumpet of Prophecy. Ed. David Lee Clark (London: Fourth Estate, 1988), 144-54; and in The Prose Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Ed. E[ugene] B[ernard] Murray (Oxford, Eng.: Clarendon Press, 1993), 1: 124-39. Editorial Commentary 384-90.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Elmaphil: A Fragment of the Last Antediluvian Days Y1 - 1840 A1 - The Author of “A Fantastical Flight into the Planets. [pseud.] AB -

A description and story of life before the flood, mostly using Biblical sources. There are eutopian elements--e.g., ". . . in those blessed days, no rain, no storm, intruded. . . (3). Vegetarian (see Genesis xi,3), but the story is of heroic but fallible humans, and most of the work is adventure and romance.

PB - Saunders & Otley CY - London U3 -

By The Author of "A Fantastical Flight into the Planets."

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Social Destiny of Man: or, Association and Reorganization of Industry Y1 - 1840 A1 - Albert Brisbane 1809-1890) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The book is a very detailed presentation of life under Association in a Fourierist Phalanx, much of it taken directly from Fourier. The author is known as the primary popularizer in the United States of the ideas of Charles Fourier (1772-1837).

PB - C. F. Stollmeyer CY - Philadelphia, PA N1 -

Rpt. New York: Burt Franklin, 1968; and New York: Augustus M. Kelley, 1969.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Society Organized. An Allegory: Part I Y1 - 1840 A1 - William Augustus Gordon Hake (1811-1914) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Poem with notes producing a vague utopia. Cooperation of elites, masses, and scientists.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Last Man" Y1 - 1839 A1 - Edward Wallace KW - Male author AB -

Long poem detailing the travails, mostly emotional, of the last man.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Political Pilgrim's Progress" Y1 - 1839 A1 - [Thomas] [Doubleday] (1790-1870) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

An allegory in which Radical makes his way with his family from the City of Plunder to the City of Reform. While meeting much opposition and overcoming many temptations, he arrives in the City of Reform, which has no direct taxes, no professional politicians, no standing army, and no distinctions between rich and poor. It has a citizen's militia and requires its men aged 20 to 50 to be armed both physically and morally.

JF - Northern Liberator VL - 2.66, 68 - 69, 71, 74 - 76 N1 -

Rpt. with illustrations as The Political Pilgrim's Progress. From the Northern Liberator. Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, Eng.: Ptd. at the Northern Liberator Office by John Bell, 1839; and in Chartist Fiction. Thomas Doubleday, The Political Pilgrim's Progress. Thomas Martin Wheeler, Sunshine and Shadow. Ed. Ian Haywood (Aldershot, Eng.: Ashgate, 1999), 17-59 with "Editor's Notes (59-63).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Revolution in the Mind and Practice of the Human Race, or the Coming Change from Irrationality to Rationality Y1 - 1839 A1 - Robert Owen (1771-1858) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author KW - Welsh author AB -

A statement of the elements of and argument for Owen's eutopia. See also 1813, 1830, 1841, 1843, 1844, 1846, and 1855 (2) Owen. 

PB - Effingham Wilson CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Atlantis: A Southern World,--Or a Wonderful Continent,--Discovered in the Great Southern Ocean, and Supposed to be The Atlantis of Plato, or The Terra Australis Incognita of Dr. Swift, During a Voyage Conducted by Alonzo Pinzon Commander of The American Metal Ship Astrea" Y1 - 1838 A1 - Peter Prospero L.L.D. [pseud?] AB -

Eutopia. Describes the city of Saturnia, the capital city of Atlantis, which appears to be a middle ground between this life and Heaven. Emperors like Nero and Tiberius are porters and servants here, as are similarly behaved Cardinals, Bishops, and other "great men". Others, better men, like Benjamin Franklin live, converse, and continue their work in the arts and sciences. Very few are married to those they were married to in their previous lives. The government is similar to that of the U.S., and George Washington is President. Mostly presented through conversations among the great and good of the past and with the contemporary visitor, who asks them questions about their works.

JF - The American Museum of Science, Literature and the Arts (Baltimore, MD) VL - 1.1-4 - 2.1, 5-6 U3 -

Prospero, Peter, L.L.D. [pseud?].

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Cassandra in Ireland;" or, "'Tis Sixty Years'-----to Come" Y1 - 1838 KW - Irish author AB -

Satire on Irish and British politics and policies written from a Protestant perspective bewailing the dominance of the British Isles by Catholics. Includes a debate on absentee landlords in Ireland. Problematic technology such as a malfunctioning "steam-valet" and an education system that is trying to make everything simpler.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Contrast between the new moral world and the old immoral world. A Lecture Delivered in the Social Institution, Salford Y1 - 1838 A1 - Robert Cooper (1819-68) KW - Male author AB -

Depicts a eutopia based on the ideas of Robert Owen (1771-1858). Combines the advantages of city life and country life. Equality with age the only distinction among people.

PB - Published by A. Heywood, Ptd. for William Chapwick CY - Manchester, Eng. N1 -

Rpt. in Owenite Socialism: Pamphlets and Correspondence. 10 vols. Ed. Gregory Claeys (London: Routledge, 2005), 5: 29-41.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Orphan's Isle; A Tale for Youth. Founded on Facts Y1 - 1838 A1 - Charles Wall KW - Male author AB -

Robinsonade in which a family with small children are shipwreck on an island in the South Pacific. The parents both die, and the children live successfully until rescued.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Oxford in 1888, A Fragmentary Dream Y1 - 1838 A1 - [Richard] [Walker] ED - R. P. [pseud.] KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia describing a dream of a future Oxford, complete with town plans.

PB - Henry Slatter CY - Oxford, Eng. U3 -

By a Sub-Utopian [pseud.]. Published from the Original MS. by the editor, R.P. [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Sequel to the Peopling of Utopia; or, the Sufficiency of Socialism for Human Happiness: Being a Further Comparison of the Social and Radical Schemes Y1 - 1838 A1 - Samuel Bower KW - Male author AB -

Short sequel to a political pamphlet The Peopling of Utopia; or The Sufficiency of Socialism for Human Happiness: Being a Comparison of the Social and Radical Schemes. Bradford, Eng.: Ptd. for C. Willkinson, 1838. Both detail the advantages of communal life, but A Sequel is presented as a eutopia.

PB - Ptd. for C. Wilkinson CY - Bradford, Eng. N1 -

Rpt. in Owenite Socialism: Pamphlets and Correspondence. 10 vols. Ed. Gregory Claeys (London: Routledge, 2005), 5: 16-28.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A World of Wonders; Or Divers Developments, Showing the Thorough Triumph of Animal Magnetism in New England. Illustrated by the Power of Prevision in Mrs. Matilda Fox, and the Point of the Pencil, by D.C. Johnston Y1 - 1838 A1 - Joel R. Peabody M.B. Fellow of the College of ‘Pothecaries KW - Male author AB -

The Moon, Saturn, Jupiter, and the Sun are visited. Some utopias on other planets, including a Cockaigne on the sun. The moon is inhabited by strange creatures who live in social groups, Saturn is depicted as a eutopia with nine great cities, with all homes a quarter mile high. The people wear few clothes and are vegetarian. Jupiter is a planet early in its evolution. Reference is made to a second volume, but none exists.

PB - Robert S. Davis CY - Boston, MA N1 -

2nd and 3rd eds. Boston, MA: Robert S. Davis, 1838.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Account of an Expedition to the Interior of New Holland Y1 - 1837 A1 - [Richard] [Whately] (1787-1863) ED - Lady Mary Fox (1798-1864) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

A reformed social and political system set in a eutopia founded by Europeans in the interior of Australia, where one of the eleven states of a federal union is called Eutopia, defined as a fine place. Fairly conservative. Constant reference to not being like the savages, but local Aborigines have been educated, and there has been some blending of the two groups. There are both personal and property votes. Must have basic education to vote and get additional votes for public service and personal qualifications, with three extra votes for intelligence. Religious toleration.

PB - Richard Bentley CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997. 7: 251-348. 2nd ed. London: Richard Bentley, 1849. 3rd ed. rev. as The Southlanders. An Account of an Expedition to the Interior of New Holland. London: John W. Parker & Son, 1860. The revisions are minor except for the addition of a poem on Australia, "The Land of Contrarieties" (215-16)

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Community: A Vision" Y1 - 1837 A1 - Rev. Joseph Marriott KW - Male author AB -

Communal eutopia. Status and gender equality. Much use of machinery to save labor. Temperance but not prohibition. Children taught as they undertake easy work. The first installment in The New Moral World has a note appended saying "A vision we hope to see realized shortly.--Ed." See also his A Catechism of Circumstances; or, the Foundation Stone of a Community. Manchester, Eng.: A. Heywood, 1840. 2nd ed. Salford, Eng.: Published by the “Association of All Classes of All Nations”/Manchester, Eng.: A. Heywood/London: Wakelin/London: Hetherington, [1841]. 8 pp. NN. The Catechism explicitly follows the position of Robert Owen (1771-1858).

JF - The New Moral World, And Manual of Science VL - No. 138 - 140, 143, 145-46, 148 - 155 N1 -

Rpt. as Community: A Drama. Manchester, Eng.: A. Heywood/London: Wakelin, [1838]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Eureka: A Prophecy of the Future Y1 - 1837 A1 - [Robert Folkestone] [Williams] KW - Male author AB -

Mostly adventure, but volume two includes a description of a number of fictional countries, including one named Athenia that has eutopian elements such as goods distributed on the basis of contributions to the country. England has degenerated because it is overrun by the inferior Irish.

PB - Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman CY - London VL - 3 vols. in 1. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "An Island" Y1 - 1837 A1 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-61) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Poem describing an idyllic island.

JF - New Monthly Magazine and Humourist VL - 49 N1 -

Rpt. in her The Seraphim and Other Poems (London: Saunders and Otley, 1838), 185-88; and in The Complete Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Boston, MA: Houghton, Mifflin, 1900), 32-34.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - L.... A... T... to his fellow citizens of the United States of America; and Through Their Medium, To All His Other Human Beings on Earth, Not Any Where Else! Y1 - 1837 A1 - Louis Anastasius Tarascon (1759-1840) KW - French author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. Argues that an intentional community to be called Startspoint should be founded on the Upper Mississippi (called the Missouri in the text), and presents detailed regulations of life in it, including the structure and rules of the community (Magazine of History 23-32), and a description of the daily life (32-37), which is very organized and highly structured. Later communities further West will be established called, in order, Union and Perfection. Earlier the author had published L. A. Tarascon, To His Friends, &c. &c. &c. Louisville, KY: Np, 1836. 14 pp., which suggests the establishment such a community but without any social details. See also his 1836 Republican Education, the 2nd ed. of which is printed in this book. 

PB - H. D. Robinson CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Magazine of History With Notes and Queries (New York), no. 148 (1929): 5-42.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Journey to the Moon" Y1 - 1836 AB -

Satire on human foibles set on the moon, which is where all things lost on Earth go, including time and virtues and vices.

JF - Adventures in the Moon, and Other Worlds PB - Ptd. for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Original Communications. First Impressions of America. By an Inhabitant of the Moon [pseud.]” Y1 - 1836 A1 - X. O. Z. [pseud.] AB -

Satire on the U.S. at the time, the inhabitants of which are compared to savages on the moon. Particularly criticizes the habit of living close together in highly inflammable buildings.

JF - The New-York Mirror: A Weekly Journal, Devoted to Literature and the Fine Arts VL - 13.47 U3 -

X. O. Z. [pseud.].

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Partisan Leader. A Tale of the Future Y1 - 1836 A1 - [Nathaniel Beverley] [Tucker] (1784-1851) KW - Male author KW - US author PB - [Duff Green] CY - [Washington, DC] VL - 2 vols. N1 -

Rpt. as by Beverley Tucker of Virginia. The Partisan Leader. Secretly Printed in Washington (in the year 1836) by Duff Green, for Circulation in the Southern States [A Key to the Disunion Conspiracy at the head of the title]. 2 vols. New York: Rudd & Carleton, 1861; reissued as 2 vols. in 1 in 1861; rpt. Richmond, VA: West and Johnson, 1862; rpt. as The Partisan Leader. Ed. Carl Bridenbaugh. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1933, with a “Preface” (vii) and an “Introduction” (ix-xxxiv), and “Notes” (275-77) by the editor; and as The Partisan Leader. Secretly Printed in Washington (in the year 1836) by Duff Green, for Circulation in the Southern States but Afterwards Suppressed [A Key to the Disunion Conspiracy at the head of the title]. Upper Saddle River, NJ: The Gregg Press, 1968, with a brief biography of Tucker (unpaged); and from the 3rd impression of the as by Nathaniel Beverley Tucker. The Partisan Leader: A Tale of the Future. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1971 with an “Introduction” (vii-xxiii) by C. Hugh Holman. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Plan of a Constitution For the Inhabitants of the Indian Coast, In Central America, Commonly Called the Mosquito Shore Y1 - 1836 A1 - [Gregor] [Macgregor?] AB -

Eutopia. Detailed constitution of the "Commonwealth of Indialand" beginning with a declaration of rights (6-13) and laying out the "Form of Government" (14-34), including national, regional, and local government.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Republican Education, and Gradual Western March, of Enlightened, Laborious, Virtuous, and Happy Generations, from All the Present and Future United Sates and Territories of North America Through Their Rocky Mountains, To Their North-West Coasts on the Pacific Ocean; whence, in time, Further On--The Only Means, Not Only of Extending Knowledge and Happiness All Around the Whole Earth, but, the Only One, Also, of Maintaining Their Union: nay, more, the Only One of Maintaining Any One of Their Republics Y1 - 1836 A1 - Louis Anastasius Tarascon (1759-1840) KW - French author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A detailed description of the settlements he hopes will be established with a stress on education (15-16) and a description of “Regular Daily Life” (16-23). See also 1837 Tarascon, which reprints the 2nd ed. of this book. The author was born in France and moved to the U.S. in 1794, where he became a successful businessman.

PB - Ptd. S. Penn, Jr. CY - Louisville, KY N1 -

2nd ed. rpt. in his L.... A... T... to his fellow citizens of the United States of America; and Through Their Medium, To All His Other Human Beings on Earth, Not Any Where Else! New York: H.D. Robinson. Rpt. in Magazine of History With Notes and Queries (New York), no. 148 (1929): 5-42. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Three Hundred Years Hence" Y1 - 1836 A1 - [Mary] [Griffith] (1800?-46) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. A strict, reformed society brought about by the economic equality of women. Technologically advanced. Clergy hired for life and in most jobs and professions people remain rather than move for advancement or more money. Literature censured.

JF - Camperdown; or, News from Our Neighborhood: Being Sketches PB - Carey, Lea and Blanchard CY - Philadelphia, PA N1 -

Rpt. under the title of the utopia Philadelphia, PA: Prime Press, 1950; [Rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1975], with an “Introduction” by Nelson F. Adkins rev. from its original publication as “An Early American Story of Utopia.” Colophon, ns 1 (July 1935): 123-32; rpt. from the original in American Utopias: Selected Short Fiction. Ed. Arthur O. Lewis, Jr. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971. All items separately paged; and in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories by United States Women, 1836-1919. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler (London: Pandora Press, 1984), 31-48 with an editor’s note on 29-30. The Prime Press ed. has many typographical errors. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "1980" Y1 - 1835 A1 - H[enry] H[urry] Goodeve (1807-84) KW - English author KW - Indian author KW - Male author AB -

Technological utopia set in India with women serving in Parliament and limited racial equality for the wealthy. 

JF - Bengal Annual; A Literary Keepsake for 1835 SN - 978-78-308863-8 N1 -

Rpt. in Science Fiction in Colonial India, 1835-1905: Five Tales of Speculative Fiction and Resistance. Ed. Mary Ellis Gibson (London: Anthem Press, 2019), 85-108, with an editor’s introduction on 77-83. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Journal of Forty-Eight Hours in the Year 1945” Y1 - 1835 A1 - Kylas Chunder Dutt (1817-59) KW - Indian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which the “British Barbarians” suppress a revolt.

JF - Calcutta Literary Gazette, or Journal of Belles Lettres, Science, and the Arts VL - 3 (ns no. 75) SN - 978-78-308863-8, 9781842330494 N1 -

Rpt. in Wasafiri (India) 21.3 (November 2006): 15-20; in Selections from ‘Bengaliana’. Ed. Alex Tickell (Manchester, Eng: Trent Editions, 2005), 149-59, with a Glossary on 164-38; and in Science Fiction in Colonial India, 1835-1905: Five Tales of Speculative Fiction and Resistance. Ed. Mary Ellis Gibson (London: Anthem Press, 2019), 115-26, with an editor’s introduction on 109-14.  

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Junction of the Ocean. A Tale of the Year 2098” Y1 - 1835 A1 - Henry Meredith Parker (1796-1868) KW - English author KW - Indian author KW - Male author AB -

Disaster/dystopian story told by a survivor. The construction of the Panama Canal produces a massive flood when the two oceans come together, ultimately inundating most of the world. 

JF - Bengal Annual; A Literary Keepsake for 1835 SN - 978-78-308863-8 UR - https://archive.org/details/boleponjisconta01parkgoog/page/n2/mode/1up N1 -

Rev. in the author’s Bole Ponjis, Containing the Tale of the Buccaneer; A Bottle of Red Ink; The Decline and Fall of Ghosts; and Other Ingredients. 2. vols. (London/Calcutta, India: W. Thacker & Co., 1851), 1: 132-215. https://archive.org/details/boleponjisconta01parkgoog/page/n2/mode/1up; rpt. in Science Fiction in Colonial India, 1835-1905: Five Tales of Speculative Fiction and Resistance. Ed. Mary Ellis Gibson (London: Anthem Press, 2019), 38-75, with an editor’s introduction on 29-37. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Monikins Y1 - 1835 A1 - [James Fenimore] [Cooper] (1789-1851) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Utopian satire using a society of monkeys to comment on human foibles.

PB - Carey, Lea and Blanchard CY - Philadelphia, PA VL - 2 vols. N1 -

Rpt. in 1 vol. ed. James S. Hedges. Albany, NY: New College and University Press, 1990.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Original Unwritten Editorials. The Year Three Thousand; or, Fragments from the Twenty-One Hundred and Fifty Second Volume of the New-York Mirror” Y1 - 1835 A1 - V. E. P. U. P. [pseud.] AB -

Reports of events, mostly social from the year 3000. Elements of a technological eutopia. War has ended as the result of a weapon that can easily annihilate either side. Naples, which had been destroyed by an eruption of Vesuvius, has been excavated by archaeologists. New York City has a population of ten and a half million. The U.S. produces literature much better than the classics or Shakespeare.

JF - The New-York Mirror: A Weekly Journal, Devoted to Literature and the Fine Arts VL - 13.22 U3 -

V. E. P. U. P. [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Sojourn in the City of Amalgamation in the Year of our Lord 19-- Y1 - 1835 A1 - Oliver Bolokitten, Esq. [pseud.] KW - US author AB -

Racist dystopia.

PB - Author CY - New York U3 -

Bolokitten, Oliver, Esq. [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Year Three Thousand; or Fragments from the Twenty-One Hundred and Fifty-Second Volume of the New-York Mirror” Y1 - 1835 AB -

Technological eutopia.

JF - The New York Mirror VL - 3.22 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Doctor &c. Y1 - 1834 A1 - Robert Southey (1774-1843) ED - John Wood Warter KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Chapter CCXLI describes the doctor’s utopia, called Columbia, which is a monarchy with an aristocracy and a Parliament elected by universal (male) suffrage.

PB - Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans CY - London VL - New ed. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hampden in the Nineteenth Century; or, Colloquies on the Errors and Improvement of Society Y1 - 1834 A1 - [John Minter] [Morgan] (1782-1854) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Vol. 1 includes a cooperative eutopia among the remnants of the Incas (344-61). Vol. 2 includes material on Thomas More (1478-1535) in Chap. II, Robert Owen (1771-1858) in Chap. IV, and William Thompson (1775-1833) in Chap. X. The Appendix (354-431) includes material from Abram Combe (1785-1827), Robert Owen, and others. See also Colloquies on Religion and Religious Education: Being a Supplement to "Hampton in the Nineteenth Century". London: Moxon, 1837, which is not utopian but supplements the discussion in the earlier volume.

PB - Edward Moxon CY - London VL - 2 vols. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The United Worlds: A Poem in Fifty Seven Books Y1 - 1834 A1 - [General] [Nathaniel] [King] (1767-1848) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

On the first page, the author says, “The writer of this poem aims at the moral improvement of the reader. Chiefly he would inculcate the love of civil and religious liberty,--of justice,--of peace and mercy,--of temperance. These virtues cannot come single. He would also encourage public enterprise--ardor in undertaking, and perseverance in accomplishing.” Using the theory of John Cleves Symmes (1780-1829), the interior of the Earth immediately under America consists of six concentric Orbs that have been linked by roads and bridges and has a democratically elected government with representatives from each Orb. It is inhabited by peaceful people descended from Noah who have advanced technology based on advanced steam technology, including giant machines “in the form of man” called Androides (34-35). The capitol, Golden City, is located directly under corrupt New York. The Subterraneans meet with a Christian missionary and are converted. They meet in a great conclave and conclude that they should bring peace to the surface. They meet in Washington and an agreement is reached, which is then undermined by a group of conspirators. War follows, which the Subterraneans win. Delegates from all nations and regions of the surface convene and adopt a Constitution for the United Worlds that includes two legislative branches and an elective Chief with no veto. No despotism, no slavery. “Peace, truth, right, temperance, pureness, mercy’s reign/These the world’s order that the law sustain” (248). The Copy of the book at the University of Virginia is from the granddaughter of Nathaniel King and is inscribed as from grandfather.

PB - Printed for the Proprietor. Smith Press CY - Hamilton, NY U3 -

Drinkwater, Mark [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Lotos-Eaters" Y1 - 1833 A1 - Alfred Tennyson (1809-92) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Sailors are shipwrecked on an island that is a simple eutopia where all needs are easily met, but the implication is that such a life is ultimately not a good one.

JF - Poems PB - Edward Moxon CY - London N1 -

Substantially rev. in his Poems. 2 vols. (London: Edward Moxon, 1842), 1: 175-84. U.S. ed. Boston, MA: William D. Ticknor, 1842), 1: 175-84. Critical ed. in The Poems of Tennyson in three volumes. Second Edition Incorporating the Trinity College Manuscript. Ed. Christopher Ricks (London: Longman 1987), I: 468-77, with an introductory note (467-68) and textual notes as footnotes; and in Tennyson’s Poetry. 2nd ed. Ed. Robert W. Hill, Jr. (New York: W.W. Norton, 1999), 76-80.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Marriage As It Ought To Be" Y1 - 1833 A1 - Robert Owen (1771-1858) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author KW - Welsh author AB -

Extract from an 1833 lecture on how marriage will be reformed in an Owenite society with marriage based only on mutual attraction and divorce easy if both parties request it. If only one does, they have to live together for six months more. Children, being raised communally, will not be affected. See also 1813, 1830, 1839, 1841, 1843, 1844, 1846, and 1855 (2). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Paradise within Reach of All Men, without Labour, by Powers of Nature and Machinery. An Address To All Intelligent Men. In Two Parts Y1 - 1833 A1 - J[ohn] A[dolphus] Etzler (1791?-1846?) KW - German author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The basic work of Etzler's many depicting eutopia through technology but that include descriptions of the better life that will be achieved through the use of the technology. There is considerable description of the technology involved, including wind, tidal, wave, and solar power. On the technology, see also his The New World or Mechanical System, To Perform the Labours of Man and Beast by Inanimate Powers, That Cost Nothing, for Producing and Preparing the Substance of Life. With Plates. Philadelphia, PA: C.F. Stollmeyer, 1841. Rpt. in The Collected Works of John Adophus Etzler. Delmar, NY: Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, 1977; and Description of the Naval Automation, Invented by J.A. Etzler and Patented in American and Europe. Philadelphia, PA: Ptd. by Gihon and Fairchild, [1841/42?]. Rpt. in The Collected Works of John Adophus Etzler. Delmar, NY: Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, 1977. See also 1843 and 1844 (2) Etzler.

PB - Etzler and Reinhold CY - Pittsburgh, PA N1 -

Rpt. in The Collected Works of John Adolphus Etzler. Delmar, NY: Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, 1977. Items separately paged.

U.K. ed. London: J. Brooks, 1836. 2nd English ed. London: Ptd. by and pub. by J. Cleave, 1842.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "On the Utility of Knowledge in Relation to a Future World" Y1 - 1833 A1 - Thomas Dick, LL.D. (1774-1857) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

A brief description of Heaven as a eutopia and how to prepare for life there. See also his The Philosophy of a Future State. Glasgow, Scot.: Ptd. for William Collins, 1828, which is included, separately paged, in volume I of The Complete Works of Thomas Dick, LL.D. Original rpt. New York: Solomon King, 1831. New ed. Glasgow, Scot.: William Collins, [1840].

JF - On the Improvement of Society by the Diffusion of Knowledge: or An Illustration of the Advantages Which Would Result from a More General Dissemination of Rational and Scientific Information Among All Ranks PB - Waugh and Innes CY - Edinburgh, Scot. N1 -

Rpt. (Glasgow, Scot.: William Collins, 1862), 211-22; and St. Louis, MO: Edwards & Bushnell, 1854), 108-13, which is included, separately paged, in vol. 1 of The Complete Works of Thomas Dick, LL.D. Containing An Essay on the Improvement of Society: The Philosophy of a Future State: The Philosophy of Religion: The Christian Philosopher; or, The Connection of Science and Philosophy With Religion, Mental Illumination and Moral Improvement of Mankind. Eleven Volumes in Two. Vol. I. St. Louis, MO: Edwards & Bushnell, 1854. There are other editions and reprints.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Australia Advanced: or Dialogues for the Year 3072” Y1 - 1832 A1 - Mephistopheles the Younger [pseud.] AB -

The advances are mostly technological, although from our perspective even the technological changes seem quite limited. Speed of travel by ship is mentioned often. There is a suspension bridge between Dover and Calais. Relatively little social change. For example, Australia remains a colony and is supporting Britain in its war with China. Australia’s population has grown significantly, but there is no mention of significant expansion beyond the East Coast. The Aboriginal population has died out around Sydney, but still exists to the North.

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Mephistopheles the Younger [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Legend of Another World Y1 - 1832 AB -

A retelling of the history of Earth set on Venus, much of it in the Biblical version with all of its eutopian and dystopian elements.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Monadelphia; or, The Formation of a New System of Society, without the intervention of a Circulating Medium Y1 - 1832 A1 - J[ohn] Thimbleby KW - Male author AB -

Monadelphia means a single brotherhood. Mostly an essay, but there is a description of a model town for 6000 people and the conclusion shows the eutopia in operation (64-70/Claeys 185-90). There is no money and no individual property. All goods are freely taken to and from a central warehouse. See also his A Lecture on the Currency, In Which Is Explained the Represented Time Note Medium of Exchange, in Connection With a Universal System of Banking; Delivered at the Barnet Institute. London: Willoughby & Co., [1850]; A Lecture Upon the Science of Labour, In Which Is Explained a Time Note Currency, Based on a National Banking System For All Classes Delivered at the Barnet Institute. London: Ptd. for Jackson and Keeson, 1857; and "What Is Money" or Man's Birthright "Time," The Only Real Wealth; Its Representative Forming the True Medium of Exchange. London: Effingham Wilson, [1849?], all of which suggest time notes.

PB - Ptd. for the Author, and W. Baldock, and W. Ford CY - Barnet, Eng. N1 -

Rpt. in Cooperative Communities: Plans and Descriptions. Eleven Pamphlets 1825-1847. New York: Arno Press, 1977. Items separately paged; and in Owenite Socialism: Pamphlets and Correspondence. 10 vols. Ed. Gregory Claeys (London: Routledge, 2005), 4: 162-90.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Seventy Years Hence, or Morning Amusements of a Gentleman in the Year 2002" Y1 - 1832 AB -

Satire. Mostly technological advances based on steam power. Higher education is widespread, but there are still servants, both human and mechanical. British nobility has moved to the U.S. and gone into business. Newspapers every fifteen minutes. Human winged flight.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Another Glimpse of the Future" Y1 - 1831 A1 - Salem [pseud.] AB -

Critique of 1830 Bluffdale that says the dystopian aspects of his future did not happen by showing Alton, Illinois, 300 years in the future when it is a large city. Focus on a large building with lecture halls, art galleries, a museum, and observatories. There are still rich and poor, but everyone was adequately clothed, fed, and housed. Pervasive religion with a wide range of denominations and a place of worship for every thousand inhabitants plus other places where people met. Stress on cleanliness, simplicity, and order.

JF - Illinois Monthly Magazine (Vandalia, IL) VL - 1.12 U3 -

Salem [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Decline and Fall of the British Empire" Y1 - 1831 A1 - An Australian Statesman, in the Year 2377 [pseud.] ED - Alaric A. Watts AB -

Britain became dependent on foreigners, lost its colonies, and is defeated in a war. All this is caused by the philosophers.

JF - Scenes of Life and Shades of Character PB - Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley CY - London VL - 2 vols. U3 -

An Australian Statesman, in the Year 2377 [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Great Britain in 1841; or, The Results of the Reform Bill Y1 - 1831 AB -

Dystopia as a result of passing the Reform Act of 1832 that gave more representation in the House of Commons to cities and increased the size of the electorate. In the future religion is under attack.

PB - Roake and Varty CY - London N1 -

2nd ed. London: Roake and Varty, 1831, which is rpt. in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 7: 235-49.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Social System: A Treatise on the Principle of Exchange Y1 - 1831 A1 - John Gray (1799-1833) KW - Male author AB -

Includes part of a chapter (30-39) detailing a new economic system.

PB - William Tait CY - Edinburgh, Scot. N1 -

Rpt. New York: Augustus M. Kelley, 1973.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Temple of Melekartha Y1 - 1831 A1 - [Isaac] [Taylor] KW - Male author AB -

Mostly romance and adventure. Two partial utopias are described. In one a wise ruler ensures sufficiency for all for both their working life and their old age. In the other, the City of Sages, an institution of the wise with no teaching is described.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Description of an Architectural Model from a Design by Stedman Whitwell, Esq. for a Community Upon a Principle of United Interests as Advocated by Robert Owen, Esq. Y1 - 1830 A1 - [Thomas] Stedman Whitwell (1784-1840) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Description of a proposed community based on the ideas of Robert Owen (1771-1858) with some supporting essays. A large picture was drawn of the proposed community and may be seen at The Goldsmith’s Library, London University.

PB - Hurst Chance & Co. and Effingham Wilson CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Cooperative Communities: Plans and Descriptions. Eleven Pamphlets 1825-1847. New York: Arno Press, 1972. Items separately paged.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Dialogue for the Year 2130, Extracted from the Album of a Modern Sibyl" Y1 - 1830 A1 - [Thomas Henry] [Lister] (1800-42) ED - Frederic Mansel Reynolds KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on technology and colonialism. A future Britain with deep class divisions. Overeducated poor. Written as a play.

JF - The Keepsake for MDCCCXXX PB - Pub. For the Proprietor, by Hurst, Chance, and Co. CY - London U3 -

The Author of Granby [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Five Hundred Years Hence Y1 - 1830 AB -

Satire on future technology with elements of a technological eutopia. Balloons are the dominant means of transportation, including trips to an inhabited moon. Weather control. No disease. Infallible justice provided by machines.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "London in a Thousand Years" Y1 - 1830 A1 - Eugenius Roche Esq. (1798-1829) KW - English author KW - French author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. While the poem begins with an almost eutopian description of London, it quickly becomes a description of London's disintegration and collapse.

JF - London in a Thousand Years; With other Poems PB - Colburn and Bentley, 1830 CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - The New Covenant Between God and His People; or, The Hebrew Constitution and Charter, with the Statutes and Ordinances, the Laws and Regulations, and Commands and Covenants Y1 - 1830 A1 - [Richard] Brothers (1757-1824) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Very detailed constitution. See also 1801 Brothers, his A Revealed Knowledge of the Prophecies & Times. Book the First. Wrote under the direction of the Lord God, and Published by his Sacred Command: It Being the First Sign of Warning for the Benefit of all Nations. Containing, with other Great and Remarkable Things, Not Revealed by any other Person on Earth, the Restoration of the Hebrews to Jerusalem, by the Year of 1798: Under their Revealed Prince and Prophet. London: Np, 1794. The second part has the separate title page A Revealed Knowledge of the Prophecies & Times particularly of the present time, the present war, and the prophecy now fulfilling. The Year of the World 5913. Book the Second. Containing, with other Great and Remarkable Things, Not Revealed by any other Person on Earth, the sudden and perpetual fall of the Turkish, German, and Russian Empires, Wrote under the direction of the Lord God, and Published by his Sacred Command: It Being the Second Sign of Warning for the Benefit of all Nations. By the Man that will be revealed to the Hebrews as their Prince and Prophet. London: Np, 1794; and A Letter from Mr. Brothers to Miss Cott, the recorded daughter of David, and future queen of the Hebrews. With an Address to the Members of His Brintannic Majesty’s Council and through them to all governments and people on Earth. London: G. Riebau/Edinburgh, Scot.: Rpt by J. Robertson, 1798. 

PB - Ptd. by A. Snell for Mr. Finleyson CY - London U1 -

By the late Mr. Brothers.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A New society, called the Self-Examining Society Y1 - 1830 AB -

Satire on intentional communities and social reform including a constitution of twelve articles. In the proposed society, each person will examine their own faults rather than the faults of others.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Outline of the Rational System of Society, Founded On Demonstrable Facts Developing the Constitution and Laws of Human Nature; Being the only Effectual Remedy For the Evils Experienced By the Population Of the World: The Immediate Adoption of Which Would Tranquilize the Present Agitated State Of Society, And Relieve It From Moral and Physical Evil, By Removing the Causes Which Produce Them Y1 - 1830 A1 - Robert Owen (1771-1858) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author KW - Welsh author AB -

Detailed outline of Owen's eutopia. Includes "A General Constitution of Government, and Universal Code of Laws" (207-210) which differs from the text under the same title in 1844 Owen. See also 1830, 1839, 1841, 1843, 1844, 1846, and 1855 (2). 

PB - Bradbury and Evans, Printer CY - [London] N1 -

Rpt. in Selected Works of Robert Owen. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 4 vols. (London: William Pickering, 1993), 2: 202-11. There are many different versions of this pamphlet with minor variations in the title.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sequel to Gulliver's Travels. An Eulogy Y1 - 1830 A1 - Lemuel Gulliver, Jr. [pseud.] AB -

Discourse on religion presented as a sequel to the Yahoo section of Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726). Much satire. Argument for Roman Catholicism.

PB - J. Jaques CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 7: 223-33.

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Gulliver, Lemuel, Jr. [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Three Hundred Years Hence" Y1 - 1830 A1 - Bluffdale [pseud.] AB -

What initially appears to be a eutopia turns out to be only good for some. St. Louis is a prosperous, important city, but its prosperity is based on the extreme exploitation of the working class. See also 1831 Salem.

JF - Illinois Monthly Magazine (Vandalia, IL) VL - 1.2 U3 -

Bluffdale [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Voyage to the Island of Philosophers. Part 1st, Containing an account of the Island and its Inhabitants, together with the Incidents which occurred there, during the sojourn of the Writer. Veni, Vidi, Scripsi Y1 - 1830 A1 - Caesario San Blas, Bachelor [pseud.] KW - US author AB -

Satire on philosophers in a visit to an isolated island. Diversity of dress and architecture. City moated and walled to keep cattle from disturbing the reflections of the philosophers. Rampant hypochondria. No women or children, and the absence of women is considered essential. At the end the philosophers think that they are threatened by Amazons from another island; it is not clear whether or not they are.

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San Blas, Caesario, Bachelor [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Letter from Sydney, the Principal Town of Australasia. Together with the Outline of a System of colonization Y1 - 1829 A1 - [Edward Gibbon] [Wakefield] (1796-1862) ED - Robert Gouger Editor KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Some damning of the settlement process, particularly convict labor and the quality of some of the other immigrants. Shows the difficulty of working the land. Objections to the provincialism of the politics. But he sees Australia with a positive future, an “extension of Britain” that could be settled by young men and women, sent in equal numbers, which would reduce what he saw as the too-rapid growth of the population in Britain. Treated as a eutopia in Matthew Graves and Elizabeth Rechniewski. “Essays for an Empty Land: Australia as Political Utopia.” Cultures of the Commonwealth 17 (Winter 2010-2011): 37-51.

PB - Joseph Cross/Simpkin and Marshall/Effingham Wilson CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - The History of Bullanabee and Clinkataboo, Two Recently Discovered Islands in the Pacific Y1 - 1828 AB -

Eutopia set on islands off the coast of Japan. Parallels the religious history of Britain and includes much satire on religion. Patriarchal. All servants are women and men and women do not do the same work. Families are close, and all education is within the family. No man speaks to a woman of another family in public unless male members of her family are present. Written laws. Education in the home.

PB - Ptd. for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 7: 71-157.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Humours of Eutopia. A Tale of Colonial Times Y1 - 1828 A1 - [Ezekial] [Sanford] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Includes a small section (1: 18-41) on an ideal religious community.

PB - Carey, Lea and Carey CY - Philadelphia, PA VL - 2 vols. U3 -

By An Eutopian [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The New Political Economy, of the Honey-Bee Y1 - 1828 A1 - [Harriet?] [Grover] KW - Female author AB -

Satire on capitalist bees and an argument for the need work workers to unite.

PB - Ptd. and Pub. for the Author by W.C. Featherstone CY - Exeter, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A New Theory of Moral and Social Reform; Founded on the Principal and Most General Facts of Human Nature. Or Essays, To Establish a Universal Criterion of Moral Truth, That Shall Be Intelligible and Practicable Alike To Every Individual, and to Found Thereon a Plan of Voluntary Association and Order, Calculated to Secure Equal Benefits, As Well As "Equal Rights," To Every Member of Society, Without the Aid of Either Priestly or Political Government Y1 - 1828 A1 - Friend of the Utmost Reform, in the Mean Time, To the Representative System of Government [pseud.] AB -

The main text outlines the principles on which reform should be based. The appended text proposes a specific form of community based on equality, but the details are vague. Those interested are directed to contact the author through the publisher.

PB - Ptd. for Effingham Wilson CY - London U3 -

Friend of the Utmost Reform, in the Mean Time, To the Representative System of Government [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Practical Moral and Political Economy; or, the Government, Religion, and Institutions, Most Conducive to Individual Happiness and To National Power Y1 - 1828 A1 - T[homas] R[owe] Edmonds (1803-89) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Includes a short section (270-82) on the founding of a eutopia on an island based on the principles presented in the book. Emphasis on equality, particularly equal administration of justice, division of labor, and "gregariousness." Mentions the need to control population and suggests a parliament for children.

PB - Effingham Wilson CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Voyage of Captain Popanilla Y1 - 1828 A1 - [Benjamin] [Disraeli] (1804-81) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Imaginary voyage to contemporary England (heavily satirized). Starts from a eutopia on a South Seas island with complete sexual freedom. Parts of the novel derive from his first, unpublished novel "Aylmer Paillon".

PB - Henry Colburn CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in his Alroy, Popanilla, Count Alarcos (London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1906), 361-494; as “Popanilla.” In Popanilla and Other Tales. Vol. 3 of The Bradenham Edition of the Novels and Tales of Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (London: Peter Davies, 1926), 1-107; and rpt. from The Novels and Tales of Lord Beaconsfield (London: Longmans, Green, 1881), 4: 363-463 in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 7: 1-70. A new ed. as The Voyage of Captain Popanilla to the glorious island of Vraibleusia, the wonderful city of Hubbabub, and the peaceable isle of Blunderland. With illustrations from drawings by Daniel Maclise. London: Henry Colburn, 1829. U.S. ed. as The Voyage of Captain Popanilla. Philadelphia, PA: Carey, Lea and Carey, 1828. 

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By the Author of "Vivian Grey" [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Course of Time, A Poem, in Ten Books. To Which are Prefixed a Brief Memoir of the Author, an Analysis of the Poem, and an Index to the Principle Passages, Sentiments, or Descriptions. By Rev. William Jenks, D.D. Y1 - 1827 A1 - Robert Pollok, A.M. (1798-1827) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Book length poem on Biblical themes including the apocalypse and the return of Christ. The poem describes the history of humankind from a Biblical perspective from the Creation through the final division between saved and damned. About mid-way (end of Book V) is a description of the millennium. Church and state are separated, and the state has righteous leaders. The Jews have returned to a restored Jerusalem. No disease. No war. Abundance. No crime. Animals no longer in conflict with each other or humans.

PB - William Blackwood/Thomas Cadell CY - Edinburgh, Scot./London VL - 2 vols. N1 -

3rd American from 3rd Edinburgh ed. Boston, MA: Crocker and Brewster/New York: Jonathan Leavitt/ Philadelphia, PA: John Grigg/Baltimore, MD/Cushing and Jewett, 1828. At least 25 editions were published.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-second Century Y1 - 1827 A1 - [Jane] [Webb] (1807?-58) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Eutopia and satire. Much technical advancement. Female absolute monarch. The Roman Catholic church is the established church. Universal education has led to simple speaking by the upper classes and affected speech by the lower classes.

PB - Henry Colburn CY - London VL - 3 vols. SN - 978-1911204954 N1 -

2nd ed. as by Mrs. Loudon. London: Henry Colburn, 1828. Another ed. as by Mrs. Loudon. London: Frederick Warne, [1872]. Another ed. as by Jane (Webb) Loudon abr. by Alan Rauch. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1994. Critical ed. as by Jane Webb Loudon. Ed. Nickianne Moody and Andy Sawyer. Brighton, Eng.: EER/Edward Everett Root Publishers, [2022], with “A Note on the Text” (vii), “Preface: ‘A Strange, Wild Novel’: Jane Webb Loudon and The Mummy!” By Nickianne Moody and Andy Sawyer (viii-xix), “Endnotes” (336-49), “Sources of The Mummy: An encyclopedia of the future” (352-60), “Textual Change (361-424), and “John Claudius Loudon’s review of The Mummy!” (424-36). © 2021 but published March 2022.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sketch of a Journey Through The Western States of North America, From New Orleans, By the Mississippi, Ohio, City of Cincinnati and Falls of Niagara, To New York, In 1827. With a Description of the New and Flourishing City of Cincinnati, By Messrs. B. Drake and E.D. Mansfield. And a Selection from Various Authors, on the Present Condition and Future Prospects of the Settlers, in the Fertile and Populous State of Ohio, Containing Information Useful to Persons Desirous of Settling in America Y1 - 1827 A1 - W[illiam] Bullock (c. 1773-1849) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia in that it contains a foldout plan for a proposed Town, to be called Hygeia to be located on the Ohio River in Kentucky.

PB - John Miller CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Vol. 19 of Early Western Travels 1748-1846. A Series of Annotated Reprints of some of the best and rarest contemporary volumes of travel, descriptive of the Aborigines and Social and Economic Conditions in the Middle and Far West, during the Period of Early American Settlement. Ed. Reuben Gold Thwaites (Cleveland, OH: Arthur H. Clark, 1905), 113-54.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Unknown Region" Y1 - 1827 A1 - Herbert Trevelyan ED - Piers Shafton Gent. KW - Male author AB -

Satire. The "unknown region" is Russell Square in London.

JF - Sketches from Oblivion, Being the Remains of Herbert Trevelyan, Esqr PB - Hurst, Chance & Co. CY - London N1 -

Another ed. as by Pierce Shafton, Gent. "The Unknown Region." Vagaries in Quest of the Wild and the Whimsical (London: Ptd. for J. Andrews, 1827), 181-98. L has both names with no clear indication of which is the pseudonym.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Voyage to the Moon: With Some Account of the Manners and Customs, Science and Philosophy, of the People of Morosofia, and Other Lunarians Y1 - 1827 A1 - George Tucker (1775-1861) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Mostly satire but includes a eutopia called Okalbia, meaning Happy Valley, that is almost self-sufficient and has little outside contact. People marry young and limit family size to means. Traditional gender roles. See also 1841 Tucker.

PB - Elam Bliss CY - New-York N1 -

Rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1975 with a brief “Preface” (vii-ix) by David G. Hartwell and reprinting  (267-94) an anonymous review from the American Quarterly Review (Philadelphia, PA), no. 5 (March 1828): 61-88.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Whitehall; or, the Days of George IV Y1 - 1827 A1 - [William] [Maginn] (1793-1842) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on British politics presenting Britain as a completely corrupt dystopia.

PB - William Marsh CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Last Man" Y1 - 1826 A1 - Thomas Hood KW - Male author AB -

A last man dystopia.

JF - Whims and Oddities, In Prose and Verse; With Forty Original Designs PB - Lupton Relfe CY - London U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Man Y1 - 1826 A1 - [Mary Wollstonecraft] [Shelley] (1797-1851) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia of the last man on earth.

PB - Henry Colburn CY - London VL - 3 vols. N1 -

Rpt. Ed. Hugh J. Lake. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1965 with an “Introduction” by the editor (vii-xxi); 2nd ed. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1995, with an “Introduction to the Bison Books Edition by Judith Tarr (vii-xi); Ed. Morton D. Paley. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1994 with an editor’s “Introduction” (vii-xxviii) and “Explanatory Notes” (471-79); Ed. Anne McWhir. Peterborough, ON, Canada: Broadview Literary Texts, 1996 with an editor’s “Introduction” (xiii-xli); and as vol. 4 of The Novels and Selected Works of Mary Shelley. Ed. Jane Blumberg with Nora Cook. 8 vols. London: William Pickering, 1996 with an “Introductory Note” (xi-xv) and “Silent Corrections” (366-67). Muriel Spark’s, Child of Light: A Reassessment of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly. Hadleigh, Eng.: Tower Bridge Publications, 1951 contains an “Appendix--The Last Man--An Abridged Version” (195-230) that summarizes the three volumes. Chapters I-V rpt. in Dystopia Utopia Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Tales (London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2016), 321-71.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Man Machine; or, the Pupil of 'Circumstances'" Y1 - 1826 A1 - [James Kirke] [Paulding] (1778-1860) ED - Author of John Bull in America [pseud.] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia attacking Robert Owen (1771-1858) citing his New View of Society (1813). A cotton mill run on what are described as Owen's principles is designed to treat the "Man Machine", including children, in such a way as to produce the greatest profits for the proprietor. Equality was the rule, and care was provided for children and seniors. Life was machine-like with everyone working long hours and eating and sleeping on schedule. But "human nature" manifested itself in pride and envy. The story then traces other failed attempts to apply Owen's principles. The stories told by the second and third wise men of Gotham, "The Perfection of Reason" (143-233) and "The Perfection of Science" (235-324), present other failed attempts at human betterment.

JF - The Merry Tales of the Three Wise Men of Gotham PB - G. and C. Carvill CY - New York U3 -

Ed. by the Author of John Bull in America [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Revolt of the Bees Y1 - 1826 A1 - John Minter Morgan (1782-1854) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia followed by a eutopia. Opens with a colony of bees choosing capitalism and degenerating into starvation and war. A eutopia is then presented based on the ideas of Robert Owen (1771-1858), specifically his ideas on the formation of character. Most of the text is taken up with discussion of the ideas. See also J.C. Prince, "The Revolt of the Bees. Verses Suggested by Reading the Above Work; Presented to Me By My Valued Friend Quintus Hortensius." The New Moral World [6].58 (November 30, 1839): 927-28. See also 1834 and 1845 Morgan. For Owen's eutopias, see 1813, 1831, 1839, 1841, 1844, 1846, and 1855 (2) Owen.

PB - Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green CY - London N1 -

2nd ed. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1828. Rpt. London: Ptd. for Hurst, Chance and Co. and Effingham Wilson, 1830. 3rd ed. London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1839; rpt. in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 6: 309-438

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Voyage to Immanuel's Land, in the Ship Hopewell; with an Account of the Many Remarkable Deliverances from Danger; A Description of the Countries Visited; Their Laws, Manners, and Habits; and A Statement of the Advantages of the Celestial Country Y1 - 1826 A1 - [John] [Thornton] KW - Male author AB -

Allegory. Countries visited include Revelling Island, Popish Continent, Fanatics Land, Sceptics Point, etc. Eternal Rest is finally reached.

PB - James Nisbet CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Articles of Agreement Drawn Up and Recommended By The London Co-operative Society for the Formation of a Community on Principles of Mutual Co-operation Within Fifty Miles of London. Np: np. Rpt. in John Gray, A Lecture on Human Happiness; Being the first of a Series of Lectures on that Subject. In Which Will Be Comprehended A General Review of the Causes of the Existing Evils of Society, and a Development of Means By Which They May Be Permanently and Effectually Removed. To Which Are Added The Articles of Agreement Drawn Up and Recommended By The London Co-operative Society for the Formation of a Community on Principles of Mutual Co-operation Within Fifty Miles of London Y1 - 1825 AB -

While the text is a proposal for an intentional community, it spells out the government, rules and regulations, positions of women and children, including orphans, guarantees physical and intellectual education, rules regarding employment, amusements, arts, housing, and heath care among other topics.

PB - Published by Sherwood, Jones & Co. CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in John Gray, A Lecture on Human Happiness; Being the first of a Series of Lectures on that Subject. In Which Will Be Comprehended A General Review of the Causes of the Existing Evils of Society, and a Development of Means By Which They May Be Permanently and Effectually Removed. To Which Are Added The Articles of Agreement Drawn Up and Recommended By The London Co-operative Society for the Formation of a Community on Principles of Mutual Co-operation Within Fifty Miles of London (London: Published by Sherwood, Jones & Co., 1825), separately paged (1-15); and in Owenite Socialism: Pamphlets and Correspondence. 10 vols. Ed. Gregory Claeys (London: Routledge, 2005), 1: 396-407. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Gulliver's Last Voyage, Describing Ballymugland, or the Floating Island Y1 - 1825 AB -

Utopian satire in which Lemuel Gulliver of 1726 Swift visits an island floating in the Pacific Ocean and driven by paddle wheels and steered by windmills. A significant part of the satire is directed at the religious control of the people, and women in particular.

PB - William Cole CY - London N1 -

2nd ed. London: William Cole, 1825.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Heaven on Earth, or the New Lights of Harmony. An Extravaganza, in Two Acts Y1 - 1825 A1 - Peter Puffem [pseud.] AB -

Dystopian satire on the New Harmony community in Indiana founded by Robert Owen (1771-1858).

PB - Np CY - Philadelphia, PA U3 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - John Bull in America; or, the New Munchausen Y1 - 1825 A1 - [James Kirke] [Paulding] (1778-1860) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on the U.S., particularly democracy, which presents the U.S. as a dystopia. See also 1826 Paulding, which is a satire on Robert Owen’s principles.

PB - Charles Wiley CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: John Miller, 1825.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Rebellion of the Beasts; Or, The Ass is Dead! Long Live the Ass!! Y1 - 1825 A1 - [Robert Mackenzie] [Beverley] (1798-1868) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Anti-monarchical satire in which animals successfully revolt against human domination.

PB - J. & H. L. Hunt CY - London N1 -

Rpt. with Leigh Hunt as the author Chicago, IL: Wicker Park Press, 2004.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Travels in Phrenologasto Y1 - 1825 A1 - [John] [Trotter] (1788-1852) KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Society based on phrenology (each person's head is shaved and marked), which ensures that the right person is in the right job. The land is located between Earth and the Moon. The capital is Cranioscoposco.

PB - Samuel Smith CY - Calcutta, India N1 -

1829 ed. rpt. in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 7: 159-222.

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1829 ed. has the pseudonym Gio[vanni] Battista Balscopo.

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Translated from the Italian [written in English].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Vision of Hades, or the Region Inhabited by the Departed Spirits of the Blessed. With Cursory Notes, Theological and Metaphysical. To which is now added, The Vision of Noös Y1 - 1825 AB -

Entirely concerned with religion, but the utopian form is used.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Deserted City” Y1 - 1824 A1 - Joseph Bounden KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a city that has been largely abandoned through defeat brought on by greed and a lack of national feeling.

JF - The Deserted City; Eva, A Tale in Two Cantos; and Other Poems PB - Ptd. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green CY - London U1 -

The cover title is The Deserted City: Eva; Electricity. Poems

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Millennial Kingdom of Peace: or a New System of Ecclesiastical Government, by the Holy Ghost and Saints (As Acts. XV. 26.) Where, Note, The Holy Ghost makes all Laws Invisibly! as when, "the Spirit made it seem good to decree," & c. as Acts XVI. 4. XV. 28. Or, as taught herein, That Invisibly, all Laws may be made by God's Spirit, if made invisibly by Saints! but cannot be done by Nations! For, God, our Saviour, promises, when he comes again, "to be glorified in his Saints," not Nations! see Dan. vii. 22. 2 Thes. X. 12. This Work Maintains also, That Such a Work Began in A.D. 1816! And Is to End in A.D. 1866; and Began With the Greeks Invisibly Y1 - 1824 A1 - Ebenezer Kellogg (1789-1846) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Proposal for a eutopia in which the saints will rule. Includes complex calculations on when the millennium will occur and concludes that it will be in 1866. Much criticism of contemporary organized religion saying that it is laymen who will be saved. Long argument that he was inspired by God and angels.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Prophetic Account of a Grand National Epic Poem to be entitled 'The Wellingtoniad' and to be published A.D. 2824" Y1 - 1824 A1 - T[homas] M[acauley] KW - Male author AB -

Satire on colonialism.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Revelations of the Dead-Alive Y1 - 1824 A1 - [John] [Banim] (1798-1842) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Satire set in 2083. Primarily concerned with improvements in taste, art, and so forth.

PB - W. Simpkin and R. Marshall CY - London N1 -

Rpt. as London and its Eccentricities in the Year 2023, or Revelations of the Dead Alive. By the Author of Boyne Water; Anglo Irish, Etc. [pseud.]. London: Simpkin, Marshall and Co. A.K. Newman and Co., 1845.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Treatise on Political Economy: or the true principles of political economy in the form of a romaunt, for the more pleasing accommodation of readers; Explained in a series of letters to Aristippus, from Aristander, perceived in a deep vision. The subject is presumed to be considered upon strict philosophical, mathematical, and geometrical principles Y1 - 1824 A1 - [David] [Stirrat] KW - Male author AB -

Technologically advanced eutopia. City in a series of levels, working from storehouses at the bottom, to homes for workers, to higher levels for higher occupations. Concerned with the desirability of establishing a sinking fund, which is a way of setting aside funds with, at that time, a view to reducing the national debt.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Australasia. A Poem Written for The Chancellor's Medal at the Cambridge Commencement, July, 1823 Y1 - 1823 A1 - W[illiam] C[harles] Wentworth (1790?-1872) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Australia as a eutopia. 

PB - Ptd. for G. and W.D. Whittaker CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Last Man" Y1 - 1823 A1 - Thomas Campbell (1777-1844) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Short poem describing the dystopian world as seen by the last man.

JF - The New Monthly Magazine (Philadelphia, PA) VL - 8.33 N1 -

Rpt. in The Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell, With A Memoir of His Life, and an Essay on his Genius and Writings (New York: D. Appleton, 1856), 86-88; in The Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell. Ed. J. Logie Robertson, M.A. 2nd ed. (London: Henry Frowde Oxford University Press, 1907), 232-34, with a brief note on 234; and in The Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell, With A Memoir of His Life by William Allingham (ix-lxxiv) (London: G. Bell, 1875), 88-90; Rpt. New York: Books for Libraries Press, 1975), 88-90.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Final Chorus" Y1 - 1822 A1 - Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The Earth enters a new Golden Age.      

JF - Hellas A Lyrical Drama PB - Charles and James Ollier CY - London UR - http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174388 N1 -

Rpt. as Hellas. A Lyrical Drama. Reprinted from the Original Edition of 1822. Ed. Thomas J. Wise. London: Published for the Shelley Society by Reeves and Turner, 1886. Rpt. New York: AMS Press, 1975; as Hellas A Lyrical Drama. A Reprint of the Original Edition Published in 1822 With the Author’s Prologue and Notes in Various Hands. Ed. Thomas J. Wise. London: Published for the Shelley Society by Reeves and Turner, 1886, with an Editor’s Preface on xi-xxiv, “Notes on Hellas by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley” on xxvii-xxx, “Note on the Prologue to Hellas: by Richard Garnett on xxxiii-xxxiv, Shelley’s Prologue on xxxv-xlv, Editor’s Notes on the Prologue to Hellas on xlvii-li, “Errata for Hellas on liii-lviii, Notes on 55-58, and “Written on Hearing the News of the Death of Napoleon” on 59-60; rpt. New York: AMS Press, 1975. See also Hellas: A Lyrical Drama. The Choruses Set to Music by William Christian Selle, Mus. Doc. London: Published for the Shelley Society by Reeves and Turner, 1886; rpt. New York: AMS Press, 1975.

Three stanzas that are in http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174388 are not in the printed text.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Epipsychidion: Verses Addressed to the Noble and Unfortunate Lady Emilia V--- Now Imprisoned In the Convent of ---- Y1 - 1821 A1 - Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Love poem describing a lover's eutopia on an island.

PB - C. and J. Ollier CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Epipsychidion. A Type Fac-simile Reprint of the Original Edition First Published in 1821. With an Introduction by The Rev. Stofford A. Brooke, M.A. And a Note by Algernon Charles Swinburne. Ed. Robert Alfred Potts. London: Published for the Shelley Society by Reeves and Turner, 1887; rpt. New York: AMS Press, 1975; and in The Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley Including Materials Never Before Printed in Any Edition of the Poems. Ed. Thomas Hutchinson (London: Humphrey Milford Oxford University Press, 1919), 405-19, with “Fragments Connected with Epipsychidion” (419-24) and “Notes on the Text and Its Punctuation” (893); in Shelley’s Poetry and Prose. Authoritative Texts Criticism. Ed. Donald H. Reiman and Sharon B. Powers (New York: W.W. Norton, 1977), 373-88; 2nd ed. Ed. Donald H. Reiman and Neil Fraistat (New York: W.W. Norton, 2002), 390-407; and in The Poems of Shelley. 4 vols. Ed. Michael Rossington, Jack Donovan, and Kelvin Everest. With the assistance of Andrew Lacey and Laura Barlow (London/New York: Routledge, 2014), 4: 126-172, with introductory notes on 115-125, and “Appendix: Fragments connected with Epipsychidion” (173-190).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Specimen of a Prospective Newspaper. The North American Luminary, 1st July 4796" Y1 - 1821 AB -

Technological eutopia with North America as the center of the world and Europe depopulated and reverted to savagery. Complete free trade has brought prosperity. Most of the article is taken up with scientific wonders.

JF - New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal (London) VL - 2 N1 -

Rpt. in The Literary Melange, or Weekly Register (Glasgow, Scot.) (August 28, 1822): 170-75; and rpt. twice in the Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (March 24, 1825), 3; and (June 10, 1830): 4.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Loyal Man in the Moon. With Thirteen Cuts Y1 - 1820 A1 - Author of the Constitutional House That Jack Built [pseud.] AB -

Satire in verse on the supporters of Queen Caroline (1768-1821).

PB - Ptd. for C. Chapple and J. Johnston CY - London U2 -

Illus.

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The Author of the Constitutional House That Jack Built [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - New Britain. A Narrative of a Journey, by Mr. Ellis, To a Country So Called By Its Inhabitants, Discovered in the Vast Plain of the Missouri, in North America, and Inhabited by a People of British Origin, Who Live Under an Equitable System of Society, Productive of Peculiar Independence and Happiness. Also, Some Account of Their Constitution, Laws, Institutions, Customs and Philosophical Opinions: Together With a Brief Sketch of Their History from the Time of Their Departure from Great Britain Y1 - 1820 A1 - [G.A.] [Ellis] AB -

Detailed eutopia emphasizing small town democracy.

PB - Ptd. for W. Simpkin and R. Marshall CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 6: 149-307.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Symzonia; Voyage of Discovery Y1 - 1820 A1 - Captain Adam Seaborn [pseud.] AB -

Eutopia. Land in the center of the earth. A society ruled by the Good, the Wise, and the Useful. The dull, the indolent, and the selfish had been driven out.

PB - Ptd. by J. Seymour CY - New-York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Arno Press, 1965; and Gainesville, FL: Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, 1975. The book is almost universally attributed to John Cleves Symmes (1780-1829), for whom it is named, but the attribution has been seriously questioned--see "The Authorship of Symzonia." Science-Fiction Studies 3 (March 1976): 98-99; and Hans-Joachim Lang and Benjamin Lease, "The Authorship of Symzonia: The Case for Nathaniel Ames." New England Quarterly 48.2 (June 1975): 241-52.

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By Captain Adam Seaborn [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Fragments of the History of Bawlfredonia: Containing an Account of the Discovery and Settlement, of that Great Southern Continent; and of the Formation and Progress of the Bawlfredonian Commonwealth. By Herman Thwackius. Translated from the original Bawlfredonian Manuscript, into the French language, by Monsieur Traducteur and Rendered into English, by a citizen of America Y1 - 1819 A1 - [Jonas] [Clopper] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on American history using the utopian form. Anti-democratic with particularly strong attacks on Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826). Caricatures both Yankees and Southerners. Disapproves of Stinkum-Puff (tobacco).

PB - Ptd. for the American Booksellers CY - [Baltimore, MD?] N1 -

Rpt. as Bawlfredonia. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Literature House/Gregg Press, 1969.

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By Herman Thwackius [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Lunarian, A Tale, In Five Cantos" Y1 - 1819 A1 - F[rederick] C[orfield] KW - Male author AB -

Poem beginning with a visit from a prince of the moon to a wealthy Persian man in hopes of marrying his daughter. Much detail on the lavish wealth of the Persian, but Persia is presented as a absolute and cruel monarchy with women obedient. The eutopia on the moon is a limited monarchy with gender equality. Few clothes. High morality. Authors are fined for wasting their time, and the fines support the poor. The poem is followed by "Wonders, A Lunarian Poem, In Two Parts" (49-64), which is an example of a poem for which an author was fined.

JF - The Mélange, Containing The Lunarian, A Tale, In Five Cantos. Wonders, In Two Parts. The Picture Gallery, In Nine Cantos. And Various Other Pieces, In Verse PB - Ptd. by J. Poole CY - Taunton, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - One Thousand Eight Hundred and Twenty Nine: or "Shall It Be So?" Y1 - 1819 AB -

Dystopia. A sleeper wakes in ten years to find that Catholic emancipation has led to Catholic domination. The Irish vote to bring about the Catholic ascendancy.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Christian Policy in Full Practice Among the People of Harmony, A Town in the State of Pennsylvania, North America; As Described in Melish's Travels through the United States, and Birkbeck's Notes on a Journey in America. To Which are subjoined, a Concise view of the Spencean System of Agrarian Fellowship, and some Observations on the manifest Similarity between the Principles of that System and of the truly Fraternal and Christianly Establishment of the Harmonists Y1 - 1818 A1 - [Thomas] [Evans] (b. 1763) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Christian eutopia in which all land and other major goods are public. Written constitution. Politically divided into small parishes or districts. The first thirteen pages (of sixteen) are a description of the Harmony Community in the United States founded by the German religious leader George Rapp (1757-1847). See also 1816 and 1817 Evans.

PB - Hay and Turner CY - London U3 -

By A Spencean Philanthropist [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Constantine and Eugene, or an Evening at Mount Vernon. A Political Dialogue Y1 - 1818 A1 - [Charles] [Kelsall] [?] KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Detailed legal system with some political material. Freedom of religion with some proportional representation of religions.

PB - Ptd. for the author, by P.J. DeMat CY - Brussels, Belgium U3 -

By Junius Secundus [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Five Hundred Years Hence!" Y1 - 1818 A1 - D. [pseud.] AB -

On October 1, 2318, London is an "obscure village" surrounded by ruins. Oxford has only one college left which enrolled three students in 2318. U.S., Canada, and Mexico are flourishing and a trip to the moon has been made from the U.S.  A satire on the story is “America in the Year 2318--a Quiz.” The Bee (Liverpool) 1.4 (1820): col. 244-47. (L)

JF - The Pocket Magazine of Classic and Polite Literature VL - 2.4, 12 N1 -

Rpt. in The Shilling Shockers: Stories of Terror from the Gothic Bluebooks. Ed. Peter Haining (London: Victor Gollancz, 1979), 170-80.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Voyage to Locuta; A Fragment: With Etchings, and Notes of Illustration Y1 - 1818 A1 - [Mrs.] [Elizabeth Susanna Davenport] [Graham] (1782/3-1844) KW - Female author AB -

An imaginary country is used to present a grammar book.

PB - Ptd. for J. Hatchard CY - London U2 -

Illus.

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By Lemuel Gulliver, Jun. [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Address of the Society of Spencean Philanthropists To All Mankind On the Means of Promoting Liberty and Happiness Y1 - 1817 A1 - [Thomas] [Evans] (b. 1763) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A critique of the current system and a summary of the proposals of Thomas Spence (1750-1814) as slightly revised by Evans and made explicitly Christian.See also 1816 and 1818 Evans and The Address and Regulations of the Society of Spencean Philanthropists With an Abstract of Spence’s Plan. London: Pub. by order of the Society, 1815 with the Regulations (7-10) and the Abstract (11-12). 12 pp. [LU].  For Spence’s utopias, see 1782, 1795, 1798, and 1801 Spence.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Armata, A Fragment Y1 - 1817 A1 - [Thomas] [Erskine] (1750-1823) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Parallel history of England commenting critically on English politics. See also 1817 Erskine. The Second Part of Armata.

PB - John Murray CY - London N1 -

Some believe that it was published in 1816, but I have never seen a copy without the 1817 date and four eds. were ptd. in that year. 4th ed. rpt. in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 6: 1-76.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Golden Key, Proving an Internal Spiritual Sense to the Holy Word; and Containing A Variety of Interesting and Entertaining Subjects, Introduced as Dreams of Translations into Paradise Y1 - 1817 AB -

Allegory of spiritual exploration and discovery together with descriptions of visits to Paradise. Strongly influenced by Emanuel Swedenborg (1668-1772). Includes many extracts from other authors, both identified and unidentified.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Laon and Cythna; or, The Revolution of the Golden City: A Vision of the Nineteenth Century. In the Stanza of Spenser Y1 - 1817 A1 - Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Poem. Includes a eutopia inspired by the French Revolution and the writings of William Godwin (1756-1836). The eutopia occurs throughout the text and stresses liberty, equality, and the emancipation of women.

PB - Ptd. for Sherwood, Neely, & Jones and C. and J. Ollier CY - London N1 -

This was the original edition which was withdrawn and slightly revised because the printer objected to the suggestion of incest and the radicalism of parts of the text. It was rpt. as The Revolt of Islam; A Poem in Twelve Cantos. London: Ptd. for C. and J. Ollier, 1817 [Some copies have 1818 as the publication date] and was known under this title for some time, with the original title being restored in late 20th century editions. Rpt. as “Laon and Cythna or the Revolution of the Golden City [Usually known as 'The Revolt of Islam' 1817]”. The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Volume II 1814-1817. Ed. Neville Rogers. 4 vols. (Oxford, Eng.: Clarendon Press, 1975), 99-270, including “Laon and Cyntha: Rejected Passages” (265-270) with “Note by Mary Shelley On Loan and Cyntha [The Revolt of Islam]” (270-73) and “Notes” (360-95); as “Laon and Cythna; Or, The Revolution of the Golden City: A Vision of the Nineteenth Century. In the Stanza of Spenser.” Ed. Jack Donovan. The Poems of Shelley. Volume Two 1817-1819. Ed. Kelvin Everest and Geoffrey Matthews (Hatlow, Essex, Eng.: Pearson Educational, 2000), 10-265, with an [“Introduction”] by the editor (10-29), extensive footnotes throughout, and “Fragments from the L&C Notebooks.” Ed. Jack Donovan (261-65); and as “Laon and Cythna; Or, The Revolution of the Golden City: A Vision of the Nineteenth Century. In the Stanza of Spenser.” Ed. Michael J. Neth. The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Volume Three. Ed. Neil Fraisat and Nora Crook (Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012), 109-320, with “Commentary” by Michael J. Neth (550-941), including “Supplements: Rejected Opening and Ancillary Fragments for Laon and Cyntha” (908-941) “Historical Collation” (993-1061), Mary Shelley’s “Note on The Revolt of Islam” (1073-75), “The Revision of Laon and Cythna to The Revolt of Islam (1077-88), and “Shelley’s List of Errata for Laon and Cythna/The Revolt of Islam (1082). See also The Bodleian Shelley Manuscripts. A Facsimile Edition, with Full Transcripts and Scholarly Apparatus. Ed. Donald H Reiman. Volume XIII Drafts from Laon and Cythna Facsimiles of Bodleian MSS. Shelley ADDS. e 14 and ADDS. e. 19. Ed. Tatsuo Tokoo with an Introduction and Notes. New York/London: Garland Publishing, 1992.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Melincourt Y1 - 1817 A1 - [Thomas Love] [Peacock] (1785-1866) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

One theme is a satire on English politics in which an orangutan is elected as an MP.

PB - Ptd. for T. Hookham, Jun. and Co. and Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy CY - London VL - 3 vols. N1 -

U.S. ed. 2 vols. Philadelphia, PA: Moses Thomas, 1817.

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By the Author of Headlong Hall [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Second Part of Armata Y1 - 1817 A1 - [Thomas] [Erskine] (1750-1823) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Continuation of 1817 Erskine satirizing contemporary English society.

PB - John Murray CY - London N1 -

Three eds. were ptd. in 1817 with a fourth in 1818. 4th ed. rpt. in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 6: 77-148.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Christian Policy, the Salvation of the Empire. Being a Clear and Concise Examination into the Causes that Have Produced the Impending, Unavoidable National Bankruptcy; And the Effects that must ensue, unless averted by the Adoption of this only real and Desirable Remedy, Which would elevate these Realms to a Pitch of Greatness Hitherto Unattained By any Nation that ever Existed Y1 - 1816 A1 - Thomas Evans (b. 1763) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia in which all land, water, mines, houses, and feudal permanent property belong to the people. Evans was a close associate of Thomas Spence (1750-1814), and this work says that the policy of the early Christians should be adopted and then goes on to describe Spence's plan. For Spence's utopias, see 1782, 1795, 1798, and 1801 Spence. See also 1817 and 1818 Evans.

PB - Ptd. for the author CY - London N1 -

2nd ed. London: Ptd. for the Author, 1816. The 2nd ed. is identical except for 2nd ed. on the title page.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Darkness" Y1 - 1816 A1 - George Gordon Byron [Lord Byron] (1788-1824) ED - Jerome J. McGann KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

End of world dystopia.

JF - Lord Byron: The Complete Political Works PB - Clarendon Press CY - Oxford, Eng. VL - 7. vols. N1 -

Rpt. in A Year Without Winter. Illus. Ed. Dehlia Hannah, ed. with Brenda Cooper, Joey Eschrich, and Cynthia Selin, Fiction eds. (New York: Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, 2018), 25-27. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Laura's Dream; or, The Moonlanders Y1 - 1816 A1 - [Melesina (Chenevix) St. George] [Trench] (1768-1832) KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

A poem in two cantos describing the moon where people are born old and grow young. Traditional gender roles.  The men can fly, the woman can’t. Notes to the text on 45-47. 

PB - Ptd. For J. Hatcher CY - London UR - https://historicaltexts.jisc.ac.uk/bl-002087615 N1 -

Rpt. in Science Fiction Studies, no. 101 (34.1) (March 2007): 1-18.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Tour to Purgatory and Back. A Satirical Novel Y1 - 1816 A1 - Humphrey Glump Esq. [pseud.] AB -

Pretty much what the title says. Purgatory is in the center of the Earth and contains many of the leading figures in British politics.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Pilgrim of the Sun. A Poem Y1 - 1815 A1 - James Hogg (1770-1835) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

The poem includes a trip to a eutopian Heaven, described in quite general terms, and a tour of the universe that touches a number of eutopian worlds, but with little detail. One world is expelled from God’s concern, and it is said that this will be Earth’s fate. 

PB - Ptd. for William Blackwood CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. Philadelphia, PA: Moses Thomas, 1815.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Trip to the Man in the Moon, from Terra Firma; in an Air Balloon. A Romance Y1 - 1815 A1 - Timothy Tumble [pseud.] A1 - Richard Quixote [pseud.] A1 - John Telltruth [pseud.] AB -

Brief eutopia on the moon. No poor. No war. Healthy, long-lived people. Structured class system with each class having a chief and with a monarch over all of them. Education in “learning, manual employment, and diversion” (9). Any dispute that went to court decided by five “middle aged personages” (10). Leisure described as taking place in a spacious garden where all classes of men and women mixed freely with areas for dancing, sports, and food. Language of the moon is Welsh.

PB - S. Carvalho CY - London U2 -

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Timothy Tumble, Richard Quixote, and John Telltruth [pseud.].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Eighteen Hundred and Thirteen: A Poem, In Two Parts Y1 - 1814 A1 - Mrs. [Anne] Grant of Laggan KW - Female author AB -

Response to 1812 Barbauld showing Britain remaining strong.

PB - Ptd. by James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, London CY - Edinburgh, Scot. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Paradise of Coquettes. A Poem. In Nine Parts Y1 - 1814 A1 - [Thomas] [Brown] (1778-1820) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

A somewhat satirical poem that presents a eutopia for coquettes with some warning about being a coquette also.

PB - Ptd. for John Murray CY - London N1 -

2nd ed. Without the 2nd subtitle, and with only eight parts. Edinburgh, Scot.: Archibald Constable and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, London, 1817. 2nd American ed. with the second subtitle. Philadelphia, PA: Ptd. for Abraham Small and for James Kennedy and Son, Alexandria, 1817.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Flight to the Moon; or, The Vision of Randalthus Y1 - 1813 A1 - Geo[rge] Fowler KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. Equality has brought about similar stature and appearance. Pure, moderate people who eschew philosophy because it is confusing. Obey "the simple impulse of nature" rather than laws. A second eutopia of innocence, purity, and bliss is presented in a dream with a third similar eutopia in the interior of the sun.

PB - A. Miltenberger CY - Baltimore, MD U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A New View of Society; or, Essays on the Principle of the Formation of the Human Character, and the Application of the Principle to Practice Y1 - 1813 A1 - Robert Owen (1771-1858) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author KW - Welsh author AB -

Not strictly a utopia but basic to the development of British and American utopianism. Owen was a prolific and repetitive author who wrote many proposals for communities with detailed constitutions and rules and regulations. He also founded or inspired communities in both the U.K. and the U.S. This book outlines his basic, and generally unchanged, principles. See also 1831, 1839, 1841, 1844, 1846, and 1855 (2) Owen for more explicitly utopian works.

PB - Ptd. for Cadell and Davies, by Richard Taylor and Co. CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Selected Works of Robert Owen. 4 vols. Ed. Gregory Claeys (London: William Pickering, 1993), 1: 23-100. See Claeys (25) for the early publishing history.

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By One of His Majesty's Justices of Peace for the County of Lanark [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Utopia Found: Being an Apology for Irish Absentees. Addressed to a Friend in Connaught Y1 - 1813 A1 - [Edward] [Mangin] (1772-1852) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Satire. Presents London as a near-perfect place with no crime, desire, or corruption and with no social problems.

PB - Ptd. by Gye and Son CY - Bath, Eng. U3 -

By An Absentee, Residing in Bath [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Eighteen Hundred and Eleven. A Poem Y1 - 1812 A1 - Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743-1825) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopian predictive poem showing the ruin of Britain after Commerce leaves her. See 1814 Grant for a response. A detailed study of the poem and its context is E. J. Clery, Eighteen Hundred and Eleven: Poetry, Power and Economic Crisis. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 2017. 

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Rpt. Warrington, Eng.: The “Sunrise” Publishing Co., 1911 with the cover adding A Prophecy of England’s Downfall; in her The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld with a Memoir By Lucy Aikin. 2 vols. (London: Ptd. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1825), 1: 232-50; rpt. (London: Routledge/Thoemmes Press, 1996), 1: 232-50; in The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld. Ed. William McCarthy and Elizabeth Kraft (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1994), 152-61 with “Notes and Variants” (309-17); as Eighteen Hundred and Eleven. 1812. Poole, Eng: Woodstock Books, 1995; in Romantic Women Poets: An Anthology. Ed. Duncan Wu (Oxford, Eng.: Blackwells, 1997), 10-18, with an editor’s introduction (7-10) and notes (10-18); in her Selected Poetry and Prose. Ed. William McCarthy and Elizabeth Kraft (Peterborough, ON, Canada: Broadview Literary Texts, 2002), 160-73; and in E. J. Clery, Eighteen Hundred and Eleven: Poetry, Power and Economic Crisis (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 2017), 270-77. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Empire of the Nairs; or, The Rights of Women. An Eutopian Romance, in Twelve Books Y1 - 1811 A1 - James [Henry] Lawrence (1773-1840) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Largely adventure and romance but presented as a picture of a eutopia of equality for women. Men are completely free from all duties except warfare. Women are revered as mothers and supported as such by the state. No marriage and women choose their lovers as they wish. Every house belongs to some woman and men live with relatives or lovers. Lawrence drew inspiration from and refers to Mary Wollstonecraft's (1759-97) Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1782). The description of sexual freedom influenced Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822); see 1817 and 1821 Shelley, both of which were so influenced. Shelley wrote Lawrence on August 17, 1812, saying "Your 'Empire of the Nairs,' which I read this Spring, succeeded in making me a perfect convert to its doctrines" (The Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Ed. Frederick L. Jones. 2 vols. (Oxford, Eng.: Clarendon Press, 1964), 1: 323. See Walter Graham, "Shelley and The Empire of the Nairs." PMLA 40.4 (December 1925): 881-91. The Nairs are based on an actual Hindu caste from Kerela in India. On the actual Nairs, see Élie Reclus, "The Naïrs, Warrior Nobility and the Matriarchate." In his Primitive Folk: Studies in Comparative Ethnology (London: Walter Scott, [1891?]), 143-77. Originally published in French but no translator given.

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Rpt. as The Empire of the Nairs (1811). 4 vols. in 1. Delmar, NY: Scholars’ Facsimiles & Reprints, 1976; and in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 5: 1-328.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Journey to the Moon, and Interesting Conversations with the Inhabitants respecting the Condition of Man Y1 - 1811 A1 - The Author of Worlds Displayed [pseud.] AB -

Eutopia. The inhabitants of the moon are spiritually far in advance of Earth and know neither sin nor death. Mostly on the conditions of Earth.

PB - Howar[d] and Evans CY - Ptd. London N1 -

Rpt. London: Ptd. by J. Evans & Son, 1815. 8 pp.

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The “Author of Worlds Displayed” [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Publicola, A Sketch of the Times and Prevailing Opinions, from the Revolution in 1800 to the Present Year 1810. Addressed to the People of England, and now first translated from the Russian copy Y1 - 1810 A1 - [John] [Reeves] (1752-1829) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The dystopia created by a successful republican revolution in England.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Voyage to the Moon" Y1 - 1808 A1 - Nicholas Lunatic F.R.S. [pseud.] AB -

A satire on contemporary England in which the faults of the people of the Moon are regularly compared to an England where these faults do not exist. For example, the traveler is shocked by prostitution, theft, corruption, venality, the concern with fashion, etc., none of which are said to exist in England. The voyage to the Moon was made in a balloon, to which was attached a boat with oars for steering. The language on the Moon is Welsh. Presents conflicts with Frogland (France), the Glum religion of Bogland (Ireland), the American revolution, and other issues.

JF - Satiric Tales: Consisting of A Voyage to the Moon; All the Tailors; or, the Old Cloak; and the Fat Witch of London PB - Ptd. for J. Dean for George Hughes and H.D. Symonds CY - London U3 -

Lunatic, Nicholas, F.R.S. [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Poem on the Future Glory of the United States of America" Y1 - 1804 A1 - David Humphreys (1752-1818) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. Pretty much what the title says.

JF - The Miscellaneous Works of David Humphreys: Late Minister Plenipotentiary from the United States of America to the Court of Madrid PB - Ptd. by T.& J. Swords CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. as The Miscellaneous Works of David Humphreys (1804): A Facsimile Reproduction With an Introduction by William K. Bottorff (Gainesville FL: Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, 1968), 53-65.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Poem on the Industry of the United States of America" Y1 - 1804 A1 - David Humphreys (1752-1818) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia describing the future industry of the U.S.

JF - The Miscellaneous Works of David Humphreys: Late Minister Plenipotentiary from the United States of America to the Court of Madrid PB - Ptd. by T.& J. Swords CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. as The Miscellaneous Works of David Humphreys (1804): A Facsimile Reproduction With an Introduction by William K. Bottorff (Gainesville FL: Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, 1968), 97-114 with introductory material (89-96).

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Travels of Young Candid and Doctor Pangloss to the Country of El-Dorado, Toward the End of the Eighteenth Century; Being a Continuation of Voltaire’s Candid Y1 - 1804 A1 - J[ames] Barton L.M. KW - Male author AB -

Just what the title says.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Equality--A Political Romance" Y1 - 1802 A1 - [John] [Lithgow] KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. No money, land is held in common, and labor is required from all until age 50. No towns--houses are spread over the entire country. Everyone over 15 has a separate apartment and keeps it even when married. Gerontocracy. Deist. Every male over 18 is provided with arms and must know how to use them.

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Rpt. as Equality; or, A History of Lithconia. Philadelphia, PA: Liberal Union, 1837. This ed. rpt. in The New Moral World (London) [5].3 - 5, 7, 10, 13, 15 - 16, 20 (November 10 - 24, December 8, 29, 1838; January 13, February 2 - 9, March 9, 1839): 45-46; 51-52; 69-71; 99-100; 158-59; 206-07; 239-40; 247-49; 310-11; as Equality; or, A History of Lithconia. Boston, MA: Pub. by J. P. Mendum, 1863; and as Equality, A History of Lithconia. Philadelphia, PA: The Prime Press, 1947. Rpt. from The Temple of Reason as by James Reynolds in American Utopias: Selected Short Fiction. Ed. Arthur O. Lewis, Jr. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971. All items separately paged.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Science Revived, or, The Vision of Alfred. A Poem in Eight Books Y1 - 1802 A1 - [Rev.] [Joseph] [Sympson] KW - Male author AB -

Britain as a eutopia. Alfred calls upon the Goddess of Science to enlighten the world. She takes him, in the second book, to the Palace of Genius, where he sees thrones for Logic, Rhetoric, Geometry, Astronomy, History, Harmony, and Morality, with the last described as the fairest. The following books are a history of the rise of science and the arts after the low point of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. The final canto explains that science must be joined with liberty and then depicts the Britain of the time of writing as a eutopia.

PB - Ptd. for J.A. Gameau CY - London U1 -

Athenaeum copy has the Rev. J. Sympson, B.D. Science Revived or The Vision of Alfred. A Poem In Eight Cantos, With Biographical Notes. Philadelphia, PA: Ptd. by John Bouvier, for John Wilson, 1810.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Description of Jerusalem: Its Houses and Streets, Squares, Colleges, Markets, and Cathedrals, The Royal and Private Palaces, with The Garden of Eden In the Centre, As laid down in the last chapters of Ezekiel, Also The First Chapter of Genesis Verified, as Strictly Divine and True and The Solar System, With All Its Plurality of Inhabited Worlds, and Millions of Suns, As Positively Proved To Be Delusive and False. By Mr. Brothers, Who Will Be Revealed To the Hebrews As Their King and Restorer Y1 - 1801 A1 - Mr. [Richard] Brothers (1757-1824) A1 - Mr. Brothers KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Restored Jerusalem as eutopia. See also 1830 Brothers, his A Revealed Knowledge of the Prophecies & Times. Book the First. Wrote under the direction of the Lord God, and Published by his Sacred Command: It Being the First Sign of Warning for the Benefit of all Nations. Containing, with other Great and Remarkable Things, Not Revealed by any other Person on Earth, the Restoration of the Hebrews to Jerusalem, by the Year of 1798: Under their Revealed Prince and Prophet. London: Np, 1794. The second part has the separate title page A Revealed Knowledge of the Prophecies & Times particularly of the present time, the present war, and the prophecy now fulfilling. The Year of the World 5913. Book the Second. Containing, with other Great and Remarkable Things, Not Revealed by any other Person on Earth, the sudden and perpetual fall of the Turkish, German, and Russian Empires, Wrote under the direction of the Lord God, and Published by his Sacred Command: It Being the Second Sign of Warning for the Benefit of all Nations. By the Man that will be revealed to the Hebrews as their Prince and Prophet. London: Np, 1794; and A Letter from Mr. Brothers to Miss Cott, the recorded daughter of David, and future queen of the Hebrews. With an Address to the Members of His Brintannic Majesty’s Council and through them to all governments and people on Earth. London: G. Riebau/Edinburgh, Scot.: Rpt by J. Robertson, 1798. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Restorer of Society to Its Natural State in a Series of Letters to a Fellow Citizen. With a Preface, Containing the Objections of a Gentleman Who Perused the Manuscript, and the Answers of the Author Y1 - 1801 A1 - Thomas Spence (1750-1814) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia similar to 1782, 1795, and 1798 Spence. As in all Spence's eutopias, this one stresses that land should be in the hands of the local parish with one simple tax that will support all needed services. Public granary; easy divorce; no war; free trade; improved hospitals.

PB - Ptd. for the Author by A. Searle CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in The Political Works of Thomas Spence. Ed. H.T. Dickinson (Newcastle upon Tyne, Eng.: Avero (Eighteenth-Century) Publications Ltd., 1982), 69-103. Version of 1803 rpt. in Pig’s Meat: The Selected Writings of Thomas Spence, Radical and Pioneer Land Reformer. Ed. G.I. Gallop (Nottingham, Eng.: Spokesman, 1982), 127-65.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - One Wise Rich Man. A Parable. Owe No Man Anything But To Love One Another Y1 - 1800 A1 - R. M. Webster AB -

Eutopia. Cooperative commonwealth brought about by a rich man. Based on the principles in the title.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "To Miss Kinder, on Receiving a Note dated February 30th" Y1 - 1800 A1 - Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743-1825) ED - William McCarthy ED - Elizabeth Kraft KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Eighteen line poem describing a day when everyone behaves well.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A New Year's Poem" Y1 - 1799 A1 - David Everett A.M. (1770-1813) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

America as a eutopia stressing agriculture.

JF - Common Sense in dishabille, or The Farmer's Monitor. Containing a Variety of Familiar Essays, on Subjects Moral & Economical. To Which is Added a Perpetual Calendar, or Economical Almanack PB - Ptd. by Isaiah Thomas, Jun. for Isaiah Thomas CY - Worcester, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Vagabond. A Novel Y1 - 1799 A1 - George Walker (1772-1847) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on William Godwin (1756-1836), Thomas Paine (1737-1809), David Hume (1711-76), and other mostly republican philosophers. Chaps. 7 and 8 of vol. 2 depict "a perfect Republic on the Principles of Equality and Political Justice" where nothing works the way it was intended.

PB - Ptd. for G. Walker CY - London VL - 2 Vols. N1 -

Two other editions in 1799. The 2nd ed. is identical to the 1st and the 3rd ed. has changes. There is one edition with the subtitle or, Practical Infidelity: A Novel. Harrisonburg, VA: Davidson & Bourne, 1814. Critical ed. in one vol. ed. W.M. Verhoeven. Peterborough, ON, Canada: Broadview Editions, 2004, including relevant essays.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "[Alcuin]" Y1 - 1798 A1 - Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia of complete gender equality. No marriage.

JF - The Life of Charles Brockden Brown: Together With Selections From the Rarest of His Printed Works, From His Original Letters, And From His Manuscripts Before Unpublished PB - James P. Parke CY - Philadelphia, PA VL - 2 vols. N1 -

U.K. ed. as “The Paradise of Women, From ‘Alcuin’.” In William Dunlap. Memoirs of Charles Brockden Brown, The American Novelist, Author of Wieland, Ormond, Arthur Mervyn, &c. With Selections from His Original Letters, and Miscellaneous Writings (London: Ptd. for Henry Colburn and Co., 1822), 247-308. Parts I and II of Alcuin, which do not include the utopia had been published as Alcuin: A Dialogue. New York: T. & J. Swords, 1798. Rpt. as Alcuin: A Dialogue by Charles Brockton Brown. A Type-facsimile Reprint of the First Edition with an Introduction by L[eRoy] E[lwood] Kimball (vii-xxi). New Haven, CT: Carl & Margaret Rollins, 1935. An abr. version of these parts was published as “The Rights of Women: A Dialogue.” Weekly Magazine (Philadelphia, PA) 1.7 – 10 (March 17 – April 7 1798): 198-200; 231-36; 271-74; 299-302. All parts are available in Alcuin: A Dialogue. Ed. Lee E. Edwards. The Gehenna Tracts 3. Northampton. MA: The Gehenna Press, 1970. Rpt. New York: Grossman Publishers, 1971; and in Alcuin. Ed. Cynthia A. Kerner New York: NCUP, Inc., 1995, with an “Introduction (3-37), “A Note on Text” (38), and “Suggested Readings” (39-40). Critical ed. in The Novels and Related Works of Charles Brockden Brown. Bicentennial Edition. Volume VI. Alcuin: A Dialogue and Memoirs of Stephen Calvet. Ed. Stanley J. Krause, S. W. Reid, and Robert D. Arner (Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1987), 1-67, an “Historical Essay” (273-98), a “Textual Essay” (313-56), “Textual Notes” (368-75), “Variants in Alcuin, Parts I and II” (376-422), “List of Emendations in Alcuin, Part III” (423), “End-of-Line Word-Division” (424), and “Record of Collations and Copies Consulted” (436-37).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Captive of the Castle of Sennaar: An African Tale Containing Various Anecdotes of the Sophians Hitherto Unknown To Mankind in General Y1 - 1798 A1 - George Cumberland (1754-1848) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Two lost race eutopias in central Africa. The first, presented in the 1798 and 1810 editions, is peopled with Greek sun worshippers. These people, the Sophians, are art lovers, Deists, have gender equality, and racial, religious, and ethnic toleration. The second, presented in the second part first published in 1991, are Christians. These people, the Jovinians, have no art and proselytize their failure simple form of Protestantism and practice a general community of goods. They recognize the importance of sex, and the 1810 edition downplayed the sexual elements.

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Rpt. rev. as vol. 1 of his Original Tales. London: Miller and Pople, 1810. First ed. rpt. together with the previously unpub. second part ed. G.E. Bentley, Jr. Montréal, QC, Canada: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1991, which includes “Notes on the Text” (297-306), “Epilogue The Geography of The Captive and the Historical Contexts of the Sophians, the Jovinians, and Menno” (307-22), “Appendix I Substantive Emendations to the Text of The Captive Part I (1798) found in the Second Edition (1810)” (323-48), “Appendix II Description of the Manuscript of Part 2” (349-51).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Constitution of a Perfect Commonwealth. Being the French Constitution of 1793. Amended, and rendered entirely conformable to the Whole Rights of Man Y1 - 1798 A1 - T[homas] Spence (1750-1814) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Detailed eutopia. Another version of Spence’s cooperative commonwealth. See also 1782, 1795, and 1801 Spence.

PB - Author CY - London N1 -

Later ed. as The Constitution of Spensonia A Country in Fairyland Situated Between Utopia and Oceana Brought from Thence by Captain Swallow (i.e. Thomas Spence). London: Author, 1801. This ed. rpt. in Trial of Thomas Spence in 1801 Together With His Description of Spensonia, Constitution of Spensonia, End of Oppression, Recantation of the End of Oppression, Newcastle on Tyne Lecture Delivered in 1775. Also a Brief Life of Spence and a Description of His Political Token Dies by Arthur W. Waters (Leamington Spa, Eng.: Privately Ptd., 1917), 93-109. Versions are also available in The Political Works of Thomas Spence. Ed. H.T. Dickinson (Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Avero (Eighteenth Century) Publications, 1982), 54-69, 104-118; Pig’s Meat: Selected Writings of Thomas Spence, Radical and Pioneer Land Reformer. Ed. G.I. Glossop (Nottingham, England: Spokesman, 1982), 166-185; and in Thomas Spence: The Poor Man’s Revolutionary. Ed. Alastair Bonnett and Keith Alexander (London: Breviary Stuff Publications, 2014), 145-161. An extract was published anonymously as The receipt to make a millennium or happy world. 4th ed. Single sheet. Np, [1805?] This was also published as Something to a Purpose. A receipt to make a millennium or Happy World. Extracts from The Constitution of Spensonia. London: Ptd. for T. Spence, [1803].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Henry Willoughby. A Novel Y1 - 1798 AB -

Eutopia. The second volume contains the description of an ideal community in Minnesota (227-71). Community property. Freedom of belief.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Human Vicissitudes; or, Travels into Unexplored Regions Y1 - 1798 AB -

A fairly typical imaginary voyage describing an essentially feudal system that is far from perfect but is presented as having a number of positive features. Much intrigue.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Libellus: or, A Brief Sketch of the Kingdom of Gotham. Containing Observations respecting its King, Princes, Nobles, and Inferior Senators: Its Mode of Election; The Duration of Its Parliaments; Its Ministers of State, Judges, and Other Professors of the Law: Customs of the People, Their Dress, and Amusements; Their Agricultural Regulations, Commercial Pursuits, and the Natural Productions of Their Country: Their Well-Managed Police; Their Ecclesiastical Polity, and Their System of Politics. Under the Cover of a little Fiction, a great deal of Truth may often be conveyed Y1 - 1798 AB -

Eutopia. Society in which everything and everybody works or behaves as they are ideally expected to work or behave, which functions as a satire on contemporary Britain.

PB - J. Jordan and W. Glendinning CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 4: 441-76.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Young Philosopher Y1 - 1798 A1 - Charlotte [Turner] Smith (1749-1806) KW - Female author AB -

A small part of the novel depicts an agrarian, Arcadian eutopia in America in contrast to the empty life available in England.

PB - T. Cadell Jr and W. Davies CY - London VL - 4 Vols. N1 -

Rpt. in one vol. ed. Elizabeth Craft. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1999, with an “Introduction” by the editor (ix-xxxvi), “Notes to the Novel” (355-90), and “Variants” (391-93).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The History of Mr Fantom, The New Fashioned Philosopher and His Man William Y1 - 1797 A1 - Hannah More (1745-1833) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Satire on utopian projections.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Proceedings in a Female Parliament" Y1 - 1797 AB -

Standard satire against women holding political office. Reports from the House of Ladies and the Ladies House of Commons.

JF - The Time Piece; and Literary Companion VL - 1.9 N1 -

Rpt. in Impartial Gazetteer, and Saturday Evening Post 10.507 (March 17, 1798); and as “Proceedings in a Female Parliament House of Ladies.” The Key 1.12 (March 31, 1798): 93 [This reprints one sentence from the House of Ladies section; the rest is from the Ladies House of Commons section].

Originally published in about 1796 in an unidentified London newspaper.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Institutions of the Republic of Utopia" Y1 - 1796 A1 - Elihu Hubbard Smith (1771-98) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Detailed eutopia focused on health and public education to age thirty, which is coeducational to age twenty-two but with women excluded from university education. Combination of reason and Christianity.

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Ms. in the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library, Yale University. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Modern Gulliver's Travels. Lilliput: Being A New Journey to that Celebrated Island. Containing a Faithful Account of the Manners, Character, Customs, Religion, Laws, Politics, Revenue, Taxes, Learning, General Progress in Arts and Sciences, Dress, Amusements, and Gallantry of Those Famous Little People. From the Year 1702 (when they were first discovered and visited by Captain Lemuel Gulliver, the Father of the Compiler of this Work), to the present Æra 1796 Y1 - 1796 A1 - [W.] [Whitmore] AB -

Satire on contemporary English life and directed against the French Revolution. It includes an extensive imaginary language.

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Rpt. in Gulliveriana: II. Ed. Jeanne K. Welcher and George E. Bush. Gainesville, FL: Scholars’ Facsimiles & Reprints, 1971; and in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 4: 321-440.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "On the Vicissitudes of States and Kingdoms" Y1 - 1796 A1 - Gale, John KW - Male author AB -

Reports on information provided by the Emperor of the Moon on "the government, laws, and customs of the inhabitants of Jupiter" (24). Jupiter is ruled by women with the men given "employments suitable to their abilities" (24-25) such as merchants and tradesmen (former courtiers), the military (former clergy), laboring on public works (former lawyers), the last of which eliminating corruption. All physicians are women also and take no fees but are paid salaries for preventing illness. The old men nurse old women and vise versa.

JF - Gale’s Cabinet of Knowledge; or, Miscellaneous Recreations. Containing Moral and Philosophical Essays, Propositions, Natural and Metaphysical Maxims, And Observations on Select Subjects of general Utility. With a Series of Easy, Entertaining and Interesting, Mechanical, Magnetical, & Magical Experiments. Including the Most Celebrated Card Deceptions Ever Exhibited. Together With About Seven Hundred Serious, Comical, and Humorous Queries, Paradoxes, &c. &c. With Pertinent and Ingenious Answers. Being the Essence taken from The Lady’s, Gentlemen’s, & Carnan’s Diaries--Martin’s Philosophical Magazines--Ozanam & Hooper’s Recreations, &c. &c. (Illustrated with Copper-plate Engravings). To Which Are Added A Great Number of Originals. Likewise, An Appendix; Containing Various Propositions Tending to Prove Light and Heat Two Distinct Beings. With some curious Definitions in Optics PB - Ptd. for the Proprietors by W. Kemmish CY - London N1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Commonwealth of Reason Y1 - 1795 A1 - William Hodgson, Now confined in the prison of Newgate, London, for sedition (1745-1851) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Essay including an outline of a new government and a proposed constitution. The author's crime was proposing a toast to "The French Republic" and "comparing the king to a German hog butcher".

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Rpt. in Utopias of the British Enlightenment. Ed. Gregory Claeys (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1994), 199-247.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Description of Spensonia Y1 - 1795 A1 - [Thomas] [Spence] (1750-1814) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A version of Spence's cooperative commonwealth. See also 1782, 1798, and 1801 Spence.

PB - Hive of Liberty CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Trial of Thomas Spence in 1801 Together With His Description of Spensonia, Constitution of Spensonia, End of Oppression, Recantation of the End of Oppression, Newcastle on Tyne Lecture Delivered in 1775. Also a Brief Life of Spence and a Description of His Political Token Dies by Arthur W. Waters (Leamington Spa, Eng.: Privately Ptd., 1917), 82-91; and in The Political Works of Thomas Spence. Ed. H.T. Dickinson (Newcastle upon Tyne, Eng.: Avero (Eighteenth Century) Publications Ltd., 1982), 25-33. First published in somewhat different form in Spence’s journal Pig’s Meat; or Lessons for the Swinish Multitude as “The Marine Republic” 2.6 (1794): 68-72; and “A Further Account of Spensonia” 2.18-19 (1794): 205-18. These versions rpt. in Pig’s Meat: The Selected Writings of Thomas Spence, Radical and Pioneer Land Reformer. Ed. G.I. Gallop (Nottingham, Eng.: Spokesman, 1982), 76-90.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Memoirs of Planetes, or a Sketch of the Laws and Manners of Makar Y1 - 1795 A1 - [Thomas] [Northmore] (1766-1851) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Detailed constitution of thirty-one articles and the positive effects of adopting it. The first articles are concerned with democratic political reform and the reduction in the number of laws. Trial by jury. No capital punishment. Reform of inheritance. Improved education. Marriage and divorce civil not religious. Freedom of the press.

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Rpt. in Utopias of the British Enlightenment. Ed. Gregory Claeys (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1994), 137-97.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Future State of the Western Territory" Y1 - 1794 A1 - David Humphreys (1752-1818) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia describing the West of the U.S. in Arcadian terms.

JF - The Columbian Muse. A Selection of American Poetry from Various Authors of Established Reputation PB - Ptd. by J. Carey CY - New-York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Vision" Y1 - 1794 A1 - Timothy Dwight D.D. (1752-1817) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The future of the United States and Greenfield Hill, Connecticut in particular. Emphasizes escaping from the institutions and problems of Europe. Stress on freedom under law, morality, and education. Natural beauty. No slavery. No real rich or poor.

JF - Greenfield Hill: A Poem in Seven Parts. I. The Prospect. II. The Flourishing Village. III. The Burning of Fairfield. IV. The Destruction of the Pequods. V. The Clergyman’s Advice to the Villagers. VI. The Farmer’s Advice to the Villagers. VII. The Vision, or Prospect of the Future Happiness of America PB - Childs and Swaine CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: AMS Press, 1970.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Emigrants, &c or the History of an Expatriated Family, Being a Delineation of English Manners, Drawn from Real Characters, Written in America Y1 - 1793 A1 - G[ilbert] Imlay Esq. (1754-1828) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

There is a short section (Letter LXX) that describes what appears to be intended as a eutopia, but there is little detail. Eutopian imagery is used throughout the text to describe the Ohio Valley as a place to settle.

PB - A. Hamilton CY - London VL - 2 vols. N1 -

Rpt. Dublin, Ireland: Ptd. for C. Brown, 1794; as The Emigrants (1793) Traditionally Ascribed to Gilbert Imlay But, More Probably, By Mary Wollstonecraft. A Facsimile Reproduction of The Dublin Edition (1794). Gainesville, FL: Scholar’s Facsimiles & Reprints, 1964 with an “Introduction” by Robert R. Hare (v-xv); and as The Emigrants. Harmondsworth, Eng: Penguin Books, 1998 with an “Introduction” by Wm. Verhoeven and Amanda Gilroy (ix-lix), “Explanatory Notes” (257-304), and a “Glossary” (305-06). The Penguin ed. reprints the 1st ed.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - An Essay on Civil Government, or Society Restored, By Means of I. A Preface of Peace, II. A Reform in Mataphysics [sic], and III. A Political Code and Constitution, Adapted to the True Nature of Man. Translated from the Italian Ms. of A.D.R.S. With Notes, By the Editor Y1 - 1793 A1 - A. D. R S. AB -

Eutopia with details on many aspects of life. Cities, the layout of which is described, will be limited to 20,000 people. There will be two classes based on occupation that will not intermarry. Both boys and girls will be educated, girls to 18 and boys to 22.

PB - Ptd. for J. Ridgway CY - London U1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A plan of a Peace Office for the United States" Y1 - 1793 A1 - [Benjamin] [Rush] (1745-1813) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Essay giving a detailed proposal for a Department of Peace presented in seven proposals: Appointing of a “genuine republican and sincere Christian” to head the office. Establishing free schools “in every city, village and township of the United States. Providing every family with a copy of “a copy of an American edition of the BIBLE.”  Inscribing every “State and Court house” with the words “the son of man came into the world, not to destroy men’s lives, but to save them.” Rejecting capital punishment. Repealing militia laws. Eliminating military uniforms, parades, and titles. Has been read as a satire, and while the above proposals appear perfectly serious, the last proposal, which is to adorn the office of the Peace-Office with pictures of those currently at war in peaceful interaction, and a daily singing of a peace song. The War Office would, in contrast, be adorned with reminders of the horrors of war. A United States Peace Institute was established by Congress in 1984; see http://www.usip.org.

JF - Banneker's Almanack, and Ephemeris for the Year of Our Lord 1793 PB - Joseph Crukshank CY - Philadelphia, PA N1 -

Rpt. exp. in his Essays Literary, Moral and Philosophical (Philadelphia, PA: Thomas and Samuel F. Bradford, 1798), 183-88; 2nd ed. with additions (Philadelphia, PA: Thomas and Samuel F. Bradford, 1806), 183-88; rpt. ed. Michael Meranze (Schenectady, NY: Union College Press, 1988), 106-09; in The Selected Writings of Benjamin Rush. Ed. Dagobert D. Runes (New York: Philosophical Library, 1947), 19-23; in Voices of Dissent: An Anthology of Individualist Thought in the United States. Ed. Arthur A. Ekirch, Jr. (New York: Citadel Press, 1964), 17-21; and rpt. illus. by Leonard Baskin and a with note by Sidney Kaplan. The Massachusetts Review 25.2 (Summer 1984): 269-83. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Voyage to the Moon; Strongly Recommended to all Lovers of Real Freedom Y1 - 1793 A1 - Aratus [pseud.] AB -

Dystopia on the moon--allegory about contemporary England.

PB - Author CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 4: 277-319.

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Aratus [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Plans of Education; with Remarks on the Systems of Other Writers. In a Series of Letters Between Mrs. Darnford and Her Friends Y1 - 1792 A1 - Clara Reeve (1729-1807) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Eutopia in the form of an epistolary novel. Begins as an essay on education but broadens into one on society as a whole and plans for the best one. Conservative in that it is hierarchical, and women's education is in those things thought suitable for women.

PB - Ptd. for T. Hookham and J. Carpenter CY - London N1 -

Rpt. New York: Garland, 1974.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Sketch of a Plan for the Formation of a Military Colony" Y1 - 1792 A1 - Charles Lee (1731-82) KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia that describes a colony with distribution of land by rank, rules for religion, laws, etc.

JF - Memoirs of the Life of the Late Charles Lee, Esq. Lieutenant-Colonel of the Forty-Fourth Regiment, Colonel in the Portuguese Service, Major-General and Aid du Camp to the King of Poland, and Second in Command in the Service of the United States of America PB - T. Allen CY - New York N1 -

U. S. ed. Memoirs of the Life of the Late Charles Lee, Esq. Lieutenant-Colonel of the Forty-Fourth Regiment, Colonel in the Portuguese Service, Major-General and Aid du Camp to the King of Poland, and Second in Command in the Service of the United States of America During the Revolution: To Which Are Added His Political and Military Essays. Also, Letters to, and From Many Distinguished Characters, Both in Europe and America (New York: T. Allen, 1792), 48-55. Book also entitled The Life and Memoirs of the Late Major General Lee. . . 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Trip to the Island of Equality, or, An Extract from Russian Voyages Y1 - 1792 AB -

Broadside attacking equality and its terrible consequences in the country of Ulaga.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Panopticon; or, The Inspection-House: Containing the Idea of a New Principle of Construction Applicable to Any Sort of Establishment, In Which Persons of Any Description Are To Be Kept Under Inspection; And in Particular to Penitentiary-Houses, Prisons, Houses of Industry, Work-houses, Poor-house, Manufactories, Mad-houses, Lazarettos, Hospitals, and Schools: With a Plan of Management Adapted to the Principle: In a Series of Letters, Written in the Year 1787, From Crecheff in White Russia, To a Friend in England Y1 - 1791 A1 - Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Detailed plans for an ideal utilitarian building where the inmates can be kept under constant observation at low cost.

PB - Sold by T. Payne CY - Dublin, Ireland Printed: London, Reprinted N1 -

Rpt. in The Works of Jeremy Bentham, Published Under the Superintendence of His Executor, John Bowring. 11 vols. (Edinburgh: William Tait, 1843), 4: 37-172; and in The Panopticon Writings. Ed. Miran Božovič. London: Verso, 1995. Includes “Panopticon Letters” (29-95), “Postscript, Part I. Containing Further Particulars and Alterations Relative to the Plan of Construction Originally Proposed; Principally Adapted to the Purpose of a Panopticon Penitentiary-House” [printed 1791] (97-114), and “A Fragment on Ontology” (115-38), which is about fictions not the panopticon. See also “Panopticon versus New South Wales: or, The Panopticon Penitentiary System, and The Penal Colonization System, Compared. In a Letter Addressed to the Right Honourable Lord Pelham. By Jeremy Bentham, of Lincoln’s Inn, Esq.” (Bowring 4: 173-248).

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Approach of Peace. A Vision Written in 1793" Y1 - 1790 A1 - Zulindus [pseud.] AB -

Allegory about the struggle for the coming of peace. The story begins by depicting a eutopia that consists of a rich agricultural area of happy people and a successful city of commerce and manufacturing, but Tyranny approaches and, assisted by Civil Discord, destroys the peace of the country. But Religion and Peace back Science, Loves and Graces, and Nature and restore the balance.

JF - The New-York Magazine, or Literary Repository VL - 1.4 U3 -

Zulindus [pseud.].

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Christian Philosopher. Number III [A Vision]" Y1 - 1790 AB -

Christian allegory with three routes to salvation, which is represented by the temple of Contentment. Two, gaiety and melancholy, are dead ends. The third, Virtue, leads to the temple, but the rich are told that they cannot enter with their wealth and turn back, as does Pride. Temperance, Benevolence, and Cheerfulness gain entry.

JF - The Christian Scholar's and Farmer's Magazine (Elizabethtown, NJ) VL - 2.4 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Philanthropist. No. XVI. An Allegorical DESCRIPTION of a certain ISLAND and its INHABITANTS” Y1 - 1790 KW - US author AB -

Christian allegory using utopian imagery. The island (this life) is part of the territory of the King of Utopia (God) where people who disobey the King are exiled until they change their ways and please him again. During their exile, all needed supplies are provided by the King.

JF - The Massachusetts Magazine VL - 2.4 N1 -

Rpt. in American Utopias: Selected Short Fiction. Ed. Arthur O. Lewis, Jr. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971. All items separately paged.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A True and Faithful Account of the Island of Veritas; Together with the Forms of Their Liturgy; and a Full Relation of the Religious Opinions of the Veritasians, as Delivered in Several Sermons Just Published in Veritas Y1 - 1790 A1 - Jasper Richardson [pseud.] AB -

Eutopia based on religion, reason, and virtue. Mostly a defense of Unitarianism with material on the forms of their religious services but includes detailed political and legal systems. Elected hereditary monarchy. Annual elections to Parliament. Clergy elected annually by the parish but cannot be removed except for cause.

PB - Ptd. for C. Stalker CY - London U3 -

Jasper Richardson [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Dreamer No. VI" Y1 - 1789 A1 - Sophronia [pseud.] AB -

Tells of a visit to the “Massachusetts Publick Female Academy” and hearing a speech by the “Preceptress General.” She states that apparent differences in intellect between men and women are not based on inherent differences but on the fact that men are educated, and women are not. In doing so, she refers specifically to women from “a lower sphere” who are kept from learning the skills needed to efficiently run a home, raise children, and support herself and them if necessary. The visitor notes that the library contains only useful books and not “a singly Novel or Romance” (370)

JF - The Massachusetts Magazine or Monthly Museum (Boston, MA) VL - 1.6 U3 -

Sophronia [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mammuth; or, Human Nature Displayed on a Grand Scale: In a Tour with the Tinkers, into the Inland Parts of Africa Y1 - 1789 A1 - [William] [Thomson] (1746-1817) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Eutopia. Anti-technology--better to use nature than the best mechanical contrivances. Reason, learning, good repute, and nobility are the bases for government. Elective monarchy. Euthanasia is allowed for the old of good character after they have been judged worthy and paid “the usual fine.”

PB - Ptd. for J. Murray CY - London VL - 2 vols. N1 -

Rpt. in Gulliveriana: IV. Ed. Jeanne Welcher and George E. Bush, Jr. (Delmar, NY: Scholars’ Facsimiles and Reprints, 1973), 229-384. Another edition--London: Ptd. for G. and T. Wilkie, 1789.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Plan for a Free Community upon the Plan for a Free Community upon the Coast of Africa, Under the Protection of Great Britain; But Intirely Independent of all European Laws and Governments. With an Invitation, under certain Conditions, to all Persons desirous of partaking the Benefits thereof. Embellished with a large and elegant View of Sierra Leone, on the Coast of Guinea.of Africa, Under the Protection of Great Britain; But Intirely Independent of all European Laws and Governments. With an Invitation, under certain Conditions, to all Persons desirous of partaking the Benefits there Y1 - 1789 A1 - August [or Augustus] Nordenskjold (1754-92) A1 - Charles Bernard Wadstrom (1746-99) A1 - Colburn Barrell A1 - Johan Gottfried Simpson KW - German author KW - Male author KW - Swedish author KW - US author AB -

Proposal for a Christian community with a constitution and organization of government. For more information the reader is referred to the works of Emanuel Swedenborg (1668-1772), which they plan to publish.

PB - Ptd. by R. Hindmarsh CY - London N1 -

Later ed. as by Charles Bernard Wadstrom, Plan for a Free Community at Sierra Leona, Upon the Coast of Africa, Under the Protection of Great Britain; with An Invitation to all Persons desirous of partaking the Benefits thereof. Embellished with a large and elegant View of Sierra Leona, on the Coast of Guinea. London: Ptd. for T. and J. Egerton, 1792. Same signers. Some errata.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Benefits of Charity: A Dream” Y1 - 1787 A1 - [Benjamin] [Rush] (1745-1813) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dream in which the protagonist visits heaven and sees how Philadelphia has been protected from punishment for its evil ways by first, the existence of the Pennsylvania Hospital, second, by the existence of a Dispensary, third, by the existence of the Society for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery, and the Relief of Free Negroes, Unlawfully Held in Bondage, and fourth, by the existence of A Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons. When it is threatened a fifth time, it will be saved only if it establishes “FREE SCHOOLS in which human learning shall be accompanied, and corrected [581] with religious instruction. . .” (580-81). See also his Constitution and Laws of the Philadelphia Society for the Establishment and Support of Charity Schools. Incorporated September 8, 1801. With a Historical Sketch of the Institution and the Life of Christopher Ludwick. Philadelphia: Ptd. by the Order of The Society, 1860.

JF - Columbian Magazine VL - 1.12 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Letter XV. For the Lewes Journal. A Midsummer-Night's Dream; or, a Trip to the Moon" Y1 - 1787 A1 - Richard Michell KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The moon is described as having luxuriant parks, with lots of flowers and other natural and artificial beauties. The parks were filled with people “. . . variously engaged, but to appearances all equally happy.” Elegantly simple dress. Huge amphitheatre that can hold the entire population of the planet filled for the Autumn Festival to given thanks for the year’s productions. “The inhabitants of the Moon, Man, are perfect strangers to all those irregular, turbulent passions, in the gratification, instead of the government of which, you mortals are madly seeking happiness. . .” (89. Original emphasis). “. . . total absence of all the disorderly affections that torment the HUMAN breast” (89. Original emphasis). “The Lunarians are wiser, and better, and therefore happier beings than you are” (90. Original emphasis). 

JF - Fugitive Pieces, on Various Subjects PB - Ptd. for the Author by W. and A. Lee CY - Lewes, Eng. VL - 2 vols. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Paradise of Negro-Slaves.--a dream" Y1 - 1787 A1 - [Benjamin] [Rush] (1745-1813) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Those who had been slaves are in their own heaven, where, knowing they are saved, wait for the final judgement. Visited by the author in a dream, they are frightened by seeing a white man but learning that he supports abolition, they welcome him, and a few tell him their stories. Each tells of the horrors of slavery and how they were mistreated and killed, but they hope that those who mistreated them will repent and be saved rather than face damnation for their actions in life. The dream ends with the arrival and welcome of another white man, Anthony Benezet (1713-84), the founder of world's first anti-slavery societies, the Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage, which, after his death, was reconstituted by Benjamin Franklin and Rush as the Pennsylvania Society for the Abolition of Slavery; the first public school for girls in North America; and the Negro School at Philadelphia.

JF - The Columbia Magazine: or Monthly Miscellany VL - 1.5 N1 -

Rpt. in his Essays Literary, Moral and Philosophical. 2nd ed. with additions (Philadelphia, PA: Thomas and Samuel F. Bradford, 1806), 305-09; rpt. ed. Michael Meranze (Schenectady, NY: Union College Press, 1988), 187-90.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Temple of Hope. A Vision" Y1 - 1787 A1 - Mr. [B.] Walwyn KW - Male author AB -

Brief allegory. A beautiful Temple sits in a desolate waste but is surrounded by gardens in which the children of Arts, Sciences, Peace, Plenty, and Pleasure play. As a sign of welcome to people from all countries, the Temple includes all architectural styles. The walls are from a single crystal from the mountain of Promise and the foundations had come from the sandpit of Expectation and the quarry of Enterprise.

JF - The General Magazine and Impartial Review (London) VL - 1 N1 -

Rpt. in The New-York Weekly Magazine; or, Miscellaneous Repository 2.83 (February 1, 1797): 246.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Vision of Columbus: A Poem in Nine Books Y1 - 1787 A1 - Joel Barlow Esquire (1754-1812) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A poem with millennial themes. Although most of the poem is concerned with the history of the Americas to date, it includes several visions of a future of universal peace and prosperity based on the flourishing of the arts and the sway of reason and science. Book IX (237-58) concludes the poem with a vision of the entire Earth, speaking one language and with all nations working together to form a world council to bring the world into harmony. This served as the basis for his better known The Columbiad A Poem. Philadelphia, PA: Ptd. by Fry and Kammerer for C. and A. Conrad and Co. Philadelphia; Conrad, Lucas and Co. Baltimore, 1807.

PB - Ptd. by Hudson and Goodwin CY - Hartford, CT N1 -

2nd ed. Hartford, CT: Ptd. by Hudson and Goodwin, 1787. 5th ed. corrected as The Vision of Columbus: A Poem in Nine Books. To Which is Added, The Conspiracy of Kings: A Poem, By the Same Author (Paris: Ptd. at the English Press, 1793), 1-275.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "[Chronicle of the Year 1850]" Y1 - 1786 AB -

Inspired by reading Louis Sebastien Mercier's L'an deux mille quatre cent quarante. Rêve s'il en fût jamais (1775), a man in a dream reads a newspaper from the future. Anti-slavery. Blacks (this word is used) had returned to Africa. A man is found guilty of not sending his son to school at the correct age.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Observations on the Present Situation and Future Prospects of this the United States. No. IX. The History of White Negroes" Y1 - 1786 A1 - Lycurgus [pseud.] AB -

Satire on contemporary American politics, particularly the national debt, presented as an analysis of how, after slavery ends, the rich avoid being taxed to pay off the national debt and the white working class are so burdened with debt, which grows rather than shrinks, that they are enslaved to the new masters.

JF - The New-Haven Gazette, and the Connecticut Magazine VL - 1.9 U3 -

Lycurgus [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Plan for the Establishment of Public Schools and the Diffusion of Knowledge in Pennsylvania to which are added thoughts upon the mode of education, proper in a republic. Addressed to the Legislature and Citizens of the State Y1 - 1786 A1 - [Benjamin] [Rush] (1745-1813) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A detailed proposal for a eutopian public school system, saying that it supports religion, liberty, “just ideas of law and government,” manners, agriculture, and manufacturing (1). It then proposes one university in each state, located in its capital. For Pennsylvania he proposes four colleges in Philadelphia, Carlisle, Lancaster, “for the benefit of our German fellow citizens,” and one, in the future, in Pittsburg (2). Also, there should be a free school in every township where children learn to “read and write the English and German languages, and the use of figures” (2). Rush wrote numerous essays on aspects of education, including “Thoughts upon the Mode of Education proper in a Republic.” In his A Plan for the Establishment of Public Schools and the Diffusion of Knowledge in Pennsylvania to which are added thoughts upon the mode of education, proper in a republic. Addressed to the Legislature and Citizens of the State. Philadelphia, PA: Ptd. for Thomas Dobson, 1786), 13-36; “Thoughts upon Female Education, Accommodated to the Present State of Society, Manners, and Government, in the United States of America. Addressed to the Visitors of the Young Ladies Academy in Philadelphia, 28th July, 1787, at the Close of the Quarterly Examination, and Afterwards Published at the Request of the Visitors” his Essays Literary, Moral and Philosophical. (Philadelphia, PA: Thomas and Samuel F. Bradford, 1798), 75-92. 2nd ed. with additions (Philadelphia, PA: Thomas and Samuel F. Bradford, 1806), 75-92. Rpt. ed. Michael Meranze (Schenectady, NY: Union College Press, 1988), 44-54; “An Enquiry into the Utility of a Knowledge of the Latin and Greek Languages, as a branch of liberal education, with hints of a plan of liberal instruction, without them, accommodated to the present state of society, manners, and government in the United States.” By a Citizen of Philadelphia [pseud.]. American Museum, or Universal Magazine 5 (June 1789): 525-35; “Plan for a Federal University.” By Citizen of Pennsylvania [pseud.]. Federal Gazette and Philadelphia Evening Post, no. 25 (October 29, 1788): 2-3; and “Letter to Richard Price May 15, 1786.” Letters of Benjamin Rush. Volume I: 1761-1792. Ed. L. H. Butterfield ([Philadelphia, PA]: The American Philosophical Society by Princeton University Press, 1951), 388-90.

JF - A Plan for the Establishment of Public Schools and the Diffusion of Knowledge in Pennsylvania to which are added thoughts upon the mode of education, proper in a republic. Addressed to the Legislature and Citizens of the State PB - Ptd. for Thomas Dobson CY - Philadelphia, PA N1 -

Rpt. in the Pennsylvania Gazette (Philadelphia, PA), no. 2919 (May 10, 1786): 1-2; and as “A Plan for Establishing Public Schools in Pennsylvania, and for conducting education agreeably to a Republican form of Government. Addressed to the Legislature and citizens of Pennsylvania, in the Year 1786.” In his Essays Literary, Moral and Philosophical (Philadelphia, PA: Thomas and Samuel F. Bradford, 1798), 1-6; 2nd ed. with additions (Philadelphia, PA: Thomas and Samuel F. Bradford, 1806), 1-6; rpt. ed. Michael Meranze (Schenectady, NY: Union College Press, 1988), 1-4. Also rpt. as “Education Agreeable to a Republican Form of Government.” In The Selected Writings of Benjamin Rush. Ed. Dagobert D. Runes (New York: Philosophical Library, 1947), 97-100. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - An Account of Count D'Artois and his Friend's Passage to the Moon, in a Flying Machine, called, an Air Balloon; Which was constructed in France, and from which place they ascended. Giving an Account of the Things, or Objects, they had a View of in the Passage; and likewise the Circumstances of their landing in that Planet, and conversing with the Inhabitants;--their Language, Manners, Religion, & c.--With many other Things very entertaining, and well worth the Attention of those who need it Y1 - 1785 A1 - [Daniel] [Moore] (1764-1882) KW - Male author AB -

Limited utopian elements. The moon is harmonious, peaceful, and so forth and is compared to the Elysian Fields and the Garden of Eden. The Moon people speak Hebrew and are Christian.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Golden Age: or; Future Glory of North-America Discovered by An Angel to Celadon. In Several Entertaining Visions. Vision I Y1 - 1785 A1 - Celadon [pseud.] KW - US author AB -

Depicts a future America. The angel is one of those who were appointed to oversee the colonies and inspire “your statesmen and heroes with courage” (6). While America cannot be protected “from the usual vicissitudes of fortune. . . . The States will doubtless watch over one another with the strictest vigilance” and thus protect the country from “gross innovation” (7). It will benefit from the “continual emigration” of the “poor, the oppressed, and the persecuted” and will prosper as long as the people do not give in to “pride and luxury” (9). New states will be added, including Savagenia, for Indians and Nigrania for Negroes after the end of slavery. And given the size of the country, there may well be states for Jews and for those arriving from other countries, with only European ones mentioned.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Reverie, Occasioned by Reading the Vision of Mirza" Y1 - 1785 A1 - [Judith Sargent] [Murray] (1751-1820) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

From birth to death and after humans are accompanied by an unseen guide from heaven who ultimately, after death, help all of them to reach heaven, which is briefly described. It has no night, many flowers always in bloom, exceptional music, and true joy. 

JF - The Boston Magazine VL - 2 U3 -

By Constancia [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Thirty-nine Articles; or, a Plan of Reform in the Legislative Delegation of Utopia Y1 - 1785 A1 - [Daniel Tnangam] [Alexander] KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia in the form of proposed legislation. Separation of powers. Male suffrage and all men can serve in the legislature, except, in both cases, the nobility, convicts, and the insane. Annual elections. Equal apportionment of districts based on population. Paid legislature. Simple majority in elections. Run-offs if no candidate receives a majority; the lot used in the case of a tie.

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By the Author of A Call to the Jews [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "An Island in the Moon" Y1 - 1784 A1 - William Blake (1757-1827) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A satire on contemporary events, manners, and people using an imaginary society on the moon.

JF - Blake. Complete Writings With Variant Readings. PB - Oxford University Press CY - London N1 -

The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake. Newly rev. ed. Ed. David V. Erdman, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008), 449-65, with Textual Notes (849-50. Also pub. as An Island in the Moon. A Facsimile of the Manuscript Introduced, Transcribed, and Annotated by Michael Phillips with a Preface by Haven O’More. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press in association with Institute of Traditional Science, 1987. A different version Ed. and Decorated by Gavin O’Keefe. [U.S.] The Purple Mouth Press, 1998. A 1787 ms. was published as An Island in the Moon. Illus. Nicholas Parry. Market Drayton, Eng.: Tern Press, 2007.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Journey lately performed through the Air, in an Aerostatic Globe, commonly called an Air Balloon, from this terraqueous Globe to the Newly Discovered Planet, Georgium Sidus, by Monsieur Vivenair Y1 - 1784 A1 - Monsieur Vivenair [pseud.] AB -

Satire on the England of George III (1738-1820) set on the planet Georgium Sidus (George's Star) or Uranus.

PB - Np CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in The Man in the Moone and Other Lunar Fantasies. Ed. Faith K. Pizor and T. Allan Comp (New York: Praeger, 1971), 146-61; and in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 4: 217-32.

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Monsieur Vivenair [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Manuscript" Y1 - 1784 A1 - Lady Mary Hamilton (1739-1816) KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

Satire in which the protagonist travels by balloon to a planet inhabited by giants. There she meets the planet’s Royal Academy and its Chief Minister, who is modelled on William Pitt, the Younger (1759-1806), Prime Minister (1783-1801, 1804-06). Most of the text is a commentary on the politics of the planet as a way of commenting on contemporary British politics. 

PB - James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library CY - New Haven, CT U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Modern Atalantis; or, The Devil in an Air Balloon. Containing the Characters and Secret Memoirs of the most Conspicuous Persons of High Quality, of Both Sexes, in the Island of Libertusia, In the Western Ocean. Translated from the Libertusuian Language Y1 - 1784 AB -

Satire on English manners, customs, politics, etc.

PB - Ptd. for G. Kearsley CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 4: 233-75.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Oppression Unmasked: Being a Narrative of the Proceedings in a Case Between a Great Corporation, and a Little Fishmonger, Relative to some Customs for Fish, demanded by the former as Legal, but refused by the latter, as Exactions and Extortions Y1 - 1784 A1 - An Advocate for Justice [pseud.] KW - Irish author AB -

Set in Utopia, where justice prevails, but directed to the Irish, where it does not.

PB - Np CY - Dublin, Ireland U3 -

An Advocate for Justice [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Admirable Travels of Messieurs Thomas Jenkins and David Lowellin Through Unknown Tracts of Africa: With the Manner how Lowellin lived five Years on an uninhabited Spot; and, having sustained many dangerous Attacks from the wild Beasts and Savages, returned safe to London, in September, 1781, after having been eleven Years in those extensive Regions Y1 - 1783 AB -

Includes both a brief Robinsonade and a brief eutopia. The eutopia has no capital punishment and is generally egalitarian. Beautiful city. Some material on courtship rituals.

PB - Ptd. from the original Manuscript, in 1783, by the Author's Consent, for the benefit of Robert Barker, an unfortunate blind Man CY - London N1 -

Rpt. 1785 and 1792.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Man in the Moon; or, Travels into the Lunar Regions Y1 - 1783 A1 - [William] [Thomson] (1746-1817) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

The Man of the People is Charles James Fox (1749-1806). Mostly famous people living on the moon after death. Some minor eutopian parts, including a convent of women.

PB - Ptd. for J. Murray CY - London VL - 2 vols. N1 -

Rpt. in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 4: 121-215.

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By the Man of the People [pseud.].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The United States Elevated to Glory and Honor. A Sermon Preached Before His Excellency Jonathan Trumbull, Esq. L.L.D. Governor and Commander in Chief, and the Honorable The General Assembly of the State of Connecticut, Convened at Hartford, At the Anniversary Election, May 8th, 1783 Y1 - 1783 A1 - Ezra Stiles D.D. (1727-95) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The United States presented as an achieved eutopia, which will be a model to and leader of the rest of the world due to its governmental system and true religion. The country will have a population of forty to fifty million before the fulfillment of Biblical prophecies. See also his A Discourse on the Christian Union: The Substance of Which Was Delivered Before the Reverend Convention of the Congregational Clergy in the Colony of Rhode Island; Assembled at Bristol. April 23, 1760. Boston, N.E.: Printed and sold by Edes and Gill, 1761. Rpt. Brookfield, MA: np, 1799. 164 pp. that projects New England into the next century. 

PB - Thomas & Samuel Green CY - New Haven, CT N1 -

Rpt. ed. Reiner Smolinski. https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1041&context=etas. A different version was published in The Kingdom, the Power, & the Glory: The Millennial Impulse in Early American Literature. Ed. Reiner Smolinski (Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall-Hunt, 1998), 441–492. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Geographical Description of Bachelor’s Island” Y1 - 1782 A1 - [Richard] [Johnson] KW - Male author AB -

Satiric allegory.

JF - The European Magazine and London Review VL - 1 N1 -

 Rpt. in The American Museum, or Repository of Ancient and Fugitive Pieces 8 (October 1790): 186-87; The Boston Magazine 1 (December 1783): 48; The Universal Asylum and Columbian Magazine 4 (April 1790): 213-14; Impartial Gazetteer, and Saturday Evening Post 4.197 (February 18, 1792); The Massachusetts Magazine or Monthly Museum 2.12 (December 1790): 747-48; The Philadelphia Minerva 1.41 (November 14, 1795), [4]; The Rural Magazine 1.44 (December 15, 1798) [2]; and as “The Bachelor’s Island.” The Federal Gazette and Daily Advertiser 1.59 (March 19, 1798).

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As “The Bachelor’s Island.” The Federal Gazette and Daily Advertiser 1.59 (March 19, 1798).

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Geographical Description of the Isle of Matrimony" Y1 - 1782 A1 - R[ichard] J[ohnson] KW - Male author AB -

Satiric allegory.

JF - The European Magazine and London Review VL - 1 N1 -

Rpt. in The Massachusetts Magazine or Monthly Museum 2.11 (November 1790): 689-90; The Universal Asylum and Columbian Magazine 7 (August 1791): 102-03 without the R.J.; and Impartial Gazetteer, and Saturday Evening Post 4.196 (February 11, 1792).

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A History of the Customs, Manners, and Religion, of the Moon. To Which Are Annexed, Several Specimens of Lunar Poetry; and the Characters of the Most Distinguished Personages Y1 - 1782 AB -

Satire on education, religion, women, customs and manners, law, and courtship. Elements of a Cockaigne; for example, the delicious Bread-melon comes to maturity in an hour and when picked is instantly replaced, and the cup of Lilly-wine refills as soon as it is emptied.

PB - Ptd. by John Hillary CY - Dublin, Ireland U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Letter XXIX. A Dream; or the present state of Man compared with one more perfect" Y1 - 1782 A1 - [John] [Stedman] (d. 1791) KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia set on the moon, which is visited in a dream. The people are ruled by reason and motivated by benevolence. Mostly a comparison with earth's weaknesses.

JF - Laelius and Hortensia; or, Thought on the Nature and Objects of Taste and Genius, in a series of letters to Two Friends PB - Ptd. For J. Balfour; and T. Cadell, London CY - Edinburgh, Scot. N1 -

Rpt. (New York: Garland, 1970), 277-88. Rpt. as “The present State of Man, compared to one more perfect. A Dream. In a letter to Hortensia.” The Ladies Magazine; and Repository of Entertaining Knowledge 1.5 (October 1792): 218-23 [The cover of the volume has Lady’s Magazine, but each issue is headed Ladies Magazine]; and as “The present State of Man, compared to one more perfect. A Dream: From Lelius and Hortensia.” The Massachusetts Magazine: or, Monthly Museum of Knowledge and Rational Entertainment 7.5 (August 1795): 261-64.

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Rpt. as “The present State of Man, compared to one more perfect. A Dream. In a letter to Hortensia.” The Ladies Magazine; and Repository of Entertaining Knowledge 1.5 (October 1792): 218-23 [The cover of the volume has Lady’s Magazine, but each issue is headed Ladies Magazine]; and as “The present State of Man, compared to one more perfect. A Dream: From Lelius and Hortensia.” The Massachusetts Magazine: or, Monthly Museum of Knowledge and Rational Entertainment 7.5 (August 1795): 261-64.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mount Henneth, A Novel Y1 - 1782 A1 - [Robert] [Bage] (1728-1801) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A small part of the novel is a description of a group of friends creating a eutopia in a castle.

PB - T. Lowndes CY - London VL - 2 Vols. N1 -

Rpt. Dublin, Ireland: Ptd. Price, Whitestone, Sleater, Moncrieffe, Walker, Mills, Beatty, E. Cross, and Burton, 1782; and as Mount Henneth, A Novel in a Series of Letters. 2nd ed. 2 vols. London: W. Lowndes, 1788. Dublin ed. rpt. New York: Garland, 1979

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Supplement to the History of Robinson Crusoe, Being the History of Crusonia, or Robinson Crusoe's Island, Down to the Present Time. Copied from a letter sent by Mr. Wishit, Captain of the Good-Intent, to an intelligent Friend in England, after being in a Storm in May, 1781 driven out of his course to the Said Island. Published by the said Gentleman, for the agreeable Perusal of Robinson Crusoe's Friends of all Sizes Y1 - 1782 A1 - [Thomas] [Spence] (1750-1814) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Robinson Crusoe’s island had developed the institutions found in Britain at the time, but a revolution had overthrown the system, abolished all landlords except the local parish, and established majority rule and a citizen’s militia. See also 1795, 1798 and 1801 Spence.

PB - T. Saint CY - Newcastle upon Tyne, Eng. VL - New ed. N1 -

Also in Spence’s phonetic spelling in the same volume. The standard version is rpt. in The Political Works of Thomas Spence. Ed. H.T. Dickinson (Newcastle upon Tyne, Eng.: Avero (Eighteenth-Century) Publications Ltd., 1982), 5-15; in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 4: 105-120; and in Thomas Spence: The Poor Man’s Revolutionary. Ed. Alastair Bonnett and Keith Alexander (London: Breviary Stuff Publications, 2014), 133-144.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Vision" Y1 - 1782 A1 - [Leonard] [McNally] KW - Male author AB -

Presents an eloquent speech by an African American attacking U.S. policy and against slavery in the West Indies.

JF - European Magazine and London Review VL - 1 N1 -

Rpt. in Town and Country Magazine (London) 20 (February 1788): 66-68; with the “M.” as “Negro Slavery.” The American Magazine, containing a Miscellaneous Collection 1.6 (May 1788): 377-81; and as “A Vision.” The New-York Magazine, or Literary Repository 2.4 (April 1791): 198-201.

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As “Negro Slavery.” The American Magazine, containing a Miscellaneous Collection 1.6 (May 1788): 377-81

ER - TY - ABST T1 - An Essay on the Right of Property in Land, With respect to its Foundation in the Law of Nature; Its present Establishment by the Municipal Laws of Europe; and The Regulations by which it might be rendered more beneficial to the lower Ranks of Mankind Y1 - 1781 A1 - [William] [Ogilvie] (1736-1819 KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Includes a detailed agrarian law designed as regulations for a eutopia.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The State of England In the Year 2199" Y1 - 1780 A1 - [Thomas] [Lyttelton Lyttelton], [Baron] (1744-79) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of the downfall of England. The poem is dated March 21, 1771.

JF - Poems By a Young Nobleman, of Distinguished Abilities, lately deceased: Particularly The State of England, and the once flourishing City of London. In a Letter from an American Traveller, Dated from the Ruinous Portico of St. Paul,s, in the Year 2199 PB - Ptd. for G. Kearsley CY - London N1 -

2nd ed. (London: Ptd. for G. Kearsley, 1780), 1-16. 3rd ed. rev. (London: Ptd. for G. Kearsley, 1780), 11-26.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Temple of Happiness." Y1 - 1779 A1 - [Samuel] [Pratt] KW - Male author AB -

Brief Christian allegory.

JF - London Magazine VL - 48 N1 -

Rpt. in The Massachusetts Magazine or Monthly Museum 5.3 (March 1793): 147-50; and in The New-York Magazine, or Literary Repository 6.3 (March 1795): 152-54.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Vision of the Paradise of Female Patriotism" Y1 - 1779 A1 - Clarissa, a Lady of this City [pseud.] KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A woman daydreaming by her window in Philadelphia is visited by the male, or at least that is the pronoun used, “angel of the paradise of female patriotism,” who urges her to visit this paradise, which requires an apparently dangerous trek over a mountain. On her arrival, she finds a garden where women from all eras, mostly in separate areas, live. Although some have already arrived, a separate hill is reserved for women from the thirteen colonies, and among the women who will reside there will be those who opposed the revolution but have seen their error and become patriotic Americans. 

JF - The United States Magazine, A Repository of History, Politics and Literature (Philadelphia, PA) VL - 1.3 U3 -

Clarissa, a Lady of this City [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Munster Village Y1 - 1778 A1 - [Mary] [Hamilton] (1739-1816) KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

Eutopian academic retreat. Education for women, including in the sciences.

PB - Ptd. for Robson and Co.; Walter; and Robinson CY - London VL - 2 vols. N1 -

Rpt. Dublin, Ireland: Ptd. by Peter Hoey, 1779; and London: Pandora, 1987.

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Trans. by Charles Nodier as Le Village de Munster. 2 vols. Paris: Duchesne/Rotterdam/Bennet & Hake, 1792.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Prophecy of the future Glory of America" Y1 - 1778 A1 - [David] [Rittenhouse] (1732-96) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Poem describing the future of the United States in vague, but eutopian terms.

JF - The Lancaster Almanack for the Year of Our Lord, 1779: Being the Third after Leap-Year. The Fourth Year of American Independency. Containing The Motions of the Sun and the Moon; the true places and aspects of the planets; the Rising and Settings of the Sun; the Luinations, Conjunctions, Eclipses, Rising, Setting and Southing of the Planets; Length of Days; Judgment of the Weather; Festivals and other Remarkable Days; High Water at Philadelphia; Tables of Interest; Tables of the Value and Weight of Coins; A Table, shewing the Value of any number of Dollars from 1, to 10,000; Quakers Yearly Meetings; Fairs, Courts, Roads, &c. ALSO, The Happy Life, On New-Year’s Day; A Prophecy of the future Glory of America; Anecdote of Col. Ethan Allen, in reply to Genl. Howe; Receipts in Physic; New Liberty Songs, &c. &c. &c. Fitted to the Latitude of Forty Degrees, and a Meridian of near Five Hours West of London; but may without sensible Error, serve all the Northern Colonies PB - Ptd. by Francis Bailey CY - Lancaster, PA U3 -

Anthony Sharp, Philom [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Travels of Hildebrand Bowman, Esquire, Into Carnovirria, Taupiniera, Olfactaria, and Auditante, in New-Zealand; in the Island of Bonhommica, and in the powerful Kingdom of Luxo-volupto, on the Great Southern Continent. Written by Himself; Who went on shore in the Adventure's large Cutter, at Queen Charlotte's Sound New Zealand, the fatal 17th of December 1773; and escaped being cut off, and devoured, with the rest of the Boat's crew, by happening to be a-shooting in the woods; where he was afterwards unfortunately left behind by the Adventure Y1 - 1778 AB -

Gulliver type located in New Zealand. Each of the peoples identified by one characteristic. Bonhommica is a eutopia of sorts in which the people have a sixth sense, conscience.

PB - Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 4: 1-103.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Trip to Melasge; or, Concise Instructions to a Young Gentleman Entering into Life: With Observations on the Genius, Manners, Ton, Opinions, Philosophy, and Morals of the Melasgians Y1 - 1778 AB -

Arcadian land plus graceful architecture. Intelligence, education, grace, beauty.

PB - Ptd. for B. Law CY - London VL - 2 vols. N1 -

Rpt. as The Sentimental Traveller, or a Descriptive Tour Through Life, Figuratively as a Trip to Melasge, in which is Included the Adventures of a Young Gentleman in the East-Indies: The Whole Forming a System of Education with Instructions to a Young Gentleman, Entering into Life. 2 vols. London: Ptd. for S. Brown, [1780?]. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Columbia: A Song, Written & Set to Music by Timothy Dwight, the Elder Y1 - 1777 A1 - Timothy Dwight D.D. (1752-1817) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The future of America as a eutopia of science, the arts, freedom, and power in the world.

PB - Printed at the Press of Timothy Dwight College in Yale University CY - New Haven, CT N1 -

Text from the American Museum, or Repository of Ancient and Modern Fugitive Pieces, &c. Prose and Poetical (Philadelphia) 1.6 (June 1787), 1: 484-85. Written in 1777 and apparently published in broadsides, one version of which is Columbia: An Ode. [Philadelphia, PA: Ptd. by John M’Culloch, 1794], which includes the music. The text and music can also be found in The American Musical Miscellany: A Collection of the Newest and Most Approved Songs, Set to Music (Northampton, MA: Ptd. by Andrew Dwight, 1798), 207-11, with the title simply as “Columbia” on 207 but as “Columbia, Columbia, to glory arise” in the Contents. Book rpt. (New York: Da Capo Press, 1972), 207-11.

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The cover reads Columbia: A Patriotic Song, Written & Set to Music by Timothy Dwight 1777.  

Alternative titles: Columbia: An Ode, “Columbia,” and “Columbia, Columbia, to glory arise.”

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The History of Arsaces, Prince of Betlis Y1 - 1774 A1 - [Charles] [Johnstone] (ca. 1719-c. 1800) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Something of an oriental tale that has been compared to 1759 Johnson and 1726 Swift that includes a number of fairly short descriptions of eutopian societies.

PB - Ptd. for T. Becket CY - London VL - 2 Vols. N1 -

Critical ed. ed. Daniel Sanjiv Roberts. Dublin, Ireland: Four Courts Press, 2014. Extracts published as “The Travels of Himilco, an Oriental Tale.” By the Author of Chrysal [pseud.]. Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure (London) 55.380 -81 (July - August 1774): 13-19; 61-65.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Hill of Science. A Vision" Y1 - 1773 A1 - [Anna Laetitia] [Barbauld] (1743-1825) ED - J[ohn] Aitkin ED - A[nna] L[etitia] Aitkin ED - A. L. Aitkin ED - J. Aitkin KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Allegorical dream of a hill topped by the Temple of Truth with various people trying to reach the top and mostly falling by the wayside. Entry is through the Gate of Languages. Application does the best.

JF - Miscellaneous Pieces in Prose PB - J. Johnson CY - London N1 -

Rpt. (Belfast, Northern Ireland: Ptd. by James Magee, 1774), 14-19; (London: J. Johnson, 1775), 27-35; (London: J. Johnson, 1792), 27-35; and in her The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld with a Memoir By Lucy Aikin. 2 vols. (London: Ptd. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1825), 2: 163-70; rpt. (London: Routledge/Thoemmes Press, 1996), 2: 163-70. Rpt. in The American Museum, or Universal Magazine 11.3 (March 1792): 82-84; and the Impartial Gazetteer, and Saturday Evening Post 6.265 (June 8, 1793).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Poem, on the Rising Glory of America: Being an Exercise Delivered at the Public Commencement at Nassau-hall, September 25, 1771 Y1 - 1772 A1 - Philip Morin Freneau (1752-1832) A1 - [Hugh Henry] [Brackenridge] (1748-1816) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The last stanzas (25-27) describe America in the coming millennium when America will be the new Eden.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Deserted Village, A Poem Y1 - 1770 A1 - Oliver Goldsmith (1728-74) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

The poem begins with a description of a village called Auburn as a eutopia, but the wealthy landowner pushes the people off the land creating the deserted village.

PB - W. Griffin CY - London N1 -

There were five further editions in 1770, a 7th ed. in 1772 and an 8th ed. in 1774. Rpt. in Collected Works of Oliver Goldsmith. Volume IV The Vicar of Wakefield Poems The Mystery Revealed. Ed. Arthur Friedman (Oxford, Eng.: The Clarendon Press, 1966), 283-304 with extensive footnotes and an “Introduction” (271-81).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Private Letters from an American in England to his Friends in America Y1 - 1769 AB -

England depopulated. The seat of government is in America. England's downfall was mostly due to lawyers who were willing to overthrow the law for profit. Decline of religion, trade, etc.

PB - Ptd. for J. Almon CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 3: 341-412. Also entitled Anticipation, or The Voyage of an American to England in the Year 1899, in a series of letters, humourously describing the supposed situation of this Kingdom at that Period. London: Ptd. for W. Lane, 1781.

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Also entitled Anticipation, or The Voyage of an American to England in the Year 1899, in a series of letters, humourously describing the supposed situation of this Kingdom at that Period. London: Ptd. for W. Lane, 1781.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Remarks which are supposed will be made in this Kingdom, by two North American travellers in the year one thousand nine hundred and forty-four" Y1 - 1769 A1 - Rationales [pseud.] AB -

Depopulated London. United States supreme.

JF - The Literary Register or Weekly Miscellany. Being A Repository of the most interesting Essay; with Extracts, and a Collated Review of Publications, in the Year MDCCLXIX. Including many valuable Original Pieces (Newcastle upon Tyne, England) VL - 1.17 N1 -

Originally published in The London Gazetteer (February 28, 1769).

Rpt. in The Pennsylvania Chronicle and Universal Advertiser 3.20 (June 5/12, 1769): 165 giving The London Gazetteer as the source; and as “The Supposed Travellers . . . 1944.” The American Magazine; or, General Repository 1 (June 1769): 207-08.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Short Sketch of a Democratical Form of Government." Y1 - 1767 A1 - [Catherine] [Macaulay] (1731-91) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Eutopia. Essay describing a formal government organization designed for Corsica, with a Senate of no more than fifty members and a house of the people of no fewer than 250 members. Generally, the Senate debates issues before the house of the people. Rotation of office; agrarian law to limit land holding. Limitations on the increase in property holding include the division of property to all male heirs on death and no dowries. Unmarried women are provided with annuities. Compare with Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s (1712-78) Constitutional Project for Corsica (Projet de constitution pour la Corse) (1763).

JF - Loose Remarks on Certain Positions to be Found in Mr. Hobbes's Philosophical Rudiments of Government and Society. With a Short Sketch of a Democratical Form of Government, In a Letter to Signior Paoli PB - Ptd. for T. Davies; Robinson and Roberts; and T. Cadell CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in her Political Writings. Ed. Max Skjönsberg (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 2023), 103-108, with an editorial introduction on 86-88. 2nd ed. as “Short Sketch, &c Addressed to Signior Paoli. The Second Edition with Two Letters One From an American Gentleman to the Author Which Contain some Comments on Her Sketch of the Democratic Form of Government and the Author’s Answer.” In her Loose Remarks on Certain Positions to be Found in Mr. Hobbes’s Philosophical Rudiments of Government and Society. With a Short Sketch of a Democratical Form of Government, In a Letter to Signior Paoli (London: Ptd. for W. Johnston, T. Davies, E. and C. Dilly, J. Allmon, Robinson and Roberts, and T. Cadell, 1769), 19-28.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - An Account of the Giants Lately Discovered. In a Letter to a Friend in the Country Y1 - 1766 A1 - [Horace] [Walpole] (1717-1797) KW - English author AB -

Satire on discovery narratives, particularly John Byron, The Narrative of the Honourable John Byron (Commodore in a Late Expedition round the World). Containing an Account of the Great Distresses Suffered by Himself and His Companions on the Coast of Patagonia, From the Year 1740, till Their Arrival in England, 1746. With a Description of St. Jago de Chili, And the Manners and Customs of the Inhabitants. Also a relation of the Loss of the Wager Man of War. Written By Himself. To which is prefixed, A Biographical Sketch of the Author. London: Ptd for S. Baker and G. Leich, 1768. Rpt. with slight variations in the title Aberdeen, Scot.: Ptd. and pub. by James Johnson, 1822.

PB - Ptd. for F. Noble CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Edited by Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 3: 329-39.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Wanderer, or Memoirs of Charles Searle, Esq.; Containing His Adventures by Sea and Land. With Many Remarkable Characters, and interesting Situations in Real Life; and a Variety of surprizing Incidents Y1 - 1766 A1 - [Charles] [Searle] AB -

Vol. 2 (126-44) contains a description of noble savages.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Council in the Moon Y1 - 1765 AB -

Satire on English politics set on the moon.

PB - Fletcher & Hodson CY - Cambridge, Eng. N1 -

2nd ed. Cambridge, Eng.: Fletcher & Hodson, 1766.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The History of a Corporation of Servants. Discovered a few Years ago in the Interior Parts of South America. Containing some very Surprising Events and Extraordinary Characters Y1 - 1765 A1 - [John] [Witherspoon] (1723-94) KW - Scottish author KW - US author AB -

Satire on a society that comes to be controlled by its servants which can be read as a satire on the churches of England and Scotland.

PB - Ptd. for John Gilmour CY - Glasgow, Scot. N1 -

Rpt. in The Works of the Rev. John Witherspoon, D.D. L.L.D. Late President of the College at Princeton, New-Jersey. To Which is Prefixed An Account of the Author’s Life, in a Sermon occasioned by his Death, By the Rev. Dr. John Rodgers, of New-York. 2nd ed. Rev. and corr. 4 vols. (Philadelphia, PA: Ptd. & published By William W. Woodward, 1802), 3: 313-63. Collection rpt. as The Works of the Rev. John Witherspoon. 4 vols. (Bristol, Eng.: Thoemmes Press, 2003), 3: 311-63.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - An Account of the First Settlement, Laws, Form of Government, and Police, of the Cessares, a People of South America: In Nine Letters, from Mr. Vander Neck [pseud.], one of the Senators of that Nation, to his Friend in Holland. With Notes by the Editor Y1 - 1764 A1 - [James] [Burgh] (1714-75) KW - English author KW - Scottish author AB -

A detailed, regimented eutopia presented in the founding of a colony. Each male colonist to get sufficient land for their needs and the rest reserved for their descendants. Everyone is expected to be "sober, industrious and peaceable" (Claeys 80), and anything that would lead to a different condition is illegal. There are no lawyers, and plain speaking in trials is expected. Inspectors report annually on both the condition of the people, with ministers a particular concern, and that of the infrastructure. Useful trades taught along with intellectual, moral, and religious material.

PB - Ptd. for J. Payne CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Utopias of the British Enlightenment. Ed. Gregory Claeys (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1994), 71-136.

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Spanish ed. as Un Relato de la Colonizacion, de las Leyes, Formas de Gobierno y Costumbres de los Césares, un pueblo de Sudamérica, contenido en nueve Cartas, enviadas por Mr. Vander Neck [pseud.], uno de los Senadores de dicha Nación, a un amigo en Holanda, con nota del editor. Hay tres cosas que regulan los estados a saber: Necesidad, Leyes y Costumbres. Santiago de Chile, Chile: Centro de Investigaciones de Historia Americana, 1963

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Trip to the Moon. Containing an Account of the Island of Noibla. Its Inhabitants, Religious and Political Customs, &c. Y1 - 1764 A1 - [Francis] [Gentleman] (1728-84) KW - English author KW - Irish author AB -

Eutopia with simple laws. The head of the family is responsible for the conduct of all family members and must give a weekly account of their activities. Everyone must attend public worship at least once a day. Children are raised by a woman other than the natural mother because mothers are less likely to be willing to correct a child.

PB - Ptd. by A. Ward for S. Crowder, et al., CY - York, Eng. VL - 2 vols. N1 -

Rpt. in Gulliveriana: I. Ed. Jeanne Welcher and George E. Bush, Jr. (Gainesville, FL: Scholars’ Facsimiles and Reprints, 1970), 97-204; and as A Trip to the Moon. New York: Garland, 1974.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Reign of George VI 1900-1925 Y1 - 1763 AB -

Although the novel is mostly on war, an enlightened monarch encourages architecture, art, and literature and builds a city for the nobility and rich commoners where he established various academies and a university.

PB - Ptd. for W. Nicholl CY - London N1 -

Rpt. as The Reign of George VI. 1900-1925. A Forecast Written in the Year 1763. Ed. C[harles] Oman. London: Rivington’s, 1899 with “The Editor’s Preface” by Oman (vii-xxv). Rpt. London: Cornmarket Reprints, 1972 with a “Foreword” by I.F. Clarke (i-v); and with an introduction “The Reign of George VI” by I.F. Clarke (1-4) in British Future Fiction. Ed. I.F. Clarke. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2001), 1: 5-138.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Description of Millenium Hall, And the Country Adjacent: Together with the Character of the Inhabitants, And such Historical Anecdotes and Reflections, As May excite in the Reader proper Sentiments of Humanity, and lead the Mind to the Love of Virtue Y1 - 1762 A1 - [Mrs.] [Sarah (Robinson)] [Scott] (1723-95) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Describes a country estate of celibate women who help support the people of the area by providing work for everyone, a start in life for young married couples, and orphans and children from large families for older women to raise. There is also an enclosure for deformed people who would otherwise have to show themselves in sideshows. Much of the novel is taken up with the stories of the women, and these provide a critique of contemporary society.

PB - Ptd. for J. Newbery CY - London N1 -

Rpt. as A Description of Millenium Hall. An 18th Century Novel. Ed. Walter M. Crittenden with a “Preface” (5-22) by the editor. New York: Bookman Associates, 1955; ed. Jane Spencer with an “Introduction” (v-xvi) by the editor. London: Virago, 1986; ed. Gary Kelly. Peterborough, ON, Canada: Broadview Press, 1995; and the 1778 4th ed. in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 3: 183-327.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Reverie; or, a Flight to the Paradise of Fools Y1 - 1762 A1 - [Charles] [Johnstone] (ca. 1719-c. 1800) KW - Irish author AB -

Satire on contemporary events and people set in a fictional “Paradise of Fools.”

PB - Printed by Dillon Chamberlain. CY - Dublin, Ireland VL - 2 Vols. N1 -

 U.K. ed. London: Printed for T. Becket and P. A. Da Hondt, 1763. Rpt. in one vol. without the subtitle. New York: Garland, 1974.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Discourse on the Christian Union: The Substance of Which Was Delivered Before the Reverend Convention of the Congregational Clergy in the Colony of Rhode Island; Assembled at Bristol. April 23, 1760 Y1 - 1761 A1 - Ezra Stiles A.M. (1727-95) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Projects New England into the next century. Most of the book is concerned with what Christians agreed upon and where they disagree. From page 145 (1799 ed.) a lot of space is devoted to the increase in population of each of the four sects he finds worthy of attention, Episcopalians, Friends (Quakers), Baptists, and Congregationalists, with the last showing the greatest increase in population and in the number of churches. His concern is that without unity among Christians, or at least Protestants, the coming generations will become indifferent or tempted by other churches. Therefore, he gives suggestions for those who in the future will found new communities. He stresses the need for such new communities to establish churches and bring in ministers. At page 154 (1799 ed.) he projects one hundred years into the future, when he foresees the plain churches of his day replaced “with temples whose colonades [as spelled] are deckt with guilt busts of angels winged. . . .” Seven million Congregationalists at that time. 

PB - Printed and sold by Edes and Gill CY - Boston, N.E. N1 -

Rpt. Brookfield, MA: np, 1799. 164 pp. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Various Prospects of Mankind, Nature, and Providence Y1 - 1761 A1 - [Robert] [Wallace] (1697-1771) KW - Scottish author AB -

Short sketch of ideal government. Small government that is concerned with establishing and maintaining an equitable economic system. Stress on equality except where inequality is unavoidable.

PB - Ptd. for A. Millar CY - London N1 -

Rpt. New York: Augustus M. Kelley, 1969. The “Model of a Perfect Government for the Whole Earth” is rpt. in John Finch, “A Universal Government.” The New Moral World [5].26 (April 20, 1839): 404-06.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Taciturna and Jocunda; or, Genius Alaciel's Journey through those Two Islands. A Satirical Work Y1 - 1760 AB -

Satire on relations between Ireland and Britain. Concludes with twenty laws designed to improve both countries with satirical comments on the laws (199-206).

PB - Ptd. for R. Withy & J. Cork CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Temple of Pleasure: A Vision" Y1 - 1760 AB -

Christian allegory inspired by reading Virgil’s description of the Elysian Fields. Young men travel to the island of Pleasure where they are told that reason in the days of youth consists entirely in the choice of pleasures. But as they are about to enter the Temple of Pleasure, an old man warns them of the negative consequences of a life oriented toward pleasure. Th dreamer awakes unsure which path he would have chosen.

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Rpt. in The Gentleman and Lady’s Town and Country Magazine 1.3 (July 1784): 89-90; and in The Massachusetts Magazine or Monthly Museum 2.3 (July 1784): 89-90.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Prince of Abissinia. A Tale Y1 - 1759 A1 - Samuel Johnson (1709-84) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A critique of utopianism. Happy Valley has a supposedly perfect life for the children of an emperor but seems dull to Rasselas, and he explores the world finding problems with almost all activities. Eutopia is found neither in the Happy Valley nor in the outside world. A continuation that is sometimes called a utopia, e.g., by Glenn Negley, Utopian Literature: A Bibliography with A Supplementary Listing of Works Influential in Utopian Thought (Lawrence: Regents Press of Kansas, 1978), 79, that I cannot make fit any reasonable definition of utopia is [Ellis Cornelia Knight], Dinarbas; A Tale: Being a Continuation of RASSELAS, Prince of Abissinia. London: Dilley, 1790. Rpt. ed. Ann Messenger. East Lansing, MI: Colleagues Press, 1993.

PB - R. and J. Dodsley CY - London N1 -

Rpt. as The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia. A Tale. London: Harrison and Company, 1787; and Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia: A Tale. London: Ptd. for Joseph Wennman, 1787. Rpt. as The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia. A Tale. Ed. Geoffrey Tillotson and Brian Jenkins. London: Oxford University Press, 1971, with “Textual Notes” (135-39) and “Explanatory Notes” (140-45). Rpt. under the original title in Samuel Johnson. Ed. Donald Greene (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1984), 335-418, with “Notes” (811-13). Rpt. as “The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia.” Rasselas and Other Tales. Ed. Gwin J. Kolb (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1990), 3-176, with a discussion material related to the text in the editor’s “Introduction” (xxvi-lxxi), additional material in footnotes, and the editor’s “Appendix The Reception of Rasselas, 1759-1800” (251-58). Fourth ed. (1766) rpt. in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 3: 99-181. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Proceedings of Providence vindicated. An Eastern Tale" Y1 - 1759 A1 - [Oliver] [Goldsmith] (1728-74) KW - Irish author AB -

World of rational men without vices and how bad that is.

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Repub. without either title in his Essays (London: Ptd. for W. Griffin, 1765), 126-39. Rpt. with the original title in Collected Works of Oliver Goldsmith. Ed. Arthur Friedman. 5 vols. (Oxford, Eng.: Clarendon Press, 1966), 3: 58-66 with extensive footnotes. Published separately as Asem, the Man-Hater; An Eastern Tale. London: Griffith & Farran, 1877.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Father of the City of Eutopia; or The Surest Road to Riches, Being a Narrative of the remarkable Life and Adventures of an elevated Bear. Delivered under the Similitude of a Dream. Dedicated to the Rt. Hon. Wm. P----, Esq. Y1 - 1757 A1 - C., C. AB -

Christian allegory using the imaginary country approach.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The History of Israel Jobson, the Wandering Jew. Giving a Description of his Pedigree, Travels in this lower World, and his Assumption thro’ the Starry Regions, conducted by a Guardian Angel, exhibiting in a curious Manner the Shapes, Lives, and Customs of the Inhabitants of the Moon and Planets; touching upon the great and memorable Comet in 1758, and interwoven all along with the Solution of the Phenomena of the true Solar System, and Principles of Natural Philosophy, concording with the latest Discoveries of the most able Astronomers. Translated from the Original Chinese by M.W. Y1 - 1757 A1 - M[iles] W[ilson] AB -

The Guardian Angel takes a rather dim view of the human race. The inhabitants of the moon are made of metal, who are often at war. Marsians are neuter gender and scarlet colored. The inhabitants of Jupiter are much advanced intellectually, have no need or law or politics, and all their needs are met spontaneously, including clothing. Saturn has no law, no sin, and the people live in a state of innocence. Includes a brief description of beautiful worlds at the limits of creation (78-81).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Voyages, Travels, And Wonderful Discoveries of Capt. John Holmesby. Containing A Series of the most Surprising and Uncommon Events, which befel the Author in his Voyage to the Southern Ocean, in the Year 1739 Y1 - 1757 A1 - Capt. John Holmesby [pseud.] AB -

Satire on contemporary foibles, particularly corruption and the desire for power. The initial inhabitants of the country of Nimpatan were healthy, vigorous, and free of vice, but they were conquered by people who established "Luxury, Vice, and Slavery".

PB - Ptd. for F. Noble and J. Noble CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 3: 39-97. Later ed. as The Uncommon Adventures, Voyages, Shipwreck, Travels, And Wonderful Discoveries of Capt. John Holmesby; who in a miraculous manner was preserved by a savage, while the rest of the Ship's Crew All Perished, on their passage to the Southern Ocean; his discovering a nation hitherto unknown; with their Manners, Laws, and Customs, faithfully described by the captain. London: Ptd. and sold by S. Fisher, 1798.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Vindication of Natural Society: or, A View of the Miseries and Evils arising to Mankind from every Species of Artificial Society. In a Letter to Lord **** By a late Noble Writer Y1 - 1756 A1 - [Edmund] [Burke] (1729/30-97) KW - English author KW - Irish author AB -

Satire on the idealization of the state of nature.

PB - Ptd. for M. Cooper CY - London N1 -

2nd ed. London: Ptd. for R. and J. Dodsley, 1757 adds The Second Edition: With a New Preface to the title. Rpt. in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 3: 1-38.

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A Late Noble Writer [pseud.].

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain: Interspersed with Literary Reflexions, and Accounts of Antiquities and Curious Things. In Several Letters Y1 - 1755 A1 - Thomas Amory (1691-1788) KW - English author AB -

Includes (340-45) a description of a eutopian community of women with twenty-four members and twelve boarders.

PB - Ptd. for John Noon CY - London U1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Voyage to the World in the Centre of the Earth. Giving an account of the manners, customs, laws, government and religion of the inhabitants. Their Persons and Habits described: With several other Particulars. In which is introduced, The History of an Inhabitant of the Air, Written by Himself. With some account of the planetary worlds Y1 - 1755 AB -

Eutopia. Vegetarian. Rational--all creatures are rational souls; therefore, there are no extremes of inequality. A strict life in which people spend as little time as possible on the needs of nature.

PB - Ptd. for S. Crowder and H. Woodgate CY - London N1 -

Extract published as Bruce’s Voyage to Naples, and Journey Up Mount Vesuvius; giving an account of the Strange Disaster Which Happened on his Arrival at the Summit; The Discovery of the Central World; with the Laws, Customs, and Manners of that Nation, described; their swift and Peculiar Mode of Travelling; the Wonderful Riches, Virtue, and Knowledge, the Inhabitants possess; the Author’s Travels in that Country; and the Friendly Reception he met with from its Sovereign and His People. London: Ptd. by S. Fisher, [1802]. Rpt. in Utopias of the British Enlightenment. Ed. Gregory Claeys (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1994), 249-97.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Dreamer Y1 - 1754 A1 - [William] [King] (1685-1763) KW - English author AB -

A series of dreams, largely satirical but with the description of an Athenian-style republic and a variety of specific reforms such as suggestions for a healthy life.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A General Idea of the College of Mirania; with a sketch of the Method of Teaching Science and Religion, in the several classes and some account of its rise, establishment and buildings. Address'd more immediately to the consideration of the trustees nominated, by the Legislature, to receive proposals etc. relating to the establishment of a college in the province of New York Y1 - 1753 A1 - [William] [Smith] (1727-1803) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author KW - US author AB -

Eutopian educational system. The Miranians believe that a good education is required for a good society and that a common education is needed to bring together the varied peoples who inhabited the country. The students were divided into two groups taught by different people in separate institutions, those intended for the learned professions and those intended for “Mechanic Professions, and all the remaining People of the Country” (14). The first are taught learned languages; the rest are not and finish their education at age fifteen. Those intended for the professions are taught English and Latin to age 15 then one year each of Greek; mathematics; philosophy, meaning ethics and physics; rhetoric and poetry; and agriculture and history. Much concern with the ability to speak and write well. Includes specific details of the education of the first group. Although there is an earlier Christian allegory, this is the earliest known utopia published in what became the United States. Influenced the founders of both King’s College, now Columbia University, and the Academy and College of Philadelphia, now the University of Pennsylvania. 

PB - Ptd. by J. Parker and W. Weyman CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Johnson Reprint, 1969 with an “Introduction” by Edward M. Griffin (v-xv); and in The Works of William Smith, D.D. Late Provost of the College and Academy of Philadelphia. 2 vols. (Philadelphia, PA: Hugh Maxwell and William Fry, 1803), 1: 165-229. The 2nd ed. corrected was published as A General Idea of the College of Mirania as Appendix Second. Number I of his Additional Discourses and Essays. Being a Supplement To the First Edition of Discourses on several Public Occasions during the War in America. Published for the Use of the Purchasers of that Edition. London: Ptd. for A. Millar and R. Griffiths, 1762. The appendices are separately paged with Mirania on 37-106 with “Postscript” on 104-06. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Adventures of Capt. Greenland Written In Imitation of those Wise, Learned, Witty and Humorous Authors, who either already have, or hereafter may Write in the same Stile and Manner Y1 - 1752 A1 - W[illiam] G[oodall] AB -

A wide-ranging utopian satire in vols. 3 (114-300) and 4 (1-141) using Puppet Island as the foil for comments on human foibles.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Idea of a perfect Commonwealth" Discourse XII Y1 - 1752 A1 - David Hume (1711-76) KW - Scottish author AB -

Partially a commentary on the subject of an ideal commonwealth. Includes a few pages of the structure of a republican eutopia designed to correct perceived defects in 1656 Harrington.

JF - Political Discourses PB - Ptd. by R. Fleming, For A. Kincaid and A. Donaldson CY - Edinburgh, Scot. N1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Old Ireland's Misery at the end: or, The English Empire in the Brazil's Restored. Being the Second Appearance of the Inchanted Lady, who appeared the 5th Day of June, 1752, in the Form of a Mermaid, on a Sand Bank, in the Harbour of Lougres, and Parish of Endeskeale, North-West of the County of Donegall, in Ireland, as was seen and heard by Thomas White, John Brown, and William Cunningham, who were coming up the Channel in a small Fishing Boat Y1 - 1752 AB -

The last page depicts a very brief eutopian future for Ireland as a Christian country under England, with no taxes or duties and all the Irish who had immigrated returned.

PB - Np CY - Newport, RI N1 -

Evans Early American Imprints 1.40634. Also published Boston, MA: Np, [1752].

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Voyage to O'Brazeel: or, the Sub-Marine Island. Giving A brief Description of the Country; and a short Account of the Customs, Manners, Government, Law, and Religion of the Inhabitants. Faithfully translated out of the original Irish Y1 - 1752 A1 - Manus O'Donnel KW - Irish author AB -

Detailed eutopia based on virtue brought about by a simplified Christianity.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Crumble-Hall" Y1 - 1751 A1 - Mrs. [Mary] Leapor of Brackley in Northamptonshire (1722-46) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Poem describing an English country house as a eutopia. Food and rest are provided for all, including the poor. The emphasis on food makes it read like a cockaigne. Stress on kitchen workers.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins A Cornish Man: Relating particularly, His Shipwreck near the South Pole; his wonderful Passage thro' a subterraneous Cavern into a kind of new World; his there meeting with a Gawry or flying woman, whose life he preserv'd, and afterwards married her; his extraordinary Conveyance to the Country of Glums and Gawrys, or Men and Women that fly. Likewise a Description of this strange Country, with the Laws, Customs, and Manners of its Inhabitants, and the Author's remarkable Transactions among them. Taken from his own Mouth, in his Passage to England from off Cape Horn in America, in the Ship Hector. With an INTRODUCTION, giving an Account of the surprizing Manner of his coming on board that Vessel, and his Death on landing at Plymouth in the Year 1739. Illustrated with several CUTS, clearly and distinctly representing the Structure and Mechanism of the Wings of the Glums and Gawrys, and the Manner in which they use them either to swim or fly Y1 - 1751 A1 - [Robert] [Paltock] (1697-1767) KW - English author AB -

Imaginary voyage which begins with a Robinsonade in which the man then meets and marries a winged woman. She then takes him to her homeland where the man introduces reforms, with, for example slavery being abolished and democratic procedures introduced.

PB - J. Robinson and R. Dodsley CY - London N1 -

Rpt. Dublin. Ireland: George Faulkner, 1751; in Popular Romances: Consisting of Imaginary Voyages and Travels. Containing Gulliver’s Travels, Journey to the World Under Ground, The Life and Adventure of Peter Wilkins, The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, and The History of Automathes. To Which is Prefixed An Introductory Dissertation by Henry Weber, Esq. (Edinburgh, Scot.: Ptd. by James Ballantyne and Co., 1812), 201-348 [Probably the first anthology of utopias]; rpt. with very slight changes in the title and illus. D. H. Friston. London: John Dick, [1861]; with an “Introduction” by A. H. B. (vii-xiii). London: J. M. Dent/New York: E. P. Dutton, [1915]; with the same “Introduction” (vii-xiii) illus. Edward Bawden. London: J. M. Dent/New York: E. P. Dutton, 1928; Westport, CT: Hyperion Press, 1974; Ed. Christopher Bentley. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1973 with an “Introduction” (ix-xviii) and “Explanatory Notes” (383-88); rev. ed. ed. Bentley with a new “Introduction (vii-xxxiii) by James Grantham Turner and “Explanatory Notes” (383-88) by Bentley. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1990; New York: Garland, 1974; and in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 2: 143-410, which reprints the first edition.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Narrative of the Life and Astonishing Adventures of John Daniel, A Smith at Royston in Hertfordshire, For a Course of seventy years. Containing, The melancholy Occasion of his Travels. His Shipwreck with one Companion on a desolate Island. Their way of Life. His accidental discovery of a Woman for his Companion. Their peopling the Island. Also, A Description of a most surprising Engine, invented by his Son Jacob, on which he flew to the Moon, with some Account of its Inhabitants. His return, and accidental Fall into the Habitation of a Sea Monster, with whom he lived two Years. His further Excursions in Search of England. His Residence in Lapland, and Travels to Norway, from whence he arrived at Aldborough, and further Transactions till his death, in 1711. Aged 97. Illustrated with several Copper Plates, Engraved by Mr. BOITARD. Taken from his own Mouth, By Mr. RALPH MORRIS Y1 - 1751 A1 - Ralph Morris AB -

The novel begins with a Robinsonade in which a man and a woman are shipwrecked, marry, have children, who they marry to each other and settle on various parts of the island. They live there forty years before a son invents a flying machine which takes him and his father to the moon. No real detail on the moon. On returning to the earth, they meet a small group of monsters (part human and part sea creature) before returning to civilization. They do not revisit the island.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Utopia: or, Apollo's Golden Days Y1 - 1747 A1 - [Henry Lewis] [Younge] (b. 1694) AB -

Poem that begins with a country Dustopia (perhaps the earliest use) which is favored and becomes Utopia. In the reprint the word is spelled "Dystopia" on pages 400 and 401 and with a footnote on 400 defining the word as "an unhappy country". See V[esselin] M. Budakov, “Dystopia: An Earlier Eighteenth-Century Use.” Notes and Queries 57.1 (March 2010): 86-88.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Capacity and Extent of the Human Understanding; Exemplified In the Extraordinary Case of Automathes; A Young Nobleman, Who was Accidentally left in his Infancy, upon a desolate Island, and continued Nineteen Years in that solitary State, separated from all Human Society. A Narrative Abounding with many surprizing Occurrences, both Useful and Entertaining to the Reader Y1 - 1745 A1 - [John] [Kirkby] (1705-54) KW - English author AB -

Opens with a shipwreck and the discovery of Christian eutopia called Soteria with a detailed description of church organization. Separation of church and state. The church runs the educational system. Separation of men and women in church, so that women will not be visible. The point is made that strict discipline is needed even in a good society due to human backsliding. The eutopia is then followed by a Robinsonade.

PB - Ptd. for R. Manby and H. Shute Cox CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Popular Romances: Consisting of Imaginary Voyages and Travels. Containing Gulliver’s Travels, Journey to the World Under Ground, The Life and Adventure of Peter Wilkins, The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, and The History of Automathes. To Which is Prefixed An Introductory Dissertation by Henry Weber, Esq. (Edinburgh, Scot.: Ptd. by James Ballantyne and Co., 1812), 583-638 [Probably the first anthology of utopias]; and in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 2: 49-141.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - ["An Old Batchelor's Dream"] Y1 - 1745 A1 - Rusticus [pseud.] AB -

Eutopia describing an ideal library.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A New Description of Merryland. Containing A Topographical, Geographical, and Natural History of That Country Y1 - 1741 A1 - [Thomas] [Stretser] [pseud?] AB -

A real problem. It certainly uses the utopian form, but pronouncing the surname of the pseudonym will reveal its true character, early pornography. Merryland is a woman's body, but the presentation is as a country. The author wrote a critique of his own work--[Thomas Stretser], Merryland Displayed: or, Plagiarism, Ignorance, and Imprudence, Detected. Being Observations upon a Pamphlet Intitled A New Description of Merryland. 2nd ed. [probably 1st ed.]. Bath, Eng.: Ptd. by the Author [Actually London: Edmund Curll], 1741. Two other Merryland works, probably by the same author are The Potent Alley: or, Succours from Merryland. With Three Essays in Praise of the Cloathing of That Country; and the Story of Pandora's Box. To Which is added, [Erotopolis]. The Present State of Bettyland. By Philo-Britanniae [pseud.]. 2nd ed. [Probably 1st ed.]. Paris: Ptd. by Direction of the Author [Actually London: Edmund Curll], 1741; and A Short Description of the Roads Which Lead to that Delightful country Called Merryland. To Which are subjoined, An History of the Gallantries of Bettyland. With some Carnal Recreations in Prose and Verse. London: Ptd. for E[dmund] Curll, 1743. An additional Merryland item is The History of Apprius, King of Merryland. Extracted from the Chronicle of the World, From Its Creation, Translated from a Persian Manuscript Found in the Library of Schah-Hussain, Sophi of Persia, dethroned by Mamut in 1722. By a Gentleman who served in the Persian Armies [pseud.]. 3rd ed. [Probably 1st ed.]. To Which is added, A Compleat Key .London: Ptd. by T. Hinton, 1741 (PSt). The Key translates the names given in the text, with many of them being sexual in nature. For example, Apprius equals Priapus.

PB - Ptd. for W. Jones [Actually Edmund Curll] CY - Bath, Eng. [Actually London] VL - 5th ed. [Probably 1st ed.]. N1 -

Rpt. as Thomas Stretzer. Merryland. Privately Issued. New York: Robin Hood House, 1932.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Voyage to Lethe, By Captain Samuel Cock. Sometime Commander of the Good Ship the Charming Sally. Dedicated to the Right Worshipful Adam Cock, Esq.; of Black-Mary's-Hole, Coney-Skin Merchant Y1 - 1741 A1 - Samuel Cock [pseud.] AB -

Imaginary voyage through life with the emphasis on sex.

PB - J. Conybeare CY - London N1 -

Another ed. without the plates but with “Hudibrasso.” Glasgow, Scot: Ptd. for Mrs. Laycock, at Mr. Clevercock’s [Actually Ptd. for W. Forbes], 1756. Later rpt. without plates or “Hudibrasso.” Np: Np, nd. [One copy has a note written in--Published by Edward Avery].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Journey to the World in the Moon. A Dream Containing An Historical RELATION, (as receiv'd from a Lunar Philosopher) from above an Hundred Years last past, to the present Time, of the most Material Occurrences, as to the Religion, Politics, & c. of the INHABITANTS of that GLOBE. And particularly, Their Manner of ELECTIONS Y1 - 1740 A1 - Pythagorolunister [pseud.] AB -

Satire on contemporary Britain.

PB - Charles Corbett CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 2: 1-47.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Memoirs of Sigr Guadentio di Lucca: Taken from his Confession and Examination before the Fathers of the Inquisition at Bologna in Italy. Making a Discovery of an Unknown Country in the midst of the Vast Deserts of Africa, as Ancient, Populous, and Civilized, as the Chinese. With an Account of their Antiquity, Origine, Religion, Customs, Polity, & c. and the Manner how they got first over those vast Deserts. Interspers'd with several most suprizing and curious Incidents. Copied from the original Manuscript kept in St. Mark's Library at Venice: With Critical Notes of the Learned Signor Rhedi, late Library-Keeper of the said Library. To which is prefix'd, a Letter of the Secretary of the Inquisition, to the same Signor Rhedi, giving an Account of the Manner and Causes of his being seized. Faithfully Translated from the Italian, by E.T. Gent Y1 - 1737 A1 - [Simon] [Berington] (1680-1755) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Social system based on the law "Thou shalt do no wrong to anyone." This avoids legal hairsplitting. Patriarchal political system.

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Rpt. as The Memoirs of Signior Guadentio di Lucca. New York: Garland, 1973, with an “Introduction” by Josephine Grieder (5-11); and in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 1: 267-411. Excerpt rpt. in The Man in the Moone and Other Lunar Fantasies. Ed. Faith K. Pizor and T. Allan Comp (New York: Praeger, 1971), 103-25. The book went through many editions with significant variations in the title. Variant editions were rpt. as The Memoirs of Signor Guadentio di Lucca . . . . Dublin, Ireland: Re-printed by George Faulkner, 1738; The Adventures of Sigr Guadentio di Lucca . . . . 2nd ed. London: Ptd. for W. Innys and R, Manby and H.S. Cox, 1748; The Adventures of Sig Guadentio di Lucca . . . . London: Ptd. for J. Richardson, 1763; The Life & Adventures of Sig Guadentio di Lucca . . . . First American Edition. Norwich, CT: Ptd. by John Trumbull, 1796 [This ed. is considerably shorter than the others]; The Adventures of Sig. Guadentio di Lucca . . . . Philadelphia, PA: Re-printed by William Conover, 1799; and The Adventures of Signor Guadentio di Lucca . . . . Baltimore, MD: Ptd. by Bonsal & Niles, 1800.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Adventures of Eovaai, Princess of Ijaveo: A Pre-Adamitical History. Interspersed with a great Number of remarkable Occurrences, which happened, and may again happen, to several Empires, Kingdoms, Republicks, and particular Great Men. With some Account of the Religion, Laws, Customs, and Policies of those Times Y1 - 1736 A1 - [Eliza Fowler] [Haywood] (1693-1756) KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

Described as about the world before Adam and purported to have been translated from the Chinese. Ijaveo, near the South Pole, is described as having a good climate, little work, a long life, and a wise king. The King educates his daughter to be an excellent monarch, which she is for seven years. Then the novel stresses her trials and tribulations.

PB - S. Baker CY - London N1 -

Rpt. as The Unfortunate Princess: Life and surprizing Adventures of the Princess of Ijaveo; Intersprs’d with several curious and entertaining Novels, 1741; and as Adventures of Eovaai, Princess of Ijaveo. New York: Garland, 1972, with an “Introduction” (5-13) by Josephine Grieder

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Memoirs of the Twentieth Century, Being Original Letters of State, under George the Sixth, Relating to the most Important Events in Great-Britain and Europe, as to Church and State, Arts and Sciences, Trade, Taxes, and Treaties, Peace and War, and Characters of the Greatest Persons of those times. From the Middle of the Eighteenth, to the End of the Twentieth Century, and the World. Received and Revealed in the Year 1728; And now Published, for the Instruction of all Eminent Statesmen, Churchmen, Patriots, Politicians, Projectors, Papists and Protestants. In Six Volumes Y1 - 1733 A1 - [Samuel Molyneux] [Madden] (1686-1765) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Satire directed against Catholics, and Jesuits in particular, and George II (1683-1760) and his court presented through a series of letters supposed to be written in the 20th century and describing conditions in various countries at that time. The book was suppressed within two weeks of publication.

PB - Ptd. for Osborn, Longman, Davis, and Batley et. al CY - London VL - Volume I [all published]. N1 -

Rpt. as Memoirs of the Twentieth Century Being Original Letters of State, under George the Sixth. New York: Garland, 1972 with an “Introduction” by Malcom J. Bosse (5-9). Sometimes confused with 1763 The Reign of George VI.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Crapulia: or, The Region of Cropsicks” Y1 - 1732 A1 - William King (1663-1712) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire similar to Joseph Hall, Mundus Alter et Idem (1605), specifically the section on gluttony.

JF - Remains of the Late Learned and Ingenious Dr. William King, Some Time, Advocate of Doctors Commons, Vicar-General to the Archbishop of Armagh, and Record-Keeper of Ireland. Containing Miscellaneous Pieces in Verse and Prose, upon various Subjects; with Reflections, Observations, and Critical Remarks upon Men and Books: With a particular Critick upon a Favourite Ministry; prticulaly, that of Rufinus, Favourite of the Emperor Theodossius, and his Character rendered into Verse from Claudian; together wiith the Author’s Life and Writings PB - Ptd. for W. Mears CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Posthumous Works of the late Learned William King, L.L.D. in Verse and Prose. Published from his Original Manuscripts. Purchased of his Sister, by Joseph Brownr, M.D. To which is Prefixed, An Account of his Life and Writings, with a True Copy of his Last Will and Testament made by himself the Night before he Died [Published in two separately paged parts] (London: Ptd. for Edmund Curll, 1734), [Part 2], 27-43; and with the subtitle “A Fragment, in the Manner of Rabelais.” In The Original Works of William King, LL.D. Advocate of Doctors Commons; Judge of the High Court of Admiralty and Keeper of the Records in Ireland, and Vicar General to the Lord Primate. Now First Collected Into Three Volumes: With Historical Notes, and Memoirs of the Author (London: Ptd. for the Editor, 1776), 3: 278-87. Rpt. (Westmead, Farnborough, Eng: Gregg International, 1972), 3: 278-87.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A New Adventure of Telemachus Y1 - 1731 A1 - [George] [Stubbes] (b. 1682/3) KW - Male author AB -

Continuation of François Fénélon's (1651-1715) Les Aventures de Télèmaque (1699) arguing against established churches and for freedom of inquiry.

PB - Ptd. for W. Wilkins CY - London N1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Travels of an Adventurous Knight Through the Kingdom of Wonders. Giving A Particular Account of the Nature of the Country, as to their Customs of Burials, Marriages and Laws in general, with several delightful Stories that happened throughout his whole Travels; particularly the Vanity and Knavery of the Romish Priests; the Nature of their giving Absolution, and vending their Prayers according to the Price of the Infirm Person they attend; with a large Description of a Liliputian Battle. When Wonders cease this World is at a Stand. In Two Parts Y1 - 1731 AB -

A satiric extraordinary voyage in which various countries are described, all with unusual customs. Anti-Roman Catholic.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Brief History of the Country of Humanity: Giving an Account of the First Settlement of that Country under My Lord Love God, the First Governour under the King. Its being taken by an Army of Intruders, thro' the Treachery of Mr. Love Self, who usurped the Government. The Devastations made in the Country by the Intruders. The Opposition made against them by Capt. Prudence. The re-taking of the Country by Gen. Gospel. And the Wars in the Country during those Times Y1 - 1728 A1 - [Joseph] [Morgan] (1671-ca. 1749) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Christian allegory the plot of which is given in the title. Close neighbor was the country of Usefulness, with which it traded. Ends with a reference to his The History of the Kingdom of Basaruah (1715).

PB - Ptd. by Samuel Gerrish CY - Boston, N[ew] E[ngland] ER - TY - ABST T1 - Memoirs Concerning the Life and Manners of Captain Mackheath Y1 - 1728 AB -

Satire on Sir Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Oxford (1676-1745), one of the most powerful politicians of the time, presented as a correction to John Gay's (1685-1732) Beggar's Opera (1728).

PB - Ptd. for A. Moore CY - London N1 -

Rpt. separately paged in New York: Garland, 1973 bound with 1727 McDermot and Jean-Paul Bignon, The Adventures of Abdalla (Trans. of 1729).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Trip to the Moon. Containing Some Observations and Reflections, made by him during his Stay in that Planet, upon the Manners of the Inhabitants Y1 - 1728 A1 - Murtagh McDermot [pseud.] AB -

Satire that is partially aimed at Ireland. The narrator visits a number of societies on the moon. One of the societies has common property, but mostly the novel focuses on the absurdities of the inhabitants. Those inhabitants of the moon who do not reflect the highest human characteristics change physically into animals in part or in whole. The narrator says he is from Ireland.

PB - Christopher Dickson CY - Dublin, Ireland N1 -

Rpt. in Gulliveriana: I. Ed. Jeanne Welcher and George E. Bush, Jr. (Gainesville, FL: Scholars’ Facsimiles and Reprints, 1970), [1-97]; and separately paged in New York: Garland, 1973 bound with 1728 Memoirs Concerning the Life and Manners of Captain Mackheath and Jean-Paul Bignon, The Adventures of Abdalla (Trans. of 1729).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Cursory View of the History of Lilliput For these last forty three Years, Containing Some Remarks upon the Origin, Nature and Tendency of the Religious and Political Disputes which exist among the Subjects Y1 - 1727 AB -

Political tract using the country of Lilliput from Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Memoirs of the Court of Lilliput. Written by Captain Gulliver. Containing an Account of the Intrigues, and some other particular Transactions of that Nation, omitted in the two Volumes of his Travels. Published by Lucas Bennet, with a Preface, shewing how these Papers fell into his hands Y1 - 1727 A1 - Captain Gulliver [pseud.] AB -

The novel purports to be further memoirs of Lilliput written by Lemuel Gulliver, but it is actually a satire on contemporary English life, including identifiable people.

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Rpt. in Gulliveriana III. Ed. Jeanne K. Welcher and George E. Bush, Jr. (Delmar, NY: Scholars’ Facsimiles & Reprints, 1972), 297-465. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Voyage to Cacklogallinia: With a Description of the Religion, Policy, Customs and Manners of that Country Y1 - 1727 A1 - Captain Samuel Brunt [pseud.] AB -

Satire. Begins as a Robinsonade, and then becomes a Gulliver tale with the hero visiting a land of virtuous chickens that had become corrupt and petty. Here the stress is on the differences between theory and practice. Finally, the chickens fly the narrator to the moon, where he finds a eutopia. The moon is described as a beautiful, verdant Arcadia. The Selenites are the souls of the virtuous from Earth. They are vegetarians. All are equal and have no need for government but revere their eldest as their prince. All souls are masculine.

PB - Ptd. by J. Watson CY - London N1 -

Rpt. with the subtitle Reproduced from the Original Edition, 1727, With an Introduction by Marjorie Nicolson. New York: Published for The Facsimile Text Society by Columbia University Press, 1940; New York: Garland, 1972; in The Virgin Seducer and The Batchelor-Keeper by John Clarke The State of Learning in the Empire of Lilliput Anonymous A Voyage To Cacklogallinia by Captain Samuel Brunt (New York: Garland, 1972), separately paged; and in Gulliveriana: IV. Ed. Jeanne Welcher and George E. Bush, Jr. (Delmar, NY: Scholars’ Facsimiles and Reprints, 1973), 1-43.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Travels in the Kingdom of Philology" Y1 - 1726 AB -

Satire. The country is divided into the regions of Imagination, Memory, and Judgment. The people are free to advance their own ideas of religion and generally adopt the most recently proposed.

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Rpt in Gulliveriana V: Shorter Imitations of Gulliver’s Travels. Ed. Jeanne K. Welcher and George E. Bush, Jr. (Delmar, NY: Scholars’ Facsimilies & Reprints, 1974), 71-78.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Travels into several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts Y1 - 1726 A1 - [Jonathan] [Swift] (1667-1745) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Basis of an entire sub-genre of utopias in which the imaginary voyage leads to worlds peopled by beings differing physically from the human norm but usually endowed with speech and reason. Many such works include a eutopia. Here the eutopia is a land of rational horses, the Houyhnhnms. While there may be earlier examples, beginning in the late twentieth century, a number of novels and stories have been published concerning Mrs. Gulliver. See 1999 Fell and the note there.

PB - Ptd. for Beng. Motte CY - London VL - 2 vols. N1 -

Usually rpt. as Gulliver’s Travels. Rpt. in Popular Romances: Consisting of Imaginary Voyages and Travels. Containing Gulliver’s Travels, Journey to the World Under Ground, The Life and Adventure of Peter Wilkins, The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, and The History of Automathes. To Which is Prefixed An Introductory Dissertation by Henry Weber, Esq. (Edinburgh, Scot.: Ptd. by James Ballantyne and Co., 1812), 1-114 [Probably the first anthology of utopias]; as Gulliver’s Travels. A Facsimile Reproduction of a Large-Paper Copy of the First Edition (1726) Containing the Author’s Annotations. Delmar, NY: Scholar’s Facsimiles & Reprints, 1976; Illus. Arthur Rackham. London J.M. Dent, 1899 [rpt. with additional illus. London: J.M. Dent, 1909]; Ed. Robert A. Greenberg. New York: W.W. Norton, 1961; Ed. Clauston Jones. New York: Bantam Books, 1971; as Gulliver's Travels: Based on the 1726 Text: Contexts, Criticism. Ed. Albert J. Rivero. New York: W.W. Norton, 2002; as Gulliver's Travels and Other Writings: Complete Text with Introduction, Historical Context, Critical Essays. Ed. Clement Hawes, with “A Note on the Texts” by Robert J. Griffin. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 2004; as Gulliver’s Travels. Ed. Allan Ingram. Peterborough, ON, Canada: Broadview Editions, 2012; and as Gulliver’s Travels. Ed. David Womersley. Vol. 16 of The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jonathan Swift (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 2012), 1-444, with a “Chronology of Swift’s Life” (xi-xx), a “Chronology of Gulliver’s Travels” (xxi-xxiii), “Introduction” (xli-civ), “Long Notes” (445-565), “Textual Introduction” (627-774), and other appendices. An unusual children’s edition is Gulliver’s Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World In Words of One Syllable. By [Mrs.] J. C. Gorham From the Original by Dean Swift. Illus. London: Cassell & Co., 1895. U. S. ed. New York: A. L. Burt, [1901?]. Part rpt. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1950 with vols. of Lilliput and Brobdingnag in lilliputian and brobdingnagian sizes.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Description of New Athens in Terra Australis incognita." By One who resided many years on the Spot. [Signed] Maurice Williams. [The title page gives the title as "The Fortunate Shipwreck, or a Description of New Athens, being an Account of the Laws, Manners, Religion, and Customs of that Country; by Morris Williams, Gent. [pseud.] who resided there above Twenty Years" Y1 - 1720 A1 - [Thomas] [Killigrew] (1657-1719) ED - Maurice Williams KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. No secrecy. Christianity, art, music, compulsory education. Everyone walks rather than riding. No lawyers. A charity system is run on a ward basis by the church.

JF - Miscellanea Aurea: or the Golden Medley PB - Ptd. for A. Bettesworth and J. Pemberton CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Utopias of the British Enlightenment. Ed. Gregory Claeys (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1994), 27-53.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Adventures, and Surprizing Deliverances, of James Dubourdieu, and His Wife: Who were taken by Pyrates, and carried to the Uninhabited-Part of the Isle of Paradise. Containing A Description of that Country, its Laws, Religion and Customs: Of Their being at last releas'd; and how they came to Paris, where they are still living. Also, The Adventures of Alexander Vendchurch, Whose Ship's Crew Rebelled against him, and set him on Shore of an Island in the South-Sea, where he liv'd five Years, five Months, and seven Days; and was at last providentially releas'd by a Jamaica Ship. Written by Himself Y1 - 1719 A1 - [Ambrose] [Evans] KW - Male author AB -

The first is a eutopia. The people go nude and are very healthy. No government, although elders get respect and deference. Monogamous and the marriage ceremony is described in detail. No private property, and there is no source of wealth. Religious and the people see every day as service to God. They believe that God has imprinted the law in people and reason is the guide to those laws. Reject Christianity when told of it. Spend their time tending the plants and trees, from which they get their food and create their buildings (from the living plants), singing and dancing, and raising their children. Do not understand the concept of gain or riches. "How happy we are, who want nothing that's necessary to life, nor have any desires or wishes for what we do not want" (78/Claeys 83). The second is an adventure and romance story which ends with the separated couple being abandoned on the same island and creating a brief lover's eutopia.

PB - Ptd. by J. Bettenham; C. Rivington; J. Brotherton and W. Meadows; A. Dodd; and W. Charwood CY - London N1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe; Being the Second and Last Part of His Life, And of the Strange Surprizing Accounts of his Travels Round three Parts of the Globe. Written by Himself. To which is added a Map of the World, in which is Delineated the Voyages of Robinson Crusoe Y1 - 1719 A1 - [Daniel] [Defoe] (1660-1731) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The sequel to the much better known 1719 Defoe, The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. This volume begins, after some adventures at sea, with a return to Crusoe’s island and the experiences of the people he had left there. There are conflicts with the natives from a neighboring island and many trials and tribulations, but the settlement is generally presented positively. The rest of the work is primarily adventure in various voyages. A third volume was published. See also Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe: With His Vision of the Angelick World. Written by Himself. London: Ptd. for W. Taylor, 1720. Rpt. without the “Vision of the Angelick World.” In Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 1: 113-266; and with the “Vision of the Angelick World” as Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe: With His Vision of the Angelick World. Ed. George A. Aitkin. Illus. J.B. Yeats. London: J.M. Dent, 1895; rpt. New York: AMS Press, 1974; in The Novels of Daniel Defoe. Volume 3: Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1720). Ed. G.A. Starr. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2008, with an “Introduction” by Starr (1-47); and a critical edition as The Stoke Newington Edition. Ed. Maximillian E. Novak, Irving N. Rothman, and Manuel Schonhorn (Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2022, with a list of Illustrations (xi), an Introduction by the editors (xv-xxxvi), footnotes throughout the text, “Notifications of Books Printed and Sold” (335-336), “Bibliographic Descriptions” (337-349), a “List of Editorial Emendations” (351-353), a “Selected Bibliography” (355-358), and an Index (361-394). It is not a utopia, but Defoe says it lays out the moral basis of the first two volumes.

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Rpt. London: Ptd. for John Stockdale, 1790; as The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe; Being the Second and Last Part of His Life. Ed. George A. Aitkin. Illus. J.B. Yeats. London: J.M. Dent, 1895; rpt. New York: AMS Press, 1974, neither of which include the foldout map; and as The Novels of Daniel Defoe. Volume 2: The Farher Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1719). Ed. W.K. Owens. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2008, with “Explanatory Notes” (219-45) and “Textual Notes” (247-49); and a critical edition as The Stoke Newington Edition. Ed. Maximillian E. Novak, Irving N. Rothman, and Manuel Schonhorn (Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2022, with a list of Illustrations that are taken from different editions (ix), an Introduction by the editors (xiii-xxxiv), footnotes throughout the text, “Notifications of Books Printed and Sold” (261-268), “Textual Notes” (269-270), “Bibliographical Descriptions” (271-281), “Variants” (283-414), a “Selected Bibliography” (415-417), and an Index (421-440).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Who lived eight and twenty Years all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, where-in all the Men perished but himself. With An Account of how he was at last strangely deliver'd by Pyrates. Written by Himself Y1 - 1719 A1 - [Daniel] [Defoe] (1660-1731) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

This work gave rise to a whole sub-genre of works dealing with a castaway on an isolated island, the most famous of which is The Swiss Family Robinson (1812-1827) by Johann [Rudolf] Wyss (1781-1830) that appeared in hundreds of versions. Possible to treat it and the sub-genre as eutopias of solitude. See also 1719 Defoe. The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe which is much more clearly a utopia in that more people are involved. A third volume was published, Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe: With His Vision of the Angelick World. Written by himself. London: Printed for W. Taylor, 1720. Rpt. without the “Vision of the Angelick World.” In Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 1: 113-226, 266; and with the “Vision of the Angelick World” as Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe: With His Vision of the Angelick World. Ed. George A. Aitkin. Illus. J.B. Yeats. London: J.M. Dent, 1895; rpt. New York: AMS Press, 1974; in The Novels of Daniel Defoe. Volume 3: Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1720). Ed. G.A. Starr. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2008, with an “Introduction” by Starr (1-47); and a critical edition as The Stoke Newington Edition. Ed. Maximillian E. Novak, Irving N. Rothman, and Manuel Schonhorn (Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2022, with a list of Illustrations (xi), an Introduction by the editors (xv-xxxvi), footnotes throughout the text, “Notifications of Books Printed and Sold” (335-336), “Bibliographic Descriptions” (337-349), a “List of Editorial Emendations” (351-353), a “Selected Bibliography” (355-358), and an Index (361-394). It is not a utopia, but Defoe says it lays out the moral basis of the first two volumes. A related work is J[ohn] M[axwell] Coetzee (b. 1940), Foe. London: Secker & Warburg, 1986.

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Rpt. in Popular Romances: Consisting of Imaginary Voyages and Travels. Containing Gulliver’s Travels, Journey to the World Under Ground, The Life and Adventure of Peter Wilkins, The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, and The History of Automathes. To Which is Prefixed An Introductory Dissertation by Henry Weber, Esq. (Edinburgh, Scot.: Ptd. by James Ballantyne and Co., 1812), 349-582 [Probably the first anthology of utopias]; rpt. with illustrations by Edward A. Wilson and an “Introduction” (iii-xiv) by Ford Madox Ford. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1930; ed. Michael Shinagel. 2nd ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 1994; in The Novels of Daniel Defoe. Volume 1: The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. Ed. W.K. Owens. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2008, with an “Introduction” by Owens (15-51), “Explanatory Notes” (287-324) and “Textual Notes” (325-28); and a critical edition as The Stoke Newington Edition. Ed. Maximillian E. Novak, Irving N. Rothman, and Manuel Schonhorn (Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2020, with a list of Illustrations that are taken from many different editions (ix-x), an Introduction by the editors (xiii-xlviii), footnotes throughout the text, “Notifications of Books Printed and Sold” (253-260), “Bibliographic Descriptions” (261-289), “Variants” (291-357), “Works Consulted” (359-360), a “Selected Bibliography” (361-365), and an Index (369-379). An interesting edition for children is Robinson Crusoe In Words of One Syllable. Illus. Philadelphia, PA: Henry Altemus, 1900.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The History of the Kingdom of Basaruah, Containing A Relation of the most Memorable Transactions, Revolutions and Heroick Exploits in that Kingdom, from the first Foundation thereof unto this present time. Collected from the most Antient Records of that Country, and Translated into our Language, not only for Delight, but for the abundant Instruction that may be learned there-from, in these Remote Parts. Written in Discharge of the Trust reposed in the Author by his Majesty, for the Discovery of Foreign things Y1 - 1715 A1 - [Joseph] [Morgan] (1671-ca. 1749) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Allegorical depiction of the theology of Calvinism as believed by the Puritans in early America. Traces the history of Basaruah (“flesh-spirit”) from its establishment through its various trouble to the eutopia (the millennium), which occurs before its king (God) defeats its enemies. The “Introduction” argues that Morgan’s depiction moderated a few of the strictures of early Puritanism as stated in Michael Wiggleworth’s Day of Doom: or, A Poetical Description of the Great and Last Judgment (1662), specifically regarding infant damnation, salvation of heathens, and the rewards of the saved (4-6). 

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 Rpt. as The History of the Kingdom of Basaruah, and Three Unpublished Letters. By Joseph Morgan. Ed. Richard Schlatter. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1946.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - News from the Dead: or, The Monthly Packet Of True Intelligence from the Other World Y1 - 1714 A1 - [Thomas] [Berington] KW - Male author AB -

The novel is made up of weekly reports from Hell as a satiric comment on contemporary Britain.

PB - Ptd. for W. Needham CY - London VL - 3rd. ed. N1 -

There are two earlier eds. on line. First ed. is 1714-15 originally published under the same title in eight monthly parts. Then eds. of 1719 and 1756.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A New Voyage to the Island of Fools, Representing the Policy, Government, and Present State of the Stultitians. By A Noble Venetian. Inscrib'd to the Right Honourable, The Lord Ferdinando. Translated from the Italian Y1 - 1713 A1 - [Edmund] [Stacy] (fl 1710-15) KW - Male author AB -

Satire on England and English life with a number of descriptions of foolish behavior. Much concern with the divisions in religion and politics and with gambling, the cheating that went on, and the way it mixed classes.

PB - Ptd. for John Morphew CY - London U1 -

[Written in English].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Petition for an Absolute Retreat" Y1 - 1713 A1 - [Anne] [Finch] (1661-1720) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Eutopian poem. Plea for a retreat from the troubles of life and a description of the retreat in terms of the tradition of a eutopia achieved without human effort.

JF - Miscellany Poems. Written by a Lady [pseud.] PB - Ptd. for John Barber CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in The Poems of Anne Countess of Winchilsea. Ed. Myra Reynolds. 2nd ser., vol. 5 of The Decennial Publication (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1903), 68-77.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Long Ramble, or Several Years Travels, In the Much Talk’d of, But never before Discover’d, Wandering Island of O-Brazil. Containing a full Description of that Whimsical Country; it’s Extravagant Product; an almost incredible, but true’ Account of the High Manners, Low Customs, No Religion, and Little Government of many of the Inhabitants; an Abridgment of their unaccountable History, and a thousand other Rarities, not to be parallel’d elsewhere Y1 - 1712 AB -

Satire on travel literature and the discovery of places like Utopia and New Atlantis. Pretends to describe the place, but the author lacks the knowledge to do so. Says the people are prideful and vain and pretend to be free but enslaved to their passions and to anyone who grabs power. Lots of writing without prior thought.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - ["The Vision of Mirzah"] Y1 - 1711 A1 - Joseph Addison (1672-1719) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Allegory that presents heaven as a eutopia composed of islands that are "the Mansions of good Men after Death." "Every Island is a Paradise accommodated to its respective Inhabitants." Described as the first vision, but no more were published.

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Rpt. in The Spectator (Edinburgh, Scot.: Ptd. R. Fleming, 1753), 277-81; and in The Spectator. Ed. Donald F. Bond. 5 vols. (Oxford, Eng.: Clarendon Press, 1965), 2: 121-26.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Canary-Birds Naturaliz'd in Utopia. A Canto. Dulce est paternum solum Y1 - 1709 AB -

While some sources say that the poem is about the Hanoverian succession, internal evidence is that it is in response to the "Act for naturalizing foreign Protestants" of 1708. The canaries are the foreigners, and they are opposed by a council of some local birds, including the robin, sparrow, linnet, lark, and nightingale, but other local birds, including the crow, magpie, goose, and eagle, support the foreigners.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Choirochorographia: sive, Hoglandiae descriptio Y1 - 1709 A1 - [Thomas] [Richards of Jesus College Oxon] (1688-1760) KW - Male author AB -

Edward Holdsworth’s (1684-1746) Muscipula sive Cambro-muo-machia (1709) had satirized the Welsh, and Richards describes Holdsworth’s home county of Hampshire as Hog-Land.

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Trans. as Hog-Land: Or, a Description of Hampshire. A Mock Heroic Poem In Answer to Mr. Holdsworth’s Muscipula. London: Np, 1728.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Island of Content; or, A New Paradise Discovered. In a Letter from Dr. Merryman of the same Country, to Dr. Dullman of Great Britain Y1 - 1709 A1 - Author of the Pleasures of a single Life [pseud.] AB -

Eutopia with significant elements of satire. Good climate, plenty without labor. Spiders produce the material used for clothing. Women are free to choose their partners from age fifteen and are simply accepted or not by the man. No law and one judge with complete authority who is blindfolded in court. No religious conflicts. Monarchy.

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Rpt. in Utopias of the British Enlightenment. Ed. Gregory Claeys (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1994), 1-25.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Secret Memoirs and Manners of several Persons of Quality, of both Sexes. From the New Atalantis, an Island in the Mediterranean. Written originally in the Italian and translated from the third Edition of the French Y1 - 1709 A1 - [Delarivière] [Manley] (1660s?-1724) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Fairly obvious satire on contemporary English politics and society set in an imaginary country.  A section of vol. 2 describing the "feminist Cabal" has utopian elements, including common property.

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Better known as New Atalantis. Rpt. under that title ed. Ros[alind] Ballaster. London: Pickering & Chatto, 1991 with an “Introduction” (v-xxviii). Rpt. ed. Rosalind Ballaster. London: Penguin, 1992 with the “Introduction” (v-xxviii).  U.S. ed. New York: New York University Press, 1992 with the “Introduction” (v-xxviii). L, PSt

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Voyage to the New Island Fonseca, Near Barbadoes, With some Observations Made in a Cruize among the Leward Islands. In Letters from Two Captains of Turkish Men of War, driven thither in the Year 1707. Translated out of Turkish and French Y1 - 1708 AB -

Two letters, both imaginary voyages. The first describes Fonseca as a dystopia. The people are dirty, uneducated, drunk, etc. The second is a straightforward imaginary voyage to the Caribbean.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Retreat" Y1 - 1706 A1 - [Mary] [Egerton] (1670-1723?) ED - Mrs. S[arah] F[yge] ED - Mrs. S. F. KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The English country house as a eutopia.

JF - Poems on Several Occasions Together with a Pastoral PB - J. Nutt CY - London N1 -

Rpt. Delmar, NY: Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, 1987.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Consolidator: or, Memoirs of Sundry Transactions from the World in the Moon. Translated from the Lunar Language Y1 - 1705 A1 - [Daniel] [Defoe] (1660-1731) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on contemporary life, particularly politics,  by picturing a world in the moon. See [Joseph Browne], The Moon-Calf, or Accurate reflections on The Consolidator: Giving an Account of some Remarkable Transactions in the Lunar World, transmitted hither in a Letter to a Friend. By Man in the Moon [pseud.]. London, 1705. Rpt. Augustan Reprint Society no. 269. New York: Published for the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library and the UCLA Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies by AMS Press, 1996 for a response.

PB - Ptd. by Benj. Bragg CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in ed. Michael Seilel, Maximillian E. Novak, and Joyce D. Kennedy. The Stoke Newington Daniel Defoe Edition. New York: AMS Press, 2001; and in Satire Fantasy and Writing on the Supernatural by Daniel Defoe. Volume 3 of The Works of Daniel Defoe. The Consolidator (1705) Memoirs of Count Tariff &c (1713) The Quarrel of the School Boys at Athens (1717). Ed. Geoffrey Sill (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2003), 27-158 with “Explanatory Notes” (215-48) and “Textual Notes” (262-63). Extracts published as A Journey to the World in the Moon. By the Author of the True-born English-man [pseud.]. Ptd. at London and rpt. at Edinburgh by James Watson, 1705 (MH); A letter from the Man in the Moon. To the Author of the True Born Englishman. [London: Np, 1705] (InU); and A second, and more strange voyage to the world in the moon; containing a comical description of that remarkable country, with the characters and humours of the inhabitants, etc. By the author of the true Born Englishman [pseud.]. [London: Np, 1705]. A New Journey to the World in the Moon. . . . 2nd ed. London: C. Corbett, 1741 is an imitation not by Defoe.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - An Historical and Geographical Description of Formosa, an Island Subject to the Emperor of Japan. Giving an Account of the Religion, Customs, Manners, & c. of the Inhabitants. Together with a Relation of what happen'd to the Author in his Travels; particularly his Conferences with the Jesuits, and others, in several Parts of Europe. Also the History and Reasons of his Conversion to Christianity, with his Objections against it (in defence of Paganism) and their Answers. To which is prefix'd, A Preface in Vindication of himself from the Reflections of a Jesuit lately come from China, with an Account of what passed between them Y1 - 1704 A1 - George Psalmanaazaar [pseud.] KW - French author KW - UK author AB -

Detailed description of an imaginary Formosa, good, bad, and satire, presented as if it were real. 

PB - Ptd. for Dan. Brown, G. Strahan, and W. Davis, and Fran. Coggan CY - London N1 -

Rpt. as Vol. II of the Library of Imposters. London: Robert Holden & Co., 1926. 2nd ed. London: Ptd. for Mat. Wotton, 1705.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Iter Lunare: or, A Voyage to the Moon. Containing Some Consideration on the Nature of that Planet. The Possibility of getting thither. With other Pleasant Conceits about the Inhabitants, their Manners and Customs Y1 - 1703 A1 - David Russen of Hythe KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Mostly satire on moon voyage literature, but the description of the inhabitants suggests eutopian elements. For example, poetry is money, and there is a gun that when fired brings down the fowl ready plucked, dressed, and roasted. The planets and the sun are inhabited.

PB - Ptd. for J. Nutt CY - London N1 -

Repub. without the author's name. London: Ptd. for Robert Gofling, 1707. Rpt. with the author's name Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1976.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Adept's Case, Briefly Shewing: I. What Adepts are; and what they are said to perform. II. What Reason there is, to think that there are Adepts. III. What would invite them to appear, and be beneficial in a Nation. IV. What Arguments there are, for and against, the taking of such Measures Y1 - 1700 A1 - A Philadept [pseud.] AB -

Sequel to 1698 A Philadept. An Essay Concerning Adepts appealing for adepts to identify themselves. The former essay is longer and develops the utopian aspects more explicitly, but here the author proposes that if Adepts appear they should be made naturalized citizens and declared sacred to protect them. They will be allowed to have 15,000 pounds of gold and silver minted each year as long as they pay the government 5,000 pounds each year. See also 1700 Annus Sophiae Jubilaeus.

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[By the Author of An Essay on Adepts] A. Philadept.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Annus Sophiae Jubilaeus, The Sophick Constitution: or, The Evil Customs of the World Reform'd. A Dialogue between a Philadept and a Citizen; Concerning The Possibility of the Sophick Transmutation; The Probability that there are Adepts in the World; And, in that Case, the Duties of Adepts and Other Men to each other, and the Advantages that would accrue from the Observation of those Duties. To which is added, A Summary of some Conferences with an Artist, &c. Y1 - 1700 AB -

Discusses regulations that would be established if adepts would cooperate with a good Prince. See also 1698 A Philadept. An Essay Concerning Adepts and 1700 The Adept’s Case.

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Rpt. in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 1: 1-46.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Island of Fools: A Farce in Two Acts” Y1 - 1700 AB -

The Island of Fools is inhabited by those exiled from Utopia, but not Thomas More’s or any other recognizable one. The governor of the island, sent from Utopia, has the power to allow the fools to return to Utopia once they have recovered their reason, which none have. Most of the work concerns the pleas and plots of the fools.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Law Book" Y1 - 1700 A1 - Sir Ambrose Crowley (1658-1713) ED - M. W. Flinn KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A very odd book that presents one hundred and thirteen "laws" for the operation of the author's iron works. It is borderline as a utopia but is included because it details all the daily activities of the workers in a large factory including "welfare services" and "poor relief".  See the discussion in J.C. Davis, Utopia and the Ideal Society: A Study of English Utopian Writing 1516-1700 (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1981), 351-55.

JF - The Law Book of the Crowley Iron Works PB - Surtees Society CY - London VL - Publications of the Surtees Society, 167 N1 -

The original manuscript in 307 folios, which is incomplete, is in the British Library Add. Ms. 34,555.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - An Essay Concerning Adepts: or, A Resolution of this Inquiry, How it cometh to pass that Adepts, if there are any in the World, are no more Beneficial to Mankind than they have been known hitherto to be, and whether there could be no way to Encourage them to Communicate themselves. With some Resolutions concerning the Principles of the Adeptists; And a Model, Practicable, and Easy, of living in Community Y1 - 1698 A1 - A Philadept [pseud.] AB -

Presentation of a community on the Spartan model after a discussion of the Hermetic tradition. Everyone must be married but live separately. No men and women dancing together; "no range must be allowed on the Subjects of Love, nor drinking." See also 1700 Annus Sophiae Jubilaeus and 1700 The Adept’s Case.

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Rpt. in Restoration and Augustan British Utopias. Ed. Gregory Claeys (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2000), 207-33.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - An Overture for Establishing a Society to Improve the Kingdom and All the Affairs of the Nation: so as every man can live happily Y1 - 1698 AB -

An essay on bringing about a eutopia by establishing a "Society of wise Men for improving the Kingdom". The essay begins with a statement of the most serious current problems and continues with details of what the wise men should do.

PB - Np CY - Edinburgh, Scot. ER - TY - ABST T1 - Two Discourses Concerning the Affairs of Scotland; Written in the Year 1698 Y1 - 1698 A1 - [Andrew] [Fletcher of Saltoun] (1655-1716) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

The second discourse argues for a new slavery to relieve poverty; "Controlled servitude is better than vagabondage" (xxiv). In other works, Fletcher argued for revamping the political system with limitations on the monarch, a reformed Parliament, an independent judiciary, and a national militia.

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Rpt. in his The Political Works of Andrew Fletcher, Esq. (London: Ptd. by James Bettenham, 1732), 71-175; The Political Works of Andrew Fletcher, Esq. of Saltoun (Glasgow, Scot.: Ptd. by Robert Urie, 1749), 49-121; and Selected Political Writings and Speeches. Ed. David Daiches (Edinburgh, Scot.: Scottish Academic Press, 1979), 27-66. The Two Discourses are not included in his The Political Works of Fletcher of Saltoun. London: Ptd. for H.D. Symonds, 1798.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Free State of Noland Y1 - 1696 AB -

Detailed administrative and democratic political reform. The second edition says that more will be added in a third version, but no third edition appears to have been published. Much larger type is used in the second edition, so the differences are not as great as the page count suggests.

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2nd ed. as The Free State of Noland: or, The Frame and Constitution of that Happy, Noble, Powerful, and Glorious State. In which all Sorts and Degrees of People find their Condition Better’d. London: Ptd. for D. Brown, 1701. 61 pp. Rpt. in Restoration and Augustan British Utopias. Ed. Gregory Claeys (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2000), 235-63.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Proposals for Raising a Colledge of Industry Of All Useful Trades and Husbandry. With Profit for the Rich. A Plentiful Living for the Poor, and A Good Education for Youth. Which will be Advantage to the Government by the Increase of the People, and their Riches Y1 - 1695 A1 - [John] [Bellers] (1654-1725) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Detailed non-fiction proposal for an institution to educate the poor and young people in useful trades and arguing that a much better society will result. The appeal is quite conservative in that it is directed to government and the rich, but the system is primarily designed to improve the lot of the poor.  See also his To the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled. A Supplement to the Proposal for a Colledge of Industry, Shewing a Regular Constant Imploy for the Poor, is the best Foundation of Trade, and the greatest Improvment to the Nation, and Consequently support to the Government, whilst the want of it tends to the Poor’s Misery, Poverty of the Rich, and Governments Weakening. [London]: Np., 1696. 3 p. (L). Rpt. in John Bellers: His Life, Times and Writings. Ed. George Clarke (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul,1987), 74-76.

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2nd ed. under the author’s name London: Ptd. for T. Sowle, 1696. Rpt. as New View of Society. Tracts Relative to this Subject; viz. Proposals for Raising a Colledge of Industry of all useful Trades and Husbandry. By John Bellars. (Reprinted from the Original, published in the year 1696). Report to the Committee of the association for the Relief of the Manufacturing and Labouring Poor. A Brief Sketch of the religious Society of People called Shakers. With an Account of the Public Proceedings connected with the subject, Which took place in London in July and August 1817. Published By Robert Owen. London: Ptd. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; Cadell and Davies; J. Hatchard; Murray; Constable and Co., and Oliphant and Co., Edinburgh; Smith and Sons, and Brash and Reid, Glasgow, 1818. Rpt. New York: AMS Press, 1972; in [James Peacock, attributed to], A Plan of a Public Charity, With some former Plans for the same Purpose, in Three Appendixes, Which are submitted to the Consideration of the Benevolent, that they may select and adopt from the Whole such Parts as can be most suitably connected together, in order to form “an effectual General Charity”; but more especially for affording immediate “Relief, Protection”, and Free-Labour, to all Persons who want Employment (London: np, 1790), 5-28; and in John Bellers: His Life, Times and Writings. Ed. George Clarke (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul,1987), 47-73; and with footnotes comparing the two editions in Restoration and Augustan British Utopias. Ed. Gregory Claeys (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2000), 187-205.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Serious Proposal To the Ladies, For the Advancement of their true and greatest Interest Y1 - 1694 A1 - [Mary] [Astell] (1668-1731) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Eutopia. An essay suggesting the establishment of an institution where women would be able to live and work independently of men. See also her non-utopian A Serious Proposal to the Ladies. Part II: Wherein a Method is offer'd for the Improvement of their Minds. London: Ptd. for Richard Wilkin, 1697. Rpt. in A Serious Proposal To the Ladies (New York: Source Book Press, 1970), 45-162; and in A Serious Proposal to the Ladies Parts I & II. Ed. Patricia Springborg (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 67-196.

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4th ed of 1701 rpt. without the subtitle (New York: Source Book Press, 1970), 1-43; and in A Serious Proposal to the Ladies Parts I & II. Ed. Patricia Springborg (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 3-65. [2nd ed. enl.] as A Serious Proposal to the Ladies Parts I and II. Ed. Patricia Springborg (Peterborough, ON, Canada: Broadview Literary Texts, 2002), 49-126.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Antiquity Reviv'd or the Government of a Certain island Antiently Called Astreada, In Reference to Religion, Policy, War, and Peace. Some hundreds of Years Before the Coming of Christ Y1 - 1693 A1 - [Francis] [Lee] (1661-1719) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Largely political philosophy and an essay on religion. Defense of absolute monarchy. Force those who disobey to be identified as such together with all their relatives.

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Rpt. in Restoration and Augustan British Utopias. Ed. Gregory Claeys (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2000), 137-85.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - An Essay towards the Present and Future Peace of Europe by the Establishment of an European Dyet, Parliament or Estates Y1 - 1693 A1 - William Penn (1644-1718) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A proposal for a federation of European governments with the aim of establishing permanent peace. One of numerous such proposals, often called utopias; the best known is probably Immanuel Kant's (1724-1804) Perpetual Peace (1795).

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Rpt. in The Political Writings of William Penn. Ed. Andrew R. Murphy (Indianapolis, IN: Liberty Fund, 2002), 401-19.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Folly of Love, or, An Essay Upon Satyr Against Women Y1 - 1691 A1 - Richard Ames (1643-93) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Brief eutopia of a society without women (26-27). Compare to 1688 Ames. See also 1691 Ames and his Sylvia’s Complaint of Her Sexes Unhappiness. A Poem: Being the Second Part of Sylvia’s Revenge, or, A Satyr Against Men. London: Ptd. by Richard Baldwin, 1692. Rpt. London: Robert Battersby, 1698. 

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2nd ed. corrected and enlarged as The Folly of Love, or A New Satyr Against Women, to which is now added The bachelors Lettany By the Same Hand London: Ptd. for E. Hawkins, 1693. 4th ed. of 2nd ed. as The Folly of Love. or A New Satyr Against Women, together with The bachelors Lettany By the Same Hand. London: Ptd. for E. Hawkins., 1700.

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Broadside poem which sees the coming of a eutopia of abundance.

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Eutopia. Heliopolis where all goods are held in common. Men over 30 are enfranchised. No lawyers. New opinions must be approved by a council.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Oroonoko: or, The Royal Slave. A True History Y1 - 1688 A1 - Mrs. A[phra] Behn (1640-89) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Eutopia depicting a naturally good man. See Susan B. Iwanisziw, Oroonoko: Adaptations and Offshoots. Aldershot, Eng.: Ashgate, 2006 for nine works responding to Oroonoko.

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Rpt. in The Works of Aphra Behn. Ed. Montague Summers. 6 vols. (London: William Heinemann, 1915), 5: 125-208; Shorter Novels: Seventeenth Century. Ed. Philip Henderson (London: J.M. Dent, 1967), 145-224; and in The Works of Aphra Behn. Ed. Janet Todd (London: William Pickering/Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1995), 3: 50-119.

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Brief eutopia of a society without men (20-21). See also 1691 Ames and his Sylvia’s Complaint of Her Sexes Unhappiness. A Poem: Being the Second Part of Sylvia’s Revenge, or, A Satyr Against Men. London: Ptd. by Richard Baldwin, 1692. Rpt. London: Robert Battersby, 1698.

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Later ed. London: Ptd. for Samuel Clement, 1693.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Common-Wealth of Women. A Play: As it is Acted at the Theatre Royal, By their Majesties Servants Y1 - 1686 A1 - Mr. [Thomas] D'Urfey (1653-1723) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Standard story of a society of isolated women, in this case ruled by a man-hating woman. Handsome man appears and the women revert to traditional roles led by their previous ruler.

PB - Ptd. for R. Bentley and J. Hindmarsh CY - London N1 -

Rpt. with added title at the head of the page--Bibliotheca Curiosa. Ed. Edmund Goldsmid. Edinburgh, Scot.: Privately Ptd., 1886.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Earle of Holland, Chief of Adepts, His Five and Twenty yeares Wonder-Revelation, From the yeare 1660, untill the yeare 1685 Y1 - 1684 AB -

Mostly prophecy of specific events as if they are to come but includes a brief eutopia of long life, streets paved with gold, and so forth.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Golden Age. A Paraphrase on a Translation out of French" Y1 - 1684 A1 - Aphra Behn (1640-89) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Eutopia. Poem about the Golden Age adapted from the poem Aminta (1573) by the Italian poet Torquato Tasso (1544-95).

JF - Poems Upon Several Occasions: With a Voyage to the Island of Love PB - Ptd. for R. Tonson and J. Tonson CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in The Works of Aphra Behn. 4 vols. Ed. Janet Todd (London: William Pickering, 1992), 1: 30-35.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Informer's Doom, or An Amazing and Seasonable Letter from Utopia Directed to the Man in the Moon. Giving a full and pleasant Account of the Arraignment, Tryal, and Condemnation, of all those grand and bitter Enemies that disturb and molest all Kingdoms and States, throughout the Christian World. To which is added (as a caution to honest Country-men) the Arraignment, Tryal, and Condemnation of the Knavery and Cheats that are used in every particular Trade in the city of London. Presented to the consideration of all the Tantivy-Lads and Lasses in Urope, by a true Son of the Church of England. Curiously Illustrated with about Threescore Cuts Y1 - 1683 A1 - [John] [Dunton] (1659-1733) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A trial in Utopia of those, from the Pope on down, who threaten the kingdom.

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By Philagathus [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Situation of Paradise Found Out: Being a History of a Late Pilgrimage unto the Holy Land With a necessary apparatus prefixt, Giving Light Into the whole designe Y1 - 1683 A1 - [Hugh] [Hare] [First Baron Coleraine] (1606-67) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Combines a concern with the location of Paradise, with descriptions of Paradise, and two visions that are part eutopia (Paradise) and part dystopia (Hell).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Discovery of Fonseca In a Voyage to Surranam. The Island so long sought for in the Western Ocean. Inhabited by Women with the Account of their Habits, Customs and Religion. And the Exact Longitude and Latitude of the Place Taken from the Mouth of a Person cast away on the Place in an Hurricane with the Account of their being Cast away Y1 - 1682 A1 - J[ohn] S[hirley] (fl. 1680-1702) KW - Male author AB -

An island of women of Welsh origin. No men allowed on the island except for specified visits. Male children must leave at an early age. Male visitors must leave at the end of the month.

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Rpt. in Restoration and Augustan British Utopias. Ed. Gregory Claeys (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2000), 131-36.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The World that Now is, and the World that is to Come: Or the First and Second Coming of Jesus Christ. Wherein several Prophecies not yet fulfilled are Expounded Y1 - 1681 A1 - Han[serd] Knollys (ca. 1599-1691) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia of the Second Coming of Christ. The second part (105-48) describes the Second Coming and the actions that Christ will take in establishing his rule on earth. See also the author's The Parable of the Kingdom of Heaven Expounded. Or, An Exposition of the first thirteen Verses of the twenty fifth Chapter of Matthew. London: Ptd. for Benjamin Harris, 1674; An Exposition of the Eleventh Chapter of the Revelation. Wherein All those Things therein Revealed, which must shortly come to pass, are Explained. London: Np, 1679; and An Exposition Of the whole Book of the Revelation. Wherein The Visions and Prophecies of Christ Are Opened and Expounded: Shewing The great Conquests of our Lord Jesus Christ for his Church over all His and Her Adversaries, Pagan, Arian and Papal; and the glorious State of the Church of God in the New Heavens and New Earth, in these Latter Days. London: Ptd. for the Author, 1689.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Pilgrim's Progress From This World, to That which is to come: Delivered under the Similitude of a Dream Wherein is Discovered, The Manner of his setting out, His Dangerous Journey; And safe Arrival at the Desired Countrey Y1 - 1678 A1 - John Bunyan (1628-88) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Classic evangelical Protestant allegory of the trip from the City of Destruction to the Celestial City, from the dystopia of contemporary life to the eutopia of eternal life.

PB - Nath. Ponder CY - London N1 -

Rpt. as The Pilgrim’s Progress. Ed. Roger Sharrock. Baltimore, MD: Penguin Books, 1965; Ed. N.H. Keeble. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1984; and as The Pilgrim’s Progress: An Authoritative Text, Contexts, Criticism. Ed. Cynthia Wall (New York: W.W. Norton, 2009), 1-252.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Anti-fanatical Religion, and Free Philosophy. In a Continuation of the New Atlantis" Y1 - 1676 A1 - Joseph Glanvill (1636-80) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Mostly a repetition of British history and a lecture on religion and philosophy with Bacon's New Atlantis (1627) as a starting point.

JF - Essays On Several Important Subjects in Philosophy and Religion PB - Ptd. by J.D. for John Baker and Henry Mortlock CY - London U1 -

The Table of Contents gives the title as "Antifanatick Theologie, and Free Philosophie."

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A New Discoverie of an Old Traveller Lately Arrived from Port-Dul, Shewing the Manner of the Country, Fashions of the People, and their Laws. And withal giving an account of the Shifts and Tricks he was Forced to use for the time of his Continuance there Y1 - 1676 AB -

Dystopia describing a barren but peaceful country living off the bounty of its neighbors.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Country Not Named Y1 - 1675 A1 - Francis Lodwick (1619-1695) ED - William Poole KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Detailed records kept on all people and all "matters notable" in each division of the country. The people had been monotheists, became polytheists, then returned to monotheism, and ultimately became Christians. Ideal language, which was one of the author's interests. Compulsory education from six with separate schools for girls with women teachers, with the education for girls the same as that for boys except that they are taught sewing and not taught gymnastics. Few laws and those read out to the population once a month.

JF - A Country Not Named (MS. Sloane 913, fols. IR-33R). An edition with an annotated primary bibliography and an introductory essay on Lodwick and his intellectual context by William Poole PB - ACMRS (Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies) CY - Tempe, AZ N1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Gerania: A New Discovery of a Little sort of People Anciently Discoursed of, called Pygmies. With a lively Description Of their Stature, Habit, Manners, Buildings, Knowledge, and Government, being very delightful and profitable Y1 - 1675 A1 - Joshua Barnes (1654-1721) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Agrarian, monarchical eutopia. The people are Christian and appear to be naturally good. No desire for riches. The people recognize their interdependence, and everyone has an occupation that helps others.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The History of the Sevarites or Sevarambi; a Nation inhabiting part of the third Continent, Commonly called, Terra Australis Incognitae. With an Account of their admirable Government, Religion, Customs, and Language. Written By one Captain Siden [pseud.]. A worthy Person, Who, together with many others, was Cast upon those Coasts, and lived many Years in that Country Y1 - 1675 A1 - [Denis] [Vairasse d'Allais] (c. 1637-c. 1683) KW - French author KW - Male author AB -

A major work of French utopianism first published in English. Detailed eutopia stressing equality and moderation. A new language is presented. Set in what became Australia.

PB - Ptd. for Henry Brome CY - London N1 -

The second part, published in 1679, has the identical title except that A further replaces an before Account and The Second Part more wonderful and delightful than the First is added after Country. Plagiarized in Capt. Lemuel Gulliver [pseud.]. Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. Volume 3. 2 parts. London: np, 1727 [This is not by Jonathan Swift], which is rpt. in Gulliveriana III. Comp. Jeanne K. Welcher and George E. Bush, Jr. (Delmar, NY: Scholars’ Facsimiles & Reprints, 1972), 1-295. Published in French as Histoire des Sévarambes, peuples qui habitant une Partie du troisiéme Continent, communément appellé La Terre Australe. Contenant une Relation du Gouvernement, des Moeurs, de la Religion, & du Langage de cette Nation, inconnuë jusques à present aux Peuples de l’Europe. 2 Parts. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Estienne Roger, 1702. There was also a 1716 edition with the same title and publisher. A modern French edition is Histoire des Sévarambes. Ed. Michel Rolland. Amiens, France: Encrae, 1994. A modern English edition is Denis Veiras, The History of the Sevarambians: A Utopian Novel. Ed. John Christian Laursen and Cyrus Masroori. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Letter Touching a Colledge of Maids, or, a Virgin-Society. By B.C. Appended to St. Cyprian Bishop and Martyr, Anno 250. Of Discipline, Prayer, Patience. St. Basil the Great, Of Solitude Y1 - 1675 A1 - C[lement] B[arksdale] (1609-87) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Proposal for a community of young women being educated. Most will leave for marriage. The inspiration was probably Anna Maria Schurman (1607-78), The Learned Maid or Whether a Maid May Be a Scholar? A Logick Exercise. [Trans. Clement Barksdale]. [London: Ptd. by John Redmayne, 1659]. Rpt. London: Virago Modern Classic, 1986.

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Trans. C[lement] B[arksdale]. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - O-Brazile, or the Inchanted Island: Being A perfect Relation of the late Discovery and Wonderful Dis-Inchantment of an Island on the North of Ireland: With an Account of the Riches and Commodities thereof. Communicated by a Letter from London-Derry, to a Friend in London Y1 - 1675 A1 - [Richard] [Head] (1637-86) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

A short  description of O-Brazile with fewer utopian elements than in his The Western Wonder (1674). Generally considered to be a description of Ireland. See also 1673 and 1674 Head.

PB - Ptd. by Tho. Newcomb CY - [London] N1 -

Also published Edinburgh, Scot.: Np, 1675; and London: William Crook, 1675. Rpt. in Seventeenth-Century Tales of the Supernatural. Publication no. 74 of The Augustan Reprint Society. Los Angeles, CA: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, 1958. Items separately paged.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “When Wealth is walkt awaye” Y1 - 1675 AB -

Brief dystopian poem that reflects the enclosure movement. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pasquin, Risen from the Dead: Or, His Own Relation of a Late Voyage He Made to the Other World, In A Discourse With his Friend Marforio Y1 - 1674 AB -

Pasquin dies, visits Heaven and Hell, and returns to tell his friend about his experiences. Mostly satire directed at the Church.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Western Wonder; or, O Brazeel, an Inchanted Island discovered; with a Relation of Two Ship-wracks in a dreadful Sea-storm in that discovery. To which is added, a Description of a Place, called, Montecapernia, relating the Nature of the People, their Qualities, Humours, Fashions, Religion, &c. Y1 - 1674 A1 - [Richard] [Head] (1637-86) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Satire. Begins with an argument that O Brazeel is an actual island but enchanted. O Brazeel is in some ways a classic eutopia of abundance; ". . . whatever grew, came up spontaneously, without the labour of hands" (6), but the island was controlled by Satan, although it is freed from his rule. Montecapernia is both rich in parts and barren in parts. Generally considered to be a description of Ireland and Wales. 

PB - Ptd. for N.C CY - London N1 -

One copy at the British Library is in a volume of "Tracts on Ireland".

Rpt. London: Ptd. for N.C., 1676.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Floating Island: or, A New Discovery, Relating The strange Adventure on a late Voyage From Lambethana to Villa Franca, alias Ramallia, To the Eastward of Terra del Templo, By three Ships, Viz. The Pay-naught, The Excuse, The Least-in-Sight, Under the conduct of Captain Robert Owe-much: Describing the Nature of the Inhabitants, their Religion, Laws and Customs. Published by Franck Careless [pseud.] one of the Discoverers Y1 - 1673 A1 - [Richard] [Head] (1637-86) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

A satire on English manners and custom that is particularly concerned with London. See also 1674 and 1675 Head.

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Rpt. [Whitefish, MT]: Kessinger Publishing, [2004].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Poor Robin’s Wonderful Vision; Or, England’s Warning By Many strange and miraculous Observations, the like not known in any Age. To the Tune of, Sawny will ne’r be my Love Again Y1 - 1672 A1 - [William] [Winstanley] [attributed to] KW - Male author AB -

Broadside warning of the evils of Catholicism.

PB - P[hilip] Brooksby CY - [London] ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Six Days Adventure, or the New Utopia. A Comedy, as it is acted at his Royal Highness the Duke of York's Theatre Y1 - 1671 A1 - [Edward] [Howard] (1624-1712) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire set in Utopia. Emphasis on women's rights. Women take over the government, but the men all decide to leave and under this threat the women choose to return to their previous subservient roles. See Aphra Behn, “To the Honourable Edward Howard, on his Comedy, The New Utopia.” The Works of Aphra Behn. Ed. Montague Summers. 6 vols. (London: William Heinemann, 1915), 6: 204-07; rpt. as “To the Author of the New Utopia.” In The Works of Aphra Behn. Ed. Janet Todd 7. vols. (London: William Pickering/Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1992), 1: 3-5.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Womens Conquest. A Tragi-Comedy As it was Acted by Her Highness the Duke of York's Servants Y1 - 1671 A1 - E[dward] H[oward] (1624-1712) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on gender relations in which women temporarily establish female rule.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Scydromedia seu sermo, quem Alphonsus de la Vida Habuit Coram Comite de Falmouth, De Monarchia. Liber Primus Y1 - 1669 A1 - Antonii Le Grand (1629-99) KW - English author KW - French author KW - Male author AB -

A utopia similar in form to 1516 More but rejecting common ownership of property.

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Alphonsus de la Vida [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Appendix to the Grounds of Natural Philosophy" Y1 - 1668 A1 - [Margaret] [Cavendish] Duchess of Newcastle (1623?-74) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Throughout the “Appendix” Cavendish presents two parts of her mind arguing about a number of issues, including in Parts III and IV (265-309), the nature of happy and unhappy worlds and of regular and irregular worlds and, in doing so, develops some suggestions of eutopia and dystopia.

JF - In her Grounds of Natural Philosophy: Divided into Thirteen Parts: With an Appendix Containing Five Parts. The Second Edition, much altered from the First, which went under the Name of Philosophical and Physical Opinions. Written by the Thrice Noble, Illustrious, and Excellent Princess, The Duchess of Newcastle PB - Ptd. A. Maxwell CY - London N1 -

Rpt. as by Margaret Lucas Cavendish Duchess of Newcastle, Grounds of Natural Philosophy (West Cornwall, CT: Locust Hill Press, 1996), 237-311.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Convent of Pleasure. In her Plays. Never Before Printed. Written By the Thrice Noble, Illustrious, and Excellent Princesse, The Duchess of Newcastle Y1 - 1668 A1 - [Margaret] [Cavendish] Duchess of Newcastle (1623?-74) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A rich woman creates a eutopian all-female community on her estate.

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Rpt. separately ed. Jennifer Rowsell. Oxford, Eng.: Seventeenth Century Press, 1995; in The Convent of Pleasure and Other Plays. Ed. Anne Shaver (Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1999), 217-47;and in Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader. Ed. Sylvia Bowerbank and Sara Mendelson (Peterborough, ON, Canada: Broadview Press, 2000), 97-135.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Isle of Pines, or, a late Discovery of a fourth Island near Terra Australis, Incognita Being A True Relation of certain English persons, who in the dayes of Queen Elizabeth, making a Voyage to the East Indies, were cast away, and wracked Upon the Island near to the Coast of Terra Australis, Incognita, and all drowned, except one Man and four Women whereof one was a Negro. And now lately Anno Dom. 1667. a Dutch Ship driven by foul weather there, by chance have found their Posterity, (speaking good English) to amount to ten or twelve thousand persons, as they suppose. The whole Relation follows, written, and left by the Man himself a little before his death, and delivered to the Dutch by his Grandchild. Licensed June 27, 1668 Y1 - 1668 A1 - [Henry] [Neville] (1620-94) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

One man and four women shipwrecked on a beautiful island. They establish political and religious order based on European forms. This is followed, in the part that was originally A New and further Discovery of The Isle of Pines, by a period of "whoredoms, incest and adulteries" followed by the imposition of harsh laws.

PB - Ptd. by S.G. for Allen Banks and Charles Harper CY - London N1 -

This nine page pamphlet was followed shortly by A New and further Discovery of The Isle of Pines In A Letter from Cornelius Van Sloetten [pseud.] a Dutch-man (who first discovered the same in the Year, 1667.) to a Friend of his in London. With a Relation of his voyage to the East Indies. Wherein Is declared how he happened to come thither, the Scituation of the Country, the temperature of the Climate, the manners and conditions of the people that inhabit it; their Laws, Ordinances, and Ceremonies, their way of Marrying, Burying, &c. The Longitude and Latitude of the Island, the pleasantness and facility thereof, with other matters of concern. Licensed according to Order. London: Ptd. for Allen Bankes and Charles Harper, 1668. The two were combined and published together as The Isle of Pines, or, a late Discovery of a fourth Island near Terra Australis, Incognita, by Henry Cornelius Van Sloetten [pseud.] Wherein is contained, A True Relation of certain English persons, who in Queen Elizabeths time, making a Voyage to the East Indies were cast away, and wracked near to the Coast of Terra Australis, Incognita, and all drowned, except one Man and four Women. And now lately Anno Dom. 1667. a Dutch Ship making a Voyage to the East Indies, driven by foul weather there, by chance have found their Posterity, (speaking good English) to amount (as they suppose) to ten or twelve thousand persons. The whole Relation (written, and left by the Man himself a little before his death, and delivered to the Dutch by his Grandchild) is here annexed with the Longitude and Latitude of the Island, the scituation and felicity thereof, with other matter observable. Licensed July 27, 1668. London: Ptd. for Allen Banks and Charles Harper, 1668.

An extract was published anonymously as “An account of certain English people, who in the year 1569, making a voyage to the East-Indies, were away, and wracked Upon the Island near to the Coast of Terra Australis, Incognita, and all drowned, except one Man and four Women. Given by Cornelius van Sloetten, captain of a Dutch ship, which was driven there by foul weather, in the year 1667, who found their posterity (speaking good English) to the amount of 10 or 12 thousand souls.” The New-Haven Gazette and the Connecticut Magazine 1.29 (August 31, 1786): 222-24; The New-Haven Gazette 1.33 (December 23, 1794) [not found]; and The New Hampshire Mercury and General Advertiser 2:95 [sic. 94] (October 4, 1786): 1-2.

A fifty-one copy edition was published as The Isle of Pines. Katoomba, NSW, Australia: The Wayzgoose Press, 1991. One version is rpt. in Shorter Novels: Seventeenth Century. Ed. Philip Henderson (London: J.M. Dent, 1967), 225-43; and in [On Cover: Three Early Modern Utopias: Utopia New Atlantis The Isles of Pines]. Title Page: Thomas More Utopia Francis Bacon New Atlantis Henry Neville The Isle of Pines. Ed. Susan Bruce (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), 187-212 with “Explanatory Notes” 239-42. Another version, which includes part of A New and further Discovery of the Isle of Pines is rpt. in Restoration and Augustan British Utopias. Ed. Gregory Claeys (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2000), 113-30. Another rpt. can be found in “The Isles of Pines: Texts.” Utopian Studies 17.1 (2006): 20-75. Includes the July 27, 1668, English edition (25-51), “Novvelle Decovverte De L’Isle Pinés Située au delà de la ligne Æquinnoctiale Faite par vn nauire Hollandois L’an 1667. Paris: Sebastien-Mabre Cramoisy, 1668 known as the Cramoisy edition in both French and English trans. Christine Reno, Peter G. Sullivan, and Vassar College students (53-61), the edition from The Grand Magazine of Universal Intelligence 1 ( August 1758): 394-96 (63-71), and notes on the Hollis edition of 1768 (73-75). There is a critical text in John Scheckter, The Isles of Pines, 1668. Henry Neville’s Uncertain Utopia (Farnham, Eng.: Ashgate, 2011), 13-30 with notes on the text 183-98. The July 27, 1688, edition is rpt. in The Isles of Pines and Plato Redivivus. Ed. by David Womersley (Carmel, IN: The Liberty Fund, 2020), lvi, 1-38, with footnotes by the editor, an “Introduction” by the editor (ix-lv), Appendices (317-472), including “A Copy of a Letter from an Officer of the Army in Ireland, to his Highness the Lord Protector, concerning his changing of the government” (317-37), “Neville’s Major Speeches in Parliament, 1659” (339-49), “The Armies Dutie (1659)” (351-74), “The Humble Petition (1659)” (375-82), “Manuscripts Relating to Sir Henry Neville” [Neville’s grandfather] (383-93), “[John Somers]. A Brief History of the Succession (1681)” (395-427), “Thomas Hollis’s Life of Henry Neville” (429-32), “Corrections to the Copy-Texts The Isle of Pines (433-35) and Plato Redivivus (435-38), “Textual Collation of the First and Second Editions of Plato Redivivus (439-72), and an Index to the entire volume (473-88). 

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Amazonian society.

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Classic description of Eden that, unusually, includes substantial material on what life in Eden would have been like before the Fall.

PB - Ptd. by Peter Parker; Robert Boulter; and Matthias Walker CY - London N1 -

2nd ed. rev. and aug. London: Ptd. by S. Simmons, 1674. Critical eds. as Paradise Lost: An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds, and Sources. Criticism. Ed. Scott. Elledge. New York: W.W. Norton, 1975; as Paradise Lost. Ed. Alastair Fowler. rev. 2nd ed. New York: Longman, 2007; and Paradise Lost. Ed. Barbara K. Lewalski. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2007.

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World attached to Earth at the Pole. Various animals (bears, foxes, geese, etc.) with human characteristics. The eutopia is a small part of an allegory. Monarchy, religion, few laws. Peaceable world because it has only one religion, one language, and one government. 

JF - Part IV of her Observations Upon Experimental Philosophy PB - Ptd. By J. Maxwell CY - London N1 -

First separate publication London: Ptd. By A. Maxwell, 1668. Rpt. in The Description of a New World Called The Blazing World and Other Writings. Ed. Kate Lilley (London: William Pickering, 1992), 119-225 with notes 227-230; Ed. Sara H. Mendelson. Peterborough, ON, Canada: Broadview Press, 2016 with footnotes by the editor, an Introduction by the editor (9-49), a chronology (51-52), and a note on the text (53); in Restoration and Augustan British Utopias. Ed. Gregory Claeys (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2000), 53-114; in Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader. Ed. Sylvia Bowerbank and Sara Mendelson (Peterborough, ON, Canada: Broadview Press, 2000), 151-251; and in Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, Political Writings. Ed. Susan James (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 2003), 1-109. See also The Description of a New World Called The Blazing World By the Thrice Noble, Illustrious, and Excellent Princesse, the Duchess of Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish. An Illuminated Edition. Illus. in color by Rebekka Dunlap. Np: Beehive Books, 2020, with “Any Mortal Creator. A Foreword” by Brooke Bolander (i-iv), “A Blazing Life. The Invention of Margaret Cavendish” by James Fitzmaurice (101-111), and “A Note on the Text Used Here and on the Early Publishing History of A Blazing World” (112).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Holy City: Or, The New Jerusalem: Its Goodly Light, Walls, Gates, Angels, and the manner of their standing, are Expounded: Also, Her Length and Breadth, Together with the Golden-Measuring-Reed, Explained And The Glory of all unfolded. As Also, The Numerousness of its Inhabitants: And what the Tree and Water of Life are, by which they are sustained Y1 - 1665 A1 - John Bunyan (1628-88) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Explication of Revelation XXI:10 - XXII:1-4 detailing the eutopia suggested there.

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Rpt. London: J. Dover, [1665]; London: Francis Smith, 1669. Dover ed. rpt. in The Miscellaneous Works of John Bunyan Volume IIII Christian Behaviour The Holy City The Resurrection of the Dead. Ed. J. Sears McGee (Oxford, Eng.: Clarendon Press, 1987), 63-196, with editorial notes on 65-67 and 299-314.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Country-life" Y1 - 1664 A1 - Katherine [Fowler] Philips (1631-64) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Life in the country as eutopia.

JF - Poems By the most deservedly Admired Mrs. Katherine Philips The Matchless Orinda. To Which is added Monsieur Corneille's Pompey & Horace, Tragedies. With several other Translations out of French PB - Ptd. by J.M. CY - London N1 -

Rpt. (London: Ptd. by J.M., 1667), 88-91; (London: Ptd. by T.N., 1678), 88-91; and (London: Ptd. by Jacob Tonson, 1710), 111-14. An unauthorized edition of her poems was published as Poems by the incomparable Mrs. K.P. London: Ptd, for J.G. for Rich. Marriott, 1664 and withdrawn after a few days, with this poem on pages 177-82 [Wing 286:08]. The differences are minimal.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Holy Guide: Leading the Way to the Wonder of the World. (A compleat Phisitian) teaching the Knowledge of all things, Past, Present, and to Come; viz. Of Pleasure, long Life, Health, Youth, Blessedness, Wisdome and Virtue; and to Cure, Change and Remedy all Diseases in Young and Old. With Rosie Crucian Medicines, which are verified by a Practical Examination of Principles in the great World, and fitted for the easie understanding, plain practice, use, and benefit of mean Capacities Y1 - 1662 A1 - John Heydon (1629-67) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Rosicrucian eutopia. The "Preface" to Book 1 (unnumbered pages) is partly plagiarized from and partly a revision of the New Atlantis entitled "Journey to the Land of the Rosicrucians." Salomon's House becomes the Temple of the Rosy Cross. Alchemy. Heydon copies Bacon in modifying More's policy of showing a couple naked by having pools where men and women bathe naked separately and can be observed by friends of the same sex.

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Also entitled The English Physitians Guide: Or A Holy Guide. Leading the Way to know all Things, Past, Present, and to Come; To Resolve all manner of Questions, viz. Of Pleasure, Long-life, Health, Youth, Blessednes, Wisdome and Vertue; and teaching the way to Change, Cure, and Remedy all Diseases in Young and Old, fitted for the easie understanding, plain practice, use, and benefit of the meanest Capacities. London: Ptd. by T.M. for Samuel Ferris. Six books with separate, generally shorter, title pages, and separate pagination.

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Also entitled The English Physitians Guide: Or A Holy Guide. Leading the Way to know all Things, Past, Present, and to Come; To Resolve all manner of Questions, viz. Of Pleasure, Long-life, Health, Youth, Blessednes, Wisdome and Vertue; and teaching the way to Change, Cure, and Remedy all Diseases in Young and Old, fitted for the easie understanding, plain practice, use, and benefit of the meanest Capacities. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Bentivolio and Urania, in [six] books Y1 - 1660 A1 - N[athaniel] I[ngelo], D.D. KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Allegory. Book six describes a Christian eutopia called Theoprepia (The Divine State) stressing good will to others, self-knowledge, and the other Christian virtues. The eutopia appears at various points throughout the book, which is largely an allegorical life of Christ.

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2nd ed. under the author’s name, with six in the title, and with the added subtitle Wherein all the Obscure words throughout the Book are interpreted in the Margins, which makes this much more delightful to read than the former edition. London: Ptd. for T. Dring, J. Starkey, and T. Baffet, 1669. Second title page Bentivolio and Urania, The Second Part, In Two Books. 2nd ed. London: Ptd. for T. Dring, J. Starkey, and T. Baffet, 1669. Books I-IV and V-VI are separately paged.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - New Atlantis. Begun by the Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Albans: and Continued by R.H. Esquire. Wherein is set forth a Platform of Monarchical Government. With A Pleasant intermixture of divers rare Inventions, and wholsom customs, fit to be introduced into all Kingdoms, States, and Common-Wealths Y1 - 1660 A1 - R. H. Esquire [pseud.] AB -

Eutopia of the Restoration. Monarchy with laws that are ". . . easy, plain, and all writ in our native language. . ." (18). Religion and education are emphasized. Ten percent of all children are chosen for the church. No poor because all parents must teach their children a trade, and also how to read, shoot and swim.

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Rpt. Los Angeles, CA: Philosophical Research Society, 1985; and in Restoration and Augustan British Utopias. Ed. Gregory Claeys (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2000), 3-51.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Rota: or, A Model of a Free-State, or Equall Common-wealth; Once proposed and debated in brief, and to be again more at large proposed to, and debated by a free and open Society of ingenious Gentlemen Y1 - 1660 A1 - [James] [Harrington] (1611-77) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A constitution for England thinly disguised as an imaginary country. See also 1656 Harrington.

PB - Ptd. for John Starkey CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Works. The Oceana and Other Works. With an Account of His Life by John Toland (London: Ptd. for T. Beket, and T. Cadell, and T. Evans, 1771), 587-98; rpt. Aalen, Germany: Scientia Verlag, 1963; and in The Political Works of James Harrington. Ed. J.G.A. Pocock (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1977), 807-26.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Chaos: or, A Discourse, Wherein Is presented to the view of the Magistrate, and all others who shall peruse the same, a Frame of Government by way of a Republique, wherein is little or no danger of miscarriage, if prudently attempted, and thoroughly prosecuted by Authority. Wherein is no difficulty in the Practice, nor obscurity in the Method; But all things plain and easie to the meanest capacity. Here's no hard or strange Names, nor unknown Titles (to amaze the hearers) used, and yet here's a full and absolute Power derivative insensibly from the whole, and yet practically conveyed to the best men: wherein if any shall endeavour a breach, he shall break himself: and if its must be so, that Cats shall provide Supper, here they shall do it suitable to the best Palats, and easie to digest. Y1 - 1659 A1 - A well-willer to the Publique Weale [pseud.] KW - English author AB -

Eutopia. Democratic system with annual election to Parliament and with various reforms aimed at establishing more unity. Anti-Roman Catholic. Complex public registry system in which all transactions are recorded. Detailed legal system.

PB - Ptd. for Livewel Chapman CY - London N1 -

Eight page version also published as Chaos. London: Ptd. for Livewel Chapman, 1659. The shorter version consists of the first eight pages of the longer one and was published three weeks before the longer one.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Christian Commonwealth: or, The Civil Policy of the Rising Kingdom of Jesus Christ. Written Before the Interruption of the Government. Written by Mr. John Eliot, Teacher of the Church of Christ at Roxbury in New-England. And Now Published (after his consent given) by a Server of the Season Y1 - 1659 A1 - John Eliot (1604-90) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Detailed eutopia written in the 1640s that derives government structure from the Bible, particularly Exodus 18:25 and Deuteronomy 1:15. Millennial and based on covenant theology. Focused on political institutions combining theocracy with a democracy with widespread manhood suffrage (woman and children were included within a man’s covenant). Born and educated in England, Eliot moved to America in 1631 where he established a school in Roxbury, Massachusetts and was known as the “Indian Apostle”. Although it was reinstated, this was the first book banned by an American government.

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Rpt. in the Massachusetts Historical Society Collections, series 3, 9 (1846): 128-64; and New York: Arno Press, 1972

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Holy Commonwealth, or Political Aphorisms, Opening the true Principles of Government: For The Healing of the Mistakes, and Resolving the Doubts, that most endanger and trouble ENGLAND at this time: (if yet there may be hope.) And directing the desires of sober Christians that long to see the Kingdoms of this world, become the Kingdoms of the Lord, and of his Christ Y1 - 1659 A1 - Richard Baxter (1615-91) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Description of a theocracy based on obligation and consent. Mostly a treatise setting out rules for areas of possible conflict between the pastor and the magistrate.

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Rpt. as The Holy Commonwealth. Ed. William Lamont. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Way Propounded to Make the poor in these and other Nations happy. By bringing together a fit suitable and well qualified people unto one Household-government, or little-Commonwealth, Wherein every one may keep his propriety, and be imployed in some work or other, as he shall be fit, without being oppressed. Being the way not only to rid these and other nations from idle, evil and disorderly persons, but also from all such that have sought and found out many inventions to live upon the labour of others. Whereunto is also annexed an invitation to the Society, or little Common-wealth Y1 - 1659 A1 - [Pieter Corneliszoon] [Plockhoy] (ca. 1629-166?) KW - Dutch author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Pamphlet that formed the basis for the first American intentional community founded in 1663 but destroyed in 1664 when the English conquered New Netherland. Goods not to be held in common. No common religious practices. Few laws. Annual election of the Governor. Six hours a day of work; children work a few hours a day to learn a trade.  See also 1659 Plockhoy, The Way to the peace and settlement of these nations.

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Rpt. in John Dowie, "The First Co-operative Commonwealth. Life and Work of Peter Cornelius Plockboy [sic.]." The Co-operative Review 7.40 - 41 (July - September 1933): 155-165; 200-212, which is rpt. as Peter Cornelius Plockboy [sic.] Pioneer of the First Co-operative Commonwealth, 1659. His Life and Works. 2nd ed. as Peter Cornelius Plockboy [sic.] Pioneer of the First Co-operative Commonwealth. Manchester, Eng.: Co-operative Union, [193?], which also includes his An Invitation to the Aforementioned Society, or Little Commonwealth Shewing the Excellency of the True Christian Love and the Folly of all Those Who Consider Not to What End the Lord of Heaven and Earth Hath Created Them. London: Ptd. for the Author, 1660.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Way to the peace and settlement of these nations, Fully discovered in two Letters, delivered to his late Highnesse, and one to the present Parliament, As also one to Highness Richard Lord Protector, of England, Scotland and Ireland, etc. Wherein the liberty of speaking (which every one desire for himselfe) is opposed against Antichrist, for the procuring of his downfall, who will not grant same to others; And now published To awaken the publick spirits in England, and to raise up an universal Magistrate in Christendome, that will suffer all sorts of people, (of what Religion soever they are) in any one Countrey, as God (the great Magistrate) suffers the same in all Countreys of the world Y1 - 1659 A1 - [Pieter Corneliszoon] [Plockhoy] (ca. 1629-166?) KW - Dutch author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopian essay with an emphasis on freedom of religion. See also 1659 Plockhoy, A Way Propounded to Make the poor in these and other Nations happy.

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By Peter Cornelius, Van Zurick Zee, a lover of truth and peace [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Examination of Tilenus before the Triers; In order to his intended settlement in the office of a publick Preacher in the Commonwealth of Utopia. Whereunto are annexed The Tenents of the Remonstrants touching those five Articles Voted, Stated, and imposed, but not disputed, at the Synod of Dort. Together with a short Essay (by way of Annotations) upon the Fundamental Theses of Mr. Thomas Parker Y1 - 1658 A1 - [Laurence] [Womock] (1612-86) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The questions and answers in an examination of a man applying to be a Christian minister in Utopia.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - ["Letters from Utopia"] Y1 - 1657 A1 - [Marchamont] [Nedham] (1620-1678) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Broad ranging satire on British customs and particularly on Thomas More and James Harrington. The last letter is from Oceana.

JF - Mercurius Politicus, Comprising The sum of forein Intelligence, with the Affairs now on foot in the three Nations of England, Scotland, & Ireland: VL - Nos. 352 - 356 N1 -

Rpt. in The English Revolution IV. Newsbooks Volume 15. Mecurius Politicus 1657 (London: Cornmarket Press, 1971), 39-40; 53-55; 69-71; 85-88; 101-02; and Making the News: An Anthology of the Newsbooks of Revolutionary England 1641-1660. Ed. Joad Raymond (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1993), 369-79.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - An Appendix To the Former Work, Endeavouring a Discovery of the Unknown Parts of the World. Especially of Terra Australis Incognita, or the Southern Continent Y1 - 1656 A1 - Peter Heylin (1600-52) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The earliest representation of Australia in British utopian literature. Divides the unknown world into Terra incognita Borealis, or the northern lands, and Terra incognita Australis. Included in Terra incognita Borealis are “Orbis Arcticus” and the Northeast and Northwest parts of the territory, none of which are utopian. Included in Terra incognita Australis are brief presentations of “Terra del Fuego,” “Insulae Solomonis,” “Nova Guinea,” Mundus Alter et Idem (1605 Hall), Utopia (1516 More), New Atlantis (1627 Bacon), “Faerie Land,” “The Painters Wives Island,” “the Lands of Chivalrie,” and “The New World in the Moon,” discovered by Lucian of Samosata (ca. 125-ca. 180). Reference is also made to Aristophanes’s (ca. 446 BC-ca. 386 BC) Nephelococcygia.

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Other editions with the name as Peter Heglin. London: Printed for Philip Chetwinde, 1667; and London: Printed for A.S., 1669.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Common-wealth of Oceana Y1 - 1656 A1 - James Harrington (1611-77) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Classic work on the reform of England stressing the need for a balanced constitution. Argues for an “agrarian law”, a limit on the size landed estates to reduce inequality. The Introduction contains a two page utopia suggesting that Jews should be settled in Ireland. See also 1660 Harrington and Decrees and Orders of the Committee of Safety of Oceana. London: Ptd. 1659, a satire on Oceana.

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Rpt. in Works. The Oceana and Other Works. With an Account of His Life by John Toland (London: Ptd. for T. Beket, and T. Cadell, and T. Evans, 1771), 31-210; rpt. Aalen, Germany: Scientia Verlag, 1963; in The Political Works of James Harrington. Ed. J.G.A. Pocock (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1977), 155-359; and in The Commonwealth of Oceana and A System of Politics. Ed. J.G.A. Pocock (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1992), 1-266.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Excellent Comedy, called The Old Law: Or A new way to please you. Acted before the King and Queene at Salisbury House, and at severall other places, with great Applause. Together with an exact and perfect Catalogue of all Players, with the Authors Names, and what are Comedies, Tragedies, Histories, Pastoralls, Masks, Interludes, more exactly Printed than ever before Y1 - 1656 A1 - Phil[ip] Massinger (1583-1640) A1 - Tho[mas] Middleton (1580-1627) A1 - William Rowley (1585?-1626) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The establishment of a fixed period for the length of life and its effects. It was all a test of the people by the rulers.

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Rpt. Ed. Catherine M. Shaw. New York: Garland, 1982. Critical ed. as "An/The Old Law Or, A New Way to Please You". Ed. Jeffrey Masten. In Thomas Middleton, Collected Works. Ed. Gary Taylor and Jay Lavagnino (Oxford, Eng.: Clarendon Press, 2007), 1335-96 (Comment by Masten 1331-34). Additional textual commentary by Masten in Thomas Middleton and Early Modern Textual Culture: A Companion to the Collected Works. Ed. Gary Taylor and Jay Lavagnino (Oxford, Eng.: Clarendon Press, 2007), 1123-30.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Inventory of Judgements Commonwealth, the Author cares not in what World it is established" Y1 - 1655 A1 - [Margaret] [Cavendish] Duchess of Newcastle (1623?-74) ED - Lady M[argaret] of Newcastle (1623?-74) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Eutopia. The author provides something close to a constitution for a monarchical system detailing the relations between the King and the people and relations among the people.

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2nd ed. (London: A. Maxwell, 1671), 399-412. Rpt. in The Utopia Reader. Ed. Gregory Claeys and Lyman Tower Sargent (New York: New York University Press, 1999), 128-37; 2nd ed. (New York: New York University Press, 2017), 145-54.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Briefe Description of the Fifth Monarchy, or Kingdome, That shortly is to come into the World. That Monarch, Subjects, Officers, and Lawes thereof, and the surpassing Glory, Amplitude, Unity, and Peace of that Kingdome. When the Kingdome and Dominion, and the greatnesse of the Kingdome under the whole Heaven shall be given to the people, the Saints of the Most high, whose Kingdome is an everlasting Kingdome, and all Soveraignes shall serve and obey him. And in the Conclusion there is added a Prognostick of the time when this fifth Kingdome shall begin Y1 - 1653 A1 - William Aspinwall (fl. 1630-57) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Fifth Monarchist eutopia or the belief, based on Daniel 2:44, that after the first four stages of history, the Babylonian, Persian, Greek, and Roman, there would be a thousand year reign of the “son of man” followed by the physical return of Christ. Millennium in which Christ will be the Monarch and lawgiver. Gives details of the structure of government under Christ, the laws that will be put in place, which will “be few and brief” (10). This will be the period where the saved will no longer be ruled by the sinful. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Twelve Humble Proposals To the Supreme Governours of the three Nations now assembled at Westminister concerning The Propagation of the Gospel, The New modling of the Universities, The Reformation of the Laws, The Supply of the necessities of the poor; And many other things of great moment, which may conduce to the honour of God, and the comfort and joy of his people. By M[ary] R[ande] an admirer and adorer of the good providence of God, in making such happy changes in these Nations Y1 - 1653 A1 - [Mary] [Cary] (fl. 1636-53) ED - M[ary] R[ande] [pseud.] KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A reform tract based on the assumption that Christ is to return soon. Generally, rule well but with a list of specifics. See also 1651 Cary.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Joviall Crew: or, The Merry Beggars. Presented in a Comedie, At the Cock-pit in Drury Lane, in the yeer 1641 Y1 - 1652 A1 - Richard Brome (1590-1652) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Comedy but presents an ideal beggars commonwealth. See also 1640 Brome.

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Rpt. in The Dramatic Works of Richard Brome Containing Fifteen Comedies Now First Collected in Three Volumes. London: John Pearson, 1873. Vol. 3 is a rpt. of Brome’s Five Plays, Viz.: The Northern Lasse. The Sparagus Garden. The Antipodes. A Jovial Crew [341-452]. The Queen’s Exchange. London: np, nd; London: Ptd. for Henry Brome, 1661; London: Hindmarsh, 1684; and ed. Ann Haaker. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1968. See also The Jovial Crew by Richard Brome. Adapted by Stephen Jeffreys. London: Warner Chappell Plays, 1992, which was first performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, April 13, 1992.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Law of Freedom in a Platform: Or, True Magistracy Restored. Humbly presented to Oliver Cromwel, General of the Common-wealths Army in England, Scotland, and Ireland. And to all Englishmen my brethren whether in Church-fellowship, or not in Church-fellowship, both sorts walking as they conceive according to the Order of The Gospel: and from them to all the Nations in the World. Wherin is Declared, What is Kingly Government, and what is Common-wealths Government Y1 - 1652 A1 - Gerrard Winstanley (1609-76) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia including detailed economic, legal, political, and social reform.

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Rpt. as by Jerrard Winstanley, The Law of Freedom in a Platform. Sutro Branch California State Library. Occasional Papers. English Reprint Series No. 3. Sutro: California State Library, 1939; as by Gerrard Winstanley, “The Law of Freedom in a Platform: Or, True Magistracy Restored.” The Works of Gerrard Winstanley with an Appendix of Documents Related to the Digger Movement. Ed. George H. Sabine (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1941), 499-600 (Rpt. New York: Russell & Russell, 1965), 499-600); under the full title in The Law of Freedom and Other Writings. Ed. Christopher Hill (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1983), 273-389; and in The Complete Works of Gerrard Winstanley. Ed. Thomas N. Corns, Ann Hughes, and David Loewenstein. 2 vols. (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 2009), 2: 278-404.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lady-Errant. A Tragi-Comedy Y1 - 1651 A1 - William Cartwright (1611-43) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Brief satirical description of an intended women's Parliament in Cyprus when most of the men are absent fighting in a war.

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The publication information is from the separate title page for the play in his Comedies Tragi-Comedies, With other Poems. London: Ptd. for Humphrey Moseley, 1651, which, although it probably had been staged between 1634 and 1637, was the play’s first publication. Rpt. in The Plays and Poems Of William Cartwright. Ed. G. Blakemore Evans (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1951), 89-161 with the editor’s “Introduction” (81-88) and “Textual Notes” to the play (575-87).

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Little Horns Doom & Downfall: Or A Scripture-Prophesie of King James, and King Charles, and of this present Parliament, unfolded. Wherein it appeares, that the late Tragedies that have bin acted upon the Scene of these three Nations: and particularly, the late Kings doom and death, was so long ago, as by Daniel pred-eclared. And What the issue of all will be, is also discovered; which followes in the Second Part. Y1 - 1651 A1 - M[ary] Cary (fl. 1636-53) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Fifth Monarchist eutopia. Description in some detail of life as it will be lived during the millennium. The Little Horn is Charles I (1600-49). See also 1653 Cary. Fifth Monarchists believed, based on Daniel 2:44, that after the first four stages of history, the Babylonian, Persian, Greek, and Roman, there would be a thousand year reign of the “son of man” followed by the physical return of Christ. Female author.

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Second title page--A new And More Exact Mappe Or, Description of New Ierusalems Glory when Jesus Christ and his Saints with him shall reign on earth a Thousand years, and possess all Kingdoms. Wherein Is discovered the glorious estate into which the Church shall be then put both in respect of externall and internall glory, and the time when. And also, What hath been done these eight yeares last past, and what is now a doing, and what shall be done within a few years now following in order to this great work. Wherein also That great Question, whether it be lawfull for Saints to make use of the materiall Sword in the ruining of the enemies of Christ, and whether it be the mind of Christ to have it so, is at large debated and resolved in the Affirmative from clear Scripture, and all others answered. London: Ptd. by H.W.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Female Rebellion: A Tragicomedy. From a MS. In the Hunterian Museum University of Glasgow Y1 - 1650 A1 - [Henry] [Birkhead] 1617?-96) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The play presents a conflicted Amazonian society where the main body of Amazons plot to overthrow their queen as being too soft. While she is overthrown, she then is restored and marries.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Newes from the New Exchange Y1 - 1650 A1 - [Henry] [Neville] (1620-94) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on the behavior of women with specific references to individuals. One of five related pamphlets by Neville, four in 1647 and one in 1750.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Reformed School Y1 - 1650 A1 - John Dury (1595-1680) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Presents what the author considers a eutopian school. Authoritarian. Religious instruction central. Educate both boys and girls, but regular stress on the greater need for girls being controlled. Lays out housing, diet, need for cleanliness and exercise. Gives a fairly detailed curriculum.

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Rpt. ed. H.M. Knox. Liverpool, Eng.: Liverpool University Press, 1958, with an “Introduction” by the Editor (1-17), a Preface by Samuel Hartlib (18-21), “A Supplement to the Reformed School” (67-73), and “Notes” (77-82).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Poore Mans Advocate, or England's Samaritan. Powring Oyle and Vyne into the wounds of the Nation. By making the present Provision for the Souldier and the Poor, by reconciling all Parties. By paying all Arreares to the Parliament Army. All publique Debts, and all the late Kings, Queenes, and Princes Debts due before Session Y1 - 1649 A1 - [Peter] [Chamberlen] (1601-83) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Better society brought about by nationalizing all unused lands and mines and the remains of the estates of the king, the bishops, and the nobility. The purpose is to provide work for the poor. The author was a physician, a Seventh Day Baptist, and a Fifth Monarchist or a believer, based on Daniel 2:44, that after the first four stages of history, the Babylonian, Persian, Greek, and Roman, there would be a thousand year reign of the "son of man" followed by the physical return of Christ.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Legend of Captaine Iones. Relating His adventure to Sea: His first landing and combate with a mighty Bear. His furious battell with his sixe and thirty men against the Army of eleven Kings, with their overthrow and deaths. His relieving of Kemper Castle. His strange and admirable Sea-fight with sixe huge Gallies of Spain, and nine thousand Souldiers. His taking prisoner, and hard usage. Lastly His setting at liberty by the King's command, and return for England. Y1 - 1648 A1 - [David] [Lloyd] KW - Male author AB -

Classic extraordinary voyage with visits to many imaginary countries including, in the second part, paradise. The protagonist also travels to No-land

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Rpt. with minor changes in spelling London: Ptd. for Richard Marriot, 1656; and London: Ptd. for Humphrey Moseley, 1659. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Novae solymae. Libri Sex Y1 - 1648 A1 - [Samuel] [Gott] (1613-71) ED - Rev. Walter Begley KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Detailed eutopia with emphases on the family and education for developing good citizens. Jews have been converted. Annual elections. Class distinctions are very strong.

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Repub. as Novae Solymae Libri Sex; Sivi Institutio Christiani. 1. De Pueritia. 2. De Creatione Mundi. 3. De Juventute. 4. De Peccato. 5. De Virile Aetate. 6. De Redemptione Hominis. Cujus Opus, Studio Cur Tantum Quaeries Inani? Qui Legatis, Et Frueris, Feceris Esse Tuum. London: Typis Johannis Legati, 1649. Trans. as Nova Solyma. The Ideal City, or Jerusalem Regained. An Anonymous Romance Written in the Time of Charles I. Now First Dawn from Obscurity, and Attributed to the Illustrious John Milton. 2nd ed. Ed. and trans. Rev. Walter Begley. 2 vols. London: John Murray, 1902. U.S. ed. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1902. Begley includes extensive notes defending his attribution.

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Repub. as Novae Solymae Libri Sex; Sivi Institutio Christiani. 1. De Pueritia. 2. De Creatione Mundi. 3. De Juventute. 4. De Peccato. 5. De Virile Aetate. 6. De Redemptione Hominis. Cujus Opus, Studio Cur Tantum Quaeries Inani? Qui Legatis, Et Frueris, Feceris Esse Tuum.

Nova Solyma. The Ideal City, or Jerusalem Regained. An Anonymous Romance Written in the Time of Charles I. Now First Dawn from Obscurity, and Attributed to the Illustrious John Milton

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Articles and orders, made and agreed upon the 9th day of July, 1647 and in the three and twentieth year of the raign of our soveraign Lord Charles, by the grace of God, King of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c. Y1 - 1647 A1 - Company of Adventurers for the Plantation of the Islands of Eleutheria, formerly called Buhama in America AB -

Proposal for a colony with no differences over religion. Each of the first one hundred Adventurers, as they are called, will receive three hundred acres, and later another two thousand acres. After they have served their term, servants will be given twenty-five acres. Inhabitants are to treat the natives well, and any natives who had been enslaved and sold to another island were to be purchased, returned, and freed. In addition, there are details on aspects of the economy and the political system.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - An Exact Diurnall of the Parliament of Ladies. Ordered by the Ladyes in Parliament, That they declare the Prince Rupert, Lord Digby, Lord Capell, Lord Cottington, Dr. Williams, Mr. Walter, L. Hopton, L. Culpepper, Dr. Duppa; Sir Greenvill L. Jermine, and Major Gen. Virey, Have all had their Pardons granted to them by this Covrt Y1 - 1647 A1 - [Henry] [Neville] (1620-94) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on gender relations in which the named men are accused, found guilty, sentenced to various extreme punishments, and then all pardoned. One of five related pamphlets by Neville, four in 1647 and one in 1750.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Ladies, A Second Time, Assembled in Parliament. A Continuation of the Parliament of Ladies. Their Votes, Orders, and Declarations. Die Martis August 2, 1647. Ordered by the Ladies assembled in Parliament, that their Votes, Orders, and Declarations, be forthwith Printed and Published. T. Temple. Cler. Mrs Martha Peele Messenger Y1 - 1647 A1 - [Henry] [Neville] (1620-94) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on contemporary issues, with a focus on religion. One of five related pamphlets by Neville, four in 1647 and one in 1750. This one is a sequel to his 1647 The Parliament of Ladies. Or, Divers remarkable passages of Ladies in Spring-Garden; in Parliament Assembled.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Parliament of Ladies. Or, Divers remarkable passages of Ladies in Spring-Garden; in Parliament Assembled. Vespre Veneris Martis: 16. 1647. Ordered by the Ladies in Parliament Assembled, That their Orders and Votes be forthwith Printed and published, to prevent such misreports and scandals, which either malice, or want of wit, hightned with snoffes of Ale or stayned Claret may cause, in the dishonour of the said Votes and Parliament. Betrice Kingsmill Clar. Parliament Y1 - 1647 A1 - [Henry] [Neville] (1620-94) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on contemporary society, politics, and gender relations. One of five related pamphlets by Neville, four in 1647 and one in 1750. His 1647 The Ladies, A Second Time, Assembled in Parliament is a sequel.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Parliament of Ladies With Their Lawes Newly Enacted Y1 - 1647 A1 - [Henry] [Neville] (1620-94) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on gender relations. One of five related pamphlets by Neville, four in 1647 and one in 1750. This one is somewhat different from the others in that it is set in ancient Rome rather than contemporary Britain. It also includes tradesmen’s wives, while in most of the others, the women are primarily from the aristocracy.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Sea-Voyage Y1 - 1647 A1 - [John] [Fletcher] (1759-1625) A1 - [Philip] [Massinger] (1583-1640) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire describing an Amazonian society. The play was first performed in 1622. The Sea Voyage originates with Shakespeare's Tempest (1611) and copies some of the scenes and wording. D'Urfey's Commonwealth of Women (1686) is a revision of The Sea Voyage.

JF - Comedies and Tragedies Written by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher Gentlemen. Never printed before, And now published by the Authors Originall Copies PB - Ptd. for Humphrey Robinson, and for Humphrey Moseley CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in The Dramatic Works of Ben Jonson, and Beaumont and Fletcher: The First Printed from the Text, and With the Notes of Peter Whalley; the Latter from the Text, and with the Notes of The Late George Colman, Esq. 4 vols. (London: Ptd. For John Stockdale, 1811), 4: 225-50; in Fifty Comedies and Tragedies. Written by Francis Beaumont & John Fletcher Gentlemen. All in one volume (London: Ptd. for J. Maddock, for John Martyn, Henry Herringman, Richard Marriot, 1679), 339-57; in The Works of Beaumont & Fletcher. Ed. Alexander Dyce. 11 vols. (London: Edward Moxon, 1845): 291-369; in The Dramatic Works in the Beaumont and Fletcher Canon. Ed. Fredson Bowers (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1994), 9: 1-94 (“Textual Introduction” 3-9; “Textual Notes, etc. 79-94); and in Three Renaissance Travel Plays. The Travels of the Three English Brothers The Sea Voyage The Antipodes. Ed. Anthony Parr (Manchester, Eng.: Manchester University Press, 1995), 135-216.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Newes, True Newes, Laudable Newes, Cities Newes, Court Newes, Country Newes. The World is Mad, or It is a Mad World My Masters, Especially Now When in the Antipodes These Things Are Come to Pass Y1 - 1642 AB -

Satire of reversal, particularly of gender roles, set in a country called the Antipodes.

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Rpt. London: Ptd. for R.G., 1679.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Abstract or Lawes of New England, As they are now established Y1 - 1641 A1 - [John] [Cotton] (1584-1652) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Detailed eutopia of laws taken from Scripture and for adoption.

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Rpt. as An Abstract of Laws and Government: Wherein as in a Mirrour may be seen the wisdome & perfection of the Government of Christs Kingdome. Accomodable to any State or form of Government in the world that is not Antichristian or Tyrannicall. Collected and digested into the ensuing Method, by that Godly, Grave and Judicious Divine, Mr. John Cotton of Boston. And now published after his death by William Aspinall. London: Printed by M.S. for Livewel Chapman, 1655. Rpt. in Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society 5 (1798): 173-87 (See “To the Reader” by William Aspinwall [187-92]); and in Tracts and Other Papers, relating principally to the origin, Settlement and Progress of the Colonies in North America, from the Discovery of the Country to the Year 1776. Comp. Peter Force. 4 vols. (Washington, DC: Ptd. by Wm. Q. Force, 1836-46), 3: No. 9. Rpt. (New York: Peter Smith, 1947), 3: No. 9; and (Gloucester, MA: Peter Smith, 1963), 3, No. 9.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Description of the famous Kingdome of Macaria; shewing its excellent Government: Wherein The Inhabitants live in great Prosperity, Health, and Happinesse; the King obeyed, the Nobles honoured; and all good men respected, Vice punished, and Vertue rewarded. An Example to other Nations: In a Dialogue between a Schollar and a Traveller Y1 - 1641 A1 - [Gabriel] [Plattes] (d. 1644) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. A short dialogue covering economic organization, religion, and some governmental organization. Monarchy with power in a grand or general council or parliament and five under-councils. Government revenues are mostly derived from the king's lands. Practical orientation. Includes a College of Experience similar to Bacon's Salomon's House in his New Atlantis (1627). Macaria means "blessed" or "happy". More used it for a country near Utopia.

PB - Ptd. for Francis Constable CY - London N1 -

Rpt. with minor changes in spelling and punctuation in The Harleian Miscellany: A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and Entertaining Pamphlets and Tracts, As Well in Manuscript as in Print. Found in the Late Earl of Oxford’s Library, Interspersed with Historical, Political, and Critical Notes. With a Table of Contents, and an Alphabetical Index 10 vols. (London: Ptd. For T. Osborne, 1744), 1: 564-69. Collection rpt. with the subtitle A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and Entertaining Pamphlets and Tracts, As Well in Manuscript as in Print. Selected from the Library of Edward Harley, Second Earl of Oxford, Interspersed with Historical, Political, and Critical Annotations, By William Oldys, and Some Additional Notes by Thomas Park (London: Ptd. for White and Cochrane, and John Murray, 1808-13), 1: 580-85; as A Facsimile Edition of Samuel Hartlib’s 1641 Pamphlet A Description of the Famous Kingdome of Macaria. Ed. Richard H. Dillon. Sausalito, CA: Élan Under the direction of Wallace Kibbee Corte Madera, CA, 1961, with an unpaged four page “Introduction” by Dillon; in Samuel Hartlib and the Advancement of Learning. Ed. Charles Webster (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1970), 79-89; and in Charles Webster, Utopian Planning and the Puritan Revolution: Gabriel Plattes, Samuel Hartlib and “Macaria”. Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine Research Publications II (Oxford, Eng.: Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, 1979), 65-73 with annotations (74-89).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Antipodes: A Comedie. Acted in the yeare 1638 by the Queenes Majesties Servants, at Salisbury Court in Fleet-street Y1 - 1640 A1 - Richard Brome (1590-1652) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Comedy in which a man and a woman have their fantasies encouraged. The man's fantasies come mostly from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville (14th c). Includes a comedy of reversal in which women rule men and the people rule the magistrates. See also 1652 Brome.

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Rpt. London: Ptd. by J. Okes, for Francis Constable, 1646; in The Dramatic Works of Richard Brome Containing Fifteen Comedies Now First Collected in Three Volumes. London: John Pearson, 1873. Vol. 3 is a rpt. of Brome’s Five Plays, Viz.: The Northern Lasse. The Sparagus Garden. The Antipodes [225-340]. A Jovial Crew. The Queen’s Exchange. London: np, nd; ed. Ann Haaker. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1966; ed. Anthony Parr in Three Renaissance Travel Plays: The Travels of the Three English Brothers The Sea Voyage The Antipodes (Manchester, Eng.: Manchester University Press, 1995), 217-326; and ed. David Scott Kasan and Richard Proudfoot. New York: Globe Education and Theatre Arts Books/Routledge, 2000.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Felicitas Ultimi Saeculi: Epistola In Qua, Inter Alia, Calamitosus aevi praesentis status seriò deploratur, certa felicioris posthac spes ostenditur, & ad promovendum publicum Ecclesiae & Rei literariae bonum omnes excitantur: In gratiam Amici cujusdam paulo ante obitum Y1 - 1640 A1 - John Stoughton (1593-1639) ED - Samuel Hartlib (c. 1600-1662) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Detailed Protestant eutopia in which the Papacy and its supporters are overthrown, and a premillennial golden age is established. Refers to Francis Bacon (1561-1626), John Dury (1596-1680), and John Amos Comenius (Jan Amos Komenský) (1592-1670) as the intellectual leaders of the change. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Paradox. Prooving, That the Inhabitants of the Isle, called Madagascar, or St. Lavrence, (In Temporal Things), are the happiest People in the World. Whereunto is prefixed, a briefe and true Description of that Island: The Nature of the Climate, and condition of the Inhabitants, and their speciall affection to the English above other Nations. With most probable Arguments of a hopefull and fit Plantation of a Colony there, in respect of the fruitfulnesse of the Soyle, the benignity of the Ayre, and the relieving of our English Ships, both to and from the East Indies Y1 - 1640 A1 - Wa[lter] Hamond KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia that presents the Noble Savage as being in a better situation than the supposedly civilized.

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Rpt. as “A Paradox: Proving the Inhabitants of the Island, called Madagascar; or St. Lawrence (in Things temporal) to be the happiest People in the World.” The Harleian Miscellany: A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and Entertaining Pamphlets and Tracts, As Well in Manuscript as in Print. Found in the Late Earl of Oxford’s Library, Interspersed with Historical, Political, and Critical Notes. With a Table of Contents, and an Alphabetical Index. 10 vols. (London: Ptd. For T. Osborne, 1744), 1: 256-62. Later ed. as The Harleian Miscellany: A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and Entertaining Pamphlets and Tracts, As Well in Manuscript as in Print. Selected from the Library of Edward Harley, Second Earl of Oxford, Interspersed with Historical, Political, and Critical Annotations, By William Oldys, and Some Additional Notes by Thomas Park. 10 vols. (London: Ptd. for John White and John Harding, and John Murray, 1808-13), 1: 263-69; and as “An edition of A paradox prooving that the inhabitants of . . . Madagascar (in temporall things) are the happiest people in the world. Presented by William Webster Newbold.” MA thesis. 2 vols. University of Birmingham--Shakespeare Institute, 1975.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "To Saxham" Y1 - 1640 A1 - Thomas Carew Esquire. One of the Gentlemen of the Privie-Chamber and Sewer in Ordinary to His Majesty (1594/95-1639/40) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The country estate Saxham Parva as a eutopia with elements of a cockaigne.

JF - Poems PB - Ptd. by I.D. for Thomas Walkey CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Thomas Carew, Poems. Ed. Arthur Vincent (London: Lawrence & Bullen/New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1899), 36-38; and in The Poems of Thomas Carew, with His Masque Coelum Britannicum. Ed. Rhodes Dunlap (Oxford, Eng.: Clarendon Press, 1949), 27-29.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Man in the Moone; or A Discourse of a Voyage Thither Y1 - 1638 A1 - [Francis] [Godwin] (1562-1633) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia brought about through the innate disposition of the people. Land provides plenty without labor.

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Rpt. Melstom, Eng.: Scolar Press, 1971; and in Smith College Studies in Modern Languages 19.1 (October 1937): 1-48; rpt. as The Man in the Moon 1638. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum & New York: Da Capo Press, 1972; as The Man in the Moon. Ed. John Anthony Butler. Vol. 3 of the Publications of the Barnabe Riche Society. Ottawa, ON, Canada: Dovehouse Editions, 1995; and as The Man in the Moone. Ed. William Poole. Peterborough, ON, Canada: Broadview Editions, 2009. Excerpt rpt. in The Man in the Moone and Other Lunar Fantasies. Ed. Faith K. Pizor and T. Allan Comp (New York: Praeger, 1971), 3-40. Repub. as A View of St. Helena, An Island in the Ethiopian Ocean, in America, now in Possession of the honourable East-India Company, where their Ships usually refresh in their India Voyages. With an account of the admirable Voyage of Domingo Gonsales [pseud.]; the little Spaniard, to the World in the Moon, by the Help of several Gansas, or Large Geese. An ingenious fancy, written by a late learned Bishop. Np: np. Rpt. in The Harleian Miscellany: A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and Entertaining Pamphlets and Tracts, As Well in Manuscript as in Print. Found in the Late Earl of Oxford’s Library, Interspersed with Historical, Political, and Critical Notes. With a Table of Contents, and an Alphabetical Index 10 vols. (London: Ptd. For T. Osborne, 1744), 8: 332-48. Collection rpt. with minor changes in spelling and punctuation in the later ed. with the subtitle A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and Entertaining Pamphlets and Tracts, As Well in Manuscript as in Print. Selected from the Library of Edward Harley, Second Earl of Oxford, Interspersed with Historical, Political, and Critical Annotations, By William Oldys, and Some Additional Notes by Thomas Park. 10 vols. (London: Ptd. for White and Cochrane, and John Murray, 1808-13), 8: 344-61; and 12 vols. (London: Ptd. for Robert Dutton, 1810), 11: 511-44. This version appears to exist only in The Harleian Miscellany reprints.

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Repub. as A View of St. Helena, An Island in the Ethiopian Ocean, in America, now in Possession of the honourable East-India Company, where their Ships usually refresh in their India Voyages. With an account of the admirable Voyage of Domingo Gonsales [pseud.]; the little Spaniard, to the World in the Moon, by the Help of several Gansas, or Large Geese. An ingenious fancy, written by a late learned Bishop. Np: np. Rpt. in The Harleian Miscellany: A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and Entertaining Pamphlets and Tracts, As Well in Manuscript as in Print. Found in the Late Earl of Oxford’s Library, Interspersed with Historical, Political, and Critical Notes. With a Table of Contents, and an Alphabetical Index 10 vols. (London: Ptd. For T. Osborne, 1744), 8: 332-48. Collection rpt. with minor changes in spelling and punctuation in the later ed. with the subtitle A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and Entertaining Pamphlets and Tracts, As Well in Manuscript as in Print. Selected from the Library of Edward Harley, Second Earl of Oxford, Interspersed with Historical, Political, and Critical Annotations, By William Oldys, and Some Additional Notes by Thomas Park. 10 vols. (London: Ptd. for White and Cochrane, and John Murray, 1808-13), 8: 344-61; and 12 vols. (London: Ptd. for Robert Dutton, 1810), 11: 511-44. This version appears to exist only in The Harleian Miscellany reprints.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - New English Canaan or New Canaan. Containing an Abstract of New England, Composed in Three Bookes. The first Booke setting forth the originall of the Natives, their Manners and Customes, together with their tractable Nature and Love towards the English. The second Booke setting forth naturall Indowments of the Country, and what staple Commodities it yealdeth. The third Booke setting forth, what people are planted there, their prosperity, what remarkable accidents have happened since the first planting of it, together with their Tenets and practise of their Church Y1 - 1637 A1 - Thomas Morton (c. 1579-1647) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Morton founded the colony of Merrymount, located in the area that is now Quincy, Massachusetts, where he developed good relations with the Indians, which drew the ire of the Puritans in Plymouth, who banished Morton, ostensibly for blasphemy and selling weapons to the Indians. Morton then sued the Massachusetts Bay Company and won. This book was a critique of the Puritans and lauded the Indians, presenting them in eutopian terms.

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Rpt. in 1 vol. New York: Arno Press, 1972.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A View of the State of Ireland, Written Dialogue-wise, betweene Eudoxus and Irenæus. By Edmund Spenser, Esq. In the Yeare 1596 Y1 - 1633 A1 - Edmund Spenser (1552?-99) ED - [James] [Ware] KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Apparently intended as a serious analysis of Ireland and its people, it proposes the complete suppression of the Irish people, the expropriation of all the land, exchange of the Irish among counties where they will work for English landlords, slaughter of cattle, and taxing the Irish to pay for the military that will suppress them. Argues that the Irish are descended from the barbarian Scythians and that resisting English law indicates that the Irish are “the lowest form of savages” (Hadfield and Maley ed., xx). Treated as a utopia in Sarah Hogan, Other Englands: Utopia, Capital, and Empire in an Age of Transition. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2018. 

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Rpt. as "A View of the Present State of Ireland." In The Works of Edmund Spenser. A Variorum Edition. Ed. Charles Grosvenor Osgood, Frederick Morgan Padelford, and Ray Heffner. Vol. X Spenser’s Prose Works. Ed. Rudolf Gottfried (Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1949), 39-231 with “Appendix III A View of the Present State of Ireland (497-532); and as A View of the Present State of Ireland. Ed. W. L. Renwick. Oxford, Eng.: Clarendon Press, 1970. Critical ed. as A View of the State of Ireland. From the first printed edition (1633). Ed. Andrew Hadfield and Willy Maley. Oxford, Eng.: Blackwell Publishers, 1997. “Ware’s Annotations” (162-69), “Passages Omitted from Ware’s Text” (170-76), “Glossary” (190-92). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - New Atlantis, A Worke unfinished Written by the Right Honourable, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban. Added to Sylva sylvarium or a Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. Written by the Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam. Viscount St. Alban. Published after the Authors death, By William Rawley Doctor of Diuinitie, late his Lordships Chaplaine Y1 - 1627 A1 - [Francis] [Bacon] (1561-1626) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Christian eutopia with the emphasis on a traditional paternal family system and science. Continuations include 1660 H., R.; 1936 Samuels-Bacon; and 1942 Samuel. John Heydon (b. 1629) is reported to have republished New Atlantis under his own name with minor changes and with the subtitle or The Voyage to the Land of the Rosicrucians (1660). No copy appears to exist.

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In Latin with variant text in a translation that may be by Bacon as Nova Atlantis Fragmentorum alterum. Per Franciscum Baconum, Baronem de Verulamio, Vice-Comitem S. Albani. Londoni: Typis Ioh. Haviland, 1638 in Francisci Baconi, Baronis De Vervlamio, Vice-Comitis Sancti Albani, Opervm Moralivm Et Civilivm Tomus: Qui continet: Historiam Regni Henrici Septimi, Regis Angliæ. Sermones Fideles, sive Interiora Rerum. Tractatum de Sapientiâ Veterum. Dialogum de Bello Sacro. Et Novam Atlantidem. Ab ipso Honoratissimo Auctore, præterquam in paucis, Latinate donatus. Ed. Guilielmi Rawley (Londin: Excusum typis Edwardi Griffini, 1638), 351-86. There are many reprints of the English original. Among the most important are in The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England. Vol. 5 Philosophical Works. Coll. and ed. James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, and Robert Denon Heath (New York: Hurst and Houghton, 1864), 355-413 with a “Preface” by Spedding (347-57); New ed. Vol. 3 Philosophical Works (London: Longmans; Simpkin, Marshall; Hamilton; Whittaker; J. Bain; E.H. Hodgson; Richardson; Houston; Bickers; H. Sotheran; J. Cornish & Sons; J. Snow; A. Hall; and Virtue, 1887), 125-66, with “Preface” by Spedding (119-24); in his Advancement of Learning and New Atlantis. Ed. Arthur Johnston (Oxford, Eng.: Clarendon Press, 1974), 213-47, with “Notes” 289-91; in [On Cover: Three Early Modern Utopias: Utopia New Atlantis The Isles of Pines]. [Title Page: Thomas More Utopia Francis Bacon New Atlantis Henry Neville The Isle of Pines]. Ed. Susan Bruce (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), 149-86 with “Explanatory Notes” 231-39. Critical ed. in Francis Bacon. Ed. Brian Vickers (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1996), 457-89, with “Notes” (785-802). Rev. as Francis Bacon: The Major Works including “New Atlantis” and the “Essays”. Ed. Brian Vickers (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 2002), 457-89, with “Notes” (785-802).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Fortvnate Isles and Their Vnion celebrated in a Masqve design'd for the Court, on the Twelfth Night. 1624 Y1 - 1625 A1 - Ben[jamin] Jonson (1573?-1637) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Masque performed before King James I/James VI of Scotland (1566-1625) just before his death. It depicts Britain as one of the Fortunate Isles of classical mythology. One of the islands is Macaria or blessed and is joined to Britain. Includes anti-Rosicrucian satire.

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Rpt. in Ben Jonson: Complete Masques. Ed. Stephen Orgel (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1969), 433-53; in Ben Jonson: Selected Masques. Ed. Stephen Orgel (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1970), 275-95; and. ed. Martin Butler in The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson. Ed. David Bevington, Martin Butler, and Ian Donaldson. Electronic ed. David Gants. Associate eds. Karen Britland and Eugene Giddens. 7 vols. (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 2012), 5: 685-714.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Strange News Out of Divers Countries, Never discovered till of late, by a strange Pilgrime in those parts Y1 - 1622 A1 - [Nicholas] [Breton] (1545-1626) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on contemporary society using a series of imaginary countries with their laws and practices. See also 1606 Breton.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Countess of Montgomeries Urania Y1 - 1621 A1 - Lady Mary Wroath (ca. 1586-ca. 1640) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A wide-ranging romance set in an Arcadia. This is the first known original prose fiction by an English woman and one of the main concerns of the book is gender relations. Female author.

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Rpt. as The First Part of the Countess of Montgomery’s Urania. Ed. Josephine A. Roberts. Binghamton, NY: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1995 with a “Critical Introduction” (xv-civ) and a “Textual Introduction” (cv-cxx). A continuation still in manuscript was published as The Second Part of the Countess of Montgomery’s Urania. Ed. Josephine A. Roberts. Completed by Suzanne Gosset and Janel Mueller. Tempe: Renaissance English Text Society in conjunction with Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 1999 with a “Textual Introduction” (xvii-xliv), “Textual Notes” (419-71), “Commentary” (473-550), “Genealogical Tables” (552-53), an “Index of Characters in Part Two” (555-73), and an “Index of Places in Part Two” (574-75). A volume containing parts of both volumes was published as The Countess of Montgomery’s Urania (Abridged). Ed. Mary Ellen Lamb Tempe: ACMRS (Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies), 2011 with an “Introduction” by the editor (1-38), an “Episode List” (255-64), an “Index of Characters” (265-78), and “Family Relationships” (279). 

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A formal, conservative eutopian fragment. Detailed regulation of behavior and a regulated economy. Few laws but those strictly adhered to. Few lawyers and those maintained by the public.

JF - The Anatomy of Melancholy, What It is. With all the Kindes, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes and Severall Cures of It. In Three Maine Partitions with their seuereii Sections, Members, and Subsections. Philosophically, Medicinally, Historically, Opened and PB - Ptd. by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps CY - Oxford, Eng. N1 -

Later eds. have minor variations in the title, and over the various eds. this section tripled in size.

Critical ed. as The Anatomy of Melancholy. Ed. Thomas C. Faulkner, Nicolas K. Kessling, & Rhonda L. Blair. Commentary by J.B. Bamborough and Martin Dodsworth. 6 vols. (Oxford, Eng.: Clarendon Press, 1989-2000), 1: 85-113 with textual notes 1: 486-97 and commentary 4: 6-168.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Treatise of Paradise. And the Principall contents thereof: Especially Of the greatnesse, situation, beautie, and other properties of that place: of the trees of life, good and euill; of the Serpent, Cherubim, fiery Sword, Mans creation, immortalitie, propagation, stature, age, knowledge, temptation, fall, and exclusion out of Paradise; and consequently of his and our originall sin: with many other difficulties touching these points. Collected out of the holy Scriptures, ancient Fathers, and other both ancient and moderne Writers Y1 - 1617 A1 - [John] [Salkeld] (1576-1660) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eden. Pretty much what the title says.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "To Penshurst" Y1 - 1616 A1 - Ben[jamin] Jonson (1573?-1637) ED - C. H. Herford Perry ED - Evelyn Simpson KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

An English country estate as a eutopia with elements of the cockaigne.

JF - The Forrest.” In The Workes of Benjamin Jonson: neque me vt miretur turba, laboro: contentus paucis lectoribus PB - W. Stansby CY - London N1 -

Rpt in in Ben Jonson. Volume VIII The Poems The Prose Works. Ed. C.H. Herford Percy and Evelyn Simpson. Corr. ed. (Oxford, Eng.: Clarendon Press, 1965), 93-96; in Poems of Ben Jonson. Ed. George Burke Johnson (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1955), 76-79; and ed. Colin Barrow in The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson. Ed. David Bevington, Martin Butler, and Ian Donaldson. Electronic ed. David Gants. Associate eds. Karen Britland and Eugene Giddens. 7 vols. (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 2012), 5: 209-14.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Description of Cooke-ham" Y1 - 1611 A1 - Aemilia [Bassano] Lanyer (1569-1645) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

An English country house as a eutopia with much of the emphasis on the grounds surrounding the house.

JF - Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum PB - Valentine Simmes CY - London N1 -

Rpt. as The Poems of Aemilia Lanyer. Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum. Ed. Susanne Woods (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993), 130-38.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Tempest Y1 - 1611 A1 - William Shakespeare (1564-1616) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Includes a very brief description of the Golden Age.

PB - Ptd. Isaac Iaggard, and Ed. Blount CY - London N1 -

A standard ed. is The Tempest. Ed. Virginia Mason Vaughan and Alden T. Vaughan in The Arden Shakespeare Complete Works. Ed. Richard Proudfoot, Ann Thompson, and David Scott Kastan (London: Methuen Drama, 2011), 1071-95 with a brief editor’s note on 1071. A recent critical ed. is The Tempest. Fully Annotated, with an Introduction, by Burton Raffel (xv-xxix). The Annotated Shakespeare. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006, with “An Essay by Harold Bloom” (137-48). A critical edition that emphasizes performance history is The Tempest. Ed. David Lindley. Updated ed. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 2013. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Most Approved, and Long experienced VVater VVorkes. Containing, The manner of Winter and Summer drowning of Medow and Pasture, by the aduantage of the least, Riuer, Brooke, Fount, or Water-prill adiacent; there-by to make those grounds (especially if they be drye) more Fertile Ten for One. As also a demonstration of a Proiect, for the great benefit of the Common-wealth generally, but Hereford-shire especially Y1 - 1610 A1 - Rowland Vaughan (1559-1631) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Plan for a paternalistic eutopia designed to be profit-making in which the author will build a mill, water works, and related buildings and twenty looms that will allow him to provide work for more than two thousand people, a dining room, a chapel, a preacher, and a curate, and also support trades.

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Rpt. as His Booke Published 1610. Republished and Prefaced by Ellen Beatrice Wood. London: John Hodge, 1897

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Choice, Chance and Change: or, Conceites in their Colours Y1 - 1606 A1 - [Nicholas] [Breton] (1545-1626) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. A brief dialogue including some satire. Part is on a variety of imaginary countries which have generally good laws. A country is described that has specific laws for relations between neighbors, stating that they should not depend on each other financially and otherwise should treat each other kindly and fairly. There are other rules regarding relations between husbands and wives. Another country is described where the rural population led a simple agricultural life. The cities have detailed laws on personal and business relations. The other parts are not utopian. See also 1622 Breton.

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Rpt. as "Choice, Chance and Change" (1606) or Glimpses of "Merry England" in the Olden Time. Ed. Rev. Alexander B. Grosart. Vol. 17 of Occasional Issues of Unique or Very Rare Books. Ed. Rev. Alexander B. Grosart. Manchester, Eng.: Ptd. for the Subscribers by Charles E. Simms, 1881.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mundus Alter et Idem siue Terra Australis antehac semper incognita longis itineribus peregrini Academici nuperrime lustrata Y1 - 1605 A1 - [Joseph] [Hall] (1574-1656) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire in which the new world is divided into the states of Tenter-belly, with its provinces of, in the Healy trans., Eat-allia (Gluttonia) and Drinke-allia (Quaffonia), Shee-Landt or Womendecoia [with its provinces of Tattlingen, Scoldonna, Blubberick, Giggot-tangier, Cockatrixia, Shrewes-bourg, and Blackswanstack (Modestiania),] Fooliana, and Theeve-ingen, with its provinces of Robberswaldt and Liegerdemaine, which are, in the Wands, trans., Crapulia with its provinces of Pamphagonia (Land of Gluttons) and Yvronia (Drinkers), Viragina (Land of Women) with its regions of Linguadocia, Rixatia, Ploravia, Isia major and Risia minor, Aphrodysia, Amazonia (Gender reversal), and Eugynia with Hermaphroditica Island is nearby, Moronia (Stupid), Lavernia (Rogues & thieves).

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Rpt. in Mundus alter et idem. Sive Terra Australis antehac semper incogita; longis itineribus peregrini Academici nuperrimè lustrate. Authore Mercurio Britannico [pseud.]. Accessit propter assinitatem materiæ Thomæ Campanellæ, Civitas Solis. Et Nova Atlantis. Franc. Baconis, Bar. de Verulamio. Np: Apud Joannem à Waesberge, 1643. The three items are separately paged.

Trans. as The Discovery of A New World or A Description of the South Indies, Hetherto Unknowne. By An English Mercury [pseud.]. [Trans. John Healey]. [London:] Imprinted by G. Eld for Ed. Blount and W. Barrett, [1609]. Rpt. ed. Huntington Brown. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1937. New trans. and critical ed. as Another World and Yet the Same: Bishop Joseph Hall's Mundus Alter et Idem. Trans. and ed. John Millar Wands. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1981 with a "Commentary" (127-200).

Repub. rev. with erotic content as Psittacorum Regio. The Land of Parrots: Or, The She-lands. With A Description of other strange adjacent Countries, in the Dominions of Prince De L'Amour, not hitherto found in any Geographical Map. By One of the Late Most Reputed Wits [pseud.]. London: Ptd. for F. Kirkman, 1669; and as The Travels of Don Francisco De Quevedo Through Terra Australis Incognita. Discovering the Laws, Customs, Manners and Fashions Of The South Indians. A Novel. Originally in Spanish. London: Ptd. for William Crantham, 1684.

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An English Mercury [pseud.]

One of the Late Most Reputed Wits [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Piece of Friar Bacons Brazen-heads Pro-phesie Y1 - 1604 A1 - [William] [Terilo] [pseud.] AB -

Eutopian poem with a Golden age like description of the English middle ages.

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Rpt. as Friar Bakon's Prophesie: A Satire on the Degeneracy of the Times, A.D. 1604. Ed. James Orchard Halliwell. In Vol. 15 of Percy Society, Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages. Edited from Original Manuscripts and Scarce Publications. London: Percy Society, 1844; and as Vol. 52 of Percy Society, Publications. London: Percy Society, 1844.

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Rpt. as Friar Bakon's Prophesie: A Satire on the Degeneracy of the Times, A.D. 1604. Ed. James Orchard Halliwell. In Vol. 15 of Percy Society, Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages. Edited from Original Manuscripts and Scarce Publications. London: Percy Society, 1844; and as Vol. 52 of Percy Society, Publications. London: Percy Society, 1844.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lunarian [Seleno-Graphia--crossed out and re-entered in pencil] Or News from the World in the Moon to the Lunaticks of this World. Wherein are accurately described their Citties, Towns, Countries, & Provinces, with ye Seas, Sinuyes, Lakes, Rivers, Ports, Forts & Castles thereunto belonging: with the manner & means of Travelling [sayling--crossed out] thither through the vast Ocean of Air[e--crossed out], & ye ready Roade to the Citty of Cynthea-polis, the Metropolis of that World: as also the shape, conditions & qualities of ye Inhabitants, with the Manners, Lawes, Religion, Liberties, Properties, Priviledges, [Plottes--crossed out], & Policy of the People now in possession thereof. First discovered by Cornelius van Drebble of Alcmar in Holland, but since more perfectly described [pierced into--crossed out] by ye famous Tudeskin Vertuoso, Lucas Lunarismus of Lunenberge [pseud.], & originally written by the same hand in the Lunick Language: and now transposed out of the Bobelonick meeter into plain English [Coffee Dialect & exposed to ye luminaried of all illuminated Lunaticks by a lover of Light & so forth By the way of Romance--crossed out] Adapted to the humours of our Times qua ad Fabulas Convertuntus. Y1 - 1600 KW - English author AB -

The first part is a general satire on human foibles, particularly in England. The second part focuses on religion. Travel is by balloon.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia Y1 - 1590 A1 - Sir Philip Sidney (1554-86) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Arcadian, sentimental eutopia with the emphasis on romance and knightly virtue.

PB - William Ponsonbie CY - London N1 -

While this is the standard, often reprinted text, it is deeply flawed. See The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia (The Old Arcadia). Ed. Jean Robertson. Oxford, Eng.: Clarendon Press, 1973, with a “General Introduction” (xv-xli) and a “Textual Introduction” (xlii-lxxii); Ed. Katherine Duncan-Jones. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1985, with an editor’s “Introduction” (vii-xxiv); Reissued with a new bibliography, 1994; and The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia (The New Arcadia). Ed. Victor Skretowicz. Oxford, Eng.: Clarendon Press, 1987, with “Textual Introduction” (liii-lxxxii) and “Commentary” (507-82). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Anatomie of Abuses: Contayning a Discoverie, or Briefe Summarie of such Notable Vices and Imperfections, as now raigne in many Christian Countreyes of the Worlde: but (especiallie) in a verie famous ILANDE called AILGNA: Together, with most fearefull Examples of Gods Iudgements, executed vpon the wicked for the same, aswell in AILGNA of late, as in other places, elsewhere. Verie Godly, to be read of all true Christians euerie where: but most needefull to be regarded in ENGLANDE Y1 - 1583 A1 - Phillip Stubbes (c. 1555 – c. 1610) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on England using the imaginary country approach. Stubbes begins his attack by focusing on pride and a lengthy critique of the clothes worn by both men and women. He then moves on to sexual relations, eating and drinking, usury, Sabbath-breaking, and other topics. Generally read as anti-theatre. See also 1583 Stubbes. The Second part.

PB - Richard Iones CY - London N1 -

This ed. was published May 1 and was rpt. ed. John Payne Collier. London, 1870, with an “Introduction” by the editor (i-ii); and New York: Garland, 1973, with a “Preface(5-7)” by Andrew Freeman. A variant issue dated May 29. A 2nd ed. was published August 16 and a 3rd ed. on October 12, 1584, with a variant issue of the 3rd in 1585, all with minor variations in the title. The 1585 ed. was rpt. as The anatomie of abuses by Philip Stubbes; reprinted from the third edition of 1585 under the superintendence of William B.D.D. Turnbull. London: W. Pickering, 1836. with “Prefatory Remarks” by Turnbull (v-xi). The 4th and final ed. eliminates the pretense of the book being about an imaginary country, and is entitled The Anatomie of Abuses. Containing A Description of such notable Vices, as raigne in many Countries of the world, but especiallie in the Realme of England: Together with most fearefull examples of Gods heauie Iudgements inflicted vpon the wicked for the same as well in England of late, as in other places else where. Verie godly to be read by all true Christians euery where, but most chiefly, to bee regarded in England. Made dialogue-wise by Phillip Stubs, Gent. Now, the fourth time, newly corrected and enlarged by the same Author. London: Imprinted by Richard Iones, 1595. Rpt. as Phillip Stubbes’s Anatomy of the Abuses in England in Shakespere’s Youth, A.D. 1583. Part I. (Collated with Other Editions in 1583, 1585, and 1595.) With Extracts from Stubbes’s Life of His Wife, 1591, and his Perfect Pathway to Felicitie, 1592 (1610), and B.P. Babington on the Ten Commandments, 1588; also the Fourth Book of Thomas Kirchmaier’s (or Naogeorgus’s) Regnum Papismi, or Popish Kingdome, (Englisht by Barnabe Googe, 1570,) on Popular and Popish Superstitions in 1553. Ed. Frederick J. Furnivall. London: Publisht for The New Shakespeare Society by N. Trübner & Co., 1877-9 (LLL); and Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum/New York: Da Capo Press, 1972. A critical ed. of the 4th ed. was published ed. Margaret Jane Kidnie. Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies in conjunction with Renaissance English Text Society, 2002.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Second part of the Anatomie of Abuses, conteining The Display of Corruptions, with a perfect description of such imperfections, blemishes and abuses, as now reigning in euerie degree, require reformation for feare of Gods vengeance to be powred vpon the people and countrie, without speedie repentance and conuersion vnto God: made dialogwise by Phillip Stubbs. Y1 - 1583 A1 - Phillip Stubbes (c. 1555 – c. 1610) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Continuation of 1583 Stubbes published six months after the first part and divided into abuses of temporality and spirituality. The former includes a continuation of the critique of fashion, but stresses is more concerned with law, education, trade, poor relief, farming, and so forth. The latter attacks the church. The running head is "The display of Corruptions," which gives a generally accurate idea of the contents.

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Rpt. of an abbreviated ed. as Phillip Stubbes's Anatomy of the Abuses in England in Shakespere's Youth, A.D. 1583. Part II. The Display of Corruptions Requiring Reformation. Ed. Frederick J. Furnivall. London: Publisht for The New Shakespeare Society by N. Trübner & Co., 1882 (LLL); and as The Second Part of the Anatomie of Abuses. New York: Garland, 1973, with a "Preface" by Arthur Freeman (5-6).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Second part and Knitting up of the Boke entituled Too good to be true. Wherein is continued the discourse of the wonderfull Lawes, commendable customes, and strange manners of the people of Mauqsun Y1 - 1581 A1 - Thomas Lupton (fl. 1572-84). KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Continuation of 1580 Lupton. Anti-Roman Catholic with an emphasis on landlord-tenant relations. Mauqsun = Nusquam = Nowhere. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Siuqila. Too Good, to be true: Omen. Though so at a vewe, Yet all that I tolde you, Is true, I upholde you: Now cease to aske why For I can not lye. Herein is shewed by waye of Dialogue, the wonderfull maners of the people of Mauqsun, with other talke not frivolous Y1 - 1580 A1 - [Thomas] [Lupton] (fl. 1572-84) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Standard Christian eutopia. Very similar to 1516 More. Emphasis on the hierarchical nature of society and the responsibility of the superior for the inferior. Very strong concern with the purity and obedience of women. Stresses quick and sure punishment as the means of social control. Siuqila = Aliquis = Anyone. Mauqsun = Nusquam = Nowhere. See also 1581 Lupton.

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[2nd ed.] London: Henry Bynneman, 1584. [3rd ed.] London: Abel Ieffs, 1587.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Pleasant Dialogue betweene a Lady called Listra, and a Pilgrim. Concerning the gouernment and common weale of the great province of Crangalor. 1579 Y1 - 1579 A1 - T[homas] N[icholas] KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. A small town of good Christians emphasing piety, equity and honesty. There is a godly prince, humble nobility, obedient citizens, and a good clergy. See also 1579 [Nicholas], The second part.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The second part of the painefull Iorney of the poore Pylgrime into Asia, and the straynge woonders that he sawe: Both delectable and profytable, in sequell of the lytle Dialogue, betweene Lady Lystra, and the same Pilgrime, 1579 Y1 - 1579 A1 - T[homas] N[icholas] KW - Male author AB -

Continuation of 1579 [Nicholas], A Pleasant Dialogue with the same characteristics.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Dialogue both pleasante and pietifull, wherein is a godly regimente against the fever Pestilence with a consolacion and comfort against death Y1 - 1573 A1 - William Bullein (1500-76) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Includes a brief eutopia (105-11 of the 1888 Early English Text Society edition) describing a reformed Protestant society in Taerg Natrib (Great Britain) and its capitol city Nodnol (London) or Ecnatneper (Repentance). 

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Rpt. as Dialogue Against the Fever Pestilence. From the edition of 1578, collated with the earlier editions of 1564 and 1573. Ed. Mark W. Bullen and A.H. Bullen. London: Published for the Early English Text Society by N. Trübner, 1888. Early English Text Society. Extra Series, Vol. 52. Rpt. London: Published for the Early English Text Society by Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1931.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The maner of her Wyll, and what she left to London, and all those in it: at her departing” Y1 - 1573 A1 - Isabella Whitney (b. 1545?-1578? fl. 1566–1573)73) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The poem describes in detail a London that is prosperous, clean, and safe.

JF - A sweet Nosegay, or Pleasant Posye: contayning a hundred and ten Phylosophicall Flowers PB - R. Jones CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in The Floures of Philosophie (1572) by Hugh Plat and A Sweet Nosegay (1573) and The Copy of a Letter (1567) by Isabella Whitney (Delmar, NY: Scholars’ Facsimiles & Reprints, 1982), unpaged; in Michael David Felker, “The Poems of Isabella Whitney: A Critical Edition.” Dissertation. Texas Tech University, 1990: 99-112 with “Notes on the Poem” (160-68); and in Isabella Whitney, Mary Sidney and Aemilia Lanyer: Renaissance Women Poets. Ed. Danielle Clarke (London: Penguin Books, 2000), 19-28 with “Notes” (291-98). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A letter sent by I.B. Gentleman vnto his very frende Maystet [sic] R.C. Esquire: vvherin is conteined a large discourse of the peopling & inhabiting the cuntrie called the Ardes, and other adiacent in the north of Ireland, and taken in hand by Sir Thomas Smith one of the Queenes Maiesties priuie Counsel, and Thomas Smith Esquire, his sonne Y1 - 1572 A1 - Thomas Smith (1513-77) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The work uses the word “eutopia” in discussing a plan for the colonization of the Ards Peninsula of Ireland and designed to recruit appropriate colonizers. Published at the end of the book is The offer and order giuen for the by Sir Thomas Smythe Knighte and Thomas Smythe his sonne, unto suche as be willing to accompanie the sayd Thomas Smythe the sonne, in his voyage for the inhabiting some partes of the north of Irelande. London; Ptd. by Henry Binneman for Anthonhson, nd. 8 pp. Treated as a utopia in Sarah Hogan, Other Englands: Utopia, Capital, and Empire in an Age of Transition. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2018.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Libellus vere aureus nec minus salutaris quam festivus de optimo reip[ublicae] statu, deq[ue] noua Insula Vtopia Y1 - 1516 A1 - Thomas More (1478-1535) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The classic work presenting a better society on an isolated island and commenting on the current situation in England.

PB - Arte Theodorice Martini CY - [Louvain, Belgium] N1 -

The first English translation was published as A Fruteful and Pleasaunt Worke of the Beste State of a Publyque weale, and of the newe yle called Vtopia. Trans. Ralphe Robynson. London: Ptd. by Abraham Vele, 1551. For early editions and translations, see R.W. Gibson, comp. St. Thomas More: A Preliminary Bibliography of His Works and Moreana to the Year 1750 (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1961), 3-57; and Constance Smith, An Updating of R.W. Gibson’s St. Thomas More: A Preliminary Bibliography. Sixteenth Century Bibliography, No. 20 (St. Louis, MO: Center for Reformation Research, 1981), 20-29. For a consideration of some translations, see Elizabeth McCutcheon, “Ten English Translations/Editions of Thomas More’s Utopia.” Utopian Studies 3.2 (1992): 102-20. Important recent eds. are Utopia. Vol. 4 of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More. Ed. Edward Surtz, S.J. and J.H. Hexter. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1965 [The trans. is based on the 1923 trans. by G.C. Richards] with an Introduction” by the editors (xv-cxciv), “Commentary” (255-70, 585), “More’s Visit to Antwerp in 1515” by Hexter (571-76), “Vocabulary and Diction in Utopia” by Surtz (577-82), and an Index (587-629); Utopia: Latin Text and English Translation. Ed. George M. Logan, Robert M. Adams, and Clarence M. Miller. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1995; Utopia. Ed. and trans. David Wootton. Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publishing Co., 1999 with an “Introduction” by Wootton (1-37); “Utopia” in Thomas More Utopia Francis Bacon New Atlantis Henry Neville The Isle of Pines [On Cover: Three Early Modern Utopias: Utopia New Atlantis The Isles of Pines]. Ed. Susan Bruce (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), 1-148 with and “Introduction” to all three texts (ix-lxi) and “Explanatory Notes” to Utopia (213-31); Utopia. Trans. Paul Turner. Rev. ed. Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin Books, 2003 with an “Introduction” by Turner (xi-xxviii), “Appendix: More’s Attitude to Communism” (114-17), “Glossary” (118-20), and “Notes” (121-35); Utopia A Revised Translation, Backgrounds, Criticism. 3rd ed. Ed. and with a rev. trans. by George M. Logan. New York: W.W. Norton, 2011; Utopia. Trans. Clarence H. Miller. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2011, with an “Introduction” by Miller (vii-xxiiii), “A Chronology of More’s Life” (xxv-xxxviii), “Notes” (141-162), “Suggestions for Further Reading” (163-165); and an Index (167-173); 2nd ed. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2014, with the same “Introduction” by Miller (vii-xxiii), “A Chronology of More’s Life” (xxv-xxxviii), an “Afterword” by Jerry Harp (141-60), “Notes” (161-187), “Suggestions for Further Reading” Updated by Jerry Harp (189-194), and an Index (195-201); Utopia. Trans. and ed. by Dominic Baker-Smith. London: Penguin Books, 2012 with an “Introduction” by the editor (xi-xxxix), “Appendix 1 ‘Between friends all is common’ (123-25), “Appendix 2 An Account of the Taíno People” (127-29), “Glossary of Names: (131-32), and “Notes” (132-46); as Open/Utopia. Ed. Stephen Duncome. Brooklyn, NY: Autonomedia, 2012, with an editor’s “Preface Intellectual Commons” (v-vii), “Introduction” (ix-lxv), a “Cast of Contributors” (23-34), “Sources’ (235-40), footnotes throughout the text, and the translation is “assembled from translations and editions of More’s Utopia that are in the public domain (v); Utopia. Ed. George M. Logan and trans. Robert M. Adams. 3rd ed. Cambridge Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 2016, with “Ancillary materials from the first four editions: (114-35), introductory material by the editor (vii-xli), and an “index” (136-41); as Utopia The Island of Nowhere. Trans. Roger Clarke. Richmond, Eng.: Alma Classics, 2017, with “A Pen Portrait of Thomas More by His Friend Desiderius Erasmus” (vii-xvii), “Correspondence Relevant to Utopia and Other Contributions from More’s Contemporaries” (133-92), “Index of Contemporary Europeans Mentioned in Utopia and Related Documents” (193-205), “Index of Utopian and Other Exotic Names” (206-208), “Notes” (209-44), and “Extra Material on Thomas More’s Utopia (245-65); based on the March 1518 edition with the two books using Clarence H. Miller’s New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2001 translation and the all other material using the translations in the 1965 Collected Works. In The Essential Works of Thomas More. Ed. Gerard B. Wegemer and Stephen W. Smith (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2020), 143-215, with an introduction on 141-42; and, also using the March 1518 edition, Utopia & Selected Epigrams. Utopia. Trans. Gerald Malsbary. Epigrams. Trans. Bradley Ritter, Carl Young, and Erik. Ellis. Ed. Gerard B. Wegemer Stephen W. Smith (Dallas, TX: CTMS Publisher at the University of Dallas, 2020, with “Notes and Commentary” on 115-62. https://thomasmorestudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Utopia-Selected-Epigram-Notes-11-23-2020-compressed.pdf. An edition using a 1901 translation by Gilbert Burnet (London: Verso, 2016), includes an “Introduction” by China Miéville (1-27), part of which, “The Limits of Utopia” (11-27) was originally published in Salvage #1: Amid This Story Rubbish (2015) and essays by Ursula K. Le Guin (161-216), parts of which were originally published  as “A Non-Euclidian View of California as a Cold Place To Be (1982).” The Yale Review 72 (Winter 1983): 161-80, Rpt. with (1983) at the end of the title in her Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places (New York: Grove Press, 1989), 80-100; and “The Operating Instructions.” The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination (Boston, MA: Shambhala, 2004), 206-10. [Book Two] rpt. with no indication of the translation used in Dystopia Utopia Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Tales (London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2016), 231-91. 

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The first English translation was published as A Fruteful and Pleasaunt Worke of the Beste State of a Publyque weale, and of the newe yle called Vtopia. Trans. Ralphe Robynson. London: Ptd. by Abraham Vele, 1551. Important recent eds. are Utopia. Vol. 4 of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More. Ed. Edward Surtz, S.J. and J.H. Hexter. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1965 [The trans. is based on the 1923 trans. by G.C. Richards] with an Introduction” by the editors (xv-cxciv), “Commentary” (255-70, 585), “More’s Visit to Antwerp in 1515” by Hexter (571-76), “Vocabulary and Diction in Utopia” by Surtz (577-82), and an Index (587-629); Utopia: Latin Text and English Translation. Ed. George M. Logan, Robert M. Adams, and Clarence M. Miller. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1995; Utopia. Ed. and trans. David Wootton. Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publishing Co., 1999 with an “Introduction” by Wootton (1-37); “Utopia” in Thomas More Utopia Francis Bacon New Atlantis Henry Neville The Isle of Pines [On Cover: Three Early Modern Utopias: Utopia New Atlantis The Isles of Pines]. Ed. Susan Bruce (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), 1-148 with and “Introduction” to all three texts (ix-lxi) and “Explanatory Notes” to Utopia (213-31); Utopia. Trans. Paul Turner. Rev. ed. Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin Books, 2003 with an “Introduction” by Turner (xi-xxviii), “Appendix: More’s Attitude to Communism” (114-17), “Glossary” (118-20), and “Notes” (121-35); Utopia A Revised Translation, Backgrounds, Criticism. 3rd ed. Ed. and with a rev. trans. by George M. Logan. New York: W.W. Norton, 2011; Utopia. Trans. and ed. by Dominic Baker-Smith. London: Penguin Books, 2012 with an “Introduction” by the editor (xi-xxxix), “Appendix 1 ‘Between friends all is common’ (123-25), “Appendix 2 An Account of the Taíno People” (127-29), “Glossary of Names: (131-32), and “Notes” (132-46); Utopia. Ed. George M. Logan and trans. Robert M. Adams. 3rd ed. Cambridge Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 2016, with “Ancillary materials from the first four editions: (114-35), introductory material by the editor (vii-xli), and an “index” (136-41); and as Utopia The Island of Nowhere. Trans. Roger Clarke. Richmond, Eng.: Alma Classics, 2017, with “A Pen Portrait of Thomas More by His Friend Desiderius Erasmus” (vii-xvii), “Correspondence Relevant to Utopia and Other Contributions from More’s Contemporaries” (133-92), “Index  of Contemporary Europeans Mentioned in Utopia and Related Documents” (193-205), “Index of Utopian and Other Exotic Names” (206-208), “Notes” (209-44), and “Extra Material on Thomas More’s Utopia (245-65). An edition using a 1901 translation by Gilbert Burnet (London: Verso, 2016), includes an “Introduction” by China Miéville (1-27), part of which, “The Limits of Utopia” (11-27) was originally published in Salvage #1: Amid This Story Rubbish (2015) and essays by Ursula K. Le Guin (161-216), parts of which were originally published as “A Non-Euclidian View of California as a Cold Place To Be .” The Yale Review 72 (Winter 1983): 161-80. Rpt. with (1983) at the end of the title in her Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places (New York: Grove Press, 1989), 80-100; and “The Operating Instructions.” The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination (Boston, MA: Shambhala, 2004), 206-10. [Book Two] rpt. with no indication of the translation used in Dystopia Utopia Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Tales (London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2016), 231-91. 

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